LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1932, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS

PROFITEERING. LAMBS 3s ALIVE, £l7 AS MEAT. KANSAS, IU.S.), March 3. A farmer sold seven lambs to a Chicago packing-house. After the deduction of insurance, commission, inspection, and other charges, from the wholesale price, the farmer got 3s for his lambs. Tile United States Department of Agriculture, on investigation, found that consumers ultimately paid £l7 for the prepared lamb. Senator Capper violently denounced the nation’s food distribution methods. VOWS OF 'VENGENCE. GANGLAND’S FEUDS. CLEVELAND, March 3. Seven Portello brothers “racketeered’’ their way into control of the corn and sugar industry in the area surrounding the city of Cleveland. A year ago two of the brothers were killed in a fight, and now two others have been shot dead by, rivals. The three remaining declare that .-IhOy are willing to forfeit thenlives in revenging the deaths of their brothers. Fred and Carlo Portello joined some friends at a card table in a downtown resort, When four gangsters arriving by motor car unlimbered their revolvers. The first round of cards was being dealt when .they blazed . away through the plate-glass window*. Two of the Porte Has Sand one of their frjends slumped dead over the table.

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‘HORRORS” OF ROTTEN ROW. LONDON, March 3. Sartorial solecisms, in Rotten Row have perturbed Sir Walter Gilbey, the millionaire distiller, who lias been shocked by,the numbers of men and women w.'ho ride in costumes that are “a disgrace to Royal Park and the country, especially when foreigners think that Rotten Row represents the last word in horses and riders.” •‘Thousands,” he says, “would welcome the prohibition of unsuitably dressed equestrians, particularly the ■ hatless, of whom there were 30 on Sunday. “Others wear stockings and pull-overs of every variety of colour— a very unsuitable kit. Soon, riders may be seen in (Lathing costumes or running shorts.” The ‘Tailor and Cutter,” the men’s fashion journal, 1 echoes Sir Walter Gilbey,’ and declares that King George is an equestrian sartorial model. He wears a bowler hat, riding jacket and breeches, with suitable accessories. “If the .majority of riders were only half as well groomed as their horses there would be no complaint.” "POCKET HERCULES.'’ LONDON, March 3. “Mr Amery is known ag the pocket Herculo*. The question is—whose pocket is he In?” exclaimed a shareholder at the meeting of Southern Railway Company, when opposing his addition to the board of 14 directors at a salary of £IOOO a year, Another shareholder condemned the anpointment of the “political unemployed” and urged that young and energetic men should be obtained a,| directors from the road transport business The chairman deprecated attacks on Mr Amery, and said that he was an able and experienced man. The retiring directors, and also Mr Amery, were elected amid uproar. In 1931, the company’s passenger revenue declined by 1$ millions. All the big four railways have now presented reports showing heavy decreases in revenue and deploring “unfair road competition.”

“BELIEVE IT OR NOT.” LOS ANGELES. March 3. An action for £IOO,OOO damages, for alleged breach of promise of marriage, is being brought by Harionuki, a Japanese prima donna residing in Hollywood, against “BelieVe-it-or-not” Robert Ripley, the American cartoonist, who recently visited Auckland 011 the Mariposa. “What’s that? Say it again!” exclaimed Ripley, when the cable message wa s read to him at Sydney, and when it was repeated he smiled. “Blackmail, purely blackmail,” he said. “There is no basis or ground for anything like that at all. Believe it or not. Well, I’m mg going to worry over that bit of news,” he said laughingly, as he hurried 10 his car to visit an old friend.