1940-03-26 — Page 9

NANCY

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

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

DON'T WASTE

IT!

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

WELL, NANCY ! --- ARE

YOU BEING CAREFUL-1

WITH THE WATER?

YES MAM!

March 26, 1940.

By Ernie Bushmiller

Jel. 28151.

AMERICAN MADE

"PYREX"

. CASSEROLES.

כפן

ANOTHER

ELECTRIC

LAST OF

SCUTTLE: COLUMBUS

CURE

FOR INSANITY

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

It is well-known to mental experts

strated by two independent that a severe shock, whether physical groups of "British doctors as a or paychological, can lead to a rapid method of curing mental dis- improvement in cases of mental dis- order.

order.

"Split minds" have been coordin- By coincidence, both the "British ated by shock-Injections of Insulin Medical Journal" and "The Lancet or of the powerful drug cardluzol. carry accounts of this dramatic new Both methods involved risks. The One Board of Control report last year in- process of healing minds. comes from the Burden Neurological cluded ten deaths from cardiazol Institute and the other, from War treatment.

lingham Park Hospital.

The methods are similor.

Electrodes are clamped to the skull. Hitler Has Lead

These are pads, through which the

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 crufser Tuscaloosa.

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

Below, the Nazi crew rowing In lifeboats to the Tuscaloosa, which took 679 "survivors to

At the top, the Columbus New York.

British Warships Are So Healthy, Say Doctors

BRITISH warships are incoming air is regulated by steam

or electric radiators. brain. High tension voltage, varying

According to an article in the from:80 150 volts according to the SYRACUSE, NY,Adolf Hitler current issue of the British pre-detained needs of the patient, refers to himself once in every 53 Medical Journal, they are models Is applied.

words in a public, address, while The shock produces a convulsion. Benito Mussolini uses the pronoun "T" of hygiene.

electric charge is transmitted into the In The "T" Output healthy places to live in.

The patient becomes unconscious....

once in 83 words,

nowhere

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. Childless themselves, they have been father and mother for two years to two ile Basque refugees who were believed to have been orphaned in the Spanish war,

Now they have received news tint the real parents are ullve and want their children back.

Great Shock

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

"We have Krown to love Ute children so, We have called them Peggy and Molly, and they won't believe their parents are still alive. "They came to Englund when Bilbao was besleged three years ago, and went to a camp in York- shire. They wrote four times to their mother, but got no reply.

"A year Inter they heard that their parents were dead. We were told of the children's plight and Irgally adopted them.

May Fight It

"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

Various Sizes & Shapes. $2.50–$6.00 on.

. PIE PLATES

CAKE DISHES

. CUSTARD CUPS

LOAF PANS

$1.50-$3.25

$2.50 & $3.00

30c.

$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

SE LANE CRAWFORD'S 525252525

The House of Quality & Service

Dine at the

Parisian Grill

had been a crowd in the restaurant 66

at the Inst station.. Passengers had so little time for their coffee that many of them left without paying.

So she jumped on the train to es)- leet her money and the train moved off.

One of the officers, tall, dark, good- : looking, sprang up. " help you,"

he sald,

Together they walked down the entira train. The officer woke up passengers the sleeping cars and collected coffee money from those who 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 o@cer. Ho was Prince Gustav Adolf, thirty-six-year-old son Sweden's Crown Prince..

MISERABLE HOLIDAY

Wintry Weather Spoils American Events

of

New York, Mar, 24. The Easter' fashion parade failed to-day us three-quarters of the Unit ed- Stutes suffered' ́from cold, wind and rain,

Near the engines it is cooled. In more exposed parts of the ship it is heated The cooking galleys" are fitted with modern electrical godgels; kitchens ure clean and tiled. "The vast revolution in hygiento Drinking water passen through practice which has taken place in purifying and icing apparatus, civilised countries

Then there are no rats, but plenty better llustrated than in ships of of showers Modern ships are built in smnli AMBULANCE INSPECTION

In the mid-west the temperature she disclosed, with one."" in every vertical compartments. Fresh air is His Excellency. the Governor will was between 10 and 30 degrees under Both groups of research-workers 100 words. Winston Churchill's delivered by power to every remate inspect the St John Ambulance normal. Warmer conditions prevail have found that the method is este,leverage was one in 109, Premier corner. It is changed many times an at the Naval Recreation Ground, in Florida and Louisiana. It is gen- without Ill-effects afterwards. The Daladier's one in 234," and Prime hour.

Causeway Bay, on Monday, April 0, erally rainy and misty in the far- method in simple and toes-not need | Minister Chamberlain's one in 240. The ship is air-conditioned: the let 5,30 p.m.

west-United Press.

Pearl Waxman, Syracuse Uni- He recovers within a few minutes, versity student.

these

· reported with no memory of the shock or of Andings in a survey as a part of her: the preliminarice.Whare higher voltages are necessary the effect of speech studies.

an epileptic fit is produced.

President Roosevelt ranks third,

war."

Snow in North Carolina and Vir- ginia postponed the second round of The Greensboro open golf tournn- ment until the snow melts.

Good Food Fine Wines DINNER & DANCE MUSIC

by

The Blue Danube Trio

CORNS?

Batter

because it's liquid.

stop that pain instantly with

GETS-IT

the infallible

cora cure,

UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF LADY NORTHCOTE The Hongkong Branch of the National Women's Roliof Association. presents

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CHINESE VICTIMS OF THE SINO-JAPANESE HOSTILITIES

Queen For A Night"

THE FAMOUS CHINESE FILM WITH MISS CHEN YUNSANG WHO WILL PERSONALLY ATTEND THE PERFORMANCE AND SING THE "SONG OF

THE SPRING"

at the KING'S THEATRE on March 26th, 1940

TICKETS HK$10,.5, 2, 1.

Booking at the King's Theatre, Quoon's Road.

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