NEWS OF THE WORLD

Evening Star, Issue 21138, 25 June 1932, Page 7

NEWS OF THE WORLD

DOG’S DEVOTION TO MATE LONG VIGIL ON HILL An Alsatian dog which watched over the body of a female Alsatian for at least a fortnight had to be dragged forcibly from the slopes of Signal Hill, near Capetown, and nursed back to health. The dog was starving when found by a Capetown climber, Mr 11. McGrath. It had worn a path in the undergrowth by its ceaseless sentry-go round its dead companion. “0.K.” BANNED IN COURT CEYLON MAGISTRATE OBJECTS The municipal magistrate in Colombo has banned the well-known American expression “0.K.” in his court. S. F. Hewitt, of the Gallc Face Hotel, was charged before Magistrate Mcrvyn Joseph with having failed to renew the licence of his motor-cycle. After hearing the case the Magistrate said that the accused would have either to pay the licence fee or see that it was paid by the new owner to whom the cycle had been transferred. “0.K.,” said Hewitt and turned to leave the court. “Come here,” ordered the Magistrate. “I do not understand that language of yours. See that you couduct yourself properly and use belter language in court in future. I will have no flippancy in this court. You can go now!” FRENCH HEROINE OF THE WAR SAVED FOUR BRITONS Madame Antoinette Tierce, a Frenchwoman who, at the risk of her life, sheltered and fed for 18 months four British soldiers in Lille during the German occupation, was the guest ot honour at a luncheon of the Anglo-French Club at the Hotel Victoria recently. Not one of the four men whose lives she saved was present. One is in Nigeria, another in Bristol, the third is thought to have lost his life after the evacuation of Lille, and all trace of the fourth, has been lost. Madame Tierce’s heroism, for which the King awarded her a hronze medal, was retold briefly when her health was proposed. “I only did my duty,” was her reply. BRIDAL COUPLE HANDCUFFED “LIFE SENTENCE” AT WEDDING Captain F. 11. ,1. Peel, Chief Constable of Bath, England, and a descendant of Sir Robert Peel, who inaugurated the force known as “Peelers,” was married recently at Bath to Miss Daphne Pakcnham, the only daughter of Commander and Mrs A. Pakcnhain, of Bath. Captain Peel joined the Liverpool police force as a constable, and rose to be chief inspector. After the wedding Captain Peel and his bride passed out of the church under an archway of police truncheons, and a police officer deftly slipped handcuffs on the couple “arresting them for a life sentence.'' Police officers pulled the j bridal ear from the church to the ] reception, and not until the.' had ! alighted v.ere Captain and Mrs Peel i wUicvcd of their “bracelets.” 1

TEACHER SHOT DEAD THRASHED RANCHER’S SON Olive Taylor, a school teacher at Stockton, California, was shot dead before 30 of her pupils recently by Thomas Coumas, a rancher. The man called at the school to speak to the teacher regarding a thrashing she had given his son. The couple quarrelled, and Coumas drew his gun and shot the teacher dead. He then escaped in a motor-car. COINS AS “DRIED FISH” CUSTOMS PROBLEM A package of ancient Egyptian coins, consigned from Alexandria to the Warsaw Museum, was held up in the Customs House because the authors of the very elaborate and very high Polish tariff had made no provision for numismatic objects, and the Customs officers did not know what to do about them. They eventually solved the puzzle by entering the coins as “dried fish” and levying a relatively low duty thereon. The museum, it. is learned, has protested and will demand refund of the duty collected on the ground that the coins should have been admitted duty free as rare historical documents. A DOG’S GRATITUDE FUR COAT FOR MISTRESS A Pittsburg lady tells the affecting story of Prince, an Alsatian dog, who showed his gratitude to his mistress in a practical manner by romping into the house one chilly autumn morning with a very nice fur coat, which he deposited at her feet with much tail-wagging. He refused to answer any questions about where it had come from. It was a gift, and that was that. His mistress, fearing the arrival of a punitory expedition, rang up the police at once. Almost simultaneously the same police station had a call from the lady who lived next door and had put her coat on a line in the garden to air. ELEPHANT’S ADVENTURE "FRONT LEGS” IN SHOP WINDOW The men who were on their way In a dance at Oxford (England) recently disguised as an elephant crashed into a simp window in Cornmarkct Street, and one of them. Mr W. F, Burrows, a cartoonist. was badly cut about the I high. The dance had been arranged to raise funds for buying a live elephant from Whipsnade for the Oxford Zoo. In spile of the mishap Ihe two men kept their appointment, and it was not until after the dance that Mr Burrows was hurried lo a surgeon, who put some stitches into [ his leg. He said the accident was due i to I,he fact tha l Ihe eyes "ere awkwardly ■ placed in the elephant's head, and he j could not sec his way. i

