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EXPLANATION
OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
Doing The Impossible
Here There and Everywhere:
"HE'LL be able to do nearly
everything that he did be CHARLES-STREET SENIOR
the
Charles-
QUARTER-MILLION
GIFT TO SCIENCE
SIR HERBERT AUSTIN'S GENEROSITY
VAST IMPROVEMENTS TO OLD HISTORICAL LABORATORY
Notice To Contributors, All communications intended for fore except play the piano." Those! publication should be addressed towers the words of the doctor who Westminster's three
Arthur Williamson's streets are seriously disturbed at the Editor, and be accompanied by amputated the Writer's Name and Address fingers in a Greensburg, Pa. hos-the London County Council's.pro- was robposal to rename at least two of [not necessarily for insertion, but pital Mr. Williamson
bed, beaten into insensibility and them. The object is to reduce as a guarantee of good faith.
left to die from exposure on the duplication of streef names.
EALISING recently that much with Lord Rutherford in the bitter cold night of January 9,
It will be difficult for the au- of his large fortune was due Mond Laboratory built especially 1930, near Greensburg, and when thorities to decide which is to to the efforts of scientists and for him. finally found and rushed to keep its present title. Charles-technicians, motor magnate Siri. Having seen so much splitting. hospital. his feet and hands were street, St. James's-square, is the Herbert Austin, who is now a the famous place is in danger of so frozen that he lost his fingejoldest. It was built in 1673 It is Baron, scratched his bald head, splitting itself at any moment. It and three toes Bat young Wisaid that the first reference to took up his pen and wrote to Prime is over-crowded, has a hotch-potek »
who loved to play the Charles-street, Berkeley-square, is Minister Stanley Baldwin, as fol of make shifts leaving scarcely Hong Kong Monday, Aug. 3, 1936.liamson,
piano, would not believe his doctor in 1792.
Hlows:-
Jenough room for a scientist to put As soon as he recovered, he set
If the plan goes through"} "I have for several years been his hat down when he gets to
Knightsbridge, watching the very about his piano studies abe, and Charles-street,
valuable work work. Yet, in 1932 the experts to-day plays any composition in seems certain to lose its name, as done by Lord Batherford and his there managed to split the atom expert fashion.
Williamson says: "We only de- it is the youngest. The struggle colleagues at Cambridge in the artificially by the application of will be between the other two.. realm of scientific research. power greater than it would re- Frank recognition of the dif-velop in this world by bucking up The leaseholders of Charles
"Knowing that as Chancellor ceive in the 10,000,000 degrees of ficulties that lie in the way of against something tough and do-
street, Berkeley-square, are
you are keenly interested in ob-heat in the sun, those who wish to give renewing it."
ganising a protest to the LC.Ctaining sufficient funds with which
Later Discoveries ed strength to the League of
Ther consider that their street to build, equip and endow a very should have preference
To-day, the Cavendish has pass- over much needed addition to the pre- Charles-street, St. James's-square, ent resources, I shall be very d on from the splitting of an atom. which is now principally occupied pleased indeed
100-millionth of a centimetre in to present securi by offices.
ties to the value of approximately size, to the study of its nucleus, several thousand times smaller, £250,000 for this purpose."
Germany And League Reorganisation
Nations is a prelude to satis WEDDING BELLS IN factory reorganisation. For that reason the somewhat con- fused character of the talk at
Geneva is not to be regretted
if it compels a more precise] understanding of what is and
a
Yet
KOWLOON TERRY-LEYTON
rose
Shakespeare, 25
700,000 Volts
A hurried word by phone with and it can now photograph a colli- Įsion between two atoms, and the what is not possible. Almost St. Teresa's Church, Kowloon NEW SHAKESPEARE FILM
Vice-Chancellor G. A. E. Wilson at general agreement has been Tong, was the scene of a pretty
scenario Cambridge, and the Prime Minis-movements of the split particles.
How it can do it, the scientists reached that there shall not be wedding on Saturday when Miss writer, seems to have a future. ter ford time between discussions!
continuance of sanctions. Maria del Rufugio Leyton became Following Warners' "Midsum on the Budget leakage to dictate themselves hardly know. Even the attic is being used for research. There is no haste, on the other the bride of Mr. Arturo Cuan Termer Night'e Dream" and Metro- the following:-
Maiz research rooms have. old hand. to recognise the Italian ry, the Rev. Father Maestrini of Goldwyn Mayer's "Romeo and "There can be no greater en- conquest. At some stage theficiating.
Juliet," in which Norma Shearer couragement to the men who de-wooden floors, and if one worker question must arise again, but The bride, who is the second and Leslie Howard will be seen voted themselves to cientific re-is taking delicate measurements not until Ethiopia has begun to daughter of Mrs. Maria T. de Ler shortly, comes the announcement search than to feel that their work and someone else walks by, the show some sign of the civilising ton and Mr. Guillermo Leyton, that David Selznick is to make is appreciated by those engaged in creak he makes is as likely as not mission upon which the Italians former Chinese Consul in Alamos, Julius Caesar" for United Art-industry, the progress
of whose to be recorded on some sensitive state that they are embarking. Mexico, was given away in mar-ista.
businesses depends so much on the apparatus,
When atom-splitting is going on Many of the delegates atriage by Maria Lowe.
