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In all things...
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1953.
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HOW SAND LINEN EL 122,
4A Cameroò Road, “Hovigori,
SCIENTISTS
CRALY
So please leave 'em alone, says
Wayne Mineau
Nuld love of mine is gross at South Bank National,
in danger.
Filma Theatre.
Mr Juck Smith, a young Ælence
mentally in ruimed towers with the aid of hunchbacks and clouf-|
D
mutes thunderstorms, body. matching. Martians, and sclarific vocabulary which is perfectly comprehenalble
Anyone but an expert.
Doce
to
anyone remember the Insipidly "decent" wife in the original Frankenstein who, after the baron haa boen out on the tiles looking for fresh young bodies, says to him: "What you're doing' is 'all wrong...ail wrong"?
Well, our latter-day experts are exactly the samo kini, ofi goody-goodies,
Leave Selance Fiction Alins alone, I say. Once we let the scientists and psychologists looso the studio the very first
in
thing they'll do is to switch of the cosmic diffuser-for good.
And if that happens, you con
Marilyn Monroe's Interpretation of Madame Curie, which would be n pity.
be quite certain we just won't
I happen to be a master at a London school, and devotee of films and stories secretary of the Film Testhers' r which thrive in that para- Society, is regaling the export doxical world called Science with n film lecture about "Fran- kenstein und the Backroom Fiction.
Boys,”
When the giant Holly-
They watch, among others, wood space-ship is zooming that excerpt of the mayle "Bride
where the at 5,000 miles an hour away of Frankenstein," from earth towarda the baron and his evil genius (Dr Pretorius) are concentrated at planet Zabrius (everyone the dissectig table
widle the knows Zabrius) perience a vibratory thrill.
ex- original monster looks on,
When some blonde co-ed enp taln turn to his co-pilot and shups: "Swtich of the cosmic diguer." my fibres just ripple with an electronic warmth,
what
I
know
The "body" of the "bride" has already been created when the baron muddenly looks up to say: “Shall we put the heart in now?"
I have he all those means by the cosmic diffuser. going to
exactly
feeling that n nasty watching experts fro Jet out a lood public
Just as I know that a death ray guffaw when they see it. requires supertronie recharging every so often.
Likewise, with the movie star-
ring that lovely
from
il
DEATH RAYS
sco
FOREIGN
OFFICE
"-and if you can't get to sleep tonight, Sir Roderick, just try counting diplomats wives jumping over
curtain !"
→
For insects, this is the worst news
RO
THE PAINT OF DEATH
W
By MacDonald Hastings
NAAFI
Focus on the
cuppa-and-wad
STILL
THE CASH
IS SECRET
London.
CTOBER 1 was Black Thursday for all the Forces' families who buy their groceries at the Nanfi. Down went their discount from 28, to 18. Gd. in the S at the 470 shops belonging to the Navy, Army, and Air Force Institutes.
It has not happened before in the 33 years since Naaf took over the job as official caterers to the Services. The wives have boon told: "Profit margins are down; oporating costs are up."
Their husbands were
told
the same
story JAMES
when tea went up from 140. to 2d. a cup in all
the Nault canteens. That particular piece of price- fixing its been bringing in an extra £1,000 a day for the past ten months.
in
BARTLETT
takes a look Into the
Now what is happen- canteen till...
ing to the money from
the million customers=
in-uniform in this world-wide
business with its £71,000,000– WHY did Naaf tako on Vie n-year turnover?
Baffling
Naafi's come-back: The Gov-
ume.
get nobody else to do it at the We accepted on the no loss understanding that would full on Neal funds, We do not cater there now.
catering at Lancaster House. the Government's 'hospitality when no Remember that Noah, although centre in The Mall, a limited company. is strictly troops
Any nation were "an association nat for profit." involved? ITHIN 12 months The results were spectacular.
