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HERE, THERE
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Fig-Leaves Over Fiction
Mr. Upton Sinclair's bid for the Governorship of California is 达 heroit venture.
There are many poor immigrants in San Francisco and Los Angeles
to whom his radical gospel will appeal..
TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1934,
RAILWAY DREAMS WILL COME TRUE
204-FOOT BULLET THAT DOES 110 M.P.H.
THE IRON-ROAD'S REPLY
(By John Whittingham.)
London. standard; some will be panelled in
The dream of railway engineers oak," others in mahogany, the up- For the most part; however, of twenty years
ago--the unbri-holstery toning tastefully with the California is populated by immi-dled imaginings of schoolboys of woodwork. If you prefer autuma: grants of another kind. They are a train capable of speeds hitherto half-shades to the warmer golds,. the film-struck seeking fame and unrealised, has now come true. or the cooler greens, then in au- fortune in Hollywood, wealthy in- Years of experiment in power-tumn tints you will be free to. valids from all over America, and economy have produced a 204ft. travel; the choice will be yours. retired business men from the bullet of a train, now flashing its If a line of five confronting-
Eastern States.
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Upton Sinclair was once sored in symbolic. fashion.
When his novel "Oil" Įpublished in 1927, its sale in Bos-
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A special edition was published for the city. In it nine pages,
When it was thought that steam known. considered obscene by the local power had reached its speed limit authorities were blotted out by a the discovery was made that at round figleaf design.
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Lord Beatty's
way across America, with a round faces is four more than your mood cened nose and fin-like' tail and a can tolerate, then you may ride in...
the Pullman section; but, wherever speed of 110 miles an hour.
you sit, there will be ample strat It is the "tron-road's" reply to ching space for your legs, and that the challenge of the aeroplane doubtful shuffing of the feet which' so prevalent will not bo. and the motor-car.
You will enjoy all-the-year- sunlight through glass sixty miles an hour a streamlined specially manufactured to elimin- train required only a fifth of the ale glare, and the area of visibili- power needed by a aquare-endty from the windows will be vast- body of the same cross-section toly Increased.
No railway expert is to be found famous steam overcome head-wind resistance. yacht. the Sheelah, has been sold This streamlining is a method who will say with confidence that for a price unofficially reported to of "cheating the air," and entails the present two classes will be be £5000. The buyer's identity has rounded ends, unbroken lines. and retained, but it is still harder to not been disclosed, but it is un-the shielding of all projections, forecast what distinction there Third- entrance steps and could be between them. iderstood that she will be used for including {commercial yachting under
wheels, from the wind stream. Re-class seats are going to be wider, foreign flag.
sult: at 120 miles an hour a train to have arm-rests, shoulder-lampa, no greater air resis-and to be shaped in such a way as The Sheelah, a handsome achoo-meets with
than previously It encoun-to produce the maximum of com- ner of 679 tons, was built in 1902, tance by John Brown, of Clydebank.tered at half that speed; for, as
On longer journeys passengers DEATH
and would be evaded by those Rear-admiral Beatty bought her speed doubles, air resistance qua- who desired war; and the con-in 1914 from Mr. James Ross,
Iwill be entertained with radio [druples.
music, mannequin parades, cine- STONE-At her residence 50. Dock tinuance of the discussions has civil engineer, who built the most
Quarters, Kowloon, on Tuesday, for some time past only produc-j
The second discovery was the ma shows. You will even be able resentment, difficult mountainous sections of
Diesel crude-oll engine, which to save precious City minutes by 8th May,
Georgina, ed suspicion and 1934.
would burn cheap fuel without having a hair cut, or a shave, in dearly beloved wife of P. E. F. The preparation for war is not the Canadi Pacific Railway.
