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INTRODUCING the Dunedin quadruplets-ileft to right) Kathleen, Bruce, Vera, and Mary, -
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'QUINS' HAVE FOUR RIVALS
MOTHER SACRIFICES
LOOKS FOR HER SON
HAPPY TO SUFFER FOR HIM
"Quads" Are SCIENCE
Thriving In
WINS
New Zealand IN AFRICA
THREE GIRLS AND DOCTOR WHO DEALT
NEW
A BOY
EW Zealand's Quadruplets, ! rivals to Canada's Quintup- leta, are twenty-one weeks old-- and thriving,
"
Three are girls-Mary. Kath- leen, and Vera. The fourth is
Bruce.
They were born to Mr. and Mrs,
Johnson, of Caversham,
earlier than was expected.
little
Pyle (Glamorgan), Aug. 1. For two years Mrs. William Jellyman, wife of a miner, who lives in Collwyn-road, Pyle, has! On the day after their arrival sorrowed over her little they were litted to the Truin King-Harris Hospital at Dauerlin, Now her sorrow four walling tle creatures, none son.
much over four pounds. has been turned into gladness ... thanks to mother-love.
Bruce was the biggest. weighed 41bs. 1950z. Vern was nest, 4lbs; then Kathleen, 3lbs. 11140z; and Mary, 3lbs, 1011⁄2oz At first they had to be treated
A
WITH DEATH
THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1935.
£20,000,000 HEIR
MAY COME TO HONGKONG TO FOIL KIDNAPPERS
New York, Aug. 1.
I
MR. John Jacob Astor's £20,000,000 son, born a week ago, will spend most of his days of in- fancy at sea to escape the kidnapping menace.
Ever since the heir to the Astor fortunes was born his crib at a fashionable New York nursing home has been guarded night and day by armed deter- tiven.
His father fears that the child is in peril of meeting the same fate as the first Linbergh baby. So to-day he gave orders. that no more people were to be admitted to the nursing home to see his son.
yacht.
He also gave orders that the workmen renovating his new were to rush the job through so that he can take his wife and baby on an indefinite feruise out of harm's way.
DOCTOR who want-
Mrs. Astor, formerly Miss ed to know whether Ellen Tuck French, has never the dreaded sleeping made a hurried trip through the been to the Far East. But Astor Sickness could be con-Orient. visiting Hongkong en Itracted in certain condi-route, after his sensational en- tions allowed himself topic, his present wife's heat gagement to Miss Eileen Gilles-
he bitten by tsetse flies. friend, was broken off.
Nothing happened.
The doctor then inoculated himself from a guinea pig to which the disease had already
been transmitted.
He contracted sleeping sick. ness, but his life was saved by n drug inaculation.
That is the story of Dr..J, F. Corson, of the Research Labora tory at Tinde, in Tanganyika, Afrien
The son-Jack--is now four. When he was two he was knock-with care, wrapped in cotton wool. In revealing it in their report
ed down by a motor-ear. Among other injuries his right ear was tort off.
"A Handicap" That disfigurement worried his mother terribly. She was afraid that at school other boys would make fun of her son, and that Inter on it would be a handicap to Jim.
het warm with hot-water bottles, the
Possibly his first cruise in the palatial yacht in which he 'will guard his heir will be to
the
Far East, especially to Hongkong, for which he ex- pressert enthusiastic admiration when he passed through the British colony eighteen months;
ngo.
It is probable that the boy will be given the nume of his father, and become John Jacob Astor the Fourth.
than
Ewenty
million
Some day he will inherit the East Africa Sub-Committee whole of the Astor fortune of of the Tsetse Fly Committer say: more
"We would like to congratuais. late Dr. Corson on his work and to express our, appreciation of Its netion,"
Similar tributes are paid to Mr.
But now they are well past the! dalicut first quarter of their first i year they are treated as Bermal babies. They are fed every four hours during the day and sleep all! night, besides dozing half the day-1f. C. Smith, of the Veterinary De- At the end of there mouthpartment, who allowed himself to Bruce weighed more than 81, be bitten by an infected tsetse fly zs, a pound more than any of (but did not contract the disense), his sisters,
and to an African volunteer, who during another experiment develop jed sleeping sickness after being
bitten by an infected ly.
Visitors besiege the hospital in She made many inquiries. At the hope of catching a glimpse at Jast she discovered that a graft-
ing operation was possible
them.
"We feel," state the committee, "that no praise is 100 high for such services as these rendered at con- -the cause of
* If some one could be found will-jand Mrs. Jollyman and her son [siderable risk to
ing to sacrifice an ear,
have now returned home.
"I am willing," she said.
"Like Others"
(gcience,"
Sleeping sicknes-not to be con: fused with sleepy sickness (en- cephalitis lethargica)-is one of the greatest scourges of tropical Africa, where it has even compell- ed the complete abandonment of
She was told that it might The boy is too young to be mean considerable pain for her. Jable to say much about what has She did not mind that. As for happened. His mother hopes the disfigurement, she said, " he will soon forget it altogether, fertile districts.
can't."
MRS. JOHN J. ASTOR.
