1941-07-23 — Page 7

NANCY

SLUGGO!--- I WANT YOU! TO FIND WILLIE SMITH-~~- HE'S MISSING FROM

'SCHOOL

TODAY!

YES, MA'M-- I THINK I KNOW WHERE TO LOOK. FOR - HIM!

Wednesday,

I'LL BORRY DIS POINTER-- [ MAY HAVE TO PROTECT MYSELF!

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

--AND. I'LL TAKE DIS STRING IN

CASE I HAVE TO TIE UP HIS HANDS!

BUCKINGHAM BOMBED-For fourth time Buckingham Palace, London home of Britain's King and Queen, was target for Hitler's raiders. Ceblo picture from London shows porter's lodge in ruine. Young policaman on duty thoro was killed, but King and Quoon were absent at the time.

Standard Oil, N.

J.,

Tells

Of Trade With Japanese

July 23, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller

HMM!

JUNC-

I ALMOST, BIT ON THAT

ONE!

Pekinese Becomes Dog

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BEQUEATHED 18. a week in the will of a Park Street dentist, Ming Chang, a Pekinese dog in Sydney recently joined à select circle of privileged pets. He has become a "dog of independent means."

The late John Hunter, an

| Australian, who died in 1938, aged 75, remembered in a simi- lar manner, "his faithful dog, Jack," and in his will, he be queathed 2s. a week for Jack's maintenance,

Australian

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Epic Filmed

A Toowoomba medical practitioner, Dr Aeneas John McDonnell, who was niso 75 when he died; and who left al substantial New South Wales estate,

The gala premiere of "Forty was even more generous--in his will Thousand Horsemen," the Aus- was the gift of an annuity of £50 tralian picture sponsored by the "for the purpose of feeding and Commonwealth Government of caring for his Scottish terrier, Sandy, Australia, will take place at

as long as Sandy lives."

Animal lovers, however, do not:

the King's Theatre to-morrow

BACK ROOM BOY WHO

DESIGNED

"SABRE"

always skree on what is the gener- at 9.30 p.m. The major portion May Make Aviation History

of the proceeds of this gala per-

ous, or correct, thing to do.

Mrs Jessie Stuart Broomfield, of formance, it is learned from the Northmead, who died in 1038, was

a ense in point.

In the first place she left instruc- tions that a substantial part of her

£3,714 estate should be used for the erection of drinking fountains and water troughs throughout the city and suburbs for the benefit of stray dogs: then, in another clause, she madic certain that her own pets should never become "strays."

Painlessly Destroyed For she directed that "any pets, animals or birds in her possession at the time of her death" should be

management of the theatre, will as Fokker, De Havilland, Rolls and Royce, Mos- be donated to the Bomber Fund.

NON-FLYING people well know such names

Geoffry Northcote, and high

His Excellency the Governor, Sir serschmitt, and Hawker, the men behind the ment officials as well as other lead-aeroplanes. But fow outside aero ongineering ing residents will be present. know of Halford-yet he may go down as the

The

the co-operation of the Department greatest of them all.

picture, which was made with of Defence of Australia, and the off- cers and men of

of the 1st and 2nd Australian Cavalry Divisions, deals Light Horse

campaign against the Germans in Palestine during the Great War.

with

the

You remember Lord Beaverbrook's "boys in the back room," who were deservedly given world publicity because they supported an astonishing new acro engine, the Napier "Sabre," up to now fearfully hush-hush?

Here at last is the story of been sold. "Gipsy"-engined De Havil- Major Frank Bernard Halford, and Moths are the basic. Service the boy who has been in the trainers in all parts of the Empire. back room for 27 years-the

Dramatic Next Move man who designed the "Sabre,'

Major Halford's next move was dramatic the Napier "H" ergines. Dispatch" air correspondent.

FLEMINGTON, N. J.-The Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) outlined to stockholders details of an agreement to sell additional sup-rics fell victim to her dect the Beersheba, which forms, the climax says J. D. S. Alan, the "Sunday These had 10 and 24 air-cooled cylin plies of oil to Japan “negotiated with the full knowledge of, the American, British, and Netherlands East Indies governmonts."

