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Oshawa Daily Times, 1 Aug 1930, p. 6

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' THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1930 POLICEMAN SPEAKS FIGHT LANGUAGES Tennis Champions in France Also Qualify as Linguists Paris Prance--"The Frenchman . yd ng move attention than ever ore (0 the siudy of foreign lan ingen, polos ol "th A ee officers in this cos: mopoiitan oity are able to spenk he or three langnages with ease, # champion of them all 1s Agent Taraslaw Jivels, If he learns any nore Iangusges, the department will be forced Lo devise & new type of uniform, For each poliea officer whe learns au foreign tongue has to waar on his left arm a brasard, in- figating the tongue in which he is qualified as an interpreter, Jirels now has eight of these brassards, and he iv studying to qualify for yal others, In ovder to makes him. self thoroughly proficient he has sol out with a colleague on a Kurs npean tour, during whieh hs will sudy the linguist services of for: sign police fovees, Tennis and other champions al an need to he linguists In these fays, At a dinner given vecently hy the French Tennis Vederation on the oceasion of 'the French championship tournament, Jean Rorotra, famous as "The Boundin Basque," made a most unusus speech in replying to a toast, He hogan in French, and continued, first in English then in German, and Inst in Spanish, speaking all three fore tongues quite Anently, The Japanese player, Harata, spoke in Franch and English, and Anally in his own tongue, which an Intere prater translated, MENACE OF REDS GROWS IN CHINA Activities "Are Spreading Over the Entire Yangtse Valley Bhanghal, Aug, 1, --~=Communistie sotivity In south central Ching [hat reduced the rich eity of Changsha tn a shambles and vesulted in an attack yesterday on the United Btates wunhoat Palos to-night was sweeping on unchecked In an ap: parent effort to clamp the Rad grip on the Yangtse River valley with its many important elties, Pillaging bands of Chiness Com munists were reported within twenty-five miles of the important industrial elites of Hankow, Wu chang and Hanyang, Authorities of the Japaness cons consion In Hankow were erecting barbed wire defences, Kiukiang and the nearby Summer resort of Kuling were vaporied helng evaou- ated hy foreigners Communication was fragmentary and the exact situation was un known, Indications that the Lonimunists were preparing to establish them: nelves throughout Hupeh and Hun. an provinces were contained In dispatehes from the affected aren, They told also of plundering along the Peiping-Hankow rallway, Hven Shanghal's foreign seitie: ments were under special guard Poliea patrols wera doubled and authorities prepared tu orush any disturbance, Meanwhile, Hu Han Min, as pre: sident of the administputive section announced the Cavernment would he responsible for wuatever hap: pens, SPIES ARE BASIS OF POLICE SYSTEM IN LAND OF FRANCE Cabbies and 'luai-Drivers Well Paid For In+ formation Paris. ~8pies, or inforpers, still are at the base of the Freneh police sys: tem, Attacked for approving such practices, Prefect of Police Jean Chis wpe recently publicly admitted the 1 and id his only regret was he didn't have moje informers, In Trance they are called "indicators" Facing the communist delegation in ihe Munieipal Council, Chiappe said, "When a party seeks te disturh public quiet, the duty of the Prefect af Police is to keep himavlf informed, flesides, betore 1 sugeeeded in plac: ing my Agents in your ranks you ma to place your men in my depart nent" . For generations the French police vave built up a vast network of spies, Fhe wir aisturhed this somewhat and {he price of hotrayals made it expen: sive to continue hut in slightly differs wt fafms the old erder exists, In the good old days: thousands of nonelerges and cabbies were on the aayroll af the police, 'I'ney were pid hy dhe fob. If a concierge suspected something wrong in the home of a tenant, he telephoned tne police; ve: porting net by his awn uame but hy wmbher, 11 a cabby=ox nowadays a axl deiver==had a mysterious fare he so telephoned the pohee, Far these ittle. "service" before