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London Professor Reveals Science's Strangest Story Wolf Adopts Two Baby
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Lost
In Jungle
By RUSHWORTH FOGG
PROFESSOR R. RUGGLES GATES, of King's College, London, revealed to the "Sunday Chronicle" recently the amazing case of a she- wolf that adopted two baby girls left to die in an Indian jungle.
REGISTRAR SUPPORTS
One of Britain's most distin- guished scientists, Professor Gates, is making a specini study of canes of adoption of humans by animals.
Data for this particular case were given to Professor Gates by
MR. MULLINS an Indian Christian missionary,
STRONG views on the subject
the Rev. J. Singh.
flere is the story as related by
Mr. Singh years ago
Ten
was
of birth control expressed Professor Chutes. this week by Mr. Claud Mulling, working among a primative tribe in the South Western magistrate, the Jungles of Bilor, Northern In- were endorsed by Mr. Registrar dia. The natives told him some in- Friend at Clerkenwell County credible stories about a ghest wolf Court
that haunted the jungle near the village.
WATCHED FROM TREE Te discredit the story the mis-
A woman rued by a fim of credit drapers told the Registrar that she could not pay more than 4%. a month, adding, "I have right young children sionary had a platform bulit up a
tren so that he could keep watch. to feed."
The Best night the missloatry kept "Is that the eighth?"
#+]t] the Registrar, looking at an infant in her watch a the-wolf came out of her A little den under a huge ant-hill.
loped two! "No," she replied, "it is my four-way behind the teenth, The other six are working."strange little brown creatures.
arms.
" ENDORSE IT"
The Registrar: "Then, at the risk of being reprimanded 1 entorse every word that was mult by F London magistrate the other day. Whatever anybody else may say about it, I do not congratulate her
The Regstrar made an order in the terms of the wman's offer.
scribed
Mr. Mullins bart himself as builing with rage" when dealing with a man and his wife whom The sent to prison for neglecting their seven children. " have not heard," the said, "of any attempt to tench [birth control to these people. Sugie15 and sealous opinion are mainly to į blame, in my opinton, for these her
rors."
MAN OF 90 FLIES
THE ATLANTIC BUT PREFERS SHIP
THE okiest man to fly across the Atlantic, Mr. Russell Frost, of South Norwalk, Connecticut, arrived in the Atlantic Clipper at Lisbon from New York recently, on his way to London. He is in his ninetieth year.
Speaking on the telephone!
from Lisbon. Mr. Frost said to
the News Chronicle:
"This is my Aftieth crossing of the
Atlantic. I first crossed 45 years ago!
His Way Of Airing
A Grievance
on the Cunarder Etruria, taking ten! IF you try to get something
days.
WILL FLY BACK
done for your children they won't do it, but if you get into trouble they will do something.”
At first the missionary could 1:01 make out what the little brown creatures were. Then to his astonishment he realised that The two "animal" were filtle na- five girls one slightly older than the other.
One of them seened to be about seven or eight, the other a year or two younger.
Probably the wolf had lost her cubs, and, tuding the baby girls, had "adopted" them.
The missionary captured the girls and took them to an orphanage for Indinn children. At first they were! junmanageable. They bit and snar-
ed
PINED AND DIED Patiently the orphanage staff tried! -ilo train the wild children. But thei younger one could not get rid of heri Jungle ways.
Girls
BLOODHOUNDS 'SEEK LOST BOY
UTS
Bloodhounds Look nearchers for Donn Fendler, Jr., 12, of Hye. N. Y to he brink of a 400- foot precipice above Mount Ka- tahdin's timber Bne, where the trall seemed
The boy to end. had become lost during a hike up the Maine mountain.
Child Dancer's Triumph
Six years a cripple, Audrey Joan Bray, of Worcester, aged 11, has been awarded a certi- ficate with honours for danc- ing.
When only four she was appearing on the stage of the local theatre and hor gift as a natural dancer inspired high hopes for her future.
Then she fell ill. For four years sho lay partly encased in plaster of paris. For two more she was on
crutches. After six months in thei home she pined and died.
The vider child, iwever, gradually learned some ma habits. She was cured of biling and snarling. By placing her
high food on a
table she was taught to stand. But she still ate and drank like a wolf.
She never learned to run like a
¡ human being. but always dropped hands and knees when she
on
wanted to go fast.
was
Her parents feared that the child, whose great desire to dance again, would never walk again unaided, bur her courage--and surgical skill-overcame the trouble, and Audrey is onco dancing.
Your Child Mighty Like Rose, They
moro
Is
A
Say
" few across in 48 hours on the Hindenburg and now I have crossed| by the Atlantic Clipper in 28 hours.
James Frederick Hulbert (43) PARENTS can learn the secret of how to get the best
Jabourer, of Tavistock rmployed "I enjoyed the trip. It was very smooth and comfortabic. The weather Road, Westbourne Park, voiced this: at Marylebone Police was fine and the sea was smooth. Irievance you are in a hurry this is undoubtedly Court, when necused of damaging a the way to cross, but on the whole pane of glass at the offices of the prefer a ship.
Unemployment Assistance
August 23, 1939.
New Drug May Save 50,000
iwo
new drug, discovered by rese doctors in the United States, arut doped in English hospitnis, has succeeded in, more 'than 50 per for cent of hospital cases treated epilepsy.
