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TUESDAY, HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THE

MAY 4, 1937.

WORLD'S BIGGEST RADIUM FIND GOOD POSTURE! BY PENNILESS MINER

"Curse Of Pharaohs" Strikes Again

-Edinburgh, Apr. 15.

Sir Alexander Seton, Britialı | soldier-diplomat, is trying vainly to give away the bone of a 3,000- year-old Egyptian before another "curse of the Pharaohs" visits

his terrified household.

Sir Alexander, hereditary armour bearer to the King, half- jokingly. and half-seriously blamed the Pharaohic curse) for a series of strange disasters) experienced by his family since his wife brought the bone from Egypt:

Twice he has given it away, and each time got it back with a terrify- ing story of strange happenings.

Lady Seton obtained the bone in Gizch,

Egypt, where she attended the formal opening of a tomb, the contents of which dated back to the 20th dynasty, or about 1.100 years. Before Christ.

The tomb was only a short dis tance from the famous pyramids of Gized and the burial place of Queen Helepheres one of the rarest Ands of archaeology.

The disaster. Sir Alexander said,; come quickly.

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First there were sudden illnesses the household, twn mysterlous

out, maids refused fires broke work there, and visitors said they

awakened to see

a. "ghost" Glassware crashed roaming about.

were

In the middle of the night.

Sir Alexander gave the bone to a surgeon who returned it two days Jater with the explanation that his maid bad broken her leg in a fall) while fleeing from a "white-robed that looked like a mummy Agure come to life."

Several days ago Sir Alexander Was taking a visitor upstairs, he to the room where the bone specimen is kept.

"We heard a muffied noise and,

ROMAN QUBS IN SPAIN-"Cubs of the Roman Wolf" are tha words on the radiator of this truck captured by Loyalist troops while fighting on the Quadalajara front in Spain recently. Pro- mier Mussolini's cubs did not do so well, according to reports, suffering severe rout and slaughter at the hands of General Miaja's seasoned campaigners.

JEWELS VANISH

Two-Day Liner Hunt: Page Accused

A

Priceless Boon To Britain's Hospitals

Toronto, April 25.

THE greatest find of radium the world has ever known -discovered in the sub-Arctic wastes of Canada by

a penniless prospector-is revoluntionising the supply of this precious commodity.

Coronation Curiosities

By Harold 8. Corbin

FORTRESS SANCTUARY >UCKINGHAM PALACE to the beginning and the end of the royal procession at the coronation of King George VI. In early days, however, the routo WON much longer and arrival at various points covered a period of days.

Workings near Echo Bay, in the Great Bear Lake territory, are to-day producing radium in quantities hitherto undreamed of.

Already the effect of the yield has been to reduce the world price of radium by almost two- thirds-to £5,000 a gram.

The abundant supply of this Canadian radium, which is of the finest grade, has brought it with- In the reach of many British hospitals which otherwise would not have been able to pay the colossal cost.

And Gilbert Labine, the one-time The coronation ceremonies really penniless wanderer who found the began with the procession from the mine, has become a millionaire. Tower of London, where the King EPIC OF COURAGE had gone after his accession to the

Route of this year's coronation possession.

Labino Point, the location of the radium mine, has been named after him, and recently he attended a banquet of honour given to him by the Canadian Government.

WAS

Yet not long ago he

through the snow Instead of

tra poor and unknown.

looking for

copper. copper he found radlum. To-day Mr. Labine is working with. "

band of miners on 4 seam of pitchblende over 39071. below ground. The deeper in the mine one goes the wider and rleher the vein becomes.

New York, Apr. 21. SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD pageboy in the Cunarder

The story of the dramatic dis- Aquitania was locked in the ship's brig on her re-

covery is an eple of courage' and throne, to Westminster Hall. While Perseverance. upon opening the door of the room, turn to New York from a forty-day South American

Labine was almost down and out the cruise to-day. He is accused of stealing several thousand the real reason for confining him when he left Ottown to stake copper found the glass case lying on

self in the Tower is now in doubt, floor near its table. The glass had

Bear Lake territory. been ground under some body's heel. pounds' worth of jewellery.

self in safe keeping Mrs. R. W. Higgins, wife of an will be taken back to Southampton presumably he desired to place him-claims at Hunter Bay, in the Great

in the fortress accident was baffling be- cause, in addition to the fact that no American mining magnate, lost the on the next voyage and handed over until his possession of the throne was RADIUM PARADISE

undisputed. To emerge too soon BOUN

VAB floor

days

The country was

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prospectors'

The one had been in the room, the table jewels Inst Tuesday. After a two-to the civil authorities.

found in a only two feet high and the day search they were

Mrs. Higging has refused to sign a from sanctuary in those rugged as paradise. Docks and stones

was to risk i dagger plunged into was thickly carpeted." locker.

