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Good News For The Moose

Toronto.

The love life of the moose Is all right again. He or she no longer mistakes a train's hords for the mating call.

The Canadian National Rall- ways reported on the time and the effort that went into elimination of the unexpected problem.

From the very first day diesel locomotives were put onto lines #pangitig northern Ontario. skients claimed the burring moan of the d'esel hom tricked

thinking the moose into.

had he heard the love call of his mate.

And when o 1,900-pound bull tries to mate with a high-balling dical

In the middle of the tracks, the result is disastrous.

The

Board of Transport decided to clear up the situation for the moose and at the same time please those sentimental persons who missed the plain- tive wall of steam whistle on a frosty night.

011

The Board issued "Manifesto 753" which indicated its position

the vanishing steam whistle. "It' 'la decreed," the order sild, "that all diesel trains in Canada shall have home having tonal qualities simulating the sound of a conventional steam locomo-

tive Whistle. It must be in three paties to produce a har- monious sound and these sounds should be grouped to be omni-

allways complied with the prder and the Board up. proved event types of whistles

Lis diesels.

W now has 400 diesels

with

"approved"

The Board offers this au- the thoritative description of sound "It is not less than 108 decibles in the periphery of a cincle 100 feet in radius."

But Donald Gordon, CNR Pro- aident, was hard to convince that the bull moose no longer tricked by the tootor.

"A toe is a horn," he said. — United Press.

They Weren't

Playing

THE CHINA: MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1954. -

MORE CANADIANS

ARE ENJOYING

HOME COMFORTS

Ottawa

The Dominion Bureau of Statistics decided the time had come talk of many things; of bathtubs and showers, and washing machines and vacuum cleaners.

The Bureau surveyed the Canadian nation and found that in the 27 months since the 1951 census was taken, households in September last year showed remarkable Improvement in the niceties of domestic life.

In fact, the Bureau reported, the number of household unlia had risen by 232,000 in that 27-month period, to a new peak of 3,041,000. Over 73 percent of the increase in the number of Canadian dwellings was in single detached houses, and over two thirds of them were owned by the occupants.

In the sober, statistical analysis made by the Bureau, It stated: "Substantial advances in comfort-making and labour-saving household conveniences and facilities

are indicated."

For instance, over 91 per cent of the total number of house- halds were sorved with electri-

|Shot Arrow city. Ontario led the gain since

At Rival

Milwaukee, Wieconada, Alola Goskowlos, 35, was Qued $25 on charges of shooting an arrow xt his divorced wife's boy friend.

Goskowlos sald he mere ly wanted

frighten Anton Dulak, 23, away `so he could have a “heart to heart" talk with his ex- wife, Marian, 27.

to

Goskowies borrowed the bow and arrow, which missed, from his 11-year- old nephew.--United Press.

A LOT OF

ALCOHOL

TO DRINK

The

Paris

National Economic Council was shocked by a doctor's charge that the average Frenchman drinks Chicago,

95 pints of pure alcohol a A taxpayer, bundled up his

year. for year's bills — reccipis ·

union telephone bills,

dues, miccollaneous chargesond sent them the Internal Revenue Office pere in a package so big

Look 37 cents postage.

It

The charge 'was levelled in a "five-year plan

against al- under coolism" which came

an study by the Council ins effort to introduce moderation

to France.

A hote enclosed suggested Dr Etienne May painted a

that with all the records there,

picture:

1031. with Quebec, Alberta, Manitoba, and New Brunswick.

next in line.

While 1,593,000 households in June, 1951, were served with

bot water steam,

or hot air furnaces,

number tho September last year had risen 1,840,000. All provinces

to

one

in

by

the

shared in the gain, the Bureau sutu, but from Quebec province East it was still a case of more households being heated stoves than by fumacco.

Nearly

third of nation's households were served with hot and cold water, and that number of families had exclusive use of their own baths

from or showers гово 1,938,000 to 2.244,000. But there were still 1,205,000 householde

bath that had neither shower facilities.

