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Idea That Beat U-Boat

"Gunboys" Hold Up Headmaster

Three boys entered the head- master's study at the Medium School, Smyrna, Turkey, pointed revolvers at him and announced that they meant to kill blm and all his relatives if the marks

they had been given in thetr examinations were not changed. The shooting would be done next day, they said, if the smarks were not altered

the police were informed.

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Next day, hearing nothing, the boys ran away. Three days later they were traced police dogs and found exhausted by starvation, fright and sleepless-

HERS,

Now they are in a reforma- Lory,

discipline.- Reuter.

Jearning

A "Bad" Criminal Reforms

"Happy To Be On Right

Side Of The Law"

HORMERLY regarded by Scutland

Yard is one of the worst crimi nals, a man who has spent more than 17 years in penal servitude is making good in a £3-a-week Job.

His foremRÐ

has never says he known hupp or better natured

m100.

Headphones and a Bucket in College Room Experiment

London, June 26,

Two headphones and a pail of water in a professor's room at Queen Mary College, Mile End Road, London, were the first link in the discovery of the directional hydrophone that defeated the U-boat menace of the Great War.

This new chapter in the secret history of the war is revealed by Professor J. T. MacGregor - Morris, who retires this week from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the college.

He joined the department 40 years ago and it was here that his work of producing the hydrophone in co-operation with the Admiralty took place.

"I and Mr. A. F. Sykes, then a research student, started our ex- periments using two headphones and pall of water in my room," the Professor told the News Chronicle,

"WE TRIED A SINK"

"We next tried a sink in the 'lab," then a swimming bath next door to April, the College. One cold day

1916, we tonic a taxi to the Elstree rezervol and, Anding the expert- inents successful, ended up of the Firth

of Forth."

im only a Hok in the chain of

invention," he pointed out, and he mentioned the names of fellow scientists like Bragg and Rutherford, In the first tests Hitle buzzers in the cans were placed in the water and he and his colleague found the dis- tange at which sound could be heard and its direction indicated.

After the tests in two boats 100 yards apart on the Elstree reservoir open sea trials in drifter were made.

Vessels

unites ten

RWBY were Incated the Firth

in

of Forth. Success came, and the U-boat menace was checked.

A month ago the ex-criminal was fuund work by the chairman of the

The hydrophone proved to be Weymouth Bench, Mr. Harold A. G. Stevens. In his tiny office overlook-three times us sensitive as anything hitherla invented, and before the ing the main street of the town, Mr. Stevens had n hart-to-heart talk War was over flunsands were used

ku fight the subinarines. with the man.

Within 24 hours he had secured the man a post, and a few days ago the convict culled to tell him he had never been so happy in his life ben fore.

HIS PAST IS DEAD

"I've got a good job, and I know

now what it means be on

Male Child Weighing 19

side of the Law," he told Mr. Stev Pounds Is Born

"I knew he was a mun worth help- Ing." Mr. Stevens told the Sunday Dispatch

Detroit, Michigan.

A male child weighing 19

MURDER

IN NIGHT EXPRESS

MURDER committed in an ex-

press while it thundered through the night at 70 miles an hour is providing French police with one of their most baffling mysteries of recent years.

man, with

The victim, a young found dead from a bullet wound in the temple, in a first-class compart- ment, when the Paris express reach- of Thionville.

In the man's clenched hand was a blood-soaked handkerchief, and on the floor lay a revolver.

Fapers

apers found un him led to the be- hef that he was a lieutenant of the Moblie Guard attached to the staff of the President of the Republic.

STOLEN PAPERS

It was afterwards discovered, how- ever, that these papers had been stolen, and that the dead man was Pierce Hilarion.

Three months ago Witarion was questioned by police concerning the alleged theft from an Englialı visitor to the Riviera of a large num in travellers' cheques.

He said he had the cheques from an Englishwoman.

On the night before Hilarion's death a young man called at his flat.

