1940-06-19 — Page 23

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 19, 1940.

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STORY

"You must remember

what you put away, Mother," I any when she aita down, ready, and begins knitting.

"Of course I remember," she says, knitting intensely. "I know exactly where I put everything. But Father's

dress studs, I must say, I can't recollect at this moment, Perhaps it will come in time

"I am a simple inan," exclaims Dad, who is thiking so loud this evening because of the Town Hall affair being dress optional, and the Fapers, the Quilts, and Colonel Haze-Brown known to be dressing. "But, ah, my God!" he continues, running out of the room and turn- ing the gas in the bathroom, which in kept at half for economy, of instead of on, "I want nothing of life but just ... where the Linzes are those studs?"

"You must remember something

his dress studs, surely.

about Mother?"

How she knits when she is be- wildered, or rendy hours before she need be.

"They belonged to Aunt Hilda,”

says. "And how long has Aunt HIda been dead?" bellows Father, forcing that boltom drawer of the wardrobe on the landing where we keep the bowls.

Now I have always wondered and meant to usk somebody how long Aunt Hilda has been dead, because Aunt Hilda so often crops up in the converanion and always in moments of stress!

"Father knows perfectly well, of course," says Mother in a long- stufëring, quiet way. "She passed over ever so quietly in her sleep, poor thing, and left him those dress studs."

FATHER drops some of the

bowls down the stairs and we lose the thread of the conver- sation.

"I might as well ask Aunt Hitda herself as ask you anything," he the ball col- erles, running about lecting them."

"But, my dear Henry, you are not the Mayor, but the Sanitary Inspector... We listen to the click of her needles for ponderous moments.

"May 1 remind you, my dear, that the Tapers, the Quilts and Colonel Haze-Brown..

"I don't see what they have to do with your dress studs," snaps Mother with declsive logic.

"You might well be Aunt Hida for all the help and use you are," shouts Father, rushing at the stars.

DRESS

THE

We seem to away about in the candle light. "It is fortunate that I'm dressed and ready at least,' sighs Mother. "You'd better look I can't In Aunt Hilda's tallboy. recollect exactly what we stored in there....but if you must have these,...I mean you're not the Mayor,"

Like one of those heavy tanks Colonel Haze-Brown mentioned In his lecture as having won the Inst war--when he took the place of Mrs. Haze-Brown, who was to have spoken Indian Customs- Father approached, the tallboy. He "I am tore open the door, crying, " tidy-minded man, but........'

MISSING

DRESS STUDS ARE FOUND

"Try the attle, then, dear," Mother calls after him.

"You were telikng me when Aunt Hilda died. Mother."

44001 was, but well, us a matter of fact, when was

? Your Father was nway at

Sanitary Inspectors con- ference. And everybody sent most. fovely flowers. the Tapers, the Quilts, you know, and Mrs. Huze- Brown. One summer it must have been. I don't often forget things."

"Hadn't we better go up to the attle and help Father, Otherwise yell both be late."

"Funny things," says Mother,

►jumping up with her knitting under bor r "I don't often forget things, but I cannot recollect just when it was Aunt Hilda. Except that she left those dress studs to your father,"

"This attic is a disgrace," shouts Father, relighting a candle and spilling hot grease on his dinner trousers. "How can I find dress studs in a place like this? I'm pallent man, but. He strikes the parrot cage with his free hand and brings down Aunt Hilda's oleo- graphs of the Seasons against the marble washstand which stood in our bedroom before we had the b, and e. basin,

Mother suys:

"Look, you've "cracked ""lht" jug-und to think. Aunt Hilda used it wil those years and never cracked it."

"Can't you stop knitting!" howls Father.

IF the Tapers, the Quilts, or

the Hazc-Browns

could

see us all standing in the attle now they would be surprise.1, and I fear they might cut us like they did that poor Mrs. Hollyoak whq was acquitted of killing her elder sister with a blow-lamp during the thaw.

THE THOMAS PATENT STEAM-PIECE IT is difficult to describe the invention without using teclinical language. Roughly, it can be explained that the Thomas Steam-piece Is a watch (Le., timepiece), driven by stean. The watch is of ordinary size and can be carried in the waistcoat, or "(if really de- sired, but with far more pain and incon- venience), on the wrist.

An fron band, to be obtained In many colours, is wrapped round the wearer's waist; from this, propped against the chest and protruding from under the specially Lon- structed from collar, is the heavy, but attrac- tively painted, funnel.

