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OXFORD PROTESTS AGAINST NEW DON

Oxford, July 21,

INTENSE indignation has

He Made No

Speeches, Nor

Listened To Them

Baldwin

Chooses

been aroused in academic Epitaph

circles here by the appoint-

THE HONGKONG

LEOPARDESS AMOK IN LINER

VOYAGE OF MANY ADVENTURES

Plymouth, July 21.

TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1936.

A fight on board with a-mac- dencd leopardess, a dying man |taken aboard from another ship]

ment of Professor E. R. MR. BALDWIN, Prime in mid-ocean, a dash to the aid Dodds as Regius Professor of Greek,

A number of informal protests has already been made to the Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, who is an Oxford graduate, and a group of classical dons is con- sidering making a formal pro- test to the Prime Minister, who was responsible for the appoint- ment.

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The Choice of Professor Dodds, who is 13, is challenged Arst of all because he was conscientious abjector during the war and holds advanced Socialistic views.

."MODIFIED MY VIEWS"

Professor Dodds, who occupies the chair of Professor of Greek in the loral univerally said

"I relined to take part in military work for two reasons-beenuse I was an internationalist sympathiser and because, as an Irishman, 1 had no in- erest in the Empire ns such during the war.

"I was never summoned for mill- tary service and I spent some time toing ambulance work in Serbla. Since the war I have modified my views,

nd I am to-day perfectly towards Great Britain." Asked whether he would now bel prepared to fight in defence of the Eropire, Professor Dodds, replied: "You cannot expect me to answer

that

question without thought, have not yet made up my mind.

"Surely," he was asked, "anyono who is to occupy the most important chair of Greek learning in the world inust have some convictions an so fundamental a topic?"

Minister, confessed at Cambridge, Leys School, recently:- "When my time comes to an end in public life I hope my spitaph may be written in a paraphrane of Teumpront He made 200

perches-10,

listened to them,"

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Herrings And The Safety Razors

London, July 28.

A new way of smuggling safely razor blades and scores of articles of drapery gonds made in Japan was unsuccessfully tried out In Dublin this week.

Six large boxes inbelled a railway herrings" arrived at station at Dundalk, Irish Free State, from Belfast,

They were addressed to a person in Dublin. The Customs Officers were suspicious and in each case there was a layer of horrings, and underneath parcels of safety razor blades and scores of articles of drapery goods,

The value of the goods seized amounted to more than £100,

Professor Dodds reiterated thurt he¦ resident in Oxford whose claims to

d not made up his mind.

NO CLASSICAL BOOKS

It is also urged against Professor Dolds that he has spent all his teach. ing life in provincial universities, and that he has never published any book: on the life or literature of the classical age of Greece.

Asked about this Professor Dodils admitted that he had never published any book dealing with these subjects. He has, however, contributed articles!

magazines Greek classical

the professorship are considered by their colleaggisen to be far more con- pelling than those of Mr. Dodds,

men These

have Oxford for many years. have published authoritative works on the Greek classical period, fought in the war,

of a stranded cargo boat.

These were adventures which befelt the Elder Dempster liter Abuso which arrived here to-day from West Africa

The leopardess is one of two pels, Addis and Ababa, owned by Mes,

G.. S. Browne, whose husband has Just relinquished the post of Com- missioner of Northern Nigeria.

COAXED INTO CAGE

PROHIBITION

REPEAL HAS

COST AMERICA

10,000 LIVES

Says W.C.T.U. PRESIDENT

Tulsa, Okla., July 21. Three long years of repeal have cost America 10,000 lives, injuries to 350,000 persons and a

money loss of US$500,000,000, according to Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, National president of the W.C.T.U.

Drunkenness has been the scourge that took so great a toll, she said in an address before the 62nd Annual General convention' of the organization.

onc such winter garment for every 30 children, only enough coats and suits to meet the needs of one woman in three.

Mrs. Smith reviews conditions approximately in this country as follows:

"Hundreds of drink-cure in " was exercising Addis in the ship's hold when she tried to attack stitutions throughout the coun-

· sorne seamen, Mrs. Drowne said.try, closed during prohibition, "I could not hold her and she turned are being re-opened to care for "Three of us struggled with her, but the steadily growing number of allast I managed to coax her back to legalised alcohol victims. her cage. It was the first time have known fear in my life."

on me.

•

When near Sierra Leone the ship

picked up an S O S from the British Cargo steamer Clangrant, took an Injured man, Abidal Hawit, aboard, and buried him at sea after every medien ald had falled to save his life.

The other SOS wns from a Swedish slp's stranded crew. Tho Abosso went back for them, but found the weather too bad to be able to give help.

Trans-Pacific Airways

"On the other hand, we find the trafle in intoxicants has drawn from the pockets of the American people during $7,000,000,000 no less than the past three years."

OPPOSE "TOLERANCE".

ticians who advocate "oleraner."

"Last year the people of the United States contributed more

Mrs. Smith called upon all mem- than $2,600,000,000 to the liquorbers of the W.C.T.U. to oppore poll- makers and dispensers for their alcoholic wares. In 1936 the bill

three will run close to dollars.

