THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,
JANUARY
8.
1936.
YAWNED FOR BRITAIN'S
EIGHTY-FIVE
YOUNGEST
VOTER
I
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-i 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 up 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 wocks she went to her they gave hospital Thera oxygen, put her under X-rays, in- jected something Into her veins, extracted something from her spine.
The yawns continued.
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They gave her sedatives. These resulted only in dreadful night mares that she was being buried allve.
"Try knitting," said some one. It just made her yawn in time with the movement of her needles.
"Try lodine behind the ears," said some one else. No use..
"Throw a towel soaked in ico-cold 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," abe anys, with a grin between yawna.
Birs, Wakelin was reported a
Through some
ICY GRAVE OF LONE
EXPLORER FOUND ON
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mysterious error, the name of four-year-old. Julith Marilyn Brooks of Crayshott, Epsom, Surrey, appeared on the list of electors from that die riel. Taking the electora their word, Judith furned up to cast her ballot in the recent rice tions. But the autohorities pointed out that she tone liable to a fine of one hundred pounds if she chose to vote before she had ob- tained her majority. Photo shown Judith Brooke and her mother arriving at the polling station.
Alchemist's Dream
BRITISH SCIENTISTS "MANUFACTURE” GOLD
Artifical Production of Metal WORKING under conditions of absolute secrecy, he
foremost living British scientists is perfecting the technical method for the artificial production of gold.
Already, it is claimed, minute quantities of pure gold have 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
little better to-day: she was having economic life of the world. several yawaless half-hourA.
It would east down for ever the
This news comes immediately God of Guld, so long worshipped by after a woman evangelist guaran- the bankers. teed to cure her by prayer, begin-
ning last night.
ALCHEMISTS'. DREAM
Gold would come to be regarded
Her weight has come down from as one of the least useful of all ten stone to seven, she is unable to metals (since it is soft) and would do housework, and she entered hostake 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 Until recently the problem of the her relief is a hot drink of milk, tea, or chocolate.
Mice Made Their Home: In A Bottle
BUT THEY GREW
GREW & GREW
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transmutation of metal was gen erally regarded as the idle and foolish dream of the mediaval alchemists.
This view was first modified by
the claims of a German and Japari-
ese working together.
They claimed that they had pro- duced from mercury a considerable amount of pure gold.
Dr. F. W. Aston. Ft.B., the Nobel Prize winner, did not accept the &ovidence of these two foreign scientists, and expressed himself ast sceptical of their work.
A search by Mr. R. Redding, of Hyde Heath, near Amersham, failed to reveal mice which had! been nibbling his potatoes.
Then he found two dead mice: in a bottle.
But the fact remains that neither of these two workers was without scientific qualifications...
And equally certain Is it that they! were working along scientific lines.
Those lines consisted in elaborate processes for the abstraction of gold from mercury by bombarding the The mice had apparently liquid motal with high-power elec- dragged portions of potato to tric currents. the bottle and had there grown SPLITTING THE ATOM too fat to get out.
Gear Box For 'Planos.
DEFEATED MAC
A now portrait of Mr. E. Shloweil. Labour, Party candidate, whe dofested former Premier Ramsay Mucional Car the seal in the fouse of Codimona in the recent elections. Mr. Bhinwell has been Anancial secretary to the war affic and acretary; for gain in the
clalat governments.
found after the experiment, then it was there before.
EVEREST
TRIED TO SCALE FORBIDDEN PEAK ALONE
The discovery of the body of Capt. Maurice Wilson, the Brod- 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, ho disguised himself as a Tibetan and set off with three native porters to climb the peak that had deßled all previous efforts. At Camp III. (21,000ft) the porters left him, and he went on alone.
"On July 9,′′ sald Mr. Skipton, "we left Camp III. and moved in the direction of North Col. A few hundred yards above the camp we came upon Wilson's body.
"It was evident that he had died in his alcop from exhaustion, and not from starvation, 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 budy.”
TO MARRY
COLONIAL
OFFICIAL
MISS ROSALEEN. BAGGE will be married in London this month to
fr. J. P. Feeny, of the Colonial Ser- vice. She is one of five sisters who
are qualified pilots.
Mr. Skipton's expedition was seek ing Information of conditions on the slopes of Everest to assist the attempt on the summit, to be made by a party under the leadership of Mr. Hugh Ruttledge next year,
The second incident occurred This party, of which Mr. Skipton when the party was descending will be a member, fntends to leave from the highest point reached- England about February,
23,000/1.
Mr. Skipton wald that his party "On our way from the North Col climbed 26 peaks, all between 20,000 to Camp III." he said, "we and 23,000 feet, 24 of them for the were brought up sharply on
first time.
One of their objects
Was
to
examine the possibility of alter native routes to the summit. Of these, that via the north-west ridge which rises from the head of the contral Rongbuk glacier, was found to be impracticalite.
the brink of a sudden cut- off, which stretchod for hun-
dreds of yards in each direction, indicating that an avalanche had recently broken away largely along the line of our ascending tracks.
"After a somewhat heated debate, it was decided to carry on down. COMPANION'S RISKY FALL wards, so we crept down, with our Mr. Skipton described two excit-hearts in our mouths, and reached ing incidents of the expedition. the gineler unharmed." One occurred, when he and Mr. Bryant were returning from-the-Summing up his experiences, Mr.-- climb of a 21,730ft peak.
