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Prof. Piccard's Venture

Into The Unknown

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By Alfred Cheval

Fifty three thousand feet up to avoid losing time in making be quickly brought to the sen's in the sky, in 1932, and 12,000 notes,

surface. The plot will be able feet below the sea in 1947, or a Chemicals will keep the to control release of gus-oto total perpendicular distance

breathable of atmosphere

while slow down too speedy ascent. €5,000 feet such will be 63- batteries will command the in- Another of Piccard's probleme year-old Swiss scientist Auguste strumérle

was how to know whether the Plecard'a record if he succeeds One window frame will be re-submersible is going up or in hia deep sea expedition in movable and used as an exit down. This was solved by the Gulf of Guinea

but it will open only when the small electric device composed on of a propellor moved by the

*

water flow. It will send radio be signals to the cabin on up or

Plecard and Max Conyna, hla submarine vessel is back naslatant, are now busy getting board the mother ship. their "bathyscaphe" (from the The spheric cabin will ***Greek meaning undersen vessel) topped by two motors to pro-down movements.

3 months

6 montba

One year

H.K.$18.00 H.K.$30.00 H.K.171.00

DEATH

ANGUS.--On Oct. 1, 1947 at 0.18 p.m. at the Queen Mary Hospital, Mrs. Matilda Angus. Aged 74 years. Funeral will

pass the Monument at 6 p.m. today,

COLLISION

ready and hope to leave Ant-pel it over the ocean floor. The By favour of the British Ad-j werp for the Gulf of Guinea, shipshaped container to which miralty, the Scaldis has boen | West Africa, at the end of Sep. the cabin will be attached will fitted with a short, wave device tembor on their transporter be filled with lightweight gas. by means of which the submer- ship, the Belgian cargo vessel oll, caaleat and cheapest meanssible will be in contact with the "Scaldis."

to replace the too easily com- mothership, pressed he lum.

Plecard's aubmarine, or "un dersca balloon" ns he likes to call it, la indeed very similar to the Professor's

Electrical Control

Crossing A Bridge

The sub will then be dropped

to

pressure device Antended bring it up again. If all goes well, Piccard and Cosyns will

CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner,

8-17

COPIL 194Y HY MEN TERVISE THE LAA

"Have him take the pink pills every three hours and the *brown ones right after he gets my bill!”.

Weighing 60 tons when fully loaded it will not be difficult When the Soaldis, darrying stratvapheric for Piccard's submarine to be Plecard and a few scientists, ballon, the prowar F.B.R.S.I. brought down to the bottom of geologists, and naturalists and 'The collision between thei

The bathyscaphe's main part the sen. One of the great pro- biologiats, nears the zero point United States and the Soviet over pheric cabin suspended from a Professor had to face was, as will be put on the sea by the ls like the stratosphere balloon's blems the tall, white haired in the Gulf, the bathyscaphe| Security Council membership, now light metal shipshaped container in a balloon, how to carry release mother ship's winches and ita likely to be resolved by agreement holding gas-off as a balloon holds able ballast and how to drop containers filled" with gas-oll. on the selection of Czecho-hellum or any other light gas. it, islovakia, is sufficient to reveal But Plecard's undersea balloon This is how Piccard has solved unmanned, under control of ♫ how important the present session will have to bear pressure of that problem. of the United Nations Assembly 6,000 pounds per square

Inch. may be in the history of our tirnes. Its steel cabin walls therefore: A small matter in itself, on the are about 3 1/2 inches thick at

Under the gas-oil container then go on board to be carried surface, it is nevertheless, sympto

their thinnest part,

powerful electric magneta will deep into the sea, to one place Through thick The United States Secre- plexiglas windows, one looking and iron filings as well as the being has ever been,

cone-shaped attract pieces of ferro-concrete on the earth where ao human tary of State, Mr. Marshall, has downwards and the other made it clear that he intends towards, the pilot and his

up-heavy batteries commanding the Piccard and Cosyns are now com- machine, Release of the bainst busy In Antwerp getting ready bring matters to a definite issue panion will be able to observe will

Belgian with Russia during this meeting. deep sea life lighted up by out- from the cabin.

be electrically controlled to realise, under the

National Selentific Research The primary question which healde powerful searchlights.

