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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1937.

Scientists Vote Quins Perfect

FORGOT ANALYSIS

AS THEY WATCHED

THEM PLAY GAMES

Two hundred Canadian and American scientists have fallen in love with the Dionne Quintuplets, who already hold strings to the hearts of a million visitors to their nursery.

AIR RAID COSTS: BLUDGEONING LOCAL COUNCILS

By A Correspondent

London, Nov. 18.

With scientific analysis in mind the psychologists and The Government has decided to make no more biologists went from a conference in Toronto to Callan-concessions to the local authorities on the cost of air der, Ont., the Quins' backwoods home. Then they forgot raid precautions. So the fight is on. science.

Like average parents, they chuckled and beamed and gurgled,

Aren't BIGGEST 'PLANE they cute?" while they watched the Ittle girls make sand ples, sweep the IN THE WORLD

cement walk, play shopkeeping in their outdoor playground. Then the scientists pronounced them perfect children.

COMPLETING IN U.S. FOR THE SOVIET

Washington, Nov. 16. The world's biggest plane was ready at Baltimore to-day before delivery fo the Soviet Government.

YVONNE-Motherly

Now three and a half years old, the Quins rate second only to Niagara Falls Canada's leading tourist attraction.

Built by the Glenn Martin Com- pany, this four-motored glont mono- plane, weighing more than 20 tons, has a wing-spread of 271t. greater than the huge Chinn clippers. It carries 46 passengers, with night-lander.

berths for 20.

Q8

They have never gone outside their nursery and playground, but they have revolutionised the life of Cal-

With a normal cruising speed of ANNETTE-Aggressivo 150 iniles an hour it has a radlus zumcient to carry it non-stop from New York to London within 24 hours and still have fuel for 1,000 miles in

reserve.

The garage man makes more selling picture postcards of the nursery than he does selling petrol. Every house lias a new coat of paint and a placard The passenger accommodation In-Bed and Breakfast." corporates the latest amenities, such as heating, sound-proofing and air- EMILIE-Independent conditioning, a lounge and retiring rooms, a stewards' galley and full- vision windows.

The wings carry 4,000 gallons of fuel. For what purpose the Soviet ordered the new machine is un- known, but it is suspected that it may be intended for service on the Polar route.

Mr. Joseph Kennedy, chairman of the United States Maritime Commis- slon, addressing Congress this after natu. suggested that America should concentrate on a transatlantic air service rather than on the build- ing of a super-liner.

He urged that the Merchant Marine Act should be amended by extending the definition of the word "vessel" to include. ocean-going aircraft. Alr liners would then be eligible for con- struction by the operation of sub- sidies.

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Like everybody else the scientists had a hard time telling one Quin from another. All five have the same wavy brown hair, brown eyes, stub noses. They speak French with simi- lar baby accent. Even their finger- prints are of the same general pattern. Their cars, the scientists discovered, are easiest points of identification- they differ slightly. CECILIE-Unpredictable

Yvonne, who ranks highest in achievement, was catalogued the most motherly by Dr. W. E. Blantz, of the University of Toronto.

Annette is the most aggressive. Emlila the most independent.

Cecile the most unpredictable.

A Government Bill compelling rate-levying auth- orities to bear a substantial part of the cost, and, in addition, forcing them by law to undertake the anti-air raid scheme, will be issued to-day.

FANS'RIOT, TRAMPLE ON LUPE VELEZ

New York, Nov. 19, Twenty thousand Mexicans

waited

to greet film actress when she arrived Lupe Velez home on a visit to-day, When the star appeared her fans became so excited in their attempts to get near her that they started to fight each other.

A riot developed. Lupe was for- gotten by the milling crowd.

She was knocked over, trampled underfoot.

Now Lupe is in hospital with Injured legs. Twenty of her excited fans are fellow Inmates.

Marte, the smallest, under two pounds at birth, is the most sym- pathetic.

MARIE-Sympathetic

Silver-haired old Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, who brought the Quins into the world and has devoted himself to them ever since, told the scientists, "The scientific side is all very well. but the human side in managing the children is infinitely more important so far as I am concerned."

It will be hotly contested in the House of Commons by local authority representatives irrespective of party, and even yet the Home Secretary may have to make concessions of detail in committee.

NEW BURDEN ON RATES Led by Mr. Herbert Morrison for the English authorities, and Mr, P. J. Dollan, for Scotland, they urged, that the Government should pay 80 per eent, above a Id. rale and 100 per cent, over a 2d, rate.

This the Government, refused to do. Sir Samuel Hoare argued that if the local authorities shouldered the suggested expense they would have a financial intérest and administer the scheme with regard for economy and efficiency,

The Bill contains the financial pro- visos in full, including the Govern- shall pay 85 per cent, of the excess iment's new proposal, that the State

expenditure over a Id., rute for those authorities classed, under a grada- tion scheme, as poorer authorities.

CABINET'S PROPOSAL

The Bill will mean, according to Government estimates, that the Tres- xury will pay just over 90 per cent. of the total expenditure,

Apparently the Home Secretary still believes that the scheme in the country will not come to more than a rate burden of one penny in the pound.

Oficial correspondence issued re- cently disclosed that the Home Office estimates that in the next three or four years the total expenditure on air raid precautions will be about $32,000,000, and that, during period the average annual expendi- ture chargeable to local authorities will be "well below £1,000,000,"

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