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Thurston "Returns" From Grave

FAMED MAGICIAN

New York, May 24, Believers in the supernatural are convinced that the Inte Howard Thurston, famous magi- cian, has at least completed one leg of his promise to "return"

from the grave.

Scepiles attributed it to ገ

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1936.

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OUR

"PUNY SUN”.

Seen Through "Peephole" In The Milky Way

New York, May 20,

50,000

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SUN-BATHING IN

STRATOSPHERE WOULD BE FATAL

ALTHOUGH giving the in thought that the low atmospheria pression of spectacular pressure surrounding the trans- achievements undertaken solely mitter may have been the cause. for adventure,

The bombardment of th atmos- stratosphere

[phere by cosmic rays increases its

plectricul conductivity; at 61,000

OUR sun, once regarded as the proud ruler of the uni-sientific

verse, is more and more being made to feel its insigni-scientific endeavours of modern ft. the conductivity was 81 times ficance as astronomers, nightly peering at the heavens, compare it to a tallow candle in contrast with some stars which range the heavens.

:

To-day comes news of the sighting of a new cluster o 50,000 stars, many much larger than "our relatively pany sun."

METEORI FELLS

200 TREES

"Mass Of Flame"

Dr. Harlow Shupley, director of This discovery is revealed by Harvard Observatory, who has found a cosmic peephole in the Milky Way which enables man to look into the great beyond.

The Milky Way, shaped like a cart- wheel, with the earth at the end of

one of its "spokes," has always been barrier of great dust clouds to even regarded as forming an impenetrablo the most powerful telescopes.

Barcelona, May 18. A HUGE meteorite, falling at enormous speed, crashed to earth at Villarejo de las Fuentes, in the province of Cuenen, But fiarvard astronomers have: Southern Spain, to-day, uproot-through which 147 great new stars ing more than 200 fees and splitting great rocks.

the phenomenon was witnessed by Herminio Fuente, a loent miller, who said it was preceded by light

fur and a mass of flame," follow- ed-by-deafening thunder. Travelling from south-west to north-west, the meteorite ploughed a way through a dense wood of oaks. tully came to rest on properly be

Approaching the road from Teruel to Turancon, I lost speed, und even

longing to a local resident.

WOMAN' CHIEF OF

nirmanship.

greater than at sen lovel. Verti-| Captain Orvil Anderson, of the 65 times more numerous at 57,000 Captain Albert Stevens and feal cosmic rays were found to be United States Army Air Corps, feet than at sea level. during their world record flight to 72,395 feet (13.71 miles) last November, carried scientific in- gondola of their balloon and struments inside and outside the j obtained much valuable informa- tion for the future of flying.

An analysis of this is presented in, the May number of the National | Geographie Magazine,

Ozone in the atmosphère acts as a screen against the passage of short ultra-violet waves of light, and spectra photographs taken in the stratosphere indi- cated that if all the ultra waves got through to earth hu- man skin would be destroyed by A few minutes' exposure to sun- light.

On the other land, a decrease At great heights the upper in the earth-reaching ultra-violet sky was found to be black. At waves would have a starving ef 13% milles the sun's brightness feet on humanity, and also permit was 20 per cent. greater than a great increase in bacteria. when viewed from the ground." Samples of air taken above 70,- Contrary to expectation, radio 000 ft. wore brought to the ground, decreased in strength and analysis showed practically no above 60,000 ft. This has been

not change in the oxygen to nitrogen fully explained. It falratio found at ground levels.

signals now come" across this "window"

have been observed.

Dr. Shapley describes the "win dow to the American Philosophical Society as giving access to the "grost open spaces" of the cosmos.

He estimated. that 100 of tho now atars are more than 30,000 light years Away and n

n light-year is 0,000,000,- 000,000 miles.

The cluster of which these form

attached. part is called a "tramp" because it is wandering through space apparently

Ladies Will Do CLAN SOCIETY The Smoking

stray April breeze or a wobbly MRS. FLORA MACLEOD In A.D. 1966

nail in the wall.

Magician Joseph Dunninger reported that the idol in a glass case which Thurston gave him years ago and promised to break to prove there was life after death-has moved slightly.

An oil painting of a Hindu snake elmeier, which hung two feet above it, crashed to the floor. Apparently It struck the idal case in its pasenge downward.

poser

"I honestly don't believe Thurston had anything to do with it," said Dunninger, noted illusionist and ex- of fakó mediums. "I don't believe in spiritualism, I don't believe in the dead returning, But I feel. honour bound to report the incident." Dunninger said the painting, in a heavy gilt framo, had ning on his bedroom wall for the last four years. Below it, also suspended by a wire hook on the wall, was the small glass ease containing the idol.

