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'VOL. 7--NO. 84 | UF WT ANSE KIDNAPPERS HARD 'Wealthy Captive, Burns "Down House to Make ~ Escape f Shanghai--The life of a man in the hands of a gang of kidnappers may be rough but it is never dull or uninteresting in the opinion of Chow Ah-Ping, Shanghai shipowner, 'Chow should know for he spent six : days as the captive of a brigand band which was holding him for $2,500 (gold) ransom, making lis escape un- der conditions that would put the average six-reel thriller to shame. = Chow is just oneo 1 the dozens of well-to-do Chinese who are 'kidnap- ped yearly and then carried away to i "dome isolated place where they are 4 kept until the' money for their re- lease arrives. If the cash fails to turn up, the unfortunate fellow. loses his head unless the police manage to Tn, in time and save him. He was kidnapped one night while his only] ship, a large cargo junk, was anchor- ed off Sungkiang, a prosperous mar. fet town about 30 miles from Shang- hai. According to the story he told the police after his escape, he was marched overland to a small village seven or eight miles away and lock- up in a one-room hut. He was Iced under the guard of two ban. its and an old woman. The latter Furnished him occasion meals and ; had charge of the padlock. The room, . €how told police, contained only one Ped. The food was worse than no 400d at all and he received one flog- ging after another. He met the lead- er of the gang on his first afternoon of imprisonment and an argument Followed over "the size of the ran- som. = The leader, as described by the prisoner, was a fat fellow with horn- ed-rimmed spectacles a disposition. The first thing he want- ed to know was whether Chdly had as much money as his neighbors*said he had: The junk owner replied that he was so poor he didn't even own his own ship. The leader agreed with fim on that point by saying that he had seized the ship and everything aboard. The bandit chief fixed the ransom at $2500. Chow protested but only received a beating for his trouble. . Z "I was beaten every day," he de- + glared. "Sometimes they hung me by st 0 - BUT INTERESTING aa Baily Tones Succeeding The Oshawa Daily Reformer "All the News While It Is News" OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1930 THIRD SECTION WOE TO DEY OL AGE Method of Delaying -On- slaught of Time Described 5 by Doctor . ---- 7. (By Canadien Press Leased Wire) Chicago~Dr. Irving S. Cutter, dean of Northwestern University Medical School, believes a method of delaying old age soon may be an open secret. Describing laboratory experiments conducted in the school and in wards of the Passavant Hos- pital, of which he is superintendent, Dr. Cutter said: "It has been shown that retention of fluids in the body may be cone 'trolled almost at will, increased or decreased by careful management based upon a biochemistry blood an- alysis. This study bids fair to be of utmost importance in prolonging the lives of patients suffering oedema." Oe¢dema, he described, as an accumu- lation of excess fluid in the body tis- sue, caused by factors closely paral- leling those influencing the rapid on- slaught of old age. "Scientists have reason tobelieve that, succeeding in a treatment of oedema, they may defy old age," he said. Dean Cutter told of the experi- ments in connection with the cele- bration of the first anniversary of the Passavant Hospital on the McKin- lock campus. On the sixth day of his captivity, Chow heard shouts outside his pris- on... The police were firing on the bandits who fled, leaving the unfor- tunate ship owner locked up and with no way of getting out. He yell- ed for the old woman but she, too, had fled. The situation was far from pleasant. The house in which he was lodged seemed to be isolated for his shouts evidently could not be heard by passcrsby. Chow says he finally hit on the idea of setting fire to the interior of the house. He had a few matches in his pocket and although there was the risk of burning himself up,-he felt.it. was worth taking. The villagers, seeing the flames, gathered around the place and al- though they made no attempt to ex- tinguish the blaze, prevented it from spreading. Hearing voices outside, Chow commenced to yell. His shouts produced results and a few moments later he was a free man. He man- aged to borrow a dollar to pay train broke, id badly in need of "to. and arrived here, medical treatment, (contre) 0 oronto by his fe First Aid Instruction Class qualified First Aiders. Old in about describes this be given a prominent p { nthusfasm is a big word but ded it takes big words to describe the ea: by W. R. Evans seek to acquire t of Canada. ed First Aiders under Mr, TWENTY-SIX HUNDRED LIFE SAVERS Fifly-one years in Selsphone 2eF¥ies, the Dean of the Cult, that is the proud title accorded W. R. Evans ess with whish the members of a e necess. knowledge to become service but young i i Bd nisrvice Pat. Io ng i authusissm for the training of possible life savers slighty Jen 30d Nomen, have fecuted certificates as qualif year en e number will have tot When we speak Of those who have done Yiings for hin oi} Bundied, Two thousand four hundred and Evans' leadership, surely the name of "Bill" Evans will MILLION ACRES OF SCOTLAND FOR SALE (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Glasgow.