TV
FEVER
By GEORGE
CAMPEY
TELEVISION system with only one screen has just started in Hamburg.
The screen is in a
wartime bunker, or air raid shelter, and members of the public are in vited in to see the programmes. This is the Arst step towards
with it providing Germany first post-war TV service and it typlies the Interest that in be- ing taken in television through cut Europe.
In vialis I have paid to Ger. many and Iloland, in talks I
have had with
officials from
the radio ctations of other countries, one thing is clear:
Europe is infected with TV fever. And the great success of British television, watched and applauded in iterin by experts from many countries an well as the Germans, han chorpened the determination to have icle- vision.
GERMANY
be made to pay its way. An aerial mast-bought, to many 'people's indignation, from the Gurman-is being set up of Lepik, 20 miles from the ultra- modern radio station at Hiver- sum.
The brandensting cooleties will pay for the programmca during the experimental perio and a commercial firm is pro- equipment. This vidling the firm has already launched its own TV on a "closed circuit"
the Governi In Holland; but ment have not yet allowed tele- vision sets to be made bought.
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Main question for the Dutch answer Is whether. with radio licences, only 1,400,000 they have enough, propte support TV,
whe.. to
Subsidiary question is ther they have the articls
"TVC bar.
cannot even make good films in Holland," raid a radio chief at Hilversum ruefully, "a low can we ex- pect to make good television?"
USA
ONE thing is certain; colour-
vision is as far-back in the minds of the Continental coun- tries as in that of the BBC, who sny it will not be intro duced for at least five years.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1950,
GLES....
REPORTS THE MANOEUVRES FROM NOUGHT FEET
“Can't you keep your damn girls indoors while these mancures are on?”
London Expres Servic
is
THE servico now being operated by the North-West German Radio from Hamburg is experimental; it is hoped
So Just he British TV that a pubile service will begly repoping the International! pool rext summer or autumn. This in Berlin this year, the United will not be an elaborate ser- vlce, for the Germans have to count their Deutschmarks care- fully
The Germans estimate that n minule of television will cost them around £42. compared with £1 per mluute for sound Broadcasting. The BBC's TV Fervice works out at something like 20 minute.
States will be the draw there next year. To visitors asking for their TV demonstrations the Americans explalu that the equipment could not be flown ever in time.
"But,"
200 Our cause to fair." be Impatient for TV than any
Germany has more
other country on the Continent,
for the country had
a working system
·before the
True, there were
only K thousand
receivers in Berlin. Dat the service was there. There was no opportunity to take up where the war caused the Germans to break off because the equipment พ แล taken to Russia,
So now they are. beg maing from scratch hoping to find the money and the subscribera.
The endio industry was undertaken to make the receivers at between £50
and £50, which is high for a country whose workmen get around £4
week,
MOUNTAINS
STOP IT
NORTH
STARTING F KOVEMBER
EA
SHOWS IN
A SHELTER
TWO-YEAR
Π EXPERIMENTS!
Soon the Hamburg transmit-
ter will have a companion
תו
Berlin; in the first stages the
service will be two hours day.
DENMARK
21
they add, "come and colour at the next
(London Express Service)
WESTERN
GERMANY
Aliles 100
M
aged
MacArthur breaks a rule-
The general "who nover talks privately
to a journalist' has broken the culo
to discuss his campaign
by LIONEL CRANE
ENERAL
forces north of the Korean
TOKYO. force. The Russians have some MacArthur air support, but very few ground today broke his rule border, never to вес "We are no longer in the post- Journalists individually, and tion where we could be hit by Italked to me
the
Korean wor MacArthur point in the attempted domine. tion of the world by Communists, He belleves that if we had done nothing, or lost the war, wa would also have Jost Asia and the confidence of Western Europe,
thiriks thai
was the turning
privately for either of them,” an hour. Privately-breause e WHAT was the imperlance he wanted through
of the Korean war in the whole British reporter to acknow- pleture of world affair?
courage and ledge "the valour of the British fight ing men which have become an ingrained part of the free world."
