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Seagrave After | Statistics Show Motor Boat Trophy. Crime on Increase Figures For Canada Give Ail- Round Jump of 15.31 Reminiscent of War Time Days Miss England II 38 Footer, 4000 H.P. Expected to Beat 100 Miles Rev Hour London. Interest in projected Bri- tish attempts to establish new speed records cm sea and land is quickened by the announcement that Sir Henry Segrave is aiming at a speed of l-<i miles an hour in. Miss England 2d. in which he will challenge America in 1930. Per Cent. MINOR INFRACTIONS Traffic Violations Contribute to Total Gambling Fever Grows Ottawa. Crime in Canada is in- creasing, the :mi"ia! report on crJm- , inal statistics issued recently dis- Sinre the United States carried o ff j c i oses . The increase lor Canada in the British International Motorboat . rrim j na '. offences was 15.31%. This Trophy at Cowes in 1919 Kugland has [ Js the greatest increase 'in crime spent approximately $1.250,000 in en- j since (lie vear o( tne outbreak of the deavoring to regain it. I world war ia 1911, when the increase Sir Henry's new craft will surpass ; wag i;.orri over tUa previous year. all previous models. She is to be j j n res p^ c t. of nummary convictions constructed in the strictest secrecy at j ( non .j r .ji c tablei the increase was still the Cowes yards of Saunders, Roe & greater, being 27.18% over the pre- j Co. On the arrival of the two Rolls- : v j ous year, the preawst since these Royce Schneider Trophy engines, I gtatiaUca have been instituted, over which are being fitted by permission ; jj al{ a ce ntury ago. of the Air Ministry, they will be watched by an armed guard day and , ; v lo j u f ra ctions of traffic regulations, night. I W hich were almost 47% more numer- The entities are expected to de- j OU3 lha!1 in i$-_ ve'mp 4.000 horsepower, more than i The i ncrea5e in criminal and other has yet been caged in a boat thirty- 1 offences w - as general all over Canada. eight feet in length with a beam of ; Tae Maritime Provinces led in per- " Tnig augmentation ia due principal- nine feet, with a water speed of at least I'"' 1 miles an hour. What will happen when this enor- mous power is released remains a matter of conjecture. It Is expected that such enormous power will cause the boat to ieave the water at times. m0b t r wuile in British Columbia there The chief problem is one of balance. 1 was a decrease. NVhen comparing in- Whenever bhe touches the water the ! dividual offences it is revealed that centase increase in criminal offences while Ontario and British Columbia show the lowest percentage increase. With' regard to minor offences (sum- mary convictions" Prince Edward Is- land. Ontario and Alberta increased Civilization May >P 1 |? ne 1 S l ve i Fr . om Destroy Eskimos Wreck By Daring Feat of Mechanic Arctic Natives Threatened XVith Extinction, Auth- orities Say WHITE MAN CAUSE Jim Cusator Climbs Out and Holds Ski in Place for Alighting CAUSE OF MISHAP r- ., i -r ... Prince Albert, Su.sk. Vvlators in Easily Succumbs To Ailments .. he northland have a new hero . H e U of Almost Every \Vhite Child Ottawa.- Six thousand Eskimos t i.ne m>rinmz:u 11-1 c A uw uciw. I Jim Cusator, quiet and reserved air I mechanic, who in one of the most dar- ing and brave feats in aviation annals the N'orth most probably saved his ing cheerfully ia Arctic and sub- Arctic ! own life and his p;;,^ here recently. Car.aJa, are threatened with ultimate Jn ^ft-mee o f the relentless laws RECENT LONDON GALE PLAYS HAVOC WITH HOUSE Ten people in this Queen Square house when front part was bUowu oat by furious pile which swept London, taking "r.ves \-'. nan; R.'itis'u =ea:'av::ij men. extinction by the spread of civilization towards the Arctic circle, authorities on the far north predict. Disease and death, brought slowly but surely as the white man advances northward, are creating a menace to the Eskhr.o which wi:! prove one of the dilemmas