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Marshall's New Aide To Streamline U.S. Department Of State
BY WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
"Streamlining" the State Department will be Robert A. Lovett's main job in Dean Acheson's shoes as United States Under-Secretary of State.
He is the man picked by Secretary of State George C. Marshall to do away with what are considered to be many outmoded departmental practices, reorganise the methods whereby policies are fixed, and generally tighten up the United States Government agency which is carrying the brunt of what Marshall himself has called "the battle for peace."
Germans
State Department officials are first to concedo that their De- partment has been growing
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faster than it could be reorganis. IRISH DONT
ed to meet that growth,
SCIENCE FEATURE:
They Work 'Miracles' With Infra-red. Rays
Not only for the business of provid- ing heat, but for many health and
By A. M. GOUL hygiene purposes.
Many Household Uses
Tid lamps
aforementioned
The men who make them say there's nothing mysterious about infra-red raya. Then they go ahead and tell about almost miraculous tasks they perform, ranging from simple Batteries of Infra-red ray Jobs such as drying the lacquer suspended over moving trays of falls is an example, on milday's fingernails to set ting now production standards in some of the biggest indus- trial plants.
To the scientists, infra-red is
Incquered
Jests And Jeers
A gay young blade is often not half as keen the morning, after."
He's a poor shopkeeper who thinks' that what's Wanchai's loss may be Central's gain.
Hongkong morchants may now get permits to visit Japan after August 15. A chance for some of our mil ilonaires to renew old friendships.
to prevent germination and at the a clumpoo, she can sit down in a "What's worse than raining whole wheat toast the wheat germ Then if milady has given herself
simple. They explain it by Drying time for matrices in news [saying merely, that infra-red paper stereotyping chops waz cut
minute.
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and dogs?"
cats
"I don't know, unless it's halling buses."
The trouble with Chinese currency Is that nobody wants to keep it over- night.
same time seal in the oils and pre-chair under a lamp and her hair vent or retard oxidation or ranci will dry in hardly any time at ni. dily. It faloes only half the time Or if she has bathed the baby, formerly required.
decides he moeds a bit of artificial sunton, or
maybe it's wintry Here are some other examples: weather and the furnace has broken.
down she can lay him under couple of damper and he'll be dry und rays produced by electrichly aro. from a minute and a half to a warm in no time. nothing more than a bit of cap-
Other houshold Us include tured sunlight. Since the war
head. Warming up the bathroom, thawing Scaled-beam mutomobile ended, they have produced lamp housings are dried at the drying the dog after giving him a out frozen pipes in the basement, The Irish Historical Society enough versions of Infra-red of 1,000 no secretaries, All of these men uw has gone before the City Coun- devices to bring artificial sun the need for a reorganisailon, but in Canada's capital to ex light into homes, into factories Now it is apparent that Marshall press resentment over Ottawa) and on the farma, where in
determined to "stay
history which represents the every instance they perform bring about a much-needed reor-
the type who practical jobs. Kanisation.
In three years its staff has grown from 5,230 to 11,115. In the Inst two
and a half years the period of
its greatest growth-it has had four
All Want Toolf Emigrate
An emigration bureau has been established in Berlin. It is doing a rush business. Nobody appears to want to stay in Ger- many any longer.
never had time to do it.
put"
Overhauled System
and
LIKE IT
of
hour. The former
In making engravings, plates are placed in an oven and a flick of the with foods them with infra-rexi rys. No warm-up period is quired.
method required eight hours.
In clay chinaware manufacture, infra-red does the work faster and provides an absolutely even shrink
It's sald that the imitation jewel-
shom.
bath, keeping you warm while read- in bed after the furnace has been stoked for the night, or on tiny business is thriving. Money for
dry painted, basement work bench to toys or freshly glued articles.
Ute
Or if the car is cranky and stiff with cold, hang a tamp over VLA Laugh, and the world laughs with cylinder block to warm it up. Or you. Cry, and you ruin your make- direct the rays at the carburetor or intake manifold. Or shove it under up.. the motor to heat the oil in
ing or warping.
