1936-07-13 — Page 12

THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JULY 13, 1936.

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MID-PACIFIC HAVEN FOR TOURISTS

By no

́ñeans, however, hava the un-

Honolulu, July 1. Jest in the islands, at the same While the China and timk pointing out the rather abrupt and undiplomatic manner Philippine Clippers continue in which the United States routine, humdrum hops from chose to assert her sovereignty Alameda to Manila via Hono. over them. lulu, Midway, Wake. and equatorial island studies been Guam, the Pan American productive of significant results. Airways ground. crews are taken food, replacement personnel completing

and supplies from Honolulu to transformation islands have had opportunity to look! of the mid-Pacific coral over other possibilities en route.

The survey has shown not only island bases into future that ying weather between Hawaii

tourist havens.

Successive expeditions which have

the

and the Antipodes is favourable but that there are certain islands en

Prefabricated hotels are nearing ute forming almost ideal Tanding completion at Midway and Wake, andi

bases for sea planes.

Authority for this sintement la will soon be ready for guests, if and William T. Miller, chief of air novi when the P.A.A. transpacific passen-kation, Bureau of Air Commerce,, ger dervice is inaugurated. Work has and general supervisor of the equa-| been slowed materially by lack of har.terial island studies.

He said the logical air route from bour facilities at both of these islands, Hawail to Now Zealand probably Unloading building materials from would include four sure:asive. hops: the P. A. A, supply ship. North Haven, From Honolulu to Palmyra or King- is a difficult and dangerous task, in reef; to Pago Pago, American Coral reef barniers prevent the ship Auckland, New Zealand.

Samoa: to Suva, Fiji Islands; to from approaching closer than one-half, offie from shore. Transfer of Totat diatauce is about 3,000 miles. Insterial must be done by use of acows, Palmyrn and Kingman reef, within frequently rocked violently by choppy dozen miles of each other, lie np- sens, Shallow draft launches are used to tow the cows.

of of

This

Practice makes perfect. father certainly thinks so he helps his little boy in the rings.

NUMSKULL

SHE SPELT IT

proximately 000 miles south Honolulu. Both are coral atolla These operations have served to placid Ingoons which would require horse-shoo formation protecting pruse further the need for harbour but little blasting and preliminary facilities of Midway and Wake, ami groundwork to put them in consegatently arsay engineers have ness to accommodate sea planes.

rendi. surveyed possibilities of binating chan neis through the coral reefs. Whether?

GOOD HARBOURS this project will be undertaken and Palmyra, has an expansive harbour Pago Pago, 1,300 miles south af rompleted by the army engineers has in which sea pinnes could innil to-year-old schoolgirl, has not been definitely announced.

day without difficulty. Suva, 640 "world's spelling championship"

AND SHE WAS NO NUMBSKULL

Washington, July 1. Jean Trowbridge, a thirteen-

won

But when Brig. Gen. Thomas H.miles to the southwest of Samon, Jackson, South Pacific division engi has similar harbour facilities. Auck at a contest held in Washington. neer, United States Army, arrived in land, 1,180 miles from Suva, would Honolulu recently for routine in-be the end of the line. spection of army engineering projects Mr. Miller estimated that

n fest

could

in Hawai he said the army contem- plane, lying over this route, plated improvement of harbour facili-penetrate deep into the South Seas Les at Midway and Wake.

to-day without such preliminary trail blazing as was necessary for the test flights of the Pan pers en route to Midway. Wake and American Clip- Guam from Honolulu,

ISLANDS 'EVACUATED For the first time since Howland; Jarvis and Baker Islands were sudden Jy hauled from retirement back into the drama of Pacific air commerce aislands szemed destined for very But Jarvis, Howland and Baker year ago, those flat, desolate equa- minor roles as the next few years torial outcroppings of coral and guano witness are again without humani indalfitants.Antipodes air route, which seems to the development of the Home and laboratory for a roof the Pacific.

be the next act in the aviation drama of Hawaiian youths for the past year. the lands were deserted when the Bureau of Air Commerce rounded out! a year's meteorological and oceano- graphic study of them in connection; with a proposed nir route to Australia and New Zealand. from Hawaii.

Accompanying successful catablish- i ment of Pan American Airways' route) to the Philippines from Californin vis Hawaii, attention naturally turned to the possibility of a similar route to the Antipodes.

