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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1935.

ON WORLD. FLIGHT

Air Aces On Round-The-World Jaunt

LINDBERGH BABY DOUBLE

Harold Farquahar (Loft), British melator, and Fritz Bieler, Gorman war-iime ace, pictured just before they took off on their projected lofsurely round-the-world flight. The men are Dying in a

Beechcraft biplane, and are due in Hongkong this week.

SCIENCE UNLOCKS

DOOR TO

SECRET OF

INDIVIDUALITY

MICROSCOPE REVEALS NEW

WONDERS OF

NATURE

San Francisco, Sept. 15.

Due Here This Week

¿CIENCE poised its microscopes and its test tubes over a discovery unlocking one of the secrets controlling human, animal and plant growth as the American Chemical Society met here in annual session to discuss and reveal new wonders.

Why does one child grow larger than his brother? Why do some plants spring up almost overnight, others mature slowly? What causes tumours?

Part of the answer to the questions which have fascinated patient seekers in a thousand laboratories and stimulated scores of experi- ments may be contained in the isolation by Dr. Rogers Williams of Oregon State College of a minute quantity of Pantethonic acid.

PLEASURE FLIGHT IN LUXURIOUS AEROPLANE

British Diplomat German Ex-war Paves Way For Ace As Pilot On Modern Tours: Long Trip: THE first persons to ever engage in a

pleasure jaunt by air are scheduled to

at Kai

They are Fritz Bieler, former World

Tak aerodrome to-morrow.

war ace

and now a naturalized Mexican citizen, and Howard L. Farquahar, Secretary of the British Legation in Mexico City.

The two adventurers have completed the first and most hazardous portion of their jaunt by success- fully flying to Shanghai from Mexico City, via the United States,.Alaska, Anadir (Siberia), Manchukuo and Peiping.

BEFORE leaving Seattle for

A STICK

the constat flight to Alaska MAN SLAYS TIGER WITH and trans-ocean flight to Siberia, pontoons were fitted to the machine. These will be re- moved in Hongkong for the overland flight to Europe.

The fliers are not adhering to a set itinerary, but are flying by fity and starts, remaining in cities or outlandish centres when they feel in the mood for stretching their legs.

They will probably remain in Hongkong for three or four days hefpre continuing their flight to Siam. They may, in fact, travel to Manila by way of a detour.

They have made no definite plans for the future other than that they will fly around the world.

From Bangkok they will fly by easy stages to India, hunting, shooting and fishing on the way. The itinerary calls for subsequent dlights to Persia, Egypt and finally Europe.

"We do not know what European country we will visit first." cler sald, in outlining plans for the

light just before he left Seattle.

"That will depend on personal choice and other conditions, such as our clearance in and out of various countries."

The last leg of the round-the- world flight depends upon Far- quahar, who may have to terminate the flight in Europe to return to

his official duties.

Calcutta, Sept. 12.

Pitting himself against a tiger

which had already struck down and mauled his two sons, a 65-f

year-old father in a village or Assam, slew the beast with 2 stick.

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The tiger sprang on the two sons) as they were returning at sundown to their village, Kanniabhasa, after) a day's work. They were severely mauled,

Hearing their cries, Laduram, the father, seized the only weapon handy, a thick stick, and rushed to the rescue.

Closing with the tiger, the father, though suffering severely from the tiger's attacks, succeeded in killing it.

Villagers later found both father and sons lying beside the tiger.-Reuter,

dendi

Six-year-old boy's гезеп- blance to kidnapped Lind- bergh child is responsible for claim that the baby still lives. This was urged at the appeal by counsel for Bruno Hauptmann, condemned to death for the murder. It is said, however, that the boy is of Irish parent- age, and was taken from an orphanage by a Flushing, New York, family.

Pawnshop Where Dickens Sat Closes

FAMOUS LIMEHOUSE LANDMARK ENDS ITS CAREER NE of the most famous pawnshops in the world has just closed down.

ONE

In every port of the seas, where the little ships put in, they knew "George's Pawn- shop," the sailors' pawnshop down in Limehouse.

