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18-YEAR-OLD WIFE BURNED HER STEPSON: GAOLED

Some Days She Gave Him Two Or Three Beatings

Admitting that she burned her husband's child with a cigarette-lighter and sometimes beat him two and three times a day, an 18-year-old stepmother was sentenced to six months with hard labour at Cirencester (Glos.) recently.

In the case of a father accused at Portland of "reducing his 20-month-old son to a senseless condition," the magistrates postponed their decision for a fortnight. A 15-year-old Sheffield girl, facing Caxton Hall juvenile court magistrates alleged that her father had burned her on the

arm.

The woman whose cruelty to her 3-year-old stepson lodged here in prison was Margaret Loule Bond, of Watermoon Road, Cirencester.

She said she burned the child's hands to teach him not to play with Arc.

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Her husband, Harry Bond, sentenced to three months hard labour for neglecting the child, which is now in hospital.

Sentencing Mrs. Band, the chair- man (Mr. W. I. Croome) said: "You have plended quilty to what this Bench thinks to be the most revolt- ing case they have ever heard.

"We hope you will realise you have caused horrible suffering to a child."

BABY'S BLACK EYE

Evidence was given by his wife against Thomas Barros, 24, a builder's labourer, of Alexandra Cottages, Charlestown, near Weymouth, who was charged with Ill-treating his baby boy, Peter John.

Mrs. Edna May Borras said her husband "banged" the child in the back and face when it woke whim- pering, reducing It condition, and that he then turned to her with the remark: "There,

Lo

senseless

have knocked him to sleep for good,

Drugged

Cigarette Traffic

Drugged cigarettes were stated at Bow Street police court recently to

getting fairly common"

West End.

in the

William Nair 22, a Burmese stu- dent, of Ampthill Square, Euston. N.W., was fined £5 for being in un- authorised possession of six cigarettes containing Indian hemp.

Detective Dyke said Nair had been for of police inquiries the subject of severa! months in connection with the sale of these cigarettes in the West End. Nair's parents were both doctors in Burna, and he was allow- ed £15 a month by them.

"He has only attended two lectures recently," the officer said, "and has been spending the majority of his

time in low-class haunts of the West

The child's injuries were said to End." include a black eye.

SLEPT ON A CHAIR Marks on her arm which she said were burned there by her father were shown in Caxton Hall juventie court by the girl from Sheffield who was said to need care and attention. girl sald she came to London six weeks ago and had been sleeping on a chair in her sisler's room. She was sent to a remond

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for a week.

home

WOMAN HAS TWINS FOUR TIMES

When Mrs. H. M. Gilbert, of Arundel-road, West Croydon, gave birth to her fourth.twins in 1923 she broke the world's record—as for De official records show.

Mrs. Gilbert is fifty-two. husband, a builder's

Her

is

foreman, fifty-three. They have had nfteen children, nine of whom, including three sets of twins, are still living. Mr. Gilbert read a few days ago newspaper that a mother of

in

a

three sets of twins claimed the re- cord. Ho wrote challenging the elaim.

Mrs. Gilbert said: "νο και used to having twins. In fact, we came to expect them. Trouble? Oh, dear me, no. As they caine 1 looked after eno and fallier looked after the other."

A curious point about Mrs. Gilbert'a twins is that except for one pal they are not alike.

e last pole-Frank and

Joc,

aged fifteen-might be mistaken for strangers. One la six feet tall, the other nearer five feet. They work with the same firm, but seldom go about together.

Sea Gave Back Her False Teeth

Four months after a Thurso woman lost overboard a set of false teeth in stormy Pentland Firth they have been returned to her,

Lost June children on Stroma Island found a ret which had been washed up by the tide.

Thinking that the teeth had be- longed to some drowned mariner, they kept them as grim curios to

to visitors. exhibit

Dwner,

The "curios" were seen by a neighbour of their former who, taking a chance, brought them to Thurss, and showed them to the

wornan.

them

She Instantly recognised nä her long-lost "Ivories." They wene in: perfect condition.

Mr. M. Griffith-Jones, defending, ald Nair had never been in trouble before, and was prepared to return to Burma at once,

He had, perhaps, too much money and had made but friends.

He came into contact with a man selling these cigarettes and bought twenty.

Mr. Fry said the cigarettes were

TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1938.

"Following Father's Footsteps

Emulating the fishing propensities of his famous father, here is John Roosevelt displaying some of the barracuda and bonito he landed during his honeymoon vacation in Bermuda, At left is his bride, the former Anne Lindsay Clark of Nahant, Mass. The Roosevelts recently left the islands to go to Boston, where Jolm has a job in a department store.

