Are You Sure?
Answers on Pape 10
1. From what substance pre these derived-
Moth balls, saccharine, aspirin, naphthalene, nylon?
*. 2. Who created these
teciives of Action
dor
Lord Peter Wimsey, Poirot, Dick Barton?
3. If you were livid with anger you would be---
Red in the face, as white as chalk, the colour of lead?
4. What year is this model- 1029, 1934, 1937, 19397
5. One of the following was appointed
"Court billiard. player," at a salary of 2500 * year-
Waller Lindrum, Jolin Roberts, jun., Tom Newman, W. Spiller?
6. Which of these are rid- ings of Yorkshire, and why are there only three..
North, East, South, West?
7. The Drst Kiteat was -- Night club, chocolate, literary society, pleman?
8. Which of these unlons is
the youngest-
Union of South Africa, Union Jack, Uniterl
America?
Statea
of
9. Who wrote the erato-
rios
(a) Elijah; (b) Messiah; (c) The Creation; (d) The Dream of Gerontius?
10. A proton la f
Fruit grown in the W. Indies, ancient Roman wfficer, part of an atom draft treaty?
Territorial Army Permanent Staff's
The War Office announces that the necessary officers have been appoint- ed to the permanent stalls of all
units of the Territorial Army.
There are no further vacancies for non-regular officers ns adjutants or quartermasters, and applicants who have not yet heard that they have been appointed must accept that it has been impossible to find vacan cies for them. No wailing lista are being compiled.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1847.
GANGSTER MENACE IN AMERICA MOUNTING
By FRED MULLEN
(United Press Staff Corresponden t).
outside the
!
ho dashed outside and jumped into a
stolen car.
of the
POCKET CARTOON.
Gangsterlam is again menac- cheque cashiers
P. patrons cringed on the floor, they ing America, warns J. Edgar Lorillard Tobacco Co. at Louisville. scooped up cash from the counters, Hoover, Director of the U.S. With four others in the gang. escaped with more than $2,000. Federal Bureau of Investiga- A night club holdup that netted A 42-year-old policeman, unarmed tion.
$1,000 was the last on his list. He and off duty, realised that something was trailed to the Buffalo hide-out was wrong. He grabbed after leisurely robbing the night bandits and was shot five times. Ho IF ONLY IT HADN'T club patrons.
RAINED fell fatally wounded before the eyes
AND MADE THE Another troublesome charactor of his wife and two children seated
TEST WICKET SO STICKY was George (Bugs) Moran, onetime in his car nearby. Chicago gang leader who returned in 1045 to ply his trade in several mid- FB.L, he now is serving 25 years in western atates, Captured by the Ohio state penitentiary.
Mounting gangster activity, he said, is already evidenced in crime statistics compiled by the F.B.I., and its rebirth "is not an overnight proposition."
The fire smouldered during the war years when the atten tion of the nation was geared for common defence," he said. "Ita flame is quickly spreading throughout the nation.'
He elled the example of a war time New York gang of five men led by a former Dutch Schultz bench- man, who hijacked two truckloads of liquor worth $1,000,000 in New York City. Rounded up quickly by the F.B.I., all but one of the mob had previous criminal records.
"At a time ben right-thinking Americans were dedicating every chemy
when
he said, "these criminal worked in the shadows and tried to live outside the Inw."
As of today, he said, a major crime is committed about every 18 seconds. Bank robberies are on the increase.
The Trails
the
Moran's frail started in Vergennes, linole, on August 1, 1945, when a bank there was burgled of $256, and three revolvers. A montli Inter, the Richland, Dank in Indiann, was robbed of more than $13,000; and on November 9, 1945, the Cit zens' Banking Co.. of Ansonia, Ohio, lost
$24,000 cash and $100,000 in war
Roy Montgomery Foster, sought by
bonds.
was
1f
i
named
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Science Feature:
Probing The Earth For New Mineral Lodes
By DAN L THRAPP
(Unified Press Staff Correspondent)
would
unex- remoto
British scientists have warn There are millions of square miles ed that the end of known unexplored and untested for minerals.
