ABBOTSFORD. SUMAS "AND MATSQUI NEWS — = Betsy Disney Helicopter CNR. To Build Branch nee” | |Heavy Expenditure To Be Made This Year On Branch Lines In the : West The Canadian National Railvw; | contemplates an expenditure of $5,896,- will be discarded by 000 in 1926 on branch lines. This is|minIstryin favor of concentration on the estimate brought down by the goy- | the Laclerva autogiro, {tis under- }ernment and tabled In the House of} | stood. The ministry is credited with BRIEFLY TOLD Tentative plans for extension of the flight of the Spanish trans-Atlantic : aviators headed by C mimander Ramon i Franco, haye andoned, Which Is Much Simpler The Brennan helicopter experiments, y}on which to date, cae : WORLD HAPPENINGS “” ,000 has been expended been a Premier Bruce, of Australia, has|Commons, Between 16 and aH announced that his government was) branches throughout the Doininion re-| five machines embodying the princt f considering a plan to reduce ocean| main incomplete. On seven of these | ples of the Spanish “Windmill” plane, fares for immigrants. | track will be laid during 19 | which was hailed by Sir William "i Buried beneath an ay of} The biggest expenditure will be on|Brancker, Aice Vice-Marshal when it} a sawdust which he was cle: the Turtleford, branch, on which} Was tried out at-Farnborough as “the » ae! Robert Maitland met death by suffoca-| about 44 miles of track will be laid and | greatest aeronautical invention since | tion at a lumber mill in Vancouver. $1,571,000 expended. A million dol-| the Wrights flew.” m2 Edward Noble, prominent British |/@rs will be spent on the Dunblane-| Oxperiments with the helicopter) > been carried out in the closest ecy for the last five years, but alr Columbia Orangeman, who walked in| Central Butte; Sask., branch, and $916,-|1 ki &® parade there last July when he was|900 will be spent on the Rosedale ts $8 years old, died on Feb, 21 at Cedar Sask., branch, which will be practical-| experts are now said to have come to} Cottage, a suburb. ly completed this year. At least two) the conclusion that the autogiro type! a | ht A resolution calling for the aboli- }other -branches will be practically | achieves all that the perfected helicop- ei tion of the stamp tax was unanimously | comple ted this’ year, the St. Paul S.E., | ter would have been able to do, while} | Alta., and the Acadia Valley branches, its principles are much simpler. on each of which about half a million dollars will be spent. A total of Ri 7 SSL 168.3 miles of track will be laid on 2 Competing F For U. S. Trad carried during the third and final con- vention of she Retail Lumber Dealers” Association of the Que-} bec, attended by some 125 members. Auranceintanda, staiive: wid gyrian | branch lines this year, under present Preparing to Export Many Commodi: | | plans. The only two* branches on ties During Next Six Months people a’ form of government resem- which E ‘ials 39) bling that given to Irak by the British, | eideoreat Work at all will be done are! Omicials of the commissy province of : Sy branch lin the statement from} Hon. H. W. Newlands, K-C., has}the railway department. ‘These Sg- Fh ere eR hae ag ae been reappointed Lieut-Governor Of|yres are, however, incomplete, and a wild fowl i: Ks ys a Saskatchewan. Mr. Newlands |final statement on last year’s branch} 1 been Lieut-Governor of the province) jine construction is still to come. The| since Februa 1921, whem he 8UC-\ihree chief expenditures last year lion dollars worth of sdusage casings, ceeded Sir Richard Lake. were: $2,086,000 on the Kamloops:| sausage casings The present serlous industrial erists | Kelowna, B.C., line; $1 000 on the | horse hair, and animal bones for sugar in Germany is forcing many firms to) Dinblane- Central Butte, Sask., Une,|refning purposes. restrict their operations considerably,/and $1.095,000 on the Hann-Warden, | Declaring that, tyesé commodities | and the number of unemployed in the} Ajta., lne, ' are now belng purchased by the Untt- Ruhr district, especially, is hey id States In’ Mngland’ and: Germany,| dally. they urge Russian producers to com- A British Government air service for |pete for this frade, passengers, mail and small freight, between Cairo, Pgypt, Burma and pos- sibly Australia, is in the making, ac- eording. to Maj.General