--A million acres of Scot- land, one-nineteenth of the country's total acreage, is for sale and nobody wants to buy it. Most of the land is sporting ground, but experts de- clare it can be cultivated. One agent has 750,000 acres for sale.. In Argyllshire 14 estates are in the market, and some of Scot- land's loveliest scenery is included in 38,000 acres for sale in the North. The Duke of Montrose recently of- fered to sell 40,000 acres--including Ben Lomond--but he did not receive a single offer. MARK PLACE WHERE * FERGUSON FELL Kings Mountain, N.C.--~The spot where Major Ferguson, leader of the British forces at the Revo- lutionary battle of Kings Mountain, was killed, is to be marked with a menument. It will be erected by United States citizens, The offer of a Charlotte concern to build the monument in honor of the British leader has been accepted by the committee in charge of ar- rangements for the sesquicentennial celebration here in October, : It is sald that single girls buy more silk stockings than married ones. Maybe the mileage Is great- er --Slater News, Overcoat and Suit Sale \ PROSPERITY WEEK An opportune time to get your fall clothing at a substantial saving. The cloths are imported British Woollens from leading old country mills. The garments are made in Canada, and the cut, make and - trimmings are the very best. These Overcoats and Suits are 100 per cent. "Empire Made". : : Buy British Empire Products and Help Bring Prosperity The regular price of Overcoats and Suits is $29.50. Prosperity Week ni Sale, AIR MINISTER OF FRANCE IS UNGER A STEADY FIRE "My Worst Customer," Says Colleague, Minister of Railways (By Canadian 'Press Leased Wire) Paris~"My worst possible cus- tomer" is the way M. Laurent Ey nac, Minister of Air, is described by his colleague, Georges Pernor, minis- ter of railways. "If all Frenchmen were like him," M. Pernot adds, "the railways would have to shut down and I'd be without a job." M. Eynac, Frances "lord of the air," aged 44, one of the youngest members of Premier Andre Tar. dieu's youthful cabinet, learned to fly in the war and hds used that mode of locomotion exclusively ever since he became chief of French aviation, Within a week after succeeding the late Maurice Bokanowski as air min ister, after the latter had met an at. rocious death in a burning plane south of Nancy, M. Eynac appeared at Le Bourget one morning, hopped into a plane and flew to Marseilles. "He's game," was the verdict of the pilots. M. Eynac is a firm believer confirmed opponent of dirigibles and lighter than air vehicles. "*"Dirigibles at best are fair wea~ ther craft; they cannot stand the wear and tear and weather bumps of a good plane," he says. fire because of numerous fatal acci- dents in French military aviation. On ons night late in August two mili tary planes with crews of six men cach crashed. Chartres the entire crew of six were killed, while four men lost their lives and two were saved, by para. chute jumping near Dijon. Some opposition newspapers open ly accused the minister of permitting old and decrepit material to remain in service. Others charged him with giving "contracts to firms that were unreliable, The appointment of an investigate ing committee by M. Eynac, at the head of which he placed General Fortant, his chief adviser, failed' to silence the critics and Deputy Bou- esse has served notice upon Premier Tardieu that when parliament re- convenes he will interpellate the air mirister upon the "methods," means tary aviation." RUSSIANS CHANGE NAMES QUITE OFTEN (By Canadian Fress Leased Wire) Moscow.~The changing of names, like. wives or husbands, 1s a popular pastime in modern Russia. All that s necessary under the soviet regime 10 change a family name is to file an wpplication at the state registry of- fice--the same as for a divorce--and publish the fact in.one of the official newspapers, Just now the papers carry many notices of this sort. | The advertisements show, for ex- ample, phat Citizen Bestolkov wishes to change his name to Olshanski. The reason, apparently, is that "Be, tolkov" means "stupid." } While most of the name changers are mah, one advertisement discloses that Miss Lina Kozlov wishes to change her name to Dobrin. "Koz- lov" is taken from the Russian word "kozel," which literally means "goat," whereas "Dobrin" is. taken from a word meaning "kindness . © in heavier than air machines and .a |. M. Eynac of late has been under In one accident near |- and present material of French Mili- |. ST. LOUIS BOASTS FIRST GLIDERPORT Club Has World's First Ex- clusive Gliderport, Is , Claim (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) St. Louis.