1939-02-07 — Page 19

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February 7, 1939.

HOME OFFICE TO SAY WHO OWNS GAS MASKS

Case Awaits Decision

A HOME OFFICE decision about the 38,000,000 gas

masks-issued by the Government, free, to civilians at the time of the crisis-is expected as a result of a pro- secution at Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

Herbert Ward, alias Jones, i nged 50, of Hilltop-rond, Dron- field, Derbyshire, was charged with maliciously damaging a respirator. The Chief Constable, Mr. T. Wells, said that Ward came to Chesterfield on a Satur- day, and was seen deliberately to throw his respirator into a yard and damage it beyond re- pair.

IN DUST-BINS

that

Millions of resp.racora had been issued to the poble, the Chief Con- stable added, and he thought thousands had beva duumaged,

To cuable him

to ear

communicate with the Home Office, the case was adjourned until January 30.

At the end of October, the Home Sterclary, Sir Samuel Hoare, de- elded that the gas

gas masks, which had eust the Government approxi- mately £6,000,000, should remain the civilian popu-

in the bands of the

lation, and the situation was to be reviewed again after six months.

There have, however, continued to be stories of gus maske being found in dust-bins, offered for sale in mars kety, used by children for

Kamer,

and even by housewives for pechug onions.

A question was asked in the Hous recently by Sir Jahn Meller (Con., Tamworth whether "the Govern- ment propose to take steps to make persons Who negugenby lose be dumage as mosks. which are public property, Ilable to a penalty."

Sir John Anderson, Minister for Civilian Defence, replied that he was considering the suggestion.

-Turned Down Typist's Claim For Damages

WHEN Mias Winifred Jenny

Morris, Stoke Newington,

N.. typist, Sued the London County Council for damages in the King's Bench Division re- cently Mr. Justice Stable step- ved from his scat to inspect her shapes.

It had been suggested that the height of her heels had caused her to fall down steps at an L.C.C, school where she tran taking # continuation course, Mins Morris dented Muist said the steps were slippery and W-lighted.

When the judge looked at her shoes Mis: Morris ex- plained: "These happen to be my best shoes, that is why the heels are high,"

Her claim was dismissed.

ABOVE: The Breconshire, one of

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RIGHT: Lady Northcote arrives to christen the Breconshire,

Ex-Rector Now Grocer

London.

A grey-haired ex-rector, the Rev. Tudor Jeffreys, has resigned from The lying of Briathwell and is now. serving læver to customers behind the counter of the provision store and off-licence which he has, token It Ardwick-le-stre:1, near Doncaster. The Rev. Jeffreys left the Navy in 1927, since when he has been in the Church, Although still in Holy Orders, he stated that he will never go back to the Church.

The Girl With A

New Face

According to French decree BARELY a year after her face and body were burned beyond

Issued recently, any civilian who fails to keep his or her gas mask fu order, or falls to wear it when ordered, will be able to a time of 128. Gd.

Jobs For Boys

London. Boys under 15 in future will not be permitted to work in barber shopu, pool rooms or any place of amuse- ment where slot machines or games of chance are operated in England. It has been deelded that such occupa- tions are not beneficial,

recognition when a can of boiling tar exploded in her face, 12-years-old Lola Mae Smith, of Memphis, Tennessee, will shortly walk out into the world with a brand-new face,. attractive and unmarked.

Medical science has given her a complete new face, re- sembling but little her features before the accident. Only her blue eyes, which escaped injury, remain untouched,

Five times doctors from Memphis Baptist Hospital, took skin from her back, which escaped injury, to cover her charred face, hands, arms, and legs.

For months she has lain in bandages, unable to move. The last bandage was removed recently, and now only the final healing process remains.

Navy Is Deciding Factor In War

Girl Swallows Toy 'Plane

Formby, Lancashire.

"I HAVE swallowed an aeroplane,"

The Navy Estimates for 1939, by air on German industrial centres said Ave-year-old Jean Maitland, of provide for a large amount of new was seriously developing for the first Bulltop, Formby, running up to her construction, including battleships, time-atter the civil population of mother.

cruisers and destroyers.

Britain had endured two years of Mrs. Maitland, who had seen Joan This will increase the present total this punishment the German Gov-playing with a sharp-pointed mode work ernment suggested to the Allies an plane with a span of about an inch, of 000,000 Lons of naval

at minit, as regarded air attacks on took her at once to Liverpool Royal non-milltary zones?

already in hand in the highest level

attained in time of peace.

"In short, the Douhet weapon s By approving this expansion the

two-edged,

Just as likely to and Government has implicitly rejected! the principle cherished in certain inflict mortal injury on its users as quarters, particularly on the Con- those against whom it is used."

EFFECT OF BLOCKADE

tinent, that a future war will be de-

It is the view of American and elded by the air bonbardment of German naval strategists that air enemy cities and industrial centres.

operations would soon result in a

Infirmary.

There an X-ray, showed the toy lodged down Joan's throat. and a specialist removed it in a few minutes.

In less than an hour the child was back home and in bed, uninjured.

kullet.

