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JANE RUSSELL and

LOUIS HAYWARD

Young Widow

FAITH DOMERGUE • KENT TAYLOR » MARIE WILSON

CONNIE GILCHRIST and PENNY SINGLETON

Directed by EDWIN §, ALARIM

Screenplay by Richard Macaulay and Margaret Buéll Wider Additional Dialogue by fuck Morg).

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At 2.30, 5.20,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

My £20

a week

on flying

Over Africa, June 4.

T some predestined mo-

Ament of this weary after-

noon, I shall be celebrating my 500th passenger-hour in the past couple of years-if celebrating is the word for the numb half-life that one lives at 8,000 feet and 200 miles an hour.

Not really very much-the equivalent of three weeks' un- broken day and night travel.

TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1948.

They are a new race of people, combining tact and equilibrium; Ilke acrobals with a bedside manner.

A fow hours ngo we plane fodder neither knew each other} nor care. We'assembled at 10 (for a 12 o'clock start), wo moved together through the -formalities-eyeing each other for

clues, for a sign of friendship.

But already there has been time to fall into those curiously! unreal Intimacies one forms with fellow travellers in narrow spaces. My neighbours, as it happens, ore; sirangely typical of two opposing; British impulses of the moment.)

N my left a man who has

loudly Had Englanul and who is! emigrating to Thodesia, ("Things) get worse, I'm well out of it."); On my right, a businessman sell- ing quality goods to the export market. ("Things are looking

THE COMMANDO V.C. FIGHTS THE

BATTLE

TANDING on the high

ground overlooking on

OF HOUSES

of Britain's largest by R.G. Bennett

housing estates, Colonel Charles slowly lights his pipe. Below

about three men did, for 90 percent of them were wounded,

During the battle he directed" mortar ro against enemy machine guns and machine gun-fire against attacking enemy craft Ite Joined als men in shooting up Germans in

But

about 08,000 miles on the clock up; I am an optimist, and all 1 band and gay curtains at the win- 'commissionaire at W. & C. French

him a network of ronds has independent company (they weren't been hacked out of what was called Commandoes in those days) the dock buildings. But in dribs once green fields and an Army Norway in 1940, he went as well. and drabs his men wero captured,

But he was wounded and so missed and curiously the Germans

officers of workmen are building some St Nazaire,

and men into ong prison William Creevy, the driver, was camp. two thousand homes in various

No one knows the reason, M. T. sergeant in the 4th, but never except that it was believed the Ger- Tatages of completion.

became a Commando. He went to mans refused to look upon Comman- Somo already have the finishing Africa and was wounded at Alamein, does es normal soldiers. touches to the roofs and doors in And George Horne, the uniformed In the camp, he was sull tho leader. Ho lectured the men on dows show that housewives who Ltd. of Buckhurst Hill, the firm of engineering, organised sport have been waiting patiently for five which Colonel Newman is co-direc hobbies, and encouraged men to

their tor,

some £2,000 of the

arm's money in fares.

That makes worth about £1,000 a

mo

James

can do is to sell stuff, and I am selling.") The getter- out is share and wor- ried; the stayer-on is

and stout

highly looking:

year to the airways Cameron's capitalistle

companies.

There are two dozen of us in this Sky- of South master African Airways— or Suid Afrikaanse Lug- diens, na I suppose I had better call it now.

A troublous patch carlier on broke down resistance passenger - carly, Moreover, not afterwards, we

Jong

were

struck

Lightning nn

lightening

by

עי

experience

Column

in almost all senses of the word. My precious 500 hours bad in- cluded nothing so noteworthy.

forced to admit that it

I am Involved no more than a crack, a bang and a slight but pecullar sensation of hesitancy on the part hil of the aircraft, as a mun violently on the head might con- sider whether to go on his way or not.

to

However, I finally appreciate the value, of those little strings

attach EU.S. aircraft

their sparkled fre ailerons, They

Nevertheless, by now the al- tude has had its anaesthetising effect; we are a pretty moribund lot, poor company for our un-

stewardess, quenchable

who moves up and down with restor- Ing cups of coffee and whiffs at oxygen.

A

one must never assess

one's fellow men as the airline companies do, on a weight sys-

tem..

an

There is, too, the little old lady up the aisle,

Eminent Victorian by every outward sign, clearly on her malden flight."

