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WORLD HAPPENINGS |.
BRIEFLY TOLD | Timeplece Of Pacific Liner Now In

Radio Room At Regina
A clock which made 262

trips

First silver to be flown out from across the Pacific Ocean to China on
Great Bear Lake was valued at ap- the old “Empress of Japan,”” and
proximately $4,000. It was flown out! which for the past 11 years has

to Edmonton by Pilot John Bythell.
Ocean-borne traffic at the five ports!

been lying in an office in Vancouver
now adorns the radio operating room
of the Kwantung Leased Territory in of CKCK, Regina, Saskatchewan. |
Manchuria in the -first seven months! Some 12 years ago, Bert Hooper,
of this year was greater than in the engineer of CKCK, but then wire-
game period of 1931 and 1930. jless operator on the staff of the
The whole village of Capelan, a/Canadian Marconi Company, was
small Portuguese fishing community Placed on board the “Empress” by|
near Ponta Dalgada, was enriched re-| his company as operator in charge
cently when 100 pounds of ambergris Of the ship's wireless system.
were found in the carcass of a whale| Mr. Hooper had then been with the
which stranded on the beach. | Marconi Company some six years and
Dr, Hugo Eckenér has concluded an | ¥8S aboard the “Empress” for nearly
agreement with the Brazilian Goy-| Wo years. |
ernment for all-year Zeppelin service; When the “Empress” was sold and |
between Europe and Brazil. Brazil dismantled records and some of the,
agreed to erect suitable housing facil-|Cduipment was taken ashore and
ities for the airship. | placed in the Vancouver office of the|
William Cody Bradford, 60, a neph-| M@?Coni Company. of
ew of Colonel William F. (Buffalo! S°me weeks ago Mr. Hooper visit-
Bill) Cody, shot himself to death at | the coast and called upon his old
bis home in Casper, Wyoming. He| “eh, L. 8. Hawkins, superintendent
was believed to have been despondent of the Pacific Coast Division of the |
becatse of ill health. | Canadian Marconi Company. |
a ,..| Before leaving he was presented
The U.S. Government is considering with the timepiece which hung in the
esking the next session of congress wireless operating room of the “Em-|
for authority to negotiate commercial ”
treaties embodying reciprocal tar-,
iff concessions, particularly with Can-|
ada and Latin-America countries. |
Hubert Scott-Paine will make a)
second and determined effort to wrest
the Harmsworth speed-boat ea Earliest Experiments
from Gar Wood, American title-hold-| Signor Guglielmo Marconi is “ex-
er, in 1934. A definite statement to| tremely gratified” to know a modern
this effect came from the British pilot | Wireless station has been erected on|
in Sarnia. | Signal Hill, site of his earliest experi-
Kitsilano Boys’ Band, fresh from pee in trans-Atlantic wireless tele-
its world triumph at the Chicago | ®™@PHY: 2 a
World's Fair, arn welcomed home to| Bollow ing: Belial se et new |
Vancouver by thousands of persons | B08! Hill Station, the inventor of
and massed bands gathered at the| te wireless telegraphed Premier F.
railway station. Later they were offt- |S: Alderdice as follows: “I recollect
cially welcomed at the Canada Pacific)
exhibition.

Modern Wireless Station

Erected On Site Where Marconi Made

with your country and the generous}
|support given me by its government |
| during my earliest tests with trans-|

International Highway
Practically Completed 2@ extremely gratified to know that
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were carried out, a modern station is
Attractive Scenlo Route From Peace now installed embodying latest devel-|
River District To San Diego ! opments.”
A new international tourist high-/
Way connecting Canada and the Unit-
ed States is practically completed
and will be known chiefly under the
name of the Sunshine Highway. This
the only inter Pro-|
ject of its size east of the Rocky |
Mountains, connects Alberta's exten-|

Recipes For This Week

(By Betty Barctayy |

RIPE GRAPE JAM

sive highway system with that of the) 4%4 cups (24 Ibs.) prepared f_uit. ny ae is preferred). Wrap coin

