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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1950. -

BRITISH ATOMIC PILE U.S. Navy Abandoning

MODEL AT THE B.I.F.

GRAPHITE BLOCKS

URANIUM RODS

This large flask is used for the extraction and synthesis of Carbon-11, a radioactive isotope of carbon and considered to be one of the most important pro- duets of the atomic pile. It is used in medical, agri- cultural and industrial research.

Service).

A section of the model

is cut away to show the Internal structure. The uranium rods tie horizon- tally. They are encased In aluminium. The rods are loaded into the pile from one face and taken out at the other side. For these operations large moving hoists are pro- vided.

Midway Island To Comical Gooney Birds

By Peter B. Gruening

Midway Islands, May 18. The U.S. Navy soon will pull out of Midway, leaving only the gooney birds, the original inhabi- tants, to guard the famous "sentinel for Hawaii.'

gooney

Announcement of the Pacific, and in 1935 became afberrt as marking the beginning withdrawal was made by the seaplane base for Pan American of Japan's naval losses.

Airways Late In November, Now the friendly Air Co-ordinating Com- 1941, it played host to Saburo birds, whore comical aspect and mand, which said that the Kurusu, Jupan's special envoy en silly anties belie the dignified | Navy will leave along with route to Washington shortly be- ruff around their necks, will the Civil Aeronautics Ad-fore the surprise attack on Pearl strut the sandy beach alone, no ministration's radio facili- Harbour.

longer applauded by American ser rvicemen. The moaning birds ties on the Island, and the

will rob alone, and gannets will Pan American Airways base

command the air Innies. there. The decision

of A handful

Commercial made reportedly because of navigational radilo facilities Facific Cable Co. workers and also will have to quit the island. the atoll's myriad screeching budget problems,

Midway originally was named birds will be the only residents Brooks Island after its dis

H of "Gooneyville," modern city

Wan

The U.S. Navy's decision 10 leave Midway for the birds also means that Pan American Airlines and the crews that man nodi

Early in World War II, Mid-coverer, Captain Brooks, of the way was a target of Japanese Hawaiian bark Gambla. Hence housing 15,000 persons. sea and air attacks. It offered claimed it for the United States] life-or-death lessons in sea-air in 1839. It was used briefly as of this man-made island para- co-ordination. Now, baby birds a coaling stating. Larning their own lessons i fly-

Already, sub-tropleal growth

dise is crawling back over the

TOO BUSY JUST

NOW

very

THE penguins, which had just arrived from the An- ing will be the order of the day, VETERANS RECALL BATTLE The Navy's desertet submarine

tarctic, were too hungry to Navy's $10,000,000 investment.

pose

graciously.

Reconstruction of this natural

They were much more insterested in a tasty morsel of aviary will feature nesta for can it defied

The fall was ro parren that base and two strategie alrõelds

further developitent sonn aries, #annels, and frigate, moan antil a specini

will be only symbols of fish than in photographic results in their new guar- America's Pacific wartime ing, and pouney, birds, Instead of

ters at the London Zoo. (Acme). nats for machine guns and anti- Ported in 1903 to bind and cover strength.--United Press,

Sand Island's shifting terrain. aircraft weajuns.

Giant Ironwoods tvom

Kraus was

Midway lies 1,300 miles north- Hawaiian Islands and euralyptus west of the Hawajan Islands. 11 trees from Australia were plant-j is a coral cirely enclosing two - jpt to shade fine truck gardens lets, Sand and Eastern. Midway that were To grow. Midway Inng bren used in pincetime as a become a vital telegraphic link communications centre in the between the Orient and the

United States.

SECRETS OF NEW

SUBMARINE

Admiral Forrest. Sherman, Chief of Naval | Operations in the United States, has revealed that the United States Navy plan a 2,500-tón sub- marine to be powered by atomic energy. It will cost £11.250,000. It is also known that American air engineers are progressing with an atomic power unit for aircraft. Here the details are filled in by a New York Correspondent:

the

Admiral Sherman's dis-submarine. It to expected that

shipyard will art closure about the atom-this submarine was made when rder to build when plans are he asked Congress Armed Services Committee for au-i

11thority to build 112 ships of!

Now

approved.

AND IN THE AIR

in olu being made

Progress Entil recently

| different types. But work on an atome engine for the has been produced only in Canada and the US. production has begun in Britain, london Express it has been going forward. This a bung developed by

the Fairchild Engine and Air for some time.

plate Company, under Govern- int orders thoangth, top of his!

nel with the 10- prouity Dist Pat the Nay operation of the Air Force and are herested in another target) Atomie Enry Commzaron. Bank experimental palmarmen. } The work has been going on then two types of minesweeper almal tree years. Many di-

Then, fnuttin (42)

Gultas have had to le faced. the

New Drug For Dogs May Cure Colds

British scientists, working in a first-floor laboratory

It hel

mariur.

the

KUW ator-sal-

GREAT COST

Naval ubitvis say

in Park Lane, believe they have discovered a drug-pro- ships would

great gri #fatommy+juown and the crew and pet keep it ligh!?"

visionally named CF9—which may be a cure for the common cold.