Ronald Colman will play Mark laboratories of our country,"
such ап electrical disturbance Geneva have expressed the hope. The bridegroom, the youngest Antony, and other leading stars that the League can be given a son of Mr. Juan Cuan, and Mrswill fill the roles of Caesar, Cas-
History Of Laboratory takes place in the room that dust from the rubble lying under the more universal character. That Rosa T. de Cuan, was formerly sius and Calpurnia.
So a quarter of a million pounds boarded floor is sucked up. Walls, aspiration is shared by all, but correspondent for the Oriental in
"Julius Caesar" may be made will go to the laboratory where ceiling and windows are now coat- none who hold it can be blind to Lima, Pers.
in colour.
very high voltages are used ted with thick, black grime. the mountainous obstacles that The bride wore a smart white!
transmute matter by high speed] must be surmounted before silk wedding gown. She was at-
particles and by radiation. Direct Germany. Japan and
Your Daily Smile! the tended by four bridesmaids and
ing the work is famous stom- United States can be induced to two flower girls who wore
Because X-rays are given off accept membership.
3 coloured gowns.
We're curious to know what goes 'smasher New Zealand-born Lord daring atom-splitting the scien more comprehensive League is The duties of best man, were on at the broadcasting station that Rutherford, OM FES, 65-year tists who carry it out have to get the recognised preliminary to undertaken by Mr. Jorge Chengkes people laugh so hard at the old Cavendish Professor of Exwood, hammer, nails and rough the effectiveness of the Coven-Condor."
perimental Physics, about as old squares of lead to build their own as the Laboratory itself.
little sheds for protection. Following the ceremony, a re-
The total apparatus in the room Although many problems ception was held at the bride's A musical journal says that it is The laboratory, built in 1870,
a piano beyond its attitude
towards residence. The honeymoon is be quite possible to bay
for jumped into prominence soon after can produce 700,000 volts. It is That, of course, is the the war when Lord Rutherford worth £2,000, but no scrap mer- Italy are looming before the ing spent in touring the various ten pounds
great trouble with pianos. League. interest must be divert- Chinese ports The bride, on
bombarded the atom with radio- chant would offer more than £5 for ed to the German reply to the learing, wore
rose coloured
active particles, and saw it split the lot. British questionnaire which
Sums up Dr. M. Oliphant, assis- Chadwick went on to discover the expected shortly. If Herr
new particle called the neutron, of tant director of research: "The Hitler seizes the opportunity
the greatest importance to the in-whole place is obsolete, entirely in- given him he can do more to
you understand that Vestigation. There the Russian adequate for the work we have allay apprehensions in Europe than can discussions in Switzer-
(Continued on Page 5) £50 a week is merely what we call physicist David Kapitza, now re-to do.”
called by order to Russia, worked it-you will get £5. Hand Unhappily comments of the German press upon Geneva do not inspire belief that the German response will smooth the way to those negotiations
Miss Freda Smith, a 25-years- for which Herr Hitler earlier
old employee of a dairy in expressed an earnest desire! "What do the British want? Hammersmith, tackled an in- truder and prevented the shop asks the Frankfurter Zeitung;
till being raided by two men "a three-party solution or an
last month. Anglo-French armed camp into |which the Germans are politely
invited to enter ?"
ant for peace.
can be answered at
2
is dress with accessories to match.
once.
KICKS STOP THEFT
Young Woman Foils
Shop Thieves
He
Miss Smith, who was alone, was seized by the throat by one The query man, but forced him to loosen
his hold by kicking him. British desire is for friendship crawled away on his hands and with both France and Germany and a complete understanding knees to the door, while his among the three countries. In companion ran away.
a speech last month Mr. Bald
Miss Smith fainted When
win declared emphatically that she recovered both men had "it is our strongest desire to escaped and her handbag was She was treated for: bring together France and Ger- missing.
many, without whose collabora-shock at West London Hospital
tion no peace in Europe is pos-!
¡sible." If Germany chooses WOMAN'S BRAVE
she can make her expected communication what M. Blum
has called "a starting-point for
ACTION
a peaceful reconstruction of Paralysed Man Saved
From Fire
Europe."
L!
Upon the German reply, and what follows from it, hangs the A paralysed ex-soldier, Mr. future character of the League. George Walton, was carried to If Germany will not co-operate safety by a woman neighbour with the remainder of Europe when fire broke out last month, în the Powers that believe in col-his bungalow in Alexandra lective security must make square, Morden, on the Earl Haig what arrangements they Cam Memorial Estate. The outbreak devise for their own safety-occurred. in 2-box room under the The League
continue, roof. will whether Germany. consents: to
Mrs. Walton, who fought the lenter or not, but German par-fames with an extinguisher, was ticipation is necessary for a burned about the head. Mr. Wal
treaty of peace in which all ton was seated in a chair and un- concerned will have confidence able to more
The League, in short, cannot decide into what form it will
mould itself until Germany has armed Germany refusing to spoken. It must know what give guarantees of her future risks its members have to meet intentions. Even while we before reorganisation can be hope for the best wisdom discussed in an atmosphere of dictates that the countries of reality The neutral Powers Europe shall make themselves that press for disarmament so strong that a breach of the have ill chosen the moment for peace from any quarter will their plea. Europe could not carry consequences that will disarm if faced by a fully-deter aggression.
comedians.
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Speaking of Salaries Actor: "What about the salary?" Manager: "Suppose we call it £50 la'week?"
"All right" "Of course,
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