GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1937, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

HUMOUR DENIED (United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright). SINGAPORE, July 8. . The military authorities officially I deny the rumour that the scheme to fortify Penang Island has been abandoned. MINERS’ DEMAND SYDNEY, July 8. There has been no further development in the New South Wales coal dispute. The miners’ leaders are hopeful that the mine owners, who are reticent will meet them in conference, as the time for their reply to the new log expires to-morrow. - ; MAiTWEST’S MA&RIAGE~ LOS ANGELES, Jiffy 8. The film star, Mae West., who for many years had denied that she had ever been married has admitted that j she married Frank Wallace, a vaudevillian, when an action was F'rouHit hv ' Wallace to compel her to admit the relationship and to divide their rom--1 munity in nmnortv. which, he allegj es, exceeds 100,000 dollars, l Miss West, denied that she had ever lived with him and she alleged that he subsequently married again with- ( out divorcing her. MARRIAGE BILL LONDON, July 7. The House of Lords, in the committee stage of Mr Herbert's Marriage Bill, reduced the period in which a ] divorce is not allowable from five to three years, and agreed to a further amendment giving judges discretion to allow a petition to be presented within three years in cases of exceptional hardship. I It rejected an amendment, deleting five years’ insanity as a ground for divorce. Lord Dawson said the chances of recovery after fiye years’ insanity 4 were very small. PEACE PRIZE. (Received this day at 12 noon). THE HAGUE, July 8. The 1937 Wateler Peace prize valued 1 at £I2OO, was awarded General Baden Powell for services towards an international understanding through the medium of the Scout movement. ITALIAN ARMY DEATHS. (Received this day at 12 noon). , ROME, July 8. It is officially announced that sixty Italian officers and men died in “various causes of service’’ in Abyssinia during June. ' MUSSOLINI’S CLAIM. ROME, July 8. Mussolini claims he has broken a world’s speed record for a thousand kilometers. . [ | i