CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 188, 26 August 1937, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES

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Jew Gaoled Because he asked a German girl to accompany him to the cinema, a young Magdeburg Jew was senienccd to a month in gaol on the ground thai he requested an Aryan girl to have deaiings witk.a member of an alien race. Will Challenge Again Mr. Tkoinas Sopwitn told the Now York World Teiegram that he intends to challenge agaxn for the. America 'a Cup. He addect: "I want to bo assured that the boat has an even chance of winning. Designing, once a subject for artists, is noxv" a cold-blooded science. Britain must employ model tank tests. '' t To Confine Epidemic A Bili desigued to prevent the spread of infantile paralysis to New teoutk Wales passed all stages of the Legislafive Assenxbly. It provides for amendment of the Fublie Health Act. Fersons may by proelamation be prevented from leaying an infected area. The first death from infantile paralysis in New South Wales this year ocourred at Coff's Harbour,- the victim being a farmer aged 57. j Trial for Murder After an inquiry by the city coroner at Sydney into the death of William Thomas, who died from gunshot .wounds on August 20, his widow, Mary Cecilia .Thomas, was committed for trial on a chargo of murder. In a statement alleged to haYe boen mad® by her to tke police, Mrs. Thomas said that at the request of her invalid husband, who pleaded to be put out of his pain, she shot him. . "Army" Dispute The Salvation Army paper, the War Ury, ;publishes a formal ,denial' of th« threatened revolt against General Evaugeline;Booth. ' *; Rishop's Speech The Bishop of Bradford, who has- arxived in Canada for a tourt asserted (says a'Quebee ffiessage) that his "Edward 1 needs • God.'s grace 5 ' address . ha-i-beeh made wholly on- his own initiatlve because" the silence- was endanger-. ing the Crown and Empire. Communxsts, he said, were cireixlating United States Press cuttings to'millhands at Bradford. ^ He had made no refereflc® to Mrs. Simpson. Paralysis -Epidemic . Since Friday 34 cases of infantile paralysis have been reported at Melbourne, brxnging the total to 150. Of the six adults reported, four have died. The * State . Government has deeided to make a grant of £10,000 to provide for the after-care and • acconxmodation of convalescents, and an appeal is being made to the public for extra funda. Gash Reopened During a sparring bdut at Long Branch, Tommy Farr, the Welsh challenger who is to meet Joe Louis for, the American heavyweight boxxng txtle, received a blow that sligktly Teopened the gash he received five days ago. It soon stopped bleeding and the work-out was continued after the application of tape. Farr's trainer said it was not serious. . Bodies Recpvered Two more bodies have been removed from the wreckage of the American Army seaplane which dived into the bay at San Diego. Sellassie's v Claim Hailo Sellassie 's action against Italy, represented by Signor Silvio Lessona ai agent, for the ownerskip of 8650 sharee iu the Jibuti-Addis Ababa railway worth £230,000; will be heard before a Paris tribunal on Oetober 12. Landings in Fpg The United States Army has anr.eunced the perfection of a device to euable aeroplanes to make an automatxe lauding in fog Or darkness without human controL The details are withheid. . Ranger Again The King's Cup yacht race at Newport resulted: Ranger, ■ Rainbow, Yankee. Endeavour II. easily defeated Endeavour I. in a special match rac®.