1939-11-30 — Page 19

Thursday,

NANCY

DO YOU THINK WE WERE TOO SEVERE WITH NANCY, SENDING HER TO BED

WITHOUT SUPPER ?

NO- SHE WAS BAD TODAY--- WE MUSTN'T GIVE IN

TO HER!

I GUESS TH' WIFE'S RIGHT-- WE'YE GOT

TO BE

STERN!

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

By Ernie

November 30, 1939.

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Father Escorts Bride

MISS KATHERINE SETH, accompanied by her father, arriving at the Hongkong Union Church for her wedding to Mr. G. B. S. Thomson,

FRIDAY

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tie cups of elected workmen en ployed by firts of contractors ali Lover the country have been specially trained in the building of these emergency bridges.

The

country in divided into eight

The treeh naming humour of the Great War is reming to the fare Ministry of Transport districts, each agaio, as evidenced by this pletive taken in London,

in the charge of a divisional engineer.

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Saw own Death Sentence

Through his Microscope

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30 (UP).-Had Frederick James Hinds lived, he would have upheld the Hippocratic oath and perhaps gone on to become a famous man the realm of medical discovery.

in

But two years ago, while he was a student in the Standford University School of Medicine, young Hinds | bent-over-u-microscope-to-make an examination_of_his.

own blood and saw his own death warrant.

The ashes of Ilinds, who lacked just a week of being 23 years old, were inurned at Wood-lawn Memorial Park. He was a victim of myelogenous leukemia, a discase of which science knows little.

Ilinds didn't live long enough fo win his degree in medicine and to take the Hippocratie osth, but he Idi contribute selence, in his own Journal, a first-person record of the progress of his disease.

The youth, whose home was in Santa Barbara, California, came to the Stanford Medical School berc with a Bachelor of Arts degree fron the University of California at Los Angeles.

Shared Discovery

He was perfectly well, he believed, until the class examination of his

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He is Major-General A. L. G. McNaughton, who started in life as a professor at McGill Univer-

The last war turned him into a

blood revealed his condition. Insity, Canada. stead of keeping it a secret, Hinds zharu hin discovery with his class soldier. Starting off as a lieutenant, and with his' Instructors, Dr. Loren e pished as a brigadier-general. R. Chandler; Deun of the medical

He is known as “Andy' by overy-

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school, and Dr. Horry A. Wyckoff, one, personal friend said... assistant professor of medicine and the spirit of Canada. He is a most Very democratie, he epitomises hend of the pathological laboratory,

Fraternity brothers provided wood lovable man, and everyong "takes' to for transfusions. Anonymous donors him. contributed financially to permit Hinds to continue his study of amount of amusement was the fact medicine, for he was in inodest clr- that he always had a slide rule in THIRD WEEK DECEMBER AUSTRALIA vis MANILA cumstances. Until two months ago his, pocket. He treated his gunnery and mathematical he was up and around, attending a scientifle football games! Then he was con- way."

Mr. N. L. Rogers, Canadian De-

One thing that caused a certain THIRD WEEK DECEMBER SHANGHAI and JAPAN,

LAST WEEK DECEMBER fined to his bed is the disease fance Minister, who announced the FORTNIGHTLY

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The best medical minds were appointment, sold that General Me- called into consultation. Dr. John Naughton would be given the rank Lawrence

and

Dr. Ernest

of Inspector-General. 0. Lawrence, who developed the "atom General McNaughton received his smasher" at the University of Cult military training at the Royal Staff fornia, gave him X-ray treatments College, and the Imperial Defence which provided temporary relief. College, There were some, medication which eased the pain,

And while an occasional case will ince 1933, and was previously Chief respond to, treatment to lengthen the of the General Staff in the Depart- SECOND WEEK DECEMBER CALCUTTA via SINGA- course of the disease to, five years,ment of National Defence. young Hinds was not one of them was wounded twice,

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Science docm't know the cause of myelogenous leukemia; nor fla

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"It may be described as a defect in the production of white corpus- cles." said Dr. Wyckoff.

"We know the mechanipun of how the disease operates, but we do not know the cause. There is ʼn graduni wonkening and an eventual loss-of- welgist. In its terminal stages, the discace la very painful.

He has been president of the N FIRST WEEK DECEMBER

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