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Today's Attractions

WAKEY, WAKEY 44.m. AUSTERITY BREAKFASTS

followed by a JUMP IN THE Lake SLIMMING EXERCISES HEALTHY HARD WORK

COMPETITIONS

LECTURES ON ECONOMICS

THE DUTIES OF CITIZENSAT

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BUTLER'S HOLIDAY CAMP

***

Would right arrangement Lusin Dalty Nevala

Fleming Sets Out

A ROYAL TOUR THAT HAS MADE HISTORY; & HIGHLIGHTS- OF A 20,000-MILE TRIUMPH

Don

Iddon's

Diary

Sunday, Nov. 18. Prime Minister Loute St. mond tiara and evening dress OR me the Royal Tour Laurent; to Walter Scott Thomp and wearing her minic stole, began in a Trans- son, the Press chief; and all the standing on the observation plat- officials of Canadian Pacific form and waving over and over

Canadian National again,

ntluntie airliner at Railways. Idlewild Airport, New York. Railways, and the Royal Cana- That was on September 15, dian Air Force. and I was en route to England.

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Today, two months and nearly 20,000 miles later, I am on my way from Prince Edward Island back to New York, my flat, my office, my family and friends.

Being a nuisance

GUESS they are glad to see

the last

of the

The royal couple sitting in the excruciating cold in the stadium at Calgary watching the broncho-busting at the rodeo

show

The Duke gulping over the wandering highly seasoned cowboy food at the es gypsies depart. We have and hiding his smile been a nuisance because it is Indian squaws in nylons. part of our jobs to be nuisances. Our typewriters have got lost at But the scene which I remem- Quebec and our baggage at

at ber best was on the balcony of

I has been a rewarding jour- Regina. Our tempers have got the Windsor Hotel, at Montreal, ney-exneting, exhausting, but lost at Montreal, Ottawa. Cal The huge crowd had waited for infinitely worthwhile. The aston- gary, Vancouver. Halifax, six hours or more in bitter ishing feature is that there have Charlottetown, and

practically weather. Inside the hotel the

themselves master organisers.

This is in the

nature of ધ

The

been no slip-ups the intricate everywhere else. But there have elaborate banquet

drags on organisation behind the tour, been very few disputes and al- Every few minutes the crowd The Canadians have proved most no rows, even when the shouts: "We want the Princess!

Royal Canadian Mounted Police We want the PrincessS!" have got tough, which has hap- horses of the mounted police shiver and stamp their hooves; "Thank you" note to Governor Peved occasionally.

the soldiers and sailors and air- General Viscount Alexander;

This tour has cost Canada well men lined

up in Dominion over $1,000,000, hundreds of Square are blue with cold, thousands of man-hours, and limitless nervous energy. The Canadians consider then all well spent.

By ROBERT KINGSLEY

To Conquer Influenza

A

LONDON.

S the season of colds and influenza approaches, Sir Alexander Fleming. discoverer of penicillin, and his research team at the Wright- Fleming Institute, are working on a new anti-influenza vaccine.

There will probably not be an exten-

| xive outbreak of the disease this winter. but when it does come it may considerably ativance research. "For." said Sir Alexan- der. "the new va cine has yet to meet here a widespread epidemic, and I hope that one day it will."

I talked to Sir Alexander in his second- floor room in the four-storey institute that has grown out of the old Inoculations De- partment of St. Mary's Hospital.

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SIR ALEXANDER FLEMING. The discoverer of penicillin is Director of the Wright-Fleming Institute, in which two dozen medical and chemistry research workers and 70-odd laboratory technicians are employed.

The room is a mixture between laboratory, an office and a study. On the laboratory bench is a profusion of test- fubes, microscope slides and Petrie dishes: in the bookcase, works with ponderous titles, and on the walls tributes to Sir Alexander's fame-portraits, the die of France's Penicillin Medal ("They shoved my fate on the front-the back's more interesting"), a bronze statuette presented

But there are incongruities by Italians. a wicker pelota racket fromį

because it is cheap and be behind Spain hangs

the

it is non-poisonous. door, and among the formal cause

used for [portraits is a photograph of The others are

Sir Alexander and Lord treating microbes insensi

tive to penicillin. Moran playing women's parts in an amateur stage production in their student days.

Alexander Sir

lit cigarette from Bunsen penicillin burner and talked of the rendered Institute's work. He is used so that its work in the be studied and short, silver-haired, bronzed, body can and was wearing rimless tested. glasses, a blue, patterned bow-tie and a blue suit.

