DEEP-SEA SECRETS
COMMITTEES
DISCOVERIES
ON PLANKTON
·Travelling By Means Of Ocean Currents
DESCENDING AT TIMES TO 5,000 FEET
The secret of how minute sea-living organisms manage to maintain their position against powerful ocean currents has been discovered by of the Discovery Committee
scientists!
under the Colonial Office. In- portant questions relating to the natural supply of "fish- food" the world over are be lieved to be raised by their
work.
The problem is that of the plankton." the minute and primi-
Anne
ex-
Harding. whose husband, Harry Bannister, is still trying to prevent her from tak- ing her daughter out of America.
THE CHINA, MAIL,- WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1936
GANDHI'S SON
FROM HENDU
CHANGES TO
MOHAMMEDAN
Reply To Father On Conversion
INTENDS NOW TO GIVE UP DRINKING. ALCOHOL
to Mr. A spirited reply Gandhi's comments on the con- version
Mr. .of
Abdulla (Hiralal) Gandhi was made by the latter at a mass meeting of the Muslims of Bombay held in
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS connection with the Prophet's
OF ANN HARDING
Birthday celebration.
"You might have read," said Mr. Abdulla Gandhi, "what my father has said about my conver
Ex-Husband Follows sion. He says he has no quarrel
with me if I have heartily Her To Canada
braced Islam, and that he con- Ann Harding, the American film siders Islam as great as any other have not embraced tive organisms, on which all seni life is ultimately dependent for its star, arrived in Montreal recently religion." I food. They can swim, but not from New York, accompanied by Islam out of any self-considera- I feel it is a better religion than against a current. Yet, somehow, her daughter Jane, a nurse, a law-tion. I have accepted it because each of the different species of ver, and an agent.
Mr. Harry Bannister, her former Hinduism.
oceans.
perish.
York
ma.
A huge ribbon bow, werTI the left hip, enhances the beauty of this chiffon evening gown, the rocked skirt also, adding a original note.
TELESCOPE
THAT WEIGHS
THE STARS
Photometric Method
NEW. INSTRUMENT DETERMINES STELLAR MAGNITUDE
A telescope which will weigh the stars, by taking their photo- graphs, is being installed in the Royal Observatory, Cape Town. It is described as a "twin photo- metric" telescope.
The present big telescope at the Observatory is used to determine the distance of the stars from the earth, but the new telescope will determine their magnitude. Then, with the distance and magnitude, known, Dr. J. Jackson, Astrono- mer Royal at the Cape and his as- sistants, will be able to calculate with a comparatively direct for mula the actual weight, or mass, as it is called, of, a star 50,000,000 miles away.
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It is known that the weights of stars do not vary greatly. Most of them, however, are not far from the sun in density, but some are Jonly one-tenth as massive, while ja few bave been found with ¡masses 30 or 100 times as great.
The principle of the new tele scope lies in the fact that it con- sists of two photographic lenses which are sensitive to colour.
-plankton manages to retain its allotted place in the world's husband, accompanied by his law It is natural that there should If it did not, it would yet, came by aeroplane from New be personal attacks against me, but it is fortunate that the first at
from one of the "I am going to get a writ of tack has come babeas corpus." he said. "I have greatest
men of the day. If I Canadian lawyers and I have af-wanted to reply to him I could do fidavits, too. I think that the so, but he is my father and I res- movement of deep ocean currents mother should have the child but pect him. But let me just say this, HIS TWO PERFECT range of the spectrum, and hither which man is only now beginning if she establishes foreign re- that his standard to discover.
sidence I may never see her again." jothers is very peculiar..
The secret is that the Antarctic plankton at least have an appar ently instinctive knowledge of the
of judging
From December to March, dur- Miss Harding won fall custody "If we apply his standard, ing the southern summer, the of her daughter, who is seven, Christians or Muslims can never plankton frequent surface waters, after a three years' battle in the approach heaven. There was and are therefore carried north courts with her husband.
Itime when he said that even to takes milk was a sin. I then re- and away from their home. Then
they dive, to a depth of three CORONATION ROBES
thousand or more feet, until they meet a southbound current to
carry them back again. Finally, they return to the surface, only to repeat the same cycle anew.
-Spawning In The Deeps This has been demonstrated by bringing up numerous samples of
THREE HORSESHOE BRIDES
Blacksmiths' Daughters All
Married Together
Burton Latimer, Northampton- shire, has three blacksmitis.
