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HONGKONG THE
TELEGRAPH
FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1938.
China's Man In the Iron Lung Keeps
Cheerful STREET PERFORMERS IN NANKING
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.
"THE BOILER KID" The "Boiler Kid," as Snite calls himself, edits and publishes 21 mimeographed newspaper,
which he sends to a vast army of friends and "just correspon- lents" all over the world who have been deluging him with lettera since he was stricken in China in March, 1936.
Young Snite conceived the idea of newspaper to reply to his volumin- ous mall while he was at Billings Hospital in Chiengo last summer and named it the Billings Bugle. In a recent issue, he asked suggestions for a new name more appropriate to his
urroundings.
of the material that goes into his newspaper is gleaned from the letiers he receives. He dictates all his "stories" to a nurse and publishes issues of the Bugle in leisurely fushion whenever he has sufficient materlot.
*ROOSEVELT CORRESPONDS His melling list includes many dis- tinguished names and heading it is
He made President Roosevelt.
radio appeal on a national hook-up recently in behalf of the President's infantile paralysis foundation fund.
Dictating stories for his newspaper is young Fred's biggest diversion. He also reads through a mirror set directly in front of him and plays cards from his confinement in the which from respirator heavy Drinker only his head protrudes.
Hope is held that the youth soon may be transferred to a light chest respirator, which would
give him free use of his arms and legs. Several of the lightweight respirators
Wife Who Divorces Cannot Be Widow
a woman divorces her husband she cannot claim to be his widow when he dies. So Sir John Bennett, vice-chancellor, ruled in Lancashire Chancery Court, Liverpool.
tried recently proved unsatisfactory A Cavalcade Of
and further experiments are being conducted.
GREATLY IMPROVED
Extent of young Snite's improve- ment is indicated by recent tests in
of his "ron lung" for
Dutch Life
YEARS ON THRONE
The Hague.
which he was able to remain out TO CELEBRATE FORTY
17 minutes without dimculty. He is removed from his respirator every day for 18 to 12 minutes. but that perlod 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- plete recovery.
DUKE WHO DIED IN BUTT OF WINE
I
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A portrait of "false, flecting per jured Clarence," the brother Edward IV., who was said to have been drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine at the Tower in 1470, is shortly to come on the market.
A flm is to be made in Holland depicting outstanding events in the life of the nation during the 40 years of Queen Wilhelmina's reign.
It will be on the lines of the Bri-
tish film "Cavalende,"
The Army and Navy from the
abroad, will all contribute to the
which, making of the Glm,
when
Indies and Holland, and Dutchmen
John Thomas Atkinson bequeathed £6,000 to his son Joseph, the money after Joseph's death to go to Joseph's wife, Elsie, during her widowhood,! and after her death or remarriage to! Joseph's son.
hus-
Mrs. Atkinson divorced her band in 1030 and has not remarried.
Joseph died in 1936.
She claimed unsuccessfully that she was entitled to benefit, and said that in some cases the word "widow" find to be construed in its secondary meaning.
THE SHOW MUST GO ON. With more and more people returning to Nanking the former capital is beginning to exhibit something like its former self and streat por- formors are doing business again. Photo shows a Chin. esa jugglor doing one of his tricks while children and Japanese soldiers form an interested audienco.
First Flights From Warship
RADIO BROADCAST
Prof. Ore's Compositions From the Studio
ETTORE PELLEGATTI
Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on Frequencles of 845 k.c's. 0.32 m.e's. per second.
6.0-7,0 Chinese Programme. 7.0 Dance Maslo.
