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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1927. 3 CANADIANS BACK FROM U.S. CAN REINSTATE AFTER ONE YEAR .MEMPHIS Louisiana Hard Hit. The above map illustrates the current danger point in the great Mississippi flood. Several low-lying counties on the west side of the river in the northeastern portion of the state are inundated and the deluge is rapidly spreading. The threatened zone extends as far west as Shreveport, situated on the Red River, the swelling waters of which, pouring down to add to the MiF'O'isslppi torrent, are overflowing thousands of valuable acreage. The crest of the deluge is now in the Vicksburg area and is plunging southward toward Hew Orleans and the Gulf. The dynamited crevasse south of the Orescent City is reported to be holding the water there at a stationary level and the southern metropolis is not deemed in immediate peril. New Regulations at Ottawa Make it Easier for Canadians Who Naturalized in U.S. to Renew Canadian Citizenship. A BOON TO CANADA AND BENEFIT TO CANADIANS. Ottawa. -- Repatriated Canadians who have been naturalized in the United States and have returned to Canada will find it simple to reassume the mantle of. Canadian nationality in future. The governor-in-council has approved a new ruling of the state department of Canada that such returning wanderers may be re-established as Canadians after one year's residence, instead of being considered aliens and being subjected to alien naturalization regulations and having to wait five years. Hon. Fernand Rinfret, secretary of state, recommended to the government that applications of natural born Canadians who have been naturalized in the United States, should be considered as special cases and that special certificates be issued after a residence of one year in Canada, in oases where it is shown that the applicants intend to continue residence in Canada and give evidence of this intention, not only by affidavit or statement but by the acquisition of property or otherwise. The number of Canadians returning to Canada last year was about 50,000 though the majority had not taken out American naturalization papers. The new ruling will espe- i cially benefit Canadian businessmen sent to establish branch houses or! work in branches in the United! States. For business WILD CHINESE COOLIES ATTACK RIVER BOAT Dr. Gordon Agnew, Former X-Ray Specialist at Union University of West China, Describes Exciting Battle With Hoodlums on River Steamer at Ichang, on the Yangtze. WIELD SHOVELS AND HEAVY IRON PIPING. CANADIAN WATERS POUR INTO MISSISSIPPI Even Canadian water is pouring over the central flood area, fals Illustration shows, giving a birds-eye view of the immense territory covered by the Mississippi system. The Mississippi Is the main stem of the greatest drainage system of the continent and one of the world's greatest. Properly s'peaking, it extends to within a hundred miles, of the border, but innumerable tributary streams cross the line. The total annual discharge 1» 21 trillion cubic feet. This is 675,000 per second. It is over 2,550 miles long. The map suggests these amazing ramifications. There is shown the Chicago drainage canal. The Ohio river, too, reaches close to Buffalo. FRENCH AVIATOR found it advisable to become natural-' ized, but when ultimately transferred^ back to Canada they found they had to wait five years before reassuming Csnadian citizenship. There is no provision under the turalization act of 1914 under which a certificate of naturali University, as a "purely domestic-dis- Pf VIMr1 A TI II MTI/i Tnis information was given to the rLYIIlll A I LAN I If I British government Thursday in re- t uimu niumuiv ply t0 a note handed to the state de_ 1 ■ | partment earlier in the day by the they | Capt. Saint-Roman Heading British charge d'affaires acting in the MORE BAD LUCK Flight Plane in Mishap. Paris.