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No Beginning And No End
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From earliest times man has happening around him in in gazed with awe at the heavens nature had also and striven within his narrow past ages. Everywhere decay limits to truce and explain the and repair worked before his movements of the heavenly: very gaze.
he Yielding at length the bodies. Strangely enough neglected to study the earth ba | urgency of friends, in 1785 which he lived; and until the Hutton read to the Royal So- Arst 18th century little was known ciety of Edinburgh his and little effort made to learn! paper
the "Theory of nore about its physical fea Earth" It was favourably re- ceived, but unhappily Hutton's Put at the end of the can style was dull and unattractive tory rapid development of in-and his theory so unorthodox dustry led t: the expansion of that many of those who heard iniuing coal and ores. and
to it could not be bothered hence the study of rocks and work out its real significance. winerals became, of vital im Detractors did their best to demolish his theory in 1793 portance.
At this time a small band of an Irish writer bitterly attack- scientists underco.ke geslogicaled him. Hutton was ill at the) Letody, both in Britain and, time, but he was so incensed other countries. Of these that he, began at once to revise his paper and within two years By PROF. A.M. LOW the revised work was published
iencers a German Professor. Abraham Galiloh Werner, he-
in two octav: "volumes.
Two Main Groups
.
of Rocks
me lamgug for his, teaching] - In the "Theory of Earth" She care of minerals and Hutton established the existence rocks and fut the doctrines! of two "main' groups of rocks; which he advanced.
In 21st January Mary Hospital, V wife of Dr. Lain Nepus of "Woodbrook"
fulam, a daughter.
BURMA FUTURE
'..
Briefly, Weser taught that 'all existing rocks were deposit ed originally from palmoval hot, water by precipitation. Because
those formed from sediments, ither from land, in the sea, lakes or on land? and those formice by consolidation of mol-
en material. An explanations,
of this belief he and his was als: advanced of the o
of the School of
Thought
The negotiations with the students Burmese' delegates invited to Mining at. Freibery London to discuss with the Bri-mown as Neptunists. tish Government a new constitu- Another School of tion for Burma are making steady progress since Mr. Attlee's blur intimation that the Goy ernment were not prepared to be enerred by threats. Like India, Hurma has been promised full Dindependence, either within
or without the British Common wealth. In a triple ultimatum as a prelude to the conference the
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This subject, wine fon "seems important to the Lamun race 1. the possessor of The Wernerian ~ ductrine") "his world, to the intelligen! spread rapidly but there was being
màn. wh foresees! another school of thought events) to emit and who in! which opposed his theory, contemplating the future is fed These opponents were enlledeguire concerning causis in Platonists and they maintained under that he may judge events Aming other things that the which otherwise he could not rocks of the earth's crust were knew. formed from consolidated mol- ten material.
Chief of these Plutonists was the English natural philo- upher and geologist, James Horten, whose investigations aid the foundations of the skicure of geology as we know it tulay and whose original treatise "The Theory of the re-Earth" overthrew completely and he teachings of Werner his followers. ~
San is the leader insisted that the present Executive Council shall became a National, Government by the end of this month, that the elections to be held in April shall be both for a Parliament and a Constituent Assembly, and that full independence shall be cognised by. January, 1948..
In a surprise amouncement to
liutton was a Sest, horn in
CARNIVAL
SOLGLRY & 1STUDENTS
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KGALLERY
By Dick Turner
COTR. 1946 BY NEA BERVICI 7. M. BEC. U. 1. FAT, DIT.
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"Here are Get ver anatoiny charts! You can't tell what's being extracted without an anatomy chart!"
Will Franco's Regime Collapse?
The Story Of Al Capone
By ⭑ROBERT
L. LOUGHRAN
“A (Editors' Note: United Press correspondent Robert L. Loughrax A. ́ ́met Al Capone when he was tin chacute hoodlum before the doxon of the prohibition era in th United States. For twelve years Loughran covered the gang wars and Capone's rise to power until he was convicted and prisort}
sent to
Chicago, Jan. 26, When I first met Al Capone in a dingy joint called Rex Cafe his carcer of crime had hardly be- gun. From his quiet, soft-spoken manner it would have been hard to believe that this man would tern Chiengo's streets into the bloodys front lines of gangster warfare.
But in the years that followed
I came to know Capone as a vici- aus and ruthless dictator of crime who could order the execution of an enemy in the same 'ton he would use when buying a silk +hirt. 1
In the days when he was tak- ing in 32,000,000 per week from Beatlenging, gambling and pros
tution I rode with him many times in his $20.000 Hullet-proot. Automobile,
During the days when Chien- go's liistory wes' panctusled by. the rattle of sub-machine guns- I walked freqüently through the heart of the city with Capone
The political and. economic with friendly states and hopes and I visited his headquarters
ut olk of Spain for 1947 are to make maru, uncertain, and frought with numerous invisible_faktors-
Bright-Spot-
many times. Often I have seen him stop. wave his bodygnarıl _nside and band a down-and-out
bum a $10 bill.
