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London Professor Reveals Science's Strangest Story. Wolf Adopts Two Baby Girls
A GENERAL IN MUFTI
OFS
Major General Sir Edmund Ironside, new Inspector General of British Oversea Forces, who flew to Warsaw to discuss uni- Gcation of Tollsh, French and British troops in case of war.
Lost In Jungle
By RUSHWORTH FOGG. PROFESSOR R. RUGGLES GATES, of King's
College. London, revealed to the "Sunday Chronicle" recently the amazing case of a she- wolf that adopted two baby girls left to die in an Indian jungle.
REGISTRAR SUPPORTS MR. MULLINS
STRONG views on the subject
One of Britain's most distin- Professor guished scientists, Gates, is making a special study of eases of adoption of humans by animals.
Data for this particular case were given to Professor Gates by an Indian Christian missionary, the Rev. J. Singh.
Here Is the story as related by
of birth control expressed Professor Gates:
Ten years ago Mr. Singh Wats this week by Mr. Claud Mulling, working among a primitive tribe in the South Western magistrate, the jungles of Bihar, Northern In- were endorsed by Mr. Registrar dia. The natives told him come in- credible stories about a glost wolf Friend at Clerkenwell County that haunted the jungle near the Court.
village.
A woman Ried by a firm of credit drapers told the Registrar that she enuld not pay more than 48. a muath, Fadding, "I have eight young children
to feed,"
ROMS.
" ENDORSE IT"
WATCHED FROM TREE To discredit the story the l- onary had a platform built up a tree so that he could keep watch.
The first night the missionary kept
"Is that the eighth?" asked the Registrar, oicing at an infant in her watch a she-wolf came out of her den under a huge ant-bill. A little
loped twal "No," she replied, "It is my four-way behind the wolf
little brown creatures. treath. The other six are working strange
At first the missionary could nut
the te make out what brown creatures were. Then to his astonishment he realised that the two "animals" were little nu- tive girls-one silghtly ofder than the other. One of
The Registrar: "Then, at, the risk af being reprimanded 1 endure every word that was said by 2 London magistrate the other day. Whatever [anybody else may say about it, I dis
not congratulate her."
of them seemed to be about!
The Registrar made an order in the seven or eight, the other a year or terms of the woman's offer.
Mr. Mullins #kh cessuribed himself as "boiling with rage" when man and his wife whom dealing with The sent to prison for neglecting their seven children. "I have not heard." he said, "of any attempt teach birth control to these people. Society and religious opinion are mainly to blame, In my opinion, for there hor-| Frors,
to
MAN OF
OF 90 FLIES
THE
ATLANTIC
BUT PREFERS SHIP
two younger.
Probably the wolf had lost her! cubs, and, finding the baby girls, had
adopted" them.
The missionary captured the girls and took them to an orphanage for} Indian childern. At first they were unmanageable. They bit and anar-
PINED AND DIED Patiently the orphanage staff tried to train the wild children.
But the younger one could not get rid of her jungle ways. After six months in the hume she pined und died.
The elder child. however. gradually fearned some Junian babits. She was cured of biting and snarling. By placing her Lood on 3
table ale Wan taught to stand. But she still ale and drank like a wolf.
ligh
She never learned to run like aj human being. but always dropped) shel when
kores
hands and wanted to go fast,
THE oldest man to fly across the Atlantic, Mr. Russell Frost, of on South Norwalk, Connecticut, arrived in the Atlantic, Clipper
at Lisbon from New York recently, on his way to London. He is in his ninetieth year.
Speaking on the telephone!
from Lisbon, Mr. Frost said to
the News Chronicle:
This is my Aftieth crossing of the Atlantic. I first crossed 45 years AKO on the Cunarder Etruria, taking ten
days.
WILL FLY BACK
"I new ncross in 48 hours on the Hindenburg and now I have crossed by the Aliantle Clipper In 28 hours.
His Way Of Airing!
A Grievance
IF you try to get something done for your children they won't do it, but if you get into trouble they will do something."
James Frederick Hulbert (43), un-i employed Jabourer,
at
BLOODHOUNDS SEEK LOST BOY
Bloodhounds
UFS
took searchers
for Bonn Fendler, Jr., 12, of Rye, N. Y. to the brink of a 400- foot precipice Above Alount Ka- talulin's timber line, where the trail scented to end. The boy had become lost during a hike up the Maine mountain.
Child Dancer's Triumph
Six years a cripple, Audrey Joan Bray, of Worcester, aged 11, has been awarded a certi- ficate with honours for danc- ing.
When only four she was appearing on the stage of the local theatre and her gift as a natural dancer inspired high hopes for her future.
Then she fell ill. For four years she lay partly encased in plaster of paris. For two more she was on crutches.
nover
Her parents feared that the child, whose great desire was to dance again, would'
walk again unaided, but her courage and surgical skill-overcame the trouble, and Audrey is ОПСС more dancing.
L
Is
Your Child Mighty Like A Rose, They Say
bert (43) PARENTS can learn the secret of how to get the best
"I enjoyed the trip. It was very Road, Westbourne Park, voiced this smooth and comfortable. The weather
Marylebone Police was one and the sea was smooth. If grievance you are in a hurry this is undoubtedly Court, when accused of damaging a the way to cross, but on the whole pane of glass at the offices of the prefer a ship.
Unemployment Assistance Blomfield Road, Paddington.
August 23,
1939.