Sextants that peered at the

Summer Time South Seas sun, chronometers

Ends In U.S.

AND 3,000 YEARS WERE GAINED

was resumed.

that ticked the time round the Cape, sen-chests from the Paci fic, knives that had slashed through rough-and-tumbles in durk holds on the Chinese rivers, all these passed over the counter of George's pawnshop in Limehouse.

New York, Sept. 29.

It was proud of its reputa- The hour lost by approximately In keeping with the plans of 30,000,000 inhabitants of the United tion, and a plaster plaque on its fliers, the Beechcraft plane they. States on April 28, when Daylight walls states quite frankly, "The are using has every convenience Saving went into effect, was return-Old Nautical House. Known and luxury for their comfort. ed this morning us Standard Time all over the world. Est. 1810." The interlor of the plane is painted a deep blue with grey

"It was a wrench to give the trimmings, and is upholstered inMost persons--in-this-metro-place-up-confessed Mr. M. E. blue velour.

politan area set their time pieces George, the last of the family that The seats are of red leather. back before retiring last night, has held the business for half a The backs of the pilots' seats may happy in the thought of an extra century. "But the old Limehouse be turned down, extending to the hour rest. Those that forgot about

has gone now. The ships dock rear seats and providing a com-it found themselves an hour early lower down the river, the Chinese fortable couch.

for whatever they planned.

get paid off in Cardiff, there are no more fantan saloons and opium dens, the business got less and less, so there was nothing for it, I had to shut down."

...

ДП

Dual Control

It was estimated that if each of Every Instrument known to the 30,000,000 persons that were modern aviation has been installed affected slept one hour extra In the board in front of the fliers, approximation of more than 3.000 The dual control ship has great years sleep was gained last night.

Although most transportation visibility through the employment of large windows overhead and on systems operated on Standard Time the sides. Conventional motor car during the Daylight Saving period handles raise and lower the side they will find it necessary to adjust From several hundred pounds | the alfalfa and in turn produce pan-glass panels, insuring adequate their schedule in order to meet the changing rush hours of commuters. The brakes are manipulated by a United Press. of liver Dr. Williams, with tothenic acid which stimulates the fresh air in the cabin, painstaking skill, succeeded in growth of alfalfa seedling," the hand lever to the side of the control

chemist explained.

stick.

MATCH-MAKER

obtaining as amount of acid

The biplane is equipped with WORLD'S BIGGEST equivalent to the trimmings of "The universal significanes of heater and two compasses. In a thumb nail or to the weight pantothenic acid is indicated by flight, its wheels are retracted Into the fact that the livers of hogs the fuselage by a hand lover on the cattle, sheep, dogs, rats, chickens left wall, greatly increasing the and human beings all contain the speed of the ship.

IF he said. "Panto- The Beechcraft is the Intest safe amount," thenic acid has been found in every model to come from the shops of In the body. The liver, Walter Beech, veteran Wichita, where it is present in combined Kansas, designer. It has a four to form, neta.ns a storehouse, Muscle one, ratio of flight, making it tissue and brain tissues are ro-possible to land the ship at only |latively rich sources,”

one-fourth of its cruising speed.

of less than half a drop of water: He took an infinitesimal trace and applied it to young alfalfa soedlings. So strongly did it stimulate their growth that the re- sults were visible within a day or two after sprouting.

Dissue

He explained to his fellow

Deprived of the acid, yeast cells not only lost their ability to grow rapidly but also their normal power of breathing. It is prohientists that the peculiar quality able, he said, that the acid plays a role in the respiratio of all kinds of cells.

which makes pantothenic seld in- teresting is its ability to act as a growth regulator.

"Ting amounts, have a remark- The influences of vitaming on

tho growth we know. Pantothenic neldable stimulating effect on

now

Farquahar's ship, equipped with a 420 horsepower Wright motor, cruises at 202

miles! hour at 9,000 feet. It can land at 50 miles per hour

מם

YOU WANT A WIFE, WRITE TO. PARIS

Where Dickens Sat

"But It's A landmark gone. Look at this chair. I'm keeping chair for four daya. that Charles Dickens sat in that

"He wrote an article attack- ing pawnbrokers in 'Household Words,' so my uncle invited him to come down and see the business for himself, and after he had spent four days taking notes, he went back and wrote another article, admitting he had been wrong."

