CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 75, 21 December 1937, Page 4

CABLE BREVITIES

(By TeleKraph— Press Assn.— Gopyright.; Actress Poisoned HOLLYWOOD; The. actress and sing* er, Miss J|anette MacDonald, is suf-* fering from a slight attaek of ptomainc poisoning. Prisoners Liberated MOSCOW : Ten thousana prisoners engaged in putting down the double track on the trans-Siberian railwaj from Karymskaya to Khabarovsk have been liberated to celebrate the completion of the work. Carnera for Venice BUDAPEST: The former world boxing champion, Primo Carnera, who is seriously ill, will spend Christmas at home. The Italian Legation is defraying the. expense of sonding hira to hia parents at Venice. Boycott of Boxer NEW YORK: The promoter Mike Jacobs said that the Louis-SclmieUiig bout in June was almost certain to ue fought in Chicago, Philadelphia or Berlin, instead of New Yorlc, owing to the anti-Nazi boycott of the SchmClingThomas bout. Appeal for Funds LONDON: The Arehbisliop of York, the Bishop of London, Viscount Bledisloe, and Vice-Adurral 'Swabey are oppealing for financial aid for the Diln-J cese of Polynesia. They recall that the bishopric endowment fund, launched in 1935, was aimed to raise £10,000, of which about one-third was forthcoming. Tliey add: "We are confident that if ehurch people realised how comparatively small is the amount reqnired to save the diocese from a serions finnn- | cial crisis the remainder would speedily I be provided."