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MARS TRYING TO

SIGNAL US?

1936.

IS Mars trying to signal the earth? A Riviera scientist, Pro

fessor Robert Damion, is firmly convinced that this is the caso, and bases his 'saxertion" on certain phenomena, recently observed by him in the Basses Alpes Mountains.

This winter, during several nights which were pitch dark In the absence of moon and stars, I noticed a portion of the sky in the vicinity of Mars suddenly lit up by a strange bluish iight, *This light lasted forty seconds each time, recurred at regular intervais, and was so strong that one could easily read a newspaper by it," Professor Damion said.

"Similar phenomena have occurred before in Franco and been romarked on, by my fellow-astronomers. The last time was eight years ago in the Lyons' district.

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"I am quite convinced that Mare la trying to signal our planet by some means unknown to us.

"If they really are sigtials, we should be quite unable to answer them, not having yet been able to design searchlights powerful enough to throw a beam of light even a quarter of the way to our nearest planet neighbour."

Professor Damilon explains that the lens alone of such a.search- light would have to weigh samo 2,000 tons. Ho scouts the idea that rockets could ever be seen by the Martians.

"But," he declares, "the day will come when the problem of interplanetary communication will be solved."

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News Of The World Garnered By United Press

San Francisco, Mar. 25. Flexing the News periscope this way and that way, the first spot on which to focus seems to be Leavenworth, Kansas. Hitherto considered a city of "shut-ins" Leavenworth now makes a bid as a health centre: Prisoners committed to the Leavenworth prison almost immediately abow physical and mental improvement, ac- cording to Warden Fred R. Zerbst. Fat men lose excess weight, thin ones gain, and worried men find a haven. Time off for good behaviour, too, it's said.

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London. Mar. 16. A pigeon • Awooped down, alighted, and fell asleep on the town clock at Rothea, Moray.

The minute hand crept round, and aúddenly the pigeon woke to And itself wedged, a prisoner.

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