That is laid down clearly in its notoriously you should be able Cockroaches,
theartleles of association, the legal to treat your home with, were wiped out.
most difficult brutes te, dealbook of rules that tells Naoll ernment Hospitality Fund could
In the what it can do. that
no insect-fly, ships he treatest every Insect cockroach, or clothes moth was killed. girl scienust
-can survive. Two young While Hitchon was carrying who cogitates and experiments
ND before long, some awful Canadian scientists, working out his
early experiments. objectively across the lab.
campaign of "education to in Britain, have developed a lacquer
Fumours of the new hush-hush young make thoughtful
Fiction Selençe
reached
another gentus-doctor.
new method of insect- Canadian scientist named Miles buringly uocizrate, Around six o'clock, having "mature," Is bound Loproofing anything
10
from a David Price.
inst year. It was paid in month-, put away sclentiüc things
ship to a clothes cupboard for launched
Price, froth Manitoba, had
ly cash rebates to the welfare Naafl's come-back: The the night, he softly calls her by
which is 100 percent effee- worked in various research de-fund of each unit, by cash dis- Foreign Ofee asked us to do so. Introducing the premiere, name and she answers: "Just
partments at Britain's giant Im-counts our friend
Jack Santh tive for years on end. Mr a minute, I have to finish his
customers at the The clubs, all closed now, were Chemical Industries and pertal gives warning: he says that for They use a transparent then,
shops, and In yearly cash dona- self-supporting and differential equation."
дру believing that
most tions to the central benevolent pluses were paid back to be methods can every hundred films about death lacquer which
of
pert
Contral Commission. rays, resuscitating human organs sprayed like a varnish
on control in Britain were not good funds of the three Services. flched from the grave, or hazar-
While they wall fur the dous excursions Into outer space, any painted or tiled surface. enough, he had managed to
raise £1,000 to start his own counter shutters lo go there is perhaps one fim with It is the most important and laboratories.
up. the lads in uniform can stare at a genuine portrait of the scientist revolutionary advance in
the yearly Naol balance-sheet and his work,"
pinned up in the canteen.
He throws her tuffcetlunate smile of academic oneness and understanding. And so do I.
MONSTER
Alina moro
insect control since the dis- You can see what will happen.covery during the war years What they'll do, these educa-
of DDT. tionists, If we're not careful, is to turn Frankenstein and Boris
Industrial
The Test
£4,500,000
handed back TEARLY
to
wils
to the troops
WHY did Naaf run olabs for the
civilians of the Control Commission in Germany?
sur-
the
First claim
plant Do you spot how this Price was also working with
Even a chartered accountant organisation attracts Gou- PUT because i have absorbed Bu
Dr Morgan on rat destruction. would be baffled by the balance- grument officials looking for a and understood Science In
The coming of Urea For
Through Dr Morgan the two [sheet. It is no better than a handy catering outfit? this way for so long, I am Karloff and Mr Hyde and the maldehyde Resin, which is now scientists got together.
wet blanket on such vital chade nervous about the scien- lovely girl scientist into decent,
being produced on a commer-
ils The new resinous lacquer was statistics profit margins, They tend to forget that the fic dim premiere that is being hard-working citizens of the scale, means
that today's first given
men and women in the Forces practical test by overheads, and running costs. For the sect sprays are as old hat as Hitchon two yours ago. watched by doctors, research community, drat them.
Com-
have Arst and last claim on all psychologists,
mothbalis. experts,
and experts cannot see Science as
I tried to find out about them Naaf's activities. mercial manufacture started a technicians attending the inter- sunething somewhat secret and
Best news of all: the world
Huxley Towers, the rural - low months back, Film national Scientiile
Con- hellish-to be pursued experi- patents for the new
Only now Surrey wartime hide-out invention are the materials
that
The Admiralty, the available in
Army bolong exclusively to Britain.
has ingered on as Naaf's H.Q. Council, and the Air Council The story began during the quantity,
control Naafl finance and policy; war
when Government scientists Under laboratory conditions As a one-time country seat of they have four members each were searching for methods to highly active insecticide known turreted mansion
the new Incquer, mixed with the the Foley barons, this rambling on the 12-strong Naad Council beat the tsetse fly in Africa.
was known that meets twice a year.
