YAWNED FOR EIGHTY-FIVE
DAYS
FRIENDS
PRAY FOR• WOMAN
Vancouver B.C. Dec. 24. MRS.-D. E. Wakelin, of
Victoria, British Col- umbia, may never be- come as famous as the quintuplets, but she has
at least given Canada the additional distinc-| tion of having the only woman in the world who has yawned continuous- ly for eighty-five days.
AT VARIOUS SPEEDS
She yawns at various speeds upl to thirty times a minute. None of the doctors here knows what to do about it,
It all began when she laugh- ed heartily at one of her hus- band's jokes. The laugh was followed immediately by the first yawn of the series.
After a few weeks she went to hospital. There they gave her xygen, put her under X-rays, in- Jected something into her velns, extracted something from her spine.
The yawns continued.
They gave her sedatives. These
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1936.
BRITAIN'S YOUNGEST
¡VOTER
ICY GRAVE OF LONE
GRAVE
EXPLORER FOUND ON
Through some mysterious error, the name of four-year-old Judith Marly Brooks of Crayshott, Epsom, Surrey, appeared on the list of electors from that district, Taking the nicetors at their ward, Judith furned up to cast her ballot in the recent cire- liable to a tions. But the autohoritier pointed out that she was fine of one hundred pounds if she chose to vote before she had ab- first her mujorily. Photo shows Judith Brooks and her mother arriving at the polling station.
resuited only in dreadful night-Alchemist's Dream mares that she was being buried alive.
"Try knitting," said some one. It just made her yawn in. time with the movement of her needles,
"Try iodine behind the car," anid some one else. No use.
"Throw a towel soaked in ico-cald water at her face," suggested a third-to her hus- band. He did. She burst into tears and yawned thirty times
a minute for ten minutes.
STILL CHEERFUL
Mrs. Wakelin remains cheerful, "All I want is a chance to keep my mouth shut," she says, with a grin between yawns.
Mrs. Wakelin was reported a little better to-day: she was having Soveral yawnless half-houra.----`
This news comes immediately after a woman evangelist guaran- teed to cure her by prayer, begin- ning last night,
BRITISH SCIENTISTS "MANUFACTURE” GOLD
Artifical Production of Metal WORKING under conditions of absolute secrecy, one chnical foremost living British scientists is perfecting the technical method for the artificial production of gold,
Already, it is claimed, minute quantities of pure gold hate been produced by means of intricate high-power electrical apparatus.
It is already hinted that at no far distant date gold on a com- mercial scale may be manufactured in the laboratory, The success of this experiment, would obviously revolutionise the economle life of the world.
It-would-east-down for ever the God of Gold, so long worshipped by the bankers.
ALCHEMISTS' DREAM Gold wouid come to be regarded Her weight hins come down from as one of the least useful of all ten stone to seven, she is unable to metals Laince it is soft) and would do housework, and she entered hos-take its place as a metal solely of pital for the third time last week. use for purposes of ornamentation. The only thing that seems to give her relief is a bot drink of milk, ten, or chocolate,
Mice Made Their Home
In A Bottle
•
I
BUT THEY GREW & GREW & GREW
A search by Mr. R. Redding, of Hyde Heath, near Amersham, failed to reveal mice which had been nibbling his potatoes.
Then ho found two dead mice in a bottle..
The
mice
had apparently dragged portions of potato to the bottle and had there grown too fat to get out.
Cear-Box For 'Planes ··
Until recently the problem of the transmutation of metal was gen- erally regarded as the idle and foolish dream of the medieval alchemists.
This view was first modified by the claims of a German and Japan- ese working together.
They claimed that they had pro- duced from mercury a considerable amount of pure gold.
Dr. F. W. Aston, F.LLS., the Nobel Prize winner, did not accept the foreign evidence of these two scientists, and expressed himself asl sceptical of their work.
But the fact remains that neither! of these two workers was without scientific qualifications.
And equally certain is it that they were working niong scientific lines.
