CARLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 203, 13 September 1937, Page 8

CARLE BREVITIES

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Middleweight Boxing In \ ten-rOund contest at Seattlfe, Freddie Steele, the middleweight, kmbck-ed out Overlin in the fourth. round. Canadian Wheat The Wheat crop estimate is the lowest since 1914, reports an Ottawa message. The spring crop will be 168,999,000 bushelsi and the winter crop 19,192,000 bushels. League Reform At the suggestion of Mr. W. J, Jordan, the New Zealand High Comniissioner, the committee which is reforming the League Covenant has estab-. lished a sub-committee of experts to submit proposals sepafating the Covenant from the Treaty of Versailles. Extortion Charge Frederick Wood was charged at Richmond, Virginia, with attempted extortion by threatening to "expose" M'adge Evans, the film actress. It is aileged that Wood sent a letter to M.G.M. demanding 2000 dollars for compromising photographs of Miss Evans. Britxsh Recruiting. To the end of August 6378 more recruits had joined the British Territorial Army this year than in the corresponding eight months of 1936. The intalce for the year to date is 33,850, and the total strength of ofiicers and other ranks on September 1 was 155,050, or over 15,000 more than a year ago. — British Oifieial Wireless. Dredging Of Clyde. Permission has .been granted by the British Board of Trade to the- Clyde Lighthouses Trust to carry out special dredging of the Clyde during the next fiv'e years in preparation for the passage dpwn the river of the Queen Mary's sister ship now being built at Uiytiebank. — British Official Wireless Taught Son To Drink. A message from Grand Rapids says that, faced with ah extraordinary number of drunken'-driver accidents, a judge senteneed a 44-year-old father to a mo.ith's imprisonment and fined him 100 dollars beeause he gave.his 17-y.ear-old son some beer and then, permitted him to drive his automobile. A poli.eeman arrested the father and son when their car careered across^ footpath at four o'clock in the morning. The father admitted that he and his son had finished six bottles of beef between them. The judge suspended sentence on the son on the latter 's promise to abjure liquor forever. He said that any father who took a boy for a good time and then let him drive while intoxicated should pay the penalty.