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Solution of yesterday's puzzle:- Across: 1. All change, Nell Gwyn; B, Acollan; 11, Trove; 13, Imps; 14, 11ome: 10, Aspen; 18. Et; 18, Arrange; 21, Time to go; 24, Belabour; 25, Mrs; 20, Bones.

Down: 1, Another, 2, Lear; 3, Clover man; 4, Een; 6, Go; 7, Nap: D, Lisa 10, Imp: 12, Ear; 15, Otter 17, Neon; 19, Alla; 20, Noun; 22, Ebb;-23, Too,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, (1947.

Atom Bomb

May Bring On Cancer

Boston, Nov. 14.-The possi bility that a high proportion of rest

Will this end the husband shortage?

NCE in a way we read a book which changes us, however allghtly, for the

such an experience..

MARGARET LANE on NEW BOOKS -

of our lives. Reading the thick leathery scar tissuo Amram Scheinfeld's Women found on bodica of Japanese and Men (Chatto and Windus, burned by the atomic bomb 158.) has proved, for me, to be convince anyone that this is an illu- explosions might be a fore runner of cancer was disclosed today by a U.S. Navy expert on the effects of atomic energy.

Captain Shields Warren, Navy consultant in pathology, rald these pallents showed sear characteristics

Mr Scheinfeld is an American geneticist of distinction who nd- mits that he first got out to study the relationships between men and women, and those

training, into a sort of imitation men; and to let them simply, form a pool of cheap labour is to produce even frustrated and in unhappy. socially dangerous situation.

Polygamy next?

MR SCHEINFELD, being a serious selentific thinker, offers no casy fropa He holds out some remedy. that in the near future (despite the fallure, so far, of the highly publicis- parents ed acid-alkall technique) will have some choice in their chil- gradually dren's sex, and so may

akin" to new tissue that might be social factors, past and present. now, seems! For boys and girls de- correct the balance of the sexes.

cancer.

far

what

Capt Warren said keloids also pos-and genetic evidence was that by women and men differ from one be caused may merely atomic bombing.

Keloid formation another far, far more than had is not the general reaction of an ever yet been understood. individual, Dr Warren maid, "and this Is shown by the fact that frequently

Chimpanzees, too

DUMB-BELLS

FREGISTERED US LIGI PATENT OFFICE

WHAT DO YOU THINK

OF THE MURAL TABLETS

I DIDN'T GET

A CHANCE!

TO TRY

THEM PUT A PENNY IN THE MACHINE OVER THERE

BUT NONE CAME

OUT!

GAR

• MCKENNEY ON BRIDGE

The Fine Art of Not Giving Up

slon; and in reading it I found my own mind'cleared of a number of in- decisions and suspended judgments. Co-education, for example, a sys- tem almost universal in America and always thought for which I had there was a good case what folly it velop at different rates and at dif- cancerous, However, he told the

what terent imes, so that they are never Polygamy as a solution he views 54th annual convention of the Asso- which have made them

not at with particular horror, I do his re biologically and chronologically and that clation of Military Surgeons of the they are; United States, evidence wa not searches carried him to a point the same age. Their interests and know why. In an illegal and uncon- available to prove that the scar

beyond

he had aptitudes develop spontaneously in fessed form it already exists pretty different directions, their desires and widely both in Britain and in Ameri would result in tissue eventually

and originally intended, and made, amations have singularly little In ca:

ca: the stigma on illegitimacy Nor is there evidence, he added, that there

they unmarried motherhood has quito any speelde him write a very different book. common. Indeed how could ย

few when the two sexes are growing up noticeably faded in the last relationship between the occurrence

In a word, what so startling into such totally different creatures? of the pink,

(called

to make polygamy respectable years; shiny scors

would not, it seems to me, be so very keloids) in scar tissue and exposurely emerged from the biological

revolutionary, to atomic bomb explosion.

However, that is not Mr Scheln- sure belleves le amusing to learn that baby feld's panacea, and I am not chimpanzees under scientific ob that it is mine. What he servation exhibit precisely the same to be important, both to Individual By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY

the temperament happiness and for the welfare of Almost from the moment of sexual differences of

this year, and its It should under-1 at Abilene habit and girls,

populate conception the male and female and behaviour as human boys and work, is that the two sexes who in-TEXAS inaugurated a tournament atand themselves and one another, popularity and success assure it of embryos differ in their glands,

The boy chimps walk earlier, the and improve

understanding.

was pair championship their chemical processes, much than of their functioning, their rate girls are more docile at sitting still fight of their relationship in the hecoming an annual event. The open

F. Mr Scheinfeld has made a serious George Heath and are better behaved. The of development, size, even their are more aggressive, the girls like contribution towards it without pre-af Dallas, who were North and South

good judice, without sentimentality, and resistance to disease and death, to be with people and make

are more adven- with a more impressive honesty. The sex difference, in fact, is pets. The boys far deeper and more far-reaching turous and are always running away, the Airls are for more dexterous with than has ever been suspected.

their hands, and can easily be taught needle. The boys are to thread a At a point in our civilisation destructive and indifferent to clothes,

have the girls love bright colours In addition when men and women

come to seem, in so many ways dressing up, and will spend and for so many purposes, alike, before a mirros. modern science has uncovered more the fact that they are completely dissirailar than any one knew. They are, in this list analysis, irreconcilably different sorts of creatures.

show

n

point is not yet available."

