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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1937.

GLASS HEART MAKES DEAD LIVE Lindbergh Invention Succeeds After Years of Secret Work

Gland Extract

from

"Coffee

Pot"

GLASS artificial heart, invented by Colonel Charles Lindbergh, the famous American aviator, in collabora- tion with Dr. Alexis Carrel, former winner of the Nobel prize for medicine, has opened up undreamed-of possibilities in medical research.

The gloss heart, which owes its mechanical perfection to, Lindbergh, is able to keep whole organs alive after they have been removed from animals or human beings.

Gland secretions, hitherto produced from living animal organs in minato quantities and at great cost, can now be drawn in bulk from organs kept artificially “alive” by the new invention.

Insulin for diabetes and material for the treatment' of many other unconquered disenses can now be derived cheaply and quickly by means of the gluss heart, which resembles an ordinary coffee percolator.

Heart Kept Alive

Problems of heart disease and puberty will also be solved by studying organs kept living under laboratory conditions.

The story of the invention is one of the romances of medicine. Colonel Lindbergh first met Dr. Carrel when he flew a special anti- pneumonia serum from the Rockefeller Medical Research, Institute in New New York to the dying aviator, Floyd Bennett, in Quebec.

Dr. Carrel had already won fame by his experiment of keeping à chicken's heart beating in a nutrient medium in his laboratory.

HOME OF THE

“WALTZ DREAM”

AN ARCHDUKE'S ROMANCE

FAMOUS RESTAURANT

CLOSED

TO REOPEN WITH JAZZ

From A Correspondent

Vienna, Jan. 15:

Many have heard with regret thol one of the most popular restaurants in Vienna, the" "Elsvogel,** once

2 fumous for its good ruusic, is now

He took a section of chieken heart from a swarm dead bird in 1912. and that heart is still beating |

10-day.

But Dr. Carrel wanted to ge further. He wanted to keep · whole body, organs alive and healthy

that they could produce their invaluable secre- tions.

He had partially solved the pro- blem...

but he really wanted a

form of mechanical heart.

ART AND THE LEICA

| MINIATURE.

Madam, FIVE OF 15.

How Old

are

YOU?

This is an example of the photograph of Dr. Paul Wolff, an exhibition of whose enlargements of Leica mininture negatives in to be held in the Gloucester Arcade from February 1.

ANSWER

13 Did Not Mind (They Were Under 21)

A$

By A Woman Reporter

London, Jan. 15.

SK a woman her age and she just laughs. That gives her time to decide

if you are being rude, or if it is just a joke.

In either case, she will not answer.

An American census bureau complains that it is impossible to get a true answer after a woman is twenty-five. That is the

Specials

FOR MEN

SAVE AT THESE

PRICES AND BE WELL DRESSED TOO!

WHITE SEMI-STIFF COLLARS Assorted Shapes

ge when she hides her passport, coyly 3 for $1.00

denies that she looks only twenty-one, refuses any official information.

Yesterday I asked fifteen women how old they were. Five answered. Three were glad to: they were under twenty-one.

PROUD OF IT. "

MEN'S STRIPED SHIRTS

BROKEN RANGES (POPLINS)

Another was Miss Evelyn Fenton, shop MEN'S SHIRTS 2 COLLARS assistant from Harrow working in Regent. street.

:

"Thirty-seven,” she replied, then I found sle was a member of the Over Thirty League, and it was just like showing her membership card.

Only one frank, unhesitating reply. Miss Miriam Skerring, South Kensington, a typist in a shipping office,

"Twenty-six. Why do you want to know?” was her immediate reply.

BRITAIN'S NAVAL LEAD

Then came Lindbergh with his Powers Programmes

brilliant mechanical mind.... He became Dr. Carrel's laboratory as- sistant.

+

YEARS OF SECRECY

For five years the great pilot, first

closed and is to be modernised and man to fly the Atlantic solo, worked

to reopen with Jazz.

The "Elsvogel" was more than an

met.

in sceret at the Rockefeller Institute.

Then the world discovered that the

ordinary eating piure. It was the aviator had turned medical research the story of his garden-restaurant where all Vienna worker, but still

The old guest-book revenis labours was not told. that the late Archduke Francis Fer- dinand and many other members of the lapsburg lamity used to visit

t

on fine summer evenings to cut the river crab. Though old Austria possessed a senside on the Adriatic, "Trieste and the other harbour towns were too far from Vienna, tad shell-fish

from

Two more years of secrecy-and then came the great announcement.

Lindbergh had solved the problem. His "glass coffee pot" was able to supply blood or a "blood substitute to n' Itving organ

Just as a real heart could. the sea were rare. But the ordinary river crab was a

A compressed fashionable dish, and even archdukes system supplied come to this apparently simple re- staurant to enjoy it.

