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THE MILWAUKEE ROAD

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1933.

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MARYSE HILSZ EXPORT OF LATEX

FRENCH GOVERNMENT TO PROMOTE FLYING

EXPLOITS

STORAGE TANKS AT SIN GAPORE WHARF

MODERN RED INDIANS

OLD TIME VILLAGES: NEW WAYS

Singapore, Aug 14, The increasing export of rubber ParisThe French Ministry of in latex form has led to the erec Air, deciding that there is sky tion of plant for the shipment of appeal" to a successful woman latex in bulk for Dunlop Planta dier, looked around for a rival totions (Malacca), Ltd, on the pre-dian villages of topees similar to Amy Johnson Mollison and Ame lia Earhart Putnam and has de- rided to promote Maryse Hilaz bachelor-girl brunette of 90, as the French ambassador of the planes.

mises of the Singapore Harbour Board.

As in the case of the palm oil bulk shipinent system recently com- air-pleted at Tanjong Pagar, the Har. bour Board will erect the plant. The storage tanks are already be ing made in the workshops. Messrs Ritchie and Bissett are the consulting engineers.

On her first fight as a national! institution, Maryse will be sent off to Tokyo again, probably within three months piloting a man's size The installation will be carried hiplane, a Breguet which has al-out on the main wharf and will ready made glory in African and enable shipment to be made into French skies

vessels berthed either in the Em pire Dock or on the other side of the wharf.

Wenatchee, Wash.--The Colville Indian reservation north, of hers will soon be dotted with tiny In- the ones found in the North-west when white men first came into these parts. The reappearance of these clusters of tepees is a part of the conservation corps unemploy ment relief programms planned especially for the Indians on reservation,

the

Authorities are encouraging the natives enlisted in the corps to set up typical Indian village, exactly the same as in the earlier days, Entire families will be assembled at the camp sites with the family heads and will be allowed to live. in the native manner.

The colour and tenor of the In-

vast

Mlle. Hils only recently return ed from a fast trip to Tokyo but

It will have a capacity of 130 she is to be sent off there again, regardless. She will change her tons at the beginning, with ample diam villages on the reservation to- route and instead of taking the room for extension" in the future day nevertheless shows, a round-about way through Indo-if required." The tanks will be divergence from that of foriner China she will skip straight across located undergound and the latex days. The present village finds the Russia and Siberia.

brought from certain of the Dun-} "warriors" earning the family liv- lop estates by rail will flow from ing by work in the forest and un Her plane will be the same the wagons into the tanks by the range, which is quite different Breguet which Codes and Robida gravity.

from the days when the braves of flew when they went from Paris When sufficient latex for any the village spent their time hua- to Hanoi in 3 days, 4 hours.particular shipment has been colting and fishing while the squaw's Majo Tavera used the same lected the latex will be blown up worked. biplane in carrying the first air by a compressed air plant to an Road and trail building, cutting mail across the Sahara. With the saine Breguet, "Lieut. Colonel Bonsent won the Bibesco Cup.. It has a single 50 b.p. motor.

A Government Plane.

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The plane is the property of the French government and its loan 10 the girl flier not only consecrates her skill as a good pilot but shows that the government has taken her under its wing. Costes has been asked to coach her in flying the heavy plane, for she has flown only |light-weight tourist planes hither.

to.

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Maryse is a very woman who cooks her own meals in an attiù flat in Paris She collects jade and other treasures of the Orient. She learned to fly in 1928 under Max Knipping and her pilot's license dates to January 1,

1929.

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overhead pipe line. This will cross the wharf from one side to the other and will be about 600 feet in length and 20 feet above the ground. At each end of the pipe line. flexible hoses will be fastened which will connect with ships' tanks."

It is expected that the first ship. ment will be made towards the end of the year. Up to now latex has always been shipped in steel drums and it is stated that this new method will do much to cheapen the cost of transport from the estales to manufacturers in Europe and America.

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Mlle. Hisz has had some un- usual experiences since. She won the women's altitude record by fly- ing 9,791 metres above. Villacoub lay. She flow from Paris to Sai- gon across the deserts of Arabia and Persia, the forests of India

The Lancet contains ah. -import: and Siam and through the high ant announcement regarding a winds of the Indian Ocean. On a fight to Madagascar she dropped into the Sahara with empty gas tanks and nearly died of thirst be- for Vicomte de Sibour found her.

BILLBOARDS IN CANADA

ONTARIO REMOVES 10,000 POSTERS FROM HIGHWAYS

of fire lanes, construction of tele- phone systems and similar forestry work is on the modern warrior's" daily programme, for which he is paid 81.50 a day, with an addi- tional allowance of 60 cents if the family is furnishing its own food and lodging. No

will be allowed to earn more than $30 a month, and since in some families, as many as three men will be em ployed, the revenue for these fami lies will be more than could be earned doing day labour for white property owners.

man

The allotment

for the Colville reservation is '400 men, who may be off the reserva- tion as well as from those residing upon it.