SCIENTISTS

CANNOT STOP WAR HORRORS

-Lord Rayleigh

RADIO BROADCAST

Gaston D'Aquino (Tenor) From the Studio

HAYDN QUARTET Radio Programme Broadcast by ZBW on a Frequency of 845 k.c.'s, and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. und 8-11 p.m. on 9.32 m.c.'s per second,

6.0 For The Children.

Singing Games: A Ring A Ring O'Roses (arr. Chalmers Wood); Three Times Round Went The Gullant Gallant Ship... Chalmers Wood's Orchestrn with vocal refrain. Nur- sery Rhymes... Jay Wilbur and His Band with vocal refrain. From the Studio Serial Story-"Seeing The Empire". "More Very Young Songs"

A. (Poems by A. Milne-Music: Fraser-Simson): Intro Nursery Window; the Chairs; Waiting at

Spring Morning: The End.

6.30 Closing local Stock Quotations. 6.32 Beethoven-Kreulzer Sonata In A Major, Op. 47.

Played by Albert Sammons (Violin) and William Murdoch (Piano).

7,08 The Shepherd on the Rock--- Schubert.

Sung by Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano) accomp. by George Reeves (Piano) and Reginald Kell (Clarinet), 7.18 Edith Lorand and Her Vien- nese Orchestra.

Hoffner Serenade--Rondo (Mozart) Die Czardasfürstin-Potpourri (Kal- man), Donauwellen, Waltz (Waves of the Danube'--Ivanovich); The Last Waltz (O. Strauss).

7.40 Light Vocal Variety.

Wine Waltz (Gross-Steid)); To-day Is The Day term, Sebutze-Buch)

. Herbert E. Groh (Tenor) with Orchestra and Chorus (Sung in German). Lovely Like The Dawn Of Spring (film "The Blond Carmen'); My Heart Is Yours-Spanish Song (fim The Blond Carmen') Marta Exgerth (Soprano) with Orchestra (Sung in German). Du-Da Gelist An Mir Vorbeil (Hess-Misraki- Bennefeld); Ein Zartliches Lied (Fenyes-Amberg)

.. Herbert Groh (Tenor) with Orchestra (Sung In German).

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8.0 Time, Weather and Announce- ments.

8.02 London Relay--"Empire Ex- change".

I'uints of view by travellers from the Dominions and Colonies,

8.15 London Philharmonie Orch. Der Freischutz-Overture (Weber) Conducted by Sr. Thomas

Scientists were defended against the charge of being responsible for the horrors of modern warfare in a pre-Beech Invitation To The Waliz sidential address by Lord Rayleigh to the British Asso- (Weber, arr, Weingartner and Wood- house). Conducted by Walter ciation at Cambridge last month.

Gochr.

8.32 Studio Recital by Gaston (Tenor) with E. O'Neil Shaw at the Plano.

They were impelled, he said, by the spirit of scienti- fie curiosity, with no possibility of telling whether their D'Aquino work would prove them to be "fiends or dreamers or angels," and they could not be deterred by possible con- tingent results.

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1, Salut demeure chaste et pure ('Faust' - Gounod); 2, I! sogro ('Mohon Massenet). Gastori D'Aquino; 3, Plano Selection.. E. O'Neli Shaw; 4, Perdutamento Gaston D'Aquino: 5, Luna d'Estate (Tosti); 6, A Vuch helln (Tos!!)... Gaston d'Aquino. 8.57 Haydn Quartet In E Major, Op. 54, No. 3.

Played by the Pro Arte Quartet. 9.17 Orchestral.

Lord Rayleigh declared there was little the scientists could not as bad as some forms of drug do to influence the uses to which their discoveries were put-butt but were injurious to health.

one thing might be attempted. The plan for a division of the Association to study the social relations of science in co-operation with America might bear useful fruit in promoting international

Shirley Temple i

Injures Hand

Boston,

Shirley Temple. the child screen star, was painfully injured when her

a motor car.

More than 2,500 selentists from all of it is held by the critics to be the over the world, half of them women, work not of dreamers but of fiends heard the address, delivered in one whose activities ought to be sup- of Cambridge's biggest cinemas and pressed!" said Lord Rayleigh.

another building for an The trouble is that all the investi- relayed to

audience. overflow

Lord Rayleigh said it was worth gators proceeded in exactly the same

Issue of their

Ta

La Conerentola-Overture (R03- sini); Manon Lescaut --- Intermezzo (Puccini) ..... Milan Symphony Orch, conducted by Cav, Lorenzo Molajolt.

9.30 London Belay-The News.

with 9,50 A Variety Programmo

hand became caught in the door of white to inquire what basis there was spirit, the spirit that is of scientific Blan Holloway, The Borwell Sisters,

It was Shirley's first day out of for the indictment of scientists, and curiosity, and with no possibility of bed since

whether, fact, it was fensible for telling whether the she became ill with influenza a week before.

|men of science to desist frum labours / work would prove them to be flends,Two, Button Your Shoe (film 'Pennies

or dreamers, or angels." a disastrous out- which may have Exomination

showed that bones were broken.

come, or, at any rate, to help in gulding other men to use, and not to abuse, the fruits of those labours.

