SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1932.
FAMOUS FLIERS WED
IN LONDON.
Miss Amy Johnson
And J. A. Mollison.
MADE EPIC FLIGHTS.
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London, Yesterday..
Mr. J. A. Mollison and Miss
THE
CHINA
Modern Rainmakers Serve SOMME BATTLEFIELD "SHEARING SHEEP
Russia
Artificial Production Of Sun And Rain
STRANGE MACHINERY
TRIBUTE.
Prince of Wales To Unveil Memorial,
CEREMONY ON MONDAY.
London, Yesterday.
BY DRUGS.
Soviet Idea Tried On Humans.
DIFFICULT TREATMENT.
"Amy' Johnson were married to-day If there is one subject on which) · Then came. the sand-sprinkling on Monday unveil at Thiepval in the sheep, dogs, and rabbits by ad-
'patients.
unnoticed. It was he who set afis produced the.utter futility of in-/trified sand to neutralise one flash he will inspect the French Guard of cians tried out the acetate of a
hop..
A cable froin Riga announced). H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, will that the Soviet expert, Prof. lyin, had perfected a process of shearing at St. Georges Church, Hanover the meteorologists of the world are era of artificial rain; for sand is heart of the some battlefields, a Square..
agreed it is this: "It is impossible clearly composed of minuta particles memorial to over 70,000 British ministering a "heavy metal sait A large crowd, some of whom to change a climate artificially, to that will invite the formation of soldiers who died in that area but The wool or fur moulted off, and
internally. had waited from 8 o'clock outside control the weather, to make "rain drops. This proving unsuccessful, who have no known graves" the church, shouted "Good" old where it is needed, or to drive the sand was electrified and scat As the unveiling ceremony is
could be collected. Later it would Amy" when the bride arrived storms. And yet the Soviet Gay-tered from aeroplanes, particularly proceeding, disabled ex-service men grow again. dressed in a black coat frock and rernment has apparently established in mountain regions where forest will scatter in the Anglo-French
The discovery is acclaimed & black hat, accompanied by Ratha Department for the Production of fires are so often started by thun- Cemetry, where a
little memorial great Soviet victory. leen, Countess of Drogheda, who Artificial Rain or Snow which will derstorms. Electrification of the stands aahes of the litle wooden The principle, however, is not gave her away. Miss Johnson is boldly attempt to precipitate mois- sand. was supposed to neutralise crosses placed among the poppies inx years ago. Salts of certain
new,
It was discovered by chance the heroine of a sole flight from ture from the clouds and thus do the lightning. Dr.
W. J. Hume the British Legion field of Remem- heavy metals had proved efficient in England to Australia.
away with, droughts in agricultural phreys of the United States Wes-brance outside Westminster Abbey checking the night-sweats of T.E Mr. Mollison, dressed in a grey areas.
ther Bureau has calculated that it each Armistice Day.. lounge suit, arrived earlier almost
When the Prince reaches Thiepval As soon as one realises how rain would take 15,000 pounds of elec-)
In a French hospital the physi record in an England-South Africa terfering with nature's processses of lightning-if the theory is cor- Honour and will receive the French
becomes apparent. When the hea rect. There is no evidence to show President M. Lebrun, who will de: somewhat rare metal, thallum. It The Archdeacon of Middlesex vens seem to open and a downpour that sand, electrified or not, hiver an address after the memorial kept the sweating down, but, to a officiated. · Colonel F. C. Shelmer-drenches the parched earth we see any effect.
has been unveiled.
their surprise, the doctors foundi dine was best
The only tremendous heat-engine at work man.
Use of Electrical Apparatus.
The memorial will bear the fol that all the patients were going guests; were a representative of an engine in which the circulat- Electricity is becoming increas-lowing moving inscription. Lord Wakefield and Mr. Mollison's ing fluid is the atmosphere, with ingly popular with the rainmakers.
"To the Glory of God and in'
When the drug was discontinued, Secretary.
its moisture rising from the ocean, In fact the Soviet Department for grateful memory
As nobody; of the 73,367 the hair grew again. Miss Johnson said that they had and the furnace is the sun. To the Artificial Production of Rain soldiers who gave their lives on the particularly wanted
ibald-pate made no plans for a honeymoon. produce one inch of rainfall over and Snow is so up-to-date that it
Somme Battlefields in the services maker, thallium acetate was drop- "After a quiet reception I ́am go- an acre this engine lifts about. 113 will raise electrical_apparatus with of their King and Country, but Ped, till a French physician found ing to Stag Lane to take over a tons of moisture and then precipi captive balloons to the cloud level, who have no known graves, an ingenious use for it. Moth plane, Jason Four. Mr. tates it. For
electricity, is to bring dedicate this memorial praying Ringworm of the scalp in children
Children Suffer. Mollison also having a new Moth mere dot on the map of Russia-
square milema Just how
down the rain is not clear.
that inspired by the example of we have firmly agreed that neither 72,320 tons of moisture would be
It must be said on behalf of the these our brothers, we who remain, le difficult to treat. shall interfere with each other's required.
