NEWS CURIOSITIES

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 83, 8 April 1933, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEWS CURIOSITIES

a riw Mae E ller of Chicago obtained a • £K i° U alle « atlon s that her husband s on th * toes to kee P her from dancing j on the stage. • dri ,-n Y g i ?ar ' w^ hen T , cau e ht a y° uD « r hi; w r, lse » a "Paris, tried to strangle ' hIL fT- d,d ', no ? suc ceed.- Realising that 3 & P « talled both a s burglar and strangles 3 there a " ic and han B ed h ™ sel£ ' rQot i cs an , d equipment with an illicit It J, Vj lu . e ° f "lore than i; 100.000 were . *°?. ve,, f d ', nto the fumaces at New York ' £? ,,c e headquarters in the annual disposal or confiscated material connected with the illicit drug traffic. General Juan Vicente Gomez, President or V enezueJa, goes to a cinema from his omce almost every day and sees more than MO pictures a year. When he goes for a holiday he takes films, apparatus and operators with him. An American war veteran is sailing to i'rance to look at his own grave. According to official war records he was killed V,'t le T, bnttle of tbe AiKonne. The U.S. War Department, in checking his identity, has sent hiui a picture of his grave with his name on it. Excavations in the district of Flatow, Urenzmark, which have so far laid bare 8S prehistoric graves, have brought to light many vessels with varied contents. Among these are kernels of a grain related to wheat. The graves date from the transitional period from the Stone to the Bronze Age, and are therefore some 4000 years old. Richard Dix, hero of many a gallant 6creen adventure, was a hero in real life recently, when he saved Miss Wilmont, his secretary, from a blazing Hollywood dressing room. The fire started when Miss Wilmont accidentally ignited some papers on which she was working, and the prompt action of the film star, who sprang gallantly to the rescue, undoubtedly saved her life. Richard Dix, who had his greatest role in "Cimarron," is considered one of the. best-looking "he-men" .of the screen.

Once upon a time J. C. Hamdorf had been a blacksmith in West Australia. He did not prosper greatly, so he became a gold prospector. He did not find miie» gold and he went through some hard times. But one night Hamdorf dreamed. "I dreamed that I met some prospectors, he explained, "and they asked ma where I expected gold. I said. 'Over there, ana pointed to a bush south of the present boundary of the Wannaway Field; Next morning I went straight over to the busn and started working. In a few minute* the indications were definite. My dream had come true."