THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 1, 1940
NEW LINERS COMING TO HONG KONG
THE MARITIME COMMISSION IN AMERICA HAS CONFIRMED THE NAMES SELECTED FOR THE NEW SHIPS BEING CONSTRUCTED FOR AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES ROUND-WORLD SERVICE.
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Those vessels will bear the follow- ing names; President Adams, Presi- dent Monroe, President Jackson, President Van Buren, President Polk, President Hays, President Garfield.
The first ship to be launched will be the President Jackson, toward the end of May at the Newport News Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company, vessels are being
where all seven built.
The ships will carry 100 passengers and 124 crew. They will be 492 feet long, 69.5 feet beam, and have a speed of 81⁄2 knots. They will be of 9,300 tons gross and will maintain schedule of 98 days around the world.
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The names are those of the present ships in the round-world service with cne exception. The President Harri- son will be replaced by the President Jackson.
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The 98-day schedule will days off the schedule maintained - by the present fleet.
LAWYER'S FEE £200,000
New York, March 18.
Samuel Untermeyer, world's highest paid lawyer, died from pneumonia and heart trouble at his Palm Springs, California, home-last night. He was 80.
Untermeyer gave more. than £5,000,000 to charities. He took a part in the most famous corporation lawsuits in the United States, and was often paid £2,000 a day.
William Fox paid him £200,000 for three months' work reorganising_the Fox Film Company. A fee of £150,- 000 was paid him for merging the Utah Copper Company with Boston and Nevada Consolidated Company a £20,000,000 deal.
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Untermeyer, arranged for the pur- chase by an American syndicate of the properties of the Archduke of Austria
£40,000,000 deal. He
FIRST BOMB
TARGETS
Lord Denham, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agri- culture, stated at Ipswich that one of the main difficulties in hia campaign on behalf of the "Grow more food" campaign was that so many people felt that the war, had not started.
"When the bombing does start. as it well may any moment, what is going to suffer first? Pro- bably the ports, and secondly the railways and the transport sys- tem. Then, perhaps a little late, many people will realise how vi tal It is to' make ourselves self- supporting."
MAN WHO WANTED FRONT-PAGE DEATH
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Manhattan. ‹
New York, March 16. After about half an hour's flying Emanuel Eisenberg, 35-year-old Eisenberg asked the pilot to head over Broadway publicity man (he was Press agent for Gertrude Lawrence's hit "Skylark," and the Group Theatre productions), always said he wanted to die as he lived-spectacularly.
To-day his name is splashed across the front page of every New York newspaper, and in death he has been given more publicity than he ever achieved in life.
Rosemarin refused, saying the wea- ther was too bad. Next second Eisen- berg attacked him with a pair of pliers and hit him viciously.
Finally Elsenberg got his feet jammed on the controls. The plane plunged headlong into New York har- bour near the Statue of Liberty.
Harbour police rescued Rosemarin, Yesterday he went to the Floyd Ben-badly injured, but they failed to find nett flying field and hired Joseph Rose- the publicity agent. He was washed marin to give him a flying lesson. ashore to-day.
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Two columns of troops and detach- ments of frontier police recently began operations designed to clear the Ahmedzal Sallent, north of Bannu, of hostile gangs.
These tribesmen, supported by the notorious Fakir of Ipl; have been responsible for kidnapping, * murder and arson in the settled districts of the North-West Frontier Province, for months past,
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