THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MARCH
20, 1936.
BABY FARMING INQUIRY Week-end Supplies
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
Sir John Simon, Home Secretary, making the announcement, said ke had appointed the committee to inquire into:
£120,000 Play from Scrap of Paper
A
PLAY which sprang from a young medical student's #cribbled note in a railway carriage, and has earned more than $120,000 at the box-office, will this month reach its 1,000th performance In London.
Only half a dozen other playa have run for so long in London. The play is "The Wind and the Rain," by Dr. Mérton Hodge, and it has also enjoyed long runs in Germany. Japan, Sweden, and cisowhere.
It has been seen by. 750,000 people in 20 different countries and has made the names of four or five actors, and netresses,
Dr. Hodge, it is estimated..
will be more than £10,000 in
"I came to England from New
pocket as a result of the play. WORLD-WIDE Zealand ostensibly to carry on my EFFORT training as a doctor." Dr. Hodge
ald, "but actually my secret aim TO TRAP
was the theatre.
TO BE A NOVEL
"I had the idea that there would!
"The methods pursued by adoption societies or other agençles engaged in arranging medical students. for the adoption of children and was sitting in a train at Galashiels to report whether any, and if so, Station, whole lines of the play what, measures should be taken crowded into my head. I took out In the public interest to super- vise or control their activities." penell and a scrap of Other members of the committee scribbled them down,
some of them to myself,
be great scope in a play about
One day, when 1)
are:-
Mr. Bryan Manning, lay magis- The Gold Medal of the Royal trate of Putney, chartered accoun- Astronomical Society, the most tant
of
Mr. John Henry Harris, London magistrate:
coveted distinction in the astro- Mr. J. J. Mallon, warden nomical world, has this year been Toynbee Hall East End settle- awarded to Professur Hisashi ment): Kimura, director of the Mizu- sawa Observatory, Japan.
The Mizuenwa Observatory was
Mr. B. E. Astbury, secretary of established thirty-six years ago for the Charity Organisation Society; Mr. Geoffrey W. Russell, London
the purpose of investigating the remarkable phenomenon known as solicitor, the "variation of Intitude" and Professor Kimura has been In charge of this work ever since.
Woman Chairman
BAFFLING RAYS
Chicago, Mar. 10.
Dr. Arthur H. Compton, energetic University of Chicago physicist, awaits reports from seven widely separated areas of paper and the earth's surface for proof of at murmuring least two more theories evolved in his experimental work with the cosmic ray,
"I remember that an elderly Seofswomon In the compart. ment got out hastily at the next station.
Japan.
Meters, heavily sheathed in lead, were posted in these sent tered points recording the move- ment of the rays as they bombard the earth.
Another is on duty in the town and still another has been sent New Zealand, of Christchurch, to Prof. Ralph D. Bennett of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology who will take it to the Rocky Mountains next summer.
"The play attracted people from
One meter is on board the the start. It was written simply steamship Orangi, penting be and was 21 departure from the tween Vancouver and Sydney, Aus many writers tralia. Another is in Cheltenham, sophisticated stuff
Maryland, a third has been ship- had been producing.
ped to the Hunnenyo observatory "What has amazed me, however, in Peru, has been its popularity abroad. It has had long runs in Vienna, Ger- Miss Horshrugh will be chair-many, Sweden, Antwerp, Brussels, The latitude of a place is its ungu- of the committee. She is Calcatta, and even in Jamaica and Iar distance from the equator, and man at one time it, was accepted that Conservative M. P. for Dundee. this angular distance was absolute- She has been a member of the ly fixed. Some eighty years ago British delegation to the League of "My agents tell me that they be astronomical observations suggest-Nations Assembly for the past lieve it will turn out to be the most el that the latitude of a pince was three years, and has identified fer- subject to variations, but These self with various social welfare valuable property they have hand- led for amateur rights. Now I am variations were ascribed to errorsschenies, in the observations,
She Introduced a Bill to the turning it into a novel." Towards the close of last century. House of Commous relating to the however, the director of the Berlin methylated spirit drinking menace, Observatory, after a long series of and in 1933 as appointed a mem~ enreful observations, announcedber of the departmental committee that there was a definite change in which considered the recondition-} the latitude of Berlin, and shortly
ng, of slums. afterwards similar observations
Far her work in connection with made at the Harvard College the Ministry of Food during the Observatory, Cambridge, Mass.,
war she was awarded an M.B.E. disclosed unmistakable variations. in the latitudo of that place.
