THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, APRIL
THE QUEEN MARY'S
Maiden Trip Failure Caused By A Piece of Metal
FOUND AFTER SPEED TRIALS
The Queen Mary failed to capture the Blue Riband of the Atlantic during her early voyages because she damaged her machinery when making her speed trials in the Firth of Clyde.
This eccret came to light in a paper read at the annual meeting of the Institution of Naval Architects in London by Mr. S. J. Pigott, a director of Messrs. John Brown, who built the liner.
£4,750,000 FOR NEW CUNARDER
Mr. Pigott said that at the beginning of the maiden voyage a small piece of metal was found Jodged under part of the steam system which drives the tur- bines.
When the ship reached Cher- bourg pieces of blading were found to be missing from several turbines.
the covered
On arrival in New York more The Treasury is to make advances,
the extensive to
damage WIS dis nat exceeding £0,000,000, Cunard-White Star Line for building of Blster-ship to the the
This necessitated removal of the Queen Mary and recouping the comfrst row of blading from each of pany for £250,000 spent on Queen Mary In excess of the Trea-the affected turbines.
sury loan.
POWER REDUCED Consequently, for her second and This was announced in a White third round voyages the ship Paper issued last month.
Half of the loan will be secured by an issue at por of new, debenture stock of the company secured by a trust deed in favour of the Treasury, Income Debenture stock, similarly
...
WILS
sailing under considerably reduced power.
Later the blading was renewed with heavier and more rigid sec- tions and gave no trouble in sub- sequent voyages.
show
that shipbuilding prospects were improving.
Lord Stonehaven, in his pre- the other being an issue at par ofsidential address, quoted stallaties to accured.
The amount, not exceeding £250,- 000, to be advanced in respect of excess expenditure is to be secured by a thin specific mortgage on the Queen Mary.
DIVIDING THE PROFIT
Including naval construction, building in progress represented 1,- 500,000 tons; laid-up tonnage was a mere fraction of what it was a year ago; and freight rates had risen to more satisfactory Jevels..
But it was to be regretted, he said,Į. At the end of each financial year after the amount required for divi- that the shipbuilding industry was no dends (if there had been no Income longer contributing catisfactory to Debenturo stock) is found and allow-our export trade and that we held ance made for depreciation and re-only the afth place in the list of serve the certified profits are to be nations bullding warships for foreign
countries. distributed thus:
amount
(4) Any balance to be distributed
The Queen Mary" salled on her (1) Treasury to receive equal to 3 per cent. to Dec. 31, 1939, maiden voyage on May 27, 1936.] and 5 per cent. thereafter, on the nominal amount of outstanding In- come Debenture stock, Class "A" cent. dividend on nominal amount of and an amount equal to 3 per cent. their shares. to Dec. 31, 1943, and 6 per cent. thereafter on the nominal amount of between the Treasury and the share- outstanding Income Debenture stock, holders in proportion to the total Class "C."
nominal amounts of outstanding In- (2) Treasury to receive amount come Debenture stocks classes "A" equal to 6 per cent. on nominal and "C," and the amount for the amount of outstanding Income De-time being paid or credited as poid benture stock class "B."
up upon the issued shares of the (3) Shareholders to be paid 3 per company respectively.
JUST UNPACKED !
FROM LONDON AND PARIS
FABRICS
DAMAGE
The Finnish Naval frigate "Suomen Joutsen" recently, visited the harbour of New York, where the photographer took the above picture of the beautiful vessel.
WIFE
"WILLED"
+
SUICIDE, HAS
COMA IN GAOL
Los Angeles, Apr. 10.
MRS. HELEN WILLS LOVE, recently convicted of murdering her husband, said she would attempt suicide by "will-power." To-day a gaoler found her un- conscious in her cell.
1937.
SECRET
Science Says Corns Can Predict Rain
Cleveland, Apr. 5.
Prof John G. Albright, of the Case School of Applied Science, has thrown the weight of scien tific opinion behind amateur meteorologists who predict wea ther changes by the way their coms behave,
"Certainly, it will rain when your corns hurt," said Prof. Albright, "furthermore, there is a lot of truth in a good deal of the old lore about the weather."
Albright, who is listed as a physics instructor but also teaches meteoro- logy, chalked on a blackboard, the following classes of persons who can tell you without looking at the news-` paper forecast. what the weather is going to do:
veterans,
War
carrying musket balls around in their flesh People who have teeth, that need pulling and people who have rheumatic folnts... Certain types whose hair is finger- waved by approaching rain. People who can't forget their operations. Farmers, categorically.
