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March 17, 1939.
EXPERTS WANT STEEL AIR EMPIRE Findlater's
RAID SHELTERS FOR ALL
THE three experts appointed by Sir John Anderson, Minister for Civi- lian Defence, to consider the problem of air-raid shelters recommended re- cently that:
Every home
In a vulnerable
area should have a shelter;
Shelters should be distributed before an emergency;
They should be placed near to houses, but not inside them;
There should be immediate legislation to ensure thid nn new reddential building of whatever size or class lu erected without a shelter;
People who provide shelters should not be penalised by in- creased taxes or rules.
The experts are:
"WITH UTMOST SPEED"
Sir Henry Japp, chief engineer and John Mesars, works director for Mowiem and Co., Ltd., elvil engineer- Ing contractors. He was a member of the British war mission to the United States, and until 1919 Director in Charge of Production.
Mr. B. L. Hurst, senior partner in the firm of B. L. Hural and Peirce, civil engineers, who bull Shell-Mex House.
Mr. David Anderson. partner in the firm of Moti, Hay and Anderson, the consultants who planned and super- Intended the building of the Dartford -Purfleet tunar! beneath the Thou
The committee press for the can- struction to the utmost extent, and at the utmost passible speed of the following forms of shelters:
Pressed and rolled see thund Shelters:
Propped basements:
"Pill-buses"
Permanently strengthened
lower flours of blocks of liats and tenements;
Permanently strengthened Ingments of shops, offres, and Iaige houses; and
Commun
trenches.
shelters and
"EVACUATE GROUND FLOOR"
The polley suggested for tenement tat: evacuation of seme or all of the ground floor Bats and the sting- theting and adaptation in peace time - of the portions exaunted,
There should also be built perma- nent covered trenches in comments cation with the main buildings and subsidiary buitlogs with definks protective value which would have perce-time use as playgrounds cr store rooms.
For the average house the coni- mittee recommend a sectional stoc: device not less than 6ft. by 40. Bin.. in plan and not less than 6ft. high.
They emphasise the danger of is! suing shelters which could only be entered by growling, and in which only a crouching or recumbent atti- tude is possibic.
The shelters could not be detri
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Prom oil workers in California to society lenters in Massachusetts, Mrs. Frunkiin D. Roose- velt, one of the must live women ever in the White house, was given a strong vote of approval for the way she has occupied the position of First Lady, aceoiding sa a nation-wide survey by the of Public Opinion.. Survey Inte Aintrican shower site is more popular with women than with men.
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Here are some of her activities: Top, left to right: Dancing in the New Deal sponsored com- nunity at Arthurdale, W. Va.; as an alplane passenger: In the horse show at Fort Myer, Va. Centre, opens infantile paralysis campaign: Mrs. Roozevalt herself; given degree at John Marshall College of Law. Bottom, dletutes daily column to Miss Malvina Thompson, her companion and secretary; visits blind, craft shop, New York.
of rescue are partly in the ground,"
be sought for
BIG LAND DEAL IN S.-W. AFRICA
Capetown.
The Union Government has given practical proof of its faith in the future of South-West Afrlen by out- bidding the German Government for n huge tract of farming country. In the territory.
Messrs. Llebles South. Africa- Ltd., who were established before the Great War as manufacturers of neat extract in South West Africa, decided to dispose of their holdings, comprising about 1,800,000
acres.
The German Government tried to purchase the property for the settle- ment of German farmers. Through the South West Land Settlement Co. the Reich provides German Immal- grants with farm and on easy term", Negotiations were at once opened
the by
with Union Government Lieblg's, and the property was pur- chased for £200,000. Some of the in South finest ranching country West Africa will be thrown op
for settlement..
NEW ZEALAND
SOCIAL SECURITY PREPARATIONS
Auckland,
Preparations for the entry Into force of the Social Security scheme on April 1 include the merging of the persions and unemployment divisions of the Labour Department, and the completion of an eight storey build- ing at Wellington,
Next your the activities of the Social Security departments will be decontralised through the setting up ut 40 separate offices.