ELECTRIC COOKING

not

The number of kitchens in Canadian homes equipped with electric ranges

rose about 29 per cent since the nation-wide census was held, the Bureatt said. The largest gain in the use of electric ranges was made in Ontario, with Quebec,

Manitoba and British Columbia next

axt in line.

Exhilarating Some Do's & Don'ts

Experience

***Kitchener, Ontario,

A packing house worker won $5 but he had to trot

a snowy quarter of a mile in bare feet to do it.

of James Ankermann,

die- Shakespeare,

cold cursing the

weather with fellow wor

workers. The talk finally turned to how far a man could run an eighth of a mile.

The sprinter took off his shoes and socks, ran the distance in sub-zero tem- Deratures, and enjoyed the

the feel of

Jay

under- footing so mazohi he repest- the performance.— United FrenÉ.

Character

Reading From

Fingerprints

Genoo

For A Hangover

Ottawa.

You might not have a hangover tomorrow if you do one of three things tonight:

1-Stay sober,

2-Dose yourself liberally with soda or an alkali salt before hitting the sack.

3-Swallow a couple of tablespoons of olive oil befors you drink.

Doctors say the best thing you *n do for a hangover Le nothing. Not, at least, if you've given your beat-up, fur-Uned, butlery-infested stomach time to return to more or less normal shape.

Stay away from cold drinks-

Sure, and that includes water. your throat feels like high noon

FIGHTING

TO REMAIN

on the Sahara and your tongue IN GAOL like an electric blacket fun on

But cold water won't help. You might think I doure the furnace, wash away the sund, and clean out the birds' nests. It

Take the doctors word for it cold water will only shock An Italian doctor claimed be your convalescing stomach into

a man's character relapse. So sluice nothing ABSCIE accurately from his fingerprints down there until you begin to

feed really hungry:

Gas ranges in use rose from 724,000 to 836,000, and the use of all stoves ran to 190,000 Last can September, compared with 179,

000 recorded in the census. The old-fashioned wood or coal cook slove

ove was on the way out; the number declmed from 1,486,000

to 1,316,000.

And in cold storage facilities, IL Wat sharp increase in distinct drop in ice boxes. The

the tax collectors just make out Deuths from cirrhosis of mechanical refrigerators, and a the sender's tax return and malliver passed their pre-war high it back to him so he could pay

EL.

Ernest J. Sauber, Director of Internal Revenue here, sold it was mailed back (under govern- little note ment mark) width a saying the sender might well make out the return himself and not to forget the March 16 deadline-United Press.

Took Leaf Out Of David's Book

May's solution- 1-A huge propaganda cam- patgn, concentrating on schools, without

tories

by liquor faxes.

new survey

Dr Antonio Canepa, 25, who described himself criminologist and a graduate of the Institute of Applied Sciences in Chicago, told the pross he has been able to tell the fingerprints of murderers from those witty criminals and honest men.

M's permissible, however, to slosh some water around in your mouth-if you don't swallow any to live, sip slowly about three ounces of warp water. about half cup.

When you know you're going

That's

If you like, drink also at this time a mild laxative or alkail- salt-if you can stand the The

The young doctor said he sinserising of the fizz.

on

of results will be well worth the

effort.

the American

Carlsbad, New Mexico.. Mra Francis T: Supina, 51, began ber seventh month in gaol here and hired a new attorney to fight State efforts to remove her from her coll

Mrs Supina,"

a," prominent Carls bad property owner, insists the will remain behind bars "the rest of my life" before' paying a $1,000 contempt of court fine levied against her last July 6,

Mrs Supine said in a gaol cell Interview that she now boasts seniority Over all her fellow inmates in the county lock up.

"I would have thought the heriff would have baked a cake for my anniversary," she said.

