AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] A QUEER QUEST. NEW YORK, March 30. The Berkeley Expedition, which is sponsored by the University of California. is killing two whales each day, and is obtaining the pituitary glands of the whales for experimental purl>oses. The carcases are set adrift when this tiny organ, situated at the base of the brain, is extracted. A barrel of these pituitary glands will finally be delivered to Professor May Dunn, who hopes to separate the constituent- elements, and to find the agency which causes the whales’ tissues to grow to leviathan proportions, and so, ijassihlv. to solve the secret of tlie structure of all animal life.

FORD’S ACCIDENT. NEW YORK, March 30. An investigation is under way at Detroit into the accident in which Mr Henry Ford was injured, when his car was forced over an embankment. Mr Ford will be confined to tbo hospital for two weeks. He is suffering from severe concussion and back strain. The car rolled over three times. Mr Ford was followed by two men in a car when be left his factory to drive home. When bis car was near a Jiridge over a river the two men following bin dashed forward and forced Ford over the embankment. THE MINE EXPLOSION. 000 MINERS SAVED. NEW YORK. March 31. At C'hernsfiehl over three hundred minors, for whom hope had almost been abandoned, after the mine explosion, cabled yesterday, escaped uninjured. There were joyous scenes as the children and wives, who rushed hopelessly to the pit mouth, saw them emerge from the undamaged shaft. Four lives were lost.

FORD’S ACCIDENT. NEW YORK, March 31. Ford’s friends at Detroit state the motor smash was a deliberate attempt to murder him. FLY TO THE POLE. OTTAWA, March 31. Advices from Harrow states Wilkins Eilson flew the first trip towards the Pole on Tuesday, motoring six hours. Later he radioed everything was going well. He later repeated the same message, very faintly, evidently from a considerable distance. OBITUARY. VANCOUVER, March 31. Obituary.—Sir Charles Hibbert, a member of the Upper House, IC.C.M.G. aged 72. He was a distinguished Canadian and the son of a former Premier of Canada. He was kuighted in 1895 for the services of protecting the Canadian fur seal interests in the Behring, Sea arbitration at Paris.