You
Liftboy
re You Says No To
Are
Sure
(Answers ou Pave 10)
1. The first Astorla was American trading stacion, luxury cinema. Athenian trea- Mure house?
2. To ride on the world's smallest ullie railway you would need to go to-
Slam.
Isle of Man,
Minneapolis?
Kent,
3. The stories of two of these operas are concerned with the kidnapping of
ginales
child by
"William Tell," "Bohemian "Girl," "Rigoletto," "Il Trova-
tore," "Tosca"?
4. Not a map-maker's ceror. Twenty miles upart somewhere in England. Bo you know the counties?
TOTTERIDGE
TOTTERIDGE
5. Since 1888 England and South Africa have played 04 cricket matches. Have most been-
Won by South Africa, won by England, drawn?
G. Suffolk Punch is
East Angilan beverage, breed
of horse, knock-out blow?
7. Can You give these Catiluet Minhters their
L
Bur.
Herbert Stanley- Hugh Neale Albert Victor - George Alfred?
*
-
8. The county towns of these countles all begin with the same letter-
Dorsetshire,
to ink shire.
Down?
Durham, Ber- Aferionethshire,
9. Bill Sikes h a character
พ
"The Old Curiosity Shop,” A Christmas Carot," "Oliver Twist," "Bleak House," "Pick- wick Papers"?
10. To what religious orders
do the following belong-
(a) Grey Friars, (b) Black Friars, (c) White FriarE?
CAUTEMANAUNESNOVUJARAB
New York
By EVELYN WEBBER •
New York, John Massey, 16-i year-old York liftboy who was brought to New York by a rich American. has had enough in four weeks and is going home. He profers York with only shilling a week for himself to New York with "nothing to doi but onjoy myself."
a
John attracted the interest at Dr Harold Strathearn, an American evangelist, when he could remember the forgetful doctor's room number nt the York Hotel where he was working.
1
De Strathearn arranged for him to come to America and have Best-class education. The neigh- bours in York, delighted at John's stroke of lucl, gave him a watch as a going-away present.
Since he arrived here John has spent most of his time at a lake- side camp run by Dr Strathearn ia a New York beauty spot. When I saw him he was sunburned from long days out of doors,. He had just come back from riding in a moior. of pounds, boat wonth hundreds which he had varied with a little sur-boarditi.
'I miss mother'
But he told me: "I don't like it here. I want to go home. I sup- pose I shall be sorry for wasting this chatice but. Dr Strathcam should have brought somebody who lind no family. I miss my mother too much and want to be with her.
"I had a wonderful time at the
I had camp.
so much lemonade and so many sweets I was nearly sick. There was plenty of food and I had nothing to do but enjoy myself. But there was always the longing to be home, Nothing
they have here is worth that."
His passage home bus already been booked. And when be sleps down the gangplank John will be bringing nylons for his mother and sister and the watch the neighbours
EGYPT RESORTS gave him before he left.
TO BOYCOTT
don't know how I shall explain It to them," he said. "But if they want me to, I will give the watch back.
like I just didn't
It in America."
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1947.
Condemned 'Blue Baby' Saved
Shaving Expert
Gives Advice
£12,000,000 Rocket Testing Range
Although the work is shrouded in secrecy, a portion of Australin's desolate interior is being rapidly-converted into the Empire £12.000.000 rocket bomb range. It is belloved it will be the only one of its nature and size in the world. Realising that rocket experi- land and in many parts is no better ments are vital. not only for than a maze of treacherous-looking war but for peacetime develop saltpans,
was in-
ment of air transport and com- Selection of the alte munication. establishment of fluenced by its proximity to radway the rangehead. about 120 miles and industrial facilition and because northwest of Port Augusta, is it lakes than 100 miles from the 250-mile Morgan-Whynila water pipeline.
Doing feverishly pushed ahead.
:.
