News In A Nutshell

Northern Advocate, 1 December 1936, Page 7

News In A Nutshell

A