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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1950.

Telepathy-An exciting new claim is tested

E

THE CHAPMAN PINCHER COLUMN

XCITING now experi- to a weak electale Lattery, bul

menta on long- distance thought reading, which might enable tele- secret agents to use pathy for sending and re- ceiving messages, are being made by a London scientist. Government security officials are actively in terested in the project, since It offers a possible method of sending signals which could not be intercepted.

Details of the experi- ments were disclosed for the first time when 1 took part in a test of this new system, which involves the use of an ingenious electri- cal machine.

From

a room In Fleet Street I attempted to trans-

away.

normally the resistance of the kkin prevents the current pang through.

THE SEALED TIE

S noon ns the "receive" A experiences nny nervous stimulation sweat is automatically set free

however, Extra

on the Bugers. This acts as a conductor. So 12: current urges through to the machine which records the

chart.

event in

A six o'clock the machine in

laboratory was the Streatham

fingers of Miss

tached to the

Fallows.

quictly in top-floor room in Fleet Street. The only material contact be- tween Miss Follows and myself envelope, con- STIA o rented

ruming a tle of rain, which she touched throughout the experi- inent.

the

Sevitimer during the next hour 1 was startled by sudden mit signals from my brain bongs made deliberately by a

who recorded to a woman connected to the colleague, machine in a laboratory at time of each noise with a stop- And at even other Streatham,

miles Watch, Seven

ear felly lined moments I gave 173V nervous systern # slight chock by pinching my arm hard,

Throughout This hour the The refentist, Dr John

of all sen- Huger, who is qualilled both as times and strength

Dy the radio-ations exp rienced a pychologet und a

"erceiver" were recorded on the enginer, based his experiment fading be made ontratiste

topathy carrying out weak, in which one person tried to transnd: pictures to another.

while

fat

Het

the

If He noticed

a sudden "Leutic" (xperienced poin curing the expertinent, or wie startled by u noise the "receiver" often beem d

sens the interruption.

THE 'FIVE TINS'

70R example, when a

Fon

to

Woman

Wn Hettinger and 1 com- pared note: afterwards, six out of my 1 stimulations coincided aimnal exactly in time with the river's impulses recorded on the chart.

40 This pure of roughly

Juts

about the reem averag recorded in previous 1st by Dr

le Ittinger. alms that it is far too high to De explained by coineldence.

THE CODE PLAN

"One of the charms of the mountains is the complete absence of anything to remind one of the

PARIS

VENUS

Westminster political scene”

London Express Bervice

SPOTLIGHTS

-to draw the tourists

By EVELYN IRONS

in these griniy

This

Friday

SENOR SOLOMON

L

AST, night at Lindy's a bunch of us were making small talk between big mouthfuls, and as per usual the conversation ran to the full gamut-from girls

to girls.

A little before closing time we got around to n well-known mode) who had been going steady with a press agent pal of ours, and who was recently lured Away from him by the fancial blandishments of a well-heeled heel.

"AL

1to be

lady-atealers ought buried up to their necka in sand and the ants turned. loose," said someone.

"In Cubo," Gald Charlie Moses, the Alm distributor.

MOTI

MOPEN

by BILLY ROSE

The

Spanish Governor → they have even more interest General at the time was one ng punishments thon that for Miguel Tacon, a tough-minded dame-nappers. As a matter of hombro who belleved in an cyo fact, there's one particular atory for an eye and a whole upper they've been telling for years plate for a tooth. And when down there which lustrates Roberto told him what bed hap how they let the punishment ut pened he ordered his moldier to the clime."

arrest the Count and bring him

to the and Joscina

Govern- mental Palace.

"Spare us the pans." I said, and let's have the story in a few easy paragmphs...."

.Overtures

According

to Charlie, it all happened a hundred and some- thing years ago when Cuba was under Spanish rule.

One day at a festa, a scrump of Burgundy, with its eight nous senorita mured Josefina hooded pallbearers.

Visitors

Plenty of it

Roberto

hind a

were

ns a

An hour later, the pretty one and her abductor were brought before him, and after bawling the bejabbers out of the Count he decreed the punishment: Tho pair were to be married inime diately and he, himself, would perform the ceremony. Which he diel, white poor Roberto looked on-plenty bothered and Joseftran was not bewildered. Getting hitched to his idea of

the

back to the

was having herself a time with, punishment,

the from her boy friend, a prepossessing ranged

After

nuptials, caballero named peso-less

the hikers in shorts to elegantberto, when she caught the Governor-General told

Count he was free to lake hila Frenchwomen in black even-feye of Jose de Cordoba, an old bride back to his hacienda. A a large calate few minutes out of town, how- [count who had outside Havana. surround- shillings. Today it is an- ing dress and diamonds.

ever a deinchment of soldiers, ings brought giggles from nounced that these evenings In Paris, housewives open

on Tacon's orders, The Count found out where acting the groundlings. Advice to at the Louvre will continue their eyes with an

"Oh, he red and

made the usual ambushed the newlyweds, shot Orsou: "Lay off Macbeth," through September.

la-la" of surprise when they overtures, but when the senorita the bridegroom in hot blood and

is still inforowd him that his presence escorted Jose evenings bear that butter Latest French film show-

equally palace. and presents PARIS.