the war, the wolioe gave him from §1 up, accord. ng to the importance of the informa: ha ion, ) With such a system it Was easy to witteh hundreds of people at small pene, Highipowered palice douths could be swnmened at the uny ehologlen! nomen instead of wasting much of thelr time dolng OTAEY uty Any ERE Knew the plies, white they could not he on hele mnt with thousands of "indie: ators" all aver the ey, GIANT DIRIGIBLE. ENDS FLIGHT THIS MORNING wry (Continued from Page |) the weary ocean traveller, The R100 swung in narrowing circles about the field, her engines keeping her barsly moving, A few minutes hefore bh o'clock, in an erie misty Nght the ship turn. od her blunt nose straight bor the mooring tower which was stil) sparkling with lights, The airship lost aititude very slawly, barely drifting on the mast, Figures of mooring oMcers on the hridgs of the tower sould he seen moviig About as an army of camera men, movie men and newspaper men gathered ax near the mast as police and military plekets would permit, Cables Made Vast Promptly at 5.04 am, a cable dropped from the nose of the di rigible, snaking down in swinging loops to the ground, where IL was spliced to the cable connected with the winehes at the top of the towar, The engines died out, all but ene of the stern which kept the vast bulk nosing inte the mast, "Ths cahle tightened as the winches whirved and the nose of the alvship dip. ped as the pull was felt, A siream of water ballast gushed from w port near the bow, A second able lnoped downwards (0 he sely ed hy a walting ground craw, A third eable went to another crew to steady the whip, "There was hardly a hreath of air stirring As the winches pulled the |irig ible closer, thousands of eyes eagerly scanned her windows for A wight of the 44 who eame from England in 70 hours, The first of other company to ha seen were thres hrown overalled men cluster: ed in a birdeage of wire at the noss of the ship, It was the craw ready to eoupla tha, ship as It touched the coupling on the top of the tower A cheer went yp as white faves were seen at the tall glass windows of the control ear, A hand waved cheerily as the last of the engines kioked and was allent Ground arews and winches pulled vatlantly and the big ship howed ta hor honds and came to rest Rolling Cheers The coupling (no the mast was the signal for rolling elivers from the thousands of early risers who hud braved the conl misty dawn to see the alr leviathan dock, Auto horns screamed a rousing weleoma and police motor cycles reared Into ifn Watchers hastened to get a 'ook At the damaged An at the tall of the ship, The tear in the fai which Major Heott described an unimportant" was hardly notion able from the ground, Her silver sides glistened in the sun, Cun Ada's largest serial visitor (x far bigger than photdgraphs show, and her sige was causing many remarks of astonishment, A gangplank dropped from 1h port in her how ns whe coupled (n the mast A customs man went phoard for the clearances. pupae A few minutes later the oMeors stepped down the gangplank to hw greeted at the reception room at the top of the tower hy Aajor Houde, Hon, J. 1, Ralston, "vans dian minister of national defense, J. A, Wilson, controller of civil aviation in Canada, Rear Admiral William Moffett, chief of UB Navy neronaution and other military and government oMaoials Never Had a Bump (Ry Jack Hambleton, Canadian Press Niaff Writer) fit, Hubert Alrpovt, Montreal, Aug, 1"Wa never had a hump all the way across the Atlantie Ocean, and everything went perfectly uns tl we got to Father Paint, There wa ran Inte a bad hump, and the Jar tore the fabric on a stahilaing fin, The damage was temporarily repaired and was negligible / With these words, Bir Dennis toun Burney, divector of alraraft development and designer of the Aritish divigible R100, dismisnen casually the great adventure of Aritain's queen af the skies here to-day, Mir Dennistoun, with Major WH, Reott, assistant director of wire ahip development, Equadron Ieuds ofr RR, A Booth, captain of the R- 100, and Squadron Leader Joho: ston, navigating effiesr, gave a Joint Interview to members of the press shortly after the ship aooked at