Test-tube
THE HONGKONG A TELEGRAPH TUESDAY.
Horse May Win
Derby
Amazing Breeding Method Planned At Home
Offer Made By Owner
The 1942 Derby winner may be bred from a test-tube.
It will owe its existence to the process of artificial insemination.
been
Cattle and sheep have already
in- seminated with marked success. Now дп at- tempt is to be made with racehorses.
Mr. E. J. Marshall, the well-known racehorse owner, wlit loan one of his stud mares for the purpose of an experiment.
Under the process of insemination, the seed of the] male animal is collected, kept in a test-tube at a tem- perature just above freezing point, then transferred to the female animal.
"SYNTHETIC" PEDIGREE STOCK
Discussing Mr. Marshall's offer, Dr. Arthur Walton, of the Animal Nutrition Research Institution of the School of Agriculture, Cambridge University, told the Sunday Chronicle.
"We were delighted to accept.
"The only difcuity I foresee is the possible attitude
of the Thoroughbred Breeders' Association.
"I do not see, however, how, when once the foal
la barn, they can refuse it recognition," Long journeys in transporting animals for breeding purposes would be eliminated by the new method.
Many countries could share best pedigree stock for breeding.
For the test-tubes can be
the
inken
by acroplane for thousands of miles and their contents kept fertile for as long us a week.
This has been proved in the rear-
ing of sheep and cattle by means of the new process.
BREEDERS' VIEW
of
At the Genetics Department Farm of Edinburgh University they are ex- pecting the birth of a number test-lube calves of the famous Ayr- shire breed in the next few weeks. These calves will not be debarred from pedigree rank on account the artificial method of their ception.
of
con-
More than 30 cows in Holland will soon be producing similar test- lubo calves. These animals were Inseminated last May and Juno with seed from a British Friesian bull.
It is claimed that the method en- ables one ram to fertilise 4,000 cwes in the 40-day breeding season, while a bull in its season of 09 days can be responsible for 1,500 calves.
An official of the Breeders' Assc- ciation said: "The question of arti- Acial insemination has been discussed on several occasions by the assocla- ! tion.
"Breeders have generally taken the view that the natural method is the more satisfactory, and that insemina- tion should be limited as far as pos- sible to cases where there is mal- formation in the mare,
SCHOOLMASTERS FOR THE NAVY
An extra 20,000 men are to be enrolled this year for the Navy, Opportunities for rapid pro- motion are to be given, especial- ly to men skilled in such trades as wireless and engineering.
They are also to be given a first-class education. For that purpose the Admiralty is seck- Ing a large number of school- masters, who will be given comi- missioned rank.
Franchot's Tone Is Good
New York.
£80,000 MAN
SOLD BREAD
EV
TO WIFE
Dublin.
VIDENCE that a man who had amassed £80,000 searched his house for crusts of bread so that none would be wasted and lived at the rate of £3 a week, was given in the High Court here to-day,
Court here recently.
Mrs. Agnes Dwyer, of Dundrum, Co. Dublin, is asking the court to admit
When Franchot Tone left the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore to-day to continue a holiday in the East, Dr.to probate a will of her father, the Inte Mr. W. T. Dongcope said:
Timothy George Wood, cycle merchant, of Parlia- "Mr. Tone is quite well. He comes ment-street, Dublin. to the hospital, Ikke hundreds of other
This is opposed by his widow, Mrs. Florence people do, for a regular overhaul Wood, his second wife, and by his son, Timothy "We give them X-rays, look them Joseph Wood, son of the second marriage, on the over, and make sure that there are ground that the late Mr. Wood was mentally in- no hidden troubles around. Mr. Tone's film admirers need not worry capable of making the will and did not understand
every year.
about their favourite."
its contents.
Chinese Plans For War Refugees
BIG
COLONISATION
SCHEME
vast
"VERY PECULIAR"
MARCH 22, 1988.
E RADIO BROADCAST
"Village Wooing" Play By Bernard Shaw
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Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W, on Frequencies of 845 k.c.'s; 9.52 m.c.'s. per second.
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12.0-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service Б John'a of Intercession from Cathedral.
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12.30 Songs by Peter (Bass-Baritone).
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The Man In The Street (Long- staffe); The Winding Road (Araby & Andrew); The Shepherd ́ ́Boy's' Song (Pepper).
