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Sitting on the

Ta further sitting of

A The

the sub-commission on the Presa Nathaniel Gubbins gave more evidenco of his personal experiences as a reporter.

THE CHAIRRIAN: You have informed us that you once a general reporter, is a general reporter?

GUBBINS: A reporter

were What

who

What do you fre? Wos It n

does not specialise in anything and to always chosen to report the fire in the East India Dock rond at midaldit CHAINMAN mean by regular occurrence?

Gubbins said at the time there were so many fires in the East India

Dock-road at midnight that a belief existed In Ficel-.. street at somebody was start-

Filming them on purpose.

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NATHANIEL GUBBINS

CURDINS: That the man do parily use the knotted lie

coolest job ing the

was 33 and wing collar was Mussolini' years old, 5ft 10ins. tall was und wear before he took to with his wife, aged 29., and two aircraft was an married

and living at Barem uniforms, and partly because open machine Ittle doughters. Daisy and with no protection but a wind-

screen. Milanie, aged 7% and 6%

So my face was dirty. pectiva ly.

CHAIRMAN: How do you CHAIRMAN: What had that know they mistook you for to do with it?.

Mussolin!? GUBBINS: Nothing.

Party

GUBBINS: Because they shouted "Viva Mursolini," threw flowers, and gave me presents.

MY SIDE OF LIFE

Tho CHAPMAN PINCHER Column

Tougher germs won't cheat these drugs

T

HE white-smocked when the heat will dry up

woman sitting at the nucer of water in three minutes

still has him puzzled. laboratory bench in Hammersmith Hospital, The parent birds carry water W. 12, smiled as she reached to the nestlings by soaking their for the last of the jolly-filled which may be miles away. What breast feathers at a water-hole

glass dishes- in which stops this meagre supply drying colonies of blood-poison up on the flight back? Stockley

wonders. germs were growing.

It was the end of a 1,000-singe experiment which had yielded the most reassuring news doc tors and their, patients could henr-that the beller that pent- cillin is stendity Soalng Its curative power is almost cer- tainly wrong.

Boil To Cool

AN EXPERIMENTAL car-cooling system, in which the water is continually allowed to boll, is getting loud praise from US engineers. They ・Two years ago this same claim that it increases engine woman, DI MARY BARBER, efficiency, giving more miles to reported research which seem- the gallon and using much less ed to conform the belief. She oll for two main reasons:- proved that getms which had

penfelline when attacked by 1 THE ENGINE BLOCK is were being replaced maintained at a temperature by tougher types. completely far above the level at which resistant to it.

the dew forms in

cylinders. Worse still, these resistant In the ordinary car engine this germa set free a ferment which dew-formed from burned destroyed penicillin Son few petrol-corrodes the cylinders of them, lurking in a patient's and causes further wear by bloodstream could prolect diluting the oll. host of otherwise suscepilble germs.

It looked more than likely

2

BY BOILING the water In

you wait for Shefteld to blow that within a few years this vice for condensing the steam,

up?

GUBBINS: Two weeks.

But

a closed system with a de-

unexpected counter-attack the whole engine remains at

temperature-212 de- would intensify sumciently to steady CHAIRMAN: What did you rob practising doctors of all grees Fahrenheit-regardless of write about?

confidence in "wonder drugs." lond. In normal car engines, GUBBINS: Doomed Sheffield

al- these new

temperatures cowering undir the threat of

experimenta Buctuating total destruction coming nearer provide the happier proof that ternately expand and contract the fatiguing the metal after a few generations resistant cylinders, day by day.

CHAIRMAN: Didn't these re-races just as readily revert to and causing extra piston wear.

weaker types 100 percent suscep-

support for these ports cause alarm and desponible to penicillin.

claims is the fact that a lorry dency?

engine fitted with this "vapour- phase" cooling. is still deliver-- ing 10 miles to the gullon after clocking, 105,000 miles.

GUBBINS: Nobody seemed to Dr Barber collected from hos- take may notice except that two plial patients 32 different raees women tried to jump out of a of germs which thrived on the window.

| drug. Within a year 17 Kove rise lo colonics which were rapidly killed by it.

CHAIRMAN: Why? GUBBINS: I thought at first they were my only readers in Shemeld but I learned after- wards that their house was on Ore.

