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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1936.

Jim Mollison Starting On The

Biggest Gamble Of His Career

Neighbour Aged 103 Has Never Met Her

Neighbour Aged 101

(By A Special Carrespondent)

Exmouth, Oct. 1.

MRS. MANLEY (aged 103 to-day) and Mrs. Wenmouth (10) next Tuesday) live within a stone's throw of each other at Exmouth, but they have never met.

Sawdust Pile: Will It Feed Future Hosts?

.

GERMAN CHEMIST TELLS HARVARD

GUESTS WOOD IS GOOD FOR FOOD

I called on Mrs. Manley at her home in Charles St. to-day with

JIM MOLLISON

"This is not my Swan Song,"

a message from Esmouth's other Court Discusses

centenarian.

I said: "Mrs. Wenmouth, of St. Andrews-road sends you congratula- tions."

Mrs. Manley said: "Ah yes, I know of Mr. Wenmouth; bul we have never met. Will you please thank her for me, and say I congratulate, her, too."

I carried out the mission and so brought about an Introduction-by proxy.

Mrs. Manley presided to-day at her party, which was attended by most of the 32 members of her family elrele--seven children (four over 70), 16 grandchildren grandchildren,

and nine great

103.

Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 12. The man who gave his donkey green glassca and sawdust, saving money only during the

"Twelve months older than my first week can try the experiment last birthday," the guid with a laugh. again with better hope of success. Dr. Friedrich Bergius, Heidelberg

|

Cocktails

HINT IT IS ILLEGAL TO MAKE THEM

U.S.A. TO LONDON

THEN

LONDON TO CAPE

IRMAN Jim Mollison A

has sailed for New York to undertake the in the history of record- greatest personal gamble

breaking aviation.

RADIO BROADCAST

Daventry: The B.B.C.

Dance Orchestra

Z.B.W. QUARTET

From Z. B. W. on a wavelength of 365 metres (845 kilocycles):

12.30 p.m. Orchestral Selections from Grand Opera.

1 pm. Time and Weather: 1,03 p.m. A Recital by Derek Old- ham (Tenor).

1.20 p.m. Vocal Gems from "Merrie England."

1.30 pan. Reuter Press, Rugby Press

Weather, Time und Announce- ments.

2 p.m. Concert Waltzes.

"No millionaire," he has 1.40 p.m. Debroy Somera Band, staked everything he pos

sesses on it.

He menna to astonish the world

2.15 p.m. Close Down.

4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7p.m. A Concert. Planoforte Solo-Feux

d'Artifice by a dual cen and trans-Con- (Debussy)....Marcel Ciampl: Song "OUGHT TO TREMBLE

nental dash in a 270-miles-nn-hour-Cadiz (1

(Albeniz)...Conchita Velaz- plane-fastest machine of its range quez, (Mezzo-Soprano); Instrumental WHEN WE MIX ONE” the world has ever known,

-Gavotte, from "Mignon" (Thomas) must not fall," he said smiling....: H. Squire Celeste Octet; Cocktails were discursed at Sulton grimly as he thought of all he has Ballads of Yesterday. W ColdBeld, Birmingham, recently, in a at stake;

A scientifhe court that resembled Icboratory. Apparatus covered the solicitors' table and tample bottles of

me

(Baritone);

Violin Meditation (Massenet)...........Kreisler: Songs-Songs my Mother taught (Dvorate); Morgen (R. Strauss) Op.

7.30 pm.

Closing Local Stock Quotations.

7.33 p.m.

A Relay from Daven-

The B. B, C. Dance Orchestra

"I Shall Win”

I asked her what it felt like to be spirits took up most of the fear space. It fail I will probobify have to osir 27, No. 4..... Dino Borgial! (Tenor).

Then, joltingly, he added: "Well,

Sutton Coldfield, stated to be of

Ronald Tullis, of Munnor-drive, † you for an offlec-boy's job. But I'm Scotsman. I would nnt risk my

1 dependent means, appeared on two bank balance, if I did not think I charges and four summonses alleging would win through." the distileg, and disposing of icht spirits. He pleaded not guilty.

chemist, explained to Harvard U.S. Air Link

tercentenary guests yesterday how food can be synthesized from wood.

In fact, there is enough food in the waste scraps of a few forest acres to feed inexpensive. ly the entire German army, he implied. Those who heard his address considered this to be a startling disclosure of the extent to which at least one nation has gone in the race toward national self-sufliciency,

"During the last decades the world has become more than ever occupied with the problems of creating raw materkila essential for the life of the nations within their own fron- tiers," he said.

To Antipodes

By 1938 Seen

San Francisco, Oct. 10. America and New Zealand will be linked by a commercial air service! within two years, according to H. D. Bowyer, of the Stinson Aircraft Con- pany, who has just returned from a x months' investigation trip to the Antipodes.

