THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1935.
ANIMALS MAY PROVIDE CANCER CLUE
CENTENARY OF SOUTH. AUSTRALIA
PROGRAMME OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED
THE official programme of
events which, next year, will commemorate the cen- tenary of the founding of the colony of what is now South Australia is simultaneously announced to-day by the Premier of the State (Mr. Butler) in Adelaide, and by the Agent-General in. Lon- don.
The celebrations will centre: round the Empire Exhibition inj Adelaide from March 20 to May 16, at which practically every Em- pire Government has signified its Intention of being represented. and again from December 28 to 31. which is to be a period of high carnival, states Austral News.
National games at Adelaide on January 25 will mark the opening of the centenary celebrations Various apecial turf meetings will be held from April to June and from October onwards, interspers- ed with pageants commemorating the landing of the first settlers,
Rats Have Discovered
JACKIE COOCAN HAS NEW GIRL?
A couple of months ago the names of Jackie Coogan and Toby Wing were linked romantically. Now it's Betty Grable who seems to furnish the heart interest. The pair are shown here in a Holly- wood night club, Betty wearing a "huge diamond that friends any
is an engagement ring.
thanksgiving services, special South Sea Drama
Royal Agricultural Show in Sep- tember, floral festivals and page- ants, sporting carnivals, an aerial pageant, Rotary and Church Con- grosses, various celebrations in country centres, and test cricket between England and Australia and England and South Australia.
The steamship Lines engaged in
the passenger trade to and from
Australia aimultaneously announce their decision to Introduce a
special "centenary ticket at 1% single fares for the return voyage from Europe. These tickets will be available by all vessels leaving the U. K. between March 1 and August 31 of next year and the re- turn journey from Australia may be made any time up to the end of January, 1937. Similar con- casalona in fares will apply from South Africa to Australia, and thero will also be special reduced rates for visitors to the celebra- tions from 1adin, Ceylon and
DICTATOR
FETTERED
A
Secret Man Is Seeking
SERUM THAT KILLS DEADLY CELLS
MAY BE FOUND EXPERIMENTS with anti-cancer serum from
rats which have proved that it is possible to produce a serum that kills cancer cells without damaging normal cells were referred to in the reports of the British Empire Cancer Campaign, presented to the annual meeting at the House of Lords in London over which the Duke of York presided.
The tests were carried out in the cancer research department of the London Hospital, and a film record of the results was made.
Lord Reading, chairman of the Grand Counell, in a survey of the year's work, writes that the ex- periments are being continued with a view to discovering some means by which the efficacy of the serum can be increased in order to make use of it in human beings.
He also announced the forna- tion of the Clinical Cancer Re- search Committee in association with all the teaching hospitals of London. This will mean tematised scheme for the Co- ordination between hospitals of clinical research in cancer.
# sys-
"The significance of the experi- ments," the report states, “is, in
SKELETON simple language, just this: "Be
FOUND ON ISLAND
New York, Dec. 15. RADIO message from a lonely island in the South Seas told to-day of the finding of the skeleton of a fettered man who had been left there to starve.
yond all doubt we can now produce serum which (when tested in vitro outside the body) killa can- cer cells without damaging normal cells,
THE NEXT STEP
"The next important point is to find out if, and how, we can make use of this serum for the treatment of cancer in Ilving animals. That is a problem we are making every effort to elucidate. Up to now we Decaying ropes still bound his bones, whitened by the sun
have met with some success in the and rain on the sand fringing the waving palms,
treatment of spontaneous and im- Dr. Wolfgang von Hagen, a mem- planted tumours of mice. Canada. These tickets are avail-ber of the Darwin Memorial As
"Of the former about 10 per cent, but we never able in all classes, the return fares
sociation, cruising for specimens,ean prophesy when wo are going from the U. K. ranging from minimum of £62, 10s. Od. for a third found it. His ship called at the to be successful and when we are class passage to Adelalde via the island. Santa Cruz, one of the not. Cape up to a minimum of £121.10.-
Galapagos group, dropped anchor Od, for first 'class accommodation
in a lovely bay. by a mail ship via-Suez.
AND
MOTHER
Stalin Sends Doctors By Air
Warsaw, Dec. 20.
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STALIN, Dictator of Russia, to-day sent three of Mos- cow's leading doctors by air to Tiflis, Georgia—-1,600| miles from Moscow-to attend an old white-haired woman
-his mother.
Tamara Djugashvili, who is nearly eighty years of age, is seriously ill with double pneumonia.
Stalin recently flew from Moscow to see her.
One of the three doctors is the famous Professor Smirnov, Stalin's personal doctor,
The King and Queen have sent £200 to the Personal Service League as a donation towards the league's work in supplying clothing to the unemployed,
WEATHER FORECASTS TWO YEARS AHEAD
New York, Dec. 15.
A new weather prophet has arisen in the United States. He is a young instructor in meteorology at the. North-Western University, Illinois, Mr. Selby Maxwell, who proudly claims his ability to "predict the world's weather for two years in advance with the same case with which to-morrow's storm can be foretold.”
When a Man Is in
His Prime
FL
Last August Mr. Maxwell pre- pared 12 weather diagrams which showed that there would be major storm in the north-east of the Usited States in mid-Novem- ber.
Drought Next Year
In October he sent weather ex- perts of the Navy blueprints, on which he charted the course of the WHEN is a man in his prime?orm which began on November 11 and ended with sweeping gales Medical opinion differs. over the Atlantic seaboard. Australia is the latest country
Previously he had predicted the to make an intelligent contribu- September hurricanes in Florida. tion to research, and the results Mr. Maxwell prophesies a win tond to show that the period varies ter with only two good snowfalls slightly with latitude and climate. Instead of seven or eight, and Statistics have been compiled from | adds: State Superannuation
Boards' figures over a period of 10 years.
