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Scientists Urge Madrid Test Of Anti-Nerve Pill
Secret Drug Will Make Nations Panic Proof
LOCKED IN THE SAFE OF THE MINISTRY
OF HEALTH IS THE SECRET FORMULA Debutante Will
OF A GLANDULAR-VITAMIN PREPARATION PLANNED TO MAKE BRITAIN'S CIVILIAN POPULATION PANIC-PROOF IN WAR-TIME:
While the formula has been submitted only for experimental purposes, it is understood that Sir John Anderson, A.R.P. chief, is taking a keen interest in the preparation,
Sue Count
MISS Diana Ursula Challa- combe, beautiful young blonde, omens last year's debutantes, Is ptalufiff in an acilen pending In the High Court.
Manifred Itegent's
She is su'ng. Count Czernin, of York-terrace, Park. N.W., for damages for alleged assault and battery.
It has been suggested that medical experts, acting for the Government, should go to Madrid to study the effect of the pre-wald to have taken vizce after paration on the war-stricken population. In Capsule Form
Sir John Anderson's department is said to be in consulta tion with the Ministry of Health as to the possibility of issuing the préparation in a simple and safe capsule form.
Made A Fortune Out Of Fairies
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The claim arises out of incidents dinner party at Lansdowne House on November 30. The defence is jdenial of the allegations..
Count Czernin is a cousin of the wife of Dr. Schuschnigg, ex-Austrian Chnticellor.
IS AIRWOMAN
The action has been set down for The Government are Impressed with the claims of the inventor, and hearing in the special jury list of the hope that if its issue erin be restricted King's Bench Division, but is not ex-
to prevent over-dosing it will play pected to be reached this term. a valuable part in the protection of men and children.
Tall and alim, Miss Challacombe, who the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
the civil population, especially wo-wh
Christopher Nicholas Challacombe,
The idea of the formula is VILLIAM Butler Yeats,
alleviate human misery in times of the Irish poet whose great stress," the Daily Sketch was death at the age of seventy-told
close one is by with the Inventor.
to has appeared in several films and on
the The stage.
She is, too, a well-known sports- At school she won eight touch woman.
cups for sport, including tennis and record for high jumping. Riding and squash in-are other forms of sport In
she excels,
three was announced Te "Such a preparation in wur-time swimming, and holds a cently, made a fortune out of fairies.
His poems and plays were about places and people existing -only in his mind.
People thought he really believed in fairies until one day he suidt: "Fairies... puofi .What are fairica? What they call fairies in Galway they cail spirits at a Soho aconce."
would be of incalculable value.
Scientists who have been vesilgating the properties of the "panie pli" say that Madrid, during a bombardment, would provide ideal conditions for experiment.
literature he
aald: "Good. How
much is it worth in English money?" "COME TO SUPPER". When told "About £7,000," he said: "That's good news. Come to supper. My wife is frying sausages.
Jürs
It
Here is a pleture from Spain, taken during General Francisco Franco's Insurgent drive on the Loyalist capital of Barcelona, shows a supply truck near Aricza del Segre hit by Loyalist air ralders. An Insurgent soldier. attempts to salvage some of the material from the truck, set afire by the bombs.
Brutality By The Police Alleged
Walk, Chelsea, S.W. Which MEMBERS of Parliament was Mrs. Joyce Lee,
Recently she took up flying, and holds a pilot's certificate."
Free Meals For Good Taste
recently gave evidence
of Cheyne
and
A doctor who is attending her over both
to be made to determine whether
SERIOUS WOUNDS Her right, eye was closed in support of a demand for an inquiry into allegations swollen. that police used unneces- found serious wounds sary brutality in dispersing eyes, and an X-ray examination is "Arms for Spain" demons- there is any fracture of the skull. trators in the West End.
Mrs. Lee's thigh is also sprained, So
and numerous bruises make it dif
to walk without ns- sistance.
cult for her
women
Toledo, O, To make Jones Junior high school
have many statements more vitamin-conscious, For years school children have students Not only was he a writer of ex-learned his poem, "The Lake Isle of three free meals are awarded every been made that defenceless and quisito lyrics, but his appearance was Innisfree." He wrote it in a London day to those who choose their food unoffending men and
was a young man. the most scientifically in the school in keeping with the popular concep- park when he
Though he would never say where cafeteria, tion of a post.
"Innisfree" was, it was said to be a rocky Islet in Eough Gill, known orally as Rut Jaland. The fame of the poem took many iterary pligrims to Sligo.
With a shabby black cloak over his shoulders, a soft black sombrero on his bead, a voluminous black silk tie round his neck, he wandered through the streets of Dublin with his hands behind, his back and his hend in the air.
He looked raild and gentle, but he had a quick sense of humour. When telephoned in 1823 to be told that he had won the Nobel Prize for
Ho lived at Ruthfarnham at the foot of the Dublin mountains, but in recent years, because of, his health, he went to the Riviera in the winter, It was at Mentone that he died. He married in 1917 and leaves a wife and u son and daughter.
State Railways
were charged and batoned dur- ing orderly picketing that the National Council of Civil Liber- ties decided to lay the evidence before Parliament.
Canberra, Australia. State owned rallways are; charit- The Commissioner of Police Minister of the Interior Mc-also received signed statements able. Ewen has arranged for free transpor- lation on the Commonwealth railways from witnesses of alleged police Among the people alleged to have of children, and their escorts, when violence. travelling, for medical examination and treatment.
been injured to Parliament Square
Ship Beached Near City
Sydney, N. S. W.. Sydney had a shipwreck at its front door. The freighter Sydney Star, after a collision with the coastal
freighter Macumba, late at night. had to be beached at Rose Bay, near the Empire flying-boat base.
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