NEWS AND- NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1931, Page 2

NEWS AND- NOTES.

MODESTY UP TO DATE.

Rigid censorship of television before “seeing” by wireless becomes commercialised is advocated by Mr Lafount, the Washington Federal Radio Commissioner. Peering into what he believes to be the not-too-distant wireless future, he fears That excessive advertising by means of pictures transmitted through space, anil “immodest broadcasts” are imminent unless the necessary legislative steps are taken,

PREYED ON CHARITY,

Tom Burns, a rag-gatherer, of Wrexham, who was lying in hospital suffering from want and neglect, was - discovered to be a man of comparative wealth. He lived in a common lodging house, but when the police ■ -searched his belongings after his admission to hospital they found more than £2OO hidden at the bottom of his tumble-down handcart". A sack full of, gold, silver and coppers, and a small tin box packed with £1 and 10s Treasury notes, were Burns had been the subject of pity in the district for years.

KEPT ALIVE BY ASSASSIN'S •BULLET.

While a bullet lodged in the heart of an Arkansas State representative, Mr tv. U. McCabe, is allowed to remain there, he will live, according to the doctors attending him •in hospital. Mr McCabe was wounded when a bullet fired through the door of his hotel room struck him in the chest. The seriousness of the wound was the indirect cause of keeping Mr McCabe alive, The doctors say his heart action was so weak that a blood clot was able to. form in the hole made by the bullet, sealing the wound.

RECORD LONG DISTANCE KISS

Members of a wedding party were .‘‘kissed” by a relative 3009 miles away at the reception which followed the marriage of Miss Emma Myers, daughter of a Durham miner. The fent was accomplished by means of a grumphone record. Miss Betty Mvers, the bride’s sister, who was a nurse in America, had the gramophone record specially made for the occasion.- She speaks lovingly to her narents, congratulates the bride and bridegroom, “’kisses” them all, and sings a little song. The bride’s mother said that when she first heard the record, which was received from America recently together with the bride’s dress, she was almost brokenhearted. ’’Betty was so near, but yet so tar away,” she said.