--The giant biplane in which Captains Nungesser and Coli will attempt their non-stop flight to New York had a narrow escape from de-' lt)ere ,ls no Pension under the na-j Dakar w , Af ica _ obstruction by fire at 3 o'clock Thursday f"\ ^v' S^*°™n, Eenct a ator, leffsL morning, when an electric light bulb j ^J». certificate of natural,-. Loui g ^ , j' £ fell to the cement floor in the hangar | "tion may be issued on a residence ofj morni jn s ' at Villa Coublay and instantly ignited jles* than ?ve. ?ears- J The imP«rialj the Atlantic 20 litres of gasoline. One lower wing i conference 13 lnterested because any-jbuc0) Brazil From St. Louis, Senegal, to Brazil. DISTANCE~T875 MILES. badly burned, and only quick work of the staff of mechanics which Was engaged in installation of the instruments saved the plane from catching fire. Rushing to the door of thi hangar, the men yelled for help from a near-by hangar, and in less than two minutes the Levasseur machine was wheeled to safety on the landing field. DETROIT RIVER PROJECT Higher Bridge to Accommodate Ocean Vessels is Approved. Washington. -- Advocates of the Great I.akes-St. Lawrence waterways conference one becoming a Canadian citizen also becomes thereby a British citizen. The naturalization laws committee of the imperial conference of 1901 ported: "We do not think it necessary to maintain the distinction made the act of 1870, section eight, between re-admission and naturalization, person who has become an alien under the provision of the act must before being qualified for re-admission fulfill the same conditions as are required for naturalization. We see no sufficient reason for distinguishing between a statutory and any other alien and consider that it would tend to the simplification of the law if the provisions of section eight were repealed and not re-enacted." There is a precedent for the new ruling, the provision for the re-natur-i fight to-day, when the war de-' alization of women who married partment approved a new plan for a | aliens. Sub-section five of section two bvidge over the Detroit river at the' of the naturalization act provides city of Detroit. Plans approved call j that, "In the case of a woman who ttr a span of 152 feet instead of 135 j was a British subject previously to f$et, proposed by the company con-1 her marriage to an alien and whose structing the bridge. i husband has died or whose marriage This byplay in the long-continued: has been dissolved, the requirements Struggle for building the Great Lakes- of this section as to residence need St. Lawrence waterways, has been , not apply (the four years clause) and going on for some time. The city I the secretary of state may, if he Council of Detroit approved plans for! thinks fit, grant a certificate of na a 135-foot span and everything was I turalization, although the four yean in readiness to erect it. C. P. Craig,' residence has not been within the last of Duluth, secretary of the Water- i eight years before the application. ways Association, immediately regis-1 __*__ tered a protest on the ground that the! bridge was not high enough to permit j A ID TTDMIM A I passage underneath of ocean going , RU\ 1 ElVMill/LL Vessels contemplated by completion of . _ the waterways project. The protest AT TflRANTft insisted thai the move was designed -li 1 iUlWlllU to nullify the waterways program by _ plnsive ffiSCSsS He Long Brancr- and Leaside Sug-held that to obstruct contemplated gested as Sites for Moor-navigation was as vicious as if navigation were actually interfered with. The war department sustained Craig's miles. i at Adolphustown Where Sir John A. Macdonald first became a Canadian after leaving Glasgow in his youth. A ciarn is also to be erected es a Confederation recognition of the giv-at Conservative states- let ■ tail- ing Mast. Toronto.