NEWS BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 125, 12 June 1937, Page 4

NEWS BREVITIES

-Press Assn.-

(By Telesrraph-

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Big Order for Bombers America's largest single order for military aircraft since the Great vVar has been placed with the Douglas Company. The order is for 177 twinengined bombers, costing 11,651,000 dollars. — Washington. ■ U.S. Wheat Harvest Americah Government experts predict that the United Sijates wheat har* vest will be between 825,000,000 and 850,000,000 bushels, the largest for six years. The winter wheat yield is estimated at 648,000,000 million bushels and t/he spring crop from 175,000,000 to 200,000,000.— New York, Moscow To Trisco The Moscow correspondent of the News Chronlcle say's that M. Stalin has chosen the airman Sigismund Levanevski to make the iirst non-stop flight , from Moscow to San Francisco, via tho North Pole. Prepara\iions are being made for the flight, which will be made in a specially-built Sikorsky amphibian plane. — London. Jarvis Wins In a clever boxing exhibition last evening Jack Jiarvis (9.7), lightweight champion of New Zealand, gained a. points decision over Billy Aitken (9.4), of Wellington. The boufc, while not spectacular, was evenly contested, Jarvis forcing most of the fighting and showing to advantage in the in-fighting. — Hamilton. . Blind Made to See The blind can see, aceording to a Soviet scientist, Dr. Filatov, in an article in the Lancet. He writes that the cornea from human corpses, removed some hours after death and preserved, is suitable for transplantation in living subjects. He quotes a nu: eer of cases of such successful transplantation, stating that in his experimmts he has not used eyes from the victims of infectious diseases, but from the victims of accidents and suieide. — London. Hoax Kidnapping A nurse, Margaret Montgomery, aged 27, has confessed that a story she told the police to the effect an attemptJ had been made to kidnap John Rockef eller Prentiee, grandson of the late John D. Rockefeller, was a hoax. She had told them that ,t!wo men abducted her and compelled her to telepbone Prentiee to make a • rendezvous, at which he was to be seized. The nurse explained that she invented the svory in an effort to revive Prentiee 's intqrost in her. They had been good friends when he was a patient in hospital after a motor aecidentw Since then he had ceased to pay her any attontion. — New York.