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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER-
Stories From All Parts Of The World
BRITAIN IS IN RACE TO BUILD A-SHIPS
THE
London.
irst nuclear-powered ship-it is likely to be at sen by the end of 1950--wil probably look like the artist's impression above.
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HAVO vinna.
Amerien
and
Norway buliding
By MONTAGUE LACEY
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in
Norway platis 32,000-ton
Unker »nel the engine ahrady being bullt,
And Britain" Szeret pepari- tory.work is already in pros
shipyards, IN
und Harwelt welentlata are leade ing a hand. cargo. But it will probably take
Announced America will spend more than £14,000,000 dry-cargo ship or a passenger ship.
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yeurs before any country can
'Duller "Men Shine At Interviews'
KNIGHT WORKER IN A TIMBER YARD
Wellington:
Sir Basil Malcolm Arthur, Bart, is an industrious worker
JOB 'FAILURES in the timber yards of Mangakino mill.
MAY BE
THE CLEVEREST
London.
People who do not do well when being interviewed for jobs may actually be among the best candidates, siv Professor H. J. Eysenck, of the London University Institute of Psychiatry.
more then
Nobody in Mangakino ́, thinks there is anything odd about Sir Baail, even though he is a baronet,
"Basil", is he is locally known is popular with the townspeople, an ordinary man working at an artlinary job.
For dive years he has worked at the mill, saving antasy to by a business of his own-and set the foundations in politics.
of a career
" keep on working until Pve got the money to live up to my title," he said recently penall elever behind one ear, as he adjusted.
hle ollskin cape,
Baxil has thought a lot about the tile he inherited when his father, a Nelson hotel keeper, died in 1949, pro-
He has been investigating | interviews modern mo'hods of Intyr people. viewing candidates in Indust y, The professor adds, In # at universities and in the Army | report published by The during wartime,
Industrial Welfare Society: "Current imer.lowing codures are not much better than tossing a coin as far us the selection of
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predictions didnten is concerned”ble can-
Often one
of member operate atomic ships profi-
Arm will turn ably.
down o There are muly prob-
can who ranks high with didate tems to be overcome. Crews
another atomic
member, must brained in
about candidates' future pro. power. Then there is the danger of
KTC are often wrong, and duller candida c. may get the radionetive contamination of the sea if
alemle
inost ship
approval,
saya the were synk.
some dullor What are the advantages? The Norwegian tankers, for in-
to kline stance, will run nearly four years without refuelling.
An
DRANK TWO BOTTLES
OF SCOTCH'
TO PROVE HIS POINT
New York.
A defence lawyer demonstrated to a court that a man could drink two bottles of Scotch whisky in an 18-hour period and remain conscious.
But whether the lawyer, Mr Edward Bobick, proved his point must await the jury's verdict.
For the moment, he did prove that a man his size, 260 lbs, and six feet one and a half inches tall, can consume two American-sized bottles of Scotch and argue a case in couri. (An American-sized hottie is four-fifths of a quart, or about 26
Qunets).
The case involved two men accused of kidnapping and robbing a third man, with whom they had struck up
a barroom friendship. Mr Bobirk's clients claimed that they had drunk about 80 glasses of beer and a bottle of rye whisky hetween them in an 18-hour period.
two boilies ul thit much woudd
He contender that his el enls | wh; the defenduels drank wid
have could
drunk that nu. 1 cquista ent consclun but whil-ky and
er have rendered th-m une piscious. would not klow the nature
After their sel
court. Mr Boolek etied to El offer
a.cobollsm.
whe teled
1
secun
w.in twi
11 12 1
the
Com's g : ม. 1. State witnesses and two bottles, une a presented
25 y ar-old $ 0.01 That'
12-year-old Sestch Interspring his drinking with a incal of rich I alian food, chicken and ders.rl, Mi Bobler finished the A:at bottle
Japanese
Building Up
Their Sea 'Offensive'
WO Japanese
Two docked In
Liverpool, ships which Britain last
month stressed the
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ELIXIR OF LIFE?
Pretoria. The secret of eternal youth, sought after by scienusts for centuries, is probably contained in the milky white substance-royal jelly ---which enables t her to lay queen bee 0
own weight in eggs every day, Mr E. A. Schnetler, a bee-keeper of Pretoria, said.
i am and slop' to 8 ani. Upon Awakening, he polished uff the second bottle in ume to get
court at 10 ..
court
soine- und
He was red of face. what louger than usual, slurred an occasional word as he told of his expe.iment to the
jury of nine men and three
women-China Mail Speciai,
DENTISTS' DRILL
owing NEW LOOK
competition from the East
which British shipowners must face.
Tokyo.