The room in which we | talked-once part of the oflees of a Japanese insurance com pany-was sombrely furnished.
The only personal touches the general has introduced me three mblature nags the Star and Stripes, UNO, and a personal
FAMOUS TELEGRAPH SERIES
catches up on the news with CHAPMAN PINCHER Ground.
PATIENT No. 1 FOR NEW DRUG
Good news of her
No more whales
The model worked-what ther?
Whatever became
RS Florence Slow, a silver-haired London woman prematurely by nine
years of
rheumatic pain, had the
with
of
arthritis
that
THE BOAT THAT WALKED ON WATER?
water
five starg
•
'Right camp'
HAR the initial setback in Korea damaged wertern preglige In the Easi? MacArthur belleves
victory on a red that
has put
ย psychological portion 12 the Pacile back where it was at the end of the last war. This 13 especially important in Japan, where MucArthur is sure the people now know they are in the right camp.
Wog
Blog of
On a Kinall fable coloured plcture of his Ban Arthur, aged 12, who lives with the general and his mother at the American Embassy in Tokyo.
His pipos
Eight of the famous Mac-
WHAT forces had the North Koreans Arthur pipes, neatly spaced in
when the campaign began? They had 200,000, many two rows, were on the same totle. His favourite, he said,
of whom had fought, or trained, was long-sternmea com cob in Communist China; first-rate which he does not smoke out troops, newly equipped, and of-doors-in case people think advised by Soviet staff outers. I'm a hill-billy."
MacAthur will not allow him- self to be quoted in private in- terviews, but here are the ques- tions I had nind-and the Impressions I brought away,
KOREA
was touch and go...
Of these, 190,000 are estimated as destroyed or captured. The rematader lack organisation,
Blunders
WHY
the North Koreans fall? They made thres blunders. 1. They over- estimated resistance. They could have sent a column of tanka and infantry in trucks stright to Pusan.
wasted time ferry- ZTlity ing heavy artillery,
3. When the perimeter was established they did not deploy their forces in depth. That Kave MacArthur time to organise. or CommunJat He w he would lose more China now intervene in the ground, but hà was sure from
war? Korcan
MacArthur has then on that his troops would
WILL Russia Now the Giant Eye is in full
•
• THAT MIRACLE CURE FOR RHEUMATISM?
• FROGMAN DOCTOR AND THE WHALES?
luck to be chosen as one of the first British patients to have written to ask: "Whatever plane engine
hundreds It was driven by a model acro- It tack them months to dia- mounted on the mantle the mirror and polish the get the scarce new Ameri- become of Mrs Slow?" Today tail, and was designed so that bump down. van drug ACTH. That was I can give the first progress re its whole hull lifted clear of the six months ago.
port:-
soon as it got up operation. Astronomers hope speed.
The only submerged soon to turn to gaze on a told his high onlcers that the not be pushed back late the seca, After three months of treat parts supporting the craft were Given a Her case brought hope to soment at St Thomas's
ne night they should other many
people crippled Mrs Slow has been home
Hospital wo Knife
+wu
edged dns.
to take OTTIC This be ablo
150,000 Reds still really estimated with arrangement Freatly reduced detailed pictures of those queer under arms in North Korea-of her family leading a
normal friction.
"'canals" on the planet, and whom not more than 10,000 in Korea? life,
in the oth
allack- in front bounded maybe settle the question about were in original
are "doomed beyand hope,” The stiff, swollen legs which up and down the waves so that the possibility of life there.
Russia or China would have "I hate all military garrisons." had kept her bedridden were so
croft did not pitch or roll Hook explained
that this supple that she could walk with.
Intervened before now if they out pain.
would cut
had intended to do so, and their seasickness on a Her Angers, which
Out
could have been
SUMMARY of of Generul before could not grasp a spoon, full-sized hydrofn, and, because WHAT became of the daring intervention
the hull would
young selentia; who dressed decisive. We would have gone MacArthur's views: The Korean had become sa nimble that the cicar of the surface, such a ship himself in a frogman's sult and into the sca could play the plane. For the
Campaign was one of the world's tho leg be torpedoed dived into
MɛcArthur has cald! "If the decisive battles: and gives the at time in 14 years she could could not castly advanced by
by submarines.
scar lo attack
whale four years Chinese Communists, who have Allies another chance to control Itwear her wedding ring. then.
