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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1955.

Interesting News Stories From

A recent New York picture of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor,—Reuterphoto.

SPOTLIGHT ON THE WINDSORS

Say

The Servants Still Your Royal Highness

New York.

Anost 36 years ago a golden-haired young man received a riotous welcome on his arrival in New York as the world's most popular prince on his first visit to the United States.

Tabay th Duke Windror that youthfat Prince of Wale whic

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As New York knew him

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where shy grin, demorrate ways a high spirit; made him publ.e favourite.

Today people rarely stare ns he walks past,

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Luter this month they leave for Florida where the Duke will shoot ducks a resume ha Javourite sport--golf. He is an excellent golfer, though he ad- turn mits that the spacious gardens of their now French country home are taking Ume away from his golf game.

The Duchess of Windsor fre- quently goes shopping, but en her most unregal shopping list there have been some surprisiPR

day

she resently wi fed jule the howewure ser of a lorge Muunason

de partment store. She was looking for an ironing board to take bock to France,

Rented

To Visitors

The most romante couple of

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In that home, at last, he has gathered his souvenirs from his former life as heir to the British thrure. There are shelves filled with

addresses of welcome given to him as Prince of Wales, furnishings from Fort Belvedere,

home in England, and roffee table made from a drum of the Welsh Guards.

his

"We are both terrife collectors

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the century live flow like private ; by enture," the Duchess wrote

Lizen They arrived in New recently.-United Press. York last month and moved back

the 29th for suite in the Waldorf towers which they ex- Tupy cacti year when they

Their personal paintings were hang ou the wall, and a few ule.es of

their own

furniture were placed among the howi Tuhings. In between their annual visits the suite is rented

Ts, often including such |

as the King audi

tenants

Dust Disaster

Threatens

U.S. Wheatlands

Washington.

Paris

waria

THE VALUABLES GO DOWN INTO .

America's New Underground A-Bomb-proof Warehouse

New York.

The trial use of an Atom bomb-proof warehouse deep in an old iron mine has proved so successful that the vault door will be thrown open in a

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few days to anyone in the nation who wants to preserve his belongings for Walt Disney's TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS posterity,

The Railway Express Agency, acting 23 shipper for Iron Mountain Storage Corporation said it would beglur delivering valuables right to the ecment- enclosed mine entrunee 16 soon as rates and rental fees wore revised. Up to now, the service hus

been available

wily to a few communities, The bomb-pITOE, weather-propt warelinuje, deveelbed as the "safest plnet in the world," t In an 800-foot deep mine in The Berkshire Mountains hear Hudson, New York, 120 miles North of New York City. The mines network of tunnels

is hirided by a

D. C. weman who fears ane might lose every stitch tay nh air raid.

re

She visits her A-Bomb-proof

to boudoir periodically plenish the moth ball supply. Also stored in the cavern is

complete art gallery owned by famcus collector and coples of

formulac the

arki patents of a large drug proECITI.

Cost: $1 Million

uf the size Small containers,

bank

box t safety depo have been rented for storage)

tree. of finely of records great grandfather's civil wor Jewellry, and family heirlooms,

reconi, 100-foot think bianket of radiation-repelling

magnetle iron ore, a 28-tom vault door bigger than the one protecting the na golit hoard at Port Knox, Kentucky. ivandi-the-gluck star

of armed guards

Duplicate Offices

Anything that will

it through the dove can be stored on the warehouse. The door is eight feet in illameter,

The tunnels have been filled wit

concrete-lined, air-vmditioned INTER l then, among other things, are a duplicate head- quarters for a large New York Gavertising agency and an en- tire wardrobe of a Washington,

In Search Of

400-Year Old

Relics Under

The Sea

which In

The vaults were constructed at

cost of about $1,000,000 by Herman Kaust, who incl fortune

by growing m085- Trans He bought the mine. for a vast undergrand mush- room bed. But in 1951, he changed his told and decidest 10 turn the cavern til WHOALSC to pralect portant records against the olonie radiation in the event of an uttack on New York.