From the back of the collar hangs a long chain with a hook in the middle; this must be linked, between the legs, to the other shorter chain which hangs from the front of the iron bolt. From the hook an the linked chain o meat, but adequately commodious ecal-scuttle is suspended; this causes little actual discom- fort to the wearer as the specially smoothed and rounded sides of the scuttle at into the small of the back.

The wearer's suit, or (preferably) robe, must, of course, be at least two sizes too large. The protuberance made by the scuttle under the wearer's garments causes little derision, and is, in fact, often an improvement to iniddle-aged figure, balancing the natural protuberance on the side opposite to, or (to put it more colloquially), round the corner of, the scuttle.

STRATEGY TEST: Answers

AFRICA

SCALE ÎN MILES

DA VEGADA

"SICILY

1. Malin is 17 miles long, about. 9 mites wide. (Area about 14 ng. miles.) Civil population 244,000,

2. Gozo, Comino, Cominotto and Flica.

91014

CATARIA

6. Bizerta in Tunisia. Malta is strategically almost as important as Gibraltar. It is a Arst-class naval bara"as well as a port of call for merchant ships. -But--its proximity to Italy night 4. 64 miles from Sleilian coast,make it vulnerable to air attack. 200 miles from African matalatid. The Maltese, are a race of Semitic

B. Pantellaria,

origis teith their own language.

"Why?" Bald Have we got here?"

It Is Aunt Ilida.

Mother. "What

She stands upright, just like the photograph of her in the hall; and her eyes blink balefully in the candle light. I should think she is out of sorts, but I do not ask her how she is because I've never mel her, of course,

"Why, Aunt Hikda," Mother be gins, "forgot all about you..." "Where are those dress studa?" Father interrupts, the thought of the town hall causing him to forget

manners,

"We'll come to that later," snaps Aunt Hilda in an old and rather disagrecable voice.

UNT now wants to know,

been duins

and why, how Mother came to forget her, and why we have not been using her tallboy; and Mother says how will she explain about the Bowers to the neighbou and why didn't Aunt say

she was, or shout; but Aunt says

risen

why should she, even if she had known, she had been thinking, and Henry (poor Father) ever

would have thought she higher; and Mother says that being sanitary Inspector is good enough f her in a borough of this size, she's proud of him:

Father has been forcing open a night

which commode

Mother always says Is dated, and now loses his temper, crying in an awful voice: "I have reached the end of my?

lether. Where arc those dress iuds?"

"In your dress shirt, of course, where they always are," barks Aunt, breaking off her complaints and orguments with Mother.

Time is getting short. We rush down from the attic.

His dress studs are there, in his shirt.

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U.S. Aircraft Plants At Top Speed

"I visited nearly all the big air- craft factories In America and found them so busy that they didn't know where 10 turn as they cannot enlarge their plants fast enough," sald Mr. Leslie A. Lewis, United Aircraft Aviation Co. representative on arrival by the Honolulu Clipper yesterday.

"They think it will take six months to turn fighting planes and bombers out at the required speed. The United Aircraft Company is building Vaught dive bombers and Pratt and Whitney engines in huge numbers for the Atties In Connecticut. The Lockheed Company has more than 2,000 pinnes building and combined, the aircraft companies have orders for 15,000 planes which they have not yet begun pincing/"

the

"Judging from the opinion, Unlied States is definitely going to get into the war. Mr. Roosevelt's inst speech almost amounted to a declaration of war."

Mr. Lewis has been away from Hongkong for two months, six weeks of which he spent in the Unlied Slates, as he made the journey both ways by Clipper.

There were 41 passengers on the Clipper, which stopped at Macao for 1 eight passengers,

GRIN AND BEAR IT.

ndicate,

By Lichty

ABNER

DEAN

"Whoa, Tillic!.. You'll get indigestion again!"

STRATEGY

TEST No. 3

1.

2.

How large is Malta? Name other islands in the Malta group.

3. When did Great Bri- tain acquire Malta?

4. How far is Malta from

Italy from Africa

5. Name Italian air- naval island base between Malta and Africa.

6. Name the nearest

French naval base.

(See Answers below.)

The

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LOUB

"Four of us play Bridge after' dimer." said my friend North.

"We had three rubbers at one shifflag hundred, with A change of partners each; time,

"West won six shillings during the evening. South lost East won two shillings."

