THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1936:
Jim Mollison Starting On The
Biggest Gamble Of His Career
Neighbour
Aged 103
Has Never Met Her
Neighbour Aged 101
(By A Special Correspondent)
Exmouth, Oct. 1.
MRS. MANLEY (aged 103 10-day) and Mrs. Wenmouth (101 next Tuesday) live within a stone's throw of each other at Exmouth, but they have never met,
Sawdust Pile: Will It Feed Future Hosts?
GERMAN CHEMIST TELLS HARVARD
GUESTS WOOD IS GOOD FOR FOOD
H
I called on Mrs, Manley at her home in Charles St. to-day with
JIM MOLLISON
"This is not my Sian Song."
a message from Exmouth's other Court Discusses
centenarian,
I said: "Mra. Wenmouth, of St. Andrews-roast sends you, congratula- tions."
Mrs. Munley sold; "Ah yes, I know of Mrs. Weninguth, but we have never met. Will you please, thank her for me, and say I congratulate) her, too."
I carried out the mission and se brought about an Introduction-by proxy.
Mrs. Manley presided to-day at her party, which was attended by most. of the 32 members of her family circle--seven children (four over 70), 16 grandchildren and nine great- grandchildren.
103.
Cocktails
HINT IT IS ILLEGAL TO MAKE THEM
"OUGHT TO TREMBLE WHEN WE MIX ONE"
Corktalls were discussed at Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, recently, is a court that resembled scientifle laboratory. Apparatus covered tha solicitors' table and sample hottles of spirits took up most of the floor space.
Sutton Coldfield, stated to be of in
Ronak! Tullis, of Mannor-drive,
dependent means, appeared on two charges and four unmenses alleging the distilling, and disposing of spirits. He pleaded not guilty.
let
Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 12. The man who gave his donkey green glasses and sawdust, I asked her what it felt like to be saving money only during the
"Twelve months older than my first week can try the experiment last birthday," she said with a intgl. again with better hope of success.) Dr. Friedrich Bergius, Heidelberg
Harvard are being used mostly as fodder for chemist, explained to tercentenary guests yesterday cattle, but that at any time it can be converted Into food At for human how food can be synthesized from consumption.
Mr. T. J. Wilson, proweuting, said Carbohydrates, fota wood.
that when two inquiry agents from and proteins, the three essentials of the Customs and Excise Department In fact, there is enough food diet, can all be obtained from wood, and two police officers visited Tullia's in the waste scraps of a few tie asserted.
house accused told them that he might forest acres to feed inexpensive-
have some spirits because he had bem making experiments. ly the entire German army, he implied. Those who heard his address considered this to be a startling disclosure of the extent to which at least one nation has gone in the race toward, national self-sufficiency.
"During the last decades the world has become more than ever occupied with the problems of creating raw materials essential for the life of the nations within their own fran- flers," he said.
DESCRIBES PROCESS Germany's Nobel prize winner illustrated his remarks with diagrams
cessing of wood in its route toward showing several stages in the pro- food but without giving any of the essential details of the equipment used to handle concentrated hydro- Very foundation of procesa.
chloric acid-the the Bergius
In all there were found: 100 bottles of wine, -10-gallon drum of spirits,
One - 14-gallon store butrel of spirits,
Keg of wine,
Gallon of waste spirits, Three drums containing "wash," 48 bottles of beer.
Nine bottles of claret, Bottle of cranberry wine,
"This is not a case of poor man
U.S.A. TO LONDON
THEN
LONDON TO CAPE
AIRMAN Jim Mollison has sailed for New York to undertake the greatest personal gamble
RADIO BROADCAST
Daventry: The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra
Z.B.W. QUARTET.
From Z. B. W. on a wavelength of 353 metres (845 kilocycles):
1-7 p.m.
Chincue Programme.
7 p.m. A Concert, Pianoforte Solo-Feux d'Artifica
(Debussy)....Marcel Ciampl; Song
Cadiz
qurz.
Conchita Velaz
Instrumental
MC71on" (Thomas)
Gayolle, from
in the history of record-Ballads of Yesterday... Brownlow. breaking aviation.
"No millionaire," he has staked everything he pos- Resses on it.
3. H. Squire Celeste Oetet; Songs (Baritone);
Violin
Solo-Thais Meditation (Massenet).....Kreisler: Songs-Songs my Mother Laught (Dvorak); Morgen (It. Strauss) Op. 27, No. 4..... Dino Bargell (Tenor). 4.30 p.BL Closing Local Stock
Quotations.
me
7.33 p.m. A Relay from Daven-
He means to astonish the world by n dual ocean and trans-Con- try. tinental dash in a 270-milcs-an-hour The B. B. C. Dance Orchestra 'plane fastest machine' of its range | directed by Henry Hail. the world has ever known.
