THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1938.
24-Year-Old Elopes With Grandmother K SHOES
Aged 75
SWEPT OFF
HIS FEET BY HER CHARMS
New York. “Swept off his feet" by the mature charms of a seventy- five-year-old grand mother and mother of thirteen chil- dren, William Duvall, twen. ty-four, of Mountary, near Baltimore, has married her, says the Daily Mirror.
fort-
They eloped after night's courtship and have just returned to settle down on the. small farm rented by the bride. When It was suggested to the bride that the marriage was hardly ideal, she answered:
"Shucks, I've got two grand- children older than 339, so don't tell me I don't understand lads of his age."
Adjusting her steel-rimmed spre- tacles, Mrs. Duvall added. "My irsi husband died seventeen years ago. But now Dill's brought all my happi- russ back."
She ran her gnarled fingers through
l's hair,
"He want me to live with him in the big city, but I tell him we'll stay right here.
Sald William:
"I've woord and won her and I'm staying with her. Whatever * the world may kay."
Mrs. Muffett, the bride's daughter. said "Willam paid court to her for two weeks, then they married!. I wish them every happiness.
Half Of Britain
Is Underfed
PROFESSOR LELEAN'S
VIEWS
"Half the population of the country. 15 inadequately fed. An average wage of £3 10s is bedrock wage for a standard family."
This was slated by Professor P. S. Lelean when he addressed the third and last public lecture of a series in Diste ca in laburgh, recently
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For
Bermuda Babies:
Startling Reduce
Plan to Births
By A Political Correspondent
An extraordinary suggestion that the Government of Bermuda may be considering a Bill to sterilise the parents of illegitimate children is contained in a question which Mr. David Adams (Lab., Consett) put to the Colonial Secretary in the House of Commons recently.
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Mr. Adams's question appeared on the House of! Commons order paper in the following terms:
To ask the Secretary of State for for anybody, but compulsory sterili- Hounds In
the Colonies:
Fantinn for the parents of illegitimate
children. "Whether his attention has been i The last Colonial Office Report on drawn to the report of the Select Bermuda (1936) stated that the per Committed On Unemployment
rate was 20 per cent. (4.8 per
Gibraltar
Governor Said
-
The lecture was held und Bermudn, which has recommended as 1,000 white and 25.9 coloured; the Mr. Eden Explains What auspices of the Joint Committee of the National Council of Women, remedy for the excessive popula- Hving birth rate amongst the civillan tion the compulsory sterilisation of population was 24.2 per 1,000, being the Edin- Edinburgh branch, and burgh Women Citizens Association-certain categories of persons, includ-17.2 amongst the white and 20,7
one illegitimate Professor Lelean took as his theine the fathers of
amongst the coloured population. the General Medical Council's state-hild and the mothers of two illegiti ment in 1917, that, out of 2 million
"Whether any one of the proposala men of milltary age, in every nine, three were ill, two were on an in- has been incorporated in the Bill pre-
three firm plane of health. physical wrecks, and the remaining tened by the Governor of Bermuda
one a chronic invalid.
were
Scientific experiments during the War led to the knowledge of the needs of growing boy recruits, and many diagrams were shown by Pro- fessor Lelean relative to the energy, needs of the average man as expend- el in rest, routine, and work, and the necessity of balancing the diet ac-¡ cording to the type of work, whether heavy, light, or otherwise,
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mate childrent
U.S. 'PLANE WITH SIX CANNON
the Legislative Council, #n
Whother His Majesty's Govern- ment regards them as a satisfactory STREAM solution of the problem of unemploy- ment in Bermuda."
The committee mentioned by Mr. Adams must be a Bermudese com- millee, for I have been unable to trace any such country.
committer. in this
But if it has actually made the The lecturer showed how tempera-
I be controlled, and outlined sterilisation suggestion--Mr. Adamy could
ture
OF SHELLS AT 300 M.P.H:
BIGGEST FIGHTER
YET BUILT.
By Major C. C. Turner The question of equipping aero-
revived by the paper ("Belize Independent, June experiments in the United
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Mr. Eden said he was informed that permission to hunt over part of the Spanish territory, where the Royal Calpe Hunt had been wont to hunt for a century, had been obtained from the insurgent military authoris ties at Algeciras. The Government! were not consulted as this was re-
the crescendo of factors resulting in is relying for his information on an planes with guns firing in, and garded na n purely loent affair. the frigid misery in the case of chil-article in a British Honduras news-in. shells is dren underfed and badly shot.
to
no
TO REDUCE POPULATION He showed
the article.
arc
States
with
The words used by the Governor
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1.30 Reuter & Rugby Press; Local Weather Report and Announcements. 1.40 Erlo Coates and the Light Symphony Orchestra.