Slow Fox-Trot--Makin' A Fool of Myself (Nat Sims); Quickstep Get Hot (Conelia)....Nat Gonella and His Georgians; Slow Fox-Trots Love Cries (Coleman Hawkins); Sor- row (Roy Brooks)....Coleman Haw- kins and The Berries; Fox-Trots Thru The Courtesy Of Love (From Golden The Voice of Scandal); Heart (Denville-Michaelson).. Billy Thorburn and His Music, with vocal refrain; Tango-Majanah! of (Juan Llosses); Waltz The Dawn Love (Salter)...Dnjos Bcia Dance Fox-Treta Copper Orchestra; Coloured Gal (Davis-Cools)....Cab Calloway and Orchestra; Another Perfect Night Is Ending (Davis-
His Coots)....Jack Shilkret and Orchestra.
7.30 Closing Local Stock Quoin- tions.
7.35 Variety.
Novelty-Carroll Gibbons Birth- day Party; Host: Carroll Gibbons; Guests: Stanley Holloway; Flanagan and Allen: Albert Sandler; Turner Layton; Norman Long; Raymond Newell; Mario Lorenzi; Scott Wood and His Six Swingers; Organ Solo "Broadway Melody of 1934" (Film Scicction) "Curly Top" (Film Scice- tlon)...
(Famous ....Reginald Dixon Blackpool Organist); Vocal-Oh! Led (From "Transatlantic Merry-Go- Round"); Rock and Roll (From Merry-Go-Round") Transatlantic
The American Eton Boys with Orchestral Accompaniment; "Orches tru-My True Love Hos Gone
Robison (Robison)....Carson His Pioneers.
and
8.0 Time, Weather and Announce- menis.
8.03 Philadelphia Symphony Or chestra.
Overture In D Minor (Handel, transcribed Stokowski); Gavotte ('Mignon')-(Thomas); Samson And Delilah-Bacchanale (Saint-Saens); Damnation Of Faust-Rakoczy March Danse Macabre, (Berlioz, Op.
40
Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowsk!.
8.30 Studlo Professor Harry Ore's CompositionS (First Der- formance in Hong Kong) Ettore Pel- Tegatti, ('Cello) Composer at the Pleno.
(c)
1. Sonata for Piano,& Cello in D, Op. 14; (a) Allegro moderato; (b)
espressione; Allegretto
con Allegro molto... Prof. Ore (Piano)- Ettore Pellegatti (Cello),
2. Elegy and Gavotte in D. Op. 5 for Cello....E
..E. Pellegatti ('Cello). 9.0 London Relay-Trom Putney To Mortlake..
On next A recorded programme Saturday's Boat Race, and Boat Races of the past. Devised by George Drinkwater, John Snagge, and Jack Inglis.
9,20 Negro Spirituals.
ONE WATCHED BY > KING GEORGE V.
How King George V. witnessed in the summer of 1912 the first suc- cessful flight of an acroplane from the deck of a stationary ship was described recently by Capt. H. W. (a) I'se Been Buked; (b) Gwind Edwards, Gaverner of the Royal Lay Down My Life (arr. E. Thomas); Merchant Navy
School. The inci-Go Down, Moses (arr. E. Thomas) dent
was recalled to his mind by Edna Thomas (Soprano); I'm Mr. 11.
Harper's article, "When Goin' To Tell God All O' My a Plane is CRAZY LIFE OF Telegraph and plan in The Daily Troubles (art. Lawrence Brown)
....Paul Robeson (Bass).
9.30 London Relay The News. 0.50
Studio-Rev. C. B. It. Sar- gent-31st Series Of Opera
"Dramatic Sopranos." 10.36 Bach Concerto In C Major: Played by Artur Schnabel and Karl Ulrich Schnabel and The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult,
WOMAN WRITER
Williton, Somerset.
II. J. C.
Morning Post.
Capt. Edwards was serving us
lieutenant in H.M.S. London, com- manded by Capt. E. H. Grafton. The fight, which the King watched, had! been preceded the day before by the
under
wooden
11.0 London Relay America 'Education.
completed, will be about 7,5000t A daughter of the late Joseph Arst successful take-off from a ship
a A way. long Parts of it will be used for Hocking, the novelist, and distribution abroad.
run-way," said Capt. married man, who were said to Edwards, was constructed from the None of the members of the Royal have lived "like two reckless, fure bridge over the fore 12in turret
to the forecastle, ending at the bows Speako were family, it is understood, will appear crazy
young people,"
of the ship.
