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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JULY 15,

1936.

Auxiliary Fleet Science Beats

For United States

REED

MERCHANTMEN THAT CAN BE CONVERTED

INTO CRUISERS

Washington, July 6.

The United States Navy high command, assured of authority and money to build the battle fleet up to treaty limits has nove turned its attention to merchantman and auxiliary ship construction, The Navy has awarded contracts to fill up deficiencies in virtually all categories of warships, and a major portion of these tessela will join the fleet prior to December 31, 1937. The auxiliary construction programme, however, has lagged far be hind and as a result, the fleet during manoeuvres has been ham- 101 pered seriously because supply and repair vessels were Bufficiently speedy to keep pace with the warships.

Enactment of the Copeland-instal | consideration during the session just ship subsidy bill, Jamined through ended brennes they feared such

of move coupled with the huge appro-i dosing house Congress in the the session Just; ended, leld the priations for warship construction groundwork for the construction of might arouse the ire of Congress- fast merchant vessels, really con men from inland states, vertible Info troopships.

Indications

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that the billi would be reintroduced next session

OLYMPIC GIRLS PREPARE

Thousands of schoolgirls in Berlin will participate in The Copeland-Bland act authorised and poshed through to enactment, the federal government to pay to Although there will be some opposi-displays, dances and popular comedies during the Olym private builders a construction sution to the programbic, its passage ple games. In the picture above the girls are being measured sidy equal to one-third of the sum is virtually assured brenuse the for the dresses, required to construet the vessel in Rosevelt administration has given

cuses

is the Naval high command.

Indicative of the speed at which the battle fleet is being built up to the imits imposed by the Washing-

a foreign shipyard, The Governs fail support to urgent requests of ment in exceptional thorised to increase the subsidy ups to 50 per cent, of the cost of con- struction. These subsidien were de

and London naval armament signed to off-set the lower cast of

Great construction in

Britain and

treatles is the construction progress Japan.

report issued by the navy depart- Under provisions of the act, .ment on June 10,

According to this report, two new mandatory for the government to take over subsidised abips in times alreraft carriers will join the fleet of war or national emergency and to in 1927 and one in 1938. One heavy pay their private owners only the cruiser went into active service early actual money twy, spent in con- in June, another will be completed struction of the vessels. if privately in January next years and a third in owned shipping lines refuse to take the Spring of 1938.

Seven light cruisers of the Hont- advantage of the subsidy, the govere luta elage will be completed riex! |

to cancel the ment is authorised

two in 1939. One sub- Gecan mail contracts held by the year and companies and construct ships on marine will be ready for service in its own beh, Experts believed December this year, six will join the

will fleet in 1937 and five in 1938, Five) that the subsidy programine provide a decided impetus to mer-1,850 tons destroyers are scheduled chant ship construction within the to be delivered to the Navy this year,

-Bulted Press. next few years.

The next problem of the Navy is to secure congressional authorisation

fleet i of Construction for the auxillaries such as nine layers, res pair and supply ships, tenders and kindred vessels.

“TALKING BOOKS”

Chairman Cart Vinzou-of the ARE COMING

House naval affairs committee in- troduced un auxiliary construction | programme bill in Congress session. The bill was reported out of committee favourably but it full- ed to receive consideration on the floor,

It was believed at administra- tits leaders purposely failed to push

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Mr. Geoffrey Faber had asked at a sectional meeting if the habit of reading was in danger of being supplanted by some new habit in dircei competition with the old.

"Broadcasting, in spite of its short life, is already confronted by the saturation problem in con-. structing programmes," Mr. Faber stated.

"This problem will be solved by the provision of several alternative programmes, one of which will be largely devoted to broadcast read- ings.

FOR THE BLIND

"The gramophone companies, will, sooner or later, put the 'talking book' on the market. Already there are 'talking books for the blind on speeini, slow-playing records.

"If the 'optical gramophone perfeeted talking book* will be sold in little bundles of paper tape. Path the broadenst.and the talking

Nature Germans

Invent An Element

Three German scientists have proved hat it is possible to manufacture new hemical elements found nowhere in nature. They are Professor Otto Hahn, Director of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute, Berlin, Germany's most famous research laboratory, and Professor Luise Meitner and Herr F. Strassmann, also of the Institute.

For a full generation science has believed that 92 represented the complete tally of chemical elements-copper, oxygen, lead and so on and that, beyond filling in one or two gaps in what is called the "table of chemical clements," there was nothing more to be done.

That there were these gaps, were deduced from the fact that the physk and chemical properties of the different elements follow a more or less definite pattern. It was known, thereforey that the missing elements must exist, and known also what they would be like when found-and everyone was satisfied.

RADIO-ACTIVE

Now, it has been proved possible, by bombard- ing the atoms of uranium, the heaviest and most complex of any existing element, to make at lenst Imore complex still.

five new elements whose atoms are heavier and

FIVE MAJOR AIRLINES BATTLE FOR VICTORY

IN INTERNATIONAL WAR'

Santa Monica, Calif., July 1. Five major airlines in this country and a score of European aviation experts are watching with hopeful eyes the slow progress of a half-million dollar gamble conducted in a huge airbarn here by a soft-voiced, middle-aged acronautical engineer.

The engineer is George Strom,

is factory superintendent of Douglas Aireraft compony, and the out- come of the gamble, if it successful, will mean-

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1. Commercial around-the-world-p- week air service within the next Ave years.

trans. non-stop Nine-hour Continental air service between Cafi- fornia and New York, with super- thain the Pan skyliners bigér American cilpper ships, travelling at a cruising speed of 200 miles and four.

3. Airliners ranging over the frozen Aretic wastes in a new series of "Over the top of the world" airways, bind- ing Europe and America by air.

