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Qaeen Mary Beats Record of
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New York-Establishing herself
v a the speed champion of the At
, " ilantic, the Cunard-White Star liner
1 ,'Queen Mary set a new record with
; (an elapsed lima of four days seven
- '.hours and twelve minutes for the
yoyage from Cherbourg. V.v
' 4r:; The Queen Mary's average speed
:waa 30.01 knots, it was announced
iby the Cunard-White Star offices,
r IIiJm exceeded by .33 knot the pre
r Jvious mark of 29.M knots set by the
' ' French liner Normandle, the pre
vious holder of the blue pennant
that Is the badge of Atlantic speed
. supremacy. l;:v :'''"i."': .-,
rhe time was one hour, twenty
live minutes faster than the best
i previous westward crossing. .
. The previous elapsed time mark
, was four days, eight hours and thir-Ity-seven
minutes, set by the Queen
Mary in a voyage which ended last
! July 28.
Before her arrival the Queen
(Mary had radioed that she had
passed Nantucket lightship at 4:48
p. m. with an average speed to that
point of 30.08 knots. Fog and un
favorable weather conditions re
duced this average somewhat be
fore the ship reached Ambrose
light, which is the official terminus
of the westbound voyage. The start
of this run is Cherbourg break
water. IWIWI...1
After passing Ambrose, the Queen
Mary continued on to Quarantine,
where she dropped anchor to lay
4Umorning.
'TMuSatitth keenly interested in
H whether the huge British - liner
- would establish a new speed mark,
- were following the rises and falls in
- the -average speed with as much
: interest as ' the officers, Purser
" Charles Johnson declared. Johnson
sald the weather had not been
f'rfeally good'' at any stage of the
p. m. a broadcast from the
; liner declared that a pea-soup fog
continued, but that Capt. Sir Edgar
I Britten was driving his ship for
ward, with every confidence of sur
passing the speed average of the
JNormandie.
v Neither the Cunard - White Star
(line nor the ship's officers made
jany claim to the speed pennant at
ithe end of the Queen Mary's voyage
!of May 28, when she made the
crossing in the shortest "elapsed
"time." Instead they pointed out
jthat the average speed of the Queen
Mary was slightly lower than the
'figure set by the Normandle. The
j French liner's average, set in June
'of 1935, was over a longer route
jfrom Southampton to Ambrose
light eaBr
j The Normandie therefore con
tinued as the holder of the blue
pennant, which had been won from
the previous holder, the Italian
liner Rex. Before the Rex the title
holder had been the Cunard-White
Star liner Mauretania, whose mark
of 26.08, set in 1910, remained un
broken until the Rex steamed at an
average of 28.92 knots in a passage
from Gibraltar to Ambrose in
August, 1933. .,
Pride in His Bank Roll
Results in its Loss
Detroit. -The old adage of "pride
goeth before a fall" hit John Bur
measter right where he felt it the
most, in his pocket.
Burmeaster was walking near his
home feeling pretty good with a
$82 bankroll in his pocket, when he
was accosted by two men.
"I'll bet my bankroll is bigger
than your's," boasted one of the
men, flashing a bundle of green
sups.
"Tush," said Burmeaster, pulling
his roll from his pocket. "Look
at this!" -
. The men did, grabbed it and fled,
one to the north and the other to
ithe south, leaving Burmeaster
guessing as to which one had his
money.
City Pays for Appetites
Fort Worth, Texas. Fort Worth's
taste for watermelon is adding to
its cost of government. City Man
ager George Fairtrace recently
opened bids on three new garbage
trucks made necessary by an in
crease in watermelon rind collec
tions. Radio Operator Off
for Weather Study
,New Yorlo-Paul Oscaynan, a
former operator : in Greenland,
is on his way to Iceland to open
a meteorological : radio station
for Pan American airways, the
air line disclosed. ,
Accompanied by hi wife, Os
caynan has left for Reykjavik,
where he will be stationed for a
year to : make observations in
Pan ' " American's long v range
study of northern trans-Atlantic
weather1 conditions, looking to
the establishment of a trans-Atlantic
air service. 11 ' ' ; - k'r
Ths rtkm at Reykjavik will
la the . -t of a number of sta
tions to ta opened by Pan Amer
ican and follows a two year study
of weather conditions by an ex
pedition sent out by the air line.
