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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, ·· 1952, 7
The CHAPMAN PINCHER Column reports the progress of people with No work, no food
P
say the bees
ITY the poor drones as they drowse their days
nway in the darkness of the beehive. Scientists have discovered that, while the workers besot themselves on nectar, the drones hardly ever get a de- cent drink. Instead they have to live, on the left- overa of the baby-food prepared for the grubs,
Charles Ribbands and H. L. Nixon found this out by making bees radioactive.
They trained mx beeg to feed on a radioactive, nectar- like syrup, and watched them take loud after lond back lo the hive.
IAS BATUC..
NO NECTAR FOR
DRONES
ARTIE'S conception of the Bac T.D-C. mecting then the mose lo deration the drones was passed unanimously
The 'Green Devils'
Iserlohn, Ruhr.
[UNDREDS of German 'Green
Devlis'-crack commandos of Hitler's airborne' arinles- jumped to their feet at re mass meeting and cheered new threats to the Allies from their leader, General Bernhard Pops Hamcke.
Cheering with them were former
velerans of
SS. men.
Rommel's Afrika Korps ind members of Nazi police forma- tions all gathered together for a big "free our generals now' de- monstration.
"No German should put on a uniform for Western defence," shouted blustering, broad- browed Ruencke, "until the Allies declare a general amnesty for the so-called war criminais.
Ramcke
referred
particularly to Field Marshal Kesselring chief of Germany's World War paratroopers, who is now serving a life sentence for war crimes,
and Field Marshal Mansteln, serving 12 years for crimes in
Then, by testing Samples of tho hive's 24,000 bees with an atom-ray detector four hours later, they were able to ree which bees had been given a share the drink.
GO
of
They found that
percent of
the hard-working beer
bad been
given at least a sip
the radio
of
active cocktail, while the drones had been ignored.
The drones were not left out of the round as a pay-off for lazines). The nurse bees, which make more than 10,000 visits to each grub during its five days of baby. hood, were stinted too.
The scientists believe that any new brand of nectar is passed from worker to worker
·
IDEAS
quickly switch to a new batch of flowers without any boss bee to give them orders,
DRAW your thumbnall down the narrow piastic tabe, and this novel birth- uny card till say "Happy Birthday in loud. clear .tones
It works this day ́Ã3 your thumb scrapes the tape the card vibrátes and plocs of sound tones. Transverse grooves on the tape vary the soaves, so that than Bound like a human voice your thumb travels down the lape at the right specd.
The gadget, invented in America but improved, by London sound experts Charles Garner and Lynton Fletcher. will be in the shops soon.
Without this identity check, rebber bees could slip into the hve and pilfer the honey.
When bees from two hives. were trained to take syrup from the came duh, all was friendly unit syrup suppl.es ran short. Then fighting broke out-but only between dif- ferent hives.
Eachi could recognise a foreigner or a friend by smell. Correct
★ TWO
HUNDRED years
ago good gardeners used to apply manure to the trunks fruit and branches of their trees as well as to the roots.
was laughed The practice became a science, The corky out of fashion when gardening bark of trees could not absorb
argued. fertilisers, scientists
NOW
experiments proved that the old gardeners were right. When a radioactive solution of fertiliser is applies ensure that all the workers in to the branches of apple trees, the hive have the same smell, peaches, and the cherries it can soon be detected deep in the so that the guards can recop- wood, for above and below the nise them when they return point of application. home...
may
Mouth-to-mouth signalling may serve a further purpose. inside the hive.. as means Sharing the same food spreading the Information that a fresh source of food is avail- able.
wli y
This helps to explain bees from a particular hive wit
Heads
have
-(London Express Serviceð
or Tails?-don't
fool you
let them
By
JAMES LEASOR
Hcoin, called "heade Tails
now represents only 1-0,000th of the number of tosses, and the longer you con- tinue the smaller dits propor- tion becomes for heads after a
In calling
[AVE you ever tossed a the chances are you will call t
then Why? Because you reason and lostand. thought: "It must be talls that
as heads have so far next time"
come up 11 times, there is Have you ever looked at a now more chance for tails, hand dealt to you at bridge as this will restore or poker and thought: "AH," balance.
Russia.
"Germans," be added, "who this is my lucky day"? helped the Allies by preparing Have you ever
the new army
for it whlie the generis were
watched
No memory
run
of talls, you were,
prob.
SMALL CAKES.
and
PASTRIES
*
THE BEST SELECTION
IS ALWAYS AT-
Lane Crawford's
(LANE, 'CRAWFORD LTD.)
He draws much bigger crowds'
дрю
ably quite unknowingly. the plying what gamblers call "The maturity of the chances." This is a false theory often applied- very seriously by professional tumblers,
or volunteering the roulette wheel spinning BUT the French philoso- is remarkable that
and said: "Ah, It must be No. 5 next time"?
still behind bars would be guilty of the same crime."
Ranicke had some drastic rd-
vice for West German Premier
Dr Konrad, Adenauer.
should do," he tried
"Whnt,
sinco ho got rid of the shake and bought
that California HOLLYVOGUE TIE.
See them at Hongkong's
Botter Storca
Says Dr Levinson dryly: "It gamblers, pher Bertrand points for whom the theory of gumes Jut that a coin has no mind of chance has a very real im-
portance, You have? Well, so have or memory. It cannot Foto vague and theoretically un- HOLLYVOGUE
are willing millions of others. But oh, sibly determine how, where justifiable theories, rather than America's Family Tie,
mister
to clear-cut experience....