On the farm the lamps can Infra-red lampa in laundries and used for maintaining the required re- temperature for a batch of newly- other cleaning establishments
thne meeded to treat wet clothes, warning up the hen-house, or to Industry is not the sole market plug in when you go to the barn for for infra-red. Mama, Papa and the the morning" and night milking potential customers, chores.Untied Press. baby are all
to emigrate are homeless refugees of which was spent in Moscow. Ha Archives, is usually given to dis-small. One of the pot projects ng from the moulds without crack- crankcase
Overheard on the ferry:
"She's been asked many times to
"Who by?"
Irishman as causes trouble.
In industry the makers tell Copies of the book, "Ottawa, Old you infra-red rays do the job Already he has done a lot in the and New" by Dr Lucien Brault of whether it's big or whether it's Canadian Department The majority of people who wish short time he has held office, much the without relatives. Seventy perceni
remainder has centralised the Department's tinguished visitors to Ottawa. Trish to which they point with pride of these are
men, the
intelligence service; he has ordered istorical Society ofBeials have been in industry is the use of infra-
lo stop the wwomen.
Most of them
have professions. the complete overhauling of Its competitioning the Council
"casts slurs on the Inhabitants of lacquer drying. Tully work driers without making these "diplomatic channels" ish birth or descent," land. Their average age in between wat recher, most important of all both Protestant and Catholic. 30 and 40, but one ite. 00 years and another; most
mostlanning commitice he has created
wawaning
polley plot and which will are much the same way. Barshall's war worked out The emigration bureau staff during the advises Argenting and Brazit as the long-term battle strategy. best bels. Offcials say that
many Favett will not be dircetly con- lellers received from these
two cerned with that strategy; rather he countries prove their pupulation to will tend and oil the machinery that have a friendly attitude towards develops it so that "correct estimates Germans,
of the situation" are always at hand, The boreau at the monent is and the need for sudden improvisa-nothing of moving furniture out of
The tion in the face of unexpected events buy reglalering names only, final selection can only be made dispensed with. when arrangements have been com pleted and consent of forces obtained.
They are mainly engineers, doctora,munications system with the fden of Practice on the claim that the book red lamps for paint, enamel and duce by more than 50 per cent the hatched chicks, in pig brooders, get married."
and others only 14.
have definite plans,
countries
old
favoured,
Engilsh-speaking
The
Two For Russia
Allied
Greck Bombshell
how
in
Whether it's a small automobite or a huge 10-ton taller for hauling The Society, which is composed of freight, the freshly painted vehicle persons interested in the study and is wheeled into a room whose wrdis and are fined with solid banks of infra- preservation of Irish history traditions, objects to about 15 pages red lamps. In a matter of minutes again-dry. It's devoted to the exploits of some of it's wheeled out
Infra- the way through. Ottawa's early Irish residents, dry 1 cluding a group of iminigrants known red heat dries from the inside out. No soft paint baneath a hardened as "The Shiners."
outer coat. These, Brault
wrote, "thought
putting it on the street during the night, of beating quiet passersby, and even of taking a corpse out from hearse during a funeral and leave thingsing it on the street after dispersing
terrified followers."
the houses of their enemies and
A good example of The Control Council law currently worked in the past was provided by
Greece-Turkish crisis, which The Irish feel too much emphasis prohibits any German from leaving the the country unless under exceptional many in Washington feel should have is put on some of the over-ebullient circumstances. Final solution may been foreseen and planned for. The things some Irish people did and not Secretary of State told Congressmen enough on the good things. Brault, be reached this month.
the that the British request that
who is of French descent, says the The
Unlon, Soviet
however, United States take over her respon-book would be a "false picture of handles emigration requests in different manner. They have assur-sibil
albilities in these Mediterranean early Ottawn's scene if the omis that areas came as a "bombshell" to him.sions were made." ed the officials of requests from German nationals will At the time he was preparing for
Ottawa's population is roughly half be cleated within four weeks if the the Moscow conference, and he was applicant is suitable. So for only forced to interrupt this work and French and half British descent. twn Germans have asked to go to hostly
the programme Mayor Stanley Lewis is of English Improvise These were an explot and which marked the birth of the Tru-ancestry-Associated Press. Russia.
