9,1946
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MAY 9,1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
Fu Manchu's District Of London is Pretty Tame Stuff To Othman
FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
(United Press Staff Coresondent)
London, (UP)—Hush. Subterranean passages. Fumes of opium. Fingers fog clutching at your throat. Secret docks. The insidious Dr. Fu Manhu. His cellars of Pennyfield street. Limehouse. Shhhh.
tell you friends, I'm going to
save my solider sue every British
active yarn writer who's scared
be those many years with tales of
porror in Limehouse.
Having left my wallet in the office, Iult and gone two days without a save (so I'd look suitably tough) I went a night in Limehouse, where understood every third man was a murderer and every female was an operative of Fu Manchu.
I kept looking behind me (you'll understand if you've ever been attached to British detective tales) but nobody swatted me on the head with a lead pipe pipe pulled me into any inful den. The streets were deserted. These was no fog.
The only Chinese I saw were playing cards. They scarcely looked up when I poked my head in the door. There were ships at the docks and few sailors struggling up to Pennyfield street where more imaginary deeds of dastardly have been performed probably than anywhere else in the world.
Whole blocks of Limehouse were leveled by the blitz bomb, bilt there still stood a place called The Anchor that looked suitably mysterious from without. Dim lights, one small door, strange noises seeping out. I ventured in.
The Anchor was a saloon selling nothing but mild beer. There were some sailors inside quaffing same. Two of them were playing a darts game and arguing about it. That's the noise came from. The bar seepers, a portly lady with authority in her hiss, hushed them, but a beer and staggered into the treehouse night.
down the street was the far-
rer Charles Brown's hangout
on to all sailors over the world,
the piano was tinkling "I Can't Give
Anything But Love, Baby."
folks inside, mostly sailors and carmellled girls, were guzzling beak beer and singing about love. They sounded plain awful. The flags if the world fluttered in the eel-crust. Two waitresses in felt hats with caters hustled growlers of beer to the customers. This looked tough, al right, but I was getting braver. I swaggered to the bar trying to look like a character out of Sax Johmer, banged on the beer drippings tuckling across the mahogany, and ordered a gin. "Gimme a double
gin," I told the overworked barman.
"I am very sorry, sir," he said,
"but double gins are strictly against the law. I can sell only single gins, but you can have two of those."
A fine thing, Limehouse, and here a hard-boiled character named Othman couldn't even buy a double slug of gin.
I took two singles, poured them in the same glass, and joined in the choral work. A double gin at Charlie Brown's turned out to be half an inch of yellowish fluid in the bottom of a water glass, with little more wallop than a strawberry malted milk.
I got out of there with my regard for my tery writers at low ebb, but the worst still was. to come.
I hoofed down Ming street, where some fictional tales worse than death also have been perpetrated, and it pains me to report what I saw. The citizens of the district were lining up to spend a Limehouse night at the cinema watching Clark Gable smooth Greer Garson.
The shame of it. Tomorrow I sue.
Nimitz Foresees 'Push Button' Navy
Washington. (UP) - A push button navy of ships driven by atomic power and firing jet-propelled atomic missiles guided by radar was foreseen as a possibility by ranking U.S. admirals today.
Adm. Chester W, Nimitz, chief of naval operations, said the future navy "may include battleships powered by an atomic plant, protected by unbelievably stout new materials, and firing jet-propelled missiles instead of 16-inch shells."
"It may even include submarines of very high speed, making long voyages far beneath the sea to surface suddenly off some distant enemy shore to launch their missiles and then hiding themselves in the ocean depths against retaliation."
His statements were included in "battle stations," a report on the navy in World War II.
To Investigate Dispute
Washington (UP)—President Truman today ordered the appointment of an emergency board to investigate a wage dispute between 13 leading American airlines and the Air Line Pilots association.
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Preacher Back to Russell
Russell. (UP)—The old-time circuit-riding preacher, returned to Russell county today in the person recently discharged navy chaplain.
The Rev. S. Ben Finley announced he would hold services each Sunday in Methodist churches at Vincent, Luray, Waldo, and Paradise.
The Rev. William H. Jenkin, pastor of the Russell Methodist church, probably the county's largest congregation, already is doubling as minister of the Bunker Hill church.
Harvard Doctor Claims Atomic Energy Cure
Dr. Saul Hertz, a research associate at both Harvard medical school and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, described his treatment with radioactive iodine therapy of hyperthyroid.
Boston $ ^{u} $ (UP)—A Harvard medical researcher has claimed the first successful cure of a disease by the application of atomic energy.
Victims of this disease, he said, may be cured by artificial radioactivity at a cost reduced from the present $200 and $300 to $2.50 if the army releases the necessary elements.
Dr. Hertz, who also is a navy commander, said his form of internal X-ray treatment was highly successful in curing hyperthyroid or exophthalmic goiter, commonly called the "non-evied" type.
Once the army makes available the radioactive iodine, this new method may eliminate the need for hospitalization or surgery, Dr. Hertz said. Formerly, exophthalmic goiter could be cured only by an operation.
Dr. Hertz explained that when internal beta irradiation is applied to goiter it kills the overactive cells and leaves only a normal goiter. Other organs of the body are not affected by such treatment, he said.
On Houdini's death in 1926, his library on magic was left to the National Library of Congress.
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