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MRS. MOODY
Back To Big Tennis
The return of Mrs. Helen Wills Moody, the former Wimbledon and American champion, to Wightman Cup tennis is announced by the United States Lawn Lawn Tennis Association.
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The American team to defend the cup against Great Britain in England this summer will be:
COMEDY AND
BUMPER
TRAGEDY
OF LIFE
CROP OF ACCIDENTS
FREAK
"This is a story of true-life iuridents which beats romance for freaks of fate.
..
All over the world facts are now being collated to show posterity what sort of a year 1937 WAS.
Apparently, it excelled in providing a crop of freakish accidents, and here are some of them gathered from official archives.
First, comes a "plum" from Blyth, Northumberland.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1938.
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INWARD MAILS
From
Per
Due
Mrs. Helen Wills Moody, Miss Alice Marble. Miss Helen Jacobs,
CROW PLAYS LAST TRICK Miss Dorothy Bundy and Mrs.
Full marks for the most original Sarah Palfrey Fabyan, with Miss A mother about to spank her aceldent can be collected by Miss Gracyn Wheeler as reserve lx 'year-old son raised her hand camera-man · Al Ming-alone. of Java and Manila..
Tjinegara The team will leave New York Jover the target. Just before the New York. who tried to take pic- Shanghai and Swatow.
Sinklang... on May 11.
hand came down she remembered tures while attached to a cluster U.S.A., Canada, Japan and Manila This announcement dispels all the old saying. She said it
of 30 hedge-hopping balloons.
Seattle, date, 12th March). Pres. McKinley... doubts about Mrs. Wills Moody's "This hurts me more than it He was blown to an altitude of Shanghai, Anioy, and Swatow Ninghai.... appearance, not only in the Wight-hurts you," she declared. And 12.000 feet and only saved from be- Air Mail by "Imperial Airways man Cup matches on June 10-11. Jud. The hand never reached the jing entirely blown away by a priest. Direct Service"-London date. Imperial but niso at the Wimbledon tourna- target." She had dislocated her Father Mullen, who followed him 30th March. ment just afterwards (writes a shoulder. Home correspondent).
If at 32. she can win Wimble- don, she will, be the first "over 30′′ among women players to do so since the war. only W. T. Tilden has so succeeded among the men.
The chances in the very "for- midable International Held are against Mrs. Wilis Moody but of value 18 the less stressful con-
1com
FATAL PAT
|
1. motor-car popping the Manila balloons one by one with a shot-Amay
eventually down unhurt.
(Vancouver, B.C., 19th March)
At Metz, France, a cow and a Tientsin Crow discovered what an electric Haiphong
Radan contact 15to their cost.
The cow rubbed itself against a. Bangkok and Swatow. metal pylon." At the same mo- Japan
8th
A pril
8th
April
6th April
6th April
Airways Plane Potsdam.. Shirala...
Tth April
7 April
7th April
Emp. of Asia. Chengtu...
7th April
7th April
Canton. Friderun.
7th April
7th April
8th April
*th April
8th April
Canadd provides a grimer ac- Fun. The flying cameraman came Canada, USA., Japan & Shanghai cident.
Douglas Harper 10-year-old boy Dundas County, Ontario, wanted to pat a horse... The tall lashed round his throat, forming la noose. His father found his son's
hody hanging from the horse's tallment a crow alighted on the in- U.S.A. Honolulu, Japan and Manila'
sulator with one claw on the iron). (San Francisco date, 11th Mar. | Pres. Pierce...... support of the insulator and the Japan
ditions of two days of Cup playdead, says Reynolds News.
The next queer
one comes
there can be no doubt whatever.
The odds last year, on paper. From Hungary Anton Kertesz, of to were on the English team but they Syiregyhaza, took some bees could not win This year the odds-udapest by train, conveying them In two milk bottles. The bees plerced
will be on the Americans. Let us hope for a similar upset of paper form.
SMALL UNITS
HOCKEY
Kalyan.... Talthyblus........
Dakar Maru.... Kunishima Maru Hakusan Maru....
other on the wire-so earthing the Japari surrent. Cow and crow fell dead. Japan and Shanghai...
A Budapest, fisherman, Stephen Straits and EUROPE via Nega- Make, was a victim of one of life's patam (Letters and Papers) Lon- bigger tronies. He had threatened!
don date, 10th March ....... suicide because for weeks his Straits and Manila catches had been miserable, but at Air Mall, by "Pan American Air-
ways Direct Service"-San Fran- Pan-American last ran his boat into a shoal of
cisco date. 1st April fish, and landed them by the score.