DEFEATED "MAC"
A na porteuli of Mr. E. Shinwell, Labor Parly candidate, who defeated former Presiler Itamxar MacDonald for the meat in the Ilouse of Commone in the recent elections. Mr. Shinwall ha been Anancial secretary to the war otice and neerukary for mines in the Sellist governments,
EVEREST
TRIED TO SCALE FORBIDDEN PEAK ALONE
The discovery of the body of Capt. Maurice Wilson, the Brad- ford aviator, who attempted to climb Mount Everest alone two years ago, was described by Mr. Eric Skipton, leader of the Everest reconnaissance expedi- tion last summer, to members of the Royal Geographical Society in London this month.
Capt. Wilson Intended to fly to the summit of Everest, but was forbidden to cross the Nepal bound- ary. Consequently, he disguised himself as a Tibetan and set off with three native parters to climb the peak that had defied all previous" efforts. At Camp III. (21,000ft) the porters left him, and he went on alone.
"On July 9," said MrSkipton, "we left Camp III. and moved in the direction of North Cel. A fow hundred yards above the camp we came upon Wilson's body.
"It was evident that he had died in his aleop from exhaustion, and not from starvationi, as he had found a dump of food left during our previous expedition in 1933. He must have been lying in a tent when he died, but the tent had been blown from his body."
TO MARRY
COLONIAL
OFFICIAL
MISS ROSALEEN
BAGGE will
he married in London this month to Mr. P. Feeny, of the Colonial Ser vice. She is one of five sisters who
are qualified pilots,
Mr. Skipton's expedition was seck- ing information of conditions on the slopes of Everest to assist the attempt on the summit, to be made by aparty under the leadership of Mr. Hugh Ruttledge next year. | The second Incident occurreil This party, of which Mr. Skipton when the party was descending will be a member, intends to leave from the highest point reached- England about February,
Mr. Skipton said that his party climbed 26 peaks, all between 20,000 and 23,000 feet, 24 of them for the first time.
23,000ft.
"On our way from the North Col
Camp to
he anid. "we .brought were
sharply the brink of a sudden cut- One of their objects was to off, which stretched for hun
up
оп
examine the possibility of aller dreds of yards in each direction. native routes to the summit. Of indicating that an avalanche had these, that via the north-west ridge recently broken away largely along which rises from the head of the the line of our ascending track. central Rongbuk glacier, was found to be impracticable
COMPANION'S RISKY FALL
"After somewhat heated dobute, it' wha decided to carry on down- wards, so we crept down, with our Mr. Skipton described two excit-hearts in our mouths, and reached ing incidents of the expedition. the glacier unharmed." One occurred when he and Mr. Bryant were returning from the climb of a 21,730ft, peak.
"While we were making our way along a narrow lcc ridge," he said,
WHEN CLIMB IS POSSIBLE Summing up his experiences, Mr. Skipton said:
"In my opinion the only time of the year that one can reasonably "I heard a roar like a heavy gun hope to reach the summit is during going off, and felt a jerk on the the exceedingly short interval be rape round my waist which nearly tween the end of the winter gales cut me in two. I found myself and the arrival of the monsoon. In standing alone on the ridge,
1933 (the year of the first Ruttledge "Bryant had broken away a bit attempt) there WAS 110 such of a cornice and had gone down interval.". with it. He was now almost hang-| Sir Percy Cox. president of the ing on the other end, of the rope, society, was in the chair for the some way below. Happily, he had lecturs, which was illustrated by retained possession of his axe, and many remarkable photographs was able to cut his way back me."taken by the party.
Five Boys Who Ran Away
With A Battleship
CEORGE BOYOG, aged twenty. Slowly the grinning youngsters the boat under steam and tried to hold up the United got States battleship California, 150lelsurely sailed down Rio Harbour. To get an added thrill, they miles at sea last inonth. He started with the paymntater's office, and got dailied for an hour off the Presi no further;
dent's Palace on the Praia Flamen Those lines consisted in elaborate found after the experiment, then itį A far better show was that, one go. Was it by accident that the were swung towards processes for the abstraction of gold was there before.
November morning in 1924, of five | gun-turrets from mercury by bombarding the
Much the same argument met a Brazilian boys, all in their teens, the white Palace walls?
At eleven o'clock the Sao Paulo iiquid motal with high-power elec- Russian scientist who recently and straight from nautical school.
sirove to prove bofore the Paris. They discovered that all the ateamed out of the harbour. In- trie currents.