of northern development, they say. Totally without immunity to white mar.'s diseases, the Eskimo, succumbs to ai'.mer.ts which are considered minor misfortunes in the life of almost jrjetroiter take off from the river or every whit* child. He suffers from ! a test flight a few minutes after it malnutrition when, fed white man's j ha(i - rr ; ve< i f rom Saskatoon, food, and yet he gorges himself with RIGHT SKI DAMAGED it whenever possible. He contracts! p ue to the soft spongy nature of tuberculosis from wearing store doth- ,[j e snow the pilot had experienced in? ur.dt-r unsuitable conditions, and i difficulties in getting into the air and yet he likes them. Measles, whooping j rarrow iy averted hitting the bridge of gravity, Cuaator, dangling by hii arms in space in the 70-mile-an-hour blast from the propeller, righted a tilted left ski ami held it in a horizon- tal position until the machine ha-J come to rest in safety on the. ice-'.ockeu surface of the river here. Intimation of the . erilous situatioc of the pilot. Geoff Homesay. and aera mechanic Cusator, came first to pilots and mechanics of other machines whc stood b/ to watch the graceful Stinsor. boat must strike ill a horizontal posi- tion to escape being torn to pieces by the opposing stresses. In this re- spect the boat is expected to estab- the Increase nature. Convictions was also of a general llin 1927 for murder rose from to l'.i in i:'2*. which lish new standards in marine engin-| creas* u but incidental, as the num eering. At such speed as the boat is ' her of murders fluctuates from year expected to reach there is grave dan- j to year. The average number of con- ger of skidding while attempting tojvictlon* for murder in Canada dnriiiR make sharp turns, but it is believed ; the last ">:) years has been 1323 per Miss England 2d will l>e able to take ; annum. The lowest number was three a right hand turn at seventy-live in liH'tf and the greatest was 34. in Convicts Fight Moscow Sore Against Dire Fate At Canada's Act cough, chickeu pos. grippe and other ailments he gets from the white man himself, and yet he is nu>st happy in mnar.y. GREAT KILLER. He turns the advantage of after a run of almost a mile. As the airplane circled back the watching airmen were hcrror stricken to note the right ski had been damaged. In- stead at being parallel to the fusilage ithe front end dipped down at a dan- '" Portuguese Convicts Mutiny Soviet Foreign Office Official -. m- n c-i /-v i r- i n %i. t -i """ ar " Ship; Quel- Explains Russia s Attitude " led After Desperate Fight at Sea : - i, I'ortugal. The Colonial Office rer,,.i-s uat a serious mtr EXPULSION RANKLES iv. The Soviet <1 1013 The principal increase during ; among convicts on a Portuguese r ' son s'.iip b. unil for the African peu.- tentiary at l.i'.i: 1 . l.i. Angola, had been quelled only afer desperate b coast when tlie convicts madf - :' diploma dash for I'reedo-n. s.iveie'y a::.i'k:::, T ' A-k.-i w.:at. if any. irjj an I crew. v-.\ . .M t'staii I: was only after a desperate fight ,iu-U a delegation ia miles an hour. It is expected that Sir Henry's 'the year in offences against the per- boat will be launched by May next. *, n \ V ;j in common assault which She will be tried out on Lake U'in.!^ ruse fr >m 931 to l.l'SS, which, how- mere. I ever, is but "'' cases above the Meanwhile, preparations are being j figures for lt>i*. Burglary, shop and made to beat Sir Henry's automobile : honselireakiusr increased by 1J.53 per record of 2"! :;ti miles per hour at' re nt. in IT'-S over ll'-T and by IT. 17 Pendine Sands. Carmarthenshire, j p er cent, over 1'.'-'';. where Parrie Thomas lost his life In; Theft, as usual. comi:in->d to in- a speed attempt. It is doubtful if. on rrea.se. tlie figures for 1!'