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SOCIALITE

SCOFFS AT

A PRINCE

New York, Feb. 10.

MISS KAY ROSS MACCULLOCH, pret- ty American society girl, is not going to marry handsome thirty-four-year-old Prince Halim of Egypt, cousin of King Farouk, whether his family are for or against the match.

She was frankly amazed when she was informed in Now York to-day that Prince Halim had agreed with the royal family of Egypt to renounce his romance with her.

"I am simply furious," she said. "I . would certainly never marry any one but an Anglo-Saxon, and I couldn't imagine Hving in Egypt.

"I simply cannot for the life of Inc understand how all this has happened.

"I met the prince in Paris in October. There I saw quite a 101 of him, just because he knows a lot of prople I know and he was often around with them.

NEVER IN LOVE

"But I was certainly never in love with him or gave any thought to him as anything but a casual <quaintance.

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"I saw very little of him in Lon- don because he was a persistent. I ran into him in one or two hotels, but I told him I didn't want to go out with him.

"I am very interested in an English boy,

"I have heard several times from the prince since, but I have just Ignored his letters."

British Test For Secret Ray

Air Ministry Will Try Out Invention for "Paralys- ing" Airplanes

London, Feb, 10. Secret demonstration of a ray that paralyses petrol and oil engines for several hours is to be given to mem- bers of the Selentife and Research Department the Air Ministry. The invention, perfected by thirty-six-year-old Londoner, re- sembles a powerful searchlight on a

of

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The residence of the Duke of Wind- sor, the Austrian castle Enzesfeld, which he is tenunting until June

where and

his sister, the Princess Royal, recently visited hin.

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ATLANTIC SERVICE BY AIR NEXT JANUARY

From A Special Correspondent

Washington, February 10. THE Transatlantic acroplane service between Britain and the United States will begin in January 1938 under arrange- ments now being completed between Imperial Airways and Pan-American Air- ways in co-operation with the two Govern- ments.

This will enable passengers and mails to move regularly once a week each way at the beginning of the service, which will be ex- tended as equipment and demand increase.

Preparations are also being made for a United States air- ship bid for passengers and hight freight.

Foggy Dartmoor

Hardest of All

Jails for Escape

London, Feb. 10, "Convict escapes from Dartmoor.” That was the newspaper placard on the London street one day recently. "Dartmoor convict recaptured," fallowed next morning. To mast people in this country, not only of the underworld, the word Dartmoor conjures up only the great convict prison set upon the Moor in South Devon; a place, except for a short Summer, of sudden fogs and rain and snow and bitter cold; of grey granite and grey quarries; of working parties of prisoners outside the walls under the of armed warders; of Civil Guards, carbines in crook of arm, standing here and there on vantage points. A place of damp and deadly gloom from

which no men' may escape for long.

Cyes

FREE FIVE HOURS The prisoner of this week who "escuped" had his liberty but a short five hours. Slipping away from his gang in a sudden fog such as is com- mon on the Moor, he was defeated by the fog. For five hours he wan- dered in circles, only to surrender when the fog lifted and be taken back exhausted to the place whence

he came.

1 is curious -thal escapes from nther jails never give to the towns- man the thrill which an escape from

granite

weathered

Into Inniastic shapes loom up against the sky. Hunger, terror, cold, collapse. The seare search parties find him; then he goes back through the great grin granite gateway with its inscription of 1812 "Parcere Subjectis Spare the They don't on Dart- Vanquished. moor.

But the Cockney enjoys the story in London.

The Government will ask Con- gress for ample appropriation to cover dirigible subsidies unti this class of service becomes profitable.

Negotiations as to details fol- lowing experimental flights are practically concluded, and fal- timere, selected as the American terminal, has been advised to complete the enlargement of Es airport by the end of this year at a cost of nearly £600,000.

The success of the American Trans-Pacific service and British trial flights over the Atlantic are responsible for fixing de- finitely the time when a regular service may be expected.'

Electrons As Man's Greatest Servant

Dartmoor gives. No man yet has POSSIBLE SERVICES MAY EXCEED WILDEST really escaped from "the Moor," OF,

He was never at least, only one. heard of again. Probably he per- ished in morass.

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FOR WAR PRISONERS

When we were at continual war

The

USC

FLIGHTS OF IMAGINATION, SAY GENERAL ELECTRIC. EXPERTS

Schenectady, N.Y., Feb. 10.

