1939-05-08 — Page 3

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH'

Cup Final Teams Took His "Medicine"

Gland Expert Plans to be 120

Seeks £10,000 Life

Potters Bar, Heris. MIL A. MENZIES SHARTE. the man who introduced gland Treatment to iho Cup Final teams, Wolverhampton Wander- cry and Portsmouth, plans to -live to 120.

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

Although fall, well-built Mr. Sharpe is 58, he looks 40,

Why? Because he takes his own medleine" the animal gland extracts 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 fantastic,"' he, said, "but I menn business when I want a quotation for a £10,000 polley payable on my 120th birthday.

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

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

nature "As this is in the

of a

challenge, I am giving all lending British Insurance companies an opsi portunity to quote me a premium."; Formerly a mining engineer, Mr.l Sharpe first became interested in glands, the science of endocrino-

logy, as a hobby.

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

In

HOT FAVOURITES

the

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

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

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

Holding up a phial of clear, amber] Ilguld, he said: "This contains gland extracts from a number of animals oxen, sheep, rabbits.

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

"Since 1920 I have supplied gland)

treatment, extracts for the

under medical supervision, of between 15.- 000 and 20,000 people.

WITHOUT PROFIT

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 militon- aire.

"My polley is altruistic rather than enmnicretal," he said.

"As the demand for glund extracts increases, I shall be able to reduce the prices.

Already the cost of twelve In- Jections, as supplied to doctors, has been reduced from £20 to £9, and further reductions will soon be posible,

"More than half have been peopleļ over 55. Statesmen, business mat-f nates, stage and screen stars have f been given a new lease of ureful life pays without profit to myself." by a course of the Injections,

any case Mr. Sharpe feels he

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

Morals Are Terrible'

May 8, 1939.

EMPIRE NEWS

CZECH CONSULATE IN. SYDNEY CLOSED

SYDNEY.

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

He was acting on Instructions from Prague, and these apply to consulates throughout Australia and

New Zealand.

Mr. W. M. Hughes, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, states, however, that the Commonwealth will not "recognise the German Censul us re- presenting Czechoslovakin unless Britain gives de jure recognition of the German annexation.

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

KENYA

MR. GROVER TO WORK

IN UGANDA

MOMBASA.

Mr. Brian Grover, the London en- gineer was arrested In Russia last year after flying there, to bring back his wife. They were on their way to Butlab, Uganda, where Mr. Grover is to work as a drilling en- gineer on the oil concession of the African and European Investment Co.

Mrs. Grover, who still speaks very little English, was delighted to meet a compatriot here, a woman who Ilves in Monbasa and who has had no opportunity to converse in her own language for many months.

After his release from prison in Moscow Mr. Grover Intended to re- tum to his post with a London en- gineering firm, 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- lution. Both officials and ordinary members of the public proceeding overseas on leave will be affected.

Among the first oMeers of the Government of India to be affected will be Sir James Grie the Flaance member, who Balls this month on leave pending his return to the

English Civil Service in a post at the

War Omee.

ays without prote it if the business AN astonishing attack on the

morala of home life in King'a Indians in South Africa.—Reports Lynn, Norfolk, has been made from South Africa suggest that the by the Vicar of St. John's, the Union Parliament may postpone con- Rev. E. W. Allworthy, at his authorities power to segregate In-

sideration of

the

bills giving local annual church meeting.

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dans. It is believed that this re-

He declared that children unrely spite is an acknowledgment of the five years old wiH, use foul language strong protest by the Government of in the streets.

India against the anti-Indiah agita- "This terrible crime,"

Mr. tion.In South Africn. Allworthy, "Is thrown upon UIC SOUTH AFRICA from ungodly parents of all but pagan homes.

sald

HOMES POLLUTED

"The results when they reach {maturity hardly bear thinking about,

FEWER NATIVE MINE WORKERS DIE

that

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

Jection by the Government concern- "Some of us would be surpriseded to the employment of Nyasaland 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. ing up homes in this way."

The pneumonia death rate among

Mr. Allworthy said no doubt some natives working in the mines bos 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 În 1938, and the rate black sin."

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Girl Of 12 Has A "Perm"

'She Ought To Be Spanked' Se

Says - Judge

"I NEVER heard of such nonsense," said Judge

| Richardson récently, 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 aḥ advantage for] her to be pulled up in her somewhat precocious vanity."

Anne, The Girl

Who Obeyed

LITTLE Anne Banwell, aged flyo, had been told never to go to her 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 ogainst whom the child had claimed 15 for burning her hair.

"FOOLISH WASTE”

One day recently she lay playing in bed at her home in Northwood, пелк :

Watford, waiting for her mother's call,

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

Her mother did not come. Four mornings later, when helpors broke into the house, the child was "The girl must have very foolish still in bed. parents to spend 38. 6d. on having "I'm waiting for mummy," she her hair permanently waved. It whimpered, and cowered under the

bedclothes.

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

apparently, which she could not have got from her parents,

"A child of 12 prinking herself was

out!"

MU

"SMELLED BURNING"

The girl alleged that she had been Ict in a cublele with electrically holed frons in her hair while the assistant went for luncheon, ..

She amellod samething burning and knocked on the wall of the ad

The child frad to be coaxed to eat, it

stated at

dn the Inquest the mother, and refused to be dressed, saying, “No, Mummy, wants to gel.up first."

She' would not approach her mother's bedroom.

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ant who turned off the current,

'These allegations were denied.

A verdict of death from natural

was returned.

Mrs. Banwell was the wife of Mr.

E. Banwell, acting Commissioner of Police in Rangoon, Burma,

Mr. Banwell is on his way home,

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