NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 October 1939, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF

MISSING WOMAN FLIER. [PRESS ASSN. COPYRIGHT.] HONOLULU, October 14. Mr. Eric Hanner will leave in the 55-foot schooner Valkyrie on October 1G to search, for a year for the woman flier, Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam, who disappeared on a trans-ocean flight in July, 1937. THETIS SALVAGE. LONDON, October 14. The Salvage Association has announced that operations on the submarine Thetis have reached the stage where attempts are being made with compressed air to expel the water from the main body of the submarine. These tests will reveal leakages, which must be located and made good before the vessel can be brought to the surface. SCOTTISH BY-ELECTION. . LONDON, October 14. The East Stirling by-election resulted: Mr. A. Woodburn (Labour) 15,645, Mr. Andrew Stewart (Pacifist) LOGO. Mr. Stewart forfeits his deposit. Mr. Woodburn in a statement, said: The verdict shows that the people of Britain are united in a conviction that Herr Hitler cannot be allowed to pursue a career of greedy conquest. MEXICAN WHEAT CROP. MEXICO, City, October 14. It is officially stated that Mexico’s current wheat crop is 400,000 tons, and that continued subsidisation of wheat and maize imports will be unnecessary. EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS VATICAN CITY, October 14. The thirty-eighth Eucharistic Congress, to have been held in 1940. has been postponed. HARRY BRIDGES’ POSITION. SAN FRANCISCO. October 14. Air. H. Lewis. C. 1.0. leader, has removed Harry Bridges from his position as C. 1.0. Director on the West. Coast of. America. He has appointed him as regional director in California. Mr Lewis denies that, the change is a concession against Communist criticism of Bridges, saying it is merely an organisational drive.

BRITISH RAILWAY SMASH. LONDON, October 11. AL Bletchley, during a black-out. a railway collision occurred. It is announced four are dead and five injured. A number of bodies were buried in the wreckage and have not yet been extricated. The black-out restrictions were withdrawn in the vicinity. The station and a school were converted into a casualty clearing post.