CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 May 1936, Page 8

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

GINGER ROGERS. fPBigS ASSN. — copybightJ LOS ANGELES, May 9. The eighteen months’ married life of Ginger Rogers and Lew Ayres, film players, has come to an end with an announcement that their attorneys have prepared articles of separation. Rogers said the separation was a friendly one, no divorce being contemplated immediately. OXFORD HUMOUR. LONDON, May 9. The Oxford Union, by votes of sixty-seven to fifty-seven, passed a resolution, as follows: “That this union will recognise no flag but the Red Flag, because it is the symbol of an international movement affording the only safe insurance against war.” During the discussion, one member of the union left, he being draped in the Union Jac]<. KIDNAPPERS SENTENCED TACOMA, May 9. Mahan, in the Federal Court to-day, pleaded guilty to kidnapping the Weyerhaeuser boy. He was sentenced to sixty years’ imprisonment. JAP TERRORIST » TOKIO, May 9. Aizawa has been sentenced to death for the murder of Nagata on August 12 last. CANADIAN WHEAT OTTAWA, May 8. The Bureau of Statistics reports an increase of almost 1,(100,000 acres in the area which farmers will sow in grain this year. This is an increase of 3 per cent, over last year. It is intended that the area for spring wheat will be 24,354,000 acres, compared with 23,560,000 last year, and 26,646,000 acres in the peak year of 1932.

U.S.A. NAVY BILL. WASHINGTON. May 9. The Senate approved the Naval Bill and President Roosevelt’s signature thereof without recording a vote. The London Naval Treaty will be submitted to the Senate some time next week, for ratification.