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SCIENCE STUDIES
SCISE OF COAL
THE
THE scientific study of conl
T
This estimate, however,, docs
has always been à particu- not allow for the discovery of larly British subject, and new workable conlfields in the at the present time more effort United Kingdom, an eventuality is being put into it than ever
before. If this were not obvious that now seems quite possible already, it was certainly demon- as the result of recent geophy- strated by the number of sical prospecting for oll. sessions devoted to different aspects during the seven-day meeting of the British Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science which has just been con- cluded at Dundee, Scotland. Here both academical and prac tical interests from all over the country were well represented.
Not long ago ollfelds were dis. avered by such methods as analys ng millstone grit of sandstones of Nottinghamshire, and this fed to gical enditions elsewhere. Intensive search for similar
grojo- these conditions is that the oil sands Onc of have a sufficient cover of coal mea- sur
shales to prevent the oil coping: it followed, therefore, that this search might incidentally reveal the existence of now hidden coal felds.
by
IAN COX
the nicks are folded into the form of a basin there in a good prospect of cont rising to a lesser depth with in a distance of 40 or a miles to
the southeast.
length of tirac mechanical waves (originated by a charge of dynamite) take to travel through a particular thickness of rocks...in short echo- sounding for a particular stratum.
As a result of this recent work, so far unconfirmed by borings, the discovery of five new coalfields Is- South and Central England and on thought possible in the Midlands and the East count. It is also considered that a already being worked may extend number of the coalfields
further, than hitherto, supposed.
With regard to the future of conl in Britain, the most generally held view as expressed at the British An- socnton, is that most rapid deve much as a result of a pester. ton- lopments are to be expected, not so nage being mined, as of our grow. ing knowledge of the constitution and, largely resultant under and properties of its many variants
es a source of heat and power. for CX-
on this, of more effective use being made of it
Our fundamental knowledge of
Prospecting by geophysical means has only recently been carried out on a large scale in Britain. Its main use is in areas where uncomfirm able younger
formations the structures of older rocks lying obocure beneath them to an extent which renders impossible normal methods of gcological mapping of the ground. Several procedures may be adopted: gravity survey, ample, makes use of the fact that of bearing rock is usually denser (and therefore exerts more gravitational
So far as resources are con- cerned, it was firmly establish- ed that Britain's supplies of coal are adequate for any future for which it is possible to plan. No main type of coal present-day exploitation for they pull) than rocks lying above it; the coal is always crensing, largely as
is to
at least the next 100 years,
This, in fact, proved to be the case in the County of Lincolnshire Subsequent boring confirmed that an extensive field was present but that the pcams are to deep for
rock formation.
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Kit Marlowe Was Elizabeth's Spy
THE SCENE is an Inn at Deptford
nar where the sples of Queen Elizabeth sailed for France to keep an car on the intrigues agalost her throne.
BY ROBERT MUSEL United Press: Stall Correspondent
Was
The disclosure led to her execution.
ment Fuel Research
Lells
Organisation and also of research carried out at the universities tuated
near the coalfields Armstrong College, New- Castle
for example, 2014
The outcome that if we are compelled to mine us, for instance, that deeper coal, we shall be rewarded ky a small but definite increase in the average quality, a circumstance that is likely to prove of material consequence, especially in relation to Future sources of coking coals.
W
JITH a view to greater economy In the use of con), active research
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OSBERT LANCASTER
"Just remember that, so please Mr. Shinwell, we're. cutting off this sport, at 8.35 sharpso, the koaner you get off that top Cithe better"
BY THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
HE internationally famous 且
indoor-sports promoter, Mr Ricardo Schmaltz. is soon present the public with a new to
spectacle called "All-In Minia- ture Speedway Under Water On Wheels,"
This takes place on a corrugated
has been in progress for some time switchbock track constructed in a In a number of industries. In steel.hure water tank, which itself is making, for instance, it has been Jiggled violently up and down at shown that full use of existing 300 jiggles per minute. Round and instruments offers possibility round the witchback track race of reducing the time
single cast by 10 to 20 percent with, opposing teams of midgets mounted of course, a corresponding reduction on, power-driven elbow skates, cach in fuel.
Radically new steelmaking competitor carrying a large wooden processes are
investigated with
the same oblons &
in wew: these in mallet with which to knock the clude the manufacture of high
ty bessemer steel by oxygen
ing, execution of
refining reactions
others oul.
No competitor is taller than a
15: Newmarket boot, and all
In the Indle at comparatively
comparatively low
wear
temperatures and the use of quite clothes-pegs gripping their noses to new types of open hearth furnace, prevent them shipping too much
such as one with off-way Aring. In water.
short, there is imminent possibility
of the steelmaking industry
achiev
Harringay Arena having now gone
Ing a quantum jump comparable musical. Mr Schmaltz is negotiating with that it made a century ago.
In the year before
the second
elsewhere.
World War, one-third or all coal Bird thou never werk
consumed in Britain was used in
houses to provide warrytis and AT
heating water or cooking. The Landway we were clapped proportion of this was burnt in the street by a short, red- the remainder being first [faced, plump little man wearing a
Into gas or electrical bowler hat. energy. The ordinary domestic fire said, "but my name is Pigeon-and "Excuse me, sir," he has an efficiency of from five to 15 he added, pulling up his trouser percent, and of the heat that enters
conver
an old-fashioned house most of it is leg and taking a small brass cylin- lost through poor Insulation and der out of his suspendere, "and I exosive ventilation.
have a message for you" Tantivy? 1.
