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“SAFER FLYING" INVENTOR
Prof. James Gordon Gray Dead
{Special Air Mall Service) •
London, Nov. 12. Prof. James Gordon Gray, whose discoveries in applied science have been of inestimable value to the progress
aviation, especially of with regard to personal safety. died in Glasgow, at the age of 58. He was unmarried.
Among his many inventions for use in aerial and marine naviga- tion and national defence were:
Gyroscopic heims and stabili-
sers;
Artificial horizons:
Cloud levelling apparatus; and The Inductor compass (used by Col. Lindbergn in his Atian- tic flight!.
He also was the inventor of a number of gyroscopic spinning tops and animated" gyrostats, mag- netically controlled. These were the subject of a most amusing .demonstration before the Royal Society of Arts last May.
Prof Gray said on that occa- slon:" "I have made fifty special ly constructed spinning tops and hope to make another fifty. I can make a gyroscople horse to prance, canter gallop or what you will, and I have designed a two- wheeled motor car, which is self- steering."
In 1925, in the presence of the King and Queen, he gave a de. monstration before the Royal Society, in London.
His father, the celebrated Pro- fessor Andrew Gray, FRS.. had done valuable work in mathema- tical gyroscopies, and greatly ,wished his son to follow in his footsteps. James Gray was, in his days at the University College of North Wales, only Interested in athletics and football, but the fascination of the gyroscope even- tually lured him into the paths of science.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1934.
GRAFTED EYES CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF
Amazing Operation
Mrs.
Almouth, Mass, Nov. 20.
Dapne Muir, one-time blind British novelist who now sees with parts of another woman's eyes, talked of darkness and light. here before leaving for Boston to appear as the living exhibit of one of surgery's greatest "miracles."
The petite, bobbed-haired-writer. wife of Dr. Raydon Muir, of Cape- town. will show the American College of Surgeons results of two history-making operations by Dr. Tudor Thomas, the Welsh specia- list that restored her sight after |- ·- nearly ten years of blindness.
The surgeons will see a pair of normal-appearing blue eyes which do not need glasses to read head- lines, large type and large hand- writing-thanks to the grafting of Dr. Thomas and the genlas sacrifice of another woman who, almost blind and incurably So, offered the healthy part of her own eyes so Mrs. Muir might see again.
"Rotten Experience " The novelist came to” Ameriga as agatseer but was induced by
Sir Harold Gillies, the London
specialist, to show her new-made yes to the Congress of Surgeons since other specialists could thus
learn
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LATE M. BARTHOU
Paris, Dec. 1. The highest honour the French Republic can confer upon one of its citizens was accorded to one of the victims of the Marseilles tragedy on Friday night when the Chamber passed the motion tabled by Laval that "Foreign Minister Louis Barthou murdered in service .or peace deserves gratitute of his country."—
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HITLER AS PATRON OF OLYMPIC GAMES
ernment
exhaustive account of Austria's political-development during the last year at the opening of the newly constituted Federal "Diet, which had been, preceded by a so- lemn celebration ‘of Mass "in the famous St. Stephen's Cathedral in which all the members of the Gov- and Diet participated. Reviewing the progress of the economic fleld," the Chancellor stated Austria's position had con- siderably improved in the course of the past ten months, export having risen by eighty million schillings, equivalent, to an crease of 13 per cent, In con- ́ clusion Dr. Schuschnigg referred to the education of the nation's youth declaring that though the State would assume responsibility for their physical training and inherent feeling to duty towards their Fatherland the task of in- tellectual and religious education
Berlin, Dec. W Following the well-established tradition that the Head of the State In which the Olympic games are held, assumes the pat- ronage of the event, Ritler in a was most dimeult ard would be letter to the President, Dr: Lewals left to the Church.— notified the Organising Committee | Tran-bcean Kun du," that he was prepared to accept the honour und at the same time wishes the Committee every success In the preparations for the great event in 1936.
his
In spring. 1933, the late Presid- eng von Hindenburg had accepted the patronage but through more about the epochal operations, Mrs. Muir felt she "owed it to humanity" to appear before them.
