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· THE ⠀⠀ • HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER (12, ⠀⠀ 1936.
London Composer May Face
SPANKY IS A
BASEBALLER NOW
Third Murder Trial
When you
are
Sponky McFarland, filmland child comedian, is getting along, too.. Now he has a real five stand-in in place of the dummy that formerly. was used. And here's the stand-in, Jae Strauch of Chicago (left) talk- ing it over with Spanky.
MARY
ASTOR'S
'I WAS HYPNOTISED
George Kaufman, Author
to
Give
Evidence
Los Angeles, Aug. 24.
WOMAN
ASKS PERMISSION ·
TO HANG HIM
A WOMAN has applied to the
authorities in Auckland for per mission to hang a convicted wife- murderer.
The man she wants to hang is Eric Marco, 41-year-old Australian-born London composer, recently, found Kulity for the second time of the murder of his wife by veronal polsoning.,
The application is without prece- dent in New Zealand.
Meanwhile, the fight for the con- demned man's life is continuing in Wellington.
The likelihood of Mures standing yet u third trial on the charge of poisoning his 20-year-old actress wife, Thelma Clarice Marco, is mug- tested by the fact that his counsel has been conferring with Mr. H. G. R. Mason, the Minister of Justice in Wellington.
To obtain a new trial an applica tion for leave to appeal would first have to come before the Supreme Court at Auckland.
In such an event an application
I would, as was the case after the first trial, be referred to the Court of Appeal at Wellington.
The probable ground of the appli- cation would be that the verdict was against the weight of evidence, par- ticularly the new evidence admitted at the second trial,—Router.
Marco was first sentenced in February, which ho was recommend- ed to mercy. No such recommenda- tion was made by the jury at the second trial.
Pianist, conductor and composer, he is said to have spent most of his life in London and on the Continent. Ale by
MR. GEORGE KAUFMAN, the American play-wright has been subpoenaed to give evidence in the case in which Miss Mary Astor is seeking to obtain the custody of her four-year-old child, Marilyn, from her husband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe.
Slimming As Cause Of T. B.
CONDEMNED
Geneva, Aug. 20.
occupied fly time before the tries
by composing music to pay for his defence.
Baby And Ice Creams In Summer
Washington, Aug. 30.
You can't feed the baby ice cream and expect to cool him off Mr. Kaufman has been asso-these hot days. You'll only make ciated with the entry in the the little darling hotter. diary on which Dr. Thorpe basės If he gets rash on his middle, his accusation against Miss sponge him off with water in Astor that she was enamoured which bicarbonate of soda has of a married man identified sole-been dissolved; or dust him with ly as "George."
one part powdered starch and Continuing her evidence to two parts powdered boric acid day, Miss Astor said: "I was powder, well mixed. mortally afraid of Thorpe. He struck me and used a sort of hypnotic control over me.”
The modern "alimming" fad
She added that Dr. Thorpe had among young women is con- threatened to "scandalise" her. demned as one of the important
"He threatened to plaster me all of tuberculosis, in A over the front pages of the news- League of Nations report on papers unless I consented to a
divorce," she declared.
causes
nutrition.
The report finds another cause is "the greater expenditure dictated by the modern habits of life on clothes, which leaves too little money for the purchase of proper food."
We don't have any babies ourself; but we have a lot of advice-for mothers. IL comes from lije Children's bureau of the Department of Labour, where Katherine F. Icnroot,
the
has chief,
received hundreds of appeals for instructions on how to keep babies comfortable
the heat wave. during
Dr. Martha M. Eliot, her assistant, and Dr. Ethel Dunham, director of research, canvassed the nation's fending child speelalisia for expert opinion. It follows; and incidentally, Dr. Thorpe's lawyers announced a lot of it applies as well to grown to-day, that Mr. John Barrymore folks: and other screen actors
JOHN BARRYMORE-WITNESS
that
torium
are to be
called as witnesses.
A physician has put in an affidavit
Mr. Barrymore is in a sana It notes that although a general
and that his illness is so decrease in tuberculosis has been grave that his appearance in court would Endanger his Mfe-United shown in the past few years, in Press. some countries it has increased among young women.
"Efforts of an educational nature
ought to be taken," it states, "to
make adolescent boys and girls
realize that the best health and the fullest physical and mental develop- ment are only possible If their dictory contains an abundance of the protective foodstuffa.”—United Preas.
Church And Science In Conflict
PAPERS REVEAL
ODD TRENDS OF
NEWS IN 1830s
HERE'S SOME HINTS
Keep the baby in the coolest part of the house, see that his bed is well screened, and if it's extra hot let him sleep naked as a laybird.
Give him all the water he wants, but boil it first.
Don't change his feeding schedule just because it's hot. Keep all bottles and nipples covered; store the milk In the ice box, or tri a large pan of cool water.
If, because of the drought, cow's
mik unavaliable, use canned
evaporated milk, or dried milk.
If
evaporated milk is your choice,
pour boiling water over the top of the can to sterilize it. Similarly sterilize an ice pick punch two holes In the can. The contents should be kept on ice--and thrown away it it has not been consumed within 24 hours.
Austin, Tex., Aug, 25, News as it was written and dis- played more than 100 years ago is being exhibited at the University of
BOILED WATER Texas Centennial Exposition here.
Copies of early Texas papers, dal-
Evaporated milk should be diluted with bolled water, according to direz- ing back to 1830, are included in the tions on the can, and then the mix- exhibit. Examination of the papers ture fiselt should be bolled. Indicates that different things made news during the "barbed wire and rawhide" era of Texas.
..
Do not travel with the baby, unless it is absolutely necessary. If you do carry boiled water in a boille and give the baby a frequent drink.
Let him sleep alone. If you use a A copy of the Texas Republican, CATHOLIC CODE
published in Brazoria, July 5, 1834, but direct it toward the celling.
fan,..don't turn the
the breeze on him, Quebec, Aug., 30.
has two stories on
A page one.
Babies are sensitive things, insofar The church and medical science "peech about forming a state governas heat is concerned. A rise in tem- perature from 05 degrees to 85 in may come into direct conflict as ment takes up most of the page.
the Eastern seaboard is apt to he just the result of a code of moral The editor of the Telegraph and as trying for a young baby as a rise obligations for ali Catholic Texas Register, published In San from 85 degrees to 100. In the Prairie hospitals in the Dominion issued Felipe de Austin, Oct. 17, 1835, pres sinteg
The experts said that the chemical
to a poem, "Dawn,"
Just as
as well on grownups as on in- “...、'; fants. Finally, about that verbotem The code provides all direct In another, a letter concerning on Ice cream abortions, oven in the cases of Texas Independence covers, all the It's cool, all right, and the baby medical necessity, are prohibited page. In still another half of the likes it, but it contains starch, sugar, under penalty of ex-communica- The rest of the page contains stories make feel as hot as if he'd eaten front page is devoted advertising, and other such things which will on the climate of Australia and the steak and potatoes, sends en ventana Sterilization operations for man laws passed at the third session of Wheat As an expert on the cara and fooding of babies wo don't seem and women alike, øre banned at the Fortieth Congress. is the teaching of contraceptiveIn the Jan. 12, 1865, edition of the most important instruction
most important Bistruction for ot methods.
Dallas Herald appears
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