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A little guy with
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RICHARD
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IDE MORRISON CEREBUDI MICHALS
KELEN MACK DOROTHY 18
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JAMES
JEAN
RAY MILLARD
FRANK
MELTON MUIR McHUGH
in "STARS OVER BROADWAY”
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1936.
CLIPPING 9.980,000,000,000 YEARS
OFF AGE OF EARTH
NOT AS OLD
AS WE USED
TO BELIEVE
New York, Mar. 15.
That long-expected conflict over the age of the universc between Sir James Jeans, British astronomer, and co-workers in the field of natro-physics came to the fore to-day. Dr. Bart J. Bok of the Harvard once, torn apart, by the gravitu- College Observatory contradicts tion forces of the Milky Way, if the Jeans theory that the universe they had been in existence as in its present form has existed long as Sir James belloves. for 10,000,000,000,000 years, in
the current number of ··Observa-;
tory,
מב,
English nstronomic
Disintegration
Journal. He publishes evidence clude that several hundred clus-
"It would seem absurd to con- which ho considers definitely
establishes the upper limit of theters, all of which had consider- age of the universe at 20,000,000,-able mass and denalty at the time. 000 years. This
of their birth, would be observed figure to leas than 1 per cent of the time scale simultaneously on the verge of Invented by Sir James.
disintegration," he continues.
Sir James' theory hardly fits task for not using the influence of Sir James is further taken to with the evidence gained from the rotation of our galaxy, the star clusters, with known facts Milky Way, in making his compu- concerning the rotation galaxies or with exlating theories
tations. This one fact alone most
of
of the creation of spiral nebulae, vitally affects the validity of his Dr. Bok pointed out. Further anal estimate, Dr. Bok says. more, he cannot explain away the co-existence in the sume atar cluster of "young", red giant stars and "old" lato dwarfs,
"Glant stars with their tremen- dous energy output can hardly have existed for much longer than 10,000,000,000 years, unlesa we wish to use the ns yet unfounded hypotheala that energy loat through radiation is in aome un- known fashion replenished from surrounding space," anid Dr. Bok.
20,000,000,000 Years Old
"We found it unlikely that the observed clusters have existed for more than 20,000,000,000 years ns groups of stars. theory of the expanding universe la universo growing like a soap bubble) indicates that a catan-
KIEPURA BACK IN EUROPE
The famous and popular couple, Jan Klepura and Martha Eggert, havo returned to Europe from Hollywood, after having played their first American film.
APPEAL TO NATIONS FOR
"NO LAND'S” MEN
Geneva, March 15. Expelled nine times from one conutry to another.... Im. prisoned for years as "yagabonds." These are examples of the plight of refugees cited here to-day by Judge Hansson.
An appeal to Governments to ratify the Convention of Oct. 28, 1933, giving refugees en international status, was made by the judge, who is the new president of the governing body of the Nansen Office for the Settlement of Refugees.
LeMaitre's 5 Libel Suits
trophe took place a few billion
Against
years ago, and it is a temptation An Authoress
to place the origins of the stars and stellar systems at the opoch of this catastrophe."
Dr. Bok has found that hun-
All Settled: Copies of
dreds of star clusters including Book to be Destroyed
the well-known Pielades, Hyades and Taurus would not be on the verge of disintegrating all at
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FATE OF 8 CUNARD
LINERS
Southamptom, Mar. 15. Another great Cunard-White Star liner, the Homeric, 34,350 tons, is to be offered for sale for breaking up.
Of the 15 countries which parti- élpated in the drafting of the Convention only eight have signed.
Great Britain did not take part in the conference, but It is understood that as she already applies most of the provisions of the convention, she could easily accede to it and give a lead to other countries. Judgo
Hansson. addressing journalists, and there were over à million of these refugees, a large percentage of whom were SETTLEMENT has been without nationality and liable to
A announced before Mr. Justice routineries in which
Finlay in the King's Bench Divi- they reside.. sion of five libel actions against
Unless countries generally agros Mrs. Beatrice Kean Seymour, to recognise the Nansen Passport the authoress, Headley. Down, permitting refugees to travel in Bordon, Hampshire, and the search of work, the problem will publishers of her book, "Inter- remain as International one lude of Sally."
beyond the end of 1938, by which The five actions were listed as: time, it has been decided, the Money against Seymour and Nansen-office-la-to-be wound-up.-.. others;
Leigh Smith aguinat Seymour and others;
Leigh Smith and wife against Seymour and others;
Leigh Smith against Seymour and others;
Wilks against Seymour and othera.
