1937-08-24 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1937.

Strange New Facts About Your Height and Health

Longer, and Are Healthier

Short Men Live

and Stronger

Pole-Fliers Give Experts Surprises

San Jacinto, Cal. Army and civilian aviation experts found a variety of surprises in the big red Russian monoplane that flew over the North Pole for a worki's nonstop record.

They went curiously over the big ship, staked down against high winds mbles In a valley pasture bere 20 from March Field where the three Soviet airmen dropped through hole in the clouds.

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Despite its single-motored power, the Human plane is the same 105- foot wingspread of a huge

"dying fortress" bumber, powered by four 1,000-horsepower motors, which arrived at March field.

It was designed for distance and low fuel consumption. The Soviet || ship few some 7,000 miles and still | had 17 gallons of saline in the tanks when it landed. The "Cying fortress" wilt dy only 3,000 milles. It

£3,180 FOR PIANIST'S

HAND

Alfred Walker. forty-two year-old plantst and musie teacher, of Polian, so badly fn- jured in a motor-cycle-car ne- eldent that he can no longer play the plane for his living. was awarded £3,180 damages and costs at Manchester Assizes recently against Charles Geoffrey Heaton, of Heysham, driver of the car .

Sald Mr. Justice Lewis; "The accident tore the joy of a life of nusle" from Walker. His arm was stiffened and his in- cers thickened.

Said Walker to a Daily Er- press staff reporter: "I do not think I shall ever be able to play again. It had been my life work. I do not know any other way of earning a living“

Was Petrol

Bles faster than the Soviet and Was

125 miles an hour, however, carries a full load of bombs,

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MIXTURE OF CONTRASTS Maj. E. G. Mouton, who super- : vired removing the sealed distinct recording: instruments from thes Hussian ship, termed it a "strange mixture of contrasts."

Than Tall

5ft. 9in THE

"IDEAL"

SHO

HORT MEN LIVE LONGER THAN

TALL MEN.

Tall men are not so handsome, bodily that is, and certainly not so strong and healthy as shartish men.....

That is a statement of opinion by a physical culture expert, Mr. Francis Miles, of Clapham.

But in case you think Mr. Miles is biased-be is himself under five feet nine inches-Isten to his evidence.

"The taller you grow the more of your growth goes luto legs. Tall nien have long legs and short bodies. But short men have sliori legs and long hodies," said Mr. Mlles,

The short, man has plenty of room in his long body for powerful vital organs, And his short limbs give him greater leverage for his muscles.”

Mr. Miles is enthusiastie,

The world's Famous strong men-Sandow, Hocken- sehnildt, Astan, Saldo, Samson, Pullum. Maxick, Strong Türk-were aff less than his own five feet nine Ineles, he explained,

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Fascinating But

It's So Dangerous !

They have rounded shoulders from stooping. Fow of them have properly proportioner maseular development, Hospital experience proves that a taft man is not so

Poured Overheathy as his shorter brother,

Corporal

By Strikers?

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They are particularly Hable to stomach and nervous diseases.

"Most tall men are underwright," the physical cul- ture expert derlared,

The human body, like many other machines, func- tas hest in an average size,

"Five feet nine is the ideal height for men. and live feet foute for women,"

is of excellent design Construction," he said, especially the welding work. The covering of the ; The dipth of Corporal King in wings and fuselage, however, is the recent labour disturbances at

Height,is controlled by the pituitary Į Trinidasi is to be the subject of ques; ; gland, a small thumb-nail-sized gland Ong expert called the plane "Cos- tions in the House of Coinons by situated near the brain. mopolitan." He said the 1,000-horsMr. Artur Reed (Cons., Exeter).

If the gland pours out its secretion Reed will asks the Secretary for in abnormal quantity you become Soviet Colonies whether the information ; tut

poo

power molec fesembles, closely the Mr. Re

constant

He will also

mok whether the

extra height.

Secretary is aware that Corporal Why Giants

English Rolls-Royce." manufacture, it was in exceptionally withheld during the censorship of But if you become too tall all your good condition and entirely clean news from Trindad Can NOVE bei sterngth is being wasted In this and despite two and one-half days released,

Must plane running. motors "throw oil" on tong flights.

The motor cooling system resem- bles the American type, he said.

The instrument

is a mixture tment panel

100 gage.

of French, German and Italian.

An old-type gasoline

It

was located on the fuselage floor.

They can't leave the plane here

King was cornered by a number of! native strikers, who poured petrol) over him ant set him alight.

