THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1950.
NEW X-RAY APPARATUS AT 6TH RADIOLOGY CONGRESS
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
GRILL
Good heavens/ Aftre what the Chancellor had to sup about the get-rich quich attitude. l'a have thought you'd have been ashamed to stand about in that expectant way."
Story Of
Inventive Genius
The International Congress of Radiology, which takes place in London this year, is an event of major importance to X-ray specialists- and indeed to all medical men-throughout the world. Normally held at three-yearly intervals, each time in a different country, it is now 13 years since the last Congress was held-in Chicago in 1937.
Rats To Get
Poison Oats, No Coffee
The condemned rats of Inwali's Konn coast will be served 7,000 pounds of roll- ed oats and no coffee for their last meal.
The rats probably would order roffee if they had their choice but the territorial legislature is paying the bill for the incal and it says definitely not
During the Intervening vances) and all the necessary Accessory apparatus and ma- years very great progress ferials required in connection bas been made in
with the practice of radiology. branches of radiology and in- the use of X-rays has creased to auch an extent that it is now said that one
out of every two patients attending hospital is sub- jected to X-ray examina- tion.
The exhibition of X-ray and In ancillary apparatus, which being held in the two halls of the Royal Horticultural Society. Vincent Square, Westminster, from July 24 to July 28, will reven many radient improve- of the ments in the design
of manufacturers from equipment nino different countries. It will Fur years the caffein-addicted offer to visitors from all parts rodents of the "big Island" have of the world their first- opport compare the post- feasted on the lands' third big-unity to
Koua rollee war designs of different countries. made by runs The great progress
United Kingdom manufacturers,
Etat export crop.
growers say the damage
between US$100,000 and $200,- both in technical design and 000 annually.
BEANS IN DEMAND
quality of production, will be strikingly evident from their exhibits.
Only quite recently has Britnin
Admission to the exhibition is by ticket, avallable to doctors and others engaged in the prac tice of medlent and industrial док physiotherapy radiology from the Technical Exhibition Secretariat, Sixth International Congress of Itadlojogy, 32, Wel- beck Street, London, W. 1.
WRITINGS
DISCLOSE AEGEAN CULTURE
A
Bulgarian scientist hus deciphered Europe's most ancient preserved writings.
The rowers need the beans become ray jubes, but already "unveiled the
a large-scale manufac Prof. Vladimir Georgiev has because U. S. coffee handlers turer of
Minos (Cretan) use all they can to blend with her productive capacity is more writings," which are considered
most than aufficient to meet the in-the other products.
ancient preserved This year Kona growers ex.creased home demand consequent written documents in Europe, it pect slightly under US$2.000.000 upon the National Health Service, was disclosed by the archaeo- A 1,048-page book just for the coffee, which tastes like an increasing number of logist, Ivan Velkov in Izgrev,
tubes is being exported. published in Birmingham-the savoury Brazilian bean. parts of it are printed in
Why the rolled onts? Rats are nine languages-is not by a wily lot, according to the coffee A few poisoned beans any means in the best-seller farmers.
the more reckless
might catch
ALL TYPES
claw, but it has a fascinatients but their brothers would in the case of major X-ray ing story to tell of British catch on quickly. inventive genius.
This prosale tome, alive with numerous stories of the trials and trumplis in the fleld of mechanical Invention in whichi British brains and craftsmanship|
POISON TO BE ADDED
Bulgarian periodical.
Mankind has learned about Aegean culture from the ex- cavations carried on in the past few centurica, Aegean monu- ments are scattered all over the Mediterranean, but the biggest concentration is in Crete and the Peloponnesus, said Prof. Velkov.
A similar state of affairs exists apparatus; whereas at one time United Kingdom manufacturers
lol produced apparatus in relatively small quantities, most of them Cretan culture dated back as are now equipped for large far as 3,000 B.C. About 1,600 scale production which, in turn, B.C. some unknown catastrophe
Su feeding stations will be enables them to devote n con-befell the island and much of its
up throughout the plantations,
have emerged second to none, f/4bout four to six for each nere ofį siderable part of their energies civilisation was wiped out.
