1936-06-25 — Page 3

THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1936.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THIS IS HOW THEY KEEP 'EM

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: time.

"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 clong secret

since. Not even her solicitor, Mr.

R. A. Young, knew of it.

"It is news to me." he said..

"HYSTERICAL” ME R. J. Sullivan, who was acquitted of the murder for which Nurse Waddingham was executed, said: "I suppose it is possible, but I'm very surprised to hear it,"

"She was in a very hysterical

Anglo-

Hollywood

Alliance

U.S. STARS TO BE "BORROWED”

An Anglo-American film al-

stale when I saw her two days belinnce of some significance is in-.

fore the execution.

"I don't think she knew quite dicated by the signing of an what who was doing." He said this in the house in agreement whereby British Na- Devon-drive, where Ade Baguley tional Films, Lid, are to have died.

The room was piled high with the co-operation and support of linoleum, carpets and furniture. the important Hollywood com-

"You can see I am moving from here," Mr. Sullivan said, waving his pany, Twentieth Century Fox,

minaire Lady the gossiping

Yule among Its

hand with a weary gesture which British National Films has the took in the bare little sitting-room.

"I can't stand tongues any longer. It has become absolute torture.

"People nudge each other in the strect as I pass.

"I am going to live outside Not Ungham,

"Things have become so bad that I am thinking of changing name."

directors,

When the company was formed it had ambitious plans, and Mr. John Corfield, another director, said recently that its modest of produe- heretion so far was due to studio shortage

my

as well as to the diflculties of en-

Anger came Into Sullivan's voles |gaging stars and of ensuring distribu-

"I have stood my trial, and been]tion In America.

found innocent,” he said.".

"Why on earth, can't people hel

decent and leave me alone?”,

WHEN BRIDGE IS A LOTTERY

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.

Corfeld, and the access British

DOWN ON THE FARM

Who is there to disagree with judges at the Pacifié 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 given a part in an Exposition pageant.

"SAFE"

DRUG TREATMENT:

WOMAN DIED

"LOVE

PHILTRE" THE BEST IS GIRL'S AIR MADE IN LONDON

DASH

'My £14,000 HAVE

Wasted'

Paris, June 15.

YOUR

WINTER

MISS BABY SIEGFRIED Knudsen the Swediali blonde, who accuses a well. known Paris fortune teller of extracting 5.14,000 from her for SUITS "love philtres and magic potions" to retain the love of

a wealthy banker whom she MADE

had vainly hoped to marry; dashed by air from London to Paris to-day to present her case to the examining magin- trate here.

IN

Wearing a smartly tailored dark costume, and shallow LONDON

crowned hat with a broad up- turned brim, Miss. 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,

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"Yet the £14,000 I spent Various potions she recommended was entirely wasted.

"It seems a fantastic thing, but when needs arisa one takes adván- tage of any means at one's disposal."

The fortune-teller, whose real name is Mme. Soudre, also appeared before the magistrate,

A stout, alext-faced woman, she wore a smart fur-collared coat with a long, flowing velvet robe which swept the ground.

IN

Afterwards she said to a reporter:

This astounding accusation completely without foundation.

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

CONFRONTATION DRAMA

The facilities offered for trainin: THE death of Mrs. Ethel Greswolde, aged fifty, of Webb- our personnel in Hollywood," said Mr lane, Hall Green, Birmingham, from the effects of a 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 or tis led to this comment by Coroner Dr. W. H. Davison at

(the greatest value.

Birmingham.

י

"I handed the examining · magis,

women which prove that I am quite

incapable of extracting such a sum

of money from this young woman. "We can now borrow well-known! "If this can happen to a lamination had been conducted at "Naturally a fee was paid by Minn Knudsen. When you go to a doctor players, purchase stories hitherto not atient who, having been seen his hospital.

you have to pay a fee. It is the same available, and take advantage of the and approved as suitable for

'NO JUSTIFICATION'

when you consult someone as to the unique production facilities and or treatment by the doctor respon- "You had no justification to do future, the fee must be paid. To ganisation of Twentieth Century sible for the formula of the drug, that and interfere with the evidence," grumble about it afterwards, when Fax."

perhaps things do not turn and who was in the practice of said the coroner. a medical practitioner, who was woodstock-road, Golders Green, N.,

Dr. II. G. Jacubsen, a German, of they should, is ridiculous. so cautious as to confirm by in-whose cyldence was interpreted, said "I have been foretelling future quiry from his chemists if it was he was 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 1925 and in England three

years later. ing that in future further and

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London, June 15.

