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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1939.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SATURDAY MAIL FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH NEWS DESK

'Petticoat Lane People Won't Surrender Easily

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FAMOUS MARKET

FACES A CRISIS

By IAN ARNOLD

London.

POLIO MAN

TO STRIKE

AT CANCER

New York.

Dr Jonas Sall, the virus genius who developed the polio vaccine, has mobilised a team of 34 researchers to go after cancer,

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continuing costly

was revealed recently 'quired a that Dr Balk has started from supply of mankyys to donato scrotch in an attempt to solve the kidneys.

the cancer mystery.

Sinco animal or human cells Hla present research is almed could be kept alive and growing

and viruses,

Petticoat Lane, the 200-year-old open air market, at understanding the life of cells

is as much a "must" for tourists as Bucking- ham Palace, St Paul's, and other famous Lon-earch by don landmarks.

Every Simday morning they flock there in thousands, joining Londoners to buy at. bargain- rates or be entertained by the raucous barrowmen with their

slick sales pitch.

Carried along in the tightly prcleed, slow-moving

mass of humanity, they are plled with all kinds of merchandise from jumpers to jellied eels.

But now Petticoat Lane looks like losing its mothy frilis.

'NEW LOOK'

A private company wants to dress it up in contemporary style by replacing the street stalls with a 300-shop arcade.

Cost of the "new look" will

be about £200,000, and all that's needed now before work begins is final sanction of the building plane by London County Council.

But the 1,000 men and wo mon traders, the characters who have helped to give this bargain basement of the East End a colour, aren't giving in without a fight.

Primping the lane and putting them into shops would mean they would have to pay more than double their present rent of 50 a week-a prospect that displenses them greatly.

But more important is their fenr that the lane will lose its identity.

Recently, I went down to Petilcoat Lone-or Middlesex Street, as it is officially listed- ! to see what makes it tick.

Business was booming 1$ usual and traders in between Enles were solemnly arsuring customers they were not going to be forced off the street.

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artificially in teet tubes, the beat

method would be to establish such a line of cells and use them as the source for growing pollo viruses.

This is similar to the basic many cientisale which had to precedo the development of tho pollo But something happens to there continuously growing test tubo cells to 'change their charne-

And so it went an in' Petil-vaccine. coal Lane, where It's claimed you can buy anything from a pin to an elephant, where much of the merchandise is siplen trut nobody really cares, where Jew and Cook- noy tailors outchout each ¦: other alongside imperturbable

Orientais selling silks.

characters than I've seen in a In an hour there I saw more

month in Sydney.

Recently, Dr Salk wrote tor. miedioal article about cell

Their relation to cancer is that growth, which caused a flurry of excilement when 14 was concerous cells in the human or interpreted as foreshadowing onimal body also grow continu- ously, losing their normal con- trola over growih.

A vaccine against cancer.

Dr Salk hurriedly warned that his work "has no practical significance now,"

The bespectacled, 45-year-old There was the florid-fared researcher, who rose from ob- le man demonstrating self-scurity to fame when his nuc- threading durning needles to an

cessful pollo vaccine was an- eager circle

of men-all, pre- nounced to the world four sumably, bachelor seeing hope years ago,

lie

now Fant

army

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Balk and his team are trying to answer these basio questions of differences between normal opll στονία, Krowth of colls artificially In' test tubeu apt cancer growth, Workers at the Univerally of Jaboratory, now

Bereenedittsburgh at long last for the sock problem. against

at called the Jonas Bulk Hall, daim There was Prince Monolute, people who won him to solve marshal In the country in their they have the cleverest field- best known racing tipster in their medical problems, lecture, allnck on cancer. Britain, crouched jockey style | write books or accept honorary over the pavement, feathers | degrees. stuck through a headband and in muklecloured cloak over his

shoulders.

Suddenly he straightened up and split the air with his fomuus ery, "I gotin horec!",

There was a mad scramble as the evowd surged forward to get its name.

There was the itinerant sock salesman shouting trom his "stand" In the refddle of the stevet, "Fre's value. Three pair for five bob.

"Worth 30 bob b the shope. Matter of fact, that's where they were until last night."

The company planning to Lake over all this claims will not destroy the tradiifon- al market.

"We intend merely to put i In more modern surroundings,”

spokesman said.