The new line will pass over the three islands of Baker, Jarvis und Howland, which the United States hon been colonizing; for the past- year, Bowyer said. As to the final

ni 1200-mile hop that will link

Jink New Zealand with Australla, making the fight continuous from MINIMIZING DEPENDENCE the United States to Australia, val "The inventive genius of chemical New Zealand, Bawyer admitted that and mechanical engineers is being applied more and more toward re-aw contract probably, will Te ducing the economic dependence at awarded either to

Australian concern.

the Individual country and to pro- duce as far as possible at home af

the

English

or

Mr. T. J. Wilson, prosecuting, sold that when two Inquiry atents from the Customs and Excise Department and two police officers visited Tullie's house accused told them that he might have some spirits because he had be making experiments.

In all there were found: 100 bollies vf wine, 10-gallon drum of spirits, One 14-gallon store barrel of spirits,

Keg of wine,

Gallon of waste spirits,

Three drums containing "wash," 40 bottles of beer. Nine bottles of claret, Bottle of cranberry-wine,

bottles of compound spirits.

B bottles of flavouring wines. Bottle of spirits resembling rumi Tallis's exploration was that the "war" was a culture and in the r

paration of animal food and he was Interested in a patent for it.

itt

He will take off from Floyd Ben- nett airfield, New York, next month | directed by Henry Hall.

a Bellanea "Finali" low-wing 8 pm. Time, Weather and Az- monoplane, only machine of its kind nouncements. in existence, which now awolts him In Delaware, U.S.A.

He will race across the Atlantie for Croydon airport-has sel him self a time Unit 17 hours for that night.

Within 24 hours of landing at Croydon he will, weather permit- ting, take off again to attack the record established for the London- Cape flight by CM.A. Scott in the Johannesburg Air Race.

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Selection The Land Di Smlics (Lebar); Selection-Waltzes from Vienna (Strauss); Selection-A Confident of success in both these Country Girl, (Monekton); "Rovule- projects he is planning to crownville" Memories (Burrows). ihem both by dying round the world. 9 p.m. News and Announcements at the equator.

from London.

He has trained for these flights as thoroughly at an Olympic athlete, and talked to me with the cosy self- assurance of a man who has decided to take the train to Brighton,

Like A Boy

9.20 p.m. Vocal Guns from "Car- men" (Bizet), by the. Light Opera Company.

9.30

From the Studio, p.m. The Z. B. W. Quartet in "Quartet in C. Minor, Op. 1........ Mendelssohn.

Ist

Vivace; Movement Allegro 2nd Movement-Adagio; 3rd Move- ment--Scherzo; 4th Movement-Alle-

Ja ge part of the products which up in shape to handle the aviation ser-Wilson "We have here: an educat/When foaded, carries 300-gallons of Fox-Trot-An evening with

to now had to be imported,

'ciation for

inan in

Ite told me of his Bellanea Flash: "This is not a case of poar man i like a small boy talking of his first gro Moderato. Bowyer said that the speeding up manufacturing spirits to keep body

rallway engine. process for putting the three islands and soul together," submitted Mr.

."'She' weighs nearly four tons

10 p.m. Big Ben from London. A

and Dance Selections.. In direct contrast to the tone of Vice will be continued when a U.S.

const guard cutter

Slow comfortable circurestances Petrol, 42 gallons of all," he said. stationed at Hono- 'Britain's meeting of the British Asso-ut will leave shortly with tractors the guise of conducting chemical she has a range of 4,000 miles.

who produces duiable liquids under "In addition to her great speed you. Gerry Moore; Comedy Fox Lor the Advancement of

Tro-I'm puts on screwy music... and graders to aid in

"I am calling her after a friend Back to those happy days. Lesue In construction of

The experiments."

B.B.C. Dance Orchestra; Song- weakness and backwardness of the

on the three

of mine--but I won't tell you the Hutchinson; Fox-Trois-Squlbs. Islands, human spirit and not the wickedness Ingeons in or around these

"COMPOUND SPIRITS"

nome yet. I want to keep that as of chemistry is blamed for the per- Bowyer is of the opinion that fast the defence, asked Mr. McGregor, a

Islands,

a surprise.

Billy Cotten and is Band,The Lon- version of scientific

donola stra Mr. J. Wylie, cross-examining for discoveries

"Everything is fixed ready for me

.The Gaumont British war Instruments, Harvard's Ingland planes will be used for the new thermist employed at the Government voportunity after October 15. I shall Stars over Devon....

meetings

to talte off at the first favourable Dance Orchestra; Accordeon route Instead of the 25-ton seaplanes experiments ad-

George Croydon In the. morning.

