News In A Nutshell

Northern Advocate, 24 October 1936, Page 5

News In A Nutshell

The home of Gary Cooper, film actor, Hollywood, was robbed of jewellery, furs, all his shirts, and the bathroom scales. The total value of the stolen articles is 25,000 dollars.

All the thirty-five members of the crew of the Japanese salvage ship the Oura Maru were drowned when the vessel capsized in a heavy sea off the north-west coast of Hokkaido Island while towing the damaged cargo vessel Aishu Maru. The fate of the latter is not known.

The death has occurred of Mr James Couzens, Republic member of the Senate for Birmingham, Michigan, aged 64, says a Detroit message. * * * *

The Department of Commerce, Washington, announces that the German Government has authorised Dr. Eckener to build a sister airship to the Hindenburg, for use in private American interests and for transAtlantic operations. The possibility of a subsidy is under consideration.

While a party of Royal Engineers was removing one of the many military booby traps laid to protect the water pipe-line from sabotage during the disturbances in Palestine it exploded, killing two sappers and injuring a captain and a corporal.

The well-known film comedian, Stanley Laurel, of Laurel and Hardy, whose wife filed a petition for divorce last week, has filed a cross-petition. He claims that his wife interfered with his business, said she no longer loved him and taunted him that he would have to support her for her lifetime.

The “Daily Telegraph” says the expansion • of British Dominions’ Air Forces is resulting in Australia sending 50 to 60 short-term officers to serve in Britain in 1936, instead of the former 10 to 15. Canada is sending 15 and New Zealand has made a similar arrangement.

The smearing with green paint of Epstein’s “Rima” is recalled by the daubing with a blue corrosive of his massive group entitled “Day” outside the Transport Board’s headquarters of Westminster. Workmen have endeavoured in vain to remove the paint, which apparently was thrown at the statue from the road level in glass tubes. These broke on contact. The foundation stone was also daubed with the swastika sign.

The “Daily Mail” states that Viscount Rothermere, cabling from Hong Kong, urges assistance to British shipping to compete , with "faster German and Japanese vessels. He suggests that British 25 knot liners and 15 knot cargo boats should have the Suez Canal dues returned from British income on Suez Canal shares. Unless British shipping was aided, Chinese and Japanese markets would disappear within five years.

The King George Memorial Fund has reached £300,000.

The King has been spending a few days shooting over his Sandringham estate, anc\ examining arrangements made for its < reorganisation, under which several of his former tenants have taken over land directly farmed by the King.—British Official Wireless.

General Goering, now in charge of Germany’s four-year self-sufficiency plan, in the course of a speech at a conference with 25 leading industrialists, announced that the Government was spending £666,000,000 on the construction of necessary factories and plant. Attention at first would be concentrated on the production of substitutes for textiles, rubber and oil.

The Duke of Kent has received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws of St. Andrew’s University.

The largest intestacy ever recorded at Somerset House was announced yesterday. Lord Ashton, the linoleum manufacturer, who died in 1930 intestate, left £10,501,595. The estate, originally sworn at £9,500,000, has now been sworn at the higher figure.— (8.0. W.).

The naval correspondent of the “Morning Post” says that the Admiralty has reversed the “axe” policy, and issued an order that lieutenants or lieutenant-commanders be allowed to retire under the age of 45. thus withdrawing the option of retiring at 40. This reversal of policy is an admission that retrenchment has been carried too far. Some -2000 officers have been lost to the country under various retrenchment schemes, the most recent being that in 1933.

The death is announced in Sydney of Percy Brereton Colquhon, aged 70. He occupied a prominent place in public life in New South Wales as solicitor, Parliamentarian and sportsman. He represented the State at bowls, tennis and football.