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Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1931, Page 6

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HEAVEN AND HELL. “CHAMBER OF HORRORS” IDEA LONDON, Dec. 3. “A great deal of the teaching abut hell is sheer devil-worship, and if it is anything like what some people represent it to be, none of us would want to go to heaven, realising all that was going on’ elsewhere.” Rev Evelyn F- Braley, principal of Bede College, Durham, made this statement in the course of a sermon at the college. “We dismiss this chamber of horrors as an insult to God and our moral sense,” he said. “Teaching the people that we go to heaven if we are good and to, hell, if bad is doing untold harm.” DOCTORS BUSY. APPENDICITIS EPIDEMIC. \ \ 1 LONDON,'" December 3 Doctors are working day and night to cope with an astonishing increase in appendicitis. There have been more cases in two months than during the past ten years. Surgeons ascribe the prevalence to internal chills causing catarrh of the appendix. The most modern doctors are making longer incisions, thereby reducing the painful after-effects of adhesions. The morality is less than in any other epoch. PATHETIC SEQUEL BENTLY MINE DISASTER LONDON, Dec. 3. A sad story of the Bentley colliery disaster is revealed by the death of Mary, the 11-year-old daughter of Arthur Kirkland, who was fatally injured while rescuing a comrade. Mary was dying in hospital, and her father had promised to bring, her a gift on the day on which the explosion occurred. When her mother arrived at the hospital the child repeatedly asked for her father. The mother evaded the question. But she was unable to gratify Mary’s continual requests for hey father’s gift, because the child insisted that it was intended to he a surprise to her ihother, adding, “You will see when daddy comes!” Mrs Kirkland throughout the week visited her husband and daughter daily at different hospitals and kept Mary’s death from her father, who died next day. Father and daughter are to be buried, in the same grave. \ .- __ three Deaths. CALF-LOVE TRAGEDY. CHICAGO, Dec. 3. A thwarted calf-love at the Roosevelt Hight School was responsible for three deaths. Henry Sindo (16) loved Ruth Wicklund (12) so desperately that he did not want another boy to get her, so lie shot the girl dead and committed suicidie. The tragedy which occurred early in the afternoon, was the sole topic of conversation after school hours. Constance Trohatos, however, had not heard all the details, so at night she called on her boy friend, Joseph Wilson, to hear the latest gossip about it. Young Wilson got out his revolver to demonstrate to Constance exactly how the shooting was done.

“Don’t be afraid,” he said, “this gun is only loaded with blanks.” Twice he pulled the trigger,- with harmless' result, ,to show how the crime had been committed, but at the third snap .Constance fell dead. AIR “BOOTLEGGER” CHUCKLES AT “UNCLE SAM” VANCOUVER, 8.C., Dec. 4. For hours on end these winter evenins in Canada, United States Radio Broadcasting is overwhelmed by a super bootlegger of the air, who is having a marvellous, chuckle at Uncle Sam. Old “Doc” Brinkley has made a fortune selling man and horse medicine through Kansas and Nebraska, and with his son, Johnny Boy, became a broadcasting sensation throughout the south-west of the United States. ' After enduring him for two years, the United States Government suppressed him as far as the use of the air was concerned, but not before the “Doc” had acquired a still greater fortune by the bizarre broadcasts. The case got national notoriety, and this was his cue for his latest move* which was to Mexico/ On the south bank of the Rio Grande River within a stone’s throw from Texas, the old man , nightly “takes the air” with 65,000 , watts, the highest powered station on this continent.’ At will he blots out any programme from San Francisco, Vancouver, Chicago or New York, and it is safe to say that 30,000,000 curses are aimed at him nightly. But the “Doc” laughs and goes merrily on. The Mexican Government so f ar has declined a convention with Uncle Sam, who is just worried to death, as the ostracised citizen jocularly rubs salt nightly into his radio wounds. HOUSE OF BOURBON. The heads of the various branches 'of the Royal house of Bourbon are planning to meet in conference in England in January next. The object of the conference, says.

the Paris , correspondent of the “News-Chronicle”, is to attempt to reconcile the family feuds and discuss the position of the ancient house since the overthrow of ex-King Alfonso of Spain. The present is the first time for many centuries that no Bourbon has occupied a throne in Europe.

