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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS. COLBORNE. ONT.. THUR SDAY, NOV. 15, 1928 3 Segrave to Seek Speed Records in Motor Boat and Auto Races British Major Hopes to Achieve 240 Miles on Hour on the Daytona Track in February; Expects to Skip Over the Water at Ninety Miles an Hour the great London.--The Golden Arrow, in which Major H. O. D. Segrave, holder of the world speed record for motor cars, hopes to reach 240 miles an hour, is almost completed. Major Segrave will take the car to America in January for tests on the sands of Daytona Beach, Fla. Simultaneously, his new motor boat, christened Miss England, is receiving final touches. This craft will be a comrade of the Golden Arrow in seeking to lower American records. Major Segrave expects to hop, skip and jump rate of ninety hou. }T more "I intend to go for the records in February," Segrave declared in an interview. "It is hard to say which of the two records will be the ficult to beat; I Tires, he declared problem for racing "Last time," Segrave related, "the company promised that the tires would stand up at 200 miles an hour for three minutes--and they did. This time they promise one minute at 240 miles an hour, and that should be long enough." According to plans now announced, Segrave's car will present a unique appearance. It will be so low that the top of its tires will be the highest part of it, aud it can stand upside down on its own wheels. Segrave's' greatest problem in connection with his motor boat is to prevent it from turning over. With a single propeller the twisting strain of the engine on the hull, called "torque," is so great that there is a tendency lined to think | for the propeller to turn the boat I will be the j instead of propelling it forward. One harder, and it will certainly be at j way out of the difficulty least as dangerous a3 the other." | propellers, revolving in opposite direc-Judging solely from the design of | tions. But there is twice as much re-his car, Segrave said he knew it would I sistance of the boat in the water.--A. produce a speed of 240 miles an hour. P. dispatch._ Facts About New Warships Now on Fleet Exercises Cruisers With Oil Kitchen Ranges and Electric Bakeries FIRST REHEARSAL Nelson and Rodney to Fire Broadsides From 16-in. Guns In Moray Firth during the next few days some*(>f the newest and most powerful ships of the Atlantic Fleet will engage in autumn everci*cs, some: of vhit-h will Se so realistic that I he .nly si bstantial factor missing will be ■a rciii enemy* target. Nelson and Rodney, the Navy's latest battleships, will fire broai.side-s from their immense 16-inch guns. Hood, Re nown and Repulse, ships of the battle cruiser squadron, will fire 15-inch broadsides while steaming at full power. NIGHT ATTACK. Cruisers, destroyers and aircraft carriers will shoot at Centurion,---a.1 eld battleshTp^wKicn' is thetarget ship of the Atlantic fleet--and destroyers will carry out a night attack o Third Battfe Squadron. For the first time in autumn cises Nelson and Rodney, the two great new battleships, are taking part. To say that they look odd is to be polite. "Ugly" would probably not be too harsh. The effect to the eye is a lack of balance, which contrasts strongly with the fine lines of the battle cruisers. ONE TON, ONE SHOT. But these ships carry a bigger destructive power than the designers of British fighting ships have ever attempted. The sixteen-inch projectile weighs just under one ton, so that a broadside means nearly nine tons of m The guns have a maximum range of just under 22 miles, and it has been estimated unofficially that at ten thousand yards the projectile can pierce seventeen inches of armor. To build the ships costs nearly seven and a half million pounds, of which about three millions represent guns and turret arn- r. They carry .nplements of about fourteen hundred officers and men, who consume two and three-quarter tons of food a day. 1,200 LOAVES A DAY The vast stores in the ships provide for carrying naval stores and dry provisions for six months, while the refrigerating system makes it possible to carry provisions for nine weeks. The ships' kitchens would make the average housewife green with envy. Coal is unknown. Oil, which fires the boilers, also heats the cooking ranges, and an electric bakery produces twelve hundred loaves a day. Old England Likes Noisy Cycles START OF GREAT RACE Silver Cup which was won by C. W. C. Lacey. Boy Settlers' Plan Manitoba and Saskatchewan Will Co-operate, States Forke PURCHASE"WHEN 21 Scheme of Government Loans to Aid Buyers to Finance Ottawa.