CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 167, 2 August 1937, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES

-Pie^» Anan.

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N.Z. at World Fair New Zealand is among the 27 nation® who have given an assurance of pafticipation in the World Fair at New YOrk opening on December 29. — New York. Combating Syphllis The sponsors for the syphilis questionaire in America are astonishcd at the early results. An analysis of the 4165 replies indicates that more thdn 90 per cent. are favourably dlsposed towards free seeret blood tests. — Chic'ago. Earl Baldwin III Thfe Sunday Dispatch says that Earl Baldwin is suffering from nervolia trouble and arthritis. He is not confined to his house but is under niedickl care.— Londqn, Breaststroke Record At the Workers' Olympiad at Antwerp, Boishanko, Eussian; claimed the breaststroke hundred metres in 67.9 seconds, a world record.— London. Gifts to Hospital The Daily Herald says that Walter Kirby, the singer, left £7000 to the Wantage Cottage Hospital and £7000 to the Wantage Townlands charity. The secretary of the hospital told the Herald that the late Lady Wantage invited Kirby to sing at the soldiers' home during the war. Apparently ho was so iinpressed that this helped him in his career that it is believed the be- . quests Were inade to show his gratitude. — London. Girl Abducted A wide searoh has begun by State and Federal officers in Navada, U.S.A., for a thirteen-year-old girl, Olive Carr, whose father feared she was enticed away with promises of riches to California by a man who, it is thought, killed her in a nearby desert. The man left a note s&ying: {'You will never take me alive." — Montreal. Land Mine Explodes A Belfast message states that u land mine explodcd at 2 a.in. in a dlsused building in Devonshire street flfty yards from the police barracks where 20 eonstables were sleeping. The noise * was heard throughout the city. A section of the wall was blown down and the windows of adjoining houses smash. ed. Nobody wa§ injured. — London. German Plotters Die Eed posters throughout the city ahnounced that four more men ha-ve been beheaded on a Charge of high treason and the preparation of a plot. It i® the first inkling that they were erim arrested while no statement has behn made as to when they were tried or suntenced. — Beilin.