Fair.
the
the
erwugh to convince
original
and
1,700
the
Mediter-
and capital to the research work cultivated land. Oat-alled pans the 1050 entningue of the Castle Bromwich section of the British will be placed at the edge of which is an essential forerunner The renaissance in Crete came
progressive about
B. C. when wasteland or Flone piles where of
magnificent palaces and other Industries
Its 100,000
public buildings wero con- words, nearly as many as there the rats hang out between coffeedesign. hours.
The exhibition will Include structed, Their ruins Indicate are in the New Testament, give
of X-ray the once mighty city of Knossos, a glowing account of the me A week is considered long examples of all types
the. rubid apparatus, from small dental and ruler of the ancient chanical perfections and vision and perseverance of builders of the mechanical age, coffee connoisseurs that pats are portable units which can easily ranean world.
more nutritious and delicious, be carried to the patient's hond, who, despite many setbacks, When the converts start paying to deep therapy and industrial heartbreaks and disappoint
nightly visits in large numbers X-ray units operating at tensions ments, ret Britain along the road for their free meal, "something of 250,000 volls and more. to engineering supremacy, with
There will be appliances for the Midlands always in the van.
Perhaps some will die from handligg radium, sensitive and ARRAY OF STOCK
over-eating, but the majority complex instruments for measure will pass on Into rodent heavenlog minute traces of radiation
Beld lu which It is all there in this precise, from the effects of aine phos (4 rather technical yet authoritaphide poisoning,
scientists have made great ad- dispatch, enumerating
tive
fascinating form array of stock
in
in
in
the glittering that there is shop- Britain's Industrial window and reflecting in unmis- takable fashion the fine formance and high quality of our engineering genius and crafts- manship.
per-
Not one of its perfectly din played 443 advertisements show lovely primily
R Hollywood,
reclining
wielding
or
1100
is
sleek
silver spanner
machine,
there anything un
to industry. The high-
new" will be added.
U.S. LIMITING
STOCKPILING
London, March 10.
British
INSCRIBED ON CLAY
стель
That was the period connected with the mythical King Minos, his labyrinthine palace and his fabled minotaur. From this ancient time date the most preserved writings in Europe the so-called Cretan or Mines writings, inscribed on clay tablets. Soine 3,000 or 4,000 have been preserved, about one- fourth of which are now pub- Jished.
It is these writings which Prof. Georgiev has deciphered, according to the article in Izgrev. Mos writings, the article sald, were "picturegraphs," each a separate This system later, de-
which the tablets arc
The editor of The Times Review of Industry warns, picturegram being
that the dollar camning capacity of the Sterling Area undeveloped into a syllabled writing. the terms of the American stockpiling programme should of
red sulesmanship of the not be overestimated.
publicity merchants
both buyer and seller alike,
has
rubber
examples.
Scientists were alded in their and
umong tin-were those produels which may, for search for the key to the tablets!
them concerned commercial ac- place in stockpling purchases.
This limitation did not affect counts, lists of names, registers purchases against ERP counter-and similar entries. part funds, but these did not yield additional dollars to Sterling Area pool.
been banished from these partes, The latest report of the yet this well prepared volume United States Munitions" the time being, take a secondary by the knowledge that many of presents a story fascinating to Board to Congress, he points out, emphasised that the Very soon now this Engn of establishment of an overall human endeavour will spring In- to real life. Then you may know balance within the stockpile that all is well in Britain's field was of great and immediate of industry and endeavour and that the Midlands have triumph- ed once again.
It's All In The Family
Theodore Berkowski, 58, gol
a divorce in Cleveland because
his 44-year-old
second wife,
Josphine, wanted to marry his
son Chester, aged 38.
Mrs
In Grand Rapids, Michigan,
Helen Birhop, 35, tried to
of marklage
upset the
importance.
