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THURSDAY, · JUNE 25,. 1936.

THE HONGKONG.

TELEGRAPH.

THIS IS HOW

THEY KEEP 'EM

DOWN ON THE FARM

NURSE WADDINGHAM

CONFESSED

But She Said:

"Tell The Children

I Am Innocent"

Nottingham, June 1.*

TOROTHEA WADDINGHAM, hanged on April 16 for murdering Ada Baguley, confessed a few hours be-

fore she died.

• She was making her will at the

Lime.

"Tell my children I am inno- cent," she said in the statement disposing of her property,

The confession was made sud- denly-unexpectedly.

It has been kept a close secret since. Not even her solleitor, Mr.

R. A. Young, knew of it.

"It is nowa to me," he said,

"HYSTERICAL"

Mr. R. J. Sullivan, who wps nequitted of the murder for which! Nurse Waddingham was executed, said: "I suppose it da possible, but I'm very surprised to hear it."

"She was in a very hysterical |

fore the execution.

Anglo-

Hollywood Alliance

U.S. STARS TO BE "BORROWED"

An Anglo-American Olm al-

state when I saw her two days be-liance of some significance is' in- "I don't think she knew quite dented by the signing of an Ile paid this in the house in agreement whereby British Na- Devon-drive, where Adin Baguleytional Films, Ltd., arb to have

what she was doing.”

ded.

The room Was piled high with linoleum, curpels and furniture.

"You can see I am moving from

the co-operation and support of

the important Hollywood com-

here." Mr. Sullivan sud, waving his pony, Twentieth Century Fox.

which

British National Filmas has the

among ita

hand with a weary goilure took in the bare Bitle sitting-room.

"I can't stand the

millionaire Lady Yule gossiping tongues any longer. It has become directors. pbsolute fařtitre.

"People nudge each other in the street as I paNS.

"I am going to live outside Nut Lingham.

Things have become so bad here that I am thinking of changing my name,"

When the company was formed i har ambillous plans, and Mr. John! Corfield.

another director, sairt recently that its modest of protue-| on so far was due to studio shortage

as well as to the difficulties of en-

Anger enme into Sullivan's voice. ¿goging stars and of ensuring distribu-

"I have stood my trial, and beention in America.

found innocent," he said.

"Why on earth can't people be

decent and leave me alone?".

WHEN BRIDGE IS

"The facilities offered for trainlugg

Who la there to disagree with judren at the Facifle International Ex- position, San Diego, who picked Edith Bradshae, 20, of Omar, West Va., as the prettiest farmerette on Farm Bureau Day? · Later she was elven a part in an Exposition pageant.

"SAFE" DRUG

TREATMENT:

WOMAN DIED

nur personnel in Hollywood," said Mr.! THE death of Mrs. Ethel Greswolde, aged fifty, of Webb-

"LOVE

|

PHILTRE" THE BEST IS GIRL'S AIR

DASH

MADE IN LONDON

My £14,000 HAVE Wasted' YOUR

Paris, June 15.

MISS BABY SIEGFRIED WINTER

Knudsen, the Swedish

blonde, who accuses a well

known Paris fortune teller of

extracting £14,000 from her for SUITS "love philtres and magic potions" to retain the love of

marry,

a wealthy banker whom she MADE had vainly hoped to dashed by air from London to Paris to-day to present her case to the examining magis- trate here.

Wearing a smartly tailored

IN

dark costume, and shallow LONDON crowned hat with a broad up. |turned brim, Mias Knudsen hur- ried into the magistrate's room and declared: "Mme. de Tanis (the fortune-teller) assured me that she had remarkable powers by which she could help me to retain my lover's affections,

"Yet the £14,000 pent un various potions she recommended was entirely wasted.

"It secins fantastic thing, but when needs arise one takes advan¬ tage of any meann at one's disposal." The fortune-teller, whose reni name is Muse. Soudre, also appeared before the magistrate.

A stout,

alert-faced woman, she wore a smart fur-collared coat with ja long flowing yelvet robe which

swept the ground.

is

Afterwards she said to a reporter:

This astounding accusation completely without foundation.

"My clientele includes some of the crowned heads of Europe and a large number of leading personalities in French society.

CONFRONTATION DRAMA

"I handed the examining magis-

Jane, Hall Green, Birmingham, from the effects of a Corfeld, "and the (COLNS British i National has to the efforts of the best drug prescribed by a London doctor for rheumatoid arthri-trate letters from famous men and American writers can only prove of tis led to this comment by Coroner Dr. W. H. Davison at the greatest value. ‚

"

Birmingham.

A LOTTERY unique production facilities and or-treatment by the doctor respon

New York, June 21.

CONTRACT Bridge is a game

of skill.

Two New York teachers were arrested for running as a gam bling house a studio in which bridge was played for small prizes.

Twentieth

pable of extracting such a su

women which prove that I am quite

of money from this young woman,

"Naturally a fee was paid by Mins

Knudsen. When you go to a doctor

"We can now borrow well-known

"If this can happen to a lamination had been conducted at players, purchase stories hitherto not tient who, having been seen his hospital. available, and take advantage of the and approved as suitable for *NO JUSTIFICATION'

you have to pay a fee. It is the amo when you consult someone as to the "You had no justification to do future, the fee must be paid. To Century sible for the formula of the drug, that and interfere with the evidence," grumble about it afterwards, when

and who was in the practice of said the coroner,

perhaps things do not turn out as a medical practitioner, who was woodstock-roud, Golders Green, N.,

Dr. H. G. Jacubyen, a German, ofthey should, is ridiculous. so cautious as to confirm by in-whose evidence was interpreted, sald "I have been foretelling future |quiry from his chemists if it was the responsible for the drug events for years, and I have never safe to use the drug, then I have formula. He introduced it in Ger- before had to face such accusations." not the least hesitation in say-many in 1025 and in England three ing that in future further and years later.

