LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1931, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS

LURE OF WORK. GOVERNOR’S NEW POST. LONDON, April 29. “It is the work, not a wanderlust which attracts me,” declared tbq former Governor of Tasmania (Sir James O’Grady) explaining why lie accepted his now Appointment uy Governor of the Falkland Isles, “I have become most interested in the Empire service,” he added, “and regret that L was not in it years ago. There was no question of my asking for the Falkland Isles lappointment. When they asked me, I simply replied; ‘lt is for you to say. If you desire me to go I shall go gladly.’ Although L know nothing about the Falklands. 1 am sure of getting to grips with the problems there. It will be enjoyable.” Sir James pooh-poohed the idea of enjoying a quiet old age in England. “That has no attraction for me. If people wonder why I am so keen on working for the Empire at my age, my reply is that it is part of my makeup.”

ENGLISHMAN SEIZED. DIPLOMAT IMPRISONED. LONDON, April 29. The allegation that a. British diplomat has been imprisoned in Italy since March 12, without trial, is made by Mr Robert Boothbv, M.P. Mr Boothbv is to ask the Foreign Secretary, Mr Henderson, in the House of Commons, whether he is taking steps to secure the release of Mr Hugh Cholmondeley, who was arrested by the Italian authorities at Taormina, Sicily, on that date. 'Mr Boothby declares that, following a theft at the hotel at which Mr Cholmondeley was staying, the police seized the latter’s personal belongings, and kept the man all night without food. Later, they found a penknife in Mr Cholmondelev’s luggage, with Which they claimed a jewel case had been forced open. He denies that there is any eviednee that Mr Cholmondeley was concerned in the theft. DOUG. ON TOUR. MARY PICKFOIID’S FILMS. LONDON, April 29. Douglas Fairbanks, when lie arrived here on his world tour, revealed that by a clause in her will Mary Pickford has directed that all her films shall be burned after her death.

“Mary feels if the present generation lias enjoyed her films, that is sufficient,” lie explained. “She does not wish them to be. exhibited when she lias gone.”

“A figment of the imagination,” was how he clmfraoterised reports of an estrangement between himself and his wife. “These- reports are like asthma,” he said. “They recur every year.”

“Mary will join me in London next week for a long holiday. I have communicated with her throughout the tour. I telephoned from' Japan to Los Angeles— lo,ooo miles—and spoke lo her every evening from Rome.”

WOMAN’S WAY. SWEETHEART MURDERED. FLINT (Mich.), April 30. Helen Joyce Morgan, aged 27, took her sweetheart, Lester Castell, for a vide, killed him, and (Lagged lii.s body into a cemetery. She then drove home calmly and slept until roused by the police. _ Living with her widowed mother, one ol the wealthiest women in the city Helen kept company with Castell f-u two years. He called for their last talk, announcing Ins departure for another city. “I knew he was taking another woman, so I killed him,” she told the police officers.

MURDER AT SEA! BRIDE’S RIGHTEOUS WRATH. NEW YORK, April 30. Murder on the high seas was reported by the skipper of the liner Deustchland, when she docked at New York, but the police declined to make arrests. There was a group of honeymooners aboard. The bridegroom began necking with six gay young tilings in the next cabin, when the bride literally tore big head off. Hans and Cerda, the couple involved, were Abyssinian cranes en route to a Bowery pet shop. MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. PIGEON SMASHES PROPELLOR. LONDON, April 30. Horror gripped spectators who saw a disabled aeroplane swoop from a height of 5.000 feet on a London park, seeking a forced landing place among hundreds of children. “Gee, he was cool!’’ exclaimed the park-keeper, describing bow Pilot-Of-ficer John Baxter broii' v,l t the ’plane to earth on the only vacant.space—a cricket nitch

“Something black came out of the clouds, and smashed off th > tin of The propellor,” said Baxter. “The machine began to wobble.” He was obliged to shut off the engine to save the ’plane from being shaken to bits. The men rest landing place was Southwark Park, u here he most- .sled-

fully manoeuvred to avoid children playing there,

dust us he was preparing to land he ,vas forced to elevate the '’plane- to avoid striking two groundsmen. This

caused the machine to overturn. Baxter crawled out of the cockpit, fit a cigarette and calmly surveyed the wreckage. A groundsman declaim! that he expected to find him dead. “I could huv R dropped when I heard.his ‘OJv.’ ”he said. Jt is believed that a pigeon caused <-he accident.