"The in-

only a portion of a given scar would

true keloid. Capt Warren continued: cidence of keloids appears somewhat greater among the Japanese the Caucasians, although data on this Flying Glass Injuries He said as yet his group, which examined large numbers of persons exposed to radiation in the

explo- Kions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, had encountered no true Instance of cancer among patients. to burn scars, he said, keloids had developed a. result of

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pther types of injuries, including those due to fying glass. "Every

bit of the bombed area at Hiroshima and Nagasaki la now safe for habitation and cultivation," he said, because the explosions were fission bursts and "relatively little products remained at the site."

A U.S. Army authority on the

same subject, Col Elbert de Coursey Just an illusion

of Brooke General Hospital, Fort

Sam

Texas, said sex organs Houston,

>

ONCE

this is accepted (as, on

of male bomb victims were virtually the evidence, it must be)

destroyed while those of women

often resulted

JEL

change.

boys

Glid hours

main

Fascinating information about the sexès emerges as the author maltes his methodical (and extremely, lueld and readable) way into the stream of his subject. For instance, TE ได

apparently now known beyond men's doubt that, in

spite of superior

and physical strength women's peculiar disabilities, women, not men, are the biological- ly sounder of the two, with a greater resistance to disease, physical

བ

de-

feet and even death. Most women,

in fact, outlive most men, and for

to good biological reasons. bound aro

"showed minimum changes." Ulcera- one's views on many aspects of tions and Haemorrhages in the throat sex difference and intestines death,

Outstanding symptoms were nausea and vomiting on the day of bombing, followed by fever, diarrhoea and other disturbances.-United Press.

New Records

JOHN MCHUGH has produced his

best record to date, singing with great tenderness "Weep No More, Liu," and "None Shall Sleep" from Puccini's opera, "Turandot." The Royal Opera House Orchestra, con- ducted by Lawrance Collingwood, accompany

(Columbia DB.

him.

The City of Birmingham Orches- tra. conducted by George Weldon, a gap with their new recording of Bach's "Sleepers, Wake!" (Colum hla DX. 1388).

She is

But the. record of the month.comes. from Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, singing in English "Sweet Bird," by Handel. is appearing at Covent Garden at the moment, and has the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra accom- paniment, with Nieder Mayr playing flute obbligato. The warmth and feeling of the sliger make a thrilling record. (Columbia LX. 1010),

This is a pity, for there are many We in our generation have largely more women than men in the world grown up to believe that men and already; and the disparity in num women, educated in the same way, bers is increasing. What is to hap- given equal rights and opportunities Den to that great and ever-growing and often working side by side in the population of women for whom there kame professions, can successfully are no husbands? No one who has disregard the difference of sex, and been convinced by Mr Scheinfeld's that in a modern world it is desirable book can believe that the solution is to do so. Mr Scheinfeld's book must to turn them,

The lake that tricked a king

Second's

New recordings by the Ink Spots,

King George the the London who are appearing Casino, have just been released. Queen, Caroline, had a hobby. These

polished entertainers sing It was the Royal Parks. She When you come to the end of the loved to design the flower beds day" (Brunswick 03808) and "It's and prepare schemes for their sin to tell a lle" (Brunswick 03653); improvement. She had the idea

Joan Sharp's enchanting pipe and tabor record of "Ladies Pleasure," of converting the marsh made "Fools Jig" and "Lumps of Plum by the Westbourne as it flowed Pudding," is issued in the IIMV New through Hyde Park, into a Educational Series and is well worth lake. your attention (IEMV B 0577).

And Georges Guetary, star of "Bless the Bride," sings "Magdalena" and Vivian Elils's "I dreamt I was back in Paris" with charm and good taste (Columbia DB 2327).

ROBERT TREDINNICK

ARE YOU SURE? ANSWERS

Questions on Page 9

of

She showed the plan to the King who was not

over enthusiastic but said that he did not care what she did with her own money.

With the encouragement Walpole, the Queen went ahead with her plan. Work began in 1730 and 300 men worked for three years.

It was not until Caroline died that George discovered that the cost of the Serpentine £0,000 has been talten from revenues together with

1. S. to N. 2. Toad. 3. He would another £20,000 for other Improve have most money in pennies, Englishments.

billion is a million millions; Ameri- The name "Serpentine" is an ally- con and French a thousand milliona. slan to the shape of the pond. In 4. (a) Mrs Churchill. (b) Mrs Att-the days when it was constructed, it

lec.

