NEWS BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 32, 22 February 1937, Page 6

NEWS BREVITIES

ECLIPSE of the Sun The United _ States Navy, co- jointly with the National Geographical Society, is sending an expedition to the Phoenix Islands for an eclipse 6f the sun, the longest visible on the earth fbr 1200 years, on June 8. Objection to Fikn i Because they objected to the showing of a Soviet film of the Abyssinian war, ten Italian sailors fired revolvers and raided the projecting room of a Shanghai cinema. They smashed the apparatns and thrashed two Russian operators, who were sent to hospital. Roosevelt Judiciary Plan Speaking on the floor of the American Senate, Senator Ashurst defended tlie Roosevelt judiciary programme, which, he said, was the mild.est and best that could be presented under the circumstances. Senator Robinson strongly attacked organised forces seeking to control every publieity agency throughout the nation in order to cry down the judiciary plan. German Air-Liner A Junkers twin-engined ten-seater air-liner has left Dessau for Melbourne. It is being flown by three Germans and is foilowing the Australian air-l!ne route via India and Singapore. Young Woman's Death Dorothy Margaret Walker, aged 23, unmarried, was found lying on the floor of her room at Kerikeri when friettds returned from a dance on Saturday night. She was hurried to a doctor, but succumbed. The cause of death was poisonin^.