NOW THE SECRET MAY BE KNOWN
·By, Yorke. Henderson
A
ht
Spraying from aircraft was as Dieldrin, which is eight to locally as "Foley's Folly."
only partly
to
The
Why? Why?
years
general
this
Under them come seven mom- times more lethal than effective, as the ten chemical was absorbed by the DDT, is still 100 percent effec- That was until Naaf bought bers of the board of manage-
tent. Three members on evacuation centre a board are serving officers, the tivo after four years. vegetation before the fly's breed- ships, alter two years, are still year before the war.
Treated it as an ing cycle was complete.
other four must be "civilians of Immune from infestation. The Problem
The new lacquer grows on Towers
The polite officials at Ruxley commercial experience." invisible
said: "The kind of They include such busines bloom of insecticide break-down you ask for would chiefs as 65-year-old Sir Lance- The
ike the bloom of a grape. chemists realised what insect is destroyed by minute tion which Nail--as
involve disclosure of informa- lot Royle. He is ending his 12 was wanted was some sort of micro-crystals which resinous reservoir
a com- years' chairmanship this autumn keep on to preserve
mercial concern - would not to go back, as full-time boss of WR WRITERS of all nations genuine" versions of the story, the insecticide in' an effective popping up until, after years,
contemplate."
such free the chemical is finally exhausted. have waxed fat specu-
enterprise firms The killing was the work of state for long periods.
Liptons and the Home and Jesuit
bloom is re- If the surface inting on the Mayerling freethinker, made
extremists (Rudolph,
Somebody remembered that
So there you have a vast Colonial Stores. Hunting Lodge mystery,
no attempt the Americans had the notion of moved by washing, a fresh group metal trading organisation get- But for all this top-weight of to hide his anti-clerical views). putting insecticides Into paint. of micro-crystals is thrown up
19 watchdogs, Naal is not On a snowy night in 1889 The assassins were Hungarian But the American experiment on the face of the lacquer from ting the best of two worlds.
responsible for salaries until dashing Austrian
As a "non-profit corporation" Major General Crown noblemen Incensed at the over- falled because the surface of the the reserveir below,
Sir Randle Further, there is no lessening it has Prince Rudolph and lovely bearing of Austrian Court. Alpaint became so tough it sealed at all in the strength of the getting the custom, of Service.
a privileged place in Feliden is reached. husband had} Baroness Mary Vetsera died taken his revenge.
raging, deceived
up the Insecticide,
The new lacquer men and women in 1,603 can- ex-Coldstream
He is 40 lethal dose.
is 49, an Old Etonian, an The problem was to find a together there and left be-
Guards officer It was even hind an enigma to rank with vory exalted
suggested that formula for a resin which would remains at maximum efficiency teens and clubs, as well as the who ended his Army career as quarters in the be hard enough to house the
470 shops. the fate of the ghost ship Vienna Court
vice-quartermaster-general four The Benefit given the chernical but had
soft cnough
ago to
to become Naal's "Marie Celeste."
orders to kiil, and that secret allow it to kill. pollee agents had corried them;
Paul Mr
manager. Airliners, which are spending Bracey, of
the
At about the same time 100 At least one mavle-producer out.
Colonial Office Insecticide Com- thousands year on pest
ho was elected a member of worked a profitable ill-starred
mittee, was put to work to dis- control, can use the new lacquer
the-Jockey Club, of which ho lovers plot around the mystery.
cover 器 suitable resin. He hit to free alroraft permanently Now It seems that somebody
on the right formula. But from the invasion of the yellow BUT It can truthfully blazon a became third steward last year. The most probable of all the nothing was done to develop it. fever mosquito and every form "We serve the men who serve. Naan, backed by seven depart- Dmotto to troops everywhere: He heads a staff of 40,000, in knew the whole story-Rudolph's tragic
theories Empress mather, the
Rudolph. Then, in May 1950, a young tropical pest. Elizabeth. But she died under devastated by an order from his scientist from Ontario, Joseph
ment heads. exist."