As the model made ita duck- ugo? wonder be
C. V. R. Thompson Is Wealth A Sin?
Benton dashing around in
drug
the
T'wo Drms
De several feet
Diver
WILL there be a garrison I have a picture of MacArthur pointing the stem of his unlit pipe at me and saying:
no air support, tried it now they the destiny of the world.
-(London Express Service)
BILLY ROSE
•
Never hire
a gangster
WHILE the Germans experi-
ment, the Danes are pre
NEW YORK. can work will be paring to launch a pubile ser- vice.
by HE question is-Is it be- 15 years
be a Mr Paul Bert. head of the coming a sin, even in won'
"Her friends could not recog- scaring run across the Round The relentist, bearded Dr would be slaughtered by our air will foreign department
do it, of the Danish State
America, to be rich?
Just general
sad nike her," her husband William Pond, I remember thinking thai R.A.M. Case from Birmingham, Radio, visiting
Improvement in told me. Now she needs only was ingenious but hopelessly wanted samples of whale's blood Berlin to see Dritish television From what is going on in health as a result of all
the small doses to sustain her. impractical. I was wrong
to help him find out how these u1 work, told me of Denmark's States, in this autumn's general
Connecticut, one of the key new medical discoveries.
Hook went through with his creatures can dive deeply with plans.
Scores of doctors from many plans. He moved to France's out getting “the bends"-bubbles First
transmissions
election, it would begin
CRIME. Chicago 15 still countries have been to see her wealthy Cole d'Azur, where he of gas in the blood which cause next month and the manufac-olitically, at least-it is.
That
the "before and after" Al of los but and sold several great pain to humen divers. ture of receivers has already For
of Senator Estes Ke-her case hus been made as an hydrofins as pleasure boats. started. But once again
fnuver, head of a committee of historic record.
He still has a board, and in pro-lover-plane to warn the people Congress money factor will keep
Inquiring into
his French big-
beret looks more that gramme time
Republican opponent. scale crime. After recrel hear-
ACTH like a pirate than ever. Economic minimumn; it is not Prescott Bush, Is a Wall Street ings in Chicago, Kefauver sald becomes generally available
banker.
he had evidence of tie-ups be- there can be no guarantee that carning tween criminals and politicians other patients will respond an £35,000 a year. But his de- of both parties. In addition to their ordinary fence against that "sin" is that radio licence of £1,
viewers
WOMEN should be called up and, he says, "I am giving it up will have to pay £2 10s.
service, pc- year. And for some time the for a senator's pittance to work even for combat service will be
to for my restricted
family's future and cording to one of them, Miss ]\[JHATEVER became of the America. Copenhagen,
yours,"
Sarah Hughes, president of the British
down
the
to
un
zcem that-
here is candidate William Kangster-ridden.
verdict
his
able to provide TV on all the days in the week,
Mr Bush admits
it proves his executive ability,
a
expected that Denmark will be
MOST
ed
NORWAY
about, the exciting develop ments in TV he could only shrug his shoulders.
"You ace
the
And, anyway, he says in
a
serious moment, I am not
millionaire.
Mr Benton's
*
then be able to
grocery
WARNING:
well.
When
Hydrofin
inventor
hour?
who
Mirror
eye
DOZEN renders wont to know what has happened to the glant 200 In. telescope ant up от Mount Palomar JA
·
Case was almost idlled when the air-pipe of his frog sult falled during the attack,
Now he is doing something less dangerous, but every blt DS exciting to him. Ile is working af London's famed Chester Institule on cancer re- Beatty search.
