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Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1931, Page 3

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BEES’ KNEES. ' , CREAKING THROUGH RADIO. LONDON, September 10. A London firm is investigating a method of counting bees by wireless. The bees are obliged to walk across a microphone to, enter their hive.-’ The noise of their feet istarts electric 'currents which move an indicator. The microphone is connected with an amplifier so sensitive that when a bee bends its knee, its joints can be heard creaking. Thus invention marches on, regardless of the domestic consequences the application of -: the -idea to husbands whose late homecomings might otherwise pass unnoticed. : 'GANGSTER ••SISSIES.” CANNIBALS PREFERRED. VANCOUVER, September 11. J In search of real men, Captain H. E. Raabe, an old Sydney resident, is preparing his yawl Spindrift for a voyage to Australia and the cannibal isles of the South Pacific. Raabe is 73 years old and he says that the gangsters in Vancouver are a. “bunch of sissies,” addicted to booze, guns and dope: Compared with the cannibals, he says, the youngsters are becoming more feminine physically every year/

OF NO- VALUE ? TRANS-ATE ANTIC “JAUNTS.” E/rA-ky ; LONDON; September 11. Sir Arthur Whitten Brown and Sir Janies Alcock, the- -British aviators who in' 1919 made the pioneer Atlantic flight, have not been forgotten by the great aircraft maker, -Fokker, who says that, 'much credit which they Really deserve has been bestowed elsewhere. Mr Fokker declared on his arrival from New York that he could not see the value of trans-Atlantic “jaunts.” The flight of Brown and Alcock, in June, 1919, was valuable, but those which had been made by others since were “miere repetitions.” Aviation is depressed, he says’, but when the new era of prosperity sets 'it, ’economic aeroplanes—he is npw developing one of a revolutionary type—. will not be exceptionally fastr. He ipj a believer in reasonably safe, rather than fast flying. By 1933 he prophesies, there, will -be a regular trails-Atlantic, -mail sfervice. ANOTHER CRASH EX-AIR-MA N’ S FRAUD. LONDON, .?{eptember IE “When I met' the- charming Miss Jones, and she responded to my .advances, all thought of..consequences was ■effacpd/ , ’i ; Benjamin Field House,- alias, Peter Galbraith, told the magistrate';, when charged with false pretences.. at Brighton. “My life 'recently has ..been fine of degradation, and I am impelled toi .plead..guilty?, with bitter shame;” the, added. " .

An ex-Royal Air Force man, he had many previous convictions in England and Australia of obtaining money ' by, false pretences. ,He was. , sentenced to one year’s hard labour for fraudulently obtaining £26. Under the name of Peter Galbraith, he proposed to a London girl, “Miss Jones,” at Brighton after a four days’ courtship. Posing as a wealthy Australian farmer, he obtained £l2 from the girl, £2 from the licensee, and £l2 from hotel guests. It was stated that while in the Air Force he had crashed in France, during the war.

WOMAN’S PLACE. A DOCTOR’S HINTS. , LONDON, September 11. “A woman,who can’t afford a family often ruins her husband in millinery, and bridge,’’’declared Dr Josiah Oldfield, a well-known author oi medical works on diet and how to live, lecturing to -the Berkshire Women’s’ Institute. “I refuse to take women at their face value,” he added.' “A smile.-proceeding from internal happiness is more ; , attractive than painted lips upon.'a bored-face.” Dr Oldfield considers -that a badtan pered woman should not wear a white wedding 'dress as a symbol of surrender and peace, .but some jarring jazz costume, and so allow sincerity to .defy convention. “A pretty skirt and silk stockings may catch a husband,” he went on to say, “but it takes a loving disposition and good cooking to kfcep him. The longing to possess a baby makes a woman radiant. A desire to own a dog should warn a man that she is . innately selfish..” baronet labourer. NOT DRAWING THE DOLE. LONDON, September 10. , Thrown out of his job as a labourer, on the very day that- he succeeded to. a. 234-year-old baronetcy, Sir Charles Soame is now drawing the dole. His succession is due to the death of his father, Sir Charles Buckworth-Herne-vSoame, a solicitor, who lived at “Sheen Cottage,” Coalbrookdale, Shropshire.The new baronet has been living with his wife in the same village, and apart from unemployment pay his only income is ten shillings a week on account of a war 'disability—he ’served with the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. He does not know, he says, whether h ; s father’s death will change his financial position: An ’accident Cbmpdlled the old lawyer tb give up practice some years ago. ''

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LATEST FOR REDUCING. . VANCOUVER, September 11. Anita Loos, who taught gentlemen.'to prefer blonds, has brought back from Austria a new way for women to reduce. “You fill a tub of water, put in an .electric heater and an electric air-pump, and then get into the tub yourself,” says Anita. “Turn on the air-pump, which forces electric bubbles all over and around you, and the fat simply fades away. 1 lost lOlbs in two bubble baths.” BOMB FACTORY. FATE OF ITALIAN PLOTTER-. "to LONDON, September, 11.

