Girl "Half Asleep" For Four
Years: Mystery Rare
STRICKEN AFTER FALL IN STREET
DOROTHY JANDA is a sleeping beauty
who is very wide awake.
This pretty fifteen-year-old girl, who lives in a poor but neat house over-looking the banks of the Regent's Canal, London, has a strange medical history.
Always happy and laughing, it is Dorothy's body, and not her brain, that is asleep. Below the waist Dorothy has no feeling. You could stick pins into her and Dorothy wouldn't move. Dropped In Street
Four years ago she was a dancing tomboy racing other children home after school. One day crossing the street Dorothy dropped. On lifting her they found she could not walk.
She went before boards of doctors. They were, pazzled. Then it was discovered that stricken with Transverse Dorothy had been
Myelitis of the spinal cord, a very rare germ so small that it cannot be isolated.
After months in hospitals Dorothy, came home unable to move and un- the able to feel anything below
marvelled at the chest. Doctors strength of her will power and the fact that she was still alive.
The little house was transformed and the family of six took the place of a hospital staff.
Dorothy's father, who is a basket maker, learned to massage her cold little feet in the hope that she would become strong enough to walk. Sister, Too
Нег mother, a charwoman who goes out to work in the evenings, set to prepare special dishes to make Dorothy strong.
Skater Connie, ared, fourteen. and aid classes went to first
how a pallent is most studied easily lifted and helped along. Little brother Clem, not yet len, liclps too.
Dorothy has a great friend, Lily, who works in an unholstering fac- tory from eight in the morning til 6.30 at night. Lily arrives outside the house every evening at 5.45 to take Dorothy out in her bath chalr.
Sometimes they go to the pictures, and Dorothy's chair is placed beside the back row.
On March 26 Dorothy will be six- She has already received her tcen most cherished birthday present. Her Gift
A rich, middle-aged woman whose name is unknown drives every week hospital Dorothy for treatment to a visited.
she heard doctors dis- Recently cussing Dorothy's case and her brave spirit,
She inquired about the girl and through the doctors sent her n mes- sage asking her to accept a present
the thing you want most."
Dorothy, overjoyed, chose a wrist watch.
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GRETA “CAMILLE” GARBO CENTRE OF RUMOUR
GRETA GARBO, the "I Won't Talk" star of Holly- wood, again excites world speculation regarding her romance with The famous conductor, Leopold Stokowski, to whom It is said, she is already married,
International Drug Ring Unmasked By Mother
Paris.
Eight men and two women have been arrested here following a New York mother's demand that supplies of drugs sent to her daughter should stop.
They are stated to be members of a Drug Ring doing a great illicit business in cocaine, morphine and heroin.
Warrants have been issued for the arrest of 20 other men and women said to be members of the gang.
This round-up is said by the police to be one of the biggest for years, and discovery of a vast drug ring is expected.
These are the chief facts of this sensational case, reported by the French "Scotland Yard" to-day.
A girl contracted the drug habit while at a finishing school in Paris. Dispatch of suppiles of heroin to her when she returned home to New York.
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He sold her heroin, and she had since been receiving drugs from him in New York, it is declared.
She was taken seriously ill recently and confessed to her mother that she was taking heroin.
MONTHLY PARCELS
The arrest of Axel,
former barman, and a police search in his speriment in Montparnasse put the police on the track of the gang,
One of the problems troubling the
Is French authorities
how the
Mother's discovery that she was traffickers were able to send drugs to taking drugs, and
the United States in ordinary parcels their source being traced,
marked "household goods" without Information sent from New Yoric
these being detected by the United to French police.
States Customs.
Parcels arrived in New York regu-
GIRL AND TRAFFICKER The complaint of the New Yorklarly every month. mother, whose name is given here as Mrs. Bertha Fanning Taylor, artist, led to the unmasking of the gang.
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ZOOS GET WHISTLING EAGLES
MELBOURNE-The local zoo has Some years ago Mrs. Taylor cam been enriched by the addition of a to live in Parts for a few years with number of Australia's famous whist- her two daughters, then aged 10 anding eagles. Although these birds 15.
It is alleged that the elder girl made the acquaintance of a drug trafficker known as "Act" in the Montparnasse quarter.
ure
common not only in Australia but in New Guinen and New Caledonia, they are difficult to cap- lure. While soaring high, their "whistle" is so powerful that it can easily be heard from the ground.
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BRITAIN PREPARED FOR FORCE
But Japanese Agree
To Release Jardine Ship
JAPANESE WIDEN BREACH
Strong Positions Captured
Shangbai, Apr. 27. The claim that the Japanese_yas-
Shanghai, Apr. 27. terday recaptured Hoshan and Kuo- The British steamer, Tungwo shan, two strategically Important (1,937 tons) owned by Messrs. Jar- | hills in the Talerchwang and Pitsien dine, Matheson & Co., was seized by | aren, was made by the Japanese Japanero army last night at the Army spokesman at this afternoon's mouth of the Yangtse River,
press conference.
The Tunuwo was proceeding up rivor when sho was stopped and boarded from Japanese milltary launches, and the ship escorted to the Japanese base at Tsungming Island, at the mouth of the river.
The ship was searched from top to bottom, but the owners declared that nothing, except ordinary cargo, was found. No arms were aboard.
The Japanese allege that a shot was fired from the Tungwo, and they have announced the detention of the ship indefinitely.
FORCIBLE RECOVERY
Later.
It is suggested locally that the Japanese allegation that a member of the Tungwo crew fired a shot against the Japanese may have arisen from the fact that the Tungwo pass ed unintentionally into the line of fro between Japanese units and
Chinese irregulars.
It is rellably learned that H.M.S. Crickel was prepared for action will full capacity of shells aboard and decks cleared and she had orders to recover Tungwo forcibly if neces sary should the ship not be returned by the zero hour, 4 a.m
the
Later it was learned that the sall- ing of H.M.S. Cricket was cancelled for the time being following a de- finite assurance from Admiral Hase- gawa that the Tungwo will be re- turned to-night. Nevertheless H.M.S. Cricket kept up steam and the Ja- the panese were informed that if Tungwo was not returned by 4 a.m. to-morrow the Cricket will sail- Reuter.
He said that occupation of these had widened the wedge, which the Japanese were driving Into the Chi- nese lines and he believed that fur- ther progress would be made in the
near future..
The spokesman said that the Chi- nese had taken full advantage of the hills in the Taierehwang and Pihslen area, which had been strangly fortifed. Therefore the
capture Hoshan and Kueshan was important. The spokesman also claimed
that Japanese troops were penetrating north from Nantungchow, near mouth of the Yangtse, and had сар tured the town of Yencheng, about 25 miles from the coast, and roughly 90 miles south of the Lunghal Rail- way.
the
He said that the Japanese were conducting mopping up operations inside Yencheng, which had been oc cupied by about 3,000 Chinese troops.
-Reuter,
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RELEASE ORDERED
Shnaghal, Apr. 27. The Japaneso Army authorities Dec. have ordered the release of the 8.5 Jan (1030) Tungwo, following negotiations be Mar. (1939) tween the British and Japanese
Spot Consul Generals.
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