-S being 10.5S the stretch of sand on the south cna-t p .. ; - cent. over tli '>> fur l'>27 and 18.02 of Wales there will be sufficient room | per cen'. o% er 1926. In the for slowing speed has sured mile Pendine Captain Mai set the record sixty miles an hour slower than the present figure, extend ! for seven mile*. Xearing the seventh; mile is a rivulet crossing Die sands to in W'<\. j troops "summoned aboard tlie *'' the sea, a dangerous obstacle to a car; Of tu 20,i>!'a charges for indictable rat |j . offences in 1S2S, there were 4.91s ai ,^>[ O f !ni prisoners qnlttals, 10 casea of nolle proseo.nl. or i tmuferred vi shore on - stay of proceeding*. T cases in which j eSl . t - "no bill' was returned by the grand juiy. ami :'-> persons were detained for lunacy, leaving C1.TJ-) convictions. .A. I r-;'-: :.V. .d to heatis Of the told a corres- S pondeot recently. In view of the ^..^ ^^ ;ive fact that the lasr soviet traa- ; Those' who h.iv with the white ir.ar. into an agency for g^^s an gle. Experienced pilots knew his d.'s.ruc'.i..M-.. Despite his friendly - lnat ; n i an< ji n g the tilted ski must nature a-.,l g- .vi-hearteor.ess he is a s:r ,;^ e tr:e snow in such a way it would great killer. With his new-bought ,~j lap off and cause ttte machine to spin the game he can J about the ^g am j pro bably turn over. may transform a j aok \vight, pilot of a Sister Stin- natural into a land i gon p e troiter, leaped into >he cabin of hur. ! of his machine the engine of which > N - -rread over a had been left runn ij,g. Opening the land as i -r.sr as the northern coast of tnri . tt > w j,j e he sent the plane plow- frosty just as it was circling to make a lan.l- ea .^oouted ~ d b ring i n g it to horizontal po- 1 '.' ' :- . . a " d ! '* w&h the Eskimo longest , civiliza- J[ OR when E3 ** the other ma- : al ad- from '. CanaJji, the prasped securely and . can be done to help the n owere j n ; s body through the opening. r>'__ ^'rfTT*J.. * ^ Eskimo save him*c'.f. Kdacation, they bo'.ieve. w-i!l develop within his happy- t'rat t:;e guards. ho were armed ' Soviet ofl'uria! roiated out that from | so -hii-ky mir.d a souse of providence Observers breathlessly watched him attempt to reach the ski three times. each time to have the powerful breeze The sum total of al convictions of , ut(J ,,,, .,,^ rol ivicu smashing -' ", i, ec aiH of the unfriendly attitude of adult onVadors i:i 1928 was : : >Jckle6 and niching oa deck. Tl-.-y t!ie canaJiau Ooverament. we prefer aj against 2l2.'.OJ iu 1?2T and 1S7.31 were aga | n overpowered, this time by (j b ( , UMe e ; Jewhei . e now - ae sa |, L travelling at more than 200 ini!-'s at; hour. Kaye Don. fji- whom n 4 000-horse- power Sunbeam Silver Bullet automo- bile has been specially constructed, is desirous of making a new record on British soil, if the stream can be' diverted as a matter of extra pr.. tlon. His ,ar should reach its maximum: speed in two miles, travel the nva- : sured mile and then, with the assist- 1 ance of a specially designed wind- ' break device in the tall, will be able I \v,"-- French Defense Fund SI 16,000,000 To Guard Rhine Australian Finance Johanue>ii:ir Star: The new Lab >r OovevMrnen? will have no lislr task in adjusting tlie economic conditions Would Be Considered Ia a reply t > a <( . whether jea.l ji'.ch u delegation if the Canadian Government were t.> re.-oti- slder its uecisioii and decide to renew i::c r-.-iations. the Foreign Of- lice stated that oti the ground t'.-.at it ;i p::re!y hyp t )t!:ical nues:ion, he look after f tom tne propeller whip his body back. ti> treat his ; pi na u y ne succeeded in grasping th reck'.essiy. enj w ' itjl hi$ f<?e: 3T1 j tnert holding it also, will | h ri zon tal by hooking the back svay se he seems : wire with ona j- (V , t w ),i; e dangling in bound to contract in settled districts, j tmj precarious position he enabled while his own predisposition to health the pilot to Ula ij e a 8a f d landing, will sava him when he is far awayj \vher. the plane came to rest th t'rom tho white man. : faro mechanic was covered from head as to; Given help in combating th^ two: to foot ^^ tne so t 5^^ thrown up of the Commonwealth to what ara its obvious requirements. One of :'.. chief problems Is the raising of the revenue to the level at which cou!d not make any answer. The cor- respondent is of tlie opinion, however, sixth mile Is reached. Captain Malcolm Campbell, who j probably will make an attempt in V < 1.300-horsi'power Blue Bird, is not so sanguine regarding the Pendine Sands and has plans for construct in? a special track on the east coast of England, near the Wash. The si'i-od limit at Dayton Beach, according to Sir Henry, has very nearly Ivcu reached, and visibility there is bad. However, it it Is finally decided that Pendine Is unsuitable. Kaye Pun may make the Florida strand ihe scene of his attempt, in spite of Sir Henry's warimii; that he may not !>o al>le to use full power there. Aviation experts nre turning their attention to a new type of single- seater plane that will ha\e a velocity of :!(iO miles an hour. This new plane charge on tue national debt either that or such ;v reduction of expend! Lorraine Frontier to Cost $40.000,000 ParN.-The Chamber of Deputies proauc . | Dominion Forest Service Dee. -':. voted appropriations of 2.900.- : other problei Soviet Government major threats ol his own wastefu'.r.esa by tha skij ia tne i an ,ii n? am j was 3;i ae an-i s, ey declare, his own j unp erturbed as i: he had just stepped native . ve will probably en-| from the cabin ubls him to exist indefinitely as an. ... Eskimo without absorption. There i? only one menace they can ; think of from which the Eskimo is j free, local Arctic authorities say. He Joes not like liquor. He wili take a j drink if he is pressed to do so, but > \i i-i o does not seen-, to care if he never has \ Norweigian Dag is Raised on another. Territory round Near South Pole Ni-rw. Capt. Riiser Larsen, participating in an Antarctic that any friendly gesture froai Can would he weil received here. Tree Seed for Overseas Ry special arvaimemeut witli the authorities conceiaed considerable (luautltles of tree seed extracted at I LI a I Ot Midi * i ' .iu^ i. iv/ w - Hire fti sems hardly practicable. Att- tllS New We^in'.ustor Station of the niHi.noo franc* 000,t(t.;i fo r national defence. i, the complete program of e.pendf- tures for the years from !?: and ' I!'.".-! along French frontiers. An aproptiation i>f 1,000.000.000 j .nroximatelv $116-1 tlon without lo,v,rin* the wage tertl W "PP '" ^ British 'This! throughout the c.nratry. an exceedinr ;"nmu,io n and to the New Zeal.,,,1 1 ly difficult task for a Labor Ooveru- * domestic servant lias wi; n ' _ francs for 19JO along tha Rhinelaad j p i ay- u | 8 sa | ( i to contain o- - restry Department to be used ia their respective pUuting operations. New Land Found In Antarctic .V w..; 1 , known London clergyman who entoyetl niy story of Everett Pad- 1 *'' ser ('Is it nice?" writes to say tlut wll "Baldne-s :- often a badge of tha ' --f-.it btisinesi man," says a frontier in AUuce and Lorraine was situation after another. \-or.M nee. ;:. The defense of the French frontiers as planned by the general *:ait anl appiDvcd by the army commission of the Chamber of Deputies, ni\s.i;.-si tlie placing of preponderant emphasis on anti-aircraa defense, ihe president of the commission told the Chamber durint: renewed discussion on the writer. It certainly meaus t'-.at Us l-.as C'"H- (';'. o:'. top. lie is the freeman whom the truth . makes frea. and all are slaves beside. I Cow ->e- it reminds him of a man who. walk- 1 exploring expedition in the steamer ing with th* late Rev. C. It. Spur- ! Norkegia, reports to the newspaper, passed a shop bearing th a no-i Tldens Tegn. Dec. 2$. that be and his tice. "Smith's Shirt Store." Spur- ' iietin Rlaiued up. "Oh. poor chap." he exclaimed, "ha must have caught it on a nail:" It took the other man ' an hour to .iNcover what he meant. Our Heavy Snows Chaanged Transportation Views will be developed on the lines of the! frontier defense