1936-11-26 — Page 7

SOLDIER'S

THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

LOVE STORY

THROUGH FOUR REIGNS

"MONEY MEANS MEANS

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1936,

RUNS

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RADIO

BROADCAST ALL CORRECT

Dance Music from The

Hongkong Hotel NOTHING TO ME"

Lord Nuffield

On His £1,250,000 Gift

Motor Magnate's First Ambition

Was to be a Surgeon

Lord Nuffield, head of Morris | Motors, whose gift of £1,250,000 to Oxford University for medi- cal research hus created a record philanthropy, confessed recently that he was a bored man.

Referring to the issue of Morrial shares, he raft:-"I wis becoming tired of working for myself, but now I have a new intentive In life-the| incentive to work for shareholders.

"One gets to the stage where one has achieved success, und Bhen there! is nothing more to do. I don't know!! if others can quite understand how | a man cats become bored in this: At the inual Christmas Play way. I have had only the res- staged at the Plendilly Theatre in ponsibility of Iooking after my own London; which wit run for Averoney. weeks, a 13-year-old South-African " can honestly say that money. dirt. Elvor Hudron, will b the means nothing to me. I could just "leading Indly" among the 60 na easily go back to where I started chiffren.

—in a Úleyete shop. Perbapa 1 should he happier than I am now if I did.

"But, having carned the inones. I I want

to see that I use it for the allevia on of suffering, and my opinion Is that in medicle and urgery this country ought to lead the world."

18,836 Cartridges Stolen

Aix-en-Provence, Nov. 21. THE theft of 18,836 machine

gun cartridges from Forbin barracks here, became known to night.

t

DRITAIN WILL LEAD

Speaking of his gift, Lord Nufield, Isaid the money would be avalable for the University 215 the need

aruse.

"Oxford is the finest teaching centre in the world for early medi- caf training,” he said. "Under this scheme. medicine and surgery throughout the whole country will benefit to such an extent that Great Britalo will lead the world in this

The cartridges, which were one crying need has

tained in 60 cases, are of the most modern type and are rapable of penetrating the mua-plating of a tank at 10 yards' range.

bren for

teachers and for training after dibe- tors have done their ordinary course. Under this scheme. ut least 20 teehers, brilliant men wh have had the benefit of the best teaching. be available for other centres

Oxford.

from

A Moroccurs saldier fighting with In the North of the Nationallats Spain, is showin murching through a Iftle Spanish town with his unchine- Hon over his shoulder.

Another Island

In The News

PACIFIC AIRWAYS

The Girl He Courted In 1894

Here is a story of romance in the gentler spirit of the Victorian cra. It began when the pood Queen herself was on the throne. Through three reigns it languish- ed. Now, with Edward VIII on the threshold of his kingly career, it arrives at the tradi- tional happy ending.

THE

THE story opens in 1804, the

that year

the young Prince Edward Albert Christian of York, now Edward VII of England, was born.

Private Ernest Augiles, 19 years ald, of the parish of All Saints', Coventry, then a sleepy provincial town, was courting fine, romantic figure to scarlet and blug.

CHILDREN'S CONCERT

Radio, Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on a. Wavelength of 366 metres, (845 k.c.'s), 31.40 metres, (9.52 megacycles),

12.30-2.15 p.m. European record- ed programme.

12.30 p.m. Orchestral Music.

I p.m. Time Signal and Weather. 1.03 p.m. Primo Senla's Accordeon Band with Sam Browne (Vocal).

1.30 pan Reuter Press, Rugby Press, Wenther and Announcements.

1.40 p.m. A Light Violin Recllal by Yehudi Menuhin.

1.55 p.m. Roy Fox and His Orchen- tra.

Close Down.

2.15 p.m. 5-8 p.m.

European programme.

3 p.m. A Relay of Dance Music from the Roof-Garden of the Hong-- kong Hotel.

p.m. From the Studio,

A Children's Concert. 6.30 p.m. Do Groot and Hls. Orchestra with Richard Crooks (Tenor),

Mary Ann Gutheridge, a maid of Tenor Solo-My song goes round the Orchestra-Der Kaspro (De Groot); 17, was his sweetheart. Soon the wedding bells were to ring.

red

Sum-

world; Orchestra-When the great Dawn 18 shinlog (Sharpe): But the young soldier's parents Zinetta (Gecht). On a droumy abjected. Marriage, they maid, would mer Night, (Krome); Tenor Solos... spoil his Arany

Young Too Inte to-morrow. (Langenberg); Ernest was to see service in India. Macushio, (Rowe and Macmurrougli); On his return-perhaps,

Orchestra The Temple Bells, Till I

carcer.

