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£1,500,000-A- Year Air Bid

STATE AID

FOR

PRIVATE

LINES

THE AIR Ministry is to THE

ask Parliament for authority to grant up to £1,500,000 a year for the next eight years in subsidies to British air transport con-

cerns.

This is one of threesmain points Air Navigation Blil shortly to be presented. Others

in

are:-

a new

Compulsory third party insurance for airmen;

Appointinent of a Board to take over from the Ministry the task of granting certificates of airworthi-'} ness for all but the largest, con- morelal airplanes.

At present the Ministry Is em- powered to allocate up to £1,000,00 a year to British air transport.

Actually the average British sub- sidy to commercial flying, during the past seven years has been just over £380,000. In addition, £916.- 000 has been contributed by Empire Governments alace 1929. PUSHING ON

These contributions have helped to extend the Empire airway sys- tem from Paris to Egypt, East. West, and South Africa, the Near East, India, Burma, and Singapore, Now the line is being pushed on to Hongkong.

The Ministry is seeking wider financial powers in order to sub- sidise the vast new British air undertakings HOW contemplated doubled and quadrupled Em- pire services and ... the At- Iantle.

In this year's British Air Estim- ates £10,000 was allocated as a England- the towards Krant Bernuda air-line. to be started in 1936.

Pan American Airways will con- nect Bermuda with New York.

That will be the Brat regular Transatlantic air service between Britain and America. By

Britain 1937, both

and America hope to he sending flying- the North Atlantic boats seroar non-stop.

PRINCE'S

DANCE FAVOURITE

THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1936.

12 MEN MAY SCALE

Newest photo of Counters of Carrick, native of Philadelphia, who has become one of the most popular figures in London society since she became the "favourite" dancing companion of the Prince of Wales.

Off

Plymouth Goes Normandie's Calling List

NORMANDIE, the French ocean giant, will call on more

at Plymouth when homeward bound from New York, There are three reasons—

land had to go on to Havre and reach England by cross Channel boat. 3.-Waste of time owing to her early morning arrivals,

1. She cannot enter or leave Plymouth Sound at low water.

When arriving an hour or so before law tide, she has had walt Ave or six hours betore sail- ing again

2. is too risky for her to n strong the Sound when enter cross-wind is blowing.

Normandie's sailing-time from New York usually brought her aff Plymouth in the small hours. Passengers could not be landed for perhaps six hours. The liner will continue to call at

both outward

Fer that reason, the 79,00-koa liner had to miss Plymouth once Southampton last year. Passengers for Eng-homeward.

957 Millions Go To Picture in Year

BRITISH

FILMS

PROGRESS

NINE hundred and fifty-seven

million people paid to enter:

усаг

one or other of the 4,305 cinemas in Great Britain last Eighteen and a half millions & week was the average.

It cost them 10,950,000, of which nearly seven millions went to the Government as Entertain- ment Tax. January was the best month, October the second best.

These facts und many more equally interesting were given by Mr. S. Rowson in a survey of the Industry before the Royal Statik- tical Society in London recently.

Lancashire Loads

There are more cinemas in Lan-. cashire than in any other county- 699. Yorkshire and district han 534 and London postal area 401. South Wales cutnumbers North Wales by 259 to 62.

The average number of seats in each cinema is 900, but in the 302 bulit since 1992 the average is 1,160 scata. In London there is one scat for every 14 of the total popula- tion.. in Lancashire 1 to 9, In the Eastern counties 1 to 19 and In South Wales 1 to 10.

Mr. Rowson thinks the danger of overbuilding is serious "unless the balance can be secured by a national drive to bring new cinemagoers."

-British Ahead Of Quota Nearly 1,500 new ilms were re- gistered in the year.. Of the 067 longong-190 were British. British films were always Targely in excess of the minimum required for the quota.

"It is definitely established," said Mr. Rowson, "that the entire excess of British film supply is accounted for by the British companies. All the foreign companies except. pne have acquired just enough to meet their statutory liability.

"The best British films and the 'worst foreign films have been dis- tributed by the British companies: the best foreign filme und the worst British Alms have been distributed by the foreign companlos.”.

The average number of times. every British film was screened in the last year was 7,420, the corros- ponding number for foreign Alms "being 0,000%

Wolf's Rock Lighthouse is situated

in one of the most dangerous und least navigable spots on the English

const.

