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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THE QUEEN MARY'S

Maiden Trip Failure Caused By

A Piece of Metal

FOUND AFTER SPEED TRIALS

The Queen Mary failed to capture the Blue Riband of the Atlantic during her early voyages because sho damaged her machinery when making her speed trials in the Firth of Clyde.

This secret came to light in a paper read at the annual meeting of the Institution' of Naval Architects in London by Mr. S. J. Pigott, a director of Messrs. John Brown, who built the liner. Mr. Pigott said that at the beginning of the maiden voyage: a small piece of metal was found Jodged under part of the steam system which drives the tur

£4,750,000 FOR NEW CUNARDER

bines.

When the ship reached Cher- bourg pieces of blading were

found to be missing from several

turbines.

On arrival in New York more

damage

dis

The Treasury is to make advances, not exceeding £5,000,000, to the extensive

Cunard-White Star Lint for the covered.

the

building of a

sister-ship to

was

This necessitated removal of the Queen Mary and recouping the comfirst row of blading from each of pany for £260,000 Queen Mary in excess of the Trea- the affected turbines.

sury loan.

apent on

the

POWER REDUCED Consequently, for her second and

This was announced in a White third round voyages the ship was Paper Issued last month.

Half of the loan will be secured by an issue at par of new debenture stock of the company secured by a trust deed in favour of the Treasury, Income Debenture stock, similarly

sailing under considerably reduced power.

Later the blading was renewed with heavier and more rigid nee tions and gave no trouble in sub sequent voyages,

fly Lord Stonehaven, in

pre-

the other boing an issue at par of Csidential address, quoted statistics to secured.

The amount, not exceeding £250, 000, to be advanced in respect, of excess expenditure is to be secured by a third specific. mortgage on the Queen Mary."

DIVIDING THE PROFIT

show that shipbuilding prospeels

Including were improving.

naval construction, bullding in progress represented 1,- 500,000 tons; laid-up tonnage was a mere fraction of what it was a year ago; and freight rates had risen to more satisfactory levels.

But it was to be regretted, he said, At the end of each financial year after the amount required for divi- that the shipbuilding industry was no dends (if there had been no Income longer contributing satisfactory to Debenture stock) is found and allow-our export trade and that we held ance made for depreciation and re-only the fifth place in the list of serve the certified profits are to be nations building warships for foreign distributed thus:

(1) Treasury to receive

countries.

amount The Queen Mary salled on her equal to 3 per cent, to Dec. 31, 1939, maiden voyage on May 27, 1836.1 and 5 per cent. thereafter, on the nominal amount of outstanding In- "A" come Debenture stock, Class and an amount equal to 3 per cent. to Dec. 31, 1943, and 5 per cent. thereafter on the nominal amount of Class "C."

outstanding Income Debenture stock,

cent. dividend on nominal amount of their shares.

(4) Any balance to be distributed between the Treasury and the share-

In-

DAMAGE

MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1937.

The Finnish Naval frigate "Suomen Joutsen" recently visited the harbour of New York, where the photographer took the above picture of the beautiful vessel.

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WIFE WILLED"

│MR

SUICIDE,

HAS

COMA IN GAOL

Los Angeles, Apr. 10.

SECRET

Science Says Corns Can Predict Rain

Cleveland, Apr. S.

Prof John G. Albright, of the Case School of Applied Science, has thrown the weight of acien- tific opinion behind amateur meteorologists who predict wea ther changes by the way their corns behave.

"Certainly, it will rain when your corns hurt," said Prof. Albright, "furthermore, there is

a lot of truth in a good deal of the old lore about the weather." Albright, who is listed as a physics instructor but also teaches meteoro- logy, chalked on a blackboard the following classes of persons who can tell you without looking at the news- paper forecast what the weather is going to do:

War veterans, carrying musket balls around in their flesh. People who have teeth that need pulling and people who have rheumatic joints.

Certain types whose hair is finger-

by approaching rain. People who can't forget their operations. Farmers, categorically.

"Just recently."-

," said Albright, "while I was giving a public lecture

a woman asked: "Why is it that when- ever my corns hurt I know it is going to rain?!

BLOOD PRESSURE ·

"I was all set to explain that. You sce, just before a rain the air pressure drops.

blood That raises your pressure, because when the pressure the body lets up outside your pressure inside increases.

"With a rise in blood pressure some discomforts are increased. Corns will begin to hurt. Any Infection, a tooth,

an

operation scar may be affected. Those old veterans who could tell an impending change in weather by the way their wounds felt were pretly

barometers.

good bare Albright, "I've en- countered some people who knew when rain is, ahead by the way their hair behaves. A change in relative humidity of the atmosphere will tend to curl or uncurl certain kinds of hair?

Farmers who can "sniff the air" and forecast the weather are expert because of long experience with the elements, he said.

"Some formers subconsciously

preparing

ing for a change when they hear unaccustomed sounds frein

begin RS. HELEN WILLS LOVE, recently convicted of murdering her husband, said she would attempt holders in proportion to the total suicide by "will-power." · To-day a gaoler found her un- nominal amounts of outstanding (2) Treasury to receive amount come Debenture stock, classes "A" conscious in her cell. equal to 5 per cent. on nominal and. "C" and the amount for the amount of outstanding Income De-time being paid or credited as paid up upon the issued shares of the benture stock class "B"

(3) Shareholders to be pald 3 per company respectively.

