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Clothes and Fousehold goods gratefully received any Monday or Thursday from 1-30a.m. to 11-80

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Raguze" (Schelling).- Ignace Jan Paderewski,—-0700, - Song- Calm

(Bolum).

the Night

Song "Serenade "" (Exbubset),

-Louise Homer (Contralto).;

6T03.

Violoncello Solo-" Die Meister.

singer-Price Song (Wagner) Wilhelm).

Violoncello Bolo-" Tannhauser ??.

The Evening Star (Wagner). Pablo Casals-0020. Chorus-Eton Boating Bong" (Kaps). Eton College Musica). Society.

Vocal Trio-"When the "Cock

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Money and Markets

AO.FC Avaraga of Shanghai Stocks.

MANESEKTATINI

MEN ONLY RULE quently really -worki wright RAC ABANDONED.

THE FIRST WOMAN

? SHIPWRIGHT.

Women are storming another male stronghold that of the City Companies.

For centuries men only " har been the slogan of the City Guilds, but women are now finding their way in.

4

Miss Carlisle, sister of Viscountess Pirrie, who is president of Messrs. Harland and Wolff, has become the first woman freeman of the Ship- wrights' Company-as distinct froin honorary women freemen

"Yes, I am a shipwright-and proud of it, Miss Carlisle told y Press representatívá.

"Of course, they keep me in my proper place. I am only allowed

attend the social functions, but AB am only a modest old lady that does not worry me.

The women who should really become freeinen of the empany are the women artists who decorate the interiors of shipe and are conse

So Miss Carlity Yoins band of women who in rec have become freemen of T panies. One of them is L trude Crawford, who is su of the Turners Company practical turner. Another freeman da. Mina Dimidale ter of Sir J. Dimsdale.

DAILY

NEXT CHANGE AT THE KING'S ERNST LUBITSCH'S SMASHING PRODUCTION

السبورة

Noncy

Mortal man

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Saman durament de det ame

BARRYMORE

CARROLL

A Paramount. Pictors

Phitos

HOLMES

MARKET COMMENT.

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the

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political issues that are in the fore liavad by the operations of the Joint front naturally are causing a some Reserve Board There is no doubt what reserved sentiment in market. The foreign trade situa- the pressure due to the tangled poli-|

that prices will advance as soon as tion forms another source problem tical situation will give place to that awaits clarißension, Strong business confidence. fluctuation in silver exchange rend- Statistical Record of the A.OF.C.

Trading has been resumed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on April 1, after a two months standstill. The market as measured by the A.OF.C. Average touched thin lowest point for 1931-32 ab Aprilia 4, but indicated a better "tone on the following.day.

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Jan. 30, 1932 23.00

sound basis increasingly difficult. rs the placing of transactions on follows:

The obataele that stood in the way High for 1931/32 Sept. 19, 1931 28.86 of the normal functioning of the low for 1831/32 Apr. 4, 1832 21.33 The uncertainty regarding the local situation is expected to be re-

Apr 5, 1832 21.41

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS SYNTHETIC RUBBER

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11 to 11.30 am-Stock quotations. 11.30 a.m.-Chinese programme. 12.30 p.m.--European programme of Victor and H.M.V. records.

1 p.m.-Local time' and 'weather

"report.

1.30 p.m.-Rugby Press news, mail

notien, etc.

2 p.m.-Close down,

6 to 8 p.m.-European programme

of Victor and H.M. V. records.

8 to 0.20 p.m.-

Children's Concert.

Song When We Were Very Young-The, King's Breakdant" (Fraser-Simpson-Milue). Songs- Now We Are Six

(A) "The Engineer, (b) Wind in the Hill" (Fraser Simpson-Mino)-Mimi Craw. ford (Soprano)-Beer.

AGAIN.

U.S. REPORT.

PRIEST-SCIENTIST'S 26 YEARS' WORK.

IF

tainers immune to destruction from various powerful chemical products, such as sulphuric acid

Discovery in 1906 Father Nieuwland, now professor of chemistry at Notre Dame Univer kity, made an accidental observation while at the Catholic University, in 1863, which he has. followed up ever luce. He found that when acety

The following report is from the lone gas was passed into a solution Washington Star:-

Synthetic rubber at last is a real

of copper and ammonium chloride

a chemical change took place

was formed.

ty. The discoverer of the "basic and a new substance substance from which with all the properties of natural thought to be a gas. For the next a material! This was not identified, but was

rubber has been made is Rev. Dr. fourteen years he experimented with Julius A. Nieuwland, who told the this reaction and found that it was story of his twenty-five years' possible to obtain a much higher search at the house of studies of yield of the new substanes He.. the Holy Cross fathers at the Catho- also found that, along with the gas, lic University.

an oil was produced. From this oil

The gynthetic rubber is obtained other experimenters were able to from acetylene. This is generally produce a substance with many of

DialogueThe Fairy Letter known as a gas-the most brilliant the properties of rubber-bus it did

Box" (Grey).