Perfect Colour

and

MT. EVEREST

BRITISH EXPEDITION

TOP OF THE WORLD SO FAR DEFIED ALL ATTEMPTS THE party which will make the fifth attempt to conquer Mount Everest in the 1935-1936 expetition, led by Mr. Hugh Ruttledge, has been-selected-by-the Mount Everest. Committee, of which Major-general Sir Percy Cox, presi- dent of the Royal Geogarphical Society, is chairman.

Mr. Ruttledge led the 1933 expedition, and after his return went into comparative exile on the island of Gometra of the western coast of Scotland. He retired from the Indian Civil Service in 1932. He is 51.

The members of the party select el are:

Mr. E. E. Shipton, leader of the Mount Everest reconnaissanco party in Tibet, which recently con- cluded its preliminary work in pre- paration for the coming attempt to reach the summit of the moun- tain. This will be his fourth ex- pedition to the IItmalaysia. Last year he and a companies were the first to explore the Nanda Devi Glacier basin.

HIGHEST. POINT

Mr. F. S. Smythe, who, in 1933, climbed 28,100ft. to the higheat point ever renched. This will be his fourth expedition to the moun- tain. He led the successful Mount Kamet expedition in 1931;

Ellesmere Land in the Canadian Arctic last year;

IN CHARGE OF WIRELESS Lieutenant W. R. Smith- Windham, Royal Corpa of Signals, accompanied the 1933 expedition as One of the wireless officers. -Ile will have charge of the wireless communications in the present ex- pedition:

Lieutenant J. M. L. Gavin, Royal Engineers, has had experience of climbing in the Alps but has not been to the Himalayas before;

Mr. F. H. L. Wigram, a medical student at St. Thomas's Hospital, was a member of the reconnaissance party this year; and

Mr. P. Wyn Harris, climbed to the summit of Mount Kenya in the 1920. He is a member of Kenya Civil Service and an experiled enced mountaineer, reaching 28,000- ft. in 1933;

Dr. C. B. Warren, a member of the reconnaissance party: formerly at St. Bartholomew's Hospital;

Mr. E. G. H. Kempson, master at Marlborough College, a member of the reconnaissance party; an perienced alpine climber;

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Major. C. J. Morris, late 2/3rd Gurkha Rifics, chief transpert officer, knows the Nepalese people and speaks their language and is an authority on the strange land of Bhutan, which has an area of tho 18,000 нчunre miles among Himalayas to the north of Assam: Dr. Noel Humphreya explored The range of mountains

Africa

Oxford University expedition to

YOUNG COUPLE Aries in 1932 and led the FORM £1,500,000 COMPANY

SOLE SUBSCRIBERS' YOUNG Welek athlete became a millionaire wedding day has registered a £1,500,000-private company which he and his wife are the only subscribers.

who

on his

in

Mrs.

The couple are Mr. and D. M. Evans Bevan, of Danygraig, Newion, Portheawl.

The E. B. Holdings Company, state Jordan and Sons, has been registered to require, hold and den! with shares debentures and securi- ties.

At Thirty-Three Mr. Evans Bevin, former Cam- footballer and bridge Rugby cricketer, is now, at thirty-three, one of the largest anthracite owners in South Wales.

Six years ago he married Miss Eira Winifred Grant, grand- daughter of a Breconshire doctor, at St. Mark's, North Audley-street, W. His father was taken it just before the ceremony and died a few hours inter.

And Loss Account BOUGHT · ÇAR £13, ́TO SMUGGLING FINE £186

Robert Kennedy, of Bar- ronath, Co. Kildare, bought a motor-car in London for £13. He was fined £186 at Dun- dalk yesterday for smug- gling it into the Irish Free State.

Prosecution said that Ken- nedy drove from Belfast and rushed past the Customs post without stopping.

He was a member of one of the best-known families in Ireland and owner of a stud farm.

The Sun And Destiny

Lieutenant R. Oliver, South- Waziristan Scouts, who has climbed in the Alps and led a small expedi tion to the Himalayas in 1933. PREVIOUS EXPEDITIONS The first Everest expedition was by Colonel Haward Bury in 1931, and another attempt to reach the summit of the 29.141ft. peak wis made under Brig.-gen. C. G. Bruce in the following year.

