THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, MAY
10, 1937-
U.S. FINDS MONEY FOR ATLANTIC AIRWAYS
24-Hour Passenger Service From New York to London
The Duke of Norfolk who, as Eari Marshal, is in charge of the Coronation arrangements, in London, makes an Inspection tour in the neighbourhood of the Buckingham Palace.
SPEEDS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
2 ROUTES TO BE USED
New York, Apr. 30.
The operation of a 24-hour trans-Atlantic airmail and passen- ger service between London and New York, on a schedule of four round trips weekly beginning next November, is provided for by the Treasury-Post Office Supply Bill approved by the Appropriations Subcommittee of the House of Representatives.
The project, according to Representative Louis A. Ludlow, Democrat, of Indiana, Chairman of the Appropriations Subcom- mittee, will be operated jointly by Great Britain and the United States, and costs and expenses, shared equally.
TWO ROUTES
The present plan, said Mr. Ludlow, is to operate two routes, a northern route from New York to Lonrion by way of Shedine, Nova Scotia, and
a southern
Ireland, a dist
a distance of 3,418 miles, and
route
by way of Bermuda, the Azores, Lisbon, and Girdine, a distance of 4,999
4,990 mlies. The northern route flight schedule will be twch
twenty-four to thirty hours, and the southern route thirty-six to forly hours, Safety factors are on the side of the southern route, Lud- low said, and will be until more ex-
THE NORMANDIE'Sperience has been acquired in com-
SUCCESS
FRACTION OF A KNOT
batting storms and fee in the high northern altitudes. The southern roule, he said, is safe at all times of the year.
There will be two contraels for
IMPROVEMENTS IN THEmail service, signed separately by the
1
QUEEN MARY
United States and Great Britain with private contractors, and each will operate two round-trip trans-Atlantic trips weekly.
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The Royal Mint has issued new King George Vi pennies is the Bank of England. According to custom the prole of every new King is reversed on coins. King George VI profile looks to the right, as on his father's
coins, while the portrait of King
Edward VIII on the coins, which were not issued, turned to the left.
Loud Speakers For Churches On May 12
SCHOOLS SEEK MORE. "UNCLE" SHIPS LINK WITH 400 VESSELS RUSH TO BE "ADOPTED"
BRINGING THE SEA TO THE CLASSROOM
MINER'S BOY AND THE CAPTAIN
By A Special Representative
Three weeks ago a remarkable educational and social experiment was described in these columns, in which schools in all parts of the kingdom, ranging from the Prep." to the public school, had been adopted" by British
ships
or had adopted" the vessel. The effect of the aride has been a surprise for the British Ship Adopt- lon Society, of Dixon House, Lloyds- aveaue, EC3, who began the scheme le more than a year ago at the behest of some educationists, and obtained the support of most of the British shipping firms.
RADIO BROADCAST
Children's Concert From The Studio
DANCE MUSIC
Radio Programmes Broadcast by Z.B.W. on wavelengths of 300 metres (845 k.c's), 31.49 metres (9.62-K.C's),
12.30. p.m. Danch Musle.
1 p.m. Time and Weather.
1.93 p.m. Light Orchestral Selec- tions.
1.30 p.m. Reuter Press; Weather Time and Announcements.
1.40 p.m. Variety Items.
2.15 pm. Close Down.
Music
5 p.m. A Relay of Dance from the Roof-Garden of the Hong- kong Hotel.
me,
p.m. From the Studio.
me
A Children's Concert. 0.30 p.m. Carroll Gibbons and His Boy Friends, Sleepytime down just a bowl of cherries; South; Life Now that you're gone; Can't we talk it over; The Charm School Selec
lon; To beat the Band-Selection; Some 400 vessels, great liners, and A couple of April Fools; If you love little tramps, are already linked with
6.55 p.n. De Groot and the schools throughout the length and breadth of the land, exchanging let-Piccadilly Orchestra with Raymond ters, photographs, and little gifts-at Newell (Baritone).
