1938-09-22 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH,

THURSDAY,

SEPTEMBER

22,

1938.

7

ARM TRAPPED, SUBWAY CRASH: 2 DIE, 49 HURT

Now York.

A woman's arm, jammed in the sliding doors of an underground train here recently, led to a subway crash in which two people were killed and 49 injured.

SCIENCE AND A

NEW HELIUM

ABYSSES OF

GOLD

RADIO To-day's Novelty

BROADCAST

Z.B.W. Orchestra From

The Studio

CHILDREN'S HOUR

Radio Programme Broadcast by ZBW on a Frequency of 0.45 k.c's.

SÉVEN KINDS OF and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 pan.

ICE

(By E. 8. Grew) Helium, which was first publicly shown to the Royal Society forty- three years ago by Sir. "Willam Ramsay, is now all but

Bnd B-11 pm, où 0.52 m.c's. per second.

0.0 StudioChildren's Hour. 7.0 Closing local Stock Quela- tions.

7.02 Request Variety and Dance Fregrabime,

So

Trot

When the woman scrambled into a train at 116th Street Station at the rush for safety in airsh indispensable | Fox Trot (from 'Mad about Music');

hour peak, her arm was caught in a pneumatic door.

An explosion followed, the

lights went out and the cars

were filled with

the

Amoke.

In

darkness panic-stricken passengers struggled, screamed and fainted.

The taal conch was telescoped and the one in front caught fire. Fire- men, with blow-lamps and axes, cut through metal and wood to get out the victims.

Mr. Lit

Within a few minutes Guardio, Mayor of New York, was assisting in the rescue work.

The driver had been trapped in his steel cabin and Mr. La Guardia stood beside him, shining his torch, while doctors amputated the man's leg. The driver died later in hos- pital.

MAD SCRAMBLE

of the sinush was The hero Morris Schneider, a passenger in the stationary train. He groped his way the amel binckness! the through screaming passengers to pull the emergency lever which automatically opened all the doors.

There was at once a mad scrain ble from the train to the line, in WETE injured, which some people

The released passengers had to make their way to safety partially blinded by aerld fumes.

The line on which the accident uc-

L.R.T. the

(Inter-Borough curred, Rapid Transit Company) has as its Rail- slogan "The World's Safest road." It was the first serious crash on the company's lines years.

for nine

Curtailment

Of Colony's Water Supplies

Government officially announced yesterday afternoon that the supply of water would be reduced to eight hours daily in the very near future. A still further curtailment may be necessary later, depending on the rainfall und consumption.

-use

Buckshot and buyonels were used in fighting between police' and waterfront strikers in Hilo, Hawwall, in which 36 persons were injured, five of them critically. Above is one of two women jured in the fighting. Rist resuited when plekets pushed be- yond police lines, on arrival of the Waialeale, agnimat longshoremen struck.

which

ADVENTURER LOST

FORTUNE,

DIES ON THE DOLE

Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend. Before we too into the Dust descend;

Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie

Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and sans End!

Omar Khayyam,

Stephen Robinson, aged 57, unemployed miner, once earning thousands a year from Californian-gold mines, later handyman to a Russian princess, quoted wo verses from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in a letter before taking his life in a small Howell Street, Paddington.

The co-operation of the public to again requested to avoid unnecessary of main water. If this is freely the need for further restrictive given, measures by the department will be deferred, or possibly avoided.

r registers A scrutiny of the meter shows that a considerable percentage

their Recording a verdict that Robinson of consumers have not reduced

since the killed himself while of unsound consumption appreciably

mind, Mr. Ingleby Oddie, the Pad- water restrictions came into force.

Motor vehicle owners are particudington coroner, described him

to economise in a lonely man in London." requested, lurly water used for washing Jorrles.

ears and

Owners of gardens can, at small cos! as a rule, arrange to use bath water for gardening purposea,

Consumers are again reminded that re-washered leaking tops will be free of charge application to

on

He had apparently come down in the world, having been living on the dole and worried as to how long his money would last.

LUXURY TO 10. 6d. A WEEK "My best and last thoughts, wrote

is

"Water Works Complaints" (Tele-Robinson, "are of the kindly soul, my phone No. 30840 for Hongkong and landlady in Shirland Road, who

the salt of the earth," 50949 for the Mainland).

The Water Authority will always information of be grateful to receive

of any waste or apparent waste

He referred to 84-year-old Mrs. Isabella Woods, bis only friend in England. She took plty on this man from the Government mains.

