CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 12, 7 October 1937, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES

(By Telegraph -Preas Assn.— CopjriRht.) Air-Liner Crashes The Europe-bound Dutch - Douglas DC3 aeroplane crashed when taking off at Palembang, states a Singapore mes-. sage. Three of the crew. were killed iously. Those injured ineliide the violously. Thos injured inelude the violinist Bronislaw Hubermann. Stockbroker's Suicide John A. Sweetman, aged 71, ai paTtDer in the stoekbroking firm of Garvin G. Brown and Co., Melbourne, was found dead in his office yesterday with tlie gas jet turned ou. Sweetxnan recently suffered a nervous bteakdown. The Stock Exchange this morning adjourned for five minutes as a mark of respect. Sydney Wool Saies At the Sydney wool saies yesterday 12,028 bales were offered and 9190 sold, o.lso 1630 privately. There was good competition from the Continent and Yorkshire and limited support from ■Japan. Value for better-class fleece wools and average to good broken'were on a par with earlier in the weok. American operators purchased best fleece descriptions. Greasy merino made 10 22£ pence. Canada to Rio Harry Richman, the American entertaincr, who ffew the Atlantic last year, is going to the United States shortly to prepare for a record non-stop flight of 9000 miles from Canada to Rio de Janiero. He expects the flight to take 4o hours and cost 50,000. Olympic Games The Comte Baillet Latour, presidcnt of the International Olympic Committee, has been informed by Couut Soyeshima, the1 Japattese mem ber/ that the plans for the 1940 games in Tokio are continuing normally and that the building of the stadium is uniuterrupted. ' * .