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CHICAGO LOSES TO NEW YORK
ST. LOUIS SPLITS DOUBLE-HEADER YANKEES IN FINE FORM
New York, July 29,
St. Louis Cardinals won and lost to-day and Chicago, leading the
National League a jump ahead of the Cards, went down before the onslaught of the New York Giants.
30, THURSDAY, JULY
12-Year-Old Boy Baffles Medicoes
Los Angeles, July 21. Twelve year old Pat Marquis, whose uncanny ability to
through blindfolds has baffled hard-shelled medicoes in these parts, has announced plans to leave for London this summer and subject himself to a "psychic fest" by Sir Oliver Lodge.
1936.
THE POPE
مم
FEELS DEATH COMING"
ALHAMBRAI
Rome, July 21. A THE Pope, who is taking
his annual holiday a month earlier this year on account of his health, arrived at the Papal villa at Castel- gandolfo this evening and was given a great reception by the villagers, whom he blessed.
He will have a complete rost. Audiences will be cut down to la minimum.
The chunky boy, whose dark. soulful eyes possess "psychic sight' according to Dr. Cecil Reynolds, British surgeon who. St. Louis lost the first game of has interested himself in young double-header with Brooklyn by one ut the most decisivo margins on the Marquis, has made a series of Benson's records. The Dodgers hit tests before groups of medical
Recently the Pope's asthma bas Lwenty-one times and scored twenty-men.
been troubling him. To prelates visit- two runs, while the Cardinals hit No entisfactory explanation of his Ing him he has said he feels that
uncanny "blindfold vision" has been death is approaching.
according to thoro who "I will die in my beloved Castel- found,
Thegandolfe," he says time and again. observed his demonstrations. boy claints, while supposedly in "trance that he in "Napoli", Persian mystic of the eleventh Lury.
seven and ecored the same number.
In the second game the tables were turned, St. Louis scoring five runs when Medwick homered twice and holding the Dodgers to four on seven ite. In the first game St. Louis had three errors, but in the night- cap they were airtight.
assisted by Whitehead's circuit blow.
aver
д
He first attracted attention by his The Cabs falled against New York. ability to read passages from books, his eyes Their eight hits yielded only two runs, opened at random, with lucluding a homer by Allen, and the covered with taped goggles. In one
demonstration at
Hollywood Giants run twelve hits into seven runs,
hospital, three eye specialists strapped the
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and eyes Cubs had two of the three errors.
FORKles testified no.light could come through. Pittsburgh was also engaged in n
Pat or "Nape]"--glibly spelled off dearble-hender, with Boston supplying the
the passages in the book, counted fingers opposition. They Ap and picked out words on sheets of Honours. Boston won the to one, with ten hits to nine, and pages, both had a pair of blanders. PitES- the closing toursh hit ixteen in Bature and reared ten runs to four, the Braves' tallies coming out of nine hits. Juston had two of the three
errors.
The Cincinanti-Philadelphia game was postponed on account of rain.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
His latest fent--which baffled even the most sceptical-was a duet with Fred Cavens, einek fim fencer who rects ijst of the swordplay scenes internationally in plctures and Es known as a duellist, Young Pat, un- experienced in fencing, parried and thrust with skill, his eyes again plastered with adhesive tape,
" gifts arm so unusual that a man who is accepted as an authority New York Yankees Winsted dant on such matters should have an year's champion Tigers out of their opportunity to witness the bay's said. road to the pennant when they send femonstration," Dr. Reynolds thirteen runs on Gifteen hits. Gehrig have communicated with Sir Oliver
world-known hitting his and home run, and the Loxige
student of Tigers were held to nine hits and a psychic phenomena, and will take the two by to London, probably this summer."
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trio errors.
Each had of counters.
St. Louis Browns upset the al- culations of Boston's Red Sox, hitting fourteen times and scoring nine runs.
assisted by the Bottomley bat which SOVIET BOOSTS
Sox
drove out a hainer, shen, the
nine for entoriained, Boston hit three runs,
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Cleveland, visiting Washington, won both ends of n double-hunder, the first eleven to six, the second siz to five. The Reds hit ten times in the opener, but Trosky and Campbell gave them homers and brought walker home. Kuhel homered for the Senators. Averill hit a circuit in the nightcup for the Reds, whose bit total was eleven, and Washington hit en
Chicago
White Xox defented Philadelphia by a score of seven to five, hiting eleven to ten, and each
-Renter. hind two errors.
PILGRIMS CHEER THE KING
OVATION GIVEN BY CANADIANS
London, July 20. Six thousand Canadian pilgrims were entertained at a garden party it Buckingham Palace this afternoon, at which the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester acted as host and hostess on behalf of the King.
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CARRIED IN CHAIR
In addition to asthma the Pope is suffering from arterio sclerosis and Funeral
Although the l'ope's doctors admit he is in a weak
weakness.
state of health, it is stated that his heart is good.
He hardly walks now, but is trans- ported from one room la another in & chair used by Leo XIII.
Londoners. May. One Day Live in the Sky
THE
HE London of the future may be a city of people living in the sky, This was the suggestion of Mr. G. A. Jellicoe in a talk on the architee- ture of to-morrow at the conference of the Royal Institute of British Architects at Southampton.
