LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1930, Page 7

LATE CABLE NEWS

* ; ' DEAD DOG’S WIN. TWO DEATHS IN ONE RACE. LONDON, July 18. The historic Scottish, ballad beginning: “1 saw 11 dead man win a- fight” was paralleled by an incident-on the Cork greyhound racing 'track.I A dog named Ocean Bustle was • winning.,easily- • when it fell; Joyful Leaflet went ahead,\arcd dropped 'dead passing the winning-post. The judge declared it the winner because its head and shoulders were over the line. NEW WEAPONS. ANTI-CANCER CAMPAIGN. LONDON, July 18. The scientists’ latest weapons against cancer include mustard gas, radium bombs, and a new apparatus which takes X-ray cinematograph, films, according to a report by the Empire. Cancer Campaign Committee. It;has been recently discovered that cancer-producing substances have a fluorescent spectrum, which is regarded as one of the most important clues yet found,

ARMY OF MARTYRS BALDWIN’S TRIBUTE TO WOMEN. ; LONDON, July 18. A tribute to early women radiologists . as an army of martyrs forming part of . a noble body of women stretching back via: Nurse Cavell and Joan of Are to Eve, was paid by Mr Stanley Baldwin at tlie opening of the Marie Curie Hospital. ;;Ha»nty?tead-the first British hospital organised and entirely staffed by women, for the treatment of women suffering from cancer and similar diseases. ■ • ■ ' The hospital was designed by Miss Elizabeth Scott, architect of the new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon. Mr Baldwin contrasted the dust of controversy in polities with the “purer, sweeter streams jof English life,” such as are to be carried on at the hospital. ROAD-SWEEPERS “SWEEP.” FORTUNE WON AT DERBY. LONDON, July 18. J. Lock, a road-sweeper, one of the Barnstaple syndicate of seven who won

£70,000 over the Derby, is to give up his job. Born at Barnstaple, Lock went to Australia in 1908, where he. worked as a butcher. When the war broke out a friend and lie decided by tossing a coin to join the A.1.F., and served in France, where Lock was twice wounded and gassed.; He returned to Barnstaple after demobilisation and accepted road-sweeping as the only alternative to the dole. ASSURANCE FRAUDS. BRISK TRADE IN “CORPSES:” NEW YORK, July 18. The insurance executive who observed a supposedly dead man hurrying on his way to work started an investigation and disclosed a million dollar conspiracy. He recalled that he recently saw John McCoy’s death certificate, but found tliat it was all news to McCoy. The insurance man told District Attorney Each, who soon discovered 39 other persons on whose supposed deaths the Metropolitan Insurance Company paid death benefits.

Ten. employees of the company were arrested and charged with falsifying records. Before a grand jury, 27 of the “corpses” testified that they had not known they were dead.

TO SAVE DEATH DUES. DUKE OF RICHMOND’S PLAN. LONDON, July 18. Nearly two centuries ago, before Captain Cook’s visit to. Australia, the third Duke of Richmond - planted 70,000 beech trees on his estate at Goodwood, near ■Chichester.' ■ Two Australians, Messrs y Sillick, a Victorian, and Green, are hauling out the beeches by means of'y'qdterpillar tractors and trailers, working sometimes 96 hours a week,-C; including Sundays, to the vast amazement of the Sussex rustics, who ‘have never seen anything like it before/'

Faced with the necessity -of cash to pay death duties, the eighth . Duke sold the beeches to J. H. . and F. W. Green, of Chesterfield,, for • £45,000. Eight years are allowed for removal of the timber. The Greens • engaged the two Australians tp take charge of the haulage of the foeech logs to the mill.

KING’S ADMIRATION. POLISHED, RUGLESS FLOOR. LONDON, July 18. “I hope you see that' people do not spoil your beautiful floors by drop-

ping cigdivitc ’Onus dim hik spictsii es,” said the King to Sir Atul Chat terjee, the Indian High Commissioner while inspecting the new India Housi wherein he particularly admired tin polished floors af adauk and othe: Indian woods. His Majesty commend ed Sir Atul Chatterjee’s t.aste ir leaving the floor rugless. 4 LIQUOR EXCURSION. PLAN STIRS PROTEST.

NEW YORK, July 18. Mr Henry Walker, president of the American Steamship Owners’ Association, has complained to the Customs Department that the British Royal Mail liner, Araguaya, is planning liquor excursions out of New York during the international yacht races. Under the treaty' the Araguaya is permitted to bring British liquor into New York under seal, but Mr Walker alleges that the project to I open a bar each day beyond the 12mile limit, is a breach of the regulations, SPANKED HERI THROUGH GAOL TO FAME. OAKLAND, July 18. John Sorder has been sentenced to 12 days’ imprisonment for pulling an intoxicated woman motorist from a motor ca r and spanking her. In gaol Sorder was the recipient of countless cheering letters from all over the country urging that he “keep up the jjjod work.” The officials of two towns have congratulated Sorder and are offering him the job of traffic director.