SPLITTING THE ATOM
courts the efficacy of his gold-senior officers and most of the crew structed by Alencar the fort-bat- Yot the verdict of the world of making apparatus.
of their vessel, the Sao Paulo, crackteries blazed away at her. selence was simple: if gold was One thing seems clear: the solu- battleship of the Brazilian Navy, the gunners used great tact, the
tion of the problem of artificial gold, were ashore on leave.
shells falling particularly wide. is linked to the vaster problem of The young middies were fed up. The Inds had a pot or two at the spitting the atom.
They decided to steal the battle fort; but nothing to write home ship just to show their rotten about. Government what they thought of things.
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS TAKE AN OLD INVENTION.
at
And the splitting of the atom is an experiment fraught with fearful possibilities of disaster.
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By noon, the Sao Paulo was out of sight, on the open sen. Lots of food on board, coal for 5,000 miles. But the sad truth was that
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Speaking of this possibilty, Dr.
SLIPPED THE CABLE Aston said: "It may be that the
A red flag was gally hoisted, and operation, once started, is un-an Invitation issued to middies, of having stolen the flower of the the battleship Minas Geraes, lying Brazilian fleet, the five boys didn't A hitherto closely guarded secret about the new giant air controllable."
know what to do with it. No one -ordered by Impezifil. Airways, Ltd, for the Empire routes Man in his quest for gold, may close by, to join in the lark. was revealed at the Air Exhibition at the Science Museum, South by destro his own lifeAmear Brallion Minister of had oversus off with a million.
Like Samson of old, he may pull the Marine, was informed of the red pound battleship before. Kensington, which was opened by Viscount Swinton, Secretary temple of life about his ears.. Or flag, and rushed on board the Minas was no precedent to follow. for Air.
he may become as a god.
Geraca just in time.to prevent the
SURRENDER Instead of variable pitch air-by the variable pitch scrowa
The feasibility of transmuting other middies defection.
Rather meekly they sailed the screws, these machines are to take-off and top speed.
matter into energy is no longer dis have two-speed - gear-boxes
surrendered her to the Government- The modela show that the new puted: the transmutation of metals were coolly trained on the Minas Sao Paulo to Monte Video, and like the gear-boxes used in Armstrong Whitworth landplaneja a far less mighty feat.
Foaming at the mouth, Alencar of Uruguay... will be one of the handsomest, airf Its possibility, therefore, soos
the five youngsters slip. Learning all was safe, Alencar The engines are Armstrong Sid-liners over built. It is a well- well within the realm of practical watched
thecablo. The action
camo dashing up dramatically In. deley Tigers, and one of these on-streamlined monoplane, with the scientific endeavour,
If the ultimate production of arti-companied by cheery personal re-the Minas Gerace and found not
Bo much as ginos, in full scale, is shown at wings aet high on the fuselage and
a piece of paint the exhibition.
the undercarriage retracting Into ficial gold does not blow sky high marks directed at the Minister.
What could. Alencar do? Give scratched on the stolen ship. All Variable pitch airscrows in an the inner engine nacelles. The our oarth home in the process, it is neroplane of this alze would equal passengers' entrance is under the very sure that it will blow sky high the order to blow the Sao Paulo was forgiven and forgotten. Identified na belonging to the steam- to blazes (and probably stand up to The five lads are now sober or Parings, which has been missing since Boxing Day, has been washed the wolght of about ten extra wing root, and when the machine our prosent money practice. passengers. It is thought that tho is drawn up with one slide towards Gold would pass as a standard or a broadside himself) ? Or just go oficors. But they once, got a kick up on the const of Victoria and this in Laken as a firal Indication that two-spood gear boxes will wolgh the nerodrome, buildings, the wing value. Easily we might live to see apoplectic and watch five boys steal out of life. A great deal more far less and will confer about 80 will act an a shelter for passungers the day when this yellow metal be-a million-pound battleship? Alen- than the present George Boyog, the ill-fated vessel' foundorod with
all hands Router Bulletin.. "eat" chose "apoplexy."
now in chains, comes as common as pig irong per cent. of the advantages given? embarking and disembarking.
motor-cars.
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Was ac-
MISSING VESSEL
PARINGA'S HATCH COVER FOUND ON COAST
Sydney, Jan. 7.
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