MACARONI PENGUIN
THIS is a macaroni penguin, one of a collection of 18 macaroni, gentoo, ringed and emperor penguins newly arrived at the Regent Park Zoo. in London. The birds hail from the Falkland Islands in the Antarctic. (Acme)
Antidote Found For Victims Of Sleeping Pills
New York.
Suicide hopefuls via the sleeping pill route have two strikes against them since the discovery of a successful antidote.
Dr A. W. Freireich, toxicologist for Nassau County and the Meadowbrook Hospital, discovered that deaths resulting from overdoses of barbiturates (sleeping pills) could be kept to a minimum by the injection of ben- zedrine sulphate solution into the blood stream.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1950.
400,000 Toddy Tappers Face
Ruin In
India
By Ernest M. Dharma
Four hundred thousand Bhandaris for cen- turies have earned their living shinning up palm trees to tap toddy for the Indian village drinker. They are losing their livelihood now that total prohibition has been introduced in Bombay States. The Bhandaris belong to palmyra trees in quest of the a Hindu sect and live on Indian villager's neclar.
With the agility of a monkey, India's west coast. Many
Bhandari can shin up
I
tho
hard all day long. You will rec him poering up at
the fan- shaped leaves of tall palm trees with their clusters of coconuts or palmyra frult.
of them are Christians dat-tallest palm tree in minutes. fascinating watching ingback to the 15th cen. It is.
Bhandari at work. He boils tury, when the Portugues explorer, Vasco da Gama, visited Indin.
Known professionally od Bhandarls, toddy-lappers, the slim, wiry and agile, have from Almost naked, he wears just
cloth is buttocks aro ancient times followed this one lot calling.
covered with two pieces
leather as a shield in On blistering hot days or in
crudo
he alithers down and blinding rainstorms, they can be case
orthoms pierce his flesh. climbing coconut
In the anali of his back. neally encased in a cole rope mesh,
dried is a gourd the of a pumpkin-which serves as tho container for the juice he tapa.
seen
GIRLS LEARN FASTER
Girls learn to read earlier, faster and with more under-
SWIFT AND SURE
standing! than boys, according Its peeting from the ground to Dr G. N. Getman, an opto- over, hin nssessment made, 10 metrist of Luverne, Minnesota.shins up a tree at amazing
Getman described to a con- speed. vention of the American Opin- metric Association the sults of studies he made while working with Dr Arnold Gesell at Yale University.
Getman said girls are about six months ahead of boys up to the age of 10,
Thicked in his waistline is a large razor-edged knife. You see him at the top using it with deft precision. His dark, the body glistening with sweat, his breath coming in quick takes, te nimbly seales down one tree
"The reason," he said, "and up the next, that the visual system in irls matures earlier than Loes that of boys,"
Baby Planet Discovered
Mercury is the nearest of the major planets to the sun. Its distance varies from 28,600,000 miles, miles to 43,100,000 Laveraging 30,000,000 mile.
mean distance of the earth
miles. about 93.000.000
However. Dr Wolter
The
You see his stomach muscles clearly-elimbing trees in a Jack-knife position given Diese men rippling, abdominal muscleg -03 ie starts to shin up the next tree.
SETTLING
BORDER PROBLEMS
EGYPTIAN and Israeli village heads sit down near Gaza, Palestine, to discuss certain changes in the border area of the region. Mingling in the background are U.N. officers, Israell and Egyptian Army officers, and Arab and Israeli' villagers. The village heads dealt with cases of infiltration, theft and other problems. (Acme).
KING OF THAILAND
ΤΟ
BE CROWNED IN REVIVAL
OF ANCIENT PAGEANTRY
By S. Chavala
WORLD'S TALLEST MAN
Salem, Oregon. -Tho "tallest man in the world"" recently swore to support the constitutions and Inws of the United States and of Oregon here and was admit- ted to the practice of law in this state.
Clifford Marshall ThompsQD, 45, who is eight feet, bavdn inches tall, was granted the right to practise in Oregon.in briel ceremonies in the Oregon Supreme Court chambers.
The man who moved his nd-
mission was Kenneth Kraemer, Portland attorney who is five feet, six inches tall. Thompson was sworn in by the Supremo Court clerk, Arthur S. Benson, who stands five feet four inches The admission was confirmed by Chief Justice Hall S. Lusk,
Thompson, with circuses for 19
08
"the
world"
who travelled 13 years billed tallest man in the
will practise in Port- land. His office is also his home,
where furniture and fixings are king size, so that he has no added problem of furnishing a down- town office.
He
In Tola, practised law Wisconsin, for four years before coming to Portland last August. He got his law degree at Mar- quette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
SIZE ZZ SHOES
Thompson, who wears slzo 22 shoes, was with the Al G. Barnes in and Cole Bros. circuses. travelling, he had trouble in hotel accommodation.
"At home I have a specialty- matte bed,"
ompson sold. when I have to stay in a hotel, I order a room with two beds side by side. I sleep mostly In
feet in the other."