That's What is he paid? 20 assassin's
joined the benent from the discovery. knife before she father, Emperor Franz Josef, to Lawrence Hitchon,
secret. What are the costs could tell the
The problem at prèsent is that whole truth-if end his illicit love affair with staff of the Agricultural Research
That sounds fine until the headquarters administra- she ever Intended to.
the beautiful Baroness, shot her, Council in London.
to be put on customer the lacquer has
wants to find out Hon? That is a secret too. then turned his gun on himself. He studied Bracey's Andings. by trained men who must know just how well he is being
But even that was only a He saw that there was an idea not only how to apply it wrest
the corporation Guess. The time and place were far bigger than anyone had so where to apply it, because ex-served. Then No other source knew the full ripe for high melodrama. Any- far grasped.
grows coy and pleads that it is are showing that, as a periments story.
Even the dreaded Sceret thing could have
Just a limited company after happened.
Hitchon tried 10 siir up temporary camure, it is not
all. Police of Chiq old Austro- Now the secret may be known. official interest. He argued that necessary to cover complete Hungarian empire had to The Czech Government has
but only the corners an insecticidal lacquer like this surfaces
I put some new questions:
TAAFI stays mum
on such offered to return to Austria surrender their dossier on the
could solve a world problem. where Insecta hide out.
details. It is a bad, bad incident. Members of the Court private strong box which be- But he argued in dustry. He lacquer is still expensive.
vain.
At the present, too, the new WHX did NaaЛ take over polley. It means that, however who might have
a cluo
longed to the Empress Elizabeth So he went
catering as SHAPE beadquarters well-run is Naaf, every soldier, were sworn to lifelong secrecy, containing a diary marked "Not scrounged materials and equip costs 875, Bd a gallon but, in the in Parle providing French sallor, and airman suspects that
At the time the story was to be opened unti 1050,"
ment. Ho got the support of Dr hands of experts, it can be used | cooking-da-luxo for the top somehow he is being fleeced. given out that the couple find
Could it
it contain the answer to M. T. Morgan, Medical Offeer so economically that a 10,000 brass of 14 nations? committed suicide; both were the sixty-year-old riddle? Aus of Health of the Port of London, tan ship can be made pest-free married.
trian historians think it might. In collaboration with
Naaf's come-back: We Dr by a "hot apol" treatment of six But rumour flared through a In return the Czechs want the Morgan, Hitchon laid on the to ten gallerin.
invited to do so by SHAPE and shartlod nd curious Europe. In fles of the Prague Insurance ürst experimental applications But it will not be long before regarded it as an honour, British chancellarles the .contact men Company, left in Vienna when of the lacquer with his own mass production brings the price troops' spending is certainly not whispered their "absolutely the war ended,
aubsidising this.
hold
JOHNNY HAZARD
172
FOUR STORIES ABOVE THE LONDON STREETS, AGRIM DRAMA IS BEING ENACTED!
was
that
IF ONLY I CAN GET
handa in ships' galleys,
TO MISS JILL'S ROOM .....
SHE'LL SEE ME AND CALL
FOR HELP.
of
Soon, every housewife will Without YOU Naal would not
down.
By Frank. Robbins
THAT'S MORE LIKE IT,
ME YOUNG BUCKO! NOW. ... BACK WITH ME TO THE
·KOOM... OR QEE THE LERGE
YOU GO!
.this situation
calls for a
San Miguel
werd
Bad policy
·NA
of
He might not feel that way it ho is lucky enough to be near he of the 18, luxurious Neof clubs with their lounges, ball- rooms and super-restaurants.
But he quickly echoes the traditional grouse against Naud when he has to sit in a draughty
cheerless canteen with
ith a "cup
of char and a wnd" or a soggy plate of lukewarm sausage and mash in front of him.
It is time that Naaf stopped.
hiding
its running costs behind tho shelter of its limited com- pany" label.
Other corporations - British Overseas Airways, for example meet ferce competition and still publish yearly report
can
showing how much its stuff is paid, how much la spent on administration, how much goes out even on postage and tole- phone calls.
The Ught-lipped 'secrecy of the Admiralty, the War Ofice, and the Air Ministry, becamier Judiernis when it spreads to the Nand's gróćory" Blifi!"