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TRIP TO THE MOON

PROFESSOR BAY'S IDEA

RADIUM POWER

Paris, Aug. 10.

Do you want to go to the moon? Harness radium and you can do It, Anya Profesor Tailore Bay of Lyons.

MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1934.

SCOTS TEACHER SUED

THE HOME DRESSMAKER

Very Dainty Muslin Frock,

for Small Child

There is nothing simpler to "run up", and nothing more affec tive in wear, than a little dress of embroidered muslin.

PUPIL'S CHARACTER INVOLVED.

in

The debate in the uction which a Forres parent is suing a teacher for £60 for alleged defnina- tion of his son's character was For the design suggested here, heard before Sheriff Howden, in one and a half yards of embroider Elgin Sheriff Court recently. cd muslin sixteen inches toide, and

The pursuer, Alexander Garrow, Ave-eights of a yard of plain cycle agent, alleges that the defen- Thester, Mrs. M. R. Brown, a teacher muslin, will be needed. lengths are sufficient to make a

at Forren Academy, called his BON frock for a child of about three out to the front of the class and

Power beside which the explo-years of age. Hion of the

world's greatest

arsenal would be as a mere puff is contingent on astro-navigation and this power can be found only in the mysterious and precious gab- stance known as radium, he writes In a current review.

Everything else is ready. The plans have been drawn up. Even the schedule, three hours and Ave, minutes each way, has been set. All these details, writes the Lyons Savant, have been elaborated by the veteran aviator and rocket advocate, Esnault-Pelterle.

THE PROBLEMS.

The cardinal problems of the venture are as follows:

agers.

pet

Accused him of throwing a stone at her, which is denied. Shortly afterwards, it is alleged, the defen der said that Garrow was a llar, a coward, and a bully,

Mrs. Brown, who denies the pur- suer's allegations, states that she was struck by a stone, and was in- formed that Garrow was the cul- prit. In order to reprove the boy, and also to give the class a warn-

the

used the words “coward” and "bally" in her reproof. She Sho dich not call him a liar. claimed to be privileged in what slie had done, that she was acting in her duty as a teacher, and in particular in hor duty towards Garrow, that duty necessarily In- cluding the maintenance of dis cipline and of proper conduct and behaviour.

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1.. How to leave the earth at the

The shape of each plain piece of ster, submitted that the defender required speed--7 miles second without killing the voy-muslin for the bodice and the was not privileged. The net com- little frill sleeves is shown in the plained of took place outwith diagram. The skirt, is just a school hours and outwith school 2. How to control direction and straight tength of the embroidered premises.

within four The teacher was in fact parentis on its material, joined to

her speed of the rocket ship voyage of 252.175 to 221,466 miles fuches of the top, the remaining during school hours, but

narrow authority did not extend outwith and safeguard the lives, if not the edges turned in under

crossway strips to form the plac- these. comfort, of the voyagers.

3. How to land on the moon with- kot. Run a gathering thread along out damaging life and property, if the top of the skirt, no that it fa not the comfort, of the voyagera. ready to be joined to the bodice.

The cannon or catapult iden

Sew up the shoulder and wide being out of the question, the rocket-ship-calculations are made cama of the bodice, turn in the for a vehicle weighing 100 tons-edges of the back opening under a would have to start from scratch strip of material, and sew neatly. nad gradually increase its speed Bind the neck and sleeve edges with narrow crosscut atrips of to the required point on its own

terial will have plenty of power.

left--for these little bind-

Prof. Bay's rocket would re- nire 24 minutes of flight overing stripa. Use another strip to fold between bodice and skirt when 4,000 miles to attain the requisite stitching these together; it will speed of seven and one half miles form a piping on the right side. per second and at this point the and make a pretty finish. power would be turned off. The

rocket would continue through

Fasten the back of the frock spaco on its own momentum, which with tiny buttons and buttonholes, would have diminished to 2,000 acw in the sleevo-frills, and press meters a second at the time of all with a warm on entering the zone of lunar attrae

tion.

POWER AS BRAKE. About 180 miles from the moon, with the ship's speed naturally

· RAILWAY TRAGEDY

He submitted that once n boy was out of school the teacher's authority fibished.

Sheriff Howden reserved judg- ment.

PLANET PLUTO

NEW FACTS AND FIGURES

Cambridge (Mass), Aug. 10.

known Planet Pluto, newest member of the Solar system:

Is not more than seven-tenths the size of Earth.

Is some 3,753,600,000 miles from

Earth,

Has no atmosphere, and hence could not support life in any form. Requires 2481⁄2 years to journey around the sun.

Will make its closest approach

increasing every second, the power Bodies of Young Couple to Earth Sept. 30, 1989.

Found on Line

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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

Аегова

1. You don't hear it when Lindrum

makes a big break.

G May be large, but it doesn't

sound too large to heave.

9 N.C.O. unit (anagramı).

the War.

12 "He that hath

-Former plate, but the latter.

when a bit is broken off it.

so this.

