1936-12-31 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1936,

OCEAN AERODROMES PLAN

Company to Float 'Isles'

At £3,000,000 Each

(By An Air Correspondent) AN Australian engineer, Mr.

landing

It would nervo 遇见 ground for aircraft, a refuelling, radio and weather station, a repair depol, and am hotel for passengeri, Mr. Helser, who comes from Queensland, sold that since he has air.been in England he has shown his plans to eminent engineers, and they

M. E. Helser, is working in London on a plan to open up the Atlantic for passenger services between Britain and North America by the use of huge floating aerodromes set as "islanda" in mid-ocean at a cost of £3,000,000 each.

He claims that die Heiser sendrome would be a man-made island which would not be affected by storms of the heaviest sens.

FATHER DIVINE ENTERS POLITICS

BY BOYCOTTING HARLEM ELECTIONS

New York, Dec. 20. When thousands of Har- lem's negro population re- fused to vote at the last election, police ascertained that it was because "Father Divine" had boycotted the balloting. He explained that

approve.

The seadrome designed by Mr. Helser takes the form of a sqúnre U. The legs are 2,000ft. long. One has a decked surface for landplanes, and the other is a huge tank for seaplanes and flying boat

On a deck connecting the legs urg hotel buildings, light beacon and radio tower, a crane for lifting olr- erof, and apparatus for catapulting heavy machines into the air.

"This island," Mr. Heiser explained, "would be built upon huge stopper buoys subinerged to a depth of 15. below the netion of wave currents.

"Steel tubes, 5 to 12 feet in dia- meter, would support the super- structure 100 feet above the surface. of the ocean.”

The seadrome would not be un- chored. Rudders and propellers are designed to prevent its drifting and/ to keep the landing decks into the

wind.

To exploit his invention, Mr. Heiser bas formed a company known a British and Dominions Industrial Con- structions, Ltd.

U.S. COMMODITY PRICES

.

LATEST CABLED

QUOTATIONS

The following quotations on the

the political parties had re- New York commodity exchange are iected his programme "righteous government."

to

A

Issued by Reuter.

of

January Marchi

New York Collon

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12.38/35

12.44/45-

12.25/25

12:33/34

12.18/18

12.25/27

1170/80

12.95

11.00/01 13.04

Thus the stocky, aging mulat- May followers chant July whose "Father Divine he is God," and Octuber

Spot sell country produce from

words March bearing the wagons "Peace Father-Vegetable," ex-May.. tended his field, from roligion July.... and business to politics.

New York Rubber

22.35/40 21.40 /50 21.25b/35

22.20/22 44.40112 21.04/04 September. 21.04/05 21,050

Total sales:-4,110 tons. Chicago Wheat

May

"Father" Divine's origins are un- disclosed, but his notoriety now is national. In forty years he has risen from the hedge-clipper grass-cutter to Evangelist, Evangelist,

to

Messenger, The

WAY TO LEARN

The

The students at a technical High School in Chicago are taught enr driving in this practical way. students use bolete cars and by means of an electric light system the teacher is able to read their reflex nctions to sudden commands.

SHIP'S BOY YELLS "GOOD

LUCK" AS HE DROWNS Wrecked Man Sees Shipmaster

Vanish

Paris, Dec. 20, GIRL NORAH, the Lowestoft trawler wrecked with the loss of nine lives on sand dunes near Calais last night, carried a ship's boy. He was only 14, but a true son of the sea.

Moors Repulse

Fierce Attack

༩ + { 21.18/10 HEAVY FIGHTING ON

MADRID FRONT

34,183,000 bushels.

1344/1343% 1342/135% 117/1174 110/1101⁄2 July and Sept.... 115/15 11541/115

Tuesday's sales: from

Chicago Corn The Messenger

Major J. Major

May

104/104% Devine,

105%/105% 100%/100% 100%/100% Devine to the Rev. J. Divine,, and July

0034/ 003L 100 /10B from the Rev. J. Divine to "Father Sept.

Chicago Corn Divine (God)".

from

from

Lo

A four storey building in the Har- Jem district of New York known as "Our Number 1 Heaven" is Father

July Divine's headquarters. There addresses nightly loud throngs of Negroes and Whites under the cult of It's Wonderful."

May

he

Dec.

