NUFFIELD
Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
April 26, 1939.
LUNGS GO
ROUND THE WORLD
No Nation Appeals In Vain
Oxford.
LORD NUFFIELD'S "Iron Lungs" are going all round the work. They are benefiting not only the British Empire, but foreign countries.
facing
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Many hospitals abroad,
have telephoned energracies,
Cowley, enbled Morris Motors, t pleading for lungs. And to Paris. Į Nice, Algiers, Finland, China, New York Hey have gone by special plane, special tram, spectal boat.
"It meant the saving of the life of suine child struggling for breath," an Pand offletal of the company satel, antionality was beside the point.
"In each ense the tall is been answered in the spirit in which Lord Nuffield, through his love of children, made his offer of free Tron lungs' to every hospital in the Empire."
50 A WEEK
A large workshop has been laid out for mass production at the rate of 50, a werk.
At one end arrive sets of wooden
panels from the sawmills. Carpen-
ters (formerly motur-body tuishers)
assemble them and they pass-look-
AIR RAIDS: This is what air rails méant to Kongmoon recently. Rows of buildings were shat-
ing like mass-produced collins rather tered by the Japanese bombe, and for days afterwards soldiers and civiliana worked among the debris,, than life-savers to the spray-paint searching for bodies, as this picture shows.
cetion. From there they go to the
finishing bay, where chromium-plat-
ed fittings, rubber reals, and equip-
ment are attached.
The patient les inside the "lung" on a mattress with his head pro- truding through a soft rubber Keal.
Bellows, operated by a small electric motor, alternately fill and cmply the cabinet with air in "gasps" which automatically ex- and collare the patient's
lungs,
nir
One iron lung is always kept ready packed to answer emergency calls,
Such call was received recently from Uganda. The apparatus was rushed to Southampton and taken all the way by ale It arrived tree days Intre--just there haurs too late. One despatched to Lincolnshire after an emergency call received al 5.30 p.nt: reached its destination and was met by the doctor who had the patient breathing in night.
the
Lagos.
lunds, Seychelles Islands, Nyasaland, Barbadoes, Kumasi, and Sarawak.
So far 158 unless have come from Australia alone. Three are for the Australian Surf Life-saving Associa- tion at Sydney, for use people
saved from drowning.
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Magicians Challenged By Spiritualists
THOUGHT-READING ACT LIBEL SUIT
forming "the unsolved mysitṛy" for lover 30 years.
Mr. Justice Singleton: And hasn't it been solved yet?
"No," she replied, "Noledy hus teen anywhere acar It, though there have been a number of attempts. It Is an invention of my husband's."
TRICK KEPT SECRET Reading of messages in scaled en- Madame Zomah continued.
velopes was a very well-known trick,
A LIBEL'action was brought before Mr. Justice Some Singleton and a special jury recently by the Zomahs, Throughout the Empire lungs have professional magicians, who said they had been challenged
Mr. Justlee Singleton: You are been ordered by placés us remote on Hongkong, Tanganyika, Falkland Is. by spiritualists to reproduce a medium's performance.
Madam Zomah told the judge she preferred not tonating to tell us how it is done? Madam Zainah cold that if she disclose the details of a trick known as "The Unsolved were asked she was willing to ex- Mystery."
Alah the trick, but she preferred not 1o do so, as an object of the Institute Complaining of an article in "Psychic News," and a contents of Magicians was to prevent the dis- bill of the paper, the Zomahs-Mr. Alfred James Giddings and closure of tricks.
Mr. St. John Field, K.C. (defend- his wife, Mrs. Adelaide Ellen Giddings, of Alexandra Drive, Gipsy Hill, S.E.-are suing Psychic Press, Limited, publishers; Mr. ing): Blindfald or not, you can see want your husband is doing, can't Maurice Barbaneli, editor: Peverleys, Limited, printers; and you? Unless the judge makes me, I Horace Marshall and Son, Limited, distributors.
refuse to give away the secret that
All of them deny libel.
act called "The Unsolved Mystery."s been my living for many years.
In evidence, Zumah said that be Messrs. Marshall also pleaded that Zomali moved about the audience was an architect, who did amateur Mr. Hore-Belishia. Secretary
Madam Zoma, conjuring, until he thought out the War. replying to a Commons question they distributed the publication in and never
"Unsolved Mystery." recently said it was proposed that anthe course of their business, without blindfolded on the stage, would iden- tify articles and read the numbers of
Mr. Justice Singleton: When did Army mechanized --demonstration knowledge of its routents.
-j-bank-notes-handed. ta.him..
-you-get married?-In-1902. UNSOLVED MYSTERY”~ column should make a tour in June
"And you have been thinking it Mr. Ewen Montagu, K.C. for the Zomah was president of the Insti- and July, and that displays illustrat- ing progress in mechanisation should Zonahs, said they were well known! tute of Magicians, a bedy which he out over since!" said the judge, umid
laughter. be on view al varhus exhibitions conjureis who mers than 30 years founded.
The hearing was adjourned. a thought-transference: throughout the country.
ngo :volved
Britain Will See More Of Its Army
F1354.
F1303.
F1366.
Despi
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I'm Awuy Up High. Swing F.T. Plastered in Paris. F.T. The Skaters. (Waldtrufe) Waltz. In The Shadows. (Finck.t
Cleaver Hils, No. 1.
THE BAND WAGGONERS.