man Doctrine.
commit-
the
bureau
pn_engineer,
Germany is overcrowded. About
Now Marshall's planning survey
ย
200 people live on one square kilo- tee is a mic conditions in ad-
metro (0.3861 of Д square mile). of world Large portions of Germany have vance of what some people believe heen cut off. Streams of refugees is an impending world monetary stil are coming in, and the need of crisis. When and if that crisis comes
and possibly in advance living space increases,
of it German youth aces its only hope Marshall under the new 'system in emigration. Most of them are should have a polley ready in all unaware of the fact that the world detalls to go into operation without still locks upon every German as all the hurry and spectacular-Con- representative of Nazi guilt. Ta pressional bustle that marked the them
America is country of Greco-Turkish,programme. wealth, luxury living and people without sorrOW.
-... Old Colleague
he is first
War Orphans On
Their Way
Four young London war orphans, survivors of a family of nine, are on their way to a new life in Aus- traila with the first party of assisted British Immigrants.
Their trip fulfilled a promise given- two years ago by the late John Cur- th, who was then Australian Prime Minister.
CHESS PROBLEM
Used on Cercals
Another place in industry which doesn't concern paint but where vitaming are at stake, has been found for this artificial sunlight-in particularly preparation of cereals, whole grains. Wheat, for instance.
UNDERSEA
CANYON OFF
AUSTRALIA
The discovery of a huge undersea canyon near the mouth of the Murray River, South Australia, has been hailed in .Australia as a find of major im- portance to geologists through out the world.
The submarine chaam-about as large us Grand Canyon, Colorado, in the United States-Is the Arst break
(Book's
"Her parenta."
GEORGE MALCOLM-THOMSON reviews a novel about a boardina ̋ school'
It wouldn't do
for Eton!
sence
Making McSorley's his point of departure, Mr Mitchell explores' a rich belt of eccentricity, encountering characters like Commodore Dutch founder of "The Annual Party, ab- Affair, Soirce and Gala Naval Ball of the original Commodore Dutch the Association."
would be a complete waste than those of our British youth? Let T'
of time to urge upon those us attribute the defect to the
of organised sport. Saint who have read Gabriel Cheval Colline would have been pone lier's Clochemerle the merits of worse for an energetic games, mas-
Sainte-Colline ter. novel
his new
6d.).
For forty years, the Commodore- has made a living by giving an un-
(Secker and Warburg, 10s. Afler a hard afternoon at the nual ball for the benefit of himself. cricket held the wretched little Gar" He says, "I haven't got a whole lot fouillat would have been too sleepy of sense, but I got too much sense to
work."
Enough to
whisper in those instructed cars the tidings that this new star has risen in the Armament. But there are others who dwell in darkness. Since Clochemeric was published a whole new
generation has learned to read and attained to
adult status,
1
to be frightened by Father Ouabat's A deplorable scandal sermon on sin. would thus have been averted.
On the other hand, the mentally depressing effect of athletics might ready wit with which he explained to have deprived young Luberlut of the
the Abbe Fuche the presence of a
This is an essential qualification, detestable photograph in his cate for Chevallier is a writer for adults, chism. The point must be made with some found in the continental shelf which stretches along the east, south, and emphasis, west coasts of Australia.-
from
t
himaclf the
more
He lives by sponging on Tammany statesmen, sportsmen and similar lawful, prey for the man of talent. Ho industriously attends the funerals of politicians, not for
the solemn beauty of those functions, but because "soma of my big-shol
members, the best time to put the
bile on them is at a funeral."
Another naval hero ly Capihin Charles Cassell, who conferred tho rank on himself for being in charge the of an
ammunition barge during
It was only one of many that turned up during a search of
the time was wasted.
