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Woman sniffed A. R.P. test, became ill
in
EMPIRE NEWS
PLANS FOR DEFENCE OF KENYA
Nairobi.
ISAVED BY OXYGEN
gas
£1,500 For Leg
Knocked down by a motor-cyclist on a pedestrian crossing in Decem- ber, 1937, Mrs. Emily Ellzabeth Cor- belt, of Galton Road, Tooting, S.W., was awarded £1,500 damages, with
recently,
costs, in the King's Bench Division
Mrs. Corbelt said she had been un-
fracture,
OXFORD A.R.P. OFFICIALS said recently that a report is to be sent to the Home Office about thirty-two- year-old Marjorie Prichard, who has been in hospital to use her right leg since 113 having oxygen treatment after being gassed in an A.R.P. test.
Her mother said: "Of course she will join up in the ARP, service again as soon as she is well. She is malting progress, but I don't know when sho will be quite better."
Plans for the defence of Kenya and the utilisation of its man-power are now nearly completed, according to n statement made by the Governor, Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke- | nenjeh student, daughter of a univer- Popham, in the Legislature.
sity professor,
Arrangemens for reinforcements for the Colony in time of' need had been worked out in detail, including provision for the movement of the forces involved.
Miss Prichord is an Oxford re-
The lest during which she was Kassed, was an examination for First Aid services, and Included the iden- tißention of gases by their smell.
Miss Prichard, after smeling a bottle containing a minute amount of dendly phosgene gas, was speech- less and had a fit of coughing for five minutes.
Aslalic man-power would be employed principally in the mainten ance of railways and similar essential services, and in the construction of milltary camps; but special op portunity, would be provided, for Asiatic and, Arab participation in By the evening of the next day coastal defence.
she was so ill that she hind to go to Progress had been made in the a nursing home, where she was put provision of medical establishments, into an oxygen tent. including a motor ambulance convoy, casualty stations, a hospital train, and a base general hospital. All would be fully staffed and equipped while maintaining intact civil needs, particularly in native reserves. *BRITISH GUIANA.
JEWISH SETTLEMENT
LOAN PLAN
Georgetown.
Dr. Mary Radford, of Oxford, says in the British Medical Journal: "The reaction was so great that without
The advisability of using this gas in oxygen it might. have been fatal.
A.R.P. examinations might well bej reconsidered."
Pending a Home Office decision the use of phosgene gas in Oxford A.R.P. tests is to be suspended,
'NO ILL-EFFECTS'
A.R.P. services sald: "The Instruc A permanent officer of the Oxford
It is reported from New York that the American Jewish Commission, tor who was carrying out the test in which has been inquiring here into which Miss Prichard took part had the possibilities of large-acole urge the formation of a corporation without any ill-effect en anybody. colonisation of British Guiana, will tested several thousand people by the same method with phosgene gas to float an international loan, backed by the United States and British Governments,
Mr. Myron C. Taylor, one of the prime movers of the refugee settle-
the
ment
schieme. is studying findings of the Commission, whose members are now all in New York..
com-
An air survey will probably precede any development of munications in the interior. INDIA
CONCERN OVER TRADE
AGREEMENT
phial into a big bottle. The people going through the test snift the bottle and have to try to identify
"The method is to break a one-inch
the gas.
"In
Defendant was Mr. Robert Edward Fenner, of Coverton. Road, Tooling, owner of the motor-cycle,
The photograph was taken an Actress Helen Hayes, left, plead-
cd al Congressional hearing for admission of 20,000 German child refugees to U.S. Edith Nourse Rogers, right.
MOTHER JAILS
GIPSY BRIDE
the portfeular test after SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD Valentina Valdes, gipsy which Miss Prichard was I tour- bride of Mr. John Smith, a South African gold miner, teen other people were examined. sits weeping in a Marseilles prison, unable to see the man
All smelled the gas from the same
bottle with no ill-efeet. Before she recently married.
handing, the bottle to each one of them the instructor sniffed It. him- self."
1
a sultcase
She was arrested after her. He had reported that mother had refused to allow her contulning £200 and several valu- An Oxford deelor said: "Miss to embark on the ship which able, jewels were missing. Prichard was especially sensitive to was to have taken her to her were folding their tents hurriedly to When he heard that the gipsles the gas, but she will fully recover. husband's home. CALCUTTA.
leave he took police in a taxi to There is much concern in India as
There will be no permanent after- The mother followed the couple to their camp. to what the Government will do now
effects."
the quayside, and maintained, her
There the women of the tribe set that the Central Legislature has re-
objection, although the husband, in them with such fury, scratching jected terms of the agreement re-ment of India enforced it by certl-accordance with gipsy custom, had their faces and stoning them, that cently reached between Brlinin and fleation, but it is felt by Europeans raid £250 for his bride when hel Mr. Smith borrowed a revolver from India.
and Indians allke that It would be a married her In February,
the taxi driver and fired several When the Ottawa Agreement was grave mistake if the Government To keep her in France the mother times Into the air to scare them. similarly rejected in 1932 the Govern-were to do this again.
denounced Valentine to the police, Three of the women were arrested for having no identity papers. This and taken to the police station. was possible because gipsy wedding The taxi-driver was also arrested
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on n charge of being in illegal pos- There had also-been--trouble-be-session-of-firearms, tween the girl's father-in-law, wealthy dainond
members of her tribe.
merchant,
The police fear that the situation and will cause a tribal vendetta, which
moy end in bloodshed.
Girl in 25,000 Pictures
Will Not Smile
HELEN BENNETT, girl with the mest photographed face in the world, smiled in London recently as she said she has never smiled before camera, and never will,
SHE MAKES A LOT
Although her face has launched a thousand advertisements, her nome this unknown to America's millions. Her fan mail reaches Hollywood pro- portions, but the letters are address- led to "The girl on page..."
She is the front-cover girl on bigli class American magazines. Richly furred, exe
exquisitely gowned, she gazes from advertisements,
And
why doesn't she smile? why She told me at the Dorchester: "Any woman looks attractive when she smiles. Her best picture is al- ways the smiling one.
"It is much more difcuit
I
Admirers of her picture oflen propose marriage, though they have never met her, The lust would-be wooer wrote: "I'm sure you get enough money to take care
Helen to
of me makes a lot of money. In.
look glamorous how I hate the the last three years she has been pic- word-without smiling. And that's tured 23,000 times. She get £5. an how
make my mo
my money.
hour. for wearing the lovellest, clothes "I typify what America calla the and jewels. spirit of sophistication.
She is just twenty-five, blonde, and "Nobody would want me to pose in has high check-bones inherited from cotton frocks or in tweeds, however a Russian mother. “Sho uses vory smart, I must always be pictured in little make-up, "because tula too furs and jewels, and the sinklest Uitle is always better than a little too gowns.
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