May

Опе of his favourite routines is that of leading a chant which starts like this.

line

One million blessings,

Blessings flowing free. Blessings flowing free,

There are so many blessings, Blessings flowing free for you.

New Contract New Contract

Opening Closing 10014/1087% 1075%/107% 10254/1024 104 /104 Winniper Wheat

1273/127%

mutilated 1274/12733

1287/120

EXCHANGE RATES

Divine shouts the catch of cach verse until he ins utmost enthusins. the aroused Some of his followers writhe. and twitch, squeal, fall on the floor, leap Shanghai. into the air.

New York. "Heaven", is the show place of the Amsterdam. Father Divine cult. It's the place Vienna. where visitors are received, Meetings Prague. held in a hall, downstairs, every Madrid. night. At meal times a dining table Lisbun is erected in the hall of which about Hongkong

hundred and

people Bombay.

are

one

may be

aly

he scated. When

Dec. 20. .105.0/84

21.38

Dec. 30, 105.9/64

21.37 12.20

550

With Nightists, Madrid, Dec. 30. Moorish troops repulsed a surprise Inttack by Government milità at

Villa Neuve de in Canada, one of the bloodiest engagements of the war. to-day.

There were terrible ensunities no both sides.--United Press,

CAPITAL'S STRENGTH

London, Dec. 30.

J. Stubbs-Walker, The Dally Herald correspondent in Madrid for the past three months, has returned here and reports at the prospects of The

capital resisting the insurgents attack

| are improving daily.-United Press.

NEW YEAR MESSAGE

PREMIER ON NEED

OF RE-ARMAMENT

Paris, Geneva Berlin Athens. Milan Matian

12.21

550

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22.40

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1/26

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2014

140

148

11481

20

.Nom.

eats Montreal

119 .1/21

1/6.5/32 .4.01

20.14

1/0.5/32

the Yokehama.

1/2

213 .30%

1/1.23/32 213 30%

pence.

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21

105

with his followers Father Divine Brussels.

*1

the

of sits

head table

armchair with

a Belgrade In big cushioned back. Hassocks are placed Monte Video.. under his feel. At the left of the Rio hussocks is a cuspidor. He wears no Bucharest prically

robes, burns no incense. Silver (forward).21% Before anyone may eat, the recept- Silver (Spot). acle containing the food must first be War Lon touched by his hand. A

hymn. "Joy, Joy, Joy," opens the meal.

London, Dec. 30.

RADIO BROADCAST

New Year Bells From St. John's Cathedral

DANCE PROGRAMME

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on a Wavelength of 355 metres (845 kc.c.'s), 31.49 metres (0.52 24-megacycles).

How the boy was swept overboard shouting "Good luck" to his shipmate was described by Sam Brady, year-old deckhand of Lowestoft, sole survivor of the wreek.

12.30 Light Orchestral Music. 1 Time and Weather. 1.03 Vocal Gems.

Brady said: "I lashed myself to a nust.. Six of the men tried to get away in their lifebelts in the ship's plano,

1,20 Patricia Rossborough at the

I them drown the 1.30 Reuter Press, Rugby Press; dames of our signat are then up. Local: Weather Forecast, Time and

"The rest of my mutes were torn away one by one--until nli nine hind been drowned.

"Last to go was the ship's boy. He was only 14.

the kid shout to me 'Cheerio, Sam. "As he was washed away I heard Good luck."

Announcements.

1.40 Varicly and Dance Music. 2.15 Close Down.

4-7 Chinese Programme,

7 London-Big Ben. Carroll Gib- bons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans (Australian Three Ginx. Compere, James Dyren- with Brian Lawrance, Vocalist), forth. (Electrical Recording).

Anne Lenner, and the

About dawn a French shermon 7.30 Closing Local Stock Quota- heard Brady's cries and rescued him. tions and Hongkong Exchange Mar-

The Girl Norah was owned by Mr. ket Report.

F. L. Strowger, of Gorleston, Yor- 7.85 Excerpts from "To-night at mouth, who usually took the boat to 8.30 (Noel Coward), by Gertrude. seu, but stayed behind on the last Lawrence and Noel Coward. | trip Because his wife was 1.

BRITISH RAILWAY

EXPANSION

BIG PROGRAMMES IN HAND

1. Scene from "Red Peppers"— Has anybody seen our ship, Men about Town; 2. Scene from "Shadow Play"-Play, Orchestra, play, You were there 3. Scene from "Family-

Album-Here's a Toast, Hearts and Flowers.

