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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
They All Want To Meet The
King In America
SIR RONALD LINDSAY, the British Ambassador in Washington, U.S.A., and Lady Lindsay are being kept busy answering the many hundreds of calls from people who are paying their respects in anticipation of the visit of the King and Queen in June.
Normally the Embassy receives several thousand calls a All punctiliously returned. To-day the number of calis Is belleved to be a record..
year.
Not only the wives of senators and. Government offelalsure calling, but also large numbers of society women who hope to meet the King and Queen during their visit.
Most of these hopes will be dis- appointed. Diplomatic and offelafi people receive first consideration, and the indication is that it will be almost impossible to frame a
com- pletely representative list, even from among these circles.
Residents of Washington will re- ceive first consideration.
FIRST PLACE
The Cabinet, the Supreme Court, Congress, and the Diplomatic Corps are assured of first place.
After that the choice will be made from personal friends of the Presi- dent and Mrs. Roosevelt, and Sir Ronald and Lady Lindsay.
Imperial Crown To
Stay In England
The Imperial State Crown will not be taken lo Canada for the Royal visit.
College For Bargees
ONLY one aspect of canal life
will be missing from the
schemo training schicol
for
bargées being considered by the
Ministry of Labour-a course in bargee language.
Instruction will be on practica) as well as theoretical lines.
Even - courseS
In home cooking would be included-in case Mr. It had been suggested that the King Bargee is unable to persuade a "bank might prorogue the Dominion Parlia-girl" (burgee for land girl) to em- these circumstances, he would have ment while he is in Ottawa, and, in bark on the life.
worn the Imperial crown,
FOR UNEMPLOYED
The bargees-to-be would be chosen from young unemployed men all over
It is now unlikely that the pro-the country, care being taken to sec rogation date for the Canadian that they are fond of an open-air Parliament will fit in with this ar- life. rangement, and the crown, there- fore, is not to be taken.
The King will, however, almost! certainly visit, the Parliament at Ottawa to give the Royal nssent to Numbers must be limited by the one or more acts of the Canadian accommodation.
Legislature.
The Blato dining-room
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the
White House scats between ninety if there is a garden party, at the and 100 people. Another 100 or British Embassy between 1,000 and 200 may be invlied to a reception 2.000 guests might be accommodated In the Lincoln room after dinner.in the spacious Embassy gardens.
EXAM BID WITH 'MACHINE' SHORTHAND
ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD stenotypist Elizabeth M. Jones, of Hampstead Garden Suburb, N.W., will face a big task at the London Chamber of Commerce Shorthand Examinations shortly.
"We should takes the young men to a canal-side centre, such as King's Langley, find them lodgings close by and give them six months training," an oillelal of the Ministry sold:
"Part of the training would be on the netual barges. Students would live on board, learning how to handle and manipulute 'the Diesel motors burge,
who are skilled craftsmen would be "Bargoes beyond the normal nge
the teachers."
Canal life has been modernised. The horse-drawn barge took 14 days to go from London to Birmingham; the engine-driven 'boat takes two. The old bargee was a water gipsy; the new one is a skilled engineer.
Boy, 5, Lifts 100 Pounds
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St. Mouls. Lifting 100-pound weights nothing for 5-year-old James Clay- ton, Jr., says his father, an amateur son the trick last October. Although weight-lifter who began teaching his the boy only weighs 45 pounds, he can lift 100 pounds to his waist and
50 pounds over his head.
Scrip Highly Inflated
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Botty will have to compete as an equal with girls of all ages, but when she enters the examination room she will carry with her an American stenotype machine, resembling a small typewriter. This machine will enable her to. handwriting is no better than take down 80 wards a minute with that of the average child of 11.
Bristow, Okin. cuse, but Betty's biggest worry is
American, atenotypy is as yet al- A gallon can of salt sold here for that she will have to transcribe her most unknown in England, but the $800, a tricycle brought $750, and alenotype notes into longhand.
system is widely used in Americo. can of corn $80. Chamber of Com- Transcription is so fast and ac-merce officials pointed out, however, curate that a lyped record of a that the selling quotations were in speech can be completed within a few terms of "Golden Dollars," merchants" Iminutes of its delivery.
scrip.
This means 010 words to be written at an average speed of seven words per minute, and her
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May 12, 1939.
General Franco
UFS
Here is a recent camera stia dy of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, head of Spain's National ists, whose triumphant troops re- ceny marched inio Madrid, thereby virtually ending the Spanish elvil war.
Brother Of Peer Is A.R.P. Head
Earl Baldwin's 41-years-old son-in-law, the Hon. Arthur Howard, ex-mayor of Westminster, has been appointed A.R.P. Chief for London.
Mr. Howard is already Chief A.R.P.} Warden for Westminster. When he takes up his appointment as Principal, Warden of, the London Civil Defence Region he will have an office and staff in New Scotland Yard, and will take Wardens. over the training of London
Petrol £800 A Gallon
Sir Philip Game,
He will work in conjunction with CERMANY is trying to make the Metropolitan petrol for her mechanised Police Commissioner.
The appointment is a whole-time army from old leavea.
unpaid.
Botanists and scientists from lead- Mr. Howard is a brother of Lording research laboratories have set up Strathearn, the former Under-Seere-a distillation plant in the Black tary for War. He has been a mem- Forest area.
one, and is
ber af the Westminster City Council!
for 14
years.
m
He was named as prospective
Gangs of workmen, armed with long twig brooms, sweep large areas candidate for Peckham, but decided of the forest and deliver the leaves to con
concentrate on municipal work. by tons to the plant.
He fought with the Scots Guards Only certain kinds of leaves are during the war and was three times used and they are separated from wounded. In 1922 he married Lord the others by a machine like those Baldwin's taughter Lama They used-by-farmers-to-separate-wheat have four children.
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chaff.
Howard Inherited a large part from far the scientists have been able
of the fortune of his mother, Lady to make about one gallon of low- Strathcona, who died 13 years ago. grade petrol at a cost of £800. The estate was estimated to total be- But they claim that as soon ELS tween £5,000,000 und £6,000,000. the plant is working properly, and In 1937 he presented Lord Baldwin the experimental stages are with a house in Eaton-square, Bel- they will be able to make, petrol for gravia, S, W.
about one shilling a gallon.
over
Once-Dead Wife Will Be
"Chief Exhibit
"
Mrs. Kate Linwood, who at the age of 49 "died" for five minutes and was brought back to life by massage after an operation, was recently the "chief exhibit” at a lecture to 60 doctors at County Hall, Westminster.
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She was taken to the lecture by ambulance.
Doctors describe Mrs. Linwood, tion on her-the only one ever carried who is the wife of a Middlesex boot out in England.
It was to remove a clot of blood repairer, as a "woman in a million."}
The lecture on her was given by and lungs.
blocking the urtery between the heart
Dr. Iver Lewis, senlor surgeon and Despite her five minutes' "death," superintendent of the North Middle- four operations, and several compiler- sex Hospital, who last Septembe! tons, Mrs. Linwood looks well and performed "Tendelenberg" opera-cheerful.
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