NEWS AND NOTES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4951, 4 February 1937, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

A message from Flint, Michigan, states that Mr. Justice Gadola, in the Circuit Court has granted an injunction ordering the sit-down strikers out of the plants of the General Motors Corporation within 24 hours, and restraining picketing. The strikers in both plants have telegraphed to the State Governor stating that they intend to defy the Court's order.

Less than 200 persons remain in Paducah, Kentucky, a town on the left bank of the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers. The normal population is 30,000. The crest of the flood has arrived and the flood waters are 10 miles wide. It is believed that water has entered every one of the 8000 residences.

Lady Wilkins, wife of the explorer, Sir Hubert Wilkins, announces that she will appear in a "floor show" at a New York night club. "People say I trade on my husband's name and fame, but they are mean and unkind to say that," said Lady Wilkins.

Despatches from Berlin say it is understood that Germany at -the end of February or early in March will present a memorandum on her colonial demands to "interested Powers," presumably to Britain, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, France, Belgium and Japan.

The English Government's Factories Bill has been issued. It consists of 14 parts and a total of 152 clauses. In the part of the bill which deals with the conditions of work for women and young persons, greatly reduced hours are proposed.

General Kleber, a Russian, has resigned the command of the International Brigade "owing to political differences with the Spanish Government." According to a fellow-officer, however, he was forced to resign because he boasted too much about the brigade saving Madrid.

The French Chamber of Deputies passed a vote of confidence in the Government by 405 votes to 186 and authorised the expenditure of a sum of £190,000,000 on a comprehensive defence scheme. Of the total named, £140,000,000 will be expended in' the next three years.

The Canberra correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald states that the negotiations between the Commonwealth and British Governments for a new air mail agreement, involving the use of flying boats on the Australian section of the route, have been completed.

Flight-Lieutenant Gathcart Jones, who, with Mr. Ken Waller, took part in the Melbourne Centenary air race, did not appear at the first meeting of his creditors, and it was stated that no one seemed sure where he was.

"I wanted a pair of long pants, but my paternal parent would not give me a pair," said one of the original members of the Waipukunau Volunteer Fire Brigade at the silver jubilee banquet of the body held at Waipukurau recently. "And that is why I joined the Fire Brgade," he concluded amid laughter.