World War 11 veterans of Farly Pacifle warfare still re member the battle that hoved Midway; names of the enrriers Enterprise. Hornet, and York town. ແ thr abmarine Tautilus long will be remem-

Keeping Up Americans'

Trousers

There will soon be 100,- 000 Americnus walking about without buttons 011 their tratser waistbands. But their trousers will stay up-thanks to the b ventive mind of 32-year-old | Ted Elston. of Queens! Street. Wolverhampton.

Zow

For the

Ter

do not

har been İying 10 perfect treurem Braces which rely on button: or string. A months ago he succeeded. Recently no American visitor Ted-and his braces--m Wolverhampton hotel. Τέλει American, the buyian astent for ja torge American stores proup.

JUDGE SHEDS NO TEARS OVER ABOLITION OF 'CAT'

Lord Justice Asquith, who is 60, said in a broadcast recently that he shed no tears øyer the abolition of the "cat." He was speaking on "The Problem of Punishment."

He expressed his relief that flogging acted as that Parliament had decided affective deterrent. to give an alternative system a fair trial. This was not, however, because he doubted

SEA-LIONS CHASE CRUST-SEEKER

Mallard are frequent visitors i

his

from

ante, at a place called Gadsh!117) would have bein, as they say, 'for it' What a jumble. What

a lottery."

*

Figures ustel to support contrary view were inconclu- sive, beente it would have ta be determined how many prople abtained from committing foggable offeners,

He lol of a man serving a Rentence for a serious crime who had proved impossible to manage, and was proof against all reformative influence. "But The cave ugainst flogting was] in the twinkling of an cya he +imple. Aport hom its up becarne a model prisoner. proximation to torture- and its effect on the wardera, it was able to scar a man permanent

"For the rest of his life to ean never strip to bathe with out reminding himself and in forming bystanders, if any, of

millation and failure as branun being! Mter nil, no ane would defend a revival of branding."

"What produced the changa was that the Governor divined that the prisoner had a passion or animal pets. He gave him a budgerigar, which the prisoner was allowed to krep in his cell. From that ilme he never looked back,"

Disorders In Hyderabad

Hyderabad,

IF OTHELLO HAD FAILED

He described what he called fomable" offences as a jumbl: A

12: 1:121 could not

17... May free fr altempted murde.

Hyderabad pollee Headquartem by means other than choking. anncunced today that six Coin- of such precarities as black-munist-led bands of "despera maii, arson or actual murder,

doc" pperating in forcata, were killed in rncounters with the "Let us assume that some police this month in the disturb

had

vri

of Nolonda.

district

The State Government, with the co-operation of the indian Army authorities, recently an- nounced large-scale measures "to protect people in the border districts from the Communist menace."

was so enthusiastle about Ted's "How can we make an atomie braces that he asked him for chair fast enough to drive ample fair, Ted had no spare

south east border to the London Zoo. They fly in Shakespentan characters were aeroplanes high speeds? How¡pate to he save up his braces

walk home with we lub atumie power to it.

the neighbouring park, in England in 1917," he added, pockets!

and fluding plenty of titbits, "Othello, if his attack on Des do we cover hands in his how jeet And

Now

uften return day after day, mona had miscarried, hat the the motor stiller sntly to protect Ted has heard that the Ameri-

been A mere *attempt, could writes Craven H pans are delighted with

have been flogged. His method be offset, fran some of the problems, braces and that they want lum One, however, made the mis-was choking. Ÿ ☆ 2 ኛ of view, by thei "One by one we are beating to make 10,000 pairs.

take of alighting on the sea- | Cenormount distances that could then," said spokesman,

Ted's invention 11 quite son pond.

"Chudlus, it the henbane he covered without refuellinut.

LONG TIME YET

ple. The los

loops in the usual Here she found dozens of poured into the elder Hamlet's It was first used to treat; Miel oils 117 experiment with Thy would also be much faster

thrown Atary men here think that style of braces are replaced by breadcrutts stuff who had than any comparable ships to- there is little prespect of atomie pendant

by cars had failed to do its deadly grips. Each crip has visitors.

work, could have snapped his a form of distemper in dogs,1 Woders on his

So could two that rubber pads, one on

Ometal fingers at the 'cut,

estimates put the Bower lighters for a long time.

however, Autolycus, who simply stole total number of "desperadoes" Mr F. J. Ervall, Tory M. P. Six experienta have so far Westinghouse Electric Cor- "It will be used mainly said the inside, ose on the outside

the birdings,

ni 1,000 and claimed that about vers of the trouser waistband. The The sea-lions chaseif each, pration and Atanic Energy one, "for very heavy,

continuously. She flew back to "Cut Falstaff, who committed 50 had been shot dead during mons that "a much greater dis rare," T Mr Nichols, the Commission trientists have a long-distance. atom-bombers trips are pressed together by a

the safety of the park.

robbery with violence (didn't the past month-Reuter. to 20,000 milesliding metal band, ready solved most of the techni-flying 15,000 cat problems involved in mak- fully loaded.