I have had luxury dangled be. We combined storage in the Island And Mainland Reservoirs on Septem-fore my eyes many times" were words ber 21 amounted to 52% per cent. In his last letter-and boarded him

The

of the maximum.

Making due allowance for collec tion from the Shing Mun River and other streams, this storage in sufficient

left

for 10s. Ud. a week.

Recently Robinson

Mrs. Woods without saying where he was oing. Next morning he was found Howell Street. He had lodged there. previously.

to maintain a supply of 17 million gassed at Mrs. Mary Cole's house in gallons per day until 1039.

early June,

Mrs. Woods told a News Chronicle At present, with a 10 hours per day supply, consumption is between reporter something

of the strange

23 and 24 million gallons per day, life of Stephen Robinson, whom she but as the wenther becomes cooler met four months ago. so will consumption decrease.

ARMY CAPTAIN DEAD IN BURNING CAR

A SOLDIER OF RUSSIA

room at

Americans Buy Quarry Full Of Blarney Stone

America is to have a Blarney stone after all-for a Call- fornian syndicate have bought a whole quarry of sloze near Blamey Castle, consisting Di Ilmestone similar to that used in the building of Blarney Castle.

The syndicate will probably replica of Blarney

bulld

*

Castle in Los Angeles,

forms.

Dance Orch-I Love to Whistle

Lonk. Sweetheart-Fox

about Music)....Jay Its lifting powers little less than from 'Mad

Ifs Band: Vocal-The that of hydrogen, and, unlike hydro-Wilbur and

Rose-Marie'). It will not catch fire. Itamsay's Mounties (from gen.

with Orches- frai sample was enclosed in a Nelson Eddy (Baritone) wit capillary glass tube no thicker than tra directed by Nathaniel Shiltre: a fountalupen, and shone a brilliant Dance Orch-A Star Fell Out Of yellow when electrically excited-a Heaven-Fox Trot: Did 1 Remem-

ber?-Fox Trot (film

Suzy') precious gem of purest ray serene.

Helium is the inert gas which must Maurice Winnick and His Orchestra Vocal-Swing. strongly resists freezing, ur, in other with vocal refrain: Vo

the reduction from the Mister Charlie (Robinson, Taylor, words,

Judy Garland (13 years Hascous to the liquid or the solid Brooks).....

with Orchestral Accompa ៧០)

Piano Medley Piano-Charlie Kunz The efforts to subdue it have to take place at a degree of cold elaser No. 1. 12; Intro: You Are My Lucky Feelin' You're to absolute zero, the bottomless pil Star; I've Got a

Fonlin': 2

Did of temperature, than in the presence

She's Funny That Way.

Feeling You're Fly- of any other element. Those who you ever have a Fe experiment with it have got withining? A Little Dash of Dublin; Every- the thousandth of a degree of that thing's In Rhythm with My Heart unattainable goal, but it must always...Charlie Kunz: Vocal--Senorita (nim The Girl of the Golden West') be beyond reach.

(Baritone) with: Nelson

Exidy Orchestra cond. by Leonard Joy; Dance Orchestra-Sympathy-Waltz Firefly)....Roy Fox and His Orchestra with Vocal Refrain by Denny Dennis Comedienne-Your They seek to know why budies Dux's Come Home Again (Harring ton)....Gracle Fields with Orchestra; should there conduct heat or electri-Dand

Dance Orchestra-Lambeth Walk- city better, und how their framework

It is not their purpose in reducing the gap to altempt the impossible, but to ascertain what changes také place in the properties of bodies in these abyssea of cold.

ELECTRICITY QUESTION

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Fox Trot (from 'Me and My Girl'); of atoms and molecules is altered London Is Saying Goodnight-Fox Ilis by the conditions,

Trot Billy Thorburn In so seeking they have

tately Muse with Vocal refrain; Vocal come of the unexpected fact that Ducks-I Get A Kick Out Of You when helium is frozen to a tem- (Musical Show Anything Goes'); 453 degrees You're The Top (Porter)...Anona perature round about Fahrenheit, below that of melting Winn and Billy Marlow with ice, it is resolved, not into one liquidiral Accompaniment; Com helium, but into two.

He's Tall, Dark and Handsome

Virginin When it is situated at rather less (Toulas and. Sherman); than 5

Fahrenheit degrees

above There's A Blue Ridge In My Heart; absolute zero, the ordinary liquid (Bryan, Shuster and Phillips)

assisted by Ted helium changes into another form, Sophie Turker lique helium II, which is tom-Shapiro and His Orchestra; Dance pletely unlike

other known Orchestra-Hear My Song, Violelta substance.