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A RECOMMENDATION that ali giria who have not had German mensies should deliberately contract the com- plaint before they get married Con-comics from Australian medicat mission; Were you one of researcher DR 8, G. ANDER-

fried an SON.

MEMBER of the

CHAIRMAN: Did you accept the presents?

GUBBINS: All except two those reporters who

egg on the pavement during a heat wave?

CHAIRMAN: What purpose? CHAIRMAN: Why were you GUBBINS: To annoy reporters sent to a Royal Garden who wanted to go home. Party in shabby tweeda?

CHAIRMAN: Why should GUBBINS:' Because I was goats. somebody start a fire every night wearing shabby tweeds.

CHAIRMAN: Why didn't you to annoy reporters?

change into a morning coat and top hat?

CUBBINS: Reporters

are always unpopular except among people who hope for favourable publicity.

A Member of the Commission:

started the fres? GUBBINS; No.

GUDBINS: Portly because I wasn't given, enough ilme and partly because I didn't own a

coat and top hat.

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Did you find the person who morMAN: Weren't you very What city and how long ago?

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conspicuous?

GUBBINS: Very.

CHAIRMAN: Did anybody speak to you?

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GUBBINS: A man in a top CHAIRMAN: Apart from re- porting fires, what were the hat and morning coat nisiced me other duties of a general re- to get him a chair. purter?

CHAIRMAN: What did you

sny?

Gubbins said so fur as he was concerned it might have been GUBBINS; I told him I wasn't boarding a ship from pilot's in charge of the chairs. I said boat in mid-Channel to get the I was looking after the ducks. first Interview with a Visiting film star, waiting for a elly to be blown up by the spitting of the atom, trying to ask Bernard

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pearance of women with or you were improperly dressed

withoul make-up, telephoning for an assignment? actresses to get details of their slimming diets, reporting

the

Gubbins said that in the

~HAIRMAN: You have stated that you were once waiting a city for it to be blown up the splitting of the atom.

GUBBINS: Sheffield, about- 23 years ago.

Who said it CHAIRMAN: was going to be blown up? -

CUBBINS: I did, CHAIRMAN: Why Sheffield? CUBBINS: Because British scientists were then experiment ing with the atom near Sheffield. CHAIRMAN: How long did

was the ploneer of that kind Journalism.

Strongest

The Scapegoat

THOSE

famine-fearing scientists, who foresee the parthi as one desolate dust-bowl

If soll erosion is not stop..

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It follows the discovery that German though the effects of measles are usually trivial in o Gubbins said he believed he woman, they may seriously in- and rain, they rate time goat as

of ture her

child, unborn

oc a chlef cause of fertility-loss in casionally causing heart disease the Mediterranean, and Middle

East. A Member of the Commission; and deafness. What happened?

In tests, which proved that

"The once. fertile hills of one attack automatically gives Juden, now stripped of vegeta- GUBBINS: A large policeman immunity, 40 girls from Mel- tion and sell, afford a took my name and address for bourne University volunteered example of the desolation obstruction and trod on the egg.

Remarking that the Ministry of Food would get you.ten years' hard labour for the same offence now, the Chairman then ad- journed for lunch.

-(London Express Service)

C. V. R. Thompson Reports:

The American Scene

NEW YORK. object to a law which is totall-

itself, as a means fighting totalitarianism,

Garden Party in shabby 1920's he flew to Sicily in semil- TH

THREE mild-mannered, farla

every

Royal tweeds, or asking fish porters evening dress to describe the but stubborn, spinsters. working in Billingsgate refri eruption of Mount Etna front have threatened America "And besides, I believe that gerators during a heat wave the air. He could not say if with at least a year of legal God has an interest in how they like the coolest job semi-evening dress was the in Britan.

correct wenr for observlog arguing, to decide whether human being, and any act which suppresses persons who have anyone in a free country can their own thoughts is contrary be made to swear he is not a to God," Communist.

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CHAIRMAN: Were you em- ployed by The London Express Newspapers at the time?

GUBBINS: No.

A Member of the Commission: What did the fish porters reply to your question?

Gubbins wrote the answer on a slip of paper and handed it to the chairman.

volcanic eruptions.