Skipton said:
WHEN CLIMB 15 POSSIBLE
"While we were making our way "In my opinion the only time of along a narrow ice ridge," he said. the year that one can reasonably "I heard a roar like a heavy, gun hope to reach the summit is during going of, and felt a jerk on the the exceedingly short interval be repe 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.
1993 (the year of the first Ruttledgo "Bryant had broken away a bit attempt). there was no 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 lecture, which was illustrated by retained possession of his axe, and many remarkable photographs was able to cut his way back to me." taken by the party.
Five Boys Who Ran Away
With A Battleship
MEORGE BOYOG, aged twenty,. Slowly the grinning youngsters tried to hold up the United got the boat under steam and States battleship California, 150 letsurely sailed down Rio Harbour. miles at sea last month. He started To get an added thrill, they with the paymaster's office, and got dallled for an. hour off the Presi- no further,
dent's Palace on the Prala Flamen-
A far better show.was that, one go. Was it by accident that the November morning in 1924, of five | gun-turrets were swung towards Much the same argument met a Brazilian boys, all in their teens, the white Palaco walls? Russian scientist who recently and straight from nautical school. At eleven o'clock the Sao Paulo strove to prove before the Paris They discovered, that all the steamed, out of the harbour. In-
making apparaiba
Yet the verdict of the world or courts the efficacy of his gold-senior officers and most of the crew structed by Alencar the fort-bat-
science was slimple: If gold' was
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS TAKE AN OLD INVENTION
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of their vessel, the Sao Paulo, crack tories blazed away at her. But 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.
| spitting the atom.
And the spitting of the atom is an experiment fraught with fearful possibilities of diastor.
By noon, the Sao Paulo was out of sight, on the open sea. Lots of food on board, coal for 5,000 miles. But the sad truth was that
shells falling particularly wide. is linked to the Avaster problem of The young middles were fed up. The lads had a pot or two at the They decided to steal the battle fort. but nothing to write home
just to show their rotten about. ship. Government what they thought of things. Speaking of this possibility, Dr.
SLIPPED THE CABLE Aston said: "It may be that the
A red flag was gally holsted, and operation, once started, is unan Invitation issued to middles of having stolen the flower of the controllable."
the battleship Minas Gernes, lying Brazilian fleet, the five boys didn't Man in his quest for gold may close by, to join in the lark. know what to do with It.. No one end by destroying his own, life.
Alencar, Brazilian Minister of had ever run off with a million Like Samson of old, he may pull the Marine, was informed of the red pound battleship before, temple of life about his ears. Or flag, and rushed on board the Minas was no precedent to follow.
There he may become as a god.
Gerace just in time to prevent the The feasibility of transmuting other middles' defection. have two-speed gear-boxes The models show that the new matter into energy is no longer die like "the gear-boxes used in Armstrong Whitworth landplane puted: the transmutation of metals were coolly trained on the Minas Sao Paula to Monte Video, and
A hitherto closely guarded secret about the new giant air liners ordered by Imperial Airways, Ltd., for the Empire routes was revealed at the Air Exhibition at the Science Museum, South Kensington, which was opened by Viscount Swinton, Secretary for Air.
Instead of variable pitch air- by the variable pitch screws at screws, these machines are to take-off and top speed.
motor-cars.
NOW FEASIBLE
s
a far less mighty, feat.
The Sao Paulo's guns at once
Goraes,
SURRENDER
Rather meckly they sailed the Burrendered her to the Government will be one of the handsomest air Its possibility, therefore, seems Foaming at the mouth, Aloncar
of Uruguay, The engines aro Armstrong Sid liners ever bulll. It is a well-well within the realm of practical watched the five youngsters slip
'Learning all, was safe, Alencar deløy Tigers, and one of these on-streamlined monoplane, with the scientific endeavour,
the cable. The action was ac- came. dashing up dramatically in gines, in full scale, is shown at wings' set high on the fuselage and If the ultimate production of arti-companied by cheery personal re- the Minas Geraes and found not so much as a piece of paint. the exhibition.
the undercarriage retracting into fetal gold does not blow sky high marks directed at the Minister.
What could Aloncar do? Give scratched on the stolen ship. All Variable pitch airscrews la an the Inner engine nacelles. The our earth home in the process, it is aeroplane of this size would eqtml passengers entrance le under the very sure that it will blow sky high the order to blow the Sao Pauls was forgiven and forgotten," the weight of about, ten- extra wing, root, and when the maching, our present money practice. gra to blazes (and probably stand up to The Ave lads are now sober passengers. It is thought that the is drawn up with one aide towards Gold would pass as a standard of a broadside himself)? Or just go officers. But they once got a kick. two-speed gear-bores will wolgh the aerodrome buildings, the wing value. Enally we might live to see opoplectic and watch five boys steal out of life. A great deal more. far less and will confer about 80 will act as a shelter for passengers the day when this yellow metal boa million-pound battleship? Alen- than the present George Boyog, per cont of the advantagea given embarking and disembarking, comes as common as pig froh. car chose apoplexy.
now in chains.
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MISSING VESSEL
PARINGA'S HATCH COVEN FOUND ON COAST
Sydney,, A hatch cover; which has been identified as belonging to the steam-
Jan: 7.
er Faringa, which has been missing. sinco Boxing Day, has been washed up on the coast of Victoria and this is taken as a final Indication that the ill-fated vessel foundered with all hands-Reuter's Bulletin.
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