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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 20, 1929.
BY MAIL, WIRE, AND CHILD'S OVERDOSE ST. CLEMENT'S DISPUTE.
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Bedford.-Though the Ministry of Health has requested Bedford Board, of Guardians to require 30 hours' work weekly of men receiv ing unemployment relief, irrespec tive of whether the amount is 78. Bd, or "278. 6d., the board later voted for a 24-hours' maximum only.
F
casuals sen-
London-Five tenced a Weymouth to 10 days in prisonment with hard labour for absconding from the workhouse
OF ETHER.
CORONER CRITICISES · A. HOSPITAL TRAGEDY.
OPERATION "LONG.""
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It is useless for me to attempt. to conceal the facts-it is very un satisfactory," said Mr A. Douglas Coburn, the coroner, a Camber well inquest, on David Frank
UNDERCURRENTS AT VESTRY
MEETING.
There was some evidence at the annual vestry meeting of.. St. Clement's Church, Broughton, of the dispute that has been going on fer some time between the Recter (the Rev. J. Daft) and a section of his congregation,
"MY LADY NICOTINE.”.
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MONKEY GLAND THAT FAILED:
DEATH OF DR. VORONOFF'S
FIRST PATIENT.
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The death in a New York hospital of Mrs. Carria Fan Dusen King, Paris. Four hundred years of un. aged seventy-five, the first person on successful efort have not cooled the whom Dr. Toronoff tried his re ardor of the enemies of tobacco. juvenation treatment in 1923, has been pouring cut violent jere (Paris edition). An Anti-Tobacco Congress, which recorded in the New Fork Herald.
newspaper comment has beep in and Sullivan opera H.M.S. Pina- miada against cigarettes, cigars.
Mrs. King was famous years ago has just come to an end. The Little Buttercup in the Gilbert
anlist and dramatic critic..
without performing their allotted Collen, the "nine-weeks-old child of said, that the meeting closed with | substance a long snicker of derision fore," and had also. been a jour
task complained that their blankets in the casual ward were like tissue paper. and that they shivered "all night.
After the minutes of the last vestry meeting had been read, a parishioner rose their correctness. They stated, he and challenged
Prayer, but that was not the case.
The Rector: It is no use squab bling about things like that. The The child died from an overdose meeting did close with prayer. of ether while undergoing a minor The Parishioner: No, it closed operation at King's College Horwith a very rowdy scene, and you pital.
sent for the police. (Laughter.)
Albert William Collen, a window cleaner, of EEraparade, Brixton.
Mr. Cowburn, in recording A verdict of "Accidental death," said to the parents:—
London-In memory of the affeers, N.C.O.'s.; and men of the 2nd Battalion. The Dorsetshire Re- giment, who fell at Shaiba, Meso potamia, during the Great War, a wreath was placed on the Cenotaph by the Society of Dorset Men in London, on behalf of the battalion; which is still serving with the British Army on the Rhine, "
London-Two costumiers' abcpi, one in ford and the other in Finchley, were
Dr. broken into by motor-thieves, and a number of coatures were stolen.
Loughton. Councillor. Salter, of Loughton, who daring the recent council election held the babies of
mathers while they went into the
Assertion Repeated.
The Rector again asserted that the meeting proper ended with
ja cartood, quip and caustic analysis.
This year marks the fourth cen- tenary of Jean Nicot after whom the drug is named. He was Cathe
noe de Medici's ambassado: to Lisbon and cres bis immortality to having introduced "the weed" into France. As befits a lover of tobac co he was a quiet, contemplative Treasury of the French Language," and died a pure on a little farm not far from Paris
The Paris correspondent of the, King last June, when she said she Daily Express interviewed. Mrs. was sixty-four years old, but felt 4 thousand.
