LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1929, Page 5

LATE CABLE NEWS

SWALLOWED RADIUM. CANCER PATIENT’S DEATH. LONDON, Sept. 16. Joseph Summerfield. a 70-year-old patient in Birmingham;’., Hospital, died during an operation to recover a tube of radium which he had swallowed. He was . being -treated with radium for cancer,..of .the.,tongue. . ' iW-’' . .' y THE, SOROPTDiiiSTIS. WOMEN ROTARIANS. LONDON, Sept. 16. What. is. a* soroptiniist• She is a woman counterpart in tile Rotarian, or, more literally, a sister optimist, the first syllable being a contraction of the Latin word soror, which means sister. ■ , ;• • London has a Soroptimist Club, which holds a luncheon once a week on the line of the, Rotarian. There are 40 such clubs in Britain and [Europe. ,j •-,• , ..., - . BOOTLEGGERS BARRED. SALE OF AMERICAN YACHT. WASHINGTON, Sopt. 16. When the Former ' Presidential yacht, The Mayflower, which is for, sale, passes into the hands of her ; new owner, she will carry on the puritanical spirit of the voyagers in her namesake which brought the Pilgrim Fathers to America. It will be a case of watef, water, everywhere, and not a drop—of anything strong-er—-to drink, for the conditions of sale provide that the purchaser must be an American citizen and that ho must undertake never ..to, use. her for ( the transport of liquor. ■ Bootleggers, therefore, are barred from bidding. ERROR ADMITTED. ; ' ' BERLIN, Sept. 16. ~ Ernst Lissauer, the author of - the , famous war-time Hymn of Hate, explain? that;, he wrote. the poem in good faith, believing that England desired to stranglo Germany. Since then he has learned better, and now realises that, he should have express- M cd" his' anxiety* in a'lsong of love for Germany rather than; in a song of bate against'England^ 'lt is painfuj, he says, .to have his ’ name v allied with ideas of death and destruction, for he believes that a war would mean the annihilation of Western culture. . . , , RHEUMATIC BUG. ' •' ' LONDON, Sept. 16. . The popular belief that blonde per- . , sons are prone to rheumatic ailments, and that red-headed children are especially liable - tp-rlieumatip^ey^j/i lB contested by Drs Grayhilt. and/Mary „ Allan in the “Mecfioal Journal.”’ 1 ; The doctors state (that they recorded the characteristics 0f,'y662 rheumatic patients in hospitals, and ■ found that only 60 were fair-headed Vv or blue-eyed. ’ They therefore; concluded'there was -no type that could fairly be described- as the rheumatic type of