THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, ·APRIL 1, 1938.*
China's Man In the Iron Lung Keeps.
Cheerful
EDITS A PAPER
Miami Beach, Fla. BIGGEST concern to-day
of smiling, curly-haired Frederick B. Snite, Jr., 27- year-old infantile paralysis victim who has been confined to a ponderous, life-giving "iron lung" for almost two years, is finding a new name for his newspaper.
He is less concerned about his condition, which has been
improving steadily
since he arrived at his father's palatial winter home on Indian Creek here last December.
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"THE BOILER KID" The "Boiler Kid," as Snite calls himself, edits and publishes mimeographed newspaper, which he sends to a vast army of friends and "just correspon- dents" all over the world who have been deluging him with letters since he was stricken in China in March, 1986.
Young Snite conceived the Idea of a newspaper to reply to his volumin- ours mail while he was at Billings Hospital in Chiengo last summer and named it the Billings Bugle. In a recent issue, he usked suggestions for a new name more appropriate to his present surroundings.
Most of the material that goes into his newspaper is gleaned from the letters he receives. He dictates all his "stories" to a nurse and publiches Issues of the Bugle in leisurely fashion whenever he has sullkient material.
ROOSEVELT CORRESPONDS His mailing list includes many dis- togulshed names and heading it is President Roosevelt. He made
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radio appeal on a national hook-up recently in behalf of the President's infantile paralysis foundation fund.
Dictaling
stories for his newspaper
Is young Fred's biggest, diversion.
He also reads through a mirror set directly in front of him and plays
STREET PERFORMERS IN NANKING
Wife
Who
Divorces
Cannot Be Widow
cards from his confinement in the TF a woman divorces her husband she cannot claim to
heavy Drinker respirator from which only his head protrudes.
Hope is held that the youth soon may be transferred to a light chest respirater, which would give him free use of his arms and legs. Several of the lightweight respirators tried recently proved unsatisfactory and further experiments are being conducted.
GREATLY IMPROVED Extent of young Snite's improve- ment is indicated by recent tests in which he was able to remain out
be his widow when he dies. So Sir John Bennett, vice-chancellor, ruled in Lancashire Chancery Court, Liverpool.
A Cavalcade Of
Dutch Life
of his "Iron lung" for 17 minutes TO CELEBRATE FORTY
without difficulty. He is removed from his respirator every day for 10 to 12 minutes, but that period is devoted to sun-bathing and massage..
The father of the boy is very much encouraged" by his improve ment but fears "only a miracle of science" can bring about his com. picte recovery.
DUKE WHO DIED IN BUTT OF WINE
A portrait of "false, flecting per jured Clarence," the brother of Edward IV., who was said to have been drowned in n butt of Mulmsey wine at the Tower in 1478, is shortly to come on the market,
The portrait was painted in the reign of Henry VIII, about 60 years after the Duke's death, by Lucas Cornellsy. It was one of a series of 16 executed for the Earl of Dudley, at Penshurst. of the Constables of Queenborough Castle.
YEARS ON THRONE
The Hague,
A film is to be made in Holland depicting outstanding events in the life of the nation during the 10 years of Queen Wilhelmina's reign.
It will be on the lines of the Bri-
tish flm "Cavalende,"
Indies and Holland, and Dutchme
John Thomas Atkinson bequeathed £6,000 to his son Joseph, the money
wife, Elsie, during her widowhood. after Joseph's death to go to Joseph
and after her death or remarriage to Joseph's son.
hus-
Mrs. Atkinson divorced her band in 1939 and has not remarried.
Joseph died in 1930.
She claimed unsuccessfully that she was enütted to benelli, and said that in some cases the word "widow" had to be construed in its secondary meaning.