The three-Dr Miriam Brailey,

CHAIRMAN: Why did you go in semi-cvening dress?

GUBBINS: Because I was covering дл assignment in Doris Shamleffer, and Elizabeth evening dress an hour or two Faas-are not Communists. before the aircraft took off for Sicily,

to

be inoculated with the disease,

Scorpion Sting

classic

the

goat

can

leave behind,"

Bays G. V. Jacks, of the Rothamsted (Herts) soil science bureau,“

them.

By Beachcomber?

· But he sees Utile hope of talk- DEATH-BLOW to the ing the goat-dependent peasants belief that the African into tethering their animals and scorpion carries a particularly carrying food poisonous sting in its tall comes from Scots zoo-animal collector,ANDREW – WILSON,. who has survived two sings,

"I found the stings no worse than the sting of a bee," reports.

Who Said Thirsty?

he

CANDIDATE for the month's most

Beach- comberish research-report'ultic- culled from the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps: "A

hundred years of insecticides and repellents in the Army," by DR A. F. II. KEATINGE,

Sub-Atomic

MEN with beards seem ☆

to need much mure to off drink in hot weather than clean-shaven men. And this

I between linic

HEAR hairiness and

that the thirst holds for wild animais,

atomie engine the US too. These are Navy is designing as proto- the main con- type tor driving submarines clusions of a will cost about 30 million dol- 45-year study Jars. Using specially rich of drinking uranium fuel it will develop habits carried about. 80,000 h.p. Without Icw out by

big-charging it could drive a sub- game natura- merged submarine

for thou list LIEUT.- sands of miles. COLONEL

BACHELORDOM and one of the best legnt jobs in the did not save the Inte country Justice Frank Murphy any

will, money. In lis

Aled in They passed with top marks Washington, he left only £520. the loyalty test which the State And £400 of that was owed What exactly of Maryland insists they must a local hotel, do you mean by semi-evening take to keep their Government dress?

Jobs

CHAIRMAN:

Sians

OF RELJEF

C. II. STOCK- LEY."

The designers are hoping to replace much of the heavy

DID YOU know that hornes eat fish? Fish Is

On route marches in India he death-ray absorbing shielding noticed

to be built round that the full-bearded which has Sliths always need more water land-based atomic engines, by the sea-water normally carried. native. smooth-chinned came than recently from Johns Hop- troops. Spying ot water-holes, in a submarine's ballast tanks. GUBBINS: As I had no time | But they arẻ Quakers. Their kins, America's top hospital, he spotted that well-covered to remove the evening shirt i religion, they say, make him besten days' treatment for gularly, while the less hairy,

Yes, Fish! Grant had left creatures like goats drinkc CHAIRMAN (fushing): Are changed the bow tie fora knotted corpcientious objectors to the atter ten you trying to insult the chair? tie and slipped on a lounge zult new law designed

The doctors to keep Jaundice.

were antelopes and rhinos drink rare- Maryland Communist-proof, swamped with people makingly or never. Gubbins explained he had A Member of the Commission: Their defiance will not cost appointments for jaundice check- written down the fish porter's What did the Sicilians think of them their jobs-yet.

up, and then dashing

Stockley 1 satisfied off to reply because he did not want an Englishman dressed like that?

Cary Grant's room, where they creatures which never drink can HAYS to shock the commission. GUBBINS: When I landed at courts to declare its law con- Fellow."

First, Maryland will ask the chanted. "For He's a Jolly Good Blake their thirst suficiently by HORSES

cating juicy plants. But the (Warne, fs, Gd.). CHAIRMAN: I Bec. I presume Catania they mistook me for stitutional. And the three spin-

sand-grouse, which

And it seems that in Balu- the newspaper did not print this Mussolini.

sters and their Quaker friends T ETTER, COLUMN, New York hatchet lis eggs in a desert nest

chistan the stand-by remedy obscenity?

CHAIRMAN: Why?

will ask the courts to do just, Dally News: "How in blaze

for a sick camel is a whole, the opposite.

did England over get along in GUBBINS: Partly, because of That argument as explained the past thousand years wiih-

bolled chickent, o slight physical resemblance, by spokeswoman Brailey: "We out our help?"

GUBBINS: No. CHAIRMAN:

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