1938-03-03 — Page 3

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MARCH

3, 1938.

NIGHT IN THE LIFE GREAT WAR SOLDIER

Bed Two Hours: Watching Trains: Office Work: One Pipe An Hour

Budapest. THE last time Paul Kern, fifty-four-year-old rotired Government clerk, slopt was one night in June 1915, in the trenches on the Russian front at Gorlite. The next day, during a Russian artillery bombard- ment, a shell splinter injured his skull. Now he has forgotten what sleep is like.

Kern, a stout man with greying hair, lives with his wife and three children in the Budapest suburb of Rakoshegy.

"

"I go to bed at 1 a.m. and rise at 3 a.m.,' he said to a reporter. "During these hours I close my eyes and listen to a gramophone or radio.

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"After three o'clock I get up and take a train to the town. There I.watch incoming and out- going trains for about two hours. It's lots of

fun.

"Afterwards I go to my office. Although am a retired man I still go there without receiv- ing any salary. I read papers in the office and help my colleagues.

OF A SLEEPLESS

Bible As "Refresher”

"In the afternoon I go home and read the Bible. Reading the Bible is for me what sleep is for other people. It refreshes my mind.

"I eat a large meal every three hours. This helps me to pass the time. I smoke a pipe day and night and have twenty-four pipes, one for each hour."

Kera feels quite well and does not think that going without sleep has injured his health.

"I can honestly say that I am a happy man," he declared.

During his first years of sleeplessness he was examined by many of the best doctors in Hungary, but they could not help him.-IN.S.

Shakespeare Boy-Meets-

Girl Stuff Revised

(With Additional Dialogue by John Buckan)

LORD TWEEDSMUIR (John Buchan), the Governor. General of Canada, rocked a convention of Canadian authors in

Toronto by reciting these lines of Shakespeare:-

+

"O, mistress mine, where are you roaming?

them :-

O stay and hear. Your true love's coming."

and then giving his idea of how Hollywood might rewrite

"Hull mecite, where you gettin' to?

Your big boy's here and pottin' you. And he's the guy that rings the bell.

Say kid, quit hikin' and sit nice,

For shakin' feet don't cut no iec, The gooflest nut can tell."

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Los Angeles, America's cripples are increas- ing faster than doctors can cure them, the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeans was told here. The automobile is chiefly to blame.

Dr. Edward L. Compere told the 300 surgeons attending the 'conven- tion that medicul selence is actually losing ground despite its great strides in climinating and remedying effects of crippling diseases. Faster than medicine can cut the toll of cripples from disease, accidents are rolling up the total.

During 1038, Dr. Compere said, 500,000 persons suffered bone frac- tures and an estimated one-third} were permanently injured to some

extent.-United Press.

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SEVENTY THOUSAND POUNDS is to be paid by Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.

Oxford University in settlement of a £750,000 claim by the Sugar Beet and Crop Driers Company and two joint. plaintiffs which has been pending for seven years.

The action followed the conviction of Brynar J. Owen, former director of the Institute for Research in Agricultural_Engineering, for forgery and fraudulent representation.

Mr. A. D. Lindsay, Vice-Chancellor, made the announcement in Congregation to-day on behalf of the Hebdomandal Council. He said the University's legal advisers ("most eminent consel") considered £70,000 a reasonable insurance against the serious risks of litigation involved in so vast a claim, though the Univer sity repudiated all the allegations.

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• The Minister of Agriculture Chancellor. had been requested to consider | EFFECT ON whether he should make any contribution, and if so, how

GRAND HOTEL

LOCKS OUT GARBO

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option

under the pro certify the payment)

of the University."

of the Statute

Its finances would suffer, but it had been possible to make arrangements which would

prevent the dislocation of Its normal activities. None of the money raised by the recent oppeul could be diverted towards meeting! the cost of this settlement. BASE OF

THE CLAIM

The allegations of the plaintiffs were that Owen sold them in 1926 patenta which he fraudulently stated RETA GARBO, star of provided a method of extracting "Grand Hotel" film sugar from beet which was superior

from Stockholm's Hotel to-day.

reference

to

the

degree

method then in existence. to

any They further stated they were led version of Vicki Baum's

Owen by Ow think that certain of the famed novel, was locked patents purchased by them (which Grand turned out to be worthless) were

·and the University being sold by that it was as agent for the Univer- alty that he made to them the re- the strength of Garbo, wearing dark blue trousers, presentations on ski-ing boots, shaggy cocks over alike which they purchased.

The Vice-Chancellor went on to stockings, heavy ulster, a water- proof and a big black hat, Orst tried in how the University came lo to buy a meal at the luxurious Res- be involved. It had been left, he sald, as the only practical defendant: taurant Cecil in Stockholm and failed. to the action, and was sued for the When she drove up with her friend, total emount of the damages with- Countess Wachtmeister, she found out that all the hotels and restaurants blame, had closed and locked out their staffe. OWEN'S

Not even the Grand Hotel, which DOWNFALL she tried next, could norve her.

rynor J. Owen, who had made, "Closed" suid à notice on the door, many

Buccessful experiments She begged dunch at a friend's flat. great value to agriculture, was 35 Hundreds of other visitors all when at the Old Balley In May, 1931, was sentenced to four-years' over Sweden wero la sinillar! he plight: this morning they alreamed pent servitude for obtaining by out of the hotels in the rain, help-false pretences £30,000 from the ing each other to load their luggage International Harvester Company of on taxis, and, after raiding food-Great Britain and £33,000 from the shops, headed for the stations and Ford Motor Company.

In the following month It was an- airports.

nounced that he had been dismissed Twenty thousand employees are from the servien of Oxford Univer- "out" beenipo kitchen staffs have ally and at a Convocation a few days domanded/n 20 per cent, wago-In-Inter-tie was deprived of lila, degree

et Master of Arla

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