Most of the lands so far mineral resources is in sight, plored for minerals are so and already geologists and that mining them prospectors
present are probing the more difficulties than mining the world's far corners in a hurried floor. The Antarctica and Green- search for new lodos.
feet of ice which would be dificult to traverse than sea water. Most of the jungles of the earth are also difficult to penetrate and work. Beabo's Experiments
ounce of energy to fight a common the F.B.I. for interstate car theft, picked up by Missouri state. police. He had one gun stolen Vergennes.
He admitted that he had partici- pated in the burglary and Moran as his leader and boss. With Roto of Triggermen
this lead, F.B.I. agents soon rounded up Moran and the rest of his new But even if they find vast "We are plagued with homicides, Gang.
now supplies, all the minerals on The rebirth of gangsterism can be all the lands of the earth can- burglarles, robberies, larcenies, rapes, nuto thefts and scores of other crushed
communities provide Berlous crimes," he said. "In this adequate police protection and unite not last forever. Some day bitter crime drama, gang triggermen in a law enforcement drive, Hoover some other source must be tap- pcd. Minerals are found in sea play an important role.'
action in water, and they might someday One of there
heart of gang be WGS Benjamin 1834 smashed, the
"mined." People whose Franklin Rayborn, Kentucky gung operations of that era and sounded
organised minds turn to fantasy have sug leader, who was captured on Sep the death knell of
gested eventual mining of other tember 13, 1040, after a six-state gangsterism a few years later, manhunt. Hoover said Rayborn was He is confident the same thing can planets. the alleged brains behind
dona several be
again, provided police Kentucky slickup mobs and liked agencies across the country are given to think of himself 44 Д "pecond the full support in their communities.doubtedly are much closer at hand. Dillinger."
F.B.I. rooming
bele sald co-ordinated
He
Carrying Of Woapons Rayborn was seized by agents in a Buffalo, N.Y.,
Hoover recommended that police house. His room had been turned crack down on unauthorised carry- into a veritable arsenal containing ing of weapons, pointing out that at five revolvers, two tommy guns, a least one weapon is involved in every high powered rifle and several tear crime. tos guns, plus plenty of ammuni- 1lou.
Hoover said Rayborn began his career of crime in May 1948 by lend ing a three-man holdup outside the gates of the B. F. Avery Plant in Loulaville, Kentucky. They used a tear gas gun to overpower two men who had cashed payroll cheques for off company employees, und made with $10,500.
Rayborn struck again on July 10, 1040, in a daylight holdup of three
Weapons in the hands of hood- lums and gangsters created a serious menace during the twenties, and notorious hoodlums were put under control at a terrific socruce or among law enforcement agents," sald. "These conditions again are evident."
the
he
But the biggest reasonably attain- able undiscovered mineral lodes un-
They lie beneath the oceans of the world as part of the unknown geology of the sea floors.
Bottom of the Son
Bre
That is why scientists now making new strides in exploring the bottom of the sea.
Яea
land are covered with thousands of
more
the
No one knows much about
the geology of the ocean basins, except for the general topography. You can't learn much by drawing up specimens with scrapers from sea floor. Imagine studying the earth's reology by scooping up samples of dirt with a bucket hang- ing from a balloon Boating above an impenetrable mass of cloud
15,000 feel in the airf
Yet that is similan to the type of ocean Boor
heretofore exploration undertaken.
Chippy Makes a Standard Lamp
But
the amatour with few tools, AM writing for Readers who are better equipped or more skilled can add their own refinements (rounded corners and so on). If you want your lamp standard column tapered- narrower at the top-you should plane down the whole column to a 1%-inch square section at the top. the real amateurs can dodge this. Next saw the column of wood in half lengthways, and in cách half gouge a groove down the middle (or you can do it with a red-hot poker) so that you have a hole deep enough to take the flex, See diagram below.
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Lay the flex along one of the grooves, and screw or nail the two halves of the column together ogalit
With 3-inch screws, screw the 10%-Inch square base firmly. to the column from beneath. Since free movement for tho flex is
Returned After
Ten Years
Into But man ta getting deeper the BCA.