The dentist's drill which Bas One, the newly built 18-knot made many a courageous man Sagom! Maru,
In cringe in the dentist's Liverpool. The 9,400 ton may no
arrived
chatr
longer become merchantman came in on me rightening if a newly-invented
ofter 37-day voyage from Kobe by way of Suez.
Monthly Service
"She is loaded with general cargo,"
suld a
ΟΙ spokesmun Nippon Yusen Kaisha lo Lendon. "She will be back in Japan by December 10,"
The 7,100-ion Ryuzan Maru also calle at Liverpool, Sho, too, jo opening up A nowy monthly service, Her run will be between European ports and the Pacific coast.
and
drill comes into common usage.
Profs
Shinjiro Takahashi Tokuro Muramatsu of Tokyo Medical and Dental University claim the develop ment of a new super-speed dril which it hydroturbine about does away with pain. vibration and friction-heat treatment of decayed teeth,
Will Slash Time
Use of the new drill also is ould to slash drilling time to [one-fifili ∙of that formally
Whereas dental drills at presen:, jexpended in such an operation.
are powered by electric motors which
splu bile fited into the Japaness shipping interests headpiece
by
serios Government revolving are pressing their
bells, the to aim at a merchant fleet of conceived dell is driven by 10 milled tons rather than the small turbino in the hardpicco prezent figure of 4,800,000 tons, which works on a pumping
with, oll principle The pre-war peak figure of
or water Japanse tontage was 8,000,000., under pressure.
22 Liners Planned
Among the ships the Japanese hope to start building soon are !five tankers of
than 80,000 toca and 22 lipers.
The
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of
newly-
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The rejuvennung powers of royal jelly, he said, had been proved beyond ques- tion by scientists in many Some parts of the world. years ago alling octagon- arians in Greece bad be come fathers of strapping children after a course in royal jelly.
YOUTHFUL HENS
In other cometries homE "who had forgotten what an egg looked like" began cackling you.hfully and laying as heavily as ever, after being given feed con- taining minute quantities of royal jell
fod Insects
on royal jelly had grown to twice- their normal sizt The lifespan of pigs and rota in other tuntrolled experi ments had been increased cent by, 30 per
Women whose uned and wrinkled facts told their own stories of advancing years, after a cotira On face ortam which con- tuired
small quanillien of royal jelly had regained clear skin and youthful complexions.
Mar Schootler, who holds three world records for production alaried honey producing royal jelly Boveral months ago and now has 12 hives devolca to its production. He is expanding the output. China Mall Special,
Drank The Evidence
Auckland.
The speed of revolving bit can be regulated. The
na rumena pro now 20,000 to 70,000 revolutions per revolutions by a normal driff stealing a bottle of brandy and A saman pleaded guilty to minulo as against 4,000 to 7,000
Preliminary
with a bobia of whisky when he approximately 300 patients was brought before
or grinding are reported Concarning hd bottle of whisky, he told the magistrate has when he realised what ho had dono, he was too naháméd treatment of tooth-deoxy--Chine, to take it. back
to take it back má
are also in the market bring various types of trate in Auckland and ELKO
for older ships. The 27-year- to bave barcel a virtual aberce
eld British-built finer Manunda of friction-beat and vibration har just bom rold to Japan by which have been the bene in #Her Australian owessies.
professor.
This is becauNE pcople ure apl
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Interviewers should be care. fully selected themselves, should be trained by expert psycholo- gists, and a check is recxled on Interviewers' SUCCESSCE,
15 It suggested.
-(London Express Service).
Fluke Saved 168,000
13
From Atom Bomb
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
London.
A World War II secret revealed recently tells the astonishing story of a town of 168,000 people which escaped destruction....because of a pilot's last-minute decision.
TEFALA
The town a Kekura in Japan, It is also revealed that the
original thr
target plnum was off target with the chosen for the second atomic bombs otherwise
bomb. which eventually fell on
Nagasaki.
casualties
would have been much greater. The bomb fell four miles north- east of Nagasaki, and it seems to have been by chance that it fell on an industrial centre there,
to Nagasaki, 100 miles away, the | targets, Instead Britain alternative target on his list.
Union Leader
A married
man with three children, the 28-year-old baronet is secretary of the 800-strong Workers' Union a Mangakino
Died In 1939. But
He's Still
A Prolific Writer
New York.
Zane Grey has boen dead since 1989; but hid's the author of a new best seller published every year.
#to
The would-femous creator of One race horse and
many "Riders of the Purple Sage" and babica have been named after other popular westerns turned him, his wife, said, and several oul novels at such a rate that importers have brett found there was a big backlog of them posing na "the real Eane Grey," when he died at the of 64. During Grey's Ute, 11,220,399 There were enough, in fact, copies of his books were sold in to run through to 1000, at a mic the United States. Millions of task on which he works two of one
were a year, despite the fact others
Translated and nights a week.
that Grey wrote
word in published in 20 languages. Mru He in president of the local longland while loungins, la Grey said she had no idea how Labour Parly branch and vice- huge old Morts chair.
many more copies of her hus- president of the Rotorua Labour
Grey's widow and editor, Mrs band's books had been sold since representation Committee.
