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%ews 'fkA^e ^omm«ntary on th* Hi«hlighU of the Week'a Newa ChincM Planes Score HANKOW. â€" The Chinese air force scored heavily against the Japanese air arm at Hankow and Ppyang Lake last week. Twelve {«ipponese combat plane* were brought down during; an air battle dver the city between twenty-six {^panc^e ships and probably dou- ble that number of Chinese ftcht- ers. Four Chinese planes were Said to be shot down. Czech Defence Schen>e rUAHA. â€" Czocho.slovakia, «worn to defend its sovereignty against any attack, incorporated in its people between the ages of «x and sixty years in a gigantic defence scheme this week. Closely following a blanket or- • der that all person.s, men, women |ind children, must equip them- selves with gas masks .li, once, the Government in a civil ordinance tpquired all parsons of both sexes from 6 to CO to take instruction In war preparednes.<>-. Tremendous Great Lakes Project OTTAWA.â€" A vast project for ^he development of the Great Lakes System and the St. Law- rence River Basin for both ship- ping and power needs has been proposed to the Canadian Govern- Inent by Cordell Hull, Secretary tt State for the United States. In a surprise announcement, Prime Minister Mackenzie King revealed to the House that nego- tiations have already resulted in a draft treaty in which the United States has agreed to an arrange- ment whereby both the Canadian Government and the Ontario Gov- ernment could defer responsibility for development of their share of the tremendous project. The United States Government has also agreed to accept surplus Ontario power and permit the On- tario Government to proceed with its plans to divert the waters of . . By Elizabeth Eedy the Albany Kiver into the Great Lakes and utilize the additional power at Niagara. Thousands Killed In Bombings (;.\NTON, China. â€" Jupunese planes last week-end bombed this large commercial city of Southern China for the fourth time in as many days, bringing the casualties to nearly 2,000 dead and close to 5,000 wounded. A city official announced (hat the casualties in one bombing alone totalled 1,400 dead and 2,100 injured. British Freighter Sunk MADUIDâ€" The British freight- er Penthames was bombed and .sunk in an air raid on Valencia harbor la.st week. No lives were lost. A Spanish vessel also was sunk. Air raid alarms kept the harbor district in a state of tension while the raid was on. More Onions Being Grown TORO.NTO. â€" Western Ontario is going to be the cau.se of even more tears this year. The Ontario Agricultural Department's prelim- inary estimate shows that onion plantings in that part have in- creased to 2,G54 acres this spring, an increase of 249 over last year. Essex, Kent and Lambton are the three greatest onion-growing counties of the province, account- ing for 2,093 acres. Continued Moisture Needed OTTAWA.â€" Wheat seeding in the Prairie Provinces is practical- ly completed, but a continuance of adequate precipitation in the 1937 drought areas is essential if the present stands are to be main- tained, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported in the first of its series of weekly telegraphic re- ports on crop conditions on the prairies. // NEXT WEEK â€" A NEW FEATURE will begin in this paper NAMES IN THE NEWS // A record of personalities, Canadian, foreign, wiio are making Iiislory in llicsc monienloiis times. Sure He's Found Cure For Colds Moscow Scientist Reports De- velopment Of A Serum Which Eliminates All Cold Symptonu in 24 Hours Prof. Vladimir Barikin, head of the Moscow Institute of Epidemlo- Jojry antl MJicroboloKy^ luns reported development of a serum which he said has never failed to eliminate completely all symptoms of the common cold within 24 hours. Prof. Barikin, who has been ex- perimenting with the serum for two years, said ho tested It on himself •whpn he was ill with the grippe and awoke the next day 'complele- ly recovered." Flu Disappeared After being tested on mice the serum was applied to 80 members of the Institute's staff and an equal number of volunteers suffering with grippe. In every case, he said, It ellmlnatnil all signs of Krippo with- in 'H h> urs. The virus was said to grow best In a chicken embryo three or four days old, from which the serum is obtained. The mice used In the experiments first were Injected with the serum, then with a dose of grippe virus autncient to cause death. The mlco' remained alive and were given doses of virus 13.000 limes stronger than would ordinarily be required to kill them. When the serum was Injected they recovered, the profes- •or said. In addition t . the Institute staff mrmbers and volunteers the tests Wfro conducted on students at Mos- cow's Central Hospital. Woodpeckers Are Fussy Crea.tures Prefer Their Nests at Bottom Of Deep, Dark Hole in Hollow Tree Holh woodpeckers and flickers prefer to make tin Ir nosla at the bottom of a deep, dark bole In a hollo â-  tree. The-- .ire If we want to com I lies" bin'" to