THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1954.
THE CITY OF THE ATOM WANTS A BEAUTY PARLOUR
By
JOHN MCKENNA
UR
ticated bars Uranium City,
One in the stock market.
Swiss im- Saskatchewan. Northwest's frozen wastes. migrant mode $100 over night.
a holiday. ANTED: A beauty Up here, they struck i le new home for
then came back to try his luck again.
W parlour for lucky-n wide, rich belt
Uranium City, last of uranium, the raw stuff resting place of the dan- for atom bombs and atomic gerous Dan McGrews, factorles.
Yes, civilisation has come to the frontier of the Arctic, the sweeping tundra of ice, wind and uranium.
In between, they are just ordinary citizens with a pride in their community.
They have a sense of the At- ness of things, too.
When they came to lay out their main streets, they called one Nuclear Avenue, the other
1 accord. Fission Street.
They came by scores, closely followed by the ever presont Government surveyors and the fur-clad Two years ago this was a Mounties, who see to it that shanty town of corrugated claims are decided Iron shacks, Leuta and ing to the law of the land pasteboards. Today, it is n and not according to the old- law of the booming city bent on a time Klondike clean-up.
six-shooter.
FROM ALL OVER
news- Now the town's two papers are busy campaigning to have the town officially termed A city. They want prestige and an official namie.
Broad new streets have replaced the dog tracks.
Then came the Govern- cosy homies are taking over ment's development men, from the shacka, and dap-
tomy of machinery and don't want to per citizens have driven the equally hardy eltizens who beauty Dangerons
out to build
the towns of the town
Dan
new wilderness,
res-
frantier.
There are Beve
They came from all over the taurants,
hotel with world' Canadians, Englishinen, f1
Frenchinen, Ukranions, gleaming chrome bar, rows. 1'-les, of shops. taxis, a fhentre Italians, mingled on equal terms. the Hard terins, dietated by and a dance hall.
fine for climate, allow qua res, the boom spella ruin to the slothfol.
And the Indies want a beauty parlour.
THERE WAS NOTHING
came,
WILA
Before The prospectors
there
nothing. The country had bern writ. ten off as n dead loss,
Written off, that is, by everyone but that tiny band
of rough, tough men whom Canında'a
Most f then came brake. Many therm
rekt. Now Take 32-year-old Laubs Burke, for metnice. A strapping Pole with a smille a mile wide and a beard as, red as the Kremlin's Bag, he funnest in Caundn after yours of service with
Alhed at forers
10
down
Frontiere
い <lidin't Want to setile
So be hit for the north, With he got wind of uranium, topped a plane for northern
[
s dent at a musing company.
Almost everybody here, in fast, is a big Marcholder in
always mean the ebane of Skatchewan. Now he's pre- wealth men who are 24 handy with a firiger coun fer as they are with a pick and shovel. a4 Jauch home in Toronto' s phis
suitting company.
il
The favourite postime is not waxing sheet's playing the
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you go into the business,
course. It will come, day. Uranium City Is sure to be a bustling metropolis.
And,
by the way, it
parlour also needs
a chemist' shop (you'll have to call 43 "Drug Store" and put in a soda fountain), a shoe repair and a dry cleaner's.
Like to try your luck?
the
shop
- 11. Bidault could maŋays his minority ith as little frouble as Attlee has managed his, European policy would be simple...
23. LOWS FRENCH SPY
Concluding
West
Eas
Sermany
"Free and open elections"
SHE LOVES ME, SHE LOVES ME NOT-
World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian
the the Adventure of
Lestrade
Hurled
Gold Hunter
Himself
On The Young Man
WHAT HAS HAPPENED SO FAR
Squire Trelawney has been killed mysteriously after disinheriting his niece, Miss Dolores Date, who kept house for him, in favour of Dr Paul Griffin, a local medical man, Miss Dale is engaged to Mr Jeffrey Ainsworth. She has also shown active dislike for Dr Griffin, who is now under suspicion of murder. Holmes has been brought into the case at the request of the After hearing Rev. James Appley, uncle of Dr Griffin. the story of the night of the murder, Holmes and the others go to the dead man's house.
PART THREE
US
WOULD have spoken, but he hurried past swiftly and silently with no more than a curt ges. ture toward the staira. On the upper landing
The NEW Exploits of SHERLOCK HOLMES
"I perceive that your medical Jeffrey Ainsworth sprang for knowledge leaps ahead and the door. anticipates me. Chloroform Is "Ah, would you!" shouted volatile: It evaporates and Lestrade. He hurled himself on quickly vanishes from the blood. the young man, and there was Delay a post-mortem examina- a snap of closing handcuffs. tion for nearly twe days, as Miss Dolores Date ras sub- this was delayed, and no trace bing forward. She did not run will be left."*
towards Ainsworth. Instead she rushed into the outstretched arms of Dr Paul Griffin.