Soviet experimenters that fog and Rive-bur lives in service, and -head-be-shaved, the bristles inter- fying plans-Reuter.
When such stupendous figures are rain can be produced experimental sacrifice for the
progress of fere with the action of curative ap- produced the rainmakers reply: Wely in the laboratory.. But when we humanity so that we be not asham plications. Thallium, however, is are not trying to raise water but apply the principle on the giganticed when we meet with them beyond ideal, as the hairs moult right out only to bring it down. This is very hundreds of withered square miles,
scale demanded to bring relief to the grave."-British Wireless Ser of the follicles. much like, trying to tap the water we fre in the position of a man in a tank on the top of an apartment trying to drill a hole in a granite TRAVELLER TO LEARN they had to get a dose proportional house without first pumping it full wall with a pin. Heat-engines' work in cycles, and
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TRYING TO KILL CHRISTIANITY.
"Ice Age In Mind
Of Man."
London, July 16.
A
the engine whereby nature evapor-
ates ocean water and forms clouds
is no exception..
4.
Possibilities Limited.
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SHARE MARKET.
...The official summary of the
What he described as the "first Even if we accept the rainmakers Stock Exchange issued yesterday, stage of a great revolt against the argument at its face value we get states: Christian elements in Western little rain by trying to squeeze D The investment section main-
guret's, Westminster.
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¡vice,
BEAR LANGUAGE.
Helps Make Noises. For Film World.
IMPORTANT WORK.
Wei
bald.
Even if the
A boom in drug-shearing children, with scalp infectious, followed.) Thallium being very poisonous,
to body weight. The hair begins
to fall on the sixth day, and is all off in a fortnight.
When it was tried out on adults. severe illnesses followed--a kind of glandular disturbance.
In children, in whom the sex and other glands are undeveloped, this elvilisation" was the subject of
cloud. Dr. Brooks once read this tained its firmness during the past
trouble does not occur.. But symp sermon by the Bishop of Durham, statement before the American week, and not a few of the issues
toms Count Mazzaglis Cutell, the
resembling lead-poisoning Dr. Hensley Hensen, at St. Mar-Meteorological Society to prove the under this head, such as Banks, Italian whose voice supplied the
often appear,' point:
Unions, Cantons and Electrics, re-noises in some of the Mickey children in England died after
Finally, about "There have," he said, "been) Suppose that the people of the gistered substantial advances.
a year ago, three Mouse filme, has left England for thallium treatment, and "many revolts in the past, but never, Northern Great Plains Wanted rain
On the other hand, the specula Bear Island, in the Arctic Ocean, under a cloud. I think, anything that could be rea- in a certain July, and suppose that tive issues displayed weakness to study animal and bird noises. sonably-described as parallel to that the moisture conditions were those throughout the period, but just at witch we are, witnessing now."
usually found there in that month.the close they seem to have taken Points from the sermon are:
If this process could be made so a turn for the better and "attract- "With the present revolution the effective that all the vapor over the ing more attention. axe is laid to the root of the tree.
region could be precipitated to the Closing tone steady.
one time the rainfall
The fundamentai ideas upon ground at which rests the entire fabric of would be three-quarters of an inch, civilisation, as it has been develop. But no one would expect by this ed in Christianity, are challenged, process to be able to precipitate) denied and scornfully assailed." more than a quarter of the water
Russia's Negative.
present, and this would amount to "To some degree the effect and less than two-tenths of an inch, 'the extent of the present revolt which is generally considered as in- against Christianity is, obscured by sufficient in a drought,
secular civilisation.
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to
the prodigious development of Such calculations could have been made at any time within the last It may even be that we are half century. Yet in 1892 Congress marching to a great disaster—an appropriated $9,000 for the purpose ice-age of the mind of man.
of enabling R. G. Dyrenforth "Shall civilisation remain in any bombard the air of Texas in the sense Christian? is the question hope of bringing down rain and which is everywhere being raised thus verifying the old theory that within · Christendom, and it has explosions make the clouds empty. been brutally answered" in the themselves. Actually $17,000 were negative in Russia,"
spent by, Dyrenforth-in vain..
