1939-05-17 — Page 14

Wednesday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 17, 1939.

WORLD "PERPENDICULAR IN 1960"

Says Mazdaznan (In London Town)

THE Mazdaznan arrived in London recently.

In case you don't know, the Mazdaznan is what the wartime sergeant major used to call a "fancy" religion,

Its philosophy includes rhythmic breathing, glandu- lar therapeutics, personal diagnosis, as well as the higher eugenics and a belief in the message of the Pyramids, to say nothing of a faith that the world will "assume the perpendicular" in 1960.

The Mázdaznan held a five-day "International Federation of Nations Gahanbar" at Conway Hall, W.C.1. Members came from all over the British Isles and from parts of Europe and America..

into it.

Object No. 1 of the British mirror becomes very holy because Mazdaznan Association is to everybody has projected himself place the Association on a sound According to the Daddy Guromano financial basis and to meet the (in this case Lieut.-Colonel Arthur increasing demands of the ever-F. Gault), among past and present widening scope and require- members of Mazdaznan are Edison, ments of "our incomparable Henry Ford, Masaryk and Hitler. Mażdaznan Selence of Right

Living is expounded by Dr. Inventor Of Tinsel

Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish,”

TIBETAN RITE

Euch meeting opens with rhythmic exercised followed by the serving of herb ten (price 3d.).

One of the high spots in the Gabanbar will be the observance of the ancient Tibetan rite of "Passing

Dies At 102

LONDON'S oldea! nan, Mr. William Henry Harris, of Algernon Road, Lewisham, the Inventor of tinsel, has died at the age of 102.

was on the throne-his father was He was born when William IV.

the Bread and Wine," which will be the strong man of Woolwich-and conducted by Daddy Guromono,

Daddy is the Mazdaznan title for went to work when only six years

old. For working 12 hours day! leader, while Guromano means wise | 2010

as a child, from 0 a.m. until 6

p.m., he received half-a-crown a week. Women lenders

ገብ But he rose to be chief engineer Mothers.

There will be mitich singing off of a Lewisham silk mill-now de- hyinns, while the members men in molished. It

man.

known nfc

a uniform of American pattern and there women In white-sit performing parties. exercises,

PASSING A MIRROR

Here Is a typical hymn chorus: "I am absolute existence, likewise

knowledge. bliss. Shiv-o-Hum, Shiv-o-Hum." Another very solemn rite is the passing round of a mirror into which

each inember gazes before passing it to his neighbour,

By this process, they say, the

"Please Return My Wedding Ring"

it.

that he

was while working "Invented" tinsel,

FICKED UP AN IDEA

Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha of Norway, and children, Princesses Astrid Ragnhild and Prluco Harald. The Crown Prince and Crown Princess recently arrived in New York to open the Norwegian pavilion at the fair and vialled President and Mrs. Roo- nevelt at Hyde Park.

BARRISTER DEAD IN FLAT

His boss wanted to produce thread that sparkled, but it was not until Mr. Harris picked up a thread with metal shaving adhering to it that the idea became a practical possibility. Tinsel was born. The Industry gave employment to be- tween 200 and 300 operatives in the Police were inquiring recently into the death of Christopher Mayne, aged 24, a barrister, of Gray's Inn-square, London, one mill alone.

Another of Mr. Harris's inventions W.C.1. Shortly before 7.30 p.m. a doctor was called to a flat in was a tube for tracheotomy-the Ridgemount-gardens' W.C.I. He found Mayne there dead. operation on the windpipe necerat y sometimes in treatment for diph- theria. He always claimed that one of his tubes was used to treat the German Emperor-father of Kaiser Wilhelm II-who died of an affection of the thront.

CX-

When he was in his sixties he made

Apparently a political discussion ented in an argument, and Mayne A young man was afterwards questioned by the policon.