Dialogue Rupert the Ridien-

lous Rabbit" (Grey)-B. Grey,

P. Swinstead, B. Cleanse and D. Mather--È2830.

Songs-(n) "Halfway Down,”

of the illuminating gases. It is the not retain its elasticity for any

a used in the familiar acetylene length of time.

torches which ant steel. The gas is

During the War work along much

a product of limestone and coke. the same lines was in progress in,

(b) Hoppity" (e) Growing can be made in unlimited quan-Germany, whose rubber supply was Up." (Milne-Fraser Simpson). {tities.

cut off. The German chemists suc-

Songs-(a) "Happiness" (b) But it in a long call from a gas eceded in producing synthetic rub-

(c) To the

which burne with a terrifically hot ber, of a sort. It was very unsatis- Fashion Milue-Fraser-Simp- son) George Baker (Baritone). dame to getting rubber out of rocks.factory. -B2220.

6,20 to 6,45 p.m.-

4

traj-29902.

Varioty

Orchestral Who's Your Little Who-Zia 1" Vietor Arden- Pail Ohman and Their Crches. tra-92893,

ber.

1:

Particles Smaller,

This synthetic rubber has several, Then American chemists turned points of superiority over natural from the oil to the mysterious, gas. rubber. It doesn't deteriorate with It was found that by adding hydro- Orchestral Delishious" Nat contzet with kerosene or gasolene, gen chloride the resulting substance' Shilkret nad the Victor Orches dous ordinary rubber. Contact spontaneously changed in a few

with ozone, the gas generated in Orgán Solo's Wonderful,lectrical discharges, doesn't harmadays into a stiff, jellylike material,

Edward O'Henry--BR

it while it will ruin natural rub- which, after treatment, became synthetic rubber. It was the end of a long search for something which The new material has a very much would make the United States in- Song- The Girl ie You and the hundredths of a

smaller particle, only about six dependent of the rest of the world

millimieron in Boy is Mo."-Melville Gideon diameter. Natural rubber particles in respect to one of the basic com- (Baritone)-B573. "Orchestral Tunes of Not-So-range from one-third of a millimi modities of hadastry and monkes cron to three millimicron is "dia- Long-Ago-1921."- New May mator. A millimicron is

futile further search for native" A thou- fair Orchestra.-B3014. Orchestral Tuses of Not-So-perty renders the new material of obtained.

wandth of a millimeter. This pro-plants from which rubber can bo Long-Ago-1029" - New May extreme value in the coating of armed over his rights in the basic The priest chemist has, fair Orchestra,--B3044.

cloth. The tiny particles gut into. Orchestral How Long Will It all the orevices in the fibre, as well material to a large American cor-

LastLeo Reisman and his as the larger holes incidental to the make possible, Father Nieuwland Orchestra.-22910.4

weaving process. It probably will

poration.

potico, etc.

said, a waterproof silk raincoat The chief dificulty at present, be which can be carried in the hip explained, is that the synthetic pocket like a handkerchief. The rubber is slightly more expensive. only difficulty is that the now mate than natural rubber, which, because Carmen Suite March of thorial is too efficient. It doesn't leave of market conditions, is selling bo-

Smugglers" (Bizet). Carmen Suite Soldiers Chang-ay airholes for the water vapour law production cost. He believes

from the body to escape. that experiments will remove this and heat better than natural rub.

He hopes that the new rubber will stand wear;| difficulty.

her. Once one of its products, such The new material is far more re as a tyre, is worn cut, he said, the golf balls, he said, it probably can be recovered, as ean the plant silient that natural rubber, Used, material is gone for good and never!| will mal 300 to 100 yard drives product. The chemical formule is rather commonplaco, it golf officials extremely complicated and the mole ionised. will allow the game to be so revolu calar weight runs somewhere in the neighbourhood of 70,000 It is nothing is known in which the new impossible to find it exactly because product will dissolve med Rov. Dr. Nieuviand is now taking a vacation from his long effort, which reached its Snal stage about a

Begins to Crow (Purcell)p.m. Stock quotations, mail Three Etonians-B2774,

Piano Solo A la bien Almee" 6.45 to 7.10 p.m.

(Schult).

Piano Solo-Waltz in E Flat".

(Durand). Harold

6508.

BAUDY. --

Song "The Lavender Seller"

(Breville-Smith),

Song- Viensis, City" of" My Dreams" (Sieczynski).-Derek Oldham (Tenor)-B3043.

8 pm-Local time and weather

report.

8.03 to 10.30 p.m.--Chinese Sudio.

concert.

10.30. p.-Rugby mid-day Press :

[HOWA).

10.99. p.m.-Cload down

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Orchestral.

ing the Guard" (Bizot)-Phil delphin Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leopold Stokowski.-6374.

The Gipsy Princess Potpour ri (Kalman)Ferdy Kauf minn and his Orchestra. 12008.

Hiengi"-Overture (Wagner) Philadelphia Symphony Orches. tes under the direction of Leopold Stokowski-0024 Ila ia a plantata, an dan pana a

A Concert. Piano Solo"Nocturne [Continued on previous Columan, j

t

Cost Is Greater,

cried for the first time a hequer Father Nieuwland yesterday des produced by a different process From the samo basic rantorial which will make cellars waterproof, which has greater abrasive resistance than stoel, and which renders metal con- month ago.

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