1936-02-12 — Page 3

FOR

DOCTOR

BATTLE

H. K., CUBA

CENSORS ARE

UNANIMOUS

They Don't Like

Gangsters

Havana, Jan. 3.

Gangster and crime films will henceforth be barred from exhibition in Cuba.

The ban will fall on any film featuring or depicting the activities of gangstera, racke- icers or professional criminals in any form.

Repreaculatives in Havana of United States and other film producing companies, at a recent meeting with officials of the Department of Interior, were advised of the new rule. In order to work no hardship ow--the film companies, all gangster films now in circula- tion or on cxhibition in Cuba will be permitted to continue their runs, but now importa- tions of such films is now taboo, -United Press

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1936.

LIVES REVEALS

"TAKE MY PICTURE, PLEASE ?"

The photographer shown in this picture ran into difficulties when he tried to take a pleture in Trafalgar Square in London, and

excited the curiosity of the pigeons.

WHEN THE KING USED OFFICER'S -BACK AS WRITING-TABLE

On an occasion during the war when the late King George V Land Queen Mary were visiting a munitions plant near Leicester, an American army officer had asked permission to be present.

After he had been presented, the officer asked King George for his signature to show the people of America whose forebears had been English.

The King replied that he had no pen or table. The American pro- duced a fountain pen and stam- mered that the King might use his. back as a table.

This was done. Meanwhile, the Queen had sent for a table and added her signature. As he turned away,, King George smiled at the Queen and said: "I've never seen a broader back."

This is one of the many new ""stories of King George V-the Queen, King Edward VIII and other members of the Royal Family told by Mr. Herbert T. Fitch, formerly the King's detec tive and member of the Special Branch of Scotland-yard, in his "Memoirs of a Royal Detective," published recently (Hurst and Blackett, 189.). Mr. Fitch has died since writing the book.

"What Mon 1"

Detective Inspector Fitch was for some years in close attendance whenever King George appeared in public. He was there the day King George presented the V.C. to many war heroes in Hyde Park.

When it was all over.""says Mr. Fitch, "the King turned to one of his staff officers.

For a

moment or two he was too affected to speak.

"What men!' he exclaimed at last, in a low voice. "What doeda! How can I help being proud of my people!" "

Queen Mary, driving through the slums, saw an old woman try- ing to get up from her chair on a balcony. The Queen stopped her carriage, sent a message up to the old woman, telling her to sit still and that the Queen would come up to see her. The Queen went up the dark, dingy stairs and out on to the balcony, where she sat and talked to the lottery old dáme..

حدي على

"Played the little 'un! Playou the little'un!" roared the crowd as a fair-haired had raced down the field, with the ball at his toes, and shot a pas to the centre forward, who scored tho winning goal just before time. Oxford University were playing Oxford City Polico; the "little 'un" was King Edward VIII.

The electric light failed while King George was in the royal box- At the Royal Court Theatre, Sloane-square, Some one switch- Led on a torch and the King stood up. In the ray of light, aotting an oxample of calm to the nudfence, who were inclined to be alarmed,

It was just after the bomb had boon thrown "ant"·"Queen Ena. In Madrid,

Before the light went up, King George was missing! Frantle search. Mr. Filch, Tac

came face to face with the King.

"I suppose you're looking for me," said the King. "You fol lows don't leave me alone very long. I've just been under the stage to see them repair the breakdown to the lighting."

IDEAL MODEL

32,000 beauty experts was declared to

Miss Allco Shaughnessy, who by

be Amerlen's perfect model.

OF

HIS

THE QUINS:

SECRETS

A Flood of Advice From Whole World BIG CLAIMS FOR PURE RYE

WHISKY AND SOW'S MILK

Throughout his arduous battle for the lives of the Dionne quintuplets, wonder babies of the world, Dr. A. R. Dafoe, their old-fashioned Canadian country doctor, has been overwhelmed by unsolicited advice from all over the globe.

One correspondent actually suggested a diet of "pure rye whisky;" another recommended the milk of a York- shire sow; others claimed "spectacular results" from the use of horsetail plant, knotweed, blackberry root and, water-melon juice.

These facts, together with the treatment actually adopted, are revealed in a report by Dr. Dafoe in the January issue of the "Journal of the Canadian Medical Association.""

The rye whisky letter is quoted as follows:

"Dear Sir, I notice by the evening paper that you are waiting on a lady who is mother of five girl babies. You Bure have your hands full.

"Get pure rye whiskey and pour one teaspoon into # saucer. Take a clear pino silver and set it on fire until it goes out.

"The dose for a medium baby (5-6 lbs) would be one drop, every two hours. There ain't no polson in pure rye. whiskey after it is burnt and I am anxious to BLO you pull through with them all. That is why I am putting you ohte

Shoe Polish Blows Up: Wrecks Room this cure.

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TIN of shoe polish blew up in a house near Leg minster, Herefordshire, Inst month, injured a woman, and partly wrecked a room.

Mrs. Norris, of Harp-yard, Kingston, was sitting by her fire when the tin, which had fallen into it, exploded with 'a loud report.

Her furniture was damaged, and the window. was blown out.

of The heat

the fire, apparently caused the polish to expand, the lid which fitted lightly, then blowing off..

The Queen Mary

Despite the avalanche of amazing "cure-alls" from Great Britain, India, Germany, France, Mexico, Australia, the Philippines and from all over Canada and the United States, Dr. Dafoe followed his own prescriptions.

