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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 22, 1938.
MURDERER OF IF YOU WANT TO KEEP THREE BEATS YOUNG & BEAUTIFUL- THE CHAIR'
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New York. OBERT Irwin, New York's "mad sculptor," always boasted he would “beat the chair” for his murders of beautiful Veronica Gedeon, the photographers' model, her mother and their boar- dor, an English bartender named Byrnes, and recently his boast was fulfilled.
Instead of being sentenced to death for the crime he confessed to having. committed he was sent to on institu- tion for the insane for the rest of his life.
Telephone Call Saves bulls in the Thieves
Every morning at dawn during his month in the Tombs Prison he would reach for the electric
ceiling of his rell, unserew it, and
put his finger into the rocket. He POLICE are searching for thieves
thought he would thus make him- self immune from the current that would be sent through his body, as he sat in the electric-clnir. .
One morning he prepored hlmn», sell for the usual shock-and there was none. I'm immune!" he yell ed to his guards.
They didn't disillusion him: the eurresit had been turned off that day,
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who broke into the home of Mr. Tom Mather, Newcastle United FC. manager, and stote foutbait nedais! and cups and other valuables.
Mr. Mather was away all day with) the ten at
Blackburn, and the thieves entered while Mrs. Mather was out by smashing a glass panel in the front door.
They filled three suiteoses and laid not mere silver ware on a table to; remove on a return visit.
While they we
were away
moving
Mather
the first batch of Inot Mrs. But Irwin's self-discipline was an returned and called in the polier. Lucestry.
His enumse),
Samuel The thieves did not run into a trap,i Leibowitz, convinced, the judge heus had been hoped, however, for they was hopelessly insane before even rang up the house, and when the vall the psychiatrists and allenista had was answered hing their receiver
without spel
been called.
'BORN IN A TENT'
of
He said Irwin was the SON Itinerant evangelists, and was vir- tually born in a tent." "He has the crazy notion," continued the lawyer, "that he can project filmself into the past and inake such characters as Napoleon and Bismarck appen.
Speaking up
EXPLOSION MADE SAFE DOOR SAFER Gellgnile was used by safe-breakers for the first time an Southampton] recently when two safes at the Sports Stad'uir were blown in.
From one £34 in cash was stolen. The door of the other was jammed by! the explosion and the thieves failedį to open it with crowbars.
"He believes he can project himself into the future and change himself This safe contained £850, whichi physically. He believes he can cast was found intucl.
his eyes over a row of books and read them with his mind's eye. believes he can create life itself."
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The judge asked Irwin if he had anything to say. Hysterically he replied: "I don't admit murder. I looked up the word in the dictionary und said murder was malicious. There is nothing malicious in what I have done. I just borrowed their lives."
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6AT and Grow Beautiful," says America's No. 1 Diet 667
Expert, Dr. Benjamin Gayelord Hauser, who recent ly arrived in London.
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 15 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,
man,
"HAVE WHAT YOU LIKE—” "Diet," pronounced this fall, dark, youngish
with It vaguely Slavonie face="dlet has generally meant a prohibition of some sort in ting With my system li does not. "I say to you, eat as much as you ke. BUT, eat first what you need --what your body needs-then eat what you want; you'll and then you don't eat too much.
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"For instance, in home we always begin' meals with a large bowl of saind, a sort of hors d'oeuvre; when people have eaten
this, which is what their bodies need, then they can eat other foods it, and 45, they wish.
"-DON'T STARVE"
Police
College Extension
Plans are being discussed, for the transfer of the Metropolitan Police Training School at Peci House, Victoria, 10 bulldings adjoining Hendon Police College.
The object is to have all the train- centres, as far as possible, in une locality.