It was a rotten experience."
death the post of honour has fall- en vacant.- Transocean Kuo Min.
MÈMEL DIRECTORIUM RESIGNATION
"the novelist exclaimed 2.5 she THE FLYING DUTCHMAN Lithuanian delegates, Kilmas, and
narrated the story of her lost sight and the tortures that preceded its return. "Don't belleve anyone
tells you
that there's a spiritual uplift in blindness."
who
Mrs. Muir became blind about
ten years ago while undergoing and appendix operation at Cape- town hospital. A doctor spilled an
anesthetic on her eyes, burning
the corneas-transparent parts of the eyeball covering the iris and pupil. She awoke from the opera- tion to find her sight gone.
For four long years, I was in dreadful agony," the novelist con- tinued. "My personal "physician told me not to do anything about
Thomas of Cardiff completed cer- tuin eye-grafting experiments on
Work With His Father, » Working under his father at Glasgow, he was appointed in 1904 to the teaching staff of the, to stick it out until Mr. Tudor Natural Philosophy Department of ..the University, and with him he planned the building and equip- ping of the new Natural Philo- sophy Institute there. In col- father, he laboration with his
1911. wrote in
"A Treatise On
Dynamics." of which revised editions appeared in 1920, and
1931.
Since 1920 he had been Cargill Professor of Applied Physics at Glasgow, and had published about 150 scientific papers and patent specifications. It is only recently that many of his discoveries be came known, as they, came under They the Oficial Becrets Act.
were of the utmost importance to the sea and air fighting Forces during the war, when he was one of the leading research workers for
the British and American Governments.
the
Before his appointment to Cargill Chair at Glasgow Univer- slty Professor Gray had been ask- ed to accept a professorship at
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The distance
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THEUNIS CABINET
Brussels, Dec. 1 The new cabinet of Theunis rabbits and dogs. I waited, and
made 2 last autumn Dr. Thomas was ready'
programatic declaration for the first of the operations."**
before the Senate on Friday when Performed a year ago last Sep-the Premier declared once aga'a tember, this prepared Mrs. Muir's that the Belgian currency would be eyes for the actual grafting opera- kept absolutely stable and that in tion, which occurred in April this face of the nation's great gold year. The burned corneas. DOW reserves the Government would white and opaque, were removed
never permit inflation. and corneas from the eyes of the woman grafted in almost-bund their place. Describing the final operation, the writer said:
Operation Described
"The experience was decidedly unpleasant. They didn't give me ny general anesthetic, because my assistance was required, so T had only a small local anesthetic. At Dr. Thomas' direction, I had to move my eye balls at times dur- ing the operation sa the
лек tissues could be grafted properly."
It is said to be the first double eye operation in surgical history."
Her blindness made Mrs. Muir a novelist." Bored by ner sightless
existence, she turned to writing and in 1929 produced her first novel In all, she has dictated five hovels. the last,
“Very Heaven," being the most success- ful
The Senate carried the motion of confidence in the Government by 90 votes to 63.-
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MACEDONIAN TERRORIST DEATH SENTENCES
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Berlin. Dec. 1.
The Suddea resignation of the directorium of the Memel territory under the presidency of Relsgys is attributed by the German, Press to a conversation which recently took place in Geneva between the
Lord Privy Seal Eden and M Laval who are said to have in- timated to Klimas that the signa- tory Powers would not tolerate further breaches of the Memel Statute.
Some papers even con- sider it possible that Capt. Eden and M. Laval were acting on the basis of conclusions reached by the Judicial Commission inquiry which demanded the Reisgys directorium to resign.- Trananetan Kuo Min.
