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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, ́ ́SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1948.
Someone's crazy
around here...
It's Nows to Some Pooplo
UPPOSING | your doorbell
rang one morning and a cable boy handed you u from South Africa saying:
"GEDULD ONE INTER- FT SECTED BASAL 3922 ASSAYING 1252 DWTS OVER hole. 18.4 INS."
Swoon What would you do?
to with astonishment or rush
No. the phone in a frenzy! you'd probably tell the boy there'd been a mistake and give
The him the cable back. you'd return to your breakfast without realising that you'd let. slip a chance to make yourself a million pounds.
News of gold
CABLE In Just those words did Brrive in the City on
Minos
fatick
Fi
April morning two years ago, by the infile of the afternoon
share hud group of gold mining gone up in value by £6,000,000.
BRurus Those cryptic words and curries the news of the greatest guirl And in South African history.
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At any ie there may be similar strike, art as there's alway.
falut ehnee that the cable nouncing It may come to one of 15
an-
by mistake, it would be a pity 19 a fortune through not miss out on understanding what it meant.
n
"Geduk! One" is the name of borehole in the Orange Free State, The gold reefs in that part of the world are several thousand feet an derground, and so far no one has set eyes on them.
They are so deep that you can't Ro round prospecting as you did in the old days with
NEWS SHORTS:
tick
... by BERNARD WICKSTEED
shovel. You have to sink a bore- These boreholes are an inch and a half across, and cost about £3 a foot to sink, or £15,000 to go down 5,000 feet;
One of the items that make them so expensive Is the drill, which is rather made of diamonds. It is like that thinst you use for getting cures out of apples, and it brings to the surface a thin rolumn of the rock that it goes through.
This Geduldl borehole
A week after the news of the strike came out Sir Ernest Opper- helmer, the South African gold king. announced that he, too, thought the it was good. In five hours shares went up other £5,300,000 on the Stack Exchange.
From this point on the story be- comes fantasy. A man called Mr Dob Morley, who sells ininius (and goldfields equipment in the
the happened to be chairman of Johnnnesburg Commercial Ex- change), said that in his opinion the gold in the Orange Free Siate night never be reached because of high costs and taxation.
A 40-word extract of his specch the was cnbied to London, and shares slumped £8,000,000 in a day. Nevertheless, on the strength of at most a few pounds worth of gold brought out of the Geduld, ather borcholes from reefs that no one has ever seen, plans are being made to spend £170,000,000 deve- Joping the area,
and
Million a week
LFALF thant sum wohl put the British con rules on their feet, (Geduld, and through them the rest of our
meldentaily, is Dutch for pattenen industry, Less than a tenth of if --which in this case was rewarded) has so far been spent on the Em- Trached gold bearinut rock at 3,8221t, Pire peanut nebere, And the reef where
gold lay was 18.4 Ins, thick.
the
Value of reef THAT much of the message was routine, and might have applied In a score of other boreholes in the
sent the Sinck
Ex- Whol
with excitement was chante retary
1,252 penny- valire the assay weights.
of
This Vi unprecedented. messi that in every ton of cref at that spot there was £536 worth of gold--ten times as much as might have been expected.
the
I was told in the City recently that already nearly a million a week is being poured out on an aren no larger them the Isle of Wight that two years ago was nothing but sun- parebrel farmland.
million
know.a
It is Bke a gigantle poker Kane in which the cards cost a pounds each and no one what the klity will be.
Relling But there is no trouble the money.
Jure of gold is such that every one wants to play. A City Editor told me that balf the subject are letters he gets on the from country parsons and the like.
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Time and costs
ERE'S how the game is played.
First of all as un ante-for the tight to sit in on the game-a com-
ji
H
it
more
Yet
from column of reet which the enlculation was made was
the actual gokt nail that contained would have covered
It wasn't sixpence. that few shillings.
warth
To there who knew mining con- ditions in Afrien, however, it looked the Eldorado, and they stampeded to buy shares,
Here's A Nude Way Of Stopping War
New York. The nudist conven- blue with cold when picked out and
evet
tu
wat Is cast, said: " om glack I did 1, but it tion says stopping
clothes. Was More of struggle than I take off their Everybody Unable to tell friend from for the thought it was going to be.".
stoy
fighting. Yet soldiers nudists, who regard clothing as silly prejudice, find it hard discard old mental habits. Cried Mrs Margaret Pulis, in a speech ex- horting fellow-nudists to enlist new members: "Make a person to person campaign in your neighbourhood. it means buttonholing people..........”