International Research
Mrs. Montagu Norman became n member of the LC.C. in 1931, but after her marriage to Mr. Montagu Norman in January, 1933, she announced her retire-
U.K. Airmail Shows A Big Increase
These discoveries brought about international co-operation with a
London, Feb. 29. view to carrying out systematie
The British Postmaster Gener. observations into this remarkablo ment, giving as her reason that al has reported an increase of phenomenon, and six observaturies her husband, as Governor of the nearly 54 per cent, in the amount were selected around the earth al Bank, kept out of, polities and of mail sent by air from Great most on the same latitude, about 39 she might say things with Britain during the last year. leg. N., to make regular observa- which he did not agree. tions of certain stars by means of
The weight of air mails des- Before her marriage to Mr. telescopes always pointing to the Norman she was Mr. Worsthurne.patched during 1935 was 187 tons, The Japanese observatory at Her first husband avas an officer in compared with 122 tons in 1934,
She stood for
The division of the air mail des- Mizusawa was selected as the clear the Irish Guards.
patches-in pounds-was: unsuccessfully. Parliament, ing-house, so to speak, in this work,
1924.
Empire air services, 248,100 and and to Professor Kimura was allot-
143,700 in 1934; European ser- ted the task of reducing and co- ordinating all the observations
vices, 143,900 and 98,400 in 1934: It was estimated that nearly
zenith.
in
י,
·
Groenland Another Site
Two others are at the Univer sity of Chiengo awaiting shipment to Mexico City and Greenland.
The objectives, Dr. Compton ex- plained, are:
First, to explain the daily varin- tion in intensity of cosmic rays, and, second, to find whether cos- mic 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 san are located," he said.
"Astronomers estimate that our
Kalaxy is moving faster than 200 miles per second approximately north-qt 45 degrees in the general direction of the star, Vega.
May Explo. Variation
"If this is so, there would be an explanation of the daily varin- tion, according to 'sidereal time, in the intensity of cosmic rays, though this, variation may be ex- plained by other hypotheses.
Told Of Scandals
"But," he said, "if the Instru- ments in seven avidely scattered Recently Sir John Simon re- made at the co-operating observceived a deputation of children
regions of the world show a great- tories.
er intensity of cpamic 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- pared with about 6,000,000 in 1334 monstration as positive evidence tories, but when hostilities ended the traffic in children.
Continental agencies in this and about 1,000,000 in 1933. The that our particular galaxy is ro- Professor Kimura set to work with
and that cosmic rays vigour, and the various stations country were alleged to be selling dispatched abroad was 79 tons as ating
nirmall parcel originate in remote space or re- have since been actively engaged in "adopted" children to foreigners: Votal weight of making the necessary observations, After that the children 'disappear compared with 74 tons in 1934 and
mote galaxies." and other stations added south of the equator, in Australia and S. Amorica, and one in Java, almost on the equator.
There is now no doubt that the earth's axis, once belleved to be always parallel to itself, is subject to oscillations, which cause latitudes to vary.
el.
New Lease On 'Life.
67 tons in 1933.-United Press.
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.
END HEART TROUBLE
Radio Balloon To Be Used
One of these, a small balloon carrying a cosmic ray meter and a
An operation which may be the means of lengthening the lives radio attachment instead of WEEK END of hundreds of sufferers from heart weakness has been performed human cargo, will soar skyward
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by a Harley-street surgeon, Dr. Laurence O'Shaughnessy. It to obtain additional data 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- tic field. 25 minutes: Its effect has been hound)," he said,
The eight-ton magnet, thou- to provide the man with a new "When a dog's heart is weak sands of times more powerful blood supply.
and dilated the operation wilt en than the earth's magnetic field as The operation will be repeated able the heart to function normally, measured by the deflection of a on the University of upon likely subjects at the earliest The operations on the greyhounds compass 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 provi- which instruments may be placed to record the magnotic' deflection effects, but it is believed that it ous times.
in at CARE
gory.
of cosmic rays and their by-pro
will open up new avenues in surveterinary journal because we be ducts.
"We reported the
The balloons are expected to The original experiment was love that experts on the Continent made by Prof. James McCunn, of are working towards the same end, rise at least 17 miles above the
and the Royal Veterinary College. In
we wished to establish our earth's surface, his operation he had the help of priority. If the operation can suc- Dr. O'Shaughnessy, who saw the cessfully be performed upon humau CALLED A FREEMASON possibility of extending their scope will serve to lengthen life.
beings there is no doubt that it ito human surgery.
NEW BLOOD SUPPLY Prof. McCunn said that be and Dr. O'Shaughnessy had considered the experiments for some time,
Brussels, Mar. 11. "Hearts that have been weakened M. van Zeeland, the Belgian by Illness, old age, or excessive (Premier, has won the action for strain could restored to strength. libel which he brought against tho Many people could be saved from ring to him as a Freemason. The the constant dread of another newspaper Renovation for refor- court awarded, him, £680 damages.
heart attack."
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