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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST ·-10, ·· 1957.
Stories From Al Parts Of The World
ANSWER TO LUNG CANCER
Milan.
The modern smoker has no time to strike a match and_light_his cigaretic. He can now strike his cigarette and avoid a possible cause of lung cancer. Francesco de Capitani d'hoe", #18-year-old Milanese industrialist and nobleman, here his self-lighting cigarettes might be the answer to the warning of American scientist Dr Joseph L. Decourcey, of Cincinnati, that a burning match, or fuel- burning lighter might 'cause lung cancer.
said
The cigarettes are already on sale on the luxury liners between Europe and America, in Port- ugal, Algeria and New Zealand.
De Capitani, now heading a powerful alliance of European cigarette - makers, successfully de-
SELF-LIGHTING CIGARETTES?
'Decas' May Make Lighters Obsolete
signed a self-lighting cigarette by applying a narrow strip of paper to i one of the inner ends of the cigarette. The strip .consists of a specially treated ring of paper protruding through a small opening in the cigarette paper. Only a small, dark-red semi- circle can be seen on one of the outer ends of the cigarette, but it ts enough to strike i against a special paper glued to the cigarette, package and evenly light the cigarette,
Self lighting cigarette
devices had been tried, by many inventors, bul their results apparently failed because self- ignition was harmful to smokers or threatened to set fire to their
pockets, de Capitani said.
"I am in possession of official certificates issued by the most im- portant chemical labora- tories in the United States, Switzerland and Italy to certify that my self-lighting cigarettes karm- are absolutely less," he said.
"We spent several years testing my invention until we were 100 per cent sure that smokers would suffer no harm, even if some absent- minded person lighted the wrong end, of his cigarette with a match or lighter. In this case, he would not taste any chemical product and would not suffer any horm.
"If a smoker lights my
Splash- -And The Head's In
Dr Hutton takes the water....They know how far they could go."
FIRST TO USE HIS Sixth Formers
SCHOOL POOL
London.
SIX schoolboys who "ducked" their headmaster in
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Creep Into Trouble
Hampton.
· formers
the school swimming-pool faced him at morn-crept into school bent
ing assembly last week-unafraid, "There is no question of punishment,” said the headmaster.
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WAB the sacrificial "Though I noticed that they victim for the occasion, and threw him in a very gently."
I thoroughly enjoyed it."
The occasion WAS the opening at the week-end of
Dr Hutton swain to the edge
of the pool and climbed dripping-but smiling.
AN INKLING
out
the $10,000 swimming pool
Ilo said: "Let's just say built, with 18 months' they were a bunch of boy" for they amateur labour, by, parents who knew just how
could go.
It dordtely and staff of Hatfield School, wasn't arranged. Hatfield, Hertfordshire.
"While we were building this
of such Bizo demanded
"
The head, Dr Kenneth Hut pool it was said that a project fon, had just finished his sacrificlal victim to mark its speech when six sealor boys completion. rushed from behind 'grabbed
on an end-of-term rng. Then the police pounced.
very solid fact upon which
bujla to
his theory. The fact that there are carcinogens in "tarry sool. and oll fumes,"
"Smoke from a burning match results from in- combustion complete
cigarette with a match,| Dr Decourcey had one instead of striking it, It will light and smoke
Our normally.
self- lighting system, which is completely tasteless and does not affect the flavour of the cigar- ettes, can be safely ap plied to every cigarette. making machine at a cost of less than 30 per cent, the price of the machine."
A
The American scientist, Decourcey, said that no one had succeeded in isolating
cancer- causing substance from tobacco, bat burning matches and fuel-power- ed lighters were "car- cinogen factories miniature."
A "carcinogen" is substance which
cause cancer.
in
any
can
and consists of tarry soot and fumés partially burned, partially crack- ed parafin molecules, rosin, wood, plus parti. clca and gascous pre- ducts of sulphur and phosphorus," the scien tist said. "Smoke from the flame of a fuel-burn- ing cigarette lighter consists of tarry soot and fumes from partially-burned, parti" ally cracked molecules of the petrol-derived fluid."
