NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 50, 22 November 1937, Page 8

NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF

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Germany's Debt BERLIN. — The Stato debt in September was £142,000,000, an increase of £18,000,000 since September, 1936. Jack Coogan Weds HOLLYWOOD. — jackie Coogan and Betty Grable wero married after finishing their day's work .on a film in wliich she is the star and he is in a minor role. Teachers To Die LENINGRAD. — Three scbool teachers, including a woman, were sentenced to death on charges of maltreating and undernourishing Leningrad school children,- aua also ' teaching anti-fcSoviet theorie.; Eigbty others were sentenced co tems of imprisonment ranging from 10 to £0 years. A Royal Oak RUGBY. — To mark , tbe tercentenary of the enclosing of Richmond Park, the largest Royal Park in the greater Lon-' don area, the King and Queen planted an oak tree in tbe park to-day. — Official Wirdess.

Duchess Opens Bazaar PARIS: Tho Duchess of Windsor made ber debut as a public speaxer wben she opened a bazaar at the fashionable British Christ Chur'ch in Paris. She showed no trace of nervousness. Canada's Defence YICTORIA, (B.C.). — The Minister of Defence, Mr Mackenzie, defending the expenditure on war planes, said: "The day bas-gone wben we can spongc on tbe proximity of the United States and membership of tbe Empire as substitutes for self-respecting defence." Six-Hour Ordea! MILAN. — Twenty passengers m an Italian air liner experienced a* six-hour ordeal when the ^lane was unable to land at Milan because of a fog. Tbe pilot circled in searcb of a1 landing, and lost Ma way. Eventually he crossed the Austrian frontier and landed at BoJzano, 150 miles from Milan as bis petrol was giving out. -ong Arm of Law NEW YORK. — Two illustratious of the tenacity of the law are supplied by ■ the indictment of 23 whites and Chinese charged with dealing in narcotics, also by the arrest of four men in connection with the murder of a policeman in New York ins 1931. Tlie narcotics investigation is claimed to have smashed three interlocking rings with a yearly turnover of a million dollars. The policeman was shot dead by a hold-up gang and the case was recently revived after information to tbe police that oue of the men after making an alleged confession attempted to commit suicide. jirl Parachutist MELBOURNE. — -In addition to being Australia's youngest' girl pilot, Jean Burns, aged 17, has achieved the distinction of being the first woman parachutist; She successfully descended 3200 feet near Essendon aerodrome after going up in a Moth plane. She received parachute instruetion from Felix Mueller, the well-known parachutist. Miss Burns -began flying with the Yictorian Aero Club on her 17th birthday and qualified for her licence' in three months. Charge of Murder HUNTINGDON (West Virginia).— Arnett Booth, John Travis, and Orville Atkins, who kidnapped the late Mr. J. Seder, have b'een indicted for murder and kidnapping. Bruised and exhausted, Dr. (.Seder, aged 79, a former. missionery in Japan/ escaped last week from abductors who had held hira captive for 11 days in an abandoned coal mine. G-men arrested Booth and Travis, who later confessed. "Atkins was captured without resistance at Canada (Kentucky). Dr. Sei'.er, who was one of the most prominent United States prohibitionists, later died of p'enumonia.