The New Jersey corporation, which meets in this rurni borough of 2,700 residents, explained it owned 50 per cent interest in Standard Vacuum Oll Company, with Far Eastern head- quarters in the Netherlands East Indies.

of the

com-

horses

home

In the 1914-19 war the most ple- painlessly destroyed. She always had turesque unit of the Australian forces a horror that such pets might become was the Light Horse, which won im- unwanted and uncared for, and after mortal glory by victory in the Sinal her death, a pet dog and some cona-Desert under the command of Sir

Harry

charge at Chauvel. The For more than 12 years,

controlled by the of the film, is one of the most im- R.S.P.C.A, there was pony named pressive scenes ever flmed. Stumpy, receiving maintenance at Forty Thousand Horsemen" in the the princely rate of 7s. ed. a week. most ambitious Australian film ever A cow, named Daisy, at River made, and the cast is hended by stone, according to the wishes of Betty Bryant, hailed as a real screen her former mistress, Miss Jane discovery, Grant Taylor, "Chips" Banders, is to receive a life-timo Raffert, Pat Twohill and Harvey instructor, in 1914. Instead of let the back room" indeed merit praise

Adams.

Gibraltar Now An Island

dels set in four banks like a letters He has designed more successful in the crankcate.

with the centre stem represent- types of acre engines than any per- son in the world.

The design gave Immense power for

He has designed the most powerful a small frontal area-one of the first aero engine over to pass Service

aims

of engine construction. type teris.

"He went to France, a brilliant pilot daring the "Sabre," even more

·

50 that

and unconventional-co much

Lord Beaveritbrook's "boys in for their boldness In

W. S. Farish, President of the|

"Up to date. the Japanese have not { Mr Farish said that he was "par- holding company with interests taken delivery of the full quantity of ticularly gratified" with the wherever the world gets its oil, products they bargained for,"

pany's business in the first six Mr Farish sald Standard Oil has months of this year compared with read a prepared statement to markeled oil in the Orient for more a year ago. the annual meeting with the than 50 years and "even to-day, not-

of care and attention, preface that the question of oil withstanding increased deliveries to Earnings Outlook Good

There have been gifts for bird:

ting him fly, they put him in the shipments to Axis powers had Japan under terms of the special

back room, and he has been there "Our guess is that earnings for the sanctuaries and gifts for the erection

gambling on it. been raised and the concern sales agreement, the total movement

ever since.

It is the most powerful engine wished to explain its

of oll from the Dutch East Indles to first six months will be very healthy of horse troughs-the probate re-

Got The Job

go into service in any country. It is pro-Japan, including shipments

and will run between $75,000,000 and cords, throughout the years, have

compact, permitting high aerobatic gramme.

Mafor Halford is above medium qualities and giving the pilot a good $90,000,000," Dutch-British Company, as well as things kept going as they were he usual stories of bequests, designed to he said, adding that if accumulated many strange and un-

helght, of sturdy build, and has light view. those of Standard Vacuum Company,

blue eyes. He was born in Notting- are much smaller that Japan imports hoped the directors would be able to lighten the load of stray dogs and declare a $1-a-share dividend at the

cd_cats...

Transformation of Gibraltar into ham 47-years-ago-and-was-educated a grown-up daughter. He lives at Major Halford is married and has currently from other sources of

end of the year. The year-end pay-times fantastic in will-making is no and Canadian soldiers are finishing sity.

the supply."

unusual, bizarre, and some-an island is now almost complete, at Felsted and Nottingham Univer-

Oxley. ment inst December was 50 cents re-restricted to Follow Government

animal gifts, gular and 25 cents extra.

He is at his deak at 9 am, and Many digging a moat thirteen feet wide and He said the New Jersey.concern at Discussing possible oil shortages

have been reported during the across the neck of the promontory. strictly to the policy of the United of tankers, Mr Farish said the oil past few years. Mr Farish's statement continued:

One of the strangest was the installations which were on the top The hospital and several other States Government.

industry was working on two major "About six months ago this affliate)

"So long as the

will of Mrs Catherine Hathaway, of the rock have been transferred to United States plans. One involved the building of joined with a Dutch-British ofl com maintains normal relations with an- a pipe line from Texas to New York

of Auckland, New Zealand, who, underground rooms hown out of the pany, a major producer of oil in the other country, Standard Oil Company and Philadelphia and the other the

last year, directed that her Auck rock. Some of them are below water Netherlands East Indies, in special (New Jersey) must also maintain formation of an Industry-owned cor-

land residence be held in trust for level. arrangement, over Ilmited period, normal relations. If the company on porntion to build tankers,

ullimate occupation by David and

New guns, including some very to sell Japan additional supplies of its own initiative, undertook to es-

other Biblical characters named heavy ones, have been put in position Mr Farish said Standard Oil Co. oil and ordinary oil products. One tablish embargoes on shipments of of Louisiana was building a "buty!"

in the 11th chapter of Hebrews and ships with war materials are "when they returned to earth." hundred octane aviation gasoline, for oil from one country to another It rubber plant at Baton Rouge costing

arriving daily. might find itself running directly between $12,000,000 and $15,000,000 example, was excluded.

