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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JANUARY

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 sides for trait on both

generations, was awarded to a mother at Copenhagen contesting the father's repu- diation of parenthood.

WHALES GO TO WASTE

A herd of blackfah stranded on the north coast of Tasmania: cetacean The child was aged 13 before the

so gregarious that they blindly follow their lender ashore. The blackfish, or father suddenly objected to support-pilot whale, is a creature that attains a length of some twenty feet. It assembles in heards of hundreds of individuals, being the most gregarious of ing It.

all the cetaceans, The members of a herd blindly follow a leader, after the manner of a flock of sheep; and if the leader happens to run into In this way those shoal-water and become stranded, the others follow him.

shown here were captured recently at Burnie, Tawania.

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

lle explained that he was blue- eyed,

the mother was blue-eyed, and in each case there had been blue eyes for generations in their families. It was "impossible" that he could be the father of a brown. eyed child.

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

LONDON TO NEW

YORK IN 12 HOURS IS AIR ACE'S PLAN

Flying-boats will take aboat three days between London and New York.

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 he 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 ho sccks,

Physicians have made him give | air-conditioned suite, until he re- up all physical exertion. Gelf, long tires-almost with the sun. a favourite pastime of his; has been foregone. Christmas parties and

An early riser, Rockefeller now

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other entertainments which taxed remains in his rooms until he has him were halted. His neighbour-had his breakfast. He is dressed, liness, which led to the tradition of and goes downstairs in the newly his souvenir dimes, was corbed. installed elevator. The once-famillar sight of Rocke-

If the weather is warm, he la up In

ious grounds to the summer house, feller, warmly bundled blankets, eltting in the tonneau of permitted to walk through his spac- one of his town cars on a morn-

he is read letters from the family ing's ride is now a rare one, al-set far back on the estate. There though he requests this privilege and newspaper articles. daily.

'Doctors' orters, it is said.`

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,

tainers as disciplined and loyal as that of any feudal lord.

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

Usually he descenda again and spends the remainder of the day with friends of members of his family. When John D. Jr., in whose hunds now rest the rains of the vast Rockefeller holdings, is in time together.

In this circle, conversation gener- ally is steady, with the patriarch carrying his share fully.

AMERICA'S greatest war air nce, Mr. Edward Vernon Ricken.but unpretentious winter estate. bacher ("Eddie" to the American schoolboy] has arrived in Here he is sheltered from disturb Europe with a plan: a plan to bridge the 3,000 miles of the Northce and strain by a staff of re-Ormond Beach, the two spend much Atlantic by a daily service of air liners. Rickenbacher represents Ameri- an air lines that will be the con- necting link between the new At- lantic air services, South America, The chance that the brown-eyed land the other side of the Pacific. Later he child could have been born to the He is in Paris

one in a comes to London. blue-eyed couple was

"Eddle" is tall, lean faced, with hundred, the experts reported.

a deep soft voice.

These are the things he pro- phested:

The mother insisted that nobody but the blue-eyed man could be father of the child and the court agreed with her.

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

now.

By 1937 the Atlantic will be crossed regularly by British and American air liners. At first they will follow the southern route via Bermuda and the Azores.

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.

agreement 2,448 down and £201 In the race. Captain Stack, his 108. a month for eighteen months assistant, Mr. S. 1. Turrer, and a from Airspeed (1934), Ltd...of wireless operator. were on board, the Airport, Portsmouth.

re-

Ho now naked the court to scind the agreement and to grant repayment of the £2,448. He also claimed damaged for breach of contract or misrepresentation.

Airspeed (1934). Ltd., dented! breach of contract or misrepre- sentation, sald the machine was airworthy, und 'counter-claimed

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

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They landed at Abbeville dire) drome and noticed the landing

£201 10s., an instalment which wheels were not spinning, which they said was due under the hire showed that the wheel brakes were locking. If one landed with the brakes binding there was danger

purchase agreement..

Mr. Tristram Beresford, for that the machine would plich on Captain Stack, suggested thatis nose. various happenings showed that

By the time the brakes were put] Captain Stack, giving evidence i about the "exceptionally hig" petrol consumption. said that The arrival of the engines was when they landed at Athens they delayed. They had to be at had petrol for only another Mildenhall on Sunday, October minutes,

the delivery of his airplane, Airtight at Le Bourget it was dark. speed Viceroy, Wos a "rushed job,"

OVER THE CHANNEL...

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

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The estate is surrounded by high wire fences that defy intruders, and It is on this ordered dally ench 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 is due en- 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,ja 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.

"I GUESS NOT"

"Eddie" was asked if he expects to fly an Atlantic machine himself.

of the closest Intimates are allow

ed to see Rockefeller himself.

Consequently, rumours are rife He has been one of Amerien's fore-that he is senile, that his life is most commercial pilota,

hanging by a elender thread.

Neither is true.

Last year he broke the American Transcontinental record from New York to Newark by flying a Douglas R&!*:14s the 2.600 miles in twelve hours.

But "Eddie" said. "I guess not," and went to bed.

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Down On All Fours Stops Stammering

New remedy for stammering- walk on all fours.

Miss Hazel Geniesse, of Michi gan (U.S.A.) University has dis-

起

Detached though he is, he retains his interest in the outside world. and has the news read to him ench morning. Those close to him any his comments often are as trench ant and pertinent as ever before.

He has been vitally inferested in covered that people who stammer problems of the economic crisis of show great improvement in recent years, and when work was speech when walking at. being done on "The Casements" he Twenty-four cases were investi- distributed it among the greatestgated in the university laboratory, possible number-of-needy families.In.euch case there was improve- in this section, and adjusted the ment. In some cases stammering hours of work for each man to his completely ceased, actual needs for subsistence,

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

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

New Movie Marvel

The reason, according to Mies: 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 audience, shows how it is put on, thrlilers 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 & balloon which seems in the latest scientific marvel ofte fly directly into the face of each the screen. It is to be introduced member of the audience. A skele, to the public in "Audioscoples," ton apparently loaves the screen new Pete 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 Soda-water is three dimensional colour feature spectator's nose. drama on the screen,

squirted with the same illusion, and as a climax a gun la fired, apparent. The new flm has everything pre-ly a few faches from each on- sent in nature. Aparently solid looker.

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"The next step will possibly bo is watched through a pasteboard dramatic and musical short sub- Alarcoscope with coloured celluloidjects, and as these are accepted, windows, hold, before the eyes like possibly featured drama, just as a pair of glasson. This correlates talking pictures started with short the two images. **

subjects and paved the way to pre- The presont picture, a novelty, sent full-length features.

The process is very much like is, in effect, 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 'anglés,and, how two human eyes see from dif. different optical forent angles, or partly around an brought together through the eye- object, to permit the sensing of pieces, Just as they are by the solidity, and is then shows how optle nervo in human eyesight.2" :- ho, now, umora jerks on the same. Aside from the double lensed principle. Hethan exhibits the camera, photography la no more eyepléce, one of which has been complicated than present photo provided each member of the igraphy and recording.

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HONG KONG: SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN The Socioty asks for $25,000

in 1936 to continue its work for sick and destituta children. Hon. Treasurers:

Mr. A. McKELLAR, CIA.,

c/o Mackinnon, Mackenzle & Co.,

P. & O. Building.

Mr. KWOK CHAN,

c/o Banque de L'Indo Chino,

Hongkong.