Dr. Voronoff, it is understood, maintains that Mrs. King was sixty-eight years old, not fifty-nine, when she consulted him in 103, and and bent, old woman,
It is no use minimising or trying the meeting, and eleven of the
"Your baby had too much ether, prayer. He then put the minutes to soul, he wrote a book called" on that she was than a broken-down to conceal the plain facts, because audience, including a number of you have the right to know what young women, voted against their has happened. I am very sorry for adoption. Seventeen, however. you, and.s are the doctors."
voted the other way, and the 120 Anesthetics,
Rector intimated that the minutes Kenneth LaighTM Evans, | were, therefore, adopted. assistant, casualty officer at the
A parishioner declared that hospital, said he had been qualified good number of those who had vot- for about a week. He had given ed for the minutes were not present altogether 120 anaesthetics, about at the last meeting. How there- twenty-five on his own,
tore, could they know that the minutes were a correct record of what took place at that meeting?
The child's breathing stopped suddenly twenty-five minutes after
The Rector said that the ques-
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,. BREMEN,
dangerous pleasure than it is tom
Smoking was formerly a far more CONSIGNEE NOTICES. day. Pope Urban VIII. excommunie, ated smokers, King John have them coil of rope and a gibbet. There were many other enemies of tobacco but all resistance, so far as France was concerned succumbed when two aea captains brought a huge quaa- tity of tobacco to Paris in 1638 and found ready buyers at twelve franes Cardinal
THE
polling station to vote, has caught the operation had started. Oxygen tioner would have to be satisfied 4 pound, which was then considered are hereby notified that their Cargo
measles from one of the children.
LESSON SERMON.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST. SCIENTIST.
was given, artificial respication started immediately, and restora tives were injected. Brandy was also given and hot-water battles placed at the child's feet.
Dr. Ian Taylor, second casualty officer, said that he had been qualified for four months. The operation was conducted perfectly "Mortala and immortals"
normally until it was almost com He had done the same the subject of the Lesson
pleted. in all Churches of Christ, Scientianeration almost daily for the last on Sunday, May 19.
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The Golden Text was: "Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the worl of truth." (II. Timothy 2:15).
three months.
The coroner: Why were you not quicker over it 1-1 was supervising it while a dresser was doing it.
Operation Described. The coroner I know that is done sometimes, but a dresser, of course, is unqualified. What exactly did the dresser do under your super- vision
with the ruling that the minutes had been adopted, to which the parishioner retorted: Yes, we will have to be satisfied with anything."
Wardens' Elections.
The Rector reappointed Mr. J. I. Lane as Rector's warden, and when it came to the election of a people'a warden, Mr. Thornley, who was elected to that position a year ago, announced that he wished to relin quish it. "Seeing that things are as they are," he said, "I don't think it is worth while carrying on with the job."
After some further discussion, the p Rector asked. Mr. Thornley if his decision was final, and Mr. Taorn- ley replied that it was, not be fair to myself or my convie- "It would tions," he added, if I carried on. Perhaps at sone future time, when to-day, I may consent." things are better than they are
an
Cormous price.
Pichelieu observing the rapidity of the sale decided that the State had better benefit and put a large tax upon tobacco thus inaugurating the first government tobacco menopoly. The revenue to-day of the French monopoly is 3,006,000,000 franes
MYSTERY OF MISSING MILLIONAIRE,
PROBLEM OF £43,000 BANK ORDER.
mark is one of the few clues in A letter bearing a London post.
the hands of the New York Police asing Pereous Bureau, which is now endeavouring to ttace Dr. Charles B. Brancati, a millionaire
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Eventually Mr. E L. Clayton was resident of New York, who has Weeks of the Seated within Twa
Among the citation which con prised the Lesson-Sermon was the following from the Bible: Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are tion, and added that there was no
Dr. Taylor described the opera too superstitions. Fer as I passed undue hemorrhage. Dr. Living- by, and bebeld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, was called when the case went parishioner who had not voted for 1909.
stone, the senior casualty officer, elected people's warden, and a been missing, since November 18, to the Unknown God. When there
wrong- fore ye ignorantly worship, him de-
hira said that he and others had in- Dr. clare I unto you. God that made
Another clue is a letter, appar- Gerald Slot, pathologist, formation that Mr. Clayton's elec-ently signed by Dr. Brancati, ta the world and all things therein. said that the child was perfectly tion had been decided upon before Messrs. Hardy & Co.; brokers, ask. seeing that he is. Laid of heaven healthy. There was a strong smell hand. and earth, dwelleth nct in temples of ether in the body three days made with hands: Neither is wor after death. shipped with men's hands. FLS The coroner: The child died though he needed anything, seeing from an overdose of ether -Yea he giveth to all life, and breath and all things; For in him we live, and move, and have our being." (Acts 17: 22-25.28).
