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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 I says Professor Isidore Bay of Lyons.

Power bealde which the expio ajon

greatest of the world's arsenal would be as a mere put is contingent on astro-navigation and this power can be found only in the mysterious and precious sub- stance known as radium, he writes In a current review.

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

THE PROBLEMS.

The cardinal problems of the venture are as follows:

agers.

on its

THE HOME

DRESSMAKER

Very Dainty Muslin, Frock

for Small Child

There is nothing simpler to "rion up", and nothing more effec tive in car, than a little dress of embroidered mualín. ·

For the design suggested here, one and a half yards of embroider cd mulin sixteen inches, side, and five-eights of a yard of plain Thess muslin, will be needed. lengths are sufficient to make a frock for a child of about three years of age.

13, 1934.

SCOTS TEACHER SUED

PUPIL'S CHARACTER

INVOLVED

The debate. in the action in which a Forres parent la suing a teneler for £50 for alleged defama- tion of his son's character heard before Sheriff Howden Elgin Sheriff Court recently.

Was

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The pursuer, Alexander Carrow, cyclo agent, alleges that the defen- der Mrs. M. R. Brown, a teacher. at Forres Academy, called his son out to the front of the. class and accused him of throwing a stone at ber, which Is dented. Shortly ufterwards, it fa alleged, the defen der said that Garrow was a liar, n coward, and a buily.

ing

Sho

She

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 Bho used

the words and "bully" in her reproof. not call him a llar. did not cinimed to be privileged in what she had done, that she was acting in her duty as a teacher, and in particular in her duty towards Garrow, that' duty necessarily in- cluding the maintenance of dis cipline and of proper conduct and behaviour.

:

He submitted that once a boy was out of school the. tencher's authority finlahed:

Mr. Aikman Hardie, for the pur- 1. How to leave the earth at the

miles per The shape of each plain piece of suer. submitted that the defender required speed-71⁄2

voy-muslin for the bodice and the was not privileged. The act com- second-without killing the

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.

The teacher was in inca parentia speed of the rocket ship

material, joined to within four

but her voyage of 252,175 to 221,466 miles finches of the top, the remaining during school hours,

under arrin nuthority did not extend outwith and safeguard the lives, if not the edges turned in comfort, of th voyagers.

Crossway strips to form the plac- these. 3. How to land on the moon with-ket. Run a gathering thread alang out damaging life and property, if the top of the skirt, no that it is not the comfort, of the voyagers. ready to be joined to the bodice.

The cannon or catapult Idea

the Sew up the shoulder and nide being out of the question. rocket-ship-enlculations are made acuma 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 trip of material, and acw neatly Bind the neck and sleeve edges and gradually increase its speed with narrow creaalay strips of to the required point on its own

muslin-you will have plenty of power.

material left for these little bind- Prof. Bey's rocket would re-ing strips. Use another strip in quire 24 minutes of flight 4,000 miles to attain the requisite fold between bodice and skirt when 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 finial. power would be turned off.

over

The

Sheriff Howden reserved judg- ment.

PLANET PLUTO

NEW FACTS AND FIGURES

Cambridge (Mass), Aug. 10.

newest known Planet Pluto,

is not more than seven-tenths

rocket would continue through Fasten the back of the frock member of the Solar system: space on its own momentum, which with tiny buttons and buttonholes. would have diminished to 2,000 new in the leavey frills, and prean the size of Earth. moters a second at the

time of all: with a warm ;*FOIL entering the zone of lunar attrac- tion.

POWER AS BRAKE

About 180 miles from the moon, with the ship's speed naturally

In some 3,753,600,000 miles from Earth.

Has no atmosphere, and hence,

RAILWAY TRAGEDY could not support life in any form.

increasing every second, the power Bodies of Young Couple

again would be turned on, but this time to act as : brake. The rocket would be steered about like a liner backing into its wharf and descent on the moon would be effected with- out shock. The 180 miles would be covered in 8-minutes, 46-seconds, according to Prof. Bay.

Found on Line

The bodies of a young couple, tied together at the hands, were found on the... Southern Railway about a mile on the Woking side of Brookwood, recently.

