LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 October 1930, Page 7

LATE CABLE NEWS

CORRUPT JUSTICE. AMUR ICAN R EVELATIONS. NEW YORK, October 15. Revolutions mode at the investigation into tin; payment by candidates ..or positions on the bench has indicated the existence of a clearing house where charges to be;,tried can be fixed with ease lor sums ranging to £IO,OOO. Jt was also stated that-the city Budget director paid large sums to his own account, at the time Judge Bertini, former bootleggers’ npd gangsters’ counsel, was elevated to the bench, allegedly paying £20,000, which be drew out in bonds, for the pos.mm. Chief Justice Crater, who disappeared at the opening of the inquiry, is still not traced.

The investigators say that the bank accounts of the wives of a score ol magistrates and judges will be subpoenaed for examination. Reports from tiie State capital indicate that Governor Roosevelt is considering impeachment proceedings. The headquarters of the bribe-hand-ling organisation is said to be two “Times” Square hotels. One garage operator at the Hotel Claridge had his books examined, but there was nef indication that he was associated With the corrupt organisation. MADE OF PAPER. THE LATEST BOTTLES. LONDON, October 16. It is claimed that paper bottles can be produced for £d each, by a process invented by Mr Can Ristow, according to tlie Overseas Trade Department, which states that Mr H. Griffiths Newton, chairman of the Kingsway Press, has obtained an option of sale and a license for making the bottle in the Empire anu America. Special paper is used, which can be manufactured in most countries.

FLYING PRIEST. KILLED JN CRASH. NOME (Alaska), October 15. Father Walsh, known as the flying missionary, and his pilot, John Wien, have been killed in a crash after a Iwp to isolated natives communities. Another missionary, who ''-as flown his own machine from Detroit to S J al tie, is now on his way to supple nm-t the air gospel service begun by Earner Walsh. GENEROUS HEARTED. THE REAL STANLEY BALDWIN. LONDON, October lb “While walking through Gloucestershire, Mr Baldwin heard that, two old lndeis in a village were straining their means in keeping up an asylum for feeble-minded girls, “He walked to Stroud, collected 200 dirty and crumpled £1 notes, and wrapped them up in newspaper with a letter saying that a passing vagabond wished to do something for the estab-

lishment, the like of which might one day shelter himself. Then he persuaded a yokel to bribe an urchin to deliver tlie parcel without saying whence it came.”

This story, described as well autlien. ! ticated, appears in “The Real Stanley Baldwin,” by Mr Wickham Steed, which Nisbct’s are publishing. Mr Steed remarks that if any obvious successor were in sight Mr Baldwin’s chance of retaining the Oonservatice leadership would be small, but there was no such successor. He suggests, however, that if Mr Baldwin can put his new vigour of words into deeds in the service of a go-ahead and far-sighted Conservative policy he may cease to he an enigma and become a national asset. WISH FULFILLED. AIR CHIEF’S DEATH. LONDON, October 16. “When T have to die, I wish it would be in some form'of aircraft, flying. I want those left behind to do all they can to further something in which I believe so intensely.” “These were practically the first words STr Sefton Brancker, the Director of Civil Aviation, who perished in the RlOl, said to me,” stated the Master of Sempill in a speech at the Petroleum Technologists’ dinner. SCHOOL MARRIAGES. 60n CHILDREN WED. NEW YORK, October 15. Five hundred children in knee pants and short dresses left New York Public schools lastr year to marry, says the annual report. Most oT them were girls; 20 were 14, 83 were were 15, and 343 were 16 years of age Many of the marriages occurred in families of European emigrants. Other cases were where the economic pressure of the family dictated. IN THE SWIM. HOW LLOYD GEORGE

LONDON, October 15

How Mr Lloyd George learned to swim at the age of 64 was revealed by Mr Macquisten, M.P., a close friend, although a political opponent of the former Prime Minister whom he accompanied from Sbuth America in 1927 aboard the Avelona Star. He says he took Mr Lloyd George to the ship’s swimming hath before breakfast and found him an apt pupil at the breaststroke, which he learned in two or three days, despite the. huge amount of water he swallowed. TO SHARE IN BIG FORTUNE. 16 MERRY WIDOWS NOW? LONDON. October 16. An Irishman named Doherty, who died at Lagos (Western Africa) six months ago, left £600,000, says the Lagos correspondent of the “Daily Mail.” This will be divided among his 16 widows and 55 children. All the Widows are negresses, and each will receive a home and a handsome legacy.

WHY OMIT N.Z.?

ENGLISH SPORTING TOUR

LONDON,- October 15

A buffalo limit in North Australia is planned for the party of British sportsmen for whom the Tasmanian Agent-General (Mr d’Arcy Addison) is arranging a tour of Australia, which will include some fox-hunting.

Many Englishmen interested in the plan are promising practical support. It is proposed that the party arrive in Queensland, via Java, in July, 1931, fish on the Barrier Reef, and spent August and September in New South Wales attending polo matches, picnic races, and surfing; they would go to Victoria in November for the Melbourne Cup, and later visit South Australia, West Australia and Tasmania, fishing and yachting. “I am in communication with Australian travel experts, and am hopeful of being able to make a definite announcement soon,” Mr Addison told the special representative of the “Sun”. ILLICIT PLEASURES. LONDON TYPISTS INCENSED. LONDON, October 16. Legions of London typists are bitterly resenting the declaration of Miss Eaithfull, former principal of the Ladies’" College at Cheltenham, that floods of women, feeling office work a drudgery and wanting relief and excitement, go out with men friends, and so raise deplorable moral problems. She adds that the war robbed many of them of the possibility of marriage, which is the natural end of such companionships. “It. is not surprising that girls have their pleasure in illicit ways,” she said. “Obviously, Miss Faithful does not know much of the lives of London typists,” says Miss Evans, secretary of the Women Clerks’ Association. “Her suggestion that the independence women have won has corrupted their morals is wrong. There is nothing wrong with the modern girl liking men friends, but she does not sponge on them. “On the contrary, when going out with a man earning a little more than herself, she often pay's her share of the dinner and theatre. Moreover, girls enjoy 7 office work, which is more interesting than domesticity. Such an attack on her morals is absurd. Every one knowing the London girl realises that she is honourable and hardworking. The fact that every girl would like a husband and home does not make her immoral.” THEIR MEDICINE. ANIMALS KNOW “WHAT TO TAKE. LONDON, October 16. “The lower animals have a good knowledge of materia medica,” said Dr. Henry S. Wellcome, the founder of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, and a distinguished scientist, speaking at the Imperial Conference reception by members of the Anthropological and other scietifie societies, at the Welcome Historical and Medical Museum. “Their selection and use of curative herbs shows the exercise of intelligence.” Dr. C. S. Myers, Director of the National Institute of Industrial Psychology, mentioned that he once lived for some months in the islands ot Torres Straits, where he was the only white man. He and the natives got along excellently. THE KIND ELEPHANT. A TRUE STORY. COPENHAGEN, October 16. Two Siamese elephants took fright while being exercised at the zoo here, broke their chains and dashed off through the grounds. Two little boys stood in their way, too terror-stricken to move. One elephant stopped short, picked up one little fellow with his trunk, gently placed him on one side and continued his mad dash. The other elephant pushed the other child agaiust a wall and slightly bruised him.