1936-05-21 — Page 3

SHE IS 106

AND WANTS TO LIVE DOWN MODERN DRESS:

Australia's oldest inhabitant, Mrs. Sarah Musgrove, of North Auburn, Sydney, has just celebrat. ed her 106th birthday with publicly expressed wish that she. will "ve to see all this tomfoo-4 lery in modern girls' dress ended."

"I am incensed at many of the present day forms of women's attire," she told Antral, News "especially those disgusting shorts and tight-fitting bathing costumes, It is all inimodest and shameful. more Clergymen should speak

from the pulpit on this offensive state of affairs and endeavour to bring about reforms."

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1936.

Y.W.C.A. SECRETARY NO MORE

ተነ

Miss Mary Curwen secretary of the Y.W.CA, of Great Britain, was photographed on her arrival £714 liner in New York Berengarin. She went over the sea to attend the international YW.C.A. conference that will be held at Colorado Springs.

HAS SEARCH FOR

AMERICAN ACCENT AT B.B.C.

BRITAIN'S Broadcasting

dignity has been re- stored and the Canadian announcer with "that shock- ing American accent" has been silenced.

The accent belonged to "Bob" Bowman, who announced for the Olympic ice-hockey games Garmisch,

*

in

He has been amply compen-.: sated for his loss of status as a British announcer for he has now become a star sports re- the London Daily porter on Express.

As an announcer he had all the guste and scale-climbing excitement of the American announcer, replete with "hern we are, folks, huddled right down in front in the clear, brisk cold waiting for oh boy, what e I wish you could have seen it, folks!"

'GRAIL ENDED? shot! What a shot!

Philadelphia, May 8.

The Great Chalice of Antioch, Reeping. It of Fahim

property

I was reñoved to New York for safe

has since become the It was shocking to the powers of Kouchaki, the B.B.C. The next day a flood of exhl letters came to Broadcasting House complaining about the American ae cent.

which encloses a smaller silver through whose courtesy it

with bite. connected by many

cup

MUST BE PONTIFICAL

tho

AT

NEW WORDS- Next Change KING'S -

RESIGNS POST

IN THE ARMY

rift is reported In the British cabinet after the resign- ation of Lord Eustace Percy. minister without portfolio. Lord Percy stated his resignation was for personal reasons, but obser- vers bellere SE Arone out cabinet discussions on the Locarno security part. Lord Percy and been taken inte the cabinet last June to give "intellectunt direc- tion to the polices of the govern. ment."

Rumanian State Secrets.

́GIVEN' AWAY WITH

POUND OF TEA The Rumanian secret police that delicate State discovered secrets are being literally given away with a pound of tea and other groceries.

the legendary "Holy Grail". Experts date the chalice. con- supposed to have been used at structed around the earlier small

It re So Bowman, an announcer for 18 the Last Supper, now stands silver cup, as Pirst Century,

they say, various known months, was gently put off the air, majestically on a softly illumin-sembles, ated Grecian pillar in the cen-vessels of the perind in the Roman and it was announced that hereafter tre of the impressive rotunda in Empire. The figures worked upon it all brendensters will maintain

are said to be the earliest known oficial B.B.C. manner of sponking- the Franklin Institute. It will portraits of Jesus and his followers. pontifical and superior to the way

Gustavus Augustus Eisen, archae of any emotion. remain until June 3.

ologist, and curator of the California;

But Bowman's departure failed to Academy of Sciences, has written a

pronunciation, monograph on the subject. In the sette domestic quarrels as to correct

hy:

As long as a town with a name like 14 pronounced 1e "Trossly" and the natives of Alderpart of the papers of a Parliamentary wusley call their heath "Alterzles," Committee which, behind closed doors, last year investigated a muni- announcera of

tions seandal in which a former War the tongue-twisting

Minister was alleged to have con-

This vessel, symbol, of the quests of Sir Galahad and other knights of the Round Table of Athurian 1012 by Legend, was unearthed in Arab worker digging in the ruins was taken of Antioch, in Syria. It to Paris, but on the eve of the Marne

Smallest Planet Temperature

TINY MERCURY

"That chalice, as we have abund antly proved, cannot be later tha! Trottiscliffe the First Century, at a time when many who had known Jesus in the flesh were still living, the inner cup was enshrined as the noblest Christ lan relie

The only cup which explains such reverence, he continued, would be the one used at the Last Supper.