"Just recently" said Albright, "while I was giving a public lecture a woman asked: "Why is it that when- over my corns hurt I I know it is going to rain?!
BLOOD PRESSURE
"I was all set to explain that. You sce, just before a rain the air pressure drops. That
Anar raises your blood pressure, because when the pressure outsido
Tha up the your body lets pressure inside increases.
"With a rise in blood pressure some discomforts
is are increased. Corna will begin to hurt. Any Infectiim, a tooth, an operation, scar may be affected. Those old voterans who could tell an impending change in weather by way their wounds felt were pretty good barometers.
the
Then, said Albright, "I've cn- countered some people who know when rain is ahead by the way their hair behaves. A change in relative humidity of the atmosphere will tend to curl or uncurl certain kinds of air"
harmers who can "shift the
and forecast the weather are expert because of long experience with the elements, he said.
"Some
they
formers subconsciously begin preparing for a change when hear unaccustomed sounds from certain directions. Say, a farmer miles
knows it's gonna come a big rain' when he hears a train that
to the south. He doesn't know the sound is borne on the cyclonic wind whirl that comes from the south pre-
storm."
A doctor examined her, said she her condition was brought about by ceding a smo bad if you're not sen-
was not shamming. He started fur-self-bypnotism. ther tests to try to prove whether
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Mrs. Love testifled 'at her triat that she killed her husband be cause he refused to reveal to his mother his secret marriage to her in Mexico,
Since the marriage the mother had
come between them, she said. "mürder'was"ëommitted"at-the- fashionable Santa Monica Beach Club during. New Year revels.
Mr. Love, a
wealthy broker, arrived with his mother at the club, And was met by his wife. She pro- duced a revolver, and as Mr. Love turned to run, she shot him three times in the back,
Hula Girls Have Sit Down Strike!
Honolulu, Apr. 1.
A sit down strike of hula girls has been reported here, The report, an erroneous one, was traced to a group of newly arrived tourists, whose lack of knowledge concerning an old Hawalian custom, caused them to misinterpret a performance staged in their honour.
sitive
to
weather changes, said Albright-anyone can predict the weather for to-morrow by saying it will be just what it is to-day. And they will be right in 75 per cent. of the cases."United Press.
“ROOSEVELT FOR KING":
AMERICAN STUDENT
JOKE
"BRIGHT ROYAL DIGNITY"
New York, Apr. 1.
A "Roosevelt for King" Club has been launched by a group of Yale students gathered at Morys, one of the country's most celebrated under- graduate beer' parlours..
urge
by the Tale News specify:
These students lampoon the Presi dent's Supreme Court drive and its They implications of dictatorship.
Bludents of other universities to Join them in the
the capacity of founders and Privy Councillors of the "new The formal resolutions as Empire
Franklin. 'D. Roosevelt now controls the executive und legte- to control the ture, end la soon judiciary and all 20
and all so-called br
branches of the Government;
"Whereas the same Franklin D. Roosevelt has proved himself the man of the century, the greatest states man, humanist, economist, politician, Interpreting the bula from a sit-
and magician
gician this fair land has ever ting or kneeling posture has a bad to guide it; been one of the accepted forms of
"Whereas the same Franklin D. the famous.dance. Among these are
Roosevelt has the hula pulli and the kuolo. The
Whereas
unto the third generation rich in 'mind, health, and [right-royal
American people. for a less simple form of government long.exhibited a burning desire have
of minor officialdom;
is carried out to the rhythmics, cession of heady provided a sur latter of a double calabash, 05- companied by chanting or song; while the dancers in the former wield split bamboo rattles. In this the performa- ers are usually placed in two rows facing each other thus favouring responsive actions. In the use of the Instrument and the cartillations of the songs.
Face, eyes and am
arms play a a major the
through undying devotion w.the pomp:
and
CITED LONGING
"Whereas the the American
intense interest of in the affairs of
ix months betrays an inhibited
for royal rule;
long-
part in the Interpretive gesturing of the Brith during the last the dance, hula experts point out, and and import of the dance is lost in thus very little of the grace, beautying for the "altdown" or kneeling huins.
The real huin as it is Hawall
in
a graceful, D.
dance and stories of the Islands. It has noth ing in common with the sideshow the Islands. The oldtime hula was, version frequently seen away from In fact, an institution of religious origin
Roosevelt become King In name ns Be it resolved that Franklin D.
well as fact, and be duly coronated with his beloved Queen Eleanor ut ceremonies in the appropriate national capital, which city will at the same time be renamed Roosevelt, D.C."
pre..
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