SOCIALITE
SCOFFS AT
A PRINCE
New York, Feb. 10.
MISS KAY ROSS MACCULLOCH, pret-
ty American society girl, is not going to marry handsome thirty-four-year-old Prince Halim of Egypt, cousin of King Farouk, whether his family are for or against the match.
She was frankdy amazed when she was informed in Now York to-day that Prince Halim had agreed with the royal family of Egypt to renounce his romance with her.
"I am simply furious," she said. "I would certainly never marry any one but an Anglo-Saxon, and I couldn't imagine living in Egypt.
"I simply cannot for the life off mo understand how all this has happened.
"I met the prince in Paris in October. There I saw quite a lot
of him, just because he knows a lot of people I know and be was often around with them.
NEVER IN LOVE
"But I was certainly never in love with him or-gavenny thought to him as anything but a casual, oc- quaintance,
"I saw very little of him in Lon- don because he was so persistent. I ran into him in one or two hotels, but I told him I didn't want to go -out with him
"I man very Interested in (2 English boy.
"I have heard several times from the prince since, but I have just ignored his letters."
British Test For
Secret Ray
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The residence of the Duke of Wind- sor, the Austrian castle Enzesfeld, which he ia tenanting unt!! June 1 and where his sister, the Princess Royal, recently visited lilm.
ATLANTIC SERVICE BY AIR NEXT JANUARY
From A Special Correspondent
THE
Washington, February 10.
Transatlantic aeroplane service between Britain and the United States will begin in January 1938 under arrange- ments now being completed between Imperial Airways and Pan-American Air- ways in co-operation with the two Govern- ments.
This will enable passengers and mails to move regularly once a week each way at the beginning of the service, which will be ex- tended as equipment and demand increase.
Preparations are also being made for a United States air ship bid for passengers and bight freight.
Foggy Dartmoor
Hardest of All
Jails for Escape
London, Feb. 10,
"Convict escapes from Dartmoor," That was the newspaper placard on the London street one day recently. "Dartmoor convict recaptured," followed next morning. To most people in this country, not only of the underworld, the word Dartmoor conjures up only the great convict prison set upon the Moor In South Devon; a place, except for a short Summer. of sudden fors and rain and snow and bilter cold; of grey granite and By quarries; of working parties of colli of prisoners outside the walla under the grantle eyes of armed warders;
Guards, corbines In crook of arm, standing here and there on vantage points. A place of damp and deadly gloom from which no men may escape for long.
weathered into fantastic
of Civil
ivil | shapes Joom up against the sky. Hunger, terror, cold; collapse. The search parties find him; then he goes back through the great grim granite gateway with its Inscription of 1812 "Parcere Subjectis"--Spare the vanquished. They don't on Dart- moor.
FREE FIVE HOURS The prisoner of this week who "escaped" had his liberty but a short five hours. Slipping away from his gang in a sudden fog such as is com- mon on the Moor, he was defeated by the fog. For five hours he won- dered in circles, only to surrender when the fog lifted and be taken back exhausted to the place whence
Air Ministry Will Try Out he come.
Invention for "Paralys-
ing" Airplanes
TC-
It is curious that escapes from other jails nover give to the towns- mon the thrill which an escape from Dartmoor gives. No man yet has really escaped from "the Moor," or, at least, only one. He was never heard of again. Probably he per-
shed in a moress.
So
was
But the Cockney enjoys the story in London.
The Government will ask Con- gress for ample appropriation to cover dirigible subsidies unti! this class of service becomes profitable.
Negotiations as to details fol- lowing experimental flights are- practically concluded, and. Fal- timere, solected as the American terminal, has been advised to complete the enlargement of its airport by the end of this year at a cost of nearly £600,000.
FEBRUARY 22, 1937.
On the Neusiedler Lake in Austria two new types of motor-siedges were recently tried out. One type looks like a plane without wings and the other looks like a motor-car without The latter has its motor in wheels. give higher speed. the rear and a propeller is used to
JIGSAW PUZZLES FOR THE DUKE
Cleveland, Fob. 10. When the Duke of Windsor find Mrs. Wallis Simpson, finally
pro reunited, they may spend some happy hours over one of the myriad-pleced jigsaw puzzles which
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GREYS
THE JOYOUS FRAGRANCE
that comes from the careful blending of selected Virginia leaf is preserved
in all climates in Greys cigarettes by
CIGARETTES the special airtight tin container.
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Obtainable from
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ZORIC
for
The success. of the American Mrs. John Paul Jones, of Chagrin MODERN
Trans-Paclic service and British trial flights over the Atlantic are responsible for fixing de- finitely the time when a regular service may be expected.
Electrons As Man's Greatest Servant
POSSIBLE SERVICES MAY EXCEED WILDEST FLIGHTS OF IMAGINATION, SAY GENERAL ELECTRIC EXPERTS
Schenectady, N.Y., Feb. 10.
General Electric scientists working in research laboratories are "train- ing electrons to serve man." In fact, the scientists say the electron prom- ises to be the "greatest and most powerful servant that man has."
