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Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 19, 1939.
Lilmary, Supreme Court,
TRAFFIC PLAN: MAZE OR BOON? EMPIRE
Birmingham System Advantages
BIRMINGHAM.
BIRMINGHAM'S traffic system-a maze to bewilder every driver who first has to tackle it, a tangle of *No entry" and "One-way street" signs, in which motor. ists get lost or find themselves forced to travel away from the points they want to reach-
That is the gist of what was going to be written about. Birmingham's traffic, but after two days of close observa- ́tion and inquiry something different has to be written.
Only strangers complain of the system to-day, and Birming ham's drivers have little to say against it. They know it works and that It, works well,
There were storms of protest when it was first introduced but | Birmingham had a terrific problem which grew up with the enor- mously rapid growth of the population in an area of narrow streets hemmed in by factories.
Without the present schemes the situation by now would have been Impossible.
CIRCULAR FLOW
Under the scheme for the Inner part practically. every important ihoroughfare has been made a one- way sirest, the traffic flows in cireles but with reniurkable continulty, and jams are few and far between
Councillor Morlineau (Chairman of Birmingham Corporation Traffic Con- trol Commiitre) answered all ques
ilons.
"Our system is very successful," he said, "but please don't think that we have ng regard to strangera,
"We are doing our best for the stranger who merely wants to pass through with ring roads around the come town so that they need not Into the centre.
"These roads are signposted and have special marking on the lamp-1
them easy lo posts which make follow,
A
£1,000 Party For
'Miss France'
SLIM French girl of 18 was
the guest of honour recently at a luxury party at the exclu sive Hurlingham Club, Fulham, S.W.
She
daughter of Generul Alfred Fagalde, is Mile. Luclie Fagalde, fond to give her an evening which every romantic typist dreams, д wealthy American friend of the funily, Mrs. B. W. van Reusseiner, spent nearly £1,000,
The ballroom, which is usually; altered only for the
club's annualj Elon and Harrow. Ball Inter in the season, was specially extended on to the lawn.
the
CHAMPAGNE FOR 500 Mrs. van Rensselaer, who is oft 2in. tall, ensured that even "Our traßić system has enabled flower and floodlighting schemes, trafe to keep on the move, whereas with yellow as the predominating. previously there was constant con-colour, was perfect. Kestión.
OTHER VIEWS
Here are some other opinions:
of
Though she drinks very little her- self, she provided hundreds botiles of champagne for her 500) guests, and there was a dinner, and,,
Mr. C. S. Dunbar (Red Arrow, later, dancing to Jack Harris's band.
Transport Service);
"On the whole, the scheme assists
transport. Have noticed no harmful effects. Our men take no longer on their deliveries.”
our services. Now we rarely get more than five or six minutes."
Messrs. Cadbury Brothers Ltd..]
hir. Power (Midland Red Omnibus Bournville:
Company):
Alice Gibson, platinum-haired parachutress who hopes to make a new jump record of 30,000 feet at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohlo. Present record of 26,575 feet is held by Nikolai Yevdo- kimpy of Russia,
He Smuggled Diamonds In A Glass Eye
MR. GODFREY TAYLOR, a twenty-four-year-old MR.
London glass-eye maker, has discovered a strange story behind a remarkable order which he received from South Africa.
He was asked to send out several artificial eyes, specially modelled with a hole behind each pupil. Now he has been told that the glass eyes were used to smuggle diamonds out of a mine.
Mr, Taylor said:- "Recently the
Compare very strongly in favour of But it might be a good iden if the War Fear 'Neurosis' ordered the glass mons whived
"On the whole the scheme is good.)
the scheme. Before its introduction buses were restricted through the we had delays up to 20 minutes in centre of the city.
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THE crisis of last September is still costing this country thousands of pounds each week -in sickness beneflis to patients suffering from "crisis neurosis.” War fears, started with the September crisis and continued
NEWS
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FIGHTER PLANES FOR AUSTRALIA
SYDNEY,
Brig. G.. A. Street, Minister, of, Defence, announced recently that the Commonwealth had ordered a num- ber of fighter planes from Britain. He refused to state eliher the num beror the type, but said the machines would be superior to any fighters at present in use in any part of the Empire.
It is believed that there will be a first line squadron cf 12 machines| with a 'reserve of at least six.