Paris (and also spotlight will be on the rationed in Britain.

obnoxious, he had her kidnappert "You were legally married NNIE DU FAR WEST ing in

and taken to his hacienda,

to the Count." the Governor and "Pas d'Orchidees presented at the Venice film superb Winged Victory of

her in his best Solomon features

the Samuthinee, the Vents de

pretly good told pour Miss Blandish," festival),

Idea who was responsible for manner, "and are therefore his still

currently in pretty, blonde young star Milo, and other classics, playing

the snatch but he needed proof, legitimate widow. As such, you the ingenue look.

are heir to all his worldly goods 【ETTINGER is now trying to Paris theatres, are not the with

When I was there last HERE there is plenty of the disguised himself

it: But it costs around mendicont friar and fast-taliced and possessions, which I under

stand

considerable. You Iniprove this figure by using only signs of Anglo-Saxon Daniele Delorme known to

this way into the Count's house. automatic

Londoners for her enchant- Friday it was the turn of culture here.

medieval and

re- sis shillings a pound for the here he struck up an acquaint are also free to marry anyone !! ing performance

the the

In best table variety: butterance with the cook, and when you wish, and if Roberto sull minister the

his lady friend appeals to you I'd be delighted uniformed for cooking (and the French he found that gallery a

of its was belog held under fock and to do the honours." by the cuisine owes part attendant stood

try in a second floor room. he World Copyright Reserved-London electric switches. At in- delectable quality to the hotfooted it back to Havana,

Express Service), tervals le doused the room fact that butter is used for And

in darkness except for one cooling) is a little less. The mediately shouted, "My neck it may provide a direet method the Champs-Elysees. hurls."

starting powerful beam picking out a price has risen 50 perceni of sending coded messages. A you can again see "Autant

d'oeuvre such. as in two months. These accidental transmisions code com casily be worked en emporte le Vent" (Gone

With the Wind).

pianist when war came. Her Michelangelo's slaves or the The night I saw "Macbeth," father fled to London, her dramatic 15th-century tomb seneschal And his observations link up time, would represent different there were only a handful mother was imprisoned in of Philippe Pat,

of clients in the cinema, and Ravencbruck; she hid in a nervous a good many laughs in inap. remote village where she

[20

the

was "framanding from a he distance of eight mile heard some tion fail over outside

the the

At precisely

machine pini some moment the "receiver." a

to spcially sensitive woman called

*sender" It will give slight Olivier's "Hamlet" has name part of Colette's naissance sculptures, MIS

sald electric shocks Farence Fallows,

and record the an Later, when "Five ting.***

times on a chart exactly similar just ended accidenta By "sender" other

to the one used in the receiving Parific cx- ricked him neek during an periment. Miss Fallows, who machine, again was miles usly, imm-

often

its run at the "Gigi." cinema. Orson Welles's "Macbeth has

If this experiment succeeds, opened for a fortnight of

out in which different com- binators of electric. shocks, Claima, spaced at various intervals of

of painful experiences happen chering teljeuthy periments. Heslinter

with thousands of cas in which words, people claim to have emed that something Was wrong with a

1wo

elow relative who was far away pultes sent out with a three-propriate places.

at the tone.

For example,

minute intervni could sinted for the word "Monday" da the there impulses derided code-book: therefore

happen with a two-minute time-gaer what woul

could each during controlled experiments, between

were Tuerday" and so on, in which__"renders" deliberately shocked by pału" or

пой с.

Hettinger

to

ree

mean

I doubt whether such

ted of signalling, if it

ever be marle reliable.

can

And

First he designed an elreirical he proved to work at all, could mchine to record and time all nervous sensations which might Hettinger agrees with me. be picked up by the receiver," eith consciously sciously.

or

They giggled

Starring Venus

each

DANIELE was

her career as a concert chef

took a job as grocer's assi

tant.