Airmail by "Imperial
Direct It
Service"-London:
Overjoyed he did not notice that he was overloading his boat. capsized and he was drowned.
the brown
wion рарег which he had capped his bottles and climbed up Anton's trouses legs. so he asked the two women in his compartment to leave. They idid, and he removed his trousers. An express going in the opposite The final of the Army Small direction caused a gust of wind at
SERIES OF DISASTERS Units hockey competition between the very moment when a bee stung
Lindon Utah. US.A., claims the the 3rd. Medium Battery, HK. Anton's thigh. Anton let go, the S.R.A. and H.Q. Wing. 1st, Middle trousers flew into the corridor, most complicated accident. sex Regiment, was played at the wrapped round the neck of the
Howard Harper, a motorist, burst Sookunpoc yesterday and resulted ticket
was im-a front tyre and hit a power Une collector, who In a draw, the teams sharing two mediately set on by stinging bees. pale. The wires short-circulting goals.
Somebody pulled the communlea-caused a fire in the petrol station The game was played at a fast|tion_cord.”
near-by. which exploded. pace throughout, interest being The train pulled up so quickly short-circulted more wires. which sustained to the end. The final the brakes caught fire.
It took caused trouble in the power-house score was a fair indication of the three hours to get the train started. at Lindon, a few miles away.
Finally, the power line pole which run of play.
During that time Anton, still with- out trousers, was visited by two had caused the original) accident burly strangers who announced was discovered and replaced. themselves ins tailors come to measure him or new trousers and slipped a straight-jacket round his shoulders.
OPEN HALF.MILE EVENT
At the annual athletic meeting of the Hong Kong, University to be held on Wednesday. April 13 at the Pavilion. Pokfulam, there half-mile race open to
wil be a the "Colony.
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*This
2nd April Amoy
Japan
Calcutta and Straits. Shanghai Australia and Manila. Straits and Manlla
8th April
8th April
6th April
Kasima Maru.... Victoria.....
9th April
9th April
Airways Plane
8th April
10th April
Thisalak...
10th April
Hakodate Maru..
11th April
Santhia..
12th April
Glengarry.
11th April
Changle....
19th April
Deucalion
19th April
Airways
date. Imperial
Airways Plane
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For..
WEDNESDAY
But one of the repair gang for- got his car was in gear and when he pressed the self-starter to go home, the car backed into the "It took Anton three days at the pole and knocked it down again. Samenu and Wuchow..... local
asylum, to convince
the This shortercult set three houses Amoy, Shanghai and Foochow (via foctors that the seat of the trouble on fire.
Amoy) was not in the brain!
Air Mail for Slan, Länchow and Chengtu, etc., (via Hankow) by the "Eurasia Airways Service " (To further points by surface transport as Services permit). Kongmoon
TWO. MEN AND WOMAN CHARGED
In the southern section of the Leung Po. 35. unemployed, and
Such was 1937!
HUNDRED- PASSENGER
Third Division In the English Ho Mong-sang. 18, office box: AIRPLANES
Football League, Millwall defeated;peared before Mr. R. Edwards at Aldershot today by four goals to the Central Magistracy» yesterday nil-Reuter.
Swatow and Bangkok..
Fort Bayard and Haiphong
(BY AIR MAIL) charged with unlawfu'ly having
The obtained $14,000 from the Over-
Cadman report, on
Civil Airma} for Wuchow, Kwellin. sea Chinese Banking Corporation Aviation, to be Issued soon is like- Kwelyang and Chungking by 'the' Leung Hon-ching, 20, student. Au-Yeung Sau-chan. 16. spinly to recommend that Imperial *C.N.A.C." Airways Service. who was charged with the posses-ster, was charged with receiving Airways should develop glant dying sion of raw oplum was discharged $9,550 krowing the same to be boats, capable of carrying 100
THURSDAY passengers, for the North Atlantic Samshul and Wuchow ....... by Mr. K. M. A. Barnett at the stolen property. Kowloon Magistracy yesterday. Mr. 3. Ng Quinn appeared for route, according to the Evening Kongmoon
Standard. Defendant was represented by Mr. the defendant. F. X D'Almada, jnr.
The hearing was adjourned.
AFFAIRS OF IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES
Considerable Discussion
(BY AIR MAIL)
There is a great deal of discussion Just now about the affairs of Imperial Chemical Industries, says Sir Alexander in the Evening Standard.
Reports have been circulated that the company has suffered that the Investment losses. Everybody should know, of course, combine has a large interest in General Motors of America. It has held those shares for many years, and on the whole I imagine they have proved a good Investment.
Some people say that the shares should have been sold at the top of the boom. Others say the shares should be held as a per- manent Investment.
Any temporary depreciation in (sation centre in London. Manage- a security of this kind is not a ment should be at the site of the matter of great importance. What factory. It may be wise to have investors want to know is whether a small sales office in London, but the combine is continuing to do that should be sufficient.
ative.
It is a magnificent bullding with tation.
may
The recommendation made so that the company shall be
Swatow and · *Tientsin. beManila, Saigon, Bangkok, *Straits. *Batavia, Mauritius, Reunion, Madagascar, Lourenco Marques & South Africa Tientsin
in a position to operate the Atlan- tle service on equal terms with Pan- American Airways.
The two organisations are to operate the route jointly.
