THE HONGKONG· · TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1936.
Bishop Defends Hatless Women
And
Says It Is "Perverse
From Entering A
To Stop
Stop Them Church
Kay Franels, is considered to be the best-dressed womun on the American stage. She is shown with a medal she received for her good taste.
1,919 Coins To Pay A Speed Fine
And He Was A Farthing Short
A canvas bag containing 1,910 cop- per coins was slapped in front of Southend Police Court clerk recently
Thinks The Bible Has
Been
Misinterpreted
IS it wrong for a woman not to wear a hat in church?
Some Churchmen think it is; others think it is not. The latest pronouncement is by the Bishop of Ely, who thinks that people who insist that a woman's head shall be covered have perversely misinterpreted St. Paul.
What The Bible What The Bishop
Says-
TWO verses from the First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians, chapter xi.:-
5. But every woman that prayeth or prophcaleth with her head un covered dishonoureth her head.
13. Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
Start On Great New Cunarder
NO FUSS, NO CEREMONY
Says-
THE Bishop of Ely (Dr. B. O. F
Heywood), writing in his diocesan Gazette, says:
com-
"In a rather obscure passage in the First Epistle to the Corinthians, in the interpretation of which the mentators are obviously ill at easO, the writer uppears to rule that in the public assemblies of the Church wo- men should be veiled. (St. Paul was not alluding to hats such as in cur twentieth century may be displayed in miners' shops.)
BORROWED CAP
"Now because St. Paul, in the first century, désired women to be 'veiled' in the public assemblies of the Church in. Corinth (a city with a sinister re- pulation for immorality) some clergy and vergers (the latter acting no doubt under instructions) insist that girls who may be on walking or bicycling tours in the year 1938 and come into a church with bare heads
retire.
AT 10 o'clock one morning ret inspect the architecture should
cently 40 workmen stood besido
berth in an empty Brown's shipyard, Clydebank.
Orders to begin work were given by Mr. Donald M. Skifling
"I has even been reported to me that on occasion.. in order to avoid such a rebuff, a girl has borrowed
her boy friend's cap before entering the church.
by George William Smith, local "Walton, yard manager, and two fore from a few verses in St. Paul's
of Death" rider, in payment of a £5 speeding Anc.
"You can't pay like that," the clerk said, Smith was told to wait til the court closed.
men superintend the work.
A steam crane lifted a steel plate 300 feet longt carried it a few yurds, and laid it on red pine blocks at the bottom of the berth. Men levered the plate with great
out for it,
Later he was directed to go to an adjoining room and count the cop-hara into the exact position marked pers, two pullermen acting as check-
cra
The count disclosed that the bag contained 960 pennies and 850 farthings one farthing short of $5.
When Smith returned to court his case was adjourned for a week.
Smith rode away on a penny- farthing bicycle.
[Copper is legal tender for sums to one shilling and silver to £2.]
Army Giving Up The Sword
In this manner, without fuss or ceremony, the first plate of the keel of the Cunarder, Number 552, sister ship of the Queen Mary and the greatest liner the world has known, was laid.
•
for
PROBABLE CHANGES Platers and drillers worked three months on the high-tensile- steel plates, boring thousands of rivet holes and shaping the plates.
The bow and stern parts of the kcel will be laid laler, as changes
will probably be made in their de sign as the result of continuous experiments carried out by the designers in a tank.
The keel will be built on a gradual
FOR CEREMONIAL ONLY | curve, calculated so that it will as-
By A Military Correspondent
The days of the sword as a numbered. The weapon are lance of the Lancers was with- drawn from service eight years ago. To-day the sword is losing its authority as an effective instrument of war.
"Swords will be carried on active service and In 'marching order' by officers serving in cavalry regiments only." My authority for that state- ment the latest. edition of "Dress
13 Regulations."
sume a level horizontal line when the weight of engines and bollers has been added.
NEW
MARVEL
CLOCK Second's. Error - In 100,000 Years
The man whose clocks assist the Astronomer Royal in measuring the time of the world has produced new marvel clock.
"This curious and wild deduction alfords a notable example of
Epistle
perversity."
SCIENCE IN THE LAUNDRY
07
Hyram Barnett Zaharoil, years old bootmaker, declares he is the son of the late Sir Basil Zoharoff millions. He is seen repairing shoes and consequently legul heir to all his
in his little,shop in London.
Army's Best Cook
RADIO BROADCAST
|A Talk on World Affairs By
Sir Frederick Whyte.