VICTOR SILVESTER'S HARMONY MUSIC.
Intro:
I've Got A Pocketful of Dreams” "Music, Maestro, Please!"
The Chestnut Tree" "Penny Serenade" "Love Makes The World Go Round" "The Umbrella Man"
1. ROBINSON CLEAVER. Playing on the Studio Organ.
F1359. FOXTROT MEDLEY. Intro: "Deep In a Dream". "I have Eyes", "Romany". "Sweethearts", "I Shall Always feinember You Smiling", "The Umbrella Man".
PIANO SOLO, BILLY THORBURN,
spoke.
Maurice Counsel said that Mr. Barbanell invited 20 members of the
LETTUCE LAND BOASTS
Salinas, Cal.
Kalurry, Supressa Coerh
3
HIS WIFE DESERVED
A MEDAL
We're moving next-week. Batty, Ht a lovely little house with a separate play room
For Johnny
THINKS:
WE COULD DO WITH A BİGGER PLACE
I WISH PETER COULD MAKE THE GARAGE PAY
MEANWHILE PETER'S IN TROUBLE
Unless you can pay off these mortgages on your garage in the next si months, I'm afraid we'll hove to take over your business, Mr. Graham
AT HOME THAT EVENING.
I can't make things go. I'd better throws my
hand in
We're going to fight to the last ditch, darling, to hold that business It's just that you're run
down and tired always,
Peter in
Yes, he even wakes
tired, doctor
THINKE
WHAT WILL HAPPEN, TO BETTY AND THE BABY. OH, IF ONLY. I DIDN'T FEEL SO TIRED
ALL THE TIME
1 MIGHT PUL THROUGH
BETTY JAW
THE DOCTOR
From what you've told me, Mrs. Graham, Fa! I'd say your husband's trouble is Night Starvation.
You see, even at night we go on using up nemy in heartbeats, breathing and other Butomatic actions. In his case this has no
doubt also led to an excess of acid waste products in the blood. All this causes him to wake tired and feel no good at his work, Recent hospital tests have proved that Horlicks is
what people need for that condition
BETTY SAW TO IT THAT HER HUSBAND HAD HIS HORLICKS EVERY NIGHT
SIX WEEKS LATER
¡PËTËR FELT
LJA NEW MAN
The front axle... OK. Sír. I'll send some down in 10
minutes with the breakdown
VSM
SIX MONTHS LATER
Thanks to you, Betty, the mortgage is paid off-the garage is
ours. You deserve
a medat
THINKS:
~HORLICKS DID
DO WONDERS FOR PETER
Do you even wake tired?
Institute of Magicians to see a per- formance by John Kelly, a medium, who purported to be able to read,
Do you feel worn out, depressed and nervy? Saled statisties for 1938 show thi blindfolded, the contents of we envelopes and to give mes- the Sallons-Watsonville-Hollister orca sealed rages from the dead.
Hrew 49.0 per cent of all lettuce con- Mr. Barbaneli wrote that he could sumed in the United States last year. a pubile religious service It totalled 21,431 cartoads, which nat allow lo be interrupted, but the magiclans would make up a refrigerator car would be entitled to express their train 178 miles long.
views after cingicton: A religious į
Mr. Justice
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service, with magicians present? "Yes," Mr. Montagu replied. added that Zumah came to the con- elusion that Kelly, though a magni-. Acent showman, was fraud In claiming mediumistle powers.
F1368. Valse Parisienne,
A CHALLENCE Spanish Waltz. JOSEF PREISSLER, Accordion & His Musette Orch.
("Gurden of the Moon".) F.T.
Mir. Barbenell F1369. Love Is Where You Find It.
challenged any KAY KYSER & S ORCH. members of the institute to give Deep In A Dream. F.T. F1372. Tears On My Pillow. S.F.T.
Park Parade. Sequence Dance, VICTOR SILVESTER & HIS ORCI. similar demonstration. The Institute asked the Zonahs to take up the BRIAN LAWRENCE & HIS ORCH, challenge,
was going to be quites found it
casy to do the reading cf en- velopes. It was a trick they knew. though they had never done it in publle before.
0482. I Must See Annie To-night.
9493.
9486.
Brother Bill. ............ Ferdinand The Bull, (Film.) Nice People With Nice Mangers.
BRIAN LAWRENCE & HIS ORCH. You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby. ("Hard To Get".)
SUE & HER BOY FRIENDS. Rhythm In The Alphabet.
etc.. etc., etc.
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The production of a disembculed vole they deelded, quite frankly, they could not do, because neither of them was a ventriloquist, but it was thing which could be done by any ventriloquist,
A3 jessages from the dead, they caust inquiries to be made about people going to the performance, and discovered facts about people who had lost relatives,
Mr. Montagu said the Zomahs gave their performance at Conway Hull on January 26, 1938, with complete suc- cess, and without interruption.
"CLUMSYCOPY"
On February 5, 1030, the “Psychic || News" published a report which, Mr. Montagu suid, was a sneering attack. The article was hended: "Con- jurers' Foreical Attempt to Emulate Kelly. Audience Laugh at Clumsy Copy of Psychie Demonstration."
It stated
ated that: "Even as a con Juring entertainment was chlidish and amateurish and would have been Interesting possibly, to a kinder garten... ," and referred to "irce Obvisua confederates" in the au- | Idience.
Madum Zothal, in evidence, sold the and her husband had been per-
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