CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 June 1931, Page 2

CABLE NEWS

SHpAMPION PREACHER. KriNISTER’S 20-HOUR RECORD. HOLLYWOOD, June 19. Dr. Flutterer lias wrested the endur'ance preaching record from the black race with a 20 hours’ sermon, which he finished at 2 a.m. “1 took no food and no liquid except lemon juice,” said Di Futterer, who is 60 years of age. The Itev. George Brown, the coloured pasor of Mount Zion Baptist Church Washington, recently preached continuously for 12 hours 10 minutes, speaking nearly-89,000 words. During the sermcn he ate four chops, a leg of chicken and drank a glass of milk.

NEW CLOTHES FROM OLD

RESALES' IN ENGLAND

LONDON, June 19,

Englishmen’s old socks, unpicked ,by hand in the tiny Lodz suburb of Brezeziny, . are used to manufacture trousers which are exported to England at 2s apiece. “We do not dump, hut sell at a fair profit,” . a solemn-looking bearded Brezeziny tailor told the “Daily Mail’s” correspondent. “The more you pay, the more wool you get. The 2s trousers are pure cotton. If you want wool you must pay Hum 10s to los. My clearest suit is .los. You’ll not do better in Bond Street,” Russian women’s discarded petticoats are first sterilised and then the shoddy is used to make double-breasted overcoats, fashionable in London, at 12s, navy blue peajaekets bought in Holland at IQs, and trousers for the world at -2s.- -.

IDLE SHIPPING.

FIGURES FOR EUROPE. LONDON, June 19. The Parliamentary Secretary to tht Board or 'JLraue, Mr \\... it. Smith, informed Major R. Giyn toon., Abingdon), in the House ct Commons that shiping idle on April 1, ’including vessels above 10CO. toils gross, amounted to: Britain, 3,034,000 tons; Germany, 648,000 tons; France, 311,000 tons j Greece 370,000 tons. AIR MAIL ROUTE. ANXIETY IN BRITAIN. LONDON, June 19. The British Government is greatly disappointed that the experimental air mail flights between Britain and Australia have not,(faulted in .the lishment of a regular iriail Service. Fie fact that My J. K, Scullin lias emphasised that there is m immediate postd* bility of Australia providing £IOO,000 as hey share of the required subsidy may not be the la3t word. It is gathered that the Government the Post Office and the Imperial Airways, Ltd., are’ Considering whether it would he ..possibles,;.,to establish a service almost entirely financed by Britain'until Australia is in a position to contribute. 'No decisions have been reached so far, but there is an impression that a service should not he left in abeyance indefinitely.

Foreign lines are qnxious to participate. If they got a.flying start it might be detriirierital to'-’a future all-Empire project. Questions will shortly be asked in Pariiamcnt as to the cost of the experimental flights and the receipts from them.

OPEIRA“CRASHER.”

FOR GLORY’S SAKE

LONE OX, June 19. Gate-crashing into an opera chorus

is the latest development in London / since an unknown foreign woman, wno w had hired a gorgeous costume similar ,„,fb that worn by the chorus in the fourth act ~of the Russian opera, “Prince Igor;/’ which is being produced at the Lybeiim, entered ' the stage door, and walked on to the stage. Apparently familiar with she move-

ments of the chorus, she'-participated in the singing, and was not detected for half an hour, when the stage manager noticed that there was ;an extra ohorister.

He ordered her to be brought off, and the chorus surrounded her and

“assisted” her off. She refused to give her name, but declared that she was a great admirer of Chaliapin, who was playing the title role, end wished to be able to say that she had appeared with him. ,

TRAGEDY OF RIVER.

MAX AND CRIPPLED WOMAN. LONDON, Juno 19. It is expected that sensational evidence will be given at the inquest on Freda Tliain, a beautiful 37-year-old cripple, and Joseph Stevenson. 48, dairy manager, who were found-drown-ed in a river near'Grantham (Lines.). It is believed motored to the iriyer bank, that Steyenshh lifted Thmh. from t ,- e car and that they entered the water together. Stevenson, who was married, and had a grown-up family, is reported to have left a letter asking

that lie and Thain he buried together.

- He had often taken her for drives. She had been paralysed from the * waist 4o>vn since the age of 17,

MYSTERIOUS AMY. ANOTHER EASTERN FLIGHT? LONDON, June 19. “I can’t tell you anything, except that I have applied for a permit to make the flight,” said Miss Amy Johnson, interviewed regarding a Moscow report that she will make a fresh attempt on the London-Moscow-Peking light in July.

IN SADDLE AGAIN.

GILPIN COMES TO LIFE

LONDON, June 19

John Gilpin’s famous ride was resnacted in celebration of the bi-centen-ary of the poet, William Cowper, at Olney, Buckinghamshire. Mrs Gilpin, her sister, and family drove up to the Bell Inn in an ancient coach, and watched from the windows Gilpin career past on horseback, hr” less, wigless, and with his coat tails flying. Gilpin—the .part being played hv S. L.'Trevor, captain, of the Buckinghamshire cricket eleven—secured a fresh wig at Calenders, now the Sun Inn, and returned at furious gallop, stirrupless pursued by a post boy and others, on horseback, including Prince Chalerrinbol, Crown Prince of Siam, who is a student at Oxford University. The final reunion of the family on the balcony of the Bell Inn was preceded by a pageant of episodes in Cowper’s life and incidents in his poems.

A REAL 'MENACE

RUSSIA’S ECONOMIC AIMS',

London, June. 19,

The Soviet five year-plan is a herculean effort which threatens the world’s industrial countries with economic annihilation, says Lord Hardinge of Penhurst in an article in the “Daily Mail" on dumping. Russian trade is only in its infancy, he says. If plans materialise Russia. will produce in essential commodities more than the joint production of a number of countries. To-day, because of labour and economic conditions, Russia is able to disregard the important factor of costs, aier efforts must bring disorganisation and chaos in every market in the world, since the Soviet aims at the creation of a new economic force for the destruction of the existing order. The situation is .menacing ’ and demands defensive measures. • . • SAFEBREAKER’S BOAST. EXPERTS SENTENCED. LONDON, June 19. could break ojjetl ally stlffci ill 20 minutes,” Tiinobhy Kelly, 45, boasted at a jxdioe station after having been arrested, He had In his possession 33 sticks of gelignite,'nn 'automatic pistol, 20 rounds of ammunition, 20 fuses and 14 detonators, and an American book, entitled “How to 'Open Safes,” in circumstances suggesting that they were not destined for a lawful purpose. Kelly was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. The police gave evidence that Kelly had a number of convictions in England, the last one being for house-breaking in 1928. ' After that he had 'been in America, Australia and also South Africa, where he wais convicted for safebreaking. William Burke was sentenced to 18 months’ gaol for having been found in possession of a catapult with three metal pellets, which a detective described as the latest implement for robbery. It had been brought from Canada,. A pellet, said the detective, broke a window almost without noise. The criminals watched the shop from a 'distance awaiting their opportunity, and slipped in a wire to hook out jeweilleryi. The method had not yet been used in London.