So the soldier salied without awake, (Amy Woodforde-Finden). bride. Years passed, and he wrote faithfully to his Mary Ann.

On Christmas Eve 1996 he came home, the wedding ring in bis pocket. A shock nivalled him

7 p.n. Suite Bergamasque, (Debussy), played by Walter' Gleseking, (Pianoforte).

7.17 p.m.

"In a Fairy Realm" Suite (Ketelbey).

7.30

p.m. Closing Local Stock His Quotations and Hongkong Exchange She Market Report. Her

Mary Ann was already wed. letters had never arrived. thought he had forgotten. her. solder went away, and Inter himself a wife.

took

San Francisco, Nov. 24. Christmas Island is the next tiny spot most calculated to leap suddenly out of the almost bound-Now 1936, and strange

less reaches of the Pacific and assume an international import. ance in the public eye, according to information

slowly seeping

into San Francisco from such far away sources as Papeete, Tabiti. Following colonisation of the Dakter, | Jarvis and Howland islands by the United States as airplane bases in a proposed line

j

England.

11

new

On a summer day in June Ernest

lowed his wife's comin to the grave.

Angliss, now an elderly man, fol-

By a strange coincidence, on that same day Mary Anh, now a middle- aged woman, stood at the new grave of her husband.

10 New Zealand, Christmas ONE Sunday this month,

Island, it is declared, is the next of the Paelfie atolls that is

were

In the parish church of All Saints, Coventry, an elderly couple secretly wed. The bridegroom was Ernest Anglias; the bride that same

days of Victoria the Good.

They had been stared under mili tary guard day and night, and every guard concerned has been questioned, The robbery was discovered yester, dag morning, but was kept secret think the reason for the lack and this evening.

All posts on the French southern of discoveries in the field of medicine/ calculated to become suddenly Mary Ann he had courted in

to-day is due simply to this lack of teachers, and that, by supplying teachers, a great cru of discovery In medical research may be opened.

frontier, which is not far away, have been warned, and told to keep watch for the missing cases,

Bottom

Boltom

Of Well

Sanford, North Carolina.

Nov. 20.

Franklin Woodrow Emile Jourdan, the first baby on record to be born at the bottom of a water-well, celebrated his first birthday recently.

Ou October 22, 1935, Mrs. Alton J. Jourdan, the young wife of a tobacco) planter, leaned over well at their farm. Suddenly becoming faint, she lost her balance and fell through the opening. A plunge into cold water revived her, and she swam back and forth two strekes each way-call- ing for help.

!

The existing medical teaching facilities at Oxford will be utilises under the scheine, but their basis will be broadened under the ægis of the new Institute, which will probably be known as the Nullfleld School of Merlicine."

LOST TO TEACHING

important.

Four developipents now under way indicate the forthcoming importance of Christmas island. They are:

1.

ONIONS!

the

New York, Nov. 20.' The National committee to lift the onion cater from the cate- gory of social lepers has an- nounced its formation.

At the present, time a mission from the American Museum 4.1 Natural history in New York, aboard the Templeton Crocker yacht, is already at the island for the purpose of the most minute investigations and the reproduction of a small replica of the island for the museum. The re- sults of the expedition are expected to call immediate attention of governs ment to the importance of the island.

The purpose of 2. Two New Zealand cruisers have

en-reported-in-shipping-mittee created by the National recently been

Association, is circles to be looking over the island, presumably from the standpoint of

Lurd Nuffield continued:-"The present position is that a brilliant yung student at Oxford usually goes on to a hospital, where he gets his degree, and anally becoines 12 specialist, and is immediately lost to teaching. He becomes so busy going from

se to another cannot stop to see the results of hi work, and, apart from

public his own thering his own learnings. practice, he gets no chance of fur-

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case

nz British interests.

The

that he

3.

island constitutes the next most likely atoll in the Pacifle for scrutiny, because it has not only the necessary, lagoon for trans Pacifle flying, but also possibilities of becoming a deep sea barbour if need

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For more than a century the possession of the island has bref dis- juted between United States and

Great

Britain and y suziden decision on the part of either, to! possess the island definitely will re- sult in a final showdown on this point. Christmas Island was discovered by Coptain Cook on Christmas day 1777.

Onion fold:

7.35 p.m. New Talkle Hits,

"The King Steps Out" Sturs In my eyes..... Jack Harris and His Orchestra; "Mazurka"Stay close to Fred S.eln (Plano- me-Waltz.