If by accident the electric Fund's sponsorship.

the pro has selected for his purpose is

power should be cut off, the feasor's 40-year dream. the threat to Greek independence The spheric cabin, cybing 141 ballast would be dropped and, Having radiographed every selection of From the Communist-dominated square feet, will contain several because of the lighter than water inch of his aphoric cabin walls leaves no doubt that States of Albania, Yugoslavia and gadgets including a "dietnphone" gas-oil, the submersible would and tried its floats under high avidity for colour, style Bulgaria through their aid

pressure to avoid any possible beauty will be further satisfied haired and sparkling, sho JA accident, Greek

the tall rebels. Behind

professor by so much youthful charm and ove these States stand. Soviet Russia, Over

likes to compare, as far as risks loveliness,

friends are concerned, his expedition to Counted among the eight who their activities she has cast the protective mantle

of her veto.

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Spheric Cabin

Re-Educating Nazi Children

The American military gov- F. Shafer, who recently termin.ed Press. ernment has had little successated two years of service here in re-educating Germanas head of AMG's education

the

children in Berlin for demo-branch for Berlin. He is re- cracy, partly because its pro- turning to a post in the Glen- ramme has "not been dynamic dhle, California public school

"we've system, which enough" and because been alckeningly

clous.**

he loft four to serve with penny-con-years ago

the army and military govern-

to

That is the opinion of Paul ment.

100 Years Ago

Surveying Allied efforts re-educate the German chil-1

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Princess Elizabeth's Bridesmaids

Austere the wedding of Prin-[of the Queen also will serve cess Elizabeth may be, but the the Hon. Margaret Elphinstone, her bridesmaids 22-year-old daughter" "of Lord public Elphinstone, who married Her and Majesty's oldest sister. Dark-

of

Elizabeth's clonest.

Like another of the brides-

accom-

tho

a train crossing a bridge which were chosen-the traditional maids-Lady Caroline Mon- has just been approved for number for a royal wedding- tagu-Douglas Scott-Margaret three or four times heavier load. are some of the fairest girls of Elphinstone has often "No one is afraid of crossing court and kingdom, most of paled Princess Elizabeth and the bridge," he said-Associat- them related to the ruling Princess

to Margaret

dinner parties family, and all Intimates of the theatre, and to bride-to-be.

and dances in fashionable West them-End clubs and restaurants, Lady Beven. Caroline, 20, is the younger of the Duke and and Alexandra of Kent, ten Duchess of Buccleuch and ✡ years old, and the youngest in sister of the Duchess of North- the array, for whom this will umberland, be her second time as a bride's attendant.

Two are princesses, selves, Margaret Rose

No Welcome teen-year-old sister of Elizabeth, daughter On The Soviet Map

The choice of Princess Mar- guret to be chief bridesmaid was, of course, Inevitable, for and it is sometimes forgotten

Washington, Oct. 1. dren here, Shafer said in an Russia has refused to permit interview:

members of the US Senate Ap.

élder mald at the wedding of four occupy-propriation Committee to enter she stands next to her

the

har

of

of

Cavan

Cavan,

to

ly to prove mortal as an open with no small difficulty have ani "We spend billions in win- the object of the trip was to in- Eldest of the eight la Miss Who was a lady-in-waiting

The

Jugglers

from

KWANGTUNG

PROVINCE,

their

overcome,

| visibility. Mr. Marshall is rais. ing the Greek question in the General Assembly, from whom he will demand "prompt action." The Russians must respond to blunt a challenge. It is on he nature of their response that the future prospects of the United Nations organisation rest. It is

Supremo's Daughter by no means impossible that the

Second youngest is Pamela outcome may be Russia's with.

Mountbatten, 18, daughter of drawal from the organisation al-

Viscount and Viscountess Louis together, in which case, whatever

Mountbatten and cousin of the the residue may call itself, it

bridegroom. She was a brides- will not be the United Nations,

"None of the ing Allen has succeeded

the sister, Alster toofthe Soviet Union to visit

in succession to

Patricia, for the Soviet would not depart

to Lord ¿ alone. Such a result would be a

well. You can't impose demo- American Embassy.

throne. Less than a year from Brabourne lust Fall.

Mar- eracy on a people. They have Senator Styles Bridges, Reher own coming-of-age.