OUR Handwriting

Has Never Been WORSE!

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Newport, Rhode Island. Are the services of an Egyptologist needed to read your letter.

of the customers So far, most

have been East const busi- nesses, banks and industries, which have stored microfilms uf their vital records and many of their original docu-

nents.

M Ernest Inwood, Director of

business planning for

Raj-

way Express, said a number of Europeans who lost every- thing in World War II. have put documents in stomge in the rumuntun.

*****

Government has several vnuils market 'U.S. Re- stricted," Mr Inwood said. "We haven't the slightest iden what's In them,"United

Press

A NEW WAY TO TRAP POISONERS

Harwell

Chemists at Harwel1, Britain's alom research station, bave perfected a tech- akque to trap the most elusive of all murderers the poisoner They can truce minute particles poison in a human bly by a ysten known

"activation analysis."

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FLS

One chemist, Mr E. N. Jenkins, sakt that it was now рен sible to detect a 10-millionth part of a gramme of arsenic in the human body.

We could trace the presence of arsente in an inch-long human huir and our findings would be absolutely accurate and reliable." Mr Jenkins said he was cer- that the Harwell findings would be acceptable as evidence court of law, and added: we shall be happy to co-operate

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with the poller whenever they

London Expren Service,}

If you're not alone. Calll-nevi us. Krapher John Howard Benson, leader of a bandwriting reform Binghamton, New York, The owner

of a New York movement, sal handwriting has lowest ebb in state aviation

til: corporation will dropped ge underwater next Apri in history. search freiles from one of the "Our handwriting has been ships

Christopher degenerating for hundreds of Columbus salled to America. years the bearded expert said. Edwin A. Link, Chairman f "We are victims of a complica- the Link Avislion Corp., willtion of different theories

sail from Miant. Florida.

Bluntly, our handwriting is search under water off the coast awhil of Haiti for the remains

But Mr Denson said it isn't Columbus's ship, the Santa too late to reform. Maria.

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The Armer king, anni the

The disastrous dust stormis American-born woman for when that des taled Amerten's wheat-early he gave up his throwe 18 years rich 4g, ngarded this trip to the

to

to

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by Ludovico exemplifying

Secret In The Pen And he has translated a 10th

Italian primer, century

th- divers, would make the trip "Opera"

Degli the Arright.

The book was published in a limited edition last year. Now it is being

texi published as book

Duchess, as

Institute in Washington, DC. un American, many friends in New York and

has

NRG

spring, says a warning issued by the United States Department of Agriculture.

Ekes to come back each year to see them,

$1

He is a strong pdvocate of the Chancery Cursive vogel is believed buried | renaissance Tho

writing-n under four uni, a half centuris style of

handsome bul Mr Link Italian style currently sweeping of cural growth, said he hoped, with the aid of English schools. his "magle war," device he perfected himself,

retrieve SCHIK of the reies. Mr Link suld tre and Mrs Link. both expert

April. The expedition plains 20 years ago niny will be undertaken in collabora- Chancery Cursive.

with the Smithsonian United States as a hol day. The rike again this winter and next to

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT Mr Link's ship, known as the The Soll Conservation Ser "Sea Divers", will be outfitted vice say that conditions are with eveni worse in some

to be used in diving than they were in the parched operations. Their arrival is marked by a

1930's when swirling topsolt in He said a close study of the form of vast clouds Hurry of parties. But while ad-

of Columbus's sailings showed he hand is in the pen covered mittedly they are social assets tollowing dust

whole hed reached "Lemonade Refuse an edged pen that will write thin lines withoul any hostesses, the Duke and the communities and forced thou- where the search will be con- thick and Duchess are

far from "pace-sands of families to

migrato

to centrated. He said he believed having to change pressure on it. setters" in

today Manhatten's winter uther parts of America.

"Pens in research had pinpointed the

common use jocial season. They prefer smalt DROUGHT MENACE

vessel's wreckage a few miles have either a stub or sharp parties with people they know. Tha Service belleve that off that spot.