--The Provincial Govern-ents are willing to co-operate with the Dominion Government in bringing British boys to Canada and make it possible for them to buy farms for themselves with the assistance of government loans, after they have reached the age of 21 years, Hon. Robert Forke, Minister of Immigration and Colonization, announced in a statement issued on his return from a three weeks' visit to Western Canada. The purpose of his trip was to work out plans for closer co-operation with the provinces. During his trip Mr. Forke had conferences with the Premiers and other prominent members of the Governments of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. His ef-I fort to establishe closer co-operation the Butler with the provinces was in keeping , with the recommendations of the se- _ | lect committee of parliament which -- conducted the immigratior struction from the Archbishop of Tuam, have segregated all the Shavian works on special shelves not accessible to the general public. "What the Galway libraries do today doesn't in the least matter, seeing that in a few weeks no books, pictures or sculpture will be permitted in Ireland," Shaw replied, after which he added the pessimistic prophecy quoted above.--N.Y. Herald-Tribune. Shaw Sees "Dark Ages" in Ireland Dramatist Comments on F; State's Censorship of Books London--"Ireland is going to relapse into the dark ages," is George Bernard Shaw's warning on what will happen when the Free State's censorship of books will "D3Come law. "The Free State has apparently decided not to be a cultured country. It has ' decided that books, pictures and statues are dangerous, so it isn't going to have any. Ireland will sink to the cultural level of the Andaman Islands--that's all," the veteran dramatist added: G. B. S.'s comment was called forth when an interviewer drew his attention to the fact that the public libraries in County Galway, following in- Byng Soon to Begin Police Work Reorganization of Force Will Be Started Immediately by Its New Commander London.--Viscounk-Byn? of Vtmy has gone to Scotland Yard to begin his reorganization of the metropolitan has gone to Scotland Yard to be^in through the ears of a Royal Commission headed by Lord Cee of Fareham, has been hearing what is right and wrong with police methods as they now exist. Lord Lee, like Lord £^ag, was once a .sok!is-.v-Jfg-waS"^he British Military Attache with the Americas forces during the Spanish-American W filled the same post later at Washington. He married Miss Ruth Moore of New York. His present task is t find out what is wrong with London' police force, once the city's pride, bu lately the recipient of more brickbats than encomiums. Evidence so far taken has been mainly in defense of the police force by its present heads, many of whom will retire when Lord Byng takes command. Sir William Harwood, Chief Commissioner, and Sir Wynd-ham Childs, Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department at Scotland Yard, who fall within this category, emphatically denied that anything like "third-degree" methods has been practised in this country. The task of the police, they said, was to obtain from witnesses by all the artifices they could employ any information they required, but the moment those witnesses became pected persons and started to make its that might amo confessions, it was the duty of the police to warn them not to s thing that might be used against them. This duty was always carried they said. ' Wyndham, however, admitted that a belief in "third-degree" meth ods had become rooted in the public mind. "Perhaps engendered by the prevalence of crook films," suggested Lord Czar's Treasures at Auction Soon Soviet Government to Offer Priceless Objects for Sale VALUE £300,000,000 Signed Masterpieces of French Furniture From Gatchina Palace London.