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Cool it still further and it expands go; I'd Bring The Heavens To

YouEmil Roosz and His Orches instead of contracting. It becomes tra. extremely sticky; It conducts heat

Time, Weather and Announce-

8.02 London Relay "World Affairs."

to million times better than the ments, hellum from which in a flash it has just been transformed, and 100 times better than uncooled copper. It conducts electricity so well that it seems to offer no resistance what-

the ever to particles.

stream

A talk by H. Wickham Steed. 8.15 Four Songs by Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone).

Sen Full Sail (Graves-Buck); of electric

Winds (Askew-Harrison); Fret-Foot The Builder

These disclosures, which have (Barran-McCall); been arrived at by inexhaustible (Foley-Cadman)........with Orchestral patience and ingenuity at Leyden, Accompaniment. where helium was Orst liquefled, at London and at Oxford, may .bc compared with almost as

many years' work by Dr. P. W. Bridgman rica, fast on low temperatures

in Ames high pressures.

but on оп

urc

Some curious resemblances

a recent summary of in apparen! some of his results and methods. He notes that the

pressures he attning

of 100

More

8.28 Arthar Do Greef at the Plano. Serenade, Op. 15; Etude, Op. 18, No. 3 (Moszkowski); Waltz in G Flat Major, Op. 70, No. 1; Waltz In D Flat, 38 Studio--A Concert by Z.B.W.

04, No. 1 (Chopin).

Orchestra.

1. Suite Ballet (Popy)....Z.B.W. Orchestra: 2 Feldeinsamkeit Brahms)...Elena Gerhardt (Mezzo- with Pluno accomp. by in his laboratory are the equal of Soprano)

Bos; 3. Valse The Coenrand V. those existing at a

a depth

(von crust. In the earth's miles

Whispering of the Flowers Ban

Blon); 4. Humoresque (Levine) the earth's than 10 per cent, of

Z.B.W. Orchestra; 6. The Rosebud: material is

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a lower depth, but it Hark! Hark! The Lark (Schubert); is something to have reproduced in Serenade (Schubert) a laboratory pressures existing in 7% per cent of the globe, and so to be able to guess at what may take place among the foundations of the continents.

Dr.

LIQUIDS AND SOLIDS

Bridgman's hydraulic rams can produce pressures of 750,000 lb. to the square inch.

Elsie

Sud- daby (Soprano)

na) with Pinno accomp. by Gerald Moore; 6. L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2 (Bizet); (a) Pastorale; (b) Intermezzo; (c) Minuetto; (d) Forandole. 2.B.W. Orchestra.

9.30 London Relay-The News. 0.50 B.B.C. Recording-"Monsieur Beaucaire"

Adapted for Broadcasting from Booth Tarkington's novel and the Ilbretto by Frederick by Gordon McConnel; Lyrics by Adrian Ross; Music by Andre Messager: Produced by Gordon McConnel and Rex Haworth.

11 Close Down.

What effect have these pressures on liquids and solids? Most sub-light opera stances expand when they melt from Lousdale the solid into the liquid state.

But there are three-ice when it mells into water, bismuth, and Hellum's gallium--which contract. changes of state when further cooled.

thie fallows

commaner Iow of

expansion. Major Calthurst owner of the

original Blarney Castle in Co. turned down Cork. recently templing offers from Americans for a loan of the Blarney stone.

Oil Output Is Rationed

Born in County Kerry, at 16 he In Richest Empire Wells ran away to Anerica, naved, educated

Collision While Off Duty California Robinson soon had several remote corner of the Empire near

From Manoeuvres

himself at an American University, ¡

Calgary (Alberta). Much went West in search of gold.

is heard about France's As a gold-mining engineer in Maginot Line of defence, but in a

thousand pounds. Then he travelled Calgary the Madison Line would to Russia, where he joined the play a big part if Britain were ever Russian Army, to Japan and 10 other involved in war.

The Madison Line covers a vast countries.

His fortune dwindled, the gold-lake of crude all 7,000 feet below the mining company failed, and Robin-Turner

from a burning car at Bentley, near fell out of work. He was established as the leading oilfield in offered handyman's job by Princes the Empire, with a potential output

of

When the commonest clasy

to high substances are subjected pressures the temperature at which they exhibit a change of state can be raised by hundreds of degrees.

