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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1936.

MOST INACCESSIBLE MAN IN U. S.

John D. Rockefeller Is Trying For Century Mark

Brown-Eyed Child Of Blue-Eyed Parents

MOTHER WINS A

TEST CASE

Copenhagen, Dec. 18.

A "100 to 1 chance" that a child can be born with brown eyes to parents, with whom blue eyes have been a trait on both sides for generations, was awarded to a mother at Copenhagen -contesting the father's repu-

diation of parenthood.

The child was aged 13 before the father suddenly objected to support- ing it.

He then sought a legal ruling teleasing him from keeping the child any longer. He also asked that his previous contributions on Ita behalf should be refunded to him.

WHALES. GO TO WASTE

SO HE SURRENDEED TO HIS PHYSICIANS

Ormond Beach, Fla., Dec. 30. John D. Rockefeller, who two decades ago re linquished the reins of the vast empire and fortune be built, to-day is seeking to reach the coveted century mark in life through a quiet, sequestered existence that makes him the most inaccessible man in America.

He is 96 years old now, four years away from his goal, but members of his household, to whom he is 'Mr. R.', say he is alert and cheerful, patient and uncomplaining, and they feel certain that he will reach the age he seeks.

An early riser, Rockefeller now remains in his rooms until he has had his breakfast. He is dressed, and goes downstairs in the newly installed clovator.

Physicians have made him give | air-conditioned suite, until he re up all physical exertion. Golf, long tires-almost with the sun. a favourite pastime of his, has been foregone. Christmas parties and other entertainments which taxed him were halted. His neighbour liness, which led to the tradition of his souvenir dimes, was curbed. A herd of blackfish stranded on the north coast of Tasmania: cetaceans The once-familiar sight of Rocke- Ao gregarious that they blindly follow their leader ashore. The blackfish, or i pilot whale, is a creature that attains a length of some twenty foot. It feller, warmly bundled up assembles in heards of hundreds of individuals, being the most gregarious of blankets, sitting in the tonneau of all the cetaceans. The members of a herd blindly follow a leader, after one of his town cars on a morn- the manner of a flock of sheep; and if the leader happens to run into Ing's ride is now a rare one, al- shoal-water and become stranded, the others follow him. In this way those though he requests this privilege

daily. shown here were captured recently at Burnie, Tasmanin,

LONDON TO NEW

He explained that he was blue- YORK IN 12 HOURS

eyed, the mother was blue-eyed,

and in each case there had been blue eyes for generations in their familien. It was "Impossible" that he could be the father of a brown- eyed chlid.

EXPERTS' REPORT

Medical experts and the Danish Ministry of Health were consulted by the Court.

IS AIR ACE'S PLAN

AMERICA'S greatest war air ace, Mr. Edward Vernon Ricken- bacher [“Eddie” to the American schoolboy]. has arrived in Europe with a plan: a plan to bridge the 3,000 miles of the North Atlantic by a daily service of air liners. Rickenbacher representa Ameri-

nocting link between the new At- air lines that will be, the con- lantic air services, South America.. The chance that the brown-eyed and the other side of the Pacific. now. Later he child could have been born to the He is in Paris blue-eyed

one in a comes to London, couple was

"Eddie" la tall, lean faced, with hundred, the experts reported.

In deep soft voice.

These are

pro- the things he The mother insisted that nobody but the blue-eyed man could be phesied:

By 1937 the Atlantic will be father of the child and the court agreed with her.

crossed regularly by British and American air liners. At first they will follow the southern route via Bermuda and the Azores.

The blue-eyed father must there- fore continue to contribute to the child's support-and pay the costs of his court action.-Reuter.

Air Race Sequel

MINDENHALL-MELBOURNE EVENT HAS COURT SEQUEL

Captain Thomas Neville Stack, a pioneer airman, brought an action in the King's Bench Division in London last month, which was a sequel to his failure in the England-Melbourne air race in 1930 in which he flew no further than Athens.

The airplane he used he had flow the 'plane there from Ports- agreed to buy on a hire purchase mouth.

In the race, Captain Stuck, his agreement-£2,448 down and £201

10s, a month for eighteen months assistant, Mr. S. L. Turner, and a' -from Airspeed (1934), Ltd., of wireless operator were on board. the Airport, Tortsmouth.

TC-

He now asked the court to selnd the agreement and to grant repayment of the £2,448. Ife also:

breach of claimed damages for contraet or misrepresentation.

Airspeed (1934), Ltd., denied breach of contract or misrepre- sentation, said the machine was

Over the Channel the com- pass proved inaccurate. Cross- ing the coast of France they noticed a smell of burning, and the wireless operator had to stand by with fire ex- tinguisher.

They landed at Abbeville air

noticed the landing

airworthy, and counter-claimed drome and

£201 10s, an instalment which wheels were not spinning, which they said was due under the hiro slowed, that the wheel brakes were

purchase agreement.

locking If one landed with the brakes bindling there was danger

Mr. Tristram Beresford, for that the machine would pitch on

that that

Captain Stack, suggested various happenings showed the delivery of his airplane, Air speed Viceroy, was job."

2 "rushed

OVER THE CHANNEL....

its nose.

