Handshake Of Peace
LEADERS
IN GRAN CHACO WAR
La Paz, Bolivia, Sept. 27.
ETAILS have reached
Dhere of the meeting of
General Enrique Penaran- da, commander of the
Bolivian army, and General Jose Felix Estigarribia, Paraguayan commander, in the neutral Chaco zone. They shook hands, con- firming the peace between the two countries after three years of war.
the
of
The meeting, arranged by neutral military commission, was at tho former military post Puesto Merino, General Martinez of Argentina introduced Pita thom. In an exchange of cham- pagne toasts General Estigarribia Anid:
"General Penarnda, I take ad- vantage of the happy circum- stances to declare on behalf of Paraguay that your army, against which we fought for three years, s doubtless one of the best and most courageous in this world."
In reply the Bolivian General anid:
"General Entiɣarribia, your words are a profound honour, and my country's army also acknow. ledges in your army the highest military virtues. We fought as
mon
do, General Estigarribia. | You know the campaign and the adverso factors we had to over-
come. Interpreting the sentiment of the Bolivian army, I toast your army of true men."
When they parted General Esti- garribin presented Iris pistol to hia} former enemy,
"This weapon was with me dur- Ing the whole campaign," he said. There is nothing better than to leave it in your hands as a per- sonal souvenir."
Severest
Winter
Is Predicted
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,
:
TAR AND FEATHERS FOR REDS
OCTOBER 4, 1935.
SCIENTISTS WIN A
Making good their threats of "direct action” unlesà alleged Communistic activities coused in the vicinity of Santa Rosa, Calify, « Jocal “vigilan!" group rounded up purported radical loaders in raida punctuated by gunfira and tear gas, tarred and feathered two, and made three others kise the American flag and promise to leave Sonoma County. Left to right. So. Nitzberger, rancher, and Jack Green, sign painter, tarred and feathered, and C. Myer, who promised to love the
cannly.
ROUND IN
WAR ON CANCER
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Vitamen E Isolated HELEN'S BEAUTY SALON
San Francisco, Sept. 20. Vitamin E. found in wheat germ, lettuce, soy bean, cotton. sect and in several other food sub- stances, and necessary to mam. malian reproduction, both in male and female, has been captured after years of intensive pursuit, it was announced here at the meeting of the American Chemical Society.
Its isolation, in crystalline form highly concentrated, was ac- complished by Professor Herbert McLean
Evans, biologist and Director of the Institute for Ex- perimental Biology of the Univer- >sity of California, in collaboration with Drs. I. H. Emerson and G. A. Emerson of the same institution. Dr. Evans, in collaboration with Dr. Katharine S. Bishop, discovered E
Mussolini Cables Myrna Loy Starts Bitter and its role in reproduction in
For "Cannon Ball" Brothers
New York, Sept. 28, The Italian Government have |#pproached the "Human Cennon Ball." famous for his feats in American circuses, with a request
T
Battle In Film World
RIVAL FILM CHIEFS “STÁR-RAIDING" THE fact that Miss Myrna Loy has signed a contract to appear in "Soak the Rich," a film soon to begin pro duction by Ben Techt and Charles Macarthur on Long for his services with the Italian Island, has started a problem which may find its solution artillery in Abyssinia, in`an “ad-only after a long battle in the courts. visory capacity."
Edmund Zacchini, who claims to have originated the idea of being |fired out of a cannon, says that the idea for hia circus act came to him while serving with the Italian armp.
the war.
He is communicating with his Jane "cannon ball" brothers to find out how they feel about going to war. He does not feel they will be enthusiastic, as the family is pros- pering in America and the five brothers are preparing to become citizens next year.
"But if Italy really needs `us,' eclares Human Cannon Ball No. 1 "we are prepared to go.”—Reuter.
Mine Found
NEW CYCLE BEGINS In Channel-
Paris, Oct. 1.
JOSEPH CASSIOPEE Aged Sixty
French astronomer leading authority an eclipses, to-day announced that the com- ing winter will be unusually severe, because in 1563 it was 80 cold that wines froze, cracked their casks and had to be served as blocks of icc. In declaring that coal mer-
HOW DID IT GET THERE?
MINE sighted in the
English Channel a
chants in Europe, Asia, and fortnight ago; found America 'consequently will do a tremendous business from theby Folkestone fishing- beginning of November until the boat Sunbeam; taken end of March, Dr. Cassiopee ex- (with care) into har- plained that he based his pre- diction on the cycle of solar and bour; examined
(with lunar eclipses.
contempt) by naval and R.A.F. experts.
He has found that every 327 years the same eclipse situa- tions repeat themselves with a meteorological conditions.
By delving back into history, exactly 872 years,
the French astronomer contended he has found cold bilier weather in store for the coming months. For the winter of 1663-64 was one of the worst in. history.
They declared the mine to be:
Sixty years old, at least. No longer dangerous,
Of no use, even as an exhibit. Sixty years old? Surely a misprint for "sixteen"?
"Sixty is correct," repeated the Travel experts,
Footnotes
Mysteries concerning origin of the mine, how it came to be in "After many years of research the Channel, why it turned up through ancient documents regard all unsolved. ing eclipses and meteorological variations, I have concluded that at the end of a cycle of 372 anme meteorological years the phenomena should repeat them- selves," he declared in an inter- viow here.
1. Mines first used to destroy
vesacla in sixteenth century.
2. First military use of electrically
fired mines-- American War, 1861-65.
Civil
3. Maring mines LЯed during Franco-German War of 1870, 4. Introduced in England about
seventy years ago.