Come True" forte): "Dreams must our love remain....Francis Day (Soprano); "Rhythm on the Range

Crosby: | Emply Saddles....Bing

twinkle "Blackbirds of 1030"-Keep a in your eye Quickstep....Gerry Moore, (Pianoforte); The Great Ziegfeld"A pretty girl is ko melody. You... Roy Fox and His Orchestra;

"The Great Ziegfeld" You never looked to beautiful. Jimmy Dorney and His Orchestra.

8 p.m. Time Signal. Weather and Announcements.

8.03 p.m. From the Studio.

A Chinese Concert.

11 p.m. Close Down.

AL

8.05-11 p.m. European Pro- gramme from ZE.K. on a fre quency of 640 kilocycles.

8.05 p.m. Violin Concerto In A Minor, Op. 82 (Glazoanov), played by Heifetz and the London Phil- karmonic Orchestra, Conducted by John Barbirolli

8.22 p.m. A Recital by Georges Thill (Tenor).

"Werther" Nature Pleine de Grace (O Nature, full of grace), (Massenet): "La Damnation de Faur." O Vast Nature (Berlioz); "Supho" -Air de Jean, (Massenet); L'Attaque the com-du Moulin (Brungau).

8.39 p.m.

"Romeo and Juliet". Overturo-Fantasie -(Tachnikow-~ sky), played by Willem Mengel- herg and Fis Concertgebouw Orchestra,

three-

1. To make it okay to eat balons and take your girl (wife) to the movies; ·

2. To make it okay to eat onlons and

friend To with your boy (husband) to the movies:

3. To make it okay to eat onions and go anywhere with whomever you please.

It

8.66 p.m. Cradle Song-Bronwen (Ellis and Holbrooke), Op. 15.... Doris Vane (Soprano).

9 pm London News and An- pouncements.

9.20 p.m. Four Old Numbers by Ramona and Her Grand Piano,

I

"The Cotton Club Review"_ Raisin' the Rent; 2. "The Cotton Club Review"-Hopay or the day, is The necessity for such

cam-long -3. "Footlight Parade"-Ahl paign, the National Onion Association the Moon is here! 4. Turn back the said arises from the fact more onions elock. were raised in the United States his year than ever before, and if people

"The object of the present scheme to take men from the point where aey would became lost to teaching. Their work must be done inside the University, and the job will be to teach other brilliant students. These will receive the best training from Half-an-hour later, when her hus-successful physicians or band and two other men pulled her who, in the past, have not out, they discovered she had given all been lost to birth to a boy weighleg seven pounds, There will have to be a number nine ounces.

of Professorships, to be filled by the Mother and child, both blue with men in the country. These will be cold, were hurried by automobile over dropping a big come to work at rough country roads to a hospital; Oxford for a small remuneration, where they quickly recovered.

but studies that they would prefer to The fact that the baby was born ut these men are so keen on their under water and did not breathe unt!!] come

country, is chairman Oxford, to the quietude of

teaching.

it had been lified out of the well, where they can work without being physicians believed, accounted for its worried by the detalls of

proc flying and not being drowned.

tice."

Lord Nuffield disclosed that his] Since his adventure, Franklin, born j A month premature, has developed

ambition in life was to become healthy, well-formed child, into a weighing 25 tiounds, with a broad grin which displays eight teeth fle started walking three months ago

United Press.

first

a surgeon.

year following his Checovery of the Hawaiian islands.

name.

Henes

Since then it has been claimed alternatively by both the British and the United States as a guano islead and leases have been let both to different Individuals.

9.33 p.m. Hawaiian Melodies. Inwallan Love Bird; Smiling eyes;

Rock me in a crudle of Kalua; Maybe it's the moon.

9.46 p.m. Four Songs by Jack Buchanan (Comedian).

don't eat them a lot will be wasted. Benjamin Balish, of New York, sometimes called the "dictatur" of the onlan business because he is about the biggest onion merchant in the "Brewster's Mons"-I think I of the com- CAN: One good tune deserves an- W. Lockwood is other: "When Knights were bold"-- mittee and A.

I'm still dreaming. Let's put come secretary.

10 pa. London-Big Ben.

Dance Music.

ifles just south of the Hawaiian islands, just north of the equator and about opposite the Panama cana). Amongst its other interesting ussels is the "Bay of Wrecks" where the jetnam of enough, wrecks accumulate to furnish the limited population with all the materials necessary for build- ing

There is

"We intend to bring onion-eating also the ing purposes.

into the open. We intend to make 1 gasoline supply left for the late they

T. P. Ulm, trans-Pacific flier this delicious and health-giving fruit who had hoped to cross the Pacifle available to all by making it socially with Christmas island as an interme-acceptable." diary point.

"Our committee," Lockwood said.people to work. "includes 13 of the biggest onion Krowers 201 merchants in the United States. We are determined to make

universal onion-eating practice.