"I must not fail," he said smiling rimly as he thought of all he has at stake.
"I Shall Win" Then, Jokingly, he added: "Well, If fail will probably have to ask a Scotsman. I would not risk.my you for an office-boy's job. But I'm bank balance if I did not think 1 would win through."
nett airfield, New York, next month In a Bellanea "Flash" low-wing monoplane, only machine of its kind in existence, which now awaits him in Delaware, U.S.A.
He will take off from Floyd Ben-
He will race across the Atlantic
p.m. Time, Weather and An- nouncements.
8.03 p.m. nema Organ Solos by Reginald Dixos
I. Dixon Request Medley; 2: With Sword and Lance-March; 3. Naughty Marietta-Film Selection; 4. Roberta Film Selection.
8.20 p.m. "Memories of Tosti" sung by the La Scala Singer.
9.30 p.m. The London Theatre Orchestru,
Selection-The Land of Smiles from
(Lehar); Selection-Waltzes Vienna (Strauss); Selection-A Country Girl, (Monckton); "Revute ville" Memories (Burrows).
#
p.m. News art Announcements from London.
0.20
for Croydon airport-has sel kim-i me" P.m. Vocal Gems from "Car- self a Ume limit of 17 hours for Componet), by the Light Opera
that flight.
2.30 p.m. From the Studio, Within 24 hours of landing at The Z. B. W. Quartet in "Quartet Croydon he will, weather permit-in.C. Minor, Op. 1....Mendelssohn. ting. take again to stack the 1st Movement-Allegro record established for the London 2nd Movement--Adaglo; 3rd Move- Vivace; Cape flight by CW.A. Scott In the meat-Scherzo; 4th Movement-Alle Johannesburg Air Race:
gro Moderato
Confident of success in both these projects he is planning to crown them both by dying round the world at the equator.
He has trained for thèse flights ns thoroughly on an Olymple #thlete, and talked to me with the easy self- assurance of a man who has decided to take the train to Brighton.
Like A Boy
10 p.m. Big Ben from London. A Variety and Dance Selections. Slow Fox-Trot An evening with you....Gerry Moore: Comedy Fox- Trot-I'm nuts on screwy music.. The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra; Sou Back to those happy days.. Lesuc Hutchinson; Fox-Trots-Squibys Billy Cotton and His Band.The Lon. tionola, The Gaumont British Dance Orchestra: Accordeon Solo- Wood; Vocal-Oh! Leo...The Ameri- Stars over Devon....George Scott- an Eton Boys; Fox-Trots-Goody- Coorly.....Benny Goodman and His Orchestra; It's been so long....Benny Goodinan and I
His Orchestra; Solo Nola Bydney
Organ Gustard; Song-My lucky
day...... Gracie Fields; Slow Fox-Trot Sophisticated
Song
Vocal Selection-The Family Album
Hughie Green and Dunce-Belin
Garcajada;
Other chemists have turned wood Into food, but none have accom- plished it economically. Their lack
bottles of compound spirits, of success comes from the necessity
8 bottles of flavouring wines, of using diluted solutions of hydro-
Bottle of spirits resembling rum. chloric acid, because they cannot de-
Tullis's explanation was that the sign containers capable of withstand-wash" was a culture used in the pre MINIMIZING DEPENDENCE
ing the corrosive action of stronger paration of animal food and he was "The Inventive genius of chemical acid.
interested in a patent for it. and mechanical engineers is being
the was quite oppurent in applied more and more toward re- answers Dr. Bergius gave to ques- manufacturing spirits to keep body ducing the economic dependence of llons afterward, that such things are and soul together," submitted! Mr. the individual country and to pro- being kept secret because of the tre- Wilson. We have here an educate
economic value to the German in comfortable circumstances mendous as possible at home a large part of the products which up man government.
who produces dutiable Equids under to now had to be imported."
TURNS TO RAW SUGAR the guise of conducting chemical In direct contrast to the tone of Roughly, the
the process as perfected experiments." Britain's meeting of the British Asso- in Germany involves the hydrolysis
or watering of wood scraps by treat clation for the Advancement
"COMPOUND SPIRITS" nf Selence, now in session, wherein the After treatment they are dried and the defence, asked Mr. McGregor,
thing
them with hydrochloric acid.
Mr. J. Wylie, cross-examining for weakness and backwardness of the treated again until the mixture be-chemist employed at the Government human spirit and not the wickedness cente of chemistry is blamed for the pewood is already "food." and white research laboratories, Nollingham: to take off at the Arst favourable Tipien Roberto Firpe; Seng-In a
raw sugar. At this stage the
"Are cocktail compound spirits?"
