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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., JUNE 9, 1938 Commentary on the Highlights of the Week's News . Chinese Planes Score HANKOW. -- The Chinese air force scored heavily against the •Japanese air arm at Hankow and ,Poyang Lake last week. Twelve Nipponese combat planes were brought down during an air battle over the city between twenty-six Japanese ships and probably double that number of Chinese fighters. Four Chinese planes were said to be shot down. Czech Defence Scheme PRAHA. -- Czechoslovakia, Sworn to defend its sovereignty against any attack, incorporated £11 its people between the ages of six and sixty years in a gigantic 'defence scheme this week. Closely following a blanket order that all persons, men, women find children, must equip themselves with gas masks at once, the Government in a civil ordinance required all persons of both sexes from 6 to 60 to take instruction in war preparedness. Tremendous Great Lakes Project OTTAWA.--A vast project for the development of the Great Lakes System and the St. Lawrence River Basin for both shipping and power needs has been proposed to the Canadian Government by Cordell Hull, Secretary of State for the United States. In a surprise announcement, Prime Minister Mackenzie King revealed to the House that negotiations have already resulted in a draft treaty in which the United States has agreed to an arrangement whereby both the Canadian Government and the Ontario Government could defer responsibility for development of their share of the tremendous project. The United States Government has also agreed to accept surplus Ontario power and permit the Ontario Government to proceed with its plans to divert the waters of . . By Elizabeth Eedy the Albany River into the Great Lakes and utilize the additional power at Niagara. Thousands Killed In Bombings CANTON, China. -- Japanese planes last week-end bombed this large commercial city of Southern China for the fourth time in as many days, bringing the casualties to nearly 2,000 dead and close to 5,000 wounded. A city official announced that the casualties in one bombing alone totalled 1,400 dead and 2,100 injured. British Freighter Sunk MADRID.--The British freighter Penthames was bombed and sunk in an air raid on Valencia harbor last week. No lives were lost. A Spanish vessel also was sunk. Air raid alarms kept the harbor district in a state of tension while the raid was on. More Onions Being Grown TORONTO. -- Western Ontario is going to be the cause of even more tears this year. The Ontario Agricultural Department's preliminary estimate shows that onion plantings in that part have increased to 2,654 acres this spring, an increase of 249 over last year. Essex, Kent and Lambton are the three greatest onion-growing counties of the province, accounting for 2,093 acres. Continued Moisture OTTAWA.--Wheat the Prairie Provinces is practically completed, but a continuance of adequate precipitation in the 1937 drought areas is essential if the present stands are to be maintained, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported in the first of its series of weekly telegraphic reports on crop conditions on the NEXT WEEK -- A NEW FEATURE will begin in this paper "NAMES IN THE NEWS" A record of personalities, Canadian, foreign, who are making-history in these momentous times. Sure He's Found Cure For Colds Moscow Scientist Reports Development Of A Serum Which Eliminates All Cold Symptoms in 24 Hours Prof. Vladimir Barikin, head of the Moscow Institute of Epidemiology and Microbology, has reported development of a serum which he said has never failed to eliminate completely all symptoms of the common cold within 24 hours. Prof. Barikin, who has been experimenting with the serum for two years, said he tested it on himself when he was ill with the grippe and awoke the next day "completely recovered." Flu Disappeared After being tested on mice the serum was applied to 80 members of the institute's staff and an equal number of volunteers suffering with grippe. In every case, he said, it eliminated all signs of grippe within ,24 Inurs. The virus was said to grow best in a chicken embryo three or four days old, from which the serum is obtained. The mice used in the experiments first were injected with the serum, then with a dose of grippe virus sufficient to cause death. The mice remained alive and were given doses of virus 13,000 times stronger than would ordinarily be required to kill them. When the serum was injected they recovered, the profes- In addition to the institute staff members and volunteers the tests were conducted on students at Moscow's Central Hospital. Woodpeckers Are Fussy Creatures Prefer Their Nests at Bottom Of Deep, Dark Hole in Hollow Tree Both woodpeckers and flickers prefer to make their nests