MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 August 1931, Page 12

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

SMALL MOTOR CARS. RUGBY, August 11. New speed records for the baby car class were set up by Mr. Leon Cushman, driving a super-charged Austin seven, at Brooklands, and it was announced yesterday that the previous record holder, Mr. George Eyston, has decided to build a new M.G. midget, to attempt, to recapture the records. The four new records set up included the flying kilometre, which. Mr. Cushman accomplished at a speed of 102.28 miles an hour, and the flying mile, at 100.6 < miles an hour. "LOVE PIRATES.” VANCOUVER, August 6. A “Love Pirate Bill,” designed to reduce the number of homes broken up through alienation of the affections oi cue or other of the conjugal partners, i has been introduced into the Legislature of the State of Georgia. It proposes ?. year’s imprisonment for the misdemeanour of “stealing someone else’s wife or husband. If it passes into law only one kind of association will be permitted between a married man and another man’s wife, or between a married woman and another woman’s husband. This will be: “Lcvliimato association in business •and social affairs. ‘ - •' Anything more, will be punishable. Even the writing’of affectionate letters from one person’s spouse i<> another person’s spouse will be punishable. DEAD IN EFFECT. LONDON. August 6. A woman at Dortmund is vainly protesting to the Law Courts that she is not dead, says the Berlin correspondent of “The Times.” Officially, she has been proclaimed non-existent, and as far as the Courts are concerned that is that. The woman, a native of Dortmund, lived for many years apart from her husband, who in 191?. obtained a legal declaration of her death, and remarried. His first wife did not hear about it until recently, and applied to the Dortmund County Clerk to revoke its declaration, but without success. It was pointed out that she had failed to combat the declaration within the prescribed period. so her death was good in law, and must stand. EVIL OF BIRTH CONTROL. LONDON, August 5. Birth control is a cause of the trouble in the wheat markets of the world, the German Chancellor, Dr. Bruening, told Sir Walter Layton, the economist, during his recent visit to London. Dr. Bruening added th'at birth control would produce other troubles, including the necessity for Germany to demobilise 750,000 workers in the building trades in 1935, because no more houses would be wanted. Sir Walter Layton, speaking at the Liberal summer school, said that he considered that the scaling down of wages to the level of wholesale prices would be impossible without social disturbances in many countries. The recovery from depression must come partly from scaling down of wages and partly from an increase in prices. SPEEDWAY MISHAP. LONDON, August 8. Pursuing two dirt-track motor cyclists, whom he endeavoured to bomb from the air with bags of flour for a wager of £25, Major MacConnell had just completed the first circuit of the track in the presence of hundreds of excited spectators at Dovercourt, when he nosedived to earth and scattered the crowd. Three of the spectators, in addition to Major MacConnell and his mechanic, were taken to hospital with serious injuries. AVIATION COLLEGE. LONDON, August 6. The first college of aeronautical engineering in Europe for the training of well-educated boys in the control of air lines and aerodromes, where British ’planes are employed, will open in London in September. Within three years 40 pupils should have qualified. They will undergo a year’s technical course, and will then be transferred to Brooklands, where they will learn construction, maintenance and manag'ement. The course will cost £lOO a year, but after terms of probation fees will be remitted, seven terms being compounded at 160 guineas. Qualified students will receive Air Ministry licenses. FRACAS AT STAG HUNT. LONDON, August 6.

A demonstration against stag-hunt-ing, organised by tha League for the Prohibition of Blood-sports, caused a free tight at Minehead. Members of the league had affixed posters such as “Stag-hunting is not Cricket,” and “Abolish Shameful Sports!” to the fences of the field in which the “meet” of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds had been arranged. They marched there in procession, bearing banners similarly blazoned, At first they were received with laughter but, later, a crowd of some thousands gathered, including women, whose husbands depend upon the hunting for their livelihood. A. horseman, cracking Ills whip, rode in among the league members, and knocked the secretary down, while a woman seized a banner, tore it up and trampled it in the mud. Horsemen jostled the demonstrators, and a fracas developed. Turf, bpttlcs and mud were thrown, mackintoshes and umbrellas were torn, women were knocked down, and attempts were made to duck the demonstrators in the river. It was necessary to invoke police protection. Officials of the hunt took no part in the counter-demonstra-tion.

ITALY AND THE VATICAN. LONDON, August 6. A correspondent of “The Tinies,” writing from Italy, says that, however sharply Italians are divided on the rights and wrongs of the dispute between the Government, and the Vatican over the Catholic Action party, both one held by almost universal consent to have bungled the affair with deplorabel tactlessness. Undoubtedly the Catholic Action party was not directed in strict accordance with the Pope’s behests, and as a non-political organisation. On the other hand, the Pope has been keenly criticised, not only for the tenor of the actual wording of\portions of his last encyclical, but for the unprecedented action by which the document was hawked around and published abroad even before it appeared in the “Osservatore Romano,” the official organ of the Vatican. The dispute has been exacerbated by two exceptionally obstinate and pertinacious men, determined to uphold their respective rights and ideals, but the fundamental conflict is for control of Italy’s youth. There cannot be genuine peace as long as Fascist ideals are unchanged. The Disarmament Confer-,

ence may influence the issue. Thete will bo no further need to nourish Italy’s vouth on ideas of war and concuest if the Prime Minister, Signor Mussolini, is allowed to operate the pacific sentiments that he has been enunciating with increasing - fervour lately.