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1. Which of these is the third line of Gray's “Elegy"........ (a) The homeward plough- man ploda ha tocory way,
(b) The ploughman home- ward plode his weary way,
(e) The
The weary ploughnan
homeward ploss his way?
2. Apart from being London
phone exchanges.
what
have these in common-
Hop, Primrose, Speedwell?
clso
3. If you were a typtologist you would have a knowledge of-
Drums, print, spirit-rappings, tapestry?
4. What i thi
Crtogram, monogram,
gram?
cna-
5. Largest cities in Austra lla and New Zealand are also the oldest sedilementa, They
are
Melbourne and Wellington; Sydney and Auckland; Canber ra and Christchuren?
6. Prison is often recfrred to
Why?
as "clink"
7. Highest possible break at anooker is
African
105, 110, 147, 154, 1557 8. Which of these rivers flows into the Mediter-
Congo, Zambesi, Nile, Niger, Orange River?
9. Adventitious means-wr Thrilling event, false account, accidental, coming event?
THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1947.
The Most Astonishing
Trial
TN the City of Hull, which
has a of 300,000,
In Britain
and is Britain's third largest Two months-and it may
port, a criminal charge is being inquired into of which the pro- ceedings bid fair to be the longest in the present 'century.
It has already lasted nearly two months, but when it started the experts estimated that it would be over in a week or ten days. It has set up a record for. any case dealing with the bull- ding and contracting industry. In Hull, where it has aroused intense interest because of the personalities involved and its possible effect on the city's rates, they call it for short the "Tarran case."
The name derives from one Mr of the four defendants. Robert Greenwood Tarran, one- time sheriff and chief warden of Hull, started work as a 98. a week joiner and founded the business of Tarran Industries, which, at its peak, employed 10,000 people and had an annual turnover approaching £2,500,- 000.
He was its managing director until February 8, 1945.
AN OLD FRIEND Concerned with him on one only of the nine'matters before the court is Sir Noel Curtis- Bennett, an old friend of Tarran and a former director of Tarran Industries. During the hearing of the case Sir Nocl celebrated
MALADJUSTMENTS his 65th birthday.
MAKE YOU ILL Tho growing complexities ut modern life are largely responsible for increasing illnesses and maind justment among people graduating medical students of the University of Pennsylvania were told.
Chester
A former assistant secretary of the Treasury, he nas served as president of many sporting associations and is
of
International the a member Olympic Committee.
The two other defendants are Mr Herbert Blard Southern, assistant
be only beginning
By BERNARD HARRIS
So for 60 witnemes have been called. Another dozen remain to be heard. More than 450 exhibits ledgers, contracta, letters, and other documents have been produced.
It is estimated that Mr Double- day, the greying, slightly harassed- oking deposition clerk, has alrendy typed 330,000 words of witnesses' depositions-the equivalent of four average-length novels.
The allent typewriter with which he started his mammoth
Job hins broken down under the strain.
Now he has a slightly noisier machine, which sometimes makes it dificult for those at the back of the small freshly decorated courtroom to calch every word that is spoken.
THE COST Ench day of the bearing costs the £200 and
citizens of Hull between
£300.
Cases such as the Tarran case are governed by, the Costs In Criminal Cases, Act (1900), which lays down that the district in which proceed- inga take place is responsible for the costs of the prosecution.
The gossip in Hull is that the total
Will costs
work out at between £12,000 and £13,000, which is the equivalent of a 2d. rate in the city.
Alderman L. Schultz, of the City Council's finance committee, does not confirm this esilmate. But he expresses the view that it has not been exaggerated and may even prove an underestimate.
Mr Tarran himself, during the duller parts of the hearing, has com- posed poems about Its inordinato length and passed them round.
He has suggested to the represen- tatives of Scotland Yard and to Mr
"Bcore Cleworth that +
board" should be erected at the back of the courtroom.
The dragging-on of the care has Introduced some difficult problems for counsel engaged in it.
Believing that it would be over: In two weeks or so, they accepted briefs in other cities and so are
hither and now having to dash thither to fulfil their engagements.
Two of them-Mr Cleworth and Mr Hylton-Foster will have special reason to remember the case, for they have
been appoint.
King's Counsel during the
If the Tarran case goes for trial
CHIPPY'S PLANS FOR
A BOOK TROUGH
TODAY we're on 1 very
Tsimple job. It's a book
trough-with a desk base for those who chooɛo to add it.
STEP 1: Moko your two ends from Min. or Min. wood-the, best you thavo got. You see how in the illus➡ ̧« tration below. The piece I am sawing Is 13ingxins, with a one- inch hole drilled in the centre. This Hives two similar pieces and makes the trough 0ins. Hugh.