The Best Years
It is found that a man's best porlod is between 36 and 64 yours
Dr. von Hagen went ashore, stumbled over an obstacle, bent to examine it, found that it had once been a man.
He had aturved to death.
we can cure
"ALLY, NOT VASSAL"
Important in the critical in- fornalioani altuation is Nahke Pasha, who is leader of the Wafd or Nationalist party. Members of this party are greatly res པ་ ponsible for the grave outbreaks against British influence in Cairo, In a recent speech he denied that he or his party had the slightest pro-Italian sentiment, "We want to be Great Britain's ally, not its vaal,” he said. He blamed Sir Samuel Hoars for the critical situation in Egypt to-day. We have no doubt that we "bomb” at present in use or de have discovered one of the signed.
EXCESSIVE SUNLIGHT essential factors in' the mechan-
Referring to the question of ex- um by which animals combat, cessivo sunlight and the produc and, not infrequently vanquish, tion of cancer, the report states: implanted cancer, but we feel 'Cancer of the skin In prevalent in that there is probably some certain parts of the world where other unknown factor which is there is excessivo exposure of the also an essential part of the unclothed skin to strong sunlight, and-cancer-has-been-produced ex- mechanism, and we are at pre-perimentally in animals by sent striving to descover what sure to excessive light. It has this factor is."
been suggested that the presence Experimental work had been in the skin' of some substance carried out at Shefeld University, which under the influence of light to determine the effect of snake can undergo evolution into a can- venoms on cancerous growths, cor-producing compound may be These experiments are being made the cause of this phenomenon, and espeially to test the action of cobra there can be little doubt that some- venom on the intact animal bear- thing of this kind must occur in ing cancerous growths, for the re- the disease known as xeroderma |sults obtained, states the report, pigmentosum."
Bloods tents for cancer had been suggest that it may be possible to retain the toxic action of cobra made, but so far no test had been venom on cancerous tissue, and at discovered which was sufficiently the same time to antagonise its reliable to enable early cases of other harmful effect on normal cancer to be diagnosed with any tissues by antie-venom on cancer-high percentage of accuracy. She brought with her lover, a
ous tissue, and at the same time to The Duke of York, at the meet- retired German business man.
antagonise its other harmful ef- ing, said that he was exceedingly Alfred Rudolph' Lorenz, and anfects on normal tissues by antt glad that the campaign had secur- Englishman, Robert Phillipson, as venom serum.
ed the help of all the teaching hos-
--More--- surprises... - ware... --- to. come. Close examination of the remains convinced the doc- tor that he had happened on yet
another chapter of the "Pacific Paradise" mystery, for the dead man was none other than Robert Phillipson.
The first chapters were written in 1932. Then the beautiful German Baroness Eloisi von Wagner left her curio shop in Paris, travelled to a little Galapagos island off Ecuador.
expo-
his servant, built a bungalow home, The Cancer Research Depart-pitals of London in the formation strutted about in her silken under-ment of St. Bartholomew's Hospi- of x Clinical Cancer Rescarsh Coin- wear, the last vestiges of her tal announce that they are about mittee.
to instal an X-ray machine which, "The observations and records European life.
It is hoped, will be operated at a of all those, who attend cancer of one million. The 'patients will thus be mobilised. I She styled herself Empress voltage
amount of radiant energy produc- am most hopeful that they will of the little back-to-nature ed by such a machine will exceed yield results of very great impor community. She threatened visi-that of any form of radlum tance."
tors with a tiny revolver she
carried strapped to her thigh, 20 Days To Live turned them away boats.
in open
All went well in Paradise until the baroness, tired of Lorenz, fell in love with Phillipaon. Phillipson became chief courtier, Lorenz his servant.
At Inst the two fought a dúo) for
won.
the baroness's favour. Phillipson Lorenz fled the island, with u Norwegian sailor. Their bodies were found beside the wreckage of their little bont on a neighbouring Island last year:
NEW INVESTIGATION
HAUPTMANN PLEADS
WITH "JAFSIE"
New York, Dec. 15.'
BRUNO RICHARD HAUPTMANN, from his death cell
in Trenton Prison, where he awaits execution for the murder of the Lindbergh baby in March 1932, has made a dramatic call to Dr. John Condon, the aged school-master who conducted ransom negotiations after the baby dis appeared to make a "full confession."
"The doctor," says Haupt- Hauptmann's trial at Fleming- mann, is holding the key in ton, New Jersey. this case and with it the key of The statement by Hauptmann- The whole of the Northern About the same time the em-
my cell."
German carpenter—in a reply Hemisphere will be subject to press and her English consort dia- Dr. Condon, popularly known to Dr. Condon's declaration that drought next year. It will inst
request from appeared.- Some said they had as "Jafsie," was Colonel Lind- he had received a until August, but the autumn will be wetter than usual,"
been murdered, others that they had bergh's intermediary during the the sentenced man to visit Trenton. gone to a neighbouring island. But ransom negotiations.. none could find them,
His.dramatic identification of
out
to hear his confession.
This Hauptmann, denies, and implies that the "boot should bo on the other foot."
He calls his system "Forecasting of age, and a woman's between 27 by Astronomy," and works and 50, says Austral News,
his computations by means of n Now the territorial governor of Hauptmann us the man he mot, Fifty-nine is the worst age in magnetometer," an invention of
the Galapagos group has ordered and to whom he paid. the money Ho ploads with Dr. Condon to a man, judging by retirements his own for measuring the fluctun-
the investigation of the riddle of in a Brons cemetery was an im-make his "confession" in the in- from-health.
Itions of the earth's magnetic field, this garden of Eden to be reopened, portant part of the evidence at forests of Justice.
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