Marksmanship With f

Speed

REDWOOD CITY, Cal.

his own bicycle, which sold for £28. When it comes to real sportsman- At the age of 84 he, went up in an ship, Capt. E. F. Cassell, of San aeroplane, which he called a "bal-Maten's highway patrol, thinks that

the Kuller's hole-in-one

100

Mias Phyllis Monkmon, the actress, made an appeal recently to the person who has her wedding ring to return "It disappeared the previous night with other jewellery, including a He was married ou Christmas obvious. Cassell shot a perfect time- pearl necklace from her dressing day, 1850, and both his sons includ-fire score of 100 in pistol target pie- room at the King's Theatre, Hammering "my boy, young Willie aged tice. His score was 100 38 bullets in

70) also married on Eecember 23. the bullseye in 40 seconds,

smith.

loon."

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NEWS

BAHAMAS SPONGE EPIDEMIC OVER

Nassau.

The mysterious maindy that attack- ed the sponge beds in the Bahamas recently, and then spread to Cuba and the Florida Keys, has disappeared as suddenly na it came. The mortality has been between 50 and 78 per cent. Dr. Paul S. Galtsoff, of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, who come

to the Bahamas to assist the British scientists on the staff of the Sponge Fisheries Department in the investiga tion, hos returned to Washington. submit a report to the wiit Bahamas Government on his observe- tions,

He

The following statement on the in- vestigations has been issued by Dr.

H. H. Brown, Director of the Bahamas Sponge Fisheries Department:

Evidenco has been accumulated in several flelds of investigation which suggests that a fungus-like micro- organism may be responsible for the. mortality. Further work to follow up this

Prop ming line of inquiry is in

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It is believed that the organism that' caused the epidemie is always present life, but this is the first sponge eccasion on which it developed sufficient virulence to produce a widespread marine epidemic. AUSTRALIA

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Sir Earle Page, Prime Minister for Ume being announced that

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the approval of Mr. Curtin, Lender of the Op- position, had decided to provide a pension for Dame Enid Lyons, widow of the late Prime Minister.

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Auckland,

The Minister of Social Security,, Mr.

W. Nash, referring to the medical, hans-WINDO” MOTH PROOF pital and other treatment benefits,

EXHAUSTED.

ad that after the introduction of BAGS STOCKS ARE BEING benefits for mental hospital care. maternity benefits were next in order for introduction. It was hoped to invite the doctors to enter into a contract.

benefits would follow the maternity BUT WE WILL, HOW- EVER, CONTINUE TO

It was anticipated that the hospital benents. The medical benefits and the pharmaceutical benefits, were Interdependent, and, therefore, would be introduced together,

Bocialists and Conscription---The New Zealand Socialist party con- ference

to-day reaffirmed its oppoal-

Reports on the preparations being tion to universal or compulsory mill- made in Singapore "for any emer-tary service. It adopted, however, a

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out "Windo"

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understand that

no further bags can be obtained this season.

●gency situation," were made by minority report arming that it was THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO. Dickson Prown, commercial editor of the duty of every fit man to, offer The Straits Times, a Singapore daily, himself for training for the defence who passed through Hongkong in of New Zealand. route to Manila on a short vacation.

Land-and-air-forces-are-being in- ereased and foods and supplies are being stored, he said.

"We in Malaya believe that Singa- pore itself is capable of withstanding and repulsing any attack by any foreign power," he stated. uper sonally, I am of the opinion that Singapore is the safest place in the

SOUTHERN RHODESIA

REDUCED ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN 1938

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NEW PARLOPHONE & REX RECORDS.

For the first time since 1931, ne- cording to the report for 1038 recently issued by the Department of Statis ties, the quarterly intex number of F 1304. I Miss You In The Morning. F.T.. economic activity has shown world to-day. It is better fortifice for the Index number for the F 1395, I Go For That. "St. Louis Blues". F.T.

than most think it is."

two quarters in succession.

When

a fall

1301.

lle said he voiced general opinion third quarter of 1038 was published it nmong Singapore residents that showed the Arst fol, as compared Japan or any other foreign power with the second quarter, since 1931. would never attempt to attack, that The fall fom the third to the fourth F 1300. city. However, preparations are be-quarter is a common seasonal occur. Ing made in ense the home country rence. gets involved in war, be it with Ger-

R 2047. The falls for two successive quarters many or any other country, according show that, as in the past, u recession OT172. to him.

