WINDOW OF THE WORLD

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 143, 30 March 1948, Page 6

WINDOW OF THE WORLD

Frank Hodges, one-time pit boy, miner’s leader and M.P., who died last June, aged 60, left £132,959 (net personalty £122,344).

Competing against 28 women in a knitting contest at Arnside, Westmorland, the Rev. William Hawthornthwaite (70) won first prize with a Shetland shawl. —“News-Chronicle.”

The Pentagon Building, Washington H.Q. of America’s armed forces, is so large that it took the police six months to trap ex-G.l. William Walton, who has been making £25 a week selling drinks of whisky in the cloakrooms.

The clergy could easily get the people back to church if they did away with the sermons. I think the clergy themselves would be glad not to spend so much of the week preparing their sermons when they could he better employed.—Mrs S. in the “Daily Graphic.”

Highland Park Zoo workers in Pittsburgh are taking care of the largest stomach-ache in the zoo’s history. Gloria, pet elephant, is laid up with chronic indigestion. To keep her comfortable a crew of keepers every so often has to turn her from one side to the other.

In Los Angeles, Raymond Adame, arrested for trying to kidnap Celina Jarmillo, explained to police what overpowered him: “I couldn’t get out of her spell . . . she made me a sandwich of potatoes, beans and macaroni . . . she bewitched me.", *****

A man who took off his shoes and socks in Southport public library and started to cut his corns is described by chief assistant Vera Pollard as “just one of the people who don’t know how to use the library.” Miss Pollard is starting a campaign in her Quarterly Bulletin to teach people that the library- is not provided for flirtations, knitting, eating, or as a dormitory.—“ Daily Mirror.”

Boleslaw Nieczslaw Moczydlowski, of Reading, Pa., asked the Court for permission to change his name to avoid confusion. The new name he sought was William Mitchel Moczydlowski.

Snails introduced as food by the Japanese, who occupied the islands of New Ireland and New Britain, have increased so alarmingly' that they threaten to destroy the plantations “Daily Herald.”

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Raymond Golightly, of New York City, was arrested for bigamy. He married Nellie Belsky in 1944, then married Nellie’s 19-year-old daughter, Ruth, in 1946. He had a child by each wife. All three have been living together in a Golightly design for living.

With an express train bearing down on it at a considerable speed, a draught horse used for pulling railway wagons at the Waipawa railway yards stood beside the rails awaiting its master's command, unaware of the approaching danger. Fearing that a loud whistle might panic the animal, the locomotive driver could only hope the horse would hear the engine and move from the danger area. The train missed the horse by inches, but tore off it a chain used for coupling to trucks without harming the animal apart from giving it a bad fright.