General Electric scientists working in research laboratories are "train- with France a place had to be founding electrons to serve man." In fact, the scientists say the electron prom- to Incarcerate prisoners of war. So Ises to be the "greatest and most powerful servant that man has." the great place on Dartmoor

was

In a statement to the United Press, they do see the characteristle yellow built for them; American prisoners swivel tripod. Main components in of war of 1812 went there, too.

the General Electric Company said colour of sodium light, and that tells clude infra-red rays and a secret ray { *** the inventor has discovered after Ave wars came to an end. Then about the crons are being subjected to them the electrons speeding across training, and that the "discipline the tube are colliding with the 1857 it occ

occurred to someone to work.

they are being taught evidences one sodium atoms. Many of the colli years of experimental

the place for many years empty more step in man's control over the sions between the speeding electrons Recently a test was made-with-the-

as convict prison. Only the worst

forces of mature.

and the sodium atoms cause pro- ray on a ten horsepower motor car.

and most confined type of offender

""" Scientists to-day have m fairly found changes in the atoms struck, The engine was left running while

was, or is, sent there. Most of them

good idea of what an electron 1s.and when ihose atoms return to the car was stae bonnet of the sudden

stationary. The beam

ore townsmen; they get away in the They know that it weighs 1/1845 their normal condition they give off WD3 trained on

fogs characteristic of the

is the golden light that is the principal car and immediately the

engine Moor, and they take to the Mont of hydrogen atom, that it

charged with negative electricity, evidence of the whole process," It remained out of action self, not knowing, or despising. is and that its mas increases as ils stopped. for more than two hours.

Miles of

of heather and

velocity approaches that of 'light. boulders and great tors sur- round the runaway. Water courses IT'S 20TH CENTURY PRODUCT and small rivers run in all direc- tions. In many

and

Although the engine was paro- lysed, it was undamaged, several hours later it could be

driven away.

planes. To do this, more 500,000 volts will be necessary.

than

11.

huge

EXAMPLE OF BEHAVIOUR

to teach them to serve man.

To the scientists, it is explained. the procedure is a simple example parts seemingly The electron, admitted by mod-of electron behaviour. To the auto- The Inventur hopes to be able to bottomless bogs"mires"-may en-ern physics and chemistry to be a mobilist who drives at night under seem very build a sei that will throw a rayguf hin, even as they sometimes do probable ultimate constituent of all sodium lamps It may 15,000 to 20,000 feet to disable air- the wild ponies born and bred there. atoms, is a product of 20th Century mysterious,

"When we have once learned the Not a human habitation is within research. sight. Dusk falls; giant outcrops of Scientists say that until the 20th behaviour of electrons," said the state- Century, the structure of atoms was ment, then can come the training entirely a a subject for theory

and period arcat universe of electrons conjecture,

with modern research methods is just becoming known to selen and equipment," the General Elec-tists. Only short distances have tric statement sald, "it became been penetrated in this strange possible not only to theorize, but in micro-land and our brief glimpses some instances to study the interior into it have not gone far within the of atoms and the movements of outer

boundary. The electrons.

amount of knowledge still to .be "Experimentations with electrons, grasped seems Imitiess. Yet scien- scientists are going far beyond the step, they are gaining facts that

Lists

knew that with every forward visible world, They have long forgotten the age- will be invaluable in training elec eld common-sense adage that 'seeing with the other forces of nature man

rons to work for

together believing. They are seeking knowledge in an unseen, unknown has already harnessed,

New Guinea Warriors Rather Too Rough in Football Game Their

Knives, Broken Bottles and Razor Blades Among Weapons Brought Into Play-Mortality Rate Becomes Too High

So many deaths have been caused by native football matches in the Australian territory of New Guinea that a leading chief asked n district officer to discuss the matter at a native council meeting. This officer is expected to make a startling report to the Administra

tion.

The prohibition imposed by the authorities on tribal warfare left warriors without recreation. They Introduced football, but became per- turbed at the casualties.

TOO MANY PLAYERS

TONG ELECTIONS BEING PROTESTED

A match played at Raboul began with the orthodox number of play- Montreal Chinatown Closely

Pa-

ers, but after thirty minutes, and in | trolled While Reply 'Awaited From spite of the dozen warriors who lay

Injured on the

feld, the number had

Increased to fifty-seven

Headquarters Here

limitations

is

universe.

of our

man

enormous.

"When all the electrons have com- seems impossible at first pleted their course of training-that thought that the human mind can is, when scientists know all about sec; feel, then and can make them do what. study things it cannot smell, hear or taste. The five senses we want them to do their possible that serve us so well in ordinary services to us far exceed the wildest day-to-day events are, however, nights of imagination. hopelessly inadequate in

receiving "Even with our present small and impressions from electrons. The Incomplete knowledge, the pos- reason is that electrons are so tiny, sibilities for use of the electron

scem infinite."

