1948-03-20 — Page 11

BOOK TO READ:

Looking back, it

made me shiver...

DIPLOMATIC FRELUDE 1938-A by Professor L. B. Namér (Macmillan, 180)

UT today is a heart-brenk- Ing portrait of one slice of our lives. It is that slice we never see at the time though its importance is supreme.

Ten years ago, the period this documentary covers, many breadwinners who are now 80 discreet about the D.F.C. after their names

were still in short pants. These pages tell how their destinies, and ours, were shaped by men mostly now dead. And how many of these names are discredited, how fow honoured1

How intricate wore the pat- the terns of politencases over doomed map of Europe! Ilitler serenmed behind the scenes. Mussolini bluffed on the tele- *phone. Statesmen quaked. The cypher-clerks worked all night. The mysterious Swede Dahlerus began his fantastic unofficial missions.

Churchill was growling away in private life, biding his time. On the surface, the historic tragedy went forward, in measured, formal phraseology.

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Namier weaves together the sur- face and the underneath. He uses all these coloured books, the Blue- books of Britain, the Yellow-book of France, the White-book of Poland.

To there official records he has added much first-hand materini ob- tained when London was the centre for Governments in exile. The Ciano diary. captured enemy documents, and a sifting of the massive evi- dence at the Nuremberg trials pro- vide a background from the other side.

The sheer bulk of all this sounds formidable, but Nanier has reduced

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1948.

Discovery

by CHAPMAN PINCHER

WILL RACING PIGEONS Ay on active service in any futuro war? In the House of Commons My Manningham-Buller (Tory, Daventry) said the air Ministry had told him that they would not. The Secretary of State for, Air (Mr Henderson) was puzzled, and asked to see the letter. IIe paid im- ported plgenn foods cost £160,000 in 1940 and 1047.

PIGEONS YIELD THE SECRET OF HOW

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THREE CANALS

NNER EAR PIGEON

LINES OF EQUAL. "MAGNETIC FORCE)

THEORY NO. from Professor Laing, of Sweden claims that the hom ing mechanisms in the pigeon's Cara.

The earth's · spin exerts a tiny force called the Coriolis force on any flying object. Ising saya that three canals in cncli car detect this force, which varles with latitude, and so the bird navigates.

Theory No. 2 Bug. gests that pigeons navigate by the earth's magnetism. ›

THEY GET HOME

CARNIER PIGEONS can find their way home over hundreds of miles of unknown territory. How do they do it? Eyesight must play some part, because fog confuses the birds and blind pigeons cannot home at all. Pigeons seem to scatter in any direction when they are released and then fly in,a wide curve which eventually brings them to a landmark they recognise. From this they probably home by eyesight But in the fast long-distance flights made by pigeons over the sea some other mechanism must be involved. Belentista have two main theories about it.

STATE COLLEGE: PERNSYLVANIA

NOW AN American professor-H, La Yeagley-ban YEAGLEY carried out experiments which show that both theories are probably correct. The earth's lines of magnetle foron cut the latitude lines with which the Coriolle forces are linked-forming a grid, like the system used by the Army for map-reading. Yeagley argues that pigeons take bearings on this grid. If this is correct, & pigeon should be unable to distinguish between two points on a map where the forces are identical,

At Kearney. Nebraska, and Pennsylvania State College, Yeagley found two such places. He set to an empty left at Kearney and overnight took a flock of pigeons, trained to home to the State College, to the Nebraska plains. When they were set free next day they made no attempt to get back home, but flew direct to Kearney, where they had never been before. This confusion wouk! rarely happen to racing pigeons, for. except near the Polen, identical crossing points are always several hundreds of miles apart. Two would not occur within a pigeon's normal range.

IMAGNIT

tound that when a magnet, strong enough, to swamp the effect of the earth's magnet- is, is fixed to a pigeon's head. the bird loses its sERSO Of direction. Other telentists have re ported the pigeons seem baffled when they fly near a radio station which is transmitting.

Yengicy's results have yet to be con Armed, but ther seem to apply the best explanation

IS THIS THE KEY TO THE

KEY

CONQUEST OF CANCER?

Lo the

cancer

Aproblem has been found. It (United Press Science Writer)

By PAUL F. ELLIS

it to a coherent narrative. The sie-is not a pass, key that will un- kening momentum of world entas-lock all the doors, but may lead trophe is shown bere necelerated by Into an area where keys to other casual conversations, telephone calls doors may be found. private notes, diplomatic despatches,

This Orst key is radioactive iodine. And last of all by the corpmyniques

unlocks is the thyroid which you and I read with a shiver The door it

gland. over Qiuse fabulous pre-war break- fast tables,

Results so far show that some

as the product that a person buys in

chemist's

except that it

throws of radiation, and is used in

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WHEN I moved to New York-in

1934 I honestly felt that mid- westerners were better card players than easterners. I always said that the easterners were better bidders, and the reason those in the midwest were better players won that they overbid and had to play well to make their contracts.