at the bottom of a deep, dark hole in a hollo - tree. Ther""ore if we want to coax these birc's to nest in the garden we must put up just the right kind of a house. A house intended for woodpeckers or flickers should be covered A--C with bark. A wooden box can be made and covered with strips of bark, or better still, make the house from wood from which the bark has not been stripped. After the house is made place a handful of sawdust in the bottom of it to facilitate the building of the nest. A house intended for a red-head woodpecker should have a floor space six by six inches square. The entrance hole should be made two inches in diameter and drilled about 12 inches above the floor. The house should hang from 12 to 30 feet above the ground. A flicker house should have a floor seven by seven inches square. The entrance hole should be two and one-half inches in diameter and 16 inches above the floor. Hang the house from six to 20 feet above the ground. Artificially Made Lightning Flash Is Shown Publicly At Philadelphia--Half-Million Voltage Could Split Block of Wood Man-made lightning has been shown publicly for the first time at the Franklin Institute, in Philadelphia, and the demonstration will remain there permanently. The artificial bolt has a potential of 500,000 volts and strikes with enough power to smash a block of'wood one foot long and four inches thick. The discharge is produced by a giant surge generator built by the Westing-house Electric and Manufacturing Company. The bolt, made up of particles travelling at 2,200 feet a second, about twice the velocity of sound, hits its target with the force of a .50-calibre bullet. Natural lightning hits a blow equivalent to a thirty-pound shell discharged with a muzzle velocity of 2.200 feet per second. The current is taken from an ordinary household socket. Despite the high voltage, little total energy is involved since the flash lasts less than five-millionths of a second. The current used by an electric toaster in one second would produce five such flashes. A natural flash of 10,000,000 volts and 50,-000 amperes, lasting up to twenty-millionths of a second, uses 20 cents worth of electricity only, at II Duce Makes Inspection On Genoa Trip ! hoi ling o Dr. P. L.'Bellaschi, Westinghouse News In Review WHAT, NO NEWS?: Why is it that nothing seems to be going on in Canada this week--apart from the talk at Ottawa, we mean? Rather hard on the newspapers, you know, having so few stories to feature in the headlines. What's behind it all? Why, everybody's too busy to be making news. British Columbia is trying to cope with its -urgent relief problem, while thinking about the new highway through to Alaska; Alberta is busy untying Social Credit knots and keeping a finger in the Saskatchewan election pie; the farmers of Saskatchewan are blessedly busy on the land, giving little thought to how the election will turn out; Quebec is occupied with provincial problems, taking time off now and then for a bit of a "Red" hunt; while down here in Old Ontario everybody is out gardening or golfing or listening to the crops grow. It's June. Isn't that news enough for anybody? NO REST FOR THE WINNERS: Their long fight over, the four winners in the Millar Will Stork Derby are deserving of a little bit of quiet and time to enjoy their new-found riches. But no, the big invasion has begun-- of salesmen and hangers-on into the Toronto homes of the four mothers. It will apparently come to an end only when each sum of. $75,000 has been exhausted by lawyers' expenses, new cars, radios, refrigerators. Not that vigorous resistance isn't being put up in each case. But you know those salesmen---- EMPTY VICTORIES: An important cable from Peiping which came through, uncensored, to the Globe and Mail and the New York Times, neatly sums up the war situation in China as it now stands. Says the correspondent: "It is idle to say the Japanese armies have 'conquered' many Provinces--the facts are that the Japanese authority rarely runs beyond the range of Japanese guns .... Militarily, r/olrtically and economically there fs,afg>a,ve danger of Japan becoming "hopelessly bogged down in the- vast morass created by 'the Chinese stubborn refusal to admit military defeat." For Japan to conquer the whole of China, and hold it, seems at this time impossible of accomplishment. But new factors may yet enter and change the situation. Japan is reported to be negotiating with Germany for arms, munitions and military support, offering in return a portion of the conquered territory for Germany's later use. Should such a deal go through, the outcome of the Sino-Jap conflict would be unpredictable. TREATY HINGES ON JT: One reason why the National Government of Great Britain appears to be anxious to have insurge t General Franco win the Spanish "civil" war is that the entire