--Considerable interest is being manifested in the announcement that Major Scott and Major A. R. Gibbs, representatives of the British air service, who selected Con-naught Ranges, near Ottawa, as a site for an airship mooring mast, would visit Toronto to choose a site in this vicinity. No further survey for sites west of Toronto will be made at present, it is stated by the experts, and Toronto for some time will be the terminal of the British imperial Assistance is being given not only for the purpose of developing flying but for fostering closer relations between different parts of the empire. The first airship to visit Canada is now under construction in Cordington, England. It will accommodate 100 passengers and will have promenade decks, cabins, dining rooms and shower baths. The mooring masts for which sites are being selected are high steel structures containing elevators to carry-passengers and supplies and also machinery for the purpose of bringing the air liners into position at the masthead. It is suggested that either Leaside or the Long Branch ranges would be possible selections as sites. absence from Washington of Ambassador Howard, which challenged the accuracy of a statement by Mr. Mellon that Great Britain's debt payments to the United States would not constitute a drain on British economic resources. The statement of the treasury ■ retary was a part of a letter written his attempt to fly across. by him to Dr. Hibben in reply to the voyage to Pernam-■ contentions of members of the Prince-stance of about 1,875 j ton and Columbia faculties that there ! should be a revision of the debt settle-Advices from St. Louis said that ments the aviator expected to land first at St. Paul's Rocks, about 540 miles from the coast of South America, before continuing on the Pernambuco. Capt. Saint-Roman passed over Dakar at 7.10 a.m. and 'headed south'i west over the Atlantic! On Tuesday the French bureau of i i Q nnn -r. , aeronautics announced that official ' ?,UUU 1 on Ship to Montreal, sanction for Captain Saint-Roman's' Montreal.--Premier King headed flight had been withdrawn because he distinguished group of guests at ; was planning to proceed across the banquet to mark the visit of the nev Atlantic without pontoons. He sub- j White Star liner Albertic to Mon-stituted ordinary landing gear after | treal. The liner, 19,000 tons, is the a pontoon was damaged, and it was! largest ever to reach the port. Al-pointed out by the bureau that a: berta presented a memorial plaque to forced descent on the sea with such | commemorate the occasion. The pre-landing gear would mean disaster. | mier recalled the fact that 30 years The bureau of aeronautics supple- j ago Sir Wilfrid Laurier and other mented its first announcement with; members of parliament, had been the statement that official sanction1 guests at a similar function to mark for the flight would be given if the the arrival of the White Star line in Following is Dr. Agnew's description of an assault by Chinese coolies on himself, Dr. Lindsay, a Canadian medical missionary, and a British The incident occurred while missionaries and marines were engaged in emergency work, loading baggage on a river steamer at Ichang i the Yangtze river: "Suddenly Dr. Lindsay and I heard commotion. Looking up we saw a owd of Chinese hodlums grabbing at one of the marines. He had a baton and clubbed to good advantage, opening up the head of one of them. Then came pandemonium. "Armed with massive bamboo poles, heavy iron piping, and any other weapons they could grab, the mob swarmed into the hold, making for the marine. Lindsay and I sprang in among them, trying in vain to calm them down. Lindsay missed a bad blow only because the weapon was glanced aside by a man with whom he had been vainly arguing. The mob made for the other door of the hold, sir Charles Madden and I got the end of a bamboo in the Who succeeds Earl Beatty as first back, fortunately a slight wallop. We sea lord and chief of the naval staff.' got outside the hold, into the narrow [ Earl Beatty had been in office nearly m the outside of the ship. 8 years, grabbed the big sliding doo NEW LINER White Star Company Sends aviator consented to reinstall pon- Paris.