Dr. Hanser knows more of the in-ing side of fm stats outward appear knet & than most men in Hollywood,
"Don't forget," he emphasized, "that
Already the mobile police school, the driving school and the wireless he camera adds 101, to a person's instructional department are along- weight on the screen, often ten years in appearance,
"I am all against starving to reduce; it makes people ill, her- vous, and irritable, Everything One
is just a matter of balanec.
thing is essential, though-fruit juices, eltric acid is the best pro- tection agalast tendencies to fat; most people inclined to be stout should, for instance, add lemon to their water."
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side the college.
Statements have been made that in consequence of the changes the | Police College would be closed in the ear future, but this Was not the
case.
The college caters 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 In large premises on another alte.
Fruin Shirley Temple to Garbo, women whose thousands largely depend on their faces and Nearly 1,500 recruits are dsaft figures, have followed Dr. Hauser's with annually at Peel House. the "Vitality diet," which includes the course of training being, completed "anzania chasser" and the special in 12 weeks.
broth.
The
ve recipes for both.
The number of entrants was reduced lust September because the
juiser is a mixture of spinach number of officers in the higher ranks
which contains Iron, Ind
was becoming unwieldy. parsley, which contains copper; the broth which," មាន he claims, "pute you on the sunny, prudkaline, side of the street"-is made from a bunch of earrots, a bunch of spinach, a handful jor parsley, a bunch of celery,
Cul up fine, add a quart of water. |boil, then strala-and drink,
Double Thumbs Give Away
San Jose, Cal. ΤΟ ΚΣΕΡ YOUNG
When Police Sergeant Kenneth Jor- dan started to fingerprint Gabriel "Old are, bent fingers, cracking Santana, he ran up against a new bones? That's my enough," con- | complleation. Santona bad two tinued this 20th-century Medicine | thumbs on each hand, and the finger- Man.
print cards only had provisions for "Just a celery cocktail, add a bit of ene thumb. However, sufficient emun, then you have J perfect printing was done to establish that solution which diminishes old Santana was parole violator on a
vagrancy charge.
jage deposits.
"Now I'll tell you something about teeth. Sugar is the worst thing you can possibly give bakies; it has a great deal of ear- bron in it which dissolves the system's calcitun--ro necessary to preserve teeth." How does Dr. Hauser know all this you may ask.
Well,
for Inny years he studied i chemistry, and still does. He first began inquiring into correct eating, as he calls it, when, at the age of 18, was cured of tuberculosis in Switzerland by dieting.
he
some 3,000 representatives of my dieting system all over the States"
And he diets hinwelf too. In the has taken alf a pound a day. fast five days, by proper eating, he
"I'm just back again 10 normal now. How is it done? For break- fakt, orange juice, tea and toast; for lunch, mixed vegetable salad with lemon oil dressing, and two pieces of wholewheat toast; ten at five o'clock "After that I went to nearly every nothing to cat with it; for dinner, a European capital and studied scienti-thin stenk, escarol, cooked vegetables, tic work along these lines, and came fresh fruit.”
to America in 1922, when I started As regards drink, Dr. Hauser my first food clinic. Now I have advocates moderation,
WIFE TELLS OF HER
PNEUMONIA CURE
TWO
WOLVERHAMPTON (Staffs).
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, dork, jóvlal "I seemed always to have had director of the hospital's pathologi-asthma," she said, "and I had been cal department. His assistant, Dr. laid up regularly for years. On G. C. K. Reld, the resident medical August Bank Holiday my husband. omeer, is snail, 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 I had awful pains would probably ask for honoura on the right side of my chest and a to be shared with a London doctor hacking cough. Two days who dosed with the new drug, when I went to hospital, my tem- Sulphanilamide, mice infected with perature was 103 and my pulse 120. pacumonia germs,
They had given me up at home. Cured of lobar pneumonin-the "Then they gave me these tablets worst form-by the Dyke and Reld to swallow. I didn't know what they methods is Mrs. Elizabeth Tunstall, were. On August 12 the pain had the wife of a labourer in a metal gone and I had hardly any cough. works.
I was out of hospital on the 22nd."
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