NOT THE GREAT
WALL OF CHINA
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1935.
TORONTO MATERNITY MARATHON
First glance makes this scene look like the path of the Great Wall in Southern China, but it's just another view of Boulder Dam. and Boulder Lake, taken from the air. The wall effect is the new winding highway between the dam and Arizinio points, which will soon be completed and opened for tourist traile,
Aged 110: She Gives A Birthday Party
"COME NEXT YEAR, I'LL STILL BE HERE"
"So! I'm 110 to-day, am I? Well, here's jolly good luck to myself!"
A deep chuckle issued from the throat of England's Grand Old Lady as she lay in bed in a ward of Mayday Hospital, Croydon, one day this month.
The hundredth. and tenth- birthday party of Mrs. Caroline Merriott had begun.
She lay back on the pillows, a boudoir cap perched coquettishly on her head, and surveyed the group of relatives-five genera- tions of them-round her bed.
Her eyes lit on great-great- great grandniece Jean, aged- three to-day, and she smiled happily and glanced round. "There's a grand baby!" she challenged.
:
Booming Chuckla
On a table at her side was n birthday cake-one large candle in the middle, representing a century. and ten more grouped round it.
Photographers let off flash after flash. Mra, Merriott chuckledi each time an astonishing: déepį
MRS. MERRIOTT,
Everynight she drinks half-a-pint of stout.
booming chuckle that resounded They Lived
through the wards.
She looked at the younger On Sardines
women around her, and shook her
head cheerfully.
"You will never live to my age," she said. "You don't wear enough."
When it was all over she kissed each relative good-bye.
"Take one of my birthday cards," she said to each. "It will remind you to come again next year. Ball still be here."
Twice Married
Afterwards, a little talk "I remember" linea.
"I was born at Tooting worked in a laundry till alghty-fivo.
"Twico I was married. had any children, though.
For Three Months
IS CLOSE RACE
SIX MOTHERS ARE IN RUNNING FOR PRIZE
AMAZING CONTEST. TO FIND THE GREATEST NUMBER, OF BABIES
Toronto, Nov. 1.
At least six Toronto mothers and possibly others as yet unreported remain in the running as the fantastic "Millar Maternity Marathon" approaches its final year. On October 31, 1936, the amazing contest will end and the woman who is able at that date to show she gave birth to more children in Toronto than any other mother, will receive more than half a million dollars.
in
now
The race started shortly after the probate of the will of Charles Vance Millar, eccentric, fun-lov. ing bachelor, a millionaire lawyer and sportsman,
lied who October, 1026; In his will he left
of his estate, the residue estimated-in excess of $500,000 to "the Toronto mother who shall within 10 years of my death. give birth to the greatest number of
tliose children." With
brief words he laid the most unusual race in modern history..
Leaders Are Bunched
Present standing of the con-į tenders finds the leaders bunched as they prepare to enter the "stretch in search of a fortune far beyond their dreams a few years ago.
Leader almost since the race
Mrs. really began,
Grace Bagnato, Canadian-born Italian mother of 20 children, nine of them duly registered at the Vital Statistics bureau since 1926 still maintains her posi- tion.
The 42-year-old court inter-f
NEW HOPE FOR CANCER VICTIMS
Chicago, Nor. 1-
inter- Dr. Heuri Coulard, nationally known for his work in X-ray therapy at the Carie Institute in Paris, han just offered victims of cancer new hope of life. Dr. Confard explained that his
in
treatment
banrd
the observation that cancer cells are mort ausceptible to radian or their X-rays at the time division.
"Cancer is made up of cetla which have in common language "gone wild," he said. "They are like the ninoeba, multiplying.
"It in at the time of the madtiplication that we must ferat them. In our testa e exponed the patient "for approzimately one hour twice daily over a period of many days, from 30 to on. This was done to expose as many cancer cella da possible at the time. of their division,
"It is expensive. But it hos been successful. Give un 20 07 25 peurs and perhapa we will know the Complete
--uite. Perus.
preter and wife of Joseph Gagnato,| Love Duel
54, a customs clerk, is qupremely confident of, winning the huge, fortune, which, she says, sho will; juse to assure a healthy, normal uphringing and education for her extensive family.
