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Greenland To Get Its. First Gaol
Godthanb.
Greenland will NOON have its first prisen, officials announced re- cently.
The prison will have a capacity of 10, with n part-time gaoler. During the day, the prisoners will work in the ndjacent waURU- torium. At night, the sanatorium official on duty will be the gaoler.
BEFORE THEY WERE
BILLETED
officials
FROW
have had to furt eriminals over to the custody
private
of
Tumllies, but with
civilisation gradually moving
SKOJOW
fee wastes this is
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER
News Stories From All
Parts Of The World
Scientists Toll The From Liverpool: Ocean Liners Winter
From Washington: Life Story Of An
Averago Thunder-
storm.
From Godthaab: Greenland Gets its
First Prison.
Dock For A Overhaul.
From Nova Scotia: Two Chairs Made
A Residant has
Of Wood Salvaged From Shipwrecks.
Husbands Get
A Brainwave:
-A School For Wives!
Winnipeg. Wives in this city had a new school all their own to- day, and although no one said so it looked as if the whole idea had been devised by a group of tired but in-
The Energy Of 50 Atom Bombs In Each One!ired husbands.
THIS IS A THUNDERSTORM
Science
Washington, is stalking the thunderstorma which All summer skies with juggedį tight and rolling sound. For ten years, United States,
air, navy
weather i
arci
drops grow heavy enough to overcome the updraft!
and fall. They drag cool!
A night school class absolutely guaranteed to teach the to woman of the house how to weather-strip the windows, rg- pair a leaking hot-water tank Install kitchen cabinet-locks and dee hundred things she'd prob- ably never dreamed of doing.
The curricula
trait- Included Ing in how to cut glass, glaze window, repa a garden hose, nitrogen and oxygen in clean a clogged drain-pipe, mix the air into priceless fer-and tint paint, install tiling, re- pair electrical equipment end, tiliser for the soil. Rain
of wonder wonders, replace washes it down. At burned-out fuses, estimated 100,000,000 Do It Yourself tons of usable plant food is thus produced each year, far
combines and sends out sharp sound; In addition, it waves-thunder.
air with them, the old How this crackling dynamo gust which blows out from the skirts of the storm.
scientists have studied Rain pours down-110,000 |
tons of it, across eight these storms-often from
miles
the square ipside out.
average storm.
Now
the
no
longer practical. Greenland has an area of 827,300 Square miles but popula-
tion of only about 21.000
people-
United Press.
TRANSPORT COMPANY
COMPLAINS
APARTHEID IS
EXPENSIVE
Johannesburg,
the United Nations' World Meteorological Or- ganisation is completing a map showing where the
11
One In Nine
#arth's thunderstorms. But only one in nine poten- 44.000 a day, crash down continent but
every Antarctica.
An average thunderstorin
released 50 times the energy of the first atomic bomb.
Yet it begins ax
a column of gently rising air, warm, moist, walled by a chimney of cooler air. topped by a cottony. cumulus cloud.
Gains Power
Apartheid (racial segregation) This thunderstorm "cell" of:
CONS
£500,000 a year on bus
and tram routes in Johannesburg. Mr E. F. Gail, General Man- of Johannesburg transport, at the Institute of Traße Offers conference.
seid hav
Mr Gull said: "If Johannes- burg had no apartheid we could reduce fares and give betler
SERVIVU
"In Cape Town you carry all vehicle In
In
Johannesburg 95 per cent of the vehicles carry Europeans only and five per cent Corry Europeans
Special.
rising warmth,
ditions are just
chim- before
tial raindropa actually reaches the ground. Most evaporate. Others may be Hung back up the ney to freeze falling again. Repeated drips up and down can build hailstones bigger than cricket balls. Vertical currents inside the
thunderstorm
often strong enough to rip an aircraft apart, tossing it; thousands of feet in
are
IL
minute. The, greatest violence Occurs from 15,000 to 25,000 feet in the air.
elec- the
if com-i
right, gains power as it lifts,
and Massive charges of The air
expands coola.
tricity form inside It begins wringing
thundercloud. Air in- of water out ity lond
sulates, but only until the vapour. Droplets form and
heavier. The cloud! tension grows too great. grow
trail Then an Invisible bolls higher and darker.
opens from cloud to cloud A "cumulus gone wild" becomes, thunderhead. or to the earth, and back up that trail a gigantic power flows, Air blazes into fiery lightning
jolt of non-ice crystals cup the cloud,|
{f in its centre water
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"Mother's picture! You fell off that bench on purpose!"
