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A Re-issue of a Great "Old Favourite" ! THREE CREAT STARS IN THE MOST THrilling draAMA EVER FILMED !!!
CLARK
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JEANETTE
Your-two-most- exciting stars...in M-G-M's mighty (romantic triumph!
GABLE MACDONALD
Francisco
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TRACY
JACK HOLT JESSIE RALPH
TED HEALY
■ W. G. VAN DYKE Production
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THE SEASON'S BREEZIEST COMEDY-ROMANCE !
ANN SOTHERN,
ROBERT YOUNG in . "MAISIE"
HAL ROACH' presents
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HARDY
A CHUMP AT OXFORD
·Released thru Unlied “Arilata
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 1, 1940,
Women Who Put Winter Sports
Before Having Babies
Unbelievable Scenes
In
Consulting
Our Rooms, Says
Lord Horder
WHEN women who put going to winter sports before having children go to see their doctors "some of the scenes in our consulting rooms are unbelievable," said Lord Horder, the King's physician, recently.
He was speaking to the Eugenic Society, in London, after Mrs. Dorothy Thurtle, who was the minority of one on the inter-departmental committee on abortion, had said:
"A woman who wants to go winter sporting, or who finds that a pregnancy would interfero with her activities during the season, has no difficulty in persuading certain medical men to perform a suitable operation at
a price."
She added: "The working woman, on the other hand, whose condition might call for such
an operation, has the greatest difficulty in getting it."
Each Case Treated
On Its Merits
Lord Horder told the meeting: "I
Saved Nine, Gets
Lifeboat
First V.C.
of the War
Jan fomiliar with those lodies who COXSWAIN ROBERT CROSS, of the Humber, has want to go to Switzerland for win-won the first lifeboat V.C. of this war.
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A COLUMBIA PICTURE
Sigrid Gurie in “FORGOTTEN WOMAN” A Now Universal Picturo
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He has been SHE HAD THAT MYSTERIOUS THING CALLED
ter sports
Speaking for myself and for my awarded the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's gold GLAMOUR fellow-practitioners in medicine.
nist say that cach case is treated medal for conspicuous gallantry-the rescue on February
en its merits.
The reasons which are adduced 12 of nine men of the Grimsby trawler St. Gurth.
by women are so numerous and so
rivia that they spoil their cases, before they finish.
"The Bourne case made It per- fectly clear, and case lave has it, that a-cuntur has a free hand to consider; other aspects than the mere ques tion whether a pregnant woman will le if she is not given the facility
af abortion.
"It has been laid down that the
doctor may take into account not merely the question of life and death in deciding whether he shall relieve a woman of her pregnancy. Doctors Put In
The Pillory
"But we do ask for cover beenuse every now
and then, as in the a doctor gets pilloried, Bourne case, and maybe mulcted. und so inuch depends upon whether he has a Judge who really knows what the position is, and whether he tins col- leagues who will come forward and waste a day be two to give him sup- Dori.
"It would be good if we could not not these archaic laws off the Statule Book so that we could have really a free hund to carry out what the case ay gives us permission to do, what is really in the patient's interest and what, I understand, public opinion would welcome."
Mr. Aleck Wiliam Bourne, an rminent gynaecologist and obstetri cian, was charged at the Old Bailey with unlawfully using an instrument teith intent to procure the miscar- riage of a girl aged 14. He was found not guilty and was acquitted, The girl had been criminally as- saulted.]
"CODE" ALLEGATION
Chinese Charged Under
Defence Regulations
The St. Gurth went ashore in a gale and seas were breaking right over her; it was pitch dark and snowing heavily,
tof three Silver Medals and the
Bronze Medal, The lifeboat's crew was two short owing to illness, their permanent staff of the Lifeboat Ins!!- Thirty-four years ago he joined the vessel was damaged and one of lution and he and his bride went to live at the isolated station on Spurn the propellers was fouled. by Point, where they still are. rope and stopped.
Heavy seas continually knocked the
They Don't Feel Lonely
The little community at Spurn is t en down, and the motor mechanic, miles from the nearest village. "We standing at his engine controls in the don't feel the loneliness," Coxswain cockpit, was just able to keep his chin Cross said. "We take our regular above water.
watches night.und day, and now and Humber lifeboat has rescued 180 again 1
have a day's outing in Hull." Ives since the outbreak of war, and Of the feat which has earned him In these six monthy Coxswain Cross the "V.C." of lifeboatmen, he would has also won the Institution's Sliver only say: "It was just part of our Medal, Its thanks on vellum and a job although I admit it was pretty
necini latter of thanks. He is holder rough."
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Mak King-ivan, 51. Stock Exchange FRIDAY braker, was charged before Mr. Edwards at the Central Magistracy yesterday with committing a breach | of Defence Regulations:
He was alleged to have had in his possession two note-books containing English nnid Chinese characters which could be utilized for secretly conveying, receiving or recording in- formation, contrary to the Regula- tions.
He was remanded for a week, on bail of $200.
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