GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 23 April 1937, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

(Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) WASHINGTON, April 21

Miss Perkins and a group of outstanding Labour and industrial leaders met for the first series of discussions, intended to try to agree to a formula preventing strikes and lockouts, in operation under the Wagner Act.'

Afiss Perkins .said: AVe are very hopeful the meeting will result in the stabibsation of labour relations. TALLINN, April 21.

Pour children were killed and seventy injured, when a film caught fire in a school at Kilingi Noemme, Southern Estonia. Flames blocked the exits, and many children leapt from the w.nclows. LONDON. April 21. “The Times’s” Beilin correspondent says: Hitler has issued a decree e reat. ing a Nazi Flying Corps, with the object of “keeping alive the German people’s aviation spirit, establ.siting a system of preparatory flying mstruct'ion, prior to military service, and uni. tying Germany’s manifold air Sport activities.” The decree simultaneously dissolves the German Air Sports Association. Six war-blinded Australian ex.servieemcn, under the care of St. Dun. stan’s, will join the Austra. lian and New Zealand contingents on Anzae D'ay, marching with sighted escorts to St. Paul’s, and thence to the Cenotaph, where tfhey will lay a wreath on behalf of St. Dunsttln’s. ROME, April 21. Mass marriages were celebrated countrywide to-day, on the anniversary of the foundation of Rome, including nine hundred at Bologa and five hundred at Naples. The couples are receiving a generous Government bounty. A procession of newly, weds 'was a feature of the fesfivitie . NEW YORK, April 21. Doctor, Stefansson presented the Explorers’ Club Modal to Admiral Byrd, at a dinner attended by the world’s outstanding explorers, m token of his achievements in Arctic and Antarctic exploration. Sir 11. Wilkins, toast-master, com, mented that there was little left to explote, this being partly due- -o By id'. LONDON, April 21. Captain Turner, V.C., and Mr litikatene, of flic New Zealand contingent, will appear in the British Broadcasting Corporation’s television transmission. The King, before returning to

Windsor, presided at a meeting of the Council of the Duchy of Cornwall and visited the Crown jewellers to inspect the Imperial State Crown, which is being remodelled for the Coronation. CAPETOWN, April 21.

A herd of eicphantg raided Chid.' Dandawa’s kraal in the Zambesi Vai. ley. One entereu a hut and eon um. ed eight pots of Kaffir beer. The natives sheltered in the bush, and saw the elephant frisking about, men slag, goring after the herd. The elephant became so riotous that the adjacent village was destroyed by himself and his companions LONDON, April 21.

The “Daily Telegraph’S” Berlin cor. respondent says; The Reich League for physical exercises, which controls all sporting activities in Germany, has deemed that all members of tennis chibs, from Davi.s Cup contestants to rabbits, must .-übinlt to the ordeal of public examination in Nazi philosophy, be. fore May 3rd. Nobody who fails to pass will be permitted tn participate m any tournament, irrespective of play, ing skill. LONDON, April 21. The hearing of forty-two Gresford mine disaster summonses opened at AVrexham. They relate to alleged neglect t 0 provide proper ventilation, failure to report fhe true condition of airways workings, failure to keep re. cords, and alleged illegal shot, firing.

Sir Terrence O’Connor, Solicitor. General, said ho did not intend to ni'nce his words. The conditions in the mine were horrible.

He emphasised that there was no allegation that any of the defendants or the company wore responsible by the acts with which they were charged’ for the explosion itself. The summooses related to the conditions and breaches of the Mines Act! before the explosion. The proceedings are likely to last a Week.