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Inventor of the abdominal hood is Bernard Liebel, 22, a summer student at Toronto's Banting (insulin) Institute. The torso hood is a Swedish device modified by Dr. Claude Ellis Forkner. the doctor who transported paralyzed Frederick B. Snite Jr. from Peiping to Chicago in a standard "iron lung...
Meantime 100 mi. south in Peiping, captured month ago by Japan, Chinese Mayor Chiang Chao-sung was submissively taking his orders from, Tokyo. Wily Japanese scheme for China's former "Northern Capital" was to reintroduce the Confucian rites of the old Imperial Court. Under the nationalist regime of Generalissimo...
The mayor of Peiping was ready to do Japan's bidding, prepared for a Gilbert-&-Sullivan ceremony in the Confucian Hall of Perfection, rounded up 80 orphans to bleat traditional Confucian music, to watch him kowtow nine times to China's sage.
There were other signs that the Japanese proposed to lord it permanently in Peiping. Though public primary and high schools should have prepared to open last week, they were kept closed until all anti-Japanese propaganda could be excised from the textbooks. One hundred and sixty hand-picked Chinese police...
Strong stuff for even a medical audience, these newsreels were, from the stand-points of both horror and history, in many respects the most remarkable ever shown. For if the utter freakishness of the new usage of fighting wars in town instead of in the country has vastly increased the...