MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 May 1931, Page 10

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

GHASTLY SLAYINGS.

SAN DIEGO, May 1. Three brutal murders, in which the victims were a girl and two women, have sent a wave of horror through San Diego. The police in each case admit that the murderer covered his tracks so carefully that they have no clues to the solution of the crimes. I On Thursday evening, Ella Bibbens was found strangled with a towel. She lay across her bed, and the towel was still bound tightly round her neck. There had evidently been a tenific struggle, for the entire apartment was blood-spattered, the house ransacked, and the woman’s jewels were stolen. Detectives had previously been harassed by the murders of Virginia Brooks, a schoolgirl, whose body was found in a vacant lot in the suburbs, and of Louise Teuber, a pretty 21-year-old teacher, whose nude body was found hanging from a tree. She had been killed with an axe.

FILMS ON SUNDAY.

LONDON, May 1.

Because the regulations forbid the screening of films before 6 p.m. on Sundays, the King’s physician, Lord Dawson, was obliged to cancel at the eleventh hour a lecture on blood circulation, illustrated with scientific films, which would have occupied 15 minutes. It was arranged that he .should address the Post-War Brotherhood at Lambeth Mission Church, where the Prince of Wales exhibited a film taken by himself, on a Sunday afternoon a few months ago. Lord Dawson criticised the “silly, antiquated rule,” allowing the exhibi tion of magic lantern pictures on Sunday afternoons, but not films. He forecast the time, not far distant, when the cinema would play a part in church worship.

RELIEF FOR JAMAICA. LONDON, May 6. It was stated in the House of Commons that in view of the existing crisis in the sugar industry, the British Government had agreed to the suspension for 1931-32 of the annual war contribution of £60,000 paid by Jamaica. governor's”"new POST. LONDON, April 29. “It is the work, not a wanderlust, which attracts me,” declared the former Governor of Tasmania (Sir James O’Grady) explaining why he accepted his new appointment as Governor of the Falkland Isles. “I have become most interested in the Empire service,” he added, “and regret that I was not in it years ago. There was no question of my asking for the Falkland Isles appointment. When they asked me, I simply replied: tit is for you to say. If you desire me to go I shall go gladly.’ Although I know nothing about the Falklands, I am sure of getting to grips with the problems there. It will be enjoyable.” Sir James pooh-hoohed the idea of enjoying a quiet old age in England. “That has no attraction for me. If people wonder why I am so keen on working for the Empire at my age, my reply is that it is part of my make-up.”

DIPLOMAT IMPRISONED. n LONDON, April 29. The allegation that a British diplomat had been imprisoned in Italy since March 12, without trial, is made by Mr. Robert Boothby, M.P. Mr. Boothby is to ask the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Henderson, in the House of Uommons, whether he is taking steps to secure the release of Mr. Hugh Cholmondeley, who was arrested by the Italian authorities at Taormina, Sicily, on that date. Mr. Boothby declares that, following a theft at the hotel at which Mr. Cholmondeley was staying, the police seized the latter’s personal belongings, and kept the man all night without food. Later, they found a penknife in Mr. Cholmondeley’s luggage, with which they claimed a jewel case had been forced open. He denies that there is any evidence that Mr. Cholmondeley was concerned in the theft. ' MARY PICKFORD’S FILMS. LONDON, April 29. Douglas Fairbanks, when he arrived here on a world tour, revealed that by a clause in her will Mary Pickford has directed that all her films shall be burned after her death. “Mary feels if the present genera? tion has enjoyed her films that is sumcient,” he explained. “She does nqt wish them to be exhibited when she has gone.” “A figment of the imagination,” was how he characterised reports of an estrangement between himself and his wife. “These reports are like asthma,” he said. “They recur every year.” “Mary will join me in London nexi week for a long holiday. I have communicated with her throughout the tour and telephoned-from Japan to Los Angeles—lo,ooo miles —afed spoke to her every evening from Rome.”

SWEETHEART MURDERED. FLINT (Mich.), April 30. Helen Joyce Morgan, aged 27, took her sweetheart, Lester Castell, for a ride, killed him, and dragged his body' into a cemetery. She then drove home calmly and slept until roused by the police. /' Living with her widowed mother, one of the wealthiest women in the city, Helen kept company with Castell for two yea*rs. He called for their last talk, announcing his departure for another city. “I-knew he was taking another woman, so I killed him,” she told the police officers.