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ENGLISH MOTHERS CHOSE ALHAMBRA
BLINDNESS, NOT DEATH
The children are being trained to
permission to operate.
"Perhaps the problem for us was not quite so dificult, because in Peter's case it was at first a ques- tion of removing only one eye.
Two English mothers have three-year-old Jano was picking i They immediately gave the doctor's faced the same terrible pro- dalsies. blem which confronted an She went to the matron with them American mother should her and asked her to "write them" to her kisses alie baby be allowed to dle, or live mother with the three
sends her every week, and be blind for life?
The American baby, five-week old Helaine Colan, is auffering from a growth which is slowly moving towards the brain, and the only hope of cure was the removal of one or both of the child's eyes. One eye was re- blem. moved recently.
"It then seemed as though he become useful self-supporting cili-would still be able to see, but a few zens.
munths later the other eye had to be removed.
In the same dilemma both English
mothers chose blindness rather than death for their babies-and to-dny they are bull: convinced iley made
the right choice,
"AN AWFUL CHOICE" Both children were recently play- Ing happily at the Sunshine Home at East Grinstend. Sussex, National Institute for the Blind.
One of them, Peter, now aged Ave, was "feeling" some seeds, grow, while
Jane's mother anys that when the doctors told her that she must de cide between death and blindness for her baby girl she and her husband sat up all night discussing the pro-
"It was an awful cholce to have to take. We talked and talked.
"WE ARE GLAD" "Awful as seemed, we came to the conclusion a life of blindness
that we could not tole the respons- bility for lotting our baby die.
"And now we are glad, and sure we made the right choice."
Mr. and Mrs. Childs, of Butcher's Street, Canning Town, E., the parents of Peter did not hesitate when the problem was put to them.
and tint it is not for us to take i "My view that God gives lite
uway.
"If I had to make the same choice again I should choose blindness to death. I wish the American mother could see my Peter, a happy healthy boy, playing with the other children and feeling the flowers which he hnu grown himself."
matron of the Sunshine Home The says that both children are as "happy as sandboys."
"Jane, although she is only three, can both, dry and dress her own doll unaided, and Peter is a perfectly normal little tomboy who enjoys a Oght with his fellows as much nny boy who can see.”
TRAGIC COUPLE TO LIE Baby Under
A
IN SAME GRAVE
FAMILY COUNCIL, heldufter they had both taken tablets.
A note she left said:
at a sick man's bedside in a London hospital decided to carry out the last wish of a girl who died in a suicide pact two years ago,
"If there is any mercy in this world you will bury us together."
Debris 'Just Gurgled'
11:4
A fifteen-day-old baby escaped
Clay was charged with the mur-almost unhurt when the ceiling der of Miss Brace. Sitting pale in fell in over the couch on which They will bury in ber grave the witness-box, he said they met Thomas Albert Clay, aged twenty- when he was eighteen, and a patient she was lying. nine, her reprieved sweetheart, when the Papworth Village Settlement. died from tuberculosis a few hours She was then fifteen, after being released from prison.
The council met at St. Andrew's Hospital, Bow E, where Clay's father is patient with the fitness that bis son
Next to bad.
the father's bed was on empty one, which his son was to have occupied,
They fell deeply In love. They discussed marringe, but agreed that)
Chunks of plaster weighing several
pounds missed her head by inches.
The mother. Mrs. Mary Vaughna,
it was impossible; the fear of having aged 26, of Dashwood Road, Battersea, children who might have tuberculosis is.w. had pinced the baby on the was too great.
couch in a back room while putting her elder child to bed.
Miss Brace became a nurse, hoping The girl. Phyllis Brace, twenty-to be able to help him. But be be four-year-old nurse, was buried in came worse, and they decided to die her lime village of Papworth Ever-together. ard, Cumbr
SUICIDE PACT
FATHER TOO LATE
She was found dead with her Clay whose home was in Nuneaton was sun- theout cut neur Clay in Epping Forest, Road, Dagenham, Essex,
tenced to death, but he was reprieved
"WINDOW" PUT
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Viruses Seen In
Living Cells
SCIENTISTS of the Resort
at a egg on table at Burlington House, London. A quarter of the egg was shaved away. A tiny glass window led the gap. On it was trained a new
I type of microscope.
Those who looked through the window with their eyes suw only u thin membrane with dark specks on it. Those who used the microscope saw, magnified, a living cell, in which rapidly growing viruses agitated.
a week later.
"TERRIBLE CRASH" "Suddenly I heard a terrible crash in the room where I had left baby." she said.
"I found her smothered in stabs of pluster more than a foot square. I rushed to pick baby from the debris, expecting to and her dead or terribly He knew, however, that his illness injured, but she gurgled happily when nd doomed hun and while in hos-1 lifted her up. pital at Parkhurst Prison, in the Isle of Wight, he repeatedly asked that he might be burled in his sweet- heart's grave,
"When I found no injury on her I nearly fainted with joy and relief.
"I took her to St. Thomas's Hos Clay was taken from Parkhurst by įpital, where apart from some gril in steamer and ambulance to join his her eyes and ut ny bruise on the father, but on the way he becamnej back of her head she was found to be seriously II.
untouched.
The ambultace stopped at Fulham
Hospitni, S.W., and his father, in un-
"It was nothing less than a miracle,
other ambulance, was hurried there for some of the lumps were twice an from St. Andrew's see him. But big as my baby and would have Clay died a few minutes before his crushed her to death had they hit futher arrived.
her."