Captain R. B. Irving said the boy criminal charge.

the royal epidermis and resultant entirely exposed. United FreSS.

consternation, at least temporarily, With Mr. E. C. Paul, another among the arrangers of the pageant, prospector, he tramped towards the What was needed most of all, and north, facing terrible weather.

"TAKE THIS

Twenty minutes late, Miss Sraith!.This wont. do-punctuality is the key-note of business training. It isn't the first time either!

FREDA SMITH'S LETTER

Mosers. Blatcher & Twiss 210, Leutenkell Street, E.C

Dear Sire,

LETTER..!"

Freda Smith bolt school with visions of becoming

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Six mistakes in

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Oh-she

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still is needed to-dny, was a King alive and whole and able to mount his steed without too great moan- |ing or blood-letting.

The evening before the proces- slan siarted, the King appointed

оп

were

Their eyelids were frozen to- gether when they awoke in the mornings, and until they, had rubbed their eyes they completely blind. Near Echo Bay, Paul was struck

were

his personal bodyguard to accom-with snow blindness, so Lubine went pany him the morrow. Sume prospector's pick.

off alone with his shorthandled researchers say these were the original Knights of the Bath, In- To his astonishment he found a stituted by Henry IV in 1399. Others pitchblende that produced radium.

rich vein of. blackish-blucore- assert that Order was not founded until much later.

Excitedly he sent off a sample But records show that Henry v. to the National Research Laboratory who-accesied to the throne in 1413, at Ottawa. The answer finshed named fifty of these gentlemen and back that the sample was the richest

the radium

laboratory had they, with various noblemen and officers and the mayor and aldermen analysed

Lubine sank 1 shaft and started of London, accompanied him on his journey from the Tower to West- mining. To-day, where once stood minster Hall,

only a tiny log cabin, Is the greatest

in

The route was much different radium inine the world has seen.

from the one to be taken by King| George. James II, who came to

the throne in 1985, discontinued the procession at his coronation..

This year, as shown the dotted line, the King's

esion will start

nt

Buckingham fecessid

and go down

the Mall past St. James's Park,

to

Trafalgar Square. Then it will turg

to the right along Whitehall and

They Found

Cure For T.B.

children

Salt Lake City, Apr. 25. Parliament Street and cross Parlia- An Arctic Island where ment Square to Westminster Abbey. Eskimo

subsist on Black line shows the returning route, animal fats and seal oil and along Victoria Embankment,

through

suffer tuberculosis 13 Northumberland Avenue, and Traf-never algar Square, eventually circling by drawing the attention of Dr, way of Regent and Oxford Streets, Victor Levine, Creighton Univer up Park Lane and along Constitution sity scientist, who is seeking a Hill to Buckingham Palace again.

12-Foot Ape Reported

cure for the disease.

He announced he would accompany futher Bernard. J. Hubbard, the "Glacier priest-explorer" to the Northland this spring.

HUGE FOOTPRINTS ON farther

RIVER BANK

He

un

Their laboratory will be lonely northernmost King Island, off the lip of Alaska. Father Hubbard Is Boing there to study the Eskimos means of travel across lee focs. is planning an expedition In 1940

of north, in search undiscovered land that he believes lies somewhere between Alaska and the North Pole. In 18 months he Rio De Janeiro, April 15.

hopes to learn from King Island Evidence of the existence of a eskimos the best modes of travelling giant ape,. at least 12 feet in across the Arctic wastes to his goal. Dr. Levine, who received Columbia height, has been brought by University's award for outstanding travellers returning to civilisa-service to humanity will spend his islopd studying the tion from the State of Goyas, in time on the

oll, one, of the the heart of Brazil.

natives diet. Seal chief items, is rich in Vitamin D and They report that gold prospectors the doctor thinks there may be some on the banks of the Araguayn River connection between that and the lack have heard strange roaring sounds of tuberculosis among the people. coming from the virgin forest..

Father Hubbard is pursuing a theory that the northern Bight of birds from Huge footprints, resembling that Alaska proves the existence of land of a man and measuring 21 Inches in to the north. He has obtained one length, are also stated to have been clue in the discovery of the body of discovered.

an eskimo on the north Alaskan const. In the samo rca number of The eskimo wore clothes that have cattle have been found killed-and in been obsolete in Alaska for 200 years, every ease the tengue had been Indicating that he may have lived wrenched out-Reuter,

beyond the sphere of the white man's

Goyaz, which has an area of 280,-

The

expedition will sail from 462 square miles, la the most back- Seattle May 20. Kenneth Chisholm, ward of the Brazilian States, and a former Santa Clara Univerally large portion of territory in its student; Edgar Levin, San Francisco, northern districts is unexplored. and Bernard Stanley, Santa Extensive forests fringe most of the undergraduate, will accompany rivers.

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