success of the newly-signed Anglo-Italian treaty hinges upon a speedy conclusion of the war in Spain. (The treaty cannot go into effect until the war is over.) And since General Franco has appeared fUr some tim- to be on the win- The non-progress of the insurgent campaign in the Spanish peninsula the past few weeks, then, is causing serious embarrassment to both the British and Italian governments. It looks as though the embarrassment is likely to continue, too, with General Franco making preparations to cany on his part of the war into the fall and winter. And the Loyalist Government declares it is prepared to hold out indefinitely. ... SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION: "Film Explosion in Detroit Kills One Man," reads one of the week's headlines. Seven persons, incidentally, were seriously burned on the same occasion. The film? A. Mae West picture. Nuff said. EACH OF US PAYS $3.11: Canada's defense program at the present time is costing $3.11 per capita. Most of this money is going into construction of fortifications on the Pacific coast. We're getting off easy over here. In Great Britain, the cost is eight times as much for every individual. TIME LIMIT: Although the Czechoslovakian crisis has subsided for the moment--Germany has found a bigger problem to deal with than she bargained for --a real crisis is to be expected before the fall. A time limit has been set for Czechoslovakia to come to German terms. For last week the leader of the Sudeten German (trouble-making.1 party in Czechoslovakia made an announcement: "By next autumn a solution will have to be found for the Sudeten question in Czechoslovakia. Unless Czechoslovakia halts its "repression" of the Sudeten minority and grants far-reaching concessions, the German Government may be forced by direct action to bring them within the frontiers of the Reich." So there you are. Britain Fortifies Channel's Mouth A naval base is being built on the Island of Portland to guard the western mouth of the English Channel from any attack from Spanish ports. ""'ie base, to protect an approach used by the ill-fated Spanish Armada of 158S, has long been a secondary defence asset, but achieved primary importance as a result of foreign intervention in the Spanish war and the theory that a hostile power might use Spanish ports for wartime operations. Modernization and extension of the harbor and dockyard at Portland is alrer 'v u der way. NavaL air squadrons soon will take over a large part of the island, including the military citadel, known as the Verne, normally garrisoned by the Britain's largest warships can anchor in the harbor, entering and leaving whatever the state of the tide. The defence force probably will be mostly light tcrpedo boats, however, since they are better suited to the narrow waters of the channel. Already the site of the navy's anti-submarine school, Portland soon will be the chief anti-submarine base, sheltering a p werful force of swift motor torpedo boats, submarine. and bombing planes. Naval experts believe that a fleet of small sr'^s might "worry" an invading fleet much as the Spanish Armada was harried 350 years ago. The isl„nd is heavily armed. Across Weymouth Bay, opposite Portland, a coastal defence battery, first st up in the Great W' - is being remounted. Pedestrian Prelate The Bishop of Winchester smiles gaily as he sets out on his annual walking tour of his diocese. The venerable English prelate is accompanied, as usual, by Ms personal chaplain on the trip. Will Solve Riddle Of Fish Migration Maritimes Project Is Tagging Salmon Fingerlings To Find Out Where They Go Thousands of salmon, spawned in the Restigouche River and turned loose as fingerlings in the St. John River in New Brunswick are getting ready to return to home waters and the question that fisheries department officials are hoping to answer is whether they will start up the Restigouche or will they seek the river from which they started to swim seawards. Three years ago 400,000 Restigouche fingerlings were released in the St. John as part of a fisheries department plan to determine characteristics of the migration of salmon. Each one of the little fish bore a price tag of one dollar when it was placed in the river. Two fins were snipped off each fingerling and anyone returning the scar tissues, left by removal of the fins, to the department of fisheries together with information as to how and where he landed the fish and its weight will receive one dollar. fishe: off the fins of a fish to earn the dollar, own way of prevenlii trickery because the, removal of fins fr:>;: can be easily distin scars made on a gro If no fish return < department will ka< have to seek a new i ging the fingerlings. the fins may ham;: keeping away from th emies. Few of the a are expected to ap Scotian waters so tl be placed in New