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Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1931, Page 5

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FACE iiMACKED. MUSSOLINI OF MUSIC. HOME, May 2d. The famous conductor Toscanini, \slio is niexnamed “the Mussolini of Music” owing to his autocratic method's, has had ins late smacked. lie was invited to conduct a concert at Bologna, and had arranged the programme when Fascists demanded that it must open with the nat- mini anthem, followed by “Giovine via,” the fascist hymn. Toscanini declined to accept dictation, declaring that, as conductor, he was the sole arbiter of the programme, whereupon young black shirts publicly assaulted and jostled him. They continued the demonstration in the .street all night, marching in procession and singing Fascist songs.

WORN FOR 23 YEARS. EARL OF ATHLONE’S SUIT. LONDON, May 23. “The suit I am wearing i.s 20 years old,” the Earl of Athlone, the Queen’s brother, told a meeting of the British Empire League, The Earl was referring to the advice given recently by the Evince of Wales to British nnuitiftietum’s not to make articles that would last very long if they wished to capture the foreign markets. “Some of us older people,” said the Earl of Athlone, “who have been accustomed to wearing articles of clothing for many years, are loath to part with garments which will not wear out.” SURGICAL WONDER. NEW GERMAN ANAESTHETIC LONDON, May 22. “A revolution in surgery pract'ce,” is how an eminent surgeon describes a new anaesthetic, known as Rernocton, discovered in Germany and introduced into England. Injected into a vein by a hypodermic syringe, it renders the patient unconscious in 60 seconds, enabling him to he carried to the operating theatre ' and given a general anaesthetic.

This eliminates tin* ordeal of seeing the dread preparation for the operation and usually prevents post-operation sickness, owing to the small quantity of ether necessary. ROMANCE INDEED. THRICE A “MILLION-HEIR LONDON". May 20. Romantic interest was attached to the quest for .Mr A. (.‘ourtnuld, who wits tost on the north Greenland icecap for a considerable time, by the fact that he is ‘‘the last of the Comtaulds'’ and is heir to three imlliojvaires. He i.s the only sop of Air S, Augustine Courtftuld, the silk magnate, of London ; his unde, Ai r Samuel Courtnuld, has no son, and another uncle, Mr William Courtnuld, has no children. UNEQUALLY ARMED. DANGER WITHIN EUROPE. LONDON. May 20. The danger which threatens the world to-day, gays professor Gilbert Murray, in a letter to “The. Times,” is that one half of Europe is forcibly disarmed, and the other half grossly over-armed, thus breaking the Treaty of Versailles, discrediting the League of Nations, and perhaps driving Germany into the arms of Russia. To call off the Disarmament Conference would simply send Germany out of the League, through which lies the only road to peace; EVILS OF FREE LOVE. COUPLE DISILLUSIONED. LONDON, Alay 20. That free, love is one thing in theory and another in practice seems to have been discovered by a young married couple, with artistic tastes, whose history was disclosed in the divorce iCourt by Air Justice Langton. Be, exercising his discretion in her favour, granted a decree nisi in the case of Norali Allison phibbs. of Londonderry, a black and white artist, v. Geoffrey Basil Phibbs, author. “As usual, among devotees of such doctrines, they sewn to have found vie tlun- hive nor freedom.” states the “Gaily Mail.”

;\rr Justice Langton said that- +he c-tse illustrated the extraordinary folly of free lov° doctrines in the present s*-ate of civilisation. The wife, having discussed her husband’s advahced opinions, fell first, perhaps as a '< suit of his tenets, perhaps not. misconducting herself twice with the same man. She. with commendable fra”kness, confessed. The husband. "ho cnnnrentlv did not think so highly of Ids doctrines thereafter, nevertheless condoned the offence, and took one editress after another. Thereupon, tlm wife, whose behaviour recently has m"ch improved, and w'm ’s now living with her mother, concluded that free

love was unattractive. The husband is still living with another woman. The youth of the Phibbs plight excuse their folly, LIQUOR PUZZLE. DILEMMA AT WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, May 20. Diplomatic usage provides tmu when an envoy is the victim of a theft, the Government of the country where the incident occurred makes good, The Salvador Embassy has officially reported the theft of liquor valued at £6OO, and the State Department confesses itself nonplussed now to restore the whisky without violation of the Eighteenth Amendment. NEW YORK BATTLE. SUPER-GANGSTERS’ FIGHT. NEW YORK. May 20. “Tt vpas the xnost dramatic ; and sensational experience I ever had in 30 years on the police force,’* said Commissioner Mulrooaey, who personally led the siege which ended in the capture of Francis (“Two-gun” V Crowley and Rudolph Durniger, two super-gangsters. More than 1000 shots were exchanged in the most audacious resistance to law that New York has known for many years. Surgeons removed three b'dl e, ts from Crowley’s limbs. Like the notorious Jack Diamond, he appears to bear a charmed life. Crowley’s partner, Durniger, had killed a young dancer, Virginia Brannen. during a wild ride, early in the morning of April 27. Following that, both men were limited by hundreds of policemen. On Tuesday, Crowley wantonly killed Patrolman. Hirsch. ‘d started killing cops because it was about the only sensation left,” confessed Crowley, who is only 22. The police learned of the desperadoes’ “hangout,” and they quietly surrounded Crowley’s flat. Gaining admission, they were betrayed by creaking boards, and Crowley opened hostilities by shooting through the walls. When tear gas compelled Inm to surrender, Crowley stood with a ami in each hand, and another strapped to his waist, and a fourth tied to an ankle.