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SAVIOUR OF THOUSANDS TO RETIRE

Conqueror › of anthrax, the

who has saved thousands of wool- workers from disease or death, Dr Frederick W. Eurich, the brilliant Bradford-specialist, is retiring next

October.

Thirty years ago, he began study anthrax, and in his laboratory be conducted dangerous experiments with the bacilli

In conjunction with another noted worker, Mr. Elmhurst Duckering, Dr. Eurich proved that means could be found of killing anthrax in wool without detriment to the material and without risk to the workers.

As early as 1908, his work had re- duced the number of anthrax fatali- ties, and to-day, after a lifetime's struggle, the dread scourge is virtu- ally conquered. Wool is safe to han- dle.

A Bradford business leader who has known Dr. Eurich intimately said: "He risked his life. And at what I consider to be inadequate re

muneration.

"He was always in danger, but he never flinched nor faltered. He went! on until the scourge was beaten

The Bradford City Coroner (Mr. J. G. Hutchinson) said he used to conduct scores of inquests on fatal anthrax cases. But not for years

now has a single case come to his knowledge.

Italian Casuals Return to Naples From Spain

Members of the Italian Brigade who had been fighting for Italy, recovering from their wounds. The Italian forces.

of the load in the fighting which preceded the successful assault on

LANDING TROOPS FROM AIRCRAFT

Aldershot Experiment During t

the course of the com-

GOWNED IN OLD WHISKY BOTTLES"

"The bride was charmingly gown-

Dr. Eurich is retiring for private ing month an interesting experi reasons, and with his wife will livement in troop carrying by the Ro- with one of his sons, an artist, in val Air Force will be carried outed in empty whisky bottles. the New Forest

in conjunction with the 2nd Divi sion at Aldershot.

TEETH IN TIN

her

SEVEN IN ONE BED

tatement that a wornan and slept on one bed was made at Plymouth.

charge against. John Joseph Not just yet, of course. But can- Woodville-road, North, Prosper

Fox, 36 dockyard labourer, ny Scots have found a use for these Plymouth, of having neglected

the children w further inqui

This will go further than pre-glass receptacles, mournfully dis vious experiments, as in this case carded, and a thriving Clydeside in the scheme will pre-suppose a land-dustry has been built up which may ing in hostile country where the end in the ladies being Air Force will have to provide the material that once

apris

Cox's home "mountain dew necessary protection not only in

tion There the air but on the ground until the

The empty bottles, heated in elec-1steads, but

OF FRUIT troops have, disembarked and are tric furnaces; emerge as spun silken

ready to take cover.

threads no teker than a spide

(Continued at Foot of

Preceding

A new industrial X-ray appara- It is understood that the aero-web-so fme that forty miles of tus, working at 250,000 volts, and planes will actually land and be capable of penetrating thick steel, prepared to use their machine- is now in operation in a London la-guns against a raid on the troop boratory

Just as doctors

are able with? hospital X-ray apparatus, to see side a patient's body, and set broken bones, watch a meat being digested, or trace a swallowed pm or button, it is now possible to look inside me- tal castings, see behind the paint in an old picture, or detect faults in antique furniture.

FINDING HIDDEN FAULTS

carrying machines, which are ob 1 viously extremely vulnerable while they are in the process of landing.

be necessary in war. It will need It is an operation which may well

very careful co-ordination.

Britain Looks For

Old Iron

A search for scrap iron is to be

Cracks or small cavities which made all over Britain. might pass undetected in a steel. The present record steel output. casting are clearly revealed by in- dustrial X-rays. In assembled ar- ticles, like radio valves, faults can

has created such a shortage of raw material that British manufac- tarers are to co-operate with the

The

quickest way

to get the best whisky

at orice be detected without disman: the scrap iron and steel merchant, fly

tling.

In an american canning factory a girl dropped her false teeth into a tin of fruit. With X-rays they were quickly found.

Thanks to this modern method of inspection, pins, nails and other dan erous articles have been found h tims of fish which might otherwise have been sold to the public.

of X-ray inspec nise.

In some cases at otographs are

Very

in an appeal for "old iron" from households, farms and estates and works up and down the country.

The scheme was announced in a statement issued by the British Iron and Steel Federation. It is pointed out that an "mealculable but certainly enormons onnage o scrap is believed to be lying

(Continued thread can be from one

very

MADE INTO BLANKETS.

ver, the articles are in- This glass gilk is now being used before a special to manufacture sound-proof cabin

they

also have gloves, On

Istekist the

walls

operator is is also

of lead and lead-lined

Unbrittle and rot-pro made into blankets

round hot pipes,

make the sur to the African

keeping fur

ASK FOR

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Fox denied

his children dition was due to h

ETEENTHE

all Clubs, Hotels and Wine Stores.

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found

Ice House Street,

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