1940-03-26 — Page 19

NANCY

AUNT FRITZ! --- I'M GOING TO TAKE MY BATH!

NOW REMEMBER--- THERE'S A SHORTAGE OF WATER--- SO

DON'T WASTE

IT!

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

By Ernie

March 26, 1940. Bushmiller

WELL, NANCY!--- ARE. YOU BEING. CAREFUL

WITH THE WATER ?

YES MA'M!

Jel. 28151.

AMERICAN MADE

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ANOTHER SCUTTLE:

ELECTRIC

CURE

FOR INSANITY

1

ELECTRIC shock, applied to lighly skilled operators. Apparatus the brain, has been demon-faced not be expensive.

order.

strated by two Independent that a severe shock, whether physical

It is well-known to mental experts) groups of British doctors as a or psychological, can lead to a rapid method of curing mental dis- Improvement in cases of mental dis- order.

"Split minas" have been, coordin- By coincidence, both the "British ated by shock-infections of insulin Medical Journal" and "The Lancet" or of the powerful drug cardiozol. carry accounts of this dramatic new Both methods Involved risks. The process of healing minds.

One Board of Control report last year in- comes from the Burden Neurological cluded ten deaths from cardiazol Institute and the other from War-treatment. lingham Park Hospital.

The methods are similar. Electrodes are clamped to the skull. These are pads through which the electric charge is tranamilled into the brain. High tension voltage, varying] from 80 to 160 volts according to the

pre-determined needs of the patient,

LAST OF - COLUMBUS

HERE are the first pictures of the sinking of the Nazi liner Columbus, scuttled by her creto of the United States coast. They were taken from the United States cruiser Tuscaloosa.

is seen blazing fiercely just before she sank, while the British warship which had chased her stands by.

Below, the Nazt crew rowing in lifeboats to the Tuscaloosa, which took 579 survivors to

At the top, the Columbus New York,

Parents Reclaim Adopted Basques

TWO people are facing, heartbroken, the fact that they may have to lose their adopted children from Spain.

They are Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Mayers, of Bampton- drive, Ruislip Manor, Middlesex. Chlidless themselves, they have been father and mother for two years to two little Basque refugees who were believed to have been orphaned Sa the Sparth war.

Now they have received news that the real purents are alive and want

·their children back.

Great Shock

"It has come as a dreadful shock," Mr. Mayers said.

"We have grown to love the chlidren so. We have called them Peggy and Molly, and they won't believe their parents ore still alive,

They came

to England when was besieged three years ago, and went to a camp in York- shire. They wrote four times to their mother, but got no reply. "A year later they heard their parents were dead. We were told of the children's plight and legally adopted them.

May Fight It

that

"We cannot find out where the parents are and are waiting for more news. I suspect the father is a political prisoner at the moment. "We do not want, to let the children go back as they are very happy here. There may be a legal fight for their guardianship."

Peggy is eight years old and Molly

is seven.

This Story Is About

A Waitress, A Train

And

A Prince

TWO Swedish officers in a first-class sleeping car were as- tonished when a little waitress' pushed open their door and said: "Please tell me what to do.”

Breathless, she explained that there had been a crowd in the restaurant at the last station. Passengers had so little time for their coffee that) many of them left without paying. So she jumped on the train to col- lect her money-and the train moved off.

One of the officers, tall, dark, good-

. CASSEROLES

Various Sizes & Shapes. $2.50-$6.00 ea.

.PIE PLATES

$1.50-$3.25

•

CAKE DISHES.... $2.50 & $3.00

•

CUSTARD CUPS

30c.

. LOAF PANS

$4.50

. UTILITY DISHES

$3.00

. BEAN POTS

$5.00

REFRIGERATOR DISHES

$2,50

. SAUCE-PANS

$6.00

. -PERCOLATORS-5 CUPS

$12.50

VACUUM COFFEE MAKER'... $20.00

China Ware Department

10% CASH

DISCOUNT

LANE CRAWFORD'S BU

The House of Quality & Service

looking, sprang up. "I'll help you," 66

he said.

Together they walked down the entire train. The officer woke up passengers in the sleeping cars and collected coffee money who ow

from those

owed- it. Afterwards the girl thanked him. "A pleasure," he assured her.

Then somebody on the train told the waitress the name of the help- ful officer. He was Prince Gustav Adolf, thirty-six-year-old Gon Sweden's Crown Prince.

EASTER CRICKET WASHED-OUT

British Warships Are So 4

Healthy, Say Doctors

warships

Hitler Has Lead BRITISH

In The "I" Output healthy places to live in.

are incoming air. Is regulated by steam

or electric radiators.

According to an article in the SYRACUSE, NY-Adolf Hitler current issue of the British refers to impublie dddress, while Medical Journal, they are models words in is applied.

Benito Mussolini uses the pronoun "of hygiene. The shack produces a convulalon. once in 83 words, The patient becomes unconscious.

Pearl Waxman, Syracuse. Uni- Ho recovers within a few minutes,versity student reported these with no memory of the shock or of findings in a survey as a part of her the preliminarics. Where higher speeels studies. voltages are necessary the effect of

an epileptic at is produced.

President Roosevelt ranks third,

"The vast revolullon la byglenlo

practice which has taken place in civilized countries L nowhere better Bluntrated than in ships of war.""

Near the engines it is cooled. In more exposed parts of the ship It is heated. modern electrical gadgets; kitchens The cooking galleys are fitted with

are clean and tiled.

through

Drinking water

passes

purifying and Jelng apparatus.

Then there are no rats, but plenty

of showera.

of

had taken an hour and a half to score a hundred for four wickets,

After

AT the time of sending, these notes Ain there appears no chance of crie- ket to-day (Saturday morning). But I should mention that we went into committee over the point I raised in the Inst paragraph while refreshing the inner man after the game. There statement that the runner must he is nothing in the rules-not even the

dressed as the batsman for whom he runa l.e. pads gloves etc. But this is ́always done, now at any rate, and think my irst point is a I rather matter of etiquette.

It stands to reason - that it is a sound.

AMBULANCE INSPECTION. wn proposition in the case of men Modern ships are built in small

are capable of making hundreds ahe disclosed, with one "1" in every vertient compartments. Fresh air is

His Excellency the Governor will and then being wanted to send down Both groups of research-workers 100. words.” Winslən Churchill's delivered by power to every remote inspect the St. John Ambulance ten or twenty overs. A bit of have found that the method is safe, average was one 160, Premier corner. It is changed many times an at the Naval Recreation Ground, wangling would be very useful though without ill-effects afterwards." The Daladier's one in 234, and Prime hour.

Causeway Bay, on Monday, April 8, of course it would hardly ever method is almple and does not need Minister Chamberlain's one in 240.

at 5.30 pm,

happen

The ship is air-conditioned:

the

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by

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CORNS?

Better

because it's liquid.

slop that pain instantly with

GETS-IT

the infallible

corn cure.

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