the the appropriate seasons, and
Orchestra-I love you (Grieg): pleasure given to sailors and children Romance (Rubinstein); Baritone is evident from the mass of corres- Solos-Here's to Life (Talbot); Let pondence received by the Society, i me love you to-night (Grey); arche- whose offices are a "clearing house" tra-Liebestraume (Liszt); On for the world.
dreamy Summer night "SWAMPED WITH INQUIRIES"
Bohemienne Chanson "We have been literally swamped Baritone Solos-Mandalay (Willeby); with
ome-A Barrack-Room article, res since The Observer Follow
Mr. S.. E. Britten, the secre- nalled (Ward-Higgs); Orchestra- London, May 9.
of the Society, told me yesterday, Zinetta (Gechl). tary of the The Archbishop of Canterbury
More than 100. other schools in every
7.80 p.m. Stock Quotations and has expressed his desire to have part of the country are now wanting Hongkong Exchange Market Report. the Coronation broadcast on
placed in
in touch with ships. We 7.30 p.m. New Gramophone. Re- Wednesday heard in churches these new contacts with all speed, but,
shall do our very best to establish cords.
"Paglincel"-Prologue (Leoncaval- wherever possible, so that the naturally, in this type of scheme, Io, arr. Weatherly).... Richard service would be self-fitting religious atmosphere.
frankly
at the moment there is almost (Szostakawicz, trans. Stokowsk!)... for,
as Mr. S. J. Pigott (director of sustainin
sustaining.
A shortage of ships. Pan American Alr-waya
...Philadelphia Orchestra, Conduct- John Brown and Co, her builders) in the United States and Imperial
this is possible," "Uierė.
However, with the
the general im-ed by
Home Stokowsidi; Leopold are the will Britain, revealed to the Institution of Naval Airways in Great
be Д short pause
in the provement in shipping, this condition and BeautyNo Sing some- Architects a few days ago, the ex-only companies presently capable of broadcast while
consecration
will probably be removed. The en-thing in the morning....Gitta Alpar her of 1030 showed
contract. perlence
executing such a huge -
prayer is being offered in the Abbey thusiasm for these friendships is very (Soprano); Mr. Ludlow said that in machinery could be improved in several small ways. Those improve testimony before the Appropriations Communion. This pause may be large vessel in which every officer and phone) with Symphony Orchestra,
outlined used for prayerful remembrance of
of every cadet,
well D5 several within a trip or two, when weather for the
ing members of
of the crew, are writing favour- and other circumstances are
it there may be a period of silence regularly to school children. Mutual able, we shall probably hear of her 40 tons
or possibly some short hymn and enthusiasm makes the plan successful. The making the crossing at a fraction of
prayer at the discretion of the Some of the letters from the fo'cas'le
are extraordinarily good,
By A Special Correspondent By exactly one-third of a knot, the French liner Normandie has wrested
ip
be
COMPETITIVE BASIS Mall be dispatched on the first
will
Mail The Blue Riband of the North Atlan-plane leaving either country. tie from the Queen Mary, and it will contracts will be awarded on a com- not be long before the Cunard White petitive basis the revenues will pay and it is expected that Star liner makes an endeavour to t
rate, win it back.
She will in all probability do su, mile, and obligations at $2.00 a service might be followed in a/ntroductions take some time, and, Tauber (Tenor); Prelude in A Flat
od and
ut a 25c the contractual
plans
of
were
When
the
J4
more:
the and Their Majestics are making their striking. For instance, there is one Coates) S-Rhapsody
mants have all been effecled, and
she's Altic Bervice Planes them by the congregation and during i
for
the
annual
one of
another of 125 tons.
appropriation estimated a knot faster than the Normandle's to be required to maintain the ser-
'vice in 30.99 knols,
operation is $1,000,000. From now on-unless some hither- The appropriation approved by the to undreamed-of inventions in regard Appropriations Subcommittee is for to methods of propulsion and forms: $750,000, because, Ludlow said, the of hull are brought to light the service may be slow in getting under
record
-
minister.
"IL would be great help to listeners, whether in church or in their homes, if they could have coples of the Coronation services in their hands."
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8 p.m. Time Weather and nouncements.
A Relay from the Ko p.m. Shing Theatre (Chinese).