FIREARMS IN CANADA

REVOLVER REGULATIONS TIGHTENED UP

Ottawa, Canada.-A law enacted new radium, bomb which is to be at the recent session of Parliament, established for the massive radia and now become effective, makes it tion treatment of cancer. It will more difficult for a resident of be remembered that last year on Canada legally to possess a pistol siderable controversy arose over or revolver. stiffens the penalty

the decision of the British Radium for illegal possession of such a Commission to disassemble the weapon, and so is expected to have large single unit of radium under an important effect in the unend- ils care, especially when thing war on crime. technical commitice appointed to In the past revolvers might be consider the matter strongly urged carried by private citizens who that a 5-gramme bomb was essen held permits issued by police

Permits authorities. tial and prefectly safe.

supposedly It is announced that a body has were issued only for the protection now been formed to be known as of life and property, but there was the. "Radium Bean Therapy no uniformity about the inter- Research," with Sir Gowland Hop pretation of circumstances which kins, F.RS. as Chairman and might justify their issuance. The Lord Dawson and Sir Holburt number of permits in most cities Waring as Vice-Chairman. Four never was large and Ottawa, for other. governors represent import instance, with 125,000 people, had ant Scientific bodies, and the no more than a dozen or so-held Union Minière du Haut in the main by bank messengers. Katanga has agreed to long 5 Further to tighten the regula Toronto, Canada. - Energetic steps are being taken by provinces rammes of radium clement and tions, however, and to make it still Tater, if necessary, a further 5 more difficult for revolvers to fall and municipalities throughout grammes on terms similar to those into possession of desperate charac Ganada, and more particularly in given to the Radium Institute inters, Parliament has enacted that Ontario and Quebec, to eliminate Paris This means that no charge for the future permits to carry objectionable advertising signs from the highways and rigidly to will be made for the radium other revolvers will be issued only by control the erection of signe in the than that necessary to secure its the Royal Canadian Mounted Po

safe conduct and maintenance,

lice and by provincial police future. In Ontario more than The new "bomb" will be housed authorities. Magistrates and 10,000 signs have been removed

at the Radium Institute in Riding municipal police are denied fur- in the past three years, and in House-street, London, where treat-ther rights in the matter. Fur Quebec a new law orders removal by ment will be carried out. A com-thermore all permits in existence December 1, 1934, of all posters mittee has been appointed to co were automatically cancelled as erected before the present regula-ordiante the clinical, physical, and from July 16, and their holders tions came into effect. This inter- val is given for the expiration of experimental research which will must prove their claims anew be

be carried out with the new fore a broader tribunal, "bomb."

billboard contracts.

Any person found in possession The principle actuating this new In view of the results obtained campaign is that public property at the Westminster Hospital, re of a revolver for which he has no must not be exploited for private ferred to recently in connectionegal license is liable to five years advantage; and that private pro- with the report of the British Em-in the penitentiary. It is thought of perty rights do not include the pire Cancer Campaign, the decistern enforcement of this law will

law-breakers. right to put up a sign which blots aion to start the massive radiation act as a deterrent to the run- yout a fine bit of scenery or ea- treatment again is highly satisfac

dangers traffic at a railroad cros- tory. sing, road intersection or sharp

turn

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shoulder and substituting for the "Man-made static," the technical ploys the Rejectorstat, a unit scenery behind them admonitions name for those electrical interfer-which, used in conjunction with a concerning soap and motor cars. ences which spoil radio reception shielded lead-in, either completely Signs must be from 100 to 300 feet for so many listeners, has cost the eliminates all electrical interfer- from the highway, according to Postmaster General

thanences or considerably reduces them their size, and the largest permit £135,000 during the past five years, Mr. Wilding Cole demonstrated ted are 25 by 50 feet. To persons and X51,000. for the present year this to me to day in a West End who carry on business in premises alone. This expenditure may be hotel. There were electric lifts fronting on the highway one sign made unnecessary by a device working, neon signs within ten is permitted, of limited size, to be which a British radio engineer has yards, violet ray outfits and other erected on private property.

just perfected.

electric appliances in full blast. Mr Wilding Cole, the managing With the Rejectorstatic system at Ontario's road system is known by legislative act as The King's director of Holster Brandes, was work the reception from the load- Highway," and in the matter of in America a few months ago and speaker was amazingly purified of billboards the provincial Depart noticed how the Americans were all the crackles and crashes that ment of Highways has jurisdiction fighting this evil. The problem expected. The device only costs over á quarter-mile strip on either out there is a so difficult to solve a few shillings it may save the (Continued at fast of next colay Postmaster general £50,000 a year.

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