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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1936.

ATTEMPTS TO GATE-CRASH QUEEN MARY

"Yard" Men Safeguard the Liner on Sailing Day

-Unfinished-

Pyramid

FOUNDATIONS of a giant

pyramid stand high on a spur of the Ozark Mountains, North Arkansas.

It was begun in 1931. It was to have risen 130ft. high. Inaide were to have been placed models and recorda telling of the rise and fall at this civilisation.

But the pyramid will prob ably never lie completed. For, this month, Its creator, Mr. William Hope ("Coin") Har vey, advocate of free silver for the United States, died in Monte Ne, Arkansas.

MODERN ALLADINS

-RUB THEIR

LAMPS

St. Louis, Mo., Mar. 15. Out of the 79th annual conven- tion of the American Association for Advancement of Science came a picture of what happens when modern Aladdina rub magic lampa.

Hundreds of discoveries were divulged, demonstrated, and described to 3,000 delegates at- tending some score of meetings.

A cross section includes:

Radio broadcasting of a fnesimite of a San Francisco newspaper to tho General Electric Co., of Schenectady, fresh from the press, before it was on the street in San Francisco.

Imminent smashing of atoms by terrific electrical voltage, which, when directed into a pile of plain table salt, will result in rendering it "radio uctive,” supplanting. costly radiem, fit for internal medicinal use.

a common

Popping of cora in water glen by means of high frequency radio waves which do not heat the glass but merely react on the moisture in the corn, Physicians are studying this with a view to artificial production of tovers for combating certain types of disonses which yield to such treatment.

of a

Conversion of light into soænd. and vice versa, by means photo-electric tube, in which light affects the flow of current, which, when amplified and shot into a loud speaker, gives noise.. By re- versing the process. sound be- comes light.

MOTORS THAT RUN ON CABBAGE OIL

Dr. Karl T. Compton, Cam- bridge, Mass, president of the AAAS. predicted the day when

starch from vegetables would be converted Into Industrial alcohol. which, when mixed with gna, will create a satisfactory motor fuel.

Willie Ray Gregg, head of the U.S. Weather bureau, told of the Radio meteorograph, which attach ed to balloons, provides instan- taneous recording of upper air conditions by radio.

Treatment of severe cases of asthma by use of a lang evacun- tion drug, combined with forcing the patient to kneel on A chair, place both hands on the floor, and cough.

Relief of chronic sufferers from heart discaso by inhalation of trichlorethylene, chloroform

ม

like drug, instantaneously effen- | cious.

Study of the brain by wiring. It electrically. Tests on 69 fear old farmer indicated the brain is made up of centres which control reparate activities of the body.

Edward

Thorndike, of Columbia University, addressing the meeting and "man can be made to improve his desires; can be taught to find satisfaction In useful work, healthful and noble: recreation and the welfare of othora."-United Press.

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LOOK-OUT FOR

SPIES

:

CLYDE WORKERS KEEP SECRETS

Glasgow, Mar. 24.

Picked mon from the special branch at Scotland Yard word brought hero to safeguard the liner Queen Mary when she sailed on her maiden voyage to-day,

These men co-operated with the police forces of Glasgow, Dumbartonshire, and Renfrewshire in protecting the vessel from "gate-crashers."

They were chosen from inen with the widest experience of Continental erooks, and were specially on the look-out for sples sent over to learn the secrets of the Queen Mary's construction and engineering details.

The 5,000 men and women who were engaged in the line worked in conditions of the strictest secrecy. The vessel is still, în fact, best-guarded structure in Britain.

Two men who disguised themselves ns workmen got past the outer guard, but when they arrived at the section where they said they were working-they were detected instantly, and were marched out of the yard.

FISHING?

As many other great politicians, the former governor In New

York

Every day for the past month the guards have turned nway scores of people who took the train from Glasgow to Clyde- bank in the hope of making a tour of the ship-by permission otherwisc.

or

Plans For Big Day

Every plan for the big tay turned out perfect.

It is a sad reflection that the Clyde's biggest day, how- ever, has increased the num- her of unemplayed on Clyde- bank, and in the district by several thousands.