Now she appears as the typist girl-friend of the unlucky office drudge who THE Third Man in his is the hero of "Rendez-vous (Rendez- guise as the Comte de Avec la Chance” Cawdor (see the French yous with Luck). subtitles) plays his role in Hundreds of French

a broad Seots accent. Shots people. besides tourists

highly ingenious But there 'con-

experiments are the approach yet made towards dis-4

of grimly medieval Glamis of all nations, flock to the nearest seem to have been made in Friday night shows at the

coal-mine whose black Louvre

the when

great seams glisten with rain and sculpture galleries are flood- mist. Lady Macbeth's it. Hours are 9 pan. until attempts to wash her hands 11.30 p.m. entrance, two

the covering method of trans-

The "receiver" sita by machine-down in the picture above-with wire; fixed to two Angers, The wires are connected

PAIN

(By A Medical

you were given power

suiting thoughts at

IS

will,

London Express Service)

REALLY

Correspondent)

thing dene

it in time. about

A

GOOD

I to abolish just one UN- Without it your plight might be that the neutest pain is uses pains are not what they secu

pleasant thing from which world

would choose?

Well, get rid of war cer- tainly. And by all means abolish disease. But please don't abolish pain.

Many people would con- sider pain the best riddance of all.

But that is because they

The fact diseases may

here." Hall my troubels diagnosis are then cleared and the patient's treatment can be quickly started.

Protection

Bevere

DANIELE DELORME

FRIEND

For

Such heat treatment is sound under right guidance. But if your pains are suficient for you to want to go in for it they are to Justify certainly sufcient seeing your doctor first,

Just as some aches and pains yield to rest, others may yield to exercise. But here again your best guide is a medical man.

Don't Be Afraid

•

Nuw the

government import have arranged to quantities of Danish and Dutch bulter to sell at us, a

so bring down! pound and

the price of that produced)

at home.

So tired

THE

are

GLOW in the ink

By

Henry Lowrie

new luminous pos- dles to detect flaws in engines ters now brightening and seroplane parts,

ADD complaints about hitch the hoardings in Britain-

bikers:

Then they discovered ä luml-

I had recently towere invented by two magi- nous fabric. This soved the drive a hurry from Paris

to Calais and back. The route cians, the brothers Switzer lives of thousands of soldiers in was infested by companies ofRobert, aged 36, and Joe, the war.

bi brash men, travelling in 35, of Berkeley, California. two, threes and fours, whe Their search for some stepped dangerously into my path waving their arms.

Most of them lounged in

Hew

colouring started

nl

It picked up to much light that it was about four times as

11,000,000 yarda of 11 for American and British forces.

Some of it Was used for Algnalling panela

school. They wanted it to bright as daylight. They raade delicious bleness in the grass by paint their "props" with. the roadside, languidly rising taj

They borrowed their mother's their feet as the GB car ap: electric baking mixer and used

One of the biggest to stir up chemicals and dyes luminous and boldest had wrapped fron their father's chenilst These were one of the war's Union Jack round his middle shop. And a substance which best secret weapona Nice advertisement for Britain lowed with a "dark light" un-

proached.

And a nice advertisement for hver ultra-violet lampe was Scotland, th sc other youll result.

Quiet, please

PROUDLY dolag in Paris

the Parisian do, an English driver hosted his way at speed along the Boulevard St Germai zt 2 a.m.

Later

4

the

This was easy enough, and soon the Switzer brothers were that sluge sellings designing glowed in the dark.

A WAR SECRET

+

BATHERS, NOW

After the war the Switzera Canada with experimented in

ink. Tests were luminous supposed to last a year. But long before the year was tip American Advertisers. heard about it and demanded supplies,

And the Ink was splashed un posters in Neon red, fire orange, are yellow, Saturn yellow nud signal green.

What next?....The brothers

Then they headed for New have Invented luminous bathing-

York to get into "the big time."

flowing! caps for

And a luminous fly for anglers Finally they settled in Cleve-

They turned out glowing that Ash cannot resist...

(mostly from south of the rule you must re-

this reason I am not border) who wear the kit for

they painted a black Here is a The dull ache generally dives

hitch-hiking abroad. They do ght mural for a San Francisco more time, increasing gradually member; never ignore persiscut much in favour of home treat-

pain, however inild, or try to ment by infra-red lamps-which it, so one of them told me, so night-club. This was a sensation In sharpness as you ignore it.

treat it yourself.

when al success. New York stage pro- One danger come people go in for without

as to attract attention 10 advice -

ducers heard about it and hired cure edging fts. thedeal It does not follow of course arises from the fact that many

detectives th track down persistent rheumatle pains.