STEP 3: Make a base of Min. timber, 16ina. long and 12ins, wide. STEP 2:
Screw two carriers of Mount your trough to the rear of the timber a little thinner than your, base as shown. You will find ends-between
ita these ends, The botter to make shallow channels into lower one is 24ins, wide and the which to sink the feet of the trough. upper one is.4ins, wide. The length Fit two screws from underneath
desire the one in the each end. sketch was 13ins. long.
it will probably figure in the ouin as you tumn assizes In Leeds.
But however long the hearing lasts it will fall a long way short of the celebrated Tichborne case of last century.
The Criminal Court sat on that for 180 days, and the ecension
summing up alone look judge's nearly three weeks.
SELF-MADE MAN
It would give the number of the witness and liu number of the exhibit. the words spoken by Robert G. Tarran, eldest of eight the previous witness, the
total, children, is noted in Hull for his words typed, and other relevant ready smile, his piercing brown statistics.
eyes, and his forthright Yorkshire phrases.
After 32 days a sort of family party appears In the courtroom, "I've tried to make it that way,"
saya, Mr Tarran.
The top sketch shows you the angle at which to fix the carriers. Use, it possible, black roundhead but if you are using ordinary ones screws, Bink them below the surface of the timber and cover. It the timber is very light, use panel pins instead of
scrows.
Don't forget to usa plenty of energy when Bondpapering the bot- tom ns well as the sides or you'll scratch the furniture.
There you have a simple book trough, but if you look at the
He started business on his own account in 1919 when he act up his carpenter's bench in a lott, 10ft. x att. which he rented for 2s. 6d. atop sketch you will During the adjournment he is week from a bakery in Washington-see how it' can be elaborated into a bet- Soing up to Perth to supervise the street, Hull. building and civil
Ho carried Engineering
timber to it on the
ter job, ideal for the business he has established there. handlebars and saddle of his bicycle
desk of a student or for he could not afford a handcart.
busy man. "I've told Cleworth," he sald, Years later his enterprise was the "thut 3' bring back a baggia so Jorgest consumer of timber in that he and Mr MacDonald and I Britain. can have a New Year party in pra- per style if we are still together,"
་
Mr MacDonald
Mr Jolin alipen- Robert MacDonald, Hull's dlary magistrate, the case.
who is hearing
SLIP CORRECTED
at
NOTE: If you decide to
mount your book trough in. channel I suggest you make your end pieces 0ins, high instead of 0%Ins., but position, all place your carriers in the same
On the front of the base you can mount or gouge out a pen tray, and mount two inkwells or an inkwell and pin holder (to match the ink-
well if possible). Pen; tray goes in the centre, Inkwell at right (12) you* pro right-hand- ed). The Inkwell and; pln holder should be sunk into the base.
A refinement is to
fit, underneath, four studs, preferably rub-Z ber, or you may be able to cover the base with balzo
OF leatherette.
NUDISM HAS A ROSY FUTURE
Nudism has a rosy future,
Within 10 years, hardly any-
As he enters court for the morn-America's No. 1 nudist belleves. ing Kession the usher cries "Silence," and Mr MacDonald, with a friendly smile round the court, Rays, for the 32nd time, "Good body will hesitate to shed his clothes-along with his modesty morning, gentlemen." He, too, helps tedium of what are at times dull during his leisure time, he and formal proceedings.
said.
to relieve
the
The costs of the defendants per- to be much sonally are unlikely less than those of the prosecution.
concerned with the cuse People to the company's general manager say jestingly diat Mr R. Cleworth, for contracts, and Mr Irvin Haylock, youngish, bespectacled counsel, who the price and a former secretary of the company. is oppearing for the Director of housing contracts
Public Prosecutions, is well on the Tarran Industries for the City of way to becoming the most unpopular Leeds. man in Hull,
Evidence was being given about datcs of certain carried out by
Alois Knapp, self-styled best- undressed man in the United
The summonses, which are being
States, said the number of heard at the instance of the Director of Public Prosecutions, arise out of
A figuro quoted by Mr Cleworth nudists has doubled in less than They tell him that he will have did not correspond with that in a year. More than 2,000,000 ailegations that the balance sheets published by Tarran Industries in to grow a beard so that he can get document just handed to the maxi-
men, women and children now case ends.
Mr MacDonald corrected the alp. run around in their skin every
with That sort of good-humoured banter Then added,
a half-smile chance they get, he said. is typical of the comments on the "If is proof that the magistrate here Tarran case,
docs keep awake."
I. Bernard, research specialist in human behaviour, told the graduates that finesses resulting from maladjustments to society are despite the improvements increasing of the material conditions of life.