"The uprooting process is already. The belief that heavy gunfire and far advanced among ourselves. Yet terrific explosions produce rain still the repudiation of the Christian lives-this despite the proof advanc tradition does not bring happiness ed by Dr. Angot, head of the French -to the world."
Meteorological Service, that, in the "We are," added the Bishop," "as most favourable circumstances. it far as ever from the secularists' would take the detonation of 21,750 millennium, and it must be owned tons of melinite to produce a single that the prevailing mood of our millimeter of rain (0,93986 inch) | generation is that of resentful dis. over a square mile. Angot's mathe- Ilusion
EASTERN PORTS.
Details of Epidemic Diseases.
matical calculations were amply confirmed, during the World War when hundreds of guns were simul taneously firing tons of high pla sives without affecting the weather in the least:
Lowering of Temperatures Realising the futility of explo sions and concussions, the more. "scientific" rainmakers seek to The health bulletin of Eastern apply physical, theory. If the tem ports for the week ended July 28, perature in moist air can be lower- issued by the Director of Medical ed under the saturation point, the and Sanitary Services, gives the reason, rain will fall. So we find following cases -~-~-~-
park Plague, Alexandria 1 case; Beirut
earnest men going up in balloons and aeroplanes and, spraying the atmosphere with liquid air at the cloud level Even if the
process succeeded, which it has not, it Calcutta 57 cases, (48 deaths) would take millions of dollars of
case.
Cholera.
Macao, (21 deaths); Amoy 899 cases, "(181 deaths); Canton 22 cases, (2 miles.
deaths); Nanking 104 cases(19
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Chinese Estates, $100. Hong Kong Trams, $22.70. Star Ferries, 388.
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and will stay there for three weeks. He is going there in a whaler,
COAL
It is now
DISPUTE IN NEW ZEALAND.
Count Cutelli is a surprising man, to interview. On the least provocation he will suddenly bay like a wolf, boom like a frog, whinny like a horse, or cry like an infant in the night!
Auckland, July 10. The Governor-General Lord Ble- He says he can produce more disloe, who intervened in the dis than 2,000 sound effects with his pute between the miners and coal throat, and if a film producer owners throughout New Zealbad, wants a bulldogs chorus (as in offered Government House as the The Love Parade"), a. conversa venue for a round table. conference. tion between a cat and her kittens,
His Excellency declared:
A
"I or an argument between laughing would gladly offer my services as hyenas, they send for Count arbitrator, but it would create Cutelli.
precedent which the King's repre Count Cutelli, who went to sentative might find it difficult to America ten years ago,
Arst ap-follow." peared there as an actor in silent) films.
Baby Crying."
As the result of a Dominion-wide ballot giving a two to one majority,
a general strike of coal minere
"I was no good whatever on the started at mid-night July 6, as a
talkies, because of my poor Eng-protest against the owners' new
ish. So 1 was broke he told terms. [me: "I thought of the animal îmi-
One hundred and eighty mines tations I used to do on my father's will be closed and 60,000 miners estate in Italy.
will cease work. dan) "I had always been trying to The strikers declare that they. learn animal language, for, believe are still anxious for a conference me, every animal tries to express with the owners, but they insist itself as a human being.
that the old agreement should. xe- Gloria Swanson's manager main in force till the conference heard about me, and when he is held. wanted the sounds of a baby. ing and a dog barking in one of her films, I produced these for him.
"That was my beginning on the
They thought the sound- of the baby would be like an Ita- Han" baby,, but it was like an American baby, so, all was
well Count Cutelli always goes to Nature to study the animals,
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$470, $480, $485. H.K. & K. Wharves, $1894 Providents (Old), $4.851,
H.K. Hotels (New), $10, H.K. Hotels (Old), $10.20, $10.80.
H.K. Lands, $77, 877%. H.K. Realties, $10.60, $10,70,
$10.65.A- H.K. Tramways, $22.80." China Eights
$17.60/80,
(Old), $18,
H.K. Electrica, $7234, $78, Telephones P.P.). $21.80.
H.K. Ropes/$12.30, $12:40,
$12.70, $12.99
liquid air to sprinkle a few square
This theory that condensation or
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Dairy Farms, $27%
nu (New)/ $1234
deaths): Shanghai 411 cases (35 precipitation takes place when the deaths)
More temperature of air has been
iciently lowered was
Small-Por
Alexandria 3 cases; Baghdad Altken about half cases; Bombay 9 cases (8 deaths) Calcutta 6 cases, (6 deaths), Coe
Madras 13,
Rangoon,(1 death) harry 5 cases (3 deaths)
He showed moisture
conden
Watsons (Old), 218.4
$51/
The Count said his visit to Bear Island was to study poler animala closely for similar productions to the "Mickey Mouse". ilms
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