SHARK KILLED BY BURGLAR LONDON AQUARIUM ENTERED The East London aquarium was broken into recently, and three tools which had been left in the engine-room were subsequently discovered in the shark lank, in which the body of one of the sharks was floating. It had evidently been hit with one of the implements. None of the other specimens was affected. The door of the curator’s office had been tampered with, though the intruders did not succeed in forcing it open. Tile, entire stock of postcards showing views of Hie specimens in the tanks disappeared, with about 7/3, the takings from sale of postcards. The door of the outer' shed had been forced open, and a brand new bicycle stored there was missing. MURDER IN THE AIR PILOT ACCUSED Because a waitress “made him feel small” during a Banquet, a Japanese airplane pilot, of Hamamatsu, persuaded her to accompany him on a “joy-ride,” and then performed a series of “aerobatics” at the height of which the girl was thrown oat of the cockpit She fell 2000 feet to her death. The pilot is to lie charged with murder. After a prolonged inquiry. Hie girl’s death was stated to Inve been accidental. Fresh information. however, readied the police and the phot was closely interrogated. He is staled to have admitted that the girl had no safely belt. She made him “leci small” because he tried to flirt with her. In revenge, therefore he took her up in his airplane and stunted until she fell out. BEGGAR OF MEANS ACTION “PAST BELIEF” Said to be well educated and lo have no need or reason for begging, Thomas Howland Francis, 66, of licavant Hoad, Norbury, London, S.W., appeared at Croydon recently lo answer a summons accusing him of begging, and to show cause why his bail in £5 should not he estreated, as he did not answer to the charge on the following day. A police sergeant stated that Francis stopped people and asked one of them, “Can you spare me a copper. It is cold.” He had over £lO in his possession including £1 3/1 in coppers. In reply m Mr R. J. Clark, defending, j the officer admitted that Francis seemed j very funny in his ways and was cer- ! tainly not of the professional begging! type. Mr Clark explained that Francis I was a well-known resident of Croydon | and was extremely well educated. “Why i on earth,” he added, “lie goes about like this is past belief. Ho really had no need nr reason for ii." Francis was lined a/- and his full hail | was estreated. )