A talk by J. B. Conant, President of on the screen.
(charged here to-day with fraud.
"The plane land machine on Harvard University. A series THE QUEEN'S CORONATION The man, Ian. Duft Neil Arnott, two biggish wheels, and, of course, talks brondeast from the US.A. to The film will describe the life of was sentenced to six months hard biplane-was brought alongside in the British Empire. after the Duke's death, by Lucas two Dutch families in different eir-labour, and the woman, who gave lighter at Sheerness Cornelisy. It was one of a series of cumstances one living in Amster the name of A.. Duff Arnott, was 16 executed for the Earl of Dudley, dam and the other in an isolated bound over.
Constables of part of the country. 1 will show at Penshurst, of the
how
The portrait was painted in the
reign of Henry VIII, about 60 years
Queenborough Castle.
lai import Witnessed
be Dutch.
a
artists. Production will
technicol
on board.
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US. FARMERS
ASSISTED
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It is understood that increases un-
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"We put to sca that night, with Cmdr. Sampson, who was to Both were charged with obtaining make the fight, Lt. Gerrard, Royal number of c 18s. 5d. by false pretences from Marines, and the two Short brothers, The great interest of the picture the Colonies from the time of the Hotel, near Watchet, and the man was board.
events in Holland and Interbert Bere, of Use Blue Anchor the aeroplane manufacturers, on that it is the only old portrait of the
also charged with obtaining £14 3s.
OVER THE BOWS Duke in existence, and that, at the crowning of Queen Wilhelmina,
The Dutch Government will give 7d. from Bere without notifying him "On Deal the following morning, time of painting, the artist was still probably able to obtain data about financial assistance. The Alm will that he was on undischarged bank with the ship steaming at about 15 knols, and with fresh hand wind, his actual appearance. For a long probably be made in the studion of rupt. time the portrait was defaced by dirt, Filmsted, near The Hague, and will
Cmdr. Sampson - took off by the but cleaning has laid bare the give employment to a large number INFATUATED
simple process of starting his engine, ropes Mr. John Eastwood, K.C., defending, releasing the original colours, which are remark-of Dutch
securing the start next month, and the Ging must said the couple pleaded guilty. They machine in position, and letting her obly fresh.
be ready by August.
The woman run down the slope of the run-way
Canton, April 1. The Duke is shown at three-quar
met in July, he said. The text
Beginning to-day, the Kwangtung tere length, bare-headed, in armour
van was living apart from her husband, towards the bows. A little over half- leader but was earning good money ns a way down the 'plane lifted and took authorities have imposed a special with a jewelled belt. He stands be- Eyssclain. Te by Ben ween the open folds of a richly-will be the Frenchman, M. Greviler but wa
tax' on goods imported from the air, flying of casily landwards. the artistic adviser the Dutchman, The man left his wife and threw up
"When we arrived at Fortland next now under Japunese military occupa- embroidered tent of gold cloth,
a precautionary measure is long and wavy, and Johan de Meester, and the produc-his job, and then took place what day Cmdr. Sampaon met us and tion, us The hair, I
Ühe Dutchman Guus was usually associated with the ages again embarked his machine. King against Japanese economie penetra- there is enough modelling in the face tion leader
George V. was aboard the Royal tion. for the portrait, just to escape being Oswald. The cameramen will also of 17 and 18. n conventional mask,
They became infatuated with each aclit in Portland, Harbour. It was
therefore other, and went from place to place should anchor near by, and that an- Central News,
arranged that the London as these areas аге recovered. sort of the oldest families in Eng-Sky to Be Photographed; paying where they could or leaving other fight should be made by Cmdr.
