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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1955.
Interesting News Stories From Al
Parts Of The
World
HE MAKES INSECTS GROW YOUNGER!
Cambridge.
There is something new under the aun efter alla living thing that has been able to reverse the advance of time and grow younger. Professor Vincent Wiggles- worth discovered this foun- tain of youth, so to speak. In the unlikely body of South American blood- sucking insect called rhodnius.
A New Plan To Check
From London: The Growth Of Subur. From Cambridge: Succeeded In
bia la The English Countryside.
From Ottawa: Expects To Chango
A New Ale Survoy
The Map Of Canada.
From Athens:
A. Professor Has
Making Insects Grow Younger. Archaodlogists Plan To Go Underwater To Seek The Treasures Of The Past.
Britain Halts The City Sprawl
With A New "Green Belt" Order
London.
becoming one big suburbs.
Other insects may have the Britain is trying to avoid power, 100, when someone like thu Dr
waves Wigglesworth magic wand of science, but so The Government has in-
has been far only shodulus
structed 140 urban areas used to achieve what he calls
to lay out "green belts" in "a certain amount of rejuvena-
which further city expan- tion." And some day this could be exciting news for animals higher in the scale of things.
De Wigglesworth, a cauting warned and eminent scientist, warne againat assuming
possi- this bility. Insects and mammals are far apart, het never apply and what applies to one
to the other. But he admitted he knew of no other case where a living thing. any living thing, had turned back time.
***Ex principle," he said of his remarkable experiment,
"It's the same thing as in the mamma- lian world, but only in prinel- pla I will be interesting to see where it will all lead."
May Take Years
The first steps have already been taken in that direction. Dr Wigglesworth recently dis- cussed with German research workers the complicated task
Isolating of
the "Juvenille which can prolong the youth of rhodnius or restore
hormone"
a measure of youth to the aging
bugs.
It may take years. The same ebemiste worked for 10 years to crystallise another hormone from rhodnlus, the "moult hormone" which controls the five stages of growth or moulting from larva winged adult.
Other
the
been
Insects also produce These hormones and Juvenile hormone has used to prolong the larva stage in them, Dr Wigglesworth ence developed giant larva this way and the late II. G. Wells, the experiment, examining
that he must have used the food of the
Bods"
the in
sion would be prohibited.
Asphalt Jungle
The action followed growing concern that the house- building rate-now 300,- 000 a year--would soo11 make an asphalt jungle of this crowded island nation.
Mr
Duncan Sandys, the Minister of Housing and Local Government, wrote local City Councils asking them to set aside bands of countryside surround- ing their borders "as soon as possible".
THEY
HIM
¡He gave London as the pat. tern. The six counties that form the world's biggest city have laid out "green belts" seven to ten miles deep. London can grow no larger.
Checking The Sprawl Mr Sandy quoted "the importance of checking the unrestricted spraw! of the built-up areas and of safeguarding the countryside
against 'further encroachment". He said the green belt plan would:
the 1) "Check
growth of a built-up area."
further large
2) "Prevent neighbouring towns from merging into one another."
3) "Preserve the special character of a town."
STILL
Mr Sandys timed his order |
to follow public horror over the just-released re- port on highway deaths in the first half of 1955. It showed an average of ten deaths a day on Bri- tain's overcrowded high- ways, many of which are little more than an un- ending chain of neigh-
elties' bouring streets.
main
Blackest Months January to June were the
blackest months since the war. Road accidents killed 451 persons and injured 24,241.
Although Britain has less cars per capita than the United States, it has the world's largest number road-an per mile of estimated 19 compared. to'
MISTAKE
FOR "MONTY"
Just as the Germans Did In 1944
OLD
London.
LD soldiers long out of battle dress have to throttle an impulse to freeze to attention and salute when they meet. Meyrick Clifton James. He looks so much like Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery that one of the strangest tales of the war hangs on it.