Of course that is not true today. There are great bidders and great card players in every state in the Union.

Today's hand was given to me by Harry Feinberg, who recently moved from Cleveland to New York, where he now is associated with the New York Bridge Whist Club.

some-

Some players might like to Uso

convention

bidding on this experts

.the Blackwood

where during the hand. However,

seldom

employ the Blackwood convention.

They prefer to show controls and make natural deductions from the bidding. Of course they do use Blackwood when it is obvious and when they must have information Nurding aces and kings which they

One

the

get otherwise,

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Honours To Canada

Halifax-The hundredth anniver-

the

It looks as if Feinberg was going to have a difficult time to maku seven-odd. He won the Brst trick with the king of hearts and cashed the ace of spades, which left only

out. trump

Ottawa. Coloured banners until the British Embassy inquired' His next play was small heart which adorned Buckingham discreetly but anxiously it anything heart; being careful to trump it with last November have been pre- to dummy's ace, then lie trumped a Palace during the royal wedding were wrong!

EMPIRE A CENTENARY king, Ho

overtook the ten of spades in dummy with the jack and sented to Le Regiment de la sary of the establishment of the first trumped dummy's Inst heart with Chaudiere and 48th Highlanders responsible government in the British the queen of spades.

of Canada. Princess Elizabeth is Empire overseas is to be marked Next he cashed the ace of diamonds. Colonel-in-Chief of both these Nova Scotla legislature

next month In Halifax when then played the five of spades, win-

meets. It was on February 2, 1948 that a aning in dummy with the nine-sport Canadian regiments.

The eight of spades

cashed,

COMMUNIST KICK-BACK? Ministry which depended on declarer discarding the small dia-

Nova mond. Now the seven

New York-Damages of £15,000, will of the majority in the of was cashed.

spades 000 have been claimed in a Los An- Scotia Assembly took office for the geles court from various film com- first Ume in the Empire outside the At this point East was down to panies by the 10 Hollywood writers United Kingdom. A plaque com- jack-seven of clubs and he was sional Un-American Activities Com- yelled in the Legislature by the Licu forced to make a discard. If he let

tenant-Governor of the Province, the mittee. go the diamond, dummy's queen

fion. J. A. D. McCurdy. YOUTH LEADS would be good. He dropped the arrested in Valenciennes,

Paris-A 13-year-old boy has been

LUXURY AIRBORNE Paris, The "Plane of Elegance". northern seven of clubs, so Feinberg cashed the king of clubs and won the last France, as head of a gang specialising will soon leave Paris bound for two tricks with his ace and ten of in stealing bleycles, The gang was Teheran, the first stop on a world clubs.

composed of 15 members, and its tour. On board will be mannequins chlet was the youngest of them,

latest

was

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The old shivers return-for other/Hospitals has set up a special project substances as produced in the atomic type of radiation is the beta ray. The the king of diamonds and the queen-and directors cited by the Congres- memorating the event is to be un-

reasons now o reconstruction of

extremely small amountu,

Radioactive iodine is an important patients, dying when they were ad- key in cancer because normal thyroid mitted for treatment, have left the has an affinity for lodine. hospital under their own power, their disease apparently under control.

It collects lodine from the blood stream and user it to maite The scientists of this thyroid team hormone known as thyroxin. The do not say that these patients have normal thyroid picks up todine So important is the significance of been cured. They are not thinking whether it is radioactive or not. The radioactive lodine in thyroid cancer entirely of controlling thyroid can- radioactive substance carries with it that one of the world's top cancer cer. They know that if radioactive two forms of radiation or sparks. One I read this drolt lake full advantage of it. This ovens, can bring resuits in

certain invisible bela rays travel about cancer centre is New York's types of thyroid cancer, then there 97874 of an inch. The aliter type of neur-distant his-

and may be radioactive substances other radiation is the gamma ray. Gamma tory. The paraphernalia of words Memorial Hospital for Cancer

than ledine that will penetrate other rays are so penetrating they will go rd Allied Diseases. look so tragically stupid. Again and again common sense is left gasping.

types of cancer. The scientists assigned to this pro-

through several inches of lead. How uncomfortable it is to be Jeet are members of the "hyrold

This first key-radioactive iodine- after the event!

Thyroid cancer itself is a Fort The team." It is a joint project with the actually was found before the atomic form, and of all thyroid cancer cases. economists were wrong the politi-Massachusetts General Hospital, Bos- bomb was developed. But in those only about 15 percent are initially clans were inept: the prophets were ton, recognised as one of the world's early days, back in the 1030's, the suitable for

were blind-innost famous false; the cowards

treatment with radio- centres for the treat- making of radioactive iodine was ex- nctive lodine. This is because some these moments

__when_history_was ment of thyroid diseases.

pensive. It was created in the cyclo-thyroid tissue, once it becomes moving.