All this has been reported on the "The agreement was negotiated counter to the polley and interests of that would produce 15,000 tons of

Moscow radio. with the full knowledge of the Ame its own Government. Obviously It synthetic rubber A year and raw rican, British, and Netherlands East cannot permit itself to be drawn into materials therefor as well as 20,000,-shed with visible representatives on Indies governments. '

such a position,"

Sells Japan Oil

all times endeavoured to adhere on the eastern seaboard due to longe wills, in Australia and else- ten feet deep and filling it with water school at Brooklands in 1913. An/stops working at 10 p.m. or 11 pm.

000 gallons of alcohol..

KEEP THE BOMBER FUND SOARING

TYPES

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-The BOMBERS HITTING HITLER

Fairey Battle DONATIONS TO DATE: $2,393,379.39 and £1-0-0

Medium Bomber.

REMITTED TO LONDON: #145,939.19.6d

King Of laract

She said that she was certain that God's kingdom was now being estab.

earth, who would have charge of the affairs of the nailons. Among those would be David, the former king of Israel.

Another unusual will was that of Mrs Esther Carter, of Sydney, who expressed the wish that her second husband should allow her first hus- band to live with him in her Maclean house after her death. She thought would be company, for that

each other"

John Pool, a Bathurst holel-keeper; left the rents and profits from un hotel at Bathurst "to purchase every Christmas Day one glass of the best port, wine and o sumcien: quantity ΟΙ of good plum pudding for every one of the patients at the Bathurst

ΟΙ

Danbod at the possible effect of}

port wine and plum pudding on alling patients at the hospital, the execu- tors of the will took the matter to the Equity Court, which ruled that the gift was not a good charitable bequest.

STOCK MARKET

REPORT

Hongkong Stock Exchange Oficial Summary, issued yesterday, is:

Buyers

H.K. Govt. 4% Loan 97.50 H.K. Govt 3% Loan (1034) 04 Bank of East Asia $74 Canton Ins, $225

Unions Ins, $400 HK. Fire Ins. $105 Wharves $00

Lands $35

Lights "O" $5.00

Electrics "O" X. Rts $23 Electric "N" $21

Electrics Rts $11

Sellers

Hotels $3.50 Lands $35.75 Trams $17.40

Salos Providents $3.00 Canton Ices $1 Watsons $10.75

pliets

usually at home

He learned to fly at the old Bristol assistant instructor was killed, so he

He has no hobby but work. He before the Great War, and went to got the job.

He joined the Royal Flying Corps depends on tennis and squash for

exercise. France in 1914.

In paying tribute to Major Halford Greater then than the need for man

recently, Sir Harold Snagge, chair-

of the Napler company was the need for technical which Major Halford is technical wa

(of knowledge, of men who could keep director), said they had reason to planes flying as possibic." as many of our quaint assembly of believe that the "Sabre" would make

aircraft, as well as Napler, history, To his great disappointment he grounded, in splio of his ex- perience and flying skill DIS- appointment in one way yet In another he revelled at getting his teeth into a difficult and vital job.

The Great "Puma”

was

Better Tanks For Britain

Greater Speed

He was loaned to Beardmores, and The Brilish armoured fighting of which 0,000 were made. then came the great "Puma", engine, vehicle now being issued to the troops is a great advance on earlier

armour is

heavier, its more powerful and Its Tank policy, which has long been Halford followed up with his 300 in a state of diux, is now setiled. horse-power "Nimbus."

Instead of light, and medium ma-

It was known as the B.HP-the types. Its Beardmore-Halford-Pullinger. It did armament Immense service in the Independent speed greater. Air

Force.

After the war he represented en- chines the Government is concen gineering interests in America for trating on the heavier typo. The some years. On returning, he set up light tank is now obsolescent, and there is no longer a "medium" ma-

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The "opportunity tank" is

the

swept the country In the late twenties, because of Major Halford. cruiser with the speed of a grey- He designed the famous "Circus" hound. The fighting qualities of the ergine, which made the movement "I" or infantry tank have also been possible. It was ingeniously designed improved. Its role is the close sup- to incorporate many of the parts port of infantry... then cheaply available, of an old Renault type.

It la possible that among the heavy material abandoned in Greece Then came the amazingly success were ful "Gipsy" range for De Havillands, Empire's productive capacity, sup

tanka as well

as guns. The Up- to the beginning of this war plemented by Atherica's help, will over 10,000 "Gilpay" engines had soon make these losses good.

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