THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY,
MAY
IRON LUNG MAN GIVES
PARTY TO 500
CELEBRATES SECOND
ANNIVERSARY OF "IMPRISONMENT"
London, April 15.
The Man in the Iron Lung, twenty-six-year-old Frederick B. Snite, gave a party to 500 guests in the Miami Beach, Florida, home of his millionaire father in the early hours of this morning--to celebrate the end of his second year in the Iron Lung.
Shortly before the guests began to arrive young Snite was propped up in the huge, iron cylinder which has operated his breathing for him since he was stricken down by in- fantile paralysis in China two years ago. Then the telephone
WANTED:
5,000 SNIPERS
Five thousand snipers are to be trained by the War Office.
The plan is to have at least 50 sniper for each battalion.
To pass the snipers' test the marksman will not only need to be able to hit a man si aný range, bat he will have to hit him in the left eye or on what- ever part of the body his in- structor tells him.
BOY OF 13 STEALS A RAILWAY ENGINE
Paris.
was brought to him, and his father held it to his car while heA THIRTEEN - YEAR -
talked to me by Transatlantic wire.
Between every phrase le paused, light-weight chest respirator for two The machine pumped new air into his bours. Jungs in time with his pulse bent. He went on talking.
It is hoped to increase, gradually,
the time of his "holiday" from the "All my friends will be here," he Lung, until he is able once more to
more."
suid, "five hundred or recited the programme: **Starts t 'eight o'clock.
several boxing matches fighters will be negroes be followed by white fighters Then we have some entertainers. Then some singers
breathe without mechanical aid.
His treatment has cost his father There will be £50,000. Mr. Snite took contribu
The first tions at this morning's party from all They'll the guests-but not a dollar goes to- wards the enormous expense of the entertainment.
"I shall be away from it
here on the sun deck
shall see everything
fitted up It special
apparatus
It goes to Chinese charities, as on expression of Mr. Suite's gratitude UP for the kind treatment of his son when he was first struck down by his present illness in Pelping.
but They've magnifying
Then Mr. Frederick B. Snite sen. (Chicago furniture magnate and moneylender) took the telephone.
"Freddie has become exhausted," he said, "so I'll tell you all about the party. My son will be sixty feet trom the boxing ring, in his fron lung. But he'll be able to see everything through the mirror without turning
in head.
'NO GIRL FRIENDS' "Nobody will be allowed to sha hands with him or say Hinlio" ... tam," Doctor's it's his party, although orders. But he can see all the girls and everybody in the gardens below,
"He has no particular girl friend: himself, so there'll be no one to sij beside him.
"The ring, regulation size, ban been) fitted up in a court of royal palins, in the central driveway leading up to the residence. Everybody will he
here.
"The expense? never thought 'out that. Thit's the last thing I've considered a through his lung i- ness. He comes rat with me.
"Well, good-bye. Give my kind regards to all my friends in London ... my chauffeur comes from there tell them we're going to have a good time
Young Seite, who jokingly describes himself as "The Boller Kid," thought of having a party to celebrate his second anniversury in the Lung, en- couraged by his gradual recovery of health
́ ́BOILER SUIT'
No longer does he have to stay all Once every day in his "boiler suit." twenty-four hours he is taken out for a period of twenty minutes, and every other day he is placed in a small,
TYPIST SCARES BANDIT
Cleveland. Alice Weber, pretty 20-year-old typist, acted "natural" according to bandit. She the instructions of a let out a shrill scream. Her "nat- ural" reaction seared the away and saved $1,000 for a baking
band!!
OLD boy who ràn away from home on Friday was arrested last month at Epinal, France, for stealing
a railway engine.
He played truant from school, and walked from Nancy to Epinal.
After roaming about the station for some time, he climbed into the tender of an engine which he vainly tried to set going.
Ile then tried another powerful engine, paded on a side track.
This Uns he was successful.
It travelled about 200 yards and carriage, crashed into a wooden smashing it to splinters.
UFS
Observing the Feast of St. Joseph. Jean Cardinal Verdier, Archbishop of Paris, dons an apron and serves food to the elderly needy of Levallois, at the hostelry of the Little Sisters of the Poor,
Duchess Of Kent Advises Carol To Reconcile With Ex-wife
Bucharest.