New Drug May Save 50,000
A new drug, discovered by two research doctors in the United States. ant developed In English hospitals, bus succeeded in more than 50 per cent. of hospital cuses treated epilepsy.
for
Before a board of distinguished physicians, three doctors. W. Mc- Curtan and 3. Carson, of the Brigh- tor Mental Hospital, and Dr. I. Frost, of the Friern Hospital, has told of results the new drug has achieved,
Its technical
is Sodium Diphenylhydantoinate, but it is mar- keted as Epanutia and Sodantoin.
name
Two American research men. Doctors. Houston Merritt and Tracey J. Putnam discovered it by and electrically stimulating brains nervous systems of ents, finding that the animals had an automatic con- vision.
They en experimented with wide range of drugs until they found a combination which cancelled out the convulsion.
HUMAN TESTS
They were then able to try the drug on littman beings who were victims of epilepsy, and experiment- ed on 142 severe cases.
After treatment lasting in some case 11 months, but averaging four months, 5 per cent. of cases were completely relieved of attacks, and ** per cent, were substantially im- proved.
Extraordinary improvements were noled in nine out of twelve patients specially treated in one of the bl Landon horpitals.
In one case a man who had bad 100 is a month before treatment- the number of its dropped to four in the whole of the first month of treat- ment. In the second month the number dropped to two-and in the third they were entirely eliminated.
Eight other cases showed big imu- provements. the least successful case being where a patient's fils were only redured from 13 to seven a month. It is estimated that there are ap- proximately 50,000 sufferers from epilepsy in the country.
NEW DRUG IS FOR ALL PATIENTS
Mr. Walter Elliot (Minister of Health) denied in the House to Com- Ens recently he refused to allow the new drug, known as M and B 693, to be used for the treatment of Insured persons.
Dr. Summerskill (Lab., Fulham, W.) asked if it were not a fact that when asked if he would put this on the special list of expensive drugs the Minister said he could not, but In a year's time, when the price fell, he would reconsider i
Mr. Elliot: 1 refused to put it on the special list because it is obtain- able under the ordinary arrange- ments for insured persons. The sug- gestion that it is being withheld from insured persons is quite unworthy of the medical profession.
[The drug M and B 693 was stated to have reduced pneumonia mor- tality last winter by 25 per cent. I has also been used with success in treating meningitis. The drug is the 083rd synthetic substance made by May and Baker.]
Arts Academy To Celebrate
The 175th anniversary
out of their children by applying the principles of Leningrad Academy of Arts will rose culture.
LENINGRAD.
of
the
be
celebrated next November. Some of Russia's greatest artists have been students within its walls. The aendemy now has departments in
ኮ
well as a general course in the
prts.
Mrs. C. B. S. Hodson, a London biologist who is Board. Secretary of the Bureau of Human Heredity, explained the painting, sculpture and architecture "I am on my way to London to
analogy between the growth of children and roses to the visit friends and to take a trip round] He told the Court that he bad England. I hope to fly back from drawn no dele since May 18, hud a News Chronicle. Southampton by the northern route.”
son aged 7, and had not even a cup of tea for him.
PRESERVE
Your Blankets
He went to the police station and
When a gardener buys a bundle of roses, she pointed out, ke
first looks them over to discover what varieties there are, picit-SHOP TO BEST ADVANTAGE AT
they could not do anything for him. ing them out by signs such as the shape and texture of the leaf.
He applied to the L.C.C. and to St. He knows that he cannot treat, Mary Abbots without success, and them all alike. Some like clay, Anally, in despair, returned to the Relieving Officer and was sent to the others sand; some thrive, in Unemployment Assistance Board. jexposed spots, others prefer
"ONLY HUMAN"
shelter.
In the same way each individual
He arrived there at 4 p.m., having child requires a special environment, been walking about trying to get! help since Dam, and was told that and there is no such things as
good environment”
which will be he must walk back to Marylebone. good for all children. He then smashed the window.
Even brothers and sisters may The magistrate suggested that that have individual inherited differences, was not the way to get things done. which they may hand on haphazard. A
Thus the parental attitude which] Hulbert: I am only human. What draws the best out of the child may can I do? I have no work. Am I to seriously injure'anolbge in the same steal for a living? I lost my temper. family, I am very sorry. As a matter of facti they have now put my buy into a house at Fulham.
Stowaway Rang for Steward
題 and
STOWAWAY on board the
Aquitanin
from rung bathroom for a steward complained that there was no hot water. Here the geneticist, who makes The incident happened two hours special study of heredity, steps in to after the liner had sailed from
rose specialist, he Southampton. According Lo the
prosecution help. Like the
recognises, from features in the child Hulbert flew into a rege when told
what his Inborn constitution is.
get his Exchange card and threw an
"PEDIGREE SIGNS"
The steward found the disgruntled Each child is identifiable not only passenger undressed. But the fact ash tray through the window, say-by shape of ears, colour of eyes, but that a hat and a coat were hanging ing, "Now fetch the police,"
type of body build, rate of growth, in the bathroom aroused his sus-
The magistrate said he was sorry blood and tissue changes, and other picion. A sprinkle of Kealings for Hulbert, but must send him to "pedigree signs." keeps Blankets. Wantiles, į prison for five days.
alc., free from math and
Insect, peafs. Dost under
carpet, round.
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NINTH ANNUAL
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
June-September, 1939
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Prizes will be allotted as follows: SECTION ONE:
SECTION THREE: Portraits, Informal Close-ups, Huma
Studies, Ist. $30,
Fur Story-Telling Pictures.
Ist. $30. 2nd, $15. 3rd. $10.
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1st. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10.
End. $15. 3rd. $10 SECTION FOUR:
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than one Section.
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