debts and hoping to settle "when their Sampson for his Majesty to see. land," which does not want its name Job Will Require 50 Years
"Át about 7.15 p.m., with a light, It was reported that nothing was breeze blowing. Cmdr. Sampson VAN ZEELAND REPORT than por diverted from cotton revealed.
the known against San Jose, Cal,
woman, but climbed into lile machine. Its DEMONS DO EXIST, - A' photographic mapping of Arnott's record showed terms of Im-mechanle
the entire sky, which will take 50 yearsprisonment at Nice, expulsion from abaft the machine in these days. The SAYS BISHOP'
to complete, soon will be undertaken Franco in 1937, term of imprisonment
London, Mar. 31. The Bishop of Ely, Dr. B. O. Fat the Lick Observatory on Mount at Brussels, and others as a result to let go lashings was given,
the slope.
The Prime Minister informed the Heywood, thinks it impertinent" to Wilson, Dr. Joseph H. Moore, of proceedings at the Old Bailey and and the plane wheels wobbled flown
Marlborough-street Police Court.
"Down
Lover
the fore turret it House of Commons that the diabelleve in the existence of angels alttant director,, has revealed.
went; over the forecastle, and drop-Zeeland report was still under con- and demons.
The project has been made por
ped the bows. We thought it sideration. "I feel," he said, "In the Writing in the current fasue of his sthle by the donation of 200,000. SWIFT OPERATION SAVES GIRL had gone right into the sea, but just present circumstances it would be diocesan gazette, he confesses to "a which will be used in the construc-
on the wheels seemed to touch the welt shall be given to i's recom to defer any decision whether messure of concern" about some of tion of the largest star camera in the
surface Twenty minutes after Loulea
a affect tho plane tore steadily to a the contents of Abe report of the world. The instrument will have h Archbishop's commission on Angli- 20-lach:
Usher, B, had swallowed a celluloid safe holght. I flow round the ship mondations Asked whether other The carrying out of the 50-year doll, surgeois at the Royal Free and the Royal yacht and disappear Governments have been consulted, emergency ad over the land. This was the drat. Mr. Chamberlain added: "We are in 6 do not list obe dads, Income-measurement of the rotation of the operation, removed it from her throat sight of a plane from the deck of a consultation with the French Govern
ship at anchor
mont-British Wireless or Enching of our Lord. (entre molar univorec,nlimited Press, and saved her life,
A well-known firm in Grosvenor- street has bought the portrait from
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came home."-
(cary doctrines dentu murals, and ¦ programme' will make, possible the Hospital performed Zah`
Loudon.
over
swung the propeller-
The tax will be abolished as soon
BEING CONSIDERED
Van
ROYAL ESTATES FOR
WAR VETERANS
Vienna, Mar. 31..
It is learned that the new regime
der the 1930 Aèrengo Allotment Bill, will probably give the huge Hapsburg which were agreed upon at a meet-catates to the War Veterans' Fund. Ing to-day, provide, firstly, a four United PresS,
per cent. acreage increase allotment
in each Stale, secondly that each farmer should be allotted not less
50 of 1037
PICKPOCKET GAOLED Five months' hard labour were under the roll conservation pro Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Mag- Alven Slu Kwan, 29, unemployed, by gramme.-Reuter.
istracy to-day for stealing a wallet from Ho Sal-kit, at the Canten Wharf, Connaught Road Central
SUITS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION ·
The following ships are expected
-CAUGHT WITH OPIUM to be in wireless communication with Hongkong Radio Minoo Maru,
Found with 11 tacks of prepared Choksang. Asuma Maru, Conto Romo, onium in her, possesalen at Johnston Africa Mary, President Cleveland, Road yesterday, a worann, Wong Kin Jean Laborde, Empress Of Asia, 20 was arrested und appeared bars Potsdam, Honglong, Belmoiro, Mr H. B. Hutters at the Cant Proteus, Africa Maru, Nellore, Magistracy to day. She wande Sphinx, G. G. Paul Doumer, Behar, 1990, with the, bilernativaan ay
months hord Imbouri and Newchwang.