Sifton W. has $10,000,000 worth of wool for carpets, For Cheaper Money Western Members Launch Drive For} Six Per Cent. Long Turn Loans | Western members, Liberals and Pro- | |Bressives, are launching a drive for 6| Braxcker, dfrector of clyil aviation in| peg cent, long term loans under the > ed Will Concentrate On Autogiro Tyre} the oH G.B. Shaw says radio Is doing serv- 20|the intention of constructing four or| ftom Johannesburg, South Africa, on a rlat of agrt-| Count Robert De Caix told the man- Pacneerokan te ahs N.B., and the) culture announce that Russia is pre-| dates commission of the League of Na- Las tog | paring to export to the United States ast” ye 050 was spent on! during the next six months, six billion The United States, officials say, will} |also be able to absorb about seven mil- | *\fuse and/caused a short circuit, blow- ON THE AIR | What Is Doing In the World of | Radio jice to theatres by training artists to |perform without applause. Reception of & radio programme three-tube set at London, Ohio, recent- |ly has been Verified. The aurora borealis is being blamed by experts for unsatisfactory radio reception. Thereare now more rea- Sons why the radio set will not work |than why it should—Hamilton Specta- tor. An ordinary street light in an “Eng: {lish town has the peculiar property of acting as a radio and every day it | broadcasts radio programmes. The |postman Stops on his rounds to listen to a programme. . A college which will broadcast all jof its lectures and instructions has een inaugurated at Vienna, Austria. the daily courses will start at 10 | D.m. and will last approximately two |hours. Rough usage harms many radlo tubes and causes the owner to pur- chase a new set before he should need | them. Handling tubes, taking them out of the sockets and such often causes damage to them. Five thousand dollars’ damage was} done-at the Montreal radio station CKAC when a mouse collided with a jing out 14 fuses. The night's pro- gramme was abruptly terminated. The jmouse was charred black, Direct wireless teleplionic commun: | \ication with Australia, a distance of | 2 12,000 miles, has bene established by| Frank Neill, an amateur of White-| head, near Belfast, Ireland. The test} lasted 15 minutes “and the voice of a Melbourne cilizen -named Howden could be distinctly heard. The wave |length used was 35 metres. OUR CROSSWORD T Z aan 5 G17 9 10 ils 73 \/4 3 v7 78 4 x 2/ 25 3/ | 139 145 47 by) i 12—Cost. 4 tzontal gg are 43—Conjunction, 14—Small body of Jand, 4—Hypothetical forces. |44—One who places 16—Daugbter of 6 Bndute: : | things on board ship. ‘ing... of Oeeh: —E ‘ : ; 2 9—PDeserve, | 46—Like. may ioe 11—_Herote poem. | —Springs forth. 2 Stee ang 13—Cylindrical pulley in/49—Mohammedan ps i machinery. F | princes. ned te with al 15—Amorous. 51—Mass or heap. i 17—After-thought (abbr s ae to Be 18—Milky extract of al- \5 ; e 4 Tee monds. 16 4—Title. t Been | oy 4 —~———"—_ Storm ‘Broke ~~ | _ Leonard George Charman, aged 30.8 BleIsir SPANO} RIATA Im federal constituency of Pringeedberi “ners will have to pay 7 per cent. | ; A ges ee fight by Eskh former member of the 18th and 142nd Fab Pe LIAR RITE Brilliantly uniformed digg9BASand| It is the general view “tne unless a winter's supply of coal from the'ele- Canadian Battalions, despairing of OM IPIAIRIE|S BADIAIMIE|S ” officials paid their PesPects to the King |absolutely essential, the government| ments "has) béen) repotted bye Dn. WW: Ay ever recovering from the silence of [F|t |Als|C lo fy 1 Bag T]t |B} ILIV ; at the first levee ofthe season, held should not guarantee the bonds of} Newhall, pastor of three missions in complete and permanent deafness and wel a olP Bae a E x S.eN i in St, James’ Palace recently. jthe rural credits organization; and} the vicinity of point BUNSEN A aL approaching blindness, is still anxious Apacs i ‘SHAUN {TI |LBaD) Ree | that, contrary to the practice in tne} eromost' tip of Alaska. to serve. He has offered to submit TSPAIINSITEIPIEIAINESAR) Political Trickery | United States, these bonds should not aoe ain ha hate ae his body to any scientific society or] {C/A/B/L|E,MAINITIEISIE/AILIS] be tax-free. re sj “Ae _... |laboratory and.to endure experiments A\LIA|S FAS|PlolulTRaS|L|o | ot Menace To Democracy) without 2 government guarantee