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Mr. Smith, Farm His Canadian Fiancee

Hongkong Liner Tied Up In Frisco Strike

The intermittent trouble be tween shipowners and sulfora union on the Pacifle Coat Bared into more trouble when the pulctial steamer President Hoo- ver, of the Dollar Line, with nearly 500 passengers aboard was Bed up for several days from its departure schedule, bes cause of dismissal of Clarles Brener (left) deckband who was union representative, Above. the Boover nt dock;.

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Ex-Millionaire Now

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WILLIA

Floors

New York, Oct. 1.

VILLIAM CRAPO DURANT, founder of General Motors, used to have a £25,000,000 banking account. To-day he is scrubbing the floors, nickel." of a building in New Jersey that was once a £50,000 motor-car showroom. He is preparing to

lunch-room reopen it a R grocery shop. Durant, now 74 years old, plans to recoup his lost fortunes from a 2d.

luncheon service.

Durant led his bankruptcy peti- tion lust February, listed 09 sole assets-250-and his suiES.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1936.

Hand, Says He Is Duke Says "I Belive Him"

QUESTIONS HE CANNOT ANSWER

CLAIMS RICHMOND AND GORDON TITLE

By A Special Representative

Edmonton, Alberta, Oct. 1.. IN an unpainted farmhouse, reached by jogging along four miles of wagon ruts from the tiny village of Erskine, 75 miles south of Edmonton, is a tall, 27-year- old Scotsman who stubbornly insists that he is the Duke of Richmond.

NOW THEY QUOTE CLASSICS

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New York, Oct. 5. WOMAN claims that in 10 years she has transformed 1,000 natives of Tobago, West discovered by Indies isle, Columbus, into "perfectly educated" men. Recruited from the wildest part of the island they now

1& Mrs.

Use toothbrushes, wear smart lounge sulta, study architecture, do physical Jerks every morning. Commander-in-chief Whitely. Ten years ago, she sail.d from New York for a fortnight's trip to the West Indies. She saw Tobago, decided it was Paradise, has lived there ever since.

Mrs. Whitely has just arrived in New York for a holiday: talked of her dream island:-

"They are such lovely people," she said, "but their poverty is shocking.

"Mr. troopers are HOW per- fectly educated. They write beautifully, and quote from the classics we have in our clubhouse library. The Oxford Book of English Verse is the most popular book.

"They are marvellous men.

There is nothing military about them. They are more like Boy Scouts,"

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The peronu keneration Di Kils: salsit,

With him is Ashy, young Many children of former film ater's country girl who believes him, follow the path of their parents. and, since she is going to marry Here la Marjorie De Inven daughter him, expects to be wearing of the famous De Haven she will play duchess's coronet al the Coronna dancing part in a forthcoming Fox

production. tion.

She Is Jean Townsend, 20-year- EARTH'S CRUST

old daughter of n local farmer.

"THEY'RE WRONG"

"I am of the Smith branch of the family," Smith said to me.

coun-

When I said that no records show any such branch, he tered with. "They're wrong. I am the duke."

"Of course, you have some papiers to substantiate your claim." I said. "Oh. yes, but they're in Lethi-

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nway. That's where I used to live."

"But you have not a single paper here."

"No." "Weren't

you nolifled here that you had inherited the dukedom?"

"Yes, by my family's solicitors.". "Didn't they write or send a ca- bin?"

"TWO DUKES" "No, they 'phoned me."

"But duke?"

what about the present

"Oh, he's of the Gordon-Lennox branch of the family. I'm helt of the Smith branch."

"Then you think the title will be divided in half, that there are really two dukes?"

"That is so," he answered

Man Found Dead In was the

Brine Vat

seat.

STILL COOLING Effect Felt Mile Below Surface (From A Science Correspondent).

Blackpool, Oct. 1. The earth's crust is still suffering from its

cooling 100,000 years of during the last lee nge, necording to Dr. 11. Jeffreys. of Cambridge Uni- veraity, who to-day addressed. the British Association here.