But the traders say they will be destroying a part of London, # part they will not easily

FOR SCIENCE

SAFETY TEST

"Dr Salk has an amazing ability," gold one elenilst,

He lives almost like a recluse "Give him a result sheet and in his suburban Pittsburgh he will immediately pick out house with his wife and three what is wrong. children and spends more than

60 hours a week at his five-

"Let him look at hundreds storey laboratory on the grounds of test tubes, and if there is of the University of Pittsburgh, one that is not right, he will

spot "

Not even his bank soooyat has changed appreciably sinoe,

He also worlding on the he became one of the een-possibility of producing vac- tury's most celebrated poles-cines to protect humans against tinta,

viruses that attack nerves,

Was

Dr Salk's caficer research Dr Salk speut Ave years dovetails into his current search developing a vaccine that

and for a rellable method of grow- safe

-effective' against ing polia viruses with which crippling pallomyelitis and then to make Salk vaccine,

followed two years of dramatic taling on humans, including Pelio viruses were now grown his own children, before he

c monkey kelnoy tasues,

which could be infected to yield would announce it to the world, "It may take longer to good harvests of virus, sald A staff member. But this re- conquer cancer," he says,

New Giant

Mr. Mike Stern, 68-year-old president of the Stepney Street surrender. Traders' Association, paused be- tween selling towels and cider- downs to declare, "Petticoat! Lane is far from deal. I'll take more than a few arcade shops fo kill us off.".

WON'T LEAVE for an examination and Nearby sal "Carl, the Cora care for her nine-week-old Cure King" repainting his fadod baby Geetanjali as well, sign. "Proof shown here to any

policeman," Mrs Sudha Atit, an Indian doctor working at Scar- thor Hospital, Grimsby, has had to send the baby 5,500 miles by air toy India,

"What, leave 'ere? Not

Probe Edge

Telescope

Would

Of The Universe

the distant Washington, Sept. 4. Ing the violence of nuclear fission light waves from

galaxies Radio telescopes likely. I don't want no shop. Scientists hope a mammoth or fusion reactions,

The new radio telescope, | gather radio waves. radio telescope now being

Great

·largest of its kind ever do-

dust clouds block off bullt will reveal the edge signed, is being built by the vast segments of the universe navy near Sugar Grove in to Palomar but are transparent of the universe — If it!

Ditle valley of the West to a radio cya has an edge.

I like to be out where the people can see me," he said. Besides, I like me fresh air," Harry Jackson, П cosmetick dealer for 20 years, hail this to say, "I won't do no good and She will not see her again for a lot'll be out of work.

It hasn't, they hope for a "But what's the good barkin' glimpse of what lies beyond the at least two years

If you got no blte?”

incomprehensibly distant

ever

to

Air-

"At nine weeks she was the youngest passenger travel alone," Mrs Alli Bald "I look her to London porl, and an air hostess specially engaged look charge of her for the Journey to buy."

"It should have. iakon 18 hours but it was actually 34 bocnuse of stormy weather."

Among Geetanjall's posses- sons is a British passport. Sho was born in Edinburgh and sa hoa dun! nationality.

To-

Virginia hill. It is expected

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to go in operation in 1982. Its dish antenna will be feet in diameter, far larger ilton the largest now in exist-|

"What about the local Chamegions where the edge would be if ence, the 250-foot radio tele ber of Commerce's complaint it existed. that apivs were spoiling the markct?" I asked.

Lin.

Suld Harry, "Spivs ave come And they give the market a bad name, cheatin' the public with their mock auctions shoddy goods.

and

"It's unfair to rent traders. These run-outs give the place a bad name.

Solomon Fishman ("It's

Biblical name") poused between selling nylons to add his come

scope at Jodrell Bank in Eng-

In any eventi, whether the land, and surpassing Д 350- universe is finite or infinito and foot instrument the Russians whatever its geometry, astro-are said to be planning. nomers fully expect their new radio eye to disclose a multitude of marvels.

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It has been said that the Bugur Grove telesupu will enable astronomers to deter-

mine which of a number of Ideas about the size, history and future of the universe are DorTech.

It is just as likely, scientists say, to discover undreamert of now facts which will semp all existing theories and forcé the building of brand new "models of creation"

DIFFICULT TASK Construction of the telescope These ore almost certain to a one of the most difficult en- Include additional collidinggineering tasks ever · under-

Bystems of galaxies-vast

taken. spokesman for the The Palomar optical telescope.

con probo into space is far as hundreds of billions of stars Naval Research Laboratory said passing through each other in "it's like taking Yankee stadium two billion light years. A light The as yet unplumbed reaches of and putting it on hinges, your la the distance light, mov- "I Intended to keep her but I ment:

In theory, the telescope willing at 188,300 miles a second, Just could not manage because of time, a damp equib," he said. i chužel art find servants In

be able to peer many times far-travels in 383 days. This works "It won't do the ordinary arenos by which clouds of matter ther Into space than the 200-out at about 8,000 billion miles. England," mid Mm Atit

trader any good. This market and anti-matter are engaged in a inch optical tolescope at MtOur sun is only eight light war of mutual annihilation re- Palomar in California, The [minutes, about us million miles, leasing Bloods of energy dwarf- Palomar telescope gathers away. UPI.

The

baby wit be looked after by Mr

it's parents at their Bombay

home.

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Dr and Mrs Adit came to Eng- land year ago andi were at

Warrington hospitals is Exiinburgh before moving to Searthoe. They are both study- ing for the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeon, China Mail Specul.

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