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700 Perish in Quake--1,500 Benevento, Italy--The earthquake 'which struck southern Italy early en Wednesday morning, July 23, has proved one of the great tragedies of recent years, A compilation of official and unof- ficial estimates of the dead reach the figure of 8,700, Of the dead, 3,000 were estimated to be in Benevento province, and of these 2,000 were at Villanova-Albanese, a town itself of but 3,000 population. Sorrowful Spectacle Foggia, Italy --The first direct story of conditions in Melfi, where terrible _ destruction was wrought, was brought by survivors, They said the western side of Melfi, comprising one-fourth of the town, was totally destroyed. They reported no dead in the upper section of the ¢ity, although all buildings were seri ously damaged except for a few of modern construction. The greater part of the historic Nor- man castle there was wrecked. The highroad to the Melfi railroad station was swarming with survivors living in the open. Troops and militia were' raising a tent field hospital, while large numbers of injured were transported to Foggia and Potenza. Melfi presents a sorrowful spectacle, the survivors said, the survivors in- sisting on searching the ruing for re- Jatives in spite of the efforts of the troops to keep them back. Entire families were killed. A pe- gular aspect of the situation lay in the Jarge number of children who es- caped death, casualties being heavy among the elders. Hurricane Adds to Naples Terror Naples, Italy.--To add to the terror of the earthshocks, the ¢ity of Naples was swept by a hurricane which drove huge waves ashore and added to the fears of the stricken populace. At the same time the strong wind blew down trees and fragile summer Homeless sAriano, at sight of the orphan asylum cottages along the coast, Fishing smacks with their colorful sails had to point their noses hastily in the province was ordered to turn northward in 'order to escape damage, | its antitetanus serum supplies to the The storm subsided as quickly as it! arrived and a dreary drizzle set in. Naples had the appearance of a city under a wartime regime, with soldiers | buildings to] guarding the damaged ward off the curious, and flags flying everywhere at half-mast. | of persons who were jagured, Suffer Injuries--10,000 Are') An impressive funeral was held for those who died in Naples as a result of the 'quake and in commemoration of those who were killed at Salerno and at Triani. Authorities took precautions against disease and sent out word for anti- tetanus serum and medical supplies. Soldiers, policesind firement worked | frantically to bring relief 'to the popu-| ra lace in the regions around Naples and Potenza, hit hardest by the earth con- vulsions, Sombre Mount Vesuvius, which stands a stern guard above Naples, added to the fears of some as its sum- mits glowed dully ia the sky, The voleano of Pozzuola, a smoke- | | mountain obscurred by the fame of its mighty neighbor, Mt. Vesuvius, was in eruption. Seismologists say it was kicked into action by the succession of earth- quakes, The Duchess of Aosta, who vigited the wounded in the hospitals of Nap- les and did much to ealm the people of the city; went into the stricken int terior. She was greatly moved, at which caved in and killed scores of little children. Hundreds of onlookers wept when the Duches knelt and placed an ivory erucifix which she wore, on the body of a little girl half buried in the debris, Precautions Taken Against Epidemic Naples, Italy.--Long trains of tank cars left the city during the night, bound for towns in southern Italy where water pipes were broken by the trembling earth and people were suf- fering from lack of pure water. The trains were ordered 'to proceed as far as possible, wherce the water would be carted to isolated towns, now in ruins. The high commissioner of Naples province took drastic measures to pre- vent epidemics, which always threaten after catastrophes. Every drug store Provincial Government, for distribu- tion through relief agencies in the affected areas. In addition, the high commissioner requisitioned medicines in Naples hos- pitals