THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1950.
HE KNOWS FLYING
EUROPEAN COUNCIL BUILDING
SAUCER RIDDLE
By FREDERICK COOK
NEW YORK,
Meet the man who says "I know the riddle of the Flying Saucers.",
He is Commander Robert B McLaughlin, who has been work- Ing on rockets since 1930.
One
bright, clear Suntlay morning in April 1840, scientista and naval men were working *67 miles north of White Sand
alomle proving ground in New Mexico, he says.
They were plotting
of a balloon when
'Saucer came into view.
the path
Д Flying
about
IT WAS elliptient, 105ft. in diameter, flying about
four 50 miles up at
second.
miles a
flui-
IT WAS lise-shaped, white, giving no sim by exhaust of how it was propelled.
Saya McLaughlin:
"These
dises are space ships from ag- other planet. Illusion? Illusions trained do not appear to five weather observers,
WHERE FROM? "My guess la Mars. Mars cooled off and perhaps became capable of sup- porting fe millions of years before Earth did. The Martians,
if such there be, would have à big start in sclentine ment."
develop-
Soy the US Air Force-- "Not зрасе slips, but mis-
Interpreted conventional ob. Jects."
Meet the man who thinks the
atom will be harnessed
THESE are some of the 300 workmen engaged in the construction of the new building for the European Council in Strasbourg, France, which must be com pleted by the beginning of July. An Inaugural ceremony officially started the
building programme. (Acme)
Australia And New
Zealand Aroused By
Communist
Threat
By George McCadden
Sydney, April 10-Concern is mounting in Australia and New time this summer to "omething Zealand over the southward push of Asiatic Communism and other Far
useful"-Dr Summer
member of the Atomic
Commission.
roine
T.
Fike,
Energy
It is hope to do it at Brook-
National haven
Laboratories,
an hour's drive from New York.
Our best Kuess," says Dr
Pike, "is that we muy produce at first about enough power to operale equipment, blowers."
Eastern political developments.
·Conservative governments of these countries "down under" were swept into power by the recent ousting of entrenched Socialist Labour regimes. Now they are recasting their foreign policies and checking
their defences.
Both countries are look-Both want United States and
cardinal accordingly. as n half of our auxiliarying to the Far East and protection
northward to America, and point of foreign policy. less to London and Europe.
like
Dumps
and
--(London Express Service)
COASTLINE CRACK
THIS mammoth crack in the 575-foot-high English coastal cliffs near Eastbourne is causing alarm among the townspeople. Nearly 100 yards long, it has now been fenced around to protect people from going near. (Acme)
K. O. CANNON
AT MARSH FOLLY - THE DUNGEONS ARE IN USE.
DGIFT LET HER NEAR LUNI, FAUNCH, NOŤ VET. NOW, I THOUGHT YOUR DAUGHTER MIGHT PERSUADE YOU YO DE ASASÓNABLE, UN OSAR ENSEND, IS VÕU AGREE TO ARMANDE
MY ACCOUNTS SO THAT MY VANA SOUNCES OF INCOME ARE NOT A DISCLOSED - WHISPER WILL BE KAST TO TAKE YOU KOME -
10 VOU STILL ARRUSE
plans must change
Although concern was not so keenly felt a year or two years go, Labour governments "down The Communists are driving under" began looking to their onward towards the borders of ramparts. Their successors are an unstable French Indo-Ching building on these foundations, The United States therefore re-but with greater pace and in- fuses to become involved in Fur-creased alorm because of the nosa, Australians and New growing Communist threat in Zealanders therefore remember Asta. with growing uneasiness their) predicament on December 7. 1911.
ISOLATION FEARED
Unrest in Burma, Malaya and Indo-China remind these people of the frightening isolation and the "out on a limb" feeling they endured when the Japanese al- tacked Pearl Harbour.
To date, the most marked change in foreign policy has been in Australia-a decision to play down the United Nations in favour of more realistic" poten- tial allies. All-out support of UN was the favourite theme of Dr H. V. Evatt, one-time presi- dent and a founder of UN.
DOMINANT POINTS
Prime Minister Robert G. Their mounting fears are FC-
Minister fected In the growing space Menzies and Foreign devoled to discussion of Asimi Perey C. Spender put close co- events and backgrounds in news-operation with the United states only to increased in- papers which a few years ago recond
tegration of the Empire ns virtually ignored the Far East.
dominant
polnis of foreign It is relected
by the policy. also extraordinary Importance the
the press In New
Prime' Zealand, 30vernments and attached to the British Empire Minister Sidney G. Holland and conference of foreign ministers Foreign Minister Fred W. Doidge:
are maving cautiously in foreign it Colombo.
policy.
