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MOTORING UP A → GIANT TOWER .

1,600ft. Climb in Three- and-a-half Miles"

NEW PARIS THRILL FOR TOURISTS

Paria-Visitors to the Paris Ex- hibition of 1837 will be able to driven in their own cars up a hill 1,640ft. high and 3 miles long, if the plans of M. Freyssinet, the French engineer, reach

famous fruition.

This hill-a spiral track-will climb to the first platform of the great concrete tower which, M. Freyssinet proposes to build for the forthcoming exhibition.

GOLD RUSH IN NEVADA

Railway Purchased by Mr. Ogden Mills.

VALUABLE DISCOVERY IN

·OLD MINING AREA

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1933.

G.$500,000,000

!

FREE GIFT"

ALLEVIATING UNEMPLOY.

MENT IN AMERICA

Washington, May 9.-While the first contingents of the Administra- tion's labour forces were moving into the flood control and re-foresta tion areas, Congress adopted and Carson City, Nev., May 8-Coin-ant to the President, authorisation cident with the greatest gold rush for the Government to make a free the Sierras have witnessed in two gift of G.8500,000,000 to the several decades, papers were signed here states for unemployment relief. to-day making Mr. Ogden Mills, former Secretary of the Treasury, the owner of the Virginia-Truckee Railway. The railroad will be re- habilitated and will haul ore from new developments in the Comstock lode to the smelters.

The

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS | OLD SHANGHAI RESIDENT

PROGRAMME

BROADCAST BY Z.B.W, ON 355 METRES

PASSES AWAY

LATE MR. CHARLES J. HIRON

Members of the Royal Air Force Association, of which he was a 11-11.30 am-Stock and exchange very active member, and many quotations (local), selected Lon- other friends in Shanghai will learn don and New York' stock quo-with regret of the death in Switzer- tations, weather report, ete. land of Mr, Charles J. Hiron, of 11.30 a.m.-Chinese recorded pro- the Sun Insurance Office, Ltd.

gramme,

Viotor, and Brunswick records 12.30 p.in.-European programme of 1 p.m.-Local time and weather re

The late Mr. Hiton was invalid-

stoutly fought a lingering illness ed home from China in 1930 and which, it was thought, he had over- come but a relapse set in and he passed away in Switzerland.

port. President will sign the

Mr. Hiron arrived in China in measure at once, it was said, be-1.30 p.m.-Rugby Press news, etc.

A relay of the Rotary Club 1921 from the head office of the Sun cause it was part of his general

Tiffin Speech from the Glou-Insurance Office, joining the Shang- Iabour relief programme sent to

cester Restaurant-Rotarian D. hai branch as insurance assistant. Congress.

M. Mayard on "An. Amateur He was a member of the Shanghai Club and from almost the day of Dude Wrangler."

his arrival was a member of the 2 p.m. (approx.)-Close down. Studio Recital To-night and Relayith the R.A.F. during the war. R.A.F Association, having served from Daventry. 4.5

p.m.-Chinese recorded pro- gramme.

Under the new act, the. Recon- struction Finance Corporation may The purchase of the railroad by give large amounts to states for Ascending cars will travel under Mr. Mills to-day revealed the true worth-while projects that will in- employment. The states, purpose of the vacation that he cresse their own power, but for the des and the ex-President, Mr. Herbert however, must satisfy the Corpura- sent it is proposed to attach them Hoover, enjoyed here early in tion that the money will be judi- Most of the to a kind of monorail apparatus, April. At that time, Mr. Hooverciously expended. in order to obviate any risk cau and Mr. Mills rode over the rail amount is expected to go into road by failure of the vehicle's own way in a cab which was first used building, flood control and similar brakes. All the driver will have to

on the line in 1809. The visit was projects. It is the wish of the do will be to guide his car round then supposed to be mostly a mat President that the money should be the curves, its speed being controler of sentiment for Mr. Mills spent on construction that requires led at a uniform rate by the

grandfather, Mr. Darius Mills, as only a little outlay for equipment monorail apparatus.

of hand to At the extreme top of the tower, the road had passed from the con- and where the ratio

machine labour is high. 2,300 ft. high, will be a cabin fortrol of the Mills "family.

The name of Mr. Hoover does not making meteorological observa-

appear in the papers filed here to tions and a huge beacon, the light day. He was, however, one of the of which, it is said, will be visible from the ground at Calais andning engineers engaged on the

Comstock properties. in 1895, from an aeroplane in England.

Huge Pendulum.

Discovery Kept Secret.

At the time the two statesmen The great height of the tower were here, the discovery of a new would lend itself to a number of gold and silver bonanza with veins interesting scientific experiments. assaying $300 a ton was being kept For example, apart from the oh-secret by Mr. Oscar Lewis, former vious uses for wireless purposes, it superintendent of Virginia Con; Mine, which yielded would be possible to suspend in the solidated interior of the tower. elcltered 8173,000,000 in earlier mining days.. from the wind, a pendulum 1,635ft. Mr. Hoover and Mr, Mills had in length. This would be of value just left Virginia City when the in determining with the greatest news of the new bonanza leaked out. accuracy the force of gravity and Miners off shift, desert rat " the density of the surth, and would prospectors, divorce-seekers from

like the pendulum familiar to the Reno colony, and San Francisco. visitors to the London Science mining men flocked up the crooked Museum-clearly demonstrate the streets and crowded around a hill- daily rotation of the earth on ita, side lot on which a weather-beaten- axis.

