CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 October 1932, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

U.S.A. PRESIDENCY. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] NEW YORK, October 27. The “Literary Digest’s” straw vote on the Presidential election prospects, according to semi-official returns, show that Governor Roosevelt is leading in forty-one States with 1,648,237 votes. President Hoover has 1,095,274. The Socialists are receiving about 5 per cent, of the total. CHURCH AND ART. ROME, October 28. The Pope, in opening the new Vatican Art Gallery, severely criticised the “so-called modern art,” which, he said, is merely a caricature of profane and sacred things. Some people defended modern art by saying that it, represented a search for something new, whereas it only revealed an incapacity or an unwillingness to learn. He added “W e wish such art to be excluded from our churches. Nothing should distract the attention of the faithful in the name of mistaken art.” DEATH FROM THIRST. ASUNCION, October 27. The War Ministry reports that the bodies of one hundred soldiers of the Fifteenth Bolivian Infantry, who died of thirst, were found in the Gran Chaco jungles.

MEDITERRANEAN FLEET.

RUGBY, October 27

Admiral Sir William Fisher left London to-day for Malta, where he will take over as Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet.

LANCASHIRE WEAVERS

RUGBY, October 28.

' Following the recent settlement of the wages dispute, the weaving section of the Lancashire cotton industry, manufacturers and operatives, began a joint discussion on the proposal for 1 more looms per weaver, left over from the general settlement. Failing an agreement through the existing ma- ■ chinery, the problem will come before the new conciliation body, set up under the recent general agreement. TELEGRAPH CHARGES MADRID, October 28. At the Telegraph Congress, Britain refused to increase charges on foreign telegrams and telephone calls forty per cent by raising the rates from sterling to the gold basis. The British representatives stressed that although exchange value of. the pound depreciated its internal purchasing power was maintained. Australia and .New Zealand suported the British attitude. ARMISTICE DAY LONDON, October 28. “I regard Armistice Day as a dyinginstitution,” says the Rev. P. Carpenter, vicar of New Mills, Derbyshire, who refused to hold a special Armistice Day service. He said he would conduct a service, but it would be the ordinary Sunday morning .service. “The good churchgoer does not need a special day to think and pray on the lines of Armistice Day,” he said. ARTIFICIAL WOOL LONDON, October 28. The perfection of extensive production of artificial wool was announced by Dr. Dreyfus, at the British Celanese Co.’s meeting. He said that it could replace natural wool. It possessed temperature resistant qualities, and the manufacture was cheaper than the natural product. Furthermore, it would give the trade exemption from fluctuations of wool prices, and also the necessity for placing orders long in advance. WHEAT FOR CHINA. EDMONTON, October 27. A proposal to send an envoy to China to arrange for sales there of Western Canadian wheat will be considered at a meeting of the Western Premiers on Saturday. This movement is duo to the drop in wheat prices. CORSICAN VENDETTA. LONDON, October 17. The sequel to a Corsican vendetta occurred in the bar of a Nice hotel, ..when a young man, firing five shots, wounded a Corsican, aged 72, who was acquitted in 1922 of a charge of murdering the youth’s father. The murdered man’s son swore vengeance. He accidentally met the old man in the bar, hurried home, and returned', and opened fire with a revolver. He escaped, but was quickly arrested. He v-as carrying an old newspaper report of the trial.