storm, described as theaworst in years, |) connection with the ailments which\ |MIAIRFZIC/O[LJojR|E|DBMO|NIE] eit 7 and without exemption from taxation | broke. Rain, accompanied by snow]; ... brought about. his present con- E ply SJEININIABESIE/E! Es fg) Sir Arthur Currie Says Present-Day|th. rural credits bonds, according to| and hail, fell, and wind drove sand and) ai, sor possible benefit to others. coe Mal Politicians Suffer in Comparison | experts consulted, would have to bear | fine pebbles before it. The rising sea Giikiroan bas made his offer in a Figures ‘Een Slow ‘4 fe aee to Lincoln interest at 51% per cent, in order to Soon was lapping against the mam- "| written document, full of pathos. R bi t Abraham Lincoln was a man whom] ..);~ at this price it would be essen: | moth pile of sacked coal? “People! may think 1 am cra SecOery Of Franc ‘ Canadian politicians would do well to} aree the farmer 7 -nt., | Without waiting fot suggestions or : “ ; my . tial to charge the farmer 7 per cent.,| reads the document, “but I can assure | One Seventh “4 ; + : of Agricultural Po} ju ia emulate, said Sir Arthur Currie,| orders, the natives, men. women and/i) 4 that I am ‘in my right mind. P as at least one per cent. will be requir | ed for administration. G.C.M.G., principal of McGill Univer- Bity and former commander of the| \wyth a government guarantee, the Canadian corps, In an address at Mou-| bongs could be marketed at less than} treal. “ While Sir John A. Macconslaiip per cent. interest, which, after pro- ig ee Pee. an So Su | viding for administration, would ave $ Wilfre urier’ ‘toy the pei) ©) the farmer money at 6 per cent. great United States commoner bent Most of the westerners claim that| the knee to no party, political, moral} ¢ per cent, money is ential, ana| Susccist Progressives who dislike the govern: | Sir Arthur contrasted eeuicey with} ment guarantee feature, would rather | men ‘of ad wey ae pies ee have it than pay more than 6 per cent, A tical agitator,” he said, “too often for the money. appeals to the passions of the crowd in order to get votes. He often sets east against west, creed against creed, and class against class. This politt- Perak AAR RAE Ad Viae Says Brain Never Tires Boudoir Or Breakfast Coat . Nothing more Cannot Be Overtaxed By Work Or Canada and the Locarno Treaty|;, capable of holding any number of| chic with which the smart woman of R Out |aifterent vocabularies,’ Sir Denison pone ous cree yc Remain, Oo “| Ross, famous surgeon-scientist, ; R dpe Deane s ey to di | the School of Oriental Studies, thus| around the panes, ae ah Cay cea ale ae slec nticte | fastening. vide joining the select band of sclentate | ilted see reac ntaite associate Canada from the Locarno} | }who decline to admit that the brain NTS Reale The paty is its y practical materials. The diagram pi Treaty is officially denied. No action Peet iho BUGIS eSIBTANE Not 12% can be oyertaxed by work, reading or} ismbcessary on the part of the Domin-| study. \which is in four sizes only, 36, 40, | times. Heavy crepe de chine devel- wale a I ® eal trickery, for it cannot be called atiay worn aacertlse \the fashions has emanated y, ig the danger of democracy.” ay TRONS = | Paris this seasoh, than this taflored| Lr Sil Ey nk : “The brain of the ordinary citizen, | breakfast coat for restful leisure hour provided he takes to language study, It possesses all the loveliness an¢ | today loves to surround herself at alles: and McKenzie districts of tne told| ops this model with puffed trimming and having a side corduroy or to| Lorraine, the lati ft F: ct side 46 ei 5 2 5 | Bian : é population of France a +: e fon to remain outside the gen of Just previously, Sir Arthur Keith, and 48 inches bust. Size 36 ts suit-|sulted in a demoralization of the fur] = Make Umbrella Popular Reif legs than it wal Indg14 Swine 3 the treaty, as it expressly provides that}, pe h lozist, had| ble for 34 or 36 bust; size 40 for 38 trade at that pointyduring the earlter) frenchmen are pleased at what the t 1 the treaty shall not apply to the Brit- Britain’s leading anthropologist, had) |. 