WORLD TO GET CABBAGE MINUS ODOUR BY 1938

the British Broadcasting Corporation are going to have their troubles.

Every time some announcer calls Dulwich a lot of infuriated listeners write to ask why he talks like some bloomin' forelgar" and why doesn't he call it "Dullidge" as it should be known.

BUT IT GROWS WORSE It's even worse than that.

When an announcer is talking about

the section of Greater London he safely can call it Bromley, just as It is spelled. But if he's talking about Brenley in Kent it's "Bramly." It's Ithnea, N.Y., May 7. the same way with Romford, Kent, Odourless cabbage, discovered and Romford, Essex. One in "Ron- at Cornell University a few lord," the other "Rumford."" ns-

months ago, probably will go on the market in about two years.

Mt. Wilson, Calif., May 10. Tiny Mercury, the smallest planet, appearing like a bright orange glow over the horizon, was pictured here by two

a half-hot, half- tronomers as icy ball, totally incapable of life. Dr. Edison Pettit and Dr. Seth B. Nicholson, in a final report on years' research, said they measured the scorching temperature of 774 de grees Fahrenheit on the sunny side

of Mercury.

When searching the rooms of a suspected person they found a highly confidentini document. It formed

'DEPLANEMENT'

AND

“EMPLANEMENT"

HORSE STILL VITAL

IN WAR

The introduction and develop- ment of new arms has made necessary a comprehensive re- vision of Field Service Regula=" tions, and new words have been added to the military die- tionary.

to

For distance, as a result of mechanisation" "chussing" and "debussing" are now used describe infantry joining or leaving transport vehicles, and since troops might be transport. ed by nir, the words "nbarka- tion" and "disembarkation" have been replaced by "emplane- ment" and "deplanement." Since the last edition of Field! Service Regulations was published intensive study of the characteristick of the various arms and their em ployment, especially armoured fight: ing vehicles, the air and gos, enabled the Army Council to provide more detailed guidance for commen- ders.

THE

WHAT A SPOT FOR CLARK!

Two gorgeous girls crazy

has

about him and does he

the wide It is pointed out that range nf action and the mobility of tank brigades are greater than any troops have ever possessed. Those qualities give them frequent oppor tunities for surprise, and enable them to strike a blow, not only at the drinks of an enemy, but also at his headquarters and rear services.

NEVER-FAILING INFANTRY Armoured troops, however, cannot move should supplies of petrol fail, whereas horses can continue to nove for a time on short rations or even without food. Horses can also, to a certain extent, live on the country.

Although nearly all cavalry regi ments are to be mechanised, a few will retain their horses, for the re- gulations state that although more vulnerable and less mobile than arm- oured troops in areas favourable to the movement of mechanical vehicles, horse soldiers are much less sensitive Challenged to explain how he had

to ground and can go practically any- bebu able to buy or steal this secret

where. For reconnaissance and pro- information, the man replied that hetective duties horse soldiers are often had no idea where it caine from unvaluable. less it was the poper in. which his grocer had wrapped half-a-pound of bacon.

tracted an illegal contract for the

of munitions. supply

CRSC.

Investigations showed, according to thr Hungarian newspaper, Uj apparently guarszag, that this absurd excuse was correct. In the grocer's shop the police discovered 2.000

sheets of these secret documents being used for wrapping up, parcels. At a neighbouring greengrocer's they found that potatoes and carrots were being wrapped up in the secret In an effort to standardize pro-report of the military experts in the nunciations of place names the B.B.C. same lanation given by the news- enough seed is produced to make the book called "Broadcast Eng- paper is that at the end of the in- Ish A special commission arvestigation, which lasted a year, a it commercially profitable to linguists worked months in its pre- member of the Committee decided to Krow the new type cabbage, ac-paration.

earn an honest penny by selling the to waste-puper cording to Prof. C. H. Myers, Heading the commission was the voluminous reports who spent six years before he literary wag and "leg puller," George dealers.

Bernard Shaw, who ordinarily might found a way to take the odour Be apertad to we cut of his way

The secret police are now going out of the vegetable.

give the wrong pronunciation to name.

