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1. If you wanted lo buy A carbuncle you would go lạ-
Coal merchant, chiropodist, Jeweller, doctor?
2. Who were the original
(a) Chocolate Coloured Coon, (b) White-eyed Kafir,
(c) Prime Minister of Mirth, (d) Man in the Velvet Suit?
3. In which books would yop these
imaginary read about lands
Utopia, Liliput, Shangri-La?
4. Two well-known hollday landmarks.
Do you know them?
5. The first batsman to score over 400 runs in an Innfigs in first-class cricket was—
L. Hutton, W. G. Grace, D. C. Bradman, A. C. MacLaren, W. H. Ponsford, J. D. Hobbs?
G. On one of these continents it la possible to be 1,500 miles from the 'sea-
Africa
N. America, Asia,
Which of these peers are Socialists-
;
Marquis of Normanby, Vis- Davidis, St
Viscount Lord Rothschild?
count Simon,
8. The original Commandos
were--
Pirates; missionarics, Astatic race that overran Europe, Boer irregular troops?
9. How many sheets of wrli-
Ing paper are there in a-
(a) Quire; (b) ream?
10. llow long did Christ re-
the thain on earth after Aurrection—
3, 7, 21, 40 days?
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RAF MEN TEACH SUNDAY SCHOOL
A group of young RAF, men stalloned at Singapore spend their. Sunday off-duty hours as Sunday School teachers.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1947.
London Airport's Importance
WILL HANDLE 4,000 PASSENGERS HOURLY
London Airport is rising from
By RICHARD TOMPKINS
SCIENCE FEATURE
CURE FOR PSYCHIC DEAFNESS
cases
By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE
Semena uctural
Bald.
"LIT
Dr.
New, York-A dramatic Im then treat emotional or psychological deaf with no physical explanation provement of hearing in somo causes of illness, physical or mental, for it.
With twilight sleep treatment to cases of severe deafness among The patient can talk and answer questions. Also, sald Dr. Semenov, war veterans through use of a his actual hearing ability can bend and remove the paychle cause, "a, dramatic rostoralion of hearing sleeping drug has been reported measured accurately.
occurred in 10 percent of the puro by Dr Herman Somenov, of
Wartime experience, at Hoff Gen- functional cases, in which there was eral Hospital, an army installation no Beverly Hills, California.
These were
of psychic near Santa Barbara, California,
mixed with to showed that about 10 percent of organic ear discast, there was a re- The three main runways are the airport will be 1,000 in Stage
dcatness, due partly or entirely psychological causes in which the patients with severe deafness in
of the limiting ear disease. the gravel pits, mud flata. all 300 feet wide and have been One, 2,500 in Stage Two and 4,000
mind somehow affected the hearing both cars had psychic problems muckable improvement up to the
American underlying the deafness, the.
con- Hearing he
was restored to useful con- ditches and ponds of Middlesex constructed with a view to In Stage Three.
and tinued.
levels in 70 percent of the cases to become one of the great taking the heaviest aircraft Air Miniatry planners, rejected as
Otolaryngology designed, including the dangerous a scheme to install run-
a pre- selected for treatment, which in Of these, 00 percent had crossroads of international air now
Brabazon 1, now being con- ways in
The drug used is a sedative, existing organte car disease, but cluded many cases with organie in- travel.
tangential pattern. ke
sodium pentothal, which puts the usually their deafness was greater Jury",k structed by the Bristol Aircraft spoltes in a wheel. It was argued
patient in a twilight zone between than it should be for such organic Similar cases of paychic 'deafness Company.
that if a landing "plane overshot Ita
sicep and awakening. It is widely troubles. In some, deafness per among civilians may be more com- used by paychologists for different sisted even though the injury Dr. mon ihan previously auspected,, Dr. The Brabazon is of 130 tons gross runways it might cross the path of
kinds of patients to discover and disease had been cured. Others were Semenov såld-Associated Press. weight, and is designed to carry 120 'an aircraft taking off, and thought passengers seated or 72 in sleeping that on converging runways, air- berths, on the North Atlantic service. craft might collide on the ground or
overall weight of 360,000 pounds.
Eventually when it is com- be 1953-it will pleted in capable of serving 4,000 East- and West-bound passengers every hour.
The great field, which will Actually the runways will take an in the air during bad visibility,
cover seven square miles in area, is located 19 miles from the centre of Charing Cross, London, and its final cost has been estimated between £20,- 000,000 and £30,000,000.
