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Story by Michael Blankfort and Lewis Maltzer Somas play By Horace McCay, Luelo Meltzer, Michool Blockfari + Directed by 0SORGE MARSHALL Prodead try SAMUEL BISCHOFF
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George Bancroft Edga: Buchanan
QUEEN'S
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1946.
Restoration Of Papal Palace At Orvieto
Restoration of the famous 13th century palace of the Pope in. Orvieto rapidly neared com- plotion after Dix months of repair to wartime bomb damage, according to United Press,
Under
the
supervision Monsignor Francesco Pieri, Bishop of Orvieto, the historic building being restored to its old splendour. Itz priceless
art treasures and museum, VIII
by inaugurated
Pope Boniface
began when he construction of the building in 1200, were not damaged during the war,
of
were
Allied bombings of the Orvieto area caused a collapse of the central part of the eastern wing of the palace in December 1045, Extensive damage was caused to the roof, and
walls
GO seriously many weakened that chains were stretched to girdle them against collapse.
Orvieto Cathedral The great
directly palace la even opposite the
more famous Cathedral of Orvieto, one of the most- perfect exemples of Italian Gothic suffered also architecture, which greatly from concussion that shatter- ed the anclent stained glass windows, damaged the roof and weakened the walls.
The walls of six salons in the palaco were so badly damaged that they were torn down. Bishop Picri bald these walls had no historic or artistic value and would be complete- ly replaced,
Eggs Used In
Fight Against
Yellow Fever
On the sixth floor of the Wellcome Laboratories of Tropical Medicine In London five young men are busy at work producing a yellow powder.
It is mankind's first line of defence against the
«Informatien box
Stern, the gangster
The Stern Gang was founded by Abrahara Stern, a Jew of Polish descent, who wan student at the Hebrew University in. Jeruzalem before the war.
He read "Humanities "---- the university equivalent of Art.
He was thick-poi, hnd dark hale and eyes and wore glasses.
He had one doctring: "The world owes me a living."
He became a leading mem- ber, and by far the most extreme one, at the Irgun Zval Leumi, offshoot of the Revisionist Party.
War caused the Irgun to with postpong hostilities the British. Stern left them and turned gangster."
With a tow extremo fol- lowers from the Irgun, ho founded Kang, whose pur- pose was Dessinnon.
First step was to make it Onancially sound. This ho strill did by robbing a colony of Belgian Jews of thousands of pounds' wortli of jewels.
Unable to sell the jewels. he offered them back to the owners at twice their value- with a threat of murder it they did not pay up. They pald.
Then Stern started an era of gangsterism with political objects in January, 1942.
The gang murdered several policemen in Palen tine. Twenty-one of them were caught and put in detention camp and Stern was killed,
Nearly three years later the 21 escaped, but one wan killed.
WILS
A few days later Lord Moyne
murdered in Cafro by inembers of the gang, who had watched him for days.
Since then the gang have carried out most of the terrorisi sabotage and murder In Palestine, now an almost
daily occurrence.
A
The gung said to be between 300 and 500 strong, spilt up in small parties,
One of their leaders, blond Nathan Friedman, has a reward of £1000 on his head.
Haganah, tho Jewish Agency's private army of 50.000, has declared war on the Stern gong. They are training men in similar methods, with the object of stamping out terrorism.
scourge of tropical Africa and YORKSHIRE
At 2.30, 5.15, large tracts of Central and
South America,
a
vaccine
7.15 & 9.15 p.m. against the dread yellow fever.
IT'S THE MUSICAL WITH THE "HUBBA-HUBBA"
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TYRONE POWER in
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ALHAMBRA
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The manufacture of the vaccine takes about 10 days and up to three weeks more are needed to test It, A large part in the process is played by the ordinary hen's egg. Over 250 arrive at the laboratories each week and are first incubated for nine days Those grows. while the embryo which prove to be fertile are inocu- iated with the yellow fever virus and then replaced in the incubator for a further three or four days.
NEWSLETTER
(By B. C. Dunthorne)
Hesley Hall, standing in a 300 acre estate near Doncaster, may become a residential school for crippled children through the generosity of the owner, Major Sir John Whitaker, and a New Zealander, Mr R. E. Scott of Morrinsville. The latter has made; a generous donation to a new fund in memory of his son, Flying Oficer was Bruce Frederick Scott,
On the twelfth or thirteenth day the embryos are moved from the eggs After water. and ground up with this the mixture is placed in test tubes and spun round at great'speed in a centrifuge so that the course so-killed in operations. diment sinks to the bottom, leaving n turbid brown liquid at the top. This in the vaccine..
In
By the sixteenth day the vaccine has been turned into a powder. its final state it looks like a large yellow pill. For inoculation pur- poses. It is dissolved in distilled water and 90 to 95 percent of people who are vaccinated with it are given
comple.e immunity from yellow fever
for at least four years.
Developments In Electronics
can
New developments in electronics Include
apparatus which measure in 40 seconds the precise in a amounts of different elements
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. metri alloy, states Associated Press.
A ROMANTIC MUSICAL DREAM
in TECHNICOLOR!
COLUMBIA PICTURES presents
Rita HAYWORTH
NIGHT
Janet BLAIR-Lee BOWMAN
MARG PLATE - LESLIE BROOKS
·Bersen firy by Lesser-Bacauale and Abem *inket «Bongs by jale son end Sammy Caza Frpeness and Discted by VICTOR EXYLE
Another device is a flame radiation mensuring Instrument with which ane person can determine the relative measure of efficiency in six furnaces in less than a a half-hour.
