THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1936.
Stalin Is Seriously III: Heart Attacks Worse Since The Recent Executions
Roland Hartley, former governor pf Washington was renominated by the Republicans to run against Luv, kas cave marila,this winter.
BIGGER
GUNS FOR BATTLESHIPS
Britain to Match
Other Navies
SECRET RETREAT
NEAR
MOSCOW
WARSAW, Oct. 15. JOSEF STALIN, mighty
Red Dictator of Soviet! Russia, is lying seriously ill
secret retreat near
in u Moscow.
He is suffering from angina pectoris, a disease of the heart.
He has suffered from this com- aint for several years, but the excitement of the last months caused by his purge of Trolskyisl opposition has made it worse.
The serious stute of Stalin's health has been responsible for the fact that he has not spoken in public for months, and has been absent from all Important parades.
"went
to Tinis, Recently be Georgin, where Afty-seven years ago he was horn the son of a cobbler. But he went up the mountains and this affected his heart,
He was rushed back to Moscow.
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INJECTIONS
unal other Professor l'iciney doctors are in constant attendance. Riven several They have already
JAPAN'S SECRET Injections.
PLANS
to
By A Naval Correspondent Great Britain is determined match any increase in gun calihre. contemplated by foreign navies,
B
1 battleships mounting 10-inch
planned abroad re
Great Britain will build ships moynting 10- inch guns. If 18-inch or even larger Kuna make their appearatice in for eign navles Great Britain will match their construction,
There is to be no question of ae-
Stalin has had several heart attacks and sudden attacks asphyxia.
Professor Pletney as "dictated" to the U.S.S.R. ruter that he should rest for an unlimited period.
Although his condition is not critical it can become so at any moment. Sudden excitement and he can dle on the spot. On the other hand he may live for years.
siness has caused a special meeting of the Count of People's Commissars to decide his successor. Stalin's wish, belleved, is that he should be followed not by one man
It
cepting any ship-for-ship inferiority but by a triumvirate.
This would be formed by, Soviet
in future naval construction. It is even possible that, if other nations war lord Vorushilov. Commissar for Heavy Industry Orlonikidze, and
armament
20
endeavour to effect increases in gun Stalin's father-in-law, and Commls- callbre, Great Britain, may consider
sar for Transport Kaganovich. building ships with
This triumvirate, nit open secret powerful that it could not be ex-in Moscow, is referred to by the Muscovites as "mixed sweets" be- the Russian, battleships, to be laid down curly in cause the first is a the New Year are lo mount guns of second a Georgian, and the third n
Jew.
corded.
This does not mean that the two
very large calibre. As has been stated in the Morning Post, These ships are to mount 14-inch guns. Owing to the speed at which pro- Ilminary work on these ships hus been juished forward. Great Britain is now committed to the 14-Inch gun
for these two shi
14 INCH GUN CLAUSE
It is held that these two shins are required primarily to offset capital shup construction in Europe-notably the 20,000-lon-German-battleships und that the 14-inch gun therefore does not represent an inferiority, even if Japan and the United States build ships mounting bigger guna.
Under the terms of the London Naval Treaty of fast March--which has 60 far been ratifled only by the United States-the gun calibre Capas soups is limited to 14 inches If Japan agrees to this limitation be- fore April next year.
of
was
Some months ago Japan was ask- ed whether she would subscribe to the Treaty, and her
aaswer "No." States to mean that Japan had no Intention of adhering to the limit of
calibre 14 inches for the gun
of
This was taken by the United
In California, where striped bass derbies are serious business and participated in by some 50,000 anglers, fishing isn't restricted to the men folks, At Rio Vista, where the angling derby originated four years ago, we find Geraldine Brown all primed with her entry for this year's affair,
SHOULD THIS BABY
BE KEPT ALIVE?
-The Problem
A week-old baby bup was found to he suffering from a rurn internal disorder.
1
Doctors said: "If we operate we might keep him alive, but he would be a hopeless invalid, mentally and physically."