49 bust; size 44 for 42 or 44 bist; ae int | Sta ueased se at they) seventh of her agricultural male popue 0 a aie FAL i les: ik definitely derided the idea that brain fever was) and size 48 for 46 or 48 part ‘oF thopanien, consider the Prince of Wales’’prompt | jation killed, the slowness of France's \ e a gone sa at ID UES ee : jever caused by overwork or study, and ANE pele i eo response to a request nade by a Parls recovery becomes somewhat moré Une BERS tc accept it. : _.|Keith even contended that brain work | !nches pis at Aes to achieve| French Women Patriotic newspaper in the form of an open let-| | derstandable, owe It is probable the government wil Nes g physlealidefecta onl ote oe ee eno {ter, that he take the lead in making th kt. 2 ke Some announcement in the house Pe buleyr iC ts, Dive lee oerens that smart, different appearance 2 k el met Ie ee ele eg eae = oo nae s, perhaps due to unsystematic! which draws commen. | Offer Wedding Rings To Be Made Into | umbrellz a fashionable. Tt was said! > 4 respecting Canada’s position. |feeding and neglect of fhe body while} from the ooserving pubHe. ‘The de-} Gold Francs |that umbrellas were becoming more | Advance In Radio C Early in the present sion, Hon, 5 2 signs illustrated in our new Fashion Thirty-s. romen ii St. Denis|and more unpopular among the i j 3 a da,,| concentrating on study, that results | § Leen HARaAtehe heart pe thot Thirty-seven women in a St, Dents |é popular among the youth} rs 5 : j é Enest Lapointe, Soret i nian CoUEE lin ‘the fatal collapses which are com. | BOOK ms Bea ‘will font sod to ae factory have offered to help solve)of France, causing much nee G felitclults AG ae he On Sam in the house, said in reply Sue ke {monly put under “brain feyer” or| quire at much desired air of in-|France’s financial troubles. “If a lot clothing and endangering health, aA pose ave Lengt Melghen, that “no step will be taken), en |dividuality. Price of the book 10/of gold francs could be struck no doubt day or so after publication of the let-| ossibility of the simultaneous use ~ ee ye by the government before parla} Developi same theory, though! ¢ents the copy. French money would improve,” they |ter, the Prince happened to appez alley a a ae radio casera 4 gs 7 apemaaen peer agnpul ted th tie Sen somewhat diff ) | wrote the editor of Intransigeant’s wo-| the Bath Club, carrying a crook hana 2 nical wave lengths 1s-seen) by er ny oe ecu idee eee sous HL ia Ross urged his hearers not to be How To Order Patterns [men's page. “But there is no gold,|led umbrella, folded in an impeccable Feseautt with (the BDDC CoCHY ofan Bs i is certainly to yo “the matter Te eared by the fear of overloading the} ae ae , sxcept in jewelers’ shops. “Well, | way, which the gilded youth of Bona rata of L, William Skala, youth- it as up Sos lbrain in their studies., ‘There is prac-|Address—Winnipeg N Nada Union, at we are all ready to glye the Bank | Street are now trying to imitate | lease SE of the pers ; | tically no limit to the amount of know- 5 MeDermot Ave., nnipeg of France the only gold objects we} —_—_ | 3 5 4 SAS) sae University ore ere B, Borap Eons Fe ange |ledge or learning that the human brain | pattern"NO....+ee2e0+ + S'ZCve eer eeere. possess, our wedding rings, to be made| Super Flying Boats elbtamrapeeensee 2 ECTS TE ber A f The firs steamboat to cross the At- 4 store , he said, lantic Ocean was the Royal William, | “" ead im | Berane, rare oa teks amen Sa built in Canada in 1831. The honor} 5 leeks: } of this achievement belongs, therefore, | Aeroplane Oil ron Gricke | eectececsceesetcrescssseceereccesens forthe=Dorinion. iewawealnot the One of the United States consular o° the ;Dorunion. Tt was also thelagents in Alglers reports the dis-/Name «..... first trans-Atlantic boat’ built of fron. | “8° eae ae A tablet commemorating the event is in ‘he Parliament Buildings at Ottawa. Sunday School Teacher.—‘Some little boys are good and historic | some * are |covery there of an oil extracted from TOWD peccccccrgeneeteeersesessessaes suitable that fs very planes, since it does not congeal even} Jat high altitudes. Recently 18 tons lot crickets were “ship ped from Algiers | {to Holland to be used in extracting | this oll. Crickets also are collect-| crick for aero-} Province carefully) E b eayen?” i a gran ies <8 irs led in great numbers there to be used|row? Young Lawyer.