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WILFUL DAMAGE Here
TO PIPES
Two Unemployed Sentenced
Ng Yung and Leang
There and Everywhere
both unemployed, were this PEACE IN A NUTSHELL.
four morning sentenced months hard labour by Mr W
SOME ROCKETEERS OF AMERICA
FOREMOST SCIENTISTS
HONOURED
·HIRSCH PRIZE AWARDED TO U.S. SOCIETY
who recently passed TN 1912 Robert Esnault Pel-Ary Sternfeld, a young Polish
:
a French
European statesmen who are All communications intended for Schofield for the theft of three worried about peace should consult publication should be addressed to cast-iron water pipes, valued at Miss Iris Vera Vincent, head of the the Editor, and be accompanied by $80, the property of the Public Rainbow Movement for World the Writer's Name and Address Works Department Ng was Peace,
I 1912 Robert Pallengineer, received not necessarily for insertion, but sentenced to further two through Paris en route for the
months for wilfully damaging Brussels World Peace Confer the French Physical Society on encouragement (2,000 francs) jsz a guarantee of good faith.
the pipes.
rocket motors and the possibili-for his "Introduction to Cos- A similar prize of Inspector O'Connor said Miss Vincent is officially a de-ty of reaching other worlds by monautics.”
As a serious encouragement went in 1934 to that the pipes conveyed the legate of the United Mothers of their means water from Tytam over Mount the World, but prefers her less French aeronautical engineer, a Louis Damblanc, Parker to Lyenin Barracks, formal titles of "The Joan of Arc man whose aeroplanes were engineer, for his "Autopropul-
Rockets,* and on September 28 the supply of Peace." "The Dynamo of Paci-internationally known for their sive Explosive was stopped owing to the pipes'sm." "The Volcano of Peace," or speed and power, he had no de-paper which presented the re So he salts of proving stand tests Hong Kong. Monday, October 19, 1936 being damaged. These were re-The Mighty Atom of Internationalsire to court ridicule.
paired, but were again darnag-Order.”
Her "beolutely anre-fire scheme" yptically entitled his paper which he had made with powder ed some time later. On inform-
"Considerations Concerning the rockets.
Prize To America ation received the first defend has the merit of simplicity. She Results of Lightening Motors
to an Indefinite Extent.**. ant was arrested and later, the explained it thus:
News now comes that this to the second defendant. The pipes I'm going to propose a United
States of the World to be govern-was the first serious engineer-year the prize goes were not traced as they were
ed by a tribunal of geniuses. The ing consideration of inter-American Rocket Society and lone of its members, Alfred probably broken up.
plan will prove it pontis to fase planetary navigation.
Postage Abroad Extra
World Propaganda By Wireless
PERILOUS TRIP
IN CHANNEL
Lone Yachtsman Rescued
It
3
all peoples scientifically, economi By 1927 the public had be-Africano, who is thus honoured cally, artistically and religiously come so accustomed to the for his mathematical analysis I've got the constitution and the thought of voyaging in space of the results achieved by the Pelterie read society in various tests of
agenda already drawn up.
cessary, the united women of the that Esnault world will conscript the geniuses another paper at the Sorbonne rockets designed and built for to serve as governors. I've even under the auspices of the fit by John Shesta. The award got a list of geniuses drawn up to Astronomical Society of France is given for the following rea-
This time he did not beat about sons:
submit
Her chosen geniuses include, the bush but frankly discussed 1. It [the society] was first parently, Peter Ammo, the cartoon-"Rockets and the Possibility of to reach a speed equal to that ist, J. P. Morgan and Earl Brow Interplanetary Voyages.” The of sound, and to obtain observa- Ider, the American Communistį immediate result was the tional data about the flight of
candidate for the Presidency. One founding of the annual REP-rockets at such velocities." has a pleasant vision of Prof. Gil-Efrach Prize of 5,000 francs for 2 It developed. (1) a. prac- A 19-year-old Guildford yachts-bert Murray sa a conscientious the most valuable contribution tical method of handling liquid
THREE FISHERMEN HELP.
There has been ample evi- A great deal of inconvenience dence in recent months of the was caused to the people of growth of anxiety at the de-Lyemun. velopment of foreign wireless transmission to the British Em- pire. There is no dispute that the programinės of Germany and some other countries, pian- ned as national propaganda, are being made available to larger numbers of British subjects. There will therefore be a hear ty welcome for the news that the BBC. is pushing on the recon- struction which will give Bri-
of the year to the progress of fuels, (2) a useful valve for tain at Daventry the most pow-jman who attempted to sail alone in objector to such conscription
what the French novelist, controlling fuels under pressure... erful short-wave system in the a 12ft dinghy from Charmouth.
