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Crash Makes Boy Hate His

Sister

Because

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rosd accident

changed a boy's whole naturo Yand made him take "an intense and vicious disilke" to his sisters,

a Blanchiester Assize Jury award-

ed him £1,170 damages,

Lost June twelve-year-old George Henry Gardiner, of Portwood, Stock-" port, was knocked from his cycle by

a lorry. His head was injured and tor fourteen ho was unconscious

days.

were tuld,

Until then, the jury George was a normal boy, bright, keep on games, played football, had swim for his school. His boxing was teokt an so good that a promoter interest in him and thought he had a fly-weight cham- the makings of plan.

Now he spends most of his time sitting on

couch at home, keeping

to himself.

He has become tad-tempered. bus cut heads, arms and legs off his four-year-old sister's dolls; he hits his eleven-year-old sister, and une day threw a knife at her.

Mr. G. F. Rowbotham, neurologist, and the boy's only chaCUME change of environment;

Was

he needed

a tutor; he should live with a rich and sympathelle family.

Mr. Rowbotham nuded: "It would

take eight years to show improvement

He will be a nuisance even then. wherever he goes until he is cured

Hi-lemper is written in esery fine

of his face

OWHCLS

Tier After judgment had

Risen George's against the lorry father und "We know of no family willing to take the boy, and i de not think he would like to leave us

Jail Has Soothing Lights

Alhambra City, Cal Imbibers in the city all are to be given the benefit of the latest scienti- fic discoveries relative to the "emo- tional effects of light, a section of

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH,

Contests Expropriations

Demands by the British Government that Mexico return the British oll wells expropriated by Mexican labourers, have stirred both countries. Here is David A. Thomas, director for the Lon- don Oil firm of Centralamer, Ltd., one of the seized British con- cerns, who believes President Cardenas will indemnify the 17 foreign concerns for all properties valued at $400,000,000,

Doctors 'Must Not Tell' In

THE

New Divorce Suits

.

SATURDAY,

JUNE 11, 1938.

PLUNGE 15,000 FEET

BELOW SEA SURFACE

IS GOAL OF PICCARD

Famed Pioneer of Stratosphere Ascants Will Use 'Submarine Balloon for Experiments

Brussels, Belgium.

Professor Auguste Piccard, famed pioneer of stratosphere ascents, is planning to plunge 16,000 feet below the surface of the sen to explore the phenomena of the ocean bed.

For his undersen experiments, which he hopes to make off the Canary Islands some time next year,. Professor Picenrd will use a specially constructed bathysphere or "submarine balloon."

A ball of light metal about six feet in diameter and litted with small windows, Professor Piccard's bathys- phere will not be attached to a cable and thus will be free to move about below the surface.

WILL FLOAT IN OCEAN

¿

INTRUDER

AT NUNS' DEATH-VIGILI

he

The bathysphere will "font" in the ocean depths on a cylinder contain-| ing Rerogene, which is lighter than

While nuns watched beside the water. Ballasi, consisting of small by steel shot and controlled magnetism, will be fixed underneath coffin of Lady FitzAlan they were

disturbed by an intruder the bathysphere.

ocean will be murmured an apology and hastily Descent into the made, according to Piccard, at about withdrew,

to reach yurd a second, so that 10,000 feet it will take approximately one hour and a half. The return to the surface will take about the same

tine.

This drama of death, disclosed re- cently, occurred in the early hours of Monday at Cumberland Lodge, Wind-

the

When Professor Piccard makes his sor Great Park, recently.

Lady FitzAlan was the wife of the an assistant, a zoologist. The air in- unele and heir-presumptive to THE Council of the British Medical Association advise tempt he will be accompanied by

doctors it would be "unethical" to give evidenceide the batlysphere will be kept Duke of Norfolk, and her body was pure by means of chemical action, in a heavily-curtiined drawing-room, concerning the mental condition of patients in divorce and if necessary the two men will it by only four candles, at the time

at the Incident. cases brought under the new Act.

Though it is admitted this will "make the Act unworkable" uch information, it is contended. must only be given at the ex- press, direction of the court.

to put doctors Amending legislation is suggested statutory obligation to produce such evidence and absolve from both legal risk and ethical offence.

under them

NO LEGAL PROTECTION Doctors hold that a patient's medical history must be as as the priests' confessional, and not divulged to other people, especially when such opinion might be to the patient's detriment.

secret

Legal opinion is that if a doe-jan action by his patient.

The suggestion is made that a tor described a man as incurable! and he subsequently recovered, doctor might place his records the jail has been equipped with blur the doctor would have no legal of a case at the disposal of an medical expert lights because it is now known that under the azure blue sleep is induced protection under existing Acts independent

and could be made defendant to nominated by the petitioner. more quickly.

be able to remain inside for about twenty-four hours.

WILL CARRY RADIO

The bathysphere will be equipped with its own electric generator for lighting purposes. A radio appara- is, to communicate with a ship on The surface, will also be carried.

Experiments with models for a year are contemplated to select the most sultable metal for the sphere and the type and strength of the

Which

bathysphere has a full-size glass for the windows. been bullt it will be tested without human occupants at various depths, The first descent will probably be eneva, Switzerland, made in Lake of Geneva, where Professor Plecard owns a house and spends his vacations,

The National Fund of Scientific is assistim! Professor Research Piecard in his undertaking.

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Later, it is alleged, it was found that the mansion had been burgled, jewellery belonging to Lady Fitzalan and some of her husband's decora- tions being missing.

BLOODHOUND FINDS GEMS

Berkshire police searched with the aid of a bloodhound, which led them close to the grounds of Royal Lodge. the police, it is reported, found some In the course of a three hours search of the jewellery alleged to have been taken,

Subsequently the police arrested a man, aged about 30.

He appeared for a few moments before a magistrate at Ascot and was

remanded.

Museum Exhibits Whistle Used

20,000 Years Ago

Chicago.

A 20,000 year old whistle fashion- ed from an animal's perforated leg bone, possibly used by prehistorie traffic cops, is an exhibit in the Hall of the Stone Age at Field Museum here.

But this evidence of carly man's attempts to make himselt heard at great

distances is not unique.

"In Europe as far back as 30,000 years ago prehistoric man made whistles and flutes from leg bones of

peese, awans, cagles, chamois and reindeer," declares Dr. Henry Field, curator of physical anthropology at the museum,

Even a lion's discarded molar la known to have been pressed into ser- vice as a flute in Czecho-Slovakia, ; Dr. Field adds.

Tapestries In Moth Balls

Cleveland,

Six 15th century tapestries, tem- porarily housed in jail, have been packed with mothballs by deputy sheriffs. The tapestries, valued at upward of $250,000, are being held pending Higation in New York which will decide their ownership.

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