Nt, Hubert this morning, The Interview was an informal one, The four officers, tired hut Jubllant submitted to a barrage of Questions covering all angles of the flight, There were still five tons of fuel left abroad the ship when she hooked into the mast here, The most valuable thing learned on the trip wan that travel hy alrehip was the most comfortable means of transportation; the course taken ix the most feasible for commercial use If larger ships are used, "IL was 8 very good test of the ship's ability," Sir Dennistoun sald, "Wa ran Into one of your thunders storms Inst. night, and rose to 4, 000 feet to get out of it, The trip wan 0,064 miles from mooring mast at Cavdington to mooring mast at Montreal, Kaperience Valuable "I'he chief benefit we derived from the trip was experience, We need long flIghts to gain the exe perience in handling lghter-than: alesaraft, There was not a move ment aovoss the Atlantle and the ship behaved perfectly, We dodgs od Lo get into favorable winds onew or twios, but the aly was very oalm, The most impressive thing about the (vip Is this==on Monday night 1 entertained a party at dinner We left Cardington at 9,44 pm, ane It We had been lucky at the latter ond of the thip we would have heen here In time for dinner last night," Water Collecting Nystem Major Boot, captain of the frst Hrinsh aiship to fly, ventory of the alr ministry system of alwbip Mooring, and one of Lhe greatest lightar-than-siy exports in the world, has invented a new system of wollseting water for hallsst irille fiying, He mentioned it eas ually following the interview, while chatting with a member of the Canadien. Press siaff, Ho had been queried regarding balinst, "Oh, when we need some nove water we Just collest it on the fly, We did it all the way seross." "How," he was snked, "Well, we hilt a sort of litle guiter arrangement slong the Lop of the envelope and collected rain water, The enormous bulk of the ship makes i quite eawy, Then we piped the water down, strained it and put it Into the pipes, We managed Lo gel threw tous that way, IL doesn't sost suything and works perfectly any Lime i rainge and of course, thers is Riways lots of rain around the Atigntie," he wad, Collects watw Rain Is not the only ining the R100 collects on the "Ny" how ayer, Major Booll stated tani when the ship Is In thght, she wllecls 4 kront don) of satis sestrieity When the cable leading trom (he nowss of the ship to the mooring mast is Nrst dropped out, anyons Louehing It might gel & vary severe olectrionl shoek hut the ground Grew and those aboard he ship koep away until the wire 1ouehes the ground when the mutie Is drained off Instantly, "The shosk would not sul, bul IL would certainly ho savers wnough LO knock anyone touching the wire, down, Bul we warn everyone no Lo Loueh IL until It has touched Ihe ground," he sald Message of Congratulations Ottawa, Aug \ message of songratulntions to the eapiain und those on board the «100 has been sent by Premier Muckensia King, Ou hehalt of the government aml poeple of Canada the prime minis or wired "heariiest congratuie tons, He stated in his telegram that "the safe anchoring oF the R100 to the mooring-must at ®t Hubert Alrport marks the com pletion of a new highway of com munication and transportation he ween the British Isles and the bo minton of Canada,' BY JACK HAMBLETON Canadian Pross Ball Write Bit Hubert Alrport, Montreal Que, August 1I'he R-100 is hers, Great Britain's winnt threat for the supremacy of the skies is havering over Bt, Hubert Alrport early this morning, and will tie Wp to the mammoth mooring tower at break OF AawN, AS WoArY NOWKPAPOYinern and ground crew awaited, the dir Khia was Neel sighied ten miles northeast of Bt, Hubert at 8,05 # m, eastorn daylight saving time and was travelling slowly east to Ward the tiuminaled landing Nelo Half ln hour Inter the hugs, ily ory silhoustte could he seen, harely Moving, at an altitude of shout HOO feet ahove the tarma The fins! appearance of the sky wanderer after many hours of Wilting, was the signal of an oul burst of chewring from those at (he alrport, Behind the high fence sur rounding the feld, ton. were per haps a thousand people who