PIANOFORTE RECITAL
Radio Programme Broadcast by iZ. B. W. on a Wavelength of 355
į metres (845 k.c's.), 21.49 metres
(0.32 megacycles).
12.30 p.m. A Concert.
1 p.m. Time and Weather. 1.03 p.m.
The London Theatre
Orchestra,
1.25 p.m. Reuter Press, Rugby Press, Weather, Time and Announce. ments...
1.40 p.m. Rotary Club TiMn Speech from the Roof-Garden of the Hong- kong Hotel,
"Experiences in the Royal Navy" by Captain A. J. L. Murray, N., D.3.0., 0.0.5.
2.10 p.m. Close Down,
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7 p.m.
Alfredo Campoll and His Concert Orchestra..
Old Bohemian Town (Marsden and Frisker): Teddy Bears' Picnic (Brat- Kennedy); Cara Mia (Dievier and
ton); Romance In moonlight-Selee- tion: Magyer
Melodica (Vilmos, are. Plerey); Wedding Dance Waltz (Lincke); An Old World Garden- Selection; "With the Classics" (arr. Sidney Crook),
1.30 p.m.
Closing Local Stock JOINED IN SEARCH OF Quotations and Hongkong Exchange
Market Report.
ADVENTURE
(By A Correspondent.).
Aldershot, Dec. 15. Sergeant Loveridge drew himself up to his full height and anhounced In parade-ground volec: "Liver and bacon! as you were kidneys, and bacon!"
which have caused the
The Army Cookery Championships, Aldershot weeks in lis history, were coming to Command one of the most strenuous
an end.
In an adjoining' kitchen five teams from Territorial Regiments were bending earnestly over ve smoking stoves in the anals (f their Shield; farther off in a Mess Room the prizes and diplomas for the whole Army were awaiting distribution; mean- while Sergeant Loveridge and others were showing us what Army cooks can do.
The results would have caused West End chef to open his eyes and ralse expressive hands.
WASHING IS AN conceivable dish from soup 10
ART TO-DAY
HARSH words often rise to
your lips when you put on a clean shirt: the material has shrunk, the collar pinches your throat, the buttons are broken, the cuffs are frayed and you blame the laundry.
On a long sideboard lay every
savoury, together with many others peculiar to the Army, such as "Partridge Surprise" and "Crinbline Lady adorned with Sweetmeals all done by men who had, for the most part, never touched a ladle ini their lives before they passed through the intensive are of the Army School 200 Cound A YEAR
of Cookery.
------
Aided, however, by large "maps" of the carcases of animals hung on the walls, by enthusiastic instructors and numerous books, over 100 cooks You are wrong. Modern inun-re being turned out each year to dries are conducted like scientific ensure that the Forces are better laboratories. Your shirt is sub-
jected to treatment as carefully rehearsed and as thoroughly tested na if it were a patient that had been sent to hospital.
It is washed in water just short of bolling point, but coloured goods do best in water at 112 degrees Fahren- heit and woollens in water barely above blood-heat.
THE REASON WHY
fed than they have ever been.
Even the grimmer of food-
7.35 p.m. Patricia Rossborough (Plano) and Kitty Masters (Vocal).
Plano-"Rose Morle" Selection; "Poor Little Rich Girl"-Selection: Songs-When the swallows nest again; Sweetheart, let's grow old together: Piano Sweement Joe, The Candy Man; A Cavalcade of Martin! sky: Piano-"Queen Tunes: Song--A melody from the
of Hearts". Selection.
8 p.m. Time, Weather, and An- nouncements.
8.03 p.m. Royal Opera Orches·· tra. Covent Garden,
"Faust" Ballet Music (Gounod); The "Sleeping
Beauty"-Waltz
(Tchaikovsky).
8.25 p.m. From the Studio." A Planoforte Recital by Rupert Baldwin, A.T.C.L.
1. Nocturne in B major (Chopin); Prelude in D flat (Chopin); 2. Two movements from the Valse Suite, "Three-Fours," (Coleridge-Taylor); (a) in Aflat major; (b) in C minor; 3. Gavotte in D. (Balfour-Gardiner).
Korlus (Soprano).
8.40 p.m. A Recital by Miliza
Funicull-Funicula Danza (Rossini); La Villanelle (Dell' (Denza); La Acqua).