—Do. gh Fe aecaces i tes las chicken feed in other parts of the|ten, a We Me Une [worl and that may bring others, Send 20c coin or stamps (wrap cola Bill Collector—Shall I call tomor-|according to Ptolemy. Call of-\eclipse of the moon, and was obsery- People will think you're a clfent led with accuracy at Babylon in Meso- children, fell to work ‘moving the} heavy bags to safety. For hours, un-| til well past midnight, the labor con- }tinued. The men carried the sacks | jon their backs, while the women and} children tugged and dragged them lGkroush the shifting sand until more | \than a hundred tons of coal had been | | Placed out of reach of the waves. | | | Disease Decimates Indians | | Trappers in Far North Are Victims of | | Epidemic A total death list of 12 Indian hunt-| fascinating among/ers at Nort Good Hope, on the Jower| whose offer stands until accepted, from | wfeKenzie River, from an epidemte, | \the exact nature of which remains un- known, is contained in news received | L, Romanet, manager of the Atha-| |Hudson’s Bay Company, by the recent mail from the far north, Indications of this sickness were | | and! noticed in the fall, and its soa ance with the above comparatively | large number of fatalities has re into gold ooins. Madame, we ask }you to communicate our offer to the lgentlemen of the governtnent. We are sure millions of women will follow {our example.” First Recorded Eclipse Eclipses were predicted by an Athen- \ian, named Calippus, in the year 336 /B.C, The first eclipse recorded in-his- tory happened on March 19,°721 B.C., It was an potamla. tion Killed in War France lost 1,363,000 men in “th | The trouble is I am deaf and my health jand my eyesight is failing, and I am) worq War, according to” the official — Nerarcied and tired. I am ready tO) yecord, and, with a view to showing submit myself to any scientific | re-) how that loss has affected the’ econo search laboratories of hospital or doc-} mio jife of the country, Gaston- Cadoux, — | tors for any purpose they want. am} |former president of the Paris Stati doing this because life holds nothing |ijca) Society, has drawn up tables dis- \for me now. Someone who is more | closing how these dead men were: em |fortunate than I may profitiby what I: ‘ployed before the war. oe am doing and iu the research 1 may |\ ‘The biggest loss was to the Jand,- prevent deafness and sickness peilehiig 669,000 of the war dead Ravine Weenies dreadful in itself, when am shut \farmers and land workers out of up in a world of my Aa fas | total agricultural male population y oy a “4 tlie 5 . 2 The only one remaining bright spc ty of 5,500,000. Industry gave the nes in the life of this Canadian soldler, | jargest figure with 235,000 out of 48! 000,000. his love of flowers. If his offer to} In commercial pursuits, 169, 000 men research societies is not accepted be-} ¢,, 7,000. The civil serv. . a heviancel Il out of 1,327, fore next spring, harman cherishes} j., gave 21,000 out of a total of 500, | the hope of buying a small plot where-! ae era Se a j000-and the Mberal professions 40,000 DP EMO ULE AL aA meesnete wae €Fs,/ out of a total of less than 250,000. the scent of which brings him one of One man in every twenty-eight In phestew memalnin&: jovarof life, France was killed, one in thirty-five Mm |Era | Germany and one in nee six In Eng} | land. Even with the return of Alsace and Prince Responded To Request |French Newspaper Asked Him Huge Seaplanes Being Constructed For Great Britain Huge seaplanes are in course of con- struction for the British authorities, and when complete will be est aircraft in the world. is haying two 1,000 the larg- horsepower en- | will weigh more than 16 tons. by three engines, capable of develop ing 2.100 horsepower. accommodation for thirty pz in a luxurious saloon, before One slant} oaasilennecs ; lime I marvied him? I don’t know; if ou ngers |tofore unknown wayve/ length funda- mentals, the device performed without & hitch in Skala’s laboratory at AGES ea a suburb. | In addition it was declared that it | would make possible wireless tele | phony for all purposes where wire service now is used, gines installed and when fully loaded| 4 An- | ’ “ other super flying boat will be ariven| Daughter: \ Wished Him Well : I've been engaged to hi nearly two years. Don't you think my Father: Oh, lreally care for the fellow, let him 1 main happy as long as you can.