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Record at Bridge Tournament. Bridge history, was made in its most appropriate setting, the Part- land Club, when recently for the first time on record a duplicate match resulted in a dead-heat.
The match was between the... Royal Aero and Almack's Club in the second round of the Inter-Club Duplicate Tournament. At the end of the first session on the sixteen boards the Royal Aero had esta- blished a load of 850 points.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1933.
AMY -“THE SHOCK
OF MY
MY LIFE"
THRILLS ON ENGLAND TO CAPE FLIGHT
THE PETROL
BOGEY
A Telephone account to The Lon-jold engine was whirring away don Express from Cape Town.
Over The Safiara.
Hullo! Yes, it is me-Amy. You will probably see a lot of
front of me.
in
I got over the mountains much I thought I In the second session Almack's thrilling stories all over the place, more easily than wiped out the 850 points. When but they will be all, rabbish and would, and then came the Sahara. Well, the Sahara gave me some idea the last hand on the last board imagination.
First of all, everything that, I of what Jim went through over the came to be played, Almack's were
Atlantic. leading by 100 points.
had figured out was wrong.
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Honestly It is the most diamal I am delighted to have beaten my husband Jim's record, but the fact sight on the whole earth, Excitement could hardly have that I did not beat it by a lot more I tried to hum to myself as I saw miles of this dull grey sandy been more tense. This last hand, is entirely my own fault.
me. Then every too, was a really good one, and I thought I was a "hot" engineer. country under anything might have happened. Well, I am not as "hot" as I thought time I felt from the buzz in my head that I was humming, I knew Rather than allow the Royal I was. Acro, who had bid six Hearts, to From London, I know from Jim's that I was forgetting something. I go out, Dr. Wood Hill, the captain) Atlantic flight, this all sounds very have never been in such a state of of "Almack's, made a sacrificial bid important, but I don't feel a bit im-worry and fuss.
There was a rotten sort of mist of six Spades and went down only portant-just dirty.
was crossing the 100 points.
Listen, the whole trouble has all the time I
desert. Had Royal Aero doubled they been caused by my mathematics.
I saw things under me, but for. would have won.
1 Was Wrong. England has thus the credit of I estimated the range of my own the life of me I could not tell you I suppose having provided the first instance machine. Well, in any case, I was now what they were.
caravans, but I don't of a tie-a remarkable occurrence wrong, but, added to the fact that they were when one bears in mind the thou-I was wrong in my estimate, other know, and I'm hanged if I care.
I thought I was being rather un- sands of duplicate matches that troubles arose.
are played weekly in America, The odda against a tie probably millions to one.
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Not long after I had left Lympne lucky in the weather, and insomuch are I noticed that my calculations start- as I had had such bad luck with my
led to go all funny. I was using petrol, and
much more petrol than I imagined I gradually get better. would. This gave má awful wind-
on Teaching a Girl to Drive a Car.
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SPORTING RECORDS...
Facts You Did Not Know.
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I was really low in "juice" by the time I got to Barcelona.
I afterwards discovered that they were leaking to the tune of two gallons an hour. I had some
papers and
newx-
I took some of
Only Five Gallons. Anyway, I got to Gao, which meant that the worst part of the desort was behind me.
.
I had been given a load of water and some food, which the French officials always insist upon your taking with you, and I felt quite, light-hearted about things.
(Continued on Pago 11.)
STAR FERRY COY. REPORT.
Well, of course, it did something to help and the consumption foll from ten gallons an hour to eight Full gallons an hour. But even so I knew that something further was wrong.
leak.
Made It Worse.
Dividend of $5.50
A Share.
operation normally, and not by Things I Should Love To See. hypodermic fits and starts. Wel Member of Scotland-yard's Big
There I was anxious to snatch a There was no need to land thore,
I told the must wait to see if Russian la- Five looking for his collar-stud
or, rather, there should not have little sleep if I could. Hong Kong, Thursday.. Feb. 2, 1933. bour has the skill to operate these
been, but the petrol gauge was men on the aerodrome there to fill giant tools, or, for that matter, Club Cameos of Long Ago. has the will to operate them. At "Look out there's that old bore showing so little that I thought I my machine absolutely as full as she would stand. I watched them present Russian labour is chiefly Jonah; Just itching to tell some one had better land. I did..
