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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 15, 1939.

HIGH FEVER AS CURE FOR CRIPPLES Choose your

PATIENTS BAKED

A

IN CABINET

24-YEAR-OLD Highland barman, Robert Mack Khoosh, who went to London eight months ago in search of better wages, is helping to make medical his- tory at the London Hospital, Whitechapel Road.

Recently he had his first treatment in a Hypertherm, the only one of its kind in England.

He had suffered excruciating pain from arthritis of the hip and was unable to stund. In three weeks' time it is expected he will walk back to his job in Fieldgate Street.

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The Hypertherm arrived at the| "The trouble is that as wc London Hospital last November, and acord only one we can treat only one has since put nine crippled men on patient at a time;" auld the doctor. their feet again in an average of three weeks' treatment each. 7

TRIED ON À SPECIALIST The first patien!" to try it out] was the young Harley Street special- ist who is in charge of the depart-1 ce ment.

Meanwhile Robert Mack Khoosh Jay in pain and away from his job | for five weeks at the London Hospital before he got his chance,

It works on the entirely new principle of raising a high fever of between 105 and 107 degrees in the patient and maintaining it for hours on chu

end,

"Baby Helmet

Is Approved

The patient is insulated in a large

LONDON. cabinet of compressed wood treated After prolonged research in labo- for resistance to heat. He lies on an ratories and experiments, the babies" air mattress and is covered with a respirator, which has become known blanket wrung out of hot water. as the buby helmet, has been approv= Two heaters set in a water bathed by the Government for protection of maintain a humidity of 99 per cent. Infants of tender age in the event of and temperature of 118 degrees in a zes attack as part of A.R.P. arrange- the cabinet air. Between blanket ments. and skin the humidity goes up to 100 per cent.

"HOW BURNS ARE AVOIDED ---- Perspiration cannot evaporate and Hence the patient loses no heal. The Bir is kept in constant circulation within a few months. In addition, over the patient by an electric fan

and in this way burns are avalded.

Public demonstrations of the new evice are being made to-day in the presence of parents of infants under two, who will be fitted with helmets. An order for 1,400,000 has been placed and these will be distributed

This official navy picture shows navy scout-observation plane taking off from huga wave, during study of problem of soaring from heavy seas in rough weather.

Why Mr. John Signed

Another Artist's Work

Hitler Has Luxury

A.R.P. Shelter

LUXURY shelter thres storeys below ground fevel has

· been provided for Herr Hiller at his now Chancellery.

It 物

and

air-conditioned equipped with kitchens and all modern conveniences,

This luxury, dog-out is one of the few really deep shelters specially made in Germany.

·In Germany AIL.P.' Is regarded especially as a women's pro vince, as the men are expected to be at the front.

Ex-Golf Champion's Wife Found Drowned

MONTE CARLO, THE mystery of the disappearance from her hotel here on February 15 of Mrs. Joan Martin Smith, wife of Mr. Eric Marlin Smith, British amateur ex-golf champion, has been solved..

Her body was found recently on the beach at Grimaud near Toulon, and was Identified later.

Mr. Martin Smith has been in- formed by the authorities.

Mrs. Smith arrived at Monte Carlo from London on December 12 and left her hotel about three o'clock in the morning of February 15, wearing mn evening gown and a silver fox fur cape.

GOLDEN HEEL SLIPPERS

Doctors who examined the body said it hod been in the $cu

IN HIS great studio in Pelham Street, South Ken-between eight and ten days.

1,300,000 special respirators for young sington, recently Mr. Augustus John and Mr. Robin Gu- children under four years of age are

thrie, the artists, settled the great mystery of the Fitz- william Museum sketch, the property of Mr. Freshfield and shown at the Cambridge Museum as the work of John. Mr. John read a statement he had prepared. It was as follows:

Epithet Hurler Protected

It took un hour to raise Robert in production. Mack Khoosh's temperature from normal to 195 degrees, the usual height for a first treatment. His high fever was exactly maintained for three hours. Then he was taken out, bright pink all over. and allowed to cool of. In an hour his temperature fell to 98.6.

MIAMI, Fla.

