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MARRIAGE: BY MAN WHO WAS A WOMAN OPENING

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"I Shall Have To Get Used To My New Surroundings First" ANNOUNCEMENT

Do Air Women

PROBLEM: Lack Charm?

LONDON Air Reporter writes: Study the photographs of six famous women air pilots, read my camera-interviews with some of them, read what the others have accomplished. Then decide whether Harold Gatty, American round- the-world flier, now in Australia," was right when he said (as reported in "Telegraph" recently) that women pilots are lacking in grace and charm.

JEAN

BATTEN. Are twenty

New year-old Zealander, came

10 England to Jearn musk. De- cided to fly instead. Flow alone In fourth-hand light 'plane to Australia and back; broke re- cords ench Crossed South Al- lantic alone your. Thun

way.

last .won

Britannia Trophy,

AMT, MOLLISON few to fame wis years ago by lone trip to Australia.. Hum Rince North Atlantic and broken land -

taking

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Cape

flones

ERD both.

SPICER, DOROTHY aged twenty-eight, alr circus pilot. Since learning to fly in 1929 has taken every ground' engineer's licence, feat which few men pilots, can equal. Flying Is dally job, Ilan never troubled about Jong-distance records.

Ен

now in Campbell Black's travelling air circon

l'avilne with

her word. Said: help

cannot

Afr. Gatty's Temarks as u pier. sonal insult. I chal- lenge him to any fight in my 'plane under any condi- tlone HE carer to

Gower. Between them

ran their business

and pilots.

own flying

AN engineers

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JILI. WYNDHAM, blonde Kociety girl. Smashed Cape - town-London flight record with David

Llewellyn last year... Said: "Please in- troduce me to this man Galty when he comes to England. I'll show him if we are lacking in charm,"

AMELIA EARHART

Putnam). "Lady strik-

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kroun Lindy" bears ing resembliner to America's air hero. Hus flown Narth Atlantic freice, once alone, mier as pietu- senger First lone Hier

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2,100 miles Merica City to Ne

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York, married publisher who per- nuded her to th Atlantic an passen.

PAULIN. E G..0 WE R

Nix twenty

wak.

year-old daughter of Sir Robert Gower,

M.P., is A convent

girl who learned to

By when she

twenty. Within a -year-had-qualifted- for highly specialis- ed commercial pi- lot's "B" licence.

Dominions' £250,000 Plan to Save “All

Red" Shipping Route

give lead

There will be

MAY RETURN THE MEDALS SHE WON

IN ATHLETIC CONTESTS

Plymouth, June 21,

MR

[R. MARK WESTON-until a few days ago Miss Edith Marie Louis Weston, a champion British woman athlete-is trying to solve two of the strangest problems ever faced by man or woman.

Should he retain the medals he won in women's British and international championship contests?

Can he continue his former relationships with his men and women friends as though nothing had happened? Having lived for 30 years as a woman, Mr. Weston, us the result of two operatións, has been certified to be a man. IN GOOD FAITH

"I am not so much worried as to whether I shall have to my championship awards," he said to-day in his return mother's cottage at Oreston, near Plymouth.

I won them in good faith because I honestly believed at the time that I was a woman.

"But if I have to return them I shall do so without hesitation. "I hope to continue my professional career, though now I Ishall be a masseur instead of a masseuse.

"Most of my former clients have told me they wish to con- tinue to be treated by me."

[ARM-IN-ARM

He was silent on the subjects of friendships and romance. So. teo, was his particular friend of his womanhood days, Mias Mabel Bray:

A new method in reseting crews of wrecked vessels has been tried in Lor Angeles. Instead of shooting a lif line by means of a rocket, a specially constructed gun is used.

GIRL HE COULD NOT

They were walking arm-in-arm together when a newspaper | FORGET

correspondent met them.

Mr. Weston says it is much too early to think of marriage.

"I have, of course, a very grast personal friend, a girl, who has been my friend for many years," he added, without glancing at Miss Bray.

"During the past few days she has been absolutely indis- pensable, but the question of matriage is much too sudden.

"I shall have to get used to my new surroundings before 1 consider such a subject."

CHANGE OF

SEX

Amazing Result of Two Operations

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT)

"womati" athlete, - winner of international honours, who after 30 years as a woman has now become a man.