DEAR DEER
New York.-Too many people are
their
of schooling
meal Instead buying it, complains the New York: Slate Conservation Department wore ried by the disappearance of State deers.
Hunters are shooting deer out of sensun because of the high cost of butcher meat..
LIFE BEGINS AT 50
Tom Sydney. Fifty-year- ald
New South Morris of Guldford, Wales. recently jumped off the 50- feet-high bridge over the Nepean itiver with his wrists and feet Ughtly tied and swam 50 yards to the shore. He did it to win a bet of £50 and prove his contention that a man of 50 is in his prime. He was
F
"A little milder this morning, don't you think, gentlemen?"
Your burial can cost
£3000 in U.S.‘Abbey'
NEW YORK.
FOREST LAWN, America's By FREDERICK COOK
must sought after cemetery. "specialising in Happy Funerals," is getting so crowded that only the most im- have much portant people
pany must buy an option on some chance of getting in now.
Jund,
Then it must alnk some ten bore- holes (£150,000) to see what sort of à deal it has got. If these look good about it buys the next card for
£2,000,000, which is the cost of sinking shafts to the reef and having
really good look at it.
If after this the company stil wants to stay in the game i must spend at least another two millon developing the nine and putting
Those who did not quite make the headlines while they were alive are taken quietly and discreetly
the hill these days--and interred in the
annexe.
over
Lawn you may
rest
In Forest outside. under the stars, or inside,
Blled
PREPARING TO BE A QUEEN
London, Aug. 15. RINCESS JULIANA is flying
Phome from London to Holland
tomorrow. Her last holiday abroad before becoming Queen of the Netherlands, following the abdica- tion of her mother, Queen. Wilhel- mina, is endect.
This week she begins preparation for her installation, which taker
place in the Nieuwe Kerk (Now Church) in Amsterdam on Monday, September 8.
In Dutch tradition
there is no
crowning, but the ceremony will be
have
one of great splendour.
Princess Margaret, fulfilist her first personal mission abroad, will sent beside the royal rostrum. With her will be the Crown Princess and Princesses of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
Jullona, dressed in the magnificent ermine cloak worn 50 years ago at the installation of her mother, will lake the oath of loyalty to the Con- stitution-and so, in a maiter of five minutes she becomes queen.
Then, every member of the Dutch Parliament-50 in the Upper House, 100 in the Lower House will in- dividually swear alleglance,
Prince Bernhard, the Consort, who will have a pince by the side of his wife, will become Prince of the Netherlands,
Trumpeters will then leave the church and their fantore will break the news of a new queen to the no- tion.
No Male Heirs Juliana will be Holland's' second successive ruling queen.
The last royal prince born to the House
of Orange was Alexander,
youngest of the three sons of King William III, and a half-brother of Queen Wilhelmina.
He died in 1884; his brothers alsa died when young.
In a magniteert marble mausoleum So, unless Juliūna has a son, three
with magnificent
marble
Queens will
will succeed three kings os statuary, whichever You prefer.rulers of Holland. For the new heir plots have names like to the throne will be Juliana's eldest On the 306 acres with which Outdoor
Peaceful Glade. Inspiration Corner, they started, Eaton and
daughter, Princess Beatrix, aged ten. his friends planted trees,
Everlasting Love, Denutiful Slope. Jullano ascends the throne at one It was a Eternal Garden and a special
of the most trying periods the semi-desert waste before they heart-shaped plat for children only Netherlands empire hos known. took over.
-Babyinnd. No ugly gravestonJA
The revision of the Constitution mar the are allowed to
parklike
and particularly the future status of flat markers, effect. Only
which
Indonesia will call for her keen at- must be of approved design.
tention.
IMPORTED BIRDS
They laid down magnificent lawns which were to rival Eng- land's world-famous best, in- stalled fountains to splash
VIEW COSTS MORE
A Good Mother Juliann, like her mother, is a woman of strong personality.
