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Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1931, Page 5

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“PINK SILK SHEETS.” CAUSE OF CRIME PASSIONED LONDON, May 15. “1 want pink silk sheets in my trousseiiiu.” isani fair-inured: Christiana Anbin, to her fiance, Andre Bourdin, a promising young engineer. Although she was conducting several intrigues, he believed that .she was unsophisticated. Hi.s dreams of the future were shattered, however, says the Paris correspondent of the “Daily M’ail,” when he discovered a cheque in her favour signed by an elderly admirer. Bourdin hurried to the admirer’s flat and found him sitting up in a pink silk sheeted bed. Rushing to Aubin’s dwelling, he drew a revolver and shot her dead. The tale of li is tragic love so moved the jury that they acquitted him.

AIR VETERAN’S DEATH

FRANCE’S SECOND PILOT

PARIS, May 12

Colonel tie Malherbe, aged 52, one of tho original air aces, who joined the air service in 1911, and who received the second military air license granted in France, was killed at VHlacou hi ay, when testing a chaser ’plane. Adjutant Duclos, who has had 4900 hours’ flying, was following Alftlhei'b<L watching the chaser’s behaviour who' l , nppa.reutlv dazzled by the ftui), lie crashed into the rear of Ain 1 her he’s ’plane. Both machines crashed 1,600 feet to the ground. The nose of Duclos' machine was embedded in the fuselage of the chaser.

I lie pilots were still seated in t'-*" wreckage. Duclos was killed outright and Malherbe died shortly afterward. Malherbe participated in the, first raids oil the German lines during the war. ANOXY MO US LETTERS. PARSON-CRICKF.TER ANNOYED. LONDON, Alay 13. “The writers of these letters are like rats—they always hide in holes. Yet they call themselves sportsmen,” said the Rev. “Jock” Parsons, former professional cricketer, condemning anonymous letters at a sportsmen’s service at Rugby, He was alluding, especially, to the criticism of.the Warwickshire team in a match against Glamorgan, in which lie played.

Mr Parsons is net only a cricketing; parson, but has the reputation of being the finest shove-ha’penny player in Warwickshire. Shove-ha'penny is played by bumping half-pennies with the palm of the hand from the edge of , a table on which lines are drawn, the 'spaces between the lines being allotted various points. NO DOMINION TOURS. BR IT IS B MINISTERS. LONDON, May 13. Replying to a question in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister, Mr MacDonald, said that no visits by Ministers to the Dominions were contemplated in 1931, apart from attendance 'at the Imperial Eeonomio Conference at Ottawa. VIRTUAL COLLAPSE. MANITOBA WHEAT POOL. WINNIPEG, -May 14. Virtual collapse has overtaken the Manitoba, wheat pool. This is the meaning of the announcement that pooi marketing is being made voluntary by release of members from obligations which have held them bound tor several years.

_ _ L ey may hereafter sell wheat on the open market if they so wish. Pool directors in the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan declare their intention of adhering to pool maiketing irrespective of Manitoba’s action. The entire pool marketing plan in the Canadian West appears to be at the crossroads.

Saskatchewan, with many thousands of foreign-born farmers, and strongly sprinkled with Communism, is tih; centre of some talk of secession from the remainder of Canada. It was in Saskatchewan that the 100 per cent pool idea was strongly pressed during the last two years. Compulsion was opposed by Manitoba officials. The situation reached a climax when the New \ear session of the Legislature passed a 100 per cent pool enactment, hut this has since been disallowed by the Saskatchewan Supreme Court.

The Government has declined To carry the appeal further, but radical pool officials insist that they will pursue the matter to the Privy Council. GOLF SAVES LIFE. LONDON. May 14. How golf saved his life was disclosed by Joe Kirkwood, the golfer. A motor truck in the Strand tore otf the side of his taxi and pitched out his luggage, which was strewn on the roadway and promptly run over by other vehicles. Joe was effectively stymied by his golf clubs as he was being propelled alter it. As a means of transferring the money he earned in Australia, without loss on account of the adverse exchange rate, he purchased meat in Sydney and sold jt in Honolulu. “T hope to visit Australia again when the exchange rate is lower/’ he said.