A
sometimes
When the marriage ban was lifted
The canyon, about half a mile deep recently, to get to the United States Lovett Is an "old Marshall man"-
and eight miles wide, was charted He is, morcover, a Frenchman. deslts, And all, for some unfathom- World War I. became every German girl's ambi- he was special assistant to the Secre-
about 30 miles south of Kangaroo It follows, therefore, that his philo- able reason were inscribed with the Llon The American authorities ex-tary of War and then Assistant
Island, and 130 miles from the pre-sophy and humour are likely to the attention of the school authorities "Captain Charley's Private Museum name "Olga." The mystery occupied The captain lives by keeping pect 8,000 froulcins to go to America Secretary of War during Marshall's The children, Rose 11. Ruth nine sent mouth of the Murray,cond make a stronger appent to the male for quite a time. Nor can one say for Intelligent People." this year. Already 300 German tenure as the Chief of Staff. At the and twins Shirley and David, agedtralia's largest river. A
He is a brides have left.
War Department
his eight, of the Hopgood family, inst smaller canyon also was located.. than to the female of our species.
man of strong opinions. For This form
he ministra their parents of emigration fability as a progressive
and three brothera
Scientisia In
In the United States and
assassina- example, he believes in frauleins was possible, until this tor,
at Ironing out inter-
and sisters when a flying bomb hii
Licenilous and tender, outspoken clon: It makes albow room." Lothar
parts
of the world have recent- Their ladyships may well and the month. Henceforty, German girls tepartmental "rows" and developing London. Associated Press.
∙ly been
been studying o
ocean chasms which fancies of M. Chevallier a trifle and humorous, Sainte-Colline is will have to marry in Germany and well-running government machinery.
Cock-eye Johnny were once probably beds of rivers. coarse, even ribald. And it would novel in which the robust will de- be shipped to the States as American Actually, despite his connection
They have been found near the be wrong to allege that this novellat
light.
claims to be King of all the gipsica dependents at the cost of the US with the
Wor
Department, he
Congo and Hudson rivers.
In North America, but, in his less Government.
and last a businessman, coming from
Because geologists are divided
in conceals
TN New York Is the Bowery, and expansionist moments, admite that Already the black marketeer has a family closely associated in rali-
tlieir opinions on whether the level brutal facts of life.
In the Bowery is McSorley's he rules no more than 36 families entered the emigration deal. Re-way finance and banking with that
of the seas is gradually rising, some
Wonderful Saloon, which gives its New York City, Liloe Captain cently a man was caught pretending of the Secretary of Commerce and
collcellon He looks at them, unprejudiced title to a are expected to facilitate emigration to Argentinn. forner Ambassador to London Ave-
to contend that the
of articles Charley, Cock-eye clings to certain Mitchell.
two (Porcupine principles: There are only About 30 families had fallen for rill Harriman-Reuter.
Australian canyons were cut by the and disillusioned, and finds in them by Joseph waters of the Murray, and that the no cause to despair of mankind, Press, Bs. Od.) about walls, wasters kinds of merchandise, foot and un-
lost. Anything that and oddities. stay subsequently covered the area, which if it Is often wicked, is
down is lost.”- would mean that the land mass
generally funny Australia was 4,000 feet higher in
and sometimes The motto of McSorley's is "Good
Ale, raw Onions and no Ladies." It Mr Mitchell daices Iris readers on relation to the sea than it is to-pathetic.
is patronised by old men, who find u four of the booths in which the day. Other scientists might orgue that the chasms were
His new novel has for its scene other saloons effeminate and their fria are exhibited. Like all tours water.
n French boarding-school for boys, atmosphere hysterical. In McSor- of the kind, it should be completed.
ley's it is possible to relax.
by instalments. Discovery of the Australian can- run by Catholic' priests. It is not, yons was reported in a prese inter perhaps, the best school in the world. view by Lieutenant Commander
In fact, Sainte-Colline, in its repul- G. Little, commanding officer of the Australian survey ship Lachlan, after sive mixture of ploty and
it. They had packed their posses-
slons and were ready to
the Westem Zones
so-called ship.
leave for
to report to a
At the last minute the trick was
discovered.
AEROMODELLING FASCINATES
(Continued from Pare 4)
Used To Ruling Mon, and olementary aerodynamics-and
Now Seeks To Wed in addition to the acquirement
such knowledge it helps youth
at
to
The Marriage Society a lonely understand the social and economic hearts organisation announced significance of aircraft.
that it was looking for a husband
for one of its clients, a spinster of
Inventor used to ruling men."
