CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 January 1938, Page 8

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

ROCK EFELLER CENTRE

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NEW YORK, January IS

Mr. J. D. Rockefeller has announced the speeding up of the completion of the Rockefeller Centre by the erection of three more buildings (o cost 12.000.000 dollars, “as evidence of my continued faith in the future of American business." The work will give the building trades 1.000.000 man-days of employment.

DUTCH ECONOMIES

THE HAGUE. January 19

The First Chamber has approved bills fixing the annual revenues of Queen Wilhelmina ui about VHl.ooo instead of £133.000, Princess Juliana's income at. £22,000 instead of £4o.oi»v. and Prince Bernhardt’s at £22,0n0. The payment of members of Parliament is fixed at £5OO a year instead of £555.

Ai 1N E.R S DIIO WN E D

COLOMBO. January 10

Sixteen miners are reported killed by the flooding of the Plumbago mine in. Die Kurunagela. district, by sudden inrush from a disused shaft. Nine men escaped.

U.S.A. KIDNAPPERS

HOLLYWOOD. January 19

G-Men have again obtained letters, sent six years ago. threatening io kidnap the children of Harold Lloyd. It is reported that the revival of this case is associated with the capture of the kidnapper Anders, and that the G-Men desire to compare the handwriting in the Ross and Mattson cases.

COLLEGE FIRE.

MONTREAL. .January IS

Following the Sacred Heart College fire, there were 17 bodies recovered. The missing total at least thirteen.

HINDENBURG EX PLOSION

BERLIN, January 19

The report, of the German Commission of Inquiry discounts the idea that the airship Hindenburg was sabotaged, and expresses the opinion that a combination of circumstances was responsible for the fire.

SUNSPOT A.\'D RADIO. (Reed. January 20, 2 p.m.) LONDON. January 19. The “Telegraph’- says: One of the largest sunspots observed since 1575 when records were begun at Green-

wich Observatory, is now clearly vis- ’ ible at London to the naked eye. On the upper righthand of the orb is an ! elongated dark TIC. The area is esti- ' mated at. 3500 million square miles. It is believed that recent difficulties ■with Empire broadcasts, especially to Canada, are duo to it. EGYPT’S KING CAIRO, January 19. Hitler has given King Farouk a magnificent Mercedes car.