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31 THE CALGARY DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, DEC. 12, 1936 orror of Halifax Holocaust Remains After 19 Years' Peer's Coronation Robe Local Boy Scouts and Girl Guides Aid Santa To Bring Pleasure To Calgary Area Children -H- DISCARDED TOYS OF ALL KINDS ARE MADE "JUST LIKE NEW" Ugly Scars Still Borne By Halifax Explosion Wrecked City and Took Toll Of 1,600 Lives in 1917. By RALPH MORTON (Canadian Press Staff Writer) HALIFAX, Doc. 12. Halifax still bears the ugly scars of the world's greatest explosion, that holocaust of horror in December, 19 years ago, which took 3,600 lives, when buildings shivered, tottered, and fell in crumbling ruins when terrifying modern warfare came to America for the first time.

A now city has arisen on th ashes of the old, new schools, new factories, new homes, have replaced those which fell like paper structures when the munition-laden French ship Mont Blanc collided with the Belgian Relief steamer Imo to wreak destruction. But no monument has been erect rrT i i lit mw i i i i if I I i if V. if, i 4 I "si i V-X 5 v. 1 I ill1--" Jp TV i.T i 4 'J Speedy Air Liners Are In Offing Will Accommodate 20 Passengers and Travel at Great Speed. By WILLIAM D.

CLARK (United Press Staff Correspondent) HARTFORD, Dec. 12. Huge commodious airliners, with luxurious night accommodation for 20 passengers, and capable of cruising at 225 miles an hour were predicted for the near future today by two leading aviation engineers. The experts were George J. Mead, vice-president and chief engineer of the United Aircraft and Dr.

J. C. Hunsaker, head of mechanical and aeronautical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. What they have termed "tomorrow's airplane." will have the exterior appearance of a Zeppelin with an all-metal fuselage, a landing gear completely retractible into the wings, and of low-wing monoplane type, cngined by four two-row, radial, air-cooled motors of between 3,000 and 4.000 horsepower. It could carry a total payload of 5,100 pounds, including 20 passengers, luggage, and half a ton of mail and express, and complete a coaat-to-coaat flight over night without using more than 60 per cent of the rated power of the motors.

Range of 1,250 Miles The airliner would have a gross weight of about 40,000 pounds, a range of 1,250 miles, a cruising speed of 225 miles an hour at 10,000 feet and could fly easily at 15,000 feet even with one engine dead. To cut down air resistance, the engineers proposed all external projections, such as door handles, window ledges and even rivet heads, be eliminated. By having the landing gear retractible, It was figured a 20 per cent power increase for cruising would result. The interior arrangement of the plane would include a cab in the nose of the ship for the pilots and radio operator; a gallery, dressing rooms for men and women, ten sections of two berths each, cargo space beneath the floor, and ventilating and heating systems. The main-cabin space would be 10 feet wide and 40 feet long.

Sound insulation would reduce the noise level to below that of a Pullman car. Small Plane Cheaper The engineers also envisaged the "future airplane." which would have a smaller wing area, smaller power plant, lighter gross weight for the same payload, range and speed, and would cut operating costs from 23 to 18 cents per ton mile of payload. Regarding stratosphere flying, Mead and Dr. Hunsaker said they believed the upper lanes practicable only for non-stop ocean or transcontinental flights. "Otherwise." they said, "an undue proportion of the flight time would be spent in climbing to and descending from the operating altitude.

Rare Operation Ends in Success LONDON. Dec. 12 (B.U.P.) William Harlfy, 28, is recovering in Royal Chest hospital after undergoing one of the rarest and most delicate operations on record. Surgeons scraped dense layers of chalk from his heart. The chalk deposits were constricting the greater veins and interfering with the normal action of the heart.

Doctors declared the operation was equivalent to the one of decarbonizing a motor car engine. AiJizL? This photograph shows the Coronation robe to be worn by Barons when the new king is formally crowned. It is of crimson velvet with miniver (ermine) cape. VwJ 'i Renowned Meat Carver Had Memorable Career 4 HAS CUT 375,000 JOINTS Jf S. i Ml )gLW 1 If-- -1 i By a Staff Correapondent (Copyright, 1936, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) LONDON, Dec.

