THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,
MARCH 20, 1936.
BABY FARMING INQUIRY
Woman M. P. Mrs. Montagu Norman Placed On Committee
INVESTIGATION of allegations regarding traffic in
children has been launched by the Government.
Two famous women, Mrs. Montagu Norman, wife of the Governor of the Bank of England, and Miss Florence Horsbrugh, M.P. for Dundee, are two, leaders of the campaign. As announced in the House of Commons, they are to serve on a committee of inquiry.
Japanese Finds Why The World "Wobbles"
VARIATION OF
LATITUDE
£120,000 Play from Scrap of Paper
A PLAY which sprang from a young medical student's
scribbled noto in a railway carringo, and has earned more than $120,000 at the box-office, will this month roach its 1,000th performanco in London,
Only half a dozen other plays have run for so long in London. The play is "The Wind and the Rain," by Dr. Merton Hodge, and it has also enjoyed long runs in Germany, Japan, Sweden, and elsewhere..
It has been seen by 750,000 people in 20 different countries
and has made the names of four or five actors and actresses.
Dr. Hodge, it is estimated,, will be more than £10,000 in
pocket as a result of the play: WORLD-WIDE
"I came to England from New! Zealand ostensibly to carry on my
a doctor," Dr. Hodge)
training
enkt. "but actually by secret aimi
Sir John Simon, Home Secretary, I was the theatre, making the announcement, said hef had appointed the committer to Inquire inte:——
TO BE A NOVEL
"I had the idea that there would
I took out
EFFORT TO TRAP BAFFLING RAYS
Dr.
"The methods pursued by adoption societies or other be great scope in a play about
Chicago, Mar. 10. agencies engaged in arranging medical students. One day, when I for the adoption ul children and was sitting in a train at Galashiels
Arthur H. Compton, to report whether any, and if so, Station, whole lines of the play energetic University of Chicago what, measures should be taken crowded Into my head.
physicist, awaits reports from In the public Interest to super- vise or control their activities," pencil and a serap of paper and seven widely separated areas of the earth's surface for proof of at Other members of the committee scribbled them down, murmuring least two more theories evolved
name of them to myself.
in his experimental work with "I remember that an elderly the cosmic ray. Scotswoman
Meters, heavily sheathed compart-
lead, were posted in these seat- ment got out hastily at the next tered points recording the move- station.
ment of the rayn as they bombard the earth.
the
лге:-
Mr. Bryan Manning, lay magis- The Gold Medal of the Royal trate of Putnoy, chartered necaun- Astronomical Society, the most fant
of
coveted distinction in the astro- Mr. J. J. Mallon, warden nomical world, has this year been Toynbee Hall (East End rettle- awarded to Professor Hisashi ment); Kimura, director of the Mizu- sawa Observatory, Japan,
Mr. John Henry Harrk, Londah | majċistrate;
The Mizusawa Observatory was Mr. B. E. Astbury, secretary of established thirty-six years ago for the Charity Organisation Society: the purpose of investigating the!
Mr. Geoffrey W. Russell, London remarkable phenomenon known as solicitor. the "variation of latitude" and Professor Kimura has been in charge of this work ever
since.
Woman Chairman
and was
in the
in
"The play attracted people from
One meter Is on board the start. It was written simply steamship Orangi, operating_bo- n departure from the tween Vancouver and Sydney, Aus- many writers train. Another is in Cheltenham, ophisticated stuff
Maryland, a third has been ship- had been producing.
ped to the Huancayo observatory "What has amazed me, however, in Peru. has been its popularity abroad. It has had long runs in Vienna. Ger- Calcutta, and even in Jamaica and Japan.
The latitude of a place is its angu- Miss Horsbrugh will be chairmany, Sweden, Antwerp, Brussels, lar distance from the equator, and man of the committee. She is at one time it was necepted that Conservative M. P. for Dundee. this angular disinnen was absolute- į She has been a member, of the ly fixed. Some eighty' years ago | British delegation to the League ot
"My agents tell me that they be- leve it will turn out to be the most valuable property they have hand- led for amateur rights. Now I un She introduced a Bill to the turning it into a novel." Towards the close of last century. House of Commons relating to the however, the director of the Berlin methylated spirit drinking menace, Observatory, after a long series of and in 1933 was appointed a njem- careful observations, announced ber of the departmental committee that there was a definite change in which considered the recondition- the latitude of Berin, and shortlyng of slums.. afterwards similar observations For her work in connection with minde at the Harvard College the Ministry of Food during the Observatory, Cambridge, Mass war she was awarded an M.B.E.
astronomical observations suggest-Nations Assembly for the past ed that the Intitude of a place was three yours, and has identified her- subject to variations, but these self with various social welfare variations were ascribed to errors schemes. In the observations."
disclosed unmistakable variations
in the latitude of that place.
International. Research These discoveries brought about international co-operation with a view to carrying out systematic observations into this remarkable phenomenon, and six observatories were-selected-around-the-earth-al-- most on the same latitude, about 89 deg. N., to make regular observa- tions of certain stars by means of telescopes always pointing to the zenith.
at
Mrs. Montagu Normann becante
a member of the LC.C, in 1931, hut after her marriage In Mr. Montagu Norman in January. 1934. she announced her retire- |
U.K. Airmail
Shows A Big Increase
London, Feb. 29. The British Postmaster Gener- ment, giving as her reason that al has reported an increase of her husband, as 'Governor of the nearly 54 per cent. in the amount Bank-kept-out-of-politics and of mail rent by air from Great
she might say things with Britain during the last year. which he did not agree.
and to Professor Kimura was allot-1924.
ted the task of reducing and co- ordinating all the observations
unsuccessfully,
Told Of Scandals
Recently Sir John Simon
in
TA.