nest In the garden wo mue* put up Jiist the rifcht kind of a house. A house Intended for woodpeck- ers or flickers should be covered _â€" with bark. A wooden box cau be made and covered with strips of bark, or better still, make the house from wood from which the bark has not been stripped. After the house is made place a ha'ndtui of sawdust in the bottom of It to facilitate the building of the nest. A house intended for a red-head woodpecker should have a floor space six by six Inches square. The entrance hole should be made two inches In diameter and drilled about 12 Inches above the floor. Tho house should hang from 12 to 30 feet above the ground. A flicker house should have a floor seven by seven inches square. Tho entrance hole should be two and one-half Inches In diameter and 16 Inches above the floor. Hang the house from six to ?0 feet above the ground. II Duce Makes Inspection On Genoa Trip Artificially Made Lightning Flash Is Shown Publicly At Philadel- phia â€" Half-Million Voltage Could Split Block of Wood .Man-niade llRhlning has been shown publicly for the first time at the Kranklln Institute, in Philadel- phia, and the demonstration will re- main there permanently. Tho arll- flcial bolt has a potential of 500,000 rolls and strikes with enough power to smash a block of wood one foot long and four inches thick. The dis- cbarRi! is jiroduced by a Klaiit surge generator built by the Westing- bouse KIcclric and .Mainifacliiring Company. The boll, made up of parlic'les travelling at 2,200 feet a second, about twice the velocity of sound, hits Its tarset Willi iho force of a .riOcallbre bullet. Natural liKhlninK hits a blow (â- (|iiivaliMit lo a Ihlrly- pouiid shi'll discharged wllh a muz- zle velocliy of 2.200 feet per sec- ond. The cuiri'iil Is taken from an or- dinary boUHChold socket. Despite the hlKli voltage, little total energy la involved since the flash lasts l<>ss than flvemlllionlhs of a sec- ond. Tho current used by an elec- tric toaster In one second would produce Ave such flashes. A natu- ral flash of 10,000,000 volts and 00.- 000 amperes, lasting up to twenty- mlllionlhs of a second, uses 20 cents wftrlh of electricity only, at .H cents a kilo wait hour, according lo Dr. V. L.. liella.schl, Wesllnghouse research engineer. Premier Benito^ Mussolini adopts his most famous stance as he inspects a heavily armed tank, during i^ieiiiier iiuiiuo iviussoiini aaupis nis mosc lamous siance as ne m his recent visit to Genoa, Italy, where he later made a strong speech. ; New8 In Review WHAT, NO NEWS?: Why is it that nothing seems to be going on in Canada this week â€" apart from the talk at Ottawa, we mean? Rather hard on the newspapers, you know, having so few stories to feature in the headlines. What's behind it all? Why, everybody's too busy to be making news. British Columbia is trying to cope with its urgent relief problem, while thinking about the new highway through to Alaska; Alberta is busy untying Social Credit knots and keeping a fin- ger in the Saskatchewan election pie; the farmers of Saskatchewan are blessedly busy on the land, giving little thought to how the election will turn out; Quebec is occupied with provincial problems, taking time off now and then for a bit of a "Red" hunt; while down here in Old Ontario everybody is out gardening or golfing or listen- ing to the crops grow. It's June. Isn't that news enough for anybody? NO REST FOR THE WIN- NERS: Their long fight over, the four winners in the Millar Will Stork Derby are deserving of a little bit of quiet and time to en- joy their new-found riches. But no, the big invasion has begun â€" of salesmen and hangers-on into the Toronto homes of the four mothers. It will apparently come to an end only when each sura of $75,000 has been exhausted by lawyers' expenses, new cars, ra- dios, refrigerator.'!. ♦ Not that vigorous resistance isn't being put up in each case. But you know those salesmen. . , . EMPTY VICTORIES: An im- portant cable from Peiping which came through, uncensored, to the (Jlobe and Mail and the New York Times, neatly sums up the war situation in China as it now stands. Says the correspondent: "It is idle to say the Japanese armies have 'conquered' many Provinces â€" the facts are that the Japanese authority rarely runs beyond the range of Japanese guns .... Militarily, politically and economically there is a grave danger of Japan becoming hope- lessly bogged down in the vast moiass created by the Chinese stubborn refusal to admit military defeat." Kor Japan to conquer the whole of China, and hold it, seems at this time impossible of accomp- lishment. Hut new factors may yet enter and change the situa- tion. Japan is reported to be nego- tiating with (iermany for arm?, munitions and military support, offering in return a portion of tho conquered territory for Germany's later use. Should such a deal go through, the outcome of the Sino- Jap conflict would be unpredict- able. TREATY HINGES ON IT: One reason why the National Govern- ment of