Bir" force

"artificial the motive for the blood stream, and the system was completely sealed to prevent Not only archdukes and actresses, germs from entering, for germs had bankers and society people liked to killed the results of Dr. Carrel's own come to the "Elsvogel," but also experiments. famous writers and

composers were

frequent guests. It had simple but execilently cooked Austrian food,

ladies'

HEART KEPT ALIVE Day after day, week after week

with wines from the neighbouring the "heart" gors on-and the organ hills; and

on a small platform on shows neither degeneration nor decay.

the one side of garden a

Now humah organs have been ex- orchestra, in while-cotton dresses perimented on in the same way, with a red silk ribbon round the and new fleids of research are daily being opened up by this astonishing invention.

shoulders, played Viennese tunes.

was told that Oscar Strauss, dining here with his two libretto writers, got the idea of a love-story from

band

"It is safe to assume," says one scientist, hat conductor of the "Elsvogel" leading American

nd an archduke who was any extravagant estimate to-day of at one of the tables. Thus the results of these experiments will state disvogel" the "Wuliz Dream" be regarded conservailve and

trifling in a few years' time."

was bor

Arthur Schnitzler, Lehar, and Kal- man were also among the patrons of the restaurant. And now it is closed, nwaiting reopening as a fashionable restaurant with a jazz-band, butj devoid of the spirit which once inspired Schnitzler's "Anatol" and Strauss's "Waltz Dream."

CARS MAY PARK, BUT— NO STONE-THROWING, PREACHING OR BRING. ING GOATS

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Motorists who wish to park their cars outside or near Government buildings and offices at Melbourne, may now do so subject to a simple conditions. These conditions are set out on newly-erected parking standards. Under them motorists must agree, under 23 and 10 penalties

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Compared

SPEEDY WARSHIPS Capital Ships Now Being

Ordered Freely

The speed and thoroughness with wilch the Naval Powers of the world are setting about rearming is vividly revealed in the new Issue of "Jane's Fighting Ships," published recently.

Britain leads with 99 new ships under construction or in prospect. and without exception the other.. Powers concerned with security at sea are undertaking big pro- grammes of new building and re- placement.

A new factor of great significance is the result in practice of the failure quantitatively to limit capital ships. In three years or so the number of new capital ships placed in commiss- lon will be greater than at any time in the last 20 years,

"With the defalte abandonment of the principle of quantative Ilmitu tion by Treaty," says the publishers' foreword, "the high tide in naval construction has set in

strongly. Not since the Great War ended has such a quantity of new tonnage been authorized.

"Capital ships, the bullding of which has been a rarily in recent years, are now, being ordered freely by the principal Powers. In 1940 the British Fleet will be reinforced by two 35,000 ton battleships of entirely novel design. These two ships, the King George V and Prince of Wales, are being laid down at the beginning of 1937. The United States Navy will begin the construction of two ships of similar displacement at the same date; and there is every indica- tion that Japan intends to do the saine.

"France, having begun the Richelleu, is now about to lay down the Jean Bart; while Germany, having one 35,000 tonner in hand, is expected to start work on a sister ship in 1937.

"Italy's two capital ships, the Littorio and Vittorio Veneto, were lald down in 1934, but progress is so slow that it is unlikely' that they will be ready before 1940, There is little doubt that in that year the number of new capital ships placed in com- mission will be greater than at any time since 1918."

SPEED FACTOR

The amazingly high speed of ships of such tannage is likely to create a new factor in naval warfare.

"Jane" comments:-"Every one of these ships is believed to be designed for n speed of 30 knots Lor. more, evidence of the extent which the battleship and batile cruiser have coalesced."

The speed of Britain's crack battle- 'ship Nelson is 23 knots.

The Naval Conference, which met in London this year, failed in lis pri- mary purpože, which was to secure "a"quantitative limitation of “arm= amcots.-Tho attempt to restrict the "gun"callbro⋅ of capital ships to :14 'inches ·also ́seema doomed to failure; The Conference did, however, agree

of surprise in naval construction, Of this "June" says:-More Important than anything else is the section which provides for advance notifica- don and exchange of Information be- tween contracting parties concerning new ships. By removing the ele- far to aboilsh the atmosphere of ment of uncertainty, this should go suspicion in which competitive naval programmes were concelved in pre- wor days."

LEADERS' PROGRAMMES

The following figures give some Idea of the numbers and kinds of ships which are either being built or are projected by the leading naval Powers:

Great BritainTwo battleships; Three aircraft carriers; 10 ̈light cruisers; three destroyers (flotilla lenders); 32 destroyers (16 of a heavier type); 13 submarines; 13 sloops and minesweepers; 17 net layers: torpedo. boats, trawlers, &c.; total, 90.