Seventh of the elect la Lady major disaster. None the less

to learn it through living de publlenn, said today that the gare is a decided

favourite Mary Ilona Margaret Cam- the Secretary of State has taken

mocratically. At the same committee asked for visas while with people on all levels, her bridge, 29, daughter of the Mar- his stand in so uncompromising

time, the American Military on their European tour.

twinkling humours and inquess and Marchioness of Cam- a manner, that there can be lit-

Government hasn't had enough

seldom bridge and a grand-niece The Russian Foreign Minis- Fratlating personality tle doubt that he has included

applauding Queen Mary. support from the people back try replied: "Inasmuch as the failing to prompt

With Princess From the files of the "China home for the work it has been USSR is not considered a coun- comment. this possibility

Elizabeth, she was bridesmaid in his apprecia-Mail) tion of the situation.

to the Duchess of Evidently CHINESE JUGGLERS AT THE trying to do."

try that could be made the sub- Innocent Mischief

Gloucester, he regards the ebbing of world Patronage of the Public is most res

| VICTORIA THEATRE !!! The Shafer asserted that his jeel of an investigation on the Princess Alexandra of Kent and

graced the Duchess staff had bean constantly re-part of the confidence in the organisation's pectfully solicited to the above enter

vigiling Senators,) is a highly attractive child, Kent's bridal procession, duced and that materials we do not consider their trip to roundish-faced, full of bounce, Elizabeth Lambard, 23, daugh- Finally, there will be Lady effectiveness, which is the direct ftainment, to take place on Saturday books, supplies, paper and be suitable".

whose sense of innocent mla- consequence of Russia's cynical evening next.

other essentials-had never ar- Bridges said: "The requests chief at times outruns her strict tor of the Inte Earl of use of her veto powers, as like-

the rived in sufficient quantities. for visas specifically stated that instruction in the regal manner. and Joan, Countess of cleavage, The doubts and dis-sational prejudices been

ning the war, but in re-educat-speet the operations of the Am- Dlana Bowes-Lyon, twenty-

the Princess Royal for several appointment of the smaller and themselves persuadest to appearing the Germans toward peace- crican Embassy In Moscow." four years old, daughter of the years. The Powers are likely

before an European audience. Shoulful ways we have been sicken. He added that a second request late Hon, Herbert Bowes-Lyon,

announcement which to find ex-this attempt prove successful, the Freingly penny-conscious," Shafer by the American pression in an attack on the ins-prietor of the

Ambassador, second son of the 14th Earl of come from Buckingham Palace, Theatre i confident, anid. titution of the veto itself.

Walter Bedell Smith; was alaqĮ Strathmore, and a niece

left two things open to specula. Mr. that on future occasion a full com Contrary to Marshall takes the view that it pany of Tumblers, Jugglers, &s, ke.. economy, Shafer asserted, the

American rejected--Associated Press.

which Queen Elizabeth. A second niece Lion-the exact order in

the bridesmaids will walk at is not the machinery but the will be induced to visit this Colony Russians in Berlin have spared

for our much greater amusement.

the wedding th Westminster | spirit in which it is worked that

Ilttle in money and materials

Abbey on November 20th, and is at fault. The veto is the con-

in trying to put across their

the colour and design of their stitutional expression of the Just Arrived from Europe, and on

way of life to German youth.

gowns. The Lord Chamberlain's realities of power.

"Still they have made little If so great victoria, for sale: splendid seler, headway because the attitude

specialists in royal etiquette are a Power as the Soviet Union is tion of Alabaster and Agate Oma of the Germans has been so

determining their precedence. determined to resist the findings mental Ink Stands, Paper Holders, anti-Russian," he said. "But,"

The patterns of the dresser will be kept secret, along with of the majority of the United Vases, Jugs, Fountains, Nations, it matters little whether Fruits, Bits, Animals, and Foliage "what's going to happen in the Imitation he shrugged his shoulders,

other details of. Princesa she holds a formal right of vetodern, most beautifully

of all descriptions, Oriental and Mo long run may be another mat-

He won that trick with the A and Elizabeth's gown and travelling immediately tested the greathst dap- costume, for some little time Carved and or not. In selecting Greece as a Inlaid, forming sets

ger in the hand by leading the spade I yet.-Associated Press.. test case Mr. Marshall has prob- anperb and comly specimens of the

Good Job

|Q, prepared to let it go through nbly been influenced by the ex-Fine Arts suitable for the Drawing

One near play seldom employed not covered, East, however, put an Shafer said that the

U.S.except by the very finest players the K and the A won. Next came tensive documentation of the and Cabiner ever linponed.