It will be that long before after months of research, has issued 12

It confirms, they said, that the little plant licks a-life-giving blanket of atmospheric gasses such as cloaks the earth. The great heat would drive any gasses or moisture off into space. leaving Mercury bare and bleak.

of Mercury's The temperature opposite extreme, the side away from! the sun, is believed to be elder than 400 degrees below zero.

The 774-degree temperature, they found, was reached once in every mer- curial year of 88 days when the planet swings closest to the sun. At the coolest, the sunny side never dropped below 621 degrees.

By measuring the planet's power to the reflect sunlight to the earth, scientists also found evidence that its surface is rough, but probably

More than 1.000 heads of the odourless cabbage have 'been produced in Cornell laboratories and are guarded to preserve their seed from contamination with smelly relatives. It is estimated that 15,000 seeds will be obtained from the cabbage.

♫

HUXLEY ALSO SERVED Others on the commission included Julian Huxley, Lord David Cecil. Prof. Lascelles Abercrombie and re- the Royal Society of Literature ami. presentatives of the British Academy, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Several small lots are being The place-name guide is based on used to produce the cabbage for the theory that every town should be seed.-United Press.

known as it is to the realdents, and It is admitted that there isn't a man to be found in the whole United King dom who could pronounce correctly

smoother than the deeply ridged and Sub. Stratosphere

pitted face of the moon.

They concluded that the planet is dark-coloured, probably composed of blackish igneous rock, despite its whitish appearance through the teles cope-United Press

FOUND MESSAGE

Flight Across

The Atlantic

Shreveport, Louisima, May 10. Col. Clurence Chamberlain, ploncer

June.

|

half of the town names.

any lo contest the

from shop to shop and recovering

such of the State secrets as have not been used for packing prosaic pur- chases.

PROOF THAT THE WORM WILL TURN

50-

Nur have armoured troops placed the foot soldier. "Practical ly all success in war." the Regula- tions state, "which is won by the proper co-operation of all army, must in the end be confirmed by infantry....

"It is the most adaptable and the most generally useful of all arms since it is capable of operating over almost any ground either by day or night, and can find or take cover for itself more readily than the other arms."

MERLE OBERON 'CLAIMS £25,000 DAMAGES

Hollywood, May 10. ERLE Oberon, the British

Mlm actress, is demanding

£25,066 from the Selznick Inter- national Pictures Company be cause she did not get the Mor- ence Nightingale role in a film Lindsay, Calif. May 15. about the famous British nurse. Proof that a worm will turn hus Her lawyers have entered a suit this been offered by the State department against the company for

of Agriculture's Bureau of Entomo-

logy in a little brochure on easier amount, representing both wages and damages, claiming that Miss ways and means of getting worms with which to catch fish. The en-Oberon's contract specified that she tomologists said Jigging up the yard was to have the starring role in for wormS

as well as "Florence Nightingale," and that was passed hard work..

the company is not producing the If there are

"Angleworms, although sensitive to film now. assertion, let them try out their most light, apparently are insensitive The suit brought by Miss Oberon tongues on Ugham, Garboldisham, to red light," explained the expert. against the Selznick concern, claims Hardenhuish, autbois, Piddletren."Flashing an ordinary light will caure that it abandoned the project for thide, Punchnowl.or Meols.

the worm to turn. "But if the ght

a Alm on making

the life of has a red glass the worm will pay Florence Nightingale because an- no attention."

making A The way to get the worm to the other producer was

he taken similar film. he surface where he may

When

MUST REFER TO BOOK

Announcer An

Tuns of these now, some

up

love the trouble they get him into Gat gay with these three merry-makers!

FR K CLA

GABLE HARLOW LOY Wife versus

Metro-

Gottwyn

Mayer

ΠΟΤΙΣ

FAITH BALDWIN'S

Secretary

A CLARENCE BROWN Production

with MAY KOBSON

GEORGE BARBIER

JAMES STEWART HOBART CAVANAUGH Directed by CLARENCE BROWN

TO DRINK

CALDBECK'S

"GOLDEN LAGER"

is

TO ECONOMISE WITH SAFETY

GIVE THIS FIRST CLASS BEER A TRIAL

Chamberlain flew from New York: tionet ton petani, first and the pro-ture falls below 40 degrees, the en- when she reported for duty she AND JUDGE FOR YOURSELF

nunciations second..

was not assigned the leading role which, she claims, she had been promised.-United Press.

