1933-12-04 — Page 7

MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1933.

GOLFERS'

TRIALS IN

AUSTRALIA

Snakes And Magpies Resume Habits.

BIRDS ATTACK PLAYERS

Canberth. Federal Capital

Territory

With the coming of summer tal Canberra. snakes

have made

their appearance and magpies; have resumed the

puharious

habits for which at this time of the year they have won a bad re- putation.

A golfer who was playing in

the Action a match on

rouse

between two teams of pressmen. was approaching noticed as he the fourth tee that his dog was barking savagely in the "rough" a few yards away. With his driver in his hand, the golfer and his partner made a search and found that the dog with bristling back was hailing up a large brown snake, the head of which,; a foot above the ground. was striking at the dog Several ac- curately place strokes with thel golf club killed the snake, which measured more than four feet in length. It was placed on the tee. and the effect it had on the nerves of other participants In the

THE CHINA MAIL.

As Miami Welcomed Graf on Fair Trip

Mayor & G. Sewell, of Miami, extends the glad hand of welcome to Commander age Eckler, of the Graf Zeppelin tshown approaching mooring mast) en arrival at the Florida resort from Friedrichshafen, Ger many, en route to the World's Fair, Chengo, inset, 11-month-old Billy Manson, of Rio De Janeiro, with ki mother at the airship window Billy is the youngest passenger ever booked on the Graf

match as they walked up to drive Engineering & Baking

off was blamed for many hadi

shots.

Several magpies, old oftenders, ; thei have attacked golfers on Royal Canberra course. One at the tenth tee makes a habit of swooping on players as they are about to drive off. it invariably makes a double attack a dart

WORLD'S FINEST AUDITORIUM

Acclaim For Chicago

Structure.

from the rear at first. after "UNSAFE" RUMOUR EXPLODED

MANY FACTORS

OF SPEED

Difficulties Met In Record-Seeking.

OVERCOMING RESISTANCE

11 the records made by the Rex. Conte di Savoia, Bremen und

tance.

U.S. BUILDING COSTS UP 100 PER CENT

Every Type Affected By Rise In Wages.

RESULT OF N.R.A. CODE

Washington. National recovery will increase

It was

EMPIRE SPORTS ARENA £150,000 Scheme For Wembley.

BIGGEST SWIMMING POOL

Un the site of the Empire Ex- hibition at Wembley there is to he constructed what is claimed will be probably the world's larg- est swimming pool and an Em- pire Sports Arena.

The building is to be complet- ed by next July, and the first big programme to he staged will be the acquatic events of the British Empire Games.

The whole of the financial ar- with rangements in connection the project have been completed, and the sum of £150.000, the Jestimated cost of construction, is being provided by Wembley ¡Stadium Ltd., of which company Lord Mottistone. beiter remem- bered as Major-Gen. Seely, is chairman.

Sir Evan Owen Williams has designed a building to house the pool and the arena, which will be run in conjunction with the Stadium. Out of an estate oc- cupying approximately nine acres, the new building will cover an area of two acres, space nearly half as large again as that

occupied by the Albert Hall.

The length of the building will be 420 ft., and its width 240 ft.

It will have a roof-span of 240ft. -80ft wider than the main hall of Olympia. The arena will be 300ft long by 80ft wide, and the wimming pool 200ft. in length and 60ft wide, with a maximum depth of water of 16ft.

The eating capacity

will

vary from 8,000 to 12,000, ac-

£28,000 HOUSE SOLD FOR £4,500 Bankruptcy Disclosure

which it rises almost perpendi cularly, and then drops with!

The Chiengo Auditorium. claim Europa are to be exceeded by more the cost of construction 100 per carding to the type of event. Enapping beak on its victim, who.ed by Frederick Stark, Director of thau an hour or two, it will not be cent in some sections.

that the by this time, is usually waving the Chiengo Symphony Orchestra, by packing more boilers and more generally admitted his club around his head in de-)

after all, is intended to earn money ed and which must be in opera- fence. Though so far no one has the finest ball, accoustically, in powerful turbines into a bull which, Codes which are now being fram- 1 Speed is tion not later than January been actually struck by the bird, the world, has recently linen refurby carrying passengers.