Before a board of distinguished hyslelans, three doctors. W. Mc- Cartan and J. Carson, of the Brigba ton Mental Hospital, und Dr. 1. Frost, of the Friern Hospital, has told of results the new drug has achieved.
1ts technical
Nine is Sodium Diphenylhydantoingle, but it is mar- keled as Épanulin and Soxlantoin.
Two Amertenn research
men. Doctors H. Houston Merritt and Tracey J. Putnam discovered it by electrically stimulating brains, and nervong systems of cats, finding that the animals had an automatic con- vulsion.
They then experimented with n wide range of drugs until they found a combination which cancelled out Ure convulsion.
HUMAN TESTS
They were then able to try the who were drug on human beings victims of epilepry, and experiment- ed on 142 severe caseR.
After treatment lasting In some eaves 11 months, but averaging four months, 58 per cent of cases were completely relieved of attacks, and 27
1>er
cent, were substantially im- proved,
Extraordinary Improvements were noted in nine out of twelve patients specially treated in one of the big London hospitals.
In
one case a man who had had 100 fits a month before treatment—— the number of fits dropped to four in the whole of the first month of treat-
the second month ment. Ir number dropped to two-and in the third they were entirely eliminated.
the
Eight other eases showed big in- provemerits. the least successful being where a patient's its were only reduced from 13 to seven a-mouth..
It is estimated that there are ap-
sufferers from proximately 30,000 epilepsy in the country.
NEW DRUG IS FOR
ALL PATIENTS
Mr. Walter Elliot (Minister of Health) denied in the House fo Com- muns recently he refused to allow the new drug, known as M and B 683, to be used for the treatment of insured
Dr. Son vill (Lab., Fulham,
W.) asked if it were not a fact that when asked if he would put this on the special list of expensive drugs the Minister said he could not, but in a year's time, when the price fell. he would reconsider it.
Mirt
Elliot! I refused to put it on
it is oblain-,
the suerint list becak arrange-
able under the
ments for insured persons. The sug- that it is being withheld from Restion insured persons is quite unworthy of the medient profession:
The drug M and B 693 was stated to have reduced pneumonia mor- tality last winter by 25 per cent. 1
has also been used with success in treating meningitis. The drug is the
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Arts Academy To Celebrate
The
LENINGRAD. 175th anniversary of the
celebrated next November. Some of Hussla's greatest artists have been students
Its within
walls. The
out of their children by applying the principles of Leningrad Academy of Arts will be rose culture.
Mrs. C. B. S. Hodson, a London biologist who is Beard, Secretary of the Bureau of Human Heredity, explained the analogy between the growth of children and roses to the News Chronicle,
He told the Court that he had!
"I am on my way to Loudon to Blonfleld Rond, Paddington. visit friends and to take a trip round England. I hope to fly back from Southampton by the northern route."
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drwn no dole since May 18, had a son aged 7, and had not even a cup of tea for him.
He went to the police station and they could not do anything for him, He applied to the LC.C. and to St.
When a gardener buys a bundle of roses, she pointed out, he first looks them over to discover what varieties there are, pick- ing them out by signs such as the shape and texture of the leaf.
He knows that he cannot treat Mary Abbots without success, and them all alike. Some like clay, finally, in despair, returned to the Relieving Omeer and was sent to the others sand; some thrive in Unemployment Assistance Board. exposed spots, others prefer
"ONLY HUMAN”
Ishelter.
may
He arrived there at 4 p.m., having child requires a special environment,
In the same way each individual;
been walking about trying to tet help since 9 a.m., and was told that there is no such things as "
good environment" which will be be must walk back to Marylebone.good for all children. He then smashed the window.
Even brothers and sisters The magistrate suggested that that have individual inherited differences, was not the way to get things done. which they may hand on haphazard. Thus the parental attitude which Hulbert: I am only human. What draws the best out of the child may can I do? I have no work. Am I to seriously injure another in the same steal for a living? I lost my temper. family.
I am very sorry. As a matter of fact!
to the
According
prosecution Hulbert flew into a rege when told to get his Exchange card and threw an; ash tray through the window, say ing, "Now felch the police."
"PEDIGREE SIGNS"
Stowaway Rang for Steward
STOWAWAY on board the
Aquitania
from a rang bathroom for a steward and complained that there was no
hot water.
they have now put my boy into a Here the geneticist, who makes a
The incident happened two hours house at Fulham.
special study of heredity, steps in to after the liner had sailed from help. Like the
rose specialist, he Southampton. recognises from features in the child what his inborn constitution is. The steward found the disgruntled Each child is identifiable not only passenger undressed. But the fact by shape of cars, colour of eyes, but that a hat and a coat were hanging type of body build, rate of growth, in the bathroom aroused his aus- blood and tissue changes, and other pleion. "pedigree signs."
The magistrate sold he was sorry for Hulbert, but must send him to prison for five days,
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Edward Azevith,
+
30-year-old
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sent to prison for, a month," Questions such as "Should my daughter embark оп П musical career?" "Is there danger thot 1 may transmit asthma to my children?" or "Should marry my cousin?" con
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A ROUND TRIP Azevlth could not be landed at Cherbourg, the next port of call, and had to be taken to New York before
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| THE PROVED to write his notes above or below the
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| third-class" passengers until he gave trouble by frightening two women,
A survey is being started which, is said the prosecuting solicitor. After' expected to clear up the problem of that he was kept in custody,
the recurrence, of tuberculosis in
Azevith told the court he wanted to get to America,
K which gave many fomous composers same families, despite modern safe-|
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