measure. Siipor-niarino Sfi and the QtosUr-Na- 1 Tin- complete measure outlines a jiier Schneider trophy racing sea- program cosiinv: -,900.''HH | .i'Oi' francs. planes. ,,( \\lii, h i ini'i.iioo.eiiii francs for U'lSO The only ditficalty Is the problem of laiulini; speed. At ihe I'r-.'sen; no air- diomo in this conutry. or on the Con- tinent. Is larce enough for such n speedy nuu liine to taxi safely to a stands! ili That Is why the Schneider .lied. I'l a brief disc'.is.s-o!i of ih^ naval deiv-nso program, it was brought out that the French Navy in Uie Mediter- ranean inu^t ho able to transport im- in case of war 400 .000 men trophy contest I* flown over water. . from noiili-ru Africa. llowevir. it is HoiH-d lhat the re-' .f.iivh work will succeed in solviiu this pruhlein. A Poor Exchange li-iilenn: Australia. High Commissioners Auckland Star. N'.Z.: Tiio 11 - '. In-eak from the custom of appointing a political supporter to the like niis.sioiiorship is worth makin< If a the hisli i'r,'.> Siatc. is a -fully re- j suitable man can be found. The (lit c-lprm , l'.u:il!iio!\" If an Irish- man or An.- r:i li. in settles in Britain. tlculty is, however, that buth Inside and outside politics thn necessary lie is liable to lie taxed only once: he I combination of qualities is very hard l>ays in the country of the higher ! to come by. Tho posti'.ion lias , mown This tnx. This Is A profitable arrangement for the Irish Free State, which ex- ports no ilih men nowadays and at- tracts liundr>-!s of leisured Knullsh i.-siiK-nts for its hunting, shooting. Mshins anil sport pi ner.illy. But it Is no good to Australia, wliic'-i atiraets practically no llritons with larj;e prl- litcoinos except l\is;h-sal:\ried ' \eniors, nn>l exports thousand!) of its licliest i.ti-.iiis much more Important than it was a generation RKO. The High Commis- sioner should not be only a first-rate ln;sine<s man and a good speaker, hut a diplomat well versed in interna- tional affairs. He now has to go to Geneva and represent New Zealand at a KatherliiR of sixty nutions. Are there many -itch men in Now Zea- land? We should not like t,i Uavi to make tha choice. MOTORISTS SEND S.O.S. FOR OLD-TIME HELP Husky tftrtl horso was needed !'re to s*L this car up the steep hill, near Cooksville. after highway was do ed Iu recent snowfalls. fellow airmail, Lieut. Luetzow hare discovered new land betweeu Enderby Land and Coats Land. The two airuieu lef' the Norwesui ia their plane arid alighted on th open ice near the land. From ther they went ashotv- ; : sed tha Nor- wegian flag, takinic po:=se-->ion of It in the name f their country accord- ing to inten-.atioi'-al t'ortns. They then returned to the Nor- wegia, which -A as A 10 mile* away. Enderby Land in luat-'d at the :: extremity of -ha so-called Knderby <Juail-.-:'.nt of A:i-. -.\iioa. iu about 50 east ii.> soutll its Land is located ;*: - V 'fn edge of tlio EaJerby Qiia'r.uu at about :' 75 so:t:!i. Ontario Will Preserve Prehistoric Indian Fort Montreal.- The Sou an >M eartli- w, rks. an old ia.ii.ia s:-onshoJj near St. Tflnn;.is. On! . :.i:nous among 'oiogists as tha only prehistoric, Indian toll ,1 foitiiicatiou ot which re tin in* hava been found, has I'Ci-n saved t'veni , b.'.viou by the iuter. n of the historic sites d- ision of the natural parks branch at Q 'awa. !'. -u is now .issuroO, 1 '' ! t, the NV.'.'.U of wiii. :i hava crumbled so that they are no v not more tliau three feet high, is thought to liave been one spot at which (lie people of ;x ::-utrat naii. i; made their last stand against the war- like advances of tha Irninois, \\ho llnally drove t' e:u from Outa 250 years B The site covers an area of about three acres. The fort was protected by a double liua of earthworks wbloh .'ietely inclosed It. The "moat" between the t,> walls was about thirty feet Iu wiiitli. It is tliought likely that a p.\'.;*niv of high, sharp- ened losis. set veriicaiiy, formed the superstructure atop the earthwork.