1939-05-12 — Page 14

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Friday,

HONGKONG TELEORAPA

They All Want To Meet The

King In America

SIR RONALD LINDSAY, the British Ambassador in Washington, U.S.A., and Lady Lindsay are being kept busy answering the many hundreds of calls from people who are paying their respects in anticipation of the visit of the King and Queen in June.

Normally the Embassy receives several thousand calls a All punctiliously returned. To-day the number of calls is believed to be a record.

year.

Not only the wives of senators and Government officials are calling, but alao large numbers of society women who hope to meet the King and Queen during their visit.

Imperial Crown To Stay In England

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The Imperial State Crown will not Canada for the Royal

For

College

Bargees

ONLY one aspect of canal life will be missing from the

scheme training school

for

bargees being considered by the

Ministry of Labour-n course in bargec_language,

Instruction will be on practical as well as theoretical lines.

home cooking

Even courses

Most of these hopes will be_din- appointed. Diplomatic and oMcial people receive Aral consideration, Find the Indication is that it will be be taken to

would be included-in

case Mr. almost Impossible to frame a com-visit. pletely representative list, oven from

It had been suggested that the King Burgee is unable to persuade a "bank among these circles.

might prorogue the Dominion Parlio-girl" (burgee for land giri) to em- Realdents of Washington will re-ment while he is in Ottawa, and, in ark on the life. ceive first conskteration.

FIRST PLACE

The Cabinet, the Supreme Court. Congress and the Diplomatie Corps are assured of frst place.

After that the cholec will be made from personal friends of the Presi

lent and Mrs. Roosevelt and Sir Ronald and Lady Lindsay.

Numbers must be limited by the tccommodation.

these circumstances, he would have worn the Imperial crown.

FOR UNEMPLOYED

The bargces-to-be would be chosen {from young unemployed men all over

It is now unlikely that the pro-the country, care being taken to sce rogation dato for

the Canadian that they are fond of an open-air

Parliament will fit in with this ax- 1180 should take the young men to

u canal-side centre, such as King's Langley, find them lodgings close by and give them six months' training, an official of the Ministry sald.

rangement, and the crown, there- "We fore, if not to be taken, The King will, however, almost certainly visit the Parlement at Ottawa to give the Royal assent to one or more bets of the Canadian Legislature.

The Stato dining-room' at the White House seals between ninety If there is a garden party at the and 100 people. Another 100 or British Embassy between 1,000 and

200 may be invited a reception.000 guests might be accommodated In the Lincoln room after dinner. In the spacious Embassy gardens.

EXAM BID WITH 'MACHINE' SHORTHAND

ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD stenotypist Elizabeth M. Jones, of Hampstead Garden Suburb, N.W., will face a big task at the London Chamber of Commerce Shorthand Examinations shortly.

Betty will have to compete as an equal with girls of all ages, but when she enters the examination room she will carry with her an American stonotype machine, resembling a small typewriter.

This machine will enable her to take down 80 words a'minute with cane, but Betty's biggest worry is that she will have to transcribe her stenotype notes into longhand.

This means G40 words to be written at an average speed of reven words per minute, and her

handwriting is

"Part of the lenining would be on the actual barges. Students would live on board, Icarning how to handle Diesel motors and manipulute the birge.

who are skilled craftsmen would be "Burgees beyond the normal ago

the leachers."

Canal life has been modernised. The horse-drawn babye took 14 days to go from London to Birmingham; the engine-driven boat takes two. The old bargce was a water glpsy; the new one is a skilled engineer.

Boy, 5, Lifts 100. Pounds

St. Loula.

Lifting 100-pound weights it nothing for 5-year-old James Clay-

ton, Jr., says his father, an amateur son the trick last October. Although the boy only weighs 45 pounds, nd can fi 100 pounds to his walat and 50 pounds over his head.

weight-lifter who began teaching his

Scrip Highly Inflated

Bristow, Okšu.

no better than that of the average child of 11. American stenotypy is as yet al-

A gallon can of salt sold here for most unknown in England, but the $800, a tricycle brought $750, and a system is widely used in America. can of carn $80. Chamber of Com- Transcription is so fast and ac-merce officials pointed out, however, curate that a typed record of a that the selling quotations were in speceli can be completed within a few terms of "Golden Dollars,” merchants' minutes of its delivery.

scrip.

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May 12, 1939.

General Franco

UFS

Here is a recent camera study of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, head of Spain's Nationalists, whose triumphant troops re- cemy, marened into Madrid, thereby virtually ending the Spanish civil war.

Brother Of Peer Is A.R.P. Head

Howard, ex-mayor of Westminster, has been appointed A.R.P. Earl Baldwin's 41-years-old son-in-law, the Hon. Arthur Chief for London.

Mr. Howard is already Chief A.R.P. Į Warden for Westminster. When he takes up his appointment as Principal Warden of the London Civil Defence Region he will have an office'and staff In New Scotland Yard, and will take over the training of all London wardens.

Petrol £800 A Gallon

Sir Phillp Game, the Metropolitan

He will work in conjunction with GERMANY is trying to make Police. Commissioner.

The appointment is a whole-lime; one, and is

unpaid.

petrol for her mechanised, army from old leaves.

Bolantats and scientists from lend- Mr. Howard is a brother of Lording research laboratories have set up Strathcona

the former Under-Secre-a distillation plant in the Black tary for War. He has been a mem-|Forest area,

ber of the Westminster City Council

for 14

yeurs,

Gangs of workmen, armed with

long twig brooms, sweep large areas He was named 36 M prospective candidate for Peckham, but decided of the forest and deliver the leaves to concentrate on municipal work. by tons to the plant.

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He fought with the Scots Guards Only certain kinds of leaves are the war and was three limes used and they are separated from indoth 1 1922 he married Lord the others by a machine like those Baldwin's daughter Lornu. They used by farmers to separate wheat have four

our children.

from chalf. Mr. Howard inherited a large part; So far the scientists have been ablu of the fortune of his mother, Lody to make about one gallon of low- Strathcona,

cona, who died 13 years ago. grade petrol at a cost of £800. The estate was estimated to total be- But they claim' that'as soon us tween £5,000,000 and £6,000,000, the plant is working properly and In 1937 he presented Lord Baldwin the experimental stages are over with a house in Eaton-square, Bel-they will be able to make petrol, for gravla. S. W.

about one shilling a gallon.

Will : Be

Once-Dead Wife

"Chief Exhibit

Mrs. Kate Linwood, who at the age of 49 "died" for five minutes and was brought back to life by massage after an operation, was recently the "chief exhibit” nt a lecture to 60 doctors at County Hall, Westminster. ·

She was taken to the lecture by ambulance. Doctors describe Mrs. Linwood, tion on her-the only one ever carried who is the wife of a Middlesex boot, out in England.

It was to remove a clot of blood repairer, as a "woman in a million.")

The lecture on her was given by and lungs.

blocking the artery between the heart

Dr. Iver Lewis, senlor surgeon andi Desplie her five_minutes" ""death," superintendent of the North Middle-four operations, and several complica sex Hospital, who last Septembe:tions, Mrs. Linwood looks well and performed a "Tendelenberg" opera-cheerful,

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BECAUSE OF THEIR CIRCULATIONS