London, Feb. 10. Secret demonstration of a ray that paralyses petrol and all engines for several hours is to be given to mem- bern of the Scientific and Research Department of the Air Ministry,
The invention, perfected by a
Londoner, thirty-six-year-old sembles a powerful searchlight on a swivel tripod. Main components in- clude infra-red rays and secret ray the Inventor has discovered after Ave years of experimental work.
Recently test
with the d was made ray on a ten horsepower motor car. The engine was left running while the car was sinifonary. The beam was trained on the bonnet of the car and immediately the engine stopped. It remained out of action Moor, and they take to the Moor 1-hogen atom, that it is
FOR WAR PRISONERS When we were 'at continual war with France a place had to be found to incarcerate prisoners of
war. the great place on Das
Dartmoor built for them; American prisoners of war of 1812 went there, too.
The wars came to an end. Then about 1857 it occurred to someone to use the place for many years empty
a convict
prison. Only the worst and most confined type of offender
mo was, or is, sent there. Most of them
sem are townsmen; they get away in the
sudden
for more than two hours.
Although the engine was para-WAL It was undamaged, and veral hours later it
could be
driven away.
The Inventor hopes to be able to build a set that will throw a ray 15,000 to 20,000, feet to disable air planes. To do this, more than 500,000 volta will be necessory.
fogs characteristic
of the
New Guinea Warriors
Rather Their
Too Rough in Football Game
forces of nature.
tric
EXAMPLE OF BEHAVIOUR
pro-
nave
be
In a statement to the United Press, they do see the characteristic yellow the General Electric Company said colour of sodium light, and that tells the electrons are being subjected to them the electrons speeding across training, and that the "discipline the tube are colliding with the" they are being taught evidences one sodium atoms. more step in man's control over the sions between the speeding elec
Many of the colli- electrons cause and the sodium atoms Scientists to-day have д fairly found changes in the atoms struck, good idea of what an electron is and when those stoms return to They know that it weighs 1/1845 their normal condition they give off the golden light that is the principal charged with negative electricity, evidence of the whole process." self, not knowing, or despising, dangers. Miles of heather and huge velocity approaches that of light. 119 and that its mass increases as its granite boulders and great tors sur- Water courses
To the scientists, it is explained, found the runaway.
IT'S 20TH CENTURY PRODUCT
the procedure is a simple exumple and small rivers run in all direc- tions. In
paris seemingly
To the auto- many
The electron, admitted by mod- of electron behaviour. bottomless bogs-"mires-may en- ern physics and chemistry to be a mobilist who drives at night under gulf him, even as they sometimes do probable ultimate constituent of all sodium lamps it may seem very the wild pontes born und bred there.ators, is a product of 20th Century mysterious, Not a human habitation is within research.
"When we have once learned the sight. Dusk falls; glant outcrops of Scientists say that until the 20th behaviour of electrons,” said the state- Century, the structure of atoms was ment, then can come the training entirely a subject for theory and period to teach them to serve man. ronjecture,
"The great universe of electrons "With modern research methods is just becoming known to scien- and equipment," the General Elec- tists. Only
short
distances have statement said, "It became been penetrated in this strange possible not only to theorize, but in micro-land and our brief glimpses instances to study the interior into it have not gone far within the some of atoms and the movements of outer
bouwledge still to
The enormous electrons.
amount of "Experimentations with electrons, grasped mems limitless. Yet scien- scientists are going far beyond the lists know that with every forward limitations of our visible world. step, they are goining facts that They have long forgotten the age will be invaluable in training elec- old common-sense adage that seeing trons to work for man together is believing.
They are seeking with the other forces of nature man
"When all the electrons have com- seems Impossible pt first pleted their course of training-that thought that the human mind can is, when scientists know all about study
things it cannot see,
feel, them and can make them do what smell, hear or taste. The five senses we want them to do their possible that serve us so well in ordinary services to us for exceed the wildest hopelessly inadequate in receiving day-to-day events are. however, flights of imagination.
"Even with our present small and impressions from electrons. The incomplete knowledge, the .pos- reason is that electrons are so tiny, sibilities for use of the electron
scem Infinite." OFFER IDEA OF SIZE "Our five senses
SOME ALREADY TRAINED are not Iceen enough to be aware of them. Any- Already some electrons have been thing that weighs 1/1845 of a by-trained to serve us, said the seleng drogen atom, In turn weighing Usts, for instance: .0000000000000000000000001602 of a
the commands "They obey gram, 1s quite outside the realm of transmit to the grida of vacuum human sensitivity; and that is what tubes. Here the flow of millions and an, electron weighs. It's too minute billions of electrons is accelerated for direct observation."
and halted thousands and even With modern Instruments, it is millions of times a second. The possible now for scientista to ob- electrons manoeuvre like disciplined iserve the effects of electronte activi- armies. They react unerringly to ty. From the study of the effects, the slightest changes made in grid scientists work back to the causes potential." It is also possible to define certain Scientists are able to predict and laws of action the electrons seem to control their action with uncanny
accuracy.