Heir to the Astor family millions, here Is William Astor, 3, son of John Jacob Astor 3rd and the former Ellen Tuck French, having fun at fashionable Balley's Beach, Newport RI. He also seems to enjoy facing the cameraman. -

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be-

All these various terrors had come applicable against a civilian population by the development of

Johnson)

Fox-Trots-Pennies From Heaven and Jack Hylton & Is Orchestra. (Alm 'Pannies from Heaven'); One,

from Heaven') Jack Hylton & His Orchestra with vocal refrain. ian Vocal-Trav'lin' All Alone (Breen, The Boswell Sisters atrcraft, bul military objects were with Orchestra Accomp Dance certainly not the incentive of the Orch-Delyse-Waltz; At The Bala- successful ploneers of ardicial night. lafka-Fox Trot (from 'Balalaika')

Would it be fair, tving realised with vocal refrain by Ber

Jack Hylton & His Orchestra the inventors for nal

Bert Yarlett. Humorous Monologue-Albert And Layed their] "I believe that the whole idea that it, and for not having

hands?" asked Lord Rayleigh,

who, The Eadsman (Edgar): Jubilee scientific men

are specially re-

Sovereign...

Stan

Holloway with sponsible is a delusion born of im- summing up his conclusions, said:

"The application of fundamental Piano, Dance, Orch. You Give Me perfect knowledge of the real course discoveries in science to purposes of Ideas-Fox-Trot (Please, Teacher');

*A DELUSION"

"may say at the outset that I have no sanguine contribution to

make.

of the process of discovery."

to blame

to control such

dis-Please, Teacher')... Jack Hylton

In the course of study, he said, it war is altogether too remote for it Song Of The Cello Fox-Trot was inevitable that the action of to be possible nitric acid on sub-glycerine and cel-coveries at the source. lulose should be tried,

No one could foresee the result, In

the case of benzene there was ob- tained nitrobenzene,

the key to the aniline dye industry.

In the case of glycerine, Sobrero obtained in 1846 the highly-explosive liquid called nitro-glycerine.

"He meant no harm," went On Lord Rayleigh. "In fact, his dis-

"FOR GOOD OR ILL"

The

Old

& His Orchestra with vocal refrain. Vocal-Why Don't You Practice What You Preach (Sigler, Goodhart, Hoff- "For good or ill, the urge to

ex-man)

Boswell Sisters with plore the unknown is deep in the Orchestra. Orch-Stil More nature of some of us, and it will not Songs: Intro-Held your hand out, be deterred by possible contingent naughty boy; Skylark: Navaho; Little results, generally not fully apparent Alabama Coon; Sing me to sleep; La till long after the death of the ex-Mattchiche; Maggle Murphy: Another plorer.

girl at home like Mary: Broken

"The world is ready to accept the Melody; I'm twenty-one to-day; As covery lay dormant for many years, gifts of selence, and to use them for your hair grows whiter; Galloping to Major Jack Hylton & His Orch., until Nobel turned his attention to its own purposes. It is dificult

what those uses should be.

...

to 10.30 London Relay - 'Visitors'

Book'.

the matter in 1863, and showed how, see any sign that it is ready to accept with vocal refrain. by mixing nitro-glycerine with other the advice of scientific men as substancea, solid explosives could be made which admitted safe hand- ling. Dynamite was one of them.

ARTS OF PEACE

They proved invaluable in the arts of peace in mining and in muking railway tunnels.

Impressions of the hibition (Scotland) by Scotland,

Empire Ex- visitors to

"Can we then do nothing? Frankly, I doubt whether we can do much, but is, one thing that may be at there

10.45 Dance Music. tempted.

Fox-Trots To You, Sweetheart: I The Association has under con- sideration a division for study of the Was Saying To The Moon (Alm 'Go

West.

Young Man") social relations of science which will

..Roy Fox ed Tango-La Cancion De La Ribern "At all events, high explosive had attempt to bring the steady light of& His Orchestra with vocal refrain.

on vexed been too long in use In peaceful in-entile truth

Orquesta. Tipien Victor Estribilio

directly to the account of science."

Dealing with poison

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11.0 Close down. Vesuvius in A.D. 78, and the veteran moting International amlly.“ admiral Lord Dundonald urged that the fumes of burning sulphur should be used in the Crimean War, but the suggestion was not adopted.

Chlorine was discovered 140 years before the Great War as n'step in the inquiry into the nature of common salt.

Curiosity Cools Cat

Stillwater, Okin.

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MRS. HALDANE LEAVES

Canton, Sept. 24, Mrs. Charlotte Haldane, wife

London Dally A case where curiosity cooled the Professor Haldane and special cor-

respondent of the cat. One day the animal, a stray Herald, left here for Hankow yester- sub-wandered into the bathroom of the day afternoon. Mustard gas was one of 17 stances mentioned on

During her brief stay in Canton, a page of a F. E. Sherwood home here and foll dictionary of chemistry pubished in into a bathtub while it was being Mrs. Haldane inspected various wo- 1894.

filled with water. The cat ap men's national salvation work here parently liked the experience,"

by the Sherwood sald, because I found it and was much impressed

milltary training the female sex aro "Mustard gas is quite unexpectedly in the tub several times after that, undergoing throughout the province.

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