THIS is the amazing story" of the well-known

Roosevelt's Cousin Shoots Himself

New York, June 21. ROBERT DELANO, Recond cousin of Presi

dent

Roosevelt, left

the

xury of his family life in New York more than a year ago to go to the wild interior of Argentina.

He wanted to forget a lore affair with a Washington girl which ended after they had be come engaged.

Last Sunday he killed himself, according to reports received in New York to-day from the frontier town of Resistencia. Delano, tiventy-eight-year-old son of Lyman Delano, wealthy Now York railway maghate, left Up to two months ago "she" was wearing silk stockings and two letters, one addressed to skirts. To-day, following two operations, "she" is wearing man's President Roosevelt, the other to clothing. "She" has been medically certified to be of the male sex, his former fiancee. Her name is and is faced with the problem of starting-life-all-over-again.

supervision.

La closely guarded secret,

The reports say that Delano shot himself in the head while The athlete whose sex has, other day, but am still under medical | changed in this extraordinary

"During the seven weeks 'I was carrying out his duties as wasis- in hospital I was in the men's ward, tant manager of an electric power fashion Is

meeting with different men, talking plant. and joking with them, and now the

He had recently attempted a re-. change from Miss', to 'Mr. seems conciliation with the girl. quite natural.

always hud a'ileep voice and dark skin. I used to shave and te powder, but never lipstick. Of

course, I used to wear women's She Was a Blonde

Mary Edith Louise, Weston, of Oreston, near Plymouth, who in 1924 won the British women's championship for put- ting the shot, retained the title for six years, and in 1927 won the British women's champion-

clothing, silk stockings, etc. "I am the second of eight children,

Recording a case of "death" and ship for throwing the javelin.

but my father alive, Mark ny mother being Weston-now

revival in a dentist's chair, when "Mary" Weston-recently returned home died some years ago,

Mr. Weston Intends communicating the heart of a girl of four and a te have the half ceased beating for three after seven weeks in Charing Cross

with Somerset House

Donald Blatchley, Hospital, Eondon.

correction in the registration of his minutes, Dr. were per-birth effected. "Mark" will be his London, writing in the British fchmied-ons in. April, and one Christian name in future, and he docs Medical Journal, conmments: at the beginning of last month. not intend to enter seriously into As a result, Mr. Weston has re-fathletic competitions, ..

Twuoperations

W the Empire to keep the expected belt or consultations, it is even a result, Air, Weston tea

flug flying in the Pacific shipping men trade?

"Excepting her bad teeth, this patient was in perfect health, but Many complicated problems are she was a blonde. I have ob- facing him. All his friendships.served that the cases which react This is to certify that Mr. Mark

for instance, are now on a different badly to nitrous oxide and air, be whic hns always been Weston.

fooling brought up as a female, is a male,

For years, as Mary Weston, he was ing prostrated after the adminis tration, are Invariably of the and should continue life as such. (Signed L. R. Broster, Surgeon, very friendly with it particular girl.

"We are still Arm friends," he ex-blonde type.

"I would be interested to hear Charing Cross Hospital.) With one hand in the pocket of hisį plined, "and shall continue to be so." grey flannel trousers, and the other At Charing Cross Hospital the whether this phenomenon has

tists." holding a cigarette, Mr. Weston ex-second operation on Mr. Weston was been observed by other anaesthe- pinined in an interview at his home described as "n very unusual one."

and the Board of Trade. In shipping quarters it is definitely thought that, if Mr. Runciman, Presi- British shipping circles are dent of the Board of Trade, could gain' worried at the prospect that British Government support for a American subsidised competition subaldy a plan would quickly be will speedily oust British lines evolved. from vitally important Imperial the routes between Canada, In view of the British shipping in that he was always brought up as 3) United States, New Zealand, and terests the United States Government girl Australia, unless subsidy aid is help has crabled the American MILL applied.

Lance.

U.S. SUBSIDY

son Line to build vessels of a charac After leaving school at Creston ter with which no private company "she" worked in a tailoring factory_in The figure suggested is £250,000 can compete, without similar assis- Plynmuth, "She" then took an in- terest in nursing, and studied mass Women's athletic terms Notice has boon given of the with age travelling with the British and

international drawal as from November this year visiting different European countries. of the Union Steamship Company'

"She" secured a-certificate for may-

a year, which is roughly equal to

the help enjoyed by the United

·States concerns.

