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THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY DECEMBER 27, 1935.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 HOURS

EX-QUEEN OF SPAIN HAPPY

IN EXILE

Menton, France, Dec. 20.

The duties enforced on. royalty make life so miserable that ex- Queen Ena of Spain has no regrets

that she has lost her throne, ac-. cording to a close friend of the Spanish royal family who is vach- tioning here.

Basing her opinions upon many years of observation of royal affairs during the reign of Alfonso and Queen Ena, the informant saya the queen is enjoying personal freedont for the first time in her life.

"A reigning queen's life is all duty," she said, "and my stenog- rapher working from 9 to 5 has w botter job and a more enviable existence. I haven't the authority to speak for Her Majesty, but I' think I am afe in saying that she has no regret over losing her job as queen,

The greatest purt of a queen's Lime is taking up with bowing to .Iron-clad court etiquette, submit- ting to compulsory ceremonies that are Bresome and boring.

"Over and over they must ex- tend fingertips to be kissed by pompous court officials. Even in receiving their equals, queens or princesses from

other courts, whether on state occasions or in private, they are denied the privile- ken of intimate talks, and must limit themselves to monotonous 'ready-made' conversations.

REVIVAL

Mystery U. S. Machine May

'COPS' IN ARMOUR

Proiting by experience in the bloody. 1936 waterfront strike, the San Francisco police have devised several types of protec, tive equipment for riot suppres sion duly This portable folding metal shield is one piece of equipment designed to protect the wearer against thrown rocks and clubs.

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Nine Prosperity Pointers

Achieve New Dream

GLEAMING LINER

MAKES ITS

FIRST FLIGHT

Kansas City, Dec. 15. Out in the centre of TWA's big headquarters hangar at Municipal airport stands "Number 300," a giant, gleam- ing Douglas skyliner.

At first glance, this plane with the proud lettering, telling of records established, looks like 14-passenger transport planes.

There is nothing outwardly to reveal the extra horsepower. packed within its twin motors, no give-away of the three-geared

to superchargers which enable it climb into the Aub- stratosphere. Only an expert could detect its constant speed pitch propellors which bite harder and harder as the nir grows thinner with altitude.

Yet, every grease boy at the Municipal airport turns to watch this plane when it takes to the air, just as every steno grapher and bookkeeper watches its chief pilot, D.K. (Tommy) Tomlinson when he strides through the TWA biulding.

One set of propellors his

A close look at "Number 300" re-line. On "Number 300" is the veals the source of interest. The Cambridge fuel ratio analyzer. plane is the company's "ying Ja-With this device, Tomlinson borntory."

regular assistant, Hugh has rubber facing, part of de O'Brien, can tell at any time what icing system. The propellors pre-mileage they are getting. Gener-

tenths miles per gallon.

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two

CHINA KEYMAN

Maj. Gen. Kemfi Dollara, head

of Japanese military intelligence in China, who is known as the "Lawrence of Manchuria."

sent an all metal face, but little ally, they average two and BRITON IN

pipes from inside the plane open upon their base to squirt, an anti- Perhaps the most remarkable freeze solution upon the blade in device on the plane are the you- another de-icing system.

stant spoed pitch propellors. With- Instead of seats, the cabin con- out there, ying in the sub- would be most tains six one thousand gallon gas stratosphere

NAZI GAOL

tanks or enough to give it a cruising dificult. With them Tomlinson FOR SIX

range of 3,700 miles. None knowa can set his motors for any given but that the next takeoff of "Num-revolutions per minute and main- ber 300 may be a transatlantic hop tain that speed through marked

if the experimental problems set changes in air density.

for it and Tomlinson demand such In a climb, as the air grows a fight.

thinner, the propellors automa- There is heating system in thetically change pitch to bite harder cockpit for use in the frigid cold into the air and maintain speed. of the substratosphere, where tem-This action is matched with shifts peratures often drop to 60 degrees of the supercharger's gear as the below zero. Liquid and gaseous plane mounts.

After the takeoff and up to oxygen containers draw into vapori- zers to provide the crew with 15,000 foot the superchargers are 16,000 feet on up to 30,000 the

MONTHS

Frankefurt-on-Main,

Dec. 15,

MR. ROBERT 0. ROHME, the Lon-'

A nine-point programme of revival in British prosperity was announced by the Board of Trade Journal in the December issue. Most cheerful feature is the fact that the pace set in October gives a good indication of the winter level of employment.

1. Retail traders had "bumper" breathable air in the rarified at- set in low blower ratio. From doner who was senttenc-

month in October, sales valuemosphere above 20,000 feet.