Work By RAAF
Port Augusta, a South Australian port and rail centre, has become Australia's latest boom town. Con- During the past four months a voys of heavy road-making plant Royal Australian Air Force Com- and trucks ladin with range equip- struction unit has almost completed mont daily. con.cout its atrocis, an airfield capable of taking Inrgs Business houses are doing a roaring freight planes. It has already been trade, particularly during week-ends used by planes flying in equipment. when there is a heavy influx of Work is also well: advanwed... on workers from' Woomero.
hongarg workshops.
Prof
Limber
houses and After extensive ground and aerial huts which provide for about 60 fami- surveys had been undertaken, a site lies at a new township to be estab about 20 miles north of Pimba, a lished at the rungehead are being sent siding on the East-West zailway, north in steadily increasing quanti WTH selected for the rangehead. tles. Surveys are now-being made With a mean rainfall of less than for the construction of a ‘spar rail- five inches a year. the oren is a way line from the vicinity of Pimba most
Inhospitable region. It dips. to Woomera School and other down from the sony Arcoon table- amenities, includbig a power station,
are also planned:
FROM HERE AND THERE:
FUN AND GAMES
Three-year-old Peter Gabriel| (left), one of Britain's con. demned "blue babies" until a few weeks ago, sat up cured in his cot in Guy's Hospital, Lon- don, six days after a successful operation and said: "I want my picture taken. I'm tough." Specialists had told Peter's parents that he could not ex- pect to live beyond the age of 15. Heart disease, turned his fingers, ears and lips blue, and prevented him walking more found in the Antarctic by than a few paces.
Los Angeles: Mrs Jean Buclig has applied for the annulment of her marriage because she can never tell - which of twin brothers is the one she married-and they
won't tell!
For some years it is proposed to limit the range to a point chout of The Central Astralian aboriginal reserve. Until control is perfected, enly non-explosiva missites will be fired.
Because of recent developments in the design of rocket bombs. elaborate lounching apparatus will not be needed by the big team of British experts in physics, chemis try, pyrotechnies, radar and radio which is being steadily assembled In Australia.
POLAR OASIS
reads no newspapers, accepis no mail. New York: Another oasis has been receives no visitors except the hotel Ameri- manager-four times each year-and
Security Measures can Navy Expedition. It is near the a walter once a day. Vestfold Mountains, about 500 miles
CO-RESPONDENTS TO SPARE. west of
Ultimately the path of the range, the multi-coloured lakes Fort of Spain: A husband sued his which points across the continent. discovered sometime ago,
wife
for divorce and named four co-
will traverse
of three portions respondents.
were Three
former
deserts the Great Sandy, Gibson's Rome! Angelo Piperno, a Rome re- internees of the Trinidad Camp and the Great Victoria. This im- staurateur, known among gourmets where the wife was detained during
MISH
INTEGRITY:
almost to the Bight.
According to
Great Australian
tweliminary - esti- mates, operation and maintenance of the
will require about
FRANCO
Then they heard that Dr Alfred
of Blalock, surgeon-in-chief the Johns Hopkins Foundation in Balli- more, was visiting Guy's to demon- strate the "blue baby" operation which he invented three years ago. as "The King of Artichokes," re- the war but they could not be found, mensity of desolation stretches from
was chosen for one
of the ceived a letter from a Dublin bank The fourth was in court. The pet the Kimberley's in the far northwest demonstrations. Surgeons and stud-informing him that in 1938 he was tion was dismissed with costs, ents watched the famous American among the winners of the Dublin
QUITE AN HONOUR make thes Incision in the right wall sweepstakes and that £7,210 is kept
New York: Little Margaret Tine2; of the boy's chest and take out the at his disposal.
It was Dr Blalock's 501st heart.
DANGEROUS SPORT
Erven years old, broke a leg. In the process of treating Margaret, medical similar operation.