LANDING BASES

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She was twice disqualified by the Judges, but she proved from diction- aries that her spelling of the words in dispute was as good as theirs.

Jeza was declared "out" because does the spelled

"char"-a woman who casual

housework--"chare." After a protest the judges accepted her spelling.

She was again disqualified for

readmitted to the content. leaving out the "b" in numbskull, but. after reference to dictionaries she was

instead of an "" into the middle of She won the championship when her nearest rival-a boy-put an "e" the word predilection, and when he soclic eczema "ezcema." -Frater,

WHEN THE SPANISH NAVY GOES ASHORE

The Officers Must Take the Lower Deck With Them

Howland, Jarvis and Baker, all of which had been-exploited-and-aban

Madrid, July 1. doned in the Pacific guano trade

were regarded as been abolished in the Spanish half century ago,

All distinctions of rank have having possibilities as landing bases navy for social occasions. for planes,

An order has been issued by the Navy Minister, Senor Jose Giral, saying that when naval officers are banqueting in port a proportion of sailors must also be present.

Jarvis lies 1,300 miles due south of Honolulu, almost on the equator Howland and Baker, approximately 10 miles apart, niso lie on the equator Highest point on any of the three is about 1,000 miles west of Jarvis,

about 20 feet above son level.

the

The order arises from an in- eldent at a banquet given to naval officers in an African port.

The officer class of the navy is suspected of being Fascist.

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It is to discourage officers from Minister has decided that the making such speeches that the swilors must also be present. The sailors are mostly supporters of the Popular Front and opponents FEATURE NO. 1 of Fascism.-United Press.

Because Grent Britain's claim to Pe islands seemed as valid ng

A naval officer, evidently think- United States their reclamation by ing that he itada sympathetic the latter country in April, 1935, was audience, made a speech praising shrouded in such secrecy it was not Fascism and promising that it until June 1935, that it became would not be long before an end known unomcially that Hawaiian would be put to the ignoble posi-W youths from

the Kamehameha schools, tion of naval and Honolulu, were colonising the islands under the government

army officers under the direction of the Bureau of Popular Front

of the Air Commerce, at the same time con-

Wave-Lengths as New Standard

Of Measurement VAVE-LENGTHS as a primary standard for measurement was a prediction made at the In- ducting research to determine how The Spanish navy has always corporated Society of Inspectors Important the islands really were, hind the reputation of being loyal of Weights and Measures Con-. to the King. Now there is no king,gress in the County Hall Inst

This month the United States Coast Guard cutter Itasen returned to Honolulu inden with fruits of that research which, when bolled down, secard to indicate that Jarvis, How- land and Baker Islands will figure nir route to Australia or New Zen- land.

NO FACILITIES Only in the event that transpa cifie seu planes are replaced by land)

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St. Petersburg,

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Mr. R. J. Trump, Controller of the Standards Department of the length-by-wave-length theory and emphasised that there was nothing Inherent in the units of weight and length that necessitated

their being represented by. arbitrary material standards.

The adoption of some invariable natural standard," he observed, "obvi- ously has its advantages. Recent developments have shown that as re- JUST fancy-breakfast, includ-cards length at least such a natural

ing a fried egg, two rashers,

standard is now probably available.

"WELL IN SIGHT"

Each of the islands, however, cereal, toast and coffee, for a could be used as a base by land penny. planes. Only alight surfacing would be required, so flat and barren are they.

Their most promising future lies in the possibility they may be used Bradlobescon station bases, if and when the route is established.

no-

Meanwhile Great Britain in ported to have disclaimed any inter

"Light may be regarded as a form

of radiant energy propagated by wave which you say "Where?" and the light of more or less sharply defined This is not one of those stories incited, for instance, electrically emit motion. Certain substances when ex-- reply is "Nowhere, but just fancy,"

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are out by a prism appear in the spec- burg drug stores, now engaged in a fierce price war with the restau- . rants.

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Mr. Trump sald that if the yard: ample provision of a generous character for my second wife," times the wave-length of light in a wrote Sir Frederick Norman, of Lyndhurst, Higher Runcorn, selected line, the material bar repre- deputy Lieutenant of Cheshire, in his will proved recently. left £78,358, the bulk of it to my beloved wife, Gertrude standard.

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