1939-06-20 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 20,

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HOW TO MAKE OLD MEN HAPPY

London's County Council is doing what it set out to do—“abolish the mixed Victorian workhouse.”

"Though you might think old men like old women in their institutions, we have found they don't," Mrs. L'Estrange Malone told the L.C.C. putting the view of the Labour majority.

FROM THE LONDON OF

4,500 YEARS AGO

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"The old men are much happier without them."

Mrs. Malone, vice-chairman of the Public Assistance Committee, said that $126,000 had been spent on im- tween 1930 and 1934-days of Muni- proving institutions since 1934. Be- cipal Reform party rule only was spent.

£9,000

SUBSIDIES TO COST £6,370,000

The Chancellor of the Exchequer

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HE CROSSED THE ATLANTIC IN AN IRON LUNG. Fred Snite, son of a rich American, who was striken with a disease some time ago and has since been encased in an iron lung, travelled from the U.S.A. to Lourdes in France to bathe in the waters. He sailed from the States still encased in the lung and even the specially equip ped trailer was taken with him. Wherever he goes there are always two nurses and two attendants at his service. Photo shows Fred Snite, smiling happily, in his iron lung when he arrived at the American Hospital in Paris from Lourdes.

Workmen excavating recently in Dartmouth-street, Westminter, un- earthed about 5ft, below basement level two animal skulls, black with age, but with the glint still on the teeth. Experts from the Lon- don Museum identified them as those of an unusually large species of wild oxen, with broad heads told the Commons that the estimated FOUR SHIPS BEING BUILT long noses and short horns, which cost for one year of the proposed roamed Britain about 2,500 B. C. subsidies for sheep, oats and barley IN TWO SLIPWAYS The two skulls have been would have been, based on last year's transferred to the Institute of

prices: Sheep £2,500,000, oats, being performed at the Dumbarton author, accepted the presidency of

Mr. Compton Mackenzie, Archaeology for safe keeping.

£2,970,000, barely £900,000.

shipyard of Wm. Denny and Bro- the Dickens' fellowship at the thirty thers, who are constructing four third annual conference at Bath. ships---two. Turkish destroyers and

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ENGLAND'S OLDEST TWINS—88

LUXURY SEATS FOR CHURCH

At Vauxhall Baptist Church, Ken. Martha and Mary Bennett, be- ningtonlane, 100 comfortable, soft- lieved to be England's oldest seated, tip-up "cinema" seats have twins, have celebrated their eighty been installed. eighth birthday. They have lived in fashioned wooden

These replace old- chair used for the same house for forty-eight years, have never been parted, and hope cessful the whole church will be re- If the experiments is suc-

to die together.

RIDING HIGH —Ohɑtacle Ing on motorcycles will be the display to be given by of dispatch riders from the *I* Training Centre, Camp.

the Royal Touri

years.

seated.

HELPED BIRTH OF 752 BABIES

A remarkable shipbuilding feat..is

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two British patrol vessels-in two slipways.

DICKENS FELLOWSHIP

PRESIDENT

The Turkish ships are almost GLYNDEBOURNE OPERAS completed, and so overcrowded is the sterms

BROADCAST yard that the bows and of the British ships are being fabri- cated beside them.

the

Arrangements are being made for the B.B.G. to broadcast all five When the destroyers are launched the midship sections of the patrol operas included in the Glyndebourne

Festival programme in June. vessels will be "grafted" into the space now occupied by the des- troyers.

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Seven hundred and fifty-two babi- es in the Blaina (South Wales) dis- trict were brought into the world ORDER AFFECTS 3,000 with the help of Mrs. Elizabeth

So

Tucker, of High-street, Blains, ma- FLAT-LIVERS ternity nurse for thirty-seven years, who retired fifteen years ago. great is the town's appreciation that the Council has passed a motion congratulating her on her ninetieth birthday.

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MINISTERS' PAY FOR ARMS

GRACIE FIELDS ILLNESS

Owing to her indisposition, Miss Gracie Fields will be unable to broadcast the appeal on behalf of the Manchester Royal Infirmary.

Three thousand flat dwellers at Her brother, Mr. Tommy Fields, of Ilford Council to issue two se- Ilford will be affected by a decision will deputise for her.

for rates in- parate assessments stead of one where single houses have been converted into flats.

PRESENTED FROM. COURT

All Rumania's Ministers are con- tributing a month's salary to the subscription for National Defence. From London police courts:- The amount will be paid in 'two' sec- Woman at Ealing: My husband tions one half in May and the does not find it necessary to drink, other în June. The decision was he has got an allotment.

made at a special Cabinet meeting Witness at Tottenham: He was to which the Prime Minister, M. singing and beating time with Calinescu, reported on the subscrip- bottle which had not long been tions organised, many of them empty. spontaneously, throughout the coun-

try.

“SINGLE CHILD STERILITY”

COMPULSORY VOTING' BILL

Lord Dawson of Penn, the King's The text of Sir Frank Sanderson's physician, at Welwyn, Herts, attack. Bill to make voting at parliamentary ed childless marriages and what elections compulsory lays down that he described as "single child sterili- any elector who falls to vote with- ty. The woman who intentional out a valid reason shall be liable to ly ends her maternity with one a fine of not less than 108. or more child, he said, was contracting to than 40g.

ward her own hurt, and often learn-

ed her mistake too late,

ARSHAL

STAIN

FRENCH DESTROYERS VISIT

present French Four destroyers of the 2nd French

has denied a Torpedo boat Flotilla dropped an

French chor off Gravesend on a five days." intends courtesy visit. It is the first time his post in for twenty years that French naval

vessels have visited Gravesend, →

WHILE MOTHERS WORK. Babfes to five years of age, whose mothers go out to work dur ing the day-time, are cared for the Croydon creche at South Nor- The afternoon nap of the features of the

a creche toddlers lay under" the watchfül

the sunshine at the

one