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PARACHUTE BATTALION"

WORLD WITHOUT

APIDLY climbing into the best-seller class among novels in America is Mr Adam, a fantasy about a world without babies.

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BABIES

Can gamma-rays released by atom-bomb explosions sterilise potential fathers? An American author has written a fact-based fantasy on this theme which all America is reading. Here is an account of his book,

by. EVELYN WEBBER

to the

bobles because alpha and beta rays lensed by the explosion of an atom plant in Mississippl had swept round the world with the speed of light, and deprived the world's men of He was now the only man in the |

A Now Yark Avspaper screams: their power to become. fathers-all, world capable of producing babies. "Would-be m:thers volunteer at least, but one.

He is Homer From this point the story is up-throughout the nation. England asks Adam, who gives his name to the roarlous. The nations clamour for ald!" book.

first rights in Mr Adam.

French newspapers stress France's Women who never dreamed of great cultural contribution having bables suddenly

Insist on world, Insisting that she be enabled becoming mothers. The Americars to continue. Army yells for priority. The Navy presses lis claims. And what about the scientists? scream the scientists. The Government want to make Mr Adam Public Property Number One. The Army wants to keep him "Mr Adum" is published by Thea military secret, and secures posses- J. B. Lippincott Company, of Phila-sion of him. Mr Adam in Inbelted delphia.

The scientiate say that gamma ray can have such on effect. And the autlior of the book, Mr Pat Frank, an American newspaperman, takes the threat very seriously, though ho disguises his warning with fruity jokes. His technique is to make the reader laugh before moking him shudder.

THINGS HAPPEN MR FRANK starts with the thesis that it was no hardship for Mis- sissippi to blow up "because nobody really missed Mississippi." But the "harmful rays and particles and ob- scure variations" are released, and a reporter, Stephen Decatur Smill, reports-no more bables after the end of the year. Then things stari happening.

In Boston, Massachusetts, home of stald Conservatism, an eminent churchman hauled from his bed by the local Press denounces the whole thing as a vicious hoax.,

There are riots in Paris. In Lon- don the King speaks over the BBC to reassure the Empire that HM Government are "iking steps."

In U.S.A. the President

urges America to be calm. Moscow cuts itself off from the world and retires behind its iron curtain.

Madrid suspects a plot.

CLASSIFIED. 4F

THEN some startling news is flashed to Smith. A couple in a town near New York are having a baby monilis

after the deadlines The

, folher of the baby is Mr Adam.

He had been classified for the Army as 4F, the lowest physical rating. But he had happened to be deep in a lead mine at the time of the explosion and so had escaped the harmful raya,

Germans talk of the benefits of a revival of German industrial gonius. Japanese newspapers mention "American sportsmanship," and point out naively that baseball is played in bath countries.

VER

CONFINING AID

Its

(via the Joint Chiefs of Staff) as

VERY little nation extols "vital strategic Government pro- perty." He is handed over to the Press, which coyly states

virtutes except the Bucharest that if Eastern Defence Command for se-nothing is done for Hungary it will curity.

at least be a final solution to the question of Transylvania.

Immure him with gold in a vault at The War Department want to Fort Knox. But the Surgeon General decides against this.

ASSET

MILITARY

in Amerien a Senator proposes climinating Communism by confining ald to those nations willing to give definite statements about their future

"But," Bays

UNO'S Future Home

· Has A History

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BY CARLE HODGE

THE 17 acres of slaughter But by 1830 the neighbourhood had houses and other drab become an Industrial alum. A nup structures, where tho that year showed a manure plant on United Nations will build their the ground-at the river alde or to-j world enpital on the east side of day's 45th Street-where a British Now York's Manhattan Island, munitions warehouse had stood hem- have figured in making history med in by woodlands.

many times since the Dutch In July, 1863, the city's dianstrous bought the land front the Ameri- civil war conscription riots arst flared can Indiana.

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two blocks away when an angry mob

Known as Turtle Bay, from a lost set fire to an Army drift office. inlet of the East River, the section; lies between Kips Bay on the south, where Peter Stuyvesant, farmed his

Went Poor

UT after that final spurt of row- 'diness. Turtle Bay lapsy into the struggle to earn daily brend. ".

famous bowery, and Beekman Hill to BU the north, site of a colonial homestead and now in fashionable neighbourhood

In the very heart of the six city blocks given to the United Nations by John D. Rockefeller, the British executed a famed American spy.

Costly apartment houses sprang up

on the south and to the north-but Turtle Bay went poor and unkempi, its only distinguishing landmark a As he stood before the hangman, he shouted: only regret that great green dome, like that of 'a' have but one life lo lose for my southeastern United States' court-

house, atòp country."