14 It's pretty good, whon les not South America, although it's thero) 20 "He jests at that never felt a

17 You won't find it in

again would be turned on, but this

is scheduled for special obser- time to act as a brake. The rocket

vations in 1968 when it will pass would be steered about like a liner

near enough to Uranus for one to becking into its wharf and descent

The bodies of a young couple, exert its "pall" upon the other: 11 Used for hunting submarines in on the moon would be effected with- out shock. The 180 miles would be tied together at the hands, were and thus give astronomers a better covered in 9 minutes, 46 seconds, found on the Southern Railway, iden than now as to its mass.

These are

some of the new facts about a mile on the Woking alde to Prof. Bay.

about Pluto which have come from he asks, "what would be of Brookwood, recently..

Intensive research by astronomers the fate of the passengers who, The shocking discovery was since its discovery four years ago having been abandoned to the void, would have the sensation of losing made by the driver of a down train and which were given out by Mr. their weight and plunging through who saw the bodies lying on the Leon Campbell of Harvard Obser-

permanent way. He reported the vatory. space?

When Pluto was discovered by This sensation would not be matter at Brookwood, and polica

railway staff went down to the mot Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, humanly bearable, he says

Ariz., it was estimated to be solution would lie in keeping the on a railway tender.

somewhat larger than earth, more propelling force in motion through.

The man's hand was tied to the than four and a half billion miles out the voyage. At this rate the girl's hand with a handkerchief.

from earth, and that it would re- rocket would be shooting at a speed

more than 330 years of some forty miles per second at Injuries to the heads are of such quira the moment when safety would re-a nature as to make identification rotate around the sun. quire veering about and backing difficult, and no papers were found

Jon the bodies. into the moon.

and

J

The girl was dressed in a blue frock and was about five feet four inches in height. She was about

21.

Such a voyage would be effected in three hours and five minutes and would require 131 times the power neered for the two-day trip. The force needed would be equivalent to 07,200,000 heat calories The man was apparently about 4.760,000 (European) horsepower, twenty-five years of age and was -United Press.

wearing a sports jacket and grey flannel trousers.

or

Two Great Danes with black rib- bon on their collars and two fo- vourite Shire horses followed in- mediately after the coffin of Mr. Hans Ove Larsen, the rich nursery- man of Waltham Abbey, at his funeral at High Beech, Epping Forest..

SALESMAN SAM

MIGOSH, MAN! TAKE 'CM AWAY! I WOULDN'T WEAR ANY OF THOSE TIES, IF I HADDA GO BARE-NECKED,

to

Harvard astronomers, and others throughout the world, have been seeking to assemble new and more accurate data.

wound" (Romeo and Juliot). 22 For all the final exclaimation of doubt, It's a great success. Kernel composed of us and uncle. 24 In this kind of selfishness the

fifth letter counts most. 26 "Methought I heard a voice cry no more!doth

der

27 Rum, Di, for the Governor of a

Turkish village.

28 This was 14 Across before the housemaid turned. It upside down.

31 28 Across according to Chopin. "In caso the astronomors got 31 Made certain, tired by waiting until 1968 or 1989, 36 Same as pea is when mashed. Is there anything you can do to 30 Not betraying, identity in short.

Doubting Thomas. steel a march on time?" Camps Notice name for a child. bell was asked.

in-

"Yes, we would be much terested to discover a satellits of Pluto. This would give us 1 Although a tab bearing the neighbour object' from which to name of a Guildford firm was make checking calculations. As found on the man's clothing, it is matters stand, the nearest check- believed that the couple lived injing point would be Uranus."

Another effort to beat the long People in Woking who had re-wait, he revealed. Involves use of ported relatives to be missing were photography by plates sensitive to

infra-red rays-United Press. visited by the police.

the Woking district.

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30 A schoolboy wouldn't like this expression to last for over.

Down

2 On tip toe; ku to speak. 3 Unpleasant young fellow. who

may turn out a sad dog. 4 At all events, the best men

start from here,

6 Bird that bit another. Betrays indignation. Hopo (of a nort) was lacking to the prisoner here.

THEY OUGHTA BE IN A. SEPARATE BOX! BUT (CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY YA KLEP SUCH,TIES AROUND! NO MAN WITH AN OUNCE OF BRAINS

WOULD BUY ONE!.

never

8 "Twixt the sheets.

distinctly

10 He was never a wooden actor. 15 A stage direction le

good

16 When Edward sets about one of hia relatives, ho is contemptu. Dunly reproached."

18 Fish.

19 Rose in the saddle.

20 The sort of pain father's manu. -script entalls when in disorder. 21 Tommy finds it sweet though

associated with the cano..

25 Sternum (anagram).

20 I hope the ashes won't, but after all, they are where I expect to find them.

28 You might almost call it a bit

of window dressing..

20 Often appears before ten, and

is no vamp.

30 Useful to the brewer. 31 Uknae.

82 Painful offletion.

33 Entail work for the poacher.

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