--The possibility that Capt. Charles Nungesser, the French war ace, will hop off Friday on his attempt to conquer the Atlantic in a flight from Paris to New York, is now considered strong. NO DESIRE TO REOPEN WAR DEBT DISCUSSION British Government So Informed by United States. Washington.--The United States does not desire to engage in any formal exchanges on war debts and considers the recent correspondence on the subject between Secretary Mellon nd President Hibben, of Princeton to c Montreal. Charles Hemming of Brantford spoke for the Ontario party and warmly commended the work done by the company, adding that it was in the interests of not only Ontario but the Dominion of Canada because it was helping to make this a greater country. There \v<re three bundled guests, men prominent in the affairs of the Dominion, representatives of the east Among them were, Don. J. F. Lym-burn, attorney-general if Alberta, and Hon. A. C. Rutherford, first premier of Alberta, to express the goodwill of the west toward the east. Premier King said the function was emblematic of advances in trade and nd the growth which was and slammed it to, just in the faces in piaced swarmed on. One of the of the mob. The door was stout, and officers had his .wrist broken. In a while some went back to the hatch- few minutes it was all over. The way and up to the deck I stayed with WOmen and children were hustled over a few marines for a moment, thinking 0n to the bridge of the Tung Wo, that the door might hold. However, where the armor plate protection is they had plenty of battering rams ! good. But the rascals would not face inside, and soon smashed through a ' the bayonets and were soon scattered, panel, giving me another slight biff.! Then the Tommies searched the ship Then we had nothing to do but get for hidden rascals or hidden ammuni-i had to scoot over the piles tion (in case further trouble on board of coal which littered the corridor. I should arise). The Chinese crew the last one to leave and I'm not W6re all brought up to the top deck, how many inches I was ahead of so that anyone found below could be the club in the hands of the first of summarily dumped out. I went below the attacking party. I hadn't time to to interpret for the marines and to find out- I see the fun. Not many were found, "I made the hatchway ahead of the however, and after a little run the rascal and got out of distance of his Tung Wo pulled out downriver One weapon. Then they hesitated for a 0f the gunboats, the Cockchafer, which moment. Later they swarmed up on figured so largely in the Wanhsien in-the other side of the ship from the \ cident, escorted the Tung Wo down to small boats. From the Chi Ping (a'Sha Hsi, then returned to Ichang. U. S. boat) side some came over thej "I certainly feel that the British edge of the boat with vicious iron; marines are using excellent self-con-hooks, etc., etc. One wielded a huge trol. They have taken a tremendous coal shovel. I amount of insult and abuse from the "Signals were sent to the gunboats,j Chinese mobs. Just how long they and armed Tommies with well-sharp-' can maintain this self-control is a ened bayonets fixed and metal helmets question." Markets " TORONTO. . ;ers> choice ?8.25 to $8.75; do, com., Man. wheat--No. 1 North., $1.60; $6.75 to $7.25; butcher cows, good to No. 2 North., $1.56; No. 3 North., j choice, $6.75 to $7.50; do, fair to good, $1.48%, c.i.f. bay ports. $5.25 to $6; do, com. to med., $4.50 Man. oats, No. 2 CW, nominal; No. !to $5; do, canners and cutters, $2.50 to , not quoted; No. 1 feed, 60%c; No. $4; butcher bulls, good to choice, $6 2 feed, nominal; western grain quota- to $7; do, med., $5.25 to $5.75; do, tions in c.i.f. ports. ! bolognas, $4.50 to $5; baby beef, $8.50 Am. corn, Toronto freights--No. 2 1 to $11.00; feeders, choice, $7.00 to yellow, kiln dried, 95c; No. 3 yellow, $7.50; do, fair, $6,25 to $6.75; stock-kiln dried, 