£ 1.

What (in shillings) was the value to the winners of cack of the three rubbers?

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UNOZ ADOIUU V

First

Listener - in

-Thirty Years ago there

Was no Haw-Haw

EARLY in 1909 a white-haired village schoolmaster in Northamptonshire was living in a wonder world of his own discovery.

Science had found a now marvel-a method by which mes- sages could be sent through the air for hundreds of miles with- out the aid of wires, carrier pigeons or beacon lights.

Frank Henry Wright, scientist, painter, astronomer, musi- cian, writer-a lonely man in the isolated village of Buchebroc (vulgarised to Bugbrooke) Northamptonshire-had ferreted out the mystery of sound waves.

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In the quiet of the night he listened to the secrets of the air-the "pin-ping" of the Morse code from hundreds of miles away.

Many months of failure preceded his moment of triumph, but carly one March morning the accret was yielded to him.

News of the schoolmaster's rudio Every morning his son had been

leaked into the outer world. Letters posted at one end of the schoolroom

him from work

of Inquiry reached a small, home-made

America, Australia, Canada, electric tapper. His father was at the other end of the schoolroom, other countries. his eager eyes fixed on what seem- ed to be a compass.

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Victory

On this particular morning there was a development which made the son's eyes open in astonishment. His usually dignifled father sud- The arrivals included Dr. Francis

denly ung up his arms with a K. Pan, of the Chungking Govern.

shoul: "I've got it-the hand has inent Foreign Service," "who has been

inoved! Work that tapper" On mission to study transport methods in Amerlea; Mr. Ousay One day a pole, titty feet high, Lipelz, General Manager of the was planted in the playground and South Sea Trading Corporalion, Now reared its head above the school. York, on a business trip from Son Long wires hung between it and Francisco; Mrs. A. L. Coppinger the top branches of a neighbouring en route to Rangoon accompanied by Miss C. Coppinger, from San Francisco.

From Honolulu.-Mr. W. Nicholas,

beech tree.

In 1910 the schoolmaster and lis pupils were listening to Morse code messages from North Germany,

(Cornwall),

metallurgist connected with British France, Cleethorpes and Poldhit firm on a business trip; Mrs. Jeral McCarthy, and her daughter Jeanne, en route to Bhamo, Upper Burma, where her husband la stationed at

Co.

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ald

the Central Aircraft Manufacturing The copper wire induction coll was wound on a wooden rolling From Manila-Mr. Jose de Leon, pln; the baseboard was an wealthy Manila businessman, on n kitchen tray; earthenware Inkpots pleasure trip accompanied by eight from the school desks wore used members of his family; Mг. E, W. us insulating spots.. Other com- Stumvoll, of Kuenzle and Strieff, nonents were medicine bottles and Manik; Mr. Marcel Nubla, Manila jam Jars. lawyer; Mrs. Rose Pearne," necom-

passed

panied by her daughter Odette after through a window ledge by the

The earth wires were a round trip by Clipper to visit her Aunt, Mrs. Bachrach, In Manila; Dr.

medium of the neck of a vinelar Bienvenido Trann, and his wife, on

bottle cracked off the main body, ahoneymoon trip; Mr. Francisco Earphones, the only items of real Pulajaner, of Luin Perez Samanillo expenditure, were obtained from

London. Inc., Manila, on a business 'trip.'

and

Learned scientists and professora visited the village school. They looked at the medicine bottles and Jam Juro, and stened at the ear- phones. Some of them admitted that pet theories had been upset.

Secret Attic

$0

Frank Henry Wright was the first amateur radio listener in Britain. Throughout the war he listened-in. The authorities had.

they thought, removed all his equipment when the war broke out, but the village schoolmaster heard all the hot news first-hand in secret attic at the school-house. He had no outakle visible ser

aerial, Frank Henry Wright died as the war ended. Radio was still then in its Morse code infancy,

"I am convinced," he said to his son, "that soon people will speak to one another by wireless, I have occasionally heard human volces among the Morse."

In

A young newspaper editor, still โต twenties, wits working throughout the night in an office In faraway Kunla Lumpur, Federated Malay States.

"I have bought a radio," he writes to me, "and can hear London clearly from soven in the evening until breakfast time the following morning. I can hear Big Ben striking 11 nis,”

That young man ta Frank 'Ifenty--- Wright's grandson.

"Pop" Wright.

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