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Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1931, Page 6

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BIG CRIME HUNT. PATROLS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, March 13. There have been 73 cases of homicide in New York City since Now Year’s Day, and three out of four have remained unsolved. An interesting broadside against crime will he tested one night soon, when 600 officers aboard powerful police cars, and 200 extra motor cyclists, will hunt the streets.

BURNT TO DEATH. THE PRICE OF A DOLL. BERLIN, March 13. A doll belonging to six-.vear-ofil Traute Tessner became so old, fagged and dirty, with the sawdust running out, that the child’s mother decided to throw it on the fire. As soon as the mother loft the room Traute tried to rescue her treasure, but her clothes caught fire and she was burned to death. ORDERS FROM RUSSIA. GERMAN MACHINERY FIRMS. BERLIN. March 13. Herr Kloeckner. the steel and iron magnate, who visited Moscow and other cities in company with 20 German steel, iron and electrical industrialists. says that the delegation is very satisfied with what as been achieved. There is good reason to hope that they will receive orders enabling the employment of many workers.

It is understood that the Soviet informed the delegation that they were prepared to place large orders, especially for machinery, provided tlmt longterm credits, up to five years, were granted. The Germans are willing to accept the terms, provided that the Russian Government guarantees at least a portion of the credits.

GERMAN BANNED. CONCERTS IN FRANCE. PARIS, March 13. On tlie grounds of his anti-French sympathies, tho Government forbade the Pnsdeloup Concert Association to allow the famous musician. Felix Woingnrtner, to conduct its concerts on March 8.

Weingartner promoted and signed a manifesto of 03 German intellectuals against the Allies at the outbreak of the war, simultaneously returiiinrr bis order of the Legion of Honour to the French Government with an insulting note.

STRANGE TEA PARTY. SCFNFS IN LONDON. LONDON. March 13. London’s most remarkable tea party was hold in the Royal Academy, when visitors; to the great exhibition held in Hyde Park in 1861 were entertained by the committee of the Persian exhibition. Nearly 400 attended, the youngest of whom had been the prize baby of 1861. They included Lord Hay ter. Admiral Sir'William Henderson, General Sir Neville Lyttelton, Sir Philip Magnus, and several other prominent people; also Mrs Wilson. aged 07. who has given 50 years’ service at the Crystal Palace.

The company afterwards moved to Hyde Park, where the exhibition is housed. Friends’ arms supported many veterans. Others were able to make the round of the exhibits with the aid of walking sticks. Only a few accepted the invitation of the management to use hath chairs.

Several brought relics of the 1851 exhibition, and Canon Wilson, aged 94, replied on behalf of the visitors to the speeches of welcome. ,

FEMALE INVASION. .DRESS SUITS, NOW! LONDON .A! a rob 13. A feminine dinner suit adapted from the male dress suit was the sensation of a fashion parade dance tliis week at a Ihmoiis West End Club, at which dresses valued at £SOOO were worn. Thirty-three new materials were shown. The dinner suit, worn by a tall mannequin. was made of broadcloth. with, swallow tails reaching t<> the ankles, and with heavy white satin trousers, the legs of which were wide at the hem. The vest was an exact replica of a man’s dress vest. Epstein’s model, Alajinska, wore a wedding dress of ivory satin. Several feather boas. hitherto the. undisputed monopoly of charwomen, were shown.

The mannequins included beauties from Russia and other European conn tries, and also one from Teheran. The first Persian girl to eat and smoko publicly, she made a spectacular appearance in a green backless gown called passion flower. The women applauded when they noticed that she had painted her eyebrows right across her face from cal' to ear, over the bridge of her nose.

EGYPT’S TREASURE. SALVAGING TO CONTINUE. LONDON, March 13. The Serimn Company of Genoa, owners of the Artiglio, blown up after locating the liner Egypt, has dispatched a successor to Brest, where she will he fully equipped to resume operations on the Egypt in May. She is a French trawler of 350 tons. 150 ft. long, under Captain Carli, commander of the Rostro, the Artiglio’s consort last year.

The Rostro is to go to Belle Isle to

recover as "mill’ll as possible of the Artiglio’s valuable equipment, including the jointed diving shell, winches, steel mast and derrick, and specially plaited cables. The remains of the Artigbo will then he blown up. Recently fishermen at Sables Doloiine, 85 miles from the scene of the disaster, .picked up a closed white-painted stell cylinder 10ft long and 4ft in diameter, with circular glass windows at one end. This turned out to he the observatory diving shell from the Artiglio. The discovery led to an anxious message from the family of Alberto Rargelline, one of the Artiglio’s lost divers. They had heard a rumour that he had been found unhurt inside the shell. This, unhappily, was impossible, the shell having floated empty from the Artiglio after the explosion.

GENERAL AIDE. SAFF-RR FAKER’S RECORD. LONDON, March 13 “Apparently you are called in as a general practitioner calls in specialists. It is highly desirable that your specialist activities shall lie curtailed.” said the Recorder. Sir Ernest "Wild, addressing George Brooks, who pleaded guilty at Old Daily to six charges of. breaking and entering. It was stated that Brooks, aged 55, was employed by younger men planning burglaries, a* he could open any safe in five minutes, lie was awarded CIO for information in a big forged note case.

Brooks said, regarding his acceptance of the award; that he did not

mind a poor man thieving, but lie objected to poor people- being swindled by forged notes. Sir Ernest "Wild sentenced bim to six years’ imprisonment—one year for each.' safe he had burgled.

ENGLISH CRICKETER PROVES FAST LOVER.

BREACH OF PROMISE CASE

LONDON. March 13

Miss Annie Conway .Jowoll, a professional singer, has been awarded C 250 damages in her breach of promise case against the cricketer Stanley Worthington. 'Flic evidence showed that Worthington’s clubmate, Storer, introduced him to Miss Jowett in I!).!!). Worthington the same night motored her to a dirt track meeting, and next day took her to a country match at Nottingham, accompanied her home, and within a few days he was making love. My the thirteenth day she was saving that he must not lie serious.

Worthington replied: “I am serious, and I hope soon to convince you of it.” During his cricket travels he wrote heir..Living]; v, and eventually pr<»posed*/but'she;declined. • He later said fie was going to New Zealand and would be much happier if she promised to marry him at i!> end of the season, when he would have I'l.ooo. including C 250 Com the tour, enabling him to give her a Wedding piescnt. and an endowment puli v worth L 800,... .and _a grand piano. lie asked her to give up singing, as it might look as though he was unable to afford a wife. But his letters from New Zealand cooled, suggesting trouble because his mother and; listers thought. her unworthy of hjn’i; while the million kisse s he had been' in the habit of sending dropped to one. V orthingtoii. in bis evidence, denied

the promise. ’Fife judge held that his ardent letters could not have been written unless "he was affianced.