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certain directions. Say, a farmacr knows it's gonna come a big rain' when he hears a train. that is miles 10 the south. He doesn't know the sound is borne on the cyclonic wind whirl that comes

from the south pre- A doctor examined her, sold she her condition was brought about by eeding a stormn.

Don't feel too bad if you're not sett was not shamming. He started fur-self-hypnotism.

Mira. Love testified at her trialsitive to weather

sald changes, ther tests to try to prove whether

that she killed her husband be- Albright-"anyone can predict the cause he refused to reveal to his weather for to-morrow by saying it mother his secret marriage to her will be just what it is to-day. And in Mexico.

they will be right in 75 per cent, of the cases."-United Press,

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Since the marriage the mother had come between them, she said. The murder was committed at the. fashionable Santa Monica Beach Club during New Year revels,

Mr. Love, a wealthy broker, Brrived with his mother at the club, and was met by his wife. She pro duced a revolver, and as Mr. Love turned to run she shot him three times in the back.

Hula Girls Have Sit Down Strike!

Honolulu, Apr. 1. A sit down strike of hula girls has been reported here. The report, an erroneous one, was traced to a group of newly arrived tourists, whose lack of knowledge concerning an old Hawalian custom, caused them to misinterpret a performance staged in their honour.

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“ROOSEVELT FOR KING"

AMERICAN STUDENT

7. I

JOKE

"BRIGHT ROYAL -DIGNITY"

New York, Apr, 1.

A "Roosevelt for King" Club has been launched by a group of Yule students gathered at Morys, one of the country's most celebrated under- graduate beer parlours.

These students lampoon the Presi dent's Supreme Cours drive and its Implications of dictatorship. They of other universities' to urge students join them in the capacity of founders and Privy Councilors or the "new Empire"

The formal resolutions as published by the Yale News

specily: "Whereas Franklin D. Roosevelt now controls the executive and legis- lature,

and is soon to control the Judiciary and

and all so-called brunches of the Government;

and magician this fair land has ever had to guide it;

less

"Whereas the same Franklin 1. Roosevelt has proved himself the man of the century, the greatest states- Interpreting the hula from a sit-man, humuaist, economist, politician," ting or kneeling posture has always been one of the accepted forms of the famous dance. Among these are the hula puill and the kuole. The latter is carried out to the rhythmic pounding of a double calabash, ac- song; while companied by chanting or the dancers in the former wield split bamboo rattles. In this the perform- for a Lers are usually placed in two rows facing each other, thus favourlug actions in the two of the st and the cantillations of songs. Face, eyes and arms play a major part In the interpretive" gesturing of the dance, hula experta point out, and thus very little of the grace, beauty. and-import of the dance is lost in the slldown" or kneeling hulan.

The real hula as it is danced in Hawall is, a

Interpretive dance telling the

the

grds and herole

stories of the Islands. It has noth- ing in common with the aideshow version frequently seen away from the Islands. The cldtime hula was,

in

origin instilution of religious

"Whereas the same. Frankila D. Roosevelt hus already provided a suc of heira unto the third cession generation, rich in mind, health, and night royal dignity;

Whereas ne Anterican people have long exhibited a burning desire siniple form of goverament Through undying devotion to the pomp and pagentry of minor ciclaldon;

"INHIBITED LONGING" "Whereas the intense interest the American public in the affairs of the British Monarchy during the last six months betrays an inhibited long- ing for royal rulo;

of

"Be it resolved that Franklin D. Roosevelt berome King in nunc as well on fact, and be duly coronated with his beloved Queen Eleanor at appropriate ceremonies in the national capital, which city will at the same timo be renumed Roosevelt, D.C."

are enrolling in hula instruction The hula is the dancing poetry of classes. While some cellophane huin the Islands an artful combination of skirts are seen at Honolulu perform- music, pantomime and dance, Men fances, most of the dancers continuo (na well as women can "dance it, and to weave their own from the leaves many members of the vacation colony of the tl plant.

NEW REX RECORDS.

8993 (Sing Something in the Morning. FT.

(A, Nica Cup of Tea. F.T.

8994. (On Your Toes, F.T.

(At the Balalaika. F.T.

BILLY COTTON & HIS ORCHESTRA.

8986 (May 1 Have the Next Romance, F.T

(Gone. F.T.

JOHNNY JOHNSON & HIS ORCHESTRA.

8995 (Harbour Lights.

(Timber,

8996 (Six Hits of the Day. No. 9.

PRIMO SCALA'S ACCORDION BAND. 9001 (SANDY WINS THE GRAND NATIONAL. SANDY, POWELL. 8987 (There's Something in the Air. F.T.

(Where the Lazy River Goes By. F.T.

CHICK BULLOCK'S ORCHESTRA,

and

CHARLIE KUNZ PIANO MEDLEYS NO. 23 & 24.

*also

NEW PARLOPHONE RECORDS.

TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY.

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