"In the old days, when Lime- London, Aug. 23. house really was Limehouse, the THE thousandth wedding has shop did a roaring trade. A lot of just been celebrated by the sallors tried to pawn their France's giant Marriage Club parrots, but we never took them the Green Border Club-in. Inconvenient things, parrots. whose aim is to marry as many young couples as possible per year.

tion.

old' Chinese, "There was one though, who regularly pawned his tortoise. It was a great big tor- toise, with a beautifully polished shell, and he would come in regular- ly and pawn it, and take it out a

him half-n-crown on it.

Any young woman who cannot through the use of brakes and find a husband, or any young man wing flaps to cut down ground in search of a wife, may join the speed. With the installation of additional club for a modest yearly subscrip-week or so later. We always lent in a first cousin of the more fami- growth of various types of plants Har agent and its occurrence in and single-celled animals. The gas tanks, the craft has a cruising

Each member is known by his

Cuns For The Chinese the human body and, in those of problem of how growth is con-range of 1,000 miles and climbs at

or her number only, and no, names plants and animals is more wide rolled in living organisms has sea level at the rate of 1,600 feet are revealed until the romance Is "We used to do a great deal of spread than any vitumin long been a fascinating one, and per minute.

officially announced. Forms have business with guns, too. In those from the practical standpoint the The biplane has a wing span of to be filled up with all details, days you could get a licence to known.

fundamental facts regarding un- 2 feet, an overall length of 24 physical, moral and financial of carry a gun by simply filling in a "It appears to be fundamental to controlled growth observed In feet five inches, and is only eight each member.

form. Wa kept

the n stock of life and particularly to growth," tumours need to be understood bo- feet two inches high.

A meeting or dance is held each forms in the shop, the customer the Oregon chemist said in pre-Fore cancer can be solved.?

"It is the finest ship I have flown month where members mest to-Billed one in, and we sent the boy senting his paper before the learn-!

in my 20 years as a pilot." Dicler gether.

down to the police-station with it. ed society. It claborated the] Dr. Williams found no other ole said as he explained its mechan- A bulletin Is distributed giving. "It has everything that details of the requirements of all meagre findings which had been ments than the common carbon, ism. reported in Chicago last year. hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen pilot needs for safety and com-wife or husband hunters, and steps

in the composition of the panto- fort."

are taken to introduce suitable His researches indicated that thenle neid he isolated.

Bieler, tall, slender and with couples. When two young people cell breathing cannot be maintain-

blonde moustache, is proprietor of decided that they would like to ed at a normal rato unless panti- The study, however, has not a flying service in Mexico City. Helenow each other better they go to thente acid is present. The amount gone far enough to given completo has been flying since 1916.

the president of the society, who need not be much. A singlo plant picture of the entire molecule. needs not more than one fifty- thousandth part of a milligram, experiments are in progress to The head of an ordinary straight

prepare more pantothenic neid. pin weighs ton milligrams itself.

Synthesis in the laboratory will "Tho bacteria which attach follow, making the acid available themselves to the roots of alfalfa in unlimited quantities rather than derive a vitamin-like substance from in milligram lots.

That will come later as further

Farquahar, also 40 years old, allows them to see each other's has been a pilot for one and a record. They then have to sub- half years. He received his mit to examination by the club instructions from Bieler, who doctor, and their civil records aro described him as a good pilot carefully compared.. and a capable navigator. Both men are married and live in Mexico City..

"I remember once a whole gang of Chinese came in and bought up every gun and every round of ammunition wo had in the place. A few months later the papers reported the first of those big pirate raids on the Chinese rivers.

"Of course," ho continugd, “we did a lot of bastness in jewellery and curlos from abroad, much of it Chinese gold-of stuff, like lead," Then, and then only, may the without any alloy in it. American two young people consider thom-tourists used to come down and selves frea to become engaged." buy up these curios.from un

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