Dr. Jeffrey drew a picture of an heat outwards unending flow through the earth's crust towards the surface, with radio-activity within the crust as the main source of heat. The amount of heat coming from the earth's molten Interlor was, he stated, relatively unimportant.

or 60

The last ice age ended about 10,000 years ago, he told me after the meet- inn. Yet even now its effects must

mile depth of a extend to below the surface. They are shown in a ten per cent. reduction in the rate at which the temperature within the crust increases as grenter depths are reached.

The reason," he explained, "19 that while the surface has long since warmed up, the interior of the crust has not. It will probably be another 100,000 years before re- cavery is complete."

Dr. Jeffreys address was in effect a report on the investigations in this field of one of the Association's research committees. He stated that the

rate of increase of average

of tem- perature inside the earth's crust ap-

be

iypes of

He described the estate as includ-peared to about 60 degrees ing several castles and 300.000 acres Fahrenheit per kilometre of depth. in Scotland.

Mountains, local variations in the

of rocks

and in their structure. "My granduncle, Alcxander Smith, were among the factors which, he

Duke of Richmond.

He stated, might effeet local tempera- died at Cairn Borrow Lodge, eight ture measurements. Records of this miles from Beldorney Castic, ancar kind had even been used as an aid Huntly, Aberdeenshire. the family in the search for oil.

LIFE AND CHEMICAL CONTROL Mr. M. H. Frisby, aged 59, pro-

Meantime the biologists were dis- minent member of Twickenham "My father was in-line for the Since then he has been preparing Philanthropic society, was found dead title. His name was Laddle Lachlin cussing the strange system of chem

Smith. With mother hecal control by which it

It appeared that, in n shop at King-streel, Twicken- was killed in an airplane accident in any form of ilfe, one part of the the opening of his new enterprise.to-day with his head in a brine vat Beuvere

developing egg was transformed into recently at Croydon."

a head, another into legs, and so on. He has washed every disi, cleaned ham every window, polished every chair.

Mr. C. H. Waddington, of Cam- It is thought that be allpped and He will serve behind The counter

that his head fell against the edge of

bridge, reported that mammalian until he makes enough to pay the vat. His pipe was on a ledge

eggs as well as those of amphibians and birds also possessed a chemical Iclose at hand. a staff.

"organiser." This is the nearest that this line of work, one of the most important in the whole of

and

"It's part of our new deal," he Bald. "Each portion will cost

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"But," I said. "the British Air Ministry say nebody of that name was killed there."

"I can't help it.

"When I go back to the old coun-

man.

try I shall go straight to Glass Vil-biology, has yet been brought to lage, in the north of Scotland, which is the family seat. Then everything will be clear."

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on

Miss Townsend reappeared and told her what the authorities peerage have to say about Mr. Smith's title.

It also appears that as well as the "primary" organiser which atimu- fates the production of nerve tissues in a more general way, there are a number of "secondary" organisers which control the development of the body's individual members. All of these also are believed to be chemical in their nature, but this. has only been proved in the case of

"organiser" of the eyes. de-the

DEFIANT SMILE She looked at him nervously then seemed to find courage in his fant smile.

"I haven't any doubt at all that what he says is true and that he is the Duke of Richmond," she said. "Ard Gordon," added. Smith. The fifth and last Duke of Gordon died on May 28, 1830, when the dukedom--which was a Scottish title become extinct.

The Duke of Gordon's titles of Mar- quis of Huntly and Earl of Aboyne devolved upon a relative of his,. and these titles have since des-

Such studies are believed to have a cluse bearing on the main problems of cancer-the search for the cause of local, uncontrolled growth in later lite.

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It is suggested that the body's normal power to replace worn cells with new ceils of the particular kinds required may be a sort of "hang over" from the original work of the chemical organisers of embryo growth. The control weakens, and cancer is the result

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The Dukedom of Gordon, held by backs - and fl+ the Duke of Richmond, is not the never harms the Scottish dukedom which became enamel. So re- extinct but an entirely new crea- freshing, 100! tion, being a United Kingdom Your tenth peeroge conferred on the sixth Duke

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Beldorney Castle was at one time in clean!

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Cairn Borrow Lodge was not bullt until 1005. It comprises small farms, and was purchased about 30 or 40 years ago from the Duke of Fife, and sold again to a Mr. Lockhart who recently dled. Whe present tenant is Sir Frederick Bridges.

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