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BRITISH SPEEDBOAT ETS WORLD'S RECORD

SCOTT PAINE'S HEROIC RETIRING

ACHIEVEMENT IN ITALY

A now world's record WAN established by Mr. Hubert Scott Paine, when he drove Miss Britain III, at an average speed of 177.185 k.p.h, (approximately 111m.p.h.) over a measured mile at Venice.

This easily beats the late Sir Henry Begrave's speed of 92.68 mp.l, and also boots Mr. Seatt Paino's unofficial record of 102 m.p.h. established at Southampton last year.

Mr. Scott Palno actually covered the outward mile at a speed of 178.811 k.p.h. (approximately 112 m.p.l.), but he was slower coming back, his average 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 Paino broke the world's speed record for salt water, the world's single-engined boat re cord, the European sen record, and the Italian sea mile

mile

record. These records were pre- viously held by the late Sir Henry Segrave with a' speed of 02.08 m.p.h.

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Mr. Scott Paine had cacape from dianator when neaplane landed across his bows. TAKEN TO HOSPITAL

Streaking like a bullet gerosk the water at 110 m.ph., the wash of the seaplane struck Miss Brit- ain as a 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.

"If the boat had not been so strongly built," said her driver, "those jumpe would have broken her back."

The spray almost blinded Mr. Scott Paine and his mechanic, Gordon Thomas, but the former nuffered a more severe discom- Allure. Each time the boat jump- ed, the back of the driving scat forced its way against the small of his back at the exoct apot whitre It had received such bulleting In the Harmsworth Trophy ratea lust year. So great was the pain that the British driver was 11 but obliged to break off the attempt, but he pluckily stuck to it and thus gave his country more rec- orda and fresh prestige. He would, indeed, have made a fur- ther attempt had it not been for

made in 1929.

Only one record did Mr. Paine fall to beat, and that was the Volti Tropay lap record of zzá.blu k.p.h. (approx. 77.20 m.p.h.), aet up in 1929 by Sir Henry Segrave.

Mr. Scott Paino's feat is all the more remarkable in that Miss Britain's engine is five years old and Mr. Scott Paino 'did not think ho had sufflelent room prior to the start to averago 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 or 8,000 h.p., and that Miss Britain, with her single engine, is (only of 1,375 h.p., one can readily ace what a magnificant effort Mr. Scott Paine's was.

HIS LAST RACE.

"This was my last race," said the British speed-boat racer. "I have definitely decided to retire from the game. I am, therefore, especially glad to have ret up these new records, in particular

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Manchester, Sept. 20. Long-suffering Lancashiro has at last exploded with indignation-the cause being the discovery that the Commonwealth ‚of Australia, in disregard of the spirit of

the Ottawa: Agreements, proposes to erect a prohibitive tariff against Lancashire's cotten goods.

Feeling in Lancashire has run so high at this unexpected blow from one of the Dominions that many

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GRAIN LAND NOW DESERT

the world's speed record for salt PLAN TO DIVERT

means

water. If our heritage 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 boat with a batter per- formance than anybody else. And I think I have proved this. I want to sec, however, more atten- tion given to motor boat racing in England. We have concentrated on the air and land records, but have neglected sen records, which, Beeing that we are a sea-going nation, is not good for our national prestige,

Mr. Scott Paine was the desig- ner of Miss England II, the bont 101 which Sir Henry Segrave ratablished 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- guin the Harmsworth Trophy.

At Detroit a year ago, in the second heat of the Trophy contest, Mr. Scott Paine was lieston by only 22 acconds by Gar Wood's craft, the engines of which de. voloped seven times more power than the British boni,

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The reclamation of millions. of acres of what was formerly the world's finest wheat land, now a desert of dry, powdery, windblown

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trallan dairy products unless the "Lullos." which sank 113 yaure ago,

offending ölauses are withdrawn. The association of grocers in the mill town of Bolton have already agreed to handle no Australian produce until the tariff is with drawn, This movement is aprend- Ing.

The cotton mills themselves have taken no part in the proposed "boycott" but, they have sant, an influential deputation to the Board of Trade In London and to the

Australian High Commissioner.

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

But this combination of milla and growers has the ear of the Australian Labour Party. The argument submitted to the Tarif Commission was to the effect that If Austrália went no further than Canada and provided for only two- thirds of its consumption, Queens- |land could market at home 200,000 bales of cotton. emploving 20,000 farmers and 35,000 plckers.

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

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to the exports to the vast nogula- tion of India, at £3,780,441. Argentina came third as a cus-of the situation is its repercussion Perhaps the most serious aspect tomer, with £1,498,128.

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a tug which crossed his course. It was obviously impossible and dangerous in the extreme to at- tempt higher speeds with so much other craft on the water.

