LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 June 1931, Page 5

LATE CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIA’S PLIGHT. WERE FINANCIERS TOO GENEROUS? LONDON, May 21. “Many financiers in London believe that they would have done a good turn to Australia if they had closed their purses earlier.” Lord Herbert Scott, retiring president of tlie London Chamber of Commerce, made this statement when referring to the growing tendency in England to borrow to meet current needs. “If we do not apply the brake soon,” he said, “it iy merely a question of time when we will find ourselves in the same plight as Australia.”

DANGER OF “SPOTS” FOR MOTORISTS. MEDICAL MEN APPEAL TO MINISTER. LONDON, May 21. A deputation of 28 well-known medical men asked the Minister for Transport (Mr Herbert Morrison) to issue an official warning to motorists against taking alcohol before or during a drive. “What I have to think about,” replied the Minister, “is the attitude of the British people* to the State becoming the director of personal conduct,” The deputation pointed out that transport authorities in other countries had taken similar action, Mr Morrison said that he entirely agreed with the view that alcohol was a danger to drivers of motor vehicles, hut he believed that the majority o‘ British motor drivers were already conscious of the fact. Ho thought that the object of the deputation would bd better obtained by voluntary propaganda. VERGE OF ECONOMIC CRISIS. GLOOMY VIEW OF BRITAIN’S POSITION. LONDON. May 21. Great Britain, according to the National Council of industry, is in danger of an economic and industrial collapse. The council has issued a declaration urging immediate parliamentary action to deal with the situation. “Great Empires and little minds go ill together,” said Sir William Morriss. the motor-car manufacturer, referring to the industrial position, “and it is imperative that industrial considerations should replace party welfare.” The Council has announced that it intends to take steps to avert disaster. ARTIST’S LOVE AFFAIRS. LOST, HKA RT, TO 92 GIRLS, NEW YOB IC, May 21. “My remorse is bitter over my failure to appreciate my beautiful lost angel, Carlotta, the only woman 1 ever loved, and whom I.respect and admire above all others of the human race.” A note to this effect was left by Ralph Barton, one of America’s most celebrated caricaturists, who was found dead with a bullet wound in the temple.

Bored by a glamorous life, which brought him fame and riches, Barton grieved because of the loss of the beautiful actress, Carlotta Monterey, who was married several months ago to Eugene O’Neill, the playwright. In April Barton’s fourth wife , divorced him in Paris.

AVliile in France with Charlie Chaplin, his closest friend, Barton begged Carlotta to return to him, but she refused. ' Barton’s melancholy increased when he failed to win Ruth Kresge, heiress to a chain-store fortune, who sailed for Europe yesterday to marry another man.

Tn a recent artfMe in a New A’ork magazine Barton admitted having been in love 92 times, and boasted that he could remember the name of every girl.

PERFECT COLOUR FILM. INVENTION IN BRITAIN. LONDON, May 27. The “Daily Mail” describes the new British three-colour Spicer-Dufay pro'■ess, which, it is claimed, will revolutionise the film industry, The secret of the invention is the actual film base which is printed with a matrix consisting of 500,000 minute red, green, blue, and violet squares to every square inch of the film, which is coated with highlv-sensitive emulsion. ' Tile film, which is non-inflammable, is then exposed in an ordinary camera and the picture taken can be screened within an hour by means of an ordinary projector. The “Daily Mail” says that the process on which five years' secret work lias been snent has completely realised the ideal of perfect natural colour, hitherto sought in vain.