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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1933.

SPARTON AUTOMOBILE RADIO

SPARTON MODEL 40 WITH LAFOY

AUTOMATIC VOLUME

CONTROL

A new Sparton. automobile radio with remote control mount-

This

NOTES OF THE DAY FORTUNE FAVOURS THE

It would be interesting to know exactly how the local quotation of the Hongkong dollar in relation to sterling is nrrived · át. A fow months ago, with spot silver at

BRAVE

Says TREVOR ALLEN

19% in London, the dollar on de-R Industrial - chiefs

ПECENTLY I have talked with) had been a schoolmaster in South

London before the War, and up

nings..

In

mand was quoted at 1s. 3%d. This down the country who have buti France he was badly wounded and morning, when the price of apotuig businesses from small begin-setiled in Southend because of his gassed. After demobilisation he aliver in London Is 17 13/16ths an

impaired health. ounce, the official rate of the dol-

In moat enses the casual unture lar In Hongkong is 1. 4. of those beginnings has astonish- A WIRELESS Truly the ways of high finance ed mo. A chance remark, an ac- FORTUNE. are mysterious.

cidental ́encounter-nnd theso

The Very Idea!

as

HAMS ACROSS THE SEA

. By Eddie “5,0.5.” Kelly

U-BE or not Tu-be,

that is the question?" our old friend Bill Shakespeare says..

We notice in the radio mon, although they could not have less aet run on dry batteries. A temporary that

In his alck-room he had a wire-Column of a morning con- known it at the time, were launch-local electrician in a small way fuss is being made as to lot of ed on the road to succesB.

charged his accumulator, for him,

One day the talk turned to the

we

weren't consulted. When they're next door we call them

confounded nuisance.

a c

ed on the steering column and AIR MAIL SERVICES

The Puck circumstance had possessing the following unusua!

touched thoir lives with magic.

returned it himself and sometimes whether wireless thingmojigs The arrival in the Colony yea- tubes. Lafoy

stopped for a talk. advantages, six

The head of a brush manufac-

should be called valves or tubes. automatic volume control, full terday of the big Sikorsky amphituring company at Bristol, whose possibility of connecting the

set binn again gives rise to the ques-products are known in overy home wireless get with the electric light only thing that amazes us is that dynamic speaker.

Why, it's so simple that the possesses all the quality and de- tion of Hongkong's association to-day, told The of a turning-point leads and thus dispensing with pendability of police radios, in the with schemes for the development he encountered when he was a dry batteries. manufacture of which Sparton of airmail services. Mr. Bixby now young man seeking fortune In

Those two mon, as a direct re- leads. The equipment includes hopes to extend his original plans America.

to permit of a constant aerial link

sult of that casual talk, became supressors, condensers, battery between

He was in a humble job at the pioneers of the power unit and Shanghai, Hongkong, time. box and sufficient sealed cable to Canton and Manila, but as long as Bible class he attended asked him- direct a firm with a capital of One day the teacher of a all-electric radio. To-day they make all connections. Net the Hongkong Government sits self and a friend if they would

tight and does nothing, Mr. Bixby care to try their hand at cantass- $400,000 employing up to 2,500 is destined to be disappointed. If, ing a new line in brushes from 0s is possible, the Government is door to door. not in a position to independent action, a little prod- THE ACORN AND ding of the Imperial authorities THE OAK. would do no harm.

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Hongkong Telegraph. Japanese-language newspapers ap-

*

MUNICH WIRELESS

hands.

tod by an Englishman. An Ame- The valve, wo learn, was inven- rican promptly took cut protective mensures by inventing the tube. They were both decent chaps, and have since boon forgiven.

Marconi had nothing to do with the invention of the valve and the tube. In fact, Marconi invented radio

He first of all got hold of about two miles of copper wire for his aerial, and run a few more miles of wire inside his set and called it. wireless. Which is about the same as calling Kowloon's coal dump Cardiff.

Speaking of radio reminds us of the chap who was charged with assault and battery. They put him in the H.T. coll, with a little screen grid over the window.. You can take this one with a grain of assault.

Wireless Is divided into two

classes--long wave and short wave. Ours is usually the short wave.

The valve is used with both methods but it's a question whether you get valva`for your money.

In Russia, in order to encourage the peasants to lieten in, wireless scts are given to them free. This is a case of fools Russian where angels fear to tread.

The most necessary accessory for Hetoning in is the loud speaker. Our loud speaker is one of the largest in the Colony. She stands about five feet six and weighs 190

Ibs.

But Pete Watkins is even worse off than us. He has a loud speaker who has such expensivo tastes that Poto will nether have to wireless or go into the hands of the receiver.

*

A BRIQUETTE

We've got to write a paragraph about the Kowloon coal dump and

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•

A man of Lydney, in Gloucester- shire, the son of a village iron- monger, returned from active ser- vice in France with a fair amount of motor transport experience bo- He said "Yes," His friend said hind him-experience which he "No."