When he had gone, Hilarion went out, but returned later in an agitated state, and asked the concierge whe ther the man had corne back,

He seemed relieved when he found

"I am told that he has proved an pounds was recently born to Mrs. extremely able workman and is giv-John L. Lawler, 36-year-old | he had not, and left hurriedly, saying

Detroit housewife. The baby, he had to catch a train.

ing every satisfaction.

A strange feature of the case is

with his workmates.

"Be does not discusS the past exactly 24 inches long, is accord-

He is living ing to the records of the Ameri- that Hilarion's flat is locked from the

Inside.

cuses.

for the future. For that reason can Medical Association, the his name is being kept secret,

Such births, It largest child ever born alive and tton was 13 pounds.

once In 200,000 "During the past few years I have in normal health in the United is said, occur only found work for 50 convicts, and I States.

When married, in 1020 Mrs. Lawler have not yet had a single failure to The largest birth hitherto reported | weighed 90 pounds. She now weighs the best of my knowledge."

by the American Medical Associn- 180. This is her seventh child,

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Einstein Flays Barbarity

Dr. Albert Einstein, famed physiolst, blamed a "serlong weaken- ing of moral thought and sentiment" for the "barbarisation of political ways,” when ho gave the commencement address at Swarth- more College, Swarthmore, Pa. Above, he is shown, left, with Dr. Frank Aydelotte, president of college, on his way to exercises In Clothier Memorial.

Secret New U.S. Gun

Could Smash

Smash Plane

Flying & Miles Up

New York.

A sub-stratosphere gun capable of reaching the greatest altitudes that can be attained by any modern fighting air- plane has been perfected recently by engineers of the United States Army. The new weapon Is described as the deadliest and most advanced yet devised against bombing planes.

It is of five-inch calibre, and of a hundred square yards could be will fire accurately eight miles smashed to pieces. into the air (42,240 feet) at the rule of thirty shots a minute.

The guns will be used in batteries of four. This will apply the principle of pheasant-shooting to enemy air- craft.

The five-inch shells are exploded by fuses when they reach the neces- sary altitude, so that ench can cover a wide area. With four guns firing, any air plane caught within on area

DIS

to of

Britain's new 3.7 inch collbre anti- aircraft gun is stated to be able fire explosive shells at the rate twelve a minute well over the height | of Mount Everest (29,000 feet), the world's highest mountain.

The gun, used in batteries of four, could shatter any plane within a wide. area of the burst of its shells without actually hitling 11.

Anglers, Seeking Pike, Pulled Up Rifles

Instead

ISCOVERY of 50 firearms, well-oiled and in perfect condition, in Embrough Pond, a lonely spot off the Bath-Wells road, in the Mendip Hills, has presented Somerset police with a puzzle they are unable so far to solve.

Two anglers, Captain C. Baldwin, of Green Park, Bath, and Commander E. G. Hibbisley, of Ston Easton Park, owner of the stretch of water, made the find.

Captain Baldwin said: "We were fishing for pike in the pond and at lunch time I set a rod and left it. On returning I found that it was fast to the botom.

"I could just lift it by getting_over it, and inch by inch nursed the object to the surface and, putting my hands down under the water, brought it up.

"We were amazed to find it was a perfectly brand-new rifle.. I went on fishing, only to haul up another,"

After notifying the police, the commander and Captain Baldwin dragged the pool with a rope and hook and 50 frearms of British and German manufacture were brought up.

FROM FRANCE?

They included nine, service revol, vers, four sporting guns, four auto- |maties,,, one · Mauser automatic and

the rest ull Service rifles.

The springs were in perfect con- dition and the weapons could have: been dred at once. Most of them bore the date 1817.

Police investigations have spread over a wide arch, but there is still no clue to the origin of the weapons.

About 1025, round-up took place

of firearms brought over from France as souvenirs,

This haul is belloved part of that general tightening-up of the firearms regulations.

By whom they were dumped is not known.

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