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Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1931, Page 6

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ZOUBKOFF AGAIN. REBUFFED BY KAISTIi. COLOGNE, March 25. Alexander Zoubkolf, the dishwasher husband of the late Princess Victoria, has been rebuffed by the Kaiser refusing to offer him a villa and a pension—the conditions of Zoiibkoff’s relinquishing his post as potman at a restaurant where a notice is displayed, ‘Here you can be served by the ex-Kaiser’s brother-in-law.” DEMPSEYS DIVORCE. RUMOURS GAIN STRENGTH. NEW YORK, March 27. The fact that the ex-champion heavyweight, -lack Dempsey, has leased a residence at Reno, Nevada, tor six weeks strengthens the rumour thn he and his wife are preparing for a divorce. Mrs Dempsey was Estelle Taylor the film actress. Only last week the State of Nevada in order to attract divorce business reduced the requisite term of residence to six weeks. HOPEFUL VIEW. GIVE CHINA A CHANCE. ' VANCOUVER, March 2(1 “Give China one year of peace and she will emerge from her difficulties and dominate the enormous trade development between Europe and the Ear East.” This is the opinion of Sir Ernest Thompson, of Manchester, chairman of the British Economic Mission to China of 15 members, which has arrived here en route to London. Sir Ernest Thompson is convinced that the Nationalist Government in China is firmly seated in the saddle, and that the administration is on the road to better times. NOVELISTS’ QUARREL. SINCLAIR LEWIS SLAPPED. NEW YORK. March 2d. Mr Theodore Dreiser, the novelist, slapped the face of Mr Sinclair Lewis, winner of the Nobel prize for literature, in the Metropolitan Club. The incident occurred during a reception to a visiting Russian writer. “It was an outrageous and scandalous affair,” said Mr Lewis, adding the accusation that Mr Dreiser stole 3000 words from Mrs Lewis for his recent hook entitled “Dreiser Looks at Russia.” \ X-RAYING HAIRS. SCIENTIFIC WOOL RESEARCH. LONDON, March 25. “Considerable headway has been achieved in determining the composition and structure of wool, a sound knowledge of which must be the basis of true progress of the industry,” says a report issued by Leeds University Textile Department regarding recent research. “New X-ray evidence supports the claim that we have reached the foundation of the structure of wool and hair, and perhaps proteins. Generally, our advances are due primarily to the discovery that wool, and indeed all animal hairs, can give rise to two distinct Xray photographs, according to whether they are stretched or unstretched.” The report reveals a novel method, in 1 which a violin bow is employed, of testing the scaliness of wool fibre. j PARIS PERILS. RISKS OF BLONDES. PARIS, March 25. The risk of being blonde in a counWy where 90 per cent of the people are dark wa s exemplified in the case of a Paris business man who was arrested and charged with borrowing money on the security of forged share certificates. The bank identified him through his fair hair. Although he called 500 witnesses to swear that he was making a speech at a banquet at the time the loan was concluded he was kept in pri. son for six weeks awaiting his acquittal by the Court. SEGRAVE TROPHY. SMITHY FIRST HOLDER, LONDON, March 25. Mr Gilbert Bayess’ design for the Segrave Memorial Trophy. of which Air-Commodore Kingsford Smith will lie the first holder, is a gold figure. 16 inches high, draped, wearing a bronze helmet and carrying a trident to represent the Empire. .ft stands on a rostrum-like base flanked with symbolic sea-horses. A gold flame stands for coin-age and a soaring hawk for the conquest of the air. The pediment bears a medallion with the portrait of Sir Henry Segrave on bronze, damascened with gold. The total height is 28 inches. MOTHER BENEFITS. MABEL NOEMAND’S WILL, LOS ANGELES. March 25. Mabel Kormand, the movie actress, earned £280,000 in her lifetime, but the final probate disclosed only £13,000 remaining. All went to her mother.

