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Li o o O C G 0 G O Training of '.3 r. Factory Work Seen by Br ROBERT MUSEL Cq Uritel Press Correspondent O 0 Geneva ;u.R; One of the (worid's most distinguished scien 1 f it-'t believes the time hag come lor humanity to seriously con sider breeding a strain of (hiorkeys trained to do work too c'd'jll for humans and too tricky (for machines. Doei he mean it? Sir George Thomson. Kobel Prize-winning fion Cf a Nobel Prize-winning la etfte. holder of many honors from universities and learned societies Q and a member ot Britain's im- portant Department of Scientific o Research, says that he does. w Ee told me about it as we sat on a leather covered oencn in hall ef the Palais Des Nations whil scientists attending the At- -.oirs for Peace Congress milled g obout us. Sir George, who won 'fair Nobel Prize for physics in 1937, represents the British uni versities at the meeting. 'Planter Used Monkeys "One man has already done Jf," he said, "just before the war I thinlc his name was Cotton. He was a planter in Malaya and he wanted to collect fruit from the tcDs of trees, those very tall . jungle trees, some of them 200 feet high. I forget the name at the moment but they have climb- Zing plants around them. "This man trained a species cf monkeys, 1 think they're call- Coast Guard Rescues M Men From Trawler Halifax, N.S. (U.P.) A U.S. ftoast Guard shin rescued 46 inen and a dog from a blazing Portoguese fishing trawler in ;the Atlantic about 806 miles southeast of Newfoundland, Air Force search and rescue head quarters reported today. An RCAF spokesman said the o234-ton trawler Ilhavense Se- gundo caught fire Monday while 'jpshing in the area 45 degrees north and 41 degrees west. A E17 aircraft from the U.S. Air Force Base at Argentia, Newfoundland, flew out in an swer to the trawler's desperate signal for aid and guided the Coast Guard cutter Mendota to the scene. Eddie Fisher Mobbed By Portland Youths Portland (U.R) Singer Eddie Fisher was almost mobbed by hundreds of admiring bobby soxers last night after his plane landed at the Portland Interna tional airport. Fisher had to try three times befor he could make his way to a waiting car and get to his hotel rooml Signing autographs as fast as he could, Fisher tried to go through the main gate and the baggage room. Finally a car was brought on the field. he 'teen-agers had been told oi uisners coming ay local disc jockeys and they flocked to the field an hour before his plane was 3ue. Fisher is en route back to New York after a holiday in (Hollywood. Directors Named by Hotel Stockholders ' Portland (U.R) A five-man (board of directors was named yesterday-by stockholders in the (Cosmopolitan Hotel Company, which was formed to help fi nance a proposed 512.000,000 (hotel in downtown Portland. ' Earned to the board were War den Braley. Portland automotive o (Sealer; R. L. Clark, president of (Hie Portland Chamber of Com merce; Attorney Edwin D. Hicks; and two labor leaders, J. (?. Marr and William Way. The group proposes to raise (12,500,000 locally for the 750 ifbom structure, which would be (guilt, by Leo F. Corrigan, Texas promoter, and his subsidiary group, Portland Properties Corporation. lime will tell... rfhe story of liectric water heater performance is not told by the out side of its white enamel tank. When it' national, it's fold by long ya-s tf decendable service. What a difference ttere is inside. SPECIALISTS IN HOMEWARES Central Point . Medford Monkeys ed pig-faced monkeys, to run up and bring down what he wanted and it worked very well. He probablv used a lead to direct them here or there, I suppose." Sir George, who is 63, but has the vigor and animation of a far younger man, gesticulated. "You see," he said, "the com bination of the hand and eye is an extremely valuable one. Monkeys have it. Its use has serious possibilities." 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