The Due de Guise, head of the Bourbon-orleans family and pretender to the throne of France, is to preside at the conference, at which Alfonso will be present. The meeting will take place at Claremont, Surrey, the home of Don Luis de Bourbon, a cousin of King George.

BATTLE OF THE BRIDGES. ■FIGHT OF THE CENTURY IN U.S. NEW YORK, December 10. The battle of the century is on. American papers to-day gave more space to a contract bridge game than to the opening of Congress. ‘ Sidney Lenz and his partner, Oswald Jacobs, playing the official system, were 1715 points ahead in their 150 rubber contract bridge match against Mr and Mrs Ely Culbertson and the Culbertson system.

America is baseball mad, but the national game never got such a front page display as this contract bridge game. Curiously enough, it* is the one contest which cannot be efficiently broadcast by radio.

In three hours the players disposed of three rubbers. Culbertson said that Lenz and Jacobs had dreadnoughts in holdings, and that if the cards had been reversed the Culbertsons would have had 4000 points.

Culbertson was especially critical of the failure of his opponents to bid more. Lens replied that doubling by his side would have driven the Culbertsons into other suits and making successful contracts.

Ai'l agreed that there was nothing sensational in the handling of the cards after dummy was down. Lenz fulfilled five contracts, Jacobs and Mrs Culbertson made it three times each, and C ulbertson once.

The greatest argument developed from the second hand, when Mrs Culbertson set four on a bid of five diamonds. Lenz claimed she had a slam in clubs.

JUDGE TAKEN TO TASK. ATTACK BY PRIEST. 4 LONDON, December 10. “When Mr Justice McCardie urges an alteration of the law against abortion, he brings his Court into disrepute, if not contempt,” said Father Woodlock, the well-known preacher of the West End Jesuit Church, Farm Street, “The judge should know that laws made to fit hard cases are bad laws. The unborn child has a right to live. The Catholic theolpgv proclaims its personality. The increased number of illegal operations, which are directly the result of anti-parental mentality, are due to birth-control propaganda. “Some hard cases of the poor come to Court, but the rich can, without detection, avoid an undesired pregnancy. The 'professional and -educated classes of England nowadays are so opposed to parenthood that they are producing barely half the children required to replace .themselves. “Birth-control legislation is a quack remedy for' social evils. The State should make England fit for children to grow healthily, instead of legalising abortion and hejping birth-control among the working classes, whom the eugenists call inferior stock. A miner’s child may become an archbishop if given a fair chance.”

e VANISHED BRIDE. AND VANISHED JEWELS! LONDON ,Dec. 10. After a few weeks’ acquaintance, Mr Arthur Davis, a retired farmer, married Gweudoleen Read, 20 years his junior, the celebration of the ceremony costing £IOOO. Gwendoleen placed £lO of his money in the church ° poor box to signalise the engagement, a and spent £25 on a visit to the alleg--5 ed general manager of her Irish es--6 tate. On the way to the wedd’ng reception she put her bridal bouquet, a on the war memorial. The honeymoon was spent in Ire- ’ land ' where Gwendoleen showed her husband an extensive estate, fehe said it was hers, but that the Roman 3 Catholic tenants would burn the mansion if they became aware that she ’ had married a Protestant. A warrant has now been issued because she disappeared with jewellery worth 3 £IOOO, a number of sovereigns, £IOO 1 in bank notes, and valuable linen. 1 JUST “NIT-WITS.” t . 3 OXFORD’S TITLED STUDENTS. ' - LONDON, Dec. 9. The “Noblemen” of Christ Church ’ Oxford’s most exclusive college, which is noted for its many titled undergraduates, are bitterly condemned by I Mr Giles Playfair, son of Sir Nigel 3 Ployfair, the actor-manager, in an 1 article in the “Undergrads Magazine” for their revival of the old custom of r ducking fellow .undergraduates not , blessed with titles or athletic prowess in. Mercury’s fountain in the middle s of Tom Quad. Mr Playfair characterises the perpetrators as “a set of incompetent nit-wits.” He adds: “1 had hoped that Oxford had outgrown the worst 5 side of the public school spirit, can only appeal to the noblemen of Christ 1 Church to abide by their own rules if they are unable to abide by those 3 1 of enlightened -humanity.”

The ducking incident followed a dinner at the Bullington Club, when hilarious students ducked three of the quieter students who were fully dressed. Mr R, F. Harrod, the senior censor, severely disciplined the offenders.