The will boost the price of every type it also is blamed for bad golf uished, equipped with the most mo- more than a matter of energy.

Tesis-luf building. strokes.

dern stage lighting and reopened designer must reckon with

These Codes provide for fewer Another magpie SWOODS On

em- Charles Wells, of the firm of players from a willow tree on the ito Chiengo masie-Jovers after three

Higher speed by only 10 per cent. hours of labour, increased 14th Fairway. Recently a well seasons of darkness

must be attended by un increase of ployment, which naturally means Toone and Wells, hosiery manu- of facturers, which failed recently. known Civil servant, in the act Buring the construction of the power of 30, 40, even 50 per cent, higher material prices, all

the stated in the Leicester Bank- of striking the hall waX

heard!

| factors--an Increase 10 power price of the little home as from a great distance to make Chirago Civic Opera House, the depending on hull lines and other which combine to put up wild exclamations.

Auditorium, first opened in which means higher fuel consump-as the towering skyscraper.

But since the skyscraper ers on looking round noticed that 1889, wan Puntented time unsafe tion, more expensive machinery and, the bill. mishit. had gone into structurally.

loss of not likely to be a factor in *rsonnel. not to mention the rough. The golfer explained

deadweight capacity. Rubsequently that as he was at ten by experts proved this false.

Other play old

the top of his swing the nagpie] swooped upon him.

These been on

A minute examina-

well (ruptcy Court that he spent £28,- 000 on building a house, borrowed is £12,000 on it from an insurance

are of

the company, paid the interest for In order to contruction Industry for Bome only two years, and then the com. find out how resistance can be re-time. the little house, of which pany sold it for £4,500.

of thouusands al-duced--water resistance - Admiral hundreds Their survey showed that

a tank in needed, will feel the burden though the building had settled no- David W. Taylor built

little

construction. models the rising cost of have treably due to the wight of the ex- Washington. towed 1 wo magnies

estimated that in this the course for several tra stories which were added with through it under known conditions, It was

thus madhu very accurate type of construction the range of years. and

they always make sut changing the original founda- and

with results that cost would be from 20 to 6 per their attacks only at this time tons, it is, and always has been. Imeasurements

the Sharp cent upsal

1raditions.

higher than before of the

from the same sale. places. This is the breeding sea. The old struere, which includes prows, foaming wakes and swirling Codes came. son. Reuter.

Year-

KIDNAPPING PLOT IN GAOL

Convicts Attempt To Seize Hostages.

STRUGGLE IN CHAPEL

Philadelphia.

Six Salvation Army workers

many

Air Resistance

In-

jan office building and a hotel, was feddies, all the picturesque evidences It was estimated that construc-

built before Caissons were used in juf speed so dear to the urists. tion labour cost would be Chicago for building foundations. mean high realstance.

creased from 50 to 160 per cent, The ten-story Chengo Auditorium

which, of course, will be carried rests upon a grillage of heavy tim- Latterly designers have begun through from one cycle of Her located blow the water line to pay some attention to the air tivity to the next until it is ab- ins & Boating foundation on the clay, resistance of the structure above sorbed by the consumer.

faced water- subject which also engag- In view of the prospect

The walls are of masonry, with mastone and granite,

SHANGHAI BUILDING

PROGRESS

ac-

of

ed the attention of Admiral Taylor prices moving higher within the in his pioneering work. There is next two months. it is surpris- reason to believe that fully 10 per ing how few projects are being cent. of the resistance encountered carried forward. Bušiders de- by 11 four-day Bassenger Hiner clare that the public had not yet from the air. If so the estimated the wide increase Bremen and the Europa are more which must be marked up in the Its or less wasting about 13,000 horse-building field to maintain

comes

three of them women, have had Large Rubber Factory power when they are steaming at pledge to the Blue Eagle.