Bagnato, and
Tied with Mrs. claiming to hold two naturál ad- vantages over her-youth and the tendency of her maternal ances-i Lors and herself-to-multiple birthai- is Mrs. Matthew Kenny. Tiny.j standing just under five feet, 32- year-old Mrs. Kenny, married at
Of A
Matador
assiver.
HE BROKE HIS "RIVAL'S ̋NOSE
SET NEW RECORD
MRS. JILL WYNDHAM Mrs. Jill Wyndham, the British aviatrix who, with D. Dewellyn na co-pilot, this week set a new record for the Cape to Croydon Night.
Seeking New Site For Overcrowded Scotland Yard
A completely new site may soon have to be found for New Scotland Yard.
Although negotiations have been in progress to enlarge the present building, it is understood that the authorities are now contemplating transfer of the Metropolitan Police headquarters.
A few months ago Lord Tren- chard called attention to the over- crowding at Scotland Yard, and added: "Plans have been under consideration for a number of years for an extension of the pre- sent building towards the north, but various difculties have been encountered.
"I am, however, hopeful that 'n solution of them may be found at an early date."
Unfortunately,-Lord-Trenchardʼa.. hopes have not yet been realised, although it has been suggested na Vienna, Nov. 12.
an alternative that the Yard should | 16, already has borne 10 children.
in Mexico's most famous bull-acquire extra accommodation She claims 11 children since Mil-
Whitehall Gardens, near the office lar's death, nine of whom are li- fighter, Don Armando Esteban of the Director of Public Prosecu- ing. Of this number twn have Hareter, known as the "Tiger Lions. |not been registered officially.
of Vienna," stood his trial here
More Babies Expected yesterday for a love duel con- Both Mrs. Bagnato and Mrs. Cerning which he had been Kenny, whose husband has been sought by the police for four on city relief for four years, years. say they expect additions to their families "soon."
An exile from his country; Don only, now been Armando bud
Plans had been prepared for the rebuilding of the interior of Scot- land Yard, but these are still being held up in the hope that the northern side of the building would be considerably extended.
Mrs. Bagnato and Mrs. Konny arrested while on a visit to Vienna started before he terminates his
Laro quoted at 5-1 against either of
them taking the fortune.
Lord Trenchard had hoped to have had this rebuilding scheme Labice nu Commissioner of Police.. "for" treniment for serious injuries received in his last bull-fight and,but at the moment it seems that thers can be very little likelihood Unheard of until a few months after hearing the romantic story
of this. ago, Mrs. John Nagle, 30, Cann- he had to tell, the court let him dian, youngest of the competing | 8. ・・ mothers, and wife of an unemploy- Don Armando, a handsome figure ed earpenter, has become the real of a man, Austrian by birth-he is dark horsa in the race. On
the only Austrian matador in the Two years of married life found August 25 of this year the pale, world was once in love with a
London husband very slight housewife gave birth to her a young I dissatisfied. The matter came to ninth child since Millar's death to girl of his native Vienna. But he
quoted
Bull-Ring Rescue
a head one morning at breakfast.send her into a tie with Mrs. Bag became infatuated with a Mexican nato and Mrs. Kenny. All her girl medical student here, and "I do not like the food you give children
except one are living. seven years ago followed her to me, and I do not like your cook-She says she is "definitely" in the Mexico to woo her. oning," said the husband to the race for the half-million dollar)
wife. And he added: "From now award. Unofficial odds Corner, on I shall do the housekeeping- here against her chances are 9-1, But the Mexican married some- lengthened, undoubtedly by the body else, and he made a precarious That was three months ago. Last uncertainty as to the legality of living successively as an assistant Never week the Tottenham magistrate her claim all the children
wero ilon-tamer in a circus, as a store- heard all about the experiment, born in Toronto, as specified by keeper, and as a variety artist. The wife summoned her husband, Millar. alleging that he failed to maintain
I was and the cooking."