DEATH OF LOST “SLAVE” CENTENARIAN NEGRO Trinidad’s oldest negro. Mr Alphonse Nurse, died recently in n little cabin in Port of Spain, Me was 106 years old. He never smoked and never dentil: alcohol. Mr Nurse was born a slave in Barhadoes on August 1, 1826, and when he first came to Port of Spain the waters of the Gulf of Paria covered what is now the business section of tile city. Me had many strange stories to tell of “had old days,” when men often murdered each other without being brought to justice, and when gangs secured rich booty by robbing travellers along the lonely roads. VENETIAN VAPORETTI OLD STEAMBOATS DOOMED After plying, for 50 years the Grand Canal of Venice, the shaky', wobbling, old steamboats are doomed, and will be replaced in a few months by other modern boats which will be like a revolution on the Grand Canal. Old habitues, of Venice, painters, sculptors, students, tourists, and poets, who visit the city of the Doges because of its charm, arc greatly concerned. “Slow,” “Forc’ards,” “back,” adagio, avanti, indietro, as the old deck conductor used to shout down to the pilot, will no longer be heard. When the “vaporetti” first appeared in Venice, the gondoliers threatened an insurrection. They held a great public meeting at the base of the old Campanile, but the “vaporetti” remained. Since then the gondoliers have seen motor-boats swirling about the canals, threatening to upset the gondolas. If it were not for the tourists, the gondola itself would disappear. SCHOOLBOY FOUND DEAD FATAL EXPERIMENT A verdict of death by misadventure was returned at the inquest at Macclesfield fEngland) recently on a Bi-year-old scholar of the local Grammar School. George Ronald Clowes, who was found hanging in a timber shed at the rear of the house. The father told the Coroner (Mr R. A. Daniel! and jury that the hoy had matriculated at school and was in his last term, lie was extremely keen on inventions and spent the greater part; of his spare time in the shed. He had constructed a full-size glider upon which he had been working on the day of his death. The previous week-end there appeared an advertisement of a performance by “The man who cannot hang.” and witness thought his son had been trying an experiment on those lines. When found he was suspended four inches from the ground by a thin builder’s line which was attached to a beam. I’ndcr his chin was a handkerchief. Dr Jaffe advanced the (henry that the boy had swung himself off an old tip- I turned washing boiler found near by, I tbc shock immediately rendering him unconscious, as there were no signs of struggling. In returning their verdict | Hie jury stated the boy would md have I fastened (he bandkereldef to Hie cord if I he had intended to commit suicide. 1

And Only Just.—“ Have you read this report? A famous judge has said that, iu his opinion, jazz music is just noise,” said Biuks. “Just noise,” Jinks retorted. “He surely means unjust noise.” * * * The Difference. —“How are yon getting on at school, Freddie?” asked father. “Fine,” said Freddie. “I have learned to say ‘thank you’ and ‘if yon please’ in French. “Good!” said his father, “that’s more than you ever learned to say in English.” * * * Diplomacy.—She was fishing for compliments, but her young man was cute and something of a student of human nature. “How old do you think I am?” she asked him. anxiously. “Yon don’t look it.” he answered diplomatically. * « A Slight Difference.—Airs Ayres was scanning a well-known society paper. Presently she came to a portrait of herself. “I say," she said proudly to her husband, “just fancy this paper calling me one of fashion’s butterflies.” The husband gazed critically at the portrait. “H’m,” he mumbled. “From the way yon go through your clothes, I should think one of fashion’s moths would bo a more suitable description.” ■» * «■ Two Weighty. The racehorse owner, looking carefully at the scales, was speaking to the jockey. “Yon are a trifle overweight.” he said. “Can’t yon lighten yourself in some way?” “f’ve got on my light suit, sir,” reulied (he jockey, "haven’t had a bite to-day. and have just (rimmed my finger-nails ” “Well.” retorted fhe owner, “for goodness sake go and get a shave!” ■» x- & “This Way. Madam!”— A very stout "■oman had just been refused a halfticket for her Ki-vear-nld daughter. Waving her umbrella. she shouted her opinion of honking cle’drs at the ton of her voice, and concluded - i “Walt, vonng man wait till I get a' von! ” The honking clerk regarded Imr politely, pointed to (he Rifle hole in his glass window and replied: “Come •his way, please!” Worse than his Kick.—Doris and lack had been to n football match where (hey had met a vonng married connle who invited them home to lea Arriving hack at (he house before their hosts Doris stooped to get the door key from its known hiding-place under 'he doorstep. “1 say,” protested .Tack nervonslv “I don’t tliiill; we’d hpfter go in before onr hosts arrive,” “Thcv won't mind.” she insisted, “Perhaps not.” replied Jack, “hut thev have a dog. von know.” “Yep. I know that.” Doris returned nenchaJenllv; “hut Die dog has a lame foot Do won't 1n,,) 11.--” I I “ITh! ” snirfe,; ,r nf!; >•: afraid; he might bite us. not kick us.” 1