OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 143, 20 June 1938, Page 9

OBITUARY

SENATOR R. S. COPELAND

(Received June 20, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 17. The death has occurred of Senator R. S. Copeland.

Senator Royal S. Copeland was born at Dexter, Michigan, in 1868, and took his M.D. at the University of

Michigan in 1889. He pursued postgraduate studies in medicine in Britain, France, and Germany, and in 1890 began to practise in Bay City, Michigan, after a year as house surgeon in University Hospital. In 1895 he became Professor of Ophthalmology and Otology at the University of Michigan, and held that post until 1908, when he was appointed Dean of the New York Flower Hospital Medical College, where he remained for ten years. In 1918-23 he was president of the Board of Health and Commissioner of Public Health of New York City, and after five years was elected to the Senate, being re-elected in 1929 and 1935. He was Mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1901-3, President of the Board of Education in 1907-8, a former president of the American Association of Ophthalmology and Otology, and was associated with various medical societies and honoured by many universities. Latterly he clearly showed his enmity to the New Deal.

MR. JACK HIDES (Received June 20, 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Jack Hides, explorer and author, died after several weeks in hospital suffer-*

ing from pneumonia. He was 31 years of age.

He achieved an International reputation before he was 30 for his explpra-

Tory work in Papua, and the hardships he endured in a vain attempt to save the life of his friend Lyall lowered his resistance.

Mr. Jack Hides attained wide fame when, as assistant-resident Magistrate in the Papuan Administration, he 'was apponted to conduct an exploration of the interior of Papua. Three years ago, he and Patrol-Offlcer L. J. O'Malley crossed a limestone barrier of 7000 feet, found a huge and fertile valley about 30 miles wide, and discovered a new tribe. They encountered hostile natives who were repulsed by rifle-fire, and reported finding a plateau with a population of about 100,000, where they were refused food. They won their way back exhausted and virtually starving. Mr. Hides embodied his experiences in his book "Papuan Wonderland." Mr. Hides set out again last year, but in the wild mountainous country near the border of the Mandated Territory the expedition was hung up by the illness of his only white companion, David Lyall, a young Scotsman who had been resident in New Guinea for many years. The two were investigating gold resources for Investors Ltd., an Australian company. Lyall's illness was recognised as serious, and was believed to be dysentery. It proved to be beriberi, and Hides determined to dash for the coast, rafting the party through a gorge, but running into a tidal bore, losing the canoe and supplies, and almost losing his life. Five natives died of the disease and 22 others were helpless. Though the coast wjas reached, Lyall died shortly afterwards. Hides was born in Papua, and his mother was declared to be the first white woman to visit Dutch New Guinea. He published three books, "Through Wildest Papua," "Papuan Wonderland," and "Savages in Serge."

MR. A. B. CORRIGAN ' .(Received June 20, 9 a.m.) TOKIO, June 18. The death has occurred here of Mr. A. B. Corrigan, a New Zealander who had been resident in Tokio for many years. Mr. A. B. Corrigan was born about 59 years agd and was a son of the late Mr. John' Corrigan, of the Bedfordshire Regiment, who served in Halifax and Barbados. He was formerly on the staff of the "New Zealand Times," but left New Zealand in 1915 to go to Japan on a publicity mission. He then remained in Japan and went into business there. Latterly he was an instructor in commercial procedure at a well-known college in Toklo. A brother, Mr. W. H. Corrigan, and a sister, died last year. Surviving members of the family are Lieut.-Colonel A. A. Corrigan, of Wellington, Mr. Vincent Corrigan, of Sydney, and Mrs. R. Skerman, of Palmerston North and Wellington. He was a brother-in-law of Mr. Ivan Levy, secretary to the Japanese Consul-General in Wellington.