NEWS BY WIRELESS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 1 June 1926, Page 5

NEWS BY WIRELESS.

BUDGET FROM NEW YORK. s (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, May 31. The following news items were broadcast from the New York Times building by the Australian Press Association and picked up by Mr. Shrimpton, junr. NEW YORK. Evangeline Booth, commander of the Salvation Army in the United States, is dangerously ill, and yesterday suffered a serious relapse. The physicians hope for her recovery. ; At- Marion, Ohio, the corner stone of the Harding memorial tomb, honouring the late President Warren Harding, who died in office, will be laid to-day. Fifty thousand' persons will attend the ceremony. News from Ithaca (New York) states that Leonard M Spear, a local resident who was bitten by a. diamondback Texas rattlesnake in the Cornell University laboratory on Friday, has a good chance of recovery. Two doses of anti-venom serum which were sent from Bronx Garden, New York City, were administered, to him. The serum was rushed by train and car. President Coolidge, in dedicating a. monument to John Ericsson, the designer of the famous “Monitor” naval vessel used in the civil war, and which revolutionised naval warfare, paid a tribute to the greatness of the Swedish race, of which Ericsson was a member. The Crown Prince of Sweden was present in his official capacity at the dedication ceremony. The most notable wedding Washington has yet seen took place on Saturday at noon, when Ailsa, the only daughter of Mr. Mellon, Secretary to the Treasury, was married to David Bruce, eldest son of Senator Bruce, of Maryland. The President and Mrs. Coolidge were present at the ceremony.

The Northern Baptist Convention meeting here has placed on record its support of the Anti-Saloon League in the present phase of the prohibition fight.