CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 21, 18 October 1937, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES

(By Teleffraph— Press Assn. — CoD7riaht.I Dysentery Outbreak Thirty-four inmates of a poorhouse at Philadelphia have died from dysentry of an unidentified variety. Seventy others are ill. To Visit N.Z. A Montreal cable states that the Duchess of Norfolk and her daughter, Lady Winefreide, will sail for New Zealand on October 27, Non-Fascists Gaoled Osvaldo Negarville was sentenced at Rome to, 18 years' imprisonment for spre'ading Oommunist propaganda, and 13 othet non-Fascists to vanous terms. This brings the total to 40 sentenced in tho last jveek. Mosley Leaves Hospital Sir Oswald Mosley, the British Fascist leader, who suffered concUssion last week when a missile thrown by a member of the audience during a Fascist rally last week struok him on the temple, has left hospital with his head beavily bandaged. Dutch Piane Crashes Five were killed when a Dutch nava] bomber crashed into the sea near Banda Island, states a Singapore message. This is the third ■ air crash ia the East Indies in 10 days. The total deaths are 18. • Byrd Honoured At Washington, Mr Swanson presen- . ted Admirai Byrd with "the Congressional Medal. commemorating his s4o ond Antarctic venture. He said Admir-i al Byrd had made for himself a "niche in history." Fifty-six other members of that expedition also received medals. Boy Actor's Salary It is announced that the dispute b&» tween Freddie Bartholomew's aunt and the M.G.M, Picture Corporation haa reached a compromise and that the bojj actor's salary is to be adjustable upward. New British Liner The liner No. 1029, which is being built at Birkenhead for the CfunardWhite Star Line, is to be launched next summer and put into commissioxr in the early part of 1939 for the fiouth-ampton-New York' service. The vessel wijl be nearly 750 feet long and wiR ffiave a gross tonnage of over 30,000 tons. — British Official Wireless. Airways Record All traffic records for the Croydon Airport were broken on Saturday .when in spite of the operation of the winter services no Jewer than 24 air liners were put into service to carry passen-. gers to Paris. During the past vreeli Imperial Airways have operated 60 services. — British Official Wireless. Arrests in Poland The political police in Bland hav# arrested 57 Communist leaders, including two emissaries from Moscow. If is believed that they were about to foment trouble among the unemployed in Poland. Long Survey Flight The Imperial Airways flying boati Satyrus left Alexandria yesterday on a survey flight of nearly 6000 milea across India to Singapore to test the marine air bases and flying boat facilities which were recently organised.— « British Official Wireless. Midland Bank Shares The Midland Bank proposes to offer new £1 shares to sliareholders in the proportion of one new 6hare for every; £20 of paid-up capital at a price of £2 each. The proposal involved the issue of just over 700.000 shares, which will realise a cash sum of over £1,400,000. It is assumed the object of the increase in capital is to bring it into closer relation with the steadily growing scale of operations. — British Official Wiroless. "Probably Jealous" Fred Reynolds, aged 35, a waiter, divorced his wife Nell, aged 47, and six days later married Neoma Nelson, aged 33, who shortly before had also secured a divorce. states a San Francisco message. Nell, learning of the marriage, airanged to meet Neoma at hotel, where she sliot her dead. Nell then committed suicide, Fred's comment .was: "She was probably jealous." Swallowed Gold Tooth The latest and most interesting case for Clievalier Jackson's bx*onchoscope is revealed with the arrival at Temple University of Dr. Contreras, a prominent Venezuelan pbysieian and a cousin of the President, after a trip by steamer and ambulance, states a Philadelphia message. He swallowed a gold tooth after a fit of cougliing. The ease is complicated by the fact that magnetic deviees eaxmot be applied to remove the tooth. Dr. Jackson has begun extensive X-rays and has already carried out one operation, Boxing in America Marty Gallagher was awarded a technicai knock-out in the eiglith round of a ten-round bout with Andre Lengiet, the French lieavyweight, at New York. The referee stopped the bout on account of* Lenglet's excessively foul tactics. Isadoro Gastanaga^ a Cuban boxer, gained the decision over John Henry Lewis. in a non-title tenround bout at Detroit. Lewis was floord three times, once for tlie toiuit.of nine. A Portland (Oregon), message reports that the death has occurred of the mysterious Billy Smith, a former welter champion.