Corporat King was a native men ber of the Trinidad Police Force, He was recruited in the West Indies,

too long for Earl Smith, who owns fare. Smith ousted him, pot the the pasture, Smith found an enterprice at 25 cents a head, and his poe- prising interloper charging 50 centskets are bulging with quarters, per autmobile for the hundreds of "Business is okay, and stilt picking curious people thronging to the pas-up,” he said.—Buiten Press.

TAKE THIS

Don't Survive

technically known as "giants." And! ale 420g* N foot six inches are lords seldura live long past middle

*ge.

Daring operations on the pituitary juswisver, may save glants from the gland's over-functioning.

Only a handful of the world's finest surgeons can accomplish this dangerous feat.

LETTER...

Froda Smith loft school with visions of becoming

a secretary with a, salary that meant indo- pendence. She took her business training

ciassos seriously, but after a tame...

Six mistakes in

Treaty minutes late, Miss Smith! This wont do- punctuality is the key-note of business training. It isa? the first time either!

one letter, Miss

Smith! You're getting more carelest every day-I know

you can do better

than that!

[FREDA: SMITH'S-LETTER |

Kesura, Blatcher & Trien 210, Lastenhall Street, E.C

Dear Dire,

With reference to your lettero f) the 26th Inst., we forward you here tour quotations as requested and shall be plassed to receive your esteemed order.

We notice your arthep soquiry

airyteekly consignments and this is being the

(ibject of a separate letter.

'Yours Paithfully,

EY SAW THE HORLICKS FILM:

SIX MONTHS LATER

That Horlicks film

we saw gave me an

idea,freda-you want something to buck

you up. Remind me to get some Horlicks when I'm shopping tomorrow,

Yes-Pan Kend you

› Just the girl you want,

«Freda Smith-shak

a bit young, but very keen and efficient --

We all the qualifications

for the past.

Everything's wrong, Mums! Don't know whate the matter with me. Gora Oh-she fearful jpwing from old Taylor-she said id never look here.

did? Well, gała jab.

dear-route a bit

tired and strung up now-let's go to the pictures, shall we? We can talk it over

-afterwards.

I wouldn't work any more

tonight if I were you dear- drink this Horlicks, and slip off to bed-you've had a

hard day.

BETWEEN SCHOOL AND OFFICE

TS your daughter going through the high-tensión period of bualness training ? It's an exten strale on a girl who's not done growing: she has to go all out to qualify for a post- just when bee growik in still shsorbing much of her energy.

· Now is the time she needs extra nouřlih-

ment, to give her the best chance

Horileku, taken regularly 11 bedtime, will keep her vigorous and give her the extra energy she needs. Hodička is delict- pus - Pixin or Chocolate-flavoured -- and economical too: afmply add waɛer -- the milk is in it,

HORLICKS GUARDS

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GUARDS AGAINST

NIGHT STARVATION

TELIN MEANS CAR SEU PINGUTANEY VAKI AFERENSIES AND HAVE

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WAR HORRORS-Correct figures of casualties in the Spanish War are, of course, unobtainable, but an estimate places deaths at more than 1,000,000, with Inntimmerable persons wounded or otherwise injured during the year since war began. This yount Spanish: girl, wearing a bandage over her left temple, carries her two sisters to safety during a Madrid bombing raid.

But tallness, fascinating as i is, is dangerous.

You stand much more chance of being healthy and happy if you are short or of medium height, giant.

And I read this out to the offer

TOO MUCH MONEY IN

"Yes, but don't forget a good big U.S. SAYS

man always beats a good litite man,” he said, and slammed the door.

EXPERTS

Washington.

Economists estimate that between $1,500,000,000 and $8,750,000,000 of foreign capital is invested or banked in the United States.

CHARGE - AGAINST A HOSPITAL "Not Clean In Medical Sense" Allegation NEGLIGENCE DENIED

Neglect of certain element- unstable economic conditions abroad ary principles in a hospital came into the country during the were alleged Derbyshire Assizes recently, when Mrs.

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They base their estimates on Treasury figures, which record that $323,024,000 of "hot

money" funds sent here for safe-keeping or investment because of war threats or

Best quarter of 1937.