States of Montana, Nevada and Cali-|
fornia, making an attractive scenic |
Toute along the eastern side of the) To prepare fruit, slip skins f-om
Rockies from the Peace. River Dis- about 3 pounds fully ripe grapes. |
trict in Northern Alberta to San simmer pulp, covered, 5 minutes. Re-|
Diego, California, on the south, a dis-' move seeds by sieving. Chop or grnd)
tance of more than 2,500 miles. skins and add to pulp. Add %% cup

A it of es is of water and if desired, grated rind of
the new route was given at the Sun-/1 orange. Stir until mixture boi's.
shine Trail Convention recently held | simmer, covered, 30 minutes. (Wild
in Lethbridge, Alberta. That stretch grapes, Malagas and other tight- |
of the new highway running through skinned grapes may be stemmed,
Alberta, from the United States-! crushed whole, simmered with 14 cup
Canadian border southwest of Leth-| water 30 minutes, sieved, and then
bridge to the Peace River, a distance measured. With tight-skinned grapes
of 725 miles, has been completed for| add juice of 1 lemon to. water. Use|
some time. Montana is now engaged \4 ae prepared fruit.) |
in completing the last link of the | Measure sugar and prepared fruit
highway in that State. . \into large kettle, mix well, and bring

For the larger portion of the dis- to a full rolling boil over hottest fire.
tance this highway Js an all-weather stir constantly before and while boil-
route, being gravelled in Alberta to ing. Boil hard 1 minute. Remove from
50 miles north of the city of Edmon- fire and stir in bottled fruit pectin.
ton, about 420 miles, The route|Pour quickly. Paraffin hot jam at!
through Mntana, which is Highway once. Makes about 11 glasses (6 fluid
No. 91 of that state, is all-weather | ounces each).
road the entire distance. From Salt)
Lake City north to Peace River is a| FRUIT RAISIN SALAD |
distance of over 1,600 miles. | (Serves 6)

The new highway gives easy access Lettuce.
to the Rocky Mountain resorts of| 6 oranges.
Montana and Alberta by connecting | % cup seeded raisins.

_ 7 cups (3 Ibs.) sugar,
14 bottle fruit pectin. |

| Winnipeg Newspaper Union

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Labrador Huskies Ready | Quaint Chinese Custom
For Byrd Expedition Regina Laundryman Explains What
“Appeared To Be Sinister Crime.
Slanting eyes peering from shut-
ered windows in Limehouse could not
have terrified a young Regina lady
more than what she saw in a section

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About Fifty Wolf-Dogs Have Been
| Carefully Selected
Labrador huskies will work hand in
jhand with aeroplanes during the next
| Byrd expedition to “Little America,”

of Regina's own Chinatown.
' By Ruth Rogers

It was what appeared to be a hu-
man hand, hanging in the sunlight
behind a Chiftse laundry, whitened
bones showing through shrivelled
flesh. She told a boy of her nerve-
wracking discovery. He, in turn, told
@ policeman.
| The Chinese laundryman said it
Was a bear’s paw. The matter was
referred to a Patrol Sergeant, who
continued the investigation.

| starting from Boston, October 1.

The expedition will last two years, |
with the S.S. Pacific Fir (8,000 tons)
and the barquentine “Bear of Oak-
land,” as the supply ships. Two or
three aeroplanes are to be taken
along, to augment those used in the
\last expedition by the United States
|explorer, as well as something like!
|50 magnificent specimens of Labra-
|dor and Quebec husky, or wolf-dog.
| Some 45 of these malemutes have

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|Britain’s Pilgrim
| Of Peace
| a * i
Sir Arthur Henderson Trying To Sell
| “Disarmament” To Europe i
| The traveller for peace recent ve
made his s:cond call on Rome, having
|arrived there from Paris.
| He is Arthur Henderson, chee te
(member of the British cabinet, now —
‘the pilgrim of peace, the man who
lis trying to “sell disarmament
| Europe. ~
| He is a traveller without a bag of
samples, without advertising, without
anything tangible to show. Arthur
Henderson is selling an idea, an ideal —
He is trying to persuade the govern- —
ments of Europe to invest in peace.

with keenest pleasure my associations |AMAZINGLY ATTRACTIVE IS THIS

es ty novelty rayon print. It is in lovely
| Atlantic wireless communication, and tones of powder-blue with navy blue

binds. The white pique collar is so un-
n the very site where those tests usual. .

inches bust.
yards of 39-inch material with
| yard of 35-inch contrasting and 2%
lyards of binding.
omit the pocket.

white with plain white crepe, or plain}
grey crepe would be nice mediums.

