GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

AN ELECTRIC DEVICE,

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

NEW, YORK, Feb. 19

Wheeling about high in the darkness over part of Newark, a pilot seeking 'the new municipal landing field shrouded in darkness below him, the pilot turned the handle of the siren, fixed in the cockpit beside him. The siren rose to a shrill shriek, audible on the ground above the noise of the motor and then although the switches were actuated by no human touch, the great floodlights of Newark air port flashed on, showing the wide runways and limits of the field for taking the landing at night. It is feasible that the howl of the siren was the order for lights, which was obeyed immediately by Air Tclevos, the electric sentry watchman. The siren’s note was amplified through delicate apparatus to a point needed to turn on the lights. LADY LODGE DEAD. LONDON, Feb. 20. Obituary.—Lady Lodge. She shared her husband’s (Sir Oliver) spiritualistic views. Sir Oliver says lie lias not made any arrangement for bis wife to communicate after she passed over, but be is sure to bear from her again, just ns from bis son Raymond. FOOD COUPONS. ISSUE IN RUSSIA. MOSCOW, February 21. The Soviet is introducing a system of bread coupons, for which the workers pay the present prices, and the non-, workers pay more. It is explained that although grain supplies are plentiful the ■ coupons are necessary to fight speculation. It has long been known that Russia is ■ suffering from a wheat shortage. Food cards and hungry queues are in .evidence in Leningrad and elsewhere. LADY NORAH .TELLICOE INJURED. • ■ ’ GENEVA, Feb. 20. Earl Jellicoe’s daughter, Lady Norah, has broken her thigh in a winter sports accident at Wengen. UNEMPLOYED. NO ADMISSION TO ROME. LONDON, February 20. The- Rom© correspondent of the “Times ” states: The Prefect of Rome Province has decreed that all persons belonging to other communes, who are habitually unemployed must return to those communes, because they endanger public order and morals. Any worker entering Rome must produce certificates; signed by the Podesta of his native commune proving that work awaits him. FROZEN GERMANY. LONDON, February 20. 'Hie Munich" correspondent of “The Times” states that aeroplanes bombed the ice on the Germain Danube liver between Nassau and Regensburg. Artillery shelled it with howitzers and firearms poured ignited kerosene on it, hut it was all in vain. Hie authorities are anxious to liberate shipping, and to prevent floods. They have thus decided to call up icebreakers. Such vessels have not before been used in "South Germany. The ground is so hard at Stuttgart that grave digging is impossible. The cemetery authorities have therefore requested the relatives of the dead to adopt cremation. A DUBLIN .MURDER. LONDON. February 20. A man named Albert Armstrong was shot in his own motor car in Dublin, and was taken to the Hospital, where he died. There is no due to the murderer. It is known that Uie. victim gave evidence against men who tore down a Union Jack on Armistic*. Day.