CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 February 1938, Page 7

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

U.S. UNEMPLOYMENT. (PBJCSS ASSN. COPYBIGHT.I WASHINGTON. February 10. Mr.- Roosevelt will ask Congress to appropriate an additional 250,000,000 dollars for unemployment relief. SUPER-HIGHWAYS. WASHINGTON, February 10. A bill for the construction of 10 selfliquidating trans-continental super highways at a cost of 8,000,000,000 dollars, will be introduced by Senator Robert Bulkley. Mr. Roosevelt is believed to favour the project. HARRY BRIDGES. SAN FRANCISCO, February 10. Mr. Harry Bridges telegraphed to Senator R. S. Copeland, demanding an opportunity to give evidence before the Senate Maritime Committee, as to why he should not be deported from the United States. BRITISH ART EXHIBITION. RUGBY, February 9. The exhibition of British art in Paris, which will begin on March 4, will occupy five rooms at the Louvre, and will probably be opened by the President (M. Lebrun). Works by Gainsborough, Hogarth, Turner, and Rossetti will be among those sent to Paris by the National Gallery. Loans by the King, which are exceptional, will be made, and some pictures from Queen Mary’s collection, as well as outstanding works from important private collections in England, will be on view. NIEMOLLER TRIAL. LONDON, February 10. The “News Chronicle’s” Berlin correspondent says: Dr. Staege, the Chairman of the Berlin Nazi Jurists’ League, is the counsel officially chosen to defend Dr. Niemoller. , WAR-TIME SHELL DUMP. , PARIS, February 10. Twenty tons of German war-time gas - shells were removed from an under- > ground dump at Adinfert, eight miles i from Arras. A subsidence of the earth ■ revealed a long gallery ending in a large chamber. Workmen, exploring, were almost overcome by stagnant gas. p ' DUKE OF WINDSOR. ’ OSLO, February 10. 5 The “Aftenposten” publishes a s special interview with the Duke of - Windsor, in which he says that he and I the Duchess have practically decided ? to spend the Summer in touring Scani dinavia. s RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS. e f . OSLO, February 10. 1 The Government has ordered the i- cruiser Fridtjof Nansen to search for t- the Russian scientists.