12 (By Mail) Charlie Brown sometimes known aa "cut-throat Charlie" best known carver in the world, has retired on pension after fifty-eight years behind the joints at Simpson's-in-the-Strand, London. Dean of London's carvers, he wielded the knife on his first saddle of mutton at the famous Strand chop house on August 28, 1878- Since then there has scarcely been a day on which he has not carved at least fifteen saddles of mutton or loins of beef, not to mention turkeys at Christmas time, and it is estimated that in his fifty-eight years he has carved more than 375,000 joints. When he can be caught in a mood thought now It Is no thicker than of reminiscence. Charlie Brown will penknife blade. Many an American visitor has By LESLIE SARA INT the store room of the Scout Guide Sunshine Toyshop is a stock of apparently useless material.

Neat coils of hay wire salvaged from the local stockyards. Pattern books of wallpaper designs. Bundles of angora hair clippings, refuse from the making of cowboy chapps. There are swatches of dress material retrieved from drygoods travelers sample rooms, remnants of gay American oilcloth and trimmings left over from the making of roller blinds. Castaway automobile tube3 there, small pieces of sheet metal left over from tinsmith's shearings, odds and ends of leather culled from harness and baggage makers.

Stacked according to siie and width are piles of lumber, mill waste from local mills or recovered from crates and plywood packing cases. Hardly an Item on this list and many other articles of seeming junk repose among this strange hoard Is of any practical use to the firms from which it has been gathered. Yet in the hands of skilled workers at the toyshop it becomes valuable repair material. It is the answer in part to how thousands of discarded playthings can be made good as new at an expense which rarely exceeds a few cents a toy. It is this putting into practice of that part of their law which saya "A Scout or Guide is thrifty." which is one of the most interesting aspects of the actual toy renovation.

For not only are the substitutes for repair material effective, but they are in many instances actually better In quality and produce stronger goods than the medlums-whlch the original manufacturers used. Three known Instances have occurred in recent years where a manager of a large top department has asked for a repaired top from the Toyshop in exchange for new toys from his stock, in order that he might demonstrate to the makers of the toys an improvement in strengthening the product. As in every instance, the toy manufacturer has profited by the ingenuity of the Calgarv repair depot. In the bookbinding department a striking example can be found of how much better stock is put Into repairing damaged books than is used In the cheaper editions of children's books when they leave the publisher's warehouse. In place of bookbinder's linen for the backs, the stronger cuttings from making blind3 is used.

Or, bindings are made of brightly patterned table oilcloth and the covers renewed with high quality wall papers. which the pattern books from house decorators furnish. uiue. Daste and thread are all that arc needed in this department to complete the book repairing, and these are minor items againsi me tiuiu and paper required. Ingenuity prevails in me doll surgery.

Strips of resilient rubber from discarded motor tubes furnish a better elastic for re-stringing limbs. Approximately nine cents worth of special doll string ing elastic would be required were the material purchased, and it would not make so effective a Job as the material which is to be had for the asking. Papier Mache For Doll' Head In this deDartment. too, they make their own papier mache filling large holes in dolls' heads, from pulped-up brown paper, with the addition of a little cold water glue. Eyes where the original glass optics are missing are moulded from plaster, which, after painting in the artist's department, are hard to distinguish from a factory product.

A quick-drying plas ter for filling surface cracks whicn finishes with a glazed, non-porous surface suitable for painting over, and obviating the use or shellac, is composed of plaster of paria, flour paste and powdered glue. Angora hair trimmings are used for fabricating doll wigs. Sewn on a linen foundation, clipped and curled, in the hairdressing department, they provide a coiffure superior to that which comes on most dolls. Cost? Nothing; only a little skilled workmanship. It is surprising what stunning tallleures and dainty gowns the Guides can evolve from dress goods remnants and samples.

Even specimens of knitted wear can be unravelled to make new bootees and tarns for dolls, while swatches of heavier materials, and blanketing, come in for doll bed coverlets and mattresses. Odd pieces of linoleum samples make artistic tops for doll tables and floor coverings for doll houses. Scraps if sheet metal from tinshops obviate the purchase of material for countless jobs of renovation in the metal repairing department. Old cycle spokes are collected to be cut down to repair damaged wheels of tricycles and buggies. Baling wire furnishes the means of rewiring rubber tires In a special machine made by a worker at the Tovshon.

Short lengths of lumber saved by the millwoiking establishments meet most of the needs in the car per. iy department, whether It be for repair work, or the making of new toys, which Is an increasing activity each year. Other firms who receive cratea composed of hardwood or good plyboard contribute a further supply of valu-able material which this department can adapt. Could the officials of the repair repot devise means of Improvising paint, one of their major problems would be solved. As It is, generos- Itv of wholesalers, who give liberally of slightly damaged cans, or shades which are poor sellers, has assisted greatly, and has enabled experts In the art of paint mixing to produce from tnts supply, witn the addition of more highly colored tints, gav tones suitable for finish ing playthings.

