MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1928, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

I,Australian A; N.Z. Gutilu Association.J ALAR INKS FOR NICARAGUA. , WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. Air Wilbur (Secretary to the Navy) announced a thousand marines were leaving on Tuesday from Lhe east and west coasts, to reinforce, the present marine force in Nicaragua, where additional men are needed to cope with the rebel leader, Sandine, who recently attacked the marines twice and inflicted several casualties, ’this decision was arrived at, alter a conlorence with .nr Coolitlge, the marines who captured Quilali, a stronghold of Sandino, having sent a wireless message asking for support. The present marine lorco at Nicaragua totals fifteen hundred. CONG RUSS AIEETS EMPLOYERS. LONDON, Jan. 4. The General Council of the Trades Union Congress meets the employers’ group after the Council meeting.

KING’S UOBING-ROOAI. LONDON, Dec. 22. The leading shipowner, Sir Edward Nicholl, lias erected one of England’s most remarkable garages at his Sliepperton (Middlesex) home. It consists of the robing room used at Edward Vll.’s Coronation, as originally erected at Westminster Abbey, which the Office of AVorks recently decided to dispose of. Sir Edward Nieholls is preserving in their original state the interesting heraldic devices. Carpets will he used to protect the floor from muddy tyres. BANDITS’ THREAT. CHICAGO, Dec. 23. The University of Chicago is the latest addition to the list of hold-up victims, and it is now mourning the loss of £4OOO. Shortly after the delivery of the money by an armoured express truck, six armed and masked bandits drove up, entering as the money was being counted. • AVitli threats of death they backed all to the wall, as the leader, with a burlap sack, gathered the bills and coin.

“If you follow, you die!” chorused five bandits as they joined the waiting sixth at the car and disappeared. LIFE OF A TEACHER. CHICAGO, Dee. 22. Mayor “ Big Bilt ” Thompson, of Chicago, notorious and ridiculous for his campaign against English “ propaganda,” called some lady teachers to his aid to-day to show what a tyrant is Air "William McAndrews, the Scottish Superintendent of Schools, whose prosecution by the Mayor recently was practically laughed out of Court. One lady called him Simon Degree, while a 50-year-old spinster said that McAndrew made her life like what General Sherman said war was. “ And that was hell,” prompted Thompson’s lawyer, while the lady smiled assent*

FORMALIN INJECTED. MAKES CANCER CURE ITSELF. LONDON, Dec. 22. Remarkable cures of cancer in rats are described by Dr Lumsden, of the Lister Institute in the current issue of “ The Lancet.” He says that the blood of rats with a cancerous growth contains a substance actively hostile to the growth. His object lias been to discover how this substance can be increased to augment tlie forces of defence against the disease when the growth is not very big.

He believes that the tissues of tlie body can, if stimulated, fight and win the battle. At present the development is usually so gradual that tbe tissues do not wake up until it is too late. Dr Lumsden forces tho issue by an injection into tlie growth of a solution of formalin, which poisons many of tlie cancer cells and frees the irritating substance they contain. This substance in turn is carried away in tbe blood to stimulate tho rest of tbe body into conflict with the cancerous invader. If tlie body wins, the victory is final, as the body forces thus mobilised are never entirely disbanded. Since Alarcli bo lias treated 77 rats with tumours, curing (34. Of 25 rats treated since October, 24 have been cured.

MAN TO HANG. A NOTH ER, CONFESSES. LONDON, Dec. 22. A move to save a condemned murderer from the gallows broke down dramatically in tho Court of Criminal Appeal to-day. The Court refused to believe tbe story of another prisoner that lie had committed the murder, but thought it possible that the confession related lo still another murder. Samuel Case was convicted of strangling Mary Mottram at Sheffield. He appealed on the ground that William Hurtle, while a prisoner in the Manchester Gaol, had admitted his guilt of the crime. At the hearing of the anpeal the judges demanded that Hartle should give evidence on oath. llartle gave evidence that ho broke

into the house, in company with Case. He declared that he—not Case—had gagged the woman. Hartle, however, failed to identify Case, who stood in the dock. The husband of the murdered woman said that many particulars given by Hartlo did not apply to his house. The Chief Justice, Sir Gordon Kuwait. said that Hartle’s confession might.be true, hut it obviously did not apply to this murder. Tlie appeal was dismissed. MARRIES SLIM BRUNETTE. LONDON, Dec. 23. Known all over the country as the “Fat Boy of Peekliam,” John Trundley, 2!) years old, secretly married Airs Florence Petty, a slim brunette, during the week-end. Trundley has appeared in music halls anil on the films. At one time he weighed 30 stone, hut ho lost 11 stone in an illness during the war. When he was at school he had a special desk. Trundley recently challenged the boxing champion. Gene Tunnoy.

SNOWSTORMS. NEW YORK. .Jnii. 2. Zero temperatures are prevalent throughout the eastern half of United States with no relief at present in sight. The relief organisation are spending their niaximiuu efforts to aid the suffering from the blizzard whir lmshered in the New Year. The death list already is 40 and is mounting hourly. Nineteen are dead in Chicago. S at St. Louis. 2 at Pittsburgh. in New York and one each in several other cities. The snowfall is (tenoral, particularly in middle west where drifts from 8 to 12 feet are reported. Roads are blocked and train services are badly disrupted. The storm, which broke long standing records in northern United States, has reached as far south as Texas (Florida).