Science, now in session, wherein the log to the absence of landing]

heard Dr. Bergius'

Throughout the speech rang Na-Arways on its line to Honolulu and "Are cocktail compound spirits?"

rey też A DOW Nowa en by the Fan-American / research laboratories, Nottingham; fly the Aunatic by night, arrive at Wood; Vocal-Oh! Leo S

poleon's classic statement "An army marches on its stomach," changed to

the Philippines-United Press.

read, "uture armies will march on DEMAND RISES

sawdust."

L

WILL COST BUT LITTLE "Synthetic sawdust food will enst very little," said Dr. Bergius, "for the raw materials are now waste products. After the cost of the initial;

IN BRITAIN FOR

SNAKE SERUMS

London, Oct. 10. plant installation, the upkeep will be Venomous snakes of the London small. All the materials used in the deadly fluid, which is converted into Zoo are "mliked" regularly for their process are fully recoverable and be used over and over again. Even life-saving anti-toxins.

Increased requests by hospitats obtained from n waste by-product for snake fluid มะ enused Zoo

can

the fuel used for operating the plant

is

of the sawdust, The final result is icials to enlarge the venomous

of

Dr. R100 per cent."

snake section. Repilles are encour

Mr. McGregor: They are certainly compound.

:

Mr. Wylie: But are they compound spirits within the meaning of the Act?

can Elon Boys: Fox-Trots Goody- Goody,....Benny Goodman and His "The plane has cost me a helf Orchestra; It's been so of a lot of money.

long.... Goodman and His Orchestra:

Benny "I am very far from being a Solo Nola......Sydney

Organ mailonaire. That is why I have Song-My lucky

Gustard: day to succeed."

Fields; Slow Fox-Trot Sophisticat Lady...Nat Gonella and His Or Song Album.. chestra: Vocal Selection-The Family

there is to gain. That is the spirit "But the more you risk, the more

some people will, no doubt, consider a crazy adventure.

Mr. McGregor said that he was only concerned in the analysis of liquids and not with the law. Later he said in which I am setting out on what His Gang; Tengole Green and compound spirit, that a cocktail could be described as a

marked: It ought to make us tremble Mr. A. R. Roy-Nadin (clerk) re- every time we mix a cocktail to think that we are liable to a fire of £500.

a yield

Mr. Wylie said that Tullls was a young man of luch scientife attain Bald that at the pres-aged to breed and their offspring ments. The so-called still mentioned are being used mostly as fodder for using anti-toxing taken from snakes culture of the prevaration, which had ent time the products of his plant re welcomed.

London medicat

in the evidence was a model of cattle, but that at any time it enn to treat hemophilia and various nerv-ben bottled by Tulils.

authorities are cooker. The "wash" was the pure be converted into food fit for human consumption. Carbohydrates,

ous disorders. and proteins, the three essentials of diet, can all be obtained from wood, he asserted.

fats

DESCRIBES PROCESS Germany's Nobel prize winner; illustrated his remarks with diagrams showing several stages in the pro cessing of wood in its route toward food-but without giving any of the essentiul details of the.

equipment used to handle concentrated hydro-j chloric acid-the very foundation of the Bergius process.

Zon

Snakes "milked" at the London udders and the much-feared Mumba, ordered to pay £21 costs,

Tuilis was fined £60 on the chars include rattlesnakes. cobras, and E40 on the summonses. He was The venom extracts are being used extensively by St. Bartholomew's Hospital to deal with ՐՈՒՐ of epilepsy. been unusually heavy in Britain

Demands for anil-loxins this, year on account of the increased have

number of persons bitten by adders. -United Press.

Other chemists have turned wood into food, but none have accom plished it economically. Their lack of success cornes from the necessity of using diluted solutions of hydro- chlorie neid because they cannot de- practically all the

undt for human consumption, la ex- cellent, as fodder for change, into food fit for human con- hogs. The sumption requires only the addition of two more manufacturing steps,

to produce

"Thus it is e Tundamental cle-i

sign containers capable of withstand-ments of nutrition from waste wood,"

inga

acld.

the corrosive action of stronger Dr. Bergius sald.

"Enormous quanti-

tion of wood substances are wasted

It was quite apparent in the in the forest itself. Less than 50 per answers Dr. Bergius gave to quescent, of the wood of a tree is used for tions afterward, that such things are Umber while the rest is lost. being kept secret because of the tre tonal wastes occur in sawmills and

Addl mendous economic value to the Ger- similar industries."

upament,

man

In

the

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for such

In

elle substitutes TO RAW SUGAR:

as food and all have not at- process as perfected tracted as much public attention involves the hydrolysis Amerien. as they have in Europe. į or watering of wood scraps by trent- Over production is rather been the Ing them with hydrochloric acid, chief, concern of politics and econo- After treatment they are dried and treated again until the mixture be comes a row sugar. At this stage the wood, la: already "food," and while

mics alike. But in the nations of Europe that have no oil of their own and a limited food supply, the situa tion is quite diferent

Husband Departs

After Home Tiff;

Is Away 29 Years

Union City, Oct. 10. This community has a modern. Enoch Arden who returned. home after 20 years' absence, during which time he Was considered dead and officially Buffed.