Parts From Ruined Toy Not only is there utilization of new waste, there is salvage of the old. Toys too decrepit to repair often furnish valuable parts to renew a less disabled plaything. Bolts and nuts are collected, wheels and buggy tires capable of cutting down tried to lure Charlie to the United States. Ten years ago he had a handsome offer to go to Philadelphia and perform twenty minutes' work with his blades at a civic banquet, but he declined the offer. In recent years.

Charlie Brown has appeared in several films and has also spoken on the radio. His immediate Junior and successor as head carver Is Arthur Carter, who has served for fifty-two years at Simpson's. Until two years ago, Carter. Brown and Walter Bruce, who retired in 1934. formed a tri umvirate of the carving knife, who between them totalled 159 years of service a record which no other tavern or chop house in the world could equal.

oi. 'kVJ ciety, Shop methods developed throughout the years in this city have become common practice In other Scout Toyshops as the Ideas arc passed on through the central organization. To whom do such gifts go? To any child whose name is reported as unlikely to receive a Christmas gift. So long as it lies in tha power of the Toyshop to fill, no request goes unheeded. If there la any reward, It is the personal contact which these young workers have in playing the rola of Santa; of eeelng the joy which this altruistic service brings Into many little lives, and of realising In the truest sense, "A Scout ir Guide Is a Friend to All." Here is the real Christmas spirit: BETTER LATE THAN NEVER GODErtlCTI (CP.) When Capt, K.

C. Clark of the grain freighter Prindoo tied up hlsbosfc for the winter, he Immediately! took steps to cash in on a JMO Tris.lv sweepstakes consolation ticket! Tve waited a month for this" hi commented. ed to those who died no memorial hat been built to the heroes of the Halifax Explosion. Gaps in the family circle, sons and daughters maimed by the terrific blast, are too vivid a reminder of the disaster, perhaps. I remember well, December 6.

1917. It was a crisp, clear day. and like thousands of other children, I was parked off for school. Just when school was about to begin, a fli alarm sent engines roaring to the north end of the city. Some kiddies followed them and ran to their doom.

Two ships on fire in the harbor, what a pretty sight! Some children crowded out on wharfs unknowing war directors were about to "waste" valuable T.N.T, intended for a program of death and destruction on foreign soil. They were moths flitting about ft powder-fuse. Minutes ticked. There seemed to tie a silence while the God Mars held his breath. Then the bla3t of horror burst in all its fury.

The heavens fell down on us. I ran towards the school building, but it seemed to be capsizing. Broken glass fell like rain. A million guns were firing simultaneously. The ground shook, I turned and ran toward the open field when 1 feared the building would topple over.

Then I fell, face downwards. The next sound was that of crying children, their faces and hands cut. streaming from the building. I started to run home. On my way I passed hundreds of people cut and injured.

It was a ghastly sight, one I shall never forget. One woman, led by another, held her hands to her face, blood gushed from between her fingers. A little boy was being carried on the back of another. One of his eyes was gone. He was too stunned to cry.

Overhead a giant billow of smoke almost covered the blue of the sky. Our first thought was the long anticipated zeppclin raid had come. As children we had been warned to draw the shades at night. Automobile and tram car lights were blackened at the top, and our constant Jear was the air-raiding Hun. I arrived home at last and found every room crowded with injured persons and my father, a doctor, working feverishly to bandage wounds.

There was hardly a pane of glass left in the house. Two rooms were made into one when a partition fell through. Glass darts remained in the walls for many months after the explosion. And the house was located nearly two miles from where the two ships collided! "Flee for Your Live" Then came the call from soldiers. "Flee! Flee, for your lives! There Is going to be another explosion!" Men and women in wheel chairs, some carried on stretchers, others in beds, babies in arms, were taken to open fields.

The Halifax Commons massed the unfortunate. No war-torn city of Belgium could muster a worse spectacle. There was fear written on their fares but there was no panic. These were the hours that developed nameless heroes. Found to be a false alarm, we returned to our homes.

Windows were boarded up. There was a glow of light in the north as homes continued to burn and soldiers searched for bodies all through the night. The next day a blinding blizzard laged. Corpses were laid out in Chebucto Road school, and for days lathers, mothers, sons and daughters searched for the missing members of their families. Ho, Halifax needs no memorial to remind her of that great catastrophe.

