ROADSIDE TRAGEDY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 183, 4 August 1932, Page 7

ROADSIDE TRAGEDY.

Husband of Actress Found Shot In Motor Car. RECENTLY SEEMED WORRIED. (Iteceived 12 noon.) LONDON, August 3. Captain Buckley Rutherford, 34, son of the late Sir Ernest Rutherford and husband of Helen Saintsbury, the actress, was found dead in. his dressclothes at the wheel of his car on a lonely road at Micheldever. The lights were burning and a workman discovered the tragedy early in the morning. The body bore terrible licad wounds and a German service revolver, with one chamber discharged, was in the car..

Rutherford married Miss Saintsbury after her return from Australia in March. His first wife, Monica Burnand, divorcer him. Miss Saintsbury divorced her first husband, Edgar Norfolk. The deceased had recently seemed worried.

PROFESSOR DISMISSED. HOSTILITY OF STUDENTS. (Received 12 noon.) CAPETOWN, August. 3. Professor Lamont, who was tarred and feathered following his publication of a novel containing reflections on the descendants of the Voortrekkers, has now been dismissed by the council of Pretoria University on the grounds that he estranged the Afrikaans section to the incalculable injury of the university.

Professor Lamont, lecturer in French at the Pretoria University, was tarred and feathered by four young men and dumped in the centre of the city, clad only in bathing trunks, on May 23. The outrage arose out of reflections on Afrikanders—native-born Africans of white parentage—appearing in a book, "War, Wine and Women," which, it was alleged, Profeseor Lamont wrote.

Two extracts from the book read as follows:—"The descendants of the Voortrekkers are poor whites, utterly degenerate," and "The South African earns big money in the mines, while his ignorant, vulgar wife parades the streets in tawdry finery."

WORLD ECONOMICS.

AMERICAN REPRESENTATION.

(Received 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, August 3;

In connection with the United States Government's acceptance of an invitation to participate in the forthcoming World Economic Conference, the American , Government will now appoint a representative on the committee to discuss the preliminary organisation of the conference, and also one economic and one financial expert to the committee of experts who will prepue the ground for the conference.

MINISTER RESIGNS.

U.S. SECRETARY OF COMMERCE

(Received 1 p.m.) WASHINGTON, August 3,

President Hoover on Wednesday received and accepted the resignation of the Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Robert P. Lamont (Illinois). He immediately appointed Mr. Roy Chapin (Detroit) chairman of the Hudson Motor Car Company, as successor. The President said Mr. Lamont had found it necessary to resign in order to re-enter private business. He praised the work of Mr. Lamont.

KEEP HIM CHAINED. KING'S SAVAGE DOG. LONDON, July 29. "I have to keep him chained during the party; otherwise he might bite everybody's heels," laughingly explained the King to a friend who inquired the whereabouts of his pet dog at a garden party at Buckingham Palace. He added that if it were loose it would have a gala day, biting half the notabilities in Britain.

The King, looking extremely well, chatted and laughed cheeringly, wearing a topper of unusually pale biscuit colour. The Queen wore a gold brocade coat over a dress of aquamarine georgette, while the Duchess of York looked winsome in a turquoise ensemble. The Princess Royal was in flowered chiffon. |