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May 13, 1939.

MET HIS BRIDE IN SNOWDRIFT "Be like me-

Pacific Flyer, Marries

Pangborn,

HAS NO TIME FOR Doctor Refused to See

A HONEYMOON

SOUTHAMPTON.

He

Clyde Pangborn, who flew the Pacific, took to ski-ing. went to the rescue of Mile. Swann Beaucaire Duval, pretty Parisienne, who had run into a snowdrift at St. Moritz.

At

Recently they were married Southampton Register Office, two years after their meeting,

Mrs. Pangborn_is_the_daughter of The late M. Henri Duval, head of a French insurance company, and works as a dress designer in Paris.

Mr. Pangborn, whose name was pace on everybody's Hips, is still a flyer. Now he is test pilot for Cunliffe-Owen Aircraft, Lid., South-

makers of the "Flying Wing."

Patient-Called at 3 a.m.

THE case of a doctor who did not was fil with asthma, from which he

Ko to a patient when the sick had been suffering for a long time. man's son called at his surgery at

13 am. in a knowslɑrm was discussed at the London Inurance Committee's meeting in London recently..

The doctor, it was alleged, said he could not do anything if he came, and instead wrote out a prescription which he said could be made up at

a chemist's shop two miles away. This Man Held

His Breath-

Nottingham.

SKED to hold his breath while undergoing a medical Because he is now carrying out test for the Royal Air Forco Important experiments with this Volunteer Reserve, Mr. A. J. machine he and his bride will have Sheffield, of West Bridgford, to wait for their honeymoon in South astounded the doctor by holding Americn until the end of the year.

it for 5min, 40sec.

SAVED GIRL'S LIFE

The son then called on another doctor, who immediately went to the sick man.

The first doctor's defence was that he was himself ili, with a temperature of 102. He assumed that the patient,

Irish Girls Are Growing Scarcer

Eire has only 052 women to the every 1,000 men, one of lowest ratios in the world. These gures are given In the

recently.

Amerlean-born Clyde Pangborn The doctor called in Wing Com-jeensus of population report issued flew the Pacific in July 1931, in commander Pabley, in charge of recruit- pany with another American, Hughing. The test was repeated. This Herndon.

time Mr. Shefeld made it 5min.

When they set out from Japan, on 30sec. their 6,300-iniles flight, they were

carrying 000 gallons of petrol--more The previous local record in 23⁄41⁄2min. {than twice the weight of the unladen A good average is not more than

machine.

14min. for-

To climb high to avold lee

The census was taken in 1930. In 1020 the rullo was 972 to 1,000.

In Great Britain in 1931 there were 1,088 women to every 1,000 men.

Other facts disclosed by Elre's census are: Eire has fewer and Inter marriages than any other country; it has 51 centenarians, 32 of them women, and has a larger percentage of people over 75 years than any other country in Europe.

The Medicni Service Sub- committee reported, "We regret we can find nothing in extenua- tion of the practitioner's actions."

The committee decided to ask the Ministry of Health to withhold £10 from the committee's money, with a amount from the remuneration of the view to the deduellon et n' similar practitioner.

should pay £4 expenses.

They also decided that the doctor

EMPIRE NEWS

HINDU KILLED IN COMMUNAL RIOT

Calcutta,

Serlous communal rioting, of short duration, 'broke out at Allahabad recently, A Hindu procession with music was attacked by Moslems, some armed with guns and re- volvers.

One Hindu was killed and several were seriously wounded. The pollee are in control of the situation, but further trouble is feared.

mation, Pangborn clambered out of Mr. Sheffield is employed in the the enbin, undid two bolts, and printing department of Boots, the dropped his under-carriage into the chemists. He is still in the early When they reached Ameries 41 twenties, has gone in for running,

Of the men centenarians, 13 ore hours later he had to land the football, erleket, and swimming, and machine on its fuselage.

weighs 11st, 41b.

widowers and six bachelors.

Of the centenarian women, one in In Texas Staff

in 1924 a girl had to

He was as surprised as the doctor.married, 20 are widows.

Headgear for PoHee-A recom- and Ove jump from Pangborn's 'plane, but

mendation before the Bihar Legisla her parachute

The capacity of persons to hold spinsters. got caught in the thele breath for long periods depends

The report adds: "No less than force be supplied with "Gandhi caps" tive Council that the provincial police undercarriage. He threw down on the volume of air the lungs can 82 per cent of the men are unmarried note in his eap. A acrobat went up in another, plane, tissues to reserve oxygen, and ability land; 04 per cent. of females of the either puggarees, as helmets of the wing-walking hold, the power of the blood and at 29, as against 47 per cent. in Eng-homespun cotton forage caps-hus

been rejected on the ground and by rape-ladder transferred to to stand accumulation of carbon same ago are unmarried, as against Pangborn's plane.

17 per cent. In England, and thin English type, are essential for The wing-walker took charge,

notwithstanding that there are morétection of the head from attack, Pangborn ellmbed out, and strapped

men than women in Eire. the girl to the undercarriage. Then,

AUSTRALIA i after 45 minutes, he landed safely,

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dioxide.

-Divers are easily able to remain oder water searching for pearls for three or four minutes.

This is said to be due to economic dimeultics.

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BOUNTY PROPOSED FOR WOOL

Sydney. Through good seasons and bad, Wool has always been the sheet- anchor of Australia'a overseas trade. Hitherto it has always stood on ita own feet, without any of the assis- tance from the taxpayer that wheat, fruit, wine and other trades have re- celved and are still receiving.

It therefore cone as a big surprise when the president of the Graziers' Association of New South Wales an- nounced that a suggestion had been made to the Federal Government for a penny a pound bounty to be paid on wool until prices recovered enough to give the grower an average of a shilling a pound..

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Rotary Social Inquiry. The Rotary writing. Club of Sydney has appointed sec- tional committees to conduct into the social and economic con- Inquiries ditions of Australia. The organiser of the economic section says that the inquiry will probably show that Australia is heading for increases under the following heads: Govern- ment expenditure, taxation, Lin- employment, pensions and bounties to farmers. All aspects of health and vital statistics will be reported upon. Arbitration Court Judge-In con- sequence of the death of Chief Judge Dethridge, of the Commonwealin Arbitration Court, Judge Beeby, of New South Wales, has been made Chief Judge. Mr. Thomas O'Mara, who has been practing for some years in Industrial courts in New South Wales, has been appointed to the Federal Arbitration Court Bench. CANADA

TREE PLANTING AT WAR MEMORIAL

Ottawa.

Four 40ft. elm trees are being transplanted to form a background to the National War Memorial which the King will unvell on May 18.

To transplant these mature trees the earth to the width of 14ft. was dug up with the roots. The carth is ozen solid, so that the trees were, Is it were, asleep during the process of transplantation.

The earth-bound roots are wrapped In tarpaulins and then lifted by n crane on to a heavy lorry,

By the time the King and Queen reach Ottawa the elms will be green with freshly opened leaves. Spring comes late to this part of Canada, but when it comes it does so with a rush.

British Pyjamas For Troops, Please

Mr. PT. Eckersley (Con, Ex- change, Manchester) naked the, War Minister in the Commons recently if he was aware that certain units of the Army serving abroad have been Issued with pyfamas of Japanese manufacture, and would be fake im- mediate steps to see that in future dnly articles of Brilish manufacture are issued to all British troops.

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