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BRIDE JUST OUT
FROM HOME
ASHWORTH STRINGER
Hong Kong Saturday, Oct. 17, 1336. bridegroom is the youngest son
Air Transport's Swift Progress
also of Huddersfield.
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Everywhere
NEW EXPLORATIONS OF STRATOSPHERE
CELLOPHANE BALLOONS
BEING USED
SCIENTISTS EXPERIMENTS IN
AMERICA
hristened the Orange Rare Gor A Dr. Thom I Johnson of prout Holland, to the Dutch Indies.
Stadtholder.
effect
The Kowloon Union Church SCOTTISH DUTCHMAN AS
"It is appropriate that the band All communications intended for was the scene of a pretty wed-/ publication should be addressed to ding yesterday afternoon when of the Gordona is to play at the the Editor, and be accompanied by Miss Phyllis Mande Stringer be Empire Exhibition at Johannes- the Writer's News and Address came the bride of Mr. Haberburg, for although very few people
assistant not ascunsarity for insertion, but Allen Ashworth,
BOUT fourteen months ago mentally while he was voyaging manager of the Klangsu Chemical aware of the fact, a Gordon jes a guarantes of good faith.
Works, Shanghai.
The Ret. Mr. christened the Orange River. J. D. MacLean -officiated.
Why do the rays, remain, appar- The bride, who arrived from do of the Scots Brigade in Ho the Bartal Resarch Foundation, Home by the s.s. Kanchi on Thurs/and, and of Scottish descent. Philadelphia, conceived, the idea of{ently constant in strength as we Actually, however, Gordon was to substituting cheap cellophane for proceed toward the poles? Because day. is the younger daughter of all intents and purposes a Dutch-the thin, fine, - expensive rubber of the atmosphere, which blocks Mr. and Mrs. H. Stringer, of
used for sounding balloons. Ke the rays in their passage to the Huddersfield, England. The He went out to the Cape In 1777 toki Dr. Jean Piccard about it. In surface. There is every reason to of ML and Mrs. W. A. Ashworth at the age of 36, and was in comm-fodd moments Johnson and Piccard|suppose that the latitude
mand of the Dutch troops there constructed a balloon and designed should be observed right up to the Entering the Church on the wad on August 17, the that a machine to cement the seams. poles if it were possible to make he and two companions christened The U.S. Bureau of Standards measurements high in the stratos. am of Mr. J. Watson, the bride the Orange River, the three raisheard of the work and made exphere, where the air is thin. To looked charming in white satin
send up unmanned, sounding bal wedding gown set off with a lace in their glasses in honour of the periments on its own account.
Bay with the Bartol recordar,loons in Northern Canada or Encouraging developments in vell held in place by a bandeau of When the English forces landed which goes unaccompanied on long Greenland, -carrying automatic the British air services were
a orange blossom. She carried at the Cape in 1795, the problems sea voyages to measure the late commic ray counters, would be use shown by the report on the sheaf of male pink gladioli and facing Gordon as the result of his the effect of the cosmic rays in less and expensive. When the in- progress of civil aviation last
solden fern.
Fam nationality weighed 30 different directions, Johnson did struments float, down (aided by a year which was issued from
Miss Perry-Duncan, the flower heavily on him that he shot him- nothing more with cellophane bal-parachute, if need be) who is to the Air Ministry recently. The girl, wore an ankle-length blue
aclt
loons in the summer of 1935. Last find them in that desolate waste efforts of 1935 were in a con- French crepe dress with a golden
winter he developed radio appar- of ice and snow? Hence the pro- siderable measure experimen-head-dress and shoes to match-moscOW WORLD FAIR?
atus to be carried into the stratos-posal to equip the balloon with an tal New express services She carried a bouquet of gladioli
Stalin, it is said, has ambitious phere by the balloons and to signal automatic radio transmitter to brought Budapest and Brindisi and golden fern. within a day's flying of Lon- Mrs. JW. S. Hood, the matron plans to celebrate the establish to the ground station the kind of signal at regular intervals both
height attained and don. It was the first complete of-honour, was attired in a wine ment of the USSR "liberalised" information about the cosmic rayel the year of operation of the London-coloured valvet dress trimmed Constitution by holding the great and the atmosphere that a phy-strength of the rays. Brisbane service. Trial flights with gold and set off with a gold est international exhibition were made from the Australian bat. She carried golden fern.
the Colony, and.
Plans for this event have grown route to
With the aid of Dr. Piccard a Mr. Sidney W. Minshall arrangements completed for best man.
from the scheme for the 2,000- new service from Khartoum to
was built. There were leaks, and Following the Church ceremony, acre botanical gardens now being balloon five meters in diameter
on the Lenin Hills rear
not all that it! West Africa Preparations for
reception was held at the Pen-built that great enterprise; trans-instila Hotel Later, Mr. and Mrs. Moscow. Here, by a special sys-the design was Atlantic services, were pressed Ashworth left for their honey-tem
of subsoil refrigeration or should have been. The first was A slight gust of The trafic returns show moon, which is being spent at heating, tropical and arctic plants the last ascent. that the number of miles flown Repulse Bay.
They are leaving grow close together in the open wind-finished the balloon. A week later Johnson made another. This
the on the regular Empire, Con- for Shanghai on Saturday, Octo-air
to es-was launched successfully. It takes
HE money veils which tinental and internal lines rose ber 24, on the Conte Verde.
