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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1936.
Race
Mrs. X' In Baby
AGE 24, CLAIMS
TEN CHILDREN,
WANTS DIVORCE
(BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)
Toronto, Oct. 1.
Mysterious "Mrs, X," the latest dark horse entrant in Toronto's £100,000 "Stork Marathon," to-day revealed herself as Mrs. Paulino Clarke.
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She has braved gossip to try to win the prize for bearing the greatest number of children during the past ten years.
She said to me "It is all a gamble. I am gambling a lot now out in the open, giving people a chance to gossip, but I think lawyer Charles Vance Millar, who started this race, liked a gamble too. That's why he made such a will.”
Mrs. Clarke, red-haired, pret-
ty, and only 24 years oll, has
had ten children in the past ten |
years,
At present the tien for first place with Mrs. Nagle, Mr. Timick and Mra. Kenny.
Mrs. Clarke looks like a well- groomed college girl, She dresser simply.
WHY NOT?
"I had never thought of entering a claim for this marathon," she said, "but when my twin boys were born in July my doctor said, "What's the matter with you? Why don't you enter for the stork Derby? I rea Iled it would cause a lot of talk and bitterness, but then I thought "Well, Kyo never been
en afraid of talk, and
I'm not afraid now."
1
57 OIL
WAR
'PLANES
IN GERMANY
ERMANY'S Air Force! already has at least 57 airplanes powered by Diesel
"I went ahead. I asked them to engines. Many of the Ger- call me 'Mrs. X" but now I have man Lufthansa air liners decided to come out in the opmn. it have similar engines.
will
all come out sooner or later any i
wny."
Mrs. Clarke, an orphan, married a 19-year-old railway worker at the age of 15. Two years go she fell in love with another man, but she could; not afford a divorce,
"I would rather not telt his name, It's been hard enough, as it is, and.
after all, I love him.
"At first we thought my divorce would come through and we would be married, but my husband did
Diesel-engined bombers could reach any European capital without landing on the way to refuel.
Oll fuel is practically fire-proof und drives an engine far longer than corresponding weight of petrol, NON-STOP
An all-metal German Junkers air liner has just cruised non-stop from
not go through with It, And Dessau, Germany, to Bathurst, British
didn't have the money, so we just went along and kept hoping.
West Africa.
It averaged just under 209 m.p.h.
after leaving Dessau.
“fi hasn't been fun, I tell you. over the 3,730 miles, landing 18 hours' There were friends we could not see any more, but we thought being to-| gether more important than anything else,
"IF I WIN"
"If I win this prize, the first thing I will do will be to establish a trust for my children. 1 would like them to be independent when they grow up, and to have a change to do the things I have wanted to do.
"Then I would like to buy a nlee 'home.
11 in Germany's Intest triumph with heavy-oll airpinne engines.
When the 'plane landed its banks still held many gallons of oil fuel. Its two special 600 h.p. motors had rum faultlessly throughout the higli-speed cruise,
German engineers believe they can run regular Transatlantle 'plone ser- vices on their new heavy-oil engines.
-Existing
world's long distance record is held by a petrol-driven “Most of all, 1 want that divorce | 'plane-abmit 5,500 miles. Praetle- so that we can hold up our heads hilly all distance record bida for again.
Atlantic flights, however, have ended "There are lots of things I would forced landings through petrol ex- | like to do if I should win, but I have learned never to count things
haustion.
until they happen. It's all a gamble, LOAD DANGER and anybody who gambles should not be afraid to lose.
"He must have been a funny duck, that Mr. Millar; it's too bad he couldn't live to see all the excitement he stirred up."
They have also started with din- erously overloaded 'planes.
RAYS ΤΟ REPLACE RADIUM
IN the heart of a fortress
of insulated bricks, a million-volt machine has been built at the new X-ray department of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London.
High-voltage X-rays of un- The Germans believe they can put precedented power will soon be 4,000 miles cruising range into a applied in cancer treatment. heavy-oil engined plane and sl ւով specialists are eagerly carry a paying load in passengers and awaiting the effect of these rays In Britain Diesel-type air.engines which, it is claimed, not only re- are not yet in regular use in the place but go far beyond the cura-
live powers of radium.
freight.
R.A.F. or on the air lines.