Charles Sager, 61, auld he left bome due to domestic troubles.

"There

WAR an influenza epidemie after I left Michigan and I thought it must have wiped out the family, because all my letters were returned," he explained. "I didn't know they thought I had been killed until I talked with a relative in Iown to find them.". Jast month, then I started back

Sager's reported death grew out of the discovery of a'men's body along a railroad right-of- way, which was identified and burled ns. Suger United Press,

20. I think I shall do New York to "I shall start to cross the Atlantie some time between October 15 and London in 17 hours.

"Weather permitting I shall take off within 24 hours to attack the Cape record. Amy held that record before Charley Scott broke it during the Johannesburg air race on Septem- ber 29.

No Swan Song

orque

Dance-Bella Espanole....

forget; Sweet Mary Rose...Bernhard little Gypsy Tea Room...Val Rosing: Tipica Roberto Firpo; Song-In a Walizes-Say that you will not Ette and His Dance Orchestra,

11 p.m. Close Down. DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES

The following ware-lengths and frequencies are observed by Davenisy. Sign Frequsticy

Wamlength 4,590 k..

9,430 k.

19.59 metres STAR

CHA

GBC

0,505 k.e.

31.3 metres

"Amy and I have held it in turn. I would like to hold it again--but I have always felt it would be rather unsporting of me to make any at- tempt while it was still in Amy's pocket.

CNB

$1.750 s

25.12

metre

GSE

11.455

36.28

T

GBF

15.149 K.t. 10.42

GS0

17.189 **.

*10.45

meiren

GAIL

G81

15,160 kea

SJ

CBI,

"Don't think that this is my swan song. Not on your life. It isn't. have other things in mind. want to fly round the world at the Equa- tor. That has always been my ambition.

"I suppose some people will think I am a little crazy. But I have already crossed the occan

three times, As I enjoy Ille and havo de- cided to die in bed at a ripe old age I. would not attempt a fourth cros8= ing unless I were confident of suce

Mollison said that he chosed his American machine after

had pur falling to obtain a British Mew Gull or a British Comet.

Mrs. Mollison's record for tha Croydon-Cape flight, 7.500 miles, la 3 days 6 hours 26 minutes.

EMPIRE AIR MAIL MELBOURNE, Wednesday-Aus- tralia's Federal Government has de- cided to send delegation, to New Zealand next week to confer with re- presentatives of New Zealand and the United Kingdom about extensions of Empire air mail across Tasman Sea from Australia to New Zealand Reutor

1,340 *.. 4,110 k..

13.97, tres

16,61 metres 19,0 metros 43.10 motzTU

**Transmission 1.

SALE)

(Violin).

(UAD, ORD.) 1.15 p.m. Big Ben. A Recital of Irel Anate by Ruth Georgs (Mezzo

and David Win The Empire Bookshelf. 3.45 pm. The IB.C. Empire Orchestra. Greenwich Time Signal at 4... 4.40 p.m. Tik abert Bestland,” 4.45 pm. The News and Aspesacements.

3.40. $..

Transmission 2-

(0.8.0, 0.6.1) † p.m.

Dy Den. Reginald Dizan, at the Organ of the Tower Ballroom, Blacks!,

T.IE D.MM. "A Talk about Scotland." * 7.89 pm Art I of the Opera "Worthor"

by Massenet. 8.15 pm The Kupira Boskaksif, 3.30_n.m.' - The B.1.C. Dance Orchestra. Greenwich Time Bignal at p..

• The News and Announcymriča. 9.30 pas. Friday Midday Concert.

Transmission %

(2.9.0., G... (LI)

ip.. Big Ben, Bynespalad – Piase

Domain Bolas,

10.18 pm Variety. 10.30y.m. The Mole of Schumann. 11.15 p. Bcience TalkNs, .. 1130 p.m. Fred Bartley and a Navalty Quintet with Brian Lawrener

Assimilar Vocallat), Greenwich. These Bienal at 13 .. 13 m. "Namurai Nonsense.**

13.30 mm ---The News and Annouberra özi Tak.**** 12.30 am.' The Carlian, Holch. Orchestra.

•London Theatre Orch, London Theatre Orch Herman Finck Orch.

.Columbia Light Opera Co.

Columbia Light Opera Co.

Columbia Light Opera Co.

Drury Lane Theatre Orch. Columbia Light, Opera Comp.

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