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American Doctor Tells Of His Work Among Chinese Wounded HOUSEWIVES PROTEST AT

BOMBARDER, TWO WEEKS OLD BABY, IS "DOING WELL”

By Jack Belden

Duited Press Staff Correspondent.

CHENGCHOW, APR. 29.

BOMBARDER, A NEWLY BORN CHINESE TWIN BABY, IS DOING WELL IN SPITE OF THE CLATTER OF EXPLODING SHELLS AND THE DRUMMING OF AIRPLANES AROUND THE WAR-SCARRED MISSION HOSPITAL HERE.

Dr. Sanford E. Ayers, an American physician direct- ing the hospital staff, delivered the baby in delayed birth recently, during a raid of Japanese airplanes, and named the child Bombarder.

“Bombarder Is my best war baby," the physician told me, proudly exhibiting the infant, who was bawling lustily. Bombarder's mother had given birth to the first of the twins the previous day at her home, and was brought to the hospital.

Dr. Ayers coolly and skilfully performed the second delivery

STREAMLINE during the height of an airplane

POTATOES

PLANTS are now being

streamlined. As a re- sult finer fruits, vegetables and more beautiful flowers are being produced.

raid. Anti-aircraft guns roared on all sides of the hospital.

Dr. Ayers has remained at his job here, disregarding frequent raids, on

work."

the theory that "it's part of the day's

"I had a job here," he explained, smiling, "and I wasn't sure where I

could get another, so I've stayed."

33 CHINESE NURSES

He has 33 Chinese nurses who care for the

Explaining these experiments, work unceasingly to an official of the Agricultural stream of stretchers bearing pitiful Research Council told a London | remnants of what were once healthy Chinese. Many of them are beyond press representative:--

Dr. Ayers said the majority have

"The shape of muny vegetables hope when they arrive but they are has been altered during recent years given what relief is possible. for the sake of beauty or to modern needs.

"For instance, a

no first uid treament on the field, and

LIVING COST

UFS

MRS. HARRY BIRCHALL OF LONDON, trying to raise four children on her husband's wages of two pounds a week, started a petition stressing the rising cost of living and asking removal of consumer's taxes. Eventually 804,000 signed It. Here she presents it, in 41 bundles, to Sir Archibald

Sinclair, Liberal leader in the House of Commons.

Hostess' Wish, Smokers' Dream Come True

Washington.

The U.S. patent office hus granted a patent on a device de new cucumber is infection has set in by the time they signed to cut down the chores of the overworked housewife. It being grown that is uniformly eight reach the hospital. Many dle of te-also promises to decrease wear and tear on rugs and carpets, and

tanus en roulé.

experts say it will reduce cleaning bills by 50 per cent.

to suit

the needs of

inches lons; shippers.

"EYES" ARE GONE "To All modern refrigerators) smaller varieties of water-melons are being produced."

. Canners and seedsmen now em-

The rumbling Red Cross trucks form a constant procession, and thei ordinary facilities of the hospital, including 70 beds, have been stretch- ed to accommodate more than 250 wounded.

There are no beating facilities in

structed stoves made of gasoline

ploy breeding experts to maintain the flimsy annex, and Dr. Ayers con- uniformity in crops. A few outsize pens in canning variety may affect the price of an entire delivery.

Streamlined potatoes have elimi- nated the deep "eyes" that cause such waste of time and material in peeling.

catis.

EMPIRE NEWS

He also set up a small wind- AIR MAIL CHARGES

IN NEW ZEALAND

mill to operate a generator, which

provides a small amount of electric

power.

48 HOUR STRETCH

Auckland.

It keeps cigarette ashes off Yest-and the rug and sofn.

the

The sat issue of the patent office xnzelte virtually is a smoker's special. It grants exclusive rights on a motor- Įdriven pipe cleaner, a cigarette holder

attached to a

a ring, and a handy com- bination or receptacles that makes

Jush trays, cigarettes, matches and a scotch and soda within arm's reach of the easy cha

But it took a man from London to

think of the contraption which spares the nerves of the entertaining hostess as she watches the ashes from her long. William

New Zealanders are complainingi Once thort, chubby roots, carrots During one 48-hour stretch recent-of the high cost of their air mail to-day are long, stim objects.

By ly Dr. Ayers operated practically charges in comparison with those of careful breeding n deeper orange without stopping on the shattered other parts of the Empire. colour has been developed, and the victims of air raids. He said 72 Under existing rates air mailed guests' cigarettes grow core has been made more tender or wounded were brought into the letters from New Zealand cost is 3d Walsh did the trick with a troughs- practically eliminated.

hospital in a single day, and a sqund for every oz. Last year 300,000 effect business like attachment for of six stretcher-bearers was sent out letters

sent, overseas by air the end of the ordinary holder. to scour the streets for additional mall from New Zealand, and the Starting where the cigarette victims.

cost of surcharge Was more

£15,000,

extends downward.

Gaol For Fraud

· On Publishers

A man who was said to have typed out stories extracted trom magazines and sold them to the publishers as his own work was sent to prison at East Ham.