Address: Winnipeg Newspaper Union,

Pattern No.

| TOWD ... cece eens cnc mesmremscccme

dian, is coming south of Fort Smith,
N.W.T., for the first time in his ifs.
He is bound for San Francisco ‘on| subscriber, is long since dead, his
holiday after selling a big silver claim | name is listed in the new San Fran- it serves in the maintenance of soil
for $33,000, and his first act will be cisco telephone directory. It has ap-| Productiveness by constantly liberat-|
to get a set of gold teeth for himself peared regularly for 55 years, and ing in its decomposition certain small)
and his squaw. Their teeth are all| telephone company officials said they |®mounts of mineral matter in forms
right, but what's the use of having|presumed Quong’s sons and grand-/Peculiarly available for absorption by |
| $33,000 if you can’t
| know about it?" Joe said.

fooled twice in the same way, but
‘there are lots of other ways.

The Sergeant did not uncover a

|been sent to Wonalancet, New) ‘
Hampshire, which is where rear Ad- sinister Oriental crime, but he did
miral Byrd selected his first batch |/€8' of a quaint custom of the Chin-
of dogs for the Antarctic. Arthur “© Yee
Walden, veteran dog racing man, | It was a bear's paw. The Chinese
makes his home in the New Eng-, said he had got three of them from a
land city, and it was Walden's lead-| {low countryman at. The Pas,
er, Baldy, who Byrd on di arian Pies RELI
all expeditions until the day when, |"4erson, value bear's paws highly. r ;
Shuey Ba ag feeble, ie walked! They skin the paws, treat them fon 1 akaeegiee mee ae?
out into the icy cold, and was never and sun-dry them. They Phero Ue ever inivaxted to an ait onal y
seen again. jthem in Chinese rice whiskey end Ftatesmian, although it is not entirel :
The canines were loaded at Quebec Other A aed eae ea Weeks hopeless. ! co 3
into a huge truck, each of them crat-|*°" ® time. After that the bones are :
ed, and seat off to Wonalancet. removed and) the Tiquid/ iis)" used as Pa aes jeoly 1 Raa
With plans for the expedition, , Medicine. business calls acid “Arthur,” “e
which will be one of scientific re-| 7h€ most value is attached to the been selling peace. When at th: last
search, under way for the last two |P&WS of bears Allied’ in the spring’ be- general seloa re lost his oie
years, or more, nothing is being left |C@US¢ the bears sleep all winter and Burnley, Uncle Arthur Ris, t
to chance, and the same careful ge-| tHe front paws grow fleshy since they : be

phat:
into the comparative obscurit:
lection was made of dogs as of mem- | 8re pA Ca AG poate ude zs a ne ao

League Assembly at Geneva to

He travels alone from capital t
capital. He sees and talks to states-
men and politicians. After Pa:
Rome; then on to Berlin; w.th
Prague, Budapest, Warsaw, Vienna
and London ahead. *

The firm Mr. Henderson represent
is the League of Nations, Geneva.

bers of the expedition. ging. Ms come chairman of the disarmament
According to plans, the expedition re conference, pe
will get under way Oct. 1, after the) Canada’s Third Largest City For months and months Mr. Hex.

ce

S.S. Pacific Fir has been re-christen-| derson labored to bring about in

ed, and will steam out of Boston har-|
bor, to make its way along the Pana- Population Of 245,000
ma Canal, through that waterway,| V » in ition to being one
and into the Pacific Ocean, then head- of the chief ports on the Pacific
ing for New Zealand, which will be | Coast, is the third largest city in
jwhere they will leave civilization be- Canada, its population, exclusive of
hind. \the adjacent municipalities, beng
Geological and meteorological stud- about 245,000, Conipared with most of
jes will be carried out, as well as the other seaports in Canada and
oceanographical researches, which the elsewhere, Vancouver, from the yiew-
| expedition will also delve into the cos- | point of age, is a of yes-
mic ray. They expect to return with terday,; for it was founded as recent-
priceless information. |ly as 1886, and it was not until a