12.40 1.1.C. Wireless Military Dand.
The Black Domino-Overture
arr. (Auber,
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1.0 Time and Weather. 1.30 Variety.
The
Dance Urch.-Put Me Behind Bars -Fax-Trot (Ramon, Kennedy & Roses In December-Slow Foxtrot From Life of the Party") ....Carroli Gibbons and the Savoy
SWAY) rom
Hotel Orpheans; Piano Solo By The Swent Of Your Brow (Mack-Keddie- (From 'Dam- Blake); A Foggy sel in Distress)... Lesile Hutchin- BON; Dance Orch-Swing Is Here Το 'All Baba Bridget Murphy, cook, em-goes to Got A New Pair Of ployed by Mrs. Wood, said Mr. Shoes Slow
Fox-Trot (From Wood was "very odd and pecu Roy & His Orchestra; Vocal-Con- Thoroughbreds don't cry')...Harry liar." He used to buy the bread versation For Two (Mysels, Hues- himself and then sell it to histon, Emmerich); Star Gazing (Symes, wife.
Nelburg, Levinson)....Elsie Carlisle with Orch. accomp; Dance Orch.- Viennese Romance-Waltz De Rance).
e)....Jack Wilson and His Versatile Five.
Dr. John Dunne, chief resident superintendent. at Grangegorman Mental Hospital, sald after Istening to the evidence he had come to the conclusion that there was reni de-
terioration of Mr. Wood's mental faculties.
give
The Chinese National Government has worked out a colonisation scheme to take care of the numerous helpless war re-out having seen him?-No. fugees.
According to the plan, the six inland provinces of Shensi, Kansu, Szechuan, Yunnan, Hunan and Kwangsi will become the "colonies" to which refugee emigrants from the coastal regions, now affected by war, will be moved.
EMPIRE NEWS
ཝཙྩཱ
AUSTRALIA AND TRADE PACT
world peace.
Sydney,
Federal Prime
It is estimated that there aro 63,091,478 acres of arable and so far antilled land in these six provinces, and it is expected that before long, 100,000 families, averaging five members cach and totalling 50,000 persons will be skifted there.
Mr. Justice Hanna: Did you ever Ive evidence in a court before? Did you ever say a man was insane with- Mr. Michael Maguire, KC.: Were not Mr. Wood's property purchases consistent with sanity? A man can have a very good business sense and still be insone.
The hearing was adjourned until the next day.
Scientists Search For
Shenat and Kansu, in the north- Absolute
Nothing
The
manufacture
(May-
1.30 Reuter & Rugby Press, Wea- ther and Announcements,
1.40 Rotary Tiffin Specei relayed from the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel.
Speaker: M. F. Key, Esq., Sub- ject; "The New Game of Commercial
&2 Ladders': Snakes
1 light- account of Imperial hearted Preference and Textile Quotas Legis-
lution."
2.15 Close Down. 0.0-7.0 Chinese Programme. 7.0 Concert Waltzes.
A Thousand And One Nights (Johann Strauss)....Felix Weingart- ner conducting the British Symphony Orchestra; Dance Of the Fairies (Willy Rosenthal); Lovely To Kiss (5. Dicker).... Orchestra Mascotte,
7.15 Marek Weber And Orchestra.
Viennese Memories Of Lebar (Arr. Henry Hall); Drinking Song (Schu- ..Orch. with Male Quartet. mann)
7.30
London Relay-'All Kinds Of People'6:
A Personal Memory of King Al- bert of the Belgians' by Emile Com- maerts, c.n.E., (Professor of Belgion Studies and Institutions in the Uni- versity of London).
