CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 205, 15 September 1937, Page 4

CABLE BREVITIES

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Kidnapping Denied n. message trom JN ewark says both the Parkers have lodged an appeal, citing errors in the trial, including the alle gation of kidnapping as defined in the Lindbergh Law. Father and son deny sueh'an allegation waa? proved againvt them, Wallace Beery Hiirt The actor, Wallace Beery, while holding drawn revolvers, tripped during • scene in th© illm "I3ad Man of Brim-' stone," says a Hpllywood message, A blank charge entered his leg. He was taken to hospital and is expected to be incapacitated for several weeks French Army Manoeuvres The British War Minister, Mr Hore Belisha, accompanied by BrigadierGeneral Macready, of the War Office General Staff, flew from Eastbourne to Deauville on their way to attend th® 1'rench. ' Army manoeuvres _in Normandy. Bir Cyril Deverell, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, is also mttending the manoeuvres.— British Officiai Wireless. U.S. Labour Battle The significance of the San Prancise® waterfront dispute has considerably increaaed, owing to an officiai announcement that the Committee of Industrial Organisation has decided to maka thq Pacific Coast a national battleground of a fight to a finish against the Americau Federation of Labour, The* leederg of the C.I.O. are qa the way te B§n Francisco to pian the strategy. Radio-Telephone xne Mafson imers Monterey and Marlposa will be fitted with a radio-t®!®-pliona service which will enable passengers to com erse with Australia or Amurica from any part of the Pacific, says a Sydney cable. The radio telepfiono will supplement, not supplant, the existing Morse equipment, ahd thf Matson ships will have one of the most moaern shij?-to-shoro services in the world. Payable Oil Not Fouud * The Australian Prime Minister, the Rt, Hon. J, A, Lyons, in the Federal House of Representatives yesterday declared tha payable oil had not been discovcred in Dutch New Guinea nor in the Commonwealth mandated territory. Mr Lyons 's statement was made in reply to thq suggestion by a Labour member (Mr Ward) that the Government had suppressed the discovery of oil in New Guinea and that it had also •given information of the discovery to a private company which recently began operations on the Sfock Exchange.

False Alarms A new fire alarm system, desigued to eliminate falso calls due to technical faulfs aud involviug about 9000 miles of nccdleas runs by iiro engines annual-. ly. has uudergono a satisfactory trial in an luiportant London area, and an extension of llie system to the whole of London is likely. The new system it of tlie closed circuit code-signalling type, in which all the apparatus in street boxes, gongs, recorders and battery form a single series circuit. PulLng the handle of a box causOs a code number to be punched on a tape machine at the fire station making a permanent record while a bell rings in the wateh room, and the word "fire" is llluminated on the switch board aud red lamps flash.-— British Officiai Wireless.