■ building in Abattoir Row.

A fading plaque imbedded in a dingy sinughter house wall now marks the spot where Nathan Hale Iled.

The Liberty Boys

JMMIGRANTS to America knew the

Turtle Bay aeeidon well. In the early 1000s they crowded by the thousands around ils gates to pay Ave cents a glass for animal blood which they regarded as a medicine.

History first exploded in Turtle Bay during the revolutionary war with England. Daring American kurrilla fighters who named themselves

the

Liberty Boys blew up a British arms dump there. They hastily piled up the breastworks but then were broken by broadsiden from His Majesty's men of war bob- bing at anchor out in the river.

After the bloody battle of Long Island. bedraggled continental soldiers retreated through Turtle. Bay. General George Washington (later the first President of the United States) attempted to end the rout aeross mid-Manhattan. By the me the retreat reached the present site of the New

ew York

Library publie at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. Washington calmed the muses by The caning some of the officers. fun the northern part of the island, Army then retired to Harlem Heights

where Columbia University stands), and on the following day decisively turned back the British.

Industrial Slum

now

New York still centred farther TRARLY in the last century, when

down the island, Turtle Bay Was split into the sprawling country nstates of the local gentry, among them Horace Greeley, who edited the New York Tribune and admonished young Americans to "go west."

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The fate of the drab Uttle neigh- bourhood which has reated with the Dutch, the English and the Ameri- cans now rests with the world itself, -Associated Press.

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According To Culbertson

(Copyright, 1947, by Ely Culbertson)

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foreign policies and territorial in had been roughly handled by Fate, led the club three to his own queen. South in to-day's deal felt that he | West opened the spade queen. The ace was put up and declarer and in a sense. he was right. Better to was not greatly disturbed when Smith, "if we only give aid to those have taken the matter out of Fate's but the bad news came almost_fm- Stephen Decatur play on his part, however, would West smothered this with the king. nations which know their

future hands!

mediately that another trump loser foreign policies, we shall have to

was unavoidable. Whereupon South exclude the U.S.A."

apostrophized Fate, aa mentioried previously.

MR ADAM is inoculated by the M

Army and taken to Washington.tentions, Through it all he protests feebly that all he wants is to be left alone. He visualises a world populated with children all resembling him (he is very tall and thin and has red hair).

Bu he has now become as much military asset as the atom bomb itself,

WOULD-BE MOTHERS

takes tho

WASHINGTON then

scene. All Its red-tape bureau- cracy, smugness, and fumbling ore laid bare.

First, Congress wrangles long and bitterly over polley. Then comes e tug of war between the National Research Council (physicists) and the National Referilisation Project (doctors). A third powerful group insists that Mr Adam is international, and should be turned over to the United Nations.

ALARMING RUMOUR FITEN comes an alarming rumour through 4 Walter Winchell broadcast. He alleges that Moscow has found

citizens two Mongol too, had been in a lead mine. Russia capable of producing children. They, is supposed to be beginning a popu lation race with the US. Butas with the atom bomb-nobody knows For sure.

Letters pour into Washington- letters from The Daughters of the American Revolution, the Moslem League and the American Federation- of Labour. The FBI track down a group of scientists who had kid- napped. Mr Adam for experimental

The National Refertilisation Pro purposes. Ject Anally gets him.

But Wings me right in the end There is no official emment from of course. Somebody discovers that Moscow. But Pravda prints an oba seaweed preparation repairs the lique statement emphasising that "It damage the atomic explosion has is possible for America to make done.. thus far, she compialas, the United amends for the catastrophe." But States "has not approached the So- and all is well.

And ap babies start to appear again viet Union directly."

But the world has a bad shock.

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Granting that it was bad luck to lose one trick to the singleton club king and another to the 10-0-8 com- bination remaining in East's hand. it is nevertheless true that it would have, cost nothing to guard against this very possibility. Let's take look at South's trump holding in conjunction with the J-3 in dummy, Under any circumstances South would have to lose at least trump trick mitsing as he was the K-10 9-8-7 of the sult. What was worse, he would have to lose two trump tricks if either defender had started with the king and three others, I this, was the case, how- ever, there was nothing to be done about 11, so the best plan was almply to forget it Similarly if clubs broko

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3-2 any reasonable line of play would turn out all right, so South North South might have reached could forget about that also. The the six-club contract more "aclenti- was the singleton king and to guard one position that required thought fically," but that was unimportant; against that, South should have led the only thing that counted was that low from dummy and played the ace. they did reach it and that it was a be vital; if it didn't, it would

If the king dropped the play would cost sound contract.

nothing.

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