In world conditions takes about a year ons to have an effect in this Colony. It

0510.

He disclosed that two air squnced is anticipated that the gure for the f

in Malaya would soon be

with Bristol Blenheim bombers, the first quarter of 1930 will show a risc. latest in fighting aircraft, which are

expected to arrive from England in

a month or so. Plans are being com- pleted for construction of two new airdromes. one in central Malayo, north of Johore, and another in Kedah, in the northernmost district, to guard the "back door."

At the same time, the government

9511,

Australian Canners 9510.

Set Record

CANBERRA, Australia. Australia's fruit canning industry

set a new all-high record this sea- son with a pack of 3,030,029 cases.

in British Malaya, ia urging all British So far, 1,380,000, of the cases have

European eligibles, those up to 40

been exported to the United King-

years old, to join the volunteer corps, dem alone,

which is being enlarged, Mr. Brown

sald. He added that the government

also

has enjoined big employers, In- cluding tin mines, to store up two months' supplies of rice, milk, sugar, fats

and other provisions, and these

are complying by laying in supplies. Notwithstanding the war score and

all these preparations, trade in Maloyn continued to improve, ac-

Vigour Restored,

Glands Made Young

In 24 Hours

cording to the visiting newspaper- It is no longer necessary to auffor man, prices of tin being at the highest frem for of Vigour and jannlood, work level in 18 months and those of rub- blood, icy body, nervousness, impure nickly aldň, depresston, and poor ber also going up. There is some discovered a quick, okny way to and because an American Doctor han unemployment among the Chineso these troublon. coolto classes owing to the enforce-This discovery is in plenannt, easy- ment of the rubber and in quotas, to take tabiat form, is absolutely harm- but these people have not been re- and is bringing new youth and vigour toas, does away with gland operationa patriated since the outbreak of Sino- to thousands it works directly on the Japanese hostilities and many of them glands and nerves, and puts now, rich are being given work in government hours you can see and feel yourself

blood and energy, in your veins. In 2 relief projects, such as, road con- getting younger. Your eyes spackie, struction

you feel nilyo and full of youthful vigour and power,.

Tramp Leaves With

Dog

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And this amasing, new gland and vigour restorer, called Dr. Nixon's V- Tabs, I guarantead. It has been proved by thousande in America and is DOW alelributed. by chomtata here under a KULTanies of satisfaction or money back. Dr. Nixon's Vi-Tabg must make you feel full of vigour and energy and T. B. Hunter, bachelor farmer, merely return the empty package and from 10 to, to years younger, or you complained to the sheriff after ytrength bottle of 48 Dr. Nixon's VI.

get your money back. A specia', double transient he had taken in, left during Taba costa ittle, and the guarantee pro the night with most of the farmer's Coats you. If your chamlat še aut, write" clothes, his best hound dog and 12 to Muller & Phipps, (Uhļna), Líd dozen eggs.

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Strolling In The Park. FT. Kinda Lonesome. "St. Louis Blues". F.T. Eddy Duchin & His Orch.

Orlent Nights. F.T.

St. Bernard Waltz.

Billy Bartholemew & His Dance Orch.

Victor Silvester & Ills Ballroom Orch. Tulnt What You Do. (It's The Way That You Do IL) Cheatin' On Me.

Veleta.....

Ciertos Amores. Tango.

Desprecio. Tango.

..Jimmy Lunceford & His Orch.

.Orquesta Tipica Francisco Canaro.

I Miss You In The Morning. FT.

To Mother With Love. F.T. ... .......Billy Cotton & His Band. Nine Pins In The Sky. "Lisien Darling". FT.

Tears On My Pillow. F.T.

Do You See The Stars? Tango.

I Dream of the Puszta. Tango,

My First Goodnight. FT. They Say. F.T. .....

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Oscar Rabin & His Romany Orch.,

Jeepers Creepers, "Going Places". Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son.

Freddy Gardner & His Swing Orch. otc., etc., etc.

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