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'MAGIC MINERAL' FOUND ON ISLAND

GEOLOGISTS searching in the absorbent qualities have made it dried-up bed of an ancient lake in a especially suitable for use in filtering desolate valley in the mountainous liquids-especially kerosene. Hebridean Island of Skye have dis- covered vant deposits of a mineral used for the preparation of certain

types of high explosives.

Their

of regarded as ane

Importance to Britain,?

"The newly discovered Skye de- poslis give promise of being of ex- treme value to Britain," sald Pro- fekar A. E. Trueman, D.Sc., Pro- fessor of Geology at the University of Glasgow: since, at the moment, she is almost Diatomite is one of our most use- entirely dependent for supplies of the ful minerals," he went on. "Found In mineral on Germany and other the beds of some ancient lakes, it con- foreign sources.

sists of the debris and skeletons of In 1930, Britain imported a mere told millions of minute and primt- 870 tons of this mineral, which is tive plants generally mixed with a called diatomite.

{proportion of mud and sand,

Last year, so greatly had the in- "These primitive plant bodies were dustrial demand increased, that im-known as diatoms, and it is from

derives porta had risen to 70,000 tons. The them that the mineral price of first quality diatomalle is in nume.

the region of £30 per ton

Its

Beenuse of the estreme are of the Until the discovery of the Skye deposits and their constituency, din- Held, Britain, in the event of war, fomite can be reduced to powder of would have been entirely t the fineness which cannot be obtained mercy of foreign countries for her from any other sources."

diatomite supplies.

Germung, on the other hand, pow- sesses huge stocks,

As-roon ng scientists can carry out their final practical texts on the Skyej deposits, a large Industry, of vital im- purtance the manufacture of ex-

plosives and scores of other materials, f

Man Of 78

Gets 3 Years

will be set up in this island valley,: A MAN, aged 78, arrested the night bringing steady employment to the before he was to have been married poverty-stricken

and by special ficence, was at Wolver- assuring a regular supply of diatomite bampton Quarter Sessions recently Io. British factories for years to come, sentenced to thee years' penal ser

Inhabitants

SATISFACTORY TESTS

The discovery was made after a geological search of the island last- ing over two years. Digging in the bed in the ancient lake of Guitar, geologists came upon rich deposit, of the mineral. Samples were rushed to London, where analytical tests were made.

vituir.

Isaac Grainger, of Coseley, near five charges of obtaining by false Wolverhampton, was found guilty on

Smith, and food and credit pretences £16 from Mr. Horace value of £B 14s. from the Victoria to the Hotel, Wolverhampton:

and sent telegrams to himself to sub- It was alleged he posed as a doctor

stantiate his claim,

Marsh

sald years

These tents proved extremely salts- Detective - Sergeant Enctory, Nearly 200 bores were then Grainger left England many made, over an area of 20 galles, and ago for the United States and had samples taken from these lores sub-lived a life of crime since 1921. After stantinted the belief held by the serving sentences he was searchers that the diatomite deposits last October.

deported were consistently spread ever the Grainger so influenced Miss Daisy area, and were of first-class quality Bird, a sister-in-law of Mr. Smith. all through.

by a story of a medical practice and It is estimated by experts that wealth in America that arrangements the newly discovered deposits will were made for them to get married supply at least 300,000 tons of the by special licence. pure substance, worth millions of

pounds

In

appearance, diatonite is a day Penny Wise And

which can be reduced to an extremely Ane powder, Because of its excep- tlonully widespread value, asy Justified the name of the "magic mineral,"

in!

Diatomite a used extensively such widely different industries as the making of explosives and cosmeties.

USED FOR FILTERS

It is also used extremely widely for glazing work of all kinds, while its

Forgetful

San Diego, Cal.

An elderly man demonstrated the old axloin, "penny wise and pound foolish" here when make a 20-cent purchase

he refused to after a drugstore clerk asked him for a cent ales tax. The angry man stalked out of the store and left a dollar mu the counter.

Only

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Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., oldest son of the American Ambassador to Great Britain, chooses Megan Taylor, young English world's champion figure skater, for his partner at St. Moritz, Switzerland. They have been seen much in each other's company recently, at the alpine resort where Miss Taylor is practicing for European contests.

Elusive Death-ray Will Kill Insects

Auckland.

THE claim that he has invented a machine of an elusive death- by a South Island radio electrician.

ray type, which kills insects at a distance of one yard, is made

He says that by concentrating this!

ray on the insect, he can carise the Inseet to explode, disintegrating com- pirtely.

It is tight way but dous int rely on heat to kill the insects.

further experiments he can make the The inventor is confident that with

ray effective at greater distances.

He says other living things besides Jeets can be killed when the ray is turned on them.

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'Scotch' Must Be Scotch

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with great losses on Its contracts with Scottisht disilileries by an attempt to popularise a blend of Irish and Scotch whiskies, is relleved that a legal decision given in the District of Columbia, and valid In all States, has prevented any whisky but pure Scotch bearing the label "Scotch."

It was feared that the proposed Scotch-Irish blend would open the

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Investments involving millions of dollars would therefore he imperiled. Coat.

One importer said: "We feel that the country of origin should set positive standards of identity, and We are a hundred per cent. in favour of excluding Irish grains in Scotch In blends.

"WE ARE AFRAID . . .

"We are frankly afraid that if the market were opened to cheaper Irish grains it would result in " general flooding with loss not only to im porters of better grades but to Gril- sumers' palates.

"We realise, of course, that Irish distillers have as much at stake, but the fact remains that there is only

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Lovely Leni Riefenstahl, German film queen, about to leave New York to return home. She went to America to promote the films she made of the Olymple Games, in 1936, but she said Holly- wood cut her dead. Aside from those in the film industry she had only kind words for Americans. Above, she waves good-bye from the Hanso.

JUTLAND FIGHTER

IS THE NEW DEFENCE CHIEF

ADMIRAL of the Fleet Lord Chatfield, the new De- fence Minister who replaces Sir Thomas Inskip, is known as the Silent Man of the Service.

But from time to time the Silent Man has spoken One of his memorable phrases was: "If the British Navy had intervened, the Italo-Abyssinian war would have been over in a few months.' }}

Son of an admiral, Lord Chat He fought at Beatty's side through field's career has been bound up the Dogger Bank, the Heligoland and with the Navy until

the Juilund actions. a fow months ago. He was a star cadet n H.M.S. Britannia, which he entered at the age of 13.

By 1000 he was a captain and was elected to take command of the

It was to him that Beatty sald, in there seems something wrong with the crisis of Jutland: "Chatfield,

our--ships to-day. Sleer two points nearer the enemy,"

It was Chatfield's prompt obedience

P. and O. liner Medina when she was of that prompt command that re- ressed into service to take King trieved a perilous situation and George V. and Queen Mary to the enabled the British Fleet to emerge Delhi Durbar,

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