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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY,BER 5,

1936.

GRACIE FIELDS MAY RETIRE SOON

Despite Offer Of £65,000 To Make One Film

OSTEOPATHY

Confidence

Brute Force; Ignorance

Tricks -Says Surgeon -Says Woman

Osteopathy had a bad day at the British Medical Conference at Ox- ford last month despite, the 'Oxford Dletionary, which saya-

Osteopathy: A theory of disease and

method of cure which assumes that deformation of the skeleton and consequent interference with the adjacent nerves and blood-vessels. are the cause of most diseases. Mr. A. S. Blundell Bankert, the Middlesex Hospital orthopaedic sur- geon, gave this definition at the con- ference:

Osteopathy is an American stunt based on the unsupported assertion that practically all diseases are due to imaginary displacements of the spine.

He said: "It has been investigated up to the hilt, and it has been found wanting.

He then quoted a deflation given him by an elderly woman a few wecka ago. It was:- Osteopathy: Brute force and bloody

Ignorance.

That, said Mr. Bankart, was the best definition he had heard.

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“I WON'T GO TO

HOLLYWOOD”

"LONDON ONLY" IF SHE FILMS AGAIN HOLLYWOOD, in the last few

days, has made Gracie Fields three offers one for £60,000, and; one for £50,000.

All she has to do is to give them one film.

And Gracle has replied by say. ing that she is seriously, thinking of retiring at the end of the year. Last night she was asked about 11. "I have not signed to make a pic- ture for Fax-Twentieth Century, as is rumoured," she stated,

"I have hnd an offer from them, but I have also had offers from most of the others."

Since

became known that

Gracie's present film contract with Associated Talking Pictures expired after she had made one more film, the Wardour-street executives have all been trying to get her services.

MAYBE-

Her pictures are worth £150,000

HIR

Fate

MISS KATHLEEN McHUGH, aged

MIS fifty-two, was in Barcelona,

governess to a Spanish family, little more than a month ago. Then came the revolution.

A street crier warned British sub- jects to hurry to the port. Misa Mellugh saw fighting in the streets, saw two priests shot down, before she reached the British warship which brought her home to England.

This month, a lorry knocked her down, killed her-In Fleet-street, E.C.

"THERE'S AN HB COMING OFF THE ICE

Obtainable Everywhere

In this country alone.

But Gracie has made one stipula- tion.

Any films ahe`makes must be produced in London.

She will not go to Hollywood. So Hollywood is willing to come to her,

Whether she stays with her pre- sent company or accepts one of the

offers from the American producers

who would be willing to make her

firms in this country-the three offers

are the highest bids ever made for a fim star in Brlinin-depends on the seriousness with which she con- templates retirement.

"I may made up my mind, though." sald.

not go on. I haven't she

IN A MINUTE !"

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DANZIC AS MILITARY BASE

SECRET

BERLIN

ARMS PLAN REPORTED

Warsaw, Aug. 30. THAT the Free City of Danzig is to be militarised

and turned into a big military port and base in the North-East of Europe is reported in a sen- sational statement in the Polish Press to-night.

It is stated that three regiments of infantry and three batteries of artillery, with several squadrons of bombing planes, are to form the nucleus of the Danzig army.

All Storm Troop and other Nazi organisations in the Freo City are to be transformed into a regular standing army under German officers which will be increased by a further 5,000 men in the autumn.

Owing to Danzig's acute financial difficulties, Ger- many is to provide for the upkeep of the army.

This sensational decision was taken some time ago, and revealed

at manœuvres held by the Nazi military organisations of Danzig in Eastern Prussia this 'week-end.

STEP BACK

A PACE AND GUESS

WHICH WOMEN

LEAD THE WORLD?

Take cover from your feminine re-

lations and think up an answer to

this.

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Officers of the German Reichwehr assisted in the manoeuvres and will take up the training of the now Danzig army, which will be placed under the immediate command of German Army Headquarters at Mal- bor, in East Prussia.

Herr Greiser, Nazi President of the Free City, attending the manoeuvres, { declared that the army is balng created "to be ready for the approach- ing day when Hitler will announce to the world the independenco of Danzig, as he announced the freedom of tlie Rhineland,"

TRAINING

IN SECRET

arrived at Danzig to start supervising Special German staff officers have

with plans prepared in Berlin. the military training in accordance

""Who are the world's outstanding teomen?"

