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Jack Torrance. former Loui- siana State athlete, and present holder of the world Putting the Weight record, was beaten into fourth place last Sunday in the final of the event at the Olympic Games.

DOCTOR'S DRUG DEATH

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AMERICA LEADING AT BERLIN

(Continued from Page 1)

|(U.S.) was fourth in 9 9.2-10 secs.

Warngard (Sweden); the former mins Olympic holder, whose effort was

just under 54 metres.

Miss Lee, the smallest compeți- CHINESE BOXING China will be represented to... in the women's 100 Metres among the nations, giving special heat was away first, but was al- jexhibitions in physical exercises.ways running last. The heat win- The programme will include ner was Mlle. Walasiewicz, (Po- exercises which are completely land) who was clocked at 125-10 unknown to Europeans, and which seconds. will include Chinese boxing.- Trans-Ocean. Service.

BRAZILIAN POSITION Berlin-Through the mediation

Commemoration Medal The "German Commemoration Olympic MedalTM has been thorised by Chancellor Adolf

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of the Brazilian Consulate General, Hitler for those rendering ser- a friendly compromise has been vice in the presentation of the Made Berba Olympic Games. achieved between the two Brazi Jian teams who each claim to be of white metal, the medal bears the official representatives of their the German swastika emblem on country. In athletics the best men the front against a background of both teams will be picked for, of a tower with the 5 Olympic the Olympic events Regarding rings and the year 1936 rowing, only the members of the background, surrounded by

will Federation Brasilica take oak twig, bears the inscription: "For valuable services in the part-Trans-Ocean Service.

Olympic Games 1936."

Chinese Basketball Team Impress

WINS RECORDED OVER PERU AND ITALY

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The

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HMS. Neptune At Kiel Kiel. The British cruiser Nep- tune arrived here on Monday morning to be present at the Olympic yachting regatta Upon arrival the cruiser fired a salute of 21 guns to the flag, which was Berlin-The All-China World returned by the Friedrichsort The visiting ship then Olympic Basketball team are fast battery. settling down to their new sux-fired a salute to the commanding German roundings and have created a very Admiral, hoisting the

their Bag favourable impression in

at the same time. The “Admiral Graf Spec," the fag- than first few friendly encounters. Evidence that more

On July 29 they met Peru in ship, returned the salute, and fatal dose of three times a luminal (a sleep-inducing drug) their first friendly encounter and hoisted the British flag.-Trans- was found in the body of Dr. won a fairly fast game by 43 Ocean Service. Jenner Conway Davies, resident points to 26, and on July 30 play- medical officer at Tooting Beced two games, losing to the Unit- Hospital, was given last month ed States, the favourites, by 29 An points to .16, but beating Italy by at a Battersea inquest.

43 points to 34 in a very closely open verdict was recorded.

Dr. Davies was found dead contested game. · in bed on June 11. He had secured another appointment and was due soon to leave the hospital.

China will meet Japan in the First Round of the Olympic Basketball Championship next Friday.

ROBOT EAR ON VIEW

Device To Measure Noise

LOOKS LIKE SMALL WIRELESS SET

ONLY UNOFFICIAL RECORD Dr. Sydney Walpole Hard- Berlin: The new world record wick, assistant medical officer of 10.2-10 seconds, which was set at the hospital, said Dr. Davies, by Jesse Owens during Sunday's when discovered, had been dead quarter finals in the 100 Metres

A robot ear, which refuses to for several hours. Tablets on event, was not recognised by thei the floor seemed to have been International A.A. Federation be-listen to notes which are too high Ear, and dropped accidentally.

cause it was established with the or low for the human

which measures poise, was seen Dr. Edwin Smith, thejaid of a favourable wind. coroner: Do you know whether The world record thus remains by many visitors to the National he was in the habit of taking at 10.3.10 seconds by Eddie Tolan, Physical Laboratory at Teddington sedative drugs?-I do not think of the United States, at the 1932 during the General Board's annual:

inspection last month. so. He may have tried drugs Olympiad held at Los Angeles. It is similar in appearance to in an experimental way.

A new world, record in weight-Jan ordinary portable, wireless set. A young woman friend of Dr. lifting was established by Moham and has been taken Davies gave evidence that on med Mesbach (Egypt) during the parts of the country to listen to the day before his death the competitions on Sunday after-all kinds of noises, from the clatter He increased the former of a pneumatic drill to the roar doctor visited her. They noon.

or the inspected some flats, as he world's record from 141 kilo-of an aeroplane engine

varied sounds of a busy harbour. thought of taking one near grammes to 145 kilogrammes.