Whether the educational authorl-
The Society sald one, stipulation ties will fall in with this proposal remains to be seen, but there is no
30 who is an internationally lawn
Sho
also cars £220,000 annually.
was that the man "must mot
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her because of her fortuneUnited doubt that Model Aero Clubs, at any rate, have come to shy-and to grow! At no time in the history of aviation has there been such a field to the model of exploration open flying enthusiast, whether it is designing new types of aircraft, or experimenting with jet aircraft rockets, the sky is the limit"
Mr Charles Rippon, ex-chalman
or
model
Found
I
1. Arorat. 2. Lost word should be of the Association of British Aero- "there." Quotation is from "Home modellers, and a veteran Thoughts from Abroad (Brown aircraft flying, gave some ing). 3. Deals in extins. 4. Part of difficult, advice to beginners in hu Northern Tasmania (the map, ne lecture at the, Junior Institute of varsed, resembles our Dorset). 5. Engineers in London this year. Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens. "When you first lart," he warned 6. All of them. 7. Box, 8. Open them, “choose a popular design willi 'country; verandahs; low hille. 9. u good history, and stick to 11. Do William the Conqueror, 10; Pay As not try making your own modifica-" You Eam.
tions until you are well experienced.”
There Mr. Rippon touches" upon the vital secret of aeromodelling's great fascination. For what other hobby or pastime holds out auch templations for exploring new ideas, Improving upon old ones, discover- *ing now principles, or producing etmi original designs of your very own? From among the young and cuter #aeromodellars of today, will: émergé wine of the ⠀ finest executives; desimers, constructors, pilota and around staffs of tomorrow sayon
CROSSWORD SOLUTION
solution of yerlarday's "puzzle. Across!:1. divergrown by Bananas em 10,4Managers: 11, Upbraid;
Crawl
Obfuses
Bole
By A. ELITEAN
Black, 10 pieces.
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White, 8 pieces. White to play and mate in two.
Solution to resterday's pro- blem:
J, R-Q7); threat; 2, Q X R (ch).
* ... . R X Q; 2, RX R; 1
R—B4; 2, R X KIP (ch); 1 R others; 2, Q-Q5 (ch).
NANCY
tens of thousands.
Cut under
C.
spying,
area.
He said soundings taken along the 100 fathom line showed, in half.
he returned to Sydney from taking must have been an odlous place. soundings in the | Some of the priests are dreadful but,
compensation,
of them, saint. Father Bricole, is almost a +
one
mile, a drop of 3,000 foot in the sen And, be it said, some of the parents floor level almost a sheer drop. (Nusillon's terrifying father, for Soundings indicated a fat-bottomed canyon about eight miles wide, and And no parent is a saint,
example), are as bad as any master.
on the other, sits the sea floor rose 2,000 feet in two miles. The second smaller
Chasm
was 300 to 400 feet away.
As for the boys, lusty, brutish and The
sloping shelf around the Aus-pitiful, they are very much like the tralian coast, which the newly dis-[masculino young, everywhere. Aro
shade covered canyon cuts, varies from 20 their imaginations
more
to 40 miles wide, Associated Press, infammatory, - more Hujurland,
Looking Ahead!
OH, WELL --- I
I S'POSE
PROMISED TO MARRY:
WEDDING
CAKES
HIM EVEN IF HE
15. A LOAFER
SLUGGO IS SO LAZY---
IT'S AWFUL
WE'LL HAVE
ONE OF
THOSE
ain. miled
Rupert and the Young Imp-10
Mr. Bear wanders back to the apple tree, to by to find out why the strange things happened there, but he has no luck. Meanwhile Rupert decides to give k up for the presenta a lovely day and it's a half holiday and I've got my ahuttlecock back safely," he says. "May I go and find some of my gals and see if they an play Uncle Bruno's game His Eather secs him off. Yes, run along," he says. And I'll keep watch in case any other odd things happen to the apple tree."
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