have hriaved first & soorehing day, then A Windstorm and rain, and fHnally # drop In temperature which made Awenters and heavy coals very we tome Hadio Describes the Arrival AL Sid Eastern Daylight Time, the radio station at Bt, Hubert alr drome reported that tha ship had | JUKE come Into sight "I gun't mee her vet," Ly of wlgnn of it, People are rush Ing around like mad, The excite ment is Inereasing The atmos phere In tense, Hhe'll he here in JUNE w Tew minutes now," "Ihe ground orew is all peady naw to go go ahead and bring her down as soon an she gels over the feild, Apparently she In here at lant, after an all-day and all-night Wull, Kveryone (sn standing still and looking up, We oan't tell yet Just whera she in It only we vutoh wight of her, ,," "Lindlen and gentlemen, the Rs 100 1s right over us, We oan see her very plainly and we can hear her very plainly, Her wreat form stands out In the flondilghts," the announcer sald at 9.40, Through the microphone sheers om the fAeld outside vesounded, "Right up on top, not very high Above us, over toward Montreal, She 1s going very slowly, almost sldeways Her red riding aghts Are on and we oan see very clear: IV, It won't take long new for her Io come back above us and drop her mooring cable, The floodlights of Montreal are Saving pon her Nouneer Almont sagamant mon sobbed in his OsNIbIILY exinta that the R-100 May go to Lakehurst, N.J., Li I naira to her damaged Ain, It is un derstood that Admiral W, A, Mots Hite, in an interview with the Min: later af National Datence, placed any faollities veguired at Laka: hurat at the disposal of the R-100, Hidesandshos With Rqualls Partially drinpled though she was the wiant of the aip played hides And-soek with storms in the valley of the Bt, Lawrence for over three hours, #he traveled every diree: tion and twioe passed over Thres Rivers, The commander was kept Oonstantly Informed - of weather conditions and changed his sourse Antoraiaaly. No ONANORs ware tak: \ ® ship aned Mb, Ph he worst nN ooonversation with the signal 00IPR Atation, Nquadron Leader Hooth. explained his wanoeuvering Of the ship during the storms, He Ald that he met a storm at Three Ivers. went southeast for 15 miles And then received a message from the Montreal weather station that another storm was heading directs ly for the R:100, Then, Nooth sald, he went haok (0 Three Rivers and hovered there, Bitter Disappointment The last 180 wiles of the world's largest airahip's journey 3,226 miles noroNs the great vere fraught with tages Haig orossed the Atlantie, an aiy/ plonger on the north orn route, the big ship reached Belle ule in seh good we that it ix esti mated loss than 50 per cent. of her fuel supply had been used, and there Wan at this Ume yesterday morning, every prospect she would set up #n enviable speed record, But mis chance stalked her in the Kiver bt, Lawrence and at 1045 daylight says ing thine last night she had been 72 hours in the alr, and possiblity of the fine speed wehigvement had glimmer: wliernomm R00 Vour o'clock yesterday with the sero hour for the Winging gracelully down the last stretch of her journey, she was caught in shifting winds, head winds erosp winds, 'Phose, on top of the buffeting she had in the early part of her trip off Ireland, damaged the port fin over # length of shout twenty feet, She stopped Just ahove CQuehee, drifted ion eastward for 18 oo ti over the Grosses Isle sections men went out on the fin and worked on the fabric, and she headed westward At reduced speed, That was bitter for her officers and men, whe had worked agiinst diseouragement in connection with the fabric st Card ington, her home port, But this was not wll Three: Howr Storm As she came up sream over three hours' storm eames out of the Outaws Valley, Gusts, und_squalls, thunder, lightning and rin Tuced her, Crip ed us she wis, she sought shelters hy turning southward 15 miles to weld the storm wrens, und ervised during the last hours of July 41, tll, womdnight, she wis bck wt Three Wivers, hen bt. Hubert wirpoit of Hells, receiving a phone message frum her, advised her that wether conditions had improved locally und tld her to hewd directly for the alr port, The weather