No matter what name a man is "This treatment is master entled, he is not legally justified in realisation of the fact that fever is a striking the name-enller, according to protection and curative. He would a ruling by Municipal Judge Cedil noi catch a chill even if he were in C. Curry. He sentenced an offender the open air," said the specialist.

"It was uncomfortable while my temperature was going up, but after that didn't mind," he said.

Film records are being kept of cach patient before and after treat- show men with swollen

ment. med eyes, and a rash |

joluta,

covering body and soles of feet turned into normal people, stories heavier within

The Hyperther th

cannot be com-

mercialised. It is so complicated that it can be safely used only in hospitals with a trained team.

|to a day in jail.

"A year or two ago a party brought a drawing round to me at Mallord Street for my signature.

"The drawing looked to me like an early study of mine in pen and wash and was in addition such a beautiful thing in itself that 1 was only too gind to add my signature.

Girl Typist To Join Fiance

In Leper Colony

The dead woman wore two dia- mond rings, from one of which

large stone had been lost. She had on the evening gown, but the cape was missing, and wore slippers with golden heels.

body, declared: "The body bears no

Dr. Rennaud, called to examine the

trace of violence. The wrist watch

lind stopped at four o'clock."

"Medical evidence points clearly to

the fact that she died by drowning." say the police.

Mrs. Martin Smith was born in 1009. She was married to Mr. Mar-

- "For this piece of expertise I re-tin_Smith in 1932. He was granted ceived, as far as I remember, no fee, a decree nisi in the London Divorce BEGAN TO HAVE DOUBTS Court last December, A decree nisi "Later, on examining the photo-against her husband in 1935 was graph of

of the drawing with which rescinded. had been at my request presented, I

Janu began to

to have doubts about Its au- thentielty

"I could not recognise the model

[ISS BETTY SHAW, a 20-year-old City typist, of and wondered how, when and where

M. Catford, said good-bye for five years to her fiance, I could have drawn her. But after

Mr. Kenneth L. Goddard, of Fulham, recently at Tilbury. When next they meet, it will probably be at a leper colony which Mr. Goddard has undertaken to found in the back-lands of

It was invented by Charles Kelter- Ing. Inventor of the self-starter for: motor-cara, Keltering is a researchi engineer and director of General Tanganyika. Motors, Detroit, USA. The Hyper- therma is made in his home town.

Dayton, Ohio.

THERE IS ONLY ONE He is now a millionaire and the Hypertherm is one of his hobbies, London Hospital got its outfit at cost.

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Shaw said, "but he insists it is no place for me until the colony is "I have begged to be allowed to accompany him now," Miss

built and organised.

of,

"Any can one?

own.

Soldier Houdini

· Tries Again

PRIVATE Thomas Bell, 10-years-

I pinned the photograph I old Houdini of the Argyll and on my wall and have often shown it Sutherland Highlanders, who tried to to people as an uncommonly fine ex-scale the 130ft. rock of Stirling ample of my work of the period. Castle, made a second attempt to "I was not aware that the drawing break from barracks while under

when I all belonged to Mr. Freshfield, and there sentence for his escapade, it was re- was certainly no signature upon vealed recently.

too hastily applied my

He was ordered to be confined to "He must clear the tropical bush, eine, agriculture and building. He

GREAT RELUCTANCE

barracks after soldiers, police, and build his own house and the hospital practised first-aid by treating

"i-relinquish all claim -to-the au-firemen had rescued him from.... a. and fetch patients long distances minor injuries of City office workers. reluctance and would only like, if it

thorship of the work with great ledge 78ft, up the rock,

When he decided to make a gct- "Roads musi be bull, clinics! His elder brother, a bacteriologist, were possible, to pay further com- started ai vurious centres, and coached him in

metliods of water pliments to the distinguished artist,away he chose a different place from the one he picked before. He stole nutives trained as dressers and cis-Oltering.

my friend, Mr. Robin Guthrie, than i

over the courtyard to lower part of pensers,

At Inst he submitted himself as a have already done unwittingly.

the ramparts. Then he climbed the "This, 1 fear, sounds a little con-

high outer wall and peered down the celted."

