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September 18, 1939.
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DEST BOWL DANGER
IN KENYA
NAIROBI.
The damper of a dust botal beaut anted JIN the Kamba Re vrve Konya
Ammar, cuber it to coffer planters in the in phi tung Thik chestrict
The planter are mering f mat from the Colonial Development Fund or a long to be used for tester- ing By fertility of the Kanha Native Bean ve
The Thaka pesident - Complakar That ly un-rien winds Froma the
Kamba country ape arakicing the fectility of their district
Thi kauger es jos rains remummon 24 years older, What Jo known as the pericet et long rain: Kenya :eems to be steadily larten- ing.
INDIA
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CAMP CARRIED AWAY. BY AVALANCHE
HOMBAY·
Details of the disaster to the Pidisin Himlayar expolition on Nanda Devi have been received in a better from a surviver IT
"M. Adam Katpania, the leader.. unit A. Berrondzikiewicz) were whelmed by an avalanche durng the night. The avalanche carried away and buried the whole comp
"When aerived at that the
next day, wita M. Klarer and two porters, we found, instead of theį tents, a mountain of ler, more than; #50ft long and 38074 in width www over 30ft high.
"A day and a half's rearch resulted
sly in the finding of a few objects,
including a pair of boot...
Girl Scouts of Aarhus, Denmark, gave their sovereign. King Christian, a hearty welcome when he appeared unannounced at their camp. Among the 2,800 girls, Crown Princess Ingrid, recently an American visitor, lived in a tent like all the others.
Error At Operation Kills Woman
GIVEN nitrous oxida in mistake for oxygen, Mrs. Emily Jane Flower (45), widow, employed as a housekeeper in a Park Lane flat, died during an operation in the Samaritan Free Hospi- tal for Women, Marylebone,
"No one is infallible. Every-
one is apt to make mistakes at
fines," said the coroner, Mr. Time Magazine
"We failed to find any traer of the, Ingleby Oddie, recording a ver- bodies.
constrophe
beerd at Camp 111, at an affilde of 18,500rt. below Tírusula Peak, 21,4500, and! now the Milum alicin.”
AUSTRALIA
AIR
INDIAN OCEAN
SURVEY SUCCESS
SYDNEY.
Capt. P. G Taylor, the Australias sirman who piloted the Cyiast-boat Guba in the ...urvey of the Trian Clean air route in ime, los inturned to Sythey.
I
dict of "Misadventure" at the Paddington inquest recently,
It was stated that, while being,
ether. Alts. Flayer became blur and the ane thetist, in order to give ad.
Banned
newp-
6UDIE," the American
magazine, cannot be seen an England bookstalls. The Wholesale Newsagents Federation has advised its members not to distribute the mag chú nad oxygen, switched on to anzine, following an article on Counters other cylinder which should have Cians which appeared in the July Conttuned, as fresh supply. 1: www.24 issues. afterwards found that the cylinder extained nitrous oxide.
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Captain Fuller, of Messrs. range's, agents in Britain for Tint," cannot understand the ban,
Hr sah:
"We do not know if the bun is!
HOW MISTAKE OCCURRED
Dr. Bha Wilson, an anat the list at
hspital, told the corner that he permanent er not but we intend total
further in the matter.
switched over in the middle of an
qopation,
il consider, that the result of ❘ địt not bulk at the cylinder when she the survey tenths weers, encouraging. ifis report to the Commonwealth Gov-; ernment will suggest that the Au tralia-Afrien route be used in Virara! of emergency.
He say that all the Indien idlands at which the Guba touched i were found to have natural dying. hout bases in their fagoms. All the islands are British-owned.
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The flying-boat Cuba was trat to the Commonwealth Government by American millionaire-rcientist, Mr. Richard Archbold. The fight; was financed jointly by the Common- wealth and British Governments,
of
Governor's recall demanded.—Mr.; Lang, former Soclutist Premier New South Wales, Introduced a ma-- tion in the House of Assembly all- ng that the Governor, Lord Wake- hurst, had departed from constitu- | tional practice in appointing Mr. A. -Mair as Premier of the State. Mr.
Mair uns elected leader of United Australia party and later; sworn in Premier, following
The
the resignation of Mr. B. S. B. Sle- vens'r Government. Mr. Lang's motion urged that the Governos should be recalled,
•
Following the introduction of the motion the House miljourned.
SYDNEY.
Sir Archibald Howie, president of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce, addressing the annual meeting of the Chamber, said that there were dangers for Australia in policy of unlimited expansion of secondary in- dustries.
COUNTESS CIANO ARTICLE We assume although we have mul The Coroner. You naturally as been informed officially,
that 1134 vipht?--Yo...
tu an Federation took execptions portiels on Countess Ciano,
Dr. D. Mevent, another anar. hetet, Said that during the perman
"Why the Federation should sud- leehanged various empty cylinder.
denly feel to anxious about the pre- gs of Mussolini's family I do not the matatus and it have know. The Halians write far strate- a gas cylinder where there wa, u. un!-
er articles about the leaders of our ly an oxygen cylinder by mistake.
country, and we consider the action of the Federation to be unreasonable." The ban will not affect those news- jagents who do not belong to the The coroner said that he could not Federation, nur will It affect the seriously blame either of the anus-distribution of the magazine to sub- tirlits.
