NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1928, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

ARMY WOMAN COOK. PARIS, April 24. Alme. Jacquet, the first woman cook to be appointed In the French army, under tlie 'new system for the replacement of soldier cooks, lias taken up | her duty at the Tourelles Barracks, in Paris. The battalion stationed there is unanimously in favour of women in charge of the cookhouse. • “ I have always keen fond of our soldier hoys,” said Mine. Jacquet. “ I have four of them helping me in "tlie cnokliouse J hut 1 prepare the menu and cook the rations. They get ready the vegetables, look after the and do the washing-up. but 1 do the cooking myself.” When the rank and file- were quest tiohed as to what they, thought of tlie innovation of women cooks in the army the reply was unanimous. “Since she has been here,” said tlie spokesman of the men, “we have lived like lords. After all, it is quite natural—for'it is her,trade.” . When . Afjhe. > Jacquet, a .buxom ■woman of was' asked . Wfmt she ; would do In thb event of ii new war, she replied proudly, 11 i should go with ' A Mfejr

the .boys, of course. I am not afraid .of shell-fire.” y MADMAN IN THE AIR. v * NEW YORK, May 15. A.'new peril of the air was strangely demonstrated yesterday, when Anderson, a commercial pilot, was attacked by a mad passenger when his aeroplane was * 2,000 ft. above the ground. ...... The residents of Pontiac, Michigan, observed the aeroplane leisurely approaching the town at dusk. Suddenly* it went into a spiral turn, and then made a sheer drop of some hundreds of feet. ‘‘lt was rapidly flattened out,’’ but the wheels of the under-carriage touched the ground, sending the-aero-plane over on its- nose.It -buried itself in the ground and was ruined. The two men who were found inside, were injhred hut not seriously. ' . 1 INTO HOSPITAL FOR INSANE.- * One. the pilot Anderson, told .a strange story. He said that the passenger,'Marry Frechette, had hired him to fly from Roseville. Michigan to.P-^r-tiac. When approaching the--V^‘ iL - an 2,"OOOft.',up Frechette>"-'- v6, ' a ?2* mer and- attached -V;in. - - «- a- . ..v ■:- .. v - ,;s ‘ W-A A.wA''. s

• “1 must have been unconscious foi* at least a minute,” said Amlcrson, “for when I came to we were in a nose dive. I jerked tlie controls and righted 'the aeroplane, but as I swung out of the dive I felt- the wheels touch the ground.” Anderson was more hurt' by the hammer than by tho fall, having lost his front teeth in the struggle. Frechette refused to answer questions and will lie removed ‘to prison for a sanity test when he has recovered suffi-. eicntly from the accident. An additional tout'll--of the grotesque is added to the incident'by the, fact that’.the aeroplane foil in the. grounds of the State hospital for tho insane. - A letter found in "Frechette’s pocket was addressed to a girl, and read “Death is my message,"” sweetheart.”

FRENCH. DOG RACING. PARIS; May 15., A dispute has/broken. out, in Franco ns a result of tlie holding of the first greyhound races'with the electric hare cou ' ntry ' ' v -w ’ been inipV hundrW ...greyhounds" have, tint Parfl rt Oito France in the hope •V. Ament will authorise total* (■* v-.- ."h-? V"v. • r . -» ■ '*' >» *” K SA-*. Vv- w-"' . , ‘ ; •; ’ AL \ ’ ' * " ' WjL

isator betting at dog-racing, meetings .*A • nml iiiiiny of. them, it is alleged,. are of .doubtful origin, 'despite' the fact that large sums have beep paid 'for _A"- 1 them... *, A ■ ...'I 5 '.'.,.■ , The French .eciuivalent of ncl Club .in Loudon . insists that all :<*} /.■■■'" " greyhounds must be . duly entered in.. A , the French stud hook in' order that , . - J - there may be no possible dispute -about ,’ their'origin and identity.* ( A.. * : One of the greyhound, racing companics,. which has imported •, the larg- pt , e.st. uUniber ofbdogs from , England, • V declares that - it will .biiild up' its-own .- stil l book .of arid ignore •' the central ' authority on the ground ' that show-dogs have nothing in common with racing dogs. -a '» The French .Kennel Club,. declared "?'■ that it will not budge froni this stand- s ', ard of what constitutes a thorough- IbCC bred greyhound and will insist .on the A. pedigree of every racer being duly registered in its archives just like any :)* other thoroughbred. : ’ . J" : ' ■■J: The dispute has reachedso serious, ; a stage bf development that it' will .Ajj- A; ' one.tof-the first subjects whicbV r Mu. ;V ;, - -Poincare's. new' Cabinet will have to Jj consider next month, a