Today, at 32, with four daughters, she is tremendously popular with all
Plots which Re within range of the soft organ music which plays Not only is Forest Lawn, in
all day long through concealed loud-classes. up plant, Altogether, they reckon, Hollywood, one of America's night and day, put up hundreds speakers in the trees, cost more than She has always been essentially an takes five years and four in live biggest cemeteries (742 beauti- of statues, some of them good, those further away, in the outer outdoor girl. She has humour and million pounds to bring a mintful acres); it is Southern Cali laid out flower-beds and, as a silence.
fornia's biggest tourist attrac- crowning touch, imported many more than one with no view.
near a road comes higher than one Dutch see her as a devoted mother hundreds of singing birds. Just
production and earn its first
turns.
visitors
That's why the City Editor tells tion (1,500,000 readers that the initials O.F.S. for | year, which far exceeds Orange Free State should also mean movie studio in town). Only For Speculators.
*
HOW
Ages ago....
dhi all this gold that can excitement in City cause such oflees and country parsonages get there in the first place? Millions of years ago there was Bigantle Jake South Africa surrounded by hills Rivers rich with gold. that were washed it down, and much of it was mixed with the pebbles on the
THEY ARE STREAMLINED
DWI
A plot with a view
casts wit, but it is her simplicily that has One won the affection of Holland. The
on
people have
and a practical housewife.
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Juliann is 5ft 7ins, tall. She has reddish-blonde hair and, with her very fair complexion, uses little make-up, apart from lipstick.
in
you cannot approach without getting out of your car. any Today Forest Lawn hast its
At Christmas-time, an Illuminated highly-organised Public
Christmas tree may be placed Relations Department, staned
your plot. Forest Lawn will pay It is also one of the Pacific with some of the slickest Press for the electricity. All part of the colours blue and green. She seldom Her eyes are blue; her favourite Coast's biggest big business agents and promotion men that service.
wears jewellery and admits she is operations, selling insurance even Hollywood can
More than 100,000 produce.
hot particularly interested while you live, flowers
'been buried already in Forest Lawn. and Its advertising department re- Carole Lantis rests in the section clothes. THE MOMENT WAS RIPE
space when you die.
gularly buys whole pages in the called Everlasting Love. John Gil-skating. Before her marriage In Her best sports are ski-ing and
Spain. Three Segovia,
melons
metropolitan newspapers point bert and Tom Mix are in Whisper-1937, she was much plumper. She have saved the ives of a Segovia
ing out that its funerals, ing Pines.
was frequently seen at The Hague's farmer, his wife, five children and
besides being the final seal on Jean Harlow has a £6,150 crypt open-air lee club, subscription 10s. three hands. When the family
Nor was It unusual to seo a were sleeping the roof caught fire.
In its three busy, streamlined your social, business or profes to herself in the Sanctuary of Bene-
marble royal crash on the ice as Juliana The melous which were hanging
sional success, need not be too diction, one of the many If there'd been any gold miners churches it holds christenings from an allie veiling to ripen - gave
best. Carote Lombard-les-in-the Some of her hopplest-years-were the alarm us one by one they fell then they could have picked it up each Sunday, funerals at any expensive for your relatives. halls for those who can afford the took a short cut.
Sanctuary of Trust; Florenz Ziegfeld spent as a student of low and history Fees run from a modest 18 in the Sanctuary of Praise. to the flour when the danes reached the sackful without the aid of time during daylight hours. financiers. Age followed age, und
Theat Leyden University. She camped the point from which they hung. The the pebbles and gold on the beach weddings every evening. Some guineas to around £3,000 for a plaque on Myron Selznick's vault is and solled with the other girl first melon awoke the family, the
underground by the people have been christened, glamorous, glittering affair in the same handwriting with which students. She never misses were pushed second made its members sit up and weight above, and crushed into a married and (B Hollywood with 50 the third warned them of what was soft grey rock.
free services. Forest signed his scorching, imperious annual reunion.
Inter-office memos.
In the summer Princess Júllana happening. No one was hurt.
calls it "funeralised" all in the Lawn drums up The fabulous gold reefs of the
considerable
enjoys trips in the large, white Rand were
additional business, too, by run- one side of the prehis- Same church.
yacht Piet Hein, presented to her toric beach and those of the Orange
ning its own radio programme
and her husband by the nation as Free Stale were another.
u wedding gift. over one of the Los Angeles stations.
OLYMPIC PREMIERE Rotterdam-The Olympic Games aim will have its world premiere at Arnhem on September 18 as part of the commemoration of the Battle of Arnhem.
beach.