San Francisco line, and it is feared

Mr. Lennox Hoss Broster, who signed the certificate, holds appoint- ments at several hospitals, and in City in 1934, when she set up n world's recent years has performed a num- record for the 800 metres race, ber of operations cu women who found themselves changing inte

men.

GLAND REMOVED

A growing number of cases of no- called "sex reversal" have been re ported in Britain in recent years.

A Fifeshire "git" of 15 became a boy in 1934, and in 1932 un 18-year-

old Blanchester "girl", underwent

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He has shown that in many cases sinsilar change. Shoreham, Sussex,

A number of Dominions representa that unless assistance is forthcoming suge, and took up private pruetico in the change can, ba reversed by remov- baby, which has been registered as a

during this month on various matters affecting inter-Imperial trade.

FIJI'S SUPPORT

They will include Sir Edward Beatty, chairman of the Canadian Pacile Railway Company, Mr. R. G. Menzies, Attorney-General of Aus trelia, Mr. Earle C.. G. Page, the ...Australian Minister for Commerce, Mr. Vincent Makoy, the Canadian High Commissioner und Sir J. C. Part, High Commissioner for New Zealand.

have to close the Paciffe service be-trict. tween Vancouver, New Zealand, and Australia.

consequences

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man.

advice a a few years ago,

PARALLEL Budapest, June '28.

adrenal kidney.

Four years ago he described in a

Last year it was reported that a HER FIRST DOUBTS.

medical journal an operation which 10-year-old Devon "boy" was slowly "She" was a born athlete. When he performed on a 2-year-ol girl who becoming a girl.

A Danish artist's change of sex. In this case the "All Red Route" in "her" teenk she joined the Ply found herself becoming a

One of the adrenal glands was re-from male to female was officially would be cut for the first time, with mouth Women's Athletic Club, and

to after a couple of months training it moved, and the girl was restored to recognised at Copenhagen in 1931, unfortumle

the normality. A beurd which she had. British prestige. The regular and was discovered "the". Could Putong been growing disappeared, and signs

HUNGARIAN rapid Pacific services, from Austra shot exceedingly well. "Her"

Many remarkable operations lia and New Zealand would be left and notable career in women's athletle of womanhood returned. in foreign hands, producing an championships followed. undesirable situation in the event |

"It was in 1928, when competing to have been carried out at Charing Cross Hospital, including, It was re- the world. games at Prague, that

A 27-year-old girl has become a 37- cently stated, no fewer than 25 on of any emergency.

began to have doubts about my ex, women who were changing into men, year-old man as a result of a change.

The operations on 1 is pointed out that British ship Mr. Weston continued. It is believed in British, shipping

thesa patients of sex operation at the Debrecan quarters that Canada, Australia and yards have an interest in the position, I did not have the nerve to see a

It will be recalled that a few New Zealand would be willing to since the competition of the Matson doctor, but I realised that something restored them to normal womanhood. elink, Hungary.

Line requires the building of two now was happening to me, and that I

months ago a well-known. Czecho consider providing quotas of vessels for the British companies, ut could go on no longer as a woman

Slovakian "woman" athlete under- £250,000 aubaldy if the British a cost of some £2,500,000.

"Eventually I made up my mind to

went a series Government would adopt such a

From the shipping point of view, consult a London specialist, and then

change her nex,te- policy.

however, it is said that only GovernI was told that it would be to my It is understood that Fifi would be ment subsidies could make. It possible advantage to undergo an operation. a financial supporter of the scheme, to envisage such outlay, and that I consented, and two operations took

-"All Red Route;;

In the Interests of maintaining the assistance is necessary, in any case, placo,

to: tide-over the interlm.

She is or rather was-Miss Jolan Kun, who now wears men's clothes" and carries a walking-stick. "Sho" nowly. is very proud of "hor" of operations to

grown moustache, and "hor" great- est ambition is to grow a beard. "Before the operation I was 27," name of ir. Kdenek Konbek. As a the new Mr. Kun said in an interylow, woman, this athlete competed in the but now I am 37. A man need not

Eventually "sho"assumed the

"I came home from hospital the women's World Games at the Whito conceal his true age. Reuter,

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