for 'use among the thousands Ileavy Casualties Over Week-En The death list in Ontario set a new seasons' record over the week-end, re- ports showed early this Monday morn- ing, Twenty-three people--meh, women and children, the youngest 2 years old and the oldest 81, lost their lives in the province, Ten were drowned, three men dying when their car plunged off a dock, Automobiles took four lives. Three men were victims of extreme heat. A dog killed a 2-year-old London child. of whey. One boy died of burns. Two men were killed in the collapse of a building and another was run over by | a train. Many people were injured in high- way accidents and other mishaps, The Dead Unidentified woman in killed by automobile. George Broadley," 56, victim of heat prostration, Fred Corbett, 46, 515 Crawford St. Toronto, victim of heat. Mrs. George Turner, 40, resident mear Woodstock, drowned at Port Bur- well, John Smith, automobile, Victor Bobinsky, drowned at Chatham. Maurice Arnold Hay, Highbury Ave., London, killed by dog near Lucknow, Stewart Fitzgerald, Hale Street, London, drowned in Thames River. Albert Brooks, 23, of Detroit, drowned at Chatham. Alice Findlay, 2, drowned in tank of whey near Kempville, \ Bruce Mahaifey, 26, of Peterboro, run over by train on the iLndsay line. James Reid, 23, of Highland Creek, drowned in Lake Ontario near Rouge River. Fred Vincent of Pembroke. Sh _Adelard Chaput of Alumete Island, and \ Hamilton, of London, 4, of London, killed by 19, of Windgor, {drowned when their car plunged into ! river from dock. { Milverton Boulevard. A little girl drowned in a vat | Albert Smith of Desjardinesville, all | Thomas Smith, English immigrant, drowned near Tyrone. Helen Johnson, of Omemee, killed in highway wreck near Lindsay, William Petit, 81, 34 Clark Street, Toronto, victim of heat prostration. Roy White, 9, of 2486 St. lair Ave., Toronto, succumbed to burns. Roderic Smith, 15, 117 Springdale Avenue, Toronto, killed in wreck on John Thomas Moulden, 53, drowned at Port Arthur. Elehi Ninela, 26, and Tovivio Ninela, 16, killed when wall collapsed at Port Arthur. r Cause of Crash is Still Undetermined Escape of Prince's Aide in Fatal Crash is Revealed Chatham, Kent, Eng.--The cause of the airplane crash in which six per- sons, including three members of the British nobility, were killed near here on July 21 remain a mystery. Auth- orities found no evidence of the ex- plosion which was said to have pre- ceded the crack-up. All of thessix persons abroad the plane were-dead when rescuers reach. ed them except the pilot, Lieut.-Col. G. L. T. Henderson, 42, a Great War ace, who died within 10 minutés. The others were.--Viscountess Ed- nam, Mrs. Henrick Loeffler, prominent society leader; the Marquess of Duf- ferin and Ava, 55; Capt. Sir Edward Simons Ward, 48; and Charles D. Shearing, 28, assistant pilot. No Clue in Wreckage wreckage was examined The thoroughly to determine the cause of| the accident, but no reason has been assigned to date. Harold Ward, proprietor of the Or- chard at Meopham, where the plane fell, described the disaster in an in- terview with the press. "J first heard an erratic noise from a large 'plane, and then saw the i S tory are full of calamitous ly suffered time and time | 4, records that on July earth- quakes. The most devas Lies shock of mod- ern time occu mn Dece: DEE 23, 'chosen by Lord Willingdon as the best animal seen during his visit here in p , when 76,482 Jie} kill 1- 000 made homeless in Sictly and | Calabria. ria. The city of Messina alone had a death list of nearly 50,000. Many ine Jarge towns were, Completsly -"- aca Italy' was visited by devas tions. dowary, 91 captured many honors in first national model aircraft contest at Ottawa- He Ross Farquharson, sixteen-year-old Vancouver, B.C., boy, who recently shattered several world's records and also gets trip to England. 