B.laugh when ay chance ot man snipping tie has caught Mature has its g this kind of sears left by i a fingerling »iished from tm fish, •xperts of the w they will t ethod of tag-Itemoval of ■ the fish in sir natural en-arfced salmon uar In Nova » posters will Trade Advisers For Big Cities Canadian Government Considering Proposal, Official Reveals, to Increase Export Trade. Appointment of trade sioners in Toronto, Montreal and other Canadian c2.i;res is being considered by the Lepartment of Trade and Commerce in ins efforts to encourage the extension oi: Canada's export trade, according to A. E. Bryan, Inspector of the Trade Commissi one:: Service. Such commissioners would confer with and advise manufacturers and other businessmen on conditions in other cuntries, Mr. Bryan told the rorei.rn trade conference of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce at Hamilton last week. He urged Canadian manufacturers to pursue foreign trade more vigorously. Tht resulting increased business would enable them to be independent of the domestic market. Men prominent in industry, finance and commerce attended the trade conference, fr; t meeting of its kind organized in Canada. Many technical questions 'a ere discussed. During the conference the business leaders sought to achieve concerted action to further the Dominion's place in :ne International market. There is only one scaly-backed ant-eater in captivity, called the African Pangolin, and it is in the London Zoo. VOICE CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE of the PRESS CANADA Death By Drowning The toll of drowning in Ontario during the spring and summer months is greater than the toll of highway traffic. It is a heavy price to pay for sport and recreation, where risk is preferred to safety.--St. Catharines Standard. One Every 20 Minutes Divorces were granted at the recent assizes at London, Ont., at the rate of one every 20 minutes, after which we cannot very well complain about Reno or other "divorce-mills." -- Brockville Recorder and Times. It's Safe For A While Now that Mr. Crerar has informed the House that Canada's title to the Arctic regions is beyond dispute we will breathe easier realizing there is no danger of waking up some morning and finding some foreign power has annexed an iceberg or two. -- Peterborough Examiner. Drivers Are Different It is surprising how so many otherwise honest, just and considerate men and women become perfect boors when they enter the driving seat of an automobile. In their homes, on the street, and at public gatherings, these motorists are practically the personification of courtesy and kindness. Place a steering wheel in their hands, and their whole nature seems to change.--Chatham News. Bought At The Door Just, for curiosity, we bought an article the other day, which the door-to-door salesman said was sold more cheaply because the firm didn't advertise. Comparing it with standard, advertised goods, it was not a surprise to discover it had cost more than the same kind of article and the quality was much inferior to its competitor, which bears a well known trade name.--Niagara Falls Re- Hopes For June It will be just too bad this year if we get a frost during that first full moon in June. In that list of coming events in June the men folk will find ample excuse for getting away from home for a day when they get fed up with the work. There has been a splendid bloom, but not until after the June drop can the fruit crop be estimated. However, this much is certain, no bloom, no crop!--Farmer's Advocate. What They Hear About Us "Canada," said Lord Tweeds-muir to the visiting Scottish farmers the other day, "gets rotten publicity; too much for the failures and too little for the successes." There is much truth in that remark. The world hears about our Western drought, the problem of our railways, but much less about our solid accomplishments. Perhaps the world does not realize that this small population in half a century has made a nation out of scattered settlements, has made a good start in the development of rich natural resources, is one of the foremost trading countries on earth. Sometimes in the face of immediate difficulties, we fail to bear these facts in mind even among- ourselves. -- Ottawa Jour- The EMPIRE Don't Kill Your Doctor! Dr. Harry Stark, of Stoke New-ington, at the age of 35, had reached what most of us would call "success". He had a very good practice; his patients loved him. Dr. Stark died last week. He died in the most unspectacular way a man can die--in bed. But he gave his life for a patient whom he probably scaicely knew. Dr. Stark contracted blood poisoning from the patient. The pa-.tient still lives. He is cured. Next time you say, "Oh, the doctor's bill can wait," think of Dr. Stark. Some day YOU mi-lit kill your doctor. -- London Sunday Pis-