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Independence
In the main the Government have accepted the recommen- dations of Lord Ullswater's Broadcasting Committee which
SCIENCE LENGTHENS
SPAN OF
OF LIFE
IMPORTANT RESEARCH IN LABORATORIES
ARTIFICIAL ORGANS FOR STUDY OF ORGANIC DISEASES
(By A Physician)
of Marlboro's Noble Sons sacrificed Ladies Whose Eyes have been their lives on the battlefield, Blacked by Gentlemen taking off prison, and by disease. Our Con-Hats in Elevators." federate dead.” But the soldier It is an allied, society" to IN Russia & human heart, rel's knowledge of bacteriologi-
Church On A Precipice
the island of Terceira, one
advised that the charter of thei O the island of Tammest re
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the
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image stop the monument is that men's recently formed "Aptobe."
La month's
series ago in a of a Union soldier. The mistake which stands for "Association for after its owner had died.
astounding experiments. several organs taken from Various organs were cut from Bong Kong, Wednesday, July 5, 1936 was made by the Italian sculptor. the Prevention of Taking off Hats America a few months ago, of
The base of the monument faces in Elevators"-a courtesy de- chickens and cats lived for days freshly killed fowls and cats-- the court house as did the soldier manded by tradition in America
in sterile glass containers. In hearts. kidneys, spleens, President Roosevelt. when in-
other Ensuring The B.B.C.'sage, but when the mistake was
discovered, the soldier was turned formed of the creation of the wo-Britain, scientists are studying ovaries, thyroid, and around to face the other way.
men's society at a White House the possibility of transplanting glands.
human organs.
They were placed in sterile Press conference, laughed and
Such experiments are glass vessels, free from bac- threatened to put all such societies often condemned as unneces-teria, and to them was connect- under Government control
sary, gruesome, and of purely ed the mechanical heart invent- academic interest. If one con-led by Lindbergh.. Blood serum MY LADY NICOTINE
siders the increase of human and growth-promoting foods One of the favourite tobacco life academic, and the conquest were
the pumped through B.C.C. should be extended for
officer of the of disease unnecessary, these arteries which led to them.
true. Not another ten years. They agree is a small church built on the edge Pipes of the "chief
Continued To Live that the B.B.C. has conducted of a precipice 300 feet high., in PSN.C. liner Reina del Pacifico indictments are
seems to was hauled on board at the end of otherwise.
They lived, even grew, shed- its operations with prudence such a manner that it
Medical scientists acknowling worn-out cells, and produc- and idealism to the general defy all laws of gravity, appearing heaving line just as the motor- satisfaction of the country, and to have scarcely any support for ship was being towed from the ledge that we are on the verge ing new ones. In theory, there they are satisfied that its foun-its foundation. It is the shrine of Liverpool landing stage to begin al of a new technique in the pre-is no reason why they should
voyage to the West vention of death. A body dies, not live for centuries. dations were well and truly laid, the Senhora da Boga Viagem The 9,000 miles
Masses of such experimental. Even in the quarters where the legend about the church is that Coast of South America. The pipe not because the mass of cells
being compiled fetish of nationalisation is most rears ago a fishing boat was lost was found after the chief officer which compose it are exhausted data are now
apparent reason, and formed into a new medical slavishly worshipped there is in the storm and for three nights left home, and the mooring ropes There is no no real demand for full Govern a fisherman's wife went to the of the ship had been actually cast why these cells should not live science, which will have a pro-
ran along the and multiply indefinitely.
found effect on human life. ment ownership and a com- precipice and prayed with out-off when a woman
It dies because the important It is now possible to preserve pletely nationalised broadcast-stretched arms to the Senhora da landing-stage with's parcel ing service, as in Germany, Boa Viagem for its safe return. other minute and she would have organs which feed and control human organs of many kinds, these cells the heart, liver, supporting them with ""blood" been too late. Italy or Russia. So satisfied. On the fourth day. the fishermen
kidneys glands become worn from artificial hearts and with indeed. are the Government returned, and as a tribute of
out as the engines of a ship are synthesised food. with the proven results of the thanks the people erected
worn out. The body is scrap- But, satisfying 25 B.B.C. that they decline to en-shrine to the fisherman's wife.
ped as the hull is scrapped. organs, living their useless in- dorse one of the principalį
New "Engines"
definite life in sterile jars, may changes suggested by the Com-
Science is now studying the be to the pure-researcher, much mittee and the one which has
transplantation of new more is necessary before they.
ACCIDENTS
occasioned most public discus- LOCAL TRAFFIC sion. That was the proposal that "responsibility for the cul- tural side of broadcasting should be transferred to a Cabinet Minister in the House of Commons, preferably a senior member of the Govern-į ment and free from heavy de- partmental responsibilities."
One Person Killed Last Week
RAN ACROSS ROAD
N
the
Your Daily Smile!
An-
Cheery Spectacle "Well, I did my good deed to-day- made at least a hundred people more cheerful.”
"How was that?”
such
"I chased my hat when the wind "engines." It has already suc-can help the ordinary man and [blew it down the street.”