ét

Research is going on into and why the anti- how biotics produce the germ- killing results they do, and that hus been radio active 15

Sir Alexander

Is 70, and those who work with him say there are jobs in the Institute his "won- "This used to be, and still that only be, with

hands" vaccines derful

But: ia, a place where

for

can do.

special

دعا

Echoing clamour

HERE is

THER still no sign from

The tour has been great success And for this the the balcony, but the crowd first and most important thanks remains patient. Then, and it is go to Princess Elizabeth and the almost midnight, Princess Eliza- Duke of Edinburgh themselves. beth appears. Lights flash from They have "made" the tour, and her diamonds, and her royal not even the loyal welcomes, the sash is brilliant against the dark moving ceremonies, the pump crimson backdrop. She waves and panoply could have stamp and the crowd cheers and shouts ed it with success without the and yells until the old hotel charm and endearing person- seems to shake and Dominion alities of the royal couple.

Square echoes with the clamour. That, for me anyway, was the You will find a different Prin- highlight of the tour. cess when she steps on to the soll of England again. The Washington was impressive King's elder daughter has more and satisfying, and the father- poise, more self-confidence, more mess and informality of Pre- authority. She has proved her- sident Truman towards the self utterly worthy of her exalt- Princess was delightful to watch, ed position. Not once has she but this, essentially, has been a faltered.

British Empire triumph.

I do not want to be too senti-

Charm is the secret mental, art the Canadian tour has proved again the deep love for the Crown of people thou- THINK of her on that first sands of miles from England. It grey, wet moming stepping off has shown the durability of our the plane at Dorval Airport, system. I say it is a marvellous Montreal. The crowd was thin and moving thing for Canadians and bedraggled the forecast in the tiny towns in the foothills 150,000 people never material- of the Rockies to plodge their ised.

Perhaps the Princess and allegiance and pay their tribute the Duke expected bigger to this English giri. throng. a more thunderous wel-

come.

'Come back soon'

But they gave no sigu Instead, there were the charming smile, the grace and naturalness of the Princess and the confident grin of the Duke. From that moment, right until the depar- ture at St John's,

Newfound children Land, they have been under a perpetual spotlight.

SAY It is a fine and wonderful thing that these Canadiun should have been honour the

brought

up 10

Throne.

And having said this I must

The Royal Tour is Princess Elizabeth's triumph. The Duke add that Canada is not going to be of Edinburgh at first showed

satisfied with a royal visit greater crowd appeal, and there every 12 years

OT 50.

Canada

breed in and

were

where two

reference to their use brilli in the isolation of B. Influenza." studied;

That

his paper set forth discovery of penicillin in a small "The scullery," room across the street from the Paddington housewives may be

called Institute, which is now used as

to "wash up" upon of test-tubes and scores Petrie-dishes after some

a bed-sitter for medical students. gross It was not for ten years that of Florey and his

at elaborate experiment. associates Oxford

were able to concen- trate penicillin so that its use became practical

HOT ROOM

"If we're

those two let us down really down the sink," our guide said.

be

In many

pelly complaints, chiefly gets stronger, wealthier, more from United States correspon mature all the time. dents, about the Princess being ways Canada already outstrips too austere and regal. I haven't the United Kingdom Itself, heard any of those complaints don't think a a Royal Family re-

England

and in the past week.

only Today the siding in Canadians say

of the Princess. making occasional journeys to "You cannot improve on per- the Dominions will suffice for

the fection."

changed and changing nature of our Commonwealth. There Sorte incidents in the lour may have to be, perhaps, a re- The Princess's eyes aldent member of the Royal

her

are

If new

discoveries should stand out: emerge from the institute you filming with tears when Mayor Family in each of the Dominions. may not hear mentioned in Camillien Houde, of Montreal, connection with them

about the King's the asked We

were shown

round the names of Mrs Mary Dobson health. Institute (which is almost self- and

Florence Agnes of Chilton; supporting);

range

they are the laboratories no more spectacular washers-up, and they will have than those in which schoolboys played their small part. make their irst acquaintance

(London Express Service) with chemistry;

"I don't get much time to work

A hot room-that's whoop- are made on a large scale these days,"" he said, "people ing cough," said our guide,

the prevention of

to bottles of vaccine always coming in to talk." pointing aux

that had to be kept at body typhoid, whooping cough, He nimbly jumped up on to a

stool, and temperature; and for the treatment of wobbly, backless such illnessea as bronchial reached down a pamphlet from

the top shelf of the bookcase, asthma," he said.

