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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1938.

LINDBERGH PLANS TO LIVE FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS

Rubber Heart May Give Famed American Flier Immortality

YOL. LINDBERGH MAY BE THE FIRST MAN TO LENGTHEN HIS LIFE FAR BEYOND THE NORMAL SPAN. HE MIGHT EVEN BE- COME ALMOST IMMORTAL AND LIVE FOR HUNDREDS OF

Co

YEARS.

This amazing possibility follows his action, revealed to the Sunday Referee recently, in subjecting himself to the physical preparations neces

for the grafting into his body of an artificial heart. sary

JESUITS TO LEAVE INSURGENT TERRITORY

Jesuits have decided to

The artificial heart; made of rubber and metal, has been perfected by Dr. Alexis Carrel, with Lindbergh's assistance, on the lonely isle of St. Gildas, off the Brittany coast.

It is a machine which it is claimed would do all the work of the human heart in circulating blood and maintaining life. It has been tested on sections of animal tissue, but never yet on a living unimal.

Lindbergh is now living on the Island with Dr. Carrel. He has adopted the special diet, including perindicul fasts, which are prescribed by Dr. Carrel as the best training for a man aspiring to prolong his life. He has given up golf and all other violent exercises, in accordance with, the doctor's precept that excessive open-air exercise renders the tissues legs adapted to

the eventual substitution of an artificial heart.

Lindbergh gambled with death when he flew the Atlantic alone and

Now he is gambling with life.

leave. Franco.. territory in Spain. The final cause for became America's hieru. the decision was the ques- tion of publishing the Papal Encyclical on the persecu- tion in Germany, says the News Chronicle.

Cardinal Gamez told General Franco that the Pope had ordered this und other Encyclicals to be read in Spanish churches and Franco asked for delay.

Navy Honours Chinese Cook

London, Feb. 8. Soo, Chinese cook in the

Franco then questioned the Ger- A Brits destroyer Tenedo, no man representative in Salemanea on her way to Singapore, died in who also asked for time.

the Military Hospital at Gibralter westerday, and was buried at sea Permission was given to Cardinal | with full navai honours of Europa Gomez for all the Encyclicals with | Point. the exception of the one about the German question.

The cofin was taken out into the Straits by the destroyer Encounter, and all ships of the fleet at Gibraltar during the funeral, lowered their foga to half-mast

At a recent meeting of the Grand Council of the Order of Jesus it was decided that the Order should quit Franco's territory. The decision has H.M.S. Tenedos is procceding to to be ratified by the Pope.

Singapore in accordance with the

On Dole, He Won £500,

Got Job

Facing a dismal future on the dole, Mr. F. Salt, of Cruso Sincet, Leek, learned recently that his luck had

hinged with a vengeance.

First came the news that he had won £500 in a ponny pools competi- tion and then he succeeded in getting n job after being months out of work.

But for one mistake on his coupon, Chronicle understands, the Sunday

Mr. Salt would have won £14,000.

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"NO MORE PHOTOGRAPHS !" smiles General Matsui, as foreign diplomats gathered to bid farewell to the recalled Army leader in Shanghai.

U.S. Win Spelling Bee Thanks To The Women

(By H. L. McNALLY)

London.

YOU wouldn't think there was much fun to be got out of a broadcast spelling contest, even with one team in London and the olher in Boston. Massachusetts. Yet the B.B.C.'s broadcast yesterday in co-operation with the Nation Broadcasting Company of America provided plenty · of laughs for listeners-and competitors,

I watched the Oxford University spelling "blues"-six men and two

their best against Harvard and Radcliffe team.

More Atlantic women-do

Flights This

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air. Tom Woodrooffe, who con- ducted the London-end of the cor test, tossed a penny, and Oxford kicked c. The spellers, wearing headphones and sitting along one

Experimental flying-boat flights Wall, in turn faced a microphone in across the Atlantic are to be con- the middle of the studio, and spelled tinued In the coming summer, it was the words dictated from Boston. stated at the Air Ministry. The

From the control room where I sat Coledonia und Cumbria, whitch

carried out the experiments last I could see hope expectant on the muy carry out further competitors' faces, and sheepish grins

when their mistakes were gonged.

summer, Alights.

The Cambria has recently been used for tests of re-fuclting in the wir, with the co-operation of Sir Alan Cobham. These tesis, so far asį they have gone, have been satisfag

tory.

It is understood, however, that it is not yet considered that the tests have gone far enough to justify an assumption that a regular Atlantle air service will depend on a re- fuelling system, writes Major C. C. Turner, air correspondent of the Daily Telegraph,

"BEATITOODS " "Beatitudes" was the first word, and was spelled correctly from but pronounced "beati- America, toods."

The calmest competitors were the Knox and women, Miss Penelope Miss Miranda Tallents, daughter of Sir Stephet: Tallents, B.D.C. Controller of Public Relations, who sat watching her in the studio. Miss Tallents got a little cheer for spell- Ing "obeisance" at the first attempt.

"Daguerreotype" (early kind of Eight additional Empire flying boats, which, as already announced turs, but Miss Knox spelled it with photograph) defeated four competi- have been ordered by Imperial Alr

hardly ways, are to be strengthened to carry Wand, con of Lord Halifax, spelled any hesitation. Mr. Peter a load of 53,000 ib. instead of 40,500

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It is unlikely that any of these new flying boats wili be delivered before August. It is therefore prob lematicul whether they will be ready for Atlantle Bights this year,

They are not specifically designed for re-fuelling in the air, but can be adapted for it.

RADIO AMBULANCE

SERVICE MOST MODERN IN THE WORLD Conversations between officers at ambulance headquarters und men on cars as far away as forty miles have been made possible by the opening.

Ing down the words as soon as they I tested my own spelling by writ- were uttered, but was beaten by one "braggadocio," to which I gave one "G" and iwo "C's"

"RATHER SPELL HUMBUG"

While the contest raget n couple of announcers came into the control room to watch the fun. One com- petitor, faced with the word "petti- foggery," sald plaintively, "I'd rather spell humbug, orid was gonged, Trachea" puzzled several spellers, but "sesquipedalian" frightened nobody.

The result of the contest was victory for the American team by 20 point to 24, and on each side of the Atlantic the women proved the bet- ter spellers,

Miss Tallents proved herself

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of a new radlo ambulance service in Brstrate microphone personality as Sydney. Claimed to be the first in well a dauntless speller. the Empire and the most modern in young Earl of Oxford and Asquith the world. It will revolutionise ani- was another good microphone per- bulance work in Australia.

former.

Not only will calls be answered Some compeittors gained time to more quickly, but doctors and nurses think by asking for n dictionary de- will be warned beforehand of cases finition of the word. Mr. Turetzky, which need prompt hospital treat- of Harvard, made us laugh every. ment. A radio transmitter with a time le spulled by repeating the power of 200 watts is installed at spelling in a whisper after. he was headquarters. Each car has its own xure the gong was not going to receiving sdf" and a transmitting sci.banlah hun from, the microphone, with power of 10 watts1ustral A further broadcast spelling bee Yowe,

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