NEWS OF THE WORLD

Evening Star, Issue 21518, 16 September 1933, Page 7

NEWS OF THE WORLD

SWAM NIAGARA BOY IS ARRESTED An 18-year-old youth was recently placed under arrest for “vagrancy and unlawfully swimming the Niagara River.” It was alleged that he plunged, unclothed, into the roaring torrent below and swam the Rapids. It is asserted that he is the first person to swim the rapids of the Niagara Gorge and reach the shore alive. No explanation has yet been given by him regarding his “death challenging” leat. PRINCE’S EARS BOXED “HONOUR” SATISFIED " Prince Galidzine-Ostermann offended me. I punished him by boxing his ears. He declares that he is pleased—so aru L lf This was the note ■written hy M. Paul de Cassagnac, a Paris journalist, to his seconds after their meeting recently with the seconds of the Prince. It was decided that the duel should not be fought. It was argued on the Prince’s side that he was not physically fit for a duel, and also that, as a refugee, he could not break the law of France. BOY SUES HIS FATHER ’£looo DAMAGES AWARDED A 10-vear-old boy was awarded £IOOO damages and costs against his father. Albert Edward Lloyd, of North Drive, Clcveleys, in an action at the Manchester Assizes, England, recently. _ The boy was in a motor-car driven by his father, which came into collision with the rear of a lorry. A piece of the broken windscreen pierced the lad’s left eye, which had to be removed. He sued his father and the owners of the lorry. Judgment was entered for the boy against his father, and the claim against the lorry-owners was dismissed. # GAME WITH £1 NOTES CHILDREN’S FUN STOPPED A woman passing through Chelmsford Recreation Ground, England, recently, saw a number of schoolchildren throwing rolled-up pieces of paper at one another. One of the pieces fell at her feet, and she was surprised to find that it was a £1 note. All the other pieces of paper with which the children were playing were also Bank of England notes, and they said they had found them under one of the trees. Without knowing their . value, they had started rolling them_up and’throwing them at one another. The notes, numbering nearly 20, were collected and taken to the police station where, soon afterward, their owner, a ■woman who was on her way shopping, claimed them. , BEES SWARM IN BEARD FIRE BRIGADE SUMMONED An elderly man with a long beard was taking an afternoon nap in the Tiergarten—Berlin’s Hyde Park—recently, when • he was awakened, by, ah unusual hum--5 ming. To his ' amazement, his beard ; was alive with hCes swarming into it. With great presence of mind, he sat still while a passer-by, witnessing his predicament, called up the fire bn- • gade, who persuaded the invaders to forsake their new “hive” without giving further trouble. A BULKY'SMUGGLER SACK TIED ROUND WAIST A Paris merchant, named Eugene Messenger, who was seen to he very bulky on landing at Newhavcn, England. recently, was searched, with the result that he was found to have a sack tied round his body and suspended by a. tape from his neck. Inside the sack Were 42 embroidered handbag shapes, and others were found in the legs of his trousers and the arms of his coat. The value of the goods was £4B. The full, penalty of £192 9/6 was imposed, and the goods were confiscated. TRAGEDY FOR BRIDE SEES HUSBAND KILLED A bride one day and widowed the next, Mrs Doris May Gutteridge, of Kipton, Staffs, England, related how her husband was killed. She was giving evidence at the inquest at Kings Lynn on William EH Gutteridge, an engineer, who died recently on his 33rd birthday in King’s Lynn Hospital, following a motor-cycle accident. Mrs Gulteridge. who came from Canada for her wedding, said at _Wisbech her husband decided that his tyres were not good enough for her to continue riding on the pillion, so she joined friends in a motor-car. “Seven miles further on I saw him swerving,” continued Mrs Gutteridge. “I saw him thrown on to the road.” A verdict of ,f dcath from misadventure” was returned. . LAMBETH PALACE BURGLED POLICE HUNT FOR GANG It has been learned that the London . Metropolitan Police are endeavouring to trace a gang of burglars who attempted to rob Lambeth ' Palace, the London home of the Archbishop of Canterbury, of its historic treasures. The burglars entered the palace by the window of a bathroom on the second floor while the Archbishop was sleeping in the next room. They did not disturb him, but they had only just got inside when a watchman came along the corridor. Noticing that the door of the bathroom was locked, he went outside, found the ladder, and climbed It to investigate. He found hi the bathroom an attachecase containing the burglars* tools, hut the men had fled on hearing him in the corridor. The burglars had obtained the ladder from a far part of the palace grounds, which extend along the Thames bank and arc enclosed hy a high wall. The buildings inside are surrounded by another wall. WINE FOR BISHOP . A MEDIEVAL CEREMONY When the Bishop of Nottingham, Dr John McNulty, enthroned Dorn Malachy Brasil as abbot of the Trappist Monastery of Mount St. Bernard, Leicestershire, England, recently, he received from the new abbot two casks of wine, two loaves of bread, and two large wax candles. This was part of the 12th century ritual with which the abbot was installed. Among the visitors were prelates and nuns. Bearded monks in their flowing brown habits, priests in gorgeous robes and sandals, the odour of incense, and the chanting of Hie monks—it was a page from the Middle Ages seldom met in England.