5 Portsmouth, Charlton Athletic, was usual for ornamental pontis and Sunderland, Rangers,

Millwall. 6.

0. lakes to be rectangle. who introduced

Queen Caroline wanted her lake

George Son, and Invented

buses to

to look natural and its large curve, funeral hearse. 7. All were wholly revolutionary i those days,

or partly written in prisons. 8, Slob- described as "Serpentine." ber. To drivel is, to" "alaver like a child. 9. Gibraltar, 10. High

to England.

NANCY

HAVE YOU MET THAT

NEW Boy?

Was

The Westboumé: has long since road been diverted into sewer, and the

Thames now supplies the Jake.

Sluggo Left His Mark

YES

HE'S A DREAM

HE'S THE CUTEST. BOY WE'VE HAD AROUND HERE.

IN. YEARS

by education and

that

CHESS PROBLEM

By E. BEINONEM Black, 14 pieces.

and

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R. Robertson

Texas

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White to play and mate in three.

Solution to yesterday's problem:

1, KI-KIG, any: 2, Q, B (dis. ch.), or Kt mates,

Rupert and the Three Guides-23

Up on the common the little friends look rather solenın. We must help the constable catch this thief," says Rupert. "B-bur he may be very strong and I don't feel very brave today," says Podgy doubtfully. Janet looks excited. "I'd love to try," she says, "but don't know it Guides ate supposed to track robbers, I'll Gad Deryl and ask her. Very well. says Rupert. "And now I've got an idea, and I'm going into the wood re try it out."

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Skeleton

CLUES ACROSS

But

would such a sug- gestion appeal to the narroW- minded? '(two words). 8. "Yes," $675

Fritta

Virgini8.

the Har

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tal ahea from solo. 10. Assigna a

isolates

two (two

words),

11. Would

confuse

high-up ↑ Baeb | limited

18. THE cheese is

amount but may 1,

go round.

10. Daceptive morement done.j feoble way, by the sound of 17. Buck up.

10. Inventor of a Bugby football

terza,

10. Just the instrument,

foul out the plas

20. The team which nooda à mark

10.win.

3. We hear that you can keep in

safety in the Park.

26. Wherein Jack may quite likely

be a girl.

24. As an appointment it should

not be unfruitful.

27. In other words make a profft

"first and talk afterwards. 28. Obviously not hard casta :(two

Words

FAH --- THERE HE IS

NOW --- I MUST ` INTRODUCE HIM TO

SLUGGO

Pars

North East

Pass

Double

20

After winning the first trick with the queen

average of spades, the player would cash the ace, and king of spades, discarding two diamonds

heart. Then: from dummy, then lead

of course, the opponents would take a heart and a diamond trick."

Heath won the first trick with the nce of spades, and immediately led a heart. East won, and he had a problem. He did not want to lena- nway from the king of diamonds, and he felt confident that declarer had the are of diamonds. Should he lead through dummy's clubs, or should he icad spade? The spade could be ruffed in

dummy, so East decided to return a Heart to try to stop the.

spade ruff. Declarer won, picked up

the outstanding trump, and starded his losing diamonds on dummy's good clubs,

Heath said later, "There is no harm in trying. I figured I might as well down vo as one, so I took a shot at it."

Ko

Crossword

CLUES DOWN

1. No circio for ainners.

Deep sea fah? Very!

1. It seems they baya do jumpe in the prohibited zone (three

words).

4. Attractive

ently,

apartment appar-

4. In military standing this showa

carelessness.

6. You can put your money on

Childo

7. Form of leaf insect.

11. Woll-formed lotter in Wales. 12. Witchcraft ?

1. In need of some cleaning but

pretty fair when not so.

15. What to do with one's words

It called upon to eat them? 21. How to get egge by the pound za. We'll give you one Deep to and

the answer,

23.. Name of a film actress in, "The

Dynasta"

/ds Trick in,

By Brule Bushmiller

OH-H.--- I SEE

YOU'VE ALREADY MET SLUGGO

IN die Skeleton Crossword the

black squares and clus num- bers, as well as'the words, are left for the solver to dil in. Four black squares and four clue numbers. have been inserted to give you a start.

The black squares form a 67A7- metrical pattern in which the two sides of the puzzle balance esch other and the top half corre sponds with the bottom half. You can, therefore, all in 12 more black squares to correspond with those giren. ·

There is no 1 Across, therefore the square next-to that contain- ing the figure 1 and the three other corresponding squares must be blacked in.

24 Down is the last Down clue and, as the corresponding square Blied in by you in the top left corner howe, both 1 and 24 Down must be 4-letter words,

Build up the puzzle step by step on these lines. No words of ses san tree letters are used. except in phrases.

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