The Duchess of Kent is taking part in an attempt to company in an attempted hold-up. bring about a reconciliation between King Carol of
Rumania and his ex-wife, Princess Helene.
SAVAG
Princess Helene and the Duchess of Kent are cousins. Princess Helene is the sister of King George of Greece; the Duchess of Kent before her marriage was Princess Marina, daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece. FACE POWDER CLINGS Savagely!tion is being made through diplo
Here is something really new in face powder... soeng thing you JUNE to welcome. A powder made on a
The attempt to effect a reconcilia-
matle channels and 18 making progress.
The Duchess hus udvised King Curol to make amends to Princess Helene.
ment of the end of the quarrel will
SMOKE SCREEN OF NAVAL OFFICER HID HIS FRAUDS
Providence, R.I.
It is expected that an announce. Experiments with water fleas be made when King Carol pays may point the way to lengthen- deferred visit o Buckingham Palace ing the average life-span of man in a few months' time.
POLAND'S NEW LEADER
In the new European arrangement Poland. with 35,000,000 people, is the strongest power in the eastern zone separating the conflicting nations of Germany and Russia. Military leader and virtual dictator of Poland is Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz, shown as he recently addressed a huge throng in Cathedral Square, in Vilna, important city.
WHITNEY SHACKLED TO TWO CONVICTS
EX-MILLIONaire stockBROKER BOOED ON WAY TO GAOL
Richard Whitney, £160,000-a-year stockbroker until financial setbacks forced him to beg, borrow, or steal nearly £1,000,000, has an income again now 211⁄2d, a day.
That is his wage for working in the shops of New York's gloomy Sing-Sing, where recently he exchanged his name for a number-Convict No. 94,835.
The man who was five times pre- sident of New York's Stock Exchange had made the journey to Sing-Sing- ofter a night in New York's Tombs Gaot-shackled 10 Hittle Irving Levine, Broadway" extortioner, toll Robert Alston, a negro sentenced for an assault on a woman.
and
He was booed by mobs who waited for him and his chain-gung to leave the Tombs Gaol. He was booed again by mobs who crowded Grond Central Station.
But he kept his head high, and tried to smile as he and his com- panions were herded on to a train. writes the Daily Express New York correspondent.
Whitney lit a cigarette and began chatting amiably
and to Levine Alston, whose kind will be his com- panions for at least three and a half years.
They reached Ossining, and were bundled into black marla. In
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Owes £65,334
At 33 And Renounces Betting
Thirty-three – year – old Mr. Geoffrey Mark Crossman, born, agreed, "with a silver spoon in his mouth," left the Bankruptcy Court last month with gross liablilles of £65,334,
£21.502 considered his
Stock Exchange losses and his £7,100 betting fees, and commented:-
*I'm through with gambling."
Mr. Crossman, a company director, twenty minutes Whitney found him- is short and smartly dressed. His celt before two great gates. They binck hair is brushed smoothly over opened. He went through. They a bald patch in front of his head. closed again.
Whitney did not complain when
his elegant clothes were stripped off, when he was put into a bath
He suid: "I don't know what
shall do now, I must find a job. won't be on the Stock Exchange.
of disinfectant and scrubbed. He It will be something in business-I
was on the business side of the brew- Ing trade.
did not flinch when the coarse grey uniform was put on him.
stew, "Then I shall have to get a small He was given lunch: Jamb potatoes, string beans, corn pudding house somewhere possibly in -very different from the meal he suburbs. I have soon got to normally ate in one of Wall-street's my country house." most exclusive bankers' clubs.
He was taken to his cell-a 112-.
year-old hole in a wall that cannot
be cleansed of vermin..
the
leave
Of Mr. Crossman's £06,334 gross
liabilities, £23.415 are expected to
rank for dividend, against realisable!
A single bulb hangs from a wire assets of £2,077.
This is subject to preferential in the ceiling. The only furnishing were a stool and a bunk-very diff-claims of £1,589, leaving net assets. erent from the estates and luxurious of £488. town houses that had been his since birth.
Later to one of the more modern cells There he will stay until he gradu❤
reserved for senior prisoners.
