.
Neptune may beat subs.
MOST ENCOURAGING-WINSTON
An answer may have been found to the U boat menace in a future war, Mr Churchill declared in his review of defence in Parliament recently. It is the U.S. Neptune acroplane.
He said that an official tus
the
to detect a submarine's the transmit U. S. publiention gave in-propellers and
signals to the neroplane over- -formation of
kindhead, which can then plot the America feels safe to dis-submarine's course.
the close in contrast to total security blanket im-
"earch" enables it to note
It has a sensitive radar which
posed by the British Govern-he small target presented by
ment.
the Schnorkel tube over a wide area, which was formerly
I( was an account of the ingeasible.
alreraft equipment of
RADIO SIGNALS
called
SURFACE
BOUND WAVES
PICK UP
The two stray Ride a samotne
de of the Neptuni Finecat's vergrun deticky
11- volumariu. peller sounds into andi : POMALS
Neptune, having a record range of 11,208 miles with electronic equipment.
"I have not read anything so
for many encouraging
jonk
»TH
day," said Mr Church. menace of the U boat might be finally overcome."
DETECTION DEVICES
Science
Reporter Chapmann
Pincher writes:-
The Neptune is a two-engined bomber. It carries three delce tion devices:
Sono-bucys small
buoya
dropped by parachute round
on area believed to contain a submerged submarine.
Bach bnoy automatically lowers
a lerophone into the water to pick up any sounds from marine propellers.
11
then transforms the sounds into radis seals, which are sent out from an aeria
Į The pilot of the Neptune geireling over the area tees these signs ou an aleator. Each thung in differently-coloured and transmits distinctive signal.
|
The buys which record the strongest signals on the in3- dicator are the ones nearest the The aircraft
buoys. | submarine. equipped with sensitive appara-
drop
Migrants We say: won't mix
By HAROLD DALE
A the-forus radar ret which
loente
protruding
cord of a Schnorkel the bren- thing pipe enabling submarines. to recharge their batteries with- out an facing.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1950.
STONE AGE IN 20TH CENTURY
The Sussex town of Rye is keeping up-to-date the old-fashioned way. With its streets in need of repair, workmen lay new cobblestones, of which there are about 100 to the square yard. Each stone is put into place separately and, all the work is done by hand. (Acme).
Taxes Pay For Huge
Gifts To
Farmers
By Frederick Cook
New York.
For a prime example of what happens when Governments start interfering in matters better left to business men, Americans and Canadians are drawing attention to food mix-ups afflicting this continent.
ure i
Capules, wrapped like toffees, are sold in this for storage.
of
AMERICANS CAN MARRY CHEAPLY
By Harmon W. Nichols
wild
This won't go down well with our lovely women folk, but you've got to face the facts. The U.S. National Geographic Society says that American brides come cheap-on a down payment basis, that is com pared to their less civilised sisters in the grass skirt sets in primitive lands. If the American lover | True, they can to into the has $2 or ao in his jeans he woods and pluck a tow can buy a marriage licence boar for the wedding feast, but Bowers and maybe spear a wild and trot his girl off to the there still remains the original altar. There, after pledging cash outlay: to love, honour, and obey, he can slip the parson brides is causing a fine old whatever he can afford and to-do. Among the Ibo-speaking be away on his honeymoon. people of the country, a shapo
ly, pretty girl may win for her in some father as much as $250, while
the parents of a homely with
shinny pipes and teeth would have to be satisfied with three mangy goats.
Some Went Wrong, But Others Came Off
But that's not so other lands.
The N. G, S. has looked into Thomas Edison, the in-ue matter and comes up with ventor, in n Now Year some interesting data.
message, yesterday predict- Take New Gulnca. There ed the following inventions the native swains find a price las "not fur distant".-
tag of $800 on their lady loves.
NICKEL will be used instead of paper for books: a nickel book 2ins, thick with 40,000 pakes....
AIRCRAFT w Hy straight up in the air from the ground before they are propelled for ward....
SUITS, neked it boxes, will come from a machine that is fed with cloth, buttons, thread,
ud tissue paper, ...
STEEL will replace wood in the making of furniture....
work seated
IIUGE mechanical Farming implements will replace present agricultural tools. farmer will perform manual beside # push-
the
The
button and levers...
THE YESTERDAY: Jan. 1, 1911
TELEVISION IS ON
THE WAY
TELEVISION
will become a delinile part of electrical selenen within 10 or 20 years, raid Sir Ernest Rutherford at a dinner of electrical engineers,
THE YESTERDAY: Nov. 36, 1931.
