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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. ›⠀⠀ THURSDAY, JULY

STABILISATION

INTERNATIONAL SCHEME

RUMOURED.

London, July 4.

The forthcoming visit of Mr.

MME CURIE DEAD CHINA'S JUDICATURE,

JOINT: DISCOVERER OF LEGAL AUTHORITIES STUDY.

.: EUROPEAN SYSTEMS RADIUM

Paris, July 4.

the

Valence, July 3.

The Vice-President of | George L. Harrison, Governor of The denth in announced of Judicial Yunn and an important the Federal Reserve Bank of Madame Curio, famous radiologist legal commission, which la, in New York, to Basle for the meet and joint discoverer of ráðtům. Europe to study the Continental ing of the Bank of International

and British Judicial systems, is Settlements, has given rise to

leaving for London in August. rumours of early international currency stabilisation,

arc

Well informed quarters disregarding these rumours, point. ing out that the question will eventually be decided by the treasuries, not by the governors of central banks.

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Madame Curie died 4 am She was in the Sanatorium of San

The Chinese Minister to Britain, Cellermoz, near Sallanches, where she was attempting to recover from Mr. Quo Tai-chi, is writing to urge an illness brought about by over-thom to come to London sooner, an it is useless, for them to go work United Press.

there when' the Law Courts are Marie Curie (nee Sklodowska) [closed for vacation.-Reuter. was born at Warsaw in November, 1867, her father being a maator at It is also believed that condia secondary school, After comed once more the Nobel Chemistry tions are not yet ripe for cur-pleting her schooling, she went to Prize. Repeated efforts to secure rency Blabilisation.

Paris where, as she was without her election to the French Academy Mr. Thomas J. Coolidge, Acting means, and took a post as labora- failed, the ground being an objec Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, tory attendant in the Chemical tion to the principle of admitting emphatically denied rumours that Institute at the Sorbonne.

women. Nevertheless, she was the Treasury has formulated a allver purchase pinn, including From this subordinate position, elected a member of the Academy т research of Medicine. In 1020 the Paris the acquisition, before the end of she soon rose to be

axsistant to the Municipal Counell at the sugges the year, of the maximum amount chemist and

of Mme. Curio set provided by the Silver Purchase director of the instituto, M. Pierre Act, according to the Financial Curle, who later married her. Bhe 2,500,000 francs for the develop- ment of the Radium Instituto, Times' Now York correspondent. was investigating the lonisation

Mr. Coolidge declared that the of uranium salts when she found chiefly for the purchase of two Treasury has no definite silver indications of the presence of an rammes of radium at the cost of unknown substance, whereupon her 800,000 francs per gramme, and it programmo outlined.

Other official circles point o.it husband, abandoning his work in has been of great service in the treatment of cancer, which is pro- that if the U.S. Treasury pur her researches. In July, 1898, valont in Paris.

connection, with crystals, joined in chason Jargo quantitics, rumoured. the result would that the price of the metal would crash when the buying ceased.-- Reuter.

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they were able to announce the

In 1920, Blie and Georges December that of radium. discovery of polonium and in Urbain, the director of the Paris Chemical Institute, put forward a M. Curis then devoted himself to schome for an Industrial laboratory the study of the properties of for the training of chemical radlum, while Mme, Curley took up engineers whore it would be pos INDEPENDENCE DAY.the preparation of pure salts of aible to deal with the great masses radium. For their epoch-making of material necessary to produce an researches, M. and Mme. Carie in infinitesimal amount of radium.

The chemical industry was prepa awarded the Nobel Chemistry Prize. Mme. Curle wrote led to finance Its part of the a number of papers

on radio-laboratory and Urbain issues an activity.

radium appeal for funds for the section.

BOOTLEG LIQUOR KILLS. SIX UNEMPLOYED

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New York, July 4, Six persons who resided at the

After the untimely death of her In November 1929, Mme. Curie camp for unemployed in Pitts-husband in 1906, as the result of a visited New York to receive burgh are dead as a result of motor accident she succeeded him cheque for £10,000 subscribed by drinking bootleg decoctions, in as a professor in the Faculty of American women with which to celebration of Independence Day. Science at the Sorbonne and head buy a gramme of radium for her Another unemployed man s of the Radlum Institute there. In researches. While In America sho seriously in hospital, suffering 1910 ahe was awarded the Albert was the recipient of many honours. from alcoholic poisoning-Ren Medal by the Royal Society of Mme. Curle has no son, but two

Great Britain and 1911 she receiv-i daughters-Router and Special.

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