NEWS OF THE WORLD

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3441, 10 March 1932, Page 3

NEWS OF THE WORLD

“JAY WALKER” GAOLED. GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER. . A “jay walker” has been sentenced in Berlin to four months’ imprisonment for manslaughter. He stepped off the pavement when the red light was against him, and a motor cyclist had to brake so suddenly that a girl who was pillion-riding with him fell off the machine and sustained fatal injuries.

NO BOA SKIN: NO DANCE. DIRECTOR SUES DANCER. Because she refused to dance in a Paris music-hall without her boa skin, a young dancer is being sued for £2OO damages by the director of the music-hall. Mile. Loritz Lizzi says she agreed to dance in the music-hall dressed only in a boa skin. At the last moment, however, the director informed her that the boa skin would not be permitted. Miss Lizzi thereupon refused to dance, declaring that her modesty forbade her to appear without the boa skin.

BELLING THE CAT.

PROTECTING BIRD POPULATION Belling the cat is easy when humans take a hand. All the cats in Llewellyn Park, fashionable residential section of West Orange, New Jersey, are compelled to wear bells around their necks for the protection of birds. The women of the community met and decided that something must be done about the dwind-

ling bird population. The bell ordinance was adopted and unless the cats work out some method of silencing them while hunting birds the prey will be forewarned by the tinkling of the bells.

VILLAGE UNDER ARREST. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. The lads of the village of Len-dak-Czechoslovakia, are “lads of the village” indeed. So much so that, following a series of hectic Saturday nights, the whole village has been put under arrest for being drunk and disorderly Nearly 20 people have been injured in Saturday night affrays among the villagers. But fighting- among themselves was too tame, so they began to throw stones at passing motorists. The climax came when two income-tax collectors were thrown into a pond. It was then that the village was arrested.

TWELVE ELEPHANTS BURNED. ARSON SUSPECTED. Twelve elephants were badly burned when a fire broke out in the Sarrasani Circus, on the outskirts of Brussels recently. One of them had to be shot. The fire started in the room where the costumes are kept, and spread to the saddle-room, and then to the elephants’ stable. Thousands of costumes and hundreds saddles were destroyed. The damage is estimated at £12,000. Arson is suspected, for the management received a postcard previously threatening the circus with destruction.

LITTLE HERO OF THE SNOW.

FOUND CLASPING CHUM.

The remarkable heroism of a four-teen-year-old boy was revealed at Montreal, Canada, recently, when searchers found him half frozen beside the body of his play-mate. At night the little fellow had supported his friend in a snow-drift, where they were trapped after wandering from home. Police and searchers who scoured the country for 20 hours were often within 100 yards of the spot where the boys were slowly freezing to death. It was only when it was decided to abandon the search that the body of one of the little boys was found in the snow, clasped by his comrade.

BABY DIES FOR TWO MINUTES. REVIVED BY HEART MASSAGE. To die and live again, has been the experience of a six-weeks-old London child. The parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Barrow, of Lynemouth Road, Walthamstow, London, E., watched their son, David, die of bronchitis and pneumonia. Immediately Dr. B. Rau, a local doctor, commenced to massage the baby’s heart. Two and a half minutes.later David’s heart started beating, and now he is recovering from his illness. “There were several people present in the room when David died,” Mrs. Barrow said. “The doctor told us afterwards that it was the first case of its kind he had ever heard of.”

PREHISTORIC REMAINS. AMERICAN DISCOVERIES. Remains of the ground sloth, a mammal generally regarded as characteristic of the ice age, have been found by California scientists in Gypsum Cave, 20 miles east of Las Vegas, Nev. Further, in the same strata left by the ages in the dry cave were unmistakable evidence of a Pueblo culture and of the . basket makers. Dr. Chester Stock investigated the Gypsum Cave-and found a complete hind foot of the ground sloth, with the horny claws intact, as well as small fragments of its hide and other bits of skeleton. Pieces of charcoal, a worked stick, a stone dart point of a throwing stick, point to the possibility that man and ground sloth lived in the same age in the American Southwest. ’