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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SEPTEMBER 27,1940
Arabs Capture World's Fastest Human— 'Gazelle Boy' Who Runs 50 Miles An Hour
"I think he is the fastest human on earth and he could have any record in the world. He acts, eats and cries like a gazelle. There is no doubt that he is a human being who was brought up by the gazelles after having been abandoned by his mother. Bedouins often abandon their children in the desert."
Cairo (UP)—Transjordan's fleet "Gazelle Boy," who reportedly can run 50 miles an hour and is now acquiring a flash-bulb tan from skeptical photographers, was captured after a two-hour automobile chase. it was disclosed today.
Do. Jalbout, one of the specialists who has examined the boy, said:
"Although we were in a car, it took us two hours to catch up with the boy—who fell down exhausted. We immediately took him to one of the stations of the Iraq Petroleum Co., and there he received first aid. Later he was taken to hospital in Baghdad."
Hospital attendants said the 15-year-old boy seems torn between instincts acquired in the desert and the normal feelings of a human being. They said he imitates everyone around him and that he has the curiosity of a two-year-old child. During his first few days in the hospital, the boy tried constantly to escape.
Prince Fawaz El Shaalan, leader of the famed Arab tribe that co-operated with Lawrence of Arabia, said he was hunting with a group of friends when he sighted the strange youth.
"We were hunting gazelles in the desert by car when suddenly I saw a human from among these gracious beasts," the prince related. "I ordered my companions to cease firing and we set out in pursuit.
Text Hungry Students Buy Early, Beat The Rush
Nearly 1,200 book-seeking students swarmed into the student book store at the Union Tuesday and Wednesday to thumb through professors' text requirement lists to make early book purchases, in an attempt to avoid standing in long book lines for texts that will be hard to get after enrollment is completed.
The condition of James O. Martin, freshman from Stafford, who has been ill in Watkins hospital with poliocephalitis, is very good, hospital officials said today.
L. E. Woolley, manager, reported that more books are being released from New York, despite strike disturbances there. He said several hundred texts were received Monday, and that book supplies are "looking better."
Polic Victim Improves
Hey! Don't Take That,
It Belongs To Me
Tacoma. (UP)—Police Officer Ben Eastman, off duty, was walking down the street when he noticed Harris S. Matthews, 34, trying to open a locked car with a set of keys. Officer Eastman wouldn't have worried or arrested Mr. Matthews ordinarily—but the automobile belonged to him.
Physical examinations were given to 3,194 new students in the past seven days, hospital officials said Thursday.
The "Annex Antics," variety show sponsored by the Sunflower union activities committee, was given for nearly 300 veterans Wednesday at the Sunflower recreation hall.
'Annex Antics' Attract Crowd At Sunflower
The "Antics" featured Terrence Herriot as master of ceremonies; Connie Cultra and Alvin Haggard, adagio tap dancers; Barbara Hanley, Danny Kaye imitation; Norma Kennedy, piano and vocal number; Richard Scowel, Dave Bradley and Gene Pope, a skit, the "Androol Sisters."
In the mid-west, 1874 is called "the Grasshopper Year."
No Interpreter,
No Washee
Chicago. (UP)—Judge John Griffins dimissed the disorderly conduct charge when Harry Dixon testified that he had the tickee but got no washee.
Dixon said he presented the laundry ticket to Frank Moy, owner of a Chinese laundry, but Moy refused to hand over Dixon's four shirts.
3,194 Exams Were Given; Some Still Need Physicals
Moy told the judge he could not read the ticket because an employee had written it in Chinese.
Chest X-ray and tuberculin tests were to be given all entering students. Those who have not returned to the hospital for the tuberculin test readings must do so, he said.
Thirty-six senior-medics from the Kansas City hospital helped give the examinations.
Thomas Edison was granted 1101 United States patents.
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