Arthur Ferelval Alfred Twinn, also known as Gordon Carroll, 21, sales- man, of Shrewsbury-rond, East Ham, pleaded guilty

charges of obtaining

by false pretences from D. C. Thom- son and Co. Ltd., and C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., two sums of £15 and one of £12 10s., and attempting to obtain £12 10s.

Dr. Ayers staff includes several nurses from Canada and the United States, including Miss Grace Gibberd of London, Ontario and Miss Pearl Held of Kingston, Ontario.-United Press.

were

pro-

MOTORING

OVER In Pennsylvania road workers are to wear belis and soulder strabis Alted with reflectors. THE police in St. Louls, U.S.A., have been Instructed to padlock cara found parked in unauthorised places.

ON

the motorist's return he has no alternative but to awnit the policeman's arrival

and the penalty. RESTAURANTS In

Chicago which served her escort, Robert Schultz, with drinks, are being sued by Miss Anne Evans,

IN a car crash with Schultz she received face Injuries for which she claims £5,000 dam- ages. NIGHTLY,. I

crowded Syracuse, New York State, car park a dog leads his blind master to a friend's car for a lift home.

GOING up to many cars of the same make, the dog studies the number plates until he finds the right one,

than trudes from the holder, the rough Crash in House

The cause of the disproportionate moves as the elgarette moves and charges is that New Zealand, with when the ashes drop it is right on

the Australia, is the last country in the job. Empire to be left out of the All-Up"

The automatic

pipe cleaner, in- Air Mail scheme, which has been vented by Lloyd A. Moll, of Allen- operating to South and East Africa town, Pa., is a smoker's dream come since June, and has been recently true. All the smoker has to do is extended to India and Malaya. By to put the pipe on the stand, press a weighing oz button and away goes the nicotine. this scheme all

it squirts a little cleaning fluid Into or under nuly go by nir at a uniform charge of 111⁄2d,

the stem, awoshes it around a bit and This scheme is to be extended to turns on a compressed alr gadget that New Zealand and Australia some dries the pipe." Oxford House of Congregation has time this year. There will be decided that Latin or Greek must service to New Zealand a week. be one of two languages in which SOUTH AFRICA every Puss Moderations candidate) 20 shall pass.

This Boy Likes His Latin

Не was sentenced to six months imprisonment on

Moving a decree that this require- ench count, the

ment should not be included in any sentences to run concurrently.

reorganisation of the examination,

Mr. Donald McIntyre, prosecuting, said that Twinm extracted from Mr.

magazines published by the prosecu Macedon Parker, Fellow

of

one

The clgarette holder-ring, invented by Watson P. Aull, of St. Louis, works like this;

Put the ring on your finger, einump the cigarette on the ring and from then on the hands are free for work or amusemeni.

of Lords' Lift-

Queues waiting to enter the Public Gallery at the Commons for the foreign affairs debate on Mar. 14 heard the crash og'a scaffolding lift, carrying 11 workmen, fell down the side of the House of Lords.

All the 11 men were hurt-three seriously.

They hod been

working with others on the restoration of the Victoria Tower.

They were the last shift to descend [the Hit which works in a 230-foot

shaft in the scaffolding.

It had picked up men from the top of the tower and had stopped at

U.S. Building to landing about 70 feet from the

Attack Japan

ground for others.

CAPE TOWN'S 100,000

.: ' VISITORS

Cope Town, The Publicity Association Agures gald Pass Moderations show that approximately 100,000 turs stories which he typed out. He had come to be regarded as anį visitors arrived at the Cape in 1937.

altered the title of the sometimes

examination in which cramming Holiday visitors from abroad and

"We had just begun the final stories and always altered the actual paid, and not one in which thinking from inland are estimated to have

descent when the lift suddenly begun names of the characters. He then was Important.

spent £1,300,000 in Cape Town last

to speed up." one of the men sald. Chronicle year. News

'We weren't scared till we found Thomson and Co., said Mr. Me- asked a parent, a schoolboy and an Union' anit Abyssinia.-Gen.

Tokyo, ourselves near...!

the ground and un- Intyre, found that story "She Ran the education expert for their views. Hertzog, the Premier, in reply to a Japanese newspapers were virtual- able to stop the lift. Risk and Pald the Frice," sold to They were:

Nationalist question in Parliamently unanimous to-day in interpreting them by Twinn, was identical_with The Parent (a well-known accoun-to-day said he did not consider it in Secretary of State Cordell Hull's we landed with a terrific crash we "The gate was closed and when a story entitled "Behind Her Smile tant in the city); "AS a the country's Interest at the moment letter as signifying the intention of were all thrown together." the Danger Lurked," which appeared rock, German and French. I find the attitude of

schoolboy I learnt Lalín, to make statement regarding the

the United States to build the world's In a magazine In 1036.