Dr. Davison, returning a "Death more explicit instructions as to from misadventure" verdlet, said he

ganisation

Fox."

TOOK DEATH DOSE AND LIVED

London, June 15.

Wng

local doctor had ad-

The examining magistrate an- nounced afterwards that the two women would be brought face to face in court next Wednesday. Mr. Ely Culbertson gave evidence A UNIVERSITY audience the use of the drug should be thought the

This is to enable the magistrate to

par-complaint and not dangerous of 1,000 doctors, stu-supplied with it by the distribu- ministered the drug in good faith, as

Dr. Jacubsen and the distributors, a watch their reactions when challeng tors."

London firm, said it was good for the|ing_each_other_regarding the evi-

dence,

before three judges in special sessions,

and he summed up his philosophy of dents and scientists here added that this applied -the-game-by-saying:–“Brhlge-ja-pre- dominantly a game of skill, but there watched a professor swallow ticularly in chronic cases where is the same element of chance in it as in life,"

a heavy dose of arsenic-treatment was prolonged. Another expert, Mr. Albert More which he neutralised hend, said the only element of chatice in bridge was when your hour later by taking a pill It was reported that Mrs. Gres- partner was unable to play his best of his own invention.

game.

J

an.

CONTAINED ATOPHAN

wolde's local doctor had admini- tored the drug-gorum--without The prosecution admitted that it had The professor, a noted Polish knowing that it contained atophan,

a dangerous one who would testify that bridge was scientist named Tadous Sky-Continuously. drug administered a game of chance, and the case was Zyzowski, claims that his dismissed.

searched the city, but could find no

No mention of this fact was made antidote has already saved the in the literature describing the pre- " £12,000,000 industry in America lives of hundreds of would-be paration with which the doctor had has been saved by this decision," sald Mr. Culbertson, afterwards.

sulcides. :

Five Meals A Day Keep The

Quins' Doctor Away

Montreal, June 1.

WHAT is the Ideal diot for

babies?

If you want to know take a peep into the nursery of the Dionne Quins, who, in spite of the tre mendous handicap with which they started life, are, at the age of one year eleven mentha, probably the world's healthiest infants.

They are neither fat nor lenni, but happy, hungry, roistering chlidren working off all day long their healthy energy..

been supplied. A marginal note was added to the leattet later, following

That

a fatality caused by the drug.

Professor P. C. Cloake, of Birming- University, said the drug was n valuable remedy in certain cases. The woman's death was due to the administration the drug in

most

a way which was wrong and dan- gerous.

"To-day the Ideal baby is neither inquent served no useful purpose. He The professor said he thought the fat nor lena. Its food must con:had not reported the death to the ain plenty of minerals and vita-coroner's office. A post-mortem ex- mins to build resistance against disease."

This, from the kitchen of the Quins nursery, is a record of what 6.30 a.m.; 1oz. orange juice mixed with they each ale yesterday:

cod liver oil.

8.10.am. 1 egg, 1 large alice brend and butter, arrowroot biscuits.

4oz. of milk.

11.15 a.m.: Asparagus puree, mashed]

carrots and potatoes, bread and butter, blancinange, 4oz. milk, a lite. cooked liver.

Dr. Allan R. Dafoe, their guard- tan, has worked out a system of dietary high, he believes, 184.30 scientifically perfect for children of thoir age.

TO-DAY'S IDEAL

|

p.m.: Tomato fulee and end liver oil, bread and butter and milk. Gp.m.: Oatmeal porridge, 4oz. milk,

bread and butter.

"A generation age the ideal baby Day and night the children get

was the fat baby," he said:

water when they risk for it.

RECIPE FOR LONG

LIFE

London, June 20,

Mrs. Mary Stubbin of Hal- ford-road, Richmond, n greut- niece of Constable, the land- scape painter, was 104 years old on Saturday.

She has never worn spec- tacles, reads the newspapers daily, and is fond of knitting and sewing.

Her long-life recipe: "Re- gular habits and if you feel.. unwell, go to bed for a day."

Drink Your Own Health

with

$1.00 Per Bottle

WATSON'S LEMON BARLEY WATER

Drug Report Withdrawn By League Of Nations

Starting Young

With an indifference more belit. ting 22 years than his 22 months, Jusa Vasquez puffs at a cigarette "in a Los Angeles, polios, station. Mrs. Juanita Edwards, who 'turn- Led Abra indi øyer,to officials after hi- mother allegedly deserted him, says Juan likes his likker

peat.

COMPLAINTS BY GOVERNMENTS RUMOURED

Britain Said to Have 30,000 Addicts

Geneva, June 18. THE League Secretariat have withdrawn the report of the opium section published at the end of last week, in which it was estimated that the total of drug addicts in the world was 2,000,- 000.

It is understood that the re- port hos been withdrawn because several Governments complained that the Secretariat had greatly over-estimated the numbers of addicts in their *countries.

The report was the first acien- tific attempt to estimate the num- ber of addicts in the world. Be- tween. 850 and G00 tons of

| narcotics, It was stated, were used

annually by the 2,000,000 addicts.

Annual consumption of druga in Great Britain was put at.ave tons, and the number of confirmed addicts at 30,000-Router,

Amsterdam, June 20. Anthony Fokker, airplane constructor, celebrated his 25th anniversary as a licensed pilot rocently by donating “100,000 guilders to the newly created Fokker Institute,

The Instituts facilitates training of young army pilots and provides special-pensions for widows of for-

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