The ancient pomp and pageantry which has been Thailand's will be one bed and stretch out my seen once more on the forthcoming occasion of the coronation of the King. King Bhumipol Aduldej will be the first of the Chakri line to be crowned under the present constitutional monarchy.
The coronation is sche- duled tentatively to take; place on May 5, with May
fixed definitely only when an official court programme is unnounced. Between now and that time. astrologers will check and double-check
FACE ANNIHILATION Again and again be empties
a large vessel, 4, 5 and 6 to be coronationi his gourd into
The date will be and up and down he climbs till days. his working day is ovet.
The fresh sap, or toddy, is a refreshing, exhilarating drink. and India belleve it is both Baade, "good for the soul and good for of the Mount Wilson Observa-the body." Fermented, the sap
has discovered a minor becomes arrack, an intoxicating to make sure the date is the tory. binet, believal to be less than drink, which is a prime favourite with India's rural and urban mile in diameter, which ap- proaches within 17,800,000 population.
Not all of the previous eight Today, these Bhandaris face of the present Chakri dynasty is about 160,000,000 economic annihilation. An un-were crowned. Dr Freireich first used) is four to one. Furthermore, of miles of the sun. Its greatest
Phro King than that the many cases treated, only two distance
of lettered people, they
have Buddha Yod Ea, the founder of his injection technique at of his patients attempted suicide niles, greater
followed this one calling. They the dynasty, simply ascended Meadowbrook Hospital in a seenid time.
The new little planet has were granted the concession to the throne. The late King 101. Since then he has
One, a young girl, tried sleep-
Icarus, after
the operate the trade during the Ananda Mahidol was crowned Of those, int pills a recond time and again been named treated 85 cases.
United Press.
Mars.
most auspicious one.
79 recovered and six died, was unsucessful. The other, mythology who dew too Fast India Company's regime.-posthumously.
man, commilled suicide by ink-close to the sun.
The patients varied in age in gas three days after being months to 71 released from the hospital after a suicide attempt with sleeping Dills.
from 16 years,
The Bjertinis are inade at 30- minute intervals with the dosages gradually reduced! until the paflent can answer questions coherently. This is followed by a short rest am the patient is ready to return to normal Rfe.
LIKE TRANSFUSION
FEW TRY IT TWICE "Generally speaking, it seem that once a person has unsucess- fully attempted suicide, perhaps in a brief moment of mental in- stability, there is no urge to die after the patient has revived and regained normaley," Dr Freiretch said Or said.
The system used for the benze- ceptions course, there are ex-
Odly enough, the benzedrine solution also is a poison and if taken by a normal person in the amounts used to treat barbitur ate patients would result in death. However, when adminis- tered by a physician as an anti-
drine inject on is similar to that used for blood transfusions. The medien apparatus remains at tached to the patient and the benzedrine is tapped nto the vein in prescribed amounts at the required intervals. This elimin- ates the necessity of numerous dote, the benzcurine counteracts the poisonous effects of the bar- punctures of the vein.
The amounts of solution in- biturates.
jected vary from 40 milligrams
The only after-effects of the
for "ordinary" emen to 200 mill-injection treatment, according to grams for. "extreme cases rated the doctor, Is slight headache
as virtually hopeless," according which may last for several hours. to the toxicologist.
methed
is be-
De risingly popular i
"A person taiding an overdose coming
of barbiturates first goes into a leading hospitals throughout the deep sleep and then a cuma," Dr country. Many physicians who Frereich explained. The ben have tried it have written their zedrine injections must be can- praises and tinues until the patient
endorsementa
in
comes incdical journal-United Press.
ou of the coma and enn answer simple questions culerently. The
tengul of time this requires varies with each patient and with the quantity of the drug taken," he said.
Dorothys Are Interesting
What's in a name? Not much,
YOUNGEST PATIENT says Mrs Dorathy Richert, of
Port Huron, Michigan, unless
name happents to
"My youngest patient suffering your
frum barbiturate poisoning was Dorothy,
bo
the 10-month-old son of n fellow She has been ang scrap practitioner. One day the Infant books with letters and clippings found his father's medical bag to prove that Dorothys live the and ate some
of the brightly most interesting Blves. coloured sleeping pilla," Dr Frei- Wemen named Mary run a relch said. "I gave the infant one loss second to Dorothyo, Mra Injection and within two minutes Richert cald. Someday the may about he was awake and pinying on the begin collecting items floor,"
Marys. Right now, she is con- Dr Freireich noted that women e:ntrating on Dorothys and attempt suicide with barbiturates hopes to hear from more more often than men. The ratio these interesting people.
