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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 25, 1989
News Snack Bar
Only seventeen years old, Miss Myrtle Lathom, has complete charge of her father's string of racehorses at Ottershaw, near Chertsey, where in the past four years she has turned out many win- ners under Pony Turf Club rules. Photo shows Miss Lathom taking a drink out of the bucket after a hard morning's work.
NEW MEDICAL PLAN FOR FACTORIES URGED
Full-time doctors for large factories, and also for grouped smaller factories, were suggested by Dr. Howard E. Collier, of Birmingham University, speaking at the Industrial Welfare Society confer- ence in London.
Dr. Collier urged that if the panel system could not be radically reorganised to bring industrial medicine within its scope, industry should deter- mine to provide its own services in every part of the country.
The employment of a whole-time medical officer, with such nursing FRANCE SENDS SPY TO DEATH service, was an economic proposal
This unusual picture from the London.. Zoo shows an "outsize" This. toad from South America. creature, seated in the palm of the keeper's hand, weighs 1 lbs. THREE NEW STAMPS
French espionage charges have for every firm employing more than Smaller could be sent a black-smith, aged twenty-one, 7,000 persons. Lucien Franck, to the death cell, grouped. and his two accomplices to penal. So far as the nation's medical se- servitude for life. The two accom- vices were concerned, said Dr. Col- plices were Marcel Ducellier, a lier, a gap had been created, or had labourer of twenty-six, and Lucien been allowed to develop, because The Postmaster-General announ-
change and develop- Adam, a clerk, aged twenty-one. All industrial
ces that 9d. 10d. and 1s, stamps of three men were charged with giv- ment had not been accompanied by the King George VI issue will be first of a series of natural sign-
the ing information to a foreign Power comparable developments in
on sale at post offices. posts for aircraft, planned during last September.
organisation of the medical ser- the Coronation-has been com- pleted.
TREES GUIDE TO AIRMEN
The Portsmouth Tree Beacon-
It consists of 3,200 young trees beech, sycamore, Corsican pine and wild cherry. It will be- come a magnificent wood, shield- shaped, with the tip pointing to- wards the South West.
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SCIENTIST, 90, MAKES SAND. GENERATE ELECTRICITY
Brigadier George Catlett Marshall
What is believed to be a revolu- methods of has succeeded General Malin Craig Epping (Essex), OWNS his fire en- as Chief of Staff of
the United gines. He has two-one for Epping tionary discovery in
was placed and one for Ongar. Now Epping generating electricity States Army.
Urban District Council want to buy before the Physicial Society in Lon Brigadier Catlett Marshall, fifty- In the centre is a great star and
them. They cost him £6,000, don. the American crescent of yew trees. Yellow lu- eight, served with
and he spends £600 a year on their pin and mustard have been sown Army in France, 1917 to 1919, as
maintenance. between the trees to stimulate a Staff officer. Later he served in growth.
China.
the
When it reaches maturity beacon will be unmistakable
an 'landmark from the air.
Under the original scheme a tree beacon was to have been planted in every British county. Some coun- ties were to have two beacons,
Each beacon would consist of the type of trees most likely to flourish in the locality.
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MOTHER DIES, PEER 'PHONED
A 'phone message to the House of Lords told Lord Aberdeen that. his mother, the Dowager Mar- chioness of Aberdeen and Temair, had died.
NO ISRAEL
Failure of a Jew to insert Israel in his name (women must insert Sarah) led to a fine of 50%, at Cologne, under the new Nazi-Jew laws. He had omitted the Isracl inwriting to the local council.
LINGUIST AT TWO
Though he won't be two until the end of May, Michael Williams, of 1, Silverdale, Erfield (Middlesex), conversation in can carry on a
English and French. He began to speak both languages nearly
•year ago.
His father is English, his mother half-French, half-Italian.
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́BARONET DIES
Sir Alfred Pease, of Pinchin thorpe House, Guisbrough, York- shire, died yesterday at the age of eighty-one. Sir Alfred was M.P. for York from 1885 to 1892, · and represented Cleveland from 1897 to 1902. In his youth he travelled extensively, making expeditions to South Africa and Asia Minor.
He wrote several books on travelling and hunting.
SPY SHOT
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Francois Gruneberg, twenty-six- year-old Frenchman, was executed as a spy by a firing squad at.Nancy. Gruneberg was arrested during the September crisis and charged, with obtaining military information for "a foreign Power."
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SHE COOKED DINNERS AT 99
Maria Doughty, who has died at Hambledon. Hampshire, aged 102 did most of her own cooking until she was nearly ninety-nine. *
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From London police courts: Lorry-driver at Highgate: know these traffic lights very well, so naturally they were in my favour.
Police-constable at East Ham: I pointed out to the defendant that his steering gear was uncertain and dangerous, and he replied, "It's a sign of the times."
Motorist at South London: When I asked the officer to direct me to a lock-up, I very foolishly neglected to mention that I want- ed it for my car.
future physical training instructors of the R.A.F, at Uxbridge.
The discovery has been made by Sir Ambrose Fleming eminent scientist, now in his ninetieth year, and inventor of the thermionic · valve used in wireless telephony.
His new method of electrifica- tion consists of allowing powdered silica to fall through a tube on to a perforated zinc plate, this action creating positive electricity.
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HATES IDLENESS:
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fifty-six,
Sir Reginald Clarry, Conservative M.P, for Newport has been ordered by his doctor to rest for six weeks. He is suffering A from the strain of overwork, consulting engineer by profession,. he advertised last May for a part- time appointment because he could not be idle. "I have found there is no such thing as retirement," he then said. "Political and other en- gagements do not take all my time."
* * * SAVED MILLIONS
Housewives of New York can thank the city's "racket-busting"
Ex District Attorney, Mr. Thomas Dewey, for a saving of £10,000,000 in their annual bills. This is what Mr. William Fellowes Morgan, Junr, Commissioner for markets, reports in announcing that enor- mous good has been done by driving racketeers out of the various food industries.
PRESENTED FROM COURT
From a London police court:- Husband at Willesden: My wife is very dangerous if you don't let her have her own way.
Another husband at Willesden: My wife had fish and chips for
of tea.
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