Training will take place in private They tried it

on a business and for the time being. Neither the sol- professional women's

indlers nor the officers will wear uni- congress Paris and the voting was:

Forms, but the organisation of the Frances Perkins (U.S. Secretary army is to be on the German model, of Labour);

and will be carried through with the Alexandria Kollontai (Soviet definite object of incorporating it into Russian Ambassador to Norway);.the German Reichwehr very soon.

Marie Curie-Jollot (France: Sec- Danzig is also looked upon as likely relary for Scientifle Research); to form the principal German naval Amy Mollison (British air base in Eastern Europe when Nazi woman);

plana mature in that part of the.

Selma Lagerion (Swedish writer),|world. Mrs. Roosevelt came sixth and Lady Astor and Miss Margaret Bond-

field tied for seventh place.

THEY ARE DOUBTFUL

Most celebrated people a Home

paper questioned

recently were

reluctant to hazard an opinion.

Mr. George Bernard Shaw summed

Droughts Don't Worry

up the point of view of the "Unable-This Farmer

to-decide." He sold:

Evansville, Ind, Aug. 30. Hot winds, searing sunshine, and discouraging "continued dry" Weather forecasts are no

worry

"First of all I want to know what is meant by an 'outstanding' weman. I could think of many women who might easily be sub- stituted for the Parle list, but will not commit myself to a choice." Miss Nancy Price, now starring in to Amos Eberhart, an enterpris- "Whiteoaks

at the Playhouse, pro-ing farmer who owns a 200-acre duced a comprehensive list.

truck farm near here.

"Queen Mary," she said, "is the outstanding woman of our time. But other women who have done a great deal are perhaps not known to the million. They are not spectacular.

SO MANY!

His 30 different varieties of crops have suffered little from the drought.

Immediately after the 1934 drought Eberhart butft an overhead Irrigation system which draws water by gravity "My own choice would be Dame from seven large ponds. A 1914 engine furnishes the Laura Knight, Dame Rachel Crowdy, automobile Dr. Maude Royden, Dame Ethel power which throws a spray 30 feet Smyth, Dame Louise Mcllroy, Miss und soaks the crops thoroughly.

Eberhart calls his form Junk- Lillan Barker, Cominnndant Mary Allen, Victoria Sackville-West and ville" because most of his "improve

ments" have been made with second- Virginia Woolf."

hand materials. During a recent Another actress, Miss Ivy St. Heller, said she would have to think trip to Evansville he purchased about the question for at least three carded because of imperfections, and number of refrigerator parta, dis- days. There are so many great used the parts in building a white women in the world," she added, lined creamery, brooder house, and plaintively.

garage. Ho is assembling, presently

A

A Canadian woman on her way materials for a house which he ex- back from the Vimy memorial pll-pects will cost $150. grimago said at once: "Queen Mary, Eberhart employs five men of course. She must be the best-manently and has us many as 20 on the lenown and most widely respected payroll during the busy season- woman in the world."

United Prest.

Danger of World-Wide Food Shortage

New York, Aug. 30.

THE

THE possibility of a world food shortage next year is emphasised

by the great drought, which is now in ita third month.

This year's American maize crop, it is estimated, will be 108 million bushels below the five-year average-and the crop is declining

at the rate of 20 million bushels a day,

The United States, once the chief exporter of the world's muize, is now importing heavily, ranking second to Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

The following figures show the magnitude of America's slump in maize:

1034

1034

YEAR'S TOTAL PRODUCTION

2,325,000,000 bushels | 2035 1,572,000,000 bushels

ACREAGE IN MAIZE, ..£3,500,000 | 1035

08,600,000

Despite this increase in acreage, however, the estimated yield per acre for 1033 will be 16 7-10 bushels às against 10 bushels in the drought year of 1934.

Barley, on which stock-fceders rely when maize la scarce, also shows a serious decline, while the hay crop is 7,000,000 tons below the five-year average.

Already there is some prospect that wheat crops will not meet the world's normal demand for bread. The shortage of feed crops for cattle indicates that the food scarcity will also extend to meat,

per-

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