was better, Stirs were out, wind was light, ant a stormy period had passed, Farle nthe night, 8, Hubert had seen storms on every horigon, starting In the northwest, shifting west and eis, then going to the Rougemont ares Fiery lightning forked weross the sky, thunder rumbled, and apprehensions for the well-being ol the great eral! became acite Apprehension at Airport It was an evening almost of fear for mimiy In the wirport, To the thousands who came from Montreal ged thelr noses 10 wire fenee or siretehed out on the grass determin ed to wee the ship gome to her Can adian home, the place wore an wir of festive I'he mooring mast by this time wis a muss of lights, red and white At two specks] spots Die Hoodlights bathed the entire field in sllvery gleams, und east into radiance gindy red and green alrplanes sul in the line, Revolving beacons, (lick ering beacons, still beaeons, and m thade of red globes dennting high power transmission Hnes made the MEport a pretty sight I'he faerie effect helied the sentiment In the hearts of officers and men Inside headquarters, and In the mooring must, But this changed complete! at 12.30 this morning when the news came direet fram the ship that she wis heading for Montreal, expected to arrive over 8t. Hubert at 3 o'eloek daylight saving time, and take position for mooring at 3.30. Thus officials sald, she gould he expected 1 he moored hy 430 ar the latest, just as the dawn lifts the an: | nounowy ald, "but there are plen: | DOCTORS STUDY CANCER GROWTH esults Give Hope For New Attack on Dreed Disease | Now York ~COrowing cance; ari [eintly and the new hope ft of fers ware described hy Dr. Franels Carter Wand, Director of Crooker Cancer Research Institute of Col umbia University Just hefore he sailed to attend at Amsterdam the International Congress of Wxper mental Cytology In Aungust, These men work With live cancer oalls ona of the latest davelopments in paneer study, which began with learning how ta graft eanear upon animale and rales it artifolally Now & Start has heen made. al growing human canoer in glans tubes, "Ww are slarting," said Dr Wood, "te do what Pasteur did when he showed the way ta elvis {sation of bhaoteria artificially, a work upon whieh are hased some of medicine's greatest advances We knaw nn cancer bacterium or germ, hut we have. and oan mee with a microscope, the cancer call It oaunen canoer, and does so plain Iy hy abllity to grow much faste than a normal body cell, But for 1,000 years we have heen compell ad to work with dead cancer oelln Now for the first time we have them alive, and capable of produe ing cancer! We wish to know why they grow so fast, something we shall never know until we actual ly nee them mrowing, ° "Wa oan aleo study now how fant a eancar oall breathes, that Ia how rapidly 1t uses oxygen, wheth: er thin In more or less rapid than the rate of a normal esll, Any dif ference In the rate might become a point for a new attack on eancer "Some bacteria cause disease the poisons they produce, We seek tn learn whether eancer oels pre dues poisons or, equally important to know for eartaln that they de not, If wa find such a poison, then we wish to know whether it acts the same after it han been nrodue: od under artifiolal conditions, Tt It differs, this disorepanocy again in A point to attack on the cancer mystery, "We know that some human cancers are helped by Xevays, We have also some evidence that X- rays kil TAplalrgrowing normal 06lln about an fast aa cancer galls Wea suspect that the benefits of the Neray ave due to rapid growth of cancer cells, a production rate that opugen more of them te he killed by the Xeraya, It in important to find out definitely the reasons for X-ray effects, "Canoer serum oan he made that will ueomingly Cure A ORNORr ON A rat's od ut the leg has to be \gatured to retain the serum, Ro thug far there 1a no apparent meth. od of Waking suth A serum useful for human beings, Ratuing the cells artifiolally will assist in the hed a The photograph here shows some of the thirty Canadians who wre at present attending England's wnclent university wt Cambridge, Most of these have (akon some degree In the Dominlon, and are study of this