OFFER IDEA OF SIZE

SOME ALREADY TRAINED "Our five senses arc not keen enough to be aware of them. Any- Already some clectrons have been thing that weigha 1/1845 of a hy-trained to serve us, said the selen- drogen atom, in turn weighing Lists, for instance: .0000000000000000000000001882 of a "They obey the commands we gram, is quite outside the realm of transmit to the grids of vacuum human sensitivity; and that is what tues. Here the flow of millions and an electron weighs. It's too minute bidons of electrons is accelerated for direct observation."

and halted thousands and even With modern instruments, it is millions of times a second. The possible now for scientists ob- electrons manoeuvre like disciplined serve the effects of electronle activi- armies. They react unerringly to ty. From the study of the effects, the slightest changes made in grid scientists work back to the causes. potential." It is

Scientists are able to predict and also possible to define certain follow. laws of action the electrons seem to control their action with uncanny "And in this ordered movement," As an example, the staternent pointed to the interior of a gas-sald the statement, "this obedient discharge tube, such as the sodium behaviour to our wishes, lies. the lamp, which is coming into wide use secret of radio broadcasting und on highways;

radio reception and all the other

to

accuracy,

Montreal, Feb, 10. Police found seven of the players

Complaints were filed to-day, with were armed with knives, seventeen had broken bottles, nine had razer oficiala at Victoria protesting the biades, and the balance carried stone legality of recent elections held by club heads, six-inch nails or short certain members of the Chee Kung hardwood sticks with sharpened Tong (Chinese Freemasons). points.

That ended football In Robaui.

Six Chinese scrutineers protested MORTALITY HIGH

to headquarters in tho Britista | Columbia_city that officers were However, natives who returned to elected without presence of oficial their home villages took the story of scrutineers appointed by the long the game with them. The result was and without customary three days' a form of grudge football between notice being served. rival tribes, in which, according to reports, the mortality rate-hon-bo- Polico: stated - n; closo; - Burvey.

of upon millions of sodium atoms in territory apparently will be found come higher even than that in the Chinatown would be maintained in this space... They can, of course, see the most astounding and most im

-il anticipation of trouble.

neither electrons nor atoms, but portant discoveries of our century."

old tribal wars,

"Scientists," Baid the statement, duties that vacuum tubes perform. measure the current of cloe- "It is, therefore, with great hope trons flowing inside the tube from that scientists look forward to cx- the heated cathode to the anode. ploration in the micro-land of They know that there are mililons electronics, for in

this promising

FEBRUARY 22, 1937.

On the Neusiedler Lake in Austria two new types of motor-siedges were recently tried out. One type looks like a plane without wings and the other looks like a motor-cor without wheels. The latter has its motor in the rear and a propeller is used to give higher speed.

JIGSAW PUZZLES FOR THE DUKE

are

Cleveland, Feb, 10. When the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Simpson, finally reunited, they may spend some happy hours over One of the myriad-pieced jigsaw puzzles which Mrs. John Paul Jones, of Chagrin Falls, O., moltes especially for the royal household.

business was Mrs. Junes, whose started to bolster the family income during depresion years, has just filled T

order for Harrod's in London, a

a department store which serves the royal family and mem- bers of the court.

Mrs. Jones also has sent a ship- ment of puzzles to a close friend of the former king. The friend plan- ned to present them to Edward as a Christmas

present,

This same friend, whose name Mrs. Jones prefers to keep a seccet, was the first to introduce King George V and Queen Mary to the American pastime of plecing puzzles.

the

King

were

The Ind soon "caught on" in royal circles, and the late George and

Queen Mary leaders in the game. Orders for more soon

from Harrod's. Now.

agents in many citles take orders for Mrs. Jones' puzzles.

Mrs. Jones and two young women day assistants work eight hours a

enme

in a basement shop, sawing big pictures into small bits.

The ex-

ex-king likes large puzzles,

Mrs. Jones...says. "He and his friends and relatives do them on week-ends. The biggest one I ever sent the king was a map of London In 1,050 pieces. It took us more than three days to put it together before we sent it,'

"We always put the puzzles to- gether before we send them out," Mrs. Jones said, "to be sure, a plece. hasn't been lost and that all fit per- fectly,

"Queen Mary and the late King George used to do the jubilee puzzles I made. Once Harrod's sent me an order especially for the king, but set a price I considered too low.

"I called back, I wouldn't make them for so little. Then they wired back that I should suit myself about the price but to hurry with the order:

"I understand," she continued, "It was the custom of the king and queen to work the puzzles them- selves first, and then pass them on to members of their family." United Press,

Chinese Subject Wins

American Citizenship

St. Helens, Ore., Feb, 10. C. J. Pupo, who has lived here for 15 years, is probably the only Chinese subject ever to become a citizen of the United States.

Pape, born in Germany, went to China with his parents when he was youth. He was admitted to citizen- ship there when he reached an accept- able age, and held a government job. Pape remained in China for 44 years.

ENGLISHMEN RETURN FROM TIBET HEARD OF KING GEORGE V.'s DEATH LAST AUGUST

Calcutta, Jan. 30. Two English travellers, Mr. Ronald Kaulback and Mr. N. J. F. Hanbury Tracy, have reached Calcutta after twenty months spent in Tibet. They entered that country from Northern Burma in May, 1935, and

emerged at Sadiya on the Assam border just be- foro Christmas.

Most of the time was spent in the Salween Valley, where they surveyed an area of approximately 50,000 square miles and made an entomolo- gical and botanical collection for the British Muscum. They recelved most friendly treatment from the in- hobltants and lived on the food: of the country. They first heard of the death of King George V. last August.

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