"There was not enough money for that," he said, "and so I had to lake the next best thing-mechanics I

have

found in conversation with brilliant surgeons that many are mechanically-minded. No mun can become an engineer unless he can use his hands, and I wanted to work with my hands."

unfortunate

Chocolate from Wood

With the opening of un exhibition

Lord Nuffield, who said he thinks of wood products at Selfridge's ini Oxford-street, W., it was disclosed there can be no better work than by Mr. E. H. B. Boulton, of

the caring for those ej the Timber Development

Association.!

enough, to be in bad health, himself that British chemists were

claimed to be fitter than he has been experi- menting to produce alcohol petrol for many years. His recipe for from wood. The aim of the Forestry health is to take rest whenever op- Commission was to develop timber portunity offers.

rely for three years on our ALVE

acreage in Britain so that we could.

resources in a time of emergency.

our

"If we were cut off now, timber resources would be exhausted in 然

year, cutting down even

hedgerows," he said.

acre of woodland.

from

an

PLAY TIME IN SEATTLE

Scuttle, Wash., Nov. 20.

Referring to Hitler's plans for tutional self-suffelency, he quoted Mrs. Dan Fortin told police it was the German -- chemist, Professor all right for youth to

have their Bergius, saying that mag's evers aing, but that she objected strongly necessity in clothing, housing and when they started tossing motor cara foods sugars, starches, vitamins and around especially in her front yard. fate could be obtained

According to Mrs. Forlin, four boys picked up an Austin car from the wood street nearby, gently eased it over the saccharing in Germany are shown at fence, and dumped it right smack the exhibition, and a woman's beach onto her lawn hat from wood vencers. Clothing

The shock, che, said, was entirely exhibits include a vest made from too much for the grass, Bowers and wood fibre, and wool and socks of shrubbery-to say nothing of her wood products and cotton,

composurei

Chocolates made from

|

But the real romance of Christmas Istand began shortly after 1880 viten Father Rougler, a French priest, con- ceived the idea of planting it entirely in cocoanut trees at a time when coconut oil had a high value. He leased it for 87 years from the British government and at times has had the strong support of the French govern- ment.

It was he who imported the twenty- five Tahitians to work the plantations and whose descendants now for the bulk of the population. Eventually Faller Nougler died and the 07 year lease is now in the hands of his nephew and god-son, Paul Emmanuel Hougler.

But some one in the near future, It is predicted, is going to want, the island definitely for the strategle lih- portance of its location as un aviation and naval base, rather than for what it will produce.

When that moment comes, well in- formed circles on the Pacific coast declare, Christmas Island will sud- denly become the focus of Inter- national interest and discussion and they bellove the moment is fart approaching-United Press.

Two Yale scientists, Howard W. Haggard, M.D., and Leon A. Green- berg, Pa., who used a breath- testing machine of their own devising, reported in the Journal of the Medical Association that onion breath may be cured by rinsing the mouth with polutions of Chloramine or sodium hypochlorite.

Their report cuused division in the, committee.

"Some want to educate the public to enjoy and preserve the aroma of phion, which they feel is as pleasing as that of a rose, if you look al it right," Lockwood Enid.

"Others favour an attempt to popularize, the scientists' fadings and show the publle how to eliminate onlon breath.

"A few hold that the onion has been slandered and that what you think is onion breath may be just the bronx, or a fellow who's been running up and down stairs too fast." At any rate, the committee is go-

flood ing to

the country with literature and apecchica--United Prean.

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Transmission 1.

(0.8.D., 0.8.0.)

D..

Big Hen. Dance Marke.

4.70 p.m. An Organ Recital by O. П.

Pesarood

£ D.M. 'Food for Thought." Musical Interluda, Variety,

5.30 p.m.

BK DJ

8.4 p.m. The News and Announcements. Greenwich Tima Bienal at 1:45 pm.

Transmission 2

IG.S.FU.8.17.)

7 p.m. 11 Ben. Noenzi Lawan' or 'A

Welch Night's Entertainment.

1.41 .. Fallot Music.

7.50 p.m. Cinema Oryan.

8.25 D. Food for Thought."

145 DM. A Walled Concert.

$ p.m. The News and Announcéments. Greenwich Tiqa Kianað af 1.15 p.m. 126 pẩm. Henry Ball's Musle-Makaro. 1.10 p.m. Ears).

Transmission 3

(0.0.0, 0.8.P., G.8.11

10.14 p.m. "Pianoforte Strale. 10.30 p.m. The BB,C. Empire Orchestra. 11.20 p.m. “A. Walsh Notebook," A talk

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