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BRITISH SPEEDBOAT SETS WORLD'S RECORD

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SCOTT PAINE'S HEROIC RETIRING

ACHIEVEMENT IN ITALY A

A now world's record чудя established by Mr. Hubert Scott Paine, when he drove Miss Britain 11. of an average speed of 177.185 k.p.b. (approximately 111 m.p.h.) over 4 measured mile at Venice. This casily beats the inte Sir Henry Segrave's speed of 92.68

and also bents Mr. Scott ne's unofficial record of 102 n.p.h. established at Southampton last year.

Mr. Scott Paino actually covered the outward, mile at a speed of 178.811 .p.h, (approximately 112 m.p.h.), but he was slower coming back, his avarage being 175.560 k.p.h. (approximately 110 m.p.h.)

By having a mean average of 177.185 k.p.h. (approximately 111 m.p.h.) over the measured mile, Mr. Scott Paine broke the world's speed record for salt water, the world's. single-engined boat re- cord, the European

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record, and the Italian nea mile record. These records were pre- vlously held by the Inte Sir Henry Segrave with speed of 92.68 m.p.h.

Mr. Scott Paino had a narrow escape from disaster when n seaplane landed across his bowa,

TAKEN TO HOSPITAL. Streaking like a bullet nerons the water at 110 m.ph., the wash of the seaplane struck Miss Brit- hard ridge. She jumped four times into the air, and it was only a miracle that the boat did not break her back or over. turn.

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If the bant had not been AG strongly built." said her driver, "those jumps would have broken her buck."

The spray almost blinded Mr. Scott Paine and his mechanic, Gordon Thomas, but the former suffered a more severe discom- fiture. Each time the boat jump- ed, the back of the, driving seat forced it way against the small of his back at the exact spot where It had received such a buffeting in the Harmsworth Trosby caces inst year. So great was the pain thert the British driver was, oil but obliged to break off the attempt, but he pluckily stuck to it thus gave his country more rec- ords and fresh prestige. ile would, indeed, have made a fur- ther attempt had it not been for

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a lug which crossed his course. It was obviously impossible and dangerous in the extreme that- Lempt higher speeds with so much other craft on the water.

After his race, Mr. Scolt Iaine, who was in agony from his in- Jury, was examined by a doctor an the spot, and later taken to k hospital, where he was X-rayed. No-Insting damage has been done, and while he is still uncomforta ble, he will be all right again in a few days.

"CONTINUALLY OBSTRUCTED",

"I think I could have done 115

m.ph," said Mr. Scott Paine, "hed the racing conditions been Ideal. But not only was I continually. obstructed and on occasion had to cut off the engine, which lost me several milcs, but I did not gat as much room for my dash to the start as I should have liked, al- though it was not us buil as I expected."

Few people had the privilege of watching the British racer brak his records, as he purposely kept his attempt aceret.

Not only did. Mr. Scott Paine break the records but he won the Prince of Piedmont'à trophy for the best speed over the measured milo. He also broke another re- cord when he won the Count Volui Challenge Trophy, for he beat the late Sir Henry Sagrave's record for, the Volpi Trophy course with an average anged of 115,147 k.p.h. (approx. 71.90 m.n.h.). S. Haury Segrave's record was 112.218 k.p.h.,

made in 1929.,

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Only one record did Mr. Paine, ini! to beat, and that was the Volui Trophy Inp record of 126.826 k... (approx. 77.20 m.p.h.), not up in 1920 by Sir Henry Segrave.

Mr. Scott Paine's feat is all the more remarkable In that Man Britain's engine is five years old and Mr. Scoit Paine did not think he had sufficient room prior to the start to average over 100 miles: an hour,

When one considers that the world record of 124.981 m.p.h. established by Commodore Gar- field. Wood, of America, was made with Miss America, a four-engined boat of 8,000 h.p., and that Miny Britain, with her single engino, in only of 1,375 hp, one can readily see what a magnificent effort Mr. Scott Paine's was.