Ald',for Wheat Growers The Premiers Conference is considering various plans to assist wheat growers whose production costs far exceed present prices. It is believed--the Conference will ultimately seek an acceptable agreement with the Inter- national Whrat Committee before at- tempting internal subsidies.
NEW ZEALAND
WORKERS' PROTEST
MEETING
↓ AUCKLAND.
·Some 2,000 carpenters and allied workers held a stop-work meeting ut the town hall here to protest against certain features of awards by the Arbitration Court.
Resolutions stressed the need for the Introduction of a Holidays with Pay Bill, commented on the serious loss of wages through wet weather, and endorsed the proposal that the Government take over the entire control of the building of State houses. The men later returned to work.
London Banks' Help.-Mr. Savage, the Prime Minister, sald recently that the Banks in London had been very helpful to Mr. Nash, the New Zealand Finance Minister, during his visit. In a cable Mr. Nash had told him
that no conditions had been Inid down either by the Government or, by the City.
Appeal to Ex-Service Men,--Vis- count Galway, the Governor-General, pening the New Zealand Returned Soldiers Conference recently, urged ex-Service men to help recruiting. "The skies are dark in Europe," he said, "and all hoped that another calli to service will not have to be made. But we must do everything possible to enhance the strength of our de- fenets and put our house in order."
How Big, California?
Sacramento, Cal. What's the population of Call- fornia? That vexing problem has been asked so many times that the California Taxpayers Association decided to check up on school en- had rolments. birth rates and what- this country and came to me for an
not. and make as close an estimate! ortifelul eye without a hole in it. for the beginning of 1039.
as possible. The answer—6,490,000. Then he explained.
"He said he had where every one was searched for been working in A diamond mine for some years snuggled diamonds before he left.
"No one, however, ever thought of asking him to remove his glass, cye. Ifence the holes--to hide the diamonds in.
since, have caused-serious-ner- trough money to retire." vous disturbances, and these in turn have produced a crop of cases of digestive troubles.
"He told me he had new-mide
GUARDED SECRETS
This is only one of the strange Reduced vitality due to worry has is the afth generation of Taylors in stories which Mr. Taylor can tell He also made people susceptible to com-this uncommon trade, and his great- plaints of many kinds which, in their grandfather made urtinicka! eyes lo ordinary state of health, they would the crder of the Duke of Wellington, have been able to ward off,
form the
Women have been particularly revere sufferers from aliments originating In "erials neurosis," Mothers with familles biggest group of sufferers. Same of the approved will each have well over 100,000 to pay cut in sickness benefit this year.
Bocleties
Mr. Godfrey Taylor works with his mother, who closely guards the secrets of muny famous whose friends do not have glass cycs.
know
people they She once was visited by 1wo high priests from a Far Eastern temple who wanted eyes for their idol.
Her husband, Mr. Custav Taylor, once made a glass eye for a lion.
Mrs. Taylor showed the Sunday
West End Cinemas Express representative rows upon
Show Seat Plans
rows of cases containing 25,000 glass, eyes all of them lifelike. They can be moved by the eye socket muscles and the pupils will even dilate in aj on view in natural manner.
"Priced seating plan vestibule" this was the notice dis-. played recently in many West End cinemas.
Following the LC.C. Entertain- ments Committee order that the Lei- cester-square Cinema should closo for two days West End cinema! managers are drawing attention to their public seating plan.
Pasadena City Of Autos
Pasadena, Cal. Latest statisties Indicate this city probably bas more automobiles in
It was alleged against the Leicester-proportion to its population than any Square Cinemn that people were inother city of the United Staes. There duced to buy 6s. sents when seats atfara 38,200 cars, or almost ono for 38. Od. were available,
The nationa!
every two people.
There is no appeal from the En-Javerage is about one for every 10 tertainments Committee decision.
Ipersons.
"Rose Of Tralee" Shuns Fame
PLYMOUTH.
THE ROSE OF TRALEE"-the girl who posed for the paint ing that caused a sensation at the Royal Academy in 1932-
is in England for the first time.
The girl, Shella Galvin, now 24, has only once before left her native village of Tralee in County Kerry. Still more remarkable, she has never seen the picture that made her, famous.
People in all parts of the world treasure miniatures of the painting, the work of the Irish artist, Leo Whelan, but for seven years Sheila has shunned famo-and hundreds of offors of mar- riage.
Whelan mot Sheila at a village dance In Tralee and took her to Dublin for a three-months' sitting.
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