11 p.m. Close Down. 8.05-11
p.m. European gramme from Z.E.K. on ¤, Fre- quency of 640 Kilocycles.
Pro-
"Inland schools are every whit as keen as the schools of the towns and seaside, and several of the captains
8.05 p.m. Hawaiian Music. seem to get unusual pleasure in cor-
Lulue....Lizzle Alohikea with the responding with country boys and girls. Royal Hawaiian dice Club; Blue I like to bring the sea to places where Sparks; My South Sea Sweetheart.. Cheap copies of the service were it is not known,' one shipmaster assur-
Masters
Hawallans; Sweet ed me. this.
Hawaiian Moid, Hawaiion Paradise, OF BOOKS PARCE postbag and the parcels of Andy Iona and His Islanders.
8.20 p.m. Concerto in D Major and
magazines for ships con-
for Violoncello and Orchestra tinues to grow. Captains are taking more and more Interest in The (Haydn), played by Gullhermina children's lessons, us well as in their Suggia (Cello) and Orchestra private ves. Some of the captains conducted by John Barbirolli.
story of the Atlantic speed succes, Negotiators for the United States will be one of fractional advances, Arst at short-intervals, and then-at are R. Walton Moore, Assistant Secrepublished by the King's printers on
Mary tary The Queen
of State; Hartles much longer ones.
Branch, April 6 and were placed on sale al and the Normandie will, without Second Assistant Postmaster General, book stands. United Press. much doubt, exchange. the Blue Ri- and Army, Navy and Commerce
more than
band mo
once before their officials—United Presa. respective alster ships in a few years
lime take up the running and repeat
the process at a very slightly in RUSSIA TO EXPORT U.S. Navy
creased level of speed.
THE PEAK REACHED
It is extremely unlikely that any
of these four ships (two existing and two to come) will do much more than
32-knot
if that. Tho top the effort required to
ach 31 knots can be taken as indicating, for the time ot this century-old being, the struggle for
maritima
supremacy.
CHEAP WATCHES
SWISS EXPERTS FOR NEW FACTORY
In cadycars, the advones capture the world, trade in cheap
has
been
To Launch 10 Ships
The
books
are offering small prizes for essays 8.45 p.m. "Crowning the King”—§. about sea life; one has arranged a A talk by Owen F Morshead, D.8.0., wireless code with the school so that M.v.a., M.C., Librarian to his Majesty
he can radio his personal congratula- King Geority.
tions to the successful pup. With his
offer also goes
the
"best tria consolation prize for
The
9 p.m.
Vocal-When the swallows nest
A good effort by again....Klity Masters: Piano Solo-
attends school for halfdays has
fuste Velen
This is an extract
Company
from his lette
"The name le at
at the end of the 9.30 pm, London News and An- letter, of course, and I am 12 years nouncements.
a backward scholar should be taken "Going Places" Plano Medley...... Geneva, April 25.
notice of," he insists. Washington, D.C., May 1.
Vivian An attempt by Soviet Russia to
boys, and
Astaire; Tentative dates assigned for Nottinghamshire miners are in happy Vocal-C'est une Valse Musette..... girls of Fox-Trot Vocal-Pick yourself
*****Fred yant watches is believed in Swiss in the launching of ten Naval ves- touch with the oil tanker Gretafled... Mistinguett; Organ Solo-Serenade sels now under construction in One little chap of twelve, in a mining The song of songs......Quentin M. of the old Britannia to the 30.99 knots dustrial circles to be the reason be of the Normandie, and the crossing hind the departure from La Chaux-
Morgan; Light has been reduced from 14 days to de-Fonds two days ago of 30 Swiss Navy Yards and in private ship village, who is a semi-invalid--he only MacLean; Humorous-Frankis and expert watch-makers with their building plants have been set as written, with professional touch, to
Lanc Pantomime four. Anyone who wants to travel
familles.
follows by the Navy Depart-Dear Cap'
..Columbia Light Opera to or from America more quickly,
La Chaux-de-Fonds,
the Cantonment: and do the trip in two or even three days, must look to the air, and not of Neuchatel, is the centre of the district in which most of the Swiss to the sea.
watches are manufactured, and the The limit is set by several con- siderations. The cost of speed Experts are among the many tech-
alter about 20
knots niciens who have suffered unemploy rises in almost geometrical pro- ment through the depression.