K. O. CANNON
*** PERHAPA A 1000.
YORUNETTE WOULD
KLUNG KO. OUT
of
SMALLEST RACERS
DRIVERS of four new Italian racing cars line up their machines outside the manufacturing plant of the Innocenti Works in Milan. The single-seaters attain unusual maximum speed and are believed to bo the smallest racing cars in the world. There is barely enough room for the driver. (Acme)
THIS WEEK-A. NEW ADVENTURE WITH WHISPER
BUT HE DOESN'T STEM
TO BOTHER MUCH WITH
GIRLS.. WHY, HE
MY NEVEN EVEN.......,
WILLON
KISSED ME?HE ONLY WANTS ADVENTURE,
EXCITEMENT. THAT IS WHAT
ROUGE -SIL HAVE TO
2
The young king ON GOLDEN TABLET
higher oficials The forthcoming ceremonies slate will assemble. will begin with the huscription
rank and
of the affleial style and ütle of A special pavilion will be
erected between the king's om- the king on a gold tablet by a
will take cial residence hall and the inner royal secihe. This place in the chapel royal of private hull of audience. It
here that the king, after due the Emerald Buddha,
profession of "the faith," will
to lako tle of the be invited The full official king, always long enough to Almonial bath and uncintment.
a type-written foolscap page, is
now being worked out by the
the cure-
Trow and | right.
For breakfast, Thompson hag. a large bowl of oatmeal, four erns, four pieces of toast, three dougnuts and put of coffee. # substantiel-lupch, his desire. For varying with dinner, he has a two-pound steak, preferably T-bone or tenderlein, two baked potatoes,
the pandits on the le has
The king will seat himself upon an octagonal throne made
of Agwood under a seven-tiered a vegetable, six slices of bread, white umbrella of late to re- two pieces of ple and a quart ceive a further anointment from of milk.
the Brahmins with
the court
Thompson drives a standard paudits, who in this ceremony club ecupe. He removed, the will represent Aguratively and front rat, cut down the back positionally the eight cardinal seat and slanted it, and uses it points of the Thai kingdom.
for the front seat. A fool or so was added to the steering wheel FACE EICHT POINTS
to bring it back to within his reach, Most of his height is in The king will clowly and his legs, and he had to mako deliberately turn around, facing this arrangement to get his foot
all the eight points in order. At
to clutch and that rach
turn, a pandit for
cramping himself point will advance to the foot of United Press.
the throne to make an obeisance classical address i Pali (the religious
of language
Thal Buddhism).
The king will answer in Pall, people which 1 to the Thai what Latin is to the Catholics.
Then the king will proceed to another throne, the Bhadraplus
or the Noble Tirone.
brake without too much
WALDORF FOR CANBERRA
New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel soor, may have a baby sister in Canborra, Australia.
Owners of the famous Ameri- ors reported to be Here he will receive his om can hotel ciat name with titles as inscribed hotel in Australia" for the coun
planning the "most luxurious on the golden tablet and the try's capital. Though royal regalia and all their ap concrete yet has been an- the king nounced, architects are already
nothing
purtenance signifying During the bathing ceremony toyal scribe's department with there will be a roll of drums, has taken the reign of govern- supposed to be working on the the advice of the royal astrolo-fanfare of trumpets and the ment.
ters.
the
design of a proposed building to playing of other traditional Thni
The priest then will take the house about 250 guests.
The hotel, reports say, willin musical instruments. Guns will
Priests royal crown from the bearer in many WOYE resemble The coronation ceremonies fire salvoes in salute.
and hand it to Waldorf, but on a much smaller fall under two categories: Bratly, will recite starzas of benedic..the procession
the king who puts it on hiaceale. the anointment and coronation, | tlon,
head, thereby signalising the American interests have been patterned after Hindu customs Thereafter the king will retire supreme moment of the corona- discussing for some time a pro
And
with Buddhist modifications; secondly, the assumption of the to appear in the Balsal Hall in tion.
will be robes, le
be fred Salutes will royal residence, which is purely full regal
preceded by Brahmin priests Buddhist.
and pandits (learned men of the music and fanfare again resound courts) with the Brahmin priests in the palace and walking on the klug's left in the kingdom.--United Press.
Waters for the king's anoint ment are to be gathered from various parts of the country and sanellied
CEREMONIAL BATH
cere-
The actual coronation mony will take place at the Boisal Hall, the traditional coronation hall, where "princes foreign of the blood royal," representatives
of ministerinl
POW RADIO
CLUB
Bill James, of Penygraig. In Wales, was one of the prisoners of war of various nationalities the who clustered together in darkness of their prison hut in an island camp in the Amboina Group of New Guinea and de- radio elded to form their own club for communication each other when they were re- leased.
with
Japanese ROW
the Unknown to guards, many of theso radio club secret meetings were
and hold
the membership increased. Expert gradually radio men like Bill gave lessons inha art to the less informed members and advice on how to properly build a transmitter.
At home, Bill has converted top & small bedroom on the
door of his house into a radio "shack" and set about the task of listening-in to and calling up his POW radio club inem- bers. He has already conversed with several on his powerful transmitter, which has contact- ed many amateur operators In different parts of the world.
chain of posal to build a luxury hotels throughout Aus- alla for the tourist traffic, but the main stumbling block has
Inbour lack of throughout been
materials,
ITALIANS IN SOMALILAND'
A SECTION of 750 ménibers of an Italian, Hindunder
a landing barge aftér,lis, arrival 23:31ő-o ache, aboard lie i
ship S. Giorgio. The number Fit Hula Patroops "nów "la":
d