LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1930, Page 2

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FOSSILS OF EARLY MAN

ACROSS GLOBE TO SEE THEM

LONDON, August 7

“]f Mohammed cannot go to tnc mountain the mountain must come to Mohammed,’ said Professor Grafton Elliot Smith in an interview. “I gladly seized the opportunity of going to Peking, afforded by an invitation from the Geological Survey of -China, and shall leave on August 14.

‘•The journey promises to he of particular interest, as giving a glimpse oi China- and Japan—the countries specially important to a student of human history.

“The Peking fossils are the most important remains of early man. Tor obvious reasons the Chinese authorities quite rightly are not allowing them to pass from theu; care. It is essential to go to Peking to study the actual remains.”

MARRY ME!

PROPOSAL DURING SWIM

LONDON, August 7

Mr Patrick Carey, who has married the famous swimmer Mass Mercedes Gleitae, is an engineer, and ex-lieuten-ant of the Free State Army. tie was once a member of Michael Collin's bodyguard, and also belonged to the Citizens’ Intelligence Corps. He fell in love with Mercedes while watching a film depicting one of her exploits. He visited the Dublin baths when she did a 38-hours endurance swim and remained throughout the swim, helping to keep her awake at night time by singing and talking.

Mercedes gave him a rose at the end of the swim. Carey proposed while Miss Gleitze. wa’s tiding to swim the Bristol Channel.

BERLIN HOLIDAY.

ON 39-YEAR-OLD TICKET

BERLIN, August 7.

An American, Hiram 0, Burbank jnr has just arrived to enjoy a. holiday which Ills father booked 39 years ago.' Burbank, .slUb, bought the ticket from a German shipping company for the trip from New York to Hamburg m 1891, He was forced to postpone the trip indefinitely ,and forgot the ticket until 1911, when-he arranged to use it again, but once more was forced to post pone the pleasure. His-third attempt in 1914, coicided with the outbreak of the war.

Eleven years after the war he died and his son found the ticket among his papers. He asked the company which is again operating, if it was still valid, and they agreed to honour the obligation.

PRINCE AT LE TOUQUET

ORDERED OFF GOLF COURSE.

LONDON, August 7,

“You arc quiet right. You are doing your duty,” said the Prince of Wales, when ordered off a new golf course at Le Touquet by a greenkeeper. The latter, not recognising the Prince, said “Don’t you known these links are not opened yet? No one is allowed'to play. Who are you?” The Prince smiled, and said: “I have special permission.

“THAT’S THAT.”

CHICAGO’S GANG WARFARE

CHICAGO, August 7. Gangsters’ implacable pursuit of their rivals has caused the 50th death in tiie city’s gang warfare this year. Jack Zuta is the business manager for the Moran faction, and was blamed by several detectives for planning the murder of Arthur Lingle, crime specialist on the Chicago “Tribune,” to revenge himself on “Sacrifice” Al. Capone, another gangster. . A month ago Zuta, fearing assassination, asked for police aid. A carload of killers drew alongside the police car in which Zuta was being conveyed across the Loop district. Their bullets poured into the police car, a .stray shot killing a passing tram-driver, but Zuta and the escort escaped. He went into hiding under the name of Goochnan at Capone’s summer resort at Delafield (Wisconsin).

On Saturday, after midnight, eight men strode across the floor of the dance hall, where Zuta, smilling, stood feeding coins into a mechanical piano. “There he is,” calmly spoke the leader of the invaders, unlimbering a machine gun.

The dancers stood aghast as the killers, standing over their fallen victim, filled the body with lead. “Well, that’s that,” exclaimed the leader, as the party, withdrawing without haste, apologised for disturbing the dance.