B.G-Dr.News and Announce--
rents,
9.15 p.m. Light Violin Solds by Albert Sandler,
Algerian. Scene (Ketelbey); Re- membrance (Marlo Melf); Extase-- Beverle (Ganne); O Sole Mio (Di Copua).
p.m. Light Orchestral
time of war-has been transformed Slavonic 'Dance No. 10 in E minor which tastes like cocoa, and is so con- into pleasant looking "chocolate"
(Dvorak); "Careless Rapture"--The Miracle of Nichnow (Temple Ballet centrated that one piece is the Music), (iver Novello). Bridge of equivalent of a meal.
Lovers (Ivor Novello); Entry of the Boyards-March (Halvorsen); Jea- lousy-Tango Tzigane (Jacob Gade). 10 p.m. Big Ben. "World Afairs”- by Sir Frederick Whyte, K.C.S.I., LL.D.
10.15 p.m. Dance Music. 11 p.m. Close Down.
the "emergency rationa" issued in Music
continue in use for ceremonial oc householders owe the boon of time the yellow dye set while it life, of an unemployed miner, a post-
vas!
Subject to that proviso, swords will be carried on parades and duties un- less otherwise directed. Swords will casions, but the "competent authority" state that swords will not be worn on board ship, at mess, or at stables, except by the Worcestershire Regiment, where the orderly officer and captain of the weekt may wear swords with mess dress.
By. amalgamation and conversion our horsed Cavalry Regiments of the Line liave been reduced, since the Great War, to ten. There are two Armoured Car Regiments designated "cavalry," and eight other regiments have been converted or are in the course of conversion to Light Tank or other type of mechanised unit.
DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES
The following wavelength and frequencies Aro observed by Daventry.
Champion cook. of the whole Army was young Robert Hollings- worth, of the 2nd Battalion, Leices- ter Regiment, who has been in the Army for two years and joined, he told me, "in search of adventure.". That yellow-bordered tea-cloth you
The Army Challenge Shield was won for the first time by the Royal liked so much came to pieces He is Mr. F. Hope-Jones, of the your hand not because the laundry ritorial Shield by the 4th battalion, in Army, Service Corps and the Ter- Synchronome Company, to whom had used "chemicals," but because the Prince of Wales's Volunteers, over the clectric Hight wires.
chemical with a team consisting, in private action fatal to the cloth For centuries clockmakers have was being washed.
man, a lorry driver, a hod carrier, been trying to produce the perfect
and a wire drawer. two-dialled clock, operating from a single mechanism, for recording both acted on the red tin during the
BEST FED ARMY Sergeant Rodgers, the miner, never mean solar time and sidereal time-laundering.
cooks in private life, he assured me time in relation, to the stars.
There, things and
many others carnestly, "except. when, the missus have be
been discovered at the labor- is out." torics of the British Launderers' Declared Major-General M. G. Recently Dr. L. 3. Comrie has Research Association, an
GBL extension Taylor, who distributed the prizes, worked out the true ratio between to which is to be opened in Hendon amid loud applause: "We are the two times the mean colar day is to-day by Sir William Bragg, pro- the best fed Army in 24 hours 3 minutes 56.55530 secondssident of the Royal Society.
the world. in sidereal time. As a
The cook in the Army is doing as Hape-Janes has been able to produce CYCLE-WHEEL DEVICE'
much us, or even more than, the man wito Ares the gun." on electric grid-driven clock which
Under the direction of MA F. C. is almost perfect.
AT A GLANCE
result Mr.
If this clock ran for 100.000 years the error between the two dials would, it is claimed, be less than
one second.
That bath-room curtain with its gay red border faded because fight
Harwood, soups, "washing" solutions, under which various conditions articles are best cleaned are all in- vestignited,
AGE OF ANACHRONISMS.
There are so many anachronisms in the Army to-day na to make it difficult to decide what exactly 18 meant by "officers serving in cavalry regiments." horse for the petrol machine will, sidereal-time translated into Green-bottle contains a
The elimination of the that it will allow astronomers to have spoke of in any event, reduce very consider wich mean time at a glance,
ably the personnel armed with the
sabre. As for the ten horsed regi-
ments remaining, they will be em ployed in futuro either as divisional or army troops as circumstances require
tion
re-
The practical value of the clock is
A £300,000
WINDFALL
Shock action cavalry is an opera-
of the pust. Close connaissance will be their principal role. Hence the passing of the sword as a general arm for mounted troops when employed in the native field.