CRAZY LIFE OF The Army and Navy from the
WOMAN WRITER abroad, will all contribute to the making of the film, which, when
Williton, Somerset. will be about 7,500ft! completed,
A daughter of the late Joseph distribution abroad. Jon Parts of 11 will be used for Hocking, the novelist, and a married man, who were said to None of the members of the Royal have lived like two reckless, family, it is understood, will appear crazy on the screen.
young people,' were charged here to-day with fraud. The man, Ian Duff Neil Arnott, The film will describe the life of was sentenced to six months' hard two Dutch familles in different cir- labour, and the woman, who gave cumstances one living in Amster- the name of A. dam and the
Dur Arnott, was part of the country. It
other in an isointed bound over.
will show how they witnessed a number
THE QUEEN'S CORONATION
THE SHOW MUST GO ON. With more and maro people returning to Nanking the former capital is beginning to exhibit something like its former self and street por- formers are doing business again. Photo shows a Chin- esc juggler doing.one of his tricks while children and Japanese soldiers form an intorested audience.
First
Flights
From Warship
ONE WATCHED BY KING GEORGE V.
firet under
to
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RADIO BROADCAST
Prof. Ore's Compositions. From the Studio ETTORE. PELLEGATTI
Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.D.W. on Frequeneles of 845 k.e'.. V.52 m.c's, per second.
H.K.T. 12.00-12.20 Relay of Service of Intercession from St. John's Cathe feral.
12.30 Songs by Slaart Robertson (Bass Baritone).
The Spanish Lady (Hughes); Lime- house Rench (Proctor-Gregg); When Lights Go Rolling (Ireland).
12.40 The B. B. C. Milliary Band. Hungarian Dance ("From Foreign' Parts"-Moszkowski, Op... 23 Arr. Sommer); 'Slavonic Rhapsody (C. Friedemann orr. Winterbottom); Woodland Pictures-Rural Sulte,
(P.
Old
and
E. Fletcher); Romance "An Garden" Introduction
The Haylelds"; Humo-
Sean Foast."
Feske--" "The
1.00
Time and Weather. 1.03 Lualcano Boyer (Soprano) and Orchestras,
Stephanie Gavotte (Czibulka-arr. Altendorf).
orf).... Regal Virtual Ber ceuse (Jarnefelt)....Orchestre Roy
Pas Toujours (J. mende: Ne Dis
noir)Lucienne Boyer; Dance
Lenoir)
Of The
The Merry Mascots (Albert Ketelbey)....Orchestra
stra Raymonde
The Merry Middies (B. Brooke) ..... Xylophone Duet by W. W. Bennett and Ernst Slaney Accomp, by the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra; Dans La Fumee (Jane Bos); Parlez- Mol D'Amour (Jean Lenoir) Lucienne Boyer: Manhattan Serenade (Alter);
Manhattan Moonlight (Alter)...Orchestre Raymonde.
1.30
Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather and Announcements,"
1.40 The Bills Bros., Clapham & Dwyer and The Ballyhooligans.
I'm Nuts About Screwy Music- Fox-Trot (Lunceford and Ross); I Got Rhythm--Fox-Trot (Gershwin) ...The Ballyhooligans with vocal chorus; Some of These Days (Brooks) Tiger Rag (La Rocca).... The Mills Bros.; Tennis. and Dwyer; Favourite Favourites, No.
....Clapham 3....The Ballyhooligans; Miss Otis Regrets (Cole Porter); My Headache (Razat, Johnson)....The Mills Bros., The Ballyhooligans Make Whoopee Fox-Trot Medley....The Ballyhooll gans,
2.15 Close Down,
0.0-7.0 Chinese Programme. 7.0 Dance Music
Slow Fox-Trot-Makin' A Fool of Myself (Not Sims); Quickstep Get Hot (Gonella)...
....Nat Genelia and Ells Georgians; Slow Fox-Trots- Love Cries (Coleman Hawkins): Sor- row (Roy Brooks)....Coleman Haw- kins and The Berries; Fox-Trois- Thru The Courtesy of Love (From "The Volce of Scandal); Golden Heart (Denville Michaelson). Billy Thorburn and His Music, with vocal
refrain; Tango-Majanah! (Juan Llossas); Waltz The Dawn of Love (Salter)....Dojos Bela Dance Fox-Trots Copper
Hus Six
and
How King George V. witnessed in Orchestra; the summer of 1912 the first suc- Coloured Gal (Davis-Coots)....Cab cessful flight of an aeroplane from Calloway and the deck of a stationary ship was Perfect Night Is Ending (Davis- Orchestra; Another described recently by Capt. H. W. Coots)....Jack Shilkret Edwards, Governor
and His Merchant Navy School.
of the Royal Orchestra.