Old School Tie LONDON. — The old school ties are fading,- aecording to Lord de la Warr in j a speech to- school Ci.--.ren as rectorelect of the Blexhill private schools. " In the old * days it was only necessary to march out into the world, with the right school tie to be sure of a job. That is not so to-day," he said. "Most of you are going to public scbools. When you leave you will find aino'ng many employers not prejudice in your favour but prejudice against-you. They will be afraid that lif e bas come so easy.toward you in tho past that you will not put your back into every-day drudgery." .* 0 Trade Pact Attacked HAL1FAN.— Mr. R ' B. Bennett, Leader, of the Opposition, in charging the Government with secretly agreeing t0 abolish preference and bring pressure to save the United Kingdom markets, said : "I see tariffs piling up against Canada and sliutting Canadian goods from the United Kingdom, which cannot abolish preference unless the Canadian Government agree s. As a world peace gesture the Imperial Cont'erence gave United Kingdom markets to the United States. Since .when has it been customary to negleot the membcrs of one's owu family for a stranger ?" Air Inquiry RUGBY. — 'In the recent House of C'ommons debate certain charges wero made of inefficiency in civil aviation undertakings, and at the close of the debate the Rai liamentary Secretary to the Air Ministry announced on behall of Viscount Swinton, Air- Minister, that in fairness to both sides a depart•icintul inquiry would he beld. The Air Secretary has now invited Lord Cadman, chairman of the AngloIranian Oil Co., to act as chai^|man of the. committee, other members of which are Sir Wai'ren Fisher, per manent secretary to the Treaisury, and Sir William Brown, permanent secretary to the Board of Trade British Oliicial Wirelcw,

123 Dead in Typhoon MANILA: The deaths in the typhoon now total 123 and the missing exceed 100. Eight islands were devastated. Gandhi 111 CALCUTTA. — A doctor's bulletin states that Mr. Gandhi' s blood pressure is bordering on the danger ous level. 7000-Miles Dash, ■ MARSEILLES: The Aga Khan left by air to -dash 7000 miles to Bombay to see his 80-year-oW mother, who is critically ill Lady Ali Khan is known to millions of Moslems as the queen mother. Bomb Outrage PARIS: George Gesko, a mysterious witness in connection with tbe Arc de Triompbe bomb outrag'e on' Septemoer 12, has beeri arrested. Inventor of Telephone RUGBY. — A mural tablet commemorating the centenary of the birth of Alexander Graham 'Bell, inventqr of the telephone, will be unveiled next Wednesday at the house in which he was born jn Edinburgh. — British Official Wireless.

Arctic Search EDMONTON (Alberta). — Sir Hubert Wilkins has left for Aklavik, an air base in the Canadian North- west Territory, where lie is establisliing a base from which to renew his search for tho Soviet airmen who were lost on- their journey from Moscow to San Francisco, via the North Pole. Prince Gaoled • HONOLULU: Ivawananakoa, the Hawaiian prince, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. He was arrested after the death of a half-easte girl at a ( party which he had attended. The, sentences are cumulative but may be modified to a total of two years in certain circumstances. Hungary and Germany BERLIN . — The Hungarian PrimeMinister, Dr. Kalman' Daranyi, and tihe Foreign Minister, M. Koloman de Kanya, arrived at Berlin on Saturday on a visit to General Goering and Baron von Neuicth, The ne vspapers welcome the visit as a visible expression of the harmonious ' relations between Germany and Hungary, rooted in their experiences in the World War and afttrwards. I

Wedding Postponed LONDON: The guests vainly waited for an hour to celebrate, the wedding of the wrestlem Bob Gregory, and MiSs Valerie Brooke, daughter of the white rajah of Sarawak, which did not eveutuate. The couple later explained that, due to a family bereavement, the wedding, had been postponed until December 20. Carnera's Next PARIS: Carnera's manager, Benny Huntman^ states that Carnera, who was defeated by Dimeglio, French Army ehampion, on Friday, has been offered another contost in Paris; in December, probably against Charles Rutz, who recently defeated Dimeglio. " Carnera considers that two or three weeks' training 'will put him "back to his old form," says Huntman. The Press mercilessly eriticises Carnera. L'Auto says: "Carnera had no more punch, no more legs no more skill, no more rights, no more lefts, no more anytbing." Man Mauled LONDON. — "Freddie" the lion, still billed as "the man-eater wbieh made history - by causing the death of the former Hector of Stiffkey" on August 3, maulod u man who entered bis "cage for-a bet during an exhibition at Manchester. Tbt> man was in tbe cage for 1ft minutes and was just leaving when "Freddie/' wbo bad been sitting qui« i i y i *ii tbe coxner^ sp.-ang und ciuwed lis arm. The man jumpL-Q for tbe docr and escaped.