Gabriel Harvey, who was friendly with Walsingham, asserted Marlowe ONE of the fleat, postwar assign-THESE, Government fellers are died of the plague this may have, heen
ments of the Government Building the verston preferred by Research Establishment, therefore, a well-known club pest coming out making a mistake again," sald has been to carry out large-scale
etab a man. What were the four heat is retained within the house. 4 man lying in bed-reaching over to sulation that will ensure that more
Elizabeth.
experiments ta discover more em-of his come. "stoppin' mid-week dog "Any modern detective...would cient domestic-heating devices and racing they tried to stop fox contin laugh at the coroner's report," Eagle Improvements in thermal insulation during the war and look what wald, "It is so full of holes. Imagine which will retain more heat in-appened."
"What?", we asked. These experiments are being made "Place was overrun with foxes in on a group of houses with families no time-nobody to keep en under ingin them; temperature measure-control-same thing happened when ments are made by remote recording they stopped steeple-chasing." Instruments in a central station,
On the morning of May 30, 1503, four men enter. One is the greatest
of
ume-Christopher clusions... But consider this:- recently- Marlowe. The others are Ingram discovered records show that Feizer, Frizer, Nicholas Skeres and Robert Poley and Skeres were sples in the Poley
Day of Francis Walsingham, secretary They dine and drink and then the of state for Elizabeth, reckoning is presented. The mistress
gathered at Mrs Bull's place for? of the house, Eleanor Bull, hears
"Poley. Indeed, the evil They were there 10 hours. Why?" loud voices and runs in to see what Genius of the Elizabethan under- is the matter.
world. He was the one who detected
Pincing the old mystery back in A man lies stabbed, dead on the Stuart, Queen' 'eff Scots, un the throne, body seen by the coroner's jury was the Babington plot to put Mary lavender, Eagle concludes: The not that of Marlowe although it wore Marlowe's clothes. The poet went "Marlowe himself had engaged in off to France and never returned, the espionage before the Spanish fate of so many spies of that violent Armada of 1588 and records show period." Marlowe was lying on the
that the Privy Council ordered when a dispute broke out over pay arts degree without delay because Cambridge to give him his master of ment of the bill. Suddenly the poet It is not Her Majesty's pleasure that lunged and pulled a dagger from Frizer's belt, hacking at his head anyone employed as he had been with it. Frizer wrested it away and in matters touching the benefit of stabbed Marlowe over the eye and his country, should be defamed by anto the brain. He was later given he went about!"
those that are Ignorant of the affairs
floor. Frizer is nursing two cuts on his head. A coroner's jury is con. vened and reports:
CORONER'S REPORT
bed
a pardon by the Privy Council 23 having acted in self-defence.
tory
All sorts of weird stories about That's the way It's taught in his temporary works. Eagle said, point- Marlowe's death are found in con- ory books. But Roderick Eagle, ing out that it supported his theory persistent insurance executive, had that the circumstances of the poet's other ideas. His company did not departure from Deptford were so have a policy on Marlowe hut there, important to conceal that his friends was a principle Involved. :│
So for the past few months he has helped put out garbled versions.. heen backtracking on a trail 363
years old. His cluca are so cold they
OTHER VERSIONS
would have daunted Sherlock Thus the writer William Vaughan Holmes, All his witnesses are says Marlowe got argumentative at a
dinner given by Frizer and
mouldering dust.
But today Eagle is ready to state stabbed. that Christopher Marlowe was not
W29
Francis Meres, the critic, alleges..
lewde love." a bawdy serving man, a rival of his
the drad man seen by the coroner's "Marlowe was stubbed to death by
that the great poet went to Jury: Rheims as a spy for Elizabeth after word of his alleged death tint been allowed to circulato.
Thomas Beard, another of Mar-1 lowe's circle, wrote that his friend
"It as an era of fantastic intrigue," accidentally stabbed himself, while Eagle said, "and it would take a book trying to cut down another man in to explain how I arrived at my con- a street fight in London.
NCY A Man of Polish
IN THESE TIMES,
ONE. MUST · SPECIALIZE
THAT'S THE SECRET OF SUCCESS
HE'S RIGHT
EVERYBODY IS A SPECIALIST THESE
DAYS
1.and
These are just examples of the, effort now being directed to create more efficiency in the use of coal, very much to the fore in applying and in it our men of science are their knowledge to industry.
CROSSWORD
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23. By this route.. 13i
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10. Broker cane in France (4)
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"What?" we asked,...
"Place got overrun with steeples- interfere with nature." mark my word it doesn't do to
.
or
Any sign of feverishness hysteria in this column must be put down to foverishness and hysteria.
Giddy up, Miss Upson! WHILE turning out an old garage Wat Fulwell Grange in order to make more space to park his pine- apple barrow, Sir Fred Wilkins came across a governess cart left by the previous owner.
-Feeling, that, it would strike a quaint oldevoride note, Sir Fred decided to put it on the road again, but although Lady Wilkins hos spent many long hours at the local, labour exchange Interviewing governesses, she hasn't yet found one who looks really strong enough to pull the thing.
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