They are understood to be a first and the saving of me Kession, on the voyage must be reckoned contingent of a large number of such at least in half-days to be of experts who are to assist in the crea
of a new factory at Samara on tion value. publicity anything more than
Communists de- Even to-day's craze for speed ut all the Volga. Local costs does not quite counter-balance clare that this factory will eventually the average passenger's annoyance it employ 10,000 workers, and will be he is landed at his destination in the only in Russia, but for world export. able to supply cheap watches not cold, small hours of the morning, in- Some time ago the Soviet Govern-
tead of comfortably at breakfast
ment made a contract with a well- timc.
known firm of Swiss watchmakers to
An increase of speed of several borrow the services of experts for knots would be needed to make any the purpose of founding a new in- faster crossing worth while, and that dustry in Russin, but the Swiss Fede- at present is impossible. No passen- ral authorities Intervened, and the gers want to suffer the discomforts contract was subsequently cancelled. Now it appears the Soviet Govern- of an Atlantic passage in a 46-knot
super destroyer like vessel - allment has approached the workers engines and no lounges and a ship direct, and a colonisation scheme has with both the accommodation up to been drawn up, under which regular modern standards and the required contingents of watchmaking exports speed would be far too big and costly will. emigrate from Switzerland with to be either economic or manageable. i their familles to Russia.
Back-to-the-Synagogue
Call To Jewesses
BECAUSE of a "serious decline in the attendance of Jewish girls at
classes for religious instruction, a special appeal was made in London in the week April 17 to 25. -
Sermons were preacheil at all synagogues on April 17, and canvassing of Jewish homes took place during the week. Mectings were held at Shoreditch Town Hall on April 18 and at the Empress 'Claema, Hackney, on. Apirl 25.
U.S.S. Warrington, destroyer, 1,850 tons, building at the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Com- pany, 'Kearny, New Jersey. May 1, 1937.
U.S.S. Paterson, destroyer, 1,500 tons, building at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washing- ton. May, 1937.
U.S.5. Jarvis, destroyer. 1,500 tons, building at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washing- ton. May, 1937.
of age, fairhaired, and about st 9.55 p.m.. Dance Music
lin. Unfortunately, I am forbidden |
truly
Fox-Trot-On the Beach at Ball- to take
Training or to play Ball; Fox-Trot I'll bet you tell that football or cricket--even though I
to all the girls; Fax-Trot-Looking should like to-because I have a
May weak heart. Little wonder, as far around corners for you; Fox-Trot
I have the
next romance? truly is as that goes, because I have had
Trot-Yours the double pneumonia four times. I
Comedy One-Step-Fancy yours: cannot hope to be strong. Recently fecting You; Waltz-What a night; my heart has improved, but not im-Fox-Trot-Life begins when you're proved enough.
in love; Fox-Trot-I feel like a fea- The lad talks eagerly of hobbies and ther in the breeze; Tango-Moonlight ends a really excellent letter: "If Kisses: Tango--Poema; Quick-Step you don't
think
10,000 tons, building at the New grammar don't much of my English ; —Jazz me Blues; Slow Fox-Trotm
June
11 p.m. Clese Down.
U.S.S. Savannah, light cruiser,
say anything to Mr. Cheerful Blues; Fox-Trot Muskrat York Shipbuilding Corporation, even though he is a sport because I'd ftamble; Fox-Trot-Dixieland Shuffle; Camden, New Jersey, June 1, have to in after four o'clock and Fox-Trot-Alone at a table for two; 1037.
learn
These miners child- Waltz Lovely Lady; Fox-Trot-Sing U.S.S. Salmon, submarine, buildren have made some excellent photo-me a swing song; Fox-Trot—A little ing at the Electric Boat Company graph albums and note-books for their bit later on; Waltz The lost waltz.
Connecticut. Groton,
13, friends in the Gretafield. 1037.
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