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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1933.

SPARTON AUTOMOBILE RADIO

SPARTON MODEL 40 WITH LAFQY AUTOMATIC VOLUME

CONTROL.

A

now Sparton automobile radio with remote control mount- ed on the steering column and possessing the following unusual. advantages, six tubes,

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 arrived at. A few months ago, with spot silver at 19 in London, the dollar on de-

mand was quoted at 18.34%d. This morning, when the price of spot

silver in London is 17 13/16ths an ounce, the official rate of the dol lar in Hongkong is 18. 43% Truly the ways of high finance are mysterious.

AIR MAIL SERVICES

BRAVE

Says TREVOR ALLEN

RECENTLY I have talked with had been a schoolmaster in South

industrial chiefs up and Loudon before down the country who have built France he was badly wounded and big businesses from small begin settled in Southend because of his

nings.

In most cases the casual nature of those beginnings has astonish- ed me. ·A chance remark, an ae- cidental encounter-and these

men, although they could not have known it at the time, were launch

gassed. After demobilisation he

Impaired health.

A WIRELESS

FORTUNE.

The Very Idea!

HAMS ACROSS THE SEA

By Eddie "$.0.5," Kelly - "TU-BE or not Tu-be,

that is the qu

as our old friend Shakespeare says,

We notice in the radio

less set run on dry batteries. A temporary that a lot of In his sick-room he had a wire- column of a morning con- local electrician in a small wayfuss is being made as to ed on the road to success.

charged his accumulator for him, The Fuck of circumstance had returned it himself and sometimes whether wireless thingmejigs Lafoy The arrival in the Colony yes-touched their lives with magic.

stopped for a talk. 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 One day the talk turned to the This set bian again gives rise to the ques products are known in every home wireless got with the electric light only thing that amazes us is that Why, it's so simple that the dynamic speaker. possesses all the quality and de- tion of Hongkong's association to-day, told me of a turning-point leads and thus dispensing with we pendability of police radios, in the with schemes for the development he encountered when he was a dry batteries.

weren't consulted. When manufacture of which Sparton of airmail services. Mr. Bixby now young man secking fortune In

they're next door we call them Those two men, as a direct re-a confounded nuisance.. leads. The equipment includes hopes to extend his original plans America..

suit of that casual talk, became condensers, battery between. Shanghai,

to permit of a constant norial link

He was in a humble job at the pioneers of the power unit and Hongkong, time, Onu day the teacher of 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 all-electric radio. To-day they make all connections. Net

the Hongkong Government sits self and a friend if they would £400,000 employing up to 2,500 tight and does nothing, Mr. Bixby care to try their hand at canvass hands. is destined to be disappointed. If.ing a new line in brushes from ns is possible, the Government is door to door. not in a position to undertake Independent action, a little prod- THE ACORN AND ding of the Imperial authorities THE OAK. would do no harm.

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1938.

BRITISH-AMERICAN TEAMWORK

Another Bristol màn I met is

л

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 he- hind him-experience which he would never have gained but for the accident of war,

ted by an Englishman. An Ame- The valve, we learn, was inven- rican promptly took out protective measures by inventing the tube. They were both decent chaps, and have since been 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, cell, with a little screen grid over the window. You can' take this onc with a grain of

assault.

Wireless is divided into two clusacs-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 valve for your money....

nba.

He said "Yes." His friend said "No." The former now controls a company with an annual turn- 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 #teady 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 previous experi- few words contained the seed of opinion against the United States once to Influence his decision. Aall his subsequent success. is characteristically 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-erocks, converted them into buses the desired scare among the mass toi and been a grocer's assistant, and began serving a string of of the Japanese population, but out-But in course of time he returned villages the railway did not touch, side Japan it faila signally, hardly to England with this new Idea in To-day he is the head of the big 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- States is negotiating for a new

latest suggestion is that the United He met with unprecedented suc- covoring over 2,000 miles of route coss, 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 Russia'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-

In a few years he had built up

In Russia, in order to encourage the gold bloc countries the geaflon would appear to be so much the son of a saddler well known a combine which owned £75,000 the peasants to listen in, wireless 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,- acts are given to them free. This

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

traffic. 000 miles a year and carried 10,-la a case of fools Russian where of it, has caused profound dis- the Pacific that we observa lies in with it the saddler's craft. The

base. The only menace to peace in | Horse traffic was doomed, and 000,000 passengers annually.

angels fear to trend, 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

The most necessary accessory for the American experiment, and American feeling in Japan, the nas fancy leather goods in a

men were listening in is the loud speaker. small simple In the extremo and as especially the improvement of tural creation of suspicion in the way,

Our loud speaker is one of the common as windblow pollen. American internal trade, has United States as to the motive, and

largest in the Colony. She stands Adjacent to his workshop at Countless others must have produced a very persuasive im- the threat of naval race. If these Fishponds Was

motor-car struck similar notions, before about five feet six and weighs 190 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-

But Pete Watkins is oven worso policies, the avoidance of war will turer, whom he know as a neigh-minds, forgotten them. demand heroic measures.

bour, called him in, gave him a These few were imbued with off than us. He has a laud speaker markably friendly discussion in

suggested car spring, and the House of Commons. Labour,

he sufficient drive to want to act on who has such expensive tastes that Liberal and Conservative speak-MUNICH WIRELESS

should try to make a leather gaiter them, is however modest a man- Pete will aether have to wireless or for it which would safeguard it ner to Legin with. They persist- go into the hands of the receiver. ers all joined in commending

against rust.