The "ear" measures sounds by where she lived.

Mesbac was also the Olympic

2 note of vietor in the lightweight weight-comparing them with Later he returned to her flat lifting class with 3425, being fol-fixed pitch similar to the B.B.C. and had a glass of sherrylowed by Fein (Austria), who tuning signal Next day she expected him to achieved the same score but who Shortly scientists from various

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call on her, but she did not see him again.

was heavier than the Egyptian countries will meet to discuss the The third place was won by a possibility of stabilising sound units, and it may then be practic- She suggested that Dr. German, Jansen, with 327.5. Davies might have been taking TEAM STANDINGS able to limit the noises which may drugs to relieve pain in his leg. Germany was leading 10 the legally be made.

When Steel Breaks It had been giving him trouble, official rating of the nations at

About 2,000 scientists and others Mr. John Henry Ryffel, Home the end of the first day's com-

and 32W Office analyst, stated that he petition with 10 points, followed visited the laboratory examined two boxes of tablets by Fizland with S points, United some results of the remarkable One group consisted of sodium States 6, Egypt 3, Austria 2 and experiments conducted there. luminal,

Important research by means of barbituric а

acid Poland one..

Three points were

changes TO-MORKOW hypnotic drug for producing awarded for first, two for second X-ray methods into the

of sleep. It was one of the most and ore for third.

in the crystalline structure dangerous of the group. In the term fencing the Argen-steel which lead to fracture has fatal dose was 20 grains. tine, Great Britain, Germany, been conducted by Dr. Gough Mr. Ryffel said he under United States, Switzerland, Italy, Superintendent of Engineering stood that there was 66 grains Hungary, Yugoslavia. France, He has discovered that when altogether in the body-three Austria, Czechoslovakia and stress of a certain power is ap- times a fatal dose. Dr. Davies Belgium advanced to the quarter-plied to steel, the crystals, which might have taken more..

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GERMAN SUCCESS

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! 100,000,000 per cubic inch of the metal, begin to break in halves.

Sir Bernard Spilsbury's, re- The final of the hammer throw in the break a number of tiny port of a post-mortem was read gave Germany her third gold fragments of uniform size-about by the coroner. It expressed medal when Hein won the event one hundred thousandth of an inch the opinion that death was due with a throw of 56.49 metres in length-are formed, inclined to to luminal poisoning.

Blask (Germany) coming second each other at every conceivable The coroner suggested that with 65.04 metres. Both broke angle. When the process is con- Dr. Davies might have acciden- the Olympic record standing, to tinned the crystal becomes entirely. tally repeated a normal dose of the credit of Warngard (Sweden) shattered into these fragments. the drug. Mr. Byffel said this at 54.8 metres.

and when the strain

reaches was possible if the doctor had Germany won the Gold and limit the metal cracks. been half asleep.

Silver Medals in the Hammer

Air Flows Indicated Thowing event, Sweden taking "A fim shown to visitors in the Dr. George Brown, deputy third place for the Bronze Medal Duplex wind tunnel indicated by medical superintendent at the Kontonen (Finland) .came means of tiny electric sparks how hospital, said that Dr. Davies fourth while Rowe and Favor, air flows round aeroplane wings was not worried about leaving both of America were fifth and and how machines stall.

Photo- the hospital...

sixth respectively.

graphs were taken at the rate of there was no obvious reason forammer Throw event 10 did not tians.

Of the 27 competitors for the 2.300 second to make observa- Dr. Davies committing suicide. "We all know," he said, "that falill the minimum requirement In one section of the building persons sccustomed to hypnotic of 46 metres, thus falling to was a 10ft model of a aquare-half-

lady last month.

"The coroner observed that

Printed and Publisised for the Proprietars, The Newspaper Entericise Ltd, drugs are sometimes tricked by qualify for the final The Far mile in London, with Bush House,

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memory, and repeat the dose East is represented by only one at the bottom of Kingsway, in the without an interval having representative, Abe, (Japan) the middle. This was put into a big elapsed. He may have been other Japanese competitor being wind tunnel to find out what more accustomed to drugs eliminated.

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