Army had done a good job consists of tossing a sure losing cand two diamond tops, a lead to the 'club- affair. He might as well have show of these goods; the Rooms next

Mr. Dudell invites the public to the with its widely advertised Geron another sure losing card. By A, the spade J and ruff of the

New York, Sept. 80.. chosen for instance the door to the Auction Mart are open features neighbourhood sports made in any other way, especially East had only black cards left it man Youth Programme-which doing, the declarer te sometimes able spade 3. It was now pretty likely

Planes of the American Over nanifest interference of the Rus-from sunrise to sumACT,

to score one more trick than could

seas Airlines have been ground- sians in the internal, affairs of

and reading clubs but he con- if the defender who wins that particlub I was ruffed in the dummy, and , the contract could be made. The The hours of Divine Service at St. tended that

ed by a strike of pilots which Hungary, for the issue in both John's Church are on Sunday at 11

this programmecular trick is then obliged to make the crucial play tried.

started this morning, accord. cases is the same. It is the am, and past 5 pm, and on

was insufficient in itself.

a return which present a gift. Trick

Behncke, South led the spade 4 from dummy, ing to Mr. David "In the place of every young to him. Ordinarily, when you are this puiting on the heart $ and leaving President of the Airline Pilots issue which the British faced in Thursday at A past 6 p.m.

GI in charge of a German play made, it is because the declarer him only the heart and trumps. Association. Athens in 1944: whether or not

Youth Club wo should have a has either a definite or a probable East ure enough had only black The company concerned trained oducator," he said, reading of the outstanding cards up cards, and it made

to then unplayed.

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munist minority shall be perinit-portunity, without resort, perhaps, "Theae, in turn, should be used ted to seize the reins of govern- to more dubious tactics, Thus in training the right kind of ment in a democratic State by the attitude taken up by, Mr. German youth lenders,

To- violent, means. There may be Marshall at Lake Success would day's young_Germans are dis- degrees of violence employed, but appear to be the political council in us, but we haven't been HKQJ94

illusioned. They are interest- the methods in Hungary, do not terpart of his offer of economic dynamic enough in supplying Dr differ in kind from those which aid at Harvard. The two re the desired Information." were, countered by British. arms present a solid and consistent

Shafer said that the four in Greece, There, is every policy which is likely to be ten- occupying countries: here had evidence that we are faced in aciously pursued. Britain has got along well in education ex- Europe with a conected Com already made its position plain. cept on the mafor ground- murtist attempt to exploit to No effort will be spared to seek ideological. He said that the their advantage the economic and a compromise whereby Russian Allies agreed on school lunches (Dealer: political confusion of the Con co-operation, both in European for the children, materials for South

nerable) tinent. Under the shadow of economic reconstruction and in rebuilding schools and such ID things. But when ideology D Russian arms this campaign is the fabrication of an effective pursued in contempt of demo world security system, can be ob- of the West against the Rus- 61 was involved there was a spilt D Sintic procedure. Further west tained. None the less no com alane, with the result that his

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Pilots' Strike

no difference operates a North Atlantic which he returned, as both North and route to Shannon, London and South were now vold of black tards. various European points. Bast picked a club, whereupon South

discarded his last heart and ruffed Mr. Bahncke aafd that the in the dummy, which left him noth-strike had been voted owing to ing in his own hand except good the company's "strong arm"

tactics. In the negotiations for trump".

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Washington, Oct. L "Present predictions here are that the Wedemeyer report will not be published, " an authorl- tative source said today..

The report to President Harry Truman with his Andlags and recommendations regard ing Chian and Korea is a close secret. - So far it has reached

it follows a more:: circumspect | promise, can be accepted which tory, for instance, can't yet be the dummy. West's lead of the heart (Dealers Bouth, Neither side vul only the White House and the

mic collapse might furnish the ciples of freedom that the Char cause the Western Powers won't winners in that suit for the defence: Communists of Italy' and France ter of the United Nations binds agree to a Marxist version. with a favourable political opus to defend

Associated Press

Why would one more little haner la Bouth hand be doubly important

But the declarer found way to pull {through muccessfully,

for: No Trump play?

partment Neither has been highest level of the State De- willing to comment Assoc!--

ted Presa.