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actor
in
In his laboratory Zoology
Department of Cam- Jecturer who
Marshal bridge University, Dr Wiggles- Field worth discussed his fascinating when the Normandy
being prepared. Pre-Proldent studies of rhodnlus.
siciant Eisenhower. He has joined the heads of young larvae together, put the Supreme Commander, approved to head of a larva on the body of the spent
And a suggestion for future out their problems while their documentary films. This was an
were Big Feur conference.
perspiring doubles the Janes
on balconies and | pearing Impersonate, Geneva or racing around town
Montgomery in Ilmousines."
Mr James pointed out that landings
Eisenhower must then have been in favour of doubles
hla approve
acting for "But
It's probable," he went
were
onation
that Monty, Into CDT-
the on,
an adult, transplanted organs threw the every possible way, even de- fusion and helped keep capitated some for rhodnius can live without a head and single recal of blood can last it for a year.
Not The Elixir
to look him over, for ap- excuse
Niven was in an Intelligence outfit called "Deception" whose job it was to fool the enemy.
To Baffle Spies And they wanted particularly to be the many German spies who were trying to find out the D-Day limetable.
After security had ransacked
"that the major powers
secret of the timetable for the haven't even looked around for his life back to childhood, Mr nctual attack on
on Europe.
doubles for their leading James was let in on the secret So," said James humorously, staternen. It not, now is the that he was to impersonate "I was somewhat surprised to time. I think all world
figures Monty. He was given op- and the ought to have someone who can the President
fund
He's Going B. I. S. N. CO. LTD.
To Ride A Flying Bicycle!
New York..
A 67-year-old man plans |to go flying this mummer with a parachute, a bicycle and 200 small helium bal- loons.
With a good tail wind he believes he will be able to slide
at 25 to 30 mph at an altitude of about 1,500 ft.
Generally a parachute is the slow way down from an air- craft and a bicyclo is strictly Fround lovel But Mr Arthur Hartman at Burlington, Iowa. has blended them into what ho calls the "Hartman Flying Saucer,"
He
has always had difficulty keeping at least one foot on barely over 15 in the the ground. He still l on active balloonist, and plans to United States.
Jocal
make at least eight ascents this Mr Sandy's asked
He is a former mid- summer. to governments submit air trapeze performer and has
belt parachuted for pay about temporary green plans as soon as possible times. and prohibit further building in the areas until final action is taken.
Compensation "This procedure may take he said. some time," Meanwhile it is desirable further prevent deterioration in the position."
to
The London green belt law, laid down after the war, financial com- provides pensation to landowners deprived of income from areas that might have been turned into lucrative factory and housing space, -United Press.
162,000 Eggs Cooked At Once
eggs,
ם
Sydney.
A lorry carrying 162,000 £ A4,500
·worth *crashed into store, at Caroar, 250 miles west of Sydney, and caught fire.
The
driver, Nocl Williams, aged 23, jumped clear before the crash. He stood and watched his egg cargo cooked to a cinder- China Mail Special,
Air Survey
May Change The Map Of Canada
CAF
aircraft,
Ottawa.
flying
jother members of the Big Four.impersonate them if necessay.portunities to study the general from their Whitehorse,
wear and, tear on the
In the significant experiment, going personally to Geneva to Saves we
he treated an adult rhodnius try to solve the world's fils in statesnem, for one thing." with the blood of a moulting the larva and the adult moulled, scurity-ridden
or shed its skin. The new skin
was also adult skin.
noisy, excited, attending their meeting.
frantic. atmosphere ow
As prience. A
Mr James clied his
clerit in the paymaster's office, he put on "I should have thought they a Montgomery-like beret one professor, would have
the Geneva
"But." said tho
the same time
is supplied
with somewhere
to
dent doubles
day
to
for friends and a clown Ակ
and themselves at
met newspaper ran his picture under nlec and quiet, the caption: "Your'e` wrong!" rhodnlug plenty of juvenile hormone, it perhaps down the lake at a Soon thereafter he got a phone Lowth ** some other call from Colonel David Niven, may show a parilat reversal of mali
nunexpected place. There they the movie star, asking whether metamorphosis and develop
to help make That is, a could have peacefully threshed he would like skin like a larva."
young skin.