PROFESSOR SENTENCED
Weimar, Nov. 30. The noted professor of philo- sophy of the university of Jena, Dr. Johannes Lelsegang was sen- tenced on Friday by the summary court here to six months' imprison- ment for having made deregatory remarks concerning Hitler on the occasion of the latter's speech at the funeral ceremony of Hinden- burg last August 7. Leisegang was stated to have called it "degrading that a corporal should deliver the speech in bonour of the Field Mar- shal," this referring to the military rank held by Hitler during the World War. The court took the view
remark that defendant's showed him to be a person of ex- tremely reactionary views incom- patible with the ideas of life in the third Reich.-
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DIPLOMAT'S DEATH
Sofia, Dec. 1. ' The twelve death sentences pro- nounced by court martial against members of the illegal Macedon- jan "revolutionary organisation
Berlin, Nov. 30. that known as Imro, prove
The former Gerinan Ambassador, deter- Court Paul Wolf-Mettermick died Bulgarian-Government is mined to purge Bulgaria from this here on Friday after a short ill- notorious terrorist gang whilehness, at the age of 81. Deceased believed to have had a band irwho was one of the outstanding planning the Marseilles assassina-figures in European diplomacy at Mons. Those condemned to death the beginning of the century en- by court-martial, sitting in Nevro- tered into diplomatic service in kopand and Gorna-Djumaja, had 1882, and held the post of German Although by no means perfect,
to answer for the murder of y
Ambassador to London from 1901 to 1912 when he retired.- former burgomaster asd a number Mrs. Muir's restored sight is such that-she-has-been able to dis-of other political murders, and the Transocean Kuo Min.
courts will deal in the course of charge an attendant who för nine years was her guide and ccm-. the next few days with numerous panion. Ordinary light, in or out other outrages committed by the of doors, does not bother her, but organisation- In strong sunlight she wears dark Transocean Luo Min
glasses to protect her eyes.
"I can see well enough to get around about as any normal per- son would," she said, “although I'm still loath to try a busy street crossing."
Pittsburgh, U.S.A., but declined in favour of continuing at Glasgow. Previously. he had been direct- ing the gypscople control of the photographic apparatua employed
AUSTRIAN REVOLT
SOVIET RESHUFFLE
Moscow, Nov. 30. That the Soviet Government considers the new the of foreign polley demands "representation by a new line of diplomats is indicat- ed by further changes in the dip- lomatic service or foreshadowed here following the recent reshuffle of posts in Rome, Paris, Berlin, Oslo, Budapest and Angora..
Vienna, Nov. 30. - The tilal of 28 Austrian nation- alists who participated in the July uprising and were prisoners by the Government forces in sanguinary
It is now stated in official quar- Aghting on July 28 near Lampre chtshausen in the province of ters that new ambassadors and ministers will be appointed in Balzburg, in the "course of which
Vienna, Madrid, Helsingfors, the insurgents lost 10 dead and many wounded, ended on Friday Tirana and Monteneville, as well in a great scheme of mapping and
with all the accused found guilty as many other changes to be made surveying by means of photo- graphy from aeroplanes which of high treason and sentenced to amongst the consuls-general in had begun in the United States. various terms of hard labour total-al parts of the world affecting 28
The three chief persons. The advisers of the corporationing 257 years.
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told him they could find nothing to compare in accuracy with his
apparatus,
PASS, FRIEND
"Have you the firmness of char- acter that enables a person to go on and do his duty in the face of
years, while the other sentences ranged between four and ten years. Transocean Huo Min.
SCHUSCHNIGG'S REVIEW
MEMEL DIRECTORIUM
Kovno, Dec. 1. An official announcement states that the directorium. of the Me- mel territory resigned on December Emphasising that "since the 1. The directorium of Relreys
Vienna, Nov. 30,
ingratitude criticism, and heart-name of Austria has existed in will carry on until a new Govern-
leta ridicule
I ought to have. I cooked for a camping party last summer."
European history it har had pre- ment for the Memel territory is eminently Geru an significarce" formed
Chancellor Schuschnigg gave an Troniorenn. Kun Mit..
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