Each blacksmith has a pretty daughter.
Recently the parish church was crowded to see the three daugh- married. The weddings ters followed each other.
The three brides were Miss Ann Smith, Miss Jean Buckby, and Miss Violet Hodson.
On each wedding carriage was
a newly-forged horseshoe.
Peers Ordering Well
In Advance
ONE FIRM HAS PURCHASED
5,000 ERMINE SKINS
Peers and peeresses are already placing orders for their Corona- tien robes. Others are sending old robes, worn at the Coronations of King Edward VII and King George, to be relined and repaired.
The Chancery-lane firm of Ede Ravenscoft is hard at work on or ders for their tenth Coronation. The firm made peers' robes for the Coronation of Queen Anne-and those for the Coronation-of King Edward VIIL are being cut from the same unchanging patterns.
At several Coronations during the past two centuries the firm have made robes not only for peers and Court officials, but for the reigning Sovereigns as well.
In preparation for the increas- water, at various points along ing flow of orders expected during 5,000 their route, from six different the next 12 months over -depths ranging down to nearly five skins of ermine have been bought. thousand feet. At one stage on The firm has also placed orders their journey it is believed that for thousands of yards of crimson the plankton may have to descend velvet The price of ermine has risen sharply during the past few to more than six thousand feet to keep in the necessary southbound weeks..
current Antarctic shrimps, on
which the southern whales im- 79TH BIRTHDAY OF
mediately feed, have been shown)
to achieve the same result by div-j
ing to a similar level to spawn.
Repair Squad Caught In Lift
POPE PIUS XI
Son of a Milan weaver, the boy
belled and became a sinner!"
2
Referring to the charge that he was in the habit of drinking, Mr.
Abdulla Gandhi said that that was la weak point in him which his critics had chosen for their at- tack. "But", he said "I have given a promise that rhat I shall abide by the injunction of the Holy [Quran."
...
ANGLO-AMERICAN WEDDING
Lady Astor's Nephew Married
In Washington
Philadelphia-Carefully avoid- ing reporters and photographers, Miss Betty Broke, a noted Phil- adelphia debutante, and Mr. Thomas Phipps," son of Major Pan Phipps, of London, and nephew of Viscountess Astor, M.P., went to Washington yester- day and were married quietly.
They left later to
spend the honeymoon in North Caroline at
WIVES”
Tribute In Will Of Dead Knight
"God has given me two per ject women as wives and my first object is to keep green the memory of my first wife and to make ample provision of a gea- erous character for the future of my second should die be- fore her.
This statement occurs in the will, just proved, of Sir Frederick John Norman, of Runcorn, a
pioneer of the chemical industry,
who left £78,353.
Stars are delicately tinted, their colours running through the whole
to a blue star, for instance, would give a larger image on a photo- graphic plate than a red star, whereas in reality the red star might be much the bigger of the two.
The new telescope will adjust this and the true magnitude of a star will be determined.----
SHOE-PRINT CLUE
Woman Accused Of Housebreaking
The will is proved by the widow,
Charges of breaking into the Dame Gertrude E. Norman, and
homes of two neighbours and the Rev. C. E. Norman
Sir Federick left $2,000 to Ran-stealing property valued at £11 2s. corn rural council for citizens were made at High Wycombe, "worsted in life's battles," and Bucks, last month, against Mrs. £2,000 to the local educational Dorothy Hearn, of Green-street. authority to help poor scholars Hazlemere, High Wycombe. She of parts who otherwise would, for was committed for trial, and al- lack of means, fail to develop their lowed bail İgenius."
One of the neighbours, Mra Dorothy Spicer, said that £10 die-
the home of the bridegroom's £2,560 SMUGGLING appeared from a moneybox at her
mother, Mrs. Maurice Flynn. She is a sister of Lady Ástar.
FINES
CHURCH RULES AT Man's Escapades In
POOLE
Ireland
Are Not Bare Legs
Permitted
*>
A young woman went as a guest
house while she was out. A bath- room window had been broken, and on the sill inside were the imprints of a woman's shoe A police witness, who identified the marks as made by Mrs. Hearn's shoe, said that Mrs. Hearn ad- Imitted the offences.
