GOVERNOR'S ARREST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 286, 2 December 1936, Page 7

GOVERNOR'S ARREST.

BANK FRAUDS CHARGE. (Received 9.30 a.m.) RUTLAND (Vt.), December 1. Governor Smith of Vermont, who is also president of the Rutland Marble Savings Bank, has been arrested and charged with concealing bank thefts. His arrest followed the conviction of a bookkeeper, John Cocklin, a war veteran, for embezzlement of 124,000 dollars over a nine-year period. Ths latter stated at his trial that Governor Smith promised that the shortage would never be known.

LINER HITS JETTY. MISHAP AT LAUNCHING. (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON", December 1. After the launching of the liner Orcades at Barrow-in-Furness, a high wind caused the vessel's stern to crash into a railway jetty, 200 ft of which were demolished. No one was on the jetty. It is feared the Orcades may have sprung six plates near the waterline. j

GIFT TO BRITONS. CAST OF MARK TWAIN'S HEAD. British Official Wireless. RUGBY, December 1. It has been announced in connection with the celebration in the United States of the birthday of Mark Twain that the Mark Twain Foundation Society has offered as a gift to the British people a cast of the head of the famous author from the large memorial to be erected to him in East River Drive Park. The gift has been accepted.

PURCHASES BY ITALY. MORE AUSTRALIAN WHEAT. (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, December 1. Italy continued her heavy buying of i foreign wheat with purchases of two more Australian cargoes, totalling 17,000 tons. It was formerly suggested that she might be feeding the Spanish Fascists, as lier own granaries should at this time of the year be full with her own harvest.

" LIVING . CARPET." AMERICAN MILL STRIKERS. READING (Penn.), December 1. To .maintain their picket lines, hosiery mill strikers lay on the pavement in front of the mill in freezing weather. Tear gas proved useless and the police removed 58 strikers without breaking up the living carpet of pickets.