Dr. Donald Teare, pathologist, sald that the woman died from asphyNIA the to deprivation of oxygen.
scribera who receive it by pud.
Man Who Achieved
Fame By Accident
MEMORIAL to a man who achieved fame by accident was
recently opened at Sudbury.
William Perkin, son of a London builder, tried, when only
18 years of age, to produce a synthetic quinine.
Ite failed but found something of most of the reward far greater importance.
secret of aniline dyes.
for his this-
It was the coverkes went to Germany.
Instead of quinine young Perkin
Perkin dled in 1907 and recently
got a black precipitate. He sought his daughter unveiled the memorial, to remove the colour and discovered erected 101 years after his birth, la that the solution so funned could be the "inventor of mauve." used to dye silk a genuine purple to becsine known us mauve-the first aniline dye.
GERMANY BENEFITED
this discovery An adaptation of was even more successful. Perkin
He declared that the increase of manufactures clrcumscribed Aus- tralia's export markets to the extent that Great Britain was deprived of found out how to dye cotton opportunities of experting to Aus- tralia
He thought the time had come When a competent authority should Finquire whether the present methods of establishing recondary · industries were in the Interests of Australia.
what is called the tannin process.
It's No Joke To Thieves
by
Forty
worn
EVERETT, Mass. spark plugs were A third discovery was commercial method for producing artificial placed by gasoline station proprietor alizarin--the colouring matter of the Eldon Strupp in a bird cage bearing Med sign: "Those birds were caught Perkin was knighted for his stealing gaa". Thlaves broke in and services but unhappily for Britain, stale the pings.
madder root.
To Command 36,000 At Age Of 34
COMMANDER John Hampden Fordham, R.N. (reld.), who is only 31, has been appointed commandant of the 32,000 men and 4,600 women of London's Auxiliary Fire
Commanderserved
the Lo
London
in the Navy for 11 years before he was selected from 270 candi- dates is
divisional officer of Fire Brigade. The London Auxiliary Fire Service has three deputy com mandants for the men, wo for the wonen, and right group commanders-all auxiliaries,
A
district superintendent. officer, and eight station officers
from will be "seconded"
the regular brigade to carry out a scheme
to place the auxiliary service on an Independent basis from the 2,500 regular firemen.
Anxillarirs will have sub- liliary stations to every one of the 50 land slations and three river stations in London.
Bearskin Frightened Guardsman
WALT DISNEY
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ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) and 31.49 metres (9.520 kilo-cycles) Studio Jazz-Piano Recital By Hal Lorenzo THRD ACT OF "FAUST"
Reddin Programme Broadcast by ZBW on a Frequency of 845 keta. and on Short Wave Ironi 1-2.15 p.1. and 8-11 p.m.
9.52 me's. second. H.K.T.
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12.15 pm. A Short Servare, of
Intercession.
12.30 Robert Watson (Rarline) and Jean Day (Soprano) in [Scatfish Programme.
1.0 Local Time Signal and Wea- ther Report.
103 Dance Musle by Billy Cotton; and His Band.
1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Weas ter Porecast and Announermenia.
1.45 Dyerak-Concerto In B Minar, Op. 104.
SENTENCE of 56 days detention was rarently promulgated on Guards- m Reginald Frank Throne (23), 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards, who was stated at the court-martial at Chelseu j Barracks, when he was charged with desertion, to have been "genuinely frightened at having to wear a tunic and bearskin."
The Czech Philharmonic Orchestre cond. by Georg Szell. 2.15 Close down.
who was Throne,
have: said to absented himself from Chelsea Bar- racks from January 2 until arrested¦ al Chard, Sommersel, on July 3, was frand guilty of desertion.
His defending officer submitted that since Thrane gave himself up' voluntarily he was not deserler, but um absentee.
Wedding 'Joke' Cost Him £2
John Daniel Hillery, aged 29,. of Laurel-grove, Penge, guest at his sister's wedding, as n' joke decided to hide his brother-in-law's motor-cycle, which was to take the couple an their, honeymoon trip to Cornwall.
He sni in the saddle and with his feet on the ground "pushed it round the corner."" A policeman, saw him.
At Croydon recently Hillery was accused of driving a motor-cycle while under the influence of drink taking the machine away without the consent of the owner, using it, without en insurance policy, and having no driving licence.
The chairman, Alderman H. J. Mor land. dimissed the case on payment of £1.105. 3d. costs..
G.O "For the Children," 0.30 Nexto Spirituals.
6.40 Closing local Stork Quotations, 6.42 Gounod's "Faust" Act III, 7.29 Gounod-"Faust" Ballet Muste, Symphony Orchestra conducted by Henri Busser,
7.45 Dalgful-Ballet Egyption. Marek Weber and His Orchestra. 8.0 Local Time Signal, Weather: Report and Announcements.
8,03 Orchestra Mascotte,
8.15 Studio-Jazz-Plano Recital by Ital Lorenan
8.45 Victor Silvester and His Ball- room Orchestra.
9.01 Songs by Leslic
and Lys Gauty.
Hutchinson
9.15 Landon Itelay-The News,
9.50 Marcel Paletti at the Organ. 10.0 A Programme of Variety and Dance Music,
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