CABLE BREVITIES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21400, 10 May 1944, Page 4

CABLE BREVITIES

New U.N.R.R.A. Official Professor Harry M. Cassidy, of Canada, has been appointed director of traning of the United Nations’ Relief and Rehabilitation Association. Mexican Volcano Active The turbulent Paricutin volcano, in Mexico, has entered a new phase ■of activity, emitting thundering discharges and lighting the countryside for miles around. The emission of ashes has decreased the flow of lava, which has reached the outskirts of the village of Paragariculriro. Public Debt in U.S. The United. States House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee approved of a bill increasing the United States debt limit of 210,000,000,000 dollars to 240.000.000,000. which is 20,000,000 000 below the limit recommended by the Treasury. Mr. Daniel Bell, Under-Secretary to the Treasury, stated that the total public debt is expected to be 197,000,000,000 dollars on June 20. He forecast that the public debt would be 235,000.000,000 by the end of this year and 268,000.000,000 by June 30 next year, Jazz and Crooning: Age “I cannot imagine a crooner inspiring anyone into war service,” said Sir Sydney Nicholson, who is director of the School of English Church Music and a former organist at Westminster Abbey, when asked why this war has not produced thrilling marching songs comparable with those of 1914-18. “It is conceivably due to degradation in popular taste by the perpetual sound of jazz and crooning. We are going through an age of the most terrible sentimentality. The wireless is constantly giving out, ‘Darling, lot me sit beside you.’ If people like such stufl it is likely that they do not want to sing anything decent,’’