TRIANGULAR PATTERN Stage one of the construction, a triangular pattern of runways, has been finished and all three runways
are in use.
room
. Therefore, the staggered parallel
system of runways was adopted..
nerves, he told
Academy of 772/1067
LITTLE EVA TO
REJOIN
ON HER WAY HER
HER FATHER
The system of fog dispersal, known as "Fido," also was abandoned be- cause of the high cost of operation. The Ministry says it is awaiting the
Bright-eyed little Eva Tana for there are 30-odd other young- 1946, and arrived in Shanghai in In the recond stage, the North American development of another Rosen is one of the most excited sters among the repatriates to Aus- April. His first six months duty trlu, Germany, Italy. Poland and in China was in Tringlao, and in The airport, formerly known
will be system before considering its usa passengers aboard the UNRRA- Czechoslovakia. They will be car- September he returned to Shanghai. west-Southeast runway
for the later. as Heathrow, had its genesis in scrapped to make
chartered repatriation ship, ed for during the voyage by UNRRA As repatriation officer he makes the Royal Air Force's need for newly-designed terminal which wil
Marine Lynx, which left Shang- escorts, including two trained nurses, arrangements with shipping com a field near
The Airport, however, already lahai last week to take more than and the dozen refugee doctors who pantes, consulates and the Chinese the city, large cover 80 acres. Most of the concrete
paving using ground control approach 700 refugees back to their are also passengers,
Foreign Affairs Department for enough to
accommodate the surface will be salvaged
for the terminal area and taxiways. (CCA) facilities, the RAF's favourite homes in Germany and Austria,
traveling
paper for the All of the repatriates have been repatriates. Prior to of military air- largest types
the war hie screened by UNRRA's Also during the second stage wartime bad weather safty landing
displaced worked craft.
Later it was visualised
Eight-year-old Eva is going home persons division and IRC, to be sure Company in Washington.
for the American Airlines He is a to become Britain's interna- expected to be completed in 1949 aid.
to Germany, her native country, to they are four runways will be added, as will
bona fide war-displaced tional airport. -
large part of the central apron. A Pan-American clipper recently meet her, father, who, she just re- persons. They were provided with aduate of the University of Art-
frat passenger landing cently discovered, is still alive in necessary travelling papers and parts of the terminal buildings and made the 170 acres of nireratt
maintenance under the newly-Installed system.
Berlin after escaping Nazi concentra- Kiven other service prior to their
Two Nurse areas.
tion camps and surviving the war. sailing. WORKERS' HOUSING
She doesn't remember much about
Now the British Government, carrying out this plan, is literal ly moving two rivers and erasing two or more villages to permit runways to be built for the largest conceivable planes.
WORK BEGUN IN 1944 Work has begun in May 1944. The war ended before the com- plation of the first runway, and the airfield was placed for de- velopment under the control of the Ministry of Civil Aviation on January 1, 1946.
In the third
of and final stage
of
of
various
zona.
Two UNRRA
nurses also. escort
the repatriates in the Marine Lynx. They are Major Carrie May Dolken, of Centralia, Washington, a member of the United States Public Health Service assigned to UNRRA, and
Paul, Minnesota. Mrs Mabel Mochring Bishop, of St.
Major Dokken has been with
either her father or her native land, The Marine Lynx is the last mass development three more runways Levelling of ground and the All- for Eva was only a six-months-old shipment of European repatriates will be built, making a total of mining-in of ditches and ponds is pro- baby when her mother brought her to leave Shanghai this year. and the Bath Road, a muin East- West traffic artery, will be diverted gressing, as is the construction of to Shanghai in 1930 to elude Nazl in Europe. But other
Chlof Escort to the northern boundary the prefabricated buildings, and other persecution
repatriates aboard the UNRRA, re- airfield,
temporary installations which give patriation ship will pass on to her J. Logan, of Seattle, deputy director Chlef escort of the ship is Erling In the airport area the flow of the the airport the appearance an, some of their nostalgle memories of of UNRIA's displaced persons 'divi-
Longford
Duke and
their homeland before rivers
of emergency landing field.
the ship sion. Logan Joined UNRRA in May The villages of Sipson and part of Northumberland will be altered.
docks. A real need now is housing for
When her mother died in Shanghai 1946, after four years in the Marino UNRRA since September 1944. Bel Harlington will be demolished, and the thousands of men and women in 194, her mother died in Shanghai Corps, and arrived in Shanghai in fore coming to China in August 1940, she served in the North African. village, Harmondsworth, who will be employed on aircraft Heinz Krotoschinski and his mother
and German missions of may be seriously affected.
the year he has been in the UNRRA. For the past year in China maintenance, as truffle clerks, cus-brought her into their home, seeing. As experis designed the project, toms and immigration officials, and that the child was fed, clothed and displaced persons division, UNRRA, she has been nursing consultant to Eva this year has repatriated 1,332 other European the Shanibal Health Depatment, and Droperly educated. The Ministry of many plans were prepared and some in other duties.
at In her fourth year the refugees from China in previous worked with the Fong Fin Hospital discarded to prevent unnecessary Health has called a conference of Kadoorie School in Shanghal. shipments, sent 21,000 overseas in Canton. destruction of private property. local authorities to plan now homes.
third
DANGEROUS SCHEME
to
While plans for the airport are
Was
SHI Alivo
-
June 1946.