Oscaynan was radio operator
with the University of Michigan
Greenland , expedition at Mount
Evans several years ago.- Bis
home is in Richmond, Va.: ,
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Would Rebuild Theater and
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New York. Many Americans are
evincing much interest in the pro
posed memorial to William Shake
speare in London, as a result of the
recent visit of F. C Owlett, organ
ising secretary of the Globe-Mermaid
association which is sponsor
ing the project. , ,
4 The organization's officers have
been chosen from both the United
States and Great Britain. Its Eng
lish president Is the Earl of Derby
and the American is Dr, Nicholas
Murray Butler, president of Colum
bia university. ...The enterprise has
been undertaken : because its pro
moters believe it is appropriate that'
due recognition should be given to
the fact that the working creative
life of the great dramatist and poet
of the English-speaking peoples was
passed in the British metropolis. It
is hoped by the new association that
the London memorial will prove to
be as much of a shrine as is that
in Stratford-on-Avon.
Although the world refers to
Shakespeare so much as the Bard
of Avon and adopts Ben Johnson's
name for him .as the Swan of
Avon, It is recalled that the English
town knew only the morning and the
sunset of the dramatist's life. Even
after Shakespeare had retired to
Stratford he kept up his connec
tions with London, acquired prop
erty there and revisited the city
scenes of his eventual career.
The project is triple. It contem
plates the rebuilding on one site of
the Globe theater where Shake
speare's plays were produced; the
reproduction of the famous Mer
maid Tavern, where he and his con
temporaries met socially and the
founding of an- Elizabethan library
and museum;- An option on ground
in the "heart of Shakespeare's Lon
don" has been obtained. The as
sociation announces that for 200,
000 the site can be secured and that
the complete scheme including the
acquisition of land and the construc
tionwill cost $2,000,000. Subscrip
tions have been obtained on both
sides of the Atlantic. After the plans
mature the theater would bT erect
ed within a year, and the two other
structures would follow as quickly
as funds accrue.
Globe Theater Built in 1598.
The Globe theater in Southwark,
,on the south bank of the River
Thames, was built in 1598, and
burned in 1613, three years before
Shakespeare's death. It was in this
historic playhouse that he was en
gaged aTdramatist, actor and man
ager. The restoration wbeas
near as possible to the original site.
The Globe was a tall structure for
its time, hexagonal in form, and
most of its top was open to the
sky. The "quality" of the audience
were seated on the stage or in the
galleries. The stage took up much
of the courtyard at the first floor
and in the pit "plain people" or the
groundlings stood or squatted, as
there weje no seats provided for
them. There was ho scenery in
Shakespeare's day, and indicated
localities were marked simply by
signs such as "this is a forest."
The painted scenery of the English
stage seems to have been intro
duced about 1650. A restored Globe
theater would therefore be on the
most primitive pattern. There sur
vive many old engravings of it
which would be a fairly good guide
to the architects intrusted with its
twentieth century reproduction.
Rebuilding of the Mermaid tavern
would be largely ? on conjectural
lines as little is known of its ex
terior appearance. There are avail
able, however, many drawings of
Tudor taverns of the period . and
some of those structures themselves
survive. The noted hostel probably
was built in the Fifteenth-century
and thert is a definite mention of it
under date of 1464 in "The Expenses
of Sir JohnHoward." It was situ
ated in Bread street Cheapside.