Lieut-colonel E. F. Norton took command of the 1924 expedition in which Mr. G. A. II. Iselgh-Mallory Am Mr. A. C. Irvine lost their lives when climbing the Inst 1,000 feet. The last party in 1933 had to abandon the climb owing to lad weather,

IN MEMORY OF A GREAT QUEEN

In Belgium a medal has been atruck in memory of Queen Astrid.

both Photo shows sides of the medal

The young bridegrom inherited MYSTERIOUS ELECTRICAL

the bulk of his father's £2,127,856 estate.

HE FOUND THE NEW

MONASTRAL BLUE

Mr. C. J. T. Cronshaw, managing director of the British Dye- stuffs Corporation, Ltd., is one of the most distinguished and successful dyestuff chemists in the world.

At 45 he finds himself the centre of the scientific and industrial

storm over the I.C.I. newcolour-Monastral blue-described as the "most important colour discovery for 100 years." -

"The perfect colour must fulfil hot exist in the world. before,

"This six-sided figuro is the seven points.: Chief among them are resistance to acid, heat, alkall, architectural brick from which we fd suplente abrilliance of construct our buildings, by fusing ebon atoms mainly by heat acids, shade.

Monastral blue is nearly per- jor alkalis," fect. Its ehlef use will he forHe swiftly-sketched these figures, to show how the organic chemist multiole colour printing. Mr. Cronshaw is a Lancashire bullds up his experimental schemes man, small ef stature, trim, alert, for the laboratory.

"Did you know that the peacock's very pleasant, but most annoyingly

not reticent. He and his colleagues tail, like the rainbow,

jcoloured? have produced the new colour.

"You could not get colour from it. There is merely an optical effect, caused by the flues of the fenthers bending the jight.

"It is not easy" he said," "to add a new square to a child's paint box.

Was

LINK WITH EARTH

Cambridge, Mass., Dec. was ionized-charged with negative.

A theory that atmospheric con- particles of electricity-the subject ditions as affected by the Sun may brightened, lost his headache and dictate man's destiny is boing in- regained his vitality, vestigated by Dr.Harlan T. Stet-i Dr. Stetson is seeking a definite son, of the Harvard University answer to the question whether Geographical Exploration Depart-thora is a link between sun spots ment.

and ionization of the atmosphere.

These studies are significant in The theory is that lonization of view of unrest at a time when the the earth's atmosphere stimulates sun spots are ascending to their the ductless and thyroid glands of maximum intensity, Ad for bark humans the stands believed to as 1929 Abbe Moreaux, Astronomer- control temperament and person-Meteorologist of Bourges Observa». ality,

tory, warned the world to "beware. "Did you ever enter a house of 1936 and 1997." He pointed which had been shut up for out that sun spots would be waxing. months?" asked Dr. Stetson. "The to their height in those years, and air is musty, depressing, and the predicted that this would be m first impulso avant toufrententeflected in nervous tension. *** Yet a chemical analysis of the air

If it can bo proved that sun spots in the house shows that it is exactly increase the ionization of the air, the same as sea air. But somer. Stetson-Raid, science will have thing, is wrong."

It is possible, according to Dr. Rone a long way toward establish Stetson, that the stagnant air in ing that solar radiation dictates human affairs, just ng it regulates the house has lost that mysterious

tural crops.. electrical charge which may dis- weather cycles and governs agricul- tinguish fresh air from stalo.

But he pointed out that even if The Harvard scientist explained such proof were found, there would an experiment performed in, a room be no cause for humanity to regard where air was controlled auto-as futile its attempts to mould ta "The Great War disclosed thematically as to its content of elec own destiny.

"The very knowledge that we are awful truth that the British dyetrically-charged particles. stufa Industry had little creative When the air was depleted of spirit, little research, little experi-negatively charged particles, the chained to the sun's whime," he subject in the room became depress said, "would be the weapon by "We make colour synthetically,To-day we have about 2,000′ 1 ed, developed a headache, and folt which we could break those chaine

fatigued. But as soon as the air United Press. by producing substances which did separate dyestuffs in use.""

"Tyrian purple. used by the Romans for the imperial cloak, and proscribed for all but royal uso, was made by boiling thousands of

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