'plane emerge from the clouds," he sald. "Suddenly, there was a terrific explosion, and the machine began to nosedive. Five bodies hurtled out of the machine and fell to the earth. "The bodies crashed into my or- chard over an area of six acres. They hit the ground with such force that they bounded up again, leaving -an imprint several inches deep." Mr. Ward said that Lieut. Hender- gon was found alive, strapped in the cockpit a quarter of a mile from the orchard, but he died within 10 min- utes. The others were killed by the impact of striking 'the ground. Prince's Aide Escapes The "plane was en route from Le Touunet, France, to London, and it was learned that if there had been any more room, the Prince of Wales' Equerry, Col. the Hon. Walter Piers Legh, would have been aboard the 'plane. One of the British Air Ministry's experts who examined the wreckage, expressed the theory that a bird may have stro k the plane's propeller, causing it to snap, and leading to a strain which would.cause the engine to tear. itself. away and throw the plane off balance. Another expert sald that he believ- ed the "explosion" groundsmen claim- ed they heard was merely the sound of a wing breaking from the body. min Cattle Sale Sets Year World Record! Brampton.--At a sale of imported and locally bred Jersey cattle on the B. H. Bull estate, $82,175 was realized on 61 head of cattle. The average price of $1,347.10 per head was«be- lieved by D. O. Bull, head of the estate, to be the highest of any sale in the world during the past year. Senator Hardy of Brockville pur- chased one cow at $8,250 and shortly after the sale resold it to Herbert Far- yell of Nashville, Tenn, at a substan- tial increase. R, H. Crosby, of Pica- yune, Mo., took one cow at $7,000 and paid $25,000 for Pioneer «! Oakland, a male, and $1;500 for five females sired by the bull. The cow which took the highest price in the sale was May. Buyers came from fourteen states, from British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Alberta and Ontario, and a cable bid was placed from New Zealand. Plane Guided Only By Radio Flies "Blind" for 1000 Miles Washington.--Without looking out- side of his cockpit, Capt. Arthur Page, U.S. Mariné Corps, has successfully flown radio-controlled airplanes from Omah#, Neb, to Washington, a dis- tance of about 1000 miles. To make the flight the longest radio- controlled "blind" flight' yet com- pleted, Captain Page used a standard navy observation plane, equipped with standard insturments and radio beac- on receiver both 'of the oral and visual types. Rear-Admiral W.:'A. Moffett, Chief of. the Bureau of Aeronautics of the Navy Department, sponsored the flight as a demonstration of navy equipment. Seated in a hooded cockpit, Captain Page took off "blind" from Omaha at 6 a.m. July 21 for the United States] Naval Air Station at Anacostia, D.C. via Chicago and Cleveland. During the first leg of the flight to Chicago he was in constant receipt of messages from the Department of Commerce stations at Des Moines, Sterling and Chicago, receiving oral direction mdi- cations: apd hourly weather radiocasts by voice: 'When Captain Page headed for Cleveland, he followed a course gadio- cast from Chicago, Goshen and Cleve land and received messages from one or more gtations at al times, On the last lap it was necessary to fly by compass for the first 10° miles out of Cleveland, as there is no radio beacon pointed * toward Washington from Cleveland. At the 100-mile point, Cap: tain Page picked up the Bureau of Standards experimental visual radio beacon, at College Park, Md, and fol- lowed visual signals . sent out from. there through to- Washington, landing at 6.46 p.m; at the naval air station. The actual landing of, a plane at Chicago, Cleveland and Anacostia was the only manoeuyre performed: from the open cockpit. The landings were all made by Lieut. V. M. Guymon, U.S. Marine Corps landing pilot. Captain 'Page was surprised. when informed' by Lieutenant Guymon that he had flown diréctly through a severe storm over the Alleghenies. When water leaked into the cockpit, Captain Page knew it was: raining but Lieut. Guymon reported a storm go thick that the visibility was reduced to zero and 'could 'probably © only have been weathered by a radio-controlled flight, Canadian Imports From U.S. Drop $28,000,000 During May Washington, D.C.