BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 February 1927, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association ) VISITING DETECTIVE. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, January 31. “ Their ways are not ours.” sums up the conclusions of the Melbourne detective. Riggot, on American police methods. Piggot, who, on behalf oT the Victorian Government is studying police administration, arrived in Lou-

don on Saturday. He had a startling introduction to Chicago, where there were ten murders during his ten days stay. He witnessed two shootings, one under an hotel window. He found the laws, the police powers, practices and status very different to Australian.

He speaks in glowing terms of Scotland

Yard. Me will Spend .several months y ill England. A particular study will he made of the fingerprint system. BEAM WIRELESS. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) LONDON. January 31. Ream messages from Australia are atill being transmitted, hut there will be no immediate retesting. It is hoped later to iustnl automatic recorders which are already used on ships. The overhauling of 0 rim shy and Skegness stations will be undertaken hut it is not expected any radical alterations in the apparatus will he made. BODY FOUNT). LONDON. Jan. 31. The decapitated body of James Lonsbury, a brother of the Parliamentarian, was found in a railway at East End.

SWIMMER DEAD. NEW YORK, Jan. 31. At Chicago, Sybil Bauer, holder of all the world’s backstroke swimming records for women died in the hospital to-day following three months’ illness. A DOCTOR’S OPTIMISM. (Received this day at 10.15 a.mA LONDON, Jan. 31. “Half a century hence we should be able to double the normal span of life. I look in the future to see clearly the possibility of a race of supermen rich in thought, strength, and Vutell igence, said Dr VaronolF, the monkey gland .specialist, who is carrying out research for the French Government, in an old castle near Monte Carlo. In an interview with the “Daily Express,” Varonoff expressed the opinion that if ever a cancer cure were found it would result from experiments with monkeys, not rats. British experiments with the latter were wasted. Tho doctor added:—“ln England a man may give part of his body blood to researchers, but an animal must not. France allows experiments with animals, not with human beings.” Ho announced ho had succeeded in

. grafting monkeys pancreas glands into J two Italians, which meant that din's betos could he cured by means of an operation, instead of the continuous uso of insulin. Monkeys furnished glands affecting the human heart and brain, others giving intelligence where nono existed and others controlling outer growth. The grafting of monkey glands in aged people only set the clock back. If grafted in suitable boys, of the ago eight to ten. a race of super men would ho produced. In order to help the human race there '■ must be an adequate supply of monkeys which must heconio domesticated like cats and dogs.

NEW EXPERIMENTS. •NEW YORK, Jan. 31. ® Xevs f from Berkley (California)

, states Doctor Guy Clark and Paul * Sharp, of the Department of Biochemistry, University of California, announced the result of experiments with ooevtin commenced bv Dr T. B. Broilson, formerly head of the Department, now of the University of Adelaide. Ooeytin is a substance with which it is possible to vital process ill eggs of sea urchins. An announcement says the substance is found in the blood of all animals, but. the highest percentage is in fowls. It is a greyish white powder when reduced to relatively its own state. Eggs to be fertilised are

removed from animals, placed in a

bowl with a- small amount of ooeytin J dissolved in water and formation of the ■ membrane takes place from 20 minutes to several hours. Experts are still unable to analyse tlie substance.