*THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 24. 1937.
Strange New Facts About Your Height and Health
Longer, and Are Healthier
Short Men Live
and Stronger Than Tall
Pole-Fliers Give Experts Surprises
San Jacinto, Cal
Army and civilinn aviation experts found a variety of surprises in the big red Russian monoplane that flew over the North Pole for a world's nonstop record,
They went curiously over the big ship, staked down against high winds miles in a valley purture here 20 from March Field where the three Soviet airmen drupped through hole in the clouds.
army
Despite its single-noted power, the Russian plane is the sam- 165- foot wingspread of a harce "nying fortress" bomber, powered by four 1,000-horsepower motors, which arrived at March field.
It was designed for distance and low-fuel consumption. The Soviet ship few some 7,000 miles and still had 17 gallons of gasoline in the tantes when it landed. The "ying fortress" will fly only 3,000 miles. Alles faster than the Soviet plane's 125 miles an hour, however, carries a futi kad of bombs.
MIXTURE OF CONTRASTS Maj. E.. G. Mouton, who super- vised removing the sealed distance recording Instruments from the
£3,180 FOR PIANIST'S
HAND
Alfred Walker, forty-two year-old
pianist and music Teacher, of Bolton, su badly in- jured in a motor-cycle-car se- vident that he can no longer Dlay
The plan for his living. was awarded £3,180 damages and eosis at Manchester Assizes recently against Charles Geoffrey Heaton, of Heyslari. driver of the
far
Sald Mr. Justice Lewis: “The Recident tore the Joy of a life f music" from Walker. Is arm was stiffened and fils flo- gers thickeneil,
Sald Walker to a Daily Ec prene staff reporter: "I do not think I shall ever be able Era play again. It had been my life
work. I do not know any other way of earning a Hying."
Was Petrol Poured Over Corporal By Strikers?
THE
5ft. 9in
"IDEAL"
CHORT MEN LIVE LONGER THAN
SHORT
TALL MEN.
Tall men are not so handsome, bodily that is, and certainly not so strong and healthy as skortish men. ....
That Is a statement of opinion by a physical culture expect, Mr. Francis Miles, of Clapham.
But in ease you think Mr. Miles is blased-be is himself under five feet nine inches-listen to his evidence.
"The taller you grow the more of your growth get into legs. Tall men have long legs and short bodies. But short men have short legs and long bottles," said Mr. Miles.
"The short man has plenty of room in his long body for powerful vital organs. And his short imbs give him greater leverage for his nascles."
Mr. Miles is enthusiastic,
The world's fannus strong men-Sandow, Hacken- schmidi, Aston, Saldo, Sanson, Puljum, Alaxiek, Strong- fort were all less than his own five feet ulne inches, be explained.
Fascinating-But
It's So Dangerous !
They have rounded shoulders from stooming. Few of them have prourly proportionert muscular development. Hogutal experience proves that a tall mon is not so healthy as his shorter brother.
They are particularly liable to stomach and nervous
"Most tadi men are underwright," the physical end- ture expert declared.
The hennan body, like many other machines, fune- tions best in an average size.
"Five feet nine is the ideal Belght for men, and five
become
Russian ship, termed it a "strange mixture of contrasts."
"It is of
excellent desin and construction," he said, especially the welding work The covering of the The death of Corporal King in feet four for women."
fuselage, however, 21
is the reegnt labour disturbances at Height is controlled by the pituitary Trinidad is to be the subject of ques-gland, a small thumb-all-sized gland One expert called the plane "Costions in the House of Commons by situated near the brain.
If the gland pours out its secretion mopolitan." He said the 1,000-horse-Mr. Artur Reed (Com, Exeter).
Mr. Retd will ask the Secretary for in abnormal quantity you the power motor resembles closely Englis
the information : tall. Rolls-Royce.
Soviet Colonies whether of
But if you become too tall all your manufacture, it was in exceptionally withheld during the censorship of
be strength is being wasted 32011
this good erudition and entirely clean news from Trandaut
estra height. and despite two and one-half days released.
whether the! constant
Most running.
plane motors "throw
un long flights The motor cooling system resem- bies the American type, he said.