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

He did so. The new gaiter was an 'inatant flow of energy and and in wishing him success. warlly 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-German 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 and pursue an expansionist pro- about the Munich broadcasts than manufacturer arranged for 300 the facts warrant. It is not as cars to be equipped in the coming gramme of her own. It is true that the British Government has though this were the first time that year. made no

The first gaiters were made in move to embark on propaganda has been conducted by

this method. It is one of Moscow's one small room; the saddler's son a price-raising campaign and

favourite habits and other coun- cut out the patterns himself and that Mr. Neville Chamber-trics have pursued similar tactics they were sewn on a cheap second- lain, Chancellor of the Exche- when they have thought the occa- hand machine by one girl assist quer, has declared that it would son ripe. The surest way of com- ant. Immediately after the War, be unwise to allow the pound to batting it, and the simplest, isle was turning out 15,000 sets a follow the dollar downward, Yet "jamming" the transmitting station year for one motor firm alone. there are many signs that popu-

with counter-transmission on the

He built extensive works; em-

A director who has helped to 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'a so amazing what been captured by the American more effective than diplomatic other motor-car lines, and is to factories in the country at Derby, some of these cinema authors get day a leading manufacturer of for instance, is an enthusiastic away with that we have decided to accessories. Tho

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 father's craft, proved his own fasten a fly in a minute and has be all about a poor, innocent boy salvation. And all from a small represented England against Scot- who went out to the Hongkong experimental job given him by a land in a fishing international. Brewery to-morrow, and arrived neighbouring manufacturer! The dogged persistence he dis- there too late for the ceremony. plays in his executive job has (Continued on Page 4)

British and France must tread

notes.

CONFUSED ISSUES

effort. Even such a die-hard as Mr. Winston Churchill is in fav our of following the United States "at a safe distance." That is probably what Britain The justification for diplomatic will do. There is, of course, in "interference" of course lles in the British financial circles a great purpose behind the Nazi pro- doubt about "artificial" scalpaganda and attacks upon Austria measures. And the Govern- and it is unfortunate that the issues of method and purpose,have become [ment-dominated by Conserva- 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 robuff by Germany. schemes for building up purchas-Herr Krause removed any doubts ing power through higher wages of Gorman 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 faam for higher prices, and it extremity of the Reich. Those in- terested in preserving the peace of fa hardly possible that if busi-Europe will have plenty to keep ness improvement on the west their minds active if any attempt ern side of the Atlantic contin- | is made to translate this prophecy ues without serious setback, the into action. In the meantime, Dr. American example can be, resist- Dollfuss.cari very well be allowed to ed although the powers of redovisa hla own measures for pre- sistance will be strong without venting Nazi propaganda from per-

colating to Austrian cars. la doubt. If the American exam- ple is to be successfully followed some form of industrial control PIRACY CONTROL must accompany other measures. Hence 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 new 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 facility Ican position already expressed was granted by the Canton authori by Englishmen. Considering ties and that such co-operation has the fact that Americans-even boon forthcoming is highly gratify. the delegates to the Economic Ing and encouraging. Although Conference-did not know exact, proof in 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 Ameri templated in Hongkong, while Habfectlyn SALTER MY MYSL Shanghai is on the alertland, the

At Southend-on-Sea I visited the imposing new works of a man who

J

A: BRIQUETTE

"We've got to write a paragraph We are all dreamers. We all about, the Kowloon coal dump and toy with ideas. The minority who the Editor suggested we think of become big industrial chiefs are something that would be even more those who see the business in the Idiotic than putting up a bamboo dream and become seized with a screen. We have thought, and passion to "try it out, win or lose." thought, but we are sorry to dis.. We call them lucky.

appoint him. We can't think of Usually they are men of parts, anything more idiotic than putting not men with aingle-track minds up a bamboo screen. which quickly become grooves. The drive which enables them to excel at their job is directed also to other pursuits.

E

ACT ONE

Sh-hh-hhh! We have been writ-

Wo are going to let our public in on a bit of the dialogue in order to whet their appetites..

NORMA SHEARER: You look III, darling.

ROBERT MONTGOMERY: I mní always To-day I am ller,

SHEARER: Como and sit beside

120,

1

MONTGOMERY: I love you with ; my soul.

SHEARER: Soul, Soul. My soul in doad,

MARLENE DIETRICH. (enters): Such lovely lowers they put on poor Boris Karloff's grave.. Ho was so kind.

MONTGOMERY: When my grand- father dies, I shall have all his money, * SHEARER: - I havé -it 'all already, MONTGOMERY: Come now, Por- Hapa you aro a little fil.

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. I am your sister, She Is....

CLARA BOW (entera) They have nearly finished building the new "nay. lum (She goes out)'

GRETA GARHOt I tank I ban go home

SHEARER You cannot enarry. your mother".

BERYL MERCER Nor your sla

LEMONTÇUKEBY: There

BANNA:Intero) 15)

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