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February 7, 1939.

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HOME OFFICE TO SAY WHO OWNS GAS MASKS

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Case Awaits Decision

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, nijas Jones, aged 50, of Hilltop-road, Dron- field, Derbyshire, was charged with maliciously damaging a respirator. The Chlef 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

Millions of respirators had been kasued to the public, the Chief Con- stable added, and hy thought that thousands had been damnged.

To enable him

to eminuleate with the Home Office, the case was adjourned unul January 30.

At the end of October, the Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, de- cided that the

masks, which

had cost thement approxi- mately £5,000,000, should remain in the hands of the civilian popu Jallon, and the situation was to be reviewed again after six months. There have, however, continued to be stories of gas mucks being found in dust-bins, offered for sale in mar- kets, used by children for games. and even by housewives for peeling onions.

A question was asked in the House recently by Sir Jolin Mellor (Con.. Tamworth) whether the Govern ment propuse to take steps to make persons who begligently jose

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damage gas masles, which are public properly, liable to a

a penalty.

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

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According to issued recently, any civilian who fail to keep his or her gas mask In order, or fail: in wear it when ordered, will be able to a fine of 12 dd.

Jobs For Boys

London.

Boys under 15 in future will not be permitted to work la barber shops, pool rooms or any place of amuse- ment where slot machines or games

of chance are operated in England.

It has been decided that such occupa-

tiens are not beneficial.

-Turned Down Typist's Claim · For Damages

WHEN Mies 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- ped from his seat to inspect her shoes.

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 Waa taking д continuation cout'. Afisa Morris denied this; salti the

steps tuere slippery and ill-lighted.

When the judge looked at her shoes Miss Morris plained; "These happen to be my best shues, that is why the heels are high,"

Her claim was dismissed.

ABOVE: The Breconshire, one of the new Glen Line Ships, which was Inunched at Talkoo last week.

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 living of Brlathwell and is now serving beer to customers behind the counter of the provision store and off-Heence which he luis taken Ardwick-le-strest, near Doncaster. The Rev. Jeffreys left the Navy in 1027, 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

BARELY a year after her face and body were burned beyond recognition when a can of boiling tur 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

Britain had endured

Girl Swallows Toy 'Plane

Formuy, Lancashire..

"I HAVE swallowed an aeroplane

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.

IL hoa been produced by his t- assistant, Dr. Katherine Blodgett, of the General Electric Co. laboratory at Schenectady,

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

Roughly and briefly the principle is this.

The waves of light striking the surface of gings "cannon off at an angle and rench the eye by reflection. Dr. Blodgett coats the glass with thin Aims of transparent chemicals which | refract light at a different angle. bending of Ught rays.

Refraction, by the way, means the fracts powerfully, and that is why a

Water re

stick uppeary bent when you push it thto a pool.

CANCELLIng out Reflections from the glass and

The Navy Estimates for 1930, by air on German industrial centres sald ve-year-old Joan Maitland, of provide for a large amount of new was seriously developing for the first Bullion, Formby, running up to her construction, including batlleships, time-after the elvil population of

mother. cruisers and destroyers.

two years of Mrs. Maitland, who had seen Joan This will increase the present fotal this punishment the German Gov-playing with a sharp-pointed model of 600,000 tons of naval

workernment suggested to the Allies an plane with a span of about an inch, already in hand to the highest level armistice as regarded air attacks on look her at once to Liverpool Royal from the surface nim cancel cach attained in time of peace,

non-military zones?

Infirmary. By approving his expansion the Government has implicitly rejected the principle cherished in certain quarters, particularly on the Con- tinent, that a future war will be de-1 cided by the air bombardment of enemy cities and Industrial centres.

This principle has been rejected

In short, the Douhet weapon »} inflict mortal injury on its users as two-edged, and Just as likely to those against whom it is used."

EFFECT OF BLOCKADE

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

In less than an hour the child was

German naval strategists that air back home and in bed, uninjured.

It is

is the view of American and

operations would soon result in a

Elm Disease

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Beats Scientists Columbia a

THE elm, one of the most

familiar trees in Britain, is likely to lose its dominating place in the English country- Ride.