8 Time, Weather and Announce- ments

8.03 Scottish Music.

8.23 The London Palladium new Orchestra, with Derek · Oldham

(Tenor).

Vocal Duet-The Keel Row. (urr. Cross) .....

Marle Thomson and Catherine Mentiplay; Orchestra- London, Dec. 30. The improved traffic of the past Reels (arr. Diack); Song-Skye Boat - year has encouraged railway com Song (Boulton and Lawson) panies to embark on extensive pro- Elder Cunningham (Bass-Baritone); grammes of works during 1937. In Orchestra Petronella (arr. Dlack); all, 32,400 new goods wagons will be Song -Tam Glen (arr. Stephen and The Prime Minister, as Conserva-stock will include 2,000 new passenger

built and other additions to rolling Burnett). Jean Day (Soprano); Orchestra-Meg Merrilees (orr. tive Leader, has sent a New Year carriages, giving increased comfort, Diack).. message to the Frimrose League, in 60 restaurant cars and 050 container- Nom, which he refers to the disturbed carrying wagons, whilst 512 110 condition of Europe. He asserts locomotives will be brought into 1/2 that the Government's foreign policy

service. is the only possible polley f Britain) 4.00% is to be secured from attack and to electrification, including completion (brr. Woltschach); Tenor Solos-

29/33 retain its influence on the side of of the track between Manchester and Nocturne (Curran). A little love, a little kiss (Silosu): Orchestra-The Shefeld, rebuilding of bridges and

Dance

(Rucalossi). reconstruction of stations British Grasshopper's Wireless.

Tenor Solo Waltz Song, (J. Her- bert and O. Straus). Orchestro- Amina (Lincke), Anima Antles Novelty Intermezzo (Wark); Tenor Solo You will remember Vienna, (Hammerstein and Romberg).

B.55 London-News and Announce. ments.

The programmes include further

The wedding took place at the Registry yesterday of Mr. William John Fearon Heslop, engine room artificer of H.M.S. Dorsetshire, and Eugenia Mezavtseva. Miss bridegroom is the son of Mr. J. F. Heslop, electrical engineer, and the Mezavtseva, hotel manager.

Mr. Baldwin adds that in face of 44 the world situation and the rapid 670 growth of armed forces in Europe, 21h the re-armament programme is 2134

necessity which no British Govern- 105 ment dare ignore. Britain's armed ---British Wireless,

forces will never

be used for purpose inconsistent with the Covenant of the League of Nations, and no foreign country need fear T that Britain has aggressive intentions. Demand

British Wireless

The

In addition to his evangelistic activities, Father Divine is some- thing of a business magnate. He owns, at least six grocery stores, ten barber shops, ten cleaning and press- ing shops, at least three apartment houses, ten lodging houses and res taurants in which meals are pige bride is the daughter of Mr. Mita SURRENDERS TO vided for Alteen cents: He also operates scores of barrows, selling "Peace Father fresh vegetables. He hyle-Smith, Registrar of KIANGSU runs two weekly Spoken Word and the New York News.

newspapers

The

Mr.

Marriages, officiated, and the wit- nesses were Mr. J. P. Murphy, De-

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:

EXCHANGE

Selling

T.T. Shanghai T.T. Singapore TT. Japan. T.T. India T.T.

U.S.A Manila

puty Registrar of Marriages, and WOMAN IN CUSTODY:TT. Germany Mr. E. Rogerson.

He has also created a "Promised Land" for his followers in the Wall- kill Valley near Kingston, New York, bland and polite, alert and extreme- comprising about a thousand acres. nervous. His followers claim he He tells his followers it is a land is "Dean of the Universe." He al- flowing with milk and honey. He

terms it "Extensions of Heaven.'

the left Inpel of his

18.2%d. .18.2%d.

Orchestra March Review Medley

9.15 Cinema Organ Music. Coprice Viennois (Kreisler) .......... 1024 Sydney Gustard; Famous Tauber 524 Melodies.... Harold Ramsoy: A 100% Japanese Sunset (Deppen) ....I R. E .81% McPherson; In a clocic store (Orth) Terence Casey; Teddy Bears' Picnic (Bratton)

Sydney Gus-

9.35 Song Memories,

Daddy, wouldn't buy me a Bow-

.30%

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80

COURT F

Bangkok Salgen T.T. France T.T. Switzerland T.T. Australia, T.T. Lisbon

Batavia

.60%

95% tard.

