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MAN CAN EXIST IN ANTARCTIC

By DAN L. THRAPP

t

AN, who geta around more than any other munumai, peopled every continent except the Antarctic. According to British polar experts, he could have settled there if he had found a way to cross the vast ocean distances surrounding that continent..

Compared to the Antarctic, the Arctic is a heavily populated aren, teeming with life. On the Aretic const of America, more than 7,000 Eskimon live in reasonable comfort and lend happy lives.

Siberia has 1,200 Eskimos and at least 12,000 natives of other races who live on the shores of the Arelic Ocenn Greenland and Labrador also are peopled,

But no strictly inn mammals live in the Antarctle at all. There are no polar bears, no wolves or foxes, and no humanos. Birds, penguins and gulls abound, and the waters offshore are many whales, reals and other sen animais.

LIVING POSSIBLE

REASONABLY vigorous, intelligent and able tribe of men could live the year around in the Antarctic. getting food from the shoreline, clothing from ea animal and shelter from the snow and ice, according to British sourers,

Commander R. W. Bingham, leader and member of several British Antarctie expeditions, sald:

"When we were in the south polar regions we had fresh food the year around. During the warnter months we practically lived on seat meat. Then, of course, there always were penguin and seagull eggs, which aren't bad. "We found we could keep the fresh through the winter by by putting them in 'warm storage'--- to the sub-

SCOTCH GIVES HEADACHES, HANGOVERS AND DOLLARS

FIHE USA. is hungry for caused black mark,teer: to lase

the rare Huid called fortunes on stocks they had Scotch, Canada wants it been holding for the Christmas Australia wants it. It will sed raah. In June, when short sup- in almost unlimited quantities plies threatened to re-create the in Peru, Iceland, China. the black market, the Association Kurile Islands, and any other slipped 2,500,000 bottles into Jand you like to mention.

New York, and caught the dealers again.

Scotch whisky is Great Bri- tain's most precious export commodity al its greatest potential dollar earner.

contrast

and insisted

faster rate. In addition, Amerient For that reason they have stronyly alla.lem, to force them consumption of whisky has dropped resisten

to sell all their exports in the dolla: from 20 to 30 percent.

Stacks. Those Bgures

interestely In the love of considerable pres- with British Agures for the Scoleby sure, they have insisted on relatulung it serve, which is engeftily watched a percentage of their output for the to preserve the quality of the British ham market. me. Thuing the war, when pres that a further percentage go to Em dueua rundst stopped, distillers re- pire countries that kept faith with fused to release all their supplies be the Scottish imlistry before the war. The word "Scotch" is a proud ene rause & woltid have meant releasing nav sarit when production was re- in British commercial history, atsumed, thereby changing the prier- Seats who safeguard that gond name

lese name of the produel.

are taking gond rare to seg i retains Its pekle both in quality and In- tegrity.

Now, Americans can buy at- most unlimited quantities less than half the black market

By SYDNEY REDWOOD

Last year, Britain exported 2.850.000 gallons of Seoteh whisky to the U.S.A. and piled up nearly 2.000.000 precious dollars from the sale of it. IC Britain could have increased the quantity ten-fold, she could price. Hair and High's Five have piled up a corresponding ly great mound of dollars.

only

most

Di

it is. even with careful but- Star brand is on every shelf at the reserve in Scotland is!

85,000,000 gallons, £1.6.4 a bottle; York House

which is still maturing In 1930. sells for £1.5.542. At that price, 30.000.000 gallons were produced. By the superior product has no 1940, production had dropped YET despite this tremendous difficulty in winning the dollars 10,000.00 cations,

demand the Council of the in preference to inferior Amert-

can products.

The blackest years were 1043 and 1944, when none was produced be- huge all British grain had to go to feed the nation. Last year distillers were given enough grain to make 10,000,000 gallons to safeguard the industry and to provide the pre

LORS dollars.

amount, 4,400,000, allons had to be exported, an 4.600.000 gallons were held for Home consumption.

That 4,600.000 gallo was only half of Britaju's nominal prewar con- sumption.

COCKPIT AND PILOT TO BE JETTISONED TOGETHER IN EMERGENCY

|17,000 H.P.) ·

JET UNIT

THE M.52..

The

33 FT. LONG

warm, that is, we would

zero temperatures -

espion tur barrel and bury the eggs hit. They remained quite fresh and tasty."

f

The Antarctic has some 28 species penguins, not all of which lay edibly ens. But Bingham sald there was a simple way to test eggs of a particular species for edibility.

"Eat it," he said.

Many species of seals als are found near the continental shore- Bne, he said. Best of all was the "erab-enler seal,"

from so named his diet.

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SEALS ELUSIVE (Ø MIE disadvantage to that species Home animal is that It disappears

winter night settles in," Bingham fold. They stay at the edge of the pack ice, which sometlines. Is many miles offshore. But there is Another Species, the Weddell seal, which can be caught all year, right up to the sture."

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|27 FT. WING SPAN

MIGHT HAVE BEATEN AMERICA

JET

NOZZLE

Test pilot says: 'Let

Sentch Whiskey Association sells its product to the 17S.A. De at only 5 hillings a bottle.