In view of revived war-scares in Marjorie Winifred Heatichi.j the last three months, experts be- of Measham,

lieve It was safe to assume that net Leicestershire. capital movements to this country in brought an action for damages the second quarter continued at a against Mr. C. E. Crane, as high rate. Chairman of the Ashby-de-la- | Foreign funds invested or banked Zouch Cottage Hospital, and here at Dr. John William Hart of estimated to aggregate approximate- Measham.

the end of 1930

ly $1,000,000,000.

were

Mr. C. E. Luseby (for Mrs, He- The European crisis resulting from feld) said that she was admitted to Italy's Ethioplan campaign early in the hospital on January 5, 1936, and 1935 caused a sharp acceleration of her child was born that evening capital imparts to the United States. While in bospital, she developed Between Jan. 2, 1935 and March 31, puerperal fever, and as a result was of this year, foreign capital accumu totally crippled and in a nursing Inted here totalled $2,920,779,000. of which $027,171,000 came from Great Britain, $303,197,000 from Switzer- land, $308,886,090 from France and $267,009,000 from the Netherlands.

home.

At the birth, said counsel.

11art

Final

CLEARANCE

SAXONE SHOES

36 PAIRS ONLY

TAN WILLOW AND

BLACK CALF

CLEARING $1350

PRICE

-Pr.

SALE

POSITIVELY ENDS

AUGUST 31st.

100 Pairs Only

WHITE LINEN

STRAP, COURT,

AND SANDAL

SHOES.

ODD STYLES AND SIZES MUST BE CLEARED

$300

Pair.

ALL SHOES IN GOOD

CONDITION BROKEN

RANGES AND SIZES.

Whiteaway-Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.

TO-DAY ONLY

• SUMMER

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PRICES SLASHED

If she were entitled to damages, he said, they

should be bravy damages. She sought to prove that the hospital admitted her when it was a dangerous place in that it was The unprecedented inflow has been A clean in a medical scuse and a cause of great concern to the ad- at she was retained when it was ministration because it tends to in- unsafe, that Dr. Hart, who had her crease the store of idle bank funds, in his custody, neglected his duty his factor which carries the threat of allowing her to go and remain there, credit inflation. A special

al commitice and that certain elementary prin- of Treasury, Federal Reserve Board ciples were not applied by either and securities and exchange

coin- hospital or Dr. Hart.

mission experts has been studying the

for more than even problem Dr. months but has reached no-solution. was assisted by Sister mour, who wore no antiseptic over- Some observers believe stabiliza- rent, no mask and no gloves. She ion of the French fisent situation had beers

been attending another patient probably will reduce the exodus of who had shown signs of probable funds from France. puerperal fever and danger of septic infection. Mrs. Heafleid

The net capitul inflow in the period Was re between Jan. 2, 1935 and March 31, moved to

to R ward where there were 1937, was at an average monthly rate four other women, including a patient who had been showing the for the first quarters of this year was or $108,483 381. The monthly average dangerous symptoms. Eventually $107,000,000, approximately $8,000,- that patient and Mrs. Heafield were 100 higher than the average for 1938 notified as sufferers from puerperal but $10,000,000 less than the 1035 fever.

Mr. Loseby stated that Dr. Hart average.

Sey-

had admitted many times that he Short-term banking funds account- was suspicious of the hospital, yeted for the major share of the net he failed to take precautions in rea-capital arriving here in the first three pect to his own patients,

months of 1937. The oggregate was When the husband asked for $170,554,000,

compared with only specialist immediately, said counsel, $7,238,000 in the last quarter

of Dr. Lochrane was sent for and be 1938. Latin-American countries were advised the patient's removal to credited with $102,870,000 of the Derby hospital for treatment for total.

puerperal fever. She was then in a Germany, although ostensibly keep- terrible state and there was no doubting its funds at home, increased its her life was saved by the skill of bank accounts here by $24,015,000 in the specialist and blood transfusions the first given by the husband,

THE DEFENCE

A quarter.

government economist suggested that this might represent eonversion of part of the Reichbank's sterling account to dollars The hospital pleaded in defence,ollars in order to get a

letter he sald, that there was no resident reserved.

geographical distribution doctor and plaintiff was attended by France, The her own medical adviser, who was Switzerlant, not a servant of the hospital. They movements of banking funds in their denied that the place was unsafe or havour. that it was infected with puerperal in the Treasury's report in that funde

'The explanation Indiente fever, Dr. Hart denied negligence: banked by these countries as proceeds that the isospital was infested or from gold sales, to the United States.. suffering from puerperal fever at have been withdrawn angt invested in the time plaintiff was admitted, securities here,imUnited Press, Po

Netherlands, and however, hw༦༤ net

IT'S YOUR MISFORTUNE IF YOU MISS. IT!

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