& narrow escape in the Eastern

State Prison chapel where rebel-

lious convicts had planned to scize them and hold

hostages.

them as

Premature 'action on the part

Planned.

NANTAO DISTRICT LEADS

Shanghai.

thirty knots.

But, whatever may be learnt from the experiments now proceeding. strength must be the primary con- sideration in a structure which is buffeted by wind and wave. So the

of four prisoners frustrated the Looking over the area qutside best that can be done is to round off bridges, funnels and similar scheme, according to the warden. the Settlements for October, it The four broke out of line while seen that Nantan is in the projections and thus cut down the omnipresent atmospheric resistance. marching from breakfast to the lead with 76 permits approved Chapel service and one of them and Chapei second with 57 par-

GLORIES.

SHIPBUILDING IN UNITED KINGDOM.

Renewed Upward Tendency.

there

ware

On September 30 308,762 tons of shipping being built

threw pepper in a guard's eyes, mits for new buildings, and when RESTORING ROME'S in the shipyards of the United

comparing October this year They were subdued after a struggle, however, and later the with the gume month of last warden ght the story of the pro-than 20 per cent. for the whole

year, new building is up more] posed kidnapping.

He said the convicts had uren. This all compares very planned to hold the salvationists favourably with the settlements, in an effort to enforce certain

The Eastern District stands

Kingdom, an increase of 16,260 tons over the total for June 30, and of: 65,329 tons over that for September Complete Isolation Of 30, 1982. This total of 303,762

Capitoline HiL

.

tona representa 87 vessels; of these 62 are steamships, 21 are motor- ships and sailing ships and barges.

demands. Whether these were out within the Settlement for Work has been begun on aue of the same as were submitted to more than half the value in per- the most spectacular projects, so the prison trustees after a recent mits were in this section. One far envisaged in the renaissance of wild outbreak a radio in every large one is for a rubber factory classic Rome--the complete isola- cell. newspapers daily, release of on Tsitsihar Road; another is an tion of the Capitoline Hill.

During the last 10 years of the all prisoners in solitary confine extension to a glycerine factory! ment and discharge of certain off Yangtzsepo Road; and the Fascist regime many of the Im guarda the warden declined to largest one calls for a new go-perial fora have been brought to say, Reuter,

down and office building at the light by meme of the removal of Failed To Sell At Auction corner of Poyang and Neikfang auperimposed buildings, but the Roads.

FOR SERVICES RENDERED

Belgrade.

“RANJI'S HOME AT STAINES.

qption

results have been of more senti-. Jamnagar House, at Staines, In the Western District, a large montal than picturesque value, ow which coat the late Prince Ran group of new buildings have been ing to the fact that practically jitainhji: over 280,000, did not started at the corner of Boule- nothing remains of the ancient sell at an auction held recently Alexander Radovanovitch, of vard Montigny and Rue Buisson sites except foundations.

in the Hanover-square rooms of Machadontza, has nine children.net. They included 17 2-storied In this new project, however, the Knight, Frank and Bulley He is aged 27 and his wife is 25. Chinese shops and 24 3-storied pending clearances leave the median rat bid made was £10,000. Alexander has been exempled houses. Other permits are for a revil palaces of the Capitol ex and competitions for the entire from all State and local taxation. 16 unit apartment house and 8 posed to view sa crowning gems, of property, cessed - až3 £12,500.

foreign residences::fun

Architecture over: Rome, tan- sum below the reserve

Router..

FROM WEDNESDAY KING'S

AT THE

A DOUBLE

ATTRACTION!

ON THE SCREEN

It Was Alla FAKE!

See how two magicians expose each other in this hilanous thriller.

Fox Mim prasonid

TRICK

TRICK

FOR

win Ralph MORGAN Victor JORY Sally BLANI

Directed by Hamilton Macfadden

ON THE STAGE.

1

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