serum fsld." Dr. Wood plans to visit the Curle Institutes in Parise and various Can oor Wesenreh Institute in Kngland COMBINED CRUISER AIRCRAFT CARRIER Ship Would Be Several Planes as Well as a Fighting Vessel Washington Plans for a draws toally differant hybrid fighting ahip are occupying the pavy's de sluners It would he a combing Hon orulger and alveraft carrier, capable of engaging In a running battle nun well as launching more than two doson aleplanes for seouting or combat ft would he of vadieal design in that He large guns and thelr number would EE a nr Paul Martin, Grace, Vancouver, Torontg; MH, ( left to righ Watney, Vancouver Pembroke, Ont. J, Mocond row, now doing advanced work, Bottom | Hey, vow, left to vights 16, DB. Wills, 0, McConkey, Guelph, Ji Me 1G MaeDougall, W. A Beer, Toronto Toronto Ont, (OAM Montreal; n MH. G, Orchard, flighting clans, ye! v iriple or quadruple gun turrets or landing un ra would equip IL 1a curry from thee 10 Bix 1IMes nn many airplane | wn Lhe mosis MWodery eraisers now | aflont Ihe platform how Other guns would he at th bat "lt untlenireraft platforms while (he would he | Lhe of the fern | terios on wide landing PLANNED BY U5. Base For tn the erilear-carvier becuse My Instead of dnunching Ha planes | from u distances and running from | an Biinek, an the existin Carriers | mist, the proposed CPEB any | rior might gol luge the wn [ Lot ta brood bomb and hevass the | a | | type, nuval design came under aefinition of n tlunsifeg n Ydosigned for PUF POs A ship of this | Orn would Landon naval tread The efron) any ship and exclusive 7] mele (Rrviey CAT iey oie Ing wireraft United Bintan {Ff the Intarproted ns while 11 joined orihodox | the spe UTA GRUNT hat of care "oldeline The apposition | vg pdopted lowing 1he ono-tan dontemplatad type | chore ta reduce (he hip 060 tans It could hulld IHknly or few waoilld he ny YOR Havel will hav There will ba neeful atrplanes than B00 on ships Completion of the authorized FO. R00 tan unr rier, would Incrouse the total fleal strength to K76 and the construe "Hemy frulpers and te While fier In Kome nuval trent nl 10 th NAV | have expressed 1% construction of six | affactiveness might bo legsened hs CrUIBBr-cnrrie nt # raduetion In armor to allow | tha welght of alrplanes, the | ony of Aeronautics sald fon06:100n even " (Uh 0A on eruinerenrrior ds the that huss of the moreased alfectivanonss ull will hullding ha Of wirplanes In battle Tontutive for provide for ne many neh guns an well of the plane Abont of the deck would he the landing (Matform, Nevessnly supergiriciuye rH for f the Huy that a to 7 That ru isey howey move experimental constructed Im of 1084, the neronauties pro hoon compleled 1.000 more in not thin a CArVIers of vense| nations he mediatel June five fhe Veusel 10 mix AR BlOVAES KpaLe 10 per espt devoted Lo while the and two plan dram more than available T} A SUA TV SR SE BA a I , | rontog Mil, Quite M | ronto, Top row, left to vighty ¥, A hy hee | . | | | Hausen would Ye grouped in the | platform | nine I Ww. To To mM. Archibald, Tovonto; smart, Toronto) G, WN, Crage, A Ve WW, Plumptre, Walker, Toronto; D. G, Guest, To rontog €, No Tucker, London, Onl erilser-carrion woul tot Lreng!? minimum of tion of bring the nerind sfiont to A KOO whi MAPLE GROVE Mupls Grove, Jul il] Mr, aud | My William Mihel, Hrantford | visited hig sunt and ynele, Mr, and | Mra Chester Vower, | Migios Muriel and | on, Cobourg, recently | Helen Mulealf | Hany | home after | With his Minn friend Miss Kiki ef Matos Misn Molen Metcalf Is few duysn nt her grandfather Fane) nowden, Oshawa The Zion girls came out and played n game of softhall with the local girls on Tuesday evening which resulted In a victory for the visiting team, Killeen Mor! visited Mies returned holida nowden hans two weeke' PHFONIS here Vera Power Is in Lakefield visiting her Lhe Visiting in imma Cox Is and other relatives spending My ACS 20c GASOLINE To introduce our new Mercury Super Quality Gasoline 20c * 20c which retalls at 25¢c per gallon we are selling this gas for a few days at 20c per gallon Starting 7 a.m. SATURDAY, AUGUST MERCURY SERVICE LTD. 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