Saturday,
£1,000,000 RAY TO Air Ministry's Amazing Day-And-Night Rush To Win Fortune
FORTUNE OF AT LEAST £1,000,000 AWAITS THE IN.
A FOENUNE OF ARLEAST AWA OFF THE
ENGINE OF AN AEROPLANE IN FLIGHT AND SEND IT HURTLING TO THE GROUND.
Thousands of men-many of them distinguished scientists in laboratories all over Britain are working day and night to perfect, the magic ray. So far none has succeeded.
In the past 12 months the Re-
search and Development Department
of the Air Ministry has been receiv Ing requesis for demonstration tests
at the rate of one a week.
yel submitted cutting distance of a few feet.
Best of the device yout
has succeeded in
engine at a
But
this
particular device would need twice the electrical power of the whole country to
'plane at 10,000 disable
and the modern,
feet,
heavily-Jaden
bomber can fly comfortably
twice that height.
tun
In view of this the Ministry's de-. mand at the ray shall be effective
at least 100 yards seems modest.
quite
The Air Ministry is offering Inven-
chance of making a
itors the
fortune for a ray planes.
to
blg
that will crash
Biggest difficulty the inventor has to face is the fact that the Ignition leads In aircraft engines are protected with a metal casing
prevent Inter- ference with radio reception, But in the hope of finding which
alter the may well course of world history, the Ministry are, going steadily ahead with tests, -and still more tests.
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a ray whole
do
FOR SECRET TRY-OUT These are being carried out in the greatest possible secrecy. Even im- portant officials of the Ministry not know where they are hek.
some In tests so far carried out
them- machines inventors piloted selves, refusing to allow R.A.F. pilots to risk their lives.
Presumably these tests were nol the Ministry HILS satisfactory, for laid it down that in future only R.A.F, machines and service pilots will be used for such tests.
RAY NOBLE
QUITS
HOLLYWOOD. Recently going to the door of he has the furnished house renied here for the past thrgo months. Ray Noble, the well- known orchestra leader,
greeted by a stranger, who told him that he was from the mar- Abal's office and that he had come to live will him.
was
"I thought it a strange American customer," said Ray, who came to Hollywood from London two years ago, "but I Invited In." The bailiff is All in. But Ray Noble is out, and the house in the possession of marshals, collectors and car- pet salesmen fighting over the possession of the furniture.
Now Ray, who is completely mystified about the whole busi- ness, is living in an hotel, won- dering how, where and from whom he can recover damages,
Left £8,500: "It Was A Curse"
Ex-public school boy, Kennelh William Lawson, aged 32, who two years ago inherited £8,500 but who is now living in a Salvation Army hostel at Bethnal Green seeking re- lief, said recently that his fortune had been a curse to him.
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Said good-looking, curly-haired Mr. Lawson: "Once I was happy
£3 10s.
Flying In Australia sheet-metal worker at
CANBERRA, Australia
"Safety First" is the slogan ndopt- ed by the Minister of Civil Avintian, who has purchased at a cost of
Adock $170,000 seventeen
Cathode direction finders. According to the in the ministry; no other country world has or contemplates such widespread system of air navigation
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14-lbs. of Ugly Fat lost in 11 days
on a full stomach with sale, platant; "I have when s
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new person. I took my only 11 days to reduce t4.its. I have lost about Bibs, since (za-ibs, in all) and I haven't been taking it regulately. wear dresses & sites smaller. Bendes my stomach trouble, constipation. headaches and tired feeling"
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Then an unele in Nyack, New York, left LB,500 to my brother and myself. My brother died and I got the whole amount.
"That was two years ago-and to-day is my birthday. During that time I have realised that tmoney is a nightmare. I gave up my job, thinking that £8,500 would lust me for life. I have been a fool.
"I took a flat in Knightsbridge, had house-boat on the Thames at King sto-entertained and entertained. I didn't realise till now that Talways paid.
PARTIES, GAMBLING
"I even took a shooting party of 24 to Scotland; I knew nothing about shooting-but the others seemed to know about my finances.
"I went to Monte Carlo. I vowed that I would never lose more than £50, I was lucky- I won 2900, but I spent it in my hotel, entertaining. Unfortunate- ly I have never had the guiding I have influence of a woman. met many but they meant no- thing to inc.
"The only consolation I have is that when I came into this money I paid for the training of three youths for a trade. They are now doing well. while I earn 3s. 6d. a day addressing envelopes, raking out fres."
Ships To Be Hotels
San Francisco. In the event that attendance of the 1939 Golden Gate International Expo- sition exceeds the city's hotel ac- commodations, recourse will be had to luxury liners now lying idle. The Federal Court has already authorized the hotel use of the steamship H. F.