Now for that
learn from the Weimur National have been-according, any- land. Which means that the Assembly in 1919."
way, to Dr Horace C. Levin- heads-or-tails chances are The Assembly unanimously son.
equal. refused to hand over so-called wor criminals to the Allied
powers.
After the rally, Ramicke dis- closed that he was basically in Lavour of a new German
almy if German honour was satisfied. But he doubted whether any German wanted to
serve in a
European army. "Much better."
Dr
Levinson has just written a book in which he sets out to reduce all the arguments about chance to mathematical equations.
Suppose you are tossing a coin with a friend. It has already turned up heads 11
beads ought
to come up
with
All right, you argue, but if true that in the long run many times as tails, how can you get to this point unless the
losing side catches up the "winning side?
Dr Levinson say: "Suppose you made 10.000 tosses, heads has appeared 200 times dif- terence, amounting to 1-50th to be (of the total) appears very large, but if you con- tinue to 1,000,000 tosses, the difference remains at
he said, "for us 91 to have no-times. You call while it is in more than talls....This
tional armies co-ordinated on the wartime plan of the Allies by a common defence staff.**
mid-air on the 12th-and Chance"
The
Denis Martin Faber, 201.
of Science
American Column from Newell Rogers'
THE BANK GIRL IN A SARONG
A
New York.
Hollywood's reaction to the NEW Hollywood star frst photographs of Moira: "She (Samoan docs for a lava-lava
is being born, on for sarong) what a glamour girl Pacific island.
does for a puilover." She is 20 years old, ivory skinned, one quarter Scot- SINGER Mario Lanza's studio tish and
Samoan.
has suspended him inde- three quarters finitely for failing to appear in "The Student Prince." Average Her name is Moira Macdonald, cost to a major studio on a film
is £1,700 an hour.. Her story might be out of "South production
In fact, if the author, So it is really annoyed with Pacific. James Michener had not written Mario.
called
Melra
HOLLYWOOD bought
renamed Michener's tale, "Return to Paradiso," and de- cided to film it on the island.
There producer Thereon Warth
it
SAMOA'S MOIRA
And lava-lavd.
пла
and
200,
to trust
game.
of the 47 cards remaining after you have received your hand. two would complete a straight flush, seven an ordinary dash, and six others would give you an ordinary straight.
Your chance of improvement, then, says Dr Levinson, is 2 plus 7 plus 6 divided by 47. This works out roughly one in three. That sort of mathema- takes the sparkle out of a
game.
False idea
that 177HAT of the theory W lightning (or never strikes twice in the sane Д shell)
place? It's false says Dr Levin- Captain
come
In "Peter Simple" Marryat tells of a midshipman who, during a naval engue- ment, stuck his heat through a sheil-hole in the side of the ahip "As. .the odds were 32,- 647 and some decimals....that. another ball would not through the same, hole.....................
He was, says Dr.Levinson, correct in believing the chance. that two shells would hit the ship. In the same spot is small. But he was quito wrong 11 thinking that after the shell had landed the chance that a second one would land in the some place is smaller than the chance it would hit any other spot designated in advance."
In a "draw"
THESE are
deflating
other points by Dr Levinson LOTTERIES" "AND. “LUCKY
Chance
Academy of Dramatic Art in another tale of the South Face OSSIP in the bars and night London is about
to make her DRAWS. *IL - 1,000,000 "Mr Morgan," would not be acting before clubs centres on fashion stage debut. She is 22-year-old people go in for a "draw, then- cameras today on her native models alleged to be involved in Lily Lodge, daughter of John the odds are 1,000,000 to one a recent swoop by New York Lodge, movie zetor before lip against anyone winning. But it island, Samoa.
was elected police vice squad. Amid all this,
Governor of Con-la not remarkable that the man Quick magazine prints an article necticut, and Mrs Lodge, the next door wins: Someone had to explain why British and former Francesca Braggiotl, 10-and the odds were equat- Continental models
ly against all entries. the Italian dancer and actress. Aro fashion on Fifth Avenue.
- LUCKY, STREAKS. NEW chewing gum is going sometimes does favour indivi- The explanation-they give aft A on sale. It contains gentian dunia in "runn of luck days and director Mark Robson saw extra exotle' touch to U.S. Moira working in of all places, fashions.
root, among other
things, and Dr. Levinson, and adds; "This a bank.
But let
girls who the maker says it helps people is the distinguishing feature of Alter one screen test they dream of modelling in America to stop smoking. He gives re-situations where chance, entorn asked her to sign a contract that this is the worst time to try toilerse large, pront to offect any If no one ever had a streak She had nover thought of it. Many "rich Americans drop in cigarette sales of good or bad luck in bridge not sure she who offer modelling Jobs are LONT-LINE American troops hands dealt were of about the hands it would mean that : all acting, and was wanted to. But Gary Cooper, amooth and sordid phonies. FRONT
- in Korea will get,'2 10 extra | same strength, and much" of would be her co-star, in colour.. GOVERNOR'S daughter who this month if they have spent the interest wouli, disappone.
¡studied at the Royal six days'in combat in July. from the gumo."";
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