Mr. McGregor: They are certainly compound,
duce as far
War instruments, 'S THETHE
ad-
usage.
of
army
ties
The
version of scientific discoveries into unnt for human consumption, is ex-
meeting cellent heard Dr. Bergius
na fodder for hogo change into food it for human con- mittedly led to military,
Mr. Wylie: But are they compound! Throughout the speech rang Nasumption requires only the addition spirits within the meaning of the Act? poleon's classle statement "An
two more manufacturing steps Mr. McGregor said that he was only marches on its stomach" changed to practically all the fundamental ele- and not with the law. Later he sald
Thus
It is possible to produce concerned in the analysis of liquids. read, "Future armies will march an ments of nutrition from waste wood." that a cocktail could be described as a Bawdust."
Dr. Bergius suld, "Enormous quanti-compound spirit. WILL COST BUT LITTLE
of wood substances are wasted
Mr. A. R
Roy-Nadin (clerk) 're- in the forest itself. Less than 50 per marked; it ought to make us tremble "Synthetic sawdust food will onstest. of the wend of a tree is used for every time we mix a cocktail to think very little," said Dr. Bergius, "for timber while the rest is lost. Addie that we are liable to a fine of £500. the raw materials are now waste tonal wastes pecur in sawmills and products. After the cost of the initial similar industries." plant installation, the upkeep will be
mall. All the materials used in the things as food and all have not at in the evidence was a model of a process are fully recoverable and can tracted as much publie attention in be used over and over again. Even America as they have in Europe. the fuel used for operating the plant Over production has rather been the is obtained from a wasle by-product chief concern of politics and econo- of the sawdust The final result is nica alike. But in the nations of a yield of 100 per cent."
Europe that have no oil of their own and Bmited food supply, the situn-
Synthetic substitutes for
Dr. Bergius sald that at the pres- ent time the products of his plant tion is quite different.
DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF
CALAMITIES THAT SEEM INSUPPORT- ABLE WHEN LOOKED AT FROM A TANCE, LOSE HALF THE гowen MET AND RESISTED WITH FORTITUDE.— J. Fenimore Cooper.
Three further cases of typhold were notified yesterday..
such
Coples of the Prospectus of the Hongkong Evening Institute are now available. The session opens month and continues until 1037, being in Iwa terins, October- January and March-June.
this Junc.
"She
He told me of his Bellanea Flash like a small boy falking of his first railway engine.
weighs nearly four tons when loaded, carries 600 gallons of petrol, 142 gallons of ell," he said.
"In addition to her great speed sfer as a range of 4,000 miles.
"I um calling her after a friend Nat Gonella and His Or-
a surprise.
of mine but I won't tell you the nume yet. I want to keep that as "Everything is fixed ready, for me onnertunity after October 15. I shall fly the Atlantic by night, arrive at Croydon in the morning.
"The 'plane has cost me a hell of a lot of money.
"I am very far from being a millionaire. That is why I have to succeed."
"But the more you risk, the more there is to gain. That is the spirit in which I am setting out on what some people will, no doubt, consider a crazy adventure.
Mr. Wylle said that Tullis was a
"I shall start to cross the Atlantic young man of high selentine attain some time between October 15 and ments. The so-called still mentioned 20. I think I shall do New York to cooker. The "wash" culture of the preparation, which had of within 24 hours to attack the
was the puke London in 17 hours.
"Weather permitting I shall take been bottled by Tullls. and £40 on the summonses.
Tulls was fined £60 on the chars hefn Charley Scott broke it during
Cape record. Amy held that record; He was the Johannesburg air race on Septem- ordered to pay £21 costs,
CHINA STATION
FLAGSHIP
CUMBERLAND DUE ON MONDAY
ILM.S. Cumberland, the new flag ship of the China Fleet, has
left pected here on Monday. Singapore for Bangkong and is ex- 11.M.S. Lowestoft left harbour this morning for Weihaiwel on a routine cruise.
ber 20.
No Swan Song
"Amy and I have held it in turn. I would like to hold it again-but I have always felt it would be rather unsporting of me to make any at- tempt while it was all in Amy's nocket.
ils Gang:...Orquesta
little Gypsy Tea Room...Val Rosing; Waltzes Say that you will not forget; Sweet Mary Rose...Bernhard Ette and His Dance Orchestra,
11 p.m. Close Down. DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES
The following wers-lengtha and frequencion ere aberrod by Daventry.
Priseny
43.59 metre' 1,628 LA. 21.45
Bien CHA
CHB
C&C
(180
G&P
069
GAI
Wavingth
10.82 met7s
Metro
1.385 ke.
31.30
11,785 kt.
25.32 metros
15,140
ke. k.c.
25.38
Betre
17,730
te
21.470 .c.