“Hoisted with his own petard,” was the fate '-of Domenico Bovone, who lost,, both arms in the explosion of a bomb, which also killed his mother at Milan. Bovone had transformed liis home into , a secret bomb factory, and was, in ‘collaboration with a widespread organisation responsible for outrages at Bolog-. na, Turin, Genoa., and possibly at the Vatican on July 17. Tile police liaye broken up the gang. BIRD SANCTUARY. FATE OF OLD ST. KILDA. ' LONDON, September l'l. Evacuated, last year by its’ few in-" habitants, the island of St. Kilda,'has been bought by the youiig Earl of' Diijn- i fries, who will preserve .it ...as ai bird sanctuary. The earl is 24, and. his liobby is ornithology. 1 Largest of a small group of j islets” in the 'Outer Help-ides, St.,, Kilda is' almost inaccessible for 'about eight months in the year. The inhabitants, imprisoned within its narrow, cliff-bound limits, used ito send out “sea-messages” in boxes when a strong west wind was blowing. These would drift to the mainland in a. week. The arrival of strange boats caused' the island folk to catch what was known as “the boat-cold,” and at one time' the children suffered severely from a form of lockjaw referred to as “the ' eight days’ sickness.” j : " ' 1

FAMILY IN RIVER, '' MAN HELD FOR MURDER. 1 ” COLUMBUS (Ohio), September 10;' Patrick Reicliley, 29, i‘s‘-being •detain--’* ed while the police investigate-whether he intended to murder lii.s wife a‘nd five children, drowned in what Reicliley calls an accident. ' I '' ?' ; The family ’ were driving 'in’ a sedan car along a rivhrhank, wlion ! says, lie turned his head because of. the noise which the children wore makt ing in the rear of'the car. The nexjtk thing- he knew was, that a!) were in the water;' ‘ . 1 ■ ■

j." He claims' that lie \y.as'pahic-'stH<-ken'f I and nan for assistance,,. Wlieh ihelfU&Urived all were found, tp have pOt-iltob ! inside the motor car, ; tiiough’ tlje<;poh'(ie believh-that "Reicliley /could eas/lyi liavn ielease'd them.U' "" " 1 <■

'ALCOHOL' AS ULEsSlNfh!ia' c-'PU ’ " / j IA-i-.Vti .iXCAR’S VIEWr “C- ---“ ' ' ’ t <•; - . ; -,H > ‘ULQiNDp'N, September Hr'*• “ft is a thoughtless arid abominable practice to rush young children-Into' " signing ai ‘pledge" that "they do nOtouridcr-l stand,” states Rev.'K./ S.-Mercer; vicar of Little Wakering, Essex. “Better -teadh' them to drin,k with wisdom. Mail'y ex-' cessive drinkers fell because they were not taught to drink properly in their childhood. Many still need to be taught to thank God for alcohol.”

“LAUGHING, BANDITS.” - TEX LASSES FOR A;MiER]CANS. WIN;NIPE(t, September Tl.- ' ' -Mainley Conti:ster and'Harry ;D find aspossessed cleverness l-esource and cool-' ness enough to make ideal..robbers, but they were too tall for t-heirjob. Hailing from New York, these towering bandits-, both 6ft 4in high,' iiivaflfed" Winnipeg., held tip three banks in succession;:.and; gdt' £4OOO. Known asthe ! ' “laughing bandits,” they joked . and jollied (theirvictims, who, however, took note oLtheir, liuge physique. In the evening they were transformed into social figures, 'and detectives, arrested 1 them at a church garden party. Gaol for 15 years, with TO lashes-, was imposed by the Court in an effort:. to make' banditry unpopular in this .city.

e Another ' ' pair of bandits, who specialised in chain store pay roll robberies, received 12 years and 10; lashes.