CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 197, 6 September 1937, Page 8

CABLE BREVITIES

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Lightning Kills Golfers Two golfers and two caddies were killed and another golfer and two caddies injured by lightning at Pittsburgh, while they were sholtering under a tree in a Storm. One of those killed was Mr Lewis Kirk, junr., vicepresident of the Alleghany Steel Co. Fatal Explosion An explosion a board a petrol yacht at Sun Pedro (California) killed three small girls and seriousiy burued four parents and two other passengers, who were reseued by. coastgurds while elinging to a skiff. The children were sleeping in the cabin at the time of the explosion, which is attributed to an accumuiation of fumes Lovelock's Heartbeats A novel B.B.C. broadcast will" be made to-morrow when through a phonostethograph the amplified beats of the athlete Lovelock's helart, which are described as 100 per cent. efficient, will be heard. The heart will first be heard in repose and then after viblent exercise in the form of runmng up and down steps. It is hoped it will be audible on Empire waves in the Antipodes. Tennis Sensations Sevtn seeded players were eliminated in a sensational second day at the United States national tennis championships at Forest Hills. The results incliided the following: — Martin Buxby defeated Henkel . (Germany) 5 — 7, 6 — 1, 6 — 4,- 6- — 4, Tolley defeated Brugnon ( (France),- 8 — 6, 6 — 4, 6—1. Mrs Andrus defeated Mr Fabyan 12—10, 0—6, 7—5. Operation For N.Z. Boy The New Zealand boy Frank Murphy, aged 12, who travelied to'LondOB Lccompamed by his mother, as the result of a public subscription, to undergo an operation for a tumour on the brain, arrived after a comfortable voyage. He has entered a London hospital. Palestine Murders The assassination of Ibrahim Bey Khalil, a wealthy Arab, brings the deaths in the recent wave of , terrorism to 12 Arabs and three Jews, including an - Arab woman who was killed when a bus was bombed in Jerusalem. Big Quake Recorded The Riverview Observatory at Bydnev recorded a severe earthquake, the location of which is unknown, 5700 miles' north-west of Sydney, early on Saturday morning. 6,000 Women Doctors According to the British Medical Journal, there ars now 29,010 registered mediral practitioners in Great Britain, of whom 6000 are women.— -British Official Wireless. '