Lina Elise Besides
Roth Grey,
his death, "but it runs into the planning his
millions.' future, Basil is watching
own helped put the finishing touches
the on every future of his son,
one of the ̄| 100-odd three-year books he wrote, came to Nex
the York
from her Altadena,
old John Steven, heir to
Bile
who
Only The Bible "He had fall falth and con- nauce in duis "woric,” the sald,
"1 will certainly keep the tifte / California, home to teid to He'd be plossed at hla, continu-
Tre
alive for my son who might want the future it holds," sold.
One day he will go to Eng- land, and to Kent, wierzo hilo ancestors once owned
targe ostates. But he will come back keep the
to New Zealand to
the here. China Mail Special,
AIRLINE STARTS PUZZLE CRAZE
A
An American plane made three unsuccessful altempis 10 drop the bomb on Kokum early an August 9, 1946, Euch run over the target was inaccurate, partly because of bad weather. The British Staff Chiels were So the pilot decided to switch not consulted about the choice of Kave America o "blank cheque" agree- By this fluke of fate, the ment to use the bombs how
saved they thought fit. people of Kokura were and 84,000 people in Nagasaki!!
aboard jetBut Str William Penney (then") were killed or injured.
These facts are put on record Dr Penney) played a vital role in Live Sixth Volume
Japanese of the tn planning which
He Official History of the Second towns should be bombed. World War, published recently, was the only representative from Los Alamoshe New
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the
* "Grand Strategy," by John Mexico laboratory where the Ehrmun (H.M. Stationery Office, bombs wore Inde-T 80%.).
i target-planning team.
UNDERSIZE COIN MAY BE RAREST IN WORLD
may
newly-received
Philadelphia are, and only a fraction of the A freak of manufacture mal thickness,
Mr George Creed, dealer and at the United States Mint collector, came on the curiosity has given a prominent while he and his employers Philadelphia coin dealer and were going through
1,000 collector possession of what dollars worth of Franklin half- from dollars prove the rarest coin the mint here. in the world.
Mr Creed suld the market value of it might be compared its with that of the only-one-pl- postage Etamo in "mir inture" half-dollar, re= | existence, the British, Gulana_ rembling
standard-sized | ant-cent`magupta of 1886, which every counterpart in
respect has
value catalogue
of Except its size, It is
dollars about $30,000
(£10,000).— three-quarters of the normal China Mail Special.
The kind In existence,
coin, only one of fis-kind
London.
PUZZLE craze has gripped airline phasengers all because British Overseas Air- ways put brain teasers
airliners
to
amuse children.
Now the children, hardly have a chance if adult passengers find the puzzies first,
•
A stewardess, just back from South Africa, said: "A businessman aged 60 or more sat with one of the from puzzles all the way Johannesburg to London- 6,000 miles. We stopped three times en route and he kept it in his pocket. When we reached London he still hadn't solved it."
Another Bewards found puzzle -- Butting red, white ant blue rings over the fall of a vardboard cat to picons by an angry traveller who had bern baffled by I
placed The puzzles are In the stat fiops of acro- planes which leave London Airport every day for all parts of the world. They have even become the subject of cross remarks on the airline's suggestion cards, London Express Service.
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ingguocées, but whether ho would be surprised, I can't say.
We didn't let the product
that
Theory tren he died. Tee always
only one book ever Before a new Zane Giny book, went ahead of, Zmre Grey's comes out, it first appears as a novels. That was the Bible, He serial in a magazine, A woddly ha terrific television show band on zang ing about tive books, feel- He got Grey novels started early thix infuriated it
Făt anyone and he month A ang Inland publigan wrote te money. That gets over is putting vut a whole wet of to the roadme?
Mrs Grey mid "Ridats of the
Jong
"the com
complete Zane GEWY
which runs to enough volumes Purple Sebes betu the best
Grey bestseller to fill a large book CHEC
How favourite
TV is reviving old movies was his first, "Heritage of the based on Grey's book and MrsDerdes," this was "Wanderer
of the Wasteland.” Grey has just signed a contrest for the first paper-back reprints larity continue, from Helsink to
Why does her husband's popu of her husband's most thrilling Hollywood and among both the
WERLONS.
Harper
|| poor and palace dwellers? Isruthers, who published most of Grey's output, Mrs Grey wald, People like to "It's the paychology of escape," reported that 50 of the V9 books foi eroic.
They
that
of his they published still are in through his books. And print and high demand. His most consider also the fact that Harpora liters get quite a lot of no one has come along to replace ian mail for the dead author, Jaim)-United Pres
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