There were many instances of heroism, and hundreds untold. A train despatcher at the North End Station tirked out: "Boys, an ammunition ship is on fire. Watch out for the explosion. Goodbye." He gave his life to save an incom ing express a few miles from the city. A second explosion did not occur because of the 72nd bHttalion of Ottawa, Every man volunteered to remain at his post to flood the magazine at Wellington barracks.

A corporal seized an axe and broke the burning door of the powder magazine. The commander of the cruiser Highflyer, killed in his attempt to aid the Mont nianc, was awarded posthumously, the Albert medal. A lady telephone operator at the Dockyards called doctors, nurses, until she was carried from the building. The munition ship Plcton, lying near the Mont Blanc, was paved because of the heroism of Bt longshoremen. They battened down the hatches and prevented the ship from being blown up, but they were taken outcorpses.

Urges Flogging Of "Road Hogs" BOMBAY, Dec. 12 fB.tt.pt A suggestion that road-hogs should be flogged has been advanced by the Bombay coroner as a cure for road deaths. At the conclusion of an Inquest on victim of a case of alleged reckless driving, he said: "If this driver la found guilty of rash driving Should he flogged and his Jtccne cnncclled. If a handful of surh drivers are meted this punishment, I think accidents will he fewer." Back-yard Sanctuary Encourages Bird Life HELPS TO CURB INSECT PESTS I 2 1 5 i a "a By LESLIE SARA FOR those who appreciate the close companionship of the birds, both from the aesthetic angle, and for the more practical purpose of ridding their gardens of insect pests, a little largesse distributed dur. ing a season when hospitality is a byword will bring many varieties to within sight of home windows.

Such a constant distribution of tell stories by the hour of famous people their names are only a legend to the present generation who were his friends, and of London in the leisurely days of the hansom cab and the days when Queen Victoria was celebrating her jubilee, when "the war" meant the Boer War and Mafeking Night had not occurred to add a new word to the English language. The Art Of Carving Charlie Brown, who has been immortalized in a Bateman sketch, is the greatest living expert on the art of carving. Here are some of his aphorisms: The great secret of the art of carving is delicate wrist-work and not brute force. The carver should decorate the plate just as an artist plans his picture by putting the best slice in the middle and the smaller pieces ar'lnd it. People are inclined to eat less at lunch time than they did half a century ago, but they do not eat so quickly.

People linger over their meals more than they used to. Roast beef and mutton of Old England are more popular than ever they were. London life has speeded up and people are recognizing more p.nd more the value of a fosjifying meal. Highlight of Charlie Brown's career was when he calved for King George and Queen Mary at Hoghton Tower in Preston, Lancashire, in July, 1913. Charlie Brown, lent by Simpson's for the occasion, carved a sirloin of beef before the King and Queen.

The luncheon was at the historic table at which King James I lunched and knighted a loin of beef, creating it "Sir Loin." During his fifty-eight years, Charlie Browa has collected an armory of carving knives. He still occasionally uses one which has been in use nearly all that, time, af- Cabaret Enjoyed On French Train PARIS, Dec. 12 (U. Dancing. Montmartr night life and excellent wines can now be enjoyed while traveling at 60 miles an hour by train through the chateau and wine districts of central France, This specially equipped train leaves Paris early every Sunday morning and the first stop is at Vouviay, quaint town enjoying worldwide fame, for its piquant wir.es.

There the passengers are invited to partake In the wine harvest and taste the new wines. Various vineyards and wine cellare are vinited and at nonn the passengers meet for a sumptuous luncheon. After lunch, the tourists are taken to several other towns in the Tour-nine district, where they are accorded the opportunity to see and admire the prosperous wine country, After dinner, the humorists and song writers from Montmartre who accompany the tourists provide a eatjaret snow with dancing whicn keeps everyone in good spirits until the train leaches Paris about midnight. This "Omar Khayyam Special" Is nn extension of the already existing Sunday popular trains, which cover gicfit distances accompanied by a lecturer who describes the. country, his voire being transmitted to every coach by a loud-speaker.

k1 nil Calgary boy scouts and girl guides are seen repairing broken toys and preparing them, completely renovated, for shipment to children whom Santa might otherwise forget. In the lower picture Is seen a crowd in a Calgary store witnessing an exhibit of ths work of the scouts and guides. food during the winter months will enrol for the qiver a flock of feathered retainers, who will keep regular meal hours and provide constant interest. But jut as human guests are partial to particular dishes, so the individual who plays host to the birds will study their likes and dislikes in the matter of food. Luckily they are simple in the extreme.