Details of the mno ors HT ing an atomie engine for ships.

secret. but it is or submarines, it is understood.till strictly

kuown that they are Uraniuin A Government expert told / 235 motorn,

todda

for APrimam, told the Come been cried it. "In

covery than

penicillin" wouteld was, eured overnight," be announced soon. This is It

The Information was

Said Mr Haworth: "But w tiven don't want to nise false hopes.

o him by My Frook E. Hep-) worth. 17-year-old director d "We are not yet in a position.

a company associated

Ehmhall Laboratories.

Lane.

Mr Hepworth

id:

day.

with the to manufacture the drug on am We know how to make Unless the work is tremen-

in Park large scale. We have made small

"Our

qinnishes available.“

Mr. Niely did: "There are managing director is a wealthy years of work atend."

- international Bure. I

cannot divulge his nam

"A team of chemists invest!-

gated the virus Beld and alten-

flendon Fapress Service)

engine small enough to dously speeded up by war, the

to a strip, how to el it, an United States Navy will not how

Clewa from have their

harmful

to tirolett

1952. rays without making | before

ntom-submarine

The Atom-aero-

it too heavy. Now the engineers plane is expected about a year! have to work out

sign,

the best de-inter.

спе

And the motorist need not While they are doing so, the look for an atom-car for many Navy have asked

the General

Stara.

"It is not really likely Company 10 begin in our (Ifetime," sild wark na ʼn sreond type under- | (middle-aged) sciculist. "The sad to be Intended for sur-cost looks like being prohibf-

tive.**

tion was concentrated on hard-One Good Deed...' tric

park, a dogs. It 11050"

director

search

af stemper in form

through enters

Inboratory.

the

ANSWER TO THREAT

Ming Else McCraeiten, a 31-focu vesets. year-old Sydney office worker, Leading the research in this is on her way to Britain. Whe deld was Mr Arthur Nicholls, a visitor from London, Miss

bio-chemical re- of

Elizabeth Howard, lost her way a! the Park Lane in Sydney, Miss MieCracken gave up her lunch hour to guide her to her destination. That way 12 Mr Nicholls, who Is 38, said years ago. that CF9 has been successful in curing hard-pad-a disease This week Miss McCracken asually 80 percent. fatal. First received a reward for her good

hard-pad symptom of

is a deed a first-class return ticket catarrhal cold. This led Mr in the P. & O, liner Maloja,

K. O. CANNON

YOU'RE NOT STILL BULKING, ARE YOU, WHISPER? AFTEN ALL YOU DO ĐANG HO

ZÕUT HERE TO HELP |

CLMEISE

Accommodating

"If these work as well as we think they will," said Navy "they will be put authority,

A new cinema in Berlin's into ships to meet the threat of West End announces: "In the

marine fleet,'

for two without a dividing arm The Navy have niso ordered and in the middle 50 seats so the Electric Boat Company of adjusted that if you do not like Groton, Comecticut, to design the film you can till them back a hull for the atomic-powered and go to sleep."

Russia's fast-growing .. back row 30 love seals-seats

WITH WHISPER IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE

WHY SHOULD & BULK? 150

I'M NOT A CHILO – ALTHOUGH YOU BERM TO THINK SO..IP CHASING CRIMINALS INTERESTS YOU MORE -THEN WE'D BETTRA 00 JUST THAT I

GOOD1 NOW

WE'RE BOTH HAPPY LEAD ON, WHISPER- SHOW ME THE SCENE

OF THE CAIME,

HEAR IT IS, K.0.–TRE PAVILLON:RBUSG... PLASTERED WITH |PRETTY FACES-BUT

THAT WOULDN'T INTEREST YOU!

...MAYDE.. MAYBE NOT BUY HERE'S A FACE THAT ~DOES INTEREST ME!?!

There was a snag,

In

THESE SHIPS ARE GETTING

A CLEANING

AN aerial view over Rotterdam, Holland, shows the 38,000-ton Liner Nieuw Amsterdam G, drydock for an annual overhaul.' 'On port side is the Dutch liner, Indrapoera: Farthest-from-Camere ure, left to right-War

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