Great Britain appears to be anxious to have insurgc t Gen- eral Franco win the Spanish "civil" war is that the entire suc- cess of the newly-signed Anglo- Italian treaty hinges upon a speedy conclusion of the war in Spain. (The treaty cannot go into effect until the war is over.) And since General Franco has appeared for some tiin- to be on the win- ning side .... The n.)n-progioss of tho insurg- ent campaign in the Spanish pen- insula the past lew weeks, then, is causing serious embarrassment to both the Briti.sh and Italian governments. It loo)is as though tho ombHrra.ssnient is likely to continue, too, with General Franco making preparations to carry on his part of the war into the fall and winter. And the Loyalist Government declares it is pre- pared to hold out indefinitclv. . . . SPONTANEOUS COMBUS- TION: "Film Kxplosion in Detroit Kills One Man," leads one of the week's headlines. Seven persons, incidentally, were seriously burned on the same occasion. The film? A. Mae West picture. Nuff said. EACH OF US PAYS $3.11; Canada's defense program at the present time is costing $3.11 per capita. Most of this money is going into construction of for- tifications on the Pacific coast. We're getting off easy over here. In Great Britain, the cost is eight times as much for every individual. TIME LIMIT: Although the Czechoslovakian crisis has sub- sided for the moment â€" Germany has found a bigger problem to deal with than she bargained for â€" a real crisis is to be expected before the fall. A time limit has been set for Czechoslovakia to come to German terms. For last week the leader of the Sudeten German (trouble-making) party in Czechoslovakia made an announcement: "By next autumn a solution will have to be found for the Sudeten question in Czechoslovakia. Unless Czecho- slovakia halts its "repression" of the Sudeten minority and grants far-reaching concessions, the Ger- man Government may be forced by direct action to bring them within the frontiers of the Reich." So there you are. Britain Fortifies Channel's Mouth A luival base is being built on the Island of Portland to guard the western mouth of the English Channel from any attack from Spanish ports. ""'le base, to protect an approach used by the Ill-fated Spanish Arma- da of 1588, has ;ong beeu a second- ary defence asset, but achieved pri- mai'y importance as a result of for- eign intervention In the Spanish war- and the theory that a hostile power might use Spanish ports for wartime operations. ^ Modernization and extension of the harbor and dockyard at V. -X.- land is alrer 'v u der way. Naval air squadrons soon will take over a largo part of the island, Including the military citadel, known as the Verne, normally garrisoned by the army. Hrilain's largest warships can an- chor la thr- harbor, entering and leaving whatever the state of the tide. The defence force probably will bo mostly light tf pedo boats, however, since they are better suit- ed to the narrow waters of the channel. Already the site of the navy's anti-submarine school, Portland soon will be the chief anti-submar- ine base, sheltering a p werful force of swift motor torpedo boats, submarine, and bombing planes. Naval experts bollevo that a fleet of small s''"s might "worry" an In- vading fleet much as the Spanish Armada was harried 350 years ago. The IsL.nd is heavily armed. Across Weymouth Day, oi>poslte P.irtland, a coastal defence battery, first si up in t'\o Oreat W Is be- ing romnunled. Pedestrian Prelate The Bishop of Winchester smiles gaily as he .sets out on his •Tnnual walking tour of his dio- co.-p. The venerable English pre- lr"te is n-'conmnnied, as usual, by H\« re:'son"l chaplain on the trip. Will Solve Riddle Of Fish Migration Maritimes Project Is Tagging Salmon Fingerlings To Find Out Where They Go Thousands of salmon, spawned In the Restlgouche River and turned loose as flngerllngs in the St. John River in New Brunswick are get- ting ready to return to home waters and the question that fish- eries department officials are hop- ing to answer is whether they will start up the Restlgouche or will they seek the river from which they started to swim seawards. Three years ago 400,000 Restl- gouche flngerllngs were released in the St. John as part of a fisheries department plan to determine characteristics of the migration of salmon. Each one of the little flsh bore a price tag of one dollar when it was placed in the river. Two fins were snipped oft each flngerllng and anyone returning the scar tis- sues, left by removal of the fins, to the department of fisheries to- gether with Information as to how and where he landed the fish and its weight will receive one dollar. Fisheries offldals lauch when asked if tbers la any shanca o( some dishonest fisherman snipping off the fins of a flsh be has c&ugbt to earn the dollar. Nature has its own way of preventing this kind o( trickery because the scars left by remoT^ of flns from a flnKerlins can be easily distinguished from scars made on a grown flsh. It no