"When I was a girl I used to cut buttons off the tunics of her. soldiers back from the Crimea. "It's a kinder world now, "How to live to my age? Work -work and n contented And keep smiling."
Every night she drinks
four a cup of tea.
mind.
we
Four Others Close Behind
One day, at a bull-fight, he saved the life of the matador by leaping on the back of a bull as it was about to gore, and in gratitude this torero taught him all be know-and and Don Armando himself became a star of the bull-ring.
to
"Did your husband make n success of the housekeeping and
Only one behind the tied leaders thro cooking?" the magistrate come Mrs. Ambrose Harrison, wife of a street-car motorman; Mrs, naked the wife.
"Succeed!" ejaculated the wife Stefano Darrigo, Italian, wife of half-a-scornfully: "Why, for the last an erstwhile fruit dealer now on pint of atout. Every morning at three months the only food relief, and Mrs. Gun Graziano
In the first flush of fame and French-Canadian wife of an Ital- have had for breakfast, tea and
Armando came supper have been tinned sardines on rellef for the past four prosperity and baked beans. Except
years, each with eight children. Vienna for a holiday four years These four are held at 15-1, with ago. He found his first love still Sundays. Then wo have had the best chance apparently held unmarried and proposed to her.
luxury. You
by Mrs. Harrison whose last child, corned beef as a Ree, he can't cook."
But a rival suitor enticed her to a boy, was born on May 2. The magistrate smiled. To the
a flat, took her gold cigarette case, husband he said: "Housekeeping Other dark horses in the field and told her he would show it to ia a woman's job."
Include Mrs. Florence, Brown, Don Armando ap proof of an in- The husband nodded his head mother of eight children, but who trigue.-.- vigorously,
has failed to add to that total for
ROUTE MARCH UP
16,000ft. MOUNTAIN
Moscow, Nov. 12.
An entire battalion of the Red Army has made a route march up
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His successor, Sir Philip Game, is therefore faced with the problem now that he has arrived to take over office.
Pile Of Records
Among the sites which have been suggested for a new police head- quarters are the old Westminster it be- |Hospital building (when comes vacant), Knightsbridge Bar- racks, or a site
Park at Hyde Corner.
Meanwhile, at Scotiand Yard, to Use the Commissioner's descrip- tion. "the staff are crowded to gether like warehouse clerks in a Christmas rush.
The Special Branch are partly housed in a corridor which runs an archway overhead and forms between the two buildings,
In one room, where three chief a new machine inspectors work, used in the examination of docu- monts for the detection of forger- tes has beyn installed. This machine has to be operated in com- plete darkness, and therefore at intervals in the day when it is required the other occupants of the room havo to suspend their work.
It is quite likely that, while they awaiting a decision on the future of the building, the officials will find some alternative accom- modation to house temporarily the rapidly increasing Criminal Re- cord Office.
are
one of the highest mountains in realise that now," he said. the past four years; Mrs. William Don Armando went to the rival. Europe, the Kazbek peak in the "And if my wife would care to re- T. Caspar with soven, and an una rich man, and after forcibly tak-The situation can be adequately
name laing the cigarette caso hit him with Central Caucasus.
turn as housekeeper, I'd be grate married woman whose When they reached the fee-ful. That is, of course, if
ahe withheld by Vital Statistics au- such force na to break the man's 'covered summit of the 16.500ft.will accept."
thorities, reputed to have given noso. Don Armando left at once high peak thoy erected a bust of The wife said she would ac-birth to four sole of twins in the for Mexico and the offerice was not
extraditable.. last seven years. Stalin there.-Router.
Jept.
illustrated by the single fact that when it was built Scotland Yard WAB Intended to house a staff a quarter of the size of the present
ono,
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