GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1929, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

LIVING REPLACE DEAD

LIVES SAVED BY HEARSE

PEORIA (Illinois), August. 9

The dend were removed from a hearse and the living took their places following an automible accident on the highway south of this city. Jim Vanatta was driving a hearse with the bodies of a young woman and her new-born babe when he came upon a motor crash, two passengers being severely injured and bleeding profusely. Removing the bodies Vanatta hoisted the injured into the hearse and rushed them to hospital, saving their lives. Then lie returned and resumed the funeral.

SMALL CAPITAL

U.S. BANKER’S HUMBLE START

NEW YORK, August 9

James Clarke, the senior partner in the defunct Clarke Brothers’ Bank, testified that lie organised the institution in 1904 with a capital of 34 dollars (about £?'). Within ten years the deposits reached 1,000,000 dollars (£200,000.)

Clarke pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with using the mail to defraud the amounts totalling 3.1,000,000. Officials of the bank speculated in coalfields in Peru. • In the United States it is against the law to use the mails for sending out propectuses of fake companies or other inducements to persons to invest in crooked concerns.

BOY GENIUS

NEW YORK. August 9

Boys the world over will be interested in Thomas Edison’s selection of a lad to succeed him in the scientific investigation field. ’ From 49 boys, who' were subjected to a. week of exhaustive questioning and examination, ? Wilbur. Huston, tjio sop of a Seattle. clergyman, has been chosen: : eijiinent' . judges -as, Edison’s, successor. r

/' At least jo,lip ..question'* was “a catch •for;/sure:”' rV.•. 'V. v- ,

''Recently !, friends: of “The Wizard” arinoiinced vthat lie wished to leave .his mantle to. some deserving',youth with sufficient ability. v and scientific bent'.tp; possess a reasonable chance of making good lisp pf ‘the vast laboratory and other resources which the aged Edison would, bequeath after training the. lad during the/remaining yeafs of. his life.

•: Accordingly,' 49 high school graduates Assembled from the various. States for; examination.' Edison /and a committee of friend plied them with questions during the examination which lasted for a week. The young geniuses were asked:—

~'r How would you spend 1,000,000 dollars?”

v “What conduct would you adopt if you were accused df cheating P”