They told me that there was an with my torch, I was so frightened concerned with the task that ab his whais story again."
awfully strong smell of petrol about they would make a mistake.
I took off at eight o'clock, intend- Moscow will apparently take sorbs the energies of most of the
my machine. no formal notice of the official nation-the quest of bread.
My whole notion was to get on ing to fly through the night to A bachelor is a man, who has completion of the famous Five-is impossible to appraise the re-
woman out of a with the fight, and I did not listen make up the time I had lost, sults of the Five-Year industria- cheated some
Well, they did what I told them Year Plan which came with the lization plan until it has really divorce.
to anything really. I just grinned
according to the strangest Ideas in end of the year. It was inau- taken on the character of a nor-
and tried to look pleasant.
I took off and the gurated an Oct. 1, 1928, and was
When I got into the air again I the world. noticed before had been up an machine rose with extra ordinary to have run till Oct. 1, 1933. The mal industrial plan. Hitherto it Hints
has been conducted in the spirit
I was delighted with the results of the first two years and with the methods of a war
hour that the petrol was being eaten, ease.
way it handled. were believed to be so impressive
up in an absurd fashion. plan.
Then it dawned on me that Bomo- that the plan was revised up
I realised that ward; the quotas were increased
The girls of a ballet in Vienha thing was wrong. and the programme was to be
set on the ballet master and gave the gravity tanks were "leaking.
They were. completed in four years. The last
him a beating because he "nagged"" year and a half brought disil- While the world was plunged them, I read. Which proves that lusion and the term was pro-in an economic Slough of Des-no man is a hero to his ballet.
But pond, science swept on to new vic- longed by three months,
If we need any last year witnessed nothing like tories in 1932, an approach to the predetermin-proof that the spirit of our time An American explorer recently papers with me. ed schedules. In the basic in-is not crushed, we have but to returned from i remote part of these and did my best to block up dustries the lag is serious. In enter the laboratories. Gloom Africa says he heard rumours of the vent holes in these tanks, which iron and steel the year's in the factories and gloom in the a tribe of people with three legs. are quite close to my sent.. production is less than 50 market places, but here rejoicing They must put up some record per cent. It is now generally, if that the year has been one of times in sack races. tacitly, admitted at Moscow that deeper understanding, richer ac- too fast a pace was set for turn-complishment. The contrast has ing Russia into a self-sufficient its lesson. It is science that sets industrial nation. Nothing is this age apart, and science knowa
At the annual meeting of the heard of the second Five-Year no depression. Chadwick dis-
Then it occurred to me that Star Ferry Company, to be held on Plan that was to follow immedi covers the neutron, Compton, Semi flexible rubber mud guards ately. This year will be devoted Millikan and Piccard add to our have been invented for motor buses through the papers and one thing February 9, the Directors will to bringing production up to knowledge of the cosmic rays, that have their wheels set in re- and another I had got the petrol report as follows:
The Directors have the pleasure schedule, to tightening things up, Cockcroft and Walton, Bothe and ceases under the floors to protect feed so high that it was forcing the
to submit to Shareholders their re- and beyond that to thinking the Joliots batter their way into the vehicles' paint.
Yet the mood of the citadel of the atom, half a things over.
There would have been no leak port, with a statement of accounts anxiety and agitation at Moscow dozen chemists add to our know- The requirement that 97 per at all if I had not had the pressure for the twelve months ended Decem-
ber. 31, 1932, to-day is not primarily due to the ledge of hormones and vitamins, cant domestic wheat be used by so high.
When I got across the Mediter, The nett earnings of the boats, shortcomings of the Five-Year astronomers from all over the German mills in milling flour. has
the moon, after paying all working expenses, Plan, Had the set period elapsed world went to America to watch been prolonged by the government ranean-over which with no greater results but with the solar eclipse and again new until August of next year. thank goodness, helped me and amount to $488,524.64.
