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EFFORT TO SAVE Ritchie Calder At The British Association GREEK SOCIAL

LEGISLATION

BRITISH PLAN "Food Of The Gods"

FOR SPAIN

London, Yesterday.

May Soon Be On Sale

laboratory.

Why?:

ARTIFICIAL EGGS

Athens, Yesterday. Important social measure been inaugurated in Greece, according to a press announce- ment made today by Premier Metaxast

8this consisting of collec

Referring to conversations be

Cambridge, August 24. And in that little model batter- tween the Chairman of the Non- Intervention Committee, Lord Proofs in plenty that the chem-ed by her cigarette case in Dr. tive contracts for Industries and a Plymouth, and representatives of fists can now beat Nature at its own Wrinch's handbag, the chemists be-creation fund for assisting large

children. Germany, Italy, Portugal' and job, were produced at the British lieve may lie the secret of "the families, widows and motherless

food of the gods.”

In the case of collective con- Soviet Russia on Friday and the Association to-day.

And a scientist predicted to me

tracts, the Government reserves, French Ambassador, "The Times"

Wells' that before many years - diplomatic correspondent says

Because insulin is what is known the right to fix a minimum wage that the question had been dis-"Food of the Gods"the diet of the cussed of how to surmount diff-superman-will be concocted in the as a "protein." Proteins have de- which, in the contracts already fied the chemists so far, because completed, amounts to between 10 and 12 per cent. more than the culties arising from Franco's re-

of their complex structure. ply to the British plan for the

Now this discovery simplifies the present scale for men, and between

5 and 6 per cent. for women. evacuation of volunteers.

conception.

With its help, chemists can get The relief fund will be made up Professor E. C. Dodds, Dr. A. S. Parkes, Professor Todd, and Dr. to work on making protein artifi- of deductions of one drachme from Stanley Cook and eminent foreign- cially. We may have artificial eggs the wages of men and 50 lepta ers like Dr, Reichstein. of Zurich, (the white, is protein), artificial|from that of women. who have been working on beefsteaks; artificial chickens, and hormones and vitamins-chemicals so on. which Nature manufactures in its

Several suggestions have been made and it was entirely wrong to assume that a deadlock had been reached.

Listening to the chemists to-day, that prediction did not seem at all far-fetched.

It was not impossible that the

But, as chemists have shown to Secretary of the Non-Intervention Committee, Mr. Hemming, would visit both parties in Spain in or living laboratories showed the day, artificial substances can be der to explain personally the de-staggering advances which have more powerful than natural ones, and the foods might be more powerful and produce the super-

tails of the plan.

It was believed in London, that by.such a visit, misunderstand- ings could be more easily removed than in London.--Trans-Ocean.

FRANCO REJECTS REPRIEVE

Burgos, Yesterday.

now been made.

BEATING NATURE

Professor Dodds, after describ- ing how they are producing arti- cial oestrin (the chemical. secret of femininity) many times more power-

man.

ful than the original in the living BARCELONA RAID

body, said that that was nothing compared to what they could do.

Dr. Reichstein described how.he had reproduced artificially another hormone, the absence of which pro- duces the dreadful “Addison's Dis- ease" which turns the skin black or brown or yellow, and is usually fatal.

..

The Franco authorities in an This can be treated at present official radio announcement on with natural substances which are expensive, because Friday night, rejected the pro-terrifically posal of the Republican Foreign great numbers of adrenal glands Minister, Senor Vayo, that exe (little capsules on the kidneys) cutions of political prisoners have to be used to produce smail should be suspended on both doses. sides..

Insurgent Spain, "as a sover eign State," would continue to apply the law às hitherto. Trans-Ocean..

DR. IMREDY'S INTERVIEW

Now the chemist has shown how some of the substances of the adrenal gland can be mass-pro-

duced-and the results will be more powerful than Nature's original.

What is more, they do not need to try to reproduce the natural product because they have found "skeleton keys" which unlock the secrets of Nature and provide short cut.

a

SECRET OF LIFE At the same time, the botanists were being told by Mr. F. C. Bay- den how they have now isolated Competent quarters here de-certain plant viruses and can pro- clare that the Hungarian Prime duce them as crystals.

Budapest, Yesterday.

Minister, Dr. Imredy, did receive Viruses cause disease-influenza, the representative of the "Daily for example-and the scientists Telegraph" on Friday but did not grant him an interview.

have been arguing for a long time whether they were chemical or liv- ing matter.

A

The same circles add that the

They seem to be half-way. political views published in the chemical virus crystal in contact alleged interview do not corres- with living things seems to come to pond with those of Dr. Imredy.life.

--Trans-Ocean.

This suggests that maybe

the them the chemist will find secret of life itself and create liv- ing cells, such as those

in

from

which man originated.

BEATEN OFF

The Premier emphasised the im- portance of this step which repre- .- sents a significant move by the Greek government in the direction of social legislation. Trans-Ocean.

TIGHTENING UP CENSORSHIP

Cairo, Yesterday.

British authorities in Palestine have imposed much stricter cen- sorship in the last few days. Barcelona, Yesterday. All telephonic communication at- has been stopped between Pales- Five insurgent machines tempted to fly over Barcelona but line and neighbouring Arab coun- were driven off by anti-aircraft tries for the last three days and

: The planes, which telegrams are subjected to ex- batteries.

the raya were kept within

of tremely rigorous censorship, searchlights, were overtaken and everything being summarily delet- attacked by loyalist pursuit ed which in the opinion of the should be planes and in the fight that fol- British authorities lowed, one of the bombers fell in-suppressed.

to a spin and crashed into the sea, Press representatives received about four, kilometres from the a sharp warning when it was dis coast. Two others dropped their covered that they were travelling loads of bombs into the ocean and to Syria in order to dispatch un

top censored cables to their papers.-- made off towards Palma at

Trans-Ocean. speed. Trans-Ocean.

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Antioch, Yesterday. Teyssoun Bey. Kokmen elected President of Sanjak Alexandretta at the first meeting of the Sanjak Parliament on Fri day.

Over a coffee I met Dr. Dorothy Wrinch, a brilliant woman methe- matician from (Oxford:

From her handbag she produced the model of a molecule of insulin, It looked like a tiny Chinese lan- tern with a kind of lace design.

She had created this model by pure geometry.

Yet Dr. Langmuir, the United Prize winner, has The new President is the leader States Nobel of the Turkish movement in San- taken the actual insulin molecule, jak and is a personal friend of spread it out as it were on a flat the Turkish President, Kemal surface, like a pattern of awo- -Ataturk. He has lived in Turkey man's lace dress, and has found for the last five years --Trans- that it pieces together, just as she

predicted. Océati

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