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Tornadoes

DEFEAT FOR CANCER IN

3 GENERATIONS

IT CAN BE BEATEN

Chicago, Mar. 24.

It is within the realm of pos aibility that man's fight against cancer could be won within three generations, according to Dr.

Maude Slye, whose cancer search has brought her world

renown.

Dr. Slye, winner of the gold medal of the Radiological Society

the same honour bestowed upon Madame Curie said the fight could be carried further in the next ten years than in all its his. tory if enough family medical re- cords were available for study.

"If all medical students who graduate in the approaching com- mencements would pledge them- selves to collect accurate, com- plete and Intelligent medical his- torles of oach of their patients." sho said, "before these young men dled we would have enough data about cancer to stamp it from human experience."

Started As joke

Dr. Slye, who began her cancer experiments 25 years ago with a pair of waltzing Japanese mice someone gave her in jest, has since bred, observed and per- formed autopsies on nearly 150,- 000 mice.

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From her thousands of histories of mice which have lived in the neat little cages. housed in an old dwelling on the University of Chiengo campus, Dr. Slye knows exactly which are susceptl. ble to cancer and the heation of cancer they might develop.

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With similarly adepte cords, the same might be done for humans, she pointed out.

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"If you had a complete medical history of your mother and father and your grandmothers grandfathers," the gray-haired, dark-eyed Doctor said, "you might possibly know whether or not you enuld have cancer, and what kind of cancer, just as I know about mice."

One In Five Die

Delay in starting a system of records only prolongs the horr ble suffering which yearly clains one out of five women and one out of eight men, she said.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, APRIL

The

And

SUN SPOTS

1936.

Sun Will Bring Stormy

Wireless

"HOW THE SUNSPOTS AFFECT THE WORLD 1-Mare ice melted off East Greenland each eleven yearn.

2. Same amount of wheat crop in East Britain each eleven years, 3.Level: of Lake Victorin rises and falls with cycles, 4.Indian Ocean's most severe cyclones,

5.-Australian free "rings" show eleven years' cycle of warmer weather. G."Ice needle” blizzards here every eleven years.

Merrie England Playground For Fascinating Spy

Dramas Of 1936

Troubles

A BAD PATCH FOR

THREE YEARS

WHY WE MAY HAVE LESS SUN AND MORE RAIN

URING the next three or four years great tornadoes

on the sun will reach their maximum intensity.

DURI

What does that mean for us?

Stormy weather and radio interference.

These sunspot cycles reach their peak every eleven years.

In 1926 and 1927, when broadcasting was just getting into its stride, much interference was caused by solar disturbancos, especially affecting reception of foreign programmes.

it so happened that when broadcasting was developed suddenly around 1922 the earth was passing through a phase of minimum aunspot activity, and our atmosphere was relatively free from "aolar atmospherics,"

We have Just passed through another period of minimum "spot" activity, so that the next three years will bring more "static" trouble to wireless listenera,

The weather in nil parts.of the warkl soon will show evidence of the increasing solar disturbances. Hurricanes, typhoons, and floods, will be more frequent, and barometric pressure in ocean cyclones will fall to lower levels.

in Great Britain, the summers of 1936, 1937, and 1998 will be much

MINIMUM

1917-19

1927-29

MAXIMUM

SUN-SPOT **

PHASE

SUN-SPOT →→

PHASE

1911-13

1921-23

Hottest

Summer

1911

Stormo and Gales 1917

Driest Weltest

Year Summer

1921 1927

1933-35

"Threo

1938:39

Brilliant Wet Summers. and DROUGHTS, Stormy 1933-35 1938

lesa genial than those of 1933, 1934, and 1935. There will be less sun- shine and heavier rainfall.

Often it is thought that increasing sunspots menn that leas heat the sun affected by the vortices emit less radiant energy than usual. Afemitted from the sun. The reverse is true. Only those parts of That sunspots are of electrical origin and are really vast tornadoes of deep-seated origin, in `which electrified particles are whirled at enormous speed, is proved by the presence of a magnetic

PROBES WAR THREAT Mechanical

London, Mar. 26. As in pre-war days Merric England has become once again a playground for the ancient but ever new and always facinating game of espionage and counter-espionage.

“Spy-hysteria," fauned by sen-provided excitement, and public

gets ever interest will be greatly Intensified { field. sational newspapers

coninglous. The atmos- when he stands trial on Cha more

over Europe charge. phere of war-clouds

fensible background for The general situation was! makes a

grently aggravated when, follow- the wildest stories.

Spies are unofficially alleged to being the violent death of the vice- responsible for the sabotage of trader Max Kassel, known the Battleship Royal Oak and the "Max the lted," revelations were Submarine Oberon in December widely publicized of how easily last and of the Cruiser Cumber-vice-gangs obtained British clti- land in recent weeks. It has been Izenship for undesirables of all stated that had the sabotage of nationalities.

factor in

18!

off

counter-

the Oberon not been discovered in The Intest unofficial reports "While enneer, which-is-second time-it-would-have-dived during-bearing-on-the-subject is that the only to heart diseases as a causeita trials, never to reach the sur- British Secret Service is to bo of death, has baffled us for cen- face again.

allocated several thousands Suries from the standpoint of

in Britain's billion and a half dol-pounds extra the Budget cure," she said, "it is one of the lars re-armament programme is Estimates which is said to be simplest diseases to deal with

said to be responsible for the sud- deemed necessary for its increased from the point of prevention.

den Increased activity in activity. Scotland Yard men do a "For instance, a mouse for human being) cannot have cancer espionage. The mention of secret great deal of the work connected anless he inherits susceptibility. high speed airplanes during the with the frustrating of spies but Even with susceptibility, he can sittings of the Arms Commission, the Secret Service are a very im not have cancer, unless there is the detalls of the Government's portant chronic frritation. Knowledge of new Air Programme which is said espionage activities.