During the past ten years thou- sunds have been killed or marred as. the result of the virulent disease first Identified in Holland soon after the war and often known as Dutch Elm Disease.

The Forestry Commission's inves- tigations show that fewer trees, par- ticularly in the eastern and midland

it is feared that this check is only temporary.

The Commission, however, stutes in Its intest report that there is no reason to suppose that the elm as an English tree is doomed,

There is no known cure for the

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other out and do not affect the eye countries, show active symptoms, but | FB2073-Nellie Deon

By this method, D9 per cent of ilgit passes through the glass instead of about 92 per cent, ordinarily,

Dr. Langmuir showed a gauge, the dial of which was covered half with ordinary glass and half with treated glass. There was no doubt about it. There was grave danger that the in many of them the glass in front It should be a boon for art galleries.

stray reflections that it is quite difficult to find a good viewpoint.

The method is not yet perfect.

by the naval staffs of all the learing deadlock, and that the anal issue painted wing lip would penetrate the of the pictures picks up so many the clm lies nartly in the raising of

Powers except Italy.

UNAWARE OF DANGER

would be determined by sca power gullet. An authoritative Washington cor-

In the form of blockade. respondent informs me

Both Germany and Italy are con- that the

in Washington

to be ex- But Joon, unaware of the danger, Optical lenses made from very hard vulnerable to blockade. In was perfectly calm. She saw the X-glass can be finc coated with quartz

Italy

General Board of the United States on of an eminent Americanray photo and showed great interest. and can be quite hard.

almost certainly be deelded by son

power.

NO KNOCK OUT BLOW

The gist of the report was as fol-

lows:

only because

and

But the

disease. Hope for the retention of an immune strain.

The English counties most affected are those in the southern half of the

hos so

far es- caped.

country. Scotland

The wrlles:

BEETLE THAT BORES IN

Agricultural Correspondent Elm disease is caused by a fungus that is carried by the elm bark and wood, where the disease will con- transmits the fungus that inferts the tinue to live without further infec

tion.

risense wither and die, and the first Doughs of trees affected by the thing noticed is discoloration of the leaves.

Eventually, decay will spread to tree, although the free will offen recover it It is not killed out-right the first season it la nt- lacked.,

The disease only since

has been identified England, is the worst sufferer.

the wor. and Southern

the supreme advisory body on the naval. questions, recently!

authority expressed the opinion in an exhaus-

could not hold out tive report that a conflict would far more than six months if her sea

A periscope tube with a light and coating on ordinary plate-glass is sull Germany, In spite of her efforts to and the ueroplane was removed with communications were

while reflector was inserted into the throat too soft for everyday.usc. cut,

become self-sufficient, would even-1 pair of special forceps.

SCANT THANKS tually be subdued,

Dr. Blodgett, however, is "on to Mrs. Maltland said: "Joan was ly-something" which may solve that It is admitted by her own experts ing on her back holding the acro-She is a very that If, for instance, her opponents plane above her face. It slipped scientist who became a pupil of the brillant American The knock-out theory, by means Swedish ore, her armament industry mouth.

were able to stop her imports of from her fingers and fell into her late Lord Rutherford at Cambridge of aircraft used in mass formations would speedily be paralysed.

and won highest distinction. and with absolute ruthlessness, was

"The doctor says it was a chance in Inevitable Female la: "She takes the These views lend special interest

All the thinks she gets from The originated by the Italian officer Gen. to the growing strength of the

a million that she was not killed." Douhet who is also reported to be British and French navies. On com-

shine off the windows and leaves the a student of psychology. It was put pletion of their current programmes,

shine on our noses." to the test in the Abyssinian cam- but without counting the additions to

apparently vindicnted, but be made paign and

the victims had ab-France will be able to muster this year, Britain

your clenched fists.are out of date. solutely no means of hitting back. 33 capital slips.

The latest method of "undressing" "It has since been tried in Spain 130 cruisers,

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walnuts is by an explosion. torpedo bantS,

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Douhet theory would have little

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both Powers would be able to retallate very heavily,

A "Do. Gen. Douhet 'and Thi - nd-l #herents-imagine that the “civil popu-,

lation

in Italy or Germany would

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