This principle has been red deadlock, and that the final issue There was grave danger that the by the naval staffs of all the leading would be determined by sea power pointed wing tip would penetrate the Powers except Italy,

An authoritative Washington cor-

UNAWARE OF DANCER Both Germany and Italy are con- respondent informs me that the altered in Washington

In the form of blockade.

to be ex-

י

Invisible Glass Has Arrived

INVISIBLE glass has arrived, and Dr. Irving Langmuir, the American Nobel-Prize-winner, has been telling about some of its remarkable properties,

It has been produced by his |- assistant, Dr. Katlierine Blodgett, of the General Electric Co. laboratory at Schenectady.

or

We have already had invisible shop windows produced by Incans curved glass, but in this new develop- ment the glass itself is treated.

Roughly and briefly the principle is this."

Elm Disease

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THE elm. one of the most.

familiar trees in Britain, is The waves of Eght striking the surface of glass "cannon off" at unlikely to lose its dominating angle and reach the eye by reflection. place in the English country- Dr. Blodgett coats the glass with thin

side. films of transparent chemicals which refract light at a different angle.

Refraction, by the way, means the Water re- ending of light rays. fracks powerfully, and that is why a stick appears bent when you push it into a pool.

During the past ten years thou- sands have been killed or marted as The result of the virulent disease first identified in. Holland soon after the war and often known as Dulch Eim Disease,

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other out and do not affect the eye. By this method, 99 per cent, of light passes through the glass instead or about 02 per cent. ordinarily.

Dr. Langmu'r showed a gauge, the dial of which was covered half with

The Commission, however, states in its latest report that there is no reason to suppose that the elm an an English tree is doomed.

There is no known cure for the the em tes nartly in the ruising of Mircare, Hope for the retention of

an immune strain.

The English countles most affected nce those in the soulhern half of the far c3-

ordinary glass and half with treated glass. There was no doubt about it. It should be a boon for art galleries. of the pictures picks up so many In many of them the glass in front

stray reflections that it is quite dificult to find a good viewpoint,

The method is not yet perfect, But Joan, unaware of the danger Optical lenses made from very hard Navy, the supreme advisory body on the opinion of an eminent American ray photo and showed great interest. and can be quite hard. American naval questions, recently authority Italy could not hold out expressed the opinion in an exhaus for more than six months

But the her sca A periscope tube with a light and coating on ordinary plate-glass is still tive report that a conftel would

communications were cut, while reflector was inserted into the thront too soft for everyday use. almost certainly be decided by sea Germany, in spite of her efforts to end the aeroplane was removed with

SCANT THANKS become self-sufficient, would even-¡a pair of specini forceps.

Dr. Blougell, however, is "on to tually be subdued.

It is admitted by her own experts ing on her back holding the acro-selentist who became a pupil of the Mrs. Maltland gnid: "Joan was Jy-something" which may solve that, that If, for instance, her opponents plane above lier

She is a very brilliant American #lipped to stop her imports offirom her Angers and fell were able

Inte Lord Rutherford at Cambridge into her of aircraft used in mass formations would, her armament Industry mouth,

Swedish

and won highest distinction. be paralysed.

All the thanks she gets from The "The doctor says it was a chance in inevitable female is: These views lend special interest a million that she was not killed."

"She takes the Doubet who is also reported to be British and French navies. On com- to the growing strength of the

shine off the windows and leaves the shine on our noses

General Board of the United States tremely vulnerable to blockade, lawas perfectly calm. She saw the X-glass can be fine-coated with quartz country, Scotland has so

power.

NO KNOCK OUT BLOW

The gist of the report was as fui- The knock-out theory, by means

lows:

and with absolute ruthlessness, was originated by the Italian officer Gen.

a student of psychology lane spletion of their current propos to the test in

face. It

Abyminian cum- but without counting the additions to Baton Keeps Actors

paign and apparently vindicated,

but

be made this year, Britain France will be able to muster 130 Freers. 33 capital ships.

and

230 demtrovers and

torpedo-bosts.

14 aircraft carriers, 165 kubmarines.

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You he-men who crack walnuts in only

[your clenched flats are out of date. because the victims had ob-

The Intest method of "undressing" solutely no means of hitting back.

"It has since been tried in Spain

walnuts is by an explosion. Nuts are carried on a belt past a circular and China, where the aggressor in

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They will produce James firidie's' The nuts drop Into an Ignition bern achieved.

States Naval Intelligence Bureau "The Letter-Box Rattles" at the chamber. The charge explodes, the "Against Powers such as Great credited Briinia and France

sholls drop into one codiveyor and Dritain and France, which proved "overwhelming

the kernel into another. Jsn't their extrmogliary toughness and against any possible combination of endurance in the last war, the aggressor Powers. Douhet thecry would have tile

chance of succeeding, especially D

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The Agricultural Correspondent

Elm disease is caused by fungun that is enrried by the elm bark and transmits the fungus that infects the nwood, where the disease will con- inue to live without further infec- tion,

Boughs of trees affected by the dirense wither and dle, and the first thing noticed is discoloration of the leaves.

Eventually. decay will spread to the whate tree, although the free will often recover if it is not killed nut-rleht the first season It is ht- Larked.

The disease has been identifled only since the var. A Southern England in the worst sufferer.

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