It would be going too far to claim that we have discovered the elixir of life," he smiled, "but here at least to a hormono that will keep the larva of an inscot permanently young and which, given to an aging in- sect, will bring about a certain amount of rejuvenation."
Dr Wigglesworth's headless rhodnius lives several times the normal life span of the bug after treatment with hormones.
"When you cut
their remarked, heads," ho
oyer twinkling, they lake things more casily. That's the easiest way, to prolong life." United Press.
Archaeologists
Will Put On Aqualungs
Athens
The Director of the British-
Archaeology School of Athens, Mr Sinclair Hood, hun snounced that a British team of archaeologists is to conduct underwater explorations off tho coast of the island of Crete.
The team will und aqualung for its underwater
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SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
Montgomery or
at first bind, learn his manner Etna, even to eat his kind of meals.
"Are there any peculiarities in your dict?** Montmanery was asked on James' behalf.
"Certainly not," snopped Monty, don't eat meat. 1 don't cat fish. And I take no milk or suger with my porridge That's all
Yukon, base north of the 61st parallel, are correcting the map of Canada this sum-
mer.
Not much correction will be needed in the eastern sections of the map, but major altern- tions are likely in the lonely Barth, along the international Alaska-Yukon boundary and up to the ice-covered islands with- in Archic circle.
the
In the past, through aerial Surveys of other parts of Canuda, the old maps have been 30 found to be as much as rajicH out.
scale.
The complex, large adr survey of the Yukon now in
operation is cried out by a detachment of the Air Force's largest squadical--the 406 Photo Reconnaissance of Rockcliffe, The planes will be up in the Yukon unit the big freeze-um in September, when the almost unbroken Arctic day turns into continuous right,
Radar Stations
men
The re-mapping survey lo- volves the erection of madar stations on mountaintops by two-man teams and thus
isolated may remath in these Sent To Africa
spois for three months at a Finally, clad in exact time. For the aerial part of the duplicate `of' `Monty's outfit, m
Lancaster survey, converted James was sent to North Africa bombers are malding flights of British Intelligence let up to 10 hours duration and leaks the news (for German 20,000 feet in altitude.
nfter
Sure)
that, Montgomery, was What makes the serial marvey making such a trip, Berlin in airerat unusual is the amount
high excitement ordered its of electroale equipment carried. to make every effort to Two radar operators are mem- verify this journey, for if it becs of each crow and they was really taking place it could be in constant touch with only mean the Allod invasion a
was not yet ready,
The ruse worked perfectly Sples all the way to Alglarn
navigation.
tod SHORAIN The Yulcon
god looks at the men they be pooled
loved to be Montgomery and the all the while Mondirisi St%3ets
tain hoping Corvara.
hot mom the
stations,
500
The "ying saucer is some- thing that has been in the back of Hartman's mind since 1997.
had That year Mr Hartman in balloon entered in an air show at St. Louis but the fellow who
the salled away with
- 15- $10,000 first prize was a year-old Ohioan
as Cromwell Dixon.
Identified
A Neat Trick
"Dixon flow a circle with his balloon, gulding it with flappers comected to bicycle pedals,' said Mr Hartman, "It was one of the neatest tricks I've ever seen."!
Mr Hartman has used Dixon's
to construct his principle bicycle-balloon. He's ready for the maiden flight, needing only a sponsor.
Under a 28-ft. parachute be will
filled place 200 balloons with helium. The frame of the bicycle is suspended under the Galloons, the pedals operating a propeller in front and a tall fin at the back,
"Of course, it will fly," sald Mr Hartman. To come down, I'll release the balloons one by
one,'
He estimated it would cost $400 to take the contraption up. "That's why I can't give any demonstrations,''. be said. --- United Press,
Australia's Olympic
Uniform
Melbourne.
A uniform designed by the Australian Olymple Federation for Olympic officials at the 1956 Games bf Melboume has been shown here.
More than 2,000 officials will wear the uniform, consisting of a white Panama hat, blue Brey Árælsers, and brown
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