81 Accidents

On Highways

Thus at 390,000 lb. to the square Last Week

inch mercury freezes solid while it is as hot as boiling water,

Da

trafic

In the Colony of Hongkong, includ- Water itself, one of the anomalousing the Island, Kowloon and the New liquids, exhibits still stranger trans- Territories, during the week ending formations under

pressure. At at 8 am on Saturday, September 17, 1,000 lb. to the square inch. 33,00

Ice there were altogether 81 remains water, though the surround- accidents, as the result of which 30 ing temperature is that of an Aretle persons were injured. mid-winter. A little more pressure Of the persons Injured, 18 were and it ruddenly collapses and de pedestrians, who were either walk- creases in volume,

thus

showing ing or running across the road and that its molecules are now arranged

were struck by vehicles; four bicycle in a row crystalline form.

riders and one lorry coolie were in- NEW FORMS

jured as the result of collision be This does not exhaust the changes tween vehicles; one private car driver

The pressure Increases.

ice received injuries when his car over-

turned; and one lorry

fell pussenger altera Its form and constitution over and over again, till seven different off a moving lorry and was injured. Captain Peter Charles Turon, 30-

Two tram

two bus pas-" passengers, year-okt son of Brig.-General 11. D.

Valley hills, already kinds of ice have been produced.

At a pressure of 500,000 18, to the sengers and one private car passen- Tuson, was found dead when pulled

square inch, an ice appears whichger were injured while nighting from moving tramcars, moving busca Ipswich, reciently.

Anna Jouromska, a Russlan living of 64,000 barrels a day from the will melt into water only at a tem at Inanoeuvres duty from

Government perature of 370 degrees Fahrenhelt. and a moving private car respectively. Of the 81 accidents, 42 were col- It is the same temperature as that Wattishnin (Suffolf), Captain Tusen, in California, and he served her for existing wells.

ration now

the output to about 40 of melting solder, when applied by Hsion between vehletes, 20 were many years.

collisions who lived at Fulham Rond, London,

Two years ago he decided to try per cent, of this. to Colchester, his luck in England.

the plumber. It is some 830 degrees S.W., was motering

Sir Edward Ellington, Inspector- when his

car was in collision Essex,

hellum. "Too old" employers told him in General of the R.A.F., surveying the above the temperature of liquid with one driven by Mr. William London.

feld recently, said that it was П

Dr. Bridgman hur applied his The type of vehicles involved were Barkus, of Reading.

Eventually he got a job as a sloker marvellous Empire resource in case

pressures to 100 different elemen's Private motor car 51, motor lorry 19, Mr. Barkus and his two passenger at a block of mansions in Maryic of war. Mrs.

Borridge,

and compounds, and finds the under motor bus 11, public motor car B. Maud

of Mitcham,

the co

compulsion of his hydraulic motor cycle 1, tramcar 12, bicycle 19, London,

ton, S.W., and Reginald Stopher, bone. Ile was discharged several

forts are continually tricycle 5, ricksha 3.... her 15-year-old nephew, were in- months ago. Jured. They were taken to hospital

Mr., well-educated man.

Montreal. Ico, as noted, has seven different Dr. Bridgman phrases It.

transformation, like Subsequent Olten he would read books to me,

M, Cecile Legace, 24, placed her forme, blamuth four, gallium Direr, 8-month-old son, Rene, in the

camphor eleven, and few materiais those betwen hellum I, and hellum referred to changes travels."

aro exempt. All are compressible, I have to be

and their electrical washing machine to cool him off on

solids as well as liquids. The in the atoms

find what went to answer, IL When she ro changes they undergo result first surroundings. It is to

are that hot day. The phone rang, and she

temperatures are turned, the found the baby had from the squeezing closer of their these drowned.

molecules-taking out the slack” as pushed lower and pressures higher,

on

ni Ipswich, Mr. Barkus and

Berridge

engaged

The

rame

Mrs. Woods said: "Ile was a kind-Washer Causes. Tragedy produced.

with concussion, and the and sometimes would talk about hi boy with severe bruises.

Captain Tuson became

She pointed to certificates stating last June to Diana Marian, only daughter of Majer T. Harding that Robinson was a member of the Newman, of the Essex Regiment, and National Geographical Society, Wash Mrs. Harding-Newman. Ington, D.C.

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between vehicles and

other causes.

edestrians; 13 accidents were due to

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