--The Soviet Government will offer for sale in Berlin on November 9 picures, furniture, tapestries, and other are objects that ■belonged to Czars and Russii A certain amount of indignation has been caused in feminist circles by the blunt assertion of the Chief Commi-sioner and his assistant chief that women police are still an experiment whose success has not yet been demonstrated. They have been used to watch the drug traffickers and to convict fortune-tellers, but, according to Sir William Harwood, they have been found "unfit or responsible work." The role of the silk-stocking sleuth apparently is cast on hard lines in' this country. The only critic of the police yet heard has been a magistrate of long experience, and his criticism is rather of the use to which the force is being He pointed out the growing tendency to employ the police to protect and support morals rather than simply to enforce the law, which, in the long in, gave the best results. Changes of time and custom have provided new duties for the police. Drunkenness, he states, gives them less trouble than of yore, but the in- The Bolsheviks have confiscated, or lationalized", ail pri\ate art collec-ons in Russia, and by this means have -become possessed of art treasures worth about £300,000,000. If the result of the forthcoming sale of a first selection of these treasures fulfills expectations, it is likely to be followed by other auctions. The works to be autctioned in Berlin next month include pictures, sculpture, tapesteries, bronzes and signed masterpieces of French furniture from the Gatchina Palace, which 1 sonal palace of the Czar, an ed 300 pictures; from the Mikhailoff Palace, the world-famous Hermitage I Musuem, and other "nationalized' collections. The Soviet Government, as is well j 1 known, "nationalized" all the great | private art collections in Russia, add- j ing thereby four thousand master- ' pieces by old masters to the Hermitage Museum, which already contained eleven thousand pictures, and incalculable wealth in ecclesiastical and domestic objects of art of all kinds. The contents of the Hermitage Museum alone were valued by experts early this year at £50,000,000, and the total value of the Soviet's art treasures cannot be less than £300,000,000. The pictures to be offered in this first sale include works by Boucher, Greuze, Canaletto, Hubert Robert and ! clevi other favorite eighteenth century mas- behind representing Raphael's "School of Athens" was presented with three others to the Russian Crown by the French Government, just before the French revolution. Empress' Furniture The French furniture consists mainly of signed pieces by the most celebrated cabinet-makers in the reign of Louis XVI, specially executed for the Empress Catherine II. Some estimate of the value of this veloped, section of the sale can be formed by difncujtj the total of £150,000 paid for a few j House pieces by the same master furniture- jl;u makers in the Cichelham sale two' 200,000 j years ago. Other objects of art to be offered are jewelled snuff boxes, candelabra in ormolu and lustre, exquisite French noble- bronzes. Italian bas reliefs. French land German gold and silver work, and, collection- enquiry aud wanted to sleep until late in the' last session. afternoon. "The Governments of both Manitoba From observation of his habits Scot-; and Saskatchewan have announced land Yard knew this, and Inquiries their willingness to co-operate with among hotel-keepers in towns near [ the Federal Department in its scheme the scene of the robbery soon dis- for the settlement of British boys in covered the afternoon sleeper. , Canada," said Mr. Forke. Under this To the detectives whose mind, scheme the Dominion, Provincial and through long association with crim- British Governments join forces tc inals has become a veritable picture give the boy an opportunity to becom« gallery, and whose faculty for memor- a farmer in Canada. British boys, iziug faces, has become so keenly de- especially selected, between the ages archdukes and noblemen were esp: ally rich in French eighteenth c tury ort. All the finest furniti and pictures, except the pieces made for the French Court, sioned by the Russian collectors the time; and the Russian palaces and mansions all contained i tirely decorated with the favorite artists' works. Nearly all the best pictures by Hubert Robert, for lifts; were in Russia. The treasures now offered worth a sensational total, but the collection even so is onl; of the Soviet Gov tionalized" art but little of 15 and 20, who will undertake t i engage in farm work for a period ol 1 at Scotland Yard is a crim- three years, will be placed in employ- ord Office containing nearly ment on Canadian farms. When a ortraits of criminals. A gdod boy has attained a practical knowl- in of these men are serving edge of farm work and live stock, has leru have reformed and are become 21 years of age, and has saved 1 citizens, while many others up about $500, the Governments con- e abroad. All these portraits cerned, will make him a loan of $2,500 ;ified with the record of the for the purchase of a farm of his own, r type of crime and fall into the loan to be repaid over a period of catalogues. Althuogh there twenty years. several persons