All modern transport planes carry maxium of "Number 300," the ed to 18 months' impri- being 7.4 per cent, higher than

dozens of diala, scules, and meters, superchargers are Het in high in October 1934.

but "Number 300" bristles with blower gear, the plane cost $120,- Sonment last May for them. Three radios are set to feed 000, the equipment, $50,000.

With this kind of equipment, insulting the German

Science Seeks Key To The Skies

Washington, Dec. 20, What phenomena will man dis cover if he ever penetrates the stratosphere and voyages on into outer space?

Dr. William J. Humphreys, in charge of the weather bureau's re- search work, is "speculating on what lies beyond the 14 mile mark reached for the first time by the Balloon Explorer II.

2. More coal was raised (13,800,- 000 tons) than in any month

since 1980.

signals into Tomllison's headset at

3. Another record from iron and the touch of a dial. Often he usca Tomlinson and a varying person- nation, was visited by

steel industry, month's output totalling 907,000 tons..

4. Good news of cotton. Last month 120,000,000lbs of raw cotton were delivered to mills, compared with 90,000,000lbs, in September and 109,000,0001bs

A year ago,

5. Wool sextile industry wage in

dex figure was 110.4 A month earlier 104.7, and a year ago 100.2.

6. Production in artificial silk created new record-12,520.000 lbs. produced being more than three times output of 1930. Natural silk mills 93 per cent. busier than in 1936.

in

7. Plans for houses passed

October 85 per cent, greater in value than in 1930-another new record.

Nobody knows for sure because none has been there, just as sailors) did not know--before the dis- covery of American-what lay be yond the Allantle ocean. But Dr. Humphreys said he was almost positive the temperature.In the #ienisphere," a region approxim- g. ately 50 to 75 miles above sea level, was as warm as the tempera- tures of a summer day In. the United States. That Is, close to 100 degrees above, zero.

Humphreys explained that scientists generally agreed to this! theory because it was the region where meteors and shooting stars catch fire on their rush toward the earth, where sound waves bounce back to earth again and where the Kuroras are seen,

But the Ionisphere explorer would find no air to breathe and he probably would burst.

Dr.

The content of any given space of air would be much rarer than: at the earth's surface. Humphreys said the lack of air! would be more marked than the difference between standing room on Broadway on New Year's Eve when thousands are crowded to. gether and a southwestern desert where there is not even one settler to 40 square miles.

More money circulating. Bank clearances averaged £21,500,000 daily, nearly £1,000,000 above"

Science Says-

WE ARE

two radios at once.

nel have been testing every type

coursen,

One of the most interesting of condition which they may meet Reuter's correspondent meters on the panel board is the in the sub-stratosphere. artificial horizon. On this dial, œ' To-day, while all other airline in his prison at Pre- tiny plane appears as In Hight pilots scan their maps for davour- against a horizontal bar neroas the ing winds and smooth

ungesheim, outside dial. Should "Number 300's" noso Tomlinson shops for

opposite Frankfurt. dip off the horizon in a fog, the weather an ico storm. tiny plane' nose dips below Ita His de-icing equipment, both on Mr. Rohne la an Austrian sub- horizon line. If "Number 300's" propellors and wings, has been ject, but his English-born wife right wing dips, the tiny plane tested thoroughly in "rime, ice" and her four children live in

frozen slush. Sheaveshill - avenue,... follows the action automatically. which resembles

Hendon.. There are two such artificial Now he wishes to try the equip. N.W., and Mrs. Rohme has been ment on "clear ice," which forms making every effort to have her horizon indicatora.

The average motorist has to sheet. United Press.

husband released." mensure his gasoline supply and distance travelled to learn what

mileage he is getting for his gaso- Atomic

average for busy Christmas quarter of last year.

9 Shipping freights rose 15 per cent. above basic average of five years ago, compared with decline of 2 per cent. only a 'month earlier.

LIVING IN

A "COCK-EYED WORLD"

Weights Are All Wrong

The

Evanston, III, Dec. 18. chemist's table of atomic weights was bellaved upset recently by an accidental discovery by n youthful assistant professor of chemistry at North-weatoru Uni versity.

Dr. Malcoin Dole, 32, said he had 22 proved "beyond doubt" that oxygen, basic measurement of the elements

The correspondent, found Mr. Rohme in a cell measuring 13 ft. by 614 ft. A strongly barred window, with a casement which can be opened or closed by the prisoner, admitted light and air.