★
☆
"Not so fast, Mr Sherlock Holmes! There is
"There is a slight,
让
*
very "You see, Wutson," concluded alight, possibility that an odour Mr Sherlock Holmes,
as that
by ... Adrian the thick pungency of medicine Ainsworth, who fervently Doyley that baci cuid in the indicated
dc-
OLDEST RADIO STAR
By J. W. TAYLOR
Born in a White-
RITAIN'S oldest radio
chapel foundry 96 years ago and last turning the scales at a mere 13 tons, has just completed a record of 30 years of regular ・・ broadcasting. Yes, ho's Big Ben, still hale and hearty in his 316ft-high West- minster Tower, despita__a face that has been cracked for years, 43 he booms forth on the radioy of the world four times a day, three оп Sundays, with occasional overtime should he be needed for sound effect in somo show or other.
No star in all radio's, history has had such a following, goin- ed such worldwide popularity and the affection of millions of all colours,
races and
creeds. Tet he hos hat his critica, like the bellringers of 1926 who declared Big Ben
to be the
world's worst. He
has been
called a "disgrace to the Em- piro" and "a" nolgy nuisance, once denounced from the pulpit, and
once
the subject of a Parliamentary demand that ke be removed from his high post. World Institution
Ben, however, has triumphed over
ell und has become a world Institution, beloved by most for his obvious weak- nesses that have given him an Individuality and a
personality
to
no other radio star can hope to cultivate, and has built up 11 name for himself. Kings, queens, princes, parlamenta Hans and other
distinguisheri personagea with a mesunge the world have spoken in the BBC news, but only after Blg Ben has first boomed out o eal to the faithful listeners the world over. And he takes his time with marked emphasis, never less than a measured 38 seccads to strike 12.
What ndio star can approach
of chloroform may be detected night we sat once more in either in the room of death or Baker Street, refreshing our- at the post-mortem. But here selves with whisky and soda, it would have been hidden by "the probable gulit
of young
and Jiniment. Ai the post- sired to marry the young lady It would have been for her money, was at least without even the head from which Sir Leopold evidence of the watch." Harper suffered."
"Surely not!" I objected. Dr Griffin's face seemed 10 "My 'dear fellow, consider Dickson Carr stand out white against his red Trelawney's wili."""
beard.
Trelawner "Then, after all, God, that's true!"
clic not make that unjust Now we ask ourselves, as the will?"
might,
cui bono? Who
"Indeed, he did. He let it be from this
yet his consistent dastardly known that such was his Inten- that tlon and he carried out
and John
Lestrade led the way into a bedroom with massive Conan dark furniture that loomed up gloomily in the light of a table beside a great open shaded lamp burning on a Bible. The sickly stuffiness
only "But, Holmes, it is of funeral flowers, as well
pot of Vaseline such as xmall 4 the dampness of the you may buy at any chemist's!" house, followed me every-
"ON THE where.
contrary,
Holmes, his brows drawn into two hard black
was crawling on all
lines,
fours
of
under the windows, examining every inch
the floor with his lens. At my stern word of injune- tion he rose to his feet.
the
a
it
Is a hang- man's
rope.
Ant
he
by Dr Griffin, young Ainsworth and Lo niy astonishment, the Vicar.
"Really, Mr Holmes," crled Dolores Dale, her eyes sparkling yet,"
with finished
onger. 11 is intolerable mily that a mere whim should keep
re- Appley."
Vicar Vicar profits crime?"
thoughtfully, us here all night-even poor Mr snarled Griffin.
"there maina
thai
Was
"And what of that?" crigi Miss Dale.
"It is the exact ume, If you
the
much in his
HOLMES leaned back In his chair and placed finger-
his
lips together. Chloro-
the "Okt Fellow's" record? Apart from those odd periods of overtime, he always broad- casto "live, “ Nearly 18. tall
voice and possessing
thai can be heast six miles away, ho must noctis have two microphones, protected by a windshield bo catch the boom- ing tones
emanating from his Dit. wide
Like mouth. humans, he suffers from cold; bitter winds stiffen his Joln's and affect his Victorian broadcasting
anywhere.
himm
Voice: record of unmatched
02-
Theng have anty been casiccal
silences imposed on such as the funeral of Sovereigns, or caused by over-- houls
mechanical faults, atharwigs Big Ben in all his
96 years
or
has been muted for only one perso-Mrs Elizabeth Canvendish-Bentinck. She and her husband
were the friends of the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, who had the bell silenced while the lay desperately ill at her Whitehall -:- home towards the end of, the lest century.