But, at that price, there is no spite the need for dollars, this timendous fortune for the dis- Associatim has impressed pu tillers. The New York paper,

the the British Government

PM. recently computed the need for keeping the price down charges on a single bottle of to preserve the great market,

Scotch selling in New York at The Association works on the 21.19.2 with these figures; theory that Scotch must always -be-regarded--as-a-day-to-day. Cost in Scotland, 4s. 101,d: drink. am not a rare Haueur, freight and insurance, Blade which it rare! is. During the customs, excise tax and stamps, war when Scotch was staree. Ion 11s. Td; carlagen and inurance, many Americans Look to the in; id: advertising, 6d; impecs ferior American whiskys. and proât, is 41; New York State the variations' known as corn tax, 1a. Gd; wholesaler's urulit, whisky and rye, whisky.

28. Id: retailer's profit. 16x, fic.

SHOULD pilots willing to take Miles Aircraft test pilot, 30-year-old One reason is believed to be the

the risk be allowed to Mr. Ken Wallet, was eager to nyit As sales of Scotch herease, sales

"I would have been ready for aged in debt the malt. The end, Britain's faster-than-sound test test months before the American of local brands fall, and the US. is highland water used, and the prat building

huge stockpile of

craft, and planes? A ban on such risks plane which beat the speed home-distilel whisky. In February, ing of the spirits, too, is

made a year ago has lost for sound," he said last night. the national stack were 255,000, the serret is handed down

father to con with great secrecy. Hallops. In May they had risen to

are no less proud of Britain the chance to be the first The Scots 432,000,000 gallons. In the last three The Association flooded the month; the rate of production has their reputation of producing to #y through the so-called "wall New York market with Sentch

increased by $5,000,000 gallons, and equalled product than they are of before last Christmas. and the stockpile has grown at an even their good name in the trade world.

Now, the Association is run- back ning a campaign fy woo the drinkers to the Scotch habit, First step was to wipe out the black market in it which had tainted its mume.

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CECHET of the process that makes Scotch whisky the most precious drink in the world is chrely guarded distillers. The process of by the

well known, of manufacture course, atud many have tried to ind the reason for the rare Bavour.

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

sign that a young

attached to his hat, electric Warrior is courting an

Anata Abatta

fron

atu

me take this by up NOW...

of sound."

CHAPMAN

9

PINCHER

Aircraft Industry techniclans argued that one successful piloted fight would yield more data 100 robot fests.

than

America has done it first.

But the Lockspeiser decision without loss of life, without ap- stood. The M.52 was put Into parent risk.

stare. In its place a £500,000 pro- ject to make 20 robot aircraft was put in hand.

Four months

by

The Ministry of Supply's chief the B.B.C. At present the ailke, the young warrior ties a long scientist, Sir Ben Lockspeiser, OMEONE has invented a by

I was expected motor levels that one be younger members of families smer bit of dear snake round her left lent ruled last year that the first was launched from a Mosquito over

at 800 m. terribly Troin' the fact that their by which he will recognise her at

tally for 15 miles we 700 m.p.h. speed of sound would

of relaying details

pressure folded up and packed in a suit-iders en produce a few minutes the nuptial feant. She is not allowed tempts to fly faster than the the Scilly Isles.

to tie any distinguishing mork on her be made by robot machines. It airflow from ils and boring silence in

instruments Chastly

buitor, although all the men

It flew unsteadily for a few the house by merely turning a knob,

alike, and by the time the wedding Was too dangerous for human radio. man of The really smart

into hundred yards and crashed future will never travel without 90% Old days in Ahahaland

Terst is over everybody has forgotten pilots to try, he said..

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the sea without yielding any infor- what it was all about, ani of these, as well as a tiny radio

courtship begins again.

Now American pilots have pot mation. the information for which our air- craft designers are still his waistcoat, a television sel maiden is when he comes to her Waggling Parva news under the lapel of his count, and a father's kraut and asks her ta mopa

begun already collapsible airerast on a Rash. The hs spear. She sees at a glance that YORK hus freslom to do all this will lend to in't broken, and her father units Y Waggling Parys

The Lockspeiser bar meant should be brought out of cold store pence and prosperity.

Insinuatingly while she pretends in struction of a new Strabismus rocket. merit. He then offers her in which third attempt will be scrapping the Miles M.52 jet air- and completed, they say.

The new plane, designed to solve the prob Perpetual radio

erocodile's tooth, knowing that her trade to reach the moon.

the speed- father collects them, and she offers magnetic ore, droxilium, which items of light through GREAT deal at unhappiness in aan in exclumpe the car of a hippu- said to grow eyelashes on whitebait, of-sound barrier. families would be avorlest potmus, knowing that his father will be used for the nuzzle. Mean-i

has invented someone Invented aradin which will use it as a bribe for the witen while Strabismus could only, be turned off at the main loctor. As all the maidens look waterproof covering for cheese.

typewriter winch can be plusged, in-

tu

NANCY

Blow Me Down!

YOU MIGHT BE RICH, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE AS MUCH FUN AS US

REG'LAR GUYS

F'RINSTANCE-A SISSY LIKE YOU HASN'T GOT A WATER PISTOL-- HAVE

YA?

INO--MY DAD NEVER BUYS ME CHEAP

TOYS ..

a

021 the con-

Now technicians and test pilots held of the aircraft industry are demand- They experienced little danger and few difficulties.

Ing that the safety-first

scropped. The should be

rullg

M.52

"Lei me get up in it and get the information our designers need," says test-pilot 'Waller. "It is the a Fitted with a 17,000 h.p. engine,, only way we can catch up with the

the M52 was 90 percent completed. Americans' now.".

By Ernie Bushmiller

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