One talks. consi- derately, of this new-

· fangled transportation: she says primly: is seldom

agreeable, I remember when I used to fly constantly about Europe about 1022-that was some time before) Imperial Airways, of course, . I actually preferred the Sopwith, for comfort,"

BELOW IS the enormnita, dry, Dundulating. duncoloured, painfully empty wilderness,

It is

Air travel is not travel. merely positional transfer, moving from Square A to Square D, a suspended animation,

But thank goodness, I suppose, for the airplane, which can take us from one distressful country to another in a twinkling-If you call this a twinkling. Blessed are the 1840s, where one can have| every country's troubles at once,

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A

"The

And

to

or six years for a roof for

was a commando who never study. One man, a bank clerk, heads have moved in. Behind them went to St Nazaire, for he was studied medicine and today is a Others concen- other buildings have hardly passed wounded at Dieppe and fell into medical student. the foundation stage.

trated on subjects which had always enemy hands. The Colonel walks back to his But there men, who all served with interested them, but for which they black saloon car and to the driver Colonel Charles at some time or said they had never had lime

about seriously in civilian let's go and other, serve him today in the battle think Creevy, says, "Okay,

The car for houses. It is a battle almost as life. nearly see George Churcher."

of them talked And noses its way down the hill, along Intensive as that fought at St Na- about their problems.

Colonel encouraged this. the newly-built roads and draws up zaire, for so much has to be done

wilthai outside

Jargo wire-protected

Hittle

were a few who had been materiai as quickly as There

must possible. There be no waste, very dissatisfied with their jobs. compound. And inside some of the and people who have been waiting before the war and vowed never to meri look

and say, "Here's Colonel Charles."

Not to all who work for him is he known by his name. Not by any means. To the man digging trenches or fixing roofing sintes, he is he boss," ar Colonel Newman, V.C. But to those who were with him at St Nazaire, or in the prison comp afterwards, he is more of a per- sonal friend than an employer.

to long for homes must be given return to them. To them all ho them just as soon as they can be said, "If you are ever really stuck finished off. Of all the qualities when we are out, come and see Some have. He has always aceded, planning and leadership are me." the most necessary. The Colonel helped them, learned both these at an early age. When he left Bancroft School in 1923-he was then 10-he joined French's

FTER five months the officers at the bottom and rose

went to an officers' camp on the the various departments. Baltic. through

Here

Newman organised He has seen the firm carry out some theatricals, and the Christmas pan- of the greatest engineering leals tomime became an institution. Ho In the country-housing estates, wrote the music to the lyrics, most Gut The Church he plant estate, in publle buildings under southerners

walls, food. defences, of the script and even persuaded.

the Germans to print official pro- - Frammes.

Бауб

arc ever

the war come

were

EORGE manager

one of them. In 1930 he was a way tunnels and tricky excavation clerk in a London provision firm. jobs like that undertaken at the In the Army he volunteered for Evening Standard building In Shoe the Commandoes "for a bit of fun," Lane when new press rooms and found himself serving under one built under an adjacent building. of the best commanding oflicers to No one had to move out. The whole be found anywhere, the type who place was propped up while the

"If you

really ground underneath was removed, browned off after and see me."

Another is Frank Evans, all his life a soldier. He even went to the school-The Duke of and had put in a good many years as a regular when he, too, decided to join the green berel unit. There is, too, Bill White, a prewar Territorial with the Colonel's old T. A. battalion, the 4th Essex. When the Colonel, then a major, took the

After his release Newman return- ed to his family of four daughters and a son, and to his work. Today there are five daughters in the New- man household.

all

over

With Creevy at the wheel, ho fis leadership he learned in the travels about 800 miles a week in order to see his 2,500 men working Territorials. Between 1023 and the

Eastern England. One war he rose from private to major party is working on flood defences, After Norway he became a licut another on sea defences near Dox- enant-colonel, and went to Vaarso, hill, A A third on a On 20 March 1942 he went ashore Portsmouth, and others on building reservoir near

at St Nazaire as military forces pro

Stevenage, projecta at

Romford, commander.

Loughton, Chingford and Buckhurst, A good employer, he has a shrowd idea of men's capablilties. In a re- THIS is what a war correspondent cent broadcast he said, "I belleva wrote of him at the time: "At first that not so many years ago the Bri- glance, this ex-Territorini of 38 was tish workman was proud of his craft. hardly the type one would have ex- and was happy in doing his job. I pected to and commanding special remember the old navvy who was Gervice troops. His Jolly easy-going interested in the work he was doing, manner, his pipe held foosely in how accurate and clean was tha the corner of his mouth, his soft trench he dug. Today we are pass- unhurried speech, gave hardly ing through the stage of a fight for glint of the tremendous

courage, better pay and conditions-it is abso- determination and power of leader- lutely right that it should be so--but ship which he possessed.""

aro we losing that pride of work When he went nshore He gave a and desire to do a day's work? Thin. breeze "Cheerio," It was the

Last must the Navy was to sec of him for the survive vive the country in to Because most of As Commandant of the Essex two outstanding characteristics produced to destroy disease-causing bio torpedo boats and meter laun- Cadets, he gives many evenings

EIGHT SCIENTISTS

ON

THE TRAIL OF CANCER

By FREDERICK W. JONES

RACE which, it is hoped, may end in the discovery of a cure for cancer, is going on in the laboratorics of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.

of cancer. Consequently, he agents, wants to develop a substance with the same effect on tumours but one which is less toxic to

human system.

ment,

war.

