CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 209, 20 September 1937, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES

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Big Forest Fire • Twelve hundred men are fighfcing a ten-mile forest fire threatening ten towns in Northern Saskatchwan. The timber loss is enormou». Resignation Demanded A mass meeting of 2000 members of the People 's League of Alberta at Eed Deer demanded the resignation of Mr W. Aberhart and the Social Credit Government. Patient Killed Josephine Carrell, aged ten, an infantile paralysis victim in an lron lung, was killed in a collision betweenx an ambulance and a truck at Hamilton (Ontario).Hisforic Speeches The autumn talks pf ogramme of the British Broadcasting Corporation includes the revocation of momentous talks in the House of Commons during fhe last 200 years by means of descriptive rdadings and quotations from speeches. — British Official Witeless, N.S.W. Road ToH The New South .Walos G'ommissioner of Eoad Transport, Mr. Neale, has issuedi a report covering road accidents to June 13 within the State. It •discloses that 543 persons were killed and 7887 injured in 11,460 aecidents, com-i pared with 525, 6440 and 9833 respectively in the year 1935-36. Paralysis Epidemic The infantile paralysis total in Vic-! tori% is now 326 cases, and deaths number 23. Although the daily average cases this week show a marked reduction, the health authorities are yet unwilling to take an optimistie view. All precautions are still in operation^ Missing Plane Found The missing airlinbr, which over^hot its destination, BrOk'en Hill, in a duefc storm, has been "found unhafmed 30 miles east of Broken Hill. The sole occupaut, Pilot O. Savage, said he4 was unable to see the aerodrome at Bfoken Hill and flew to the open country, where he landed safely, He slept in the cockpit overhight. Boy Electrocuted , Alfred Vivent, aged 34, a mechanic, admitted conneeting live wir'es to the window screens ,and door-handles of a motor-trailer parked in his backyard at Ghicago. He was arrested on'a charge of manslaughter following- the electxocution of a boy aged live who waa playing around the trailer. .Viyent said his reason was, the recent theft of his wireless, Twins' Marital Mix-np At Los Angeles" Louis and Lois Sharp, twins, filed annulment of their suits against their husbands 'Hubert and Herbert, also twins; whom they married last December, on the ground that they; had not obtained final divorce decrees from their former husbands Eay and Eox Sebring, also twins, from' whom they had obtained interlocutory decrees last October, on the ground of mental cruelty, Pope's Outburst The Pope deplored the1 plight of the Catholic Church in Germany- during an address to pilgrims at Gastel Gandolfo, His remarks also contained an outburst against the activities - of Rosenberg, 1 " the self-styled prophet who acts and writes against all that is Catholic and Christian though he is not yet kcclaimed by . Germany. ' ' The Pope exhorted Austrians to remain faithful to Catholicism and give a much-needed example to Central Euro'pe.