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VATICAN DEBATE ON EARTH'S AGE
BRITISH SCIENTISTS INVITED
Famous sclentists "ure being in- vited by the Pontifical Academy yên. View from Saturday, the 7th of Sciences to attend a conference October, 1939.
at the Vatican to discuss theories of the earth's age.
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The British representatives in- vited are:".
Bir James Jeans, author of "The Mysterious Universe"; president of the British Association, 1934.
Prof. Harold Jeffreys, of St. John's, Cambridge, author, of "The Earth: Its origin, history and
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Prof. F. A. Peneth, of Durham
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meteorites has aet the age of the earth at about 3,000,000,000 years.
The conference, which is to be beld in December and will last seven days, will be the Arst of its kind ever held at the Vatican.
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MEETINGS IN GARDENS Meetings will be held in private in the Vatican. Gardens, and is expected that a report will be published later. The agenda" covers the entire range, of modern scien- tific theories of the age of the earth.
I have with
the
"I have received the invitation," Prot, Jeffreys said. "I don't know whether I shall be able to go, but I think I shall, It is not really my line, however. been more concerned inside of the earth.”
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences has about 70 members, Including Catholics and non- Catholics. 8lr Charles Sherring- ton, past-president of the Royal Society, and Prof. Edmund Taylor
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"I understand that this will be the first of such conferences con-
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Prof. Whittaker said academy was reconstituted about three years ago by Pope Plus XI. This appears to be the first move under the new order."
It is understood that other stien- tists invited include Prof. BA Russell, 'of Princeton, United States, Dr. H. Mineur, of the Na- tional Observatory. Paris. and holm Observatory.
SHE LED WOMEN
" TO FORTUNES
The will of Mrs. Constance Pan- Jae Hoster, founder of the secre tarial college in the City of London known as "Mrs. Hoster's," reveal- in June, aged 74. ed that she left £23,585. She died
Nearly 50 years ago, when a "woman's place was in the home," Mrs. Hoster foresaw the day when educated women, properly train hed would join the leaders of
business and the professions.
She also founded the Educated Women Workers Loan Training Fund and the Educated Women's War Emergency Training Fund,
Pupils of her college have made their names, and in some cases their fortunes-in all walks of
MALARIA TAKES
HEAVY TOLL
Dr. Sophia Brunson's
Suggestions
GENERAL
Exiled German Democrats Put War - Guilt On Hitler
“The whole weight" of guilt for this monstrous crime against humanity, rests on Here Hitler and his system,” declares a mani- festo issued to the German people by the German Social Demo- cratic Party, through its joint presidents, Otto Wels and Hans Vogel
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Dr., Sophia Brunson, writing in the News-Topic, Lenoir, U. S. A. The party, which is illegal, in r describes how the sinister spector Germany, Bow has its headquar-1 of malaria is still stalking through ters in Paris, the earth, taking its toll in disease, suffering, poverty,
misery and human life.
Every year 3,500,000 deaths - are recorded from malaria, Thousands of others die of it and are buried without death certificates.
The manifesto declams thai the overthrow of Hitler is a pre-requisite of European peace and reorganization, and urges the German people to fight for treedom and to get rid of Hitler.
It la obvious she continues. The British: Trade Union. Con- "that, up to the present tine,gress, with two dissentients, agreed quinine remising the one reliable to a statement approving the de and tried remedy" that is quite claration of war: safe in the hands of the laity, if given proper dosage over a sonable length of time."
QUININE TREATMENT
U.S. TAKING NO CHANCES WASHINGTON, Dšt. 9 (Ren, ter)-The Uolled States Navy Atznounces that destroyer flotilla and a Coastŕuarḍ cul- ter are now escorting the steamer Iroquols, which the German Naval Command warned the United States would be sank near the American Coast
Secretary For War Interviewed
This stated that the situation under the leadership of Nazi dicta- tors in Germany had destroyed the peace and order of the world. The She strongly emphasises the vasion of Poland by overwhekning value of the short quinine treat-forces. beginning with the pitiless ment as indicated by the Malan'a bombing of open towns, revealed Leslie Hore Belisha, Secretary of LONDON, OC 9 (Reuter)—Mr. Commission of the League of Na-the Nast Government as the estate for War, interviewed rester- tions, consisting of a daily dosestroyer of the ordered life of man of 15 to 20 grains of quinine for kind.. 5 to 7 days.
As a preventive, the dafaria Commission recommends
daily dose of 6 grains of quin- ine to be taken during the- entire fever season.
On page 125 of its Report, is- sued in 1938, this zame Malaria Commission stresses the fact that
among the anti-malarial drugs
quinine still ranks first in current
practice, by reason of its clinical
effectiveness ang almost complete absences of toxicity, coupled with the widespread knowledge of its use and dosage.
EXCELLENT TONIC
In the same article Dr. Sophia Brunson once more calls attention to the fact that quinine taken in therapeutic doses is an excellent tony:
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“It improves,” she writes, "the appetite and Imparts sense of well being, by building up the powers of resistance of the body."
DOMINANT POSITION
Congress placed upon the Nazi Government the supreme responsibility for the war:"
Keep Off Seas, Said
U-Boat Chief
LONDON, Sept. 25 (By Air Mall)-The choice between giving their word to keep off the seas for the rest of the war or of remaining prisoners in a German submarine until they could be landed and in- terned was the dramatic C perience of the captain and officers of a British ship when they found themselves taken aboard the U-boat.
"If you break your parule you will have to take the consequen- ces, the German commander told us," one of the officers said
yes- terday.
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we dominant position « that quinine has so long held as thei sovereign remedy for malaria, is due not only to its powerful thera-
TOWED BY SUBMARINE bedtic action but also to the fact that this action is associated with With their ship alaking beneath so little risk. Quinine is a drug of them after the U-boat's attack remarkable safety which may be the officers and men took to left in the hands of almost anyone boat which the submarine took with a confident assurance that in tow. The omcers boarded, the little harm is Hkely to follow its submarine for the dramatic, inter- CBe OZ misuse. There are few view with the commander, and drugs of similar therapeutic power then" returned to the boat. of which this claim can be made," The U-bost's crew - gave them Dr. J. W. Field, Senior cigarettes, and 24 battles of beer days. Malaria Research Officer, writing before they were füred adrift in the Bulletins from the Institute. Thirty-three hours later they were for Medical Research, Fed: Malay picked up by a Belgian vessel and States. No. 2 of 1938.
have' now, reached safety.
day by the London correspondent of a French newspaper, aald: "In u year we shall have as many men at the front ga`you."*
He explained that this country could not enroll all its men at once, as it was not possible to equip and instruct them at once. They must proceed by sections.
He also referred to the transport to France of the British Expedi- tionary Force and the shipment of its equipment, which, he said, was carried out without a hitch,
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