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BY MAIL, WIRE, AND CENTENARIAN CLUB.
WIRELESS.
Genera. Three
Bore fatal ac cidents to climbers in the Alps are reported.
J
Santander.-A bull fight was held here in honour of the crew of FI.M.S. Royal Oak.
"Rome.--Salaries of Cardinals of the Curia living here have been in creased from 22,0001. (2005) to 100,000), (£1,100) per annum. "Brescia-Soventeen persons were -killed and over 20 seriously injured by an explosion in a powder factory
at Castenedolo, near here.
Sydney. An aeroplane has been chartered to search the north-west coast of Australia for traces of the missing Danish training ship Köben- havn, which has not been heard of
rince December last.
MEN MORE ANXIOUS THAN WOMEN TO LIVE LONG.
In response to the advertisement which he inserted in the London Times making for authentic infor mation as to living centenarians in the British Isles, Dr. Maurice Ernest, Secretary of the Centen- tarian Club, 93, Cromwell-rond. South Kensington, has received communications concerning about twenty persons who have lived to be a hundred; fifteen being women and five men. They are mostly in country districts, and are widely spread over the Kingdom.
Dr. Ernest estimates that the number of centenarians now survive | ing in the British Isles, including N. and S. Ireland, totals approxim ately 200 He has received a large number of letters from people who are anxious to join the club, the object of whose members is to live
to be a hundred. Many have writ-
Allahabad-Three Bengali esi- dents of Allahabad have been com mitted for trial on charge often from Germany and Switzerland murdering Abdul Ghafoor, an op- and other parts of the Continent. tician of the city. Ghafoor's head- "You would be surprised," said less body was found in a train from Dr. Ernest to a reporter, "at the Allahabad at Kiul junction.
number of people who are anxious Calcutta. The
to be long-lived. Even young people four Afghan princes who were deported by the of twenty-five write to me and spenk Government from India at the bea" if they were on the verge of ginning of the troubles in Afrghanis becoming centenarians, and express tan passed through here on their
a wish to perpetuate their existence return from the Shan States,
on this globe. It is curious to note Burma. They are to go to various that it is chiefly the men and not women who are most interested in living long, although women, 58 a rule, live longer than men. Even young men between twenty and thirty years of age write to me, wishing to know the secret of how to become centenarians."
places in Northern India to con tinuo their studies.
Leigh John Richard Bateman, 38, a married man with three child ren, of Twist Lane, died in Leigh Infirmary, from severe injuries to his back, caused through a fall of roof at Plank Lane Colliery.
Hall-George Cox was killed in a motor accident at Market Weigh ton. The car in which he was passenger came into collision with telegraph pole. Captain Norma Blackburn, the driver, escaped in jury.
Wanstead-Two women are dead as the result of being knocked down by a motor-car in Aldersbrook Road, Wanstead. They are Mrs. Hunt and Miss Esther Burton, who had been on holiday at Leyton and were proceeding together to an ad- dress in Harcourt Avenue, Manor
Park.
Dr. Ernest recalled that this is not the first unofficial censue of the
kind that has been undertaken. In 1880 the late Sir George Humphry,
Association, made
the president of the British Medical gestion when addressing the an-
a similar sug nual meeting, and he sent out to thousands of doctors a question- Daire, the result of which was to show there were 52 centenarians then alive in the British Isles. The data collected showed that there were more women of hundred who. had been married and had had familes than otherwise.
The average expectation of life had, said Dr. Ernest, undoubtedly gone up in the past fifty years. owing to hygienic and other im Southend-A speed-bont. Zip,provements; but while more people was destroyed by fire here. No pas lived to an advanced age now than sengers were aboard, and the owner formerly, the latest figures showed escaped by jumping into the sea,, that there were actually fewer Dulwich-Stephen Richards, 48years ago. This might be due to centenari pa than thirty or forty a dustman, of Boxall Road, was the fact that the Census authori killed when his horse bolted and threw him under the wheels of his van. At the inquest at Walworth & verdict of Accidental death" was returned..
ties were now more strict than they ing their century, although they were then, or to fewer people reach- survived to a ripe old age.
Belgium. The Carnegie Héro Fund is making a grant to the parents of the Boy Scout, Georgeplicant for an assault summons: Magistrate at Willesden, tó ap- Dawson, of Chelmsford who sacri- ficed his life in saving a comrade from drowning at a holiday camp at Gresdene, Belgium. Chelmsford townspeople have subscribed £134.
Shefeld-Ernest Marsden, aged
happen! Woman: Yesterday, in When, where, and,how did this the backyard, over the washing.
Judge Moore, at Southwark Country Court, to a debtor: What was the nature your illness?
35, a gardener at Riverdale Grange, | Debtor: My son being out of work the home of Sir Arthur Balfour, lies in Sheffield Royal Hospital
suffering from severe injuries receiv-the. Persian Government, who was e when he was attacked by over 2,000 beca, A veil Marsden was wearing was weighted down by the number of bees which settled on it, and he was extensively stung about the neck and arms,
Madrid. King Alfonso bas bea- towed the Gold Medal for Work"
arrested in June on suspicion of treasonable conduct in connection with the revolt in Fars, has been released. He has not, however, been reinstated in offer.
