MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1934.
REORGANIZATION
STEEL TRADE
OF
THE CHINA MAIL. Royalty Lost, Wife Won
Engineering and Building.
CENTENARY
OF GREAT
SCIENTIST
Dmitri Ivanovich
Mendeleeff.
Welsh Magnate's Views On New Measure.
MERE FIXATION OF PRICES
Newport.
Mr. Lionel D. Whitehead, chair-
'BRILLIANT RESEARCH WORKERman of the Whitehead Iron and
Steel Company. Limited, Newport and Tredegar, speaking at the firm's
Enginers as well as chemists will annual staff dance at Newport re have recalled on February
7 the birth of Dmitri Ivanovich Mende- leef, a Russian chemist who not only gained world renown for his periodic classification of the ele ments, but also distinguished him-
self in various other fields
to the proposed | cently, referred steci reorganisation plan.
The scheme, he said, was almost entirely confined to the fixation of prices on the home markets without, any regard to its disastrous reper- cussions on export trade. Why Engineering is concerned as much should they be asked to reorganise as any other applied selence in the by the Imports Duties Advisory advancement of knowledge concern-Board when they did so early in ing the physical properties of gases 1931, before the new tariffs at widely differing pressures. and instituted. the fact must not be neglected that,
were
They had not only done so in their
in this field the foundation for the own sphere of manufacture, but also work of Andrews, Amagal, and in the supplies of raw material from Cailletet was laid by the brilliant! Lincolnshire," where researches of Mendeleeff.
they had brought back directly and indirectly
In his rise to the professorship at|3.000 men to employment. St. Petersbury the enrried all before) Their criticism of the scheme was him. Although deflected from re-j not simply destructive, Far from search by a period of teaching, hej being an opponent of reorganisa- |- became magister chemies of the tion, he was strongly in favour of; University in 1856, prival docent alany scheme which would render the little later, professor at the Techno-|industry efficient and so enable it to Jogical Institute by 1863, and pro-jeompete with greater advantage on fessor at the University three years the export market. later,
very
Prince Sigvard of Sweden, pletured with Eriks Patzek, for whom he surrendered his royal rights and became plain Ar. Bernadotte this family name) by marrying het in London. Fraulein Patzek fa a German movie actress. The former prince is employed in Berlin as a filin
The President of the Bourd of HUGE HANGAR His discovery of the periodic law Trade, added Mr. Whitehend, and classification, a marshalling of significantly stated at the annual the elements into some semblance of dinner of the National Federation that mere fixation of prices on the order, has perpetuated bis name throughout the world of science, home markets could not be regarded For this arrangements into groups as reorganisation.
of eight according to valency und
according to atomic weights was the
basis of the greater part of chemical
advance up to the time of Moreley, and, moreover, the periodic law is
HIGH LONDON BUILDING
unaltered to-ly if we Rubstitute Warning By Fine Art
atomic numbers for the erring ato- mic weights.
Dobereiner had introduced, some
Commission.
years before this law, certain triads INEFFECTIVE 'REGULATIONS
of clements resembling each other, the Frenchman De Chancourtrois
point), and our
5
the
of gold, tellurium, and indium were! modified in recordance with hin predictions; the elements scandium, stalium, germanium, masurium, rhenium, and palonium were found La correspond in properties with his descriptions: and the arrangement | formed the basis on which the chees tronie structure of the atoms was
director.
CONSTRUCTION
AT SHANGHAI
Most Modern In China,
COMPLETION BY JULY
Shanghai.
America Builds Super-Train BIG CLOCK TOWER
Travels 12,000 Miles Without Stopping.
STREAM-LINED EXPRESS
MOVED EN BLOC
Six Men Execute 40-Ton Job.