Before the recent war, Dr William Beebe, of the New York Zoological Society, made many notable descents in his "bathy- sphere" Into Bahamas scas. Unce A minor wave of conscience has he descended over half a mile-to hit British travellers.
Belgium's famed
3,000 fect.
Oceans cover three-quarters of the earth's surface. There are just un- der 54,000,000 aquare miles of land and a little over 141,0 could level miles of ocean. It you
Prof. Auguste Six towels, returned recently to out the land-it with a glant bull Piccard, who used to make balloon the Great Western Railway, was one dozer you could grade the Himalayas, ascents into the stratosphere, has now night last week joined by a seventh, Andes, Rockles, and all the other built a bathysphere of his own. He nicely washed and accompanied by mountains and continents into the calls it a "bathyscaphe." He intends a note saying: "Returned with thanks; sea-the ocean would still be 9,700 to use it to descend 13,200 feet into and many apologies after ten years" feet deep everywhere.
the sea off French Guinea, on the the Prospectors have not yet examined West Coast of Africa. As minutely all the lands of the earth.
In a recent Philadelphia case, two guns, masked bandits with drawn entered a super market and cried "this is a
holdup." The manager heaved a can of vegetables at
missed, pair. They Ared but
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
AS THE FELLER SAYS... DON'T THINK YOU'RE AN
ANGEL JUST BECAUSE YOU KEEP HARPING ON
THINGS, MER, HEH! FUNNY
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'OR, SO YOU THINK I'M A MAGGER... WELL, LET ME TELL YOU...
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essential, raise the base from the ground by glueing or tacking a 14-inch wooden aquaro I-luch deep to each corner of the base.
You will have to buy a lamp- holder with base plate (to screw to the top of the standard), and; a wall plug.
The standard is very much im- proved if a square or circulor shelf is slid over the top of the) column so that it rests 17 Inches from
the top. It is useful for ash-trays and small ornaments. Test the size of the hole you need to cut in the middle of the shelf: with a cardboard pattern.
The standard may be stained or pointed to match the
.colour scheme of the room where it will be used,
You will need:
2011. dex
(or whatever length you need for your room).
2
Wooden square 10ins. x 1in) thick.
Column of wood 4ft. 7lm long x 3ins x 3ins. If yo are buying, get two pieces 41 9ins. (2ins to allow for wast x 3ins x 14ins. This will sav sawing,
Four 1in. squares of wo
lin. thick.
A few in., 2in. and 31
5
screws or nails.
Wooden circle 9ins. diamețe
x ln. thick.
7
Wall plug.
8
and switch.
Lampholder, with base plat
By KEMP STARRETT
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IF YOU THINK IT REQUIRES ANY EFFORT
·TO START AN ARGUMENT TRY REPEAT- ING SOME GAG YOU HEARD RELATING TO WIFELY FAULTS.
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WORD... WAS JKT
SITTING HERE READING
AND YOU ACCUSED ME OF
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I HEARD
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THEN THERE'S THE ARGUMENT · THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN DUT UP TO THE COP VHO HANDED OUT THE TICKET....... (OR. SHOULD IT?)
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COOK AND Å SLOPPY HOUSE-
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THE KIDS SEEM TO EXCEL IN ARGUMENTS ABOUT QUESTIONS TO WHICH THERE ARE NO ANSWERS.
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YOU DON'T
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I WAS WRONG
ALSO THERE E ARE THE ARGU- MENTS OVER WHO STARTED
Ledger Syndicate THE PREVIOUS ARGUMENT
SOME TIMES. ITS WHEN YOU AGREE WITH EM, THAT THE ARGUMENT STARTS.
-TIEY SAY LOGIC CAN'T COMPARE VITA THE GOOD OLD LAGRIMAL EXIDATIONS ÁSTAN ABANG TO CLING AN ADGURENT. A MAN HAS NO MORE CHANCE TIUN BUTTER ON A HOT STOVE.
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