Sampel Acheson Trail, said to Another neighbour, Mrs. Lilian be a nephew of the late Dr. An-Berry, said a charity collecting- thony Traill, Provost of Trinity box was taken from her home, and occasion a handbag College, Dublin, was at Dundalk, another
-0.
When
BEQUEST TO M.P.
Income From Part Of £246,000 Estate
co. Louth, last month fined a total vanished. to the wedding of her friend at of $2,650 for Customs offences: He St. John's Church, Poole, recently was stated to have smuggled a
The verger stopped her at the motor-ear, motor-car parts, gate of the church and told her men's watches and other articles. Son Of Milan Weaver she could not go inside.
It was alleged that Traill drove The reason was that her legs through the Customs post into the Free State by an unapproved road. were bare. ONE ALARM AFTER who rose to be the most famous The verger told her that the His car knocked down one of a Customs officers who ANOTHER Pope of modern times-Pope Pius rules of the church were very party of
Mr. Eric Errington, M.P. for XL-was 79 at the end of May. strict against women attending attempted to stop him.
He is known as "The Missionary without hats or stockings, and she he was arrested, after a chase, a Bootle, is the principal beneficiary Pope," from the activities of the had to wait outside until the cere-revolver and cartridge were found under the will of Alderman Fre
fon him. foreign missions during his reign. (mony was over,
Pilgrims from all parts of the People in Commercial-street world flocked to Rome to congratu- White-chapel, E., saw flashes from late the Pontiff, whose launching a torch on the top door of a build- of "Catholic Action" has done so ing. They reported to the police. much to further the Church inter-
The police did not worry. They ests. knew that a burglar alarm on the premises of Howis and "Woolf, clothing-manufacturers, needed re- pairs, and that an inspector aff alarms had gone to do the job, borrowing a police companion ac- cording to castom.
SOS ff Box
HARE AND MOTOR-CAR
COLLISION
London To Johnnesburg
Air Race Planned
derick Smith, who left 246,385 gross.
Alderman Smith was a solici. tor, and when he died on May 8. at the age of 86 he was the oldest
member of- Liverpool City Conn-
cil.
In his will probate of which
has been granted by the Liverpool]
Ten thousand pounds has been 120 representative types may enter. Registry, he directed that the in- given by Mr. W. Schlesinger, the Each machine will be handicapped some of the residuary estate, South African magnate, to pro-according to its speed and size, after payment of annuities totall- A hare sprang from a rock on mote an gir race between London but there will be a special prizeling about £3,000, should be paid to Mr. Errington, whom he ap a motor-car near Erzweiler, and Johannesburg, confined exclufor the fastest machine. Germany, and crashed through the ively to British Empire pilots and A massed start from London is pointed one of his trustees.
planned for the day on which the windscreen. It lay dead on the aircraft.
to
Then a cardboard box came zail-knees of the driver. The occup-The race, which will be known exhibition to celebrate Jobannes- ing down from a window in the lants of the car were slightly in-as the "Schlesinger African Air burg's Jubilee is to be opened. building. Inside was an SO-Sjured by splinters of flying glass. Eace," is being held to celebrate The route will probably follow from the alarm repair “squad."
They had gone up in the lift and adjusted the alarm but then the lift jammed. All doors were locked.
FILM CHIEF FAILS FOR £1,400,000
Mr. William Fox, the noted th executive, has filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy,
Rescuers With Landler When police rescuers arrived with a ladder and entered by a He gives his abilities et mare first-floor window, the two men than $1,800,000 and assets at sp had been prisoners for five hours, proximately £400,000
PENAL SERVITUDE FOR FRANCISCAN MONK
the opening of the Empire Exhibi-that of Imperial Airways, from tion in Johannesburg on Sept. 15. Londen over Europe to Cairo, the
The second of the series of Entire control of the organisa- Nile Valley, Uganda, Tanganyika.
trials of nearly 300 members of tion will be vested in the Royal and Johannesburg,
Chib. It expected that ME Schlesinger, who arrived in the Franciscan Order on charges
immorality concluded table long-distance pilots will South Africa 40 years ago 23 % of
steerage passenger from America, Coblenz recently when Matthias rt, 60, whose religious name. that they are, of Em-now controls, about 70 companies, We
all classe of air- his mam interests being insuris Brother Oswald, was sentenced
years penal servitude.
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1935 EDITION -
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