A clock tower was recently moved?"
jan aisle. Each of them is indivi- dual, and can be adjusted to four positions. One of the positions is for resting, dozing, or even sleeping. The windows of unsplinterable glass cannot be opened. Under each American railway companies have armchair sest there is an air-condi- from the corner of Bow Common decided that the only way to dia-tioning apparatus which cleans and Lane and Burdett Road. Stopney, to suade people from travelling long corrects the temperature of the air a site about a mile away. distances by road is to develop super-around each passenger. speed trains.
Each seat has
one piece! ап adjustable
The clock tower, measuring Sit. They have resolved too that speed writing-desk which can be used for alone is not enough, there must be meals served by a waiter who trun-[by 8ft. by 35ft, weighed a mere 40 comfort with all petty annoyances des around the food on a trolley tons (estimated)! "She"It was The crockery is not of china, but af feminine to all the men on the job,
connected with banished, for ever.
rallway
travel
La composition which is unbreakable,
American railroad engineers alreadyjchina service. regard it as the "train of the future..
Here are some facts about it:
Performance:
It was moved
The fragility accounted for the
So they have produced a new train, and weighs, in all, 189 b. against perhaps because "she" was delicate It is called The Express Rallenr. 530 16-the weight of a conventional and at times a little capricious-had,
of course, to be carried upright. The windows extract certain rays! from the sunshine to prevent glare. Indirect lighting is so arranged that loading and unloading being the passengers can request one of three trickiest part of the operation, and degrees of power.
the other important factor govern- Interior decoration is bright, being the work was the necessity of
With three coaches, weighing 25 tons (about the weight of a single sleeping car) it can carry 116 pasing in blue and white. jsengers, 11 tons of mail and bag-
starting at 1 a.m., when trams and gage, at a speed of 90-110 m.p.h. for
to other traffic ceased, and being off the 1200 miles without stopping to re-give ample awrning of the approach spot when they wished fuel its oil-electric engine. A new of such a fast train. One forward
to start
Size:
Warning Apparatus: There are five installations
arrangement is said to prevent the headlight shows up the line to the gain on Sunday morning; the train leaving the station until all the driver, another on the roof shines height of the load, 35ft., plus 8in. fbrakes are in perfect working order.vertically to provide an additional ground clearance, necessitated cut- [visual warning, and there are twoting the overhead wires of the
trams. It is 11 ft. high from the ground]syrens and an electric gong. against the usual 13 ft. on the Ame
Cost: £40,000
And so, in the strange light of rican railways; its centre of gravity, A second and more powerful train acetylene flares, the men hastened, surrounded by hundreds of worthy burgesses, who found the spectacle
| the "safety-factor value" when nego has been ordered.
lating curves at high speed, is 38)
NEW WEST-END inches above the rails, against the GOVERNMENT WORK aufficiently attractive to stay them
CINEMA
Simple Design Inside
And Outside. :
CURZON THEATRE OPENED
The Curzon Theatre, the new timate" cinema on the corner
National Aviation Corporation, street, London bringing the improvement of March 6.
WER
opened
Shanghai's facilities for handling, The theatre's design, inside and aircraft to a speedy reality. The out, is of the simplest possible kind. The growth of high buildings in extensive
progress of the
normal 5 ft.
Appearance:
Caterpillar-like in ita
stream-
FOR CLYDE.
lining: was designed from tests £1,000,000 Contracts To
Be Signed,
1.
from their beds.
The job was executed by half a dozen men without a hitch.
500 M.P.H. ROCKET INVENTED.
In America.
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with scale models in the wind tunnel of the University of Michigan. Painted boldly in golden brown and canary yellow so that the eye can miralty
The announcement by the Ad- that Clyde shipbuilders readily discern it from a long dis-are to be entrusted with the build-| "In-tance. The driver's windows, ing of another two vessels of the Model Nears Completion
of equipped with electric rain-wipers, 1933 programme has given great Ground was broken last month Curzon-street and West Chapel-set high up on the snub-nose of the satisfaction in the West of Scot for the new hangar of the China
Jocomotive to provide wide range of land. on vision, remind one of a motorcar Subject to the settlement of cer
Worcester (Mass.) windscreen.
tain points of detail, the following A rocket to travel at more than There is no outward sign of contracts will be signed:-Messrs. 500 miles an hour after penetrating machinery.