Vancouver Founded In 1886 Has

kag
He was patient, conciliatory, hat ad.
orking- : as 3 te
Then it looked as though failure
stared him in the face. Tke confer-
ence broke down. 4 Be
Mr. Henderson issued
warning to the nations.
“The delegations,” he said, “
that they must now choose be

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It's so smart carried out in a pret-

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tween constructive international col
laboration and a course which leads

It's so easily made! ; ? year later that it was ‘ with to mn,” bet a fut of
Style No. 526 is designed in sizes Export Of Meats | Eastern Canada. by direct railway | peace and order anda flue eaae :
, 18, 20 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 | communication. The city is named af- and chaos for the world,” mrad Shee

Size 36 requires 3% Figures Show Export Went Over ter Capt. George Vancouver, of the
ip Million Mark In July _——‘/ British navy, who, in 1792, sailed his
Canada’s export of meats was |S1IP HMMS. Discovery, into Burrard
For general daytime wear, just again over the million dollar mark, 1”et on the shores of which the city
} tands. 13
in July, the actual value being $1,- TW § ts
iS 039,134 compared with $741,712 in Vancouver is also the centre’of the
| July, 1932. The chief item was bacon important lumber industry of British
Price of pattern 25 cents in stamps/ and hams, the total of which was 74,- Columbia. ~ ate

| 305 cwt. valued at $854,627. The

Before adjourning until October 25. ;
the asked Mr. Hender: ;
to try to negotiate agreements by d= _

rect conversations with the powers.
Uncle Arthur started out alone to
sell disarmament to the nations. In
some capitals of Europe he knew that
he might receive a chilly welcom
SS SSS But he was prepared to wait on many
amount sent to the United Kingdom | Nature’s Nitrogen Store © a door mat if he felt that he sai
was 73,003 cwt. at $827,428, out of a —_—_-——— Save the conference from failure.
total meat export to Great Britain Agency Used By Nature For Main- - ie
of $942,364. A year ago the bacon and | taining Productivity, Of The 7 Backed By The Law
ham export to Great Britain was 48,-_ Soll _ i .
795 cwt. at $502,768. The figures were| Hummus, the vegetable matter in soil Any Request From Income Tax De-
released today by the Dominion Bu- in the form of the semi-d P Cannot Be Ignored
reau of Statistics. |Temains of past generations of plant Many a man ordered to make a
A rapidly growing export is in can- life, is nature’s storehouse for nitro- return of his income to that depart- ig
ned meats. It has multiplied almost | gen. As the humus in a soil is in-| ment of the government which super-
three times in the last 12 months. |creased, so is the nitrogen increased | vises the collection of the income tax
The July quantity was 113,512 pounds, | or decreased. Humus performs the thinks it ig a piece of nonsenss for -
valued at $20,841, the amount to! useful purpose of so favourbly affect-| him to be asked to do so. een his
Great Britain being 106,893 pounds at jing the physical condition of both tots) income falls short of the taxable 4
$19,393. | clays and sands that it renders them ‘figure. ae ee
> jSuitable for the support of crops. It) “Perhaps it is, but the department
For | the upon which the has the law on its side. This was _

Though Quong Lee, believed to be Bitro-organisms of the soil feed, thus proved a few days ago when a resi-
the world’s first Chinese } a valuable agency in the|dent of an eastern community was
preparation of plant food. And, Again, | assessed $25 and costs by a police
magistrate because he had failed to
meet the wishes of the department.
The department asked this man as
\long ago as July, 1932, to make a
declaration of his income. He failed
let the world) sons continue to have his name listed the roots of plants——Dominion Chem-| +, go so and after the lapse of over a
because of the Chinese reverence for | !st. |Year, he was hailed into court and
ne ot eas fined. It mattered not, it eppears,
| Unusual Things Do Happen that his income for the year 1931 fell
Kidnappers are becoming active in) —- short of the taxable figure. To the ~
the Irish Free State. Storles Which Appear Ridiculous Are! police court he must go and pay the