During the early days of the depression he called his lieuten- ants in and said "We are going to feed the hungry people with good food so gn cut and set up a food kitchen." It was established half a block from a police station and operated for a year and a half.
"White Hats"
the House of Commons M 1726-in the City of Edinburgh, nublished a large work entitled stuffs, raw materials and con- Country, But here again its, & because police from the Central
Attlee virtually anticipated the
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Burmese Executive Council actually working as a govern ment, without exercise of his re- serve payers by the Governor. The elections will have a double purpose, shon-circuiting the pro- cess by which the Constituent Assembly for India was chosen. FA
chuc between Dominion Starus and independence is left
to the decision of the Burmese people. Ás to the date at which the pledge of freedom becomes operative it may still he hoped that, away from the excired na tionalism of Rangoon, the de- legates may have regard to the actual position of their country. Burma is a shattered land, twice fought over from end to end, 15he is wanting in the trained
own was
There is no answer to the. One of the few bright spots Hutton taught that the gen question that will be asked is the good harvest of wheat logist could see no beginning abroad-will the Franco regime and olive oil. Bumper crops of and no end to his work. Earth's terminate in 19477 In Madrid home produce may help Spain
the andazicus would to changes were slow movements only.
get through the trying so gradual, so vast that man pretend to answer that ques- period, according to experts. coulil only read them from on. Only France is in a pasi- They will not however assure study of their past. He show- tion ta determine whether there Spain of a solution. of her en that long periods had to be will be a pacife change.
economic problems, because the reckoned with, and his themy,
has not yet achieved country
Each of the time-scale influenced all
of Capone's hencramen that point of self-sufficiency. branches of science.
Another disturbing factor was given a job of getting bread, has been the series of strikes soup meat and other items. How
The food must have been good in Catalonia and the Basque they got it was their business.
than politics, In general the ping place for lunch and dinner. refection of economy rather
Station made it a regular stop-
strikers have sought betterį.
Capone's headquarters in Lax- food rations.
ington Hotel occupied the whole Politically, the sustained anti-floor and you could not get to see Franco campaign abroad, bas | hiri without an appointment. been the principal development Capone bought expensive clothes of the year 1946. At this point but untie his henchmen he was, political observers believe that not loudly dressed. He had one the campaign to oust through an anti-campaign has They were expensive felt, light in backfired because his suppor- colour, almost white. His lieu- During his later years Hut is trying to remedy the situs ters have used it to discredit; Capone
the campaign as a Communist known as "the boys in the white manoeuvre and at the same hats." time reinforce the
Caudillo's į
on
countries,
For the moment the Govern- the menz is concerned with Besides his famous "They diffient
situation economic of Earth" Hutton also wrote which has been aggravated by the "Theory of Rain" and taler multifold shortages of food different sumer goods and a correspond "Dissertations 'His childhood was unevent- Subjects in Natural Philoso-ing infiation reflection ̧ of ful. The older Button died phy" which appeared in 1792 the plight that has upset the
her his
a child. and treats of such scientific economic equilibrium of many When old enough, James was matters as light, heat, fire, and sent to school in Edinburgh gravitation. University. His great. inter-
James . Although
Hutton age ranks as the first great British est frem quite an early
when geclogist it was not until after was in chemistry, and in 1743 he was apprenticed to his death in 1797
to the Signet he brilliance of his werk was real a Writer devoted most of his time, not ly appreciated, to the study of the law, but to making chemical experiments. Deciding that the legal pro fession was not for him, Hut
ton studied medicine at Edin- burgh and Paris and finally took his qualifying examina tion at Leyden in 1749.
that his was not in medicine. But here again he fund
never
He felt that he would really delight in practising It and a year later he gave up all idea of doctoring and turn- ed instead to agriculture.
Eventually he settled on
civil administrators, in an army for her defence, and in the finan- cial resurces for the restoration of her normal life. Without all some land that he had inherit- of these independence, as more ed in Berwickshire and there sober Burmans readily admit, was able to put into practice would be the prelude to disaster. improved methods of tillage There is here no suggestion and to study soils and minerals.
Lucky Business Partnership
that the
ton worked on
a book on the Elements of Agriculture, but he died before its completion
and it was never published.
The housing shortage mby be added as another adverse facior, as well as the shortage cf foreign exchange and the
milliard peseta deficit of the
new budget. The Government
de-
tien on its own-without pending on universal assistance or world improvement. It has made ecmmercial
agreements
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority on Authorities"
EXTRA RISK BUT
position. ;
Franco Sartorial idiosyncracy-his hats.