Mrs Supina was assessed the consistently $1,000 fine

for

an

in

This 2,000,000-gallon "lake" the middle of south- western Idaho desert is used to cool water bested by the World's marine engine. Designed to heat which, in an ORITY off ocean-going submarino would be dissipated by the sea, the "lako" is sotually

- 19 -in--now, being used

pond-1950

by engineers and relenilsis of

"WestinghouED

the

Corporation which

Electric bullt the

nuclear Power Atomic plant in co- operation

Eners Contmisston's

Argonne

Fagor B

Congress Gets Its Three-D

Washington. Three-D invaded halls of Congress to keep members posted

the weather back pain home.

here

Hargo weather mapi

folgnalled presented to the and Linuse by United,

ceremony In the Barn George Winthrop, Chief Bureau's 'daily map

of

they aro a vast improvemen over the old maps which we 62 years old and very obsolete

For one thing, Winthrop the three-ply glass construction of the new maps given if three dimentional effect without the benent of glasses.the

Itself, the weather stations, and the actual weather conditions cach are separated by layers of glase.

Winthrop sold the maps also have been given fresh, bright colours to add a "lilta vervo and sparkic." Ho added quickly. however, that the colour schemo is "sufficiently restrained to harmonise with the new decor of the Capitol."

COMPROMISE

The maps are kept dally by two weather! employees who are wrpOR drawing the lines, arrows symbols peculiar to forecasting

MENY Aboratory and the winthrop sold the map:

Shown in backed

mround is the steel and con- crete Bullding housing the

engine; Bickle

The pond

equipped with 225 norries and

$3,500! galions Can 0001

The pond water

Per minute. Misc pe condensers for the cooling" water

for meum #water brake", which absorbe power developed in the storie engine, and other heat" pro- ducing equipment, a London

SHOWING

TO-DAY

#compromiso?" Finl between those understood by expert meteorologist wait-informed layman.”

Asked if Congress can under stand them,

Winthrop replied "You'd be surprised, put a l of congreemen are experta In fact, Ent meteorology. thom can tell better pressure systems and cold tron/ should be than the people wh draw the mapa"-United By

MAJESTIC

A Chinese Picture-in-Mandarin-Djalotus

MERRY-GO-ROUND”

Starring HA MOON, CHUEN KAY A GREAT WALL PICTURE

DINE

WINE

DANCE AT

12 MID-NIGHT, PAY & NIGHT 12-14, Causeway Bood, Hong

In 1931 and still are cilmbing. number of households served by he said. So is the number of mechanical refrigerators ТОБС victims of

tested his theory recently dejerlum

1,595,000 tremens from

to 2,415,000,

fingerprints of a number atel The milder cases who while the number with an lee WUKILT about Paris streets box dropped from 621,000 to persons, Including inmates and former lomates and prison grumbling

But remember, this is when and babbling to 339,000. themselves.

The Bureau, which prides itself guards. He said he was able to you're actually feeling hungry.

THE NEXT STEP

violating an injunction av GOLDEN EAGLE REST on presenting the facts about tell the fingerprints of four men

the Next step: Relax in peace and renting property in an exclusive various facets of Canadian life executed for murder in

Carishad residential of quiet for a few minutes.

*** signi- United States from those the assessing

by

anil-rental 11 A.M. Then a

safe and sane pick-covered military instillations and fac seance, said nothing bout pilferers, and both from those

Doctors say that this convenant. other in-me-up. to be paki for largely whether the

in of prison guards or

helps morning-after victims to not guilty of anything dicated a boost in living stan-nocent persons. 2-An incrdased drive dards brought about free demo- Canepa said he returned his do two things: (1) Provide food and I don't own anyone any- against bad housing and

digested and (2) thing I'm going to stick it uncratic enterprises. It merely findings to

that's easily employment, two main reasons reported these additional facts Institute of Criminology, which help the stomach to shift into out," Mrs Supina sald

The State, in the unique "turn for alcoholism.

about fe in Canada:

found them correct. He said a high and run smoothly again.

case, is currently at- That rules out any "hair-of-about" 3-Reduction by 20 percent

similar experiment with finger-

Experts bayo of vineyards producing - low- WASHING MACHINES- prints of inmates of the Italian the-dog" cures,

from gaol by collecting the grade wine. Reduction of apple

Cyber 11.00 against variations of it-to be the best contempt <istillation. growing for

number of households criminal asylum of Vollurra was proven the "prairie oyster tempting to remove Mre Supine on home disillation.

without washing machines in likewise

through a llen on her property. of all pick-me-ups.