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The examining magistrate on- nounced afterwards' that the two Dri Davison, returning a "Death

women would be brought face to more explicit instructions as to from misadventure" verdict, said he

face in court next Wednesday. --Mr-Ely Culbertson-gave-evidence- UNIVERSITY audience the use of the drug should be thought the local ductor had ad-

A

Kitti ministéred'

a the drug in good faith, ar-This-is-to-enable the magistrate-to before three judgès în special sessions, of 1,000 doctors, stu-supplied with it by the distribu- Dr. Jacubsen and the distributors, a watch their reactions when challeng- and be summed up his philosophy of dents and scientists here

tors."

London firm, said it was good for the ing each other regarding the evi- the game by saying: "Fridge is pre-

He added that this applied par complaint and not dangerous.

dence. dominantly a game of skill, but there watched a professor swallow ticularly in chronic cases where

Is the same element of chance in ita heavy dose of arsenic-treatment was prolonged. as in life."

Another expert, Mr. Albert More which he neutralised ELN head, said the only element of

CONTAINED ATOPHAN

chance 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.

The prosecution admitted that it had

wolde's local doctor had admini-

tered the drug-gorum--without | The professor, a noted Polish knowing that it contained atophan, in dangerous drug if administered claims that his No mention of this fact was made antidote has already saved the in the literature describing the pre- "A £12,000,000 Industry in America lives of hundreds of would-be parution with which the doctor had has been saved by this decision,” mald] Mr. Culbertson, afterwards..

foulcides.

searched the city. but could find no scientist named Tadeus Sky-continuously. one who would testify that bridge was) a game of chance, and the ease was zyzowski, dismissed,

.

Five Meals A Day Keep The

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Quins' Doctor Away

been supplied. A marginal note was added to the leaflet later, following a fatality caused by the drug,

Professor P. C. Cloake, of Birming- ham University, said the drug was a most valuable remedy in certain cases. The woman's death was due to the administration of the drug in a way which was wrong and dan-

The professor said he thought the

gerous.

Montreal, June 1. "To-day the ideal baby is neither inquest served no useful purpose. He WHAT is the ideal diot for fat nor lean, Its food must con-had not reported. the death to the

bubles?

tain plenty of minerals and vita-'coroner's ofiico. A post-mortem ex- If you want to know take a peop mins to build resistance against; into the nursery of the Dionne disense," Quina, who, in spite of the tre- mendous handicap with which] they started life, are, at the age of one year eleven months, probably the world's healthiest infants.

They are neither Eat nor lean. but happy, hungry, rolstering children working off all day long their healthy energy

Dr. Allan R. Dafoe, their guard ian, has worked out a system of

This, from the kitchen of the

Quina nursery, is a récord of what, 6.30 p.m.: oz. orange juice mixed with they each ate yesterday-

8.30 a.m.: 1 egg,"

cod liver oil.

1 large slice bread and butter, arrowroot biscuits.: 4oz. of milk.

11.45 a.m.: Asparagus puree, mashed

carrots and potatoes, brend and} butter, blancmange, 4oz. milk, aj, little cooked, liver..

lobary which, he believes, 184.10 p.m.: Tomato juice and cod liver scientifically perfect for children)

of their age.

TO-DAY'S IDEAL

oil, bread and butter and milk. |0p.m.: Oatment porridge, doz, milk,

brend and buiter,

"A generation ago the ideal baby. Day and night the children got was the fat baby," he said.

water when they ask for it.

RECIPE FOR LONG -

LIFE

London, June 20.

Mrs. Mary Stubbia of Hal- ford-rond, Richmond, a great-

·nícce ·of Constable, the land- scape, painter, "was 104 years old on Saturdny.

She has never worn speci tacles, rends the newspapers daily, and is fond of knitting and sewing.

Her long-life recipei' ‚“Re-, gular habits—and if you feel unwell, go to bed for a day.".

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Drug Report Withdrawn By League Of Nations

Starting Young

With an indifference more Left- ting 2 years than his 22 months. Juan Vasquez pults at a cigarette in a Los Angeles police station. Mrs. Junuita Edwards, avho turn- ed the Ind over to offefals after

Is mother allegedly deserted him, says Juan kes bis likker "neat," too,

COMPLAINTS BY GOVERNMENTS

RUMOURED

Britain Said to Have 30,000 Addicts

Geneva, June 18, THE League Secretariat have withdrawn the report of the oplum 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- withdrawn has been port

several Governmenta because complained that the Secretariat had greatly over-estimated the numbers of addicts in their countries.

Tho report was the first scien- life attempt to estimate the num- ber of addicts in the world. Be- tween 350 and

of 500 tona narcotics, it was stated, were used annually by the 2,000,000 addieta.

Annual consumption of druga in Great Britain was put at five tona, and the number of confirmed addicts at 30,000.-Reûter,

Amsterdam, June 20. ...Anthony Fokker, airplane [constructor, celebrated his 26th anniversary as a licensed pilot recently by donating 100,000 gullders to the newly created | Fokker Institute.

The Institute fucilitates training of young army pilot and provides special pensions for widows of for- mer ace-United Fress.

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