CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 April 1938, Page 8

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

[PBEBB ASSN.—COPYBIGHT.] RUGBY. April 19. The value of British coal exports, in the first quarter of 1938 was £8,831,784, compared with £7.462,290 lor the same quarter of 1937 and £6,632,390 in the March quarter of 1936. The tonnage however, was slightly less at 8 560.100. Italy took 670.553 tons, against 322,997 a year ago. There was also an increase in experts to Germany from 699,999 tons in the March quarter of 1937 to 875,876 tons, and the exports to Spain showed a. recovery compared with the corresponding quarters of the two preceding years. NAZIS TN BRAZIL. RIO DE JANEIRO, April 19. The President of Brazil (Dr. Getutes Vargas) has issued a decree for the disbandment within 30 days of Nazi and other foreign organisations engaged in alien political activities.

JACKIE COOGAN. HOLLYWOOD, April' 19. Mrs Bernstein (mother of claimant) in her affidavit, said that her son Jackie Coogan’s screen earnings up to the age of 21, were 1,300,000 dollars. They were not four millions, as Coogan claimed. His earnings were listed i nthe records of Jackie Coogan Productions Inc., in which his mother and father, but not Jackie, were the stockholders. HARRY BRIDGES. WASHINGTON, April 19. Pending his, appeal' to the Supreme Court- to decide whether membership of the Communist Party does or does not constitute grounds for deportation, the Labour Department has postponed j.ts deportation proceedings against the Labour leader, Mr Harry Bridges. This move has resulted from a Circuit Court decision freeing Joseph Strecker, who admitted that he was a Communist, from a deportation charge similar to. that against Bridges.

BANK NOTE MILLS. RUGBY, April 2b. Their Majesties motored from Windsor Castle to Laverstoke, Hampshire, to see tlie paper mills', where- paper ismade for Bank of England notes.

TURKISH BAZAARS. LONDON, April 20. “The Times’s” Istanbul correspondent says: Visitors, will shortly no longer enjoy the thrill of bargaining at bazaars. The Government is promoting a law enforcing fixed prices. AH goods will be marked. A heavy fine will be imposed on: a shopkeeper taking more dr lei's than the riiafked jiriceri;'