Mr. Smith, Farm His Canadian Fiancee
Hongkong Liner Tied Up In Frisco Strike
The intermittent trouble-be- tween shipowners and sailor' union on the Pacifle Const fared Into more trouble when the palatini steamer President' loo- ver, of the Dollar Line, with aboard nearly 600 passengers was tied up for several days from ta, departure schedule, be- cause of dismissal of Charles Brener (left) n deckhand who was union representative. Above. the Hoover at duck.
Ex-Millionaire Now Scrubs Floors
New York, Oct. 1.
WILLIAM CRAPO DURANT, founder of General
Motors, used to have a £25,000,000 banking account.
To-day he is scrubbing the floors, nickel." of a building in New Jersey that
Durant led his bankruptcy pell- was once a £60,000 moter-cur
tion Just February, listed 45 sole showroom, He is preparing to reopen_it_us_a lunch-room and assets £50 and his suits.
grocery shop.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH."・ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1936.
Hand, Says He Is Duke Says "I Believe
QUESTIONS
Him"
HE
CANNOT ANSWER
CLAIMS RICHMOND AND GORDON TITLE
By A Special Representative
Edmonton, Alberta, Oct. 1.
IN an unpainted farmhouse, reached by jogging along four miles of wagon ruts from the tiny village of Erskine, 75 miles south of Edmonton, is a tall, 27-year- old Scotsman who stubbornly insists that he is the Duke of Richmond.
NOW THEY QUOTE CLASSICS
New York, Oct. 5.
The second gentezuma' 121 1m sangka
With him is a shy, young children of former film star's country girl who believes him, allow the path of their parents. and, since she is going to marryllere is Marjorie De Haven daughter him, expects to be wearing of the fumous De llaven she will play duchess's coronet at the Corona a dancing part in n forthcoming Fox tion.
production.
She
is Jenn Townsend, 20-year-
old daughter of a local farmer.
"THEY'RE WRONG"
"1 am of the Smith branch of the
A WOMAN claims that in 10 family," Smith said to me.
years she has transformed 1,000 natives of Tobago, West Indies isle, discovered by Columbus, into "perfectly educated" men.
Recruited from the wildest part of the island they now
Use toothbrushes, wear smart lounge suits, study architecture, do physical Jerks every morning.
Mrs. Commander-in-chief is Whitely. Ten years ago, the smiled from New York for a fortnight's trip to the West Indies. She saw Tobago, decided it was Paradise, has lived there ever since.
Mrs. Whitely has just arrived in New York for a holiday: talked of her dream island:
They are such lovely peopic," she sald, "but their poverty is shocking.
"Ir. troopers are now per- feetly educated. They write beautifully, and quote from the classics we have in our clubhouse library. The Oxford Book of English Verse is the most popular book,
"They are marvellous men. There is nothing military about them. They are inore like Boy Scouts."
When I said that no records show any such branch. he coun-- tered with, "They're wrong. I am the duke."
“Of course, you have some papers
EARTH'S CRUST STILL COOLING Effect Felt Mile Below Surface
(From A Science Correspondent).
Blackpool, Oct. 1. The earth's crust is still suffering from its 100,000 years of cooling during the Inst ice age, according to
Dr. H. Jeffreys, of Cambridge Uni- to substantiate your claim," 1 said.versity, who to-day addressed the
British Association here.
Dr. Jeffrey drew picture of an Cheat outwards unending Now through the earth's crust surface.
"Oh.
yes, but they're in Leth- bridge-175 miles
away. That's where I used to live."
towards the
"But you have not a single paper the with a “clivity within
here.
"No."
"Weren't you notified here that you had inherited the dukedom?"
"Yes, by my family's salicitors." "Didn't they write or send a ca- ble?"
"TWO DUKES”
"No, they 'phoned me,”
"Bet what about the present duke?"
"Oh, he's of the Gordon-Lennox branch of the family. I'm helt of the Smith branch,"
"Then you think the title will be divided in half, that there are really two dukes?"
crust as the
source of heat,
The amount of heat com!
coming from the earth's molten interior was, be stated, relatively unimportant,
The last ice age ended about 10,000 he told me after the meet- years ago, ing.