The incl dent was recalled to his mind by tions.
7.30 Closing Local Stock Quota- Mr. H. J. C. Harper's article, "When
7.35 Plane is Catapulted," in
Variety. Telegraph and Morning Post.
The Daily Novelty Carroll Gibbons Birth- day Party Host: Carroll Gibbons; Capt. Edwards was serving as Guests: Stanley Holloway; Flanagan lieutenant in II.M.S. London, com- and Allen: Albert Sandler; Turner manded by Capt. E. H. Grafton. The Laylon; Norman Long: Raymond Baght, which the King watched, had Newell; Mario Lorenzi; Scott Wood been preceded the day before by the roadway Melody of 1938" (Film
Organ Solo Swingers; successful ice-off from a ship Selection) "Curly Top" (Film Selec "A wooden run-way," said Capt.
tion)....Reginald Dixon Edwards, "was constructed from the (From
(Fom fore bridge over the fore 12in turret Round"); Rock and Roll (From Blackpool Organist); Vocal-Oh! Leo "Transatlantic Merry-Go- of the ship.
The forecastle, ending at the bows Tennisationtic Merry-Go-Round") "The plane-n land machine on Orchestral Accompaniment; Orches- .The American Eton Boys with two biggish wheels, and, of course, troMy a biplane was brought alongside in (Robison)....Carson
True Love Has Gone a lighter at Sheerness
Robison and holsted His Pioneers. on board.
"We put to.
8.0 Time, Weather and Announce sea that night, ments. with Cmdr. Sampson, Both were charged with obtaining make the fight, Lt. Gerrard, Royal chestra.
who was lo. The great interest of the picture is important events in Holland and in Herbert Here, of the Blue Anchor the aeroplane
of El 18s. Sd. by false pretences from Marines, and the two Short brothers,
8.03 Philadelphia Symphony Or that it is the only old portrait of the the Colonies from the time of the Hotel, near Watchet, and the man was board.
Overture In D Minor (Handel, Duke in existence, and that, at the crowning of Queen Wilhelming.
manufacturers, on transcribed Stokowski); Gavollé also charged with obtaining £14 3s. time of painting, the artist was still
The
Dutch Government will give7d. from Bere without notifying him
OVER THE BOWS
('Mignon')-(Thomas); Samson And probably able to obtain data about financial assistance. The am will that he was an undischarged bank with the ship steaming at about 15 (Berlioz, Op. 24): Danse Macabre, "On Deal the following morning, Damnation Of Faust-Rakoczy March Delilah-Bacchanale (Saint-Saens); his actual appearance. For a long probably be made in the studios of time the portrait was defaced by dirt, Filmsted, near The Hague, and will rupt.
knots, and with but cleaning has laid bare the give employment to a large number NFATUATED
fresh head wind, Op. 40 Cmdr. Sampson took off by the conducted by Leopold Stokowski,
(Saint-Saens)...Orchestra original colours, which are remark of Dutch artists. Production
simple process of starting his engine, ably fresh.
start next months, and the flm musi said the couple pleaded guilty. They machine in position, and letting her formance in Hong Kong) Ettore l'el
Mr. John Eastwood, K.C., defending. releasing the ropes
8.30 Studio Professor Harry securing the Ore's Compositions The Duke is shown three-quarbe ready by August
(First per- tere length, bare-headed, in armour The text will be by Ben
met in July, he said. with a Jewelled belt. He stunda be-Eysselstijn. The
van was living apart from her husband, towards the bows. A little over half- Piano.
The woman down the slope of the run-way legatti. (Cello) Composer at the tween the open folds of a richly-will be the Frenchman, M. Greville, writer.
leader but was earning good money as a way down the 'plane lifted and took embroidered tent of gold cloth. the artistle adviser the Dutchman,
Sonata for Plano & 'Cello in D, the air, flying off casily landwards. Op. 14; (a) Allegro moderato; (b) The man left his wife and threw up
When we
espressione; Cmdr. Sampson met un and Allegro molio..
