1950-10-26 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1950.

BLACK MARKET MEN STEAL

'ELIXIR OF LIFE' SERUM

Paris.

A serum which gives old people a new grip on life has gut into the hands of blackmarketeers and is changing hands at up to £25 a dose. As a result, the Pasteur Institute, which perfected the serum and distributes it free to medical authorities, has temporarily stopped making it.

This popularly called elixir of life" the dis. ad te rerum presrvant some

covery

of Dr Michel Bar-] dach, does not add years to life, but gives, it is claimed, "a green old age.”

-Hundrede et phial- have vanished, zaid Dr Jacques Trevouel, head of the Institute, added: "15 became suspicious when I learned that very hrge quantities had been delivered to a hospital in Paris.

"Dul.

on investigation,

the hospital dirt not havo oue phial, and hart never used the serum.

I believe a group of people have made fortants, selling our

exorbitant rates to run at credulous people."

Chemists of the institute have

et the body's organs in old age. An old racehorse which had been put out to a was treated with the serum, and was able to

A a.

sterile through are, bare calva and

rare

A ROBOT HORSE IS

produs milte after injections. A TONIC

is believed that many bluckmarket phials of the octum have been illegally exported @TOSPITAL patients can (al- the US and Britain.

lup back to health-on a mechanical horse.

NOTE: The "Elixir of Life" was sought by medieval alchemists before the scicaer of chemistry began. The elixir was to be a 'universal medicine, restoring youth and prolonging life.

-(London Express Service.)

G.B.S. censors first back-home picture

Church talks about Holy

Communion

on TV

Should Holy Communion be seen on TV? The Provost

of Newcastle, the Very Rev. N. M. Kennaby, raised the

matter at the Convocation of York.

cases both

for and

Strong

It was a matter of very great against, applied equally to TV disturbance in the

minds of

and ordinary broadcasting, he many people, that loudspeaker

said.

were

appreciated

י+

by

Bots were kept on without} Holy Communion broadcasts

-ny intermission with peopic much

seldom listening. That they house-bound people.

would regard as irreverent, They were and a reminder to

In their and much more deplorable #loʻhful...' about thoso

the care of Holy Communion spiritual duties.

Against broadcasting was the than in the case of ether fact that Holy Communfor was ligious brundecate

JTVice

of action, and only

discussion was de- of service could be ferred until the Convocation'a

A machine, built In the framework of n model horse, is powered by a one-horse-power motor.

AIR CRASH DESCRIBED AS WORST

London, Oct. 18.

A rose tree remains standing amongst the wreckage of the British

European Airways's

Dakota which crashed eicht minutes after take-oll from

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28

Northall on October 17, killing

Including * people.

Bu

10-

the

13

month-old baby boy. A plane teward, who was thrown clear, is the only survivor of crash, which is described

DEA's worst ever.

The Twin-engine Northolt for Renfrew, in Scot-

plane left

Redskin Lore Fills

His Life

land at 3.54 p.m. Five me 52-year-old

Mr Edward Blackmore,

miles distant Hendon, Airport (Sussex) plumber, hopes to Eastbourne Listey the pilot radioed the Bee-

that one ending war göne. Three | go to America next year minutes later, the crippled plane and spend n two-months' holiday in a Red Indian re- servation.

lived over tree tops and cruched

Highwood Hill, Mill, on

Landon's northem outskirts,

WARSPITE NEARS THE END

Warspite. the Navy's "grand od lady," who has By operating [ lever, the been dodging the ship rider can make his "steed" breaker's yard for the last irat, Jump, and gallop, in rea-five years, has reached the hetic fashion.

The machine is designed for last chapter in her 38 years

rehabilitation centres history.

use in and in Occupational therapy Tugs have towed her close departments of hospitals for to St. Michael's Mount Har- physical toning-up.

con-

of real

Red Indian lore hus farcinated him since he was a schoolboy.

Indian headdresses cagle feathers, Lomahawks, pipes of pente, wood carvings at hundreds of trophies from Sioux Cominenche Apache, and Blackfeel tribes All twó reams of his house in Okehurst Road. Eastbourne.