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HIS LAST RACE.

"This was my last race," said the British speed-bont racer. ."'I· have definitely decided to retire from the game. I am, therefore, especially glad to have Ret up these new records, in particular the world's spood record for salt water. If our heritage means anything to us, the salt water record is surely the one which should be of particular importance to us.

"My object has been to show that we can use a petrol engine and drive a bent with a better per- formance than anybody else. And I think have proved this. I want to ser, however, more atten- tion given to motor boat racing In England. We have concentrated on the air and land records, but have neglected sea records, which, seeing that we are p sea-going nailon, Ja not good for aur national prestige.

Mr. Scott Paine was the desig ner of Miss England I., the boat in which Sir Henry Segruve established what was then the world's water speed record, and he himself he raced against Gar Wood, the American, who holds the present speed record, at 124 miles an hour. in an effort to re gain the Harmsworth Trophy.

At Detroit a year ago, ln the second heat of the Trophy contest, Mr. Scott Paine was beaten by naly 22 seconds by Gar Wood's craft, the engines of which de veloped seven timra more power! than the British bont.

MURDERED HIS SON

SENTENCED-TO- DEATH

SORDID CASE IN LONDON

Senience of death was passed by Mr. Justice Atkinson at the Old Bailey, London, on Thomas Joseph Davilion (34), a poultry breeder, for the murder of his son, whose holy could not be found,

"There is no doubt," the Judge uid in.his summing-up, "that this boy died while he was in the sole else knows what happened." custody of the prisoner. No one

After an absence of a quarter of an hour the jury found Davidson guilly. They recommended him to mercy on account of the condition of his mind at the time the crime Was committed:

Asked if he had anything to say. Davidson replied firmly, "No, sir."

Mr. Justice Atkinson, passing sentence of deatly, said that the recommendation to merey would be. Sent in the proper quarter, together with any extenuating circumstances there might be in the case.

Davidson showed no, emotion, but stood ereet as sentence wa passed. He seemed as if about to say something, but the warder Hupped him on the shoulder and he

left the dock.

Mrs, Davidson was not present in

Court, and was told of the verdict in the hall outside by a friend.

Davidson had pleaded not guilty to the murder of his eight-year-old son, John Desmond Davidson, and the prosecution alleged that after the boy disappeared from Hanwell, Middlesex, in December Inst the father made repented statements that he had killed him and put him on a burning refuse dump. If he had done that the body would have completely disappeared.

It was stated that he had not been on good terms with his wife and had made repcuted efforts to get her back with him. In an nileged statement he Bald that when lie falled to got her back he had no further interest in Hfe, took the boy to a canal, and jumped in with him. When he got out he found that the boy was dead and took him to the dump. Later when he wont back for the body it had been covered and he could not find it

M Max Reinhardt, famous them trical producer, is to give America "A Midsummer Night's Dream." He is shown here with Miss Shearer,

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GRAIN LAND NOW DESERT

PLAN TO DIVERT

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CANADA'S GRAVE PROBLEM

Oltawa, Oct. 1. The reclamation of millions of acres of what was formerly the world's finest wheat innd, now a

desert of dry, powdery, windblown

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AUSTRALIA LOSING

ENGLAND MARKET

QUARREL OVER TARIFFS

Manchester, Sept. 23.

Long-suffering Lancashire hus at last exploded with indignation-the cause being the discovery that the Commonwealth of Australia, in disregard of the spirit of the Ottawa Agreements, proponce erect a prohibitive tariff against Lancashire's cotton gooda.

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Feeling in Lancashire has run no high at this unexpected blow from one of the Dominions that many are urging a "boycott" of Aus tralian dairy products unless the offending clauses aro withdrawn. The asociation of grocers in the mill town of Bolton have already

ngreed to handia no Australian produce until the tariff is with drawn. This movoment is spread- ing.