The gamble is a new 50 ton Dougins "Air giant." under construction here, with a cruising radius of 10,000 intles- twice the size of the China Clipper. and faster than modern army pursuit phones.

The Douglas "glant," according to Sirompl, will bring into the realm of actuat transport service the one factor that has buulled around-the- world alrservice-a cruising rangel capable of negotiating long ocean jumps, or carrying safely over the polur cap.

The Arctic ocean as an air channel for Inter-hemisphere air traffic hus long been the dream of aviation leaders, who have foreseen in the Northern wastes a medium of inst. direct air routes between the contin- ents. Ultimately it is expected the Arctic seas will become to air travel what the Mediterranean sea became fur ships.

Landing stations for refuelling, at Wrangel Island and similar points, would permit an casy jump over the stormy polar cap, connecting elther San Francisco or New York with London.

The new plane, with four. 1,000 horsepower engines, and u speed equal to the fastest modern airliners when the new plant is throttled down to 60 per cent. of its poiver, is expected to supply the answer.

Engineers have been working secretly for several months in a guarded hangur. The plane is under contruct to United Air lines, Trans- continental and Western, Amerleon airlines, Eastern Airlines and Pun- American Airways, builder of the

book will use sound effects to sug-trans-Pacific clipper planes.. test background."

The first books to be exploited! would be non-copyright books, but the copyright field would soon be invaded, stated Mr. Faber.

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The congress carried a resolution to the effect that publishers should, in principle, have the right exerelae control, jointly with the author, over the use of materia!! published by them for the purposes of broadcasting and mechanical re-

It is scheduled, to take the air Jun. 1. 1938, and will be the sequel in the swift increase in airliner bulk, to the

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production, and the right also to un- As fires raged through the adequate share in the dnancial re- colpis therefrom!

In view of the possibility that the broadecat and the "talking book" would eventually become serious competitors with the printed book. It was of great importance, it was stated, that this principle should bo firmly established and incorporated th all publishers' contracts,

Willows Stable here, a cat outside suddenly dashed into the burn- ing building.

Later firemen found her, dend, curled over her single kitten. The kitten was alive and had not been harmedUnited Press.

recently-buil

"Douglas Pullman Plane which made test gights at Santa Monica airport this winter.

The Douglas Pullman, twice the size of an ordinary air transport, will be dwarfed by the new plane.

If the plane tests successfully, each of the combining airline companies will take live of the new super liners. None will be put into service until all 25 are built United Airlines and TWA will then order an additional Ave planes for each service, and on- other 25 are expected to be built for Europom airlines.

According to aviation experts, the ultimate routing of air talle between this country and Europe and Asia will Inevitably be directed over the polar capy on "great circle route charted with land fuelling stations on both sides of the point cup.

The distance over the top of the world" routes from San Francisco to Osla, for instancd, would be only a little longer than the present airline distance from New York to London.-- United Press.

All the new artificial elements are radio-active, like radium and uran- jum. That, it is believed, is why they' are not found in nature. They are. too unstable to survive.

The story the discovery is some- As long as two thing of a romance. years ago, Professor Enrico Fermi, of Rome, and his co-workers discuss. ed, tentatively the possibility that they had produced in the inboratory, an element whose atoms were heavier than those of uraniumY.

Professor Fermi was well known na a theoretical physicist. Never be fore had he appeared in the role of no experimentalist.

The result was applause, follower so far as this part of his work was concerned by polite scepticism. The work of other scientists appeared to diterrdit Professor Fermi's interpretu tion of his experiments, and "Element No. 93," as it had been christened, whe allowed to relapse into obscurity.

THEORY PROVED

Now these Berlin relentists have not univ justified Professor Fermi's bellef, but have extended his work and provided prunt.

In spite of the great difcuity of! applying chemical tests to the minute amounts of the new elements produc- ed they hav

have according to Nature been able to separate them, not only from any existing element, but from one another.

According to their own report of their work, the chemleal tests and method of separatlon which they have devised must apparently be accepted as decisive.

Science, therefore, in this matter, has beaten nature. The only doubt, it appears, is whether the number of new elements discovered is five or six.

Skeleton A "Mere Sixty"

Million Years Old

Princeton, NJ., June 27.

Dr. Glenn L. Jepsen of the geology department of Princeton, University, announced yesterday the discovery of a complete fossil skeleton more than 60,000,000 years old.

PICKABACK IN THE AIR:

A COMPOSITE

A new principle in aeroplane design for the Atlantic air service is to be tried in England.

Two machines take the air, joined After both have climbed to the re- together, one above the other.

He said it was found in the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming by the -1935 Scott fund expedition of the university, which was under his di- rection. The bones have just been removed from the rocky matrix in which they were imbedded. Albert Thomson, of the American Museum of Natural History declared it was the most dimeult specimen to pre- pare that he had ever handled, Dr Jepsen reported.

Dr. Jepsen said the hyoid bones of the throat, scarcely an eighth of an inch long and no larger in diameter perfectly than a horse hair, were preserved,

The skeleton, he said, was that of an animal of the Paleo- cene epoch about the size of a small rat: Only a few toes were missing.

Dr. Jepsen Judged from the length of the ind. legs that the animal was of the leaping variety sinir to the modern lemur. He said it was by far the most complete skeleton of that age yet found.

quired height, the passenger plane is released from Its fighly powered and lightly loaded "parent" craft,

The release in mid-air enables the transatlantic plane to take off safely while carrying the large fuel load necessary for its flight

At top the Atlantic plane is seen, In the middle. the "parent" machine and at bottom, the two machines in flight together

The trials will be made next month;

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