--Canadian imports from the United States declined near- ly $28,000,000 during the month of May as compared with those of the previous year. Canadian exports to the United States dropped about $7, 000,000, Department of Commerce figures is- sued give the following comparative figures as between the United States and her best customer: Canadian im- ports--May 1930--$69,559,025; 1929-- $97,904,078; Canadian . exports--May 1930--$37,357,987; 1929--$44,330,153. May exports of the United St dropped more heavily to the copntries of North America, Canada and than those to any other par{ of the globe, Exports to Great Britain wera $47,- 001,968 against $54,430,924 and imparts from Great Britain $21,353,376 agains $29,702,229. Exports to France were $15,109,543 when not to say it. against $13,248,134. Imports from France were $10,302,026 against $13, 953,724. Exports to Germany were $17,225,765 against $24,085,806 and imports from Germany $13,045,781 against $20,626, 869. One of the most remarkable changes dn the trade figures affecting a single nation was that shown as to imports' from Japan, which in May amounted to but $13,874,426, or nearly $20,000, 000, less' than Japanése shipments to © United States in the. same month last year. 3 According to Dorothy Dix, "no knowledge we ever acquire is sq im portant as a knowledge of what to say and how to say it.' Except, perhaps, a knowledge of what not to say and Armed British Sailors in Boston {'W2XE. 5 to. Poultry ( alive Fattod Hons; over 5 bs. 21c; 5 Ione Wy 41 ran os Sachs tower ih di: de L156; pe ring bro OVE 8.y aod 8 to 8% Ibs. 21¢; d do, over 2 to old roosters, over A Ibs, do, over 4 to 5 Ibs. each, ch, Be; 0, on Ia, och 18 Sach, 1% koi: ove over. er $ Ibs. 20c Tes! colored, ed poultry, | good conditi 1 be id 3 4 conta condition, wi al to Tices. ? above alive pr PROVISION PRICES Following are the range of prices at Toronto: Smoked meats--Hams, med., 86¢c; cooked hams, 48 to 52c; os Tolls, 28¢; breakfast bacon, 30 to 38¢; backs, pea-mealed, 84c; do, smoked, 44 0 Povic loing, 29¢; shoulders, 21%ec; butts, 26%c; hams, 24 to 26c. Cured meate--Long clear bacon, 50 to 70 lbs., 24c; 70 to 90 Ibs., 22¢; 90 to 110 lbs., 21. Heavyweight rolls, 40c; lightweight, rolls, 25¢. Lard--Pure, tierces, 15¢; tubs, 16c; pails, 17¢; prints, 17 to 17 Yc, Shortening--Tierces, 123%c; tubs, 18¢; pails, 13%e. Special pastry Shibptening.. Tierdes, 15¢; tubs, 18%e; pails, 16¢. LOCAL GRAIN QUOTATIONS Grain dealers on the Toronto Board of Trade are making the following quotations for car lots: Manitoba wheat--No. 1 Northern, $1.02%; No. 2 do, 99%¢; No. 8 do, 97%ec; No. 4, 95¢; No. 5, 86%c; No. 6, T1c; feed, 59%c (cif, Goderich and bay ports). Manitoba oats--No. 1 feed, 45¢; No. 2 do, 42c. American eorn--No. 2 yellow, 97c. Millfeed, del, Montreal freights, bags included: Bran, per ton, $28.25; an per ton, $30.25; middlings, Ont. grain--Wheat, 7° to 77¢; oats, barley, rye, buckwheat, nominal. HAY AND STRAW PRICES "Wholesale dealers in hay and straw are quoting shippers the following prices for carlond lots, delivered on track, Toronto: No. 2 timothy, $14; No. 3 timothy, $12 to $i; wheat straw, $10; cat straw, $10 LIVE STOCK QUOTATIONS Heavy beef steers, § 0 io $7.85; butcher steers, choice, 0:1: S175; do, fair to good, $7 ts $7.60; (0, com, $6 to $7; butcher heif evs. choice; $7. 25 t, $7.75: do, fair to good; $6.75 to $7.25; do, com. $5 to $0; butcher cows, good to ¢hoice, $6.50 to $6; do, med. $4.75 to $5; canners and cutters, $2 to $3; butcher bulls, good to choice, $5 to $5.75 do, bologna, $4 to $4.75; baby 'beef, $9 to $11.25; feeders, good, $6.75 to $7. 25; stockers, $5.25 to $6.50; calves, good to choice, $8 to $8.50; do, med., $7 to $7.75; do, com., $6 to $6. 75; do, graseers, $4. 50 #> $5. 50; milkers, $50 to $90; Springers, $70 to $110; Jio choice, $11; buck lambs, $9; sheep, $2 to $5.50 : hogs, bacon; w.o.c., $12.25; do, selects, $1 per hogs prem- ium; do, butchers, 76¢ per hog: dis- count; do, f.o.b. price $1 cwt. under w.0.c.; do, trucked in, 50c ewt. under W.0.C. Col. Lindbergh Will Speak Over Radio Low Waves Will Flash Talk to Europe; to be Heard at 10 p.m. on WABC Colonel Charles A, Lindbergh will speak to radio listeners of two conti nents when he makes two broadcasts of fifteen minutes each on the subject .