One

A refrigerated room;

"The kitchen," where "That was the start of it." he and a half hundredweight of "There are the vaccines

said, and pointed to the 12- condemned meat or ox-hearte against virus.

We are very

each interested in a new vaccine page reprint of an article dated obtained on permits are boiled

week into

a broth, May 1929. it was headed: "On

stiffened up if necessary with for influenza, and there is a

the Anti-bacterial Action of shredded seaweed от bolled search going on in connec- Cultures of Penicillium, with blood to make backgrounds for tion with those things.

ALLERGIES

чте

"Another activity have is a very large clinic for the allergies-hay-fever, asthma and 60 on. We collect large quantities of grass and other pollens in a pollenarium (a greenhouse with a laboratory set up in It) on Lord Iveagh's estate in Surrey. From these, we prepare extracts for the treatment of hay-fever.

"Then we do a lot of work on antibiotics → penicillin

and the new ones, aureomy- cin, terramycin-that is the newest of all-and chloromy- cotin."

Of these, Bir Alexander. explained, penicillin for a suitable microbo was the drug of feat choice--both

LABORATORY TECHNICIAN Lynda Pembleton, 17, of Acton, and a doctor work on research in the Iaboratory.

Mre

but

at

These

thoughts which many Canadians have expressed to me.

They believe the time The crowd

Edmonton calls for adjustment in the royal station in the booming oil coun- role. Meanwhile, they say to Iry rushing down the railway Princess Elizabeth and the Dute lines after the train as it pulled of Edinburgh, "Bon voyage, and laway, and the Princess, in dia- come back soon.”

Laurette turns

'cop'

the model

**It was the war," she said.

How does one go, about look- "I enlisted in the Waves, worked ing like a drug addict? for the Atomic Energy Commis-

sion, had a good deal to do with "It's fairly easy," Laurette guns and did some flying in says. "There's a shuffling walk, bombers. After that, model- a twitch, the constantly running ling seemed a dull career.” nose. You have to keep blowing your nose all the time. Oc- Tall, slender, blue-eyed and casionally some suspicious pedlar blonde, Laurette worked for a wants to see the needle marks couple of years in the Pickpockets on your arm. When that hap- Division. Then they switch pans you have to make up the ed her to Narcotics-rated the best story you can and keep on most dangerous assignment in a talking." risky curser.

From FREDERICK COOK

NEW YORK. AURETTE was a model

once - £100 evening Laurette, at £1,700 a year, 18 gowns, $30 hata, her face a member of a team of three of smiling out of fashion which the others are men-De- Only once has the twp-men- tectives Jerry Valente and and-a-girl team come under real magazines, well known to Alfred Spinosa. All three pore strain. One night they were millions.

as dope Gends in search of sup- shadowing a supect, along Fich plies. They frequent the tough- Avenue, where the big stores Now she wears down-to-earth est of New York's tough quar- keep their lights blazing ali everyday clothes, A loaded 'ters.

night. The men were ahead. revolver la tucked in her poc- Besides her

gun, Laurette... kel. And when they photograph has for protection a useful com-

Everything went well until, her-which is seldom-it is al- mand of jijitsu. That has fascinated by a fashion display ways the back view. For Laurette come in handy half a dozen in a window, sie just had to slap McDonnell is now what they times. The gun she has yet to "only for a moment or two, delicately term a "lady cop." use in earnest. And one of the most efficient Bay the men who work with her on the dangerous undercover Narcotics Squad.

*

was watching higợi w}j time," says Laurette."

you know," In that "the" the suspect gained distance, Ste When dope fiends get tough, goon caught up. But Inter they are very tough Indeed. One Valente, and Sphiosa tried to kill Laurette by run words to say. ning her down with a car.. An- **** ** other knocked her down while she searched his room. Why did she give up a plushy The team have posed as dope sed everything reflected in the two-hours-a-day job, in show-flends for weeks ní a time; kome- window. The others sail), Bont rooms and 'fashion studioe, for times going 00 hours or more bellove it. Ther the rough-and-tumble of tram without sleep. Three weeks ago it is possible to look at fashionis ping the city streets all night, they emished a marijuang zing and a man at the same time. looking for the particularly low which had been using the wall. They wouldn't, of course?) But forina of Ufe whe flourish on log-room of a New York hospital, any woman willi men what | proćkakliaigé slevang to ohildren? ng their centre of operations. Dinesh,”