Undounted, Alter Mr. John had read the state-jagged ledges of rock.

from the various tribes,

the

"Meintime. I intend to give uplay worker candidate to the British typing and study nursing, shall Empire Leprosy Relief Association also learn the native dialect, I am and was chosen first from a waiting ment Mr. Guthrie said he agreed with the dropped down and began his wild prepared to work and wait untilist of 150. Immediately he dis- Mr. Goddard deefdes it is time for posed of his shop and engaged pas- it, adding, "except that It is far far scrambit.

me to go.

am not afraid of working with sage on the next boat. lepers. Proper treatment averts all danger of Infection."

Miss Shaw met Mr. Goddard three

than

"Life is something more making money," he said,

He plans to make the colony self- years ago, when she came as a cur-supporting, even to producing the all tomer lo his tobacconist's shop In which is the only known cure for Wood Street, Cheapside.

leprosy.

SELF-TRAINED

This comes from a tree found in His rigorous course of self-training Assam. Mr. Goddard is taking seeds Included heavy engineering, med!~with him.

'Millionaire' Called Pest

In Luxury Flats

MR. ARTHUR PEEL NASH, the 73-year-old reputed millionaire who, five weeks ago, married his former secretary, Miss Joan Lister, and has just adopted as his daughter a pretty young woman named Miss Joan Mc- Glynn, denied at Marylebone Police Court recently that he was "a perfect pest" to Mr. Nash agreed that in a recent

High Court action he gave an under

too complimentary to me."

MR. JOHN'S "FEAR" The two artists stood smiling to each other-Augustus John, with his broad shoulders, bushy

white hair

and pointed white beard, and Mr. Guthrie slight, and thin face, in

Mr. John

light grey sudded: "When I first was shown the drawing for signalure I thought it was done soon after I came out of Siade School.

"It was rather better than any- thing I remembered.

Beli clung to the rock, desperately clawing with hands and feet for every ledge and crack that could give support. Just as he reached the end of his painful descent he was spot- ted from the look-out.

The alarm was raised as he jump- ed to the ground and ran away,

·WAITED FOUR HOURS

He was chased by the military police and recaptured.

When Bell made his first escape attempt he was caught because he "I first heard of this through the returned to the Castle too late to Press, and with all the fuss there pass the sentry. He was trapped on was," he added, laughing, "I began a narrow_ledge 70ft, up for four to wonder whether I should have to hours. Police heard his eries for leave the country.

help, search-lights picked him out, "Then all the complications mude and he was rescued by rope in d me wonder if I should be sued for state of collapse.

forging my own signature."

Mr. Guthrie said, "Mr. Freshfield

told me he purchased the drawing as

one of John's about three years ago.

SUSPECTED FORGERY

CONSTIPATION?

his-neighbours in a block of taking that he would not run about I happened to go into-Fitzwilliam this safe way

| luxury flats.

"I was in Cumbridge doing · por- traits of some university people and The Bals, the stairway, or the en- Museum and saw the drawing. |trance hall while improperly dressed "At first I thought the signature of He summoned Mr. Alfred and that his planets would not be John had been forged, I thought I Allan Selbourne, who lives in a played between 11 p.m. and. 8-8.m. could have dons a better one my-

at beneath him at Portman- Mr. Myers sald that it was not selt."

Only one problem remained, who square, W., for threats.

until the landlords-bed-applied for 9 an injunction against Mr. Nash to was now to sign the drawing? Mr. Nash said that at 8.30 stop him using his flat in such a way John said: "Better crase my name a.m. one day recently Mr. Sel- us to be offensive to decent people and put yours on, Guthrie."

Mr. Guthrie was horrified.

"Cer- bourne banged at the door of that the threats caso was brought. his flat and when it was opened without corts.

The magistrate rismised the caso lainly not," he said, "but perhaps I'll

put my name in another corner." said: "I will smash your pianola and you, too."

Asked by the magistrate (Mr. Tvan Snell) if he were

frightened, Mr. Nush said that he was afraid It might [happen again' tad he wasn't sure he

could stand it.

"AN UNDERTAKING

Cross-examined by Mr.

Horry

| Myers (defending), Mr. Nash denied

that he had been a perfect pest" to

other occupants of the flats.

Woman Driver Shot By Police

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about the fute and up and MRS. VIOLET DALZELL, aged thirty-five, n schoolteacher

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Day or night?-Certainly.

was shot in the thigh by a patrol of the "B" special con- stabulary recently,

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