Cycle of 372 Years "This cycle of 372 years, which is now regarded as an established fact in astronomy, enables pre- dictions of weather with. almost even served mathematical exactitude. All that | frozen form." is necessary is to look back in the local archives of any given district and and what the weather was like 372 years ago. It will be the same again.
to customers in
In conclusion, Dr. Cassiopee em- phasised that the moon has more influence on the weather conditions of the earth than the sun, as the moon is only sixty timos farther
way from the earth than
the
In the winter of 1603-64, which | distance between New York and the mirror of the coming winter Par a..
1935-36, the weather unsually advore. Documents from all parts of Europe relate the hardships caused by the cold. In France, for example; the records show that the wine froze, cracking open the casks, and was delivered to taverns as blocks of ice. It was
Was He added that its tidal influence is no greater than its meteorolog!- chl effects, which repeat them- selves because the sun, moon and earth aro. In the name "relative positions every 372 years result of the cycle of eclipses. United Press.
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MYRNA LOY
klor eyed.
Titun-haired,
WHERE THE
WIFE DOESN'T COOK AT HOME
at
1922.
Since then all scientists have been attempting to isolate it from the food substances in which it is known to exist,
Two or three laboratories have,
within recent times, succeeded in producing a highly concentrated extract of the Vitamin, but this substance having the action of is the first time that a crystalline Vitamin E in high potency ever been produced.
har
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Chomical analysis of the crystals with the Vitamin E poteney, Dr. Evans sald, show it to belong to The question is whether the the chemical family known Hecht-Macarthur contract will higher alcohols; enchi molecule of hold good against the claims of the crystal contains 29 of carbon, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for
50 atoms of hydrogen and two atoms of oxygen. Loy's services. :
Miss
The star's lawyers tell her that)
Insufficient Supply
"The actual practical importance the contract is all right, and reports of Vitamin E in human and animal from Hollywood that Metro-dietaries is at present hard to Goldwyn-Mayer have warned her evaluate," Dr. Evans said. "Its -not to sign up with Hecht and wide distribution in natural food- Macarthur are denied by Miss Loy, stuffs makes it appear almost im- who says that no court netion has being to fail to receive an adequate
for an possible
average human- yet been taken.
Box-Office Draw
Her complaint is that Metro broke the contract she had
them.
with
supply, though it may be that certain individuals require excep- tionally-large-amounts."
Vitamin E may also prove to be an important new weapon in cancer research. Two independent recent researches indicate a definite rela- Techt and Macarthur, how-tionship between Vitamin E and ever, deny reports that she is the chief characteristic
unrestricted cell division which is getting £15,000 for appearing
of the in the new film, compared with £12,000 a year received from Metro.
cancer process.
A large variety of chemical re- agents were tried by Dr. Evans and his associates on a concentrata of wheat germ oil, rich in vitamin E, without any success. Finally
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IT'S DYNAMITE
It is believed in Hollywood that Metro would welcome back the cyanic acid was employed, and the Titian-haired sloe-eyed star, who is held reacts with alcohols to give long search was ended. Cyanic rated high in popular favour. A products called allophanates, which world, survey shows that she is are often crystalline, high melting among the first galaxy of stars and sparingly soluble solids, and from, the point of view of box-are thus well suited for isolating AT THE
rare alcohols. By boiling with dilute methyl-alcoholic potassium hydroxide the allophanates are casily split regenerating the Vitamin E.United Press. alcohol, which in this case is the
ABOVE THE EARTH
office attraction.
There is every sign that a good time lies ahead of most of the popu- lar film stars, for the companies are engaged in a lively game of "star raiding.".
"Deserve, Whipping"
FURNACE BELT
WHY MAN WILL NEVER REACH THE MOON
London, Sept. 25. That man will never fly to the moon and that ultra-short ⚫ waves cannot be of real use to broadcasting, emerge from a discovery by Professor E. V. Appeton, the physics authority. After many months of re-
There is a "gentleman's agree- ment" that one company shall not lure away the stars of another, but Mr. David Selznick, who has arrived in New York from Hollywood, an- nounces blandly:
"Stars who walk out on far
their 'contracts deserve a whipping. But if their contracts are expiring they are anyone's property, and I do not intend to let any gentleman's agree search, the professor declares ment keep me from bidding for
The strangest underground railway in the world is in Berlin. It has never had a passenger! Travelling mile-a-minute speed beneath the city's streets are thermos bottles cach contain- ing part of some housewife's meal. For cooking is dying out in Berlin.
Every tenant of a series of huge blocks of flats which radiate for half
a mile around one vast central kit- chen have been given a 300- page menu book, and all the woman of the house has to do when she wants to give her husband a particularly tasty meal is to 'phone through to the kitchen 15. minutes before the meal is to be served. She can order what dishes she wants and know that they will arrive punctually and perfectly cooked."
In the kitchen itself the food is prepared in huge
thom.
that in the upper atmosphere there is a vast layer of hent, 1,- 1000 degrees Centigrade, the exis- tence of which has not been known to science..
"I'll get my star first and be a gentleman afterwards." Mr. Selznick added, "There is not The layer constitutes an in- (enough talent, in the industry to passable barrier between the
make 60 good pictures a year.
world and the space beyond. There are not more than 16 real Society agree that the discovery Many members of the Royal stars to-day."
troughs and dishes, with long rows of thermos bottles stacked on near-by shelves.
The moment an order is received the separate courBes are placed in theso bottles and they are then inserted. into a tuba, ready to be despatched by compressed air to the right kitchen.
jupsets the researches which are be- Ing conducted into wireless short waves and the possibility of har- nessing micro-waves for radio transmission.
Reception Affected Professor Appleton claims to have proved that, Instead of the Jatmosphere becoming colder away from the earth's surface, it be comes much holter, after the first Hoven miles,
1
The heat-layer becomes" copler in winter, and broad- casting reception all over the world is affected with each variation of temperature.
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