At lot mermaiu in xouo air nauer
Raleigh founded a small Club, the
place being a meeting place for the
literary men. Among the celebri
ties, according to tradition, were
Shakespeare, Ben Johnson, Christo
pher Marlowe, Beaumont, Fletcher
and Dekker. A supposititous gath
ering of this circle is shown in a
painting by John'Fraed, a Scotch
artist, which now hangs in the Cor
coran Art Gallery in Washington.
Museum to Adjoin Two Units.
- It is announced : that when the
restoration is complete the walls of
the Mermaid" will be hungw0hiap
estries front the looms of the period.
iThe staff of the tavern is to be
dressed in the garb of Shake
speare's time and visitors who call
for it will be regaled with, the sub-'
stantial fate of the days of "Good
Queen Bess.' In its prime the tav
ern was noted for the excellence of
its Canary wins and for the scintil
lating wit of its talented patrons. :
Joined with the two buildings pro
posed would berths museum and
library, in which it is intended there
shall be 'authentic furniture and
decorations of the Elizabethan pe
riod, and important books and
manuscripts. ' The whole site, ao-
J cording to the prospectus of 'the
association, wuu oe surrounaea wjin
trees, shrubs and flowers : brought
front Shakespeare's corner of War
wickshire. ; The landscaping sug
gests the same Idea as that shown
in, the Shakespeare Garden in Cen
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LlotcrLis Reduce
By Testing
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Every ytar the deadly traffio toll
deaths. This la the second of a series of articles to combat a new com
mon enemy, carbon monoxide gaa, more deadly and Insidious than any
"poison gas" employed In warfare.
By L. T. VHITE
Highway 8afety Expert
TUB average motorist, when re
1 minded of the dangers of car
bon monoxide,' scoffs and remarks
that he never starts his automo
bile with his garage doors closed.
Be does not realise, that despite
good brakes, good three, good mo
tor, good driTlng, bis lite may be
In constant danger on the road be
cause of carbon monoxWe.
One In every fen accidents last
year occurred when ears drove off
1 the roadway, killing more than So
OOO and Injuring more than a mu
jbon persons. Without doubt many
; of these cars left the road because
the driver was stupefied by carbon
monoxide ' gas. . :y"'
Odorless, eoiorless, deadly in in
credibly small quantities, this gas
seeps from poorly adjusted engines
sad csnsos hosdsohca. oar sickness.
tdangerons drowsnsss. Itetunate-
BALLAHACK NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Perry, Mr.
and Mrs. Bristow Perry visited Mr.
and Mrs. Graham Perry Sunday af
ternoon. Misses Selma and Doris Rogerson,
Talmadge S tailings and Joseph Perry
visited Mr. and Mrs. Bristow Perry
near Hertford, Sunday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Layden, Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Layden visited E. B.
Layden, near Belvidere, Sunday af
ternoon.
Mrs. Erie Kirby, from near Bethel,
was the guest of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John Rogerson, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Perry attended
the Missionary meeting at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. John Lane, near
Hertford, Sunday afternoon.
Miss Mary Layden spent the week'
end with Mrs. D. L. Barber, at Win
fall. - '
Mrs. A. J. Parrish called on Miss
Ruth Perry Thursday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Percy Rogerson and
son visited Mrs. Rogerson s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Stalling; Fri
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CLAUDE BRINN MAKES
ONLY TOUCHDOWN
Claude Brinn, of Hertford, made
the only, touchdown scored by , his
team in the football game:, between
Loiusburg and William & Mary play
ed In Norfolk, Va., on Monday night
Claude's father, R. E. Brinn, was
among the Hertford folks present at
the game.
MORGANS LEAVE HERTFORD
Kegret is expressed by the . many
friends of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Mor
gan that this family, is preparing to
leave Hertford. The Morgan's came
to Hertford from Elizabeth City
few years ago. They have made
many friends here who are sorry to
lose them. Mr. Morgan has severed
his connection with ' the Durham Life
Insurance . Company and will enter
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