Sea-gold
(London Express Service)
Rh
DECAUSE
to do your shooting
I sometimes ing the mouth with it, and I
ed
rational pistol champlon two dollars, and because my skinny kid from. Brooklyn who house has demonstrated a had learned his marksmanship
а
with
what
T seems that simple economies tendency to get burgled. I in a Coney Island shooting gal- Remember the storics of wound up the sensational have a licence to carry a re- lery- For the rest of the time Mr National Federation of Business planned to build a frog-shaped how the huge mirror took a year project for extracting some of volver-and sometimes do. Bush Ja busy demonstrating Women. One of Miss Hughes's craft, half-beat, half-seaplane to cool and the difficulty of get the 6,000 million tons of gold But I certainly hope I never
fathers that he is just one of the boys,, reasons-more
right that would skim over the water ting it up the mountain without dissolved in the sea. He does this by strumming
stay at home, at 70 miles per OST crestfallen man I saw guitar at the head of a minstrel look after their
A plant to get the gold out was get into a spot where I have runs Ineptness children, and The craft. called a hydroan, scratching It?
In fact bulit” in Australia. But to use it, because I. doubt I Damon Runyon used to was Mr Kristian Lange, band and singing a Bing Crosby prevent such a break-up of was fret reported four years Well, unfortunately, after the from every ton of of the Norweglan State Budio,
seawater whether I could hit the back call "the equaliser" is even homes 38 happened during ago when Christopher Hook, its astronomers had got the tele- treated it extracted only Bix- While he watched, and learn song.
World War II.
tall, bearded inventor,
wall of a brewery if I were more common among gangsters. Sure, the hoodiums of the who scope all fixed up they had fu penny worth. looked just like a schoolboy's postpone their experiments be And the cost of treating a ton 20 feet away.
20's pistoled many. a cilzen, And It Lori't WEALTHY young Columbusken of a pirate, demonstrated a cause they found a bump on the was unfortunately more than a
because
vic-. I but almost invariably the of an shiling. model of it for me on Kensing mirror One-2,000,000tN
haven't The political dynomite there O'Donnell, one of the heirs to aton Round Pond.
practised -plenty. tim was in a car, and the range ace," he said, "we have mountains."
Inch high,
There's
makeshift pistol a couple of inches from the Is that his accuser, William vast chain grocery fortune, has
Whenever Benton,
to learn
range back of my house up at nape of his neck. Mountains,
the is a millionaire, even begun greatest
It Kisco, and over the years the corpse-to-be figured to be enemy of TV because of
though he is a Trumanite a 'business from the bottom shelf
guess I've used up the little Left of Truman,
chough more than lew direct course it takes, surround
feet away, up. Every work day he leaves
to keep a small the killers used sawed-off shot- Primunition both Oslo and Bergen,
his New York club, travels by BLOOD FROM THE BOTTLE Nór.
Balkan war going. But no mat- guns, with a Bft spread, or tom- way's two chlet cilles. But the taunt is that he gave up his big his place behind the counter. answer to the ferry to New Jersey, and takes
ter how carefully I sight and my-guns which
produced a dea of a Norwegian TV service advertising job to run the Voles in one week he has been pro-HAT happens when it rigour, shock, kidney trouble and ante-natal clinics, the four or squeeze the baby gun with the spray like garden hose. has not entirely ruled
WHAT hand to when it even death
short nose, I've
A few years back, an ex- never been of America, o' radio propaganda moled from handyman to assis-
dinary out. "Perhaps we will start in
tic groups plus
able to do a new com factor are recorded as a routine bullseye than glare at it.
much more to the bootlegger now vice-president tant butcher,
Quite recently three years, says Mr Langefensive against Moscow,
blood transfusion?
of a national whisky company' cptimistically.
P.6.-Senators get £4,404
plicated blood group was dis- for pregnant mothers. year plus £802 for expenses.