The father bus had a curious. and eventful Hife. He was posthumous
bly son,
father Mr. Astor's mother later mar- Josing his life in the Tiante ried William Dick, whom she when returning from a honey divorced a few years ago, moon with his·19-year-old bride,
Re-
whose life he saved forcing herjeently she created a nation-wide into a boat as the ship went sensation by marrying an Italian clown.
boxer named Enzo Fiermonte,
Wells And G.B.S. Star In
→
A Film---For £5 Each
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PICTURE "HUMANISING" THE B.B.C.
it is transmitted from anfma STARS in a film which will be screened in Hong-
can hide it with my hair. Jacky All she would say of it herself earriers to the blood of man by was: "I am happy. My boy bites of the tsetse fly. Constant will now be as other children." war is being waged on the breed- So arrangements were made. It was Mr. Jellyman who tolding places of the ly. The operation was performed in most of the story. He ended i St. Andrew's Hospital, Dollis with the words: "She is wonder- Hill, London, three weeks ago, ful"
"BATHING ON THE ROOF IN LONDON. installed portable bathing pool on the roofs of their premises.
to allow the staff to enjoy a funch-hour a
CONCUBINES
OUTLAWED BUT—-
Flaw In Law
WIFE AS JUDGE
Shanghai, Aug. T. Taking of concithines, a practice! sunctioned by old Chinese law in order to assure the birth of male uffsprint, is definitely outlawed in China to-day.
Enforcement of the new criminali code, which apples not only to all Chinese citizens but to foreigners not enjoying extraterritorini rights) in the country, was expected to sound the death-knell of Chinese) multiple marringes. But there is one provision in the code which may set the ban at naught.
The wife of the man who takes a concubine must file a complaint. Otherwise, he is immune from en- forcement of the law.
Old Oriental Custom Married men when convicted of j marrying more than once, or of committing adultery, will be pun- Ished severely. But, the code provides, such action is only punishable when the wife of the adulterer goes into court and вислга out a warrant. Young Chinese wives nurtured on west- ern doctrines of narital fidelity, may not hesitate to take legal act- on to assert their rights, but the Chinese woman of the older geng oration is expected to cling to the old Oriental custom of non-com- } plalni.
Under the code, a Chinese who desires to form an alliance out of wedlock.. or to patronise a house of lil-fame, must obtain the per mission of his wife in advance,
soon include--
George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, David Low, The Rev. "Dick" Sheppard, Henry Hall, Eric Maschwitz, Clapham and Dwyer, and The Voice of Sir John Reith.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
DET TESTORANAKASULISEMASERİATMAN CREAMMATHEMATITINKANT
Forgetting
Because they are said to give offence to German visi tors, Broadstairs Council propose to delete the words "Lest we forget" from a notice board drawing atten. tion to ■ raft from the Luni- tania, which is exhibited as a relic of the war on the jetty,
The film is a six-reel "docu- mentary" entitled "B.B.C.-the Voice of Britain."
H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw and others. not on the B.B.C. staff were paid £5 each for their work.
B.B.C. Influence
As the title indicates, the film is about Broadensting House, its In- mates and Influence. It was pro duced by Stuart Legg for John Grierson's G.P.O. Film Unit.
By far the biggest investment in "documentary" fra has been made by the Gaumont-British Corporation. Their G.-B. Instruc- tional and G.-B. Equipments sub- sidiaries have, during the past two yeurs been developing a cinematic Five-Year Plan unparalleled. In the industry normally sacred to quick profits,
In the last twenty months no Iess than £150,000 has been sunk by these two companies In the business of opening up schools, Institutes and regular cinemax for "documentary" films.
It will be at least another three years before there is a chance of, a return on the Investment.
£500 A Wack
showing
Most of the money comes per- Hanally from Isidoro Ostrer, presi dent of Gaumont-British.
Films unsuitable for anywhere excopt in schools and in- atitutes are being made at the rate of one a week, at an overage cast of 1800. Yet there are not at present more than 100 places in Britain where purely educational Alma can be marketed-ind the average rental paid is 58,
So far there are no cinema equipped schoals in Hongkong. but some time ago plans were afoot at one private institutlan. "B.B.C.-the. Volco of Britain" will, however, not await those plans maturing but will be screened, probably at the King's Theatre, through Gaumont-British,
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TO-MORROW THE KING'S
HE GAVE HER THE RUSH ACT!
It's a
laugh. humdinger that hums with excitement!
The
And rushed off to jail—
to raise the price of a
honeymoon!
DARING YOUNG MAN
A FOX Picture with
JAMES DUNN
MAE CLARKE NEIL HAMILTON
Produced by ROBERT T.KANE Directed by WILLIAM A. SEIZER From o story by Claude Binyon & Sidney Skolsky
TOPPING EVERYTHING FOR THRILLS
NOW IT CAN BE TOLD:
HOW one man led 5,000 convicts in mutiny.
HOW America's "Public Enomy No. 1" sprang the greatest
jail-break in history for
J
HOW the B... D.]." trailed the "Purple Gang" to their
hideout.!
HOW Washington headquarters solved the "Cluo of the
Limping Surgeon !"
HOW a woman led the Secret Service. to a movie theatro
lobby, and America's most dangerous killor!
• Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice.
"I'LL
BREAK THIS JOINT APART! And when I start, look out!" But the tougher they come, the harder they fall for a woman—;
that's when the "Secret Serv. „Ice" takos them! Drama,
Lahat will tie your nerves
into knota!.
DUBLIC HERO
Number
with
LIONEL BARRYMONE JEAN ARTHUR CHESTER MORRIS JOSEPH CALLEIA PAUL KELLY«LEWIS STONE Directed by J. WALTER NUBIN Produced by LUCIEN HUBBARD
QUEEN'S TO-MORROW
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