As
And what happens to the gold now that its lair has been found and it is dragged to the surface with such labour und) cost? everyone knows, it is taken America and buried again. New York-Police Inspector Frank If we are not wiped out by alom Masoari was killed in his own bur- | wars, history my
repeat
IT WORKED
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Forrest Lawn opened its palatial gates in 1917. It was the brainchild of Hubert Eaton, mining engineer by profession. impresario by nature,
to
itself
America As a man from Mars might say:
His central idea was that cemetery did not need to be morbid place. It could be place to "uplift and educate" whole community, he spid.
a
a
glar trap when he absent-mindedly some million years hence, when walked in a side door and was shot will be rediscovered in down by his best friend, Delective and mined again. Daniel Scannel, who mistook him in the night shadows for the burglar,
here is
THE
MATTRESS
COCKPIT
"Someone's crazy around here."
600 m.p.h. PILOT LIES HORIZONTAL TO DEFEAT THE DEADLY PULL OF 'g'
THROUGH THE GATES
Visitors
are told that
or
SKYSCRAPER NEXT
A
As space grows lighter, Forest Lawn's standards grow higher. very famous few-like Carrie Jacobs Bond-get into the Court of Honour, stained where they rest below n giass window representative of the the Last Supper.
says,
the
She speaks English, French, and German Buently and has a know- ledge of all Scandinavian languages. At Village School
children
are Beatrix, 10, nine, Murgriel (born in
and the Лve,
baby,
her children
Her
one, Canada).
Juliana decided
massive gates through which they drive are bigger, heavier.
The Court of Honour, Forest Lawn Marke, just 18 months.
is destined wider and taller than those of American
to become อน Westminster Abbey, re-should be real democrats. While in Buckingham Palace
the served for the
very cream of the Canada the elder princesses attended Aristocracy of Achievement. The an ordinary day school. Palace of Versailles. They are rest Bnd space where they may. So Today they go to the village school reminded, too, that people who leis left that whispers are at Bilthoven, near their home at have been driven through these already being heard around Holly-the palace of Soestdijk, portals on their last earthly
wood that Forest Lawn will one day They are taught along with become the site of America's first shoemaker's son, n postman's journey have included some of skyscraper reserved exclusively for doughter, and the children of local the most famous in the land.
the use of the departed.
people.
DRYNAMIC DEHUMIDIFIERS
Just Arrived
Available in two sizes
Perfect
for this
Climate
"
LYING the fighter plane of
FLY
tomorrow will be a lying- -
down job because the
twist-
ing and diving of n 600 miles.
by
CHAPMAN PINCHER
six g's.
This means that it
the head. Under the great pressure ou pilot's rent were fixed to a spring his brain he "reds out." balance it would register his weight These
troubles are largely pre-
as six times the normal figure or vented in the lying down position nearly half a ton.
because the heart and the head are The whole body affected. then at the same level.
three
per hour jet fighter is more A pilot's body is not upset by than the human frame can take speed itself, however great. But it Ears and checka become so heavy Properly supported a prone pilot
reacts violently to the sudden that they sog painfully, Stomach can withstand 11 g's for sitting down.
changes of speed and direction and lungs feel as though they are minutes. In the sitting position six nway from their 's black him out after only three RAF men are experimenting caused by the twists and turns in being dragged
an aerial degüghi.
moorlogs. Blood becomes heavy. seconds. with aircraft-still on the
When a pilot is flying a straight In an upward loop or when pull- Special Bulls and helmets are devised in the RAF secrot list-in which a couch and stendy course at 600 miles per ing out of a dive the blood rushes being
to the legs. Because it is so heavy laboratories Farnborough, Hants, replaces the pilot's neat. And hour the only pull acting on his
body is gravity-flint is, the normal the heart cannot pump it to the Volunteer g-men are awung on detalla just released of the pull of garth, which scientists head. The eyes therefore lose their fast revolving arm to test their re- Intest American jet fighter and pilots calls.
blood supply and, the pilot "blacks actions in different flying positions. Experiments so far have shown The reverse happens in a down- that in a specially supported back- ly. In a sharp turn of only 300 word loop or a power dive. Blood lying position up to 14 g'a con miles per hour it can rise rapidly to rushes from the pilot's legs to his tolerated.
show that the mattress cockpit denly this pull increases Immediate-
When the filer alters course sud- out.'
already challenges the conven- tional bucket seat.
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