By the time the brakes were put right at Le Bourget it was dark.

Captain Stack, giving evidence about the "exceptionally high" petrol consumption, said

that

in

Doctors' orders, it is enid. Complete relaxation, both mental and physical, rather than any medicaments, will bring to fruition his long-cherished ambition, his physicians feel.

Rockefeller is finding asylum at The Casements, his large, rambling, but unpretentious winter estate. Here he is sheltered from disturb tainers as disciplined and loyal s Ance and strain by a staff of re- that of any feudal lord.

If the weather is warm, he is fous grounds to the summer house, set far back on the estate. There permitted to walk through his spac-

and newspaper articles. he is read letters from the family

After mid-day dinner, he rests in his saito in a bed specially built for him, for Mr. R.' is too fall for ordinary-sized beds.

Usually he descends again and spends the remainder of the day with friends of members of his family. When John D. Jr., in whose hands now rest the raing of

time together. the vast Rockefeller holdings, is in Ormond Bench, the two spend much

In this circle, conversation gener- ally is steady, with the patriarch Flying-boots will take about

The estato is surrounded by high carrying his share fully. three days between London and wire fences that defy intruders, and

It is on this ordered daily New York,

each gate has its sentry box with schedule of rest and relaxation that When they have introduced an armed guard in it. No one is doctors base his physical condition the service, we shall have ma-permitted to enter the grounds to-day. His longevity in due on- chines cruising 25,000 feet without the approval of the direct-tirely to a life of moderation, they above the ocean at 250 m.p.h., ing members of the household, say, and they believe it likely that reaching England in twelve But even entrance does not insure he will reach his goal of life.- hours non-stop from New York, glimpse of the retired industrial United Press. They will go straight across tycoon, for only members of the family, servants, and a small band the North Atlantic.

of the closest intimates are allow- "I GUESS NOT"

ed to see Rockefeller himself. "Eddie" was asked if he expects

Consequently, rumours are. rife to By an- Atlantic maching himself. He has been one of America's fore-that he is senile, that his life is most commercial pilots.

hanging by a slender thread.

Neither is true.

Last year he broke the American Transcontinental record from New York to Newark by flying a Douglas across the 2,600 miles in twelve hours.

But "Eddie" sald, "I guess nat," and went to bed.

SHORE LEAVE

An English marine going ashore

The arrival of the engines was when they landed at Athens they front 11.31.S. Nelson with a large delayed. They had to be at had petrol for only another Mildenhall on Sunday.

October[minutes.

14, and on that day Captain Stack! The hearing was adjourned.

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Stammering

Detached though he is, he retains his interest in the outside world and has the news read to him each morning. Those close to him say his comments often are as trench-walk on all fours. ant and pertinent as ever before.

Now remedy for stammering--

He has been vitally interested in problems of the economic crisis of recent years, and when work was being done on "The Casements" he distributed it among the greatest possible number of needy families in thle section, and adjusted the hours of work for cach-man-to-his- actual needs for subsistence.

His health and general physical condition are better than last year and the year before.

Ilis days are full, from the time he wakes in his oxygen treated and

New Movie Marvel

Miss Hazel Geniesse, of Michl- gan (U.S.A.) University, has dis- covered that people who stammer show a great improvement in speech when walking.so.

Twenty-four cases were investi- gated in the university laboratory. In each case there was improve- ment. In some cases stammering completely ceased..

The reason, according to Miss Geniesse, is that the change of blood pressure caused by the "all fours" position affects the nerve cells, which are called into play by speech.

THIRD DIMENSION IS COMING TO THE SCREEN THIS YEAR

A skeleton leaps from the screen directly into the faces of onlookers in the audience. A balloon floats out so that apparently it can be touched by the spectators. Objects are hurled from the screen into the theatre, and a gun protrudes, comes with a ́ ́few inches of the spectator's head and explodes.

These are some of the weird nudience, shows how it is put on, thrillers made possible by the and then the amazement begins.

application of third dimensional A girl goes through exercises, photography to sound and colour then tosses a balloon which seems in the latest scientific marvel of to fly directly into the face of each the screen. It is to be introduced member of the audience. A skele. to the public in "Audioscopics," ton apparently leaves the screen new Peto Smith special now in pro-and floats into the audience. A duction at the Metro-Goldwyn trombone player appears. On his Mayer studios. The picture is below note the slide appears to be lieved to be the first step toward pushed within a few inches of the three dimensional colour feature spectator's nose. Soda-water is drama on the screen.

squirted with the same illusion, and as a climax a gun is fired, apparent- The new film has everything pre-ly a few inches from each sent in nature. Apparently, golid looker.

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"The process is very much liko is, in offert, a demonstration of the new process. It opens with Smith actual eyesight. Each Imago on explaining the principle, showing the film is photographed twice from and how two human eyes see from dif different. optical angles, forent angles, or partly around an brought together through the aye- object to permit the sensing of pleces, Just as they are by the solidity, and ho then shows how optic nerve in human eyesight." the now camara works on the same sido from the double lensed principle. He then exhibits the camera, pljotography is no more eyepiece, one of which has been complicated than present photo- provided each member of the graphy and r600rding

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