My comment. Let them hike Switzers. a sad care and in the most dangerous

sarily a sign of greatest dunger. They are what doctors call re-

or bike, Not mike. A pinprick can be very pain ferred palas-those which ap- you be the very ones in which painful while a severe condition may pear in one part of the body but

ly absent or their onset ja

be necompanied by just a thild have their enuse in another. delayed.

ache.

I know of a man who wasted That is why the kind of

A common cause of aches and several months treating a patient I like best is the one

knee-he pain In his "I have a pain Pains is rheumatism.

rheumatism- thought it was who can say:

in This accounts for all those when all the time he had hip- up twinges in

muscles and joints joint disease. which Bre the well-known

He did not know that in this symptoms

conditions like of

In Cincinnati their money ran sutts, Abrosis, myalgia (both discase the pain is often felt not the hip at all but in the cor-

ile was halted by a police cut, so they sold the rights to hunters so that they will not bo man's baton.

foundry mark shot sceldentally. muscular rheumatism), sciatics,

Said the opent, an invisible-ink lumbago, arthritis and the rest. responding knee.

"Sr. they invented. It is out only persistent pains politely touching his cap. Palu is also a protection. If Another common

The first pains of appendicitla caure apart

in the of course which need a doctor's fairly high up

loubt a foreigner you are no the from wounds and Injuries par

with our land. do not realise that pain is you have a painful leg

conditions abdomen. A pain near the right advice. Any pain in the limbs who is not fainillar

It in now really

regulation. one of mankind's fondency to to rent it because probably "nervous"

movement Increases the pain. which

give rise to headaches thoulder may be a sign of liver which last more than two days w

of certainly reeds investigation. forbidden to kkronner at night. The first sing disease. best friends.

Usually this is just what your and the like..

pleurisy or pneumonia may Severe pains in the abdomen Excuse me." medical atten- There are appear as stomach-ache. It has two vital functions, doelor would have ordered be-

widespread com It is safe to say that most of should receive

here that this even if they pass plaints First it

is nature's No 1 au rest is often a main factor In healing.

'the aches and palna we suffer

of temporarily.

attempt to keep Paris quiet after danger signal, warning you So try not to be too down-

There is no a vast range of are not serious and should yield

dark has failed. Not only tool. hearted when there is trouble brewing.

next you get a hysterical aches and pains which reasonably quickly to home re- Slighter abdominal pains anding cars, but blaring radios and twinge in the shoulder or have an emotional origin. inedles.

head pals that go on for more noisy parties continue long after: Second, it makes itself a rain in the back Remember

Now how to get rid of pain. nuisance and so encourages that you have been given notler The wrong way is to treat the

than twelve hours should also be the scheduled hour of 11 p.m.

Postscript: I asked a chauffeur you to get rid of its cause of trouble and it is up to you pain; the right way is to treat

investigated.

+if there was a speed limit la

courac. "Of

lie satd, be afraid of Paris, and return to normal health. to take the hint,

Lastly, never How many kinds of nches and pains are there? You might

your like many kinds of head-acho pain. Not only is it a blessing When I wanted to know 10kat

was, he nowadays its know." think there are dozens but they thoulder. You swallow a couple can usually be treated with a can all be classed in one of two of aspirins and in the morning mild sedative and a sound sleep. In diagulse but

There is the dull it has gone.

Muscular pains ought to give disguise is not nearly to four- Suppose for instance you groups..

What more could way to embrocations, hot baths, come as it used to be. There is hand put your

on a hot aching pain as in a headache: you want?

massage and plenty of warmth

no pain that cannot be stopped and the sharp cramp pain stove, you snatch it away in acute stomach ache or ap- Nothing at all-on one con and rest.

END OF HOLIDAY FOOT- But dition; that it does not return. because it hurts and so save pendleltis

such treatment is safe completely by modern drugs

NOTE: Bonnets of Paris, but But suppose It does return only when the cause is a simplo I wish I could also say that The pain is made sharp by

camy the tennfà or

slogan "Happy yourself being burned.

brain because something and the only way you can keep one, like too much

there are no incurable causes of Return" in bold magenta tefteri, Much the same applies to the

is to take

If there lo no Dspiring gardening. pain and disease. If you have must be done about it at once. it at bay

too It is an advertising stung of a night? Then you

ore obvious cause you should see pain. But no doubt that appendleitle the pain gives you It has an urgent SOS note about every

Arm of French brewers. will be true some day. heading for trouble.

your doctor. plasty of warning to get some it.

Warning

Hysterical Pains

the cause.

Take

that pain in

Sound Sleep

"Nervous" or emotional pains

tion at owC,

answered,

*

#

new

"I don't

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