The Lesson-Sermon also included the following passages from the Christian Science -text book, Science and Eealth with Key to the Scriptures." by Mary Baker Eddy: Immortal men was and is God's image or idea, even the in-
It is not an unknown practice for dressers to do these simple opera- tiens ander supervision 1-It is the practice in all teaching
usual
hospitals.
Does it not strike you that the operation was rather a long time! -I was rather long.
The Rector protested against this ing them to deliver stocks valued assertion, and was supported in his at £43,000 belonging to Dr. Bran protest by several in the audience.cat, to a person mentioned in the The Rector said it was quite unfair Tether. Thornley allowed his name to go to make such a charge. Had, Mr. forward he would have been elect- ed
The Parishioner: We are entitled to bring forward matters in this place whether you like it or not.
Other business was then dealt with, and the meeting ended peace-
and asked him whether there was
The coroner recalled Dr. Taylor fably
a member of the permanent staff
Deposito: Disappears,
This was done. The proceeds were deposited in one of New York's Italian banks, and with- drawn subsequently by the person who had made the deposit. He has since disappeared, leaving no
Srace.
which date they will not be recognised.
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finite expression of infinite Mind of anesthetists in the hospital at SEQUEL TO LOST DECREE by Dr. Brancatie brother. It bore being landed at their risk into the
and immortal mac a co-existent the time.
and co-eternal with that Mind. He
engaged on other duties in the Dr. Taylor replied that they were
has been forever in the eternal Mind, God; but infinite Mind can theatre. never be in many, but is refeeted by man. The spiritual man's' con.
sciousness and individuality are re- NEED TO VENTILATE FOOD flections of "God,
They are the
emanations of Him who is Life, Truth and Love. Immortal man is not and never was material, but 'always spiritual and eternal (p.238).
SPIRITUALISTS DEMAND A PLEDGE.
"RELIGIOUS “TYRANNY, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle recently outlined his attitude towards the general election so far as it affects Spiritualism."
CUPBOARDS.
DOCTORS AND A TRAGEDY OF TWIN CHILDREN.
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There is a very serious political question which vitally affects
The mother had previously told Spiritualism, and this has got to be cleared up. The trouble is that a
the coroner that she fed the edium, whether genuine or other children on condensed milk. She wise, is liable to be sent to gaol, opened a new tin every day, and
ALLEGED PERJURY BY HUSBAND SEEKING
FREEDOM.
a signature like that of Dr. Bran-hazardous and/or extra-hazardous Go- cati, and said that the writer was downs of Holt's Wharf, whence Delivery going along all right, and adding
be obtained. that demands would probably be made for money, and should be met. The London letter, which was re- dissolving his marriage, Reginald president of the Italian Savings After being deprived of a decree veived by Mr. Pasquale Simeneia, Eric Shepstone, electrical engineer, Bank, and a personal friend of Dr. of Brookfield Mansions, Parlia Brancati, was the last to be re- ment Hill, N.W., faced the Bow-ecived. street magistrate to Answer
WALL."
JERUSALEM DISCOVERY...
Dr. Brancati, who is a hachelor, charge of perjury. The prosecu and lived with his brother in the tion was the outcome of Shepstone's old Gouverner Morris Mansion, petition for divorce from his wife. The danger of keeping food for Mrs. Lilian May Shepstone, heard
Harding Aredue New York, said some time in an unventilated cup in the High Court in October, 1927.
that he was going to see a friend board was emphasised by Sir Hay Ernest Watts, solicitor's
on the day be left home. The Bernard Spilsbury, the pathologist, clerk, was also summoned for hat police do not know whether he dis. at an inquest at Islington on ing, as a witness in the action, com appeared intentionally or was kid- George Henry Robert Spackman mitted perjury in the Divorce Re-apped. and Beatrice. May Spackman gistry.According to Mr. G. B. both aged three months and three McClure, prosecuting, Shepatone A MEDIEVAL WAILING weeks, twins of Mr. and Mrs. filed a petition for divorce on Ernest Spackman, of Barnabary- April 20, 1928, alleging that his road, N., who died within a few wife had been guilty of adultery hours of each other..