De Capitani pointed out that the spongy paper he uses for the self- ignition does not pro- duce Any molecules, particles or fumes which could be detrimental to
·
CORSETS
Pare
(Too many in theHE NIGHT ·
Underground')
ANGER WOMEN'S
CLUBS
London.
ONDON'S Underground
''P AND O'
WENT TO WAR OVER CHESS
London. THE last game of chess between Mr P. and Mr
O. will go down as one of the strangest in the his. tory of the game.
the smoker's health. stations have too many Both players went to hospital
For all practical par
his poses
cigarettes, called "D:ca", can be lit everywhere, no matter how strong the wind. "Laboratory tests have shown that even a 100- mph wind cannot extinguish our self- lighting system. Observers.say fuel-power-
ed lighters might be- come obsolete an aclf- lighting cigarettes be come common through-" out the world. Ashtrays in every home and dash- boards in every car will be equipped with special. strips of paper against which smokers · could strike their self-ighting cigarettes, they pre- dicted—United Press.
Comic Postcards Message Received!
Naughty-Or Just A Little Spicy?
Maidstone.
makes a comic
WHAT
naughty?
postcard
Mr Justice Stable wanted to know-and sat chuckling while defending counsel, Mr Peter Rawlinson, discussed the place of the seaside postcard in society.
and they ended up in court.
advertisements showing Alexander Piotrowski pleaded
women's
monts.
foundation ger-
The complaint was made by Mrs Audrey Taylor, organising mocratary
the National Federation of Business ond Professional Women's Clubs,
The "extraordinary number" : of these advertisements for out- weighed anything else, makty ono wonder whother women wear anything e150," Raid Mry Taylor,
CALL A HALT ·
Bro
wyhes
badly drawn, repulsive, and BOO suggestive and
downright which makes it not they get
obscene, surprising defaced"
that
Something shodd be done to call a halt to these advertise- menta The Business god Professional Women's Clubs were doing all they could.
Mrs Taylor was speaking of Banbury, Oxfordshire.
tot guilty at North London Court to harming Kazimídriz Orlecki, who contorted a Bum- Both are Poles and in court they mona för assaulting Piotrowski,
were referred to us ♬ mA 0. They live in a house in Downs Road, Clapton, and one warm day last month they settled down to chess on the lawn, KICKED ME
O said that
during the third game he moved his quoda, In his next move he took Pa
quen.
Soco
Mr Frank Milton, the magis
trato, commented: "That to extent is a breach of cliquette, at least on tho Continent. If the queen is threatened you, say ‘guard.” ** ✪ explaluped
that he did not warn his opponent becausó hé thought they would "exchange Querza," Then, he said. P Jumped up, kicked him and hit him with a child's push- chair.
still talking of Paid picked up the chess
St Petersburg, Fla. women's clothes
Mrs Gladys Stewart Wahn, a
cosmetic saleswoman, didn't
board and threw it in his face, He thew It back. Then O jumped at him and hit him. A doctor said that O, who ta 49, fractured rib and P, who to 32, complained of pains in the abdomen.
sxmptly call an arresting offer CARNIVAL GIRL had bruises, scratches, and a
a stinker but he got hor MesÆge anyhow.
Patrolman Richard Kimble told the court that when he Mopped Mrs Wahn for speeding she said "I wouldn't call you a stinker, but.
and then handed him bottle of her sweet-smelling ware-United Press
a
REAL FAST
ABDICATES
London. SIXPEEN-YEAR-OLD Molly
Morris has refused to be Mr crowned carnival
at weston Coyney, Stoke-on-Trent,
queen
because she objects to the state of the drem which was bought. for the ceremony.