This week, for instance, n thousand carpenters and other employers have been paid ofT, their work né. complished.

There will still be a great deal of work to be done at Southamp- toa, however, as the Queen Mary has not been decorated and furnished completely

the Clyde, in order to minimise dam- nge risks.

£5 Bids Rofused

Every yard below John Brown's i anni presidential candidate Alfred was inundated with applicaționa Siglth, gives preference to fialing na

200 the Queen a leisure occupation. The picture above shows Al with his fishing-rod Bids of as much us have and cigar.

been received and turned down.

War Baby Hero Talks Of Soldier's Duty

Aldershot, Mar. 16.

to be

THE first war-baby

awarded the Military Medal -he celebrated his twenty-first birthday a few months ago-is

a modest young man.

Gunner Ernest Albert Thomas, of the 3rd Light Battery Royal Artillery, won the Medal for con- spicuous gallantry on the North- West Frontier.

Ke

how at Aldershot on sick leare, his right arm, in which he was shot, an inch shorter than the left.

"MY ORDERS"

say

But almost all he would was: "I was'given my orders, and I have always been taught that' a soldier's first duty in to obey. orders."

Official documenta tell that dur- ing the Mohmand operations. when Indian tribesmen ambushed the British forces, Gunner Thomas advanced under heavy enemy fire laying wire.

He went on, after he had been wounded, until he was ordered to withdraw.

"It was the bravery of Lieuten- ant J. N. D. Tyler, who received the M.C., that inspired us." said Gunuer Thomas. He would say no more about himself,

A VICTORIA FALLS QUERY

Durban, Mar. 12.

DOUBT as to whether Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls is expressed by the curator of the falls, Mr. J. J. Reynard, in a letter to the chief archivist of the Vatican Library in Rome.

A wmoan lecturer in Pretoria,, centuries ago.

Mrs. E. C. Lou, is reported to "My friend, Father E. King, of have said: "At the Vatican, re- Formstreet, London, has made search in the great library re-diligent investigations into the vealed interesting information. curly history of the Zambesi, but Marked on early explorer mans his efforts have not been successful. were the Victoria Falls, Thesc "Valuable records wore destroy- were dated hundreds of years be; ed when the Lisbon Hbrary fall a fore the discovery by Livingstone, victim to the devastating fire that In his latter to the Vatican, ask-caused immense damage to the Ing for information, the curator city. The library contained pre- saya:

elous documents In connection

"I have always held that thea with the Portuguese settlementa Portugueno Jesults must have in this portion of the African Con- penetrated into the hinterland of tinont-Zambesi.

the Cuama River (tho Zambesi "Any data you could send me, was known as the Cuama in the also a copy of the map indicating oarly Portuguese period), along the great falls, would be of world- whose banks they settled over four wide Interest."-Central News,

för tickets to Mary leave.

Farmers on the Renfrewshire banks of the Clyde, however, sold hundreds of grandstand seats at prices ranging from 7s, Gd. to three guineas.

It is estimated that the journey From the river to the Bed Was watched by at least 500,000 peo ple.

ROBOT

ENGLAND'S "DIONNES” Gain Weight

England takes almost as much interest in the Miles "Quan" ax Canada does in the Dionne Quints. Thousands were overjoyed to Jearn that four tots had more than doubled their weight since birth, Inat November. They are the children of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Miles. UPPER LEFT is Ernest, who weighed 3 lbs. 15 oz. at birth and now weighs & lbs. 2 oz. UPPER RIGHT ja Ann, the only girl, who scaled 1 lbs. 12 oz. at birth and now weighn 7 lba. 10% oz. LOWER LEFT is Paul, who weighed 3 s. 7 oz., and now weighs 7 lbs. 10 oz, Michael (LOWER RIGHT), has increased his weight of 2 lba. 13

uz to 0.8. 13oz.

Wanted-Air Pilot Without

Old School-Tie

A NEW kind of air pilot.

proficient at shorthand, lyping and accountancy, In advertised for the current issue of The Aeroplane.