The drill of events today is recalling nostalgienlly to the propte how the United States came to their aid In 1942.
They acknowledge that Britain
He
Holland announced upon elee- follow, in the tron he would main, the foreign policy of his predecessor. Peter Fraser." did, however, announce the New Is deeply commitled in Europe Zealand legation in Morrow
with her would he closed and representa-. Acurrent economic crises. These tion there and possibly in some loyal British Dominions therefore other areas turned over to the
work out British foreign now hope they can effective defence arrangements Press.
and is
preoccupied
with the power that saved them ance before, the United States
SECURITY WANTED
They also seek closer security arrangements within the British Empire as well as some kind of Pucine pact among democratic
countries
office.-United
THE MAN FROM THE RAFT CHECKS IN AT HYDE PARK
By Eve Perrick
A young man slipped quietly into London a fortnight ago and checked in at one of the more sedate hotels. His pretty, smartly dressed wife.. was with him, and to the receptionist the couple who signed themselves Mr and Mrs Thor Heyerdahl might have been any pair of country cousins staying near Hyde Park for a few days' shopping and sightseeing.
raft.
Mrs Heyerdahl does, in ancient Polynesians originally fact, spend most of her time came from South America. And around the shops, but Mr that they had made the trip by Heyerdahl hus recently
How did he prove itf By finished a sight-seeing tour building a raft, 45ft x 18ft, and the account of which, put with five companions taking a into book-form, has been 4,300-mile jaunt across the South described as "the greatest Pacific-101 days without ever adventure story ever writ. lahting land or, in fact, sighting
anything at all except fish. ten."
Heyerdahl, an anthropologist, wanted to prove a point-dis puted by his fellows that the
TERRIFIC!
THEY say żec French. have zee word for it, too-terrifique! Anyway, French actress Corinne Calvet, on location for a film in Las Vegas, Nevada, is the type that looks good in any language. (Acme)
Ex-Axis
Shipping Revives
In spite of Allied promises!
Workers From that they would have prac
Israel
an
tically no shipping after the war, Japan, Germany, and Italy are rebuilding their New York, April 10-Forty merchant marines at workers from Israel today at alarming rate, says Marine rived aboard the Greek ship, Neptunia, for temporary jobs in Progresa, a New York trade
industry to learn magazine. But without U.S. support ob- American servers say, the Australasian techniques which might be used
Japan, "supposed to have only governments feel a Pacle pact in their respective Jobs at home
coastal vessels large enough to would lack real substance. They
The trip was arranged by the go from port to port along the also feel they can contribute National Committee 1 Labour Japanese const," is now planning most in the way of trained men, of Israel in the United States to have 68 ships by the end of materiel and experience to such a paci, next Canada.
to the US. and The workers' expenses are being 1950. Twenty-nine of them will paid by the Israeli Government. be converted warships, and the There are 30 men and une remainder new construction. The realisation has deepened, woman - Ita Rubenstein, that an old order has changed textile worker-United Press,
The Riddle of the Red Domino
MERE VOU ARE, MA.PROFILE.HERE'S THE GADGET TO
HELP HIM-MAKE
UP MIS MIND.
VERY POPULAR
IT USED TO B
THE IRON MAIDEN" IT'S CALLED. SHALL
3 POF THE YOUNG-
LADY IN?
a
Japan will build eight tankers
of 12,000 tons each, two tankers of 7,000 tons each, 25 cargo ships of 6,000 tons each, and four cargo ships of 4,000 tons each.
more
This will give Japan than 800,000 tons of ocean-go- ing shipping by the end of 1952, says the magazine,
Germany Is rebuilding her merchant fleet with American support, over. the protests of Great Britain and France, the article claims. Six vessels are to be built in German yards in the near future for her own use, and foreign ships are to be converted at prices too low for British yards to compete
-
Italy has a 25,000 to present
gor ship, under constriction and
a number of ariallar vegssla, sind is in a fair way to peconstructing her merchant feet. Dalted
Although the merry band of adventures set out just for the fun of the thing--and to show up those ornery old anthropologists thele Ilves for the 3% months became completely absorbed in
fish.