| of "International Aviation" on August 8. The broadcast is said to be the fiyer's firgt prepared radio address. Announcement that Colonel Lind- bergh would be heard by radio listen- ers of both the United States and Eur ope was made late last week by the Columbia Broadcasting System. The two transmissions of the same address will take place at 4.26°and 10 p.m. Transmission in the afternoon will be only through short wave station after hs gil {ed the boy not to jump around so "He » Ay amine up rock place in he | "Woolworth centeniarian hi ted that New York harbor beat "the lden Horn. Go SPARS WITH A CHAMPION To keep himself fit, the ancient man sparred a reund or tb 0 on the roof with his great-great-great-grandehild, Ahmet Mussa, the lightweight cham- | pion of Turkey, but finally he caution- much. your health." All through the day the old man wore a heavy black winter suit. The members of his party urged him to don light clothes. "No," aid Zaro, "I like it hot." a wholz day in New York without. taking .. drink, adding another twenty. four hours to his as yroximately 50,000 days of rigid abstinence. Just to prove condition, he lifted a 220-pound wrest- ler off the grouad and Jemonstrated a few good holds. EXPERT AT REPOSE Ordinarily, however, the veteran conserved his energy. He understands. repose. When he sinks into himself a' 'Galapagos tortoise does rot take 'it easter. The enormous shoulders, "whi have done more than .a century service in heavy porerage in Constan- tinople, hunch themselves up, and the ol1 man's head and neck retreat into: himself in the marmer of a turtle basking in the sunshine. In the absen:e of all superfluous. flesh, the sinews on the back 'of his reck stand out like two-inch steel cables. It isveasy to surmise what a Hercules Zaro must have been in. his prime, along about fivescore years or sixscore and ten. DEFENDS AGE CLAIM "Why," he said, "Zaro is known. in Constantinople for a century and a quarter, and kis sons, grandsons, great-grandsons, great-great-grand- sons and great-griut-great-grandsons are well known there. He must be: within a few Years of the age which he claims and which the Turkish gov- ernment confirms on his passport. They took three weeks to 100 ords, and everybody knows that the Turkish government has been the strictest in the world in keeping birth records." However, no photostats of the Yar birth certificate have yet been produc- ed. Further than that, Zaro told. the customs authorities that there was no written language in the part of Kur- distan where he was born. an Diamond Diggers . Get Good Wages Month--Food and Cloth- ing Free Worcester, 8. Af --Prospects for un- skilled laborers on the Diamond State diggings at Alexander Bay are better Union. 'The diggers are mostly Namaqua- landers who have no knewledge of 'a trade and very little education. En man is under contract for six months and receives 7s..6d. a day (About £85 or $50 a month). In addition, he gets. a bonus of $25 a month when he has. given six months' satisfactory service, Food and clothing are free, which is equivalent to another £8 a month. This is an unheard-of wage for nun. skilled labor when the salaries of teachers, bank clerks and others are ed. The laborer also receives Special arr: have been mage with the British ing Corporation, which will pic} short-wave signals and r them throughout England. umbia studios, 1s said to 1 the studio from which Kk, choice was the | "he selected as a a fortnight leave every six months om: full pay. ~The diggings are Iecloseds in a huge barbed-wire fence, and men are not on leave at the end of six months. Ample provision is made for recrea- tion. The men play football ten or golf, there are "It is very hot today," said Zao. : Agha, "and it nay not be 'good for 4 The "Muslim teetotaler went througlt ; that his aged sinews were still'in good > i up his birth certificate on the original ree= Unskilled Labor Gets. $50:per-- to-day than at any other place in the" allowed to leave camp except when: ory A 'minister has been" pe tly dppointed 10 the ey the men are si they admit themeelyes that | given ag much freedom as as necessary "| of the digger | est,