THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY,
JANUARY
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.
H fort- They cloped after night's courtship and bave just returned to settle down on the small farm rented by the bride. When it was suggested to the bride that the murringe was hardly ideal, she answered:
"Sbucks. I've got twe grand- children older than Bil!, so don't tell me I don't understand lade of his age."
Adjusting her steel-rimmed spce- tacles. Mrs. Duvall odded, "My first husband died seventeen years ago. But now Bill's brought all my happi- ness back,"
She ran her gnarled Angers through Bill's hair.
"He wants me to live with him in the big city, but I tell him we'll stay right here."
Sald William:
"I've wooed and won her and
I'm staying with her.
the world may say."
Whatever
Mrs. Moffett, the bride's daughter,
said "William paid court to her for
two weeks, then they married. I wish them every happiness?
Half Of Britain
2)
Is Underfed
PROFESSOR
LELEAN'S
VIEWS
"Half the population of the country
is inadequately fed. An average
A HAPPY GROUP AT THE WATER
POLICE STATION
For
Bermuda Babies: Startling Plan to Reduce 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.
on the House of
Mr. Adams's question appeared wage of £2 10s is bedruck wage for Commons order paper in the following terms:
a standard family."
This was slated by Professor P. S. Lelean when he addressed the third and last public lecture of a series in "Dietetics" in the Usher Institute of Pubile Health, Edinburgh, recently, The lecture was held under the auspices of the Joint Committee of
To ask the Secretary of State for for anybody, but compulsory sterili- sation for the parents of illegitimate the Colonies:
children.
"Whether his attention has been
The last Colonial Ofice Repart on drawn to the report of the Select Bermuda (1936) stated that the illegi- Committed On Unemployment timacy rale was 20 per cent. (4.8 per Bermuda, which has recommended as 1,000 white and 25.0 coloured); the
Baboons'
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the London Zoo, complaining that
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during the past summer the sun-Doreen Ma and Lee Wong
shine made the rocks ons "Monkey Hill" so hot that many baboons
were badly scorched.
She has offered, in time for next summer, to knit protective panties for the baboons.
With The Hounds In Gibraltar
a remedy for the excessive popula-living birth rate amongst the civilian Mr.
the National Council of Women.thm the compulsory sterilisation of population was 24.2 per 1,080, being Edinburgh branch, and the Edin certain categories of persons, includ 17.2 amongst the white and 28.7 burgh Women Citizens' Association, Professor Lelean look as his theme in the fathers of one illegitimate the General Medical Council's state-child-and-the-mothers-of-two illegitimongst the coloured population.
mate children: ment in 1917, that, out of 2% million men of military age. In every nine, three were fit, two were on an in- Arm plane of health, three physical wrecks, and the remaining one a chronic invalid,
were
to
"Whether any one of the proposals has been incorporated in the Bill pre- sented by the Governor of Bermuda
the
anci Legislative Council;
"Whether His Majesty's Govern- ment regards them as a satisfactory solution of the problem of unemploy ment in Bermuda."
Scientific experiments during the the War led to the knowledge of needs of growing boy recruits, and many diagrums were shown by Pro- tesser Leleun relative to the energy
The committee mentioned by Mr. needs of the average man as expend- ed in rest, routine, and work, and the Adams must be a Bermudese com- necessity of balancing the diet rc-mittee, for 1 have been unable
trace any such committee cording to the type of work, whether
country. henvy, light, or otherwise.
UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF
The lecturer showed how tempera-
ןןן
to
this i
But if it has actually made the
lure could be controlled, and outlined sterilisation suggestion-Mr. Adams
10
by
TO REDUCE POPULATION
He showed me the article. begins:
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U.S. 'PLANE WITH SIX CANNON
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By Major C. C. Turner
The question of equipping aero
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six"
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and
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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
1.30 Reuter & Rugby Press; Local for a century, had been obtained from the insurgent military authori- Weather Report and Announcements, Eric Coates and the Light ties at Algeciras. The Government were not consulted as this was re- Symphony Orchestra.
Springtime Suite (Eric Coates); garded as a purely local affair. the
Fresh Morning" (Pastorale): 'Noon- the crescendo of factors resulting in is relying for his information on an planes with the frigid misery in the case of chil-article in a British Honduras news-11⁄2 in. shells is revived by
United States The words used by the Governor day Song' (Romance); 'Dance In The
Twilight (Valse). paper ("Belize Independent, June experiments in the dren underfed and badly shod,
the 30, 1937) and wants to have 1 con- with a new Fighter driven by two of Gibraltar were:-
1.52 Variety, The standard laid down
engines and armed with
Steamers on Armed or denied officially-the posi-powerful
"His Excellency hopes that all who Vocal-Old Song League of Nations Committee
guns. Two of the guns are of Nutrition, 1937, was studied, and this tion is serious,
Baby 37mm, calibre, firing 1lb. shells, and bunt will at all times remember that Westminster Ballad Singers; Humor-
RAWALPINDI Sketch-Sandy's First showed that the twelve fifteen
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*KIDDERPORE It two are
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Courtneidge & *BURDWAN nursing mother required twice
"The Governor
Airacuda, has consideration will be shown to the Successes...Cicely of Bermuda has The machine, the much in proteins The father.