The limitation of funds avail- able for stockpiling made it neessary for the Board to cut
ducts.
in
►
ANOTHER AIM
the
Couldn't Happen Twice
The Times Review of Industry down purchases of materials also points out that the American
A train was crossing the already held substantial stockpiling programme has an-
other aim besides accumulating | Alpine village of Cavalese quantities to permit larger
pro-physical stocks of strategic and when a five-year-old boy on a purchases of scarcer
chief critical materials. This covered sledge came down a slope at The 1wo
of substitutes and
utes "the" strategle sterling commodities development
great speed, heading towards of conversion measures, the the level crossing. The sledge utilisation of low grade cres
passed between the locomotive through concentration, and sim and the first carriage and the liar schemes which could render boy found himself unhurt the United States less dependent the other side.
Death Fought to
Over 2d. Tip
Woman
on foreign supplies In time of
war.
on
Fifty gypsies, including men,
24 Remarkable progress was her women and children, fought
A Meal in itself the made in the conversion of pro- divorced husband. Victor knife and club battle on
hals Spring
displayed by Dishop, 35, to her 10-year-old outskirts of Seville, Spain, over ducts like tin had rubber during daughter Jean by a previous the outcome of a 2. tip. Three the Second World War, and marriage.
men, an old
and two these activities have been deve-New York's top milliner lookert She said: "I gave him a10-year-oli boys were killed on loped further since the passing as if they had been made from divorce when he told me he the spot. Three other men of the Stockpiling Act of 1040, breakfast foods. This effect was
Johns," was in love with a younger dled in hospital. Everybody else Although these did not, for the deliberate. "Mr
severely time bolus, affect commercial designer, said he bad tried
which looked woman. I did not know the was
The fighing only demand, they would play some develop straws other woman was my daughter."wounded.
fixing strategie stock-like cornflakes and She was told the marriage was stopped when there was no-part in
wheat. legal.
body left to fight.
K. O. CANNON
I MUST BE CRAZY
TO CHASE AFTER HER.)
GREAT SCOTT! THAT CAD'S LEAVING HET, PLACE. I'LL HAVE TO STOP HIM. Yuhond
more or less
pile objectives.
The Riddle of the Red`Domino
PLEASE HUARY. HURAY) IWANY
DON'T STOP, DRIVER, J
DON'T STOPĒJ
TO GET TO THE PROFILS BEAUTY SALON... IT'S
NEAN.
YOU HAD YOUR CHANCE, MR.CANNOT HOW LEAVE-ME" 7~~~- ALONE?
BLAKE HIM STOP}} WE HAVE A LOT TO TALK ABOUT!) PZL HELP YOU!{
the
to
shredded
| THAT'S "BETTER! I KNEW HE'D
I'LL PAY THE CAS
DO IT!
TOJE, VOU COME
[Back With ME.
NEWS IN PICTURES
NICE AND ROSY Janet Brett graphically models this new bathing suit in Hollywood. The sca-going style is made of a new water-repellent chintz, and is the Intest thing.
BORN TO POLIO VICTIM-Girl triplets, born in Long Branch, New Jersey, to a 30-year-old mother recovering from pollo, are held by nurse Elizabeth Nelson and Dr Edward Surowice. The mother, Mrs Fred W. Warnke, is the wife of a dentist and mother of two other children. The first of the triplets was delivered naturally and the other two by Caesarean section.
CHIPPER SKIPPER-Movie actress Rhonda Fleming plays the part of a captain at the wheel of a cruiser as she glides over the waters of Lake Mead, near Las Vegas, Nevada. Rhoada had a short vacation between pictures, before she had to hurry back to Hollywood for the start of another one.
SHE'S GOT A JOB Irish setter Knotty Notes Tarashan O'Kells gave birth to a 17-puppy Utter In Alexandria, Virginia, and that is belleved to have Dinner-time topped all records. Two puppies died.
Is still a problem, even with the moral support of her master, 10-year-old Alex Todd. Just now she's lotting sleeping dogs lle,
"WHISPENS
ARE YOU CRAZY?
GET HIM TO
STOF
WINTER IN THE COUNTRY—The drifts shown here near Eureka, South Dakota, illustrato this winter's conditions in the northern part of the state. Snow piled up as high as 18 feet in some places, and motorists left cars in garages rather than drive through driftsa
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