Springtime Suite (Eric Coates); Fresh Marning (Pastorale); 'Noon- day Song' (Romance); "Dance In The Twilight (Valse). The standard laid down by the 30, 1937) and wants to have it can-with a new Fighter driven by two of Gibraltar were:--
1.52 Variety.
Memories.... Committee onfirmed or denied officially-the posi-powerful engines and armed
Vocal-Old Sony League of Nations
"His Excellency hopes that all who six guns. Two of the guns are of Nutrition, 1037, was studied, and this tion is serious,
ifteen
37mm. calibre, firing 11b, shells, and hunt will at all times remember that Westminster Balind Singers: Humor- showed that the twelve
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Baby Sketch-Sandy's First It two
of 50mm. Bring 14b. this is another historical example of
Powell years-old young person required is
(Thomson-Powell). Sandy spurt and sportsmanship rising above shells. much food
bitterness and strife, and that every & Company: Vocal-Our Greatest the father, and the i begins:
Courtneidge B nursing mother required twice ast
"The Governor of Bermuda hu The machine, the Airacuda, has consideration will be shown to the Successen...Cleely much in proteins as the father,
Selection...Loul: It was also indicated that the mod-presented a Dil before the Legisla- two Allison engines of 1,050 hp, local population of Spain. It may Jack Hulbert: Orchestra-The Great ern diet for fourteen-years-old Live Council of that island outlining mounted on either side of a central well be that the relations established Ziegfeld-Film
(with Edward Mulloy, one measure for compulsory sterilisation body, and driving airscrews behind this season with our Spanish neigh-Levy & His Gaumont British Sym- young person is as much as would give the average adult. In of the negro population on the model the wings. This is the most power-bours will play a very important partphony;
ful "pusher" aeroplane ever built.not caly in the future of the hunt, Vocalist). terms
money this would be 3s. 3d, of Nazi Germany
Close down. but the future of Gibrallat.” weekly, plus 25. Bd for supplement-
It is a five-seater fighter, built by
6.0-7.0 Chinese Programme, "A Select Committee appointed on
Bell ury food.
Aircraft Corporation at
BRITONS IN SPAIN
7.0 Dance Music, Professor Lelean said that no child February 5, 1935, to consider and re-the
-Buffalo, and is not only the biggest
You Any- 6/8 One-Step--Have The Government, went
Mr. On can be fed on less than 3s Gi per port on the existing stufb of week, thus half the cost of feeding an employment in Bermuda and to re-aeroplane of the "pusher" class, but
Fox-Trots--With My Little Horse & adult, and that the average wage of commend what steps should be taken also the biggest aeroplane designed Eden, saw no reason to disagree with thing On To-night, Matilda Darling? Brom Martin & His have for offensive action against bomber that sentiment. It was clearly un-
desirable to confine the resident Wagon to alleviate such conditions £ 10s was bedrock wage for a
Ship A-Sailing: I Saw A standard
family, and that in the pre-found one answer: Too many bables, formations,
A speed of 300 m.p.l. is claimed population of Spain within the mils Band; sent unemployment scales, the lay- Prevent them.”
(Continued an Page 4.) The article adds thut the committee for it, and a "celling" of 30,000ft. of the colony, and over 1,000 British Waltz-The Greatest Mistake Of My qui for healthy living was inadegunte
Henry Jacques with His for the standard family of wife, recommended voluntary sterilisation it is not so fast as the latest fighters subjects lived on the Spanish side of
now being put into production for the frontier and entered Gibraltar Life the British Air Force, nor is its speed daily,
father, and two children.
Half the population of the coun-
te
MR.
MacDONALD'S BIOGRAPHY
try was inadequately ted. and food was deficient In proteins.
Mrs. R. K. Hannay proposed the vote of thanks.
Dietrich Will Quit U.S.A.
One More Picture
New York.
to
To Be Written By Lord Elton
Mir, Ramsay MacDonald's blography is to be written by Lord Elton, for many years his and close political associate friend, and an Intimate friend.
the
will family. It of published by Collins.
be
qulte so great as the new medium Residents of Gibraltar were allow- bombers.
ed to visit neighbouring Spanish ter- It has been designed as a cosmterritory at the discretion of the Gov- to big and somewhat slower bombers, ernor, and of the then insurgent
but, so far as European air forces authoritles, while other British sub-
the norma! are concerned, the present tendency jects were subject to
Is in favour of fast medium rather strict frontier control. than bly bombera. The advantage
to
question bus
not
been
not
claimed for the acroplane gun firing Mr. Henderson asked if the Foreign shells is the destructive effect of the Secretary considered the action of shells and the great range at which the Governor amounted to recogni-
1on of General Franco. they are effective.
This
Mr. Eden-What the Governor re- the lected in Great Britain, but the ferred to was obviously general opinion of experts is that security of Gibraltar, but the amenity
of the great difficulty owing
of those who lived on the rock. Marlene Dietrich has decided
Lord Ellon was closely assoclated accurate marksmanship in the air,
Col. Wedgwood (Ind., Newenslie- leave Amerien. She will make one with Ramsay MacDonald throughout which makes all except close-in more picture In Hollywood-French the days of the Labour Government, nghting practically ineffective, there under-Lyme) naked Mr. Eden if he Without Tears" then her long the 1931 crisis, and the National Gov- little scope for a weapon which knew that people who worked at the It dockyard had to go cross the fron- contract with Paramount expires, ernment. He not only lived through cannot make effective
tler und were fined each time? She Issued this news
her these periods as MacDonald's poilten distinctive qualities.
Mr. Eden said he was certainly not hotel sulle in New York on her really, but has already studied parts of The design of the new Alracud turn from hoilday-making in Europe. I them as a historical scholer.
Mr. Mander (Soc., Wolverhamp- far as it exploits the "pusher" Dietrich in French Without Tears" His biography will be a study both is, however, very interesting and in aware of anything of the kind, has been east for the first time in hier-ut the political movements of the day principle with (wo engines, which ton)-Will the Lord President of the career for the part of a woman whose and of MocDonald's remarkable per« (affords excellent observation and Council be hunting with "this"pick chármá, prove less entrancing than conality, showing the interactions of geld of are, its sights and texts will during the winter? thore of the Other Woman,
the one on the oibera
be closely
watched.
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