A crepe silk print in bright red an

How To Orcer Patterns

175 McDermot Ave., Winnipeg

Indian Wants Gold Teeth
Joe Dillon, full-blooded Slayey In-

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Some men boast that they can't be

eae ee rex, Sond. Arrange shredded settuce on indi-|
| vidual salad plates. Peel and slice |
| oranges and arrange in circles on let- |
tuce. Fill center of circle with raisins
Water-Mark Shows Head Of Prince which have been steamed until plump.
Of Wales Serve with Sweet French dressing or
The head of the Prince of Wales, in with orange juice mixed with equal |
profile, is one of the innovations in-| Parts of honey or jelly.
troduced in the new currency notes 75, aaa DEE |
shortly to be put into circulation in| Real Globe-Trotter
Australia. The prince’s head will re-
place the commonwealth coat-of-arms Eighty-Year-Old
water-mark. When held up to the Fortieth Trip Around World
light the features of the heir to the} Mrs. Jane Lee of Kansas City,
throne will be seen facing those of eighty-year-old woman with snow-
the King. white hair, has just stopped in Paris
Another change is that the promise again on her annual trip around the
to pay in gold has been deleted. |world. She has been making this trip
or ar "oT |for forty years, for she says she
‘ Advance In Television | doesn't like to stay in one place. j
Berlin's big radio show registers} Mrs. Lee knows the Yukon, has
marked advances in television. New | sailed to the Antarctic Circle and this |
devices increase picture transmission | year is doing a thorough job of the |
from the old limit of 90 lines to 180 | Balkans.
ines on a 15 by 15 centimeter sur-
face, with almost perfect results. In’

Australia’s New Currency

Woman Making

A British report says that in the |

(0 men have been
25 pictures per second! past 50 years 58,00 |
RpDenIR EF 2 ar | killed in British coal mines. |

1,000,000 points are flashed off. It is} |
this speed and closeness that give ee ————_——_-

cellent reproductions. “This rope is for catching cows.”

| Tenderfoot: “Yes, but what bait]
ido you use?"

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\the chairs out?”

{them all sir, and he says the view's worth it,""—The Humorist, London

SS -Often True | fine of $25.
A visitor who says he always had It may be considered the most un-
|an idea we made up our little stories necessary thing in the world, it may —
Heras happenings around town —|be regarded as gtupidity, an icles %
which we cross our heart we never waste of time or anything else, but —
Pacethanced his mind when he saw a| when you receive a letter from the
| well-dressed young man searching mimneomé Tax Department asking jou
| Fifth Avenue gutter for | to make a of your income,
| cigarettes. He had collected one or it is not always safe to ignore it.
| two when a trim young woman walk- Proceedings such as those instituted
ed up to him, opened her purse, and| may be the penalty for ignoring the
offered him a whole package of cig-| summons.
arettes. ,He started to take them,| —_—_——_——_—— 1
hesitated, and said, “Thanks, but I/ Treated Threat Lightly
jdon't smoke that kind.” They both! Threatened with the death penaits,
| blushed and walked on.—The New i40 city councils of Scotland just —

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| Yorker. }laughed. When they announced their
| i to fly the rd
New Ti jto ate the Battle of Ban

By use of methylene blue, medical| nockburn it became the duty of a
science’s newest form of treatment! high official to warn them that it was
for poisoning, physicians at Holly- illegal. He also deemed it necessary
| wood hospital rescued from the brink|to call their attention to the old
of death Arthur Mortenson, 44, after! law making death the penalty for fly~ =)
|he had consumed a drug so rapid in ing the standard without royal con-
its action that doctors sometimes con-| sent. It was then that a laugh
sider the chances 100,000 to 1 against /heara across Scotland. =
surviving its effects. | -

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ooo | The third Sunday in each y
She—‘‘What do you mean by telling | been set by the National
your boy friend that I was deaf and| Ramblers’ Federation of
dumb?" tain as a national Sunday |
Other she—"TI didn’t say deat” blers.

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CHAIR PROPRIETOR: “What's the meaning of this? Why aren't all

ATTENDANT: “Well, the bloke up ‘ere paid twenty-four shillings for