The sword is also a "back number" In the Infantry. But the sword will have its ceremonial uses in peace in much the same way as the wearing of spurs by officers of the Tank Corps, His father, Dr. C. C. Cummings, Of armoured car regiments, mechanised Joplin, Missouri, invested £10,000 in artillery, and Educational Corps. some gold mining.
The Admiralty last month decided before his death properties shortly
FORTUNE FROM FORGOTTEN SHARES
Los Angeles, Dec. 21, A fortune estimated to be worth £300,000 has come to Mr. Robert (Cummings, a screen actor, and his mother from stock which he has considered for years to be uiterly worthless.
that the cutlase was no longer to form The stock was virtually forgotten, part of the equipment of men landed until the other day, when. Mr. Cum- for service. Its employment at mings was advised that the company ceremonial parades and at funerals in which the money was invested will, however continue unchanged "bad struck it rich-Reuter
The various solutions are tested by a device like a cycle-wheel, on cach which is a bottle. Each different solution, and n
a plece of material. The wheel whirls round and the pleces of wool are then examined. The best washed is noted and the solution responsible is recommended for that material.
Various manufacturers are think- ing of Issuing a certificate of "loun- derability," based on tests laid down by the Association.
now
If it is a true saying that an Army marches on its stomach, then the British Army must be marching as no force hins ever done in history.
Franco to Issue
Own Stamps
Talavera de La Reina, Dec. 21.
TAMPS are becoming scarce, General Franco will soon issue his own..
A new five centimos stamp will be in sepia bearing the design of Burgos Cathedral. The 30 centimos stamp will be red, illustrating Castille and Navarre-Reuter, admi
500,000 Gallons Of Rum Destroyed In Fire
Brisbane, Dec. 20.
a million gallons of rum were destroyed in a fire at a dis. tillery at Bundaberg (Queensland) to-day. Very The fire was the worst in Queensland's' history, Damage is estimated at more than £1,000,000 Exchange,
Frequency
Wavelength
6.500 .. 49.59 strom
Alen
CBA
1310
31.50 meiros
GSC
READ
ke.
21.30
GAD
11,750 k..
35,52 metre
GAB
11.148 16.
25.28 metres
CAP
16.340 4.
19.12 metron
GRG
17.700 kA., 16.80 ́ metres
OST
21.4T0 k.
13.97 metres
car
16.360.k.c
19.06 matres
GAJ
CAO
1.540 k.c. 6.110 k.c. 15.180 k.. 11.310.
19.48 metres
41.10 metres 10,76 Zutres 10.4 mgtr
Transmission 1
(6.8.1).. 4.8.0.1
p.m. Ille Ban, 'Bealed Order" 4.11 p.m. Light Music.
1.43 p.m. Empire Exchange. 5.p.. Chamber Male,
5.10 p.m. The Nowa and Announcements.
Greenwich Time Bignal at 5.41 p.m.
Transmission 2
(G.S.G. GRIL
7 p.m. Dle Hon. Festival of Food,'. 7.30 p.m. The B.I.C Northern Ireland
Orebentra 8.10 p.m. Variety.
3,15 p.m. Harry Engleman's Quinlet, with
Vernon Adcock (Kriephone). 635 p.m. The News and Announcements.
Greenwich Time Blana) at. 1.10 p.m. 1.18 pan. The Emlyn Colllerien Blver Prize
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10 p.m. Big Ben, "Warld Affairs,"
10.15 p.m. Light French Maule, 1115 B. Virtuty,
11.40 p.m. The 11.1.C. 'Danes ́Orchasing, 212.30) Kum, The News and Annonsermedia.
· Greenwich' Binal t. 12.45 km/ 12.40 mm. Orran Belon,
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He gave her something to remember him by!
A four-alarm fire, a city-wide emer-? gency call, a murder, a rescue at sea and ̧. a kidnapping were his gift to the bride who jilted him for a bookworm?
Adolph Zukar Brezantz
JOAN BENNETT
and CARY GRANT
Wedding Present
with
GEORGE BANCROFT Corod Noge! Gene Lockhart Directed by ichard Wuiface Based on the Story by Paul Gaflics
• #.' P. SCHULBERG Production
A Purement Flature
KINGS
COMMENCING TO-MORROW
CICELY COURTNEIDGE AS CIRCUS QUEEN IN A
ROLLICKING COMEDY
Cicely Courtneidge
THINGS ARE LOOKING UP
Bu
MAX MILLER
WILLIAM GARGAN
AUPERT DE COURVILLE
SPARKLING ENTERT BRIMFUL OF LAUGHT
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