Another is on duty in the town of Christchurch, and still another has been sent New Zealand. to Prof. Ralph D. Bennett of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology who will take it to the Rocky Mountains next summer.
Greenland Another Site
Two others are at the Univer- sity of Chicago awaiting shipment to Mexico City and Greenland.
The objectives, Dr. Compton ex- plained, are:
First, to explain the dally varia- tion in intensity of cosmic rays. and, second, to find whether cos- mie rays have greater intensity in the Northern Hemisphere than in the Southern.
There appears to be an effect on'cosmic rays caused by the ro tation of the galaxy in which the Milky Way, the earth, and the aun are located," he said.
"Astronomers estimate that our
galaxy is moving faster than 200 north at 45 degrees-In the general- miles per second approximately direction of the star, Vegn.
May Explain Variation
"If this is so, there would be an explanation of the daily varia tion, according to aldereal time, in the intensity of cosmic rays, though this variation may be ex plained by other hypotheses.
Before her marriage to Mr. The weight of air mails dies-i Norman she was Mr. Worsthorne, patched during 1936 was 187 tons, The Japanese observatory
Her first husband was an officer in as compared with 122 tons in 1934. Mizusawa was selected as the clear- the Irish Guards.. She stood for The division of the air mail des.
patches-in pounds-was: ing-house, so to speak, in this work, Parliament,
Empire air services, 248,100 and 143,700 in 1934; European ser- "But," he said, "if the instru vices, 143,900 and 98,400 in 1984; menta in seven widely scattered made at the co-operating observceived a deputation of children tories.
regions of the world show a great- It was estimated that nearly er intensity of cosmic rays in the During the war this work was protection society delegates, who 10,500,000 letters went by air from Northern Hemisphere than in the suspended at some of the observa./described to him the scandals of Great Britain last year as com Southern, I shall regard the de- tories, but when hostilities ended the traffic in children.
pared with about 6,000,000 in 1934 Professor Kimura set to work with
this and about 4,000,000 in 1933. The vigour, and the various stations country were alleged to be selling dispatched abroad was 79 tons as have since been actively engaged in "adopted" children to foreigners. total weight of
airmall parcels making the necessary observations, After that the children disappear-compared with 74 tons in 1934 and and other stations added south of d.
the equator, in Australia and S.
Continental agencies in
America, and one in Java, almost New Lease On Life
on the equator.
There is now no doubt that the earth's axis, once believed to
be always parallel to itself, is
subject to oscillations, which cause latitudes to vary.
67 tonn in 1983.-United Press.
that our particular galaxy is ro monstration as positive evidence tating, and that cosmic rays originate in remote space or re- mote galaxies."
Compton, young, powerfully built, a winner of the Nobel prize in physics, within the next few months will inaugurate at least two other instruments in his ex-)
LONDON SURGEON MAYperimental work."
Radio Balloon To Be Used
END HEART TROUBLE One of these, a small balloon An operation which may be the means of lengthening the lives carrying a cosmic ray meter and a WEEK END of hundreds of sufferers from heart weakness has been performed human cargo, will soar skyward
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Instead of by a Harley-street surgeon, Dr. Laurence O'Shaughnessy. It to obtain additional data from followed upon the success of a series of similar operations upon the stratosphere. The second will racing grey-hounds.
be a huge electro-magnet designed A man of 64, suffering from. "We aimed to provide ways and to study the disintegration effects blocking of the arteries, was means of getting. new blood sup- of cosmic rays within the magne- operated on. The operation lasted plies to the heart of the grey tie field. 25 minutes: Its effect has been hounds," he said.
The eight-ton magnet, thou-. to provide the man with a now "When
a dog's heart is weak sands of times more powerful blood supply.
and dilated the operation will en- than the earth's magnetic field as The operation will be repeatedjable the heart to function normally, measured by the deflection of a upon likely subjects at the earliest The operations on the greyhounds compass од the Univeralty of opportunities. The greatest cau- were so successful that the trial Chicago campus, will have a six- tion has been observed in describ-times of the dogs afterwards com-inch space between its poles in ing the operation and its possible pared very well with their previ- which instruments may be placed effects, but it is believed that it ous times.
to record the magnetic deffection will open up new avenues in surveterinary journal because we be-ducts.
"We reported the case in aof cosmic rays and their by-pro- The original experiment was jlieve that experts on the Continent) The balloons are expected to made by Prof. James McCunn, of are working towards the same end, rise at least 17 milea above the the Royal Veterinary College. In ond we wished to establish our earth's surface.
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Dr. O'Shaughnessy, who saw the beings there is no doubt that it CALLED A FREEMASON possibility of extending their scope will serve to lengthen life. to human surgery.
"Hearts that have been weakened! M. van Zeeland, the Belgian"
Brussels, Mar. 11. NEW BLOOD SUPPLY by illness, old age, or excessive Premier, has won the action for strain could be restored to strength, libel which he brought against the, Prof. McCunn said that he and Many people could be saved from ring to him as a Freemason. Tho Dr. O'Shaughnessy had considered the constant dread the experiments for some time.heart attack."
of another newspaper Renovation for refer- court awarded him £080 damages.
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