WOMEN WILL WEAR THE TROUSERS SKIRTS will soon be things of
the past, thinks M. Paul Poiret, the Paris dressmaker.
1d said: **Trousers for
Floundering efforts MAD- magnetic airborne
This butter, and 11,127,000. in storage, was delector-which can find
being made by the United of cheese now
taxpayer at the bought by, the deeply untried submarine.
Slates and Cumudian Govern.
fast production peak. The
HOW IT WORKS plane, it ments to get rid of huge supplies are belms sold slowly From the Lowerent
Priming system employed on delvets the distortions of the surpluses of food of which at knock-down prices.
private
consists cars earthy's magnetism produced, by they have become the re
But. caught in their own plunger, reservoir and primer women will not be a mere short- the submarine's metal hull.
luctant owners under the
on the dashboard. lived fat. trap, the Canadian Government exposed
They will be as enn attack o "farm price suppori" pro-re preparing to do the same The rest-coiled copper wire inevitable na bobbed hair, here The Neptune
exps. Consumers, and injection nozzle-are under to stay." ubunarme it dads with bombs,grammes in both countries. thing with
attached to the SYDNEY. rockets, and depth
meanwhile, to charges. I
on paying top; the hood, and In Canada, 11 has been
induction • THE prices at shops, and paying intake officially announced that ware- Federal security agents jean also call up surface vessels
by radio.
houses are bulging with butter to farmers.
Taxes to finance more huge giftsystem. have uncovered a move by
46,494,000, of 1. European displaced-person
form immigrants to National Front in Australia.
that
#1
Breret They report neeting of nearly 100 "T- garians in Sydney was urged by
a speaker in clerical
eloth..
"Reinain true Hungarians and|
do not became absorbed in the Australian way of life.
the
"Australions do not welcome
peoples
Just form 12
uf. Curupe. We closed and ex-
clusive circle of Hungarian
known to be reliable."
fo 201
The spenker printed former Hungarian Amy offerra who, he said, should be regarded as the leaders of their country- men in Austraila.
Immigration Minister Harald Elalt said: "I have ordered an immediate inquiry. The calient principle of immigration polley Is that mmigrants be speedily Arsimitated into the Australian
emmaatanaty
'WE CAN DEPORT'
There may be groups who will resist. We can deport any migrants found guilty of dis- ruptive Dr Lubyer=ve action. and we shall mot hesitate to do
0,"
ol
Asked about the danger uther, secret European national fronts, Brigaler F. G. Gallaghan, chairman of the International Refugee Organisa- flon's Australian section, sald:
"Our accurity measures in Europe do not permit any former Nazi or Fascist coming to Australia, Immigrants of other political allegiances are equally undesirable.
"Measures are being taken to exclude all possible subversive elements."
K. O.
CANNON
THERE SHE 10
MARSH FOLLY! 'BUT WE'VE GOT TO
GO ALL ROUND THE,
CLIFF ROAD TO
GIFT THERE
-London Express Service.
TELEFAX
IS NEW
Ann Vineyard, of Crane, Missouri, tries out the new Western Union Telefax machine in Washington, D.C. It uses the ultra-modern facsimile method of tele- graphy. Telegrams are dropped into a sloi and a button is pressed. The telegrams are wrapped around a cylinder and the messages then flashed over the wires. (Acme).
In America there are still 3,000,000,000 dried eggs in Kansas cave and other storage dumps, with no buyers in sight. Washingtou now plans to livej away 73,000,00016. to schools and relief agencies.
TWO.WAY TRAFFIC
Meanwhile potatoes are boing eut both
ways
the border.
こない
manifold
On a wintry day a driver slips a capsule into the reservoir and presses the plunger. This re- lenses the fluid, which is forced through an atomising nozźle.
1927.
YESTERDAY: Jan, 16,
RADIO MAY CIRCLE THE WORLD
MARCONI,
Mtransmited
who
the first
The secret of the fluid lies in WIRELESS signal across the its very high explosive qualities. | Atlantic 25 years ago, said: "T
that, by the may be possible of Supplies
capsules areure of the beam system, events javadable for export to Britain which are broadcast in England if it is porrible to get import will be heard simultaneously in Heences.
all parts of the world."
THE YESTERDAY: Dec. 11, 1926.
BUILDING BOOM
NEW
JEW YORK is in the list of
a treat building boom, with
Time magazine reports that at least 20 new skyscrapers
The
None of the new
the mid-
buildings
a Minnesota furnice had a large going up, all unsold stork of 1949 potatoes Manhattan section town as the A Governmet buyer anded Grand Central Zonc. Jam a cheque for about £780 for 160,0001) of them. farmer, in return, handed him a cheque for about £5, buying burk his own potatues as "cattle feed."