Yarrow and Company. Limited the stratosphere 50 or 60 miles above Construction:
Scotstoun, to build a flotilla lead-the earth is being completed by Pro- had suggested the arrangement of London is the subject of a strong C.N.A.C. with the establishment A tiny electric sign gives the name Made of aluminium alloy, the elements on a helical curve (au warning by the Royal Fine Art Com-of new routes will be amply ac-of the house, and to ascertain the only cast iron being that used to Scotts Shipbuilding and Engin-laboratory at Clark University.
the er-HMS. Grenville; and Messrs. fessor Robert H. Goddard in his iden very close to the modern view. mission, of which the Eart of Craw-commodated by improvements name of the picture showing you line the cylinders of the engine. eering Company, Limited, Green-
ford and Balcarres is chairman,
He declines to estimate the maxi- countryman, own
being made in landing facilities. have to consult an unobtrusive an shell, the space between being led Seawolf-of the class.
Constructed of an outer and inner ock, to build a submarine-II.M.S.|mum speed attainable by the rocket, Newlands, suggested the law of In their fifth report, issued on At Shanghai, the Lunghwa octuves.
March 9, the Commissioners state Airdrome has already been im-nouncement above the door of the with a composition which keeps out
but says that any aircraft propelled When we review to-day all
These contracts will represent by it would literally become, a pro- that the effect of these tall buildings proved so that with the comple-foyer. The stars are not mention-sound, Insulates against heat or cold, something approaching £1,000,000|jectile." benefit which have acerued from lupon other buildings of national and tion of the new hanger. ed.
and is fire-proof. historic interest, among which are scheduled in May, Lunghwa will
sterling, and will mean employ- Mondelcell's scheme we realise what |
A speed of 500 miles an hour had Comfort Design: All the seats are on the ground Seats are in pairs on each side of for many months-Engineering, with models in New Mexico.
ment for a large number of men been attained during experiments Tapid progress was rendered possi-monuments of the greatest import-be a modern airport equipped to bie therefrom. The atomic weights ance and fame, has in many cases handle both land and sea planes, floor, a balcony having been die-
Cheen obviously detrimental.
The landing field now has four-pensed with on the ground that per- After referring to the London directional runaways, the ap-fect acoustics cannot be obtained on Building Acts, the Commissionera proaches to the field have been continue:
cleared, and a drainage system more than one level. The ceiling "Of late years It has become insuring a firm field regardless is broken by a series of waves or reasingly evident that the regula of weather has been installed. coves, which conceal the lights- tions are no longer effective In addition, the Lunghwa field is some 1,500 in all, The walls are safeguarding the national or public already equipped with radio and plain white, which makes a perfect ar conditions prevail, or are deve routes will be established. amenities of the Metropolis. Simi- additional stations along various background for elaborate lighting
effects. loping, in many provincial cities.
Highest In China. The new C.N.A.C. hangar will perly raked to give comfort;
Every seat is an armchair, pro- was no less important. In finding by the relation of recently erected have a main single span of 120 there are two arm-rests between the and "absolute boiling-points," or pointe buildings to St. Paul's Cathedral.
x 120' and will have wings on seats, so that there is no need to above which a gas cunnot be lique "The distant views to St. Paul's both sides 25' wide and fied, he was a worthy predecessor of provide some of the most famous lang. The clearance Andrews, while his studies on the and beautiful prospects in London, entrance will be 27', the highest rest. deviations from Boyle's Law and ur, indeed. in any other great city. ever built in China. The wings his balloon ascent from Klim during of these views two, namely, those will have two stories in part, the the solar eclipse of August, 1887, in from Waterloo Bridge and from the upper portion to be used for order to study the effects of highly Surrey side of Southwark Bridge, offices, pilot rooms, etc. One rarefied air on the corons, were have been disastrously blocked by wing will be used as a shop and typical of his ubiquity.