New York: The underworld has authorities discovered a powerful new £3,000,000 a year. The estimated such a strong Crip on boxing that the drug which is killing infections which total cost will cover provision of workshops and associated integrity of the sport is jeopardised, resisted penicillin. It is also saving
the remove, and that while shaving an investigating Grand Jury stated people from surgical
A chain of radio ob- Sabri Abeu El Magd, Secretary
the reechtly.
operations, laboratories. against the grain takes off
will They called the drug bacitracin" in servation posts be established General of the Committee for Nila
whiskers rapidly, the man also runz
at intervals of about 100 miles along honour of Margaret. Valley Liberation, sald recently that |
a greater risk of cutting himself. New York: A Pennsylvania court
TO BURY OR NOT
the -1,600 miles land path. in response to the Committee's funds from foreign banks and de-copper. Any beant, whether it be of Casselman estimated that only five received a, complaint that Miss Mary Baltimore: Undertakers are worrled | Elaborate precautions are being campaign for a boycott
of British posit them in Egyptian banks, and the tough brunette type or the softer percent of slavers use up a blade Powers could not be persuaded to about the method of how to bury taken to prevent and leakage and American goods, three Egyp. to stop buying from any countries blond type, should be softened for at with each shave, and ald the cash a cheque for £3,250. Miss victims of atomic rays. Ordinary vital information about the rocket tlan busines men hud cancelled which failed to support Egypt in her least three minutes. Any kind of average man gets 4.4 shaves out of a Powers comes of English stock. She burial might cause more deaths from experiments. None of the regular $120,000 orders from the United dispute with Britain in the United soap will do, Casselman says.
blade. He said that one in four doesn't care about money for she has continued radio activity from graves. progress reports to the Federat States and applied
to the Soviet | Nations Security Council over The A good blade and a
well-designed shaves daily; beards grow 5 mm. per £4,000,000. In her carly sixties, sho Cremation would spread radioactive Government ne being committed to legation for the some imports.
withdrawal of British troops from are necessities, he says. He day, but foster in summer; they hus not been out of her five roomed particles through the atmosphere paper, and even boundary riders in He said that the Committee had Egypt and the future of the Sudan warned that the longer the shaver grow faster on the form than in the hotel suite in 26 years. Still dressed Beat answer-coffins sealed in con- the rangehead area are required to asked the Egypilans tó withdraw | Associated Press
scrapes his chin the more skin he will | city.
in clothes of the guy 90's period, she crete.
carry permits.—Reuter.
Elbridge J. Casselman, 52, who in the last 15 years has conducted 25,- 1000 shaving tests, has some advice for
men.
In the first place, he says, a dry whisker is harder than annealed
razor
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
RECLUSE
"Sand Doin's"
Bu KEMP STARRETT,
of
THE BEACH HOLDS MANY TRUSTRATIONS.. THE SAND-PAIL WONT HOLD WATER, POP HOLDS NOTHING BUT FOOD AND THAT POSE (FLAT ON HIS BACK ALL DAY LONG). WHILE YOU HOLD THE BAG...
YOUR WIFE NEVER EXPECTS YOU TO BRING HOME ANY- ATHING FROM THE SEASHORE BUT
SINGIRA AND MAKES OTHER ARRANGEMENTS.
IF THEY DON'T TREAD ON YOUR. FACE THEY'LL STOMP ON YOUR. STOMACH.
Ledger Syndicate
́OH YEAH!,
Стопантер
NO YOU CAN NOT HAVE A HARD-BOILED
EGG...YOUVE HAD TOUR ALREADY: IT „AIN'T LADYLIKE TO | STUFF YOURSELF THAT
WAY
THERE'S ALWAYS A KING SIZE DOG TO KEEP LIFE ON THE BEACH INTERESTING AND IN A BATH- ING SUIT YOU FEEL AS HELDLESS AS A DAY-OLD CHICK.
THE LAD WHO HAD THE ILLUSION THAT
HE COULD ESCAPE THE NOISE, AND ⠀⠀ BUSTLE OF THE CITY ON A NICE QUIET BEACH COMMONING WITH NATURE..
SOME GO TO THE SHORE JUST
FOR THE SUNSINNE