After his race, Mr. Scott Paine, who was in agony from his In- jury, was examined by a sorter on the spot, and later taken to i hospital, where he was X-rayed. No lasting damage has been done, and while he is still uncomforta- ble, he will be all right again in a few days.

"CONTINUALLY OBSTRUCTED",

MURDERED HIS SON

SENTENCED TO DEATH

SORDID CASE IN LONDON

Sentence of death was passed by Mr. Justice Atkinson at the Old Batley, London, on Thomas Joseph Davidson (34), a poultry breeder. for the murdor of his son, whose body could not be found.

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

After an absence of a quarter of an hour the jury found Davidson guilty. They recommended him to mercy on account of the condition of his mind at the time tae crinie

was committed

Asked if had anything to say. Davidson replied firmly, "No, alr." Mr. Justice Atkinson, passing sentence of death, and that the recommendation to mercy would be went to the proper quarter, together with any extenuating circumstances there might be in the case,

Davidson showed no emotion, but atrod erect as sentence WE passed. He seemed as if about to say something, but the warder tapped him on the shoulder and he Floft the dock. "I think I could have dòng 115

Mrs. Davidson was not present In mp.h.," said Mr. Scott Paine, hadCourt, and was told of the verdict the racing conditions been ideal. in the hall outside by a friend. But not only was I continually Davidson had pleaded not guilty

obstructed maid on occasion had to cut off the engine, which lost mo several miles, but I did not get na much room for my dash to the start as I should have liked, al: though it was not as bad I expected."

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Fow people had the privilege of watching the British racer brcle his records, as he purposely kept his attempt secret.

the

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The battered lumber schooner J. B. Station, shown hard aground on a rocky reef off the Mon- terey county, California, const. The vastal crashed in a dense fog and was abandoned after a hopalusa fight to feen it from jagged cocks. A craw of 21 mon was brought ashore by Coast Guarda.

soil, is engaging the attention of against imports of cotton piece produce in Britain, has louned experts of the Dominion goods from the Mother Country. backward: It has recently reduced 2 long line of Government, and of the Govern-According to the evidence given to its tariffs upon ments of the Provinces of Mani- the Australian Tariff Commission, British gooda and in accordingly

the Dominion has four small textile very popular. toba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.

mills equipped with 63,000 spindles A "boycott" of Australian dalry and 1,200 loome. Allied with them and other agricultural products are the cotton. growers of Queens would almost certainly increase and who produce, with the aid of New Zealand's sales in this rich a Government subgidy, between market.--United Press.

of Saskatche- Sixty per cent. wan's vast cultivated area has been dried out, and 40 per cent. will not produce a marketable crop this year. In thirteen munici- palities in Southern Manitoba a million acres has been drought- stricken. The dry area in Alberta exceeds 2,000,000 acres.

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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-wasfied pasture. The plagues grasshoppers have denuded great expanses of country. Rus- sinn thistle, spreading north from (whence the the United States grasshoppers also migrated) were cursed as weeds and now provide the only feed for cuttle in many districts."

The humus has gone from the sell and the problem is to restore it and provide some binder that will hold the soll together. Attempte to restore, it to its prairie state, auitable for ranching, have failed: the granees cannot catch Pro-

to the murder of his eight-year-old posuls for roforestation and affor-

estation have met with the funda- mental need of the trees themselves for moisture. The poplar bluffs which dot the prairies are dying off, and the sloughs, with their frog-Inhabited waters, have dried

the prosecution alleged that after sen, John Dosmond Davidson, and

Middlesex, in December Inst the the bay disappeared from Hanwell, inther made repeated statements that he had killed him and put him on a burning refuse dump. If he had done that the body would have up. completely disappeared.

Plans have been made to rollere distress and feed the impoverished

It was stated that he had not been on good terms with his wife farmers, provide seed for next

Not only did Mr. Scott Paine break the recorda but he won the and had made repented efforts to year's problematical crons, and Prince of Piedmont's trophy forgot her back with him. In an the best spoed over the measured alleged statement he said that when mile. He also brako another re he failed to get her back he had no cord when he won the Count Volpi further interest in life, took the Challenge Trophy, for he beat the boy to a canal, and jumped in with "Jäte Sir Henry Sagrave'a record him. When he got out he found for the Volpi Trophy course with that the boy was dead and took an average speed of 115.147 k.p.b. him to the dump. Later when he fanorox. 71.90 m.ph.) Sir Henry went back for the body it had bean. Souravo's record was 112.218 k.p.h., Troyered and he could not find It.

enre for millions of half-starved cattle, Farmors who five years ago were prosperous are now on relief. One striking preposal is that the waters of the South Saskatchewan river be diverted to, the dried watercourses of the south. The northern areas, well tread, are bountifully supplied with rivers and laken.

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