flsh return, experts of tbe department will know they will 'have to seek a new method of tag- ging the flngerllngs. Removal o( the flns may hamper the fish in keeping away from their natural en- emies. Few of tbe marked salmon are expected to appear In Nova Scotlan waters so tbe posters will be placed In New Brunswick. Trade Advisers For Big Cities Canadian Government Consid- ering Proposal, Official Re- veals, to Increase Export Trade. Appointment of trade commis- sioners in Toronto, Montreal and other Canadian centres is being considered by the Department of Trade and Commerce in its efforts to encourage the extension of Can- ada's export trade, according to A. E. Bryan, Inspector of the Trade Commissioner Service. Such commissioners would con- fer with and advise manufactur- ers and other businessmen on conditions in other countries, Mr. Bryan told the foreign trade con- ference of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce at Hamilton last week. He urged Canadian manu- facturers to pursue foreign trade more vigorously. The resulting in- creased business would enable them to be independent of the do- mestic market. Men prominent in industry, fin- ance and commerce attended the trade conference, first meeting of its kind organized in Canada. Many technical questions were discuss- ed. During the conference the business leaders sought to achieve concerted action to further the Dominion's place in the Interna- tional market. There is only one scaly-backed ant-eater in captivity, called the African Pangolin, and it is in the London Zoo. VOICE CANACA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE o/ the PRESS CANADA Death By Drowning The toll of drowning in On- tario during the spring and sum- mer months is gi-eater than the toll of highway traffic. It is a heavy price to pay for sport and recreation, where risk is pre- ferred to safety. â€" St. Catharines Standard. One Every 20 Minutes Divorces were granted at the recent assizes at London, Ont., at the rate of one every 20 minutes, after which we cannot very well complain about Reno or other "divorce-mills." â€" Brockville Re- corder and Times. It's Safe For A While Now that Mr. Crerar has in- formed the House that Canada's title to the Arctic regions is be- yond dispute we will breathe easier realizing there is no danger of waking up some morning and finding some foreign power has anne.xed an icebei'g or two. â€" Peterborough E.Naminer. Drivers Are Different It is surprising how so many otherwise honest, just and consid- erate men and women become per- fect boors when they enter the driving seat of an automobile. In their homes, on the street, and at public gatherings, these motorists are practically tho personification of courtesy and kindness. Place a steering wheel in their hands, and their whole natuie seems to change.â€" Chatham News. Bought At The Door Just for curiosity, we bought an article the other day, which the door-to-door salesman said was sold more cheaply because the firm didn't advertise. Comparing it with standard, advertised goods, it was not a surprise to discover it had cost more than the same kind of article and the qualily was much inferior to its competi- tor, which bears a well known trade name. â€" Niagara Falls Re- view. Hopes For June It will b« just too bad this year if we get a frost during that first full moon in June. In that list of coming events in June the men folk will find ample excuse for getting away from home for a day when they g:et fed up with the work. There has been a splendid bloom, but not until after the June drop can the fruit crop be estimated. However, this much is certain, no bloom, no crop! â€" Far- mer's Advocate. What They Hear About Us "Canada," said Lord Tweeds- muir to the visiting Scottish far- mers the other day, "gets rotten publicity; too much for the fail- ures and too little for the suc- cesses." There is much truth in that remark. The world hears about our Western drought, the problem of our railways, but much less about our solid accomplishments. Per- haps the world does not realize that this small population in half a century has made a nation out of scattered settlements, has made a good start in the development of rich natural resources, is one of the foremost trading countries on earth. Sometimes in the face of immediate difficulties, we fail to bear these facts in mind even among ourselves. â€" Ottawa Jour- nal. The EMPIRE Don't Kill Your Doctor! Dr. Harry Stark, of Stoke New- ington, at the age of 35, had reached what most of us would call "success". He had a very good pra'-tice; his patients loved him. Dr. Staik died last week. He died in the most unspectacular way a man can dieâ€" in bed. Rut he gave his life for a pa- tient whom he probably scaicely knew. Dr. Stark contracted blood pois- oning from the patient. The pa- tient still lives. He is cured. .N'cNt time you say, "Oh. the doctor's bill ran wait," think of Dr. Stark. Son-e day YOl' mi"ht I ill your doctor. â€" London Sunday Pis- patch.