NEWS OF THE WORLD

Evening Star, Issue 20310, 19 October 1929, Page 7

NEWS OF THE WORLD

A BOUNCING BABY FELL TWENTY FEET, UNHARME Petev Rolpb, aged ten months, c Church Elm Lane, Dagenham, Esse: fell 20ft from .a bedroom window int ;he front garden. He was picked up unconscious, an was thought to be dead. A woman doctor was examining th child when he started to cry. He wa found to be unhurt, and the onl treatment needed was a sleepin draught. TESTS FOR TRUNCHEONS “OTHER PEOPLE’S HEADS” During a case at. Epsom, Surrey, : Was stated that when a constabl ■struck on the head a man who attache him his truncheon broke. Inspector Bright said that dry rc had settled in the wood. A polici man could always exchange hi truncheon. The Chairman: The only chance c testing them appears to be on othe people’s heads. LONELY, TRAPPERS WIRELESS IN POLAR REGIONS For the benefit of trappers itiPola regions, the Soviet Government i planning the erection of a short-wavi station at Turukhausk, Siberia, on tin nlge of the Arctic circle. The traps missions will include news bulletin lad weather reports. SELLING A TOWN 2/6 BID FOR COTTAGE! Tlall'-a-crown was bid for one cottagi When the town of St. Blazey. near St Austell, Cornwall, was offered a auction. Many other cottages were withdrawn from the sale at £25 each. The higbes price paid for a private house wa; £SOO. The Pack Horse, an ancien iun, let at £75, was sold for £2,000 The old town hall, formerly a woo: factory, now a cinema, was withdrawi at £l,lOO. Forty-one lots realised £S,S9O. There were no bids for 7S lots. FEIGNED DEATH AND AVOIDED ACTUALITY O. Hughes, of Vancouver, engiueei lu charge for the Consolidated Miniuj and Smelting Company, at Octsa Lake district, is lying in Burns Lake Hos pita! suffering from a severe maul mg from a grizzly bear. He has lost one finger, one side or his face is badly chewed, and he Is bruised on the back aud legs. He owes his life to having feigned death. The grizzly picked him up, threw him down, aud then left him for dead. AFTER 20 YEARS FATHER AND DAUGHTER MEET Sylvester J. Herrington, of Metz, received a letter a few days ago from 1) is daughter, Miss Margaret Severance. of Kansas. The daughter and lather had been lost to each other for 20 years. When she was six years old the daughter was adopted by a family named Severance and went to Kansas to live. Sixteen years ago the report reached her that her father was dead. Herrington invented a life-saving device for ships and recently made a deal with an Eastern firm which has netted him a large sum. The newspapers gave the matter a good. deal of publicity aud the daughter learned of her father’s whereabouts through published articles. CABS RAIDED TALKING DID NOT PAY

While 70 Red Cab drivers argued between locked doors at a special meeting in St. David’s Hall, Arthur Street, Surrey Hills, Sydney, their 70 cabs, lined up outside, were raided by 200 children. Boys and girls climbed into the cabs through the windows, donned the red-banded caps of the drivers, and honked imaginary pedestrians out of their way to the accompaniment of cheering and yelling. They pulled down curtains, turned on meters, moved everything movable and in some cases let petrol run on to the road. But the cabmen heard nothing—they were too busy discussing the purchase of giant Red Cabs for the spring races.

EVEN IN DEATH RECORD SPOILT BY MOSQUITO Kven in death a mosquito can he u pest. One of the biggest motor firms in Brisbane has discovered this to its cost. It had a Whippet four on the road -"attempting the world’s endurance engine non-stop record—l,oos. With more than half the hours behind it, and the engine behaving like a perfect lady, the car suddenly stopped. Why, was a mystery. Only when all the seals had been broken and the bonnet opened by R.A.C.A. officials—they were supervising the run—was the cause of the stoppage discovered.* A large mosquito of the iniquitous Scotch grey type, had become wedged into the vent hole at the top of the vacuum tank and as a result the flow of fuel to the carburettor was stopped. ' I Official report by the R.A.C.A. was to the effect that “the car proved tobe In perfect order, thus providing definite evidence that the obstruction in the air vent of the vacuum tank was the only reason for the stoppage of the engine.” The Whippet went out on the road after the record again.