The man-and the model of his raft. -
Television
The
In Cinema
By J. W. ERSKINE
One of the most interesting possibilities of tolovision
is its use in the cinema. During the war a film called Cinema-Television Limited" began, experimenting in this They ate Ash, caught nah, | field, and developed two main types of large screen fought fish-even drank fish,
That was a sort of fish juice
|tolovision projection equipment.
which Heyerdahl, admitted was Briefly, they work like it in a week. Shortly it will be pretty horrible, but it did help this:
out the water ration. Also it
made a change from the coconut 1. Instantaneous projec- milk. On board they had a lovely tion of the picture received
bunch of coconuts-200 of 'em.
Fish-watching took the place by television, by means of a of television. When they were high power cathode off-duty they ducked their heads tube. under water, held their breath and peeked at the fish.
MAROONED....
seen in South Africa. It is kept as a private demonstration of BKIIL
Why, in view of the future
possibilities, and its rapid rate
of development, is it not more ray
widely known? The answer is. fairly simple. A complete dond- |lock has been reached in negotia- 2. Delayed projection-where a received television plcture is tions to free wavelengths and
with which la Copyright-notably recorded on to Alm
the
simple pro-
is
"Of course, if one of them sud- rapidly developed and dried, and B.B.C...
A wavelength is necessary be- denly turned out to be a shark, projected through the usual film
use television com- we ducked
Cause to up ogain very projector. quickly," said Thor. "But it Both types have certain mercially it must be beamed to
number of cinemas. surprising how interested one can advantages. In
ana
This the Arst,
п would be
fairly become in fish,"
the event is not known. In Well, eventually they reached second, projection is carried out cedure, but while the air over approximatelyne minute after Great Britain is controlled by the Polynesians and got there event, bus, record is made the General Post Office there
at one of the
which no private selves marooned
wave-length, can be used. Each cinema uninhabited islands. Their dis-which can be tied subsequently, no
would have to be linked tress signals were picked up by if desired. the radio hams
the war, concentration private cable to main station world, and they were rescued by has been on the development of the equivalent the multi- the first type of equipment, with telephony link between Sutton
Coldfield and London, on Its more obvious value.
smaller scale. Apart from the expense and labour involved, this would necessitato a con-
all over
the
In boat sent out from Tahiti.
So they said farewell to the beautiful islands and went home by steamer.
"We didn't like it much," said Heyerdahl. The deck was too far away from the water. couldn't see the fish."
We
Since
SIX MAIN UNITS
of
WANT WAVELENGTH
by
In short the situation is this, Cinuma - Television
have
The large screen projector Insiderable time lag. designed to project a television picture on a cinema screen 20 when supplied feet by 16 fedt with sultable signals. It will But he wrote a book about it operate on elther 405 or 625 all and lived to lecture to the Royal Anthropological Society in London showing them where they want wrong about antecedents of the Polynesians,
tho
All of which makes Thor Heyerdahl, son of a Norwegian brewer, London's most unortho-a dox visitor.
-(London Express Service)
New Plane Contracts
lines.
developed the apparatus, which has been commended by
The apparatus is divided into techiclans from many countries; six main units: Projector, con- the mighty Bank Organisation is talning cathode ray tube; Ploture interested; but the B.B.C, Bre Control, which is a small unit monopolising the alr. situated at any point from which good view of the screen can be obtained; Racks and Control
Unit which contained the 50 Kv
for the the tube cathode ray
The film industry have offered the B.B.C. extracts from their alms, but in return they want
Panel for the Apparatus: a wave-length.
high ten
tension projection
Viewing
for
sound:
Supply
Screen, the
and
ко
The whole question has been, perforated and is being discussed, and the Commiiice will Sound Broadcasting
when it has its say transmission in on the future of the B.B.C. but
System which is selected from consider it
the
television
Washington, Apr. 10.-The normal United States Navy disclosed amplifer having an today that I had placed con-15 watts. tracts totaling $234,927,263 for new aeroplanes.
the receiver and amplified in this Committee may not conclude high quality soundits work until late 1950 or early impasse output of 1951. So there is an
at the moment.
The B.B.C. themselves seem So far, the results have no been shown to a public audience disinterested in it. So much is contracts did not cover in a cinema, but demonstrations happening in their own television given privately to world that their apparent lack have been equip members of the press and trade, of enthusiasm is, perhaps, ment such as armament, radio who were delighted at the understandable.
The
Government-furnished
and rudar instruments, which
This offspring of the television usually cost about half the total success of the experiment. spent on a plane, the Navy It was exhibited in Milan, industry, therefore, must fight ndded-Reuter.
where some 50,000 people saw its way to the top alone.
DOWN TO A WATERY GRAVE
THE 110-166t fahùng trawler, Cabe best Virginia Beach,
Anne flounders in the