"One
ing cause" ho gold, "is the extreme knowledge and of employment, which material puruculars. has greatly reduced the case of com-
The hearing has already extended munication among people promoted blockages and frustrations," jover a period of eight weeks and
United Press.
"major distrailer!ion of | 1942 and 1949 were false in certain to the station unrecognised when the strale.
and has
the court has sat on 32 days.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
AS LONG AS YOU'RE HOME YOU MIGIT AS WELL MAKE YOURSELF USEFUL.. DE ALL THOSE MAGAZINES OF YOURS AND PUT SOME SHAKES- PEARE ON THE TABLE...
DON'T WANT THE GIRLS TO THINK WE'RE
LOW-
BROWS!"
WHATS THE MATTER, WITH THE SILVER WE USE ?
AREN'T WE AS GOOD
AS COADANY
"If people continuo undressing ́at the present rate, wearing clothes
*ULAT'S THE MATTER.
WITH MY RELATIVES?"
"NOTHING IT` JET INT GOOD
"TASTE
·
during leisure hours eventually will be 09 old-fashioned ns grandpa's flannel night shirt," he said.
Knapp, president of the American Sunbathing Association, said it was much too early even to think about people going around nude while doing their daily business. But may- be in 10 years or
so they will be able to swim at public beaches au naturel without blushing all the way down to their toenails, he said.
"We have to do this thing gradual- ly," he said. I've been watching the necklines of bathing suits and even- ing dresses slip slowly downward every year. Eventually the law of gravity is bound to win."
Knapp, a slight, grey-haired law- yer, Adgeted in his gray business Bult. He said he could hardly wait
for the opening of the 1947 nudity season at his camp at Roselawn, In- diana.
Knapp attributed the "popularity" of nudism principally to people's natural desire to be comfortably.
"Nudism doesn't mean you have to go nude all the time," he said. "It Just means that when you don't feel ilke getting all dressed up with no place to go, you don't have to. It's.. the freedom to take off your clothes whenever you want..
"The evolution of a nudist is very · interesung: At first most people say that it just feels good not to have to wear clothes.
After a while they realise how good it is for their health and morally." -mentally physically, emotionally,
Knapp said he knew of one other cause for the growth of nudlam: "high clothing. prices."-United
Press.
"When The Wife Entertains"
BY KEMP STARRETT
✔ WHAT MAKES YOU THINK NOBODY WILL SEE THE STONE ...DON'T YOU KNOW THAT THEY'LL ALL FIND SOME EXCUCE
TO COME OUT
TO THE KITCHEN JUST TO CHECK UPON AE2*
WHEN THE WIFE ENTERTAINS
THINGS HAVE TO BE "JUST SO"
AT ALL COSTS,
Ledger Syndicate
"HEAVENC/YOULL HAVE TO GO ID TO THE ATTIC AND FIND
́THAT PICTURE MELEN SKITA
·PAINTED FOR US...
SHE'LL HAVE A FIT
IF SHE DOESIPT
SEE IT BANGING
ON THE VALL/
SIELL ORDER OUT ME GOOD (COD) SILVERAD IT'LL NEED CLEANING.
WAY CAN'T YOU HAVE COMPANY WITIOIT MAKING ALL THIS
BLUFF.
AND THE PHOTOS OF YOUR MOTHER AND FAHER HIDDEN SOMEWHERE (ANYTIKERED BECAUSE ITS BAD FORAL TO EXPOSE FAMILY. PORTRAITS.
BECAUSE IF WE HAD THINGS JUST AS WE HAVE THEM FOR EVERY DAY THEY'D SAY {' WAS A SLOPPY HOUSEKEEPER. THEY WILL ANYWAY, BUT I'LL HAVE THE SATIS- FACTION OF KNOWING WE CAN MAKE A BETTER SHOW- ING MAN ANY OF THE CAN!
IS IT ANY WONDER THAT A MERE MÅN
WONDERS WAY WOMEN CALL SOME OTHER WOMEN 'FRIENDS. AND WHY THEY EVER. BOTHER TO ENTERTAIN ANY OF THEM AT ANY TIME. S
"COME INI HOPE YOU WON'T MIND THE WAY THE PLACE LOOKS...ITSA MESS.....
HAVE WT HAD TIME TO CLEAN!"
SHE TANKS OF EVERYTHING: EVEN TO RIDING TIE TOOTHPASTE, BECAUSE MRS. S'APP'S ABSBAND' IS WITH A FIRM WHOSE PRODUCT YOU DON'T USE
THE EXPLANATION IS EVEN MORE BEWILDERING
THAN THE REST OF THE PROCEEDINGS INCLUDING THE WEIRD REASON FOR ENTERTAINING. AT ALL.
AND THEN, AFTER. FIVE SOLID
HOURS OF PREPARATION...