Ito include rohot pilots for Among the victims of spy susceptibility would permit safe- guards against irritation. I have bombers, and the frequent hists hysteria are the political refugees nice who inherit a susceptibility of new air-fighting developments from Continental countries who to cancer of the jaw, but they and discoveries of anti-aircraft mostly have no fixed occupation in never have it. I keep their teeth weapons all suggest profitable Britain and do not always speak wood English. They aro often filed short, thus preventing a fields for spying activities,

The preliminary hearing for naturally subject to suspicion which common kind of irritation."

Cancer is the same in mice or espionage of Doctor Hermann is later disproved.-United Press.

who men, she pointed out, in type, in Goertz, a German citizen organs involved and in clinical described his activities as those of GOVERNOR OF MALTA course.-United Presa.

ja novelist looking for matèrial,

£2,000,000 HOSPITAL CITY

FOR SWEDEN

Stockholm, Mar. 12.

"Only the best is good enough” is the motto for the £2,000,000 hospital city which is being built by the Swedish Government in the lovely country close to the Royal Palace of Haja, near here,

It is called the Royal Carolinian Institute and Hospital.

This medical city, which will| Include the latest, hospital inven tions in Britain, the United States,) Germany, France and Japan, has n special building for cancer cases, partly financed by King Gustav's Jubilee Fund for Cancer Research..

King Gustav luid the founda- tion-stone of this Jubilee clinic, which is almost completed.

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Building for grave psychiatric diseases.

Rheumatism clinic. Swimming pools, football gronds, tennis courts.

A church and concert halls. Homes for professors, stu. dents and nurses,

British Inventions

An entirely new type of window, partly of British design, which admits air without draughts, dust The main building of, the city and noise, will be used. The win be shaped like an "H," with neoustical

problem has been.

the two sides just over 200 yards solved by the well-known Manville: long. It will be seven storeys method, developed In England. high, with a roof for sunbathing. Other features of the hygienic town will be:

Operating. theatre, X-ray rooms, laboratory and big lee-

Licut.-General Sir Charles Bon ham-Carter, director-general of the territorial army, has been appointed governor and com mander-in-chief of Malta, suc- ceeling General Sir David Camp- bell, who retired owing to ill health

HERO'S WELCOME

FOR NAVAL DELEGATES

Kobe, Mar, 5.

SIR REGINALD HALL Arriving in San Francisco from Australia, Admiral Sir Reginald Hall (above) prained U. S. ne quisition of Facific islands A9 aviation bases. After looking over war possibilities. In that area, Sir Reginald said it was up to Britain and America to enforce peace. He was director of the British naval intelligence during the war.

AIRMEN RESCUED FROM JUNGLE

SAVAGES KEPT AT BAY FOR 3 WEEKS

New York, Mar. 30.

AFTER thrilling adventures,

Ears For Aviators

Mechanical cars for piloting a plane by sound alone, an entirely now principle in aviation; were described to the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, in New York recently,

Lais de Florez, of the de Florez Engineering Company of New York, who has spent three years develop ing them and flown many hours blindfolded, gave a "ground" dem jonstration with the instruments ·

Ears Replace Eyes

A "blind" flying heretofore has been done with the eyes, watching! instrument boards. But with "me- chanical cars" the pilot flies wholly by listening with a pair of ear phones. He can use them in fog, clouds, darkness, on any kind of plane.

The phones are connected with a tiny propeller, set far-out on the leading edge of one wing. This pro peller is the size of a toy pin-wheel, Like the toy it changes speed with facceleration of the plane.

It runs faster if the plane dips, slower if it ascends, steady if lovel The propeller drives a little genera- tor. This generator huma In the pilot's ears.

Its tono grows shriller for dip, lower for ascent, tolls rim whether the plane is level. It tells him quicker than the eye could do the same thing. For the electric cur rent is amplified, so that a slight {deviation shrieks (ta warning.

In the phone circuit there is a seven persons in an ill-fated small gyroscope, set to indicate the Bolivian seaplane have arrived slightest turn of the ship to left or If the plane turns, this safely at Puerto Suarez, Bolivia. right.

For nearly three weeks they kept gyro cuts off one ear phone. at bay savage tribes and wild animals in the swamps of the dreaded Matto Grosso, Brazil, one of the most terrible jungles in the world, where their seaplane was forced down.

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"Six panthers were killed and the belonguered people forced to keep watch day and night against their enemies. Acroplanes kept them in touch with civilisation and dropped food by means of parachutes. In the meantime Bolivian Army sappers| ware cutting their way through vast forests, thick with under- growth.

When the sappors eventually dis- Japan gave a hero's welcome to-day covered the seaplane thoy made a

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