Basic recipe for the "preiric United Press, 4--Progrcalve reduction in September last year numbered Press, the number-the highest in the 2,085,000, up 513,000 from the Remembering David's victory world-of cafes and bura No time of the census leaving only over Goliath, the Portuguese such places within school bnd 656,000 without this convenience boy stunned the wolf with a factory areas.

for the housewife, wall aimed rock, neighbouring| 5-No liquor sales to minors

tim cleaners: The farmers said, and finished the or before 10 in the morning. animal off with his shepherd stat United Press.

Lisbon Antonio Cortesano, a 14-year old shepherd boy of the Alentejo plains, made practical use of his Sunday School lessons when a big wolf attacked his Lock

Bon

The

Or take varude with them

number of

6-Greater

availability {cold water,-United Press.

of

rose 334,000 to a new peak of 1,748,000 and sewing machines: Some 2,410,000 households had

By Galbraith

SIDE GLANCES

successful, - United

25,000 Rabbits Stranded

drop of tabasco, about a teaspoon

oyster" includes a raw

of Worcestershire sauce, and pepper.

alt

Take it in one festi

Bulp.

Another effective revitaliser is

a "flippant hem. It's a law deg

Geneva. in a short pear.

Twenty-five thoumad Iron

Toronto.

Can't face those staring eggst Oscir Bercellier, Prodent py of the Canadian RestauMYGELE

them last September, one third Curtain rabbits were stranded All fight to you don't Association, said too much talk Burenu didn't count them in the attempted trip from Act to Put half a teaspoon of 'nigar about dieting und losing weight

Neutral Switzerland

of all Canado, although the on the Swiss border we didn't warn you):

1951 contes

There were 2,434,000 house-

France

in an old-fashioned glass. Sok is "propaganda aimed at mak- it with angostura Tomina ing ordinary eating a crime holds last September with tele- to burnée the beading heres go and half of and an against the booth of the ne phones, which was 406,000 more from

Hammary to

Beveller urged the Associa- even though the champagne. Add two

absinthe.

2010 to put out-counter-pro- guaranteed they

It's known as the "Sea Cap- pagarida to tell Canadicem, then household

unit 3,511,000 out of would be segregated in spodaj tain's Special." Only Opa aan undanourished body

than at the Umo of the censur. pass

То

To all intents, nearly

every

more freight asset

one

radios, and of course, the

Happy hangover not set the requiremen

United Press.

Swiss authorities feared the customer. number of families with tele-hares are carriers of myxomatose rabbit dlaczac, although vision ects is mushrooming, Last a

the diseast September there were 373,000 Hungary contende

not exist but doca

United Press.

TV-equipped households,

that number is for outdated by the boost in sales during the last four months,

were

Nearly half of every family utt in Canada has a car. The Bureau reported there 1,899,000 hounholds with carg in September last year, a jump of 480,000 in the 37-month period-United Prem,

A PARDONABLE ERROR

Vienna The United States Army zeh colved a letter nedresweck to *MER.G. Coffie, United him Siwles Army” thanking for the Christma food packago he west, to an Aartician, Etomily

Army officials mich, that a dll) Christmas fooch, want dilatedharta in quietermaster, macics sturi with the word)

in Hungary-

ALMOST LIKE BEING HOME

•

Washington. Sven Backlund, Press Attache

at the Swedish Embassy, clied 34 miles from his home in Silver Spring, Maryland, to his offico at the Embassy.

It wasn't like back home, Backlund said, but it was the next best thing-United Press.

Confidence Man, Aged 12′′

· Police: were.

Moline, Iowa

on the Lookout lende trian who took

The Garrison

Present

"Bonaventure"

by Charlotte Hastique:

At 8.30

Inesday Fab. 24th

Thursday 25th

To doughnut, MISSIONS TO

HONG KONG

KAL TAK PLAYERS

present

TO LIVE IN BEACH adopted from the Italian by VICTOR RIETTI at'Misions to Seaman, Hong Kong, on Feb; 11th, 12th & 18th at 8 pm.

MOUTHIES

STACK (En

TARIL

UNIVARSITY ERJAY

the