“WHERE’S DE LIGHT?” SWEDE’S LITTLE PROBLEM When Charlie Moberg, a Swede, fell into the harbour from a lighter near the Oceanic Wharf, Circular Quay, he carried a hurricane lamp. When he came to the surface he breathlessly exclaimed, “WTiere’s de light?” It was his only worry. It cost 2s 6d. ' STRANGE MISHAP CATERPILLAR CAUSES DEATH "While Mrs. Savage, of Runcorn, was being driven homo by her daughter from a holiday at Torquay she saw a caterpillar on her dress, and opened the door of the motor-car with the intention of throwing the caterpillar out. In doing this she overbalanced and fell in the road. Her daughter placed her back in the car, severely injured, aud drove her to hospital, where she died after an operation. FATHER OF 22 SONS i I | CAN’T AFFORD TO SMOKE i Mr. William .Robinson, of Truman Street, Nottingham, has registered the birth of his thirtieth child. He has 17 living, of whom three are married and five are of school age. Twenty-four were by. his first wife and six by his second. Twenty-two have been boys aud eight girls. Mr. Robinson is a builder’s labourer aged 01, He joined the Array with two of his sous at the outbreak of war and served in the R.A.S.C. till he was invalided out after a gas attack. He has an Army pension of £2 6s a week. He said recently. “I couldn’t keep such a big family if I were not a strict teetotaller and non-smoker. I am happy and never worry.” He used to play professional football for Nottingham Forest. RECOVERED SPEECH AND BURST INTO SONG Sudden shock brought about by jumping to avoid a motor-cycle restored the power of speech to James Richardson, a disabled ex-service man, at Durham. He was on Prammellgate Bridge at the time aud in bis leap for safety he struck the parapet. "That was a nigh ’uu,” he exclainmed. These were the first words he had uttered for over 11 years. Richardson’s war disabilities, including paralysis of the right side, loss of speech and partial deafness, resulted when a shell burst near him at Arras. One of ids first acts when he recovered his speech was to sing his favourite ditties. “NOT A CRIME" REFUSAL TO PROSECUTE A curious situation arose recently

at Willesden Police Court. A chaffeur, Ernest Kelly, was charged with stealing the car of his employer, Mr. B. Leapmau, of The Avenue, Brondesbury. Kelly was alleged to have gone to Peterborough, where he was arrested in the car. A detective stated that Mr. Leapmau refused to prosecute. He said it was useless, as “it had been held that car stealing was not a crime.” Magistrate: I shall issue a summons against him to appear, and if he fails to do so he will be arrested. JUNE AND JEAN SEASIDE SWINDLES BY GIFM.S

June and Jean, two smartly dressed girls with frank, laughing faces and new leather travelling bags, have been victimising seaside landladies in England. They have been down the east coast with their smiles and their bags living rent free and enjoying all the amenities of the seaside resorts. This is their method. June and Jean arrive at a town and seek the best boarding houses.. They book rooms at one and have /their bags sent from the station. They stay for four or five days, meet several young- men who are on holidays, and, at their expense, enjoy the fun which the place has to offer. Then they disappear. The luckless landlady finds the beds empty, the girls flown, and their luggage gone.

June and Jeam are now trying the south coast. They recently arrived at Southsca—and disappeared in their usual .manner. REPENTANT BURGLAR TELEPHONE CALL TO POLICE The police of the third district of Vienna received an early morning telephone message recently to the effect that a burglar was at work in a fashionable shop of the “Innere Stadt.” The clerk replied that his office was not competent to deal with the matter, and advised the caller to inform the police of the “Innere Stadt.” It was the burglar himself who rang up the police. He had heard noises in the house and was afraid of being discovered. He subsequently called up the office of the “Innere Stadt,” but was again informed that another office was responsible for the street in which that shop was situated. The patient man wont to the trouble of ringing up the third police office, introducing himself in the following manner; “A burglar speaking! I am just at the shop So-and-So. Please come at once. 1 will wait for you at the door.”

At last a little band of police arrived at the place and rang the bell. When the door was opened the burglar almost flew into their arms. He said ho had repented of his intentions. At the trial his counsel pleaded for his discharge, since he was only 23 years of age, but the court sentenced him to six months’ imprisonment.