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HONGKONG, TE LEGRAPH
March 15, 1939.
DEFENCE DICTATORS ARE ALREADY CHOSEN
And They Are Not
Civil Servants
IT is understood that ten of Britain's twelve defence dictators have been chosen.
All will be men whose names are household words and they will not be Civil Servants. They will be men who have proved their organising ability in other melds.
WILL NOT BE PAID
Others
Some may have made their names in the Services. will come direct from industry. None will at first be paid, but their expenses will be met.
The Denfence dictators will have wide powers of control their own areas.
They will control transport, public order, food supplies, and evacuation plans.
M.P.s Call For Ban On Dog Fights MP are to make a determined
effort to put a stop to the scandal of secret dog fights which are being held regularly on lonely) moorlands all over Britain,
Sir Robert Vaughon Gower, M.P. for Gillingham and head of the R.S.P.C.A. BR the National Canine Defence League, was recently plan- sing the campaign from his sick-bed in Tunbridge
He will ralse Wells, the matter in the Commons.
Among the M.P.s who will support him are Sir Comper Rawson, Sir Thomas Moore, Mr. H. G. Williams' and Mr. A. A. Somerville.
Mr. R. H. Jolins, assistant secret-
inary of the National Canine Defence League, told how valuable dogs are torn to bits in organised fights! and of the claborate precautiona taken to keep the "meet" secret.
If, during war, communication with central headquarters is cut off, they will have complete control as the authorised Govern- ment representatives.
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"Big money-sometimes £10 is gambled on the result of the fights," he salil.
the "They are usually held on moorlands, and a 14ft, square pit is used.
"The home of dog-fighting is in Staffordshire, but others are held re- ularly on the Sussex Downs, in Dorset, and round Plymouth,
The will of Mrs. Emma Schubert Brister, harpist and only woman Seven-year-old Gladys Turner las member of the Philadelphia Amateur for a pot a red fox, captured only Orchestra which preceded the Phila-ed four months ago by two hunters in delphia Orchestra, bequeathed $2,000 nearby woods. So tamed is the fox to the orchestra, the income to bel now that Gladys lakes it for n daily used to purchase-concert tickets for walk-on leash-along Main streel.) misle students.
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"The dogs used are specially train-
terriers, born fighters,
"Some of thezn
given forocious names such as Jack the Ripper and The Killer.'" Sometimes, added Mr. Johns, a dog
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when Joan bonueit of the
home and becomes Mrs. Dick Po zell, delight of her life is her young son, Norman Scott Powel, 4, who gazes at her, above, with a "You're telling me?" air. He is the son of her former husband, George Barnes, but was adopted by Powell after their marriage.
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was to badly Injured that It thrown into a river to hide traces of the "meet."
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Knocking "Chunks" Off The Atom SCIENTISTS at Cambridge
and Liverpool who are busy these days smashing atoms, looked up recently from their work of destruction to note that Columbia University, physicists have just split an uranium atom to cause the largest ter- restrial conversion of mass into energy on record."
What does it all mean-and where is it lending?
Even 1ac scientists don't know. The Columbia experiment simply marks one more stage in atomle re- search and the confirmation of cer tain other experiments carried out in Berlin.
U.S.A, EXPERIMENTS The only practical application of this research that we can see at E11351. present is to certain flelds of clinical medicine," Dr. J. D. Cockroft, one
of the two men who in 1932 shared the honour of splitting the atom, E11354. suld.
With atom smashing apparatus radium action iodine, Iron and sadi- Um have been produced, and in America these substances are being used for the experimental treatments of cancer, anaemin and other dis- enses.
Experts here are experimenting with these substances, but doctors have not yet applied them to clinical treatment on this side of the AF lantic.
"BIGGER CHUNKS"
Scientists in the Cavendish La- boratory at Cambridge, where the alom was smashed by Dr. Cockroft, were working on the uranium atom when newa came that it had been split nt Columbia University.
"So far, it has been possible only to split little bits off the uranium lon by bembarding it with neu trong. explained Dr. Cockroft. "Now it seems that you can split i Into much bigger chunks."
The
New York Correspondent states that a huge piece of apparatus weighing 75 tons was used to split the uranium atoin.
The Columbia professors found they had released two atomic "enn- non balls" ench containing the tre mendous energy of one hundred million electron valls. The TE- markable point was the low energy needed to produce such fantastic re- sulls. Earlier experiments in Berlin were carried out by Professor Ollo Hahn, of Berlin, and Dr. L. Meltner, a woman physicist who is working In Sweden now because she was ex- pelled from Germany for racial rea-
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"Ideal Secretary"
To Wed
Berkeley, Cal. Fourteen thousand University stu- dents, unlike 50,000 Frenchmen, can be wrong. The student body at the University of California voted Miss Marle Phillips, the "Ideal secretary." Miss Phillips decided instead to get married, and her engagement has been announced.
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EILEEN JOYCE. (Pianoforte Solos.)
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PARLOPHONE RECORDS.
Rhapsodie In C Major, Op. 11. No. 3. (Dohnany!) (a) Prelude In E Flat Major. Op. 23, No. 0. (Rachmaninoff.) (Rachmaninoff) (b) Prelude In C Minor, Op. 23. No. 7.
Prelude and Fugue In A Minor. (Fugue.) (Bach.) (a) Toccata In A Major. (Paradies.)
(b) Prelude & Fugue In A Minor (Prelude.) (Bach.)
(a) Polka Caprice. Op. 1. No. 3. (Stefan Bergman.) Bergman.) (b) Celestial Song. Op. 2. No. 1 (Stefan
(a) Spring Night. (Schumann-Liszt.)
(b) Little Piece No. 1 (Schumann.)
Prelude In D Major, Op. 32, No. 13. (Rachmaninof.) (a) Prelude In Ab Major. Op. 23. No. 8. (Rachmaninof.) (Rachmaninoff.) (b) Prelude In Minor Op. 32 No. 0,
EILEEN JOYCE. (Pt.) Henri Temlanica. (Vlo.) & Autoni Sala. (Cello); E11380-88. Trio In D Minor, Op. 32. (Arensky.)
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