THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1938.
MARTIN JOHNSON'S WIDOW
TO COMPLETE HIS WORK
New York. Ing generation of savage culture, the adventurer asserted. The Plans to complete the work of her woman husband in Alming a motion picture extended lips, artificially produced by record of life in Africa were reveal-inserting a kind of bridge-work under ed here by Mrs. Osa Johnson, widow the alina of young girls, were resorted to to make the ducic-billed women an of the late Martin Johnson, camera-
unattractive as posible. This was man-explorer who was killed in a
regarded as a precaution against the plane crash in January, 1937.
women's being kidnapped by rival tribes,
And if the
of
plans materialise. Jungle safari achettuled for the Dark Continent next year will bring back the firat screen photographia Africa's famous duck-billed women,
this Photographnig
rapidly-dis- 1. Mrs. Johnson ex- one more step in completing the celluloid record of antinal and native life compiled by her and her husband during 27 years of exploration.
will be
DUCK-BILLED WOMEN Famillor to American elreur-goers because of their huge. naucer-ilke Hps, the duck-bliled ladies of Africa's Luke Chadd region represent a pass-
A "lost tribe" of 70 natives living on a remote laland in Lake Rudolph, British East Africa, is another photo- graphic goal Mrs. Johnson hopes to reach. Never visited by white men until she and her husband reached then several years ago, the natives believed they were the only people Mrs. Johnson living in the world. said.
Because of their Isolation they However, Mrs. Martin added, the
own tribe, whic custom virtually in been dropped never saw human beings other than by the tribe to-day and unless ant members of their expedition is undertaken within the explained. near future a photographte library
of the race may he lost to posterity. Hobby Behind World
JANUARY TENTATIVE DATE
Mrs. Johnson expected to reach the rust coast of Africa In January after! the expiration of her present series of current American lecture tour, und Included in to outfit a safari there. the equipment will be her husband's susand and camera apparatus.
Trip
Mount Clemens. Mich.
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Now u the world in the navy and collected miniatures on shore-leave. 26,800-piece collection is taking him around the world again.
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Newcastle-on-Tyne, May 15.
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Experiments made with mice and other small animals in the research laboratory of the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, have been rewarded by special grants from the National Council
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"Our system is brundly an adop-| tation of diathermy healing by heat treatment." I was told at the hos pital to-day. "Diathermy, of course. is not new, but we have found that a radio-Induced heat seems to have far more possibilities than the ordia- The varieties.
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MARLENE:
"NO NAZI HONOUR FOR ME
༡༡
Paris. German-born film star Mar- lano Dietrich, on arrival at Cherbourg from the United
told States,
Journalists she would accept no honour Nazi Germany.
from
She said: "It is not true that have been chosen as a Stor of Hon- our of the Third Reich.
"Whoever made that suggestion, evan It'were Hitler himself, should Inow in advance what my answer! would be."
Last October Marlene was attack- ed by Julius Streicher, Jewbalter No. 1, as a traitress to Germany for mixing with so many Jews in Holly- wood, and for taking out American citizenship,
Her fints were banned for n timo by the Nazis, but she Inier returned to favour:
She is on her way with her husband
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