THEIR HOUSE IS
SHAPED
LIKE A PUMPKIN
Aurora.
Mr and Mrs Albert Ford live in a house shaped like a pumpkin.
The walls are made of coal.
Some
of the ceilings are of Navy surplus rope. And thera are g trees growing inside.
Mr Ford is 206 company
wife, executive. His
Ruth Van Sicicie Ford, is director of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and a water colour painter.
Their architect was Bruce Goff,
The new class was the most recent addition to the school evening-class district's annual
Called "Do programme. Yourself," it even included subject that wos bound to the poorer
come in handy for
scholars in attendance.
It
A
It was entitled: "When 10
call a service man."
Ometalo cxpressed pleasure
Wilh
the way
tho in which
now class was being received. They said they expected ever-widening stream of hus- bands, all of them ready and happy
$4
with the to part necessary lo register their wives.-United, Press,
Her Chairs Are Made From
The Graveyard Of The Sea
Shag Harbour.
Two wooden chairs in the home of Mrs Gilbert Nicker- gon in this tiny fishing vil lage on the south shore of, Nova Scotia are probably the strangest in Canada,
They were made by her hus band out of wood salvaged from windjammera or iron-hulled ships-23 in all-wrocked along the treacherous Atlantic coast
sinco 1797.
The oldest pleco is from the Did American warship Consti- tution, which was built in 1797,
A carved lead on the leg of one chair comes from the hulk of the Loss of England, which sank during a howling wor'wester of Cape Sable faland in 1817. For 100 years she lay in her watery grave but in 1017 hervy surf washed the rempants ashore.
A
The back of the other chair contes from an old mahogany couois ce the schwoner Bun sartan, which went dower with all hands during a wlid Novem- ber gate in 1880. The wreck was carried ashore.
Mrs Nickerson admits she is sometimes awed by the thought of the human tragedy that went Into the making of her two choirs.
I call them my continuca putside The circle
two old the glass partition and forms wrecks," the Boys. "But I'm I patio.
really proud of them," United Pross.
Two bedrooms and two baths are attached to the pumpkin in semi-spherical
thers in also a two-car attached23 Ocean Liners
Carport.
Crowds Gaped
ing a contractor willing to bijild the house. One refused because he said it would collapse.
who feels that most hours are The Fords had a hard time find- "boxes with little holes." Mr Goff profers circular houses.
circle la He says the
informal, gathering-around, triendly form
Three Lovels ·
an
the
Mr Goff used large girders,
painted bright rod,,as structural members of the "pumpkin." Some of these are Exposed, and curve down into the living area near the front
door,
The pumpicin is a three-lovel striicture containing the curved living room on the ground lovel and a kitchen and dining area in a circular pit four steps down in the centre of the house.
Above the pit a maticer-Like
Building took a year and a half, There were delays because nobody know how to fit the ploces together.
The bricklayers had a hard time Phylog the pieces of cannel coal. In come spots they used shapeless maasto
of groen glass, the natural refuge from a gloss factory.
To Get Winter Overhaul
Liverpoo}.
Many of the poten which have parring thousands of passengers sorom, the Allan- to during the summer! pertly be laid up for a rest in
Nime out of 23 trans-Alla
liners due for Winter the overhaul will be laid, up i Liverpool,
First to go in for a check-up- Canadian Pacine wil be the
of Flimpress November 25. Othe
To carry out the motif, ille suide The Camera, Britannic green marbles were stuck in and the la Furmese Withy Enerw the white morlar between the | Nove
A pieces of goal
Janda
The "house" attracted such jorgen
crowds that the Fords Ghally put up a sign in front of the house; It said We don't lile your house alther,” sa
studio is suspended cantilever Still Gape
style from a content coné, the
point of which sticks UP The Fords have lived there divo through the dome of the house The studio le enclosed by a
yours now, but people stilÏ' come and tape,
c
drapery of abower curtain material and ROMA fish not. "Sunday" Balernoonst get pretty Steps to the studio are diabolically said: Mrs. Word...i mounted on two kide beams Not long so we fert the
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