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NAZIS ANXIOUS
TO HAVE SYRIA AS ARMY BASE ZURICH, May 6 (Reuter-Poit-
tical circles here assume that Ger. many is anxious to have permis- sion to use Syria as a military base.
CHINA COAST SHIPPING
Speculation On Reported Soviet Plans
SHANGHAI, May 6 (Reuter) In view of the acute dearth
of
ARCTIC MALADY GRIPS GERMAN TROOPS
OSLO (via New York).—Hundreds of Gerinan
troops "stationed in valded home with the mysterious northern Norway are being-
Arctic malady known as "Lappon disease."
No authoritative information, bottoms, the reported Soviet plans however, is available in connexion to place nine Soviet vessels in ser-
The Mutary Psychiatric Institute with Germany's proposals to Vichy Vice between Shanghai and south-
const in Berlin. it was announced, is which were handed by Herr Otto ern waters have aroused
to derable interest here.
trying to find Abetz, the Nazi Ambassador
a way to protect
France, to Admiral Darlan, the
The vessels are said to be ar- soldiers from the liness, which Vichy Foreign Minister, during the riving in Shanghai shortly from takes the form of severe nervous week-end.
Vladivostok, bringing large cargoes breakdown followed by complete of daily necessities and will then lethargy, resembling sleeping sick- FARIS, CONFAB
be put into service for the trans-ness.“ LONDON, May 6 (Reuter) The portation of general freight be Swiss radio reports from Vichy tween Shanghai and such paints that Admiral Darlan, who left yes-as Mantia and Saigon and possibly long Arctic night, lack of vitamins, It is believed to be caused by the terday afternoon for Paris; is ac-farther east companied by two diplomatic ad-
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The
LACK OF VITAMINS
solitude and boredom, and it more- It is also reported that the So- times leads to violent runacy. viet authorities are planning to
It seems that the morale of open an office here to handle ship-German soldiers in the pecupled ping business.
announcer said that the diplomatic negotiations which Admiral Darlan will conduct in Paris are of far-reaching Impor-believed that it would provide a
If the Soviet plan is true, it is countries is becoming so seriously affected by inactivity that Hitler tance for the future of French-
Įhas ordered the "expenditure of great reduction in the price of millions of pounds on German relations.
German such commodities as rice and coal, and might have a salutary effect "soldiers" homes" to be established on living costs and freight rates everywhere between which are at present prohibitive. Cape and the Bay of Biscay."
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* VITAMINS IN
BREAD
The Salvation Army plan to es- tablish "Cities of Refuge" in big centres throughout the country after the war. They will · shelter men and women who have been LONDON,-The" evacuation made unable
the English children is setting right a *struggle for existence."
lot of mistaken ideas regarding | The scheme was announced at children. The whole world har Admirers of old-fashioned bread the Mansion House by General bours the insistent and entirely point out that not only does today's. Carpenter, at a meeting which erroneous mes that all children mass-produced bread marked the pompletion of 50 love green fields and dote on rural pallid as it looks, but that it is flats nutritious than the kind | years' social work by the "Army” ¡life.
mother made. The bleached white all over the world.
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The Cockney child actually very
"taste ás
"We hope," he said, "that out soon becomes homesick for its four U.S. bakers use contains only of all this anguish misery, and lamp standards and pavements (12 to 15 per cent. as much vitamin destruction a brighter and better It pines for cinemas and fried fish as whole-wheat flour. world will be born--but whatever shopa..
Recently the National Research shape a new social order may take, It finds the wide open
spaces Council, a group of scientists or there will still be human misfits." bleak and satisfactory, is afraid 'ganised by Woodrow Wilson in The Citles of Refuge" will be of the country animals, and can- 1918 for Preparedness, announced modelled on the Salvation Army's not understand a form of te 'that part of this deficiency will special rrrganisation in Paris, when it is not able to spend its soon be made up, declares Time which can accommodate nearly
spare time in the cinema or play- Crystalline thiamin, which is 800 men, women, and children
ing hopscotch on convenient paya- vitamin B1, together with irön and ment squares,
nicotinic acid, will be generally
FARM TRAINING
On small farms "socially sick" men and women could be taught to grow trmits, flowers, and vege- tables.
General Carpenter estimates the cost of 20 "Cities of Refuge" at about £1,000,000.
Its roller-skating. activities are restored to white flour by milers limited because of the bumpines of this month. Cost: two-tenths of a the roads, it finds fe unpleasantly cent per pound load. dark at nights, and" believes that owls are ghosts come to haunt it. In one rural parish a horde up peared. There was no shop for five It is 50 years since General Wil-miles, and going to school meant a liam Booth, founder of the Salva
tour over fields parallel with an tion Army, started a £100,000 interesting river which had drown- fund to tackle the problem of ed three children in twenty five
what he was the first to call "The submerged tenth"-the down-and- outs.
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“IMPOSSIBLE”
TASK
years.
The British Government ordered thiamin into bakers' recipes in July 1940. But Britons eat much. more bread than Americans, get a more useful dose of B1 to buck up their war-strained health.
Reasons for not simply using whole-wheat flour: 1. bakers think And these children drink beer; the U.8. demands highly bleached they were shocked at finding bread; 2 white flour and bread convenient pub One child be- keep better than whole wheat In came hysterical because he could the highly industrialised U.S. bak- not have beer with his supper.
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SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE BOSTON.-There are many rea- EAST, May 8 (Reuter)-Informa sons why you can buy an electric, tion reaching authoritative Yugo- light bulb today for 15 cents that slay circles here declares that con- as late as 1931 would have cost siderable dissatisfaction is rife you 40 cents and only deliver
among Croat supporters of Hitler's half the present. quantity of new order in view of the action of light
Italy and Hungary in seizing large slices of Croatia although the whole territory had been promised as an independent republic.
Ope reasoni
is the joke old- timers in General Electric's lamp division used to play on new en- gineers, Youngsters fresh out of college, who hadn't yet learned about things that can't be done.
ing system. But the "enriched" bread will still taste store-baked not home made..
Days of
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Mon. 12 the snickers greeting his falure. No one told him it couldn't be
But one day, so the story goes, done and he took it so seriously Tues, 13 Marvin Pipkin was initiated. He he did it.
0937
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1018
170
76
10 30
New researchers were assigned fell for the gag, hook. line, sinker Thu. the "Impossible” task of frosting and pole. And he not only found bulbs on the inside. Such a bulb a way to frost bulbs on the inside, Fri. would collect less dust and grease, but developed an etching acid would diffuse more light with less which gave minute rounded pits Sat. absorption. Because everyone knew instead of sharp-angled depres-Sun. 11 it couldn't be done each perspiring sons, thus materially strengthen-. "neophyte researcher soon forgate ing each bulb.
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