Recently an American friend, who lives in Portland, Oregon, Vited Mr and Mrs Blackmore to meet him in June, 1051 on the battleground of Custer's last

tand anniversary of the famous com- between the Indian tribes and American Cavalry.

at Montana-the 15th

NOVELIST'S TRIBUTE

bour, Mount's Day, Cornwall. "Dut it's all in the air at the London hospitals arc

There the 30,000-ton battle-mpment." exclaimed Mex Black- sidering reports on the use of ship will serve the nation for more.

"We are not suro if the machine.

fbe last time-by providing we can go to America next thousands of tons of top-grade year. My hushard looks anter steel for British Industry. his father's plumbing business | Warspite's active service and it will be difficult for him ented in 1945, when she was to get away.",

Head

and shoulders only, he said

HERE is the Brat posed

pleiors of George Bars nard Shaw kincs kia return from hospital, a few woke ngo. to his Agat 4t Lawrance home.

aged 16, fa⋅ DOW. op for one and a getting half hours a day. To k eating will and taking good progresa khar kla opera- tion for a broken thigh...

TWO

pictures were taken, Shaw was stating looking out t on his garden. He wore • loose-fitting tweed jacket and-s pair of p7|123-||ks trouser.

shoulders only," "lead and acid Censer Shov.

photographer The

called

taken to Portsmouth to have

her gun mountings balsted ofT. Standing In a corner of one In 1947, towed by two tugs. of his trophy rooms are two she set off again-bound for large sculptures uf Than, ship-breaking yord the given to him by Clare Sheridan,

Civde. But, caught In a 80 Die novelist ecuisin mp.h. gale, she broke away Winston Churchill. and went ground off Prussia Cove, Cornwall,

£300 A WEEK

In an autographed

of

Mr

cupy of

7:10 of her books on Rec Indians, the cays she believes

For three years, night and at Mr Blackmore js

dey attempts were made to reivage her. To the Bristol

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reincarnation of a Jaidan, withi "Redskin soul, heart, wisdom scrap metal firm who bought and knowledge." her, she cost up to £300 a week in wages bills.

To a workman, 24-year-old John McQuarrie, her price was death; he was killed in an ex- plosion on

board

last March. She

was finally refloated In July. But her troubles were not yet over; a leak was dis- covered in her boiler room and Isha went aground once more. Now the ship who served Britain in two wars is near her cial.

with the prints and the rol of film. Shaw took look at the Drst print and pushed it away rejected. I liked the arcand and mid it can'd be published,

Bat he kept the film with the “ two: exposures on it. The wat entitled to, Fe, provided it' for · the photographer....

· London: Exprson: Bmeriki

Man In The

Dug-Out

ANOTHER Field-marshal, Lord Montgomery, wear- Ing a dark overcoat over his civilian sult, sat recently in a 1914-18 war dug-out near St Quentin poring over a military map.

Round him crowded a group of weary, war- stained officers in uniforms-and 81-year-old comedian George Robey in a dinner jacket.

Scene the stage of the Westminster Theatro as Lord Montgomery posed for photographers after a performance of "Journey's End,” Here is Monte

(right) with Robey. (London Express Service)

Leopold takes

to

mud baths

and loses 10lb.

Abano (Italy).

EVER

No Land-so Young Farmers Can't Marry

Young farmers all over Britain аге

complaining that they cannot get land when they want to be married because farms are being bought up by wealthy stockbrokers

indus- trialists.

und

The price of land has rocketed to three times its prewar valuc,

y the young men.

They feel that the Ministry of Agriculture should step in and prevent "mateur" farmers seizing the land because they can pay big prices.

"Slockbrokerago"

farms-

as they arn fled by the other farmers have increased in the Home Counties during the past five years.

EVEN MORE

There are even more of therra Quan during the war whe business men bought farms supply their own private needs.

Estate agents in Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire

Counties

กาง

books.

And

near London applications

other

have

on thetr

Farms within easy reach of the City are In the greatest ricmand,

Generally these RO-CLUBCZ amuteurs NO to great lengths to make their farms pay. 11 they know nothing about farm- ing themselves, they pul sʊme- one in chage who does.

GOOD WORD

They are able to opend money fon nrst-class housing for cattle; hey buy the latest implement

Local agricultural cominiiters all have a gond word to say for them.

