GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

Australian Press Assn.—United Service

PURCHASE OF PICTURES

(Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, July 19

Leo Myers, trustee for tlio late Sir Arthur Myers’ estate, bought for the Auckland Gallery four pictures for a total of over £2,000. They include a portrait study of Augustus John. 'Hie purchases were made in association with Sir James Parr, and Mr llarr, Director of the Auckland Gallery.

METHODIST UNION. LONDON, July 19

A representative l session of tho Wesleyan Conference by 482 to 77 approved the enabling bill for the union of three Methodist Churches. The pastoral session votes next week. If approved, the bill will be applied for.

LOWENSTEIN’S BODY RECOVERED. <Reeeived this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, July 10. Calais fishermen brought in the body of Lowenstein, though almost without clothes. The police have positively identified him. Letoquets, skipper of vßaugrand, and crew were fishing ten miles from Capo Grisnez when they saw Loewenstein’s body in the water. They attempted to lift it aboard, but at first this was impossible as it was over-decomposed. They removed a gokf identity disc on the wrist on which was written : “Captain Loewenstein, Brussels.” After a further attempt they got the remains aboard and they wore wrapped up in a sail and taken to Calais.

At the post mortem at the morgue the body was clad only in pants and socks. Presumably the remainder of the clothing had been stripped off througn impact from the neroplane.

causes of cancer. LONDON, July 18. Several speakers at the Cancer Conference, dealing with occupational cancer, directed attention to its incidence in the workers among soot, coal, tar, briquetting, ancl mineral oil. They also drew attention to the preponderance of cancer in tho lip and the tongue in the British statistics among smokers, and notably workers using clay pipes, or having diseased teeth. A Londoner, T. H. 0. .Stevenson, commented on the outstanding position of the clergy in relation to cancer. He said that the mortality ■among Anglican! and Nonconformist clergy was of the lowest compared with the rest of the population. Tho Roman Catholic priests and monks also occupied an honourable position. Sir Thomas Horder said that the question of prolonging life in the presence of cancer that was neither operble nor capable of resorption by radiation, was but part of the general question of prolonging the life of incurables. It had been said that the prolonging of life in the case of hopeless diseases was often prolonging the act of dying. No universal rule could bo laid down. The patient’s life was the patient’s own prerogative. The problem was only solvable by the exercises of tact, discretion and constant renection. The patient was tho central figlire on the stage. LONDON, July 19. Cancer of the breast, mouth A throat and tongue engaged the attention of the Cancer Conference, American and British contributors dealing generally with the subject. They unanimously concurred in the value of radium it 1 , the treatment of breast cancer in pre- , ference to an operation, except in ' most extreme cafes. The speakers differed largely from Professor Blair Bell of Liverpool University, who suggested the possible ■ conquest of cancer by lead treatment. He said he treated hundreds by injections of lead salts. The results justified his optimism long known. The lead , arrested the growth generally, but although definite conclusions had not been reached, it appeared passible that the action of the lead with regard to cancer, was both local and constitutional.

Gnspari (Frankfurt) supported Bell, but Simpson (New York) disagreed. In tho summary /of answers numerous American medical men did not confirm Bell’s contentions.