FRIDAY
A few months ago the American Samahuf and Wuchow. company asked eight constructors |Shanghai
for designs for aircraft,
a 100-passenger Kongmoon
"
Swatow and *Shanghai...
Per
Date and Tin:-
Wed, 8th
Kongning.
8.15 AM
Tsinan
8.30 AM
Eurasia Plane Fook On........ Kweiyang
Tai Seun Hong.
O.N.A.C. Plane
Tai Ming... Taj Ten.. Szechuen...
Kongro... ...Potsdam....... On Lee.... Kingyuan.
America, & *Europe vis Victoria
G.P.O. & K.P.0.
Reg. Ord.
9.00 AM
9.30 AM
10.00 AK
12.30 PM
1.00 PM
K.P.O. Beg, 8th 5.0 P Ord. wth 5.00 PM
G.P.O. Beg. oth 5. Or 7th 60G AM
Thursday, 7th
THE
BIG AK
10.00 AM 10.30 AM
Boissevain Hermod..
3.30 PM
5:00 PM
Friday, 8th
815 AM
8.30AM
10,00 AM
103) AM
12.30 PM
Parcele Reg. Ord
Noon
1.45 PM
9.30 PM
3.00 PM
It is, to weigh 90 tons; be cap- "Swatow, "Shanghai and Tientsin... Kwalsang.. able of flying 5000 miles non-stop |Japan, Canada, USA, C. and S. with 100 passengers, baggage, mails and freight; cruise at 200 m.p.h... and reach 299 m.p.h. at 2500011.
Pan-Americal Airways intend to organise their part of the joint Manila service by either flying non-stop Air Mail for "E.LML. Airways Bar- between" New York and South- ampton (3600 miles) or by having straits, Ceylon, India, E. & 8. Africa.
vice-due Amsterdam, 19th Apr. Hakusan Maru one stop at Montreal
B.C.-due Victoria B.C., 28th Apr. President and Europe via Biberia......
McKinley..... Bwatow, Amoy and Foochow ........ Seistan...
Emp. of Asia.......
The giant aircraft are expected
Aden. Egypt and Europe via Mar- sellles-due Marseilles, 7th May: Hakusan Maru...
Airmail
Direct
SATURDAY
for
"Imperial Airways Service "due London. Imperial
to be ready not later than 1940,
IMPERIAL AÏEWAYS' FLEET Imperial Airways will have this year a fleet of half-a-dozen special Short Empire-type boats weighing 17th April. under 25 tons. These will be able Air Mail for "Amtralia by Imperial to operate an experimental mali Airways, Service"-dub Darwin, Imperial
13th April.
for the services.
Shanghai
Swatow, Amoy and Foochow (via
Amoy).
3.30 M
G.P.O. & K.P.O. Reg. +30 7 Ord. 5.00 PM G.P.O.K.P.O.
Bes 5.00PM Ord
5.30PM
Saturday, 9th
G.P.O. & KP.O.
8.0 JAN
Airways Plane
Reg. Ord,
9.00 AM
GP.O. & KP.O.
Beg.
8.00 AM
Airways Plane Victoria...
Ord
9.00 AK
9.30 AM
Cremer..
10.30 AM
Hosang...
Noon
Canton.... Kasima Maru....
ZŁO PH
330 PM
and South America and *Europe
San via
Francisco-due Francisco, 4th May
Par.
Ban
Beg,
3.00 PM 4.15 PM
Pres. Pierce
Ord.
1.00 Fi
5.00. FK
Straits and Calcutta..
well. The answer is in the affirm- As things are today many train service between England, Canada coming into London throughout What I would like to see. how the year carry some Chemical off and U.B.A., by calling at Ireland We have entered into a 15-year ever, is the closing down or re-clal in its first-class compartment and Newfoundland for fuel. duction of the immense head coming for some almost unneces-agreement with Fire, Newfound
sary committee meeting or consul-land and Canada to build bases Fort Bayard and Haiphong... office organisation in London, beautiful board-rooms. lots of pri- Shareholders should concentrate There will be little traffic to pick Formosa, Shanghai, and Japan..... vate offices and dining-rooms and on this question at the next an-up at the re-fuelling halte-Foynes Honolulu, U.S.A., Canada, Central an abundance of nickel fittings-nual meeting. They might also | (Ireland) and Botwood (Newfound-
ask how much the combine paye land). : a nickel palace, in fact.
Our time-tables will I imagine it must have cost au transporting its "officials up and | million pounds or more.
down the country.
unfavourably with those of Pan-Hothow, Pachol and Haiphong...... Kanchow....... There are other dangers in a American Airways if the American It has long been my view that large civil service-like head office Company are able to offer.non- many large concerns, such as organisation-it may tend to en-stop services. while we have to Chemicals, have made a mistake courage nepotism which will say make calls at Ireland and New- In building their palatial organi- the vitality of the anest enterprise.foundland.
OFFICIALS' JOURNEYS
compare
*Superscribed Correspondence. Only.
Parcela 11.00 AM Ord.
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