So far, he said, it had been accepted that all buildings 'belonged to the soil on which they were built, either rest- Ing upon it strongly, as in classic architecture, or growing from I like flowers as in Gothle architecture,
future The landscape of the might be formed of buildings des- eended, as it were, from the skies. Men might be housed in buildings containing 10,000 or 20,000 persons.
Mr. Percy E. Thomas in his presi- dential address spoke of the "terrible arena" that were found in London:
"If anyone thinks I exagerate," he said, " juvite him to approach London from Kent and drive slowly through South London to Waterloo.
"Then let him enter from the Essex side and drive to Liverpool-street, Moscow, July 25.
He will have travemed areas terrible Prof. P. L.. Kapitzas, Soviet citizen | in their senseless ugliness, their hope- who developed a new method of pro-
lest confusion and congestion, their ducing helitun during 14 years at ineanness and squalor. He will have Cambridge University, England, is passed miles and mites of houses that preparing to extend his experiments have been slums ever since they were in a laboratory of the Soviet Academy
"They are not. decent housing that hax become slum property. They have been hopeless-from-the-start
of Science, with ninjost unlimited, frat buill. backing, from the government.
Visiting tosain.
your #go. Kapitzas remained in the Soviet Union under promise that his work would receive full support, and his Cambridge laboratory be moved to Russia. Some of his most valuable assistants were employed to asslut him here, a home was built for him and he was honoured as a Soviet seiontist.
He is hend of the Institute of Physical Problems, construction of which has boon completed by the Halfway through the proceedings, Academy, and in the buildings of His Majesty himself appeared among which his Cambridge equipment has his quests, who gave him an overbeen installed.
he was whelining reception, and
by surging, cheering surrounded crowds until both Hosts and guests were forced to seck shelter from a heavy downpour of rain.
Afterwards, His Majesty spoke a few words to the pilgrims from the balcony of the Palace-British Wire-and ceilings have been installed in the laboratory. The X-ray department's walls were covered with barrium put. ty 30 inches thick, and the doors with a thick layer of lend.
less.
FIRE AT SEA
SPARK LIKE CANNON SHOT Electrical equipment of the lab- oratory includes a special electrical generator producing 20,000 amperes, and a spark as loud as a cannon shot. massive foundations Exceptionally
Whether the scientist was persund ed to remain in Russia through exten- sive offers of Co-operation and San Francisco, July 29,
financini
reward, or whether his set- The Norwegian stedmer Mitwo, vices were commandeered By the sim off Monterey Bay, en route to San ple process of refusing him an exit Perro from Yokohama, has sent a visa, his friends have been unable to message that her crew of thirty-two ascertain. has controlled the fire in her hold
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llowever, his work here has aroused intense interest in the Soviet daily and periodical press, which comments on the Immediately practical as well as the fantastic possibilities of his experimenta.
With the discovery of an important supply of natural gas, suitable for production of helium, In the Caucasus and Middle Volga regions, the Soviet Union expects to wreat from the United States the position of leading producer of helium in liquid form.
Kapitzas' method, involving tem-.
New York, July 29. The fight for the heavyweight championship of the world, between the German, Mux Schmeling, and the Irish-Amerlean, Jim Braddock, has been set for September 20, in theperatures of 270 degrees below acro centigrade, is declared to yield itself afternoon-United Press,
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MECHANICAL EILA
London, July 29.
The Minister of Transport, in the House of Commons, gave notice of regulations restricting the use of selected streets in Central London by horse-drawn and other slow-moving traße.British Wireless.
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Heligoland Fortification Discussed
AWKWARD PROBLEM FOR DIPLOMACY
London, July 29. Replying in a louse of Commons Question on the refortification of Heligoland, Mr. Anthony Eden said:
The action of the German Govern- ment in this matter is unilateral, und if the matter were to be dealt with separately, is Majesty's Government would require to formulate most ex- press reserves with regard to that action. The House will, however, ba aware, from what said in the coursu of last Monday's debate, that negotia- itons have been set on foot which it
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hoped may lead to a fresh effort at a European settlement, in which
part. Germany would play her full
"I hope, therefore, that my honour- able felend will agree with, His Majesty's Government in feeling that individual matters of this kind, though they cannot pass unobserved, should not be raised at the moment and in a manner which might react unfavourably on the negotiutions to which I have referred and thus pre- judice the general settlement which we all hope may be reached:" British Wireless.
AMBASSADOR RESIGNS
Berlin, July 20. The Spanish Ambassador at Berlin expressed has resigned. Reuter.
The extreme cold produced also will be used to liquify nir, in the cracking of oll, production of artificial rubber and artificial silk.
Soviet several fantastic plans for the use of such intense cold. One proposes to create artificial Ice Islands in the At. I fielent area lantic Oconn to facilitate air travel to America..
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Another writer envisages the con- strucllan of huge ice dams across rivers.
FREE POWER ENVISIONED This would be done by passing cold liquid through tubes dropped from a ship into the sea: Then, when an
Whether Kapitzas methods are icefield was created, a special freezing apparatus would be placed upon it to capable of such results, he will have work on "free power" obtained great possibilities for experiment in The value of retail trado in June through the difference of tempera- his institute on the Lenin Hills near was 4.7 por cent. greater than a yeartures between the surface and the Moscow, where 1,200 acres of land have been devoted to projected build- ago. Stocks were valued at 1.7 por depth of the sea.
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