It was recently decided
ent out!
married women of Pales- in from 4,557,000 1934 to
tablish a Bussian "Whipsnade" be him only a day now to
cellophane and paste the strips to- tine affect constitute the accuma- İlated wealth of the family. The With the aid of cellophane hal-Arab bas, long been familiar with
07.
staged.
WEJ
8,412,000. the number of CHIANG'S BIRTHDAY
sengers carried from 135,100 to 200,000, and air mail from 250
to 714 tons.. An increase of passenger traffic by 48 per
PRESENT
cent, and of mail traffic by 186 Four Planes From Locali per cent provide convincing proof that vigorous experimen-
tal development is justified.
Other nations, spending
Chinese Community
DOOR-TO-DOOR CAMPAIGN
much more lavishly on their air Iservices than Britain, may well.
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side the Botanical Gardens
́ever{sicist wants.
:
Big Balloon Buil
It is said that the Russian tour-gether to form a balloon. jist agencies alone have been order- ed to prepare to convey a million foreigners to the exhibition."
Your Daily Smile!
the
EXPLANATIONS. OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
TH
Walking Banks
louns, Dr. Johnson hopes to obtain banks and with the functions of effectively and inexpensively in a bank account. The family wealth formation about the cosmic rays is converted into gold and silver at heights that could never be at coins and made into a veil for the tained by a man-carrying balloon lady's face, thus making the wO Our thoughts are with the June as big as the Explorer II, in which man into an ambulating bank se
Captain Stevens recently broke the count human altitude record. The rela tion of the strength of the rays at high, low and intermediate lati- tudes at all attainable heights is Orto be determined...
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making excuses. .
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Rays Remain Constant
999 Equals?
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The above figure expresses 9 raised to the 9th power af 9, or 9 raised to the 387,420,489th power. It is the largest sim that
brides of Peru, where the rice crop has failed. It's no fun being struck With reference to the subscrip-with those lima beans.
local envy these results. The total tions collected by the British vote for civil aviation Chinese towards the birthday gift! We are all manufacturers last year was only £639,000. of aeroplanes to Generalissimo making good, making trouble.
seems Figures given to the House of Chiang Kai-shek, it now
Campaign Hint
At ses level the latitude effect can be indicated by 3 figures. Commons show that their sub-assured that the Hong Kong!
The final answer will contain Senator Footzem was finishing his]
ceases at about 45 degrees. North sidy per ton-mile was half that Chinese community's gift will paid in Germany, and less than take the form of at least four speech before the Women's Cloh
"This year," the Senator shouted, and south of this belt the rays do 369 millions of digits." "Allowing a quarter and a fifth of the machines.
“I have decided to supeal only to the not vary in strength. By ati-for 5 digits to the inch, the length parments in France and Italy. It has been announced by the Under the new Air Navigation Chinese Chamber of Commercest intelligent and most beautiftude" the physicist means the of tape required to write down of my constituents for support. That
LANE. CRAWFORD. ETD Act subsidies for air transport that so far over $140,000 has been is why I am asking the ladies of this geomagnetic and not the geo- the answer, would be 1,154 miles.
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a. North Atlantic air line and Congratulatory Telegrams the contemplated provision of October 31 being the 50th birth- Janother for the Southern day of Generalissimo Chiang Kai- Atlantic Across the North shek there will be numerous tele- Atlantic scheduled services are grams sent to him in congratula- expected in the summer of tion. The Telegraph Administra-. 1938. Boldly experimental air-tion of Canton has arranged tha craft are now being built for
a congratulatory telegram con-l this trans-Atlantic flight. The taining less than 23 words may bej strenuously increased activity sent for 40 cents (national
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of 1985 encouraged progress rency). Such telegrams car be in constraction. New types of sent before October 31 but will aircraft were produced showing be kept for delivery on that day. a general fmprovement in Marshal-Chiang has... advised range and speed and carrying that zo gifts should be presented
proportion capacity in
to to him on the occasion of his weight.
It is not only as birthday, as the present is a hard means to the closer unity of time for the nation. The public the Empire, or to more conveni-can express their sentiments by ent travelling that these extent contributing to the Aeroplane sion of the air services should and and by sending congratula- be welcomed. Last year the jtory messages.
British afrcraft - industry ex- During the past few days, mein- panded proportionately, and bera of the Chang Sing Benevolent had a record value of experts Society and Chinese tim” stars More than 70 States are now of have been in a door-to-door ean- its orrler books and in site ofing campaign, and up to date! the efficiency of rivals, its bold on the larger foreign markets over $3,000 has been raised. It is interesting to note that at the was strengthened - "The in- portance of this success needs end of each day's work the can- vassers, are entertained to dinner no emphasis
by Mr. Lan King Tring, chairman of the Tung Koon Chamber of
MOTORING FROM Commerce and Taduslay,
AUSTRALIA All To See The Coronation
out
血糖
crowded
No.
rush-
she-
graphical latitude. The Dutch and the ordinary human-span of physicist, Clay, was the first to life would be sadly insuficient to observe this latitude effect experi-accomplish the task.
“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
999
?
IS THE LARGEST SOM EXPRESSED BY 3 FIGORES
YOU WOULD REQUIRE A STRIP OF PAPER
1164 MILES LONG TO WRITE THE
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