Symbol
I noticed that Lestrade moved intention. But there was only of one person who was aware a step closer to the Doctor.
"Take
you!" the final outcome; namely, that CUTSC care,
he never actually signed it." the oint- Holmes put down
him- "You mean Trelawney dead self?" the up one point which continues
"It was no whim, believe me, ment and took tu
"I mean Ainsworth. man's heavy gold watch, which puzzle me. How was
I wish to explain how the late seemed to tick even more loudly. solicitor who drew the will. He it that
cold- Trelawner you were able to avail yourself M
"I would draw your attention has admitted us sel bloodedly murdered. "No, Watson! These windows of Sir Leopold Harper?" he
to this watch, of the sort known confession." "Murdered, chi"
blurted out were not opened three
turning Dr nights asked suddenly.
Last night I as a gold hunter. Grimn. Then
Inspector #go. Had they
opened Lestrade. "Does he live here?" been
Lestrade wants to hear you. wound it up fully at 10 o'clock. he is staying with some But the method-?" during so heavy a storm I must "No,
It is now, as you see, 20 minutes have found traces." He snifted friends in the neighbourhood, the air. "But it was not neces- When
"Was diabolical in its simpli- past five." the post-mortem was alt
Watson here was decided on, sary to open the windows."
the local police sy. Dr
shrewd
to enough
cnli my Listen!" sald 1. "What is looked upon it as a bit of luck that strange noise?"
that the best-known expert in attention to it. No, Watson, not
form is casi. I looked over towards England on medicat Jurisprud- word! Mr Appley gave us the
ly obtain bed, with its curtains and high, ence should be within reach, so clue when he said that if he
nk head-board. At the head they sent for him. And a fine had practised medicine he might recall, when the Vicar wound able, as the British Yublic know have removed up this same watch on the from th: Bartlett case. In such a tine they had to get him to do absent-mindedly of the bed my gaze fastened on
patient's gall-stones. But morning you found your unele small community,, a friend of marble-topped table," he added with a sly grin. mall
that was not all he said. He dead. Though the performance the family like Ainsworth would with
number
"Why?" of dully
stated that first he would have may distress you now, I beg have easy access to the medical medicine bottles,"
chloroformed the patient. The of you to
to listen.'
works in the Vicar's library. He "Holmes, it is the dead man's
suggestive word was chloro- Cr-r-ack went the harsh rasp- evolved rather a clever plan at gold watchi It les upon that
form."
Ing noise 03 Holmes began his leisure. In my litle analysis little table there, and it is still
"Chloroform1" echoed Dr slowly to turn the stem
and last
last night I should have been Bicking.
Grimn, rather wildly.
wind
ont it up. On and
it less confident had not examina- stem seemed to go, while the
tion of the dead man's, face still turned.
with lens revealed jury-proof "Exactly. It might well sug- "Hold hard!" said Dr Griffin. evidence in the form of minute est itself to the murderer since "There's something wrong!" burns and traces of Vaseline in only last year, in a famous "Again excellent!
And what the skin-pores,"
Dale "But Miss murder trial at the Old Bailey, is wrong?"
Adelaide Mrs.
It, the "Deuce Lake
Vicar Griffin!" acquitted from
of made only two full turns poisoning her husband by pour that stem, and
Was It
fully ing liquid chloroform down his wound up! You've made seven throat as he lay asleep,"
During the war Big Ben re- "But, deuce take It Trelaw wound!"
"My dear Watson, when I gordod so that New Zealand's swallowed no chloroform!" of course not.
60, "Precisely
returned hear of a young woman, ali fire | House of Representativea could But suppose, Holmes, but I do not em- and temperament, who ไล
"Does that astonish you?” "Surely, after three days, they would have allowed it to run down?"
So
they did. But I wound
"Because he was in bed with a hot-water boitie, a glass of hot toddy, and a cold in his head."
Holmes threw his arms in the
"My case is complete," he cried.
Lestrade and I looked at each other In
amazement.
Holmes,
11 up. I came up here before I
"I have only one more instruc examined the dead man down-
tion give," Bald
เ stairs. In faci, I made this "Lestrade,
nobody must leave whole journey from the village this house tonight, The diplo
to wind up Squire Trelawney's macy of detalning everyone here watch at precisely ten
Upon my words, "
a
hastening to the small table in qucation, "what treasure- trove we have here! Look at this, Lestradel Look at it!"