Knives, Broken Bottles and Razor Blades Among knowledge in an unseen, unknown has already harnessed.
Weapons Brought Into Play-Mortality
Rate Becomes Too High
So many deaths have been caused by native football matches in the Australian territory of New Guinea that a leading chief asked a district officer to discuss the matter at a native council meeting. This officer is expected to make a startling report to the Administra-
tion.
The prohibition imposed by the authorities
on tribal warfare left warriors without recreation. They introduced football, but became per- turbed at the casualties.
TOO MANY PLAYERS
A match played at Rabaul began
TONG ELECTIONS
BEING PROTESTED
with the orthodox number of play-Montreat Chinatown Closely
Pa-
ers, but after thirty minutes, and in trolled While Reply Awailed From spite of the dozen warriors who lay
Injured on the field, the number hadị
Increased to fifty-seven.
Headquarters Here
Police found seven of the players
Montreal, Feb. 10. were armed with knives, seventeen!
Complaints were filed to-day with had broken bottles, nine had razor officials at Victoria protesting the
.
universe.
we
Falls, O.. makes especially for the
household.
Mrs. Jones, whose business was started to bolster the family income filled a large order for Harrod's in during depression years, has just
London, a department store which serves the royal
yal farally and mem- ters of the court.
Mrs. Jones also has sent a ship- ment of puzzles to a close friend of the former klag. The friend plan- ned to present them to Edward as a Christmas present.
This same friend, whose name Mrs. Jones prefers to keep a secret, was the first to introduce King George V and Queen Mary to the American pastime of piecing puzzles.
The fad soon
leaders
the
"enught on" in royal circles, and the late King George
and Queen Mary were In the gume. Orders for more soon came from Harrod's. Now, agents in many cities take orders for Mrs. Jones' puzzles.
Mrs. Jones and two young women assistants work eight hours. a day in a basement shop, sawing_big pictures into small "bits.
The ex-king kes large puzzles, MTS.
Jones
his says. "He and friends and relatives do them on week-ends. The biggest one I ever sent the king was a map of London in 1,050 pieces. It took us more than three days to put it together before we sent it."
"We always put the puzzles to- gether before, we send them out," Mrs. Jones said, "to be sure a piece hasn't been lost and that all fit per- fectly
I
we Mary and the late Kingt
used to do the jubilee puzzles
made. Once Harrod's sent me an order especially for the king, but set a price I considered too low,
"I called bacic wouldn't make them for so little. Then they wired back that I should suit myself about the price but to hurry with the order.
she continued, "I understand," "It was the custom of the king and queen to work the puzzles them- selves frst, and then pass them on to members of their family."— United Press.
Chinese Subject Wins
American Citizenship"
St. Helens, Ore., Feb. 10. C. J. Pape, who has lived here for 15 years, is probably the only Chinese subject ever to become a citizen of the United States,
Pape, born in Germany, went to China with his parents when he was a youth. He was admitted to citizen- ship there when he reached an accept- able age, and held a government job. Pape remained in China for 44 years.
ENGLISHMEN RETURN FROM TIBET HEARD OF KING GEORGE V.'. DEATH LAST AUGUST
Calcutta, Jan. 30. Two English travellera, Mr. Ronald Kaulback and Mr. N. J. F. Hanbury Tracy, have reached Calcutta after twenty monthe spent in Tibet. They entered that country from Northern Burma In
In May, 1935, and emerged at Sadiya on the Assam border just be- fore Christmas.
blades, and the balance carried stone legality of recent elections held by follow. club hoads, six-inch nails or short certain members of the Chee Kung hardwood dicks with sharpened Tong (Chinese Freemasons).
As an example, the statement "And in this ordered. movement." points. That ended football in
pointed to the Interior of a gas-sold the statement, this obedient Rabaul.
Six Chinese scrutineers protested discharge tube, such as the sodium behaviour to our wishes, lies the MORTALITY HIGH
to headquarters
British lamp, which is coming into wide use secret of radio broadcasting and the
on highways, sald
radio reception and all the
other Columbin city that officers were However, natives who returned to elected without presence of official
"Selentists,"
the statement, duties that vacuum tubes perform. their home villages took the story of scrutineers appointed by the tang trons towing inside the tube from that scientists look forward to ex-xies and botanical collection for the
"can measure the current of alec- "It La, therefore, with great hope the heated cathode to the mode. ploration in the micro-land of They know that there are millions electronics, for in
the game with them. The result was and without customary three days
form of grudge football between notice being served. rival tribes, in which, according to m
this promising
upon' millions of sodium atoms in tertiory, apparently will be found this space. They can, of course, see the most astounding and most im-
reports, the mortality rate has be-Poffee stated a closa murvey of come higher even than that in the Chinatown would be maintained in old tribal war Crump
| anticipation of trouble, www neither, electrons nor atoms, but portant discoveries of our century,"
Most
of the time was spent in the Solween Valley, where they surveyed
an area of approximately 60,000 square miles and made an entomolo- British Museum. They
received most friendly treatment from the habitants and lived on the food of the country. They first heard of this death of King George V. last August.
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