SERVANT IN BORROWED PLUMES £7OO JEWEL LOST During the absence of her mistress, the Baronne de Larquesse-Tremeur, on a visit, Marie le Cloarcc, a 17-year-old servant, decked herself in her mistress’s gorgeous dresses and jewels and became a conspicuous, if somewhat incongruous, figure in the Paris dancehalls. Returning home after a triumphant evening the little servant found that one of the baroness’s brooches, worth £7OO, had disappeared. A WIDOW IN WHITE NOVEL GARB AT FUNERAL A white dress, white hat and while stockings were worn by Lady Wolseley at the funeral of her husband. Sir Reginald Wolseley, the “Liftman Baronet,” who was, buried at Berry Harbour, North Devon, England, recently. He succeeded to the title while working as a liftman in the United States. Twelve farmers acted as bearers at the funeral. TAKING OFF THE ROOF TENANT ADVISED TO REMAIN A Paddington woman complained at Marylebone (London) recently that she was given six weeks’ notice to quit and that her house was being demolished. “They have threatened to take the roof off this morning,” she said. Mr Mead (the magistrate) advised her to remain in the house. “Even if the people have a right to get possession,” he said, “if they take the law into their own hands and gain forcible possession by taking off the roof that is a criminal offence under an Act of Richard II.” He added that if the builders wanted the woman to go they had better come to the court. CHANGED HIS MIND AT SEA MAN JUMPS OVERBOARD A sudden change of mind led to an exciting Channel drama recently. When the Channel Islands steamer Isle of Sark was off Alderney on its way to Southampton, a Swindon man, aged 31, disappeared overboard. A fellow passenger gave the alarm. The steamer was turned round, a boat was lowered, and the man in the water was rescued, almost exhausted. When brought on board the steamer again he said that he had felt an irresistible urge to get back to the Channel Islands. He added that recently ho had had a nervous breakdown. It was learned that the man crossed from Southampton to Jersey the night before, and that an hour after landing at St. Helicr, the Jersey capital, he decided to return to Southampton and embarked in the Isle of Sark. PARADE IN PYJAMAS MYSTERY OR SANDHURST GUNS A six o’clock-in-the-morning parade by 200 cadets In pyjamas was the sequel to the discovery recently that eight historic guns were missing from their positions in front of the old buildings at ■ the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, England. The guns were found in various places four hours after the cadets had left the End-of-the-Term dance in the college gymnasium. A party of six or eight must have manned each of the guns—which were captured from the French at Waterloo, In two cases they had been dragged over a quarter of a mile. ' ; This _is where they were found: Three in the college lake, two on the edge of the lake, two on the college football ground, and one in the middle of the main London-Southaanplon road at York Town. The pyjama parade was called to ascertain if anybody was missing, hut everyone answered to his name and all went hack to bed. The mystery of the removal of the guns was not solved. HARNESSING THE DANUBE SCHEME MAY COST £7,000,000 Engineers of Jugoslavia and Rumania are preparing £7,000,000 plans for harnessing the romantic waters of the Blue Danube. The schemes provide for two of the most powerful generating stations in Europe, capable of generating the equivalent of 748,000 horse power. The site of the works would be at Orsova, where the river passes through the crags known as the “Iron Gates” at its narrowest and swiftest. Locks would be built enabling vessels of vastly greater tonnage than the present limit to pass up the Danube. Observers point out that if the plans are adopted by the Rumanian and Jugoslavian Governments, .an opportunity will be provided for British contractors, who arc highly skilled in this particular kind of enterprise. VICAR FINED “TANNED” A BOY , A vicar who “tanned” a boy when he called on him with a view to becoming a Boy Scout, was fined £2 at Birmingham, England, recently. The punishment was said to be for the breaking by the boy of a Sunday school window two years ago. The vicar was the Rev. C. Harold Tye, of St. John’s Church, Perry Barr, Birmingham, and he was summoned for assault by Stanley Troth, aged 11, the son of a tramway car conductor. It was alleged that after asking the hoy if he would like to become a scout, Mr Tye took him to the scouts’ hut. There he reprimanded him for breaking the window, and , told him to remove his coat, shoes and trousers. Troth alleged that Mr Tye said, “I think I can make you a good Scout,” put him across his knee, and thrashed him with his hand. He cried with pain and Mr Tye applied boracic powder and wafer. Mr Tye said he hit the boy to do him good. The tanning he gave was a prelude to work in the Scouts. CIVIC RIVALRY A NOVEL COMPETITION Civic rivalry has taken a novel form in Jugoslavia, where two towns are competing for the honour of presenting the country with the greatest number of new “citizens” at a birth. Jajcc. a Bosnian town of 6000 inhabitants, holds the record so far this year for twins, triplets, and even quadruplets. Single births, indeed, are rare in the district. Twins are the general rule, and recently quadruplets were born to the wife of a Jajre peasant. Ijijeljina, also in Bosnia, is a close rival. Yulkn Tchukitch, a peasant woman, recently gave birth to triplets—all girls—for the third time. Her husband has asked for State aid in bringing up the infants, whom he has appropriately named respectively Vera, Nada and Ljuba—“Faith,” “Hope” and “Charity.”