CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 51, 23 November 1937, Page 7

CABLE BREVITIES

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Sydney Wool Saies sydney: At the wool saies yesterday 10,025 bales were offered and 84g6 sold also 565 privately. The best descriptions were generally easier and in places 5 per cent. lower. Wools carrying dust and burr also fell 5 per cent. and were often difficult to sell. Greasy rnerino made 23-Sd. The average price last week was £16 1/h per bale and 13.1d per Ib. Financier Found Dead brunswick (Georgia) : Howard Coffin, a financier, was found shot dcaa in an. apartment! a rifle was found beside the body. The discovery was made by Mr j. d. Oompton, vK'e-pzesi-dent of the Coffin companies, who was to have accompanied him on a deer hunt. Russian Purge moscow: a Press fevelation of the activities of "enemies of the State" shed light first of all on the removal from his post of Andrei Dubnov, Commissar of Education. It is charged that officials of the commissariat sabotaged the compulsory education system, under which 80,000t000 children were attendlng school. Their actions, it is claimed, deprive.d 300,000 children of their right to attend elementary sehools. Victimisation Alleged london: Twenty thousand bank clerks ih England and Wales are joining in a fight for the reinstatement of Mr lan McPherson, a young clerk dismissed froni the "Union Bank of Scotland allegedly because of his tradeunion activities. The bank denies he was victimised because of trade-uuion views. It admits he Was dismissed because of h'is public utterances and writing in tupport of the Scot'tish Bankers' Association Not Libel NEW YORK: The Appellato Court denied the suit of Dr. Frederick a. Cook, the explorer, claimiug £25,0u0 lrom the Encyelopaedia Brittanioa because it declarod tliafc his claim to having discovered tho North Poie was "universally rojected." Tho Court held that the vvords did not involvo libel. ' Swimming Records' london : Tlie t cunal-kable .icliieveiiienla of Nornffiii Waiinvright, vvbo vviJl represont England at the Enipire Games, are included in the list oi records approved by the Amateur Swimmiiig Association. Wainwright was awarded British records for 150 jards in lmin. 27sec., 300 yards'in Bnnu. 13 l-5sec., 440 yards in 4min. 54 2-5sec., 880 yards in iquim, 2g 2-5sec., and one

mile in 21min. 45sec. Miss a. b seger (Denmark) was awarded the world record for 150 yards back-stroke, her thne being lmin. 449 4-5sec. High Cost of Living0 washington: Presidenb Eoosevelt has ordered the Eederal Trade Commission to investigate the marked mcrease in the cost of living, afctributable partly to "monopolistic praebiees and other unwholesome methods of competition." .Hitler's Aide-de-Camp berlin : Herr Hitler's aide-de-camp and closest collaborator, Captain Eitzwidemann, is going to New *£ork in ■the Europa. The reason is not disclosed, but it is believed that he will seek an interview with President Roosevelt. Soviet Destroyer leghorn : a large destroyer, tlie Taschent, built for the So.viet "Government, was launched at a private ceremony. The vessel flew the Italian flag and was blessed by a Roinan Catholio priest, Mr. MacDonald's Estate london: The Sunday Referee > learns that, apart from his house at 1 Hampstead, Mr. j. Ramsay MacDon- 1 ald's estate amounts to about £2000.