7.45 Closing Local Stock Quota-
tlong.
west, have been designated in the plan as the first settlement district for refugees from North China. Sze- chuan and Yunnan, in western China, wil form the second district, while
Schenectady, N. Y. Hunan and Kwangsl will be the third Mr. Lyons, the
district
for colonisers from the Yang-
of absolute Minister states that Australia is te River and the Pearl River Basins "nothing" is the ambition of William gladly joining Britain' in seeking co-
"A. Ruggles," research" worker"In the respectively. the United States. Free transportation will be provided General Electric Company labora- operation with
that this will ulti-in most cases. On arrival at their tories. She recognises
of experi-
7.50 Bongs by Tino Rossi (Tenor). mately be n great contribution to destinations, however, these refugee Ruggles is in charge
settlers will need houses, cows, seeds, mental work on vacuum tubes. Im- Des Guitares'); Loin Des Guitares Bella Ragazzina (from, Au Son farming Implements and enough proved methods of removing gaser The Prime Minister aded that the food-stuffs to last until the first har- from tubes based on his experiments (from, Au Son Des Guitares'); Un have resulted in improved radios, Violon Dans La Nuit' (from, 'Parade should never be practised without forthcoming direct Australian-Amerivest is in by next spring.
of the can negotiations would lead not only refugees for six months, after which cient tubes for experimental work
The Government will support these better photo-electric cells, more en-Du Mal Time Signal. Weather
8.0 to an increase in trade between the they are expected to produce enough on television. and a better know Report and Announcements.
8.03 Violin Solos two countries, but would provide to maintain themselves.
ledge of lighting, company officials said.
The Fountain Of Arethusa (From Australia with opportunities in other.
Flight Of The Bumble Bee (Rim- Szymanowsky Op. 30); 'Mytha' fields.
sky-Korsakov-Arr. Hartmann); Pas with Nikita de Mogaloff at the Plano torale (Stravinsky)..
...Joseph Szigeti Piece En Forme D'Habanera (Ravei Even with our most modern -Le Dut); Study In Thirds (Scria- technique, we are only able to re-bit-Op. 8 No. 10-Arr. Sziget).... move the molecules to the extent Joseph Szigeti with Nikita de Moga- -that more than 50,000,000,000 asloff at the Plano.
molecules remain in an ordinary 60-
after we have ing
"Insemination, it has been decided,
the consent of the owner mare."
Flesh Turning To Leather
Wheeling, W. Va., Mar 15. Reconciled to his fate, Ogle Neely, 36, laughs and jokes al- though doctors say he faces slow but certain death because his flesh is turning to "leather."
It is understood that the Federal Government will follow the example of Ottawa and permit representatives of primary and secondary industries here to go to London with Ministers for simultaneous Anglo-American and Ottawa revision discussions.
will be a
More than half of the necessary Yunds have been assured. As for the remainder, the Government is count- ing on the various provincial authori- ties for assistance.
More Legal Clouds For Laurel
But despite considerable advance ment achieved during the past 25 years. Ruggles reported he still has a long way to go before accomplish Ing "nothing."
walt lamp bulb,
evacuated it to the
ability," he said.
best
of our
8.15 London Relay~~"Village Woo-
Plans.--The 150th Anniversary" 150th anniversary clebrations, which begin on Wednesday, open with a waler pageant in Sydney Harbour, of Capt. the first Governor of New/ pting the landing South Wales. Later in the day there Lord a reception by the
On
there Friday His arms to the elbows and his Mayor of Sydney. legs to the knees already have been will be a garden party at State Gov-
Mrs. Virginia Ruth Laurel "petrified" by the rare disease called erenment House and a luncheon by scleroderma, from which specialists the New South Wales Government. is asking for the dissolu- at Johns Hopkins Hospital say he is Saturday night will see a Venetian tion of her marriage to the suffering. Physicista say they know camival, and Sydney Harbour will be famous comedian to set aside neither the cause nor the cure for a blaze of light until midnight.
Jon the grounds that they were cules, upon being heated, ex- Maveri, etc., in a Variety Programme, the disease.
When Neely, who is farmer, was only 23 years old the ailment first appeared and started at the tips of his fingers and toes. Each year it spread a little. Now he is unable to work
Reuter.
Canada
Ottawa,
New York.
reconciled in the year between the granting of the interlocu- tory and final decrees.
and are forced out.
Gentleman
About
zero, la utilized to remove accumu- † (Frankau-Handleys-Art
A comedictinna for two voices by George Bernard Shaw: The charac-. Before being evacuated, he add-ters are A, a literary looking pale ed, the number of molecules in a
gentleman under
and B. a forty tube is beyond enumeration.