Electronics also have entered the musical field with a new electronic orgun bullt by Conn's, of Elkhart, Indiana, which uses vacuum tube oscillators as tone sources.
NEW PHILIPPINES
J
CAPITAL
Manila, Dec. 30... The Mulachnon Press Secretary, Juan Orendlan revented Yestereiny "that Quezon Clly had been selected ns the site of the national capital of the according to. the Manila
Orendian also disclosed thai the administration planned to spend 109,000,000 pesos for the Capitol building. All government buildings would be transferred to the new alte If plans materialised.-United Press..
Indian Art Show For London
"Many wonderful, achievements of: Indian art from 2,500: B...C. to the present.day will bo the subject of a sportul exhibition at London's Royal. "Academy-of-Art, during, the winter 21. 1947-40. The exhibition, which Is supported by the British Govern
THE SKY'S THE LIMIT ment and the Government of India,
will include paintings, sculpture, textiles and other works.
who
Sculler's Trainl
Hard For 1948
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KINGS
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Olympic Games M-G-M'S GREAT TECHNICOLOR GLAMOUR ROMANCE!
Winter has not succeeded In putting a brako on Britain's Acullera in their 32 lb, stream- lined boats. They are still prac tising hard on the choppy waters of the river Thames for the 1948 Olympiad.
Among those in hard training 'are R. D. Burnell
of Leander, J. H. Finches' of London, B. H. T. Bushnell of Maidenhead and W. H. Fullick of Kingston. Fullick, who is being trained
the veteran Erle Phelps, by with his boat to Putney from motors Worthing where he now lives in the spring he hopes to do most of his sculling In Brighton Harbour. · He says he has solved the problem of keeping sculling fit on Britain's small rations by buying a flock of ducks.
Following the Cambridge Trial Elghts at the end of November, practico for the 1947 Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race-which with take place on March 29-is in full swing. The Oxford "A" crew has already put in some hard work on the river Lis,
of
Despite the notorious discomfort Trial Eights boats, the three
| Cambridge teams have been making good progress. The standard of the "A" and "B" crown is consistently good throughout.
are They
being trained by Mr Poter Halg-Thomas who last coached Cambridge in 1934.
G. C. Thomas, rowing No. 5 in' the "A
CTCW, and the cox are the. only
the Old Blues available for 1947 Cambridge boat.
Golf sides of both Universities are also practising hard for the Univer alty match at Rye next March.
Teleprinter Link For Britain
Britain's Post Office is planning to install automatic teleprinters work- Ing throughout the country.
Operators in each of the 700 offices dealing with more than 50 telegrams daily will be able to dial a codo num- ber, and without any manual inter vention, will be connected to the office from which the talegram will be de ilvered. The teleprinter at the dis- tant office will automatically trans- mit a code to the calling office tele- printer to indicate that the connec- tion has been established correctly- a reliable check.
It is expected that the scheme will bo Introduced carly In 2040, and within five years the whole of Britain should be linked.
A new and Improval teleprinter conforming to international standards Is being designed, and the five-year plan will provide an opportunity for Its introduction.
city plant and water supply of more than 250,000 gallons on the estate.
Polar Bear Division Former members of the famous Polar Bear Division-the 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division were at York recently for the formal handing over of divisional trophiles and
Hesley Hall is notable for a legend emblems.
The Hall was occupied by the Forces during the war, and there is no record that they, with a reputation for finding things that are supposed to be well preserved secrews, ever came across it.
that more than 60 years ago a store The ceremony took place in the of wine was laid in one part of fl Drill Hall, Colllergate, where Brig- and was then sealed up. The secret Gen. Sir Edward Whitley, of the cellar has never been found, and no West Riding Territorial Army, one knows (if the wine was hidden) welcomed back the Division, and the whether it is in the house itself or trophies and emblems were received by the Earl of Harewood for safe-
while the one of the many outbuildings.
Division
is keeping hibernating. Before the ceremony there was a service in the Minster.
A thief who broke into a prefab house on Brooklands Estate, Seacroft, Leeds, is believed to have used a penknife to cut through the outer and Clothing inner walls of asbestos. and other articles, valued at £100, were taken. They belonged to Mr and Mrs, C. Austwick, and most of them had been bought with Mr Austwick's gratulty. Middicabrough Corporation has decided, through one The Hall, with its 39 bedrooms and of its committees, not to let the Town its own private chapel, will provide Hall to Charles Shadwell, former
for SO accommodation
crippled BBC conductor, who had intended to children. There is a private electri- give a concert there..
Once the school is established by the Central Council for the care of cripples it will be maintained by funds from the Ministry of Education, which has already given the scheme Its blessing.
SIDE GLANCES
By Galbraith
"Thinks for letting me go, Pop-and don't forget I'll liave lots of time to get my sleep when I get to be as old
Nas you erg12/
RONALD
COLMAN
KISMET
MARLENE
DIETRICH
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The Journey will be in' return for
American Goodwill male relations with Tibet.
Mission To Tibet the Tibetan mission, which brought
Rifts for the President of this United Stater Inst year during negotiations with the Brush Government in New Now Delhi, Dec, 29. Delhi The Arrierican mission wil jhave to struggle over-narrow mouri An American goodwill missiontain caravan routes „auroas・・ wind- bearing gifts for the Dalai Lama of swept Himalaya paniCS, United Tibot, will make the arduous journey1'ress.