Alexander.
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"Patricia of Whyworry," a red Irish Setter bitch owned by Mra, larms-Emden. Fatricia, whose father
was the "Best Dog of the Show" in Shanghat, won a first and second prize and was highly commended at the recent Hongkong Dog. Show.
Another Hospital Wants Foreign Girls Too Few Nurses To Go Round,
Says Matron
FOR THE SECOND TIME in a week an English hospital is applying for permission to employ foreign
nurses.
were
the Home Ofec Recently
at Lenham asked to sanction employment of
Austrian nurses tivo
The hospital, Kent. hospital is a mile and a half from tuberculosis Lenham village, which has only a few small shops and no clnoma.
Later Miss Phyllis Rogers, matron at the Norwood Cottage Hospital, S. E. said "I have applied to the Home Office through the International Council of Nurses for permission to employ three German-Jewish nurses at the hospital,
"For a year I have advertised in three nursing papers for three British trained nurses. There has not been
can't just reply. There one enough nurses to go round.
"For a year my trained nurses have been overworked. It cannot go on any longer."
"I cannot Miss Rogers ndded: think that the wages or conditions In our hospital are not good enough for British girls.
"We are offering £70 a year for and nurses with general training, fall uniform is provided. That is more than many of the general hos- pitals offer. Working conditions ere
not hard."
PURPLE CARNATION
AFTER four years of work Mr. E. Batdry, a gas engineer, has produced on his allotment at.Dagenham marshes a purple
will which
attract carnation gardeners all over the country. It is the result of 40 cross- fcrillisations.
"My first purple carnation u half. size of was only the penny," Mr. Baldry, who lives at Croppath Road, Dagenham, zaid "but it is now a large flaked purple on a pure white back- ground."
Reaping Benefit From Helping Refugees
ONDON. Great Britain is beginning to feel the benefit of the brains and industrial ability of the 12,000 aliens scien- tists and business executives included-who have come to this There are two cinemus and excel-country since the Jewish pogrom began in Germany, The London
ent shops within five minutes' walk of Norwood Collage Hospital. Nurses there can spend their time off in the West End.
Rent Strike By 1,000 Tenants
OVER 1,000 tenants in Stepney have declared a rent strike over the questions of housing conditions and charges for fints.
A loud speaker van pluying march- ing tunes recently fed over 1,200 people through the streets, many of them housewives carrying placards.
A mass meeting was later held in the Greatorex Hall, where it was tenants at Announced that 370 Fieldgate Street Buildings will refuse to pay the landlord when he calls again.
He will find housewives picketing the gates and the buildings covered with posters and placards.
Star reports,
According to the report, the re- fugees have already been instru- lo nearly mental in giving work 16,000 unemployed. Many new fac ic tories have been started in the dis- German tressed areas. Far-seeing Jews transferred hundreds of thou- sands of pounds to British banks long ago, and this money is new be- ing used to bring to England Indus- tries which have so far been almost
German, exclusively Czech.
type of ophthalmic glass used in binoculars and such precision in- struments as microscopes is made-in- Germany. Now there is a chance, for England to have this industry established.
Just like the days when France lost her greatest textile experts to England through the persecution of the Hugenols, and thus founded the greatest English industry, so Britain Austrian or seems likely to beneft from the Nazi
persecution.
A special department of the Home: Office is dealing with a heavy rush for permission to open new busi- Before grant- nesses and factories.
officials Britai Ing permits the make certain that the necessary that British capital is available, wärkmen will be employed at trade union rates, and that it is to the advantage of British trade interests.
IN DEPRESSED AREAS
Frances Drake Marries
Hollywood.
Frances Drake, the Alm actress, was married to the Hon. Cecil John
re-
It is specified, that many of the Arthur Howard, brother of the Eari, 'new factories, have to be established of Suffolk, at Tucson, Arizona, in depressed areas, where Industry cently. has stagnated for years and unem-
At Brunswick Buildings, Aldgate, the 200 tenants will refuse to pay their rent for the fourth week. At present they are organising to pre-ployment and misery are at their. vent bailiffs ejecting 60 tenants under worst." "quit" notices which have been is- sued.
-woman picket told the News Chronicle: "Women and children will lie down and to get to the flats the bailiffs will have to walk over our bodies. Look-outs will be posted all over the building to give the alarm."
The ceremony took place at the house of the Dowager Countess of La Suffolk.
One important development
Miss Drake, whose recent pictures the plan of a group of German Jews to start an ophthalmle glass factory include "You Can't Have Every-~ In England. Great secrecy is being
and "There's Always maintained, but the plan has caused thing" great interest in military circles. Woman," will not give up her m At present 90 per cent of the finest
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