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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 22, 1938.
MURDERER OF IF YOU WANT TO KEEP THREE BEATS YOUNG & BEAUTIFUL- THE CHAIR'
New York.
ROBERT Irwin, New York's "mad sculptor,"
always boasted he would "beat tho chair" for his murdors of beautiful Veronica Gedeon, the photographers' model, her mother and their boar der, an English bartender named Byrnos, and recently his boast was fulfilled.
Instead of being sentenced to death for the crime he confessed to having commited he was sent to an Institu- Uon for the insane for the rest of his life.
Telephone Call Saves Thieves
Every morning at dawn during his month in the Tombs Prison he would reach for the electric bulb in the celling of his cell, unscrew it, and POLICE are searching for thieves: put his Bager Into the socket. Ha
who broke into the home of Mr. thought he would thus make him-Tom Mather, Newcastle United F.C. self immune from the current that manager, and stole football medals would be sent through his body as and cups and other valuables. be sat in the electric elmir.
Mr. Mather was away all day with the team at Blackburn, and the thieves entered while Mrs. Mather was out by smashing a glass panel
One morning he prepared him- self for the usual shock-and there was none. I'm fmmune!" he yell-lo the front door.
el to his guards.
They didn't disillusion him: the current had been turned off that day.
They filled three suitcases and laid! out more silver ware on a table lo remove on a return visit.
While they were away removing the first batch of foot Mrs. Mother returned and called in the police. But Irwin's self-discipline was un- heressary. His counsel.
The thieves did not run into a trap, Samuel Lebowitz, ronvinced the judge hes had been hoped, however, for they was hopelessly insane before even rang up the house, and when the call the psychiatrists and alienists had was answered hung up their receiver been called.
'BORN IN A TENT'
of
He sold Irwin was the son itinerant evangelists, and was "vir- tually born in a tent," "He has the razy nutiun," continued the lawyer, "that he can project himself into the past, and make such characters Napoleon and Bismarck appear,
"He believes he can project himself into the future and change himself physically. He believes he can east his eyes over a row of books and read them with his mind's eye. He believes he can create life itself."
The judge asked Irwin if he had anything to say, Hysterically be replied: "I don't adint murder. looked up the word in the dictionary and said murder was mallelous. There is nothing malicious in what I have done. I just borrowed their lives."
without speaking.
EXPLOSION MADE SAFE DOOR SAFER Gelignite was used by safe-breakersj for the first time
Southampton? recently when two sates at the Sports Statum were blown in,
From one £34 in cash was stolen. The door of the other was jammed by the explosion and the thieves failed: to open it with crowbars.
which
This sale contained £850, was found intact.
More Movies For Warships
London.
The Admiralty has placed an order for the installation of talkie apparatus: In 150 ships and shore stations. A company operated by the Admiraliy will see to the programmes. About 10,000 films n year will be shown.
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Landhoff and Carry, acroba- le dancing sensation, due to appear at the Gloucester Hotel. on Christmas Eve.
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He might just as well have added-"and drink too" -for, apart from discoveries and recommendations about solid foods, he has invented such intriguing little bever- ages as the "complexion cocktail," "anaemia chaser," "vitality broth," and so on...
As the man who for almost 16 years has looked after the figures, and complexions, of Hollywood's most famous stars, also quite a few of the now swollen ranks of New York's Four Hundred, Dr. Hauser-Viennese-born founder of America's first: Food Clinic and adviser to the first Beauty Farm-gave a few idens about diet and beauty.
"HAVE WHAT YOU LIKE "
"Plet," pronounced this toll, dark, youngish man, with
B vaguely Slavonic fuce-"diet has generally meant a prohibition of some sort in eating. With my system it does not. i
"I say to you, eat as much as you ikke, “BUT, eat first what you need what your body needs then eat what you want; you'll find then you don't cat too much.
"For instance begin meals with a 111 my Hollywood
home we always
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"DON'T STARVE"
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The object is to have all the train- centres, as far y possible, in one locality.
Dr. Hauser knows more of the in-ling side of fin stars' outward appear anecs than most men in Hollywood.