"Motor traffic deaths have increased more than 23 per cent. in the past two years.

billion

'A new danger which comes with the re-tegalization of liquor in this mechanized age," she said, "is the moderate use of liquors.

"A second menace is the forming "We are told that last year there of an altitude of tolerance toward were manufactured only enough drink. Even though people them-

overcoats, children's

mackinaws, selves may not drink, they have no reefern and light coats to provide basic objection to the use of liquor because they lack comprehensivo knowledge.

U.S. FEARS MENACE OF NEW DISEASES

San Francisco, July 21.

The creation of a trans- Pacific airplane service has taught in automatically given rise to the problem of how to prevent the introduction into the United States, Hawaii, and other countries being aerially served of insects and parasites that might be detrimental to the crops of those countries.

The Prime Minister, in muling the appointment, is thought in have acted on the advice of Professor Gilbert. Murray, the retiring Replus Pro- fessor, who is well known for his Berature,

enthusiasın for the League of Nation There are ulher classical scholars and all its works,

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These inscets and parasites conceal themselves as stow- as they do on ways on the airplanes in the same ships, and thus are carried unknowingly to other countries.

To meet the situation thus created four scientists have already been ser to the island of Guam, which is the largest of the trans- Pacific air bases, where a fight is being made to eradicate all detrimental plant parasites. Later these scientists will visit other air basca in the Pacific.

To date, these operating on Guam have reported that they have alrendy found several types of insects and parasites never reported outside of the island.

the local farmers to eradicate from the villages to the fields. the pests completely.

"POISONOUS DRUC”-

"Our educational programme must be based on tutal abstinence from n and drug known to be poisonous habit forming."

Discussing a peace programme, she said: "The United States signs pacts and treaties, but the 1930 appro- priations for army and ivy reach the billion dollar mark. We are op-

tu pused

such expenditures, We learned the sorry lesson that war cannot end wor. Yet we are so in

lea

the grip of militarism, that, protest as we may, the people apparently

cannot be heard."--Untred Press,

Twins Born With 4 Days Between

London, July 28.

To the wife of a London baker twin daughters have been born four days and eight miles apart- and the twins will celebrate their

birthdays, in different months.

In their efforts to eradicate feat the eggs and young fledglings." Bryan brought back to the Bishop the latter they not only work

Mrs. Ellen Abraham, aged 30 of Museum at Honolulu two stuffed to meet the plant quarantine lizards as well as a large collection Walthamstow gave birth on Tues

day in a Walthamstow nursing THERE'S-GOOD-HEALTHƊgood—regulations-of-cach-part, whereof birds, plants and land shells. digestion and the sound constitution

Bryan reports that only a small home to a baby girl weighing 834 the airplanes may stop, by pre- part of the island is under cultiva-| 1h. venting them from becoming tion. The farmers do not live on their that comes from the right food properly

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They raise corn, laro, beans, and more than her twin sister was points just like breast-milk, it builds

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SOLVING PROBLEM

at Honolulu, has already returned to same rice. his home pust. Three others remain. These are Otto II. Sweezey, entomo-i logist of the Experiment station of the Hawailan Sugar Planters Asso- riation: Mrs. Swezey and Boger L. Usignger, all of Honolulu.

CANE-FARMERS ANXIOUS

prave

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There are cocoanuts almost every- where, he stales, but since the price!

of copra has gone down, many of the groves have been abandoned.

Bryan, expressed the fullest con-

The sugar planters are especially dence that the entomologists left anxious in prevent the introduction]behind will be able to solve the inta Hawaii of any tasects or problem of eradicating plant parasites parasites that might

de- and insects and keep them from be- trimental to their crops.

coming stowaways on the air liners in Bryan, who participated in the precisely the same manner that this work of the, entomologists, was problem has been solved for sea going | originally sent to reorganize the ships in the Pacific and other waters. museum of the Naval governor..

As the other air bases used in thei

more barren and with little vegeta-

He has just returned to Honolulu, after six weeks on the little Paciile act are much smaller than Guam, island, and his report, which has just tion, he reports that little danger is: been received here, paints a glowing expected from them but they will be picture of Guant

Jaspected, nevertheless, from the The latter he declares is a veritable possible standpoint of unconscious paradise for naturalists: The island, plast quarantine violators, as soon according to Bryan, is larger than as the entomological work on Guam looks on the map being 30 miles lont is completed.-United Press. and from four to nine infles in width, i

with a total area of 225 square miles.

Hills rise to an elevation of 1,380 feet.

"The island is partly of volcanic

arigin," Bryan reported, "and partly Wine and Food

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the volcanic rock is overfald with

coral limestone, indicating that this Society

island must have at some time been submerged. Much of it is heavily;

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BIRD LIFE DIES

London, July 28.'

* "listed 500 kinds of flowering The following all Sussex' menu plants and 40 kinds of birds," Bryan's is to ho discussed this week, by report continued, “including a beaut- the Wine and Food Society:-

ful green and gold pigeon with purple topknot, while terns and fantall By catchers; also a bright red

and black honey eater that resembles some of the forest birds of old Hawali.

"Bird life, however, is being cut down by huge monitor lizards wilch

Worthing Melon,

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