Mentality Normal When the "quins" were born, in May, 1934, no one believed that Last month they could survive. Dr. Dafoe described them as "a rare collection of smiling, healthy babies."

Morcover, they have been tested by psychologists, who de-

clare that the five sisters are up. to the normal standard of men- tal development for their age. The two biggest are slightly above the normal.

Dr. Dafoe's report tells of the "flaccid muscles and spider-like limbs" with which the little girls were born..

"For days," he writes, "it sotm- ed impossible that the tiny spark of life in each body would prove sufficient to produce a continuous functioning.....

Oxygen Aperitifs

"At times the breathing would almost stop, then pick up and race along above the normal rate.

"The babies

were watched every minute and had to be stimu lated frequently.

"Within the first week cylind- era containing oxygen 95 per cent., carbon dioxide 5 per cent, and fitted with a reducing valve and ordinary inhalator were obtain- ed."

RATE WAR THREAT RESULTS aperitif a few minutes before

FROM CLASSIFICATION

Liverpool, Jan. 15:

A FARE-CUTTING war may arise from a disagreement among shipping companies forming the North Atlantic Passenger Conference over the proposed classification of the Queen Mary as a cabin ship.

It was stated in shipping circles here to-day that the Cunard-White Star Line had given notice to withdraw from the conference at the end of the month because a number of American and foreign shipping companies are not agreeable to the proposed classification.

"UNJUSTIFIED"

Officials of the line would neither confirm nor deny the report. The other companies, it is understood, contend there is no justification for placing the Queen Mary in the same. class as ships that average one-third of her size.

It is maintained that the liner is a first-class vessel and that her fares should be fixed accordingly. If she offers superior accommodation at cabin rates it is probable that the farea of rival liners will be reduced below the present agreed schedule.

It is pointed out, however, that proposed fares officially announced show only a slight variation from those of the giant French liner Normandie.

DESERT RAIDERS SWOOP

ON LEGIONNAIRES :

SOLDIERS SHOT DOWN IN CAFE

HORSEMEN IN NIGHT CHASE Paris, Jan. 20..

THREE soldiers of the Foreign Legion have been shot dead in a drama of the desert that reads like a tragedy from the pages of “Beau Geste."

They were sitting at a crowded native cafe at Tinghir, on the confines of the Sahara, laughing and having a parting drink on the eve of going on leave. Their backs were to the door, and none of them noticed it open noiselessly,

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Others in the cafe saw and under cover of the night they shadowy figures in the darkness vaalehot into their impregnable outside, and a moment later strongholds, safe from pursuit. there was a rattle of rifle fire, t

The three soldiers threw up Thieves Show Contempt, their hands and rolled to the floor dead, riddled with bullets.

The assailants were members

Steal Burglar Alarm Pittsfield, Mass, Jan. 26. Thieves stole a part. of D. F.

of a tribe living in the hills of Southern Morocco and known Kolly's gasoline station burglar to Europeans in the region as alarm. the "gangsters of the desert" "

BULLETPROOF

This gas mixture, given "as an

feeding-times in the early days, stirred up the torpid little bodies and produced an energetic suck- ing.

`The Sun Curo

After describing how the babies were fed on drops of warm water on the first day, Dr. Dafoe gives details of the later diet, showing that it included cow's milk, tomato juice, orange juice and cod liver oil.

Soon they began to spend hours in the open air.

"They immediately began to show a definite Improvement. Their faces filled out, their eyes sparkled, and these happy little souls soon took on the rotund appearance of little puppies.

"Their normal development has bech continuous ever

since." United Press and Reuter.

New White Dwarf Star

WHERE MAN WEIGHS 254,625 TONS

New York, Jan. 28. Observers at Mount Wilson | Observatory, California, have re- ported the discovery of a nów "White Dwarf" star only one- third of the size of the earth but

of such density that it weighs. 620 tons per cubic inch, has an atmosphere only 12 feet thick, and a gravity. 3,400,000 times stronger than the earth's.

The star is one of a handful of dwarf stars sighted through the 100-inch telescope, and the credit for its discovery belongs to Dr. G. P. Kulper, who has disclosed its measurements and other unusual properties.

With a temperature of 28,000 degrees C. the star's atoms lose their electrons and crowd, closer together, to give off gas much": | heavier than anything obtained on earth: A tennis, ball filled with Britain's how secret warplane this gas would weight over 1,000 Kolly rigged up a system in-shown above, has been built on a tona, and a man weighing 1501b.

up a syster Achiaso, mas organised and [volving a water-filled garden hose horganen wore apon galloping into Jaid in a square just beneath the the night to punish the raiders, surface of the station's drive,

They came up with them ten Compression on the hose sends at i said to be impervious to bullets miles to the south of Tinghir, and

n hot fire was exchanged,

But the tribesmen were now at stamāko gator of their lair in the hills,

plunger into a mercury switch that rings a bell. Wege

Samobody dug up the hose, and stola it

| on earth would weigh 264,025 tons revolutionary principio, B

*Besides on, the star,, where such a gravity. having an enormous radius of action pull would collapse the human

body and spread it like water.

The Inventor, Mr. Barnea Neville The Kuiper star's density is so great that is tidal, puil would Wallis, was the chief designer of the shatter any large stars which glant alretilp R-100.

might come within. Its reach,

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