I want him. He His mother said: "I'm his mother. mustn't be allowed to die."
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His father said: "I think it unfair to operate. He'd hate
us for giving him that horrible chance."
KEY TO SUCCESSFUL MARRIAGES
A London staff reporter in New York, cabling this problem story give these further de- tails:-
The parents who battled against each other for their baby's take- ure Mr. and Mrs. Julian Tafel, of
IS SOUGHT BY PSYCHOLOGIST IN
7-YEAR STUDY OF 500 COUPLES Chicago.
Storrs, Conn., Oct. 20.
A seven years' experiment to reveal what combination of married couples get along best together or worse has been undertaken by Dr. E. Lowell Kelly, nasistant professor of psycho- logy at Connecticut State College,
300 more.
About a year ago, Dr. Kelly and professor. "I see all of them per-1. his wife, his assistant, appealed to sonally," Dr. Kelly says. 500 engaged couples to submit to
years period. THOUSAND ANSWERS SOUGHT lesis for the seven To-day, he has about 200 couples
One thousand different items of information are sought by the pro- on file, and has issued an appeal for
When a couple agree to take the fessor and his wife. What are their Hkes and dislikes, their personall- tests, they either visit Dr. Kelly atles, are they introvertive or extra- the college or are visited by the
vertive, their backgrounds, honey available, colour of hair, eyes, their height and breadth? He also gives them psychological and intelligence. tests.
future capital ships, and the United Australia Bids
States has made plans for the lay- ing down of two battleships nuunt- ing 10-inch guns early next year.
There have been rumours that Japan is contemplating the con- struction of capital ships of very large size and mounting guns of 18-inch calibre.
U. S. Fleet To
1938 Ceremony
Sydney, Oct. 20. Japan is observing the closest
Official steps have been taken secrecy about her naval plans, but if these rumours prove to be facts to assure the presence of the would seem to show that Jepun is (United States fleet, stationed at bent upon following the strategy of San Diego, at the ceremonies in Lord Fisher in building ships which will call for "replies" so large that 1938 that are to mark the 150th they cannot puss gic canal of through the strate-anniversary of the founding of potential enemy-in New South Wales. case the Panama Canal.
this case
arrived
the
And his KOES. on through
of the seven years. At the end years' period, Dr. Kelly saki, he will usk cach couple to submit to an- other thorough examination.
The baby, only a few ounces short of nine pounds, is in Chicago's Danish-American Hospital.
Dr. Eastman, who brought him into the world, told the parents
I think he should be kept alive: that's my personal as well as my professional feeling, but I cannot operate without your consent.” Dr. Ensiman, after consulting law- by settled the argument уста, performing the operation that may save the baby's life.
"Keys" Like
Postage Stamps
AND TYRES THAT SQUEAK WHEN PUNCTURED
motorists' Burglars,
and were among mathematicians those specially interested in the Twelfth International Exhibi Ition of Inventions which opened 2. Which combinations have the at the Central Hall, Westminster. most success in marringe?
Two principal questions Dr. Kelly hopes to have answered by these tests are:
1. How do persons pair off?
L
L
recently.
lock
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8.02 p.m. London-"Arcile Sledge Dogs," A talk by Andrew Croft of the Oxford University Arctic Ex- pedition, 1935-1938.
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1. Shenandoah--(arr. Terry).
2. Jes' Mah Song-(Strickland).
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(b) Peter, go ring dem bells-
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"Imperial Affairs," by 11.V. Hodson.
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Humerous-Publie Sweetheart No. 1.
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cow- hand.....Bing Crosby. Xylophone
Janeiro. Solo-Rio de
....Rudy. Starita,
ani
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Transmission 2
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No. II.
7.32 pm: A Programme
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9.2 pm. "Aretie Bledge Dlogy."