with a man named William Sear, who was then dead. At the hear ing on October 27, 1927, Shepstone wore that his marriage, 2018, had been a boy-and-girl affair; that he mediately afterwards, and that he had since made repeated appeals to her to live with him, but she re- fused. It was quite true that they parted shortly after their marriage, remarked Mr. McClure, but they were, in fact, living together from December, 1925, until April, 1927. These have been examined by Dr. While living with his wife in Wil.. 4. Mayer, of the Department of berforce-road. Finsbury Park Antiquities, and found to consist of Shepstone swore.
affidavit Hebrew names and a prayer for the that his address
Wil then rebuilding of the Temple. The in- Ambler-road, Finsbury Park, and scriptions, engraved with varying that his wife was living with degrees of skill, cover periods from her parents at Tremlett-grove, approximately the late Byzantine Highgate. The decree nini was period to the 14th or 15th century, rescinded on January 25 last, on
Apparently the stones had origin the intervention of the King's ally formed part of the northern Proctor. The hearing was ad wall of the Temple exclosure at a journed.
spot which for centuries served the. sam purpose as the present " Wail-
The medium can be prosecuted tasted the milk to see that it was and his wife separated almost fabric of one of the many Waqfi
Inspector's Evidence,
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under two obsolete Acts-the Witch good craft Act and the Yagrancy Act of 1994 Spiritualiam was not in exis Mr. Colin Lewis, sanitary inspec- tence when these bills were brought tor, Islington, said that the milk in. The one is a precaution against was kept in the cupboard of a witchcrafts and the other against washstand, which appeared to be begging gipsies. They were never used exclusively for storing food. intended to be used for Spiritual. The cupboard was clean, but a sour 1501, The present state of affairs is smell came from it, which he a scandal. It amounts to religious thought was due to lack of ventila
We say tion. tyranny, to despotian.
་ 4 that a medium who is affiliated to.
Sir Bernard Spilsbury mid that any Spiritualist Church or is re both children died from acute commended by any recognised enteritin, which might have arisen Spiritualist Society of standing from bacterial contamination of should be allowed,
food caused by being kept in un- We intend to approach the healthy conditions,
or by the heads of three political parties and babies feeding bottles being infect- as them if they are prepared to ed. "If food were kept for some back us up in altering the law. If time in an unventilated cupboard the Conservatives refuse to help us contamination would increase conNO SAILINGS FOR WUCHOW. we shall apply to the Liberals or siderably, A the Labour party, and whichever Dr. George Trotter, medicni party agrees to help us we shall cfficer of health for Islington, said All Wuchow river steamers have support. I estimate that the that Mrs. Spackman's house was arrived from. Samshui over the Spiritualists comprise At least spotlessly clean. rood cupboards week-end, but no outward sailings 200,000 of the electorate and pre should have a piece of perforated will take place until fighting in the bably a great deal more. We have ding to let in air. Bread should 300 churches, and at a word from be kept in a tia with perforated us all the congregatione will sup- holes amall enough to keep out port our policy. There is no ques- tion of our putting up our own candidates for Parliament
flies.
The coroner recorded a verdict of "Death by misadventure"
West, River subsides. The vessels which were detained at Samshui by the Cantonese have arrived, while the s.. Sanning, the only vessel which reached Wuchow also arrived safely from that port.
During repairs conducted by the Moslem Supreme Council to the
foundations abutting on the north- ern wall of the Haram for site of discovered, bearing Hebrew inscrip- the Temple), two huge stonea - were
tions.
ing Wall" (whichr bears a mass of similar inscriptions but of a very much later date). The building in which the stones are found was built in 1359, about which time they became inaccessible to Jewish pil- grims who came to lament their former glories at the nearest pos sible to Jewish pilgrims who came to lament their former glories at the nearest possible spot to the site of their ancient sanctuary.
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