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point." Mr Benson said. "They Certain royal courtesies are care

more soil is in "condition to It will be Mr Link's first ex- have destroyed the art of hand- fully observed, however, even blow than in any year's end pedition of this Icind, although writing" by hostesscy giving small par- on recund Conditions are he has other relics, including Lies. They tell the the Duchess "half again".

as scribus

as Spanish casinon and parts of inhead of time who will be among | twờ yours ago, when Texas, ships, taken from the "brean

the guests and what is planned Oklahoma and Kansas were floor-United Press, to learn Cannery Cursive could for the evening.

Prefer Small Parties

sections ea $100,000 worth of electronic i

serious sufferers from choking

"It was the first handwriting

Mr Benson said.

The secret of this fine Italian You must

primer and it is still the best,"

A Few Hours

Drought is becoming a serious Out Of The Window months.

for

of

He cold a person who wanted

become a 'leitible writer in six hours, and a réformed 'writer n

However, he holds out little hope

the majority scribblers.

The typewriter, the television, general literacy are obliterating handwriting." he said.

He added, waving an edged He rushed to the window, pen, "and now the ball point but long too far out and fell pen. It is hopeleas for

good two stories United Pres,' writing."United Press.

In the case of a reigning | dust storms. monarch tho guest list would have to be submitted for official

пелисе In certain soctions of approval.

Chicago, the country where there have Other guests at the parties been no satisfactory rains A hangover gave Woodrow know they are to arrive on time, almost two years.

Bazzell, 30, a broken ankle. *** so the Duke and Duchess will be Nine hundred and forty-four Bazzoll appeared in court the Lost to arrive. Feminine counties in 18 states have been on a charge of being drink and quests rarely curtsy to

the declared drought disaster areas turkenly felt l Duchess, although they often whero farmers are eligible for address

as Your Royal federal ald. a custom which the

-(London Express Service.) ervants employed by the Wind- sors also obseryč,

Highness,

A Converted Mill

The new home outside Paris, In a converted mil, is their favourite hobby now. The first home the Duke and 1 have owl- ed since we were married," the Duchess wrote:

а recent- magazine article about rebuilding and decorating

country residence, They also lense houso

In Paris.

in

the

"The Duloo is a wonderful gardener he really works at i,” the Duchem has beeny, telling friends proudly since she retur cd to New York.

She still maintains the chic appearance, the youthful vitally 'Hongkong and the animation which fires Protection attracted the Prince. Her choirts,

of Chidren PO Box 1608 most of them bought in France,

are simple. She 'anya'atıq, alyaYE pireters undorata Laksen tu

A Budgerigar With Some Tales To Tell

Durban. If THE,

a ile yellow budgerigar from a pet-shop in Durban, is now living in the boudoir of some Buonos Aires sonorita, he has a story to remember of a kind Dutch captain, his near- death in the force Atlantic and # bowildered swoop over a strange South Ameri-

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can town.

This is Tid's story: A few weeks ago, Captain: B. M. Drukkar, master of the “Duick "Adp, "Tilpanes saw Thin in a Durban pet- Shop and decided to buy

Fearing that. Tjin might entertain ideas of escape into the wide, unfriendly world, he had his wings partly cupped.

Midway

between

Cape

Town and Buenos Aires, Tjić, enjoying a spell out of his cage, was caught by the breeze and swept

pt away from. the chip:

VANISHED

Ho dattered wainly to catch up but vantehod from sights

Sadly Capininis o

gave him up na lost.

Shortly

stlerwards,

ship's engines, broke down. and the 2jpănă dritted

slowly on the sea while en- gineers repaired the fault.

-An, hour and a half later, when the ship was stili drifling without 'power, - a yellow

appeared speck and after a tow a wind-blown and settled on

the

rolling When the engines had been repaired, the ship got under way again. ****

However, Captair Drukkar was not destined

his

pot.

When the ahlo resched Bubnos · Airés, Tilá bleuped. and was don United Fi

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