The organising commitice has decided that she has "abdicated" and the retiring queen, Miss Coral Birch,
DISMISSED
Milton diantssed both charges and he told P and 0: "as far as I know this in the first time in the 2,000 years that chess has been played it *kom resulted in both partici- pants having to go to hospital "One hopes it will be 2,000 years before similar circumstances
arice," to be queen for
the
Back home. Mr P sald, "Mr O and myself are not speaking." "My husband goes out to play with friends,"
Toledo. Ernest Halter's trigger Anger proved faster than his draw. his draw in a fold with
Halter said he was practising a second year..
Mr Harry Tremble, .9 .22- calibre single-actios frontier gun carnival scereinry, and that Mr O was out. His wife sald: when he pulled the trigger be the committee agrood It represented the broad and C. Richter (Publishers), fore gelung the gun out of his the dress-original- English humour enjoyed by Ltd., of Lymkigten Road, holster.
He suffered leg 13-was bought as oiled millons, he told the jury at Kilburn, were each fined £18, wound.-United Press.
£3 to keep costs down.
Kent Ansizes, Maidstone,
"In, after-dinner speeches all
of us expect and enjoy a certain element of spicy stories," he said, "All of us-men and women- enjoy the risque joke about!
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These postcards were parÉ · of the tradition of after- dinner specohca, wedding re- ceptons, and the muslo-halls, They stand for what has been called the worm's eye view of life.
* Just Meaty
"Are they not peculiarly and historically English? How many sins can really be laid at the feet of the Cat Women por.
trayed?"
Mr Rawlinson was defending the publisher of 83 comic cards scized in Folliestone,
The prosecution alleged timi they were obscene, Bat Mr Kawilnson claimed: "They sto meaty and broad, but not vicious,"
The 12 men, on the jury were told by the judgờ, "Sex bas attracted the attention of men and women ever since men and women havo existed.
The Snigger
1
"But what you have to con- eider is whether what Mr Raw- Jinson has described as robust fun provides a safely valve; that It is better to indulge in a very broad Joke than a half-hearted, Father dirty, little snigger."
The Jury examined the cards for an hour, then decided that nine were obsceno,
Herbert Reid 44-year-old company director and secretary,
STREETCAR NAMED MARJORIE
Tokyo.
in the boys were caught A PERT Pennsylvania
and carted to the
station, at Hampton, Middle-
girl was honoured
sex. They were let out of by what is considered custody thanks to Mr George here to be, a
Whutnold headmaster of
very
Hampion Grammar School. unusual “Sayonara” or Pollen called him from his goodbye party.
bod at 2 a43).
CARPETED BY HEAD
Miss Marjorie Flood was given a “parly to emå all parties
But the boys didn't get away recording to her.
with it. They were carpeted
A group totalling 35 or 40 of by the head in his study and her friends chartered a metro- one was told he would not be pollian streetcar for 2,000 yen given a school towtimonial (about US$7.30) and rode around unless be changed his attitude. Tokyo for an hour mid a half Mr Whlined explain: "He made drinising sale,
boca
On OF
MUSICIANS
this "Streetcar named Marjorie" there were a group of Japanese musicians Vo, furnish the music for this testive affair,
Mojorko," AKTY
librarian,
The boys, could have
light of the whole afair.
charged with broking him, by feet and hands, and forgotten, but at the same time "I thought the idea hadi bean
entering. The alternative was to treat the whole thing as a hurled him fully clothed-1 was mentally prepared---I had
rog. Police said it was up to into the pool..
an inkling that I might in-ng-I decided in the bors up in the pool. The
is leaving for home after a throe favour What did the raldare intend to year stay in the Far East.
When questioned about furniture party. like that," "Koši 15. was geomba
"quite a surprise," said the
Batter myself that if I hat guest Brigadier Sir Edd 'Don't do it, they would "Probably move the chlof ward Beddington, chairman of have faded away. But I didn't and `elly jhingg Hertfordshire, County: Coxingii, Jins
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