Franco's Counter
3
ienants emulated him and the mob was Sometimes
Capone had one iron rule. He never would put himself "on the spot" by keeping a prearranged appointment. If you wanted to see him one of hig hoodlums Franco's counter move has would either take you to him or been to rally support through you could wait until he got
a series of manifestations and around to seeing you.. But even the publication of several In-those who stayed with the de- dignant protests..
posed king of crime until the end
The most obvious result has last night in Florida could mut been the departure of Britain's keep his last visitor walling--- Ambassador, Sir Victor Mallet, United Press. in compliance with the United Nations recommendation. The generat belief is that that re- commendation in itself is not] likely to alter the situation. Argentina's decision to
Chetniks
To the fourth trick South led Plans have been made to exploft Beat Up
her Ambassader, Pedro Radio, Yugoslavs
send
Rome, Jan, 20. The beating up of two Yug- camp controlled Kay officials by Chetniks at a by the Allies
*ed all right, but didn't give him his ninth trick, because he NO GAIN
played the finesse incorrectly." that the British Government-can
Leading an honor when you the spade Q. West promptly go back on the promises, it has
intend to finesse, instead of a given. The choice of their future About this time Hutten made small card toward a contiguous the A. The J and 10 then were in, face of the United Nations
covered it with his K to force form of government must be left a lucky business partnership
honor, involves usually an extra god, but East had the 8 left recommendation. to the Burmese people, whose with a friend enlled Davie.
to beat the 4. The best South Poltical quarters' are wait- future is
at stake. All parties with whom he was associated risk for which there is no com
pensation gain. If the opponent could alike in Great Britain are com- in the production of sal am playing on that honor is able tricks to the four he already sider "a reasonable period of
do then was add four ing to see when UNO will con monar from coal scot. Indeed, micred to the promise of full self- so successful did this business to cover it, he thereby forces had, taking two in clubs and time before the Spanish ques- near Naples yesterday is regard- government for Burma; but not
ed by Yugoslavia as an extreme- all are ready recklessly to aban- with a steady income for the take the trick. You have there.wa in hearts. But he then hadtion is raised again.
prove that it provided Hutton you to use the topping card to
to use the lead, whereupon It has been reported that ly sericus incident." it was learn- don the responsibility we still rest of his life. 1:
fore consumed two cards
ed at the Headquarters of the more anti-Franco elements: within Yugoslay delegation in Italy 15- West set him with two have for the happiness of thie Hutton was a good farmer; useful height to get the trick diamond, tricks.
Spain have been active through dhe delegation Burmese peoples. When it comes But throughout his career on Heace, unless you have
If South had led the spadecût 1946. Since their activities. the land he never ceased to ex-special situation to consider, 3 to the first trick in that suit are-accessarily covert, it is Sloven Smollako, has demanded made in circumstances thiar afford periment, to observe and to re such as shortage of entries, it and finessed the 10, returned difficult to see the results and Burma the prospect of standing card those features of the earth is generally better to lead low to his own hand with a heart it would be imprudent if they Supreme Command and Marshal
scientific and stick in a secondary hour entry, then led the 7 prepared dispayed them. The state its own feet. Otherwise it that held for his
from the opposite hand far may become a plaguespot, of the
your firat, finesse. East. Explicit guarantees have been given to the propies of the
the transfer of power must be
On
tribal arcas the
mind so great a fascination.
In 1768, having made suffi- cent money for his needs, he
·leased his farm and moved Kareps, bacle to Edinburgh to take up Kachens, Chins and others that the reading of science. It was they shall not be forced against while studying the rocks cf their will into the framework of his native land and on the con- s. K9 Burma. The pledge must be tinent that step by step Hut-H. J 101 to the conclusions D: A 9.8 honoured. If, as Mr. Attlee said, ton came we want no unwilling subjects that were to make, his within the British Empire, there famous.
hame
He was convinced that the wrong
is the more reason why we should retain and protect against enerWerner theories were sion those who have remained and by his own detailed obser- loyal under the severest trials,
some
is
headed by
д full explanation from the Allied
Tito, the Yugoslav, Prime Minis ser. is.kent...
informed
of all de- to finesse again, the K. would admitirdly vigilant against velopments, it was stated: have been caught without ex- subversive activities. United The afficials, one of whom pending the Q. That would have Press.
was reported to have died later. given him four tricks In
were beaten up by Chetniks (fol- lowers of General Mihailovitch, the anti-Tito guerilla, trader who
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is. the SC: A 3:8.7 national investigation he former removed the two officials and beat
vations and intensive study of hundreds of works of travel he amassed a vast store of infor mation regarding the earth and Washington, Jan. 27. Ita rocka Hutton was not “enly
South The Georgetown University
a theorist; every conclusion he
1 U seismograph here reported the res drew had its foundation In cording of a "fairly strong" fact, His was
1NT thesceing earthquake beginning at 1027
1.NT GMT at the same time that a dis-eye of the man of science he patch from Managua said that all looked, as it were, behind the Nicaragua was awakened at 0905 scenes and in his mind was first two diamond leads, South
Dealer: South. North-South; GMT by the longest earthquake certain that processes working got the third with his Q. Count since Managua was destroyed is over countless cons of time had ng up, he decided that eight vulnerable.
After South bide 1-Spade and 1931. but no damage had been re formed the rocks and other tricks were surely in sight and, ported at 1000 GMT-Associated earth features. To him it was the ninth would come if the West 4-Hearts, what action
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Chairman la Colonel A. R. of Norway,
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London, Jun 27. An outbreak of foot and mouth discas, among animals caused 4,000. Ivestock to by slaughtered daring the past five weeks in Britain, it was announced today
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