Such Joint co-operation two hospitals is one of the encourage machine. Today it is

cerous, loses most of its desire to ing signs on the horizon of cancer paratively cheaply in the stomie percent of thyroid cancers that

made com collect iodine. In the of the 15 research. They seem sure to accom- Iaboratories at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. pick up the iodine, it has been found plish more working together than Radioactive fodine is the same as that such cancers more closely,

rc- separately.

to taste and its chemical properties semble the structure of the original

wisc

Namler's work is an elegant, cyni cal, fnctual prelude to the death of millions. Nowhere in it is the voice of those vietiin millions heard.

JOHN PUDNEY

Skeleton

CLUES ACHUSS

2 Wherein

bombers of

the Flost

Alr Ar might drop

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their eggs ? This geats a refy Iroaty atmosphere.

9. The length

of a bird's

Call 7

10. 11s wifo_be-

"Camo"salini-

form.

11. Material

found in A square, per

napa,

12. Being lame.

has to conso

to a stop.

14. Tompa

tuous spirit, in a seus.

18. Despatched in tona.

10. A Ruinen a box for this panaces would presumably be an overcharge (two words). 19. They vary lawa, and each orie

of them-

23. -drill in the round rather than on the square, howevers. 23. You'll and it remains unoccu- pled till the cows come home.

2b. It's the very deuce .

One of the girls from Novado. Mase is upst

20. Have complete condence in,

but only with ma in front.

20. Got something. Oven

demonted.

CLEES DOWN

1. Stream of Russia.

Ano vapour in

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hand in a crap."

5. The heels of thong whom coat

in to this parious state may

Ko bo poor condition (three words).

NANCY Not. Much Help ^

BOY-IT'S COLD TODAY ---I'LL BE GLAD TO GET ON MY JOB

between trou 50-called atom _smashing

Crossword

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bo eno's salvation, it (two words).

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with them, as a rule (two words).

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disgraceful story.

19,, a shoe for the prophal.

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really horizontal

here,

10%

10. Fellows always turn up in the

centre of tila hostile force,

17. The season, we hear, for a

fragrant bunt.

to. It gets the sack in the Upper

House.

21. Promotion,

upward only.

but 010 stage

23. He gives us a most uninterest-

ing turn.

24. Only nominal, perhaps. but

none the lex odiblu,

DAT SANDWICH SIGN WILL KEEP ME

NICE AND

WARM

THE black

clur

quare» and numbers, as well as the words, have to be aned in or solvers of this crossword, four black squares and for clue numbers have her Inserted to give you a start.

As the pattern of black squares La aymmetrieat, the left and right- hand sides balance and the top and bottom haives correspond. You can, therefore, All in 12 more black-squares at-once-inTM posttrafik corresponding with those given.

Note that there in no No. 1 Across; therefore the third square From the test in the tap ilue and Its three corresponding ones cab be blacked in.

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There is a No. 23 Across a well as Down, so that the square komme- diately to the left of that cuntain- Ing the figure 23 must also be a bluck one.

Two-letter words, except phrases, are not used.

LAST WEEK'S SOLUTION'

IT:

normal gland.

cas0

-CAN-

CHESS PROBLEM

do

By J. I. RIETVELD (1st Prize, BCF Tourney 54) Black, 12 pieces.

So the Memorial Hospital thyroid team in concentrating its efforts on the type of cancer thyroid, that picks up radioactive iodine. Surgery sill is the best weapon for thyroid-cancer that has not spread from the original location in the neck. It is for

the more serious type that breaks away from the original gland and turns up in other parts of the body, that radio-

treatment is netive ledine mended. When a cancer spreads, it is called metastases. In about percent of thyroid cancer cases radio- nctive iodine can be used effectively.

recom-

15

That may seem to be a small per- centage but the Memorial Hospital scientists belleve it is significant. Any progress, they believe, towards the control of any one type of cancer is) a definite step towards the eventual control of other types of

cancer.- Copyright 1948 by United Press.

悦悦

White, B.,pieces. White to play and mate is two.,

Solution to yesterday's - problem:

1, R-KIG; threut, 2,- Kl-Kt5 (dis ch). 1.. P-KUS; 2. Kt→→→ B5 (dis cl); 1. Kt-K5, 2, KX Kt: 1 .. Kt5; 2, Kt--- K17 (dbi chì.

Rupert's Silver Trumpet-31

I'M ALL SET FOR WOIK, MR.ZILCH

OK.

By Ernio Bushmiller

HE WOULD GET· CUTE ON A DAY

EAT

AT

10E3

LIKE

DIS

SHO

The Golliwog hurries back to his model plane and puts the silver trumpet into it.