CONTRITE TEARS. HESITANT HUSBAND FAILS. LONDON, March 25. Herr Oscar, of Berlin, is a quiet, steady-going husband of 40. He loves home life and the fireside. His wile, Anna, says the Berlin .correspondent of the “Daily Mail,” likes dancing and flirting with young men. Thirteen times lias Herr Oscar stained divorce proceedings, because be resents their attentions, but yielding t‘> Frau Anna’s pleadings for another chance, be stopped them. This lias happened 11 times in the past two years, to the accompaniment of hysterics and fainting fits. To-day, Herr Oscar actually reached Court, with bis divorce suit, Imt withdrew the case once more, amid the laughter of the public when his wife, staging the customary “sob stuff” threw herself on bis hn#>m in a torrent of contrite tears. HERO CRIPPLE. FIRST All) RENDERED. LONDON. March 25. When a motor lorry knocked down and fatally injured Mrs Charles Lewis, aged 48. in a crowded West, End street, a cripple swiftly propelled his wheeled chair towards lu r. threw himself from it beside her, ripped off bis necktie, and used it as a tourniquet to stanch the bleeding until the ambulance arrived. Pedestrians replaced him in his chair in which he unobstrusively wheeled himself off without leaving his name. SCHOOLBOY TOUR. AUSTRALIA AND N.Z. LONDON, .March 25. j Mr M. J. Lendall. chairman of the i School Empire tours, announces in a letter to “The Times” the second t,unite Australia of 3(1 public school boys, who are to sail on August 14 via Panama. returning via Suez, and touching I at Wellington and Colombo. | Australia is to be the main objective, I and they will visit all the States. .Mr jj, W. Parr, master of Winchester | School, is to be leader of Lite party. The ! staff is to include an army officer. | FASCIST CLOCK. | NOVEL INVENTION. LONDON. .March 25. Signor Renzi lias built, almost ent.nvi ly of bamboo, a 36-hour clock in the style of the Fascist emblem, h is over j three feet high, and marks the hour, i minute, and second, the phases of the | moon, and the day of the week and [ month. I When it strikes, a small flag with j pictures of the King of Italy and Signor Mussolini appears, and chimes play a Fascist hymn, at the conclusion of i which a small mortar on top of the | clock fires a salvo consisting of a tiny | manifesto in the Italian colours, j The clock took two years to complete. AT POPE'S BEQUEST. ARUNDEL SKELETON EXHUMED. LONDON. .March 2-1. j : The skeleton of file first Earl ol i Arundel, who died in 1595, has been j secretly exhumed at Fitzalan Chape!, j Arundel Castle. The exhumation was performed under a- Home Office order, I granted at the request of certain prominent Roman Catholics and was carried j out in the presence of the Duke of Nor- | folk, Dr. Amigo, Roman Catholic Bishop j of Southwark, and several secular priests. j The remains were examined by two ' surgeons, whose report will lie submitted to the Pope, who desires verification of certain details with which he was acquainted in December, before the beatification of the Earl. It is understood that the Pope wauls | to know whether the Earl was beheaded j or died naturally, and whether the j skull is in the coffin. j The complete skeleton was found j therein, and there were no signs that the Earl had been executed. It was known that he died in the 'lower ol London before tbe date fixed for bis j execution for high treason. The bones have been care hilly pieced together, and identification has been j definitely established through the I original brass plate. and parchment i documents inside the coffin. The skeleton has been reintorrpd. and tbe vaults have been elosed up. ORGANISED CRIME. 9000 MURDERS IN IJ.S.A. CHICAGO, March 27. There is no question but that criminals in the United States are organised on a national scale, said Sheriff Traeger. of Los Angeles. He added that in one recent year, 9000 people bad been murdered in the United States and only 750 convictions had been secured. The sheriff was attending a huge convention of police officials from all over tbe United States. Tbe Kansas City Prosecutor. attending tbe convention said that bis police chief could not attend, because he was compelled to stay at home to cope with the bandits within ns well as outside his force.