A LEADING PART

against FROM ENGINEER trans-Atlantic, tier, has announced reaches for the little book "Broad- easily by the light of a red lantern is The suit also declares that tlie

plans for a 5,100 mille Dallas, Texas, cast English."

to sprinkle the ground just before Selznick company selected "The to Paris sub-stratosphere might in

sundown. That will bring him out Garden of Allah" as a film in which Here are a few of the "transla-unless there is a wind or the tempera- she should star instead, but that South Bend, Apr. 19. A message purporting to be

tomologists say.-United Press. from the first engineer of the to Germany with Charles Levine in

Badgworthy, "Bajfery:" Hanwich. steamship Iowa, wrecked on the "Columbia" in June, 1927. That,

DECIDED FINE Peacock Spit in January with flight required 43 hours. He expects "Harritch:" Heighington, "Hayton;" to make the new, longer fight in Brambletye.. "Brambelti:" Eltring-

POINT OF LAW loss of thirty-four lives, was 20 hours.

kam, "Eltrinjam;" Greatham, being investigated to-day by

"Grétam." Sheriff Trezise, of Pacific Countyfinance the flight himself. He an- There are four Southwicks in Eng-Man on Gangplank Is Aboard here, who at first believed it anounced he would use a Douglas air land-in Hampshire, Northampton- Ship, According to De-

liner with two 1,000 horsepower shire,.

Sussex Sund Wiltshire-and The plane would carry, there are two pronunciations. Two

cision of Judge The first engineer was V. Glaherty, motors. of Tacoma. The sheriff sought a navigator and radio, be sealed for are "Suthick" and the others are

Scattle, Apr. 21. specimen of Claherty's handwriting.liquid oxygen in the high altitude, "Southwick.

When a man is on a gangplank Ingvald Hansen, dredge worker, and carry 1,500 gallons of gasoline. found the message in a wine bottle,

The little book hasn't mottled the reaching from the deck of a "Two thousand gallons of fuel will; cant ashore near here. The bottled be needed for the flight," Chamber- biggest controversy of all, however, vessel to the wharf, where is he neck had been scaled with candle lain said, "so I'll probably re-fuck Is it "South-Hampton" or just "South-aboard ship or ashore?

over New York."-United Press. ampton""

hoax.

wax.

WATSON'S

Chamberlain said. he pluns to

BABY WATER

:

25 cts. per Bottle

PREVENTS BABY'S LITTLE TUMMY TROUBLES

It had previously been stated that Merle Oberon had declined the leading

part in "The Garden of Allah," and, at her own request, was transferred to play the lead in "Dark Victory."

Marlene Dietrich is taking Miss Oberon's part in the "Garden of Allah" film, it was stated.

A film about. Florence Nightingale, under the title "Angel of Mercy" la being made by Warner Brothewith Kay Francis in the leading role. Federal Judgo Jeremiah Netorer The film has been in preparation for answered this unusual question yes- | over a year. terday in an opinion holding that the Kongplank is part and parcel of the

Vessel.

the

The point was raised when Jurisdiction of Admiralty Court was

First Medals

challenged in a libel suit brought by With King's Head

London, May 10. Modals and medailions of Orders conferred by the King on his first Birthday Honours List in June will bo tho frat tokens to bear his head.

M. Prestlien, Everett langshoreman, against the Chinese steamship Shang Ho, of Taingtae, for $50,000 for in- juries sustained when he was hurled from the gangplank. Prestlien sald the vessel was moved while he was still on the gangplank, throwing him to the wharf.

The gangplank is & Recessary No dnto howuvor lins yat boon fixed part of the vessel as much as this for the Investitures at which the engine used for operating the crane, King will confer the decorations so host or dorrick fn loading cargo," that they may not be propared for the court held.

some time yet."-

Sole Agents:

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.

WHEN AT HOME

The

Hongkong Telegraph

MAY BE PURCHASED

AT SELFRIDGE'S