Don't worry,

Little bear," he calls, as he takes off and circles round. You shall have your present. Come back here in an hour's time and see what 1 send you, Anyway, you would never have enjoyed this trumpet. It's too difficult to blow,"

And next moment he whizzes away into the aky.an't this exciting!" cries Rupert. 1 do wonder what kind of present shall get.” *

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SURE KILL

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LOST AND FOUND Washington, The_White__House.

wearing the

wines and

Parisian "New medels, fino

furs,

Look." hane. The aircraft

Arat

trick of losing papers held up the has been chartered from Air France- appointment of Sir Oliver Franks an by Antonia, coiffeur to the Duchess British Ambassador. The Foreign 1

of Windsor, and ex-Resistance

leader Office despatches asking if Sir Oliver Jean Vitree, credited with being the would be acceptable disappeared be-

Frenchman to enter Berchtesga- Allied armies. Their tween the State Department and the den with the

luxury and elegance in a series of exhibitions in world capitals. After Teheran their next stops will Colro and Rio de Janeiro.

White House. They were not found idea is to show the best of French

POOR LITTLE

RICH

COUNTRY

(Continued from Page 1)

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BOTTLENECK Joliannesburg-Building work on a new 20,000 tons a year cement fac- tory in Natal to rellave the acute shortage of cement has been held up -owing to the

of shortage

cement WASTE NOT.. Johannesburg Johannesburg was very nearly paved with gold. The city council bought a dump of waste rock at the Crown Mines and erected The highway to Russia is broken a crusher, but it was found that the and rulled so pockmarked with rock contained three cwte of gold to holes that traffic takes to the desert the ton, so it is now being put for a smoother ride. Once it was a through the mill instead. black ribbon of asphalt shooting

FIGHT'S ON-ANY TAKERST across the desert and winding over New York. When Jersey Joe 7,000 foot mountains to the Russian Walcott signed contract to fight Joo

Louis in New York on June Over it thousands of negro drivers booties immediately made Louis olammed gears and fought sleep in four-to-one favourlie.

border.

their locomotive-sized diesels nurtured the victorious Red armles.

that

Day and night the bumper to bum-

Antarctic

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ROAST WHALE OF OLD ENGLAND Cape Town-According to an ar per convoys were on the move, grop-rival from the

whaling Ing through sandstorms, absorbing grounds, the refrigerated ship Keton heat that parched a man's blood and is now lending 4,000 tons of, frozen sacking the huge loads through whalement which will be taken to treacherous mountain passes where a Britain to. supplement meat rations. man had to be cat-quick to jump Last year, an experimental 50 ions clear of the skids that hurtled many proved a success.

a truck, its cargo, and sometimes ite crew, to the bottom of a distant can- yon.

There are weeds growing in the broad runways of the mammoth air Transport Command' field, through which, passed planes and freight from

bre

ARE YOU SURE? ANSWERS

Qucations on Page 4

all over the world. Today only heat 1. Call to prayer. 2. Dandelion. waves from the runways" riso," and Taraxacum coffee is made from the the hangars are empty?

roots, Jules of stem in summer will The wooden barracks and the cure warts. 3. Comic character in chapel with its pointed stocple are newspaper called Ally Sloper's Half coming apart at the joints and de- Holiday. 4, Ararat. 5. Hereford, 6. serted except for vultures and rats. Pelt it with stones. 7. Flinderr Street, The white pylons which once mark- Melbourne. 320,000 passengers on ed the main entrance to the Russian one day, B. Prehistoric structure of supply dump a weird sight. stone. 9. Cloak. 10. Nicholas Nickie They stand alone drunkenly in

by, bare expanse of desert, shepherding the modernistically designed gate- house where the trucks were checked out as they began their runs north. A group of númads have taken over the

Solution of yesterday's_puzzle. guardhouse, but cook and eat out-

Across: 1, Somewhere;. 8, Eraso; 10, doora.

Elan 12, Agree; 13, Rage; 14, Rat; Sometimes one of the big high- 16, Cactus; 18, Net; 20, Guess, 21, wheeled diesels passes, loaded high Hinge; 24, Dab; 26, Intone; 27, Age; with clvillan goods. But there are 28, Ten; 29, Dates; 30, Gore; 91, Arable numbers scrawled on the Anent.

CROSSWORD SOLUTION

dirty green seldes, and the people, whe once herded them over the road to Mart; 4, Wee; 2, Herculean; 0, Elated; Down: 1. Searching; 2. Organ; 8, Russia are thousands of miles away, 7, Rag: 0, Sect; 11, Ness; 16, Agenda; and most of them glad to be gone 17, Usage; 19, Enter: 22, Inte; 28, United Press.

Gone; 25, Best; 27, Ato..-