Yet ever
even now its effects must extend to a depth of a mile or 50 below the surface. They are shown In a ten per cent, reduction in the rate at which the temperature within the crust increases as grenter depths are reached.
"The reason," he explained, "s that while the surface has
long since warmed up, the interior of the crust has not. It will probably be another 100,000 years before re- covery is complete.
Dr. Jeffreys address was in effect a report
on the investigations in this field of one of the Association's research committees. He stated that the average rate of Increase of tem- np- He described the estate na includ-perature inside the earth's crust
peared to be about 60 degrees ing several castles and 300,000 acres Fahrenheit per kilometre of
depth.
"That is," he answered.
in Scotland,
"My granduncle, Alexander Smith, Duke of Richmond. He died at Cairn Barrow Lodge, eight miles from Beldorney Castle, near Huntly, Aberdeenshire, the family
Man Found Dead In was the
Brine Vat
sent.
stated..
Mountains, local variations in the types of rocks and in their structure, were among the factors which, he, ture measurements. Records of this might effect local tempera- ind had 'even been used as an aid in the search for oil. LIFE AND CHEMICAL CONTROL Meantime the biologista were dis- cussing the strange system of chem cal control by which it appeared that, In any form of life, oné
part of the was transformed into developing a head, another into legs, and 60 on. Mr. C. H. Waddington, of Cam- bridge, reported that mammalian engs as well as those of amphibians and birds also possessed d chemical "organiser." This Is the nearest that this line of work, one of the "When I go back to the old coun-most important In the whole of try I shall go straight to Glass Vil-biology, has yet been brought to lage, in the north of Scotland, which man."
Mr. M. H. Frisby, aged 58, pro- minent member of Twickenham, "My father was in. Hinc_for_ike. Since then he has been preparing Philanthropie society, was found dead title. His name was Laddie Lachlin to-day with his head in a brine vat Beaverc Smith. With mother he Durant, now 74 years old, plans to the opening of his new enterprise in a shop at King-street, Twicken- was killed in an airplane accident
He has washed every dish, cleaned ham.
recently at Croydon." every window, polished every chair. He will serve behind the counter that his head fell against the edge of It is thought that he slipped and until he makes enough to pay the vat. His pipe was on a ledge a staff.
close at hand.
recoup his lost fortunes from a 21⁄41⁄2d Juncheon service.
"It's part of our new deal," be sald. "Each portion will
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"But," I said, "the British Air "Ministry say nobody of that name
was killed there."
"I can't help i
is the family seat. Then everything | It also appears that as well as the will be clear."
Smith's title.
on
"primary" organiser which atimu-
Miss Townsend reappeared and Ilates the production of nerve tissues told her what the authorities
in a more general way, there are n number of "secondary" peerage have to say about Mr.which control the development of organisero the body's individual members. All of
these
also are believed to chemical in their nature, but this has only been proved in the case of the "organiser" of the eyes.
DEFIANT SMILE
She looked at him nervously then seemed to find courage in his de-
flant smile.
"I haven't any doubt at all that what he says is true and that he is the Duke of Richmond," she said. "And Gordon," added Smith.
The fith and fast Duke of Gordon died on May 28, 1838, when the dukedom-which was a Scottish
title-became extinct.
The Duke of Gordon's litles of Mar- quis of Huntly and Earl of Aboyne devolved upon a relative of his, and these lities have since des cended from father to son down to the present Marquis.
The Dukedom of Richmond has de- scended from father to son, except the case of the fourth duke, who was a nephew of the third duke, ever since its creation.
In
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Such studies are believed to have
a close bearing on the main problems of cancer the search for the cause of locul, uncontrolled growth in inter life.
It is suggested that the body's normal power to replace worn out cells with new cells of the particular kinda required may be a sort of "hang over" from the original work of the chemical organisers of embryo growth. The control weakens, and cancer is the result,
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