~Now comes the "glider- port" and St. Louis lays claim to the first one in the world. Differing from the level airports of motored avia- tion, the "gliderport" a new term in aeronautics--utilized hills and a val- ley three-fourths of a mile long. The tract, situated in the suburbs of the city near Creve Coure Lake, was selected by the St. Louis Glider Association because of the nature of the hills and valley and the favor- able way in which winds strike. Called "the world's first exclusive gliderport," it is named after Harry Kuchins, the city's gliding pioneer who first ¢reated interest here in mo- torless planes more than a year ago. Lambert Field was the scene of the first ghder flights and it was there that Colonel Charles Lindbergh made his first non-motored flight in a ship now owned by Kuchins and being used by members of the associ~ ation. When a level field proved un- satisfactory, Kuchins and other en- thusiasts tried out two other fields before locating and leasing the pre- sent "gliderport." Kuchins heads the St. Louis Glider Association, a non-profit organiza- tion in charge of contests, licenses, and other activities for all clubs in the city. Fees are utilized for new equipment and before the year is over the members expget to have 10 gliders in operation. Sentimental Old Lady. (at resi- dential hotel): "There seem to be a great many widows staying here, Jane." Cynical Chambermaid: "Yes, and there's some as would find it hard to lay their hands on their 'usband's tombstones." OLD SUPERSTITIONS AFFECT RELIGIONS OF THE MODERN DAY Atlantic City, N.J~Dr. Smith Ely Joliffe of New York, told members of the American Neurological Associ- ation, ' to seek 'the foundations of America's strange religious cults in early colonial influences, Addressing 250 neurologists from all sections of the country convening here for their 56th annual meeting, he traced the overflow of creeds, cults and sects to the "sadism of our colonial forbears." He said religion today is visibly affected by early superstitions, and that the old belief in witches and devils still persists. "There are, at the present time, millions, and not all in Tennessee," he said, "whose paleopsycliological horizons are still filled with the thought fossil forms of medievalism, and still more millions whose devil has shifted a few points higher in the cultural south." He also traced what he called the ten- dency of present-day persons to regulate the lives and thinking ha- bits of their neighbors to colonial in- fluences. UMBRELLAS CAUSE RIOT IN SOUTH SEAS Calicut, Madrad, India.--A job lot of western umbrellas and shoes caused a riot on the Laccadive Is- lands, 150 miles off the Malabar coast, The Koyas, or aristocracy of the islands, long ago decreed that they alone might go shod and carry um- brellas but when the western ship- ment came,in the Malumis, or sailor caste, and the Melacheris, who pick cocoanuts, decided to try dressing up. They picked eleven Melacheris and nine Malumis to defy the old edict 'and it was a gala day for the strutting low castes until the Koyos chief heard about it and ordered out his spearmen. After the fight the mannequins found themselves in jail. Fishermen are not the laziest men. Some men are too lazy to PROPOSITIONTO BUY BIRTHPLACE OF JAMES BARRIE Movement to Acquire "Win« dow in Thrums" as Memorial (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Edinburgh.--The birthplace of Sir James M. Barrie, in Kirriemuir --the "window in Thrums"--is to be sold and a number of Barrie enthusiasts are wondering whether the time has now come when an ef- fort should be made to acquire the building as a fitting tribute to the novelist and dramatist, The pro- prietor of the country cottage of two storeys is W, Leyton Threl- ford, Prince's-gate, London, and Messrs. Jenner, Edinburgh, have been entrusted with the sale. It is understood that alrealy the local council in Kirriemnir, who might be supposed to be proper custodians of a memorial of their famous townsman, have been -ap- proached twice on the subject of purchasing the building, but evi- dently the "canny" men of Kirrie- muir are apprehensive about the cost of acquiring the house at its sentimental value, What the price is has not been disclosed by Messrs, Jenner; the property will go to the highest bidder if there is an open sale, The property is approximately in the same condition as it was when Sir James Barrie was born there 70 years ago, It includes also the little washing house--a separate building--which as Barrie says in bis preface to Peter Pan, was the theatre of his first play. There at the age of seven he gave an en- tertalnment, and this tiny old wash- ing hohse was the original of the house the Lost Boys built in the fish.--Xingston Whig-Standard. Never Never Land of Wendy. 'The Regent's Contribution of 3 -- Talkie Smash-Hits In Oshawa's Prosperity Week Celebration! Meet Me At The REGENT CANADIAN PROSPERITY October 11-18 During WEEK SATURDAY-MONDAY OCTOBER 11.13 START THE WEEK LAUGHING! A Howitzer of Howls BUSTER KEATON In His High Explosive Laugh Bomb "Forward, March" TUESDAY~WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 14-15 . Glamorous! Seductive! GRETA GARBO With LEWIS STONE in "ROMANCE' Lock's ON THE STAGE LIVING MANNEQUINS Prosperity Style Show | bd THURSDAY-FRIDAY OCTOBER 16-17 'DRAMATIO--SPARKLING--WITTY! Ann, Harding in "HOLIDAY" VISITORS MAKE YOUR HEADQUARTERS AT THE REGENT ' TELEPHONE REST-ROOMS OR CHECK YOUR PARCELS FREE » Ps Let 's Go Oshawa! 1