THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 30, 1939
News Snack Bar
BIGGEST TOLL BY DRUNKEN DRIVERS
A drunken motorist is three times more likely to
cause a fatal accident than a sober one.
That is the cardinal point of a road report by New
York State Commissioner C. E. Mealey "There may be a temptation," he states, "to minimise the importance of alcohol in accidents. when consideration is given to the fact that introxicated drivers were nvolved in only 637 of the 74,125 motor accidents in the State dur- ing 1938. But when we remember that intoxi- cation needlessly caused fifty deaths and many terrible injuries there is cause for serious study.
SIAMESE TWINS DIE
A cow owned by a farmer nam- ed Michael Flynn, of Clonown, Athlone, has given birth to Sia- mese calves joined at the hips and facing opposite directions.
They died after a few hours, but the cow burvived.
PRINTER'S INK IS IN
FAMILY'S BLOOD
"For instance, the satistics show that every fourteenth acci- dent involving an intoxicated operator resulted in death. Every fourth such accident resulted in injury injury often worse than death.
"Figures show further that the probability of death is three times greater when the driver is intoxi- cated than when he is in full con- trol-of-his faculties."!
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GIFT PICTURE A
MASTERPIECE
Two
MINOR "WAR” AT ALDERSHOT. There was a minor "war" at Aldershot on May 12, when troops of the First Division, tanks and infantry, engaged in manoeuvres. Photo shows an impressive study as an anti-tank gun defends a position from oncoming tanks. (Air Mail).
8-GALLONS BLOOD GIFT
An old painting, recently given IN VAIN When the Hydes, Press (Roches- to Portsmouth Cathedral, has prov- ter), Ltd., get together for a fireside ed to be worth a fortune. chat there is one subject that is distinguished art historians have whose family and friends have for bound to crop up sooner or later accepted it as an original by Carlo months waged a battle against printing. They just cannot help Dolci of Philip Benizi. The picture death by giving him their blood, it. There's printer's ink in their shows him in the black habit of the died in hospital at Huntington... blood, they say.
Servites, renouncing the triple West Virginia. Harry was suffer-
ing from aplastic anaemia. Head of the firm is Mr. W. H. crown of a Pope. Hyde. When his two sons, William Henry and Arthur John, were old enough they joined him in the business. And they married girls who were printers and bookbinders.
Eighteen-year-old Harry O'Brien, PRESENTED FROM
Mr. Hyde's two daughters are in the business, too. Mr. F.G. Wheeler, the husband of one, is a printer at the firm's works in High-street, Rochester (Kent); Mr. W. Moore, another, member of the staff, is engaged to Miss Hyde.
In
This picture was mentioned by over forty transfusion he received Dolci (Italian painter, 1616-1686) more than eight gallons of blood. in a letter to a friend at his Aplastic anaemia is a rare dis- death. Since then it disappear- ease conditional upon bone mar-
row ceasing to function.
ed.
COURT
From London police-courts:- Husband at Marylebone: The next time I called on my wife I left the house with half the door in my face.
Man at Tottenham: There are two ways of starting my car. One is to give it a push and the other is to pull it.
CREW OF 10 DROWN
Ten men were drowned when a boat bringing ashore for leave the crew of a submarine overturned at Valdoe, near Oscarshamn, Sweden,
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4,250,000 GREETING-GRAMS
A YEAR
tho
During the year ended March 31 the Post Office delivered nearly 4,250,000 greetings telegrams, an increase of 33 per cent, over previous twelve months. At Easter 200,000 were handled, compared with 166,000 last season.
SUPER-AIR LINER AT
PORTSMOUTH
of
An Imperial Airways liner the Albatross type landed at Ports- mouth airport the other day, hay- ing been unable to do so at Croy- don owing to bad visibility. It had fourteen passengers, who continued by car
Albatrons types are the new föur teen ton streamlined
Paris service.
two passenpertu
thousand Cadet Bri they attend-
*K. did in.” they form up.
THEY CLAIM £100,000
FROM WAR OFFICE
been
A claim for £100,000 has sent to the British War Office by John T. Byrne, a Boston, ·· U.S.A., postman, and his three sisters, Mrs. Ann Louise Shiners, Mrs. Frances Wilson and Mary E. Byrne.
They say the £100,000 was prize- money awarded their grandfather, the late Lieutenant Thomas Byrne, of the Royal Artillery, for services in the vicinity of Delhi (India), where the British are said to have carried out profitable mining, for gold and other ores.
Office
The claimants say the 1856, and
has held the money since
that the claim was not pressed soon er because the lieutenant's discharge papere could not be found. These and other documents have now been discovered und RE
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