Woodpeckers, both the diminutive Downy Woodpecker and its larger cousin the Hairy Woodpecker, provided there are trees around the home, can be persuaded to make daily calls through augmenting their regular diet of Insects, which they forage from the crevices of bark, with fat or suet. With them, too, will come a little flock of cheery, ever restless Chickadees to revel upon these delicacies. Two methods can be used to dispense such bounty. It can be done either by fat "splashlngs" or by suspending lumps of fatty meat or suet by strings from the branches. The "splashing" consists of melting any form of fat, and as the name denotes, spattering it with a spoon or ladle upon the hark and Into the crevices of a rugged old Cottonwood.

Here the desirable birds, such as the woodpeckers and chickadees and perhaps, if you are lucky, the Brown Tree Creeper or a Nuthatch can feast royally without much lnter-ence from magpie or sparrow. Melted suet dries harder and la attractive to these feathered guests than any other form of fat. Finely chopped nuts peanuts are good enough and nre cheap can be added to the mixture and are greatly enjoyed. Possibly, however, large trees mny be either absent or too far fi-oin the windows for ynu to enjoy the close proximity of the feeding birds. Jn such cases the.

same method can be adapted by boilnr a number of auger holes In a log, and after filling them with the fat mixture, hanging It outside, where it will prove equally attractive. Another Method Another method is to soak a coarse rag in melted fat and hang it up In the same way. Or chopped suet and nuts may be enclosed in a close mesh string bag for the birds to peck at. Never, however, use metal mesh, as moisture on the feet may cause the claws to be frozen to it In severe weather, as the birds cling to the wire to feed. Catering to the vegetarians will call for another diet and a different mode of feeding.

Here a bird table or feeding tray will need to be rigged up, either suspended from a branch or wire, or on a pedestal. Much of such feed will be taken by sparrows, who will tend to mon- ooollze the feast. But if there are Redpolls in the locality they will quickly be attracted by a spread of fmely cracked grain or screen ings. A supply of chaff or the vines from peas or beans spread In a pile to form a scratching pen into which grain Is thrown, will not only attract pheasants, who will cratch for it. like anv flock of barnyard poultry, but will prevent sparrows getting the majority of the food.

In many parts of Cal gary and In the surrounding coun try where there la cover, pheasants are increasing, and there are few more Interesting slght than to watch the gaily plumaged cock birds with their more sombre mates feeding close to our homes. Home residents In the Roxborough Park district find that pheasants are very partial to raisins, though such dessert seems unnecessarily expen sive for them. Raisins and currants, threaded on string and hung in bushes, will, however, prove very attractive to Waxwlngs and Grosbeaks, In the absence of dried berries still adher- int to the shubherv or maple seeds still hanging on the trees. homes that pathetic tragedy of childhood the empty stocking on Christmas morning. Calgary's Toyshop Is but one In a great chain which stretches across the Dominion, of some 200 major toy renovating centres manned by Scouts and Guides, which in the past 13 years have been the means of supplying more than two million re-made playthings to needy children throughout Canada.

But while it is a cog In this great machine, the -Scout-Guidc-Sunshine Toyshop can claim special distinction as having done much in Inspiring this Christmas "happlfy-Ing." Originator of the Idea, Calgary has maintained a lead in the efficiency with which this work Is carried out. A few of the larger cities may exceed the annual output. None, however, in the opinion of officials of the Pomlnlon headquarters of the Scout Toyshops surpass in workmanship or finish, the product distributed by the local branch which operates as a cooperating, though Independent adjunct of the Herald Sunshine So and re-wlrlng, stacked away for future use. Naturally, new material has to be obtained for much of the work In the shop. There is glue, and paste, nails and paint, and a score of items essential to the skilled repairing which goes on.

But wherever the organization can find material, useless to all Intent, but suitable for assisting In the renovation of toys, they are eager to utilize it. Little hope would thousands of under-principled children In the city and district have for a visit from Santa Claus, did not the Scouts and Guides of Calgary operate this seasonal factory for the utilization of second-hand material. Already tha store rooms at the Toyshop are laden with nearly 6.000 finished toys. They are strongly re-made, brightly painted; toys which any child will bo proud to possess. Every one of them, but for such a reclamation scheme, would have gone on a Junk heap.

Instead, ingenuity and a vast amount of loving labor will send them out on another mission of joy. averting in unknown numbers of.