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Boy Of Four With Voice Of A Man

BARITONE THAT AMAZES DOCTORS

TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, ·· JANUARY 3, 1936.

BRIAN STANI- FORTH, aged four,

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Cost Of Living

WIFE ASKS £160 A WEEK "TO LIVE ON: BOY £110

How The Money Goes PROBLEM No. 4. Is £8,360 a year (£100 a week) a “reasonable”.

income for a woman to demand, by way of alimony;-for-her- self and her twenty-year-old daughter to live on?

PROBLEM No. 2. -1s £4,550 a year (roughly £48 a week) a

sufficient income for a boy of eighteen?

The American courts have still to give their solution of of Ringing low - road,

Problem No. 1. The Canadian courts have decided that the solu Sheffield, has a deep ba-tion of Problem No. 2 is "Yes, £84 is sufficient," and have declined ritone voice.

He weighs four and a half stones, stands, four feet in height and takes one in shoes.

But his most embarrassing characteristic is that deep baritone voice,

"When he talks cutside," said Mrs. Staniforth to a press repre- sentative, "people just stand and stare.

"It is like a miniature sergeant- major speaking.

"Ile Invariably causes a sensa- tion, and-people actually follow us just to listen to him talking..

"It is terribly embarrassing at times."

DOCTOR AMAZED

Brian's fatlier, Mr. W. S, Stani- forth, who is the proprietor of a Sheffield firm of er tlery and fishing tackle suppliers, said:

"Six months ago Brian fell out of my car at Buxion and was taken to hospital there.

"He started to cry. For a few moments the doctor who was at tending him listened in amazement, and then aid. There is something wrong with him-something wrong with him.'

to grant an increase to £110 a week.

The woman who nets' Problem No. 1 is Mrs. Blanche Lemelson! Margals, who lives in a suite at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York.

In her suit for £8,360 a year alimony she gave this list of things as "necessary annual ex- penditure":-

Rent, £1,920. Food, £350. Daughter's education, £288. Tips, £120.

Daughter's entertainment, £180. Daughter's companion, £240. Chauffeur, £480.

Extra food, summer, £300. Clothes, £1,000.

Winter trip to Florida, £500. Summer home, £700. Doctors and dentists, £400. Miscellaneous, $240.

Mrs. Marquis alleges that her husband, Leonard J. Marquis, a New York broker, left her after twenty-eight years of marriage for Elvira Trabert, à German actress now appearing in New York.

She says that she and her hus- "It was some time before I could assure the doctor that the 'some-land and daughter have for years rate of £12,480 a thing had not been caused by the lived at the accident, and that Brian was al-yeng, and she asks for approxi

mately two-thirds of that sum se ways like that."

that she and her daughter can continue to live as they have been accustomed.

Mr. Stantforth has decided that as soon as Brian is old enough to go to school he will have singing

lessons.

of

Her application is adjourned The child has had a deep voice for the court to do some thinking. ever since he was able to speak.

Problem No. 2 Is raised by Mr. Doctors cannot explain it, but they Edwin T. Ward, guardian have assured Brian's parents that eighteen-year-old Welland It is nothing to worry about.

Veaux Woodruff of St. Catherines, Brian has an elder brother whose Ontario, volce and size are normal.

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He applied for an increase of £1,200 n

year on Woodruff's present allowance of £4,560 so that he may be "brought up'in a manner suitable to the position in life he will have on attaining his majority."

The court decided that Mr. Woodruff will have to continue to rub along somehow or other on his present £4,560 a year.

BOY DISCOVERS £7,000 DIAMOND The most perfect white diamond found in Brazil in the last thirty years has been discovered at the Bon Vista Mine (says Renter)..

It was noticed by a boy who was cleaning a separator embedded in a lump of clay,

The stone, which weighs 50 carat, is estimated to be worth £7,000.

Disguised Professor In Pupil's Examination

Calcutta, Dec. 15.

A University professor in dis- guise took the place of one of his pupils at an examination. Wear- ing dark glasses and a. false moustache, he attempted to sit at the examination for the B.A, de- gree of Calcutta University.

He is Professor A. K. Gupta, of

AIRRipon College, Calcutta, and to-

As a preliminary test, aerial photographs are to be taken of about 250,000 acres, or roughly 408 square miles, around Birming- ham.

The photographs will then be reduced in size and used in the revision of the old. Survey Maps.

In this way will be effected the revision of some 280 Ordnance Survey Sheets.

Air Search For Lost Jungle City

The Government of India has ordered an air survey of all the dead, forgetten cities hidden in the jungles of India.

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The aerial survey will take mouth, and the rectification of the photographs will be completed in another three months. Thus in несом- as many months will be plished what previously took years,

day he was sentenced to six months' rigorous imprisonmen, on each of two charges of cheat- ing by impersonation, and of for- gery of answer papers for the purpose of cheating.

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Samaresh Chandra Mookerjee, his pupil, who was charged with 12 Payments in safe escort

pickle. aiding and abetting, was acquit-19 Hardly a rod, but still putting in ted.

16 Dies Both pleaded Not Guilty to the 16 Unruffled. 17 Flat fish. charges.

19 Man with the name of Worry. 20 Play.

22 Call of the sea.

25 Remembrance lost.

IN WRONG SEAT The professor first aroused the Auspicions of those in charge of 27 Good sense. To make the survey the pilet the examination by occupying a 28 East Anglian river. will fly his heroplane in parallel wrong sent in the examination lines of flight, at a prearranged hall. This was reported to the height and speed,

controller of examinations.

Each line of photographs will overlap the neighbouring one, and on completion of each day's work the pictures taken will be joined

29 Birds that don't fly. 31 Has (rev.)

32 Hends over heels. 33 Surrounds.

Suspicions were intensified by 34 This as a clue is unorthodox. the professor's dark glasses.

But it was an electric fan They are to be photographed { up.

whirling above the professor's Bulldings are distinguishable head which was to prove his final and charted, so that, after cen-

from similarly shaped texture undoing. Before the astonished türigs of desolation, they can be patches by the shadows cast, and gaze of the officials the false restored.

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presents itself in moustache slowly succumbed to interpreting They are especially required to-accurately

roads, the breeze from the fan.

Bit by bit it detached itself day by airmen, to whom India's railways, footbaths, and hedges. dense, unpenetrated jungles pre-

The second, built by the greatest from the professor's lip until one sent dangers more cruel than the of India's rulers, Akbar the Great, side of it had completely dis- desert or the necan.

In the seventeenth century, has appeared, **

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Plague, pestilence, famine, some of the most famous buildings Before the process of disinte the foreign invader and the nain the world.

gration could go further the pro tive religious Fanatic drove But at night, when the sight-fessor bolted. men away from these cities. seers have departed, the wolf,

the tiger and the snake hold and caught. By this time he had He was chaned down the street

no moustache at all.

Where the jungle has now come i

in there were arable fields, vill- ages plentifully supplied with wells, and all such amenities of

revel there.

Using maps Giged on the his

torical records of the Government A fow days later Samaresh fo as an agrarian people need. of India, nirmen specially apChandra Mookerjee was arrested Two famous examples of these pointed for the task will attempt on his arrival in Calcutta from ancient elties are the marble ruins to bring back details of other dead Puri, Dhar, whore he had been of Amber and Fathepur, Sikri. cities."

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