During the war she was lent to carburetter, magneto, or plugs, the train, and you may save still Stone. Funeral will pass the governed by logic or discussion. monument at 5.30 p.m. to-day, but by facts. The first considera. the Government as-
ship. When Lord Beatty was in and is connected through n dyna-more precious minutes in a warm' tion is the probability of war; Japan papers please copy.
command of the battle cruisers at the second is the military strength of the possible anta Invergordon she spent a good deal this type of engine which is used er as you travel, for that luxury, on the 93-m.p.h. Flying Hambur. too, will be commonplace in the gonist or combination of antagonists. Every army
near by with Lady Beatty Ker, running from Berlin to Ham-future. There will be gymnasium, of on board. She was always manned of the fuel of the steam engine,
burg. It consumes but an eighth cafeterias, cocktail bars, shopa. have its own means acquiring information,
and almost entirely by merchant ser and has twice the energy-efficiency The most welcome improvement,
The China Mail
Hong Kong, Tuesday, May 8, 1934. the
Disarmament.
blow to
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a
a hospital
of her time anchored off Hawes Pier,
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whom greatest
con-vice
of the ordinary electric locomo in British railways of the reason- fidence was the knowledge that Beatty preferred to
the ordinarytive.
ably near future may well be the facts and figures supplied to yacht hands.
Thirdly, came the use of a light the cleansing and brightening of the Commission were to a large. After the war she made a num-aluminium alloy in coach atations. Brightness, light, and extent false. A system of ber of long cruises, but she has struction. The total weight of a warmth will rout the present me- equality or of a fixed ratio would not been used since Lady Beatty's three-car unit of this metal is only lancholy blacks, and greys, The final torpedoing of the be difficult even if the fullest and death, for Lord Beatty, like many equal to that of a single modern draughts. There is to be glitter- Disarmament Conference by the most accurate information were sailore, hunts for recreation.
and romance about the railway refusal of the French Govern supplied; but without it
stations of the future-ɑ sugges- ment to continue the discussions already full of suspicion saw Your Daily Smile! What of railway progress intion of pageantry, of spectacle. is not in itself an event of any themselves possibly committed
Their restaurants will be devised England! great dignificance. The signi- to a restriction that would leave It is said that British dentists Though for the next few years to attract the general visitor, not ficant thing is that the decision them at a hopeless disadvant-are the best in the world. Some- such speeds as 100 to 150 miles an simply the traveller. has been received with a sigh of age. Not that an immediate body must have gone to great pains hour will be still economically im- This picture I have sketched is relief. That a successful issue war need be expected. On alto find that out. to the attempt to limit crucial point a demand has to be
armaments
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Pullman carriage—although the alloy is as strong as steel,
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practicable (except on very special not the Utopia of a luxury-lover runs) by the straightening out of on certain routeà much of the pro- would have been conceded by a Power that knows At the Nineteenth,
tho curves, and by the elimination of Kress Indicated is already in of the it is not ready to make good re- welcome symptom
During the recent who hatched four points and of level-crossings by making. worldsettling down is obvious to sistance, as for instance when eagles and eight birdles out of a burrowing or bridging. this new pression the railway companies,
obvious is it the French Government had to dozen golf balls. anyone; equally
American exception
will become, confident of a trade revival, were that the economy would have sacrifice its Foreign Minister,
in the 1940's, a British generalis- spending large sums of money on acceptable to
all the M. Delcasse, a few years before This Week's Leather Medallist, ation.
Brighton is now an hour modernising their equipment to be Finance Ministers; and failure is the war, to satisfy a German de- Dobbin. The grey mare who from London; to-morrow the ready for the return of prosperity. advertisement to all the mand. Moreover the greatest lost a leg in 1846 and has stood journey will be as short as forty Beneficial results are now appar- world that still another large discrepancy between official pre-on three ever since. section of the Versailles Treaty tences and facts was known to very cut up about it; It was has broken down. For some be in Germany, where precise favourite ornament.) Disarmament limitations were prescribed by
been
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the
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less than three hours.
to effect a complete modernisation: And speed is not the only trend. of, their entire stock. At a recent exhibition, the British
Old She: Fre just had my face railway companies chose for their
slogan, "Speed, Comfort, Security,” Young She: Nonsense! Who'd and comfort and accurity will be silly enough to steal such afigure as prominently as speed in
their future development.