JAPAN BUYING HORSES
Tokyo, Oct. 1. Appointment of special commis- Some experimental engines have sioners in London and Paris to buy been built, but our engineers have thoroughbred Itors
Improve found this type of engine too heavy. A 400 h.p. oll engine weighs nearly horse-breeding in Japan was un- nounced to-day by the Japanese 1,000 lbs. Petrol engines are now Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.bullt weighing practically. 1 lb, per
Reuter.
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10
£95-4-0 First Class CAZ-7-9 Tourist Clou
and upward
horse power,
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U.S. COLONISATION OF PACIFIC ISLANDS WILL MEET OPPOSITION
San Francisco, Oct. 10. Any, further attempt by the United States at annexation and colonization of islands in the Southern Pacific are likely to pre- cipitato international incidents, according to 'numerous advices received in shipping circles here..
While it is now regarded certain that no dispute will arise with England relative to the colonisation of Jarvis, Baker and Howland Islands that are to serve as bases for an aviation service between the United States, New Zealand and possibly Australia, advices received here show that all other islands are now being carefully watched not only by England, but by New Zealand and Australia as well.
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have
Advlees just received here an- them
ever been 'colonized. nounce that two New Zealand patrol] Howland, Jarvis and Baker Islands boats have just been sighted off with a few schoolboys from Hond- Christmas Island. The news has lulu, hos, it is declared, awakened been Interpreted here as the first all of the Pacifle powers to the public knowledge that the British
neecsalty of taking more serious government might be starting on steps to establishing their claims to Investigation
of American coloniza islands than merely asserting that tion plans
as well as a round-up they belong to them. survey of the hundreds if not thou- sands of other small islands in the Japan, for example, has thousands
heretofore Pacifle that
have not of such Islands in the Pacific, the of which still remain un- even been regarded as worth visit-bulk ing but which with the sudden deve- Inhabited but which might be easily might colonized for any eventual use she lopment of Pacifle aviation
potential might want to make of them. aviation bases.
The appearance of the two New White most of these little stand Zealand patrol boats off Christmas dots have been claimed more or less Island,
Wis almost simultaneous by one or another of the powers with the visit of the British Cruiser in the Pacific, none of Wellington at Jarvis island. While Interested
the latter visit was carried out in a strictly official manner notice is be- kg given in advance that the visit would be one of pure
at any moment
become
U.S. Lines Open Bids
To Build New Vessel
place in the same spirit, expert authorities here decture that It is significant of the Interest that Grent Britnin and her dominions is suddenly taking in the possible colonization of islets in the
the call itself fine courtesy, and
Pacific.
New York, Oct. 10. The United States Lines opened bids yesterday for construction of a passenger liner of the same size as
Further notice has also been re- the Manhattan and the Washington, ace ships of the U. S. merchant fleet.ceived here that in the eventual ex-
tension of an American air line to- | A bid of $12,095,000 for a duplicate wards Australla, the American con- of the Washington was received from tract will go no farther than New the New York Shipbuilding Corpo-Zealand. The final lap from New ration, Camden, N. 3. The same Zealand to Australia, It has been field of researelt in the company submitted a bid of $13,095,- announced, will go either to an Aus- 000 for a similar boat with Improved trafion or a New Zealand concern.- diagnosis and possible
engines.
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Recently, writes a London Sun- day Chronicle reparter, I walked into the room where this wonder machine has been built. It was like passing into the scene of a Wellslan fantasy.
27-FT. TUBE
A massive lead-lined steel tube, 27 feet long, welghing eight tons, was the chief feature of the machine. Through this X-ray tube, which is the ray-proof and shock-proof, powerful current will pass.
The rays can be concentrated in feld varying from 12 Inches in dlameter to the size of a pinhole.
When the patient is ready for treatment the attendants will go into an adjoining room, where behind an 18ln, thick wall ther watch the patient through a series of mirrors.
A control panel lever will be depressed-and a millon volls of electricity will blast through the mighty machine,
Yet the patient will see nothing.) feel nothing.
Lengthy exposure to the rays might be fatal to hospital workers. Tint is why a special "fortress" to house the apparatus has been built of barium-sulphate bricks, which resist the rays. Even the doors have been lined with lead.
Experts at "Barts" belleve that. the ray of the new apparatus, more powerful than oven to катта rays given out by radium, will dis- Integrate cancers and crowths,
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