He must have had not less than 2,000 hours, solo experi- ence and be certiflented to command an air liner.

The advertisement adds:

Wanted: A Tank Trumpet Call

"STABLES"

CAN'T BE

"It is hoped the applicant PLAYED TO

will have cut the eye teeth and finished with play. have temperate habits. No school-tie

wenrer ог rich man's son need apply."

Preference is for a son of poor parents who wants ar opportunity.

PILOTS

CONVICTS WANTED A JOY RIDE

Joliet, I., Mar. 19. Gates of Stateville Prison swung open today for a truck to leave-then clanged shut na guards discovered six trustles sitting on a bobsled roped to the rear axle.

The canvicts were hustled off to solitary confinement, Insisting they built the sled for recreation and merely intended to coast behind the truck as far as the gate. The rope became tangled and they

were Bald.

unable to stop, they

There will be no "consting" at Joliet.-United Préal.

ASSASSINATION

SUSPECT

more

Katherine Schissler, a creole, who,

A

FOR BRITISH BOMBERS

GARAGES

THE approaching mechanisation of the Cavalry Brigade at Alder- shot has struck Romance a foul blow under the ear with a spanner.

The blow is especially foil because it involves the ear with which Romance listened to }"Stables"—that lilting trumpet call which roused troopers and horses alike to the main business of the day,.

S A RESULT OF INTENSIVE No horses--no "Stables." No

Romance. SECRET WORK, BRITAIN | "Stables"-no

But,

NOW LEADS THE WORLD stay, there will be stables of a IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF sort for the mechanised mounts, MECHANICAL PILOTS FOR and the mechanic-trooper must be PLANES.

summoned somehow to fill up the tank and polish the countless gad-| These robots will have far-gets of his steed. reaching effects on the strength || of Britain's air force.

"INTO THE SUMP".

So the trumpeters are still look- Air Ministry experts in their ing forward to sounding the same laboratories, and private experi call, but with different words at- menters in their workshops, have tached. The old "Stables" lilted been labouring to perfect pieces like this:-

of apparatus ao ingenious, so sensitive, that in the form they have now reached they fre virtually mechanical brains.

Glant bombers, speeding at high attitude throughout the night, can be controlled entire-

"All you who are able, should come to the stable and water your horace and give them some corn. If you don't do it, the major will know it, then you will be for the office the, very next morn."

ly by these mechanical pilots, good for tanks or armoured cars, Those words are obviously no while the human pilota in charge of

so a suggestion has been made to the planes are re-substitute the following: Heved of hours of fatiguing| work in the cockpit.

The robots can also be used to) great advantage in long-distance) mail-planea.

“HUSH-HUSH” MECHANISM

Many details of the robots' aro still of a "huah-buah”, character, but the governing principle of most of them is the wonderful balancing power possessed by a rapidly-revolving gyroscope.

The pilot of an aeroplane which has been fitted with one of those devices ascends is the usual way. Then, after sotting the machine on its course, he switches on the Byroscopic machinery, which im mediately takes entire control,

:

The vigilance of the auto- matic pilot is unceasing, and Il

· never makes a mistake,

at the instances of the French police,If the machine tilts' eldoways, South America en suspicion of being or, tende to diye or swerve, the has been arrested at Bao. Paulo, in entangled in the murdere cf King mechanism automatically correcte Alexander and M. Barthow,

the movement.

"Come on with your spanners and mechanised manners, the garage is calling, the cupines are cold: So come with a jump and dive into the sump and be drowned if you don't do the job you are told.”

CURE FOR

COLD

New York, Mar, 10. The ability to keep alive. In a lest tube for 20 months the virus identified as the cause of the common cold, has brought science closer to the development of an anti-cold vaccino, Dr. Raymond Docher, professor of the Colum bia School of Medicine, has just announced.

The virus has been known for some time, but Dr. Doches' an nouncement that it can be kept living as a result, of recent ex- periments gave the first hope that a vaccino, la curo common colds might be developed soon.

The research also has disclosed, ht said, that

similar i virus la responsible for influenza.

-United PresT......

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