SOVIET MAY DAY. AUSTRALIA WILL BE THERE. LONDON. March 27. Australia is one of the 45 countries which have, accepted the invitation ol the Foreign Relations Commission, attached to the Central Trade l won Council at Moscow, to attend the .Moscow May Dav festivities, says the Riga correspondent of “Tbe Times.” The council is arranging a programme to give file visitors a first-hand acquaintance with Soviet labour conditions. They are likely to learn ol drastic changes, including piecework, which the Soviet is introducing, to speed up production. The Soviet is drastically changing the payment of wages ui factories in order to raise the standard of labour discipline and increase productivity. Piecework will he widely applied and special tariff's established according to the quantity and quality of the energy lie expends. The system of equality of supplies must also he abandoned. The inclination to consider the v°uhle as a mere fictitious standard of measurement has produced chans in the accounts wherefore the Government has decreed a return to the hanking system for its new economic policy. FOR PALESTINE. PRIMATE'S TOLR. LONDON. Marc], 25. Very different conditions to those in which the old-time pilgrims walked barefooted to the cathedral city ol ( aiiterhury, attend the visit ol the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Cosmo Lang, to tin* Holy Land. Alter recovery from a severe attack of neuralgia. I)r I,aim lelt lor Dover, j aboard the Golden Arrow express train. He is to go to France, preparatory to joining at a secret ('ontiueiitai port the luxurious yacht owned by Mr Rierpout. GERMANY’S MOVE. ALLIES DISAPPROVE. LONDON, March 27. While British Government circles so far merely formally acknowledge the Ausiro-German Customs Union mcnio- , ramla, it, is clear that, Britain joins with other Powers in opposing the scheme. The scheme is regnidod as “anschInss” < annexation) thinly disguised I tile very thing that, the Allies would ! not concede to Austria and Germany i i n any form. | It diverts the entire German mar- , Nets to Austria. The Geneva Protocol j of October 3 lays down that no treaties J or unions are to he undertaken affect,- ! ing Austria’s Customs, which are mortI gaged under a League of Nations loan. YOUTH AND SEX. ATTITUDE OF CHURCH. ROME. March 25. Solemn coiidemnai ion of sex edueat-, ion of youth is contained in a decree issued by the Supreme Onngregal ion nl | I lie Holy Office, the highest, Roman, ! Catholic hodv dealing with morality. If declares that writers and teachers even if they are Roman Catholics, act wrongly if they instruct the young in all aspects of sex. j It describes as harmful “eugenic theories tending to improve the human j race.” as such improvement is provided for by divine ecclesiastical, and , human laws relawing to marriage. ; IN ABRAHAM'S TIME. I FARMERS HAT) THEIR WORRIES. LONDON. March 25. j The letters of a grain merchant living iii Abraham's time who had difficulties with his creditors, and also , copybooks of Sumerian students learn- J ing to write were among the records i reeenilv evoavated at Ur, says Mr Leo-j nard Woolley in an article in “The Times.” • j Mr Wood oy, who is a director of the j joint expedition of the British Museum and of the museums of the University : of Pennsylvania to Mesopotamia. i continues that a consistent picture of j the city’s life is now obtainable from ; a group of 27 private houses, chapels, j shops and war dioiises. remarkably pre- . served, also clay tablets, letters, and! business documents lying on the floors. I These, he states, require much iurth-l or study, but one group reveals the bus- j iness relations of a grain merchant with - agents of foreign countries and records | his purchase of property in the neighbourhood and the money he borrowed. ft, probably was owing to financial difficulties that his premises were put down on one side, the courtyard having doors walled un. Rooms were transferred to a neighbour. Another taller building apparently a school, is just inside the door There was found a mas of clay tablets piled up. among which are students' school tablets. Graves beneath the houses yielded amulets and seals, and also revealed men buried with miniature sets o f '•orper tools. One took to the grave a scale and weights, and was possibly a jeweller.