Mr. P. C.
Labour,
Webb, Minister
of
state that subsidised relle! schemes will be brought to an end by
March 31.
"We are consulting manufacturers and other employers," he said, "for the purpose of transferring men from reliet schemes into secondary in- dustry.
BURMA
TOUR OF INTERIOR BY COMMISSION
Georgetown.
Three members of the Royal Com- mission on Labour Conditions in the West Indies, including probably Lord Moyne, the chairman, left re- cently for a tour of the interior by nir.
They were away for three days and visited the Rupununi Valley,
settlements possible site for Jewish
and the Kaietur Falls. NORTHERN RHODESIA
POLICE CHIEF'S
ASSAULTED
Rangoon,
buted quickly because of their weight, prater by incendiong bombs, the risk device might seem to reader this pos-ul trench. should be sunk at least (Sewt. to Tew), but they could be that the shelter will become an oven sible, their chances
The commitee admit that some Mr. W. H. Tydd, Assistant Com- mass-produced, and the design could for the tripped occupants is a very greatly diminished and the prospect be confined to two or three types, 10 real une.. and necupants might of a lingering death increased if the other solution nust
houses without “ back-yard. Missioner of Police, was injured enable many firmy quickly adapthe overeme by gas escaping from house collapses." their plant for production.
The sectional device is considered sectional shelter is regarded as hav- during the recent disorder, when "Definitely opposing the playing
the answer to criticism of the cost in- ing a definite place in the immediate the mob attacked the car of the CRITICISM ANSWERED
volved in back-yard trenches. short-term policy, but is considered Commissioner, Mr. Reynolds,
A Burmese woman, addressing a "Placed in the garden or yard and less emcient than a permanent struc- "Undoubtedly med people IN
prefer to stay in their houses to take covered with earth_or_randbegs it lure of brick and/or concrete of the meeting, boasted that she had as: saulted Mr. Reynolds. The audien-. shelter, and though at first sight the provides as guod a shelter us a cover-pill-box type.
ce applauded.
of these shelters within houses, the committee states: "Assuming.
seing most likely, that an attack with high explosive bomba will be accom
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These enuld be 'built in groups at Burmese buses are again with- the intersection of fences to accom-drawn from the streets. The pro- mudate twe ur four households of four prietors complain that they do not people each.
Rheumatism's Toll
Rheumatism in relation to national health was discussed at a conference opened recently at the Hospitals and Nursing Exhibition, New Horticul tural Hall, Westminster, S.W., by Dr.
recelye police protection. The polier state that they are acting on orders from the Government.
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BRITISH GUIANA VOLUNTEER DEFENCE
FORCE
The
Government
of
Lusaka.
Northern
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J. F. Halls Dally, Medlen! Reteres Rhodesia proposes to establish under the L.C.C. rheumatism scheme. European volunteer defence force
Dr. Halls Dally said that in the of 400 men.
The function of the force will be 10th century tuberculosis was the chief bane. In the 20th century to repel external aggression and ald rheumatism was the most potent the civil buthority in the protection cause of disability and death affliet-of life and property, or the supe ing the population of Great Britain. presulon of internal civil disturb- It will be stuffed by Regulne
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It was estimated that 25,000 deaths Army Instructors. annually were due to acute rheumut- Ism. In jus ravages among the com munity rheumatism outweighed the PUTTER combined efforts of tuberculosis and cancer, and might be rightly termed |Public Enemy No. 1.
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Prof. A. M. Low, who has never played golf, has invented a puiter Dr. Halls Daily dated the beginning with which a ployer cannot miss.
of extended and practical interest in Its secret is a small lamp fitted to the rheumatism In the year 1924 when shaft of the putter which shows the Ministry of Health published
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