1430 metro 13.97 metres
CRI GAL
21,518
k.e. 19.48
42.10 metres Transmission 1
150
15,360 L. 19.84 metres
IG.9.D., 0.8.1.j 3.15 pm. Big Ben. A Recital of Irish Hould by Ruth George Altezon *icano) and Dartd
Who (Vistin). 3.40 p.m. The Empire Bookshelf, 3.65 p.m. The 11.1.C. Empire Orchestra. Greenwich Time Bignal at p.m. 4.40 p.m. "A Talk about Beatland," 4.55. p.m. The News and Announcementas,
(G.8.0.
7 p.m.
I
"Don't think that this is my swna song. Not on your life, It isn't. hayo other things in mind. I want to fly round the world at the Equa- tor. That has always been ambition.
my "I suppose some people will think I am already crossed
a little crazy. But I have times, As I enfoy life and have de- the oceanı three elded to die in bed at a ripe old age
A dhaner dance whl be held nt at the Kowloon Hospital Just night So Fat, an unemployed hin, died Repulse Bay Hotel on Saturday at from the effecls of immersion. About] 9 pm and a tea dance on Sunday 2.30 p.m. yesterday, he was a passen- ut 5 p.m.
der on the vehicular ferry Min Kin which was on her way from Hong- The U.SS. Mindanao, which hos I would not attempt a fourth cross- Five stallholders and five stall fokis kong to Kowloon. He jumped into been in the vicinity of Castle Peaking unless I were confident of suc- were arrested yesterday white play-the harbour in an attempt to commit for several days, is expected in har cess," ing pai kau In the Central Market, suleide, but was pulled out of the bour to-day.
and were to appear before Mr. Kwaler by Leung Ping, coxswain of Keen at the Contral Magistracy this a Walla Walla bost moming, but all of them failed to do hospital, where he died at 11.30 p.m.
so and their bail of $3 each was
estreated. The Sum of $3.10 whileh
was found on the premises was put Into the Poor Box.
and taken to
For stealing a box of Yatren pills.
SHIPBUILDENS BUSY
London, Oct. 15.
valued at $10.25, from the World The shipbuilding industry is begin- Dispensary on October 13, Chan Yung to share in the returning pros- perity of the United Kingdom, An
Mallinn said that he had pur-3 chased bla American machine after failing to abitain British Mew Gull or a British Comet.
Mra Mollison's record for the Croydon-Cape, leht, 7.500 miles, la 31 day's 6 hours 20 minutes,
EMPIRE AIR MAIL
Transrolssion 2
09.K.)
By Ben. Reginald Dixon, at the Organ of the Tower Balfroom, Blackpool,
T.15 p.. "A Talk aboui Beotland,"
7.30 p.m. Act I of the Opera "Werther”
by Massenet.
1
8.13 p.m. The Empire Bookshelf, 8.30 pm. The B.H.C. Danes Orchestra
Greenwich Time Bignal si p.m.
D. The News and Announcement 0.20 p.m. Felday Midday Conce
Transmission 3
(G.8.0. 0.8.F... Q.BILI
10 pan., Bla" Ben,
Belos. 10.10 pm. Variety.
Syncopated Pizne
10.30 pm. The Mesie of Schumann, 11.15 pm, Brietice TalkN, Z. 11.30 pm. Ford Hartley and his Novelty Quinlet, with Brian Lawrance (Australian Vocalist), Greenwich Time Signal at 1 KM. 12. "Neullest Nonsense,"
12.30 am. The News and Announcements. 12.50 mm. The Cariton Hotel Orchestra
A woman. Yee Sai-nin, of Swatow, was sentenced to alx weeks in gaol increase of more than 76 per cent. In was admitted to the Kowloon Hos by Mr. K. Keen at the Central Magis- tonzage under construction in Great
Next Sunday the Hongkong Eng- pital yesterday suffering from head trucy this morning. Defendant com-Bellain and Ireland, compared with trolla's Federal Government has de-hiking from Repulse Bay to Stanley, lish Forum Club will enjoy an after injuries received in an accidental fall plained that he had dysentery, and year age, is shown in the statistics of elded to send
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-Aus- nocn's outing which will combing on board steamer Hong Peng on had no imanny to buy the costly pills. Linyds Register for the September Zealand next week to confer with re- this is the first outing of the club for. which she was a passenger
delegation to New swimming, tennis, and fiching. As from so he was forced to go into the store Swatow to Singapore. She fell bent. 100 Des Voeux Road and take the quarter. Tr all, 219 vessels of 928,071 presentatives of New Zealand on the same time, about 25 enthusiasts ore, tween decks, atriking her head pills from a show-case when the at-30, the figures being the highest quar- Empire air mall aerods Tarmon Beat 1 pm. from Blake Pier for Re
tang gross were in hand on September United Kingdom about extensions of expected. A speelal bus will leave. against the No. 4 hold. Her condi- tendant, was engaged with another to-ly total recorded since September, from Australia to New Zealand pulse Bay. Miss M. Tang will be tion is reported to be seridus.
1930. British Wireless.
hostess at tea.
customer.
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