BOMB MAIMS WOMAN: "ARSENAL" IN HOME
The window in the CEE is the in- MAIMED and blinded by a mystery explosion, 24-years-old
vention of Dr. F. Himmelweit, as- sistant in the Inoculation Depart- ment of St. Mary's Hospital, Pad- dington, 11 specialist in discages caused by bacteria and viruses,
ELUSIVE VIRUSES
Miss Bridie Dolan, of Durham Street, Belfast, was operated
on and given blood transfusions.
The explosion occurred in Leeson Street, in a room which,
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GOSSIP ROBS WIDOWS
OF PENSIONS
according to the police, contained large quantities of explosives Minister Is To Be Told
belonging to the illegal Irish Republican Army.
Mrs. Josephine Brady, aged 29, the
مم
Spies
Of
Dr. Himmelweit, who left Berlin
A box containing four eight-bore five years ago, explained his appara-occupier of the house, was also in-cartridges; 67 rounds 455 revolver tus to Royal Society members, then jured.
ainmunition; five rounds 303 Ger- told a Dally Express reporter:-
Both are in the Royal Victoria man rifle ammunition; five rounds "It has always been possible to Hospital.
automatic pistol ammunition; ong see bacteria under the microscope. Mrs. Brady's husband, Michnel, round .38 ammunition: 20 rounds .22 ANGER over the way in which war widows in Eng- They are large organisms compared and a step-brother, Mr. Joseph Boyle, i ammunition; 30 detonators.
land have been losing their pensions through with viruses. Viruses are extremely have been detained under the Civil There were also in the house, elusive, difficult to deal with. This Authorities Special Powers Act.
Three annonymous notes, malicious gossip and spying has led apparatus lets you see them moving Sir Charles Wickham, Inspector- according to the statement:
General of the Royal Ulster Con- pieces of fuse with detonators attach to an all-Party move for an inquiry. The apparatus was designed to stabulary, issued a statement in con- sticles of geligne: three one-gallon Mr. H. Ramsbotham, the show how certain virus bodies be- nection with the explosiors After bottles sulphuric acid (constituent of Pensions Minister, agreed to re- haved within the living cell on an describing the explosion, the state-nitroglycerine); literature relating to ceive
黯 deputation, after A
about in the living cell,
CKA
ment adds:
ed; four thermite bombs; about 40
Most of the work has been done "An examination by the police of the IRA.: drill books, mups, etc.
at the National Institute of Medical Research under Sir Patrick Laidlow, the deputy director. It was con- tinued Inter at St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington.
the house resulted in the following, Irish Republican Army arms, and other articles, being found: One .455 Colt revolver: two 450 Webley re- volvers; two 380 revolvers.
battery of questions in the The material scized, the statement Commons. says, was found in the room in which the women were injured-part in a basket, part on the floor, and some concealed under the flooring.
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He will be told of widows who have lost pensions through an in- | nocent visit to the pletures with u men friend:
Protest w be made, too, about the prominent part which elderly spinsters play in the "ecuris," which deprive the women of their
STOP PRESS
Two Raiders Shot Down
Nanchang, June 27, Two Japanese planes were shal
The deputation will probably behang shortly after 10 o'clock yester-
"CATCHING HER OUTPO
down during an sir battle over Nan- led by Sir Smedley Crooke, and will day morning. Include Sir Thomas Moore, Com- Four Japanese pursuit planes, up- mander Locker-Lampson (Con.), Mr.parently escorting a fleet of bombers Holdsworth (Lib.), Mr. W. T. Kelly, which cruised over Pengisch, Puyang and Mr. J. J. Davidson (Lob.).
Sir Smedley Crooke, who wil and other Kiangal cities, suddenly appeared over Nanchang, Chinese probably head the deputation, suld planes at once went up to chalenge
he had had letters of complaint them.
that
from all the kingdom.
In the ensuing combat. two of Sometimes, he said, a case begins the enemy aircraft crashed in flames, when an anonymous letter is sent to the Ministry of Pensions stating that Mrs. "So-and-So," who is receiving a pension, is living with a man.
he remaining two invaders,, out- manoeuvred, escaped.
At 12.10 o'clock, six Japanese
An inspector goes to see her often bombers came over Nanchang and without disclosing his identity, and released more than 10 bombs in. the it is alleged that he sometimes ad-outskirts, causing only slight damage, dresses her, not by her own name,Central News.
but the name of the man she is Enid
to be living with, in an endeavour to
Mentch her out."
Subsequently he makes a report upon which her penator, it is suld, Is taken from her.
Elderly splusters are stated to
have, in come
instances, much
Successful Air Raid
Hankow, June 27. authority on the committees which The Japanese milliary aerodrome at Anking was damaged and four Sir Smedley does not contend that planes lying on the fold
deal with these malters,
were
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if a woman is living with A man destroyed by a squadron of Chinese she should necessarily have her pen-bombers in a raid yesterday morning. slon, but that cases should be pro-it emcially announced hore, perly proved.
The four Japanese planes, it s Mr. Kelly insists that women renounced, were hit when attempting robbed of their pensions without the to take to the air to meet the raiders.. slightest ovidence, simply on state-Contrat Neses. ments made 'in malicious gossip.
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