Summer Time
I leave to you. Watson and
will
compose ourselves in this
morning."
do
The
large
in
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Wag
and Dr
of..
"Their conduct puzzled you?"
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Through the years Big Ben's voice has reppent
become exilca symbolic of Britain for wherever they may be. Hid bocmed ssurance and hope to a worlorn world; heartened resistance workers deep in hostilo territory; fortified the weak and oppressed In their hours of oppression: spurred on to victory armies against the hondes exeking world domination; and called millions of Christiers to prayer. His voice herosded the Sovereign who talked to the peoples of the world; of the passing of kings, ho recounted the years of their
solemn, lives in
soft, muffled tones.
יי
be called to prayer by records "jjys” mách đây, he
signalled Britain and many other nations minute of client prayer, na ton
Ben Bl suzgested by the 63cmt Minute Observation lesiera batare the 9. p.in. nown. Big Ben has had a somewhat uneasy youth after his casting 1858. Like his he was found to be A square was out to prevent the
on
"And seo," he continued, room until five o'clock tomorrow Dr Griffin, I were to take phasise this particular watch. thrown into the company of of his chimes, and broadcasting
pad of cotton woul Any watch. If It be wound up man of exactly similar charac-
chloroform
anti at ten o'clock in the evening, teristics in sharp contrast to a It was in vain, considering his saturated
mouth and
solicitor who- masterful nature,
to ask why press it over the
old man cannot possibly be fully wound cold-minded nostrils of an
her carefully — my he we must
this. While
on the fo morning with watches heavily sleeping man-for some only two settled into the only rocking twenty minutes.
suspicions are aroused, especially What would chair, it was in vain to protest happen?"
"My God muttered when she expresses unprovoked that I could not even sit down
all public occasions." dislike on on the dead man's bed, much,
"He would die. Yet you could doctor, staring at Holmes.
"Hence the late Mr Trelawney, "Then why did she not simply not do that
without leaving did not go to bed at ten o'clock, break her engagement?" less take a brief nap there,
time. objected for
1. races!"
fact that some
"You overlook the considering his badly "Ah, excellent! What traces?" Surely,
always objected until
upbraided "Chloroform tends to burn or disturbed nerves and the con- her unclo
tinued thunderstorm, It is for her for fickleness. Had she re- in his side blister the skin. There would
that likely
he be burns, at least very
sat up. voked her pledge, she would spilt spreading, amall
114 reading his Bible until an un- have lost dignity in her own: given a lighter clapper of burns."
corthly hour, as the Vicar suld eyes. But why on earth, Wat-
tons. Then
designer, had HOLMES he sometimes did. Though he son, are you, chuckling now?”.
to pay the cost of a libel action "Merely wound up his watch as usual,
sense of : In-s] withdrawn aflor he had. at“. shot out
I was thinking, arm he did not retire long
until three congrulty,
cused the foundry of faulty éf of singular name
that casting. towards the o'clock. The murderer caught the Ittle marble him in a heavy sleep."
vilage in Somerset."
His 19-tons bulk is sug almost therefore "And
25in, by 19in. The village of Camberwall?pended from topped table.
Dolores
sald Holmes, smiling, "Yes, it is oak beam estimated to be able NOW.D
from our to hold 100 tons, and he intones
is here!
You'll soon need
Watsont Cleaving through my dreams, that volce aroused me from slumber.
I sai bolt upright on the quilt feeling much, dishevol
with the morning' B led),
in my eyes and the dead man's- watch still licking near my ear
Sherlock Holmes, with his of customary catlike
à PHILCO
air-conditioner
| appearance, .
neatness stood watching
'MENT:
is ten minutes past five,”
said he, and I felt:1. Had bost
moro
a
Pro-since. one person. Indeed different
Paid tells
"
and ho
Film
wax
he saw Trelawney London district of Camberwell. in the key of E below the mid- awaken you. Afi, Lestrade," he he, holding up the tiny pot of asleep at ten thirty at midnight, You must give the chronicle dle C. His father" cast"; on. duo, Watson, lest Teca-side und weighing 10 fons, continued there came Vaseline, 1 were, first softly to and again at one o'clock that different
be confused" da to the was broken up, when, tests knock at the door. "I trust that, spread on the face of the victim, person has told us a provablo renders
Pray a thin film of such ointment as and damning falsehoods true locale of the Camberwell found him to be cracked. Cast the others are with you, other women wens Hime: cried 1, "at last I poisoning case study with him were the 20,000 prez come in
bounded off the bed si Miks aftme-whichwa pam
majo THE END-Meant quarter bells, each welsh- "Dale entered the room" followed ??
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