wanted for "Another scheme which was verj ffences, the trained mind of favorably . rc z? >'.H-d provides for the How Scotland Yard Observes Detectives Trained in Constant Registering of Fact and Form During the past few days a noted burglar was caught in the English Midlands purely from observation of his habits, writes a student of crime in the London Daily Mail. Far too a tell-tale finger-print n was caught on the ters. The sculpture includes J. B.! afternoon following the robbery. Lemoyne's celebrated marble bust of It has been his habit after "crack-Marie Antoinette; the tapesteries are ing a crib" to go to any hotel in a Gobelins of the finest period. j near-by town and ask for a room, ex- One great piece of silk and wool ! plaining that he had travelled all night the detective, after a few minutes' establisliemi-i't of trai study of the portraits, retains a com- domestics in Great Britain--one in plete picture of the profile and full- England and one in Scotland, where a faced appearance of the fugitive. j six weeks' course will be given free to • Result of Training j female domestics contemplating house Acute observation can only come [ work In Canada, from a mind developed and trained in j "With regard to the miner harvestei the constant registering of facts and situation, the Minister said: "It seems forms. to be settling down quietly. So far Observation has brought many crim- as I could learn the great majority inals to justice. The annals of crim- of the harvesters fitted into positions inology teem with instances. Not on Canadian farms without much dif-long ago Stewart, sentenced to death ■ flcultj. for the Bayswater murder, was ar- "There were perhaps a few whose rested by a detective whose powers only purpose was to make as much of observation enabled him to pick j trouble as they could, but they were his man out of thousands on the front! quickly weeded out. Many of the at Southend. | harvesters now returning to Great Bri- Outside the police force Sir Bernard tain will carry good reports of Canada Spilsbury, the eminent pathologist, is ! and probably many of them will come an outstanding example of the train- back as permane ed, observant, analytical mind. He is considered/by the authorities to be a prince of observers. At all times of the day and night a detective's powers of observation may be put to the test. A few months ago a Scotland Yard detective was told that a man whom he had never seen was in the stalls of a certain theatre and that » warrant had been issued for his arrest. A few seconds' study of his photograph at the "Yard" sufficed. In the half light of the auditorium the officer, standing by an exit door, was able to pick out his man and make an arrest. There was nothing distinctive about the man's face, and to an untrained mind this task would have been impossible. A Ton of Death Just Launched of doubled and tripled their traffic duties, while the growth of the night-club habit keeps them busy in the small An investigation is now being made ' by the London police chiefs to ascer-' tain the source of the leakage of official information about the recent raids on such establishments. j TERROR OF THE SEAS A torpedo fired from the deck tube of the new Chilean destroyer Orella during its trials i: Jn after it had been launched. Ontario's Fiscal Year Now Closed Temiskaming Railway Hands Over $1,300,000 Surplus Treasury Toronto.--Ontario's fiscal year 1927-28 closed at 3 o'clock on Oct. 31st. One of the last acts of the Treasury was to deposit a cheque for $1,-300,000 from George W. Lee, chairman of the Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway. This represents net operating surplus of the railway for the year, and is the same as the surplus of last year. It was stated, however, that the amount indicated the best year in the history of the road when an expenditure of $300,000 on track and right of way repairs was taken into consideration. Full interest charges had also been met on the $6,000,000 loan negotiated in the spring to carry out an extension program. Neither Premier Ferguson nor Provincial Treasurer Monteith would comment in regard to the condition of the Provincial purse, but it is u_der-stood that the Government expects to be able to announce a surplus of approximately $225,000. THE REPTILE "The reptile! "How dare he speak f me that way!" "Why call him such a name?" "He's a lounge lizard, that's why." the English channel e^t | plate.' had to imagine eh's kissed me ; Small Boy: "Please, Mum, like these holes in the bread." Mother: "Never mind. You i Leave them (