CHITRAL Selection...Loult
CARTHAGE It was also indicated that the mod presented a Bill before the Legisla- two Allison engines of 1,050 h.p. local population of Spain. It may Jack Hulbert; Orchestra-The Great ern diet for fourteen-years-old tive Council of that island outlining mounted on elther side of a central well be that the relations established Ziegfeld--Film
Edward Malloy,
"SOMALI (with one measures for compulsory sterilisation body, and driving alrscrews behind this season with our Spanish neigh-Levy & His Gaumont British Sym- young person is as much
not only in the future of the hunt. Vocalist). adult. In of the negro population on the model the wings. This is the most power-bours will play a very important part phony: would give the average
ful "pusher" aeroplane ever bullt. terms of money this would be 55. Bd. of Naz! Germany
It is weekly, plus s. 84 for supplement-
Ave-seater fighter, bullt by but the future of Gibraltar." "A Select Committee appointed on
Bell Aircraft Corporation at
BRITONS IN SPAIN ary food.
Professor Lelean said that no child February 6, 1935, to consider and re- the
The Government, went on Mr. can be fed on less than 3s dd per port on the existing state of un-Buffalo, and is not only the biggest werk, thus half the cost of feeding an employment in Bermuda and to re-acroplane of the "pusher" class, but adult, and that the average wage of
commend what steps should be taken also the biggest acroplane designed Eden, saw no reason to disagree with thing On To-night, Matilda Darling?
Wagon have for offensive action against bomber that sentiment. It was clearly un-Fox-Trots-With My Little Horse & ..... Bram Martin & His desirable to confine the resident for is to alleviate such conditions £2 10% was bedrock wage
A speed of 300 m.p.h, is claimed population of Spain within the limits Band; I Saw A Ship A-Sailing; standard family, and that in the pre- found one answer: Too many babies. formations.
(Continued on Page 4.) sent unemployment states, the lay- Prevent them." out for healthy living was inadequate The article adds that the committee for it, and a "Ceiling" of 30,000ft. of the colony, and over 1,000 British Waltz--The Greatest Mistake of My Henry Jacques with His of wife, recommended voluntary sterilisation It is not so fast as the latest fighters subjects lived on the Spanish aide of
now being put into production for the frontier and entered Gibraltar Life the British Air Force, nor is its speed daily.
45
for the standard family
father, and two children.
Half the population of the coun-
try was inadequately fed, and the food was deficient in proteins.
Mrs. R. K. Hannay proposed the vota of thanks.
Dietrich Will Quit U.S.A.
One More Picture
MR. MacDONALD'S BIOGRAPHY
To Be Written By Lord Elton
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's blography in to be written by Lord Elten, for many years his
political
and Associalo close friend, and an intimate friend
WUJI tho family. It published by Collins,
of
New York.
Marlene Dietrich bus decided
to
be
bombers.
quite so great as the new medium Residents of Gibraltar were allow
ed to visit neighbouring Spanish ter- It has been designed as a counter ritory at the discretion of the Gov- to big and somewhat slower bombers, ernor, and of the local insurgent but, no far as European alr forces authorities, while other British sub- the normal fare concerned, the present tendency Jeets were subject to in in favour of fast medium rather strict frontier control. than big bombers. The advantage cinimed for the aeroplane gun firing
Mr. Henderson usked if the Foreign
shells is the destructive effect of the Secretary considered the nellon of shells and the great range at which the Governor amounted to recogniz
lion of General Franco. they are effective.
hos
not been
obviously not the
question This
Mr. Eden-What the Governor re- neglected in Great Britain, but the ferred to was general opinion of experts is that recurity of Gibraltar, but the amenity owing to the great difficulty of Lord Elton was closely associated accurate marksmanship in the air, of those who lived on the rock.
Col. Wedgwood (Ind.. Newcastle-
all except close-in
leave America. She will make one with Ramsay MacDonald throughout which makely ineffective, thereunder-Lyme) naked Mr. Eden if he more picture in Hollywood--"French the days of the Labour Government, fighting Without Tears" then her long the 1931 crisis, and the National Gov- Is ittle scope for a weapon which knew that people who worked at the
ernment. not only lived through cannot make effective
qualities.
contract with Paramount expires.
use of
ita dockyard had to go across the fron- iler and were fined each time?
She fed this news from her these periods as MacDonald's pollten distinctive qu of the new Airacuda
Mr. Eden said he was certainly not hotel suite in New York on her really, but has already studled parts of ! The turn from hollday-making in Europe, them as a historical scholar,
is, however, very interesting and in aware of anything of the kind.
Mr. Mander. (Soc., Wolverhamp His blography will be a study both so far on it exploits the "pusher" Dietrich in "French Without Tears" has been cast for the first time in her of the political movements of the day principle with two engines, which ton)Will the Lord President of the and Council be hunting with this pack career for the part of a woman whose and of MacDonald's remarkable per- affords excellent observation charms prove less entrancing than sonally, showing the interactions of hold of fire, its flights and-tests will during the winter? those of the Other WoTTERN.
the one on the other.
be closely watched,
There was no reply.
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