Д

rest of the

ches were hit, his men and the de- week to visiting units. And when If antibodies are produced against

molition parties were cut off, sur- he is not with the cadets he is with cancer cells, Dr Mayer said, perhaps rounded by fire on all sides. Calmly boys clubs where he teaches boxing, they could be used to disease in time for effective treat-fight their way out into open coun- keen to go tearing off to see pro- Newman collected them and gave his favourite sport. On sports gen- defect the

detailed instructions for them to erally he once said, "People are too from fessional matches instead of keeping try, and so make for Spain Dr Perrin Long and his as- sociate, Dr Emanuel Schoenfeld, relationship to cancerous growth, Dr to get home.

Because gland may have some where they might be lucky enough our traditional games at-town-and-

In point of fact only country level." are attacking cancer from a Lawson Wilkins is studying the re- different angle." Scores of lationship, of various glands to cancer-killing substances

growth during childhood and tested in their laboratory in an of particular interest to him.

adolescence. The adrenal gland is effort to find one which will not damage normal tissues.

arc

Eight scientists, attacking the problem from a different approach, are working in their laboratories tracing down leads, any one of which they think 7.20 & 9.20 p.m, may result in a cure, or at least the discovery of some treatment which may halt the

So far, several have caused progress of the dread disease. temporary regressions in vari-

"There is no cure for cancer now," one of them explained.

ous types of tumours, but all "We are just beginning to are so toxic that only small

dosages can be used. understand some of the pheno- mena relating to cancer, and we hope our studies will bring answers to some of the puzzling questions about uncontrolled growth, which is characteristic

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of cancer."

One of the eight scientists, Dr Maurice Sullivan, believes the root of the may apple may hold one of the keys to cancer control.

MAKES WARTS VANISH

Sullivan discovered that the root, chemically known as "po. dophyllum," will cause certain warts to disappear in two or three days. But the substance, ho said, is highly toxic and cannot be used on cancer with out endangering the health and comfort of patients.

Sullivan pointed out, how ever, that the 'drug does inhibit cell division and tissue growth,

NANCY

RESULTS UNCERTAIN

But they warn against over- optimism in connection with their research. They say:

"The fact that some chemi- cals ahow remarkable effects

in animals is no reason to be- lieve they will be effective in humans."

Dr I. B. Flexner of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, who also is attached to Johns Hopkins, hus made photographs under the micros cope of the growth of the liver and brain of guinca pigs to and out what factors are concerned with normal growth. The pictures show there is

critical period during the growth of tissue marked

the generation

of energy, Flexner seeking what causes this energy to be generated, how it is stored, and release to cause growth.

is

what enzymes are responsible for its

are

SEEKS DETECTION TEST

prostatic cancer patients admitted to Because only three percent of the

Johns Hopkins Hospital report early enough for operations, Dr William Animal tissues are being grown W. Scott is seeking a simple test lo in the laboratory of Dr M. Rosen- detect cancer before it spreads from feld. He is seeking chemicals that the prostate to other areas, stimulate tissuo growth on the Certain parts of the body theory that the answer to cancer constantly growing, even in adults.

nails may lie in chemicals made avall. The hair,

and eld, for The cornea of the eya able to body tissue. As part of his example. equipment, Dr Rosenfeld uses an also constantly is being renewed, ultra-centrifuge capable of 1,000 re- Dr Jonas S. Friedenwald has been molecules by exerting a pressure of fluence of different conditions on volutions per second to separate studying the rate of growth and in- 250,000 times the normal force of this growth rate.. Ife has found that gravity.

X-ray and dietary deficiencies, and ultraviolet rays, certain

Cells, one of the smallest sub- divisions of lying matter, occupy especially lack of vitamin A, retard. the attention of Dr M. M. Mayer, corneal growth. He is now trying

of these

with the Anding of a mechanism in actions to the enzymes of the cells. His research is concerned chiefly to trace the mechanism cells through which antibodies are -United Press.

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