Richepin, had happily called in field conditions of rocket world. It is high time. Eng-Dorset, to Eastbourne was rescued
¡“astronautics."
fight, (3) a practical and cer- land has fallen behind her off Portland Bill last month. His
- Itain method of igniting the The small boat was then at the mercy
Annually Awarded Someone defines a genius as a per- neighbours. European
son Germany of heavy seas, and nearing the
whose mind doesn't go blank broadcasts which
The prize has been amually rocket and firing it by remote
distinguished control sends out in English have long treacherous Portland Race, the hen he's asked to write something
We differ awarded by a
3. A body of practical had the advantage over the meeting-place of currents, where in an autograph book
You should see some of the stum al-jastronautical committee of the British that they are received many ships have been lost.
Astronomical Society of France. knowledge and experience was group of The adventurer was Mr. Michael leged geninses write there.
First to win it (1928) was the developed among a at greater strength.
van Lessen, of East Manor, Bram-
A millionaire says he attributes his Last year the report of the ley. near Guldford; who left
success to carrying on while others German physicist and engineer, experimenters which will result Ullswater Committee emphas-Charmouth on Monday. He put in slept. We know a man who does Hermann Oberth, for his book in more rapid advancement. of ised the importance of the ef-at Abbotsbury, near Weymouth, that, but he's not a success - not "Die Rakete zu den Planeten rocket construction hereafter. fective projection of England" that night, and continued his trip even as an after-dinner speaker. by a steadily improved Empire the next day.
Your Daily Smile!
*
raum (Rockets in Interplane
4. These results and techni- tary Space). Though publish-cal details were, for the first As to naval tonnage, Japan wants fed as early as 1923 and techni~ time anywhere, pablished in a service to meet such competi- His rescuers, three fishermen
cally antiquated, the book re-technical journal devoted to tion, and urged that the inter-ary Gould, Cecil Durston and her own weigh ests of British prestige and in-George Evans-saw his peril from
Charles was one of those people mains the most exhaustive ever rocketry and astronautics, and ently available to any qualified fluence required the appropriate the cliffs. They put out in a boat, who always try to look on the tight written on the subject of astro-all details were made perman-
Well, one day he nautics.
or experimenter than took him on board, and towed the side of things. use of languages other
No award was made in 1929. scientist English All the other great dinghy to Portland BIL
saw a little fellow weeping his eyes out, so he crossed over the road to see In 1930 Pierre Montagne re- through the growing technical European Powers send out bul-
Right Direction letins in languages not their!
"I was "broke," and thought I be could help.
"And what's the matter?" he ask-ceived the prize for his paper library of the society.
on "A Study of Gaseous Mix- own Italy's propaganda has would get a free trip to East-ed been broadcast in 18 tongues bourne, Mr. van Lessen said. “My "Boo-oo," wept the youngster, point-tures Utilisable in the Propul- CINEMA REPLACES SCHOOL
No awards Germany regularly employs people have gone to Falmouth and ing to a broken egg on the ground sion of Bockets.”
Subject to the approval of the "I threw that egg up in the air, but were made for the years 1931, five. The conference of 36 now nothing about this
1932. Montagne was again LCC. a new cinema is to be erect- countries recently sitting at This morning when the wind I didn't catch it, boo-oo."
"Never mind,” said Charles cheer- Geneva had before it a draft went round to south-east I found fully, you'll catch it when you get honoured in 1933 for his study ed on the site of the Battersea
of chemical equilibrium, and Grammar School. convention pledging Govern myself being blown into the Bace home
"BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
LANE. CRAWFORD, LTD. went to prohibit broadcasta
These fishermen fetched me back
which incite international ill- I have just been gazetted & will But to eliminate the second lieutenant in the Hamp- broadcast propaganda which is shire Begt, and I am to join the hostile
foments discord depot at Winchester on the 28th. would not be enough. It must Probably I shall be drafted at least be ensired that all the Palestine in a few weeks. I was
to
ONE MORNING YOU WILL BE SAYING- peoples in the British Common-going in the right direction to
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EXPLANATIONS OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
The Poison Cup ·
tish. examination system was THIS cup is reminiscent of the
attacked by Professor D WAS THIS days when the danger of
at its most vulnerable point, being poisoned was ever present, the blighting influence of the and human ingenuity had to be matriculation test on secondary exerted for the purpose of pro- education. The secondary tection. It was thought that cape schools should be turning out made from the horn of the narvel young people fitted for the (mistakenly called a unicorn) had} more responsible positions in the ability to change colour when in The poison Industry and commerce. Their contact with poison. choice of subjects and their cup of Clare College, Cambridge mode of teaching are dictated was believed to have this ability by the matriculation examina through a crystal knob in the lid. tions of the universities.
This crystal would change.colour sa Matriculation was designed soon it came in contact with not to be a test of capacity for poisonous matter. The cup has been in the possession of Clare employment but of fitness for the university, that is, for College since the time of James I. higher education of the academic who is supposed to have used it
as a drinking vessel. type, whether literary or acien Hic Professor Drever may have enggerated when he de- clared that in Scotland, less- than one-third of secondary
for univerzity work. It is dent ble that a
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