It is of a rare grayish-green hue, purporting to be an image of Rameses 11, which the late Thurston brought back from Luxor, Egypt, and present- ed to Dunninger 12 years ago. "If I can come back," he told him, "I -will-smash--the-case to prove there

is life after death."

"I heard a heavy crash." Dunninger said. "I naturally was startled and my first impulse was to look at the idol case.

thought the idol had fallen. I lit my light and found that the paluting above it had dropped to the floor, striking the idol case but not damaging it.

"Houdini left me a 10 word ende message. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did likewise. None of those fellows ever came back. And I don't believe Thurston ever will come back, either. "I'm on the other side of the fence." -United Press.

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Omaha, Neb., May 24. LANSMEN gathered here The ladies will do all the smok- The K.C.'s daughter, formerly

From all parts of the lighing 30 years from now, lands to-night and elected a Victor E. Levinc, Creighton Col- ried

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schild, in December 1933. She is Mrs. Macleod of

The men perverse lot, he Macleod, one of the first women said-will come to believe that-shortly before the wedding..

She embraced the Jewish faith to be offered the eagle feathers smoking is effeminate, and will Mr. Victor Rothschild, twenty-six King George's riding horses, 22A Queen's Rd. C.Tel. 21270. symbolising the honour. The give it up altogether. wider question of chieftainship

years old, is a scientist and Fellow which are at present in the 27 Nathan Road. Tel. 68546. of the whole clan is to be con-man's prerogative, the scientist re Their home is at Merton IIall, Palace, will soon be pensioned off At one time smoking was strictly a of Trinity College, Cambridge. Royal Mews at Buckingham sidered later.

called. But an was the use of per- Cambridge. They have one other and put out to grass at Hamp- Mrs. Macloed is the elder daughter fume. of the late Sir Reginald Macleod, for

ton Court or Windsor. "In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, child, a girl, born in 1934, many years head of the clan, and her parliament passed a law forbidding

DESIRED A SON election was the unanimous wish of women to use perfume because it was

King Edward recently visited meinbers of the society.

Both Mr. and Mrs, Victor Roth- the Royal Mews with Sir Arthur feared there would not be enough for child had desired a son to carry Erskine, Crown Equerry, as part both sexes.'

Jon the family name. But the women

of his programme of inspection of went right on using It-more than ever.

The telephone call which all departments of the Court. "Perfunic,"

brought the news from Com- came an article of use

Dr. Levino said, "be

Earlier in the day the King sat bridge to Mr. Hutchinson was for the portrait head which will effeminate, and men

for the abandoned it

received by his clerk, who was appear on the new Edward VIII. altogether."

fetched out of court by one of coinage and on medals granted by the Old Bailey attendants. His Majesty,

Two artists. Mr. Perey Metcalfe and Mr. T. H. Paget, are making and designs for the portrait. Both have done portrait medallions of tho King when he was Prince of Wales, Mr. Metcalfe designed the portrait plaque made three years ago by the disabled ex-service men of Ashtead, Surrey.

HER ISLAND HOME The new chieftain of the society was not present at to-night's meet ing, but from her home in historic; Dunvegan Castle, on the Isle of Skye, she told me that she was ready and eager to assume her responsibilitics

Following the denth of Mrs. He said that's what's going to Macleod's father, at the age of 88 last happen to smoking, and predictedTho.clerk peneille a note to his year, who left no male heir, it was dire things for the appearance of the chief" and passed it to him. Mr. claimed that the chieftainship fell on feminine species. Alr. Hugh Vernon Macleod, an Aus- tralian. He declared, however, that young woman the softness, smooth-

"Smoking takes away from the went on with his speech.

Hutchinson read it, smiled, he would abide by the decision of Sirness and delicacy of the skin that is Reginald's

daughters,

the charm of youth," Mrs. Macleod is niready accepted wamed, "It takes away the clear and Dr. Levine by many members of the clan as their vital complexion of youth and brings kereditary loader.

in its stead the rough and muddy Miles Catriona Macleod, of Ardgour, complexion of age. It darkens the aged 16, is claiming the chieftainship whites of the eyes. It removes the of the Macleods of Ardgour.

Buatre and attractiveness from the A few years before the war Miss windows of the soul, And the more! Menzio of Menzies, on the death of a woman smokes, the more make-up her brother Sir Nell, the last baronet she requires." and chief of the clan, was elected by clansmen in his stead.

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The scientist smokès cigarettes him- self-moderately.-United Press.

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