The former now controls would never have gained but for a company with an annual turn-the accident of war, over of over £500,000. The latter, One day a bank manager friend who married his sister, is still in at Tredegar remarked. to him: The steady propaganda in a comparatively small job.

"People can't get about in these There was nothing in this in-parts; they need buses." These parently designed to arouse public dustrial chief's provious experi-few words contained the seed of opinion against the United States once to influence his decision. A all his subacquent success, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1983.

is characteristicolly lacking in sub man of the people, he had sold He bought a couple of old Army tlety. We suppose that it creates newspapers in the streets of Bris-crocks, converted them into buses the desired acare among the masa tol and been a grocer's assistant, and began serving a string of BRITISH-AMERICAN of the Japanese population, but out But in course of time he returned villages the railway did not touch, side Japan it falls signally, hardly to England with this new idea in To-day he is the head of the big TEAMWORK

Justifying the repeated denials by brushes and started manufactur-gest transport concern in the West America's two-year industrial the U. S. State Department. The ing them for the English market. Country, with buses and coaches recovery plan is having as pro-latest suggestion is that the United He met with unprecedented suc-covering over 2,000 miles of route States is negotiating for a new ceas, and to-day is chairman of in five counties and long distance nounced an effect on the world naval base in Mexican territory, the Sales Managers' Association services to London, the Midlands, as did Russin's Five-Year Plan. offering another "menace to peace of his native city.

the North and Scotland. In what have lately-been termed in the Pacific." The "menace" sug- Another Bristol man I met la In a few years he had built up the gold bloc countries the gestion would appear to be so much the son of a saddler well known a combine which owned £75,000 Roosevelt programme, and par-

nonsense even were it true that the in the city when its streets still worth of rolling stock, ran 6,000,-

resounded with horse ticularly the inflationary section United States was seeking such a

trafic. 000 miles a year and carried 10,- was doomed, of it, has caused profound dis- base. The only menace to peace in Horse traffic

and000,000 passengers annually. the Pacific that we observe lica in with it the saddler's craft. The At their inception the Ideas quiet. In the off-gold nations the deliberate fostering of anti-son turned to the manufacture of which actuated these men were the American experiment, and American feeling in Japan, the na-fancy leather .goods in a small simple in the extreme and Ba especially the improvement of tural creation of suspicion in the way,

common as windblow pollen. American internal trade, has United States as to the motive, and Adjacent to his workshop at Countless others must have produced a very persuasive im- the threat of naval race. If these Fishponds was A motor-car struck similar notions before pact. The measure of it may are symptoms of irreconcilable factory. One day the manufac- them, turned them over in their be partially gauged by the re- policies, the avoidance of war will turer, whom he knew as a neigh-minds, forgotten them.

bour, called him in, gave him a These fow were imbued with markably friendly discussion in demand herofe mensures. the House of Commons. Labour,

car spring, and suggested he suficient drive to want to act on Liberal and Conservative speak"

should try to make a leather galter them, in however modest a man- for it which would safeguard it ner to begin with. They persist- ers all joined in commending

against rust.

ed and made good. There was President Roosevelt's leadership

British and France must tread He did so. The new galter was an instant flow of energy, and and in wishing him Buccess.

warily in their handling of the tried out in the Isle of Man Tour Impetus from the dream to the And one after another demand- Austro-Gorman situation for aist Trophy trials, of 1914 and business, ed_that_Great_Britain declare great deal more fuss has been made proved such a success that the We are all dreamers. We all and pursue an expansionist pro- about the Munich broadcasts than manufacturer arranged for 300 toy with Ideas. The minority who the Editor suggested we think of gramme of her own. It is true the facts warrant. It is not as cars to be equipped in the coming become big industrial chiefs are something that would be even mere those who see the business in the idiotic than putting up a bamboo that the British Government has though this were the first time that year. made no move to embark on

propaganda has been conducted by The Arst gaiters were made in dream and become seized with a screen. We have thought, and a price-raising campaign and favourite habits and other coun- cut out the patterns himself and We call them lucky.

this method. It is one of Moscow's one amall room; the saddler's son passion to "try it out, win or lose." thought, but we are sorry to dis

appoint him. We can't think of that Mr. Neville Chamber- tries have pursued similar tactics they were sewn on a cheap second-

Usually they are men of parts, anything more idiotic than putting lain, Chancellor of the Exche- when they have thought the occa- hand machine by one girl assist not men with single-track minds up a bamboo screen.

grooves. quer, has declared that it would son ripe. The surest way of com-ant. Immediately after the War, which quickly become

The drive which enables them to be unwise to allow the pound to batting it, and the simplest, is he was turning out 15,000 sets a

excel at their job is directed also

ACT ONE follow the dollar downward. Yet "jamming" the transmitting station year for one motor firm alone.