92c. jers, choice, $6.50 to $7; do, fair to Millfeed--Del. Montreal freights, med., $5X0 to $6; springers, $80 to bags included: Bran, per ton, $32.25; $110; milch cows, $75 to $90; plain shorts, per ton, $34.25; middlings, to med. cows, $45 to $65; calves, $40.25. I choice, $10 to $12; do, med., $8 to Ont. oats, 50c f.o.b. shipping points. $9; do, com., $5.50 to $6; lambs, choice Ont. good milling wheat--$1.26 to $14 to $14.50; bucks, $11 to $11.50; $1.28, f.o.b. shipping points, accord- ^sheep, choice, $8 to $9; ' DYNAMITING THE shows plainly how the Miss reights. Barley--Malting, 72c. Buckwheat--73c, nomir Rye--No. 2, $1.00. Man. flour--First pat. ronto; do, second pat., $7.90. Ont. flour--Toronto, 90 per cent., patent, per barrel, in carlots, Toronto, $5.30; seaboard, in bulk, $5.50. Hay, No. 2, timothy, track, Toronto, $16.55. Cheese--New, 1VA. to 17%. $6 to $7.50; do, culls, $4 to $5; hogs, ; thick smooths, fed and watered, I. i $9.75; do, f.o.b., $9.25; do, country points, $9; do, off cars, $10.15; select $8.40, To- premium, per hog, $1.90. MONTREAL. Oats, CW, No. 2, 75c; do, No. 3, 67c. Flour, Man. spring wheat pats., , firsts, $8.30; do, seconds, $7.80; do, large, 17c; twins,' strong bakers', $7.60; winter patents, plets 17% to 17%c- choice, $5.90 to'$6. Rolled oats, bag Stiltons; 20c;' Old, large, 20c; twins', Oi' 90 lbs., $3.40 to $3.50. Bran, $32.25. 2014c. Old Stiltons, 23c. Shorts, $34.25. Middlings, $40.25. Butter-Finest creamery prints, '. Hay,,No. 2, per ton, car lots, $14.50. 43 to 44c; No. 1 do, 42 to 43c; No. 2, 41 to 42c. Dairy prints, 34 to 35c. ; Eggs--Fresh extra.-, in cartons, to 36c; fresh extras, loose, 35c; ' NEW BASIS FOR HOGS fresh firsts, 33c; fresh seconds, 29 to I STARTING MAY 9TH The conference held at Ottawa < ^Poultry, dressed--Spring chickens ' APril 22 a"d 23. agreed upon the fol-60c; chickens, 5 lbs. up, 40c; do, 4 to lo^in.S rnethod °f P«^hase for hogs. 5 lbs., 38c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 35c; do, 2% | Prlce quotation shall be on the basis to 3%c, 84c; broilers, 1% to 2% lbs., of 'select bacon" and thick smooth 38c; hens, over 5 lbs., 32c; do, 4 to 5 grades, both quotations to be given, lbs., 30c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 28c; roosters, An initial differential m price of 50c 25c; turkeys, 46 to 47c; spring duck- per hundred pounds was agreed upon lings 38c I between the above grades. * Beans--Can. hand-picked, $3.60 to ! Prices will be quoted for hogs com-■3.90 bushei; primes, $3.45 to $3.60. ! mencing May 9th, on the weight off Maple products--Syrup, per imp. 'car (W.O.C.) basis at the public stock gal., £2.25 to $2.30; per 5 gal., $2.15 yards and packing plant. For ex-to $2.25 per gal.; maple sugar, lb., 25 ample, using $10.75 as a basis: to 26c i Select bacon. Price W.O.C. $10.75 cwt. Honey--60-lb. tins, 13 to 18%c; 10- j Thick smooth " $1 per hog, lb. tins, 13% to 18%c; 5-lb. tins, 14 to | under selects. 14%c; 2%-lb. tins, 16c. Shops and feeders, $2 per hog, under Comb honey--$4 to $5 per dozen. I selects. Smoked meats--Hams, med., 80 to Heavies, $3 per hog, under selects. 82c; cooked hams, 43c; smoked Ex. Heavies, $2 per cwt. under se- rolls, 25c; breakfast bacon, 28 to 33e; ! lects, or $8.75 per cwt. backs, boneless, 32 to 42c. j Sows, No. 1, $3 per cwt. under se- cured meats--Long clear bacon, | lects, or $7.75 per cwt. 50 to 70 lbs., $21; 70 to 90 lbs., $19; Sows, No. 2, $3 per cwt. under se- 90 to 100 lbs., and up, $18; light-! lects, or $6.75 per cwt. weight rolls, in barrels, $11.50; heavy- j Roughs, at their value. weight rolls, $38.50 per bbl. - ! Stags, $6 per cwt. under selects, or Lard--Pure tierces, 14 • to 14%c; ! $4.75 per cwt. tubs, 15 to 15%c; pails, 15% to 16c; prints, 16 % to 1 13%c"; tubs,, 13% Heavy beef ^steers, steers, choice, S8.75 to good, $7.50 to $8 $8.50 to $9; $8; butcher $9; do, fair butcher heif- into the earth has estab-v world's record in oil-well r San Diego, California. I