The process of degassing, Ruggles aristocratic.
young woman presentable but not The three conversations said, is begun by baking the tube take place on the lounge-deck of a for an hour in an electric oven at a pleasure-ship and in a village shop temperature of 935 degrees, Tahren- on the Wiltshire Downs. Production beli.
by John Richmond. This heating removes a portion of 9.0 George Formby, Gracie Fields the KRESLA in the tube, since the Murgatroyd & Winterbottom, Bill
Plano Solo-Mistletoe (Billy In the next step, liquid alr, at o Mayer); Nimble Fingered
degrees below temperature of 198
....Billy Mayerl; STATE INSURANCE
lated water vapour by condensation. Cruises
(Frankou-Handley-Crick) In her plea she offers to produce Then the filament, or electrode,
Winterbottom letters from Laurel,
one The eve of the assembly of Parlla reads: When
of which within the tube is degassed by flash. Murgatroyd
(Two minds with not a single and he must live on $20 a month ment sees a definito indication that wife) divorced me it unbalanced me electric colls. An additional amount Plano; Vocal-Ahl Sweet Mystery Lols (Laurel's Arsting or healing with high frequency thought) with Monte Crick at the relief funds. Although his legs are the Government is planning to go
I made up my mentally. deadened, he walks four miles to the ahead whilcreating
of gas is drawn from the tube by a Of Life (Herbert, Young); The De- a system for could not be happy any more. I met pump operated by heated mercury. nert Song (Siegmund, Romberg, Ham- nearest grocery once a week.
State insurance against distress and
and married you in that frame of The completed degassing process merstein)....Gracie Felde with Or- mind, and the "If he hits his hand across a table, unemployment.
became it went on the varies from as little, on 20 minutes chestra Accomp.; Vocal-Keep Your it sounds just like a hammer. It's
Quebec, New Brunswick. and stronger it
in the case of small tubes, to several Sente Picaso (From 'Keep Your Seats Alberin are opposed to the scene horizon, for his third wife, Illiana, disclosed, adding that it is now pos- dows (From Keep Your Scata. Laurel has more legal clouds on his days for the largest tubes, Ruggles Please'); When I'm Cleaning Win- It is suggested, however, that if the scheme is approved by the Federal the Russian singer, and her former sible to create a "vacuum" in halt Please) George Formby-Come- dion with His Ukulele and Orchestra; Government and by the other pro-manager, Frederic Berens, are being the time required 20 years o
Orchestra The Great Ziegfeld Film vincial legislatures, no doubt is ensued for 2170 by a mining company. United Press.
Selection...Louis Levy and His toriained that the British Parliament The company alleges that the money- would enact an amendment to the was given to open a brokerage busi-
Gaumont British Symphony with Ed- British North America Act. This noss and was used for other purposes,.
ward Malloy, Vocalist, KANALIZIRA would be sought to make the legisla
9.30 London Relay The News.. 3.50 K.537
the same with his feet," says Byron Pipes, relief investigator. "I don't sco how he gets around at all.".
In 1927, Neely spent even weeks in Johns Hopkins Hospital but left when doctors decided they could not curo the disease.--United Press.
Grave Diggers Declare
First Job Is Hardest
Fort Worth, Tex. The Brst few graves are the har- dest, according to W. H. Fuller and
tion Constitutional.
mind I
Montreal, on Jan. 18. The denth-roll
Dearer Wireless Licences-Wire is now known to be 44. ass licence fees will be increased from two dollars to two and a half India dollars-10-os from April 1. An owner will also now be required to have a licence for cach set, and it will no longer be possible to have
Kidnap Threats To
Harold Lloyd
New York.
**
Mystery envelops the publication by chamber Orchestra
of extortion letters addressed to
by Wanda Landowska
Jean Pougnet) conducted by Harald Lloyd, the film comedian, in Walter Goehr. HUNGER STRIKE ENDS
1932 threatening to kidnap his three 10.23 Mosert Songs, Calcutta.
Don Giovanni:(Art. 1). "Madamina3) children. The remaining eight hunger Mr. Lloyd said to-day: "I thought
(Bass) with Piano JSMcBride, the men who dig them one licence covering a House set and strikers in Hazaribagh Gaol, Bihar, that this affair was douch: We are
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have ended their fast after the in-wall prepared to take care of anyone College FireTo-morrow has been tervention of the Premier, Mr. Sinha. foolish enough to attempt to harm my
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