the other wing for equipment | newly erected structures." His famous Principles of Chemik
and stores. Pointing out that every increase
Suitable arrange fry and other works; his under in height le a concession of which mens are included for the fire- taking of Government commissions, the money value is often great, the proof storage of airplane wing platform and Press activities for Commissioners add: "It has beca
spirit, rousing interest in the neglected granted irrespective of the width of steel and brick with a maximum The hangar will be built of Baku metroleum industry; and his existing streets, and of other con-number of windows to allow for winning of a galaxy of rewards-siderations important to public in the greatest amount of light. The way construction projects under One of the most important high- including the Day, the Copley, and terests. the Farnday medals—all these
hangar will be opened and closed way in Canada at the present time: served to complete a life of supreme sions should be accompanied by
"It would appear that any conces by sliding doore built in sections. is the building of brilliance.Engineering.
When completed, the new unit around the Big Bend of the Colum- a motor road some advantage to the public of will be a member in the total bia River, botwood Golden and Re Hght, of air, or of amenity-but sur-scheme of the Lunghwa develop-vetstoke, British Columbia. rendering frontage for rond widen-ment. ing, or by setting back the faces of A new hangar is now in the struction is well advanced, will This new highway, on which con. the building in order to provide a process of construction at the complete the last link in the wide angle of light."
bulil.
His work on physical chemistry
PALACE 1,360 FEET HIGH.
Plans Passed By Moscow Council
"
Moscow.
The great chromium-plated statue of Lenin, which it is proposed to erect in Moscow is to be even greater than the one described as the "Colossus of Moscow".
"A striking example is provided
SKYSCRAPER OF 175 STOREYS
120' Indulge in the usual furtive elbow- under the ing of your neighbour to secure a
ROAD OPENS NEW
AREAS.
Big Bend Highway Well Advanced.
Ottawa.
Hungino Airdrome and will be western half of the proposed trans- shortly completed. It will re- Canada highway, and establish place several of the mat sheds direct communication between the now used at Hungjao to house prairies and the comet, airplanes operating from that In 1927, the Government of Can. field.
ada, through the Department of the Interior, completed a highway Jink from Lake Louise in Banuff National Park, Alberis, across the Kicking Horse Pass and Yoho National Park to connect with the provincial Kick-
RAPID PROGRESS MADE
Shanghai, April 10,
Ohio Resident Plans
J
Monster Building.
A building of 175 storeys has Construction work on
the
been designed by Aresident of China National Aviation Coring Horse Canyon road from Golden.
It will rise above the Palace of the Columbus, Ohio, The plan shows aporation's new hangar at Lung- Soviets, to be built on the site of site of six square blocks, with air-hwa airdrome is making rapid ment of the province of British About the same time the govern-| the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, plane landing and a hitching pont progress. which was blown up at Christman, for dirigibles on the top of the great The piles have already been a scenic highway up the Fraser Columbia completed the building of 1981.
structure. He calls it the N. R. A. driven and pouring, of concrete River Valley as far as Revelstoke, Plans passed by the Central Exe-landing towRTS, ----
will be started to-day... cutive. Committes show the haight The designer has spent 872 hours The new hangar, which will be of the Balkirk Mountains between There remained only the barrier of the whole structure as 1,362 feet, working on the plans. Under the one of the most modern in China these unconnected links but this The statue Itself will be 262 feet N.R.A.. 80 hours a week proRTAMMS
la the first unit of an extensive barrier was most formidable.one, high, the Palace of the Soviels rising he has given. 32-4 yanke, or
scheme for a well-equipped land presenting engineering difoalties of to 1100-foot
more than eight months on the
and sea portat. Lunghwa. abould be completed by July 1.
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