He will begin work, rakting the prison yard, shovelling cool, clean- ing corridora. When he gradu- ates he may get a job more fitting to his Harvard education-librar- Inn, book-keeper or school teacher, While Whitney set about changing from master mind into convict, his wife, Gertrude Sands Whitney, about the more difficult task of be-
prison widow. coming
Although she was estranged from
set
HAD 25,000 A YEAR Replying to Mr. H. H. Gaine, Senior Assistant Official Receiver, he said
that from 1027 to 1020 he was learn- ing brewing and malling at Newark.
In 1920 he joined Mann, Cross- man and Paulin. The following year, when he was twenty-five, he became a director.
He also acted as director of two subsidiary companies. He received £3,000 a year.
From 1932 until 1030 be lost £21,502 in Stock Exchange dealings, and £1,100 betting on racehorses. although she had read stories of his losses were £2,367. Judgment was King Carol is now believed to be scientists said here. in favour of reconeltintion.
"It conditions which affect the lite love for a Delaware heiress, Mrs. obtained against film last August by It has been pointed out to the of man in the lowly Daphnia Longie Whitney stood by her husband from a firm of bookmakers for £7,100.
In October he went King that in the face of Germany's pina (the tiny water flea) carry over the day of his indictment.
lenders, one of whom menncing advance on South-Eastern to man," said Prof. Arthur M. Banta,
bankruptcy notice. of base, so fine, so soft, this powder hug the skin Europe, and the growth of Fascism "persons who lead very frugal lives ever you knew a powder to stay on so long and in his own country, the safety of until paat middle ago and then have smooth all the while it stays. There's another think Rumanin depends upon the influence generous living may be expected to Cool The Speremshurieta Savagy eling andler.abo makes the skin appear more truly panies, smoothes, of the throne,
to 100 years, Brown University her husband for more than a year, In the last two years his betting
wery different kind though actually a part of it. Try it, See for yourself, if
in touching a Bavage sowdered skin could he told LPESCU'S PENSION
more inviting to the eyes. And the thrill that there
you only by someone aliei Thera
are four lovely shades:
DRIGE RACHEL
·BACHRI
live
longest.
In five years of experiments, Prof.
Banta, assisted by Dr. Lester Ongle
and H. Howard Dunham, found that
WOMEN BAR ROAD, STOP WEDDING
Calcutta Twelve Hindu women, discarding,
to money. lasued the
thni
Mr. Gulne: You appreciato you were a person born with a silver spoon in your mouth7-Yes,
"I agree that I was wildly extra- vagant," he said.
His father put up £30,051 because
The examination was closed.
His advisers have made it clear limiting the water Den's food while NATURALF) that it is impossible for King Carol young and then giving it a normal their vells, marched out of their ho was "In such a mess."
to command the loyalty of many diet, prolonged its vigour, growth enanas (women's apartments) to importont groups In the country from the normal 20 days to about 45 day and stopped the marriage of a while he consorts with his favourite, daya. Reversing the diet, he said, wealthy merchant of Nahan, In the Madame Lupescu, and leaves his cut the water flea's life span to 25 Punjab. ex-Queen in exile.
The future of Madame. Lupescu,
is now the subject of semi-official;
| days.-United Press,
Discussion in Bucharest and London. MOSCOW TO BUILD GO SCHOOLS
They crled "Down with polygamy."
us the bridal procession left for the
ceremony.
SOFTER BUTTER WANTED
CORVALLIS, Ore-Butter that The groom said he was determined spreads easier. That's what. Oregon to go on with the wedding,
State College 'solentisis are now 'try- The protesting women, joined bying to find. Thus far in their Moscow. others, sat down and barricaded the rosearch they have learned that Sixty new schools, each of which street
cows fed exclusively with alfaifa hay which makes Carol's privy purse, which will be is designed to accommodate 080 Then the bride said she would not produce cream granted an increase it Princess pupils, will be built in Moscow in marry the merchant. The women crumbly, sticky, hard to sprend Helens returns to the throné,.
butter. 1938, it has been announced.
cheered as she went back; home,
It is probable that she will come
to live in. England, and will be pro-
vided with a pension from King
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