Thus the potatoes were kept off the market; housewives
went on paying top price for the few pounds they wanted, and the farmer pocketed a cash gift from the taxpayer.
BOON TO DRIVERS
70. vitamin capsule half the
during the war on the Alaska Highway, is now ensuring that American motorisis get first-try starts even in temperatures as low as 25 below zero,
Asize of a men's egg, developed
will rival in height the 102-Noor 1.250ft. Empire State. Largest is the Uno Secretariat bulking, with 39 floors.
A new 25-floor office build- Ling will have underground space. for 600 cara novelty for New York.
-London. Ex Service,
Feet Tired? Tell The Town Hall
One in every 10 house- holders in Lordon, Bedford-
It is standard equipment for shire, are being invited by many makes of tinctors, buses, the medical officer of and lorries, and now, with the health. Dr R. M. Dykes, to aid of an adapter costing £5, tell him about the foot has been made available to cari
troubles of themselves and drivers.
their families.
The capsule contains at tea-
Dr Dykes says that proplo starter spoonful of "Chevron
co-operate, valuable informa- fuld"a combination of ethyl tion will be obtained which will and ether, plus petroleum pro-emble the Health Service lo duels,
Tesources toward ethninnting predominant [vot nilnents.
The Riddle of the Red Domino
I DON'T LIKE IT,K.D., PROFILE SEEMS TO HAVE
LED US INTOTHIS
MUST GAY OD RATHER HAVE HIM IN FROMY
OF US ON THIS TRICKY PIACE OF ROAD, EGOKI, GARNED DANGEROUS
TO ME.
FASTER,PAUNCH. THIS,
IS MY FAVOURITE - PIECE OF ROAD GET CLOSE TO CANNON-DN THE INSIDE
O
direct its
On a form with a letter from
the doctor there is space for people to list their "red feel, cornis, bunions, hammer-toes, dropped arches, etc, etc."
FIRST SURVEY
Most orthopaedic surgeons, says Dr Dykes, believe that a large percentage of foot troubles arlie through defective footwear among children.
He points out that Luton is recognised
a "research" [own.
NO
This foot survey is the first organised by a pubile health department.
Footnote: There are nearly 70,000 pair of feet in Luton,
-London Express Service::
HAY FOOT
Actress Adele Mara, shown in Hollywood, has been dubbed Miss Straw Blonde by shoe men in California. And speaking of shoes. Adele seems to be playing hay foot, straw foot with the one she's fastening on.
In Nigerlo, the high cost of
girt
buck
Around the world where bride-buying is an accepted custom, a girl must hide her bead in shame unless she earns something for Рара. Іп the soclety of the Kamra, members of the Buntu races of South Africa, a girl who is not bought with cuttle 18 dubbed an-öld cat" by her campire sisters, An "old cat" there adds up to one wand-worthless."
With the Kuki-Lushaf people of Assam, India, a young man ly expected to give a few gourds of re-water to Els sweetheart's parents when he calls to ask her to be his own.
If the people accept him, he moves in on the girl's father and goes right work. He be- comes a servant in the house- hold for three years. Then, he hus kept his nose dry, clean, and has otherwise behaved, he is free to wed. But another
We years of servitude Is quired - before he can go into the woods and cut down material for his hut,
Own
rc-
the thuich
In Alaska, the situation is different. A hopeful suitor
ok
the Kenal doesn't bother to ask
for parental consent. He slips silently into the old man's igloo and begins to cook, clean, and
take care of steaming up water for the baths. If he does kond job, he is allowed to work on for a year, then he can marry the girl and start glod- inhabiting on his own,
There are a lot of bachelors among such tribes as the Basu- kuma, who live southeast of Lake Victoria, in Africa.
It is touch down there in the hol country,
A Basukumu beau not must work two years to his
only
earn
lady, but is expected to bring along 00 sheep as a first instalment on his bride.
If he doesn't, he's in doghouse for life.
In-law
to
In contrast, in America -- we. fellows expect, by tradition, have the father-in-low foot all of the bills for the
wedding, give us a tet of sterling and perhaps a new house for a wed- ding present, and to leave LE forever
settle alone once we down.-United Press.
MARSHALL AID MADE THIS
Bridging a gorge across the Arve River, high in the French Alps near Le Fayet, this steel tube will support its own weight when it goes into use. It is one of the unlis employed in the spectacular harnessing of two rivers with the help of Marshall Aid funds. The wooden shack, top cenire, Indicates the height
of the tunnel where the syphon action beglus. (Acme).