house is in the process of being

It is proposed to build the tower wrecked. This is one of hundreds op Mount Valérien, on the south.of small houses that once stood western outskirts of Paris. This shoulder to shoulder, on the slopes is itself over 500ft. high, and the of Mt. Davidson, top of the tower would thus over 2,800ft. above Paris. This site is accessible by rail, road, and river, and is only a few miles from the centre of the city.

be

had

who Unemployed miners, turned house wreckers for a day's wages, discovered first signs of the new bonanza deposit as they were wrecking a shed for fire wood. In If the project is adopted it to the rock foundation of this build reckoned that it will take a yearing, ore, rich in silver and gold, to perfect the plans and about two was found. They took samples of build the tower. The the ore to Mr. Lewis, who had the architects and engineers who are specimens assayed and sent the involved with M. Freyssinet in the miners back for more. New samples scheme are MM. J. Pers. J. confirmed the first assays. Hugues, and A. Venzo.

years to

BRITISHERS' ABROAD

Out of some 14,000 vehicles on the road in Ceylon at the end of 1932, 5,416 were British, and of these nearly 2,000 were Austins.

Owner Glad to Sell.

The men

5-6

0-7

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p.m.-A relay of the Band of the 1st Battn. South Wales Bordorers, conducted by Band inastor J. L. Gecks, from the Military Hospital, Bowen Road, by kind permission of the Officer Commanding

p.m.-Chinese recorded pro- grandme.

10.30 p.m.-European programme. 7 p.m.-Local closing stock quota.

tions, etc.

The recruited Federal labour forun is already, moving into the forests and to the river districts after having been trained at re- gular military camps. were placed in charge of military7.3-7.30

fficers but were not compelled to: take actual military instruction. They were merely taught the rudi ments of drill so they can be moved from one labour point to anoth and assigned to their tasks with a semblance of order.

Before June 15, the President hopes to have more than 200,000 men working in the timber and i food areas. United Press.

KENYA GOLD PROBLEM SETTLED

p.m.-..

A Concert. Piano Solo Invitation to the Waltz" (Weber)-Alfred Cortet, -1201.

For some time he was honorary secretary of the Association in the early days and, his indefatigable. efforts helped in building up the Association to what it is today. He was alen a keen volunteer, being member of "A" Company.

FREEDOM OF THE SEAS

ROOSEVELT TO REVERSE

AMERICAN POLICY. Washington Inquiries made. among members of the Senate dis aloss the fact that Congress was aurprised to discover that Presi dent Roosevelt is anticipating the inclusion of the United States in a consultative pact and the relin- Song" Fiddle and I (Weather-freedom of the seas. It is thought, quishment of the neutrality and ly-Goodeye).

however, that, failing this, Presl Song" Angel's Serenade" (Mident Roosevelt will put forward lard-Brago)-Hulda Lashanaka such arguments, which bear direct (Soprano).-1548.

ly upon the United States, likely 'Cello Solo Intermezzo" (Vito rouse the support of the Senate,

valdi).

whereas the Chamber of Representa-

'Cella Solo Serenata Napole- tives will not doubt support any tana (Sgambati)-Pablo Casals. proposals which the President may ---1549. Song- Confesion"

Amaderi).

make.

(Discepolo-

Song "Napule" (Schipa-Hinton)

Tite Schipa (Tenor),-1533, .

p.m.-

From the Studio.

A Violin and Pianoforte Recital by Miss Anne Henderson and Professor S. Makiezoff...

LONDON, May 1. The question raised by the ex-7.30.8 ploitation of Kenya goldfields bas been satisfactorily settled by the British Colonial Office which ang nounced this morning the decree was promulgated by the Kenya Government dividing the goldfields 8 p.m.-Local time and weather re-

Two of these into five districts.

port, regions will be open to all pros. 8,3-9 p.m.- pectors, while three others will be subjected to special regulations, and licences will be granted prospectors only after due consi- deration is given to those having optional rights.

to

Then Mr. Lewis' bought the old; htise and lot for $150. The owner, cut tunnel under the house pierced an unemployed miner, was glad to a vain twelve feet wide with a core s. He hnd never thought to approximately a foot wide of al examine the quartz rock in his most free gold and silver. front yard..

The influx of miners and fortune Examination of the house's collar seekere resulted in the opening of and trenches dug in the yard dis-other veins though they were not as closed rich deposits of ore. A cross-productive.-United Press.

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alarm

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DARING ART ROBBERY

NEW YORK, May 2. "An international broadcast to-day by the police con- cerning a daring week-end theft which occurred in the Brooklyn Art Museum.

Ten paintings valued at a totai of G.835,000 were bolen, These included 'master-pieces by Van Dyk, Lawrence, Cranach, Ruebens, Rom ney, Fra Angelics and others..

THE END OF THE SOVIETS FORECAST BY THE GRAND DUKE CYRIL

PARIS, May 2. The Grand Duke Cyril, head of the Russian Imperial House, issued

manifesto to the 'Russian people on the occasion of May Day. The manifesto denounces the fifteen years of Communist rule of the Third International in Russia and states that all Russians in the Humorous Song "I'm a SpeciaU.S.S.R. as well as abroad are

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Orchestral, Buffoon "Victor

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Humorous Song-" Taught

me

How to Play the Second Fiddle.

--Frank Crumit. -22850.

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