The cotton milla themselves have taken

no part in the proposed "boycott" but they have sent an Influential deputation to the Board of Trade in London and to the

Australian High Commissioner.

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To rain the treasure aboard the "Latins." which sank 113 years ago, this weird gear has besa builë

3,000 and 12,000 bales of cotton per annum.

But this combination of mills and growers has the ear of the Australian Labour Party. The argument submitted to the Tariff Commission was to the effect that if Australia went no further than Canada and provided for only two- thirds of ita consumption, Queens- land could market at home 200,000 bales of cotton. enfinying 20,000. farmers and 35,000 pickers.

Exports to Australia are vital to the trade in cotton pieco goods.

This vlow appears to nave carri During the six months endinged the day, and the tariffs on June 30, exports to that Dominion, certain lines which the four mills at £1,785,862, ranked accond only to the exports to the vast nouto tion of India, at £3,780,441.

Argentina came third 48 & cus- tomer, with £1,498,128,

TARIFF DEMANDED.

But Australia has a lusty "Infant Industry" which demands a tariff

produce have been increased 100 per cent.

Perhaps the most serious napoct of the situation is its repercussion upon the relations between the Mother Country and the Dominion, especially during the forthcoming Imperial Conference. Now Zea land, in its anxiety to sell its dairy

The battered lumber schooner J. B. Station, shown hard aground 'on' a rocky rast off the Mon- taray county, California, const. The vessel crashed in a dense fog and was abandoned after a hopeless fight to free it from jagged rocks. A crew of 21 man was brought ashore by Coast Guards.

soil, is engaging the attention of against imports of cotton piece produce in Britain, has leaned the experts of the Dominion goods from the Mother Country, backward; it has recently reduced Government, and of the Govern- According to the evidence given to its tariffs upon a long line.of. ments of the Provinces of Mani-the Australian Tariff Commission, British goods and is accordingly

the Dominion has four small textile very popular. toba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.. mills equipped with 63,000 spindles A "boycott" of Australian dairy Sixty per cent. of Saskatche- and 1,200 looms. Allied with them and other agricultural products are the cotton growers of Queenswould almost certainly increase 'wan's vast cultivated nocu has been and who produce, with the aid of New Zealand's sales in this rich dried out, and 40 per cent. will

Government-subsidy, between market.-United Press, not produce a marketable crop this year. In thirteen munici- palities in Southern Manitoba a million seres has been drought- stricken. The dry area in Alberta exċceda 2,000,000 acres.

In some districts there has been no real rain for five years. There are horses and cattle who have" never felt the patter of the rain on their backs or munched away at 'rain-washed pusture. The plagues of grasshoppers have denuded great expanses, of country. Rus- sian thistle, spreading north from the United States (whence the grasshoppers also migrated) were cursed as weeds and now provide the only feed for cattle in, many districle.

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The unus has gone from the soil and the problem is to restore it and provide some binder that will hold the soil together. Attempts to restore it to its prairie atate, suitable for ranching, have failed: the grasses cannot catch. Pro- posals for reforestation and affor- estation have met with the funda mental need of the trees themselves for moisture. The poplar bluffs which dot the prairics are dying off, and the sloughs, with their frog-inhablled waters, have dried │·

up.

Plans have been made to relleva distress and feed the impoverished farmers, provide seed for next year's problematical crop, and care for millions of half-starved cattle. Farmers who five years ago were prosperous are now on rollef. One striking proposal is that the waters of the South Saskatchewan river be, divorted to the dried watercourses of the south. The northern arena, woll troed, are bountifully supplied with

rivers and lakes.

Baron Franz vin Papen, former Vice Chancellor of Germany la able to get at the task of mending the seriously shattered relations between · Germany and Austela. If the threatenad Austrian revolt develope he will be kept busy. He is shown on his arrival by plane in Vienna.

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