Mona.-A storm of unusual vio- lence swept over the whole district
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around here. It was accompanied GIN AND PETTING.
on General Martinez Anido, they torrential rain. A man who
Spanish Minister of the Interior.
was taking shelter under a trea was
sents any limitation natural er ac quired in the activities of the female sex," Dr. Little says. "Such a
Syria. Randita stopped 12 motor-killed by lightning, and a workman NEW YORK'S GREAT EVILS.type. I have thought of pseudo-
eyeling to his work was also struck. A farm was set on fire, and several other accidents are reported.
enrs on the Lebanon side of the Syrian frontier and rabbed the pas- sengers, including a French officer.
Madrid-During the last four Kent. Horace Peat, a minor, of weekя txo well-known Spanish The Crescent, Snowdown, Kent, was matadors have died of injuries, an- killed by a fall of roof at Snow- other has had his leg amputated, down Colliery. Several other men and four others have been seriously had narrow escapes. injured,
London. The last census of horses Santandar-A motor-boat came taken by the four leading railway into collision with one of the sub-companies shows that, some 18,233 marines patrolling the course of the horses are employed. Of this num Plymouth-Santander yacht race, ber 17,161 are used in road transport and was eat in two. One sailor was and 772 Shire horses are specially
killed.
Constantinople-By order of the Turkish Government the newspaper Pilitin, which is published in Greece, is not allowed to be brought into Turkey on account of its anti- Turkish pronouncement.
reserved for shunting.
AGGRESSIVE AND JEALOUS WOMEN.
(United Press.]
New York.-Motor cars, gin and petting parties have long been por- trayed as the three greatest evils of the modern United States college and university. But it remained
male,"
because it imitates and.
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utilizes all the most undesirable and ONE APPEARANCE ONLY unpleasant masculine technique in! approaching unsolved problema..
"Having themselves forgotten or never having possessed a youth of sufficient norauley or attractiveness to have developed their emotional contacts with the male sex, they consistently think the worst and, without trial, condemn the younger members of their own sex. They thus create and open a gap between the younger generation and those
FLETA
in charge of the education the PHENOMENAL SPANISH
for Dr. Clarence Little, who has a development--of_that_group" London.-Detectives in a 'police
Thus another controversy appeara motor car captured three of seven reputation as one of the most out- pick-pockets who were "working" spoken educators in the country, likely to centre about Dr. Little, who the cmnibuses outside the Highgate to look for another in the place the University of Michigan after u recently resigned the presidency of tube station, and at the North
TENOR
AT THE
London Police Court the accused, where one would least expect to find three years term about as pot THEATRE ROYAL
In the faculty of almost every and during which time he was re-
who admitted the charge, were ken-
ithe
aus na could have been possible,
prisonment with hard labour. big university in the United States, ferred to both as the tyrant and Monday, Oct. 28, 1929
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AT THE PIANO : JOSE ANGLADA
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Calcutta-Seventeen workers from the Alexandria Jute Milis are miss-tenced each to three months' im- ing, and have, it is believed, been
"genius" of that large mid-western drowned, owing to the capsizing of
Dr. Little says, are examples of this Dudley-James Edward Round, a boat in the Hooghly, near Chan- 32, of The Croft, Woodside, Dudley, calls them "pseudo-male jadica, dents but regarded as an autocrat new abatacle to education. He institution. Popular with the stu- dernagore,
was buried by a fall of slag at the More specifically, according to his by his faculty, the young president Rome.-Donna Rachele Mussolini, works of Tarmac Company, Holly definition, they are. women tea became involved in endless difficul the wife of Bignor Mussolini, gave
Hail, Dudley, receiving injuries birth to a daughter, to whom hns from which he died later in hos chers, mostly middle-aged, whose ties trying to mold the university to
one-sided development has made his own ideas. them distrustful of the modern The dean of women and her askist» · been given the names Anna Marin, pital. This is the fifth child born to the
RESERVED SEATS : Rugby-While Charles Walter co-ed and yet just a little envious ant, were replaced by a board of Duce.
Currie, a visitor from Leeds, was of her.
three young women whom Dr. Little found to be far more sympathetic The result is Bulgaria. On the Yugoslav-Bul shooting rabbits at North Kilworth,
a gap between garian frontier, two armed men Rugby, a gun which he was carry- faculty and student which, "The and understanding and at the same from Bulgaria tried to cross the ing accidentally went off. The shot Educator," writes in a recent issue time equally efficient in punishment Dr. Little frontier, but were fired at by entered his stomach and he died on of Scribner's magazine, frustrates of proven offenders." Yugoslav frontier guards.
the way to hospital.""
does not suggest that, women deans After
learning,
and instructors have no place in the an exchange of shots, the two men Doncaster. The 5,000 minera of
Condemned Without Trial
modern university, but he frankly withdrew hurriedly to Bulgaria Denaby and Cadeby Colleries have
declares that they are. a complicat territory.
voted in favour of a scheme for pit-' "There is a well-known aggres
ing factors. head baths at a cost of £23,000, to sive type of woman which is so" Teheran-Prince Firuz Mirza, be provided from miners' welfare jealous of the freedom and op "They have a way all of their the former Minister of Finance in funda The men will pay id. each portunities largely exercised by own," he says, " of keeping the pot ''(Continued at foot of next column), "weekly for maintenance.
the male sex that it resists and re boiling.
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