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* PAGE EIGHT THE. OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1930 NEW TRAIN TOOTS "WONT DISTURB LIGHT SLEEPERS Sound Sent Down Right-of- Way, Not to Sides Dallay, Texas.--Speeding loco- motives in the quiet of the night » screeching whistles . . , in- lerrupted sleep . This soon may be a thing of the past as the result of successful tests with a new train whistle, built like » megaphone, which throws sound directly down the right-of-way so no one else close to the tracks can fail to. hear it. On the other hand, the whistle diminishes sound on either side of the track. The new warning device has been designed and built by employes of the Mis- souri, Kansas and Texas railroad. Officials and mechanics have spent several years perfecting fit. Work was started by C. T. Me- Elvaney, for years superintendent of machinery on the Katy. His son. C. T. McElvaney, jr, now gen- sral roundhouse foreman at Dallas, continued the experiments and through his efforts the whistle has been perfected to a point where tests now are hailed as successful. McElvaney's whistle, which has been placed on two fast passenger train locomotives on the Katy line, has an amplifier and sound direc- tor which looks much like a head- light. Warning notés are produced by six pipes, with low and high notes so blended that they produce a maximum warning with a mini- mum of annoyance. Getting steam from the steam dome to the whistle without too much condensation during cold weather is one problem still being studied and experiments will be car- ried out this winter. Because of softer tones and the fact that sound will not be heard all over the coun- tryside the whistle is expected to "benefit not only train passenger, but also thousands who live along the right-of-way especially in large cities. FEMALE BANDITS, PIRATES COMMON IN CHINA TODAY Attack Vessels and Loot Villages With Great Ferocity Hongkong.--The woman pirate and the Amazonian bandit have be- come commonplace figures in the picture of present-day China's tur- moil. Reports of armed women be- . ing among the marauders who have attacked a vessel or looted a vil- lage have become so frequent that they excite little more interest than © Is aroused by the monthly reports of the ricksha coolies' union, Many wgmen have become lead- ers of bandit or pirate gangs, rul- ing with as much ferocity as any hard-boiled Chinese male who ever led a gang of cutthroats into a de- fenceless village or across the deck of a captured merchantman. Some reports indicate, in fact that the women outlaws, true to the tradi- tions of their sex when they 'go bad," outdo the men in the ruthless treatment of victims. A newspaper investigation into recent activities of a gang of out. laws made up mostly of women has thrown some interesting sidelights on the way in whish the Chinese female outlaw operates. In one ia- stance this band sacked the flou- rishing village of Woochung in South China and kidnapped more than 100 persons, holding them for ransom, Ordinarily a band of cap- tives of this size loses one or two of its members en route to the out- laws' lair, the escaped persons give ing clues to the route and probable whereabouts of the marauders. But police and military authori- ties reported that no trace could be found of the Woochung raiders and inquiry disclosed the reason. Sur- vivors of the affair recounted that each woman bandit appeared with a sling on her back and after mak- ing good use of her club, pistol] and other weapons, departed with a trussed-up prisoner in the sling, the captives being carried in much the same manner that babies are packed about by Chinese mothers. None of the prisoners taken in this raid returned to give a clue as to the direction in which the ban- dits had fled. But word was sent back to the village that the price for release of all the captives was $30,000 gold. Relatives of the victims, although knowing the fail- ure to pay meant the almost cer- tain execution of the prisoners, could only say that this was more money than the entire village could scrape together in a year. The force that turned the women of this particular band to brigan- dage was the same that has prompt- ed many other lawabiding and peace-loving Chinese to take up lives of crime. Civil wars, famine, collapse of the country's currency and other economic factors have driven thousands of men and wo- men to seek a living where they could find it and from whoever hap- pened to have anything worth tak- ing. The federal government of Canada has now 207 farm illustration sta- tions in operation, acting as a con necting link between the farmers and the large government experimen: tal farms. They are widely distrl- buted over Canada, "A goodly number of water tows areas have been reserved ag sanctu- aries in the western provinces where 80 many of Canada's ducks breed. * The Canadian market consumed 70,500,000 lbs. of lamb and mutton _ 4n 1929 compared with 62,200,000 in 1928, an increase of 1 pound per "capita. : HRISTMAS will be different this year if you do this j WAY to make your Christmas shopping easy is to look at the advertisements in the daily newspapers. You will find in them a host of helpful suggestions. Instead of tramping aimlessly from--shop to shop --and from counter to counter -- inspecting thousands of articles displayed for the holiday trade, turn to the advertising columns of your favourite newspaper and be guided by the most direct route to the desired purchase. Wasted time and wearied steps are thus elimi- nated and your shopping is done to much greater advantage. You are puzzled about what to give Father or Mother; it is hard to decide what to buy for seven-year old Betty; you find it difficult to select a present for the best friend and the older folks. No matter what your gift problems, and we all have the same problems at Christmas time, the advertisements in the daily newspapers will help you solve them. Reading the Christmas sales messages in your daily newspaper will save you time, energy and money. Read them every day. Turn to them now and benefit by the assistance which retailers and manufacturers offer to solve all the puzzles that arise out of your Christmas shopping. The best and choicest wares of all the world are available in the shops today. This advertisement is sponsored by the Canadian Daily Newspapers Association - --