The instrument panel is a mixture of French, German and Italian,
He will also asic
Secretary is aware that Corporal Why Giants
King was cornered by a number of! native strikers, who poured petrol, over him and set him light.
Corporal King was a native mem-, her of the Trinidad Police Force, He was recruited in the West Indies,
nste-
Don't Survive
in
Men over 8 feet six inches are
An old-type gasoline gauge. It
technically known as "giants," And was located on the fuselage flour.
glands seldom live long past midille They
can't leave the plane here
Daring operations on the pituitary too long for Earl Smith, who owns ture. Smith ousted him, set the however, may save glants from the the pasture. Staith found an enterprice at 25 cents a head, and his poe- | gland's over-functioning. prising interloper charging 50 centskets are hulging with quarters.
2:
Only a handful of the world's
dangerous feat.
per autmobile for the hundreds of Business is okay, and stifi pickingį Anost surgeons can accomplish this; curious people thronging to the png-up." he said.-United Press.
"1
TAKE THIS
Twenty ennutes latu, Miss Smith! This won't do-punctuality is the key-note of business training. It isn't the first me either f
PREDA SMITH'S LETTER]
Masers. Blatchet & Tries 210, Leadenhall Street,
T.C
Dear Sir,
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socrotary with a salary that meant indô- pondonco. Sho took her business training
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We notice your(further inquiry
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THE HORLICKS FILM
SIX MONTHS LATER
Tours Taithfully,
That Horlicks films
we saw gave me an idea, Fred-you want something to buck you up. Remind me to get some Horlicks when
I'm shopping tomorrow.
·Yea-1 can send you
Just the gizi you want
• Frada 5mlih-she's
a bit young, but very keen and efficient
Yes, all the qualifications
for the post.
Six mistakes in one letter, Miss Smith! You're getting more careless every day-1 know you can do better then that?
Everythings wrong, Mums! Don't know whats the matter with me. Got a fearful Jawing from old taylor-she said i'd never
get a job
Oh-she did? Well, look here.. dear-youre a bit tired and strung up now-let's go to the pictures, shall we? We can talk it over
-afterwards.
I wouldn't work any more.
tonight if I were you dear- drink this Horlicks, and slip off to bed - you've had a
hard day.
BETWEEN SCHOOL AND OFFICE
TS your daughter going throught the high-tension period of business training? It's an extra strain on a girl who's not done growing she has to go all our to qualify for a post- Just when growili he still absorbing much of her energy. Now is the time she needs extra nourish
ment, to give her the best chance.
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WAR HORRORS-Correct figures of ensualties in the Spanish War are, of course, unobtainable, but an estimate places deaths at more than 1,000,000, with Junumerable persons wounded.or otherwise injured during the year since war began. This young Spanish girl, wearing a bandage over her left temple, carries her two sisters to safety during a Aladrid bombing raid.
But tallness, faselnating as it Es, a dangerous.
You stand much more chance being healthy and happy if you are abort or of medium height,
And I giant,
read this out to the office
TOO MUCH MONEY IN
“Yes, but don't forget a good big U.S. SAYS
man always beats a good little man," he said, and slammed the door.
CHARGE AGAINST
EXPERTS
Washington.
Economists estimate that between $8,500,000,000 and $8,750,000,000 of foreign capital is invested or banked in the United States,
They base their estimples on Treasury Agures, which record that $323,02-4,000 of "bot money" funds sent here for safe-keeping or investment because of war threats or
A HOSPITAL "Not Clean In Medical Sense" Allegation NEGLIGENCE DENIED
Neglect of "certain element- ary principles" in a hospital were alleged at Derbyshire Assizes recently, when Mrs. In view of revived war-scares in Marjorie Winifred
the last three months, experts be- Heafiel, eve it was safe to assume that net
unstable economie conditions abroad came into the country during the
first quarter of 1937.
of Measham, Leicestershire, epitat movements to this country in brought an action for damages the second quarter continued at a against Mr. C. E. Crane.
as high rate. Chairman of the Ashby-de-la- Foreign funds invested or banked Zouch Cottage Hospital, al here at the end of 1938 Dr.
were
Final
CLEARANCE
SAXONE SHOES
36 PAIRS ONLY
TAN WILLOW AND
BLACK CALF
CLEARING $1350
PRICE
Pr.