The British League of Nations Union, it is stated, has taken ́ for sale 16,000 of the Nansen sur. charge postage stamps issued by the Norwegian Government to help provide funds for the office.
Franco le shortly to issue a inglo Nansen stamp of 75 cen- times, carrying a surcharge of 60 centimes.
FINAL WORK ON
VIMY RIDGE-
MEMORIAL
For the plaintiff, Money, it was stated that the defendants had agreed to pay substantial damages and an agrood sum for costs. Un- sold copies of the book would be This was officially announced here destroyed. to-day shortly before the 56,999 | In the last case Mr. Robert For- tons Majestic of the Bame fine tune, who appeared for the plain- aalled on what may be her last tlf, stated that his client had been voyage to New York before she portrayed in the novel as a very too is "scrap." Until the unladylike character but had now Normandie- 68,000 tons - waaboen fairly met the defendants, built ahe
For the plaintiffs in the other the largest ship afloat.
actions Mr. Constantine Gallop The Homeric is the largest twin-said that those actions arose out Bcrew liner afloat. She has been of the publication of the same laid up Ryde, Isle of Wight, book. "Interlude of Sally," but since the end of her holiday cruis-had been brought independently The scaffolding round the 138 ing season last year, and will be of the others.
ft.-high Canadian War Memorial inspected next Wednesday by re- In writing a pure work of fiction on Vimy Ridge is being removed. presentatives of several ship-Mro. Seymour had pitched the Work on the memorial, which
Was
breaking firms.
scene of her novel and some of the
Great Pilgrimage From Canada for Unveiling
The Majestic will be laid up at happenings in it in such a way will be unveiled in July, has oc- Southampton her return from that it was possible that the house cupied ten years. New York on Feb. 27. Her place of the plaintiffs might have been The memorial was designed by on the company's Atlantic express thought to have been in some way Mr. Walter Allward, a Canadian- service will be taken by the Queen denoted in the book
No one on behalf of the defen-feet of
sculptor, and contains 70,000 cubic
stone ол A base
Mary.
If, as appears likely, both the dants, he said, suggested that 237 feet long. It bears the names Majestic and Homeric are broken those things had any reference in af 11,700 Canadians who wore re- up, this will bring the number of truth to them, but, however wild ported as missing, with a tribute Cunard-White Star liners to meet those suggestions were some per- also to the French troops who gave this fate up to eight, with a total sons had, unfortunately, thought their lives at Vimy Ridge. tonnage of nearly a quarter of though they were none other than that the plaintiffa were denoted.
million.
There are 20 figures, each 12 The others already broken up or persons of respectability and in-feet high, grouped round two
tegrity. being broken up ́are:
pylons representing Canada and The defendants had sgrood to France. At the base, which re pay damages and the costs of the prezente impregnable wall of do- proceedings.........
Tons.
TOTLE Mauretania 30,696) Albertie 18,940 Olymple .. 45,439| Calgaric. 10,063 Adriatic.. 24,079) Doria ... 16,000
Both the Majestle and Homeric Fate Of Big
aro Gorman-built ships which wore taken as Reparations. The Majes-
U.S. Liner
fence, are two groups depicting the Breaking of the Sword and the Sympathy of Canadians for" the Helpless, surmounted by the Imouths of guns draped with oliva
and laurels.
The park of 240 acres, in which
tle, formorly known as the Bis-||| marck, was the last of thres
It became known in Hongkong the memorial stands, has boon pre- vessels of over 25,000 tons laid yesterday tliat negotiations are infaented by France. down for the Hamburg-Amerika progress for the sale to ship Line shortly before the war.
breakers of the Columbia, 24,578 | One of the greatest pilgrimages The Homeric was formerly the tons, belonging to the Atlantic known is being organised for Columbus. She was completed in Transport Company of West Vir Canadians to attend the unveiling 1022- at Danzig for the North-|ginia.":"|
ceremony. Thousands of
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George
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To
WHISPERING SMITH Speaks
with
IRENE WARE. KENNETH THOMSON Directed by David Howard From the story by
FRANK H. SPEARMAN
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[German". Lloyd, and, for over 10 The Columbia was launched Servicemen are expected to be pro
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