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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 20, 1939..
These little girls arriving in New York brought musle to be played by the New York Philharmonie Symphony Orchestra, directed by Burle Marx, In Brazil's part at the World's Fair. They are Norn Yolanda, 10, and Anna Maria, 8, daughters of Brazilian Ambasador Carlos Marlins.
Astronomers Hope To See Martians
THIRTY astronomers at observatories in various parts of the world will try this summer to solve the riddle of Mars.
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Members of the Mars section of the British Astrono- mical Association, they will keep their eyes fixed on this fiery red planet, which will be, Waterfield, director of the section, sald 28,000,000 miles
at his Headley (Surrey) home. earth than it has been for 15 president of the Royal Astronomical With Mr T.. E. R. Phillips, former
"We shall look for hours not to serving
Society, Dr. Waterfield will be ob-
and photographing miss the few seconds when a got from the three observations in Mr. Mars view may be possible," Dr. R. L.Phillips's garden.
years.
JUDGE SETS A WOMAN BRAND'S
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GUN TEST IN DOCK
she tries four times to fire it
Won't Go Straight?
"Y SHALL keep on having a
MRS. Irene Wray, thirty-three years old, acquitted at Leeds Assizes recently of murdering her husband, was just leaving the witness-box after telling her own story of the shooting, when Mr. Justice Asquith said, “If it will not distress you too much, I would like you to take the gun and show us just what happened.”.
bad récord. I don't intend to go straight. You can give me what you like."
Robert John Stovey, aged 22, a seaman, said 'this at Bourne- mouth Quarter Sessions when quest the gun was handed to He had suggested she was nordin- When the judge made his re-Arthur Morley, KC, prosecuting. told by the Recorder, Mr. J. Mrs. Wray with the hammer ately jealous and auspicious of her Lhind Pratt, that he had a bad cocked. As she began to raise perhaps nogging him, so that their record,
husband, constantly chivvying" him, it she put her left hand across (relations became strained.·
She had said that, after loading the gun to frighten her husband, she held it in her right hand, with her fin- gers through the trigger guard, and was raising it to threaten him when it went off by accident.
"I hope even you will think things to it. over," replied the Recorder. "I don't think, so." Stovey.
persisted
"It is not a profitable-game." said the Recorder. "You are known to the pollee now.
I WAS WATCHING HIM
The judge stopped her, "You told us you held it by the right hand only. Keep your left hand away," he said,
Mrs. Wray did so..
..
Mrs. Wray sobbed as Mr. Paley Scott, K.C., who was
defend- ing her, told the jury, "It is quite clear she was passionately deter- mined to keep her husband, and to exercise the charm I have no doubt she possessed as a young woman. She saw her little ship of happiness drifting to shipwreck."
"You must have found out for yourself that by these offences you "Now try to make the hammer cause a great deal of agitation among fall as you raise the gun," said the people, and you don't make much Judge. profit out of 12
In the hushed court she swung up Stovey: But I will do. My one the gun to shoulder
The jury of nine men and three object when I come out will be to twice, three tires. The hammer re-quarter hours. Mrs. Wray had to be level once, women were absent two and three- give the police all the trouble I enn. muined steady.
The Recorder said that he would him all the time," she explained,
"I was watching helped into the dock, and award- not punish Stovey on that assump-
ress's arm supported her while she tion, and sentenced him to nine The hammer fell,. In the dead silence man said "Nat guilty" she fell back A fourth time she raised the gun. awaited their verdict. As the fore- months' imprisonment for awny motor-cars without the owners Immediately she sank to her seat,
taking its click sounded unnaturally loud. fainting. consent, and breaking and entering. and sobbed with her head in
hands.
a quarter of an hour before she sent For nearly an hour previously she for her mother andino brothers, who
to catching from early in May had been closely questioned by Mr. had been waiting the concer
Ife and other experts will be
early September, that millionth chance of settling the con- troversy about the existence of life on Mars may come their way.
evidence to date indicates vegetable and possibly animal life, with the Martian intelligent life than against probabilities
Dr. Waterfield is convinced that
more in favour of
brown seasonally, like our spring and Green markings, which change to autumn colours, may hold the key to the secret.
They may represent agricultural areas under intelligent direction.
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And from them Dr. Davidson calculates such things as the paths of cometa.
When visited him at Holy Trinity vicarage he showed an enevelop stuffed with cards and letters.
"Observations on a certain córnet from astronomers all over the world," he said, "From them I will compute its orbit.
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"These observations come from two source--the International As»- tronomical Union with its head- quarters at Copenhagen, and private observers.
"Copenhagen collects information from all the great observatories in the world and wires it in code...to. Greenwich,
"They telephone it to mo and then I get confrmation by card from Copenhagen.
"Private observers who send me, Information are mainly in England and Scotland, though I have had a card from Cape Town.
"They are mostly school masters, farmers and doctors. Will Hay has sent me some very good observa- tions."
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"You could all have become estron- onters between April 21 and April 24 because you don't need a telescope to follow meteors."
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THE HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
The total Expenditure in 1938 on behalf of sick and destitute children is, estimated at $30,000, against which the Income to date la $11,000 only.
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In order to continue its work, the Society asks for the balance of
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