SALE
POSITIVELY ENDS
AUGUST 31st.
100 Pairs Only
WHITE LINEN
STRAP, COURT,
AND SANDAL
SHOES:
ODD STYLES AND SIZES MUST BE CLEARED
$300 Pair.
ALL SHOES IN GOOD
CONDITION BROKEN
RANCES AND SIZES.
Whiteaway-Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.
777
TO-DAY ONLY
• SUMMER
John William Hart of estimated to aggregate approximate-- Measham.
Mr. C. E. Luseby (for Mrs. Hea field) said that she was admitted to the hospital on January 5, 1936, and her child was horn that evening While in hospital, she developed | [ puerperal fever, and as a result was totally crippled and in a nursing
home.
she were entitled to damages, The suit. they should be heavy damages. She sought to prove that the hospital admitted her when
a dangerous place in that it was
not clean in a medical sense and that she was retained when it was unsafe, that Dr. Hart, who had her
j
ly $8,000,000,000,"
The European crisis resulting from Italy's Ethiopian campaign early in 1935 caused a sharp acceleration of capital imports to the United States. Between Jun, 2, 1935 and March 31, of this year, foreign capital aecumi- lated here totalled $2,020,773,000, of which 5927,171,000 came from Great Britain. $303,497,000 from Switzer- land, $300,000,000 from France and $267,069,000 from the Netherlands.
The unprecedented inflow has been a cause of great concern to the ad- ministration because it tends to in- crease the store of idle bank funds.
in his custody, neglected his duty in a factor which carries the threat of allowing her to go and remain there,
credli Inflation. and that certain elementary prin riples were not applied by either the hospital or Dr. Hart.
AL the birth. said counsel, Dr.
Hart was asalsted by Sister Sey-
mour, who coat, ne mask and no gloves. She had
been attending another patient who had shown signs of probable puerperal fever and danger of septic infection. Mrs. Heafleld was re- moved to a ward where there were four other women, including patient who had been showing the dangerous symptoms. Eventually that patient and Mrs. Heafleid were notied as sufferers from puerperal fever.
ware no antiseptle over-
Mr. Loseby stated that Dr. Hart had admitted many times. that he was suspicious of the hospital, yei he tailed to take precautions in res- pect to his own patients.
When the husband asked for a specialist immediately, sald counsel, Dr. Lochrane was sent for and he advised the patient's removal to a Derby hospital for treatment for puerperal fever. She was then in a terrible state and there was no doubt her life was anved by the skit of the specialist and blood transfusions given by the husband.
THE DEFENCE
The hospital pleaded in defenen, i sald, that there was no resklent doctor and pinintiff was attended by her own medical adviser, who was not a servant of the hospital. They, denied that the place was unsafe or that it was infected with puerperal fever. Dr. Hort denied negligence; that the hospital was infected or suffering from puerperal fever at the time plaintiff was admitted.
A special craniitter Board Federal Reserve
mission experts has been studying the problem for more than seven
months but has reached no sulution.
Some observers belleve stabiliza- probably will reduce the exodus of tion of the French fiscal situation
funds from France.
The net capital Inflow in the period between Jan. 2, 1935 and March 31, 1937, was at an average monthly rate of $108,481,381. The monthly average for the first quarters of this year was s107,000,000, approximately $8,000," 000 higher than the average for 1030 but $10,000,000 less than the 1935 average.
Short-term banking funds account- ed for the major share of the net capital arriving here in the first three months of 1037. The aggregate was $170,354,000, compared with only $7.238,000 in the last quarter of 1936. Latin-American countries were credited with $102,078,000 of the total.
Germany, although ostensibly keep- its funds at home, increased its bank accounts here by $24,813,000 in the
Brst quarter, A government economist suggested that this might represent conversion of part of the Relchbank's sterling account to In order to Fel શ belter distribullon of its
in
reserve
France, The Netherlands, auth Switzerland, however, have nel movements of bonking funds in their havour. The explanation Indicated in the Treasury's report is that funds banked by these countries as proceeds from gold sales to the United States have been, withdrawn and Invested in securities hore-United Prean,
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