NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 230, 28 September 1935, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

WHAT'S IN A NAME? A man who took the oath in Jew isn fashion in a case at Birmingham County Court® suing for the return ot iideposit on a car which was subsequently sold to a third person, said that he lived in Birmingham under the name ot Gampbell for business reasons; "My name is Garber," he said, "and I find I get mote orders when working in Scotland as Campbell." Judge Dyer: What do you call yourself in England? "By my own name usually, but sometimes 1 am Campbell when 1 want to be very businesslike, replied Galber.

RADIO REUNITES REGIMENT. Nearly 2000 past and present members of the Bull's (Royal East Kent Regiment) attended at Canterbury Cathedral the annual service of remembrance for the 0500 officers and men of the regiment who were killed in the war. The service was broadcast throughout tile Empire and was heard by the 2nd Battalion in Burma and by the allied regiments, the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, the Vancouver Regiment and the 3rd Australian Regiment. During the service the colours of the sth Battalion, which have been in Cranbrook Church since the war, were handed to the dean, Dr. Hewlett Johnson, and will be placed in the Warriors' Chapel. A message of greeting was received from the King of Denmark, Colonel-in-Chiefr of the regiment.

AL CAPONE PROMOTED. William Henry Ambrose, an Englishman, once a drug pedlar, removed for deportation from Alcatraz Prison, revealed some of the secrets of America's "Devil Island" —the island gaol in San Francisco Harbour. Ambrose was released for deportation under President Roosevelt's order that foreign criminals must be sent back to their own countries. Alcatraz Prison, he said, is the gaol of eternal silence. No prisoner may speak except during one authorised period a week. "It is enough to drive you crazy. Even 'hard guys' like A 1 Capone are furious at the silence, the strict discipline, the harsh iounishment. Capone has three or four times been thrown into a dungeon for talking." But Ambrose confirmed the report that Capone, the ex-racketeer, has been appointed prison librarian. Capone, according to Ambrose, is not losing his reason. "He's not giving away an inch, he says.

RIVER DIVERTED FOR AIRPORT. The River Mole has been diverted to level London's new airport at Gatwick, near lieigate, Surrey. Lord Goschen, chairman of Airports, .Ltd., addressing a meeting, said that the work of clearing the airport by diverting the river was almost completed. Gatwick airport wilt rival Croydon when it is ready at the end of the year. Outside the London fog belt, connected to fast train services on the main London-Brighton line, it will take only 37 minutes to reach London Bridge. There is no train service to the City from Croydon airport. The journey takes 45 minutes by omnibus. Croydon can only deal simultaneously with one leaving and one arriving aeroplane. Gatwick will be able to deal simultaneously with passengers from six fully loaded aeroplanes. There will be room for a clear rur. of ; half a mile in any direction when the I River Mole is finally ousted from the neighbourhood of the new flying-field. VANCOUVER BARBER GETS FORTUNE. Lady Chater's lost brother, who was left one-sixth of her estate, has now been found. He is a barber, Air. John Bennett, who has lived in Vancouver for 45 years. After Lady Chater, wife of the late Sir Catchick Paul Chater, the "Father of Hongkong," died-last March, aged 79, it was found that her will contained the following: "For my brother, whose name I cannot remember and whose whereabouts I have not been aware of for many years, one-sixth of my estate in trust." Mr. Bennett says he was informed of his I inheritance some weeks ago. The exact amount of the fortune left him is not yet known. Lady Chater left personal estate in England valued at £5203. Lady Chater died in Hongkong, where she had lived | since 1910 when she married the late Sir Paul Chater, who became one of the wealthiest men in the East. His collection of porcelain was valued at a quarter of a million pounds. GERMAN FACTORIES IN BRITAIN. A resolution from Leeds, protesting against the action of the Government in granting facilities to a group of German financiers, in association with the German Government, to establish garment factories in Britain, was carried unanimously at the conference of the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers at Scarborough. Mr. A. Conley, general secretary, said it had been stated that ! negotiations had been opened on behalf of ! a group of German capitalists, whose normal export business ran to millions of pounds annually, and who proposed to open factories for the manufacture of ready-made clothing. Fifty per cent of the material to be worked up by British workers was to be of German origin or manufacture. (Cries of "Shame.") The finances were to be supervised by representatives of the German Government and key employees were to be brought to England. The union believed that there was sufficient capital and sufficient labour in Britain to supply all the country's needs. I Mr. Conley added that, according to a I statement in the House of Commons re- | cently, during the past two years permisi sion had been granted in 35 cases to j Germans to establish businesses in Britain 'for the manufacture of clothing.

KNIGHTED AT BREAKFAST Sir John Soundy, senior magistrate of Windsor and an ex-Mayor, died af v Windsor home aged 84 last month. Sir John was knighted by Queen Victoria the breakfast table on her eightieth birtl, day. As Mayor of Windsor, he led A local Madrigal Society in serenading He Majesty in the grand quadrangle Queen sent for Sir John, called for a swnwi and knighted him. ™ GRANDMOTHER'S TWINS. A thirty-eight-year-old London woman is believed to be the youngest grandmother in Britain. She is Mrs. Dorothy Lewis of Vaughan Road, Camberwell, SE* Since becoming a grandmother two years ago she herself has given birth to twins This is believed to be a British record for grandmothers. Mrs. Lewis is now the mother of eleven children. All are handsome and healthy. Her eldest child Irene" aged 21, presented her with her only grandchild two years ago. "Ronald, my grandchild, was born about the same time as my daughter Catherine," Mrs. Lewis told a Press representative. "Irene had to go out to work soon after Ronald's birth, so I fed him with Catherine." Ami Catherine is actually Ronald's aunt.

HOT WEATHER EPIDEMIC AMONG CATS. u A severe epidemic of gastric influenza among cats has caused the deaths of thousands of pets in Britain. The disease develops rapidly and the victim is dead within five days. If the disease can be treated early enough there are greater chances of cure. One of the main symptoms is a sudden distaste for food A veterinary surgeon on the staff of Our Dumb Friends' League said that he had never seen so many cats suffering from this disease 'as during the • past three weeks. Only about 20 per cent of them had recovered. The disease was due to a specific germ, very contagious among cats but the recent hot weather had greatly aggravated it. Miss M. J. Adams, chief of the technical 6taff o. : the People's Diepensary for Sick Animals, said they had many cases of gastric influenza among caU in very hot weather. It was ascribed by many people to "fly poisoning," caused by the flies that cats eat. A great deal of illness among cats in hot weather also caused by poisoning due to tainted food.

IV!.P. SIGNS ON AS SAILOR. Mr. Cecil Pike, Conservative M.P. for the Attereliffe Division of Sheffield, signed on as a member of the crew of a merchant steamer. He sailed from linmingham,. Lines., in the cargo steamer Eastmore (SSOO tons) on a four-month voyage which will take him all over the world. "I intend," lie said, "to study Imperial markets; how British goods are received and taxed at foreign ports, and how our trade can be extended. Also," he added, "I shall study Imperial defence, andtry to decide for myself whether our Ivavy is strong enough."