Leopold has joined the mudlarks. Since his arrival CLOTH THAT

CANNOT

BURN

Properly equipped A farm- at Aband he has taken five radio-activo mud baths and house makes an ideal country lost 10 lb. in weight. But time goes slowly for him at the xme. Sons, Instead of follow- Royal Orologio Hotel-the Hotel of the Royal Clock-inng their father's footsteps o

help on the Stock Exchange, this town of 40 hotels and seven luxury shops, 20 miles The farm. from Venice.

Mud-slinging is the only over Leopold from loc to Adam's apple, leaving only, the pastime.

King Leopold of the Belfer and chest free Machinery costing more gians has lumbago. Mud on to the skin until it makes a than £12,000 19 being batha at

ad-perfect mould. Blankets are

Aband were

The mud la pressed firmly

installed in a Yorkshirevised by his doctor in Brus-then thrown aver, and both the woollen mill to produce sels.

cloth that will aid safe fly- Milionaires from all parts ing.

come here for mud baths, Bul Leopold mixes with none Fireproof and mothproof the them. cloth is mada hy [1 socrat For important guests at process. It will be used for alt-Boyal Orologio can take craft furnishings.

cure without leaving their The Gueret belonta to Muites.

doctor and mud-slosher Emilio sit down to watch results.

molts every

PUBLIC

WILL AID

PLANNERS

These come quickly. For 15 of minutes Leopold Just

away, perspiring from the pore. the

£150 A DAY

Planning experts, archi- tects and local authority When the mud is hard and Derek Tinker, 44, chairman of At 9.30 each morning. Driery it is chipped off in chunks, technicians are to meet in T. and J. Tinker, of Holmfirth. Pietro Erandi, the hotel's

Leopold, now feeling London next month... to vear-old

passes weak, is dumped into a physician, Tinker was Mr

hot discuss the Britain of the Ous on A

Hot and Yorkshire moor grouse-shooting size green-and-gold

through Leopold's ballroom-sulphur bath.

cold future.. drawing douches follow. Next, the nim- with the head of one of Britain's

ble fingers of Emillo massage | big aircraft companies

is the whole body.

"Why don't freproof cloch

you produco

that could be used for airliners?" the aero- plano manufacturer asked.

Mir Tinker marted research..

secrety processed

F 1

cloth hax

room.

40-0

Following closely behind Erillo, 25 years in the hotel end a mud-slinger for 30 years.

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A two-day conference is being called al County Ball by The treatment takes about the Town and Country Plan-

hour. Then Leopold can go ning Association and more than : tuck to bed and have break-1,600 councils have been asked fast.

to send representativek. The inhabitants raise their

Members of the public and hats when Emilio takes a walk, wife, with secretary, two ser also invited to "alt-in with the

NECK TO TOE

He goes

The abdicating king and his

At

general

allalam

MAYBE FOR CARS, TOO

chauffeur, Into the private Yunto, mald.' ond The way was found and the mid-room and, by & lift,, gets have taken the whole front on plamers and to give their

up from the hotel's thermal the drat Noor of the Hotel Oro- views.

time. been successfully tested in the surines 140lb. of almost boll-loglo. A white marble balcony, tiame 61 a blowlamp for severing mud.

overlooking what director Aris, Trom this conference wo minutes.

four tide Degiorgis enile the most should derive a very good plo This he spreads out Because of its

dining-room mothproof Inchos thick on a large opera-tenutiful

in ture of what Britain's: newer. quatics, one of Britain's big this fable, and when the mud Europe," is reserved for Leo- physical face is to look likera gest

sar Arina

is considering reaches 110 degrees Fahren-pold and the princess. uding the clom for lining their helt Dr Erandi knocks

From here, unobserved, they says Mr Russell Kerr, of the

Com deiation.! ¡E, MAZA VARY Faloons.

Leopold's door.

| Pan cat their lunch and " look The cloth is

Leoobid, 17 half-asleep. is down upon other mud-slingera exported to be

"The year 1931, là "to be...ara used-

by Deveral mirainer invited to wallow in the allmy pecking away riche Italian -- tengi, tant lens, 436-19- the year --

Diss, Emilio, Bft, din. in his food Builders."

sagidaken Frazer, mini bin which all the blueprints and nosk÷to-ankle Mr Tinker often travels by with guestes fINTS EKTA 19ornias

white blouse, The cost of it, all with plans for development ander

at