1404

.04%

.4.61

Buying

JUMPED BAIL

Shanghai, Dec. 31,, Miss Sze Llang, the woman lawyer ways wears a round gold button in who jumped her ball following her 4 m/s. Lic. London

Jacket, His arrest on November 23

six wita

Association, But-

rendered to the Kinngsu fligh Court tional Salvation

m/s. D/P,

4 m/s. France 30 d/s. India

do

Some of the provisiors he sells in voice is soft and high in or others, all alleged leaders of the Na-4 m/s. L/C. U.S.A. hls various enterprises are raised by conversation, but is capable of great Owns power and emotion. He speaks fast his followers on farms he

He takes up no collection and al- there.

ways scrupulously returns cheques

him by After two hours' questioning, slie US. Cross rale in London

was ordered placed in detention with mall. He permits no liquor or the six others 61 In

Reuter.

into two classes. Firstly

divi Divina's followers are now or cash contributions sent to 1 we are the "Angels" who either tobacco on his premises. There has

at outside jobs, mostly domes-never been any sexual scandal.

tle service, and turn over their wages

to Father Dlying, or work directly Some of his closest followers are for Father Divine, donating merely called Sarah Love, Dear One and

at Soochow yesterday.

custody-

i

Wow (Tabrar), Little Annie Rooney .75% (Nolan)

The Maestros; (a)

132 Honeysuckle and the Bee (Kapps- 1/6% Fitz), (b) If you want to know the .0$70 tire ask a Policeman (Burando-

Rogers)

Light Opera Male Chorus; Fancy our meeting (Charlg and and Meyer) .......... Jack Buchanan 1/3.5/32

Elsie Randolph; This little piggle 1/3.7/32 we

went to market (Coslow and Lewis) 6.77 George Olsen and His Music; Plano Medicy-No. 2, Ronald R3 Courley: Talkin' to myself—Fox- 4.00%

Trot Raymond Paige and his Orchestra.

Expert on Nutrition

Says: Eat More Fish

Albany, NY, Dec. 15.

10 London-Big Ben. A Variety Programme. Vocal-Dixie isn't Dixie any more

Lavalda Carter; Plano Solo- Melodies of the Month, No. 20 Len Green; Humorous Bats in the Belfrey....Fletsam and Jetsam;

"Tho Street

their labeur. Secondly 'there are Thankful Kindness. He serves freo The Hongkong Branch of the Eng- those who are called "Children," menta to his favourite "Angels."lish Association will hold the third These are people who are Impressed During a period of two years, eight- meeting of the Session at the Helena Eat more fish for health, says the Song-Old Salfor by Father Divine and attend his een of his "Angela" entered the Moy Institude on Tuesday, January State Medical Society, Writing in Singer (Arthur Tracy); Song-Lost meetings, but not faithful to the ex-psychopathic ward of a hospital, 5, at 5.30 p.m. The Rev. K. Mac- the Society's weeldy bulletin, Dr. my rhythm, lost my music, lost my tent that they are ready to turn over having been picked up on the streets kenzie Dow will read a paper entitled J. S. McLester authority on nutrition man. Dinah Miller; Saxophone everything to him.

in states of mind varying from wild "The Greatest Englishman of the and past president of the American SoloMy Kingdom for a

Kisa In appearance Father Divine is exnitation to coma. But most of his Eighteenth Century Professor 11. Medical Association, sald salt-water Raymond Baird: Voent-Sweet Sue, a baldheaded, stocky, aged mulatto of followers are relatively quiet folk.K. M. Simpson will take the chair, varieties produce fodine, necessary just “you. Rev. The Four Crotchets, about, sixty...... A thin, dark_moust-Father Divine's neliviiles extend Tear should be ordered in advance for health. maal p

Vocal Quariot: Banja Solo-A musl- Tache, covers his upper-lip, below to Baltimore, Newark, Jersey City from the manageress of the Helena They always form a profitablo es? Journey from New York to Call-

typical :: Extended nostrils. Hé.ls-and, Bridgeport, United ✩Press; -- May Institute. (Tel. 22100),

addition to the diet," he said.

(Continued on Page 5.)

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