(e) again embarked his machine.
o....Prof. Ore (Plano) Ettore Pelleraili (Cello). King the Royal therefore arranged that the London yacht
2. Elegy and Gavotte in D, Op. 5 in Portland Harbour. It was for 'Cello....E. Pellegat ('Cello). should anchor near by, and that an- To. Mortlake.. "one of the oldest familles in Eng
other flight should be made by Cmdr.
9.0 London Relay-From Putney land" which does not want its name Job Will Require 50 Years
A recorded programme Sampson for his Majesty to see.
on next was reported that nothing was breas
Saturday's Boat Race, and Boat Races "At about 7.15 p.m., with a light of the past. Devised by George San Jose, Cal, known against the
blowing, woman, but
Cmdr. Sampson Drinkwafer, John Snagge, and Jack A photographic mapping of the
Arnott's record showed terms of Im-
climbed
Into his machine. 1 Inglis entire sky, which will take 50 year France in 1927, term of Imprisonment signal to let go lashings was given. Lay Down My Life (ner, E. Thomas);
prisonment at Nice, expulsion from
mechante swung the propeller-- The Bishop of Ely, Dr. B. O. F. at the Lick Observatory on Mount of proceedings at the Old Bailey and
to complete, soon will be undertaken at Brussels, and others as a result nd the plane wheels wobbled down Go Down, Moses (orr. E. Thomns)
abaft
9.29 Negro 8pirituais. the machine in those days, The (a) I'se Been Buked; (b) Gwing Heywood, thinks it impertinent" to Wilson, Dr. Joseph H. Moore, Marlborough-street Police Court. disbelieve in the existence of angels nietent director, has revealed. and demons,
he slope. The project has been made pos
"Down
Edna Thomas (Soprano); I'm over the fore turret It Goin' To Tell God All O went; over the forecastle, diocesan gazette, he confesses to "o which will be used in the construe measure of concern" about some of tion of the
thought it Paul Robeson (Bass). largest star camera in the
'ind the contents of the report of the world. The instrument will have a
gone right into the sea, but just London, 38 the wheels seemed to touch the Archbishop's commission on Angli-20-inch lens.
Twenty minutes after Loulen urface the 'plane rose steadily to can doctrine.
U-her, B. had swallowed a celluloid cafe height flew round the ship The conclusion that angels
The carrying out of the 50-year foll, surgeons at the Royal Free and the Royal yacht and disappear and programmo will make possible the Hospital performed demons do not exist he finds incom-measurement of the relation-of the oneration, removed it from her throat flight of a 'plane from the deck of a nn emergency over the land. Thh was the frat patible with the teaching of our Lord. entire stellar universe-inited Press, and saved her life.
ship at anchor."
technical
will
The hair is long and wavy, and Johan de Merster, and the produc-his job, and then took place what day arrived at Portland next{Allegretto
there is enough modelling in the facetion leader the Dutchman
for the portrait just
n conventional mask,
to
Guus
of
17
and 10.
escape being | Ostwald. The cameramen will also was usually associated with the ages George V. was aboard
A well-known firm in Grosvenor. street has bought the portrait from
revealed.
DEMONS DO EXIST,
SAYS BISHOP
be Dutch.
Sky to Be Photographed;
They became infatuated with each other, and went from place to place, debts and hoping to settle when the paying where they could or leaving, ship came loine."
T
My
Writing in the current issue of his shle, by the donation of $06,006, | AWIFT OPERATION SAVES GIRL over the bows, and drop-Troubles (arr. Lawrence Brown)
9.30 London Relay--The News, 9.50 Studio-Rev. C. B. H. Sar- rent 31st Series Of Opers,
"Dramatic Soprande." 10.35 Bach-Concerto in C Major. Ulrich Schnabel and The London- Ployed by Artur Schnabel and Karl (Continued on Page 5.)
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