GABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 207, 17 September 1937, Page 6

GABLE BREVITIES

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Ellsworth to Search * Tlre American explorer, Mr. Lincoln Eliswortb, bas aunouuced tbat be 1b obtaining a plane for a wide search of tbe Polar area for tbe Eussian flyers wbo were lost wben attempting a hon-; stop fllgbt between Moscow and. tbe United States over tbe Nortb Pole, Mr Eliswortb is convinced tbat tbey are still alive. Sir Hubert Wilkins,' wbo some weeks ago began a searcb by air, bas sent a, message to . tbe United States to obtain a plane better suited.to winter operations in -tbe Arctic. He will eontinue tbe searcb wben tbe plane arrives. • Paralysis Epidemic . A sbarp increase in tbe number oi cases of infantile paralysis in. tbo epidemic now raging in tbe United States is reported in a cable message • from Wasbington. Tbere were 817 cases for tbe wbole nation for tbe week onded on September 11. Tbe provincial total to date is 1569. ; Golf Visit Falls Through Tbe proposed unofficial visit of a team of prominent Australian golfers to Neo Zealand bas fallen through. h. W. Hattersley will be tbe only Australian golfer to take part in the New Zealand championship. He will leave Sydney on September 24 for Auckland. , ( Brain Operation The New Zealand 12-year-old boy, Frank Murphy, whd was sent to England with "a tumour on. the brain,, ha* been operated upon- and is/as well as can be expected.. . ; ; • ' ; Play wf ight's Father Dies The death lias occurred of . Mr Arthur Coward, father of the* noted play wright, Noel Coivard, states ' a Londtin cable message. Reported Safe , Dr Wilhelm -Filchner, - wlio. was awarded the fourth of the German- national prize's which take' the pH06 °t the-Nobel- Prizes, and who was reeently released,by his'captors'in; Chihese Turkestan/il1 safe and is. en route to Kashmir. • ■■■: Search for Yacht . The -coastguard cutters; Cayuga^and Chelan have left on a search for tbo yacht Endeav our 1, wliich brok'e loosd/' on Tuesday night 200 miles east of Long , Island, when being towed to England v London Green Belt . • Over. £1,500,000 has already been spent in tlie Middlesex area under London't green-belt schemq. /Tbe Gouirty, , C'oundil will 'promqfq a* private during next session of Parliament to secure preservation in perpetuity o£ 8000 acres thus acquired. — British Official Wireless. . - ' . - ' Attempt on Record - , Captain Miehael Hansen, a. Danish participant in the Centenary air race, mtends to make an, attempt on tbe Toki o-London . record, whieh was' established on April 9. He will fly a Percival Vega Gull with two companions. m Nine Die in Crash A passenger plane from Arjca (Ghile) is reported to have crashed.int.o- a hillside near Lurin, the pilot and eiabi passengers . being killed. British Exports United Kingdom exports to British countries in the first eight months of this year were valued at £162,300,000 out of the total . domestic exports of £341,400,000, compared , witb £138,700,000 out of 283,200,000 in tho . corresponding period of 1936. The pig-iron output at' 712,600 tons and crude 'steel production at 987,700 . tons in . Aqgust are compared with 635,000 and 872,700 respectively " in" tlie same rtnonth" last year.— British Official Wireless. • - • Apprentices Strike Tlie dispute in the engineering trades regarding the wages of a'pprentices and the recognition of their union, wliich caused a strike in Glasgow in the spring, has not been settled satisfactorily in the subsequent negotiations and a number of small strikes of apprentices are reported from Manchester and otlier districts.