FOLDING BED

Swung up against the wall on one side was a folding bed, with a seaweed mattress. There was small wardrobe-onse, a table, a chair and a small electric light on

the wall,

Mr. Rome was wearing a jac- set and pair of trousers of the re- gulation slate-blue prison colour. When he goes to exercise he wears boots and a military-looking cap.

Mr. Rome stood at attention as

of the universe, weigh more in arhis visitor entered his cell. He was ordered to go to the Director's than in water.

chemists his discovery, if office. In his hand he held the 19

To

Our Earth Is A Top-side Magnet substantiated, la as revolutionary letters which he had received from

Same 25,000 Miles Acros.

Charlottesville, Va., Dec. 20. "Science lets it be known that we're really living in a "cockeyed world."

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as telling the layman that 12 inches his wife since he entered the pri- do not make a foot..

son on May 17.

"I am grateful to have three let- . Dr. Dolo's discovery was an- nounced in an interview in the tors a month from my dear wifo," Daily News Index of Evanston. He he said. "I am allowed to send was testing two types of water to one letter home a month. I am determine their qualities when he not allowed to criticise the prison, chanced upon the difference in the but I may otherwise describe all weights of oxygen. Finding his the details of my life, including the instruments did not check, he at food I get. first assumed the error was either

in the hydrogen or oxygen.

ENGLISH BOOKS

ani

Dr. Robert A. Millikan, Nobel prize winner, told the National Academy of Science here that he recently completed a cosmic ray map which shows that the world is a lop-sided magnet some Any particles in the air in the

25,000 miles across. Ionisphere, would be ionized or

The California

"To my surprise;" he told United "The books from the prison B- Institute of pulled toward the north Magnetic electrified, he explained. Electrici currents passing through this Technology professor, who worked pole just as complex needles are Press, "I found the difference did brary are not enough for scientific rarified air net just as a mercury out the map with Dr. H. V. Neher, attracted toward it on the earth's not lle between the elements at all work, but they are entertaining but in the oxygen itself. The dif- and help to pass the time. The are light, throwing off a light. found cosmic ray intensity greater surface.

Millikan the equatorial {

estimated magnetic ference in parts per million was library has some English books, in India than at Radio engineers have known for

um sorry that I am not able to years that there was a "radio section of the Western hemisphere. force 4,000 miles upward was one found to be 4.5 which is of course which are a special consolation. I

very slight." radio In other words, these "mysterious elghth as strong as at sea level.

The cosmic ray map was con- Dr. Dole reported to the Ameri: work, because life in a prison cell roof which stopped the

messengers from the outside space," waves and sent them back to earth which are the current passion of structed after nine ships had can chemical society that the diff. becomes very lonely.

"I am a Catholic and I go to or bent them so they shuttled

self-recording machincaence was calculated after two ex-

regularly. I

vory research workers, are not equally carried along the roof." Scientista aro not sure whether the "Ionisphere" divided even among what might be across the oceans. These devices periments by electrolysis of water, church

called magnetic equatora,

ran automatically for three months, one of water from tank hydrogen grateful whenever I may talk to which Dr. Humphreys described is

needing only winding every seven and oxygen derived from liquid air, the chaplain.

and the other of normal water."

"To-day I had a small photo- the same as the "radio roof,"

Cosmic rays are attracted toward days. L. T. Samuels, assistant chief of Earth's magnetic poles from dis Dr. Fred E. Wright of the The oxygen of both was burned with graph from my family. They are

miles above the Aerology division of the tances 15,000

of my coll. bureau, who supervises the send-world's surface, Millikan explained. Geophysical laboratory, Carnegie tank hydrogen and the difference allowing me to put it on the wall

of Washington, dis-calculated. Institution

Unexplained results of other "It was naturally difficult for ing of sounding balloons Into the Magnetic pull seems to reach out cussed craters on the moon in sky, asid the highest free balloons ward that, far to grasp any charged another effort to explain events scientists may be solved by the dis- me to get used to the food. The carrying any Instruments-mere particle and draw it toward the many thousands of miles upward in covery. The late Dr. E. W. Wash greatest difficulty was the coarse midgets compared with the 3,700,- poles.

He said the size of craiers burn discovered oxygen in the air Gorman: grey bread, made of rye. 000 cubic foot capacity Enplorer Space explorers could travel a from two miles to as high as 150 is heavier than in water. Revision But I am used to all that now, and

regular relationship, in of chemistry textbook, may result, I cannot complain." II which carried two men and tons thousand times as far outward as showed of instrumente-had reached 28 man has gone into the stratosphere dicating they may have band common University chemists said.Unitta Mr. Rohme was led back to his

Prese.

cell, miles.-United Press,

and still have their compasses Torigin-United Prose,

the

space.

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