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ceeded in keeping these engines, | woman. Surgeons must learn or organs, alive after they have the almost incredibly fine Hurrumph!
been removed from the hull, or technique of transplanting such “My education cost me one thou- | body.
organs into a living body. sarà pounds."
To the forefront in this new In theory, there is no reason for line "Yes, one doesn't get much
of investigation are to-day why a surgeon should money nowadays.”
Charles Lindbergh (who is not remove a diseased kidney likely to go down to history, from a patient. take a healthy
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Two girls were sitting in a dentist's not as an aviator, but as a one from a sterile jar, and graft At first sight that recom-]
In the Colony of Hong Kong, office when one of them remarked. scientist) and Dr. Alexis Car-it into place. In a few years mendation seemed to possess including the Island, Kowloon and "Why does the dentist call his office rel, who has preserved a frag-such an operation may (one strong attractions, and it can the New Territories, during the a dental parlour?"
underline the may) very plausibly be argued that week ended at 8 am, on Saturday "I suppose he thinks it would be ment of live thicken heart for should
28 years.
become a commonplace. better than drawing room!" answer such "responsibility" as exists last, there were
altogether 54ed the other girl.
Lindbergh's perfection of a Russian Experiments should be entrusted to a traffic accidents, as the result of
"mechanical heart," and Car-
Already, Russian scientists, Cabinet Minister who carries which one person was killed and
who seem to be the world speci- special weight with his col-28 persons were injured.
A Liverpool elementary schoo! me."
alists in this technique, claim leagues. On the other hand,
teacher vouches for the truth of the. "Why," asked the teacher, were to have kept a man alive for The person killed, 2 Chinese following:-
you afraid you would Break the several days with a transplant- there is rarely any senior
male, aged 19 years, ran across A 10-year-old girl, describing a bottle?". Cabinet Minister in the Com-the street in front of a moving walk in the country, said: "I could "Not that sort of pop, miss,” said ed kidney. mons without heavy depart-motor-lorry and was fatally injur- not run because I had my pop with the child, "I mean Pop, my dad.” mental responsibilities excepted
an occasional Chancellor of the
Duchy or, still more rarely, Of the persons injured, 16 were! President of the Council, and pedestrians who were either walk- both those posts are most fre-jing or running across the road quently assigned to members of and were struck by vehicles. the House of Lords. The real Three bus passengers and one point, however, as the Memo-tramcar passenger were injured randum indicates, is that such while alighting from moving a Minister would necessarily motor-buses and a moving tramcar find himself more and more respectively.
obliged to exercise actual con- One private motor-car driver trol over the B.B.C., which is was injured when his vehicle col precisely what the Government lided with a tramway standard. wish to avoid. By declining One bog passenger was injured the proposed change the Gov-when the vehicle was suddenly ernment emphasise their con-stopped. viction that the less they at- Three vehicle drivers and three tempt to exercise control over passengers were injured as the re the B.B.C. the better.
isult of collisions between vehicles.
Public opinion desires above Of the 54 accidents, 20 were all things an impartial, non-collisions between vehicles; 21 propagandist B.B.C. It does were collisions between vehicles not want the Corporation's own and pedestrians; and 13 sccidenta editorial comment on current were due to other causes. affairs, and the Government propose to extend to its publi- cations the restriction already applied to its broadcast pro- grammes. It has also been de-
GALLANT RESCUE
~AT BRIGHTON
cided that "sponsored pro- Unemployed Man Dives
To Help Schoolboy
grammes shall be forbidden, 'as direct advertisements älready
are, The B.B.C. has from the
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first incurred the gratitude of George Bedman, unemployed, of listeners by declining to Brighton, dived fully clothed into finance its programmes from the sea near the Palace Pier, the proceeds of the spoken Brighton, last month, to rescue advertisement, but the Ulsan 11-year-old schoolboy named water Committee contemplated Frederick Barton the possibility that television The boy, fell from a groyne and might be assisted through its was in danger of being swept out initial stages by this kind of to sea. Crowds of people watch- aid: It seems quite aneresed the rescue The boy was taken sary, and that is the view the to hospital suffering from shock Government have taken. Sound broadcasting proved equal to
standing upon its own feet, and shears." The upshot, there- there is no reason why televi(fore, of the recent investigation sion should be more weakly by the Committee and the re- The system of licensing the view of their recommendations Belay Exchanges is extended by the Government is that the for three
years, but subject to general "independence of the express provisions which give BBC. is guaranteed afresh for the licensees plain warning that 10 years on conditions quite their wires only exist under clearly understood on both the shadow of the "abhorred sides.
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“BELIEVE IT OR NOT” by Robert L.Ripley
1861
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CHURCH
ON A PRECIPICE
IN THE AZORES ·
"UPHELD BY THE HAND DE PROVIDENCE
THE SHRINE of
Senhora da Boa Viagem EXTERCEIRA→→
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ERECTED
The CONFEDERATE STATUE
ERECTED BY THE UDC. IN COURT HOUSE BARK, BENNETSVILLE, SC.
HAS A UNION SOLDIER ON TOP,
(A PISTAKE MADE BY THE ITALIAN SCULPTOR)
SIGNATURE OF TOME ASH BREEDERA DACHSHUNDS --
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