The amount at credit of Profit got to Oran, I ast that trouble right. out complications the Soviet knowledge of the sun's fierce light
A new thermometer for re- Then I remembered what Jim and Loss Account, after transfer- Government might still have and heat, the Second Polar Year been in a position to point with is inaugurated to prove that na-sidence use indicates changes of had told me about the Atlas Moun-ring $25,000 to Reserve Fund, In case you don't know, $25,000 to Contingency Account, pride. But there exists to-day tlons can still work together and temperature with coloured electric tains. the serious complication of a sink their differences in science, lights that can be installed at any you have got to fly at a height of allowing for Directors' and Audi over 4,000 feet to cross those moun- tor's fees, and Depreciation, includ grave food shortage. The coun- the Rex and Conte di Savoia ad distance from the instrument.
taina. Actually 1 went up gradual-ing $31,876.87 brought forward, is try is already on something close fresh laurels to those already won
-- $479,578,56 which with the ap A long distance telephone system ly to 6,000 feet. a war-ration basis. What by the naval architect, the Dnie.
Jim had told me that the aero-proval of Shareholders, it is pro- makes things harder for the per power plant is finished, more will be constructed in the Philip Stalin Government is that hun-light is shed on genes, those units pine Islands to connect.ning of the drame at Oran was very small, and posed to appropriate as follows: ger has not come upon the Rus- of life that carry with them the principal rice producing centres that it would be foolish of me to To pay a Dividend of $24.
attempt to take off with a full load. per share elan land as an act of God; it is secret of heredity and evolution with Manila.
He strictly told me: to keep down To pay a Bonus of $3.50 man-made. There has been no the catalogue is endless. Yell
per share drought. The country indeed is it is the successful assault on the lumes have been written on the to halt a load of petrol.
Well, my job was to beat Jim's To carry forward said to have been blessed with the atom that stands out as a major possibilities of atomic energy. At
So after I had seen the best planting and growing wea- accomplishment. With hundreds last, as Professor Davis pointed record.
nothing ther. The food shortage is the of thousands of volts represent-out, we catch a glimpse of a posaorodrome, which
The directors of the company are result of a nation-wide peasant ed by the energy of the alpha sble method whereby that energy to brag about, I decided to risk strike precipitated by the rough- particles shot off by radium and may be tapped. Three centuries it. I had the machine filled up, Hon Mr. J. J. Paterson (Chair- shod methods of the Soviet by the cosmic rays, the physiciat ago physicists were experiment and when I did take off I just man), Mr. A. H. Compton, Mr. Government in hacking through tore a bit of matter apart and ing with the vacuum. Did they managed to stagger over the M. T. Johnson, Mr. H. H. H.
Priestley, and Mr. J. P. Warren. to its industrialization objectives. gained a deeper insight into the dream that out of their purely trees at the far edge.
Honestly, my heart did some Mr. A. H. Compton retires ne It is therefore difficult to appraise manner in which the customs is theoretical studies the steam en- the actual results of the Five put together. Thus it was that gine would come and with it a re funny things until I saw those cording to the Articles of Associa me. Ition, but being. eligible, offers him Year Plan until we can measure Dr. Chadwick discovered the volution in transportation and trees disappear behind at least its nearer consequences. neutron and made necessary a production and a world trans thought: Jim was right, and I self for re-election. Enormous industrial develop revision of our theories of matter. formed by coal burned under a was wrong, and stupid to imagine ments have sprung up in the that Anderson in Pasadena eject boiler? This disruption of the that he would be wrong,
He has flown thousands of hours form of power sites, mills, faced both protons and electrons atom have similar far-reaching tories, entire industrial areas like from atomic nuclei, and that effects, ap that the year 1932 and I have only flown hundreds. Magnitogorsk, in the Urals, Cockcroft and Walton released may be recalled a century hence I had a horror of letting him which is set to outdo Pittsburgh energy from the inmense stores not because the times were out down; but, thank God, the machine
The judge convening Quarter There is the famous tractor fac-locked in the atom. At the of joint but because science had picked up wonderfully from the tory at Stalingrad, the new Ford meeting of the American Asso-risen to new heights from which second the wheels left the ground, Sessions Court here, has dismissed from jury duty all men who have plant at Nizhni Novgorod, the ciation for the Advancement of it surveyed a distant Promised and all was well great Duleper power dam br Science that has just closed. Pro- Land of plenty richer than any Before I had got into the ma- foba.
We will give the unemployed n by American engineers. But we fessor Bergen Davis made much that Watt or Faraday opened to chine I had imagined to myself
what I would think about while the chance, bo,explained. Reuter. Vo mankind. must wait to see these things in of these atomic conquests.
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