U.S.A. HAPPENINGS

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 December 1936, Page 14

U.S.A. HAPPENINGS

COMEDIAN SUED. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] NEW YORK, December 19. Ed Wynn, the comedian, is being for separation and a weekly alimony oi 3500 dollars by his wife, on a charge of misconduct. She had been an inmate of an asylum for nearly two years, and was released two months ago. DOG’S LONG VIGIL. NEW YORK, December 20. A message from Rock Island, Illinois, says the long vigil of a collie dog, which had been waiting 12 years at the entrance to the hospital in which his master died after’ an operation, ended when the dog was shot, after being injured by an automobile. RAILWAY FREIGHTS. WASHINGTON, December 19. The inter-State Commission has denied permission to the railways to continue after January 31, the emergency surcharge on freight rates adopted in March, 1935, from which the railways received a revenue of 10,600,000 dollars a month. The commission ruled that sharp increases in traffic had removed the emergency. HIGH FINANCE. WASHINGTON, December 19. Mr David Milton. a son-in-law of Mr J D. Rockefeller, gave evidence before the Securities Commission of how he intervened in the deadlock which arose in the, affairs of the Atlantic and Pacific International Corporation. Ho managed without expenditure. to get 1,145,000 dollars from the deal for Arthur Morris, founder of the Morris plan of industrial banking, who had been unable to make a profit from the operations of the corporation. Under sharp questioning. Mr Milton said: “I am not proud of the negotiations. 1 wish it had been done differently.” FIRE KILLS FIVE. NEW YORK, December 18. Three women and an infant were burnt to death and a man was killed through leaping from the fourth floor during a spectacular early morning fire’ in a four-storey rooming house in the heart of the residential section of the city. William Hoffman, a house painter, was arrested on a charge of manslaughter, after admitting to the police that the fire was started by a cigarette he was smoking in bed when he fell asleep. When he awoke he found the mattress burning, and he fled into the street while the flames spread. BOY ADMITS MURDER. NEW YORK, December 19. The three months’ old mystery of the disappearance of Francis Laino, aged 10, a son of Dr. Frank Laino, was solved by the confession of his friend, John Macari, aged 13, who was recently sent to a State training school for boys as an incorrigible. Macari said he murdered Laino by striking him on the head with a lead pipe after a quarrel. He hid the body in an abandoned tenement. The police found the body in a narrow clothes closet on the fourth floor. The father was unable to identify the body, but said the clothes resembled his son’s.