Requires 24814 years to journey around the sun.

Will make its closest approach to Earth Sept. 30, 1989.

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Activos

1 You don't hear it when Lindrum

makes a big break.

May be lurge, but it doesn't Round two large to heave. 0 N.C.O. unit (anagram).

Is scheduled for special obser- vations in 1968 when it will pass near enough to Uranus for one to exert its "pall" upon the other, and thus give astronomers a better for hunting submarines in idea than now na to its minas.

the War.

12 "He that bath.

when a bit is broken off it. 12-Former plate, but the latter 14 It's pretty good, when it's not

so this,

These are some of the new facts about Pluto which have coine from "But," he sake, "what would be

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 vold, 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-20

ermanent way. He reported the vatory.

#pace?

America, although it's there! wound" (Romeo and Juliet). For all the final exclaimation doubt, it's a great success. Kernel composed of us and uncle. 24 In this kind of selfishness the

fifth letter counts most. 24 "Methought I heard a voice cry morel-doth murder

17 You won't find it in South "Ho feats at that never felt a of

not be matter at Brookwood, and police When Pluto was discovered by 22 This sensation would

and rallway staff went down to the spot Lowell Observatory at Flagstafa 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-

than four and a half billion miles out the voyage. At this rate the rocket would be shooting at a speed

from earth, and that it would re-i quire more than 330 years to rotate around the sun.

The man's hand was tied to the girl's hand with a handkerchief.

of Rome forty miles per second at Injuries to the heads are of auch the moment when safety would re-a nature ns' to make identification quire veering about and backing difficult, and no papers were found

on the bodies. into the moon.

Such a voyage would be effected

The girl was dressed in a blue

in three hours and five minutes and frock and was about five feet four would require 181 times the power needed for the two-day trip. The inches in height. She was about force needed would be equivalent 21.

to

€7,200,000

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

27 Rum, Di, for the Governor of a

Turkish village. 28 This was 14 Across before the

housemaid

upside turned it down.

15 Same as pen is when mashed. 38 Not betraying Identity in short. 37 Doubting Thomas.

33 Not a nice name for a child. 39 A schoolboy wouldn't like this expression to last for ever.

Down

31 28 Across according to Chopla. "In case the astronomers get 34 Mado certain. tired by waiting until 1968 or 1989, is there anything you can do to heat calorien or The man was apparently about steal a march on time?" Camp 4.760,000 (European) horsepower. twenty-five years of age and was bell was asked.

-United Prem..

wearing a sports jacket and grey "Yes we would be much in- terested to discover a satellits of Plato. This would give us Although a tab bearing the neighbour object from which to name of t Guildford Arm

was make checking calculations. As found on the man's clothing, it is matters stand. the nearest check- believed that the couple lived in ing point would be Uranus." the Woking district.

Another effort to beat the long

with black rib

flannel trousers..

Two Great Dai bon on their collars and two fa- vourite Shiro horses followed im- mediately after the coffin of Mr. Hans Ove Larsen, the rich nursery-

of Waltham Abbey, at ha People in Woking who had re-walt, he revealed, involves use of funeral at High Beech, Epping ported relatives to be missing were photography by plates sensitive to

infra-red rays-United Press. Forest.

visited by the police..

man

SALESMAN SAM

For Married Men Only!

2 On tip toe, so to speak. 3 Unpleasant yourig fellow who

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

Atart from here.

5 Bind that bit another.

Betrays indignation.

7 Hope (of a sort) was pover

tacking to the prisoner here.

8 "Twixt the sheets.

10

10 He was never a wooden actor; 16 A stage direction is distinctly

good.

10 When Edward sets about one of hia relatives, he is contemptu- ously reproached.

18 Flah.

19 Rose in the mackle.

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

associated with the cane.

26 Sternum (anagram),

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

28 You might altnost call it ble

of window dressing,

20 Often appears before ten, and

is no vamp.

20 Useful to the brewer. 181 Ukane.

32 Painful affiction.

33 Entall work for the poacher..

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IMPORTED "FROM

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