1939-05-08 — Page 15

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Cup Final Teams Took His "Medicine"

Gland Expert Plans to be 120

Seeks £10,000 Life

Potters Bar, Herts,

MEL A. MENZIES BHARPE, the man who introduced 'gland treatment to the Cup Final teams, Wolverhampton Wander- ста and Portsmouth, plans lo live to 120.

He is 80

so sure he can do it that ho is taking out a life insurance policy for £10,000, payable on his 120th birthday.

Although tall, well-built Mr. Sharpe Is 55, 0

looks 40,

Why? Because he takes his own "medicine"the unimal gland extrauts which he makes for the football teams.

Mr. Sharpe talked about his plans in his laboratory, part of a beautiful old manor house in Hertfordshire.

"You may think it fantastle," he said, "but I mean business when I want a quotation for a £10,000 polley payable on my 1200: birthday,

"I AM PREPARED TO PAY THE PREMIUM NOW IN ONE 'SURSTANTIAL LUMP SUM.

"Already I have, approached two Insurance companies, who told me politely that they would first have to work out new actuarial figures.

"As this is in the nature at challenge, I am giving all leading British insurance companies an op- portunarly a mining engineer. Mr. lo quote me a premium." Sharpe first became interested in glands, or the science of endocrino- logy, as a hobby.

Ten years ago his hobby become his full-time job.

In

HOT FAVOURITES

the

1037 of summer Wolverhampton adopted Mr. Sharpe's gland treatment to build up a teum of super players,

To-day, the Wolves are hot favourites to win the Cup, and also have a sporting chance of wlanlag the League champion- ship.

Apart from giving players In- -creased speed, staminu, and staying power (as football has proved), glund Mr. Sharpe, extracts, according to give the answer to man's centuries- -old quest for prolonged youth and .longer life-span.

Holding up a phlal of clear, amberį liquid, he said: "This contains gland! extracts from a number of animals- oxen, sheep, rabbits.

"IT CAN ADD YEARS TO A MAN'S LIFE WITHOUT MEKE- LY BEING A LENGTHENING OF OLD AGE.

Since 1920 I have supplied gland under extracts for the treatment, medical supervision, of between 15.- ,000 and 20,000 people.

WITHOUT PROFIT "More than half have been people over 55. Statesmen, business mag- nates, stage and screen stars have been given a new lease of useful life by a course of the injections,

Policy

"I FORESEE THE DAY WHEN TO LIVE TO 100 YEARS WILL BE CONSIDERED NORMAL"

There is a potential fortune for Mr. Sharpe in gland products, but he has no desire to become a million- nire.

"My policy is altruistic rather thun commercial," he said.

"As the demand for lond extenets increases, I shall be able to reduce the prices.

"Already the cost of twelve in- fections, as supplied to doctors, has been reduced from £20 to £9, and further reductions will soon be possible,

King Zog, left, who called upon his people to defend their nation against the Italians, is shown in Tirana, his capital city, recently, WR he reviewed some of his troops. With him Is Queen Geraldine, who fled to Greece, a few days after the birth of her baby son, Prince Skanderbeg.

'Morals Are 'Terrible'

ve with be content if the business AN' astonishing attack on the

pays without profit to myself."

In any case Mr. Sharpe feels

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May 8, 1939.

EMPIRE NEWS

CZECH CONSULATE IN SYDNEY CLOSED

SYDNEY.

Dr. E. Kveton, Consul-General of Czechoslovakia in Sydney, handed over recently the consulate to the German Consul-General here, Dr. R. Asmis.

He was acting on instructions from Prague, and theso apply to consulates throughout Australia and New Zealand.

Mr. W. M. Hughes, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, atates, however, that the Commonwealth will not recognise the German Consul as re- presentin Czechoslovakia unless Brilla gives de jure recognition of the German annexation.

Dr. Kveton is returning to Prague by the United States.

KENYA

MR. GROVER TO WORK

IN UGANDA

MOMBASA.

Mr. Brian Grover, the London en- gineer waa Arrested in Russin last year afler flying there to bring buck his wife. They were on their way to Butlabi, Uganda, where Mr. Grover is to work as a drilling en- gineer on the oli concession of the Afrlean and European Investment Co.