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For the former the exhibition In other words, as Dr. Kelly says, will blonde be happy with a was a humiliating experience, since blonde, an introvert with an ex-among the many Inventions on view The programme, as prepared, pro- So far as Great Britain is concern- vides for the re-enactment of the travert, a tall one with a small one, were fibre "keys," thm and flexible ed, the adoption of such a policy scene when Captain Cook, in the a thin one with a wide one, and vice as cardboard, for use with a
claimed to be unpickable. would lead to the mounting in Brit Endeavour,
landed versn? and
"I
bave
spent some years perfer-. Ish battleships of guns as powerful Governor Phillip with the first band
NO CONCLUSIONS YET
them ting
the inventor, Mr. ns, if not more powerful than, any of settlers on January 26, 1788.
Buchanan Wollaston, of Ipswich, national holiday to permit mounted in foreign capital ships.
Are there
any conclusions to!
said. FUTURE Tonnage limiT thousands to see a huge historical)
date?
Unlocking a ponderous demonstra- Under modern conditions niverafi pageant, which will illustrate "Aus- Iraila's March to Nailonhood," will be
"No," said Dr.. Kelly, "I have notion door with a "key" which look- spotting has gone far towards elim-
combled like a postage stamp, Mr. Wollas- as to what preconception inating the effect of maximum visi-proclaimed for January 20, 1938.
Finally, the Empire Games, from nations of personality lead to mori ton continued: "I claim that one can bility upon effective range. It is widely acknowledged that the ability Feb. 5 to 12, which will be based in success. I am collecting infor- carry duzens of these keys about in
on the organization of the Olymple
type would take up; that one can get fresh ones made in a few minutes; is all-important in naval warfare, from every corner of the British Em- These factors are largely dependent
Dr. Kelly received his bachelor of and that the arrangement any on the calibre of the gun.
Commonwealth government selence douree from Purdue Univer-lock can be altered several times." But if the maximum gun calibre will make every effort to have the sity in 1926 and then taught in high For the motorisis there was 1 for battleships of the future" in-visit of the American fleet extend school in New Mexico. He was attachment which will make tyres 10.19 p.m. Musical Interlude. creases, the size of the ships must over the entire
period of the awarded his Master's degree in 1028 squeak obligingly when they are
while Colorado State Teachers punctured,
mathematicians College, and then joined the depart will be intrigued by an offer of ment of psychology at Stanford £20,000 if they can solve a newly University. He eived his Ph.D. invented code. from Stanford in 1930,
There were toothbrushes that dis- infect themselves; electric forches
electrically
wit with heavy metal at long range games, will have the picked athletes/mation and expect to watch how the the space that one of the present
upon
pire entered.
The
automatic escape by the signatory Powers from the limitations.
marriages come out."
farm
He taught at the University of
ut
The fact that the calibre of the main armament of the future battle- ships to be built for Great Britain is Hall for a year and then studied ted with a rear lamp for peles- already under serious consideration in Germany and Austrin as a Social trans to
also increase in order to enable suff- ceremoales.-Ualted, Prest. elent armour 'und steaming qualities to be incorporated. Thus the lon- nage limit of 35,000 tons laid down in the naval Treaty will become Ip- operative.
elimination of the Treaty The lintits for gun power and tonnage in future battleships will not entall the breaking of the Treaty by any Power, is taken in some quarters to confirm, Selenen Research Counell Fellow, driven hedge-eulters. And ainong schoolmuster, an architect, a butcher, fos Taman and Italy have not signed, the view that another Navy Supple He come to Connecticut Stole in the the inventors was on auctioneer, a
|and a clergyman. and the adherence of signatory mentary Estimate for the provision fall of 1933. Fowers 18 50 governed by safeguard- of one or more additional battleships Dr. Kelly
Lord Askwith, President of the ing clauses that action by any of the may be presented before the end of years. He has no children.—United Institute of Patëntees, opened the
Press.
Exhibition, non-signatory Powers will lead to
the your,
has been married 10
carry; and
tak by 11. V. Hodson,
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10 p.m. 11. 15en. "Imperial Affairs."
A
(Third
10.20 p.m. "Celluloid Thythm"
Edition),
1 p.m. The Toranay, Mantelpa) Orchester
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