In
Italian
In the early days of mud and tents, the task was to dispose
Chinese to their homes in Southeast She is graduate of the Cook County of 100,000,000 gallons of water,
Asia, and brought bacle 13,000 war- School of Nursing in Chicago, and install a drainage system and
One day, not long ago, a letter displaced Chinese to their homeland. holds degrees from the University
of Minnesota and Cofumble Univer excavate 2,000,000 tons of carth
The completion of the first stage still fluid, the scheme includes per- |
Eva's father, Martin Before the war, Logan was a ten- and gravel.
sity. The first three has permitted a maximum capacity moment buildings, hotels, entertain-came from
Rosen, saying he is still alive after cher, spending three of his eight Their headquarters are at Trinity main runways absorbed 1,114,- of 40 aircraft movements (landings ments, visitors' promenades, under- having leapt from the Nazi trola professional years in Skagway, Church, Chang, where recently a000 square yards of concrete 12 and take-offs) an hour, rising large congregation of parents and Inches thick.
50. Stage Two will allow 00, in- ground ronds, subway transit and which was carrying him to concen- Alaska. He is a graduate of Wash creasing to 100 air movements in an other facilities, which will make the tration comp. He has re-established ington State College.. children from the married quarters
hour, and Stage Three, 150 or more. airport area a modern city in itself. himself in the acting profession In attended on Empire Youth Sunday So that all of the teachers would
It is an ambitious project design-Berlin, has retharried, and now has be present, the anniversary" of the
ed to equal any airport in the world home for his young daughter in opening of the Sunday School six
Eva is travelling by herself on the months beforo was celebrated by the and
UNRRA repatriation ship to join presentation of book prizes
him. She is not be alone, though, certificates of merit to the best pupils,
Eventually, it is planned to have nine runways, varying in length from 9,000 to 5,300 feet. The main runway can be ex tended to 15,000 feet if the need should arise.
as the "front door" of Britain and
It is estimated that with nn average of 20 passengers per air- craft in Stage One, increasing to 25 in Stage Two and Three, the maxi- the gateway to the European con- mum hourly passenger capacity of tinent--Associated Press.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
Ferlin.
Mr Blahop has been la UNKRA since February, 1940, and in China nince March 1946. She was assigned to Ilwaiyin, North Kiangsu, n mem- Carl Hansen, of Washington, D. C., her of a kala azar team in Commun- UNRRA repatriation officer, is also ist areas. When military activities necompanying the repatriates to there Increased and bombs destroyed. Europe. Mr Hansen, former leuae hospital, the team was evacuated tenent in the US Navy in the to Tsingtao, and Mrs Bishop was Pacific, joined UNRRA in January reassigned to work in Pelping
DETOUR AROUND ALL FAMILY FIGHTS"; THE WAY OF THE PEACE MAKER IS AS FULL OF LUMPS AS BOARDING HOUSE MASHED POTATOES.
YOU AUGHT USE & TRAFFIC WAKTLE WHEN THE YOUNG OBES TRY DETOURING AROUND THE DINNER DISHES.
Casciata
DETOUR AROUND THOSE MODERN SCULPTURES...F YOU WOULD PRESERVE YOUR SANITY.
*ITS. MRC. LA PESTER...SHE WANTS US THERE FOR
DINNER
*NO! NO! NO!TELL HER IM SICK...! HAVE TO GO OUT OF TOWN....I'VE GOT LEPROSY. MY · GRANDMOTHER iS-DY
NEXT
"More Detours"
BU KEMP STARRETT
... AND MY GREAT UNCLE
JOHN THE LINED TO"
BE NINETY-NINE.... HE'S THE ONE WO
WAS WITH ANDY
JACKSON AT: NEW ORLEANS.:. HIS FAMILY CAMLE OVER
IN 1632 AND SETTLED W...
EIC.
ETC.
DETOUR VIENEVER POSTIBLE, AROUND THE LAD WHO DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHINGS HAPPENED SINCE THE DAYC OF RUMERFORD BY HAVES.
...AND YOU GET
HOME EARLY.... FORELSE? AND
KEEP AWAY FROM THOSE BAR-FLY FRIENDS OF
YOURS
YOU NEVER CAN TELL WHERE ALL THOSE DETOURS AROUND WORK WILL LEAD TO. Ledger Sjudicata
TRYING TO DETOUR, AROUND AN INVITATION TO DINNER HOME MONIES...TALES OF TRIPS
ABROAD EIC..LEADS TO SOME FANCIFUL DETOURS AROUND THE TRUM.......
SOME MEN TAKE AS MANY DETOURS AST POSSIBLE ON THE WAY HOME FROM WORK... AND THEIR WIVES ALWAYS WONDER WAY...