Mrs. Grover, who still speaks very ttle English, was delighted to meet a compatriot here, a woman who lives in Mombasa and who has had no opportunity to converse in her own langunge for many months,

After his release from prison in Muscow Mr. Grover Intended to re- turn to his post with a London en- gineering Arm, but later accepted this appointment in Uganda. INDIA

LEAVE PAY TO RANK FOR TAXATION

CALCUTTA. Leave pay is to rank for taxation under India's new income-tax legis- lation. Both officials and ordinary members of the public proceeding oversens on leave will be affected.

Among the first officers of the Government of India to be affected will be Sir James Grigg, the Finance member, who sells this month on to the leave pending his return

English Civil Service in a post at the

Office.

Indians in South Africa Reports from South Africa suggest that the Union Parliament may postpone con- sideration of the bills giving local nuthorities power to segregate In- flans, It is believed that this re-

He declared that children barely splle is an acknowledgment of the five years old will use foul language strong protest by the Government of

In the streets.

India against the anti-Indian agita- Mr. tion in South Afrlen. them SOUTH AFRICA

"This terrible crime," sold Allworthy, "is thrown upun from ungodly parents of all but pain homes,

HOMES POLLUTED

FEWER NATIVE MINE WORKERS DIE

JOHANNESBURG,

The results when they'rench maturity hardly bear thinking about.

The annual report of the Executive "Worse than that, many homes are Committee of the Chamber of Mines, broken up or polluted because men discusses the striking success that and women are living in sin and has attended efforts to safeguard the satisfying their carnal appetites like health of natives on the Rand. brute beasts that have no under- "There can no longer be any ob standing

fection by the Government concern

Some of us would be surpriseded to the employment of Nyasaland

If we knew the number of men and natives in the gold mines on the women in this town who are break-grounds of health," the report states. The pneumonia death rate among

ing up homes in this way."

Mr. Allworthy said no doubt, some natives working in the mines has people would suggest that he was a dropped from 10.25 per thousand in prude and so try to whitewash their 1937 to 3.41 in 1938, and the rate black sin."

for all diseases from 18.19 to 8.00.

Girl Of 12 Has A "Perm"

'She Ought To Be Spanked'

Says Judge

"I NEVER heard of such nonsense," said Judge Richardson recently, when he was told that 12-year-old Ruth Harrison, of Millfield, Sunderland, had been to have her hair "permed.”

"If a child of this age gets burned while having her hair waved," he went on, "I should be inclined to say that it serves her jolly well right.

"It might prove an advantage for her to be pulled up in her somewhat precocious vanity."

Anne, The Girl Who Obeyed

LITTLE Anne Banwell, aged five, to her had been told never to go With these words, Judge Richard-mother's bedroom and never to get up son, who was sitting at Sunderland from bed until she was called. County Court, found for a hair- dresser against whom the child had claimed £15 for burning her hair.

"FOOLISH WASTE"

"A child of 12 who wants to have her hair permanently waved should! be taken over her mother's knee and spanked," he said.

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"The girl must have very foolish parents to spend 3s. d. on having her hair permanently woved. It is

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One day recently she lay playing in bed at her home in Northwood, near Watford, waiting for her mother's call.

Her mother did not come.

Four mornings later, when' helpers broke into the house, the child was still in bed..

"I'm waiting for mummy," she whimpered, and cowered under the ibedclothes.

"It is probable that the girl has: Her mother, Mrs. Kathleen Ban- now got a very good lesson in not well, was found dead in a nearby being vain and foolish lesson,bedroom. apparently, which she

have got from her parents.

could not!

"A child of 12 prinking herself was

out!"*

"SMELLED BURNING"

The child had to be coaxed to eat, it stated at the inquest on the mother, and refused to be dressed, haying.

'The girl alleged that she had been first "No, Mummy wants to get up

left in a cubicle with eléctrically heated frons in her hair while the assistant went for luncheon.

She smelled something burning and knocked on the wall of the ad- joining cubicle to call onother assist- ant who turned off the current.

These allegations were deniki.

She would not approach her. mother's bedroom.

A verdict of death from natural causes was returned.

Mrs. Banwell was the wife of Mr. G. E. Banwell, acting Commissioner ot Polleo in Rangoon, Burma,

Mr. Hanwell is on hila way home,

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