"Don't forget," he emphasised, "that he camera adds 10lb. to a person's weight on the screen, often ten years
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against starving to reduce; it makes people ill, ner vous, and irritable. Everything i jusí
a matter of balance. One thing is essential, though-fruit
citric juices,
acid is the best pro- tection against tendencies to fat; most people Inclined to be stout should, for instance, add lemon to their water."
the driving school and the wireless Already the mobile police school, instructional department are along- side the college.
Statements have been made that In consequence of the changes the Police College would be closed in the Har future, but this was not the
case.
The college eaters not only for the Metropolitan Police, but also for Overseas officers, and If the situation warrants it will be developed into an Empire Police College, possibly
From Shirley Temple to Gretain large premises on another site. Garbo, women whose thousands largely depend on their faces and Nearly 1,500 recruits are deall figures, have followed Dr. Hauser's with annually at Peel House, the diet," which includes the course of training being completed
haser" and the special in 12 weeks.
broth.
He gave recipes for both.
The chaser is a mixture of spinach Juice, which contains Iron. and parsley, which contains
as copper; the
broth"which, as he claims, "puts you on the
or alkaline, side of sunny. the street is made from a bunch of carrots, a bunch of spinach, a handful ef parsley, a bunch of celery.
Cut up fine, add a quart of water, boil. then strain-and drink.
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San Jose, Cal.
When Police Sergeant Kenneth Jor- dan started to fingerprint Gabriel "Old are bent Ongers, cracking Santana, he ran up against a new bones? That's easy enough," con-complication. Santona had two tinued this 20th-century Medicine thumbs on each hand, and the finger- print cards only had provisions for one thumb. However, sufficient printing was done to establish that Santann was a parole violator on a vagrancy charge.
Mau.
"Just a celery coclttail, add a bit of lemon,
then you have a perfect sodium solution which diminishes old Exe deposits.
"Now I'll tell you something about teeth. Sugar is the worst you CAN possibly give babies: it has a great deal of car- hon in it which dissolves the system's calcium--so necessary to preserve teeth."
How does Dr. Hauser know all this you may ask.
Fone 3,000 representatives of
my dieting system all over the States'
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And he diets himself too. In the has taken off a pound a day. last five days, by proper caling, he
Well, for many years he studied "I'm just back again s normat chemistry, and still does. He first now. How is it done? For break- began inquiring into correct eating, fazi, orange juice, tea and test; for ns he calls it, when, at the age of 10, lunch, mixed vegetable salad with he was cured of tuberculosis in lemon oil dressing, and two pieces of Switzerland by dieting.
wholewheat toast; tea at five o'clock
"After that I went to nearly every nothing to eat with it; for dinner, a European capital and studied selentl-thin steak, escarol, cooked vegetables, fic work along those lines, and came fresh fruit."
to Amerien in 1922, when I started As regards drink, Dr. Huuser iny first food clinic. Now havo ladvocates moderation.
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Two
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men in white, surrounded by test tubes, micro- scopes and charts, were working recently in a small outbuilding near the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton, un- moved by the interest caused by their proof that even the most deadly types of pneumonia can be cured.
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The elder is fifty-two-year-old, Dr. S. C. Dyke, tall, dark, Jovial) "I seemed always to have director of the hospital's pathologi-galluna," she said, "and I had been en department. His assistant, Dr. lold up regularly for years. On G. C. K. Rold, the realdent medical August Bank Holiday my husband, officer, is small, about thirty-five. baby and myself went camping.
If they could be induced to talk got a chill somehow. about what they have done they "About August 8 I had awful pains would probably nak for honours on the right side of my chest and a to be shared with a London doctor hacking cough. Two days later, who dosed with the new drug, when I went to hospital, my tem- Sulphanliamide, mice infected with perature was 103 and my pulse 120. pneumonia germs,
They had given me up at home.
Cured of lobar pneumonia-the "Then they gave me these tablets worst form--by the Dyke ond Reid to swallow. I didn't know what they methods is Mrs. Elizabeth Tunstall, were. On August 12 the pain hind the wife of a labourer in n metal gone and I had hardly any cough. works.
I was out of hospital on the 22nd."
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