money; wagging
Commission has been in session the Versailles Treaty. Members who Indeed? with intervals of breakdown. It of the Special Commission sent. has lost itself in a maze of deto see that the terms of the Ifted. tails. The attempt to regulate Treaty were carried out state numbers broke down on the diffi- that disarmament wag never culty of distinguishing between complete; and it is the common thing? "fully trained" and "semi-train- belief in Europe that Germany ed" men; for the latter after be- could call upon the services of We Ain't Got None. ing taught to shoot at miniature three million more or less train- ranges as a recreation, and ined men who would answer the civil volun- mobilisation orders without de- structed in drill as teers, can be turned into effec- lay or confusion. The most re- tive soldiers for the infantry cent negotiations have been cadres in a few weeks. The renominally on the German de same reason. gulation of the period of mand that the regular army Ever Noticed? service
colours should consist of three hundred Where there's smoke, was equally illusory without instead of two hundred thousand
flappers. a vigilant supervision that men; in face of the well-known |
be would
na- facts the discussion seemed so a menace to tional independence. Engineer- much in the air that it is no ing and chemical works employ-wonder that a general feeling of Him: I'm sorry you're glad I'm ed on commercial production can impatience, and a wish to get be turned into munition fac-down to realities, arose and be- Her: And I'm glad you're sor- tories in a few hours. Financial came irresistible. The Trentyy Fm gind restrictions would require, inter-reduced the German forces on a national auditors, who would be promise that the
Allies would Way. ·
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WOMAN SUES CO. FOR $57.
Employment Agency And Mrs. A. Lee.
The adjourned heating of the
We are all growing more luxury minded, and England's largest pri- eloven A writer says that people now-vate business, with its
have given up Judays
saving hundred millions in capitals, is we have also given up preparing to indulge our tastes to
our tails, and for the the full. In fact, comfort in action by Mrs. A. Lée, 'to recover travel unknown to most of us Is $57, alleged unpaid salaries, from undergoing a period of trial and Mr. Charles Chan, trading as the transition ao revolutionary in kind International Employment Agency, there's that could one fall asleep to-day was resumed before the Pulene and awaken in a train fu the Judge, Mr. Justice P. Jacks, at the 1940's one would, belleve oneself Supreme Court this morning. translated to what would seem an Mr. Lowe of Messrs. Dennys altogether new world of transport, and Company is representing Mrs. Loe, and Mr. M. A. da Silva is Through the use of sound-intu- appearing for the defendant. lating Hininge noise is being prac Mr. Pashur Tay, stated that he tically eliminated-even Juggage knew Mrs. Lee to be the ex-typlat barrows are to be fitted with rub at Mr. Chan's office and that ber tyres. Vibration will be ra- March 10, in his presence, Mr. duced to an unnoticeable mint-Chan handed Mrs. Lee a sum mum There will be no draughts, money.
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mad.
puzzled to draw the line be disband troops down to the same A new flower is called the pha- tween soldiers and militia and ratio, Whether the post-war {lanxiffichryneum." But probably police; and the standard of liv-events did or did not justify the not very often. ing differentiates the payment postponement of reduction (s an
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no windows to be closed at tunnel Mr. Francis Yip, a clerk in the mouths, and blessing of blessings Employment Agency office, stated Whatever is not worth saying is no dirt. At the end of a four- that on March 10, Mr. Chan made
noy we shall be as clean as when a loan of $40 to Mrs. Les against (we started, for the air is to be her salary, and
washed, heated, and controlled tó On April 2, he stated, Mrs Lae",
to conscript troops, from some-open question. But it is clear Nowadays. thing like living wage to no-that the German contention that thing at all Passenger air under the circumstances they sung planes can carry soldiers as could not be the only Power to easily as civilians,, and bombs as disarm permanently was difficult Pharaoh's Daughter was only easily as mails. All these snags to rebut; and repeated insistence A dairymaid, but she got a pro-lour precise requirements. Such left: the employment of Mr. Chan, could have been surmounted in that France should carry out the phet out of the water.
Elysian conditions exist to some and was offered: $17, the balance of her wagen, she refused to take an atmosphere of goodwill. Treaty only made more friction.
extent in America already,AN Without that there was great The position is serious enough in "According to a news item an Among other nuisances the com the money and when she left the danger that the disarmament all conscience, but nothing can American shop girl was married pantes have condemned is gloom office both she and Mr. Chan were would only be carried out by be gained by living in a fool's covered with imitation diamonds. The interior decoration of car in a temper, and those nations, that desired peace, paradise,
Married in paste, evidently, ringes will no longer be of one The case is proceeding,
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