France. Three balljeships (two of 35,000 tons, with 15-inch guns, and one of 20,000, with 13-inch guns); three cruisers; two flotilla leaders; six destroyers; 12 torpedo boats; eix submarines; sloops, gunboats, &c., total, 43,

Germany. One battleship (36,000 de- tons, with 14-inch guns); 12 -stroyers; nine seagoing submarines and others of a constal type; 12 minesweepers; total, 30.

(35,000 Italy Two battleships

19-Inch tons, with

guns); two cruisers; four destroyers; 35 torpedo boats; 23 submarines; total, 08.

battlechips

United States,--Twó (35,000 tons, with, 16-Inch guns); three aircraft carriers; 11 cruisers; 52 destroyers; 15 submarines; total, 03.

Japan-Four battleships projected (believed to be of 35,000 tons); two aircraft carriera; two cruisers; destroyers; four submarines; torpedo boals; total, 30.

U.S. SUBMARINES LEAD

14 12

The following comments are made on the Power's naval programme:— United States.Now has most sub- marines in the world. Obsolete de- stroyers are, being replaced,

Russia. There is little evidence, of uny considerable amount of new construction. Regarding the number- of submarines, there Is ground for suspecting some exaggeration,

Germany-Proceeding methodical- ly with replacement of older ships.

France Discarding old ships, New needs for defence against aircraft will be met in the design of Britain's new battleships. They will be of 35,000 tons, with a muin armament of 14-inch guns, and nir- craft will be included in their oqulp- ment. "Fighting Ships" says of thềm:

:

"It has been officially stated that these ships will be of an entirely novel type. Their design will in- clude enhanced defence, arrange ments to meet air attack, such as Can Improved distribution of deck and Eide armour, more elaborate interior sub-division; and an extension of the anil-aircraft they are expected

to ba 30-knot ships."

BATTLESHIP AND AIRCRAFT On the general problem of battle- ships and aircraft. "Fighting Shipa" remarke

“In a recent report by a sub-com-

She went o13: "It never occurred to me to hide my age. I am a spins- ter, and 1 suppose I am spelling my chances by telling you my age. Actually, I am quite proud of

my

Job has never been held by a woman under thirty before."

HEDGERS

Other women hedged around the direct reply.

Miss Isabel. Harrison, waitress, of Croft-street, Battersen, said:--

"Wouldn't you like to know? But I'm not giving secrets away. What would my young man think? All in the papers....**

Married women were equally shy. Mrs. R. Ashton, walking down Ox- ford-street with her daughter:

"Up to twenty-five a woman can, be proud of her age. She is told elther that she is more intelligent than the average woman in the encly twenties-or-that-she-looks---even

younger.

"After that it is a problem to be complimentary-I've a daughter of

ive and that's ageing enough."

Somehow a great deal of super- stition

and

secrecy have gathered around a woman's age, perhaps because few poels have thought of romanticising love for a middle-aged

woman

"Sweet eighteen" is still the high- water mark. Beyond that any wo- man

is liable to deceive-so the Insurance companies say.

Said Mr. S. Fowley, head of a

London oflice:

our information is strictly confidential, but dragging a woman's uge out of her is worse than collect- ing the premium. We are com- pelled to demand birth certificates."

BIRD'S AMAZING FLIGHT JACKASS'S 1,200 MILES ACROSS SEA

An Australian Kookaburra (Laugh- ing Jackass) has just been discovered at Whangarel, north of Auckland, New Zealand, and naturalists pre wondering how it got there, Kooka- burras, which are

are of the Kingfisher family, belong exclusively to Aus- where, during some thousands

tralia

of years of evolution they have op- parently, developed an extraordinary sense of humour and certainly the heartiest voice of any birds of their size,

Defence on

the vulnerability of capital ships to air attack, it is made "plain that there is no: reason why

ships cannot be designed to #nect air attack, just as in the past they have been built to resist the assaults of guns, torpedoes, and mines, Except that in accuracy and duration it is markedly inferior, the aerial bomb has much in common with plunging long-range shell Bre. ...

"As instruments of reconnaissance, aircraft are now accepted as a necess- nry part of the equipment of capital ahips and cruisers, to be embodied In their design.. 2. Naval architects have risen to the occasion, displaying their accustomed · ingenully in pro- viding for the extra demands on space -and. “Weight,"

Of the three new British carriers, the Ark Royal will be of 22,000 tans, and is reported that she will carry 70 machines. is believed that her design will follow the general lines of Courageous, which has an official complement of 48 aircraft. The two other new carriera, Illustrious and Victorlous, will be of a smaller type

only: for the time it takes to transact W. R. Loxley & Co., (China) Ltd.) upon monsures to remove the element 'mittee of the Committer of Imperial than the Ark Royal."

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