NEWS BY MAIL

Gisborne Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6318, 22 February 1922, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL

TWO DEATHS IN CHAPEL

INQUEST REVEALS A CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.

A double inquest held at Blackburn revealed a remarkable coincidence, both deceased having expired while attending service at Wesleyan chapels.

Mrs Nancy Haslam, a widow, of Norman Street, .visited Griffin Street Wesleyan Church on Sunday evening, and died in her pew. James Alcllquham, of Chester Street, attended the Wesleyan Mission with his sister. He took part-in tiie service, and sang with great heartiness the closing hymn, -‘There is a wonderful land.”

. He was leaving after- the service when he had a seizure and died. Ho had been without a doctor for twenty years. A verdict of “Death from natural causes” was returned in each case.

BEDROOM FAItCES. WELL-KNOWN PLAY-Plt ODUCER PROSECUTED

The New York stage is now under a hot fire of public indignation following proceedings taken against A. H. Woods, a well-knowp New York theatrical manager, in connection with his latest production. “The DemiYirgin.” The character of the play may he gleaned from its climax, in which the female members of the cast are shown playing a game which is styled "‘strip poker,” and which gets its name from the fact that players, instead of money, stake their garments. The garb of the heaviest losers can easily be imagined. After hearing the evidence of police witnesses the chief stipendiary of New York; described the play as ‘‘deliberately, painstakingly, coarsely indecent.” TELL-TALE WAVES. GETTING WEATHER FORECASTS FOR AIRMEN. What the sea waves are saying about the weather in distant seas now plays an important part in weather forecasts for aviation. Air Ministry' experts at various parts of the coast are always watching the waves to gather the news they bring. The formation of a wave, its- size, the manner of its rolling, have a great significance to. the trained eye of the expert. A particular type of choppy swell on a calm day means that m some part of the ocean the wind is making mountainous waves. By watching these shore wavelets constantly the experts can judge the approximate distance and direction of the storm. The effect cf a great storm hundreds of miles away can be observed on the British coast within a few minutes of its beginning, and the whole rise and decline of the disturbance followed. Especially is this the case in the Pacific, where there are no great land impediments to detract from the force of the ‘‘wave echo.”

NEEDLE REMOVED FROM A CHILD’S HEART. SUCCESSFUL OPERATION FOLLOWS X-RAY TREATMENT. A small steel needle lias been removed from the heart of Dawscn Sandies, tv. r o years old, at the Elliott Memorial Hospital at the University of Minnesota, says Reuter. The child fell while playing, and later complained of a pain in his left side. An X-ray examination revealed the needle. Dr A. C. Shtraehaucr, chief of the surgical staff, at the hospital, found when operating that the needle had entered the heart. At each contraction of that organ, the head of the needle came into view. With tiny forceps the doctor extracted it, and within a short time the heart, which had been beating 120 times a minute, returned to normal. CHEWING-GUM KEY. TI-lIEYES USE SWEETMEAT TO TAKE AN IMPRESSION.

How , chewing-gum was used to obtain an impression of a key for a robbery was described at Wood Green Police Court when Frederick Lee, described as the “prison Beau Bruinmel,” again appeared charged with stealing a motor-cycle. Two other men named Edes and Marriott were charged with him. Lee told the police that lie and Edes were caught in a thunderstorm and invited by a woman to shelter in the garage. Edes drew his attention to the motor-cycle, saying, “The very thing yen want.” He told Edes, “AVc can hardly do that when the lady has given us shelter” ; hut Edes pointed to the key of the garage and said, “Get a print of it.” Lee confessed that lie went to a shop, bought some chewing-gum, chewed it up, and got an impression of the ky. Some days later a key was made, and all three went to the garage. Lee sold the cycle at Surbiton.

A police inspector said there were other convictions against Leo. The other two had borne good characters. The magistrate ordered Lee six months’ imprisonment with hard labor, to follow the sentence he is now serving. The others were bound over.

MAGNATE’S AIM. WANTS TO DOMINATE' WORLD TRADE.

A short, stockily-built, ’black-board-ed. shabbily-dressed man, Hugo Stinnes is Germany’s commercial and financial superman. _ Stinnes is a man with an ideal. He wants to dominate Germ.r-n industry first, then German politics, then world industry and world politics. His aim is revenge for a beaten Germany, revenge in a trade war for defeat in a military war. Beginning with coal, lie organised the German coal industry into 1.4 groups, over winch lie presides. .Then lie organised the iron industry and linked it with coal. Then he took ji hand in shipping and linked it wiefi both. n Before the war he was one of Germany’s richest men. During the war, while Germany groaned at the profiteers, • this h lack-bearded, sinister German went-on piling up his lortune. Sir Valentine Cliirol says- that he ought to be m the dock as a i\ar criminal, fer it was his influence that led to the stripping of Belgium’s factories and the deportation of t.ic workers. . After the war ho took, to politics, which hitherto he-despised. He began by halving up all the newspapers ho could.' To-day lie owns seventy, together with great printing tvorks and paper mills and pulp-wood lorosts. _ Ho is spreading his tentacles .in Russia. He controls the giejit .iailwav works at Riransk, turning out 8000 engines and 80,00 carriages annually for the Soviet Government. He is bitterly anti-Ally.