to other pursuits. there are many signs that popu- with counter-transmission on the He built extensive works, em- A director who has helped to

Sh-hh-hhh! We have been writ lar imagination in Britain has same wave-length. This is much ployed hundreds, specialised on build up one of the biggest cable, ing a play. It's so amazing what been captured by the American more effective than diplomatic other motor-cor lines, and is to factories in the country at Derby, some of these cinema authors get effort. Even such a die-hard as

day a leading manufacturer of for instance, is an enthusiastic away with that we have decided to accessories. The Mr. Winston Churchill is in fav

motor-car, fly-fisher. Although handicapped take a hand ourself. It will be which had virtually killed his by the loss of an arm, he can called "Whatto, Beer!" and will our of following the United | CONFUSED ISSUES

father's craft, proved his own fasten a fly in a minute and has be all about a poor, Innocent boy States "at a safe distance."

salvation. And all from a small represented England against Scot who went out to the Hongkong That is probably what Britain The justification for diplomatic experimental job given him by a land in a fishing international. Brewery to-morrow, and arrived will do. There is, of course, in "interference" of course lies in the neighbouring manufacturer!

The dogged persistence he dia- there too late for the ceremony.. British financial circles a great purpose behind the Nazi pro- At Southend-on-Sea I visited the plays in his executive job has doubt about "artificial" lacal paganda and attacks upon Austria imposing new works of a man who (Continued on Page 4.) measures. And the Govern. and it is unfortunate that the issues ment-dominated by Conserva. of method and purpose have become confused. Had they been kept tives though National in name-- separate and distinct, Britain and is unlikely to embark on any France would not have laid them- thing approaching the American selves open to rebut by Germany, schemes for building up purchas-Herr Krauss removed any doubts ing power through higher wages of German ambitions which may and public works expenditure. have existed, in his address from Yet in the industrial sections of Munich on Sunday evening when he England there is a real enthus envisaged Austria as the eastern lasm for higher prices, and it extremity of the Reich. Those in- terested in preserving the peace of is hardly possible that if busi Europe will have plenty to keep ness improvement on the west their minds active if any attempt l'érn sido of the Atlantic contin- ia madu to translate this prophecy ues without serious setback, the into action. In the meantime, Dr. American example can be resist Dollfuss can very well be allowed to ed although the powers of redovise his own measures for pre- sistance will be strong without venting Nazi propaganda from per

colating to Austrian ears. In doubt. If the American exam- ple is to be successfully followed some form of industrial control | PIRACY CONTROL must accompany other measures. Honce the inclination of the

The piracy warning issued by the Government to fight shy. It is Hongkong Police, Criminal Investi unlikely, therefore that Britain gation Department, on Saturday is will jump quickly into double significant, both in revealing a now harness with America in a price- method of combatting pirates and raising endeavour, although of Kwangtung's willingness to co- there is some hope in the degree operate to that end. The spy sys- of understanding of the Amer-tom clearly in operation could only function provided every faculty ican position already expressed was granted by the Canton authori Considering ties and that such co-operation has by Englishmen. the fact that Americans-oven been forthcoming is highly gratify- the delegatos to the Economicing and encouraging. Although Conference did not know exact-proof is difficult to obtain, it looks ly where they were going, it is as though the Hongkong Police encouraging that British opinion have put paid to the project con- so thoroughly sensed the Amer can-object_o.The whole ex perience speaks volumes

to

notes.

templated in Hongkong,

while

Shanghai is on the alert and the pirates are likely to meet witä kis

vid Lothariched 10s "hloping.com-

We are going to let our public

in on a bit of the dialogue in order

to whet their appetites.

NORMA SHEARER: You look fil, darling.

am

ROBERT MONTGOMERY: always ill. To-day I am illor.

SHEARER: Come and sit boxide

mc.

MONTGOMERY: I love you with

my soul.

SHEARER: Soul, Soul. My soul is dead.

MARLENE DIETRICH. (entora): Such lovely flowers they put on pber Boris Karloff's grave. He was so kind.

MONTGOMERY: When my grand- father dios, I shall have all his money. “

SHEARER: I have it all already.. MONTGOMERY: Come now, Por haps you are a littlo ill.

SHEARER: I married him · three years ago.

(Beryl Mercer enters) MONTGOMERY: Mother. BERYL MERCER: Your grand- mother has just died.

MONTGOMERY: Then we can get married to-morrow,

MERCER; My child, I have kept something from you, He was not. your grandfather. He was our father, fam your sister. She is...

CLARA BOW (entera). They have nearly finished building the new. RAY- lum (Sha

tank a

k1.ban go

My Dice out) GRETA GARDO: 1

SHEARER: You cannot marTÝ your mother

BERYL MERCER:'^Nor your sis- terda

MONTGOMERY; There is still fire: to Anna, the mald-servant AZA

SANNA Centers);

have just konzð

thats my father-bar" died a

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