Officials from the Offee of Works the South African, largest navy to attack Japan. SENT FROM NEW YORK" Jatin useful in my business, where Govenment to recognition of the an- feeling has been on the increase since men in the ilft.

took statements from some of the when asked for an ex-I constantly meet Latin terms in legal nexation of Abyssinia by Italy. He Secretary Hull naked concerning

sent the stories to the prosecutors.

The London

The

said the

This

10 stated that a Miss Jean documents. As a fairly wide reader did not know how many members Japan navy buliding, the increase in Burnett, of New York, sent to his also find a knowledge of Latin of the League had recognised such Pacific manoeuvres by the U.S. Beet Bachelors Quit ilterary agency & manuscript entitled very useful. I do not think anyone annexation.

and passage of the record peace time "Hidden Gullt,"

could be persuaded to study German Scholarships.-Members of naval appropriation bill by con- He revised and retitled the story, language as a mental exercise, and the German trade delegation which gress. and when it was accepted he signed in my view this is not good has been touring the Union suited for for it on behalf of Miss Burnett and argument

The newspaper Asahi said Secre- Leader Wants To Marry in defence of the retention home to-day. The chairman. Herr lory Hull's letter "expresses In po- And Calls Them sent the money, less his commission, of Lutin.

Rausch, sald delegation had de-sitive terms America's ambition in to her.

Schoolboy, Keith Lewis, of cided to award five scholarships for the western Paciile and her deter-

"Cowards" The manuscript was submitted in Totteridge, ileria: "I like Latin, and South African students tenable at mination to speak with a loud voice good faith on his part, and he and think it's easy. Some of the boys German universities for two terms. in. Oriental affairs."

Cries of Traitor!" greeted Mr. written to Miss Burnett asking her don't like it because it isn't easy to This is being done in gratitude for

of the A Japancsos naval source

Harry Chapman, chairman Bald for an explanation.

them. If I didn't find it easy I sup- the reception accorded the delegation "apparently there is no longer any told members at the first and last Ilfracombe: Bachelor Club, when he "During seven years' experience us pose I shouldn't like it either. I in South Africa, and also to promote doubt as to America's intentions. a literary agent, dealing with scores don't know whether it will help me international understanding. of clients, most of them 'unknown' when I become a

She seems bent on building the annual meeting of the club: world's biggest navy in

He was "contemplating matrimony. writers," wrote Twinn, "I have never shan't know, that until

come a man, because I

order to AUSTRALIA

dominate the Pacific. It is hardly

"In these days of a falling birin thought it necessary to obtain an

"bachelors rate," he declared, assurance that MSS, submitted were Sndler, one time Master of Univer- MISLAID DESIGNS FOR hustle to describe the present pro- failing in their duty to the State.

gramme ឥទ *self defence. The Bachelors are cowards." Oxford: College,

United States is the world's most

The club was formed a year ago. selt sufficient nation. What Sydney.

has conclusion is possible?"

Since then ten members have married

After, the meeting” had "Jasted till

MARKED MAGAZINES

DE man. The Education Expert, Sir Michael

"Those who

CATHEDRAL

An extraordinary situation

ปี

other

are

original and unpublished, and yel sity this is the first time that there has oppone the retention of Latin as a ever been any question of copyright subject in which a candidate is infringement."

obliged to pass feel that one should arisen here, through the necidental In a letter to Senator David 1. and twelve have become engaged. be able to choose a subject more discovery at the Sydney railway Wish, Democrat of Massachussetts, dawn it was decided to wind up the Mr. McIntyre, said that when C. usotul, say, to those taking Modern station of plans submitted by

member of the naval affairs com-club. Arthur Pearson Lid. found that a Greats. I should have voted for the Melbourne firm of architects for the mittee, Secretary Hull opposed a story, "The Judas at the Rectory," decree which was rejected."

the competition for designs for atay-at-home policy which he had sold them, was a copy

for the navy. enlarged Anglican Cathedral here. He said the feet must be left free MONUMENT,TO COW PROPOSED a previously published story, "Submit to Thomson's" "Submit to The first prize in the competition to protect the rights

- SYDNEY.-The Illawarra Short- Twinn offered a similar explanation Pearson's, and the stories were went to a London aver seen by secretary argued that a stay-at-home

Amor the horn Society has proposed erection of i citizens throughout the

world,

permanent mohument to per- or just discovered were never seen by Volley would expose. Americons to all petuate the memory of Melba XV

the adjudicators

Their loss was manuscript at the

due to the fact that others sent by tack anywhere in the world. He cow. Meiba, holds the world's munications with anyone in America Asked if he had unything to s

to say, call from Melbourne le sydney had said he favoured, retention of the old record for butterfal. It is believed could be found,

Timun replied. No except to say duly been collected, and; the nayal ratje-Ilve each for the United the proposal will be accepted by the great number of magazines were I have been à fool. I did not realise authorities, knew nothing of another States and Great Britain and three 160th Australian anniversary discovered

They: A Wore marked | the seriosisness of what I was doing.2) set awaiting collection at the station, for. Japati,

of

to that in the other case.

marked whether it was safe When Twinn's premises were dangerous to submit, a searched no record of any com- that time,

of

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