Fifteen years ago the covered. This is known as the
told me a story about a cele- FOR NEARLY two years film
In addition to replacing
brated gangster which -illus- HOLLAND
TRAVEL. There is a waiting chief Eric Johnston has been telephone wires went buz Rh factor.
blood already lost, transfusions
trates my point. Cross Eighty-five percent of people are given for certain rare blood list of 10,000 Americans who urging Moscow to decide what zing while the Red
It seems the big shot war MOSEYED down HOLLAND'S problem is want to be passengers on the American aims to buy under a Transfusion Service tried to have the factor and are known diseases,
to Ft. tipped off that one of his body. Worth, 14 years ago to slage guards was playing 200tsla with strictly financial. It springs first Inter-planet rocketship. A deal he made during a Russian find a donor of the correct a positive. The remaining 14
I visit. Now he has got Moscow's
percent are Rh negative.
Cases of leukaemia have had that city's Centennial Exposi-a rival gang, so he threw a from the unusual arrangement New York museum, which
the but
For the 63 percent this factor all their blood replaced,
(AEFion. the broadcasting
Hollywood group. "bookings," decision,
banquet for 200 of his hired. will not release the Today, after a test lasting is of no significance.
on the Continent received aver a studios acknowledges each one with
One of the whoopty-dos I put help, and after the feed made. SDY they musta matter of 10 minutes,
13 pints in two days not long on, The Last Frontier, was a some complimentary remarks The political parties and the letter saying there may be some Bims. They churches each have their own delays before accommodation have a letter on White House the doctor asks a nurse to
ago) In jaundice of the new Wild Weat show, and the cast about the double-crosser, radio service, but unite în pre- can be assigned,
burma complete change stationery asking them publicly
has included the best hoss hands in asked him to get up on the to trade with Russia.
fetch a couple of bottles of But if an Rh negative in-
saved a senting programmes, which con
a number of ven. No the business- Galahada in 10- table and take a bow. have no political or religious ton's top brass
*REARMAMENT, Washing-
blood from the refrigerator, dividual is transfused with Rh other treatment is known for gallon hats who bad won prize background.
hour postive blood or bears a child the troubles, but there is one money in Pirogov, who In less than half an PILOT Foter
every“ rodeo from from the Licence fees af a little over runde Congress to approve
ordinary Pendleton to Madison Square Bed from Russia to try out the now blood is entering the an Rh positive father then difference
certain tunti-bodies 41 a year are collected by the ve-year plan for making the democratic way of life, will go patient's veins.
are pro transfualors-fresh blood is still Garden. Port Office
duced in the blood which reset required. U.S. Invincible. If it goes active duty with and shared,
Blood stored in the
B the guest of honour was Naturally, I wanted to through the plan will cost more Air Force this month.
That is, the final result of the unfavourably should a second bank at just above cording to membership. among
freezing, clude on exhibition of pistol Bowing the 200 hoodlums the
than bodles and
discovery by scientist £20,000-million during
Land tranfualon be required or an adequate for varmal circum-hooling, and the "union"
as a charter reached for "thele, rods and, let steiner, nearly 50 years ago, other child borne,
stances, is mó viờ, which presents the non-blas cach of the five years.
member of the Zane Grey Club him have it. JEWELS fastened to the bare that human blood could be As in the
this week, progrimmes.
figured that almost any one. But when the bals-always ́OFFICE. Do not be surprised skin by the suction principle divided into four separate gocationally there-are minor So the Red Cross rill keeps a of my bronco busters could pop the good book-keeper-counted How would . TV service it within ten years the office premise to become the New grups AB (7 percent), A (60 kúportant sub-divisions: But 1xt of donors, and, in any case, clar pipe work under the same system?, topist is a little old lady of 70. York fashion this winter. Any percent), B (10 percent), O the pets against you having the lore of blood occasionally mouth at 20 feet. et led day twònty in the carcass 150 of
The Dutch are tailbarking on Dr Charles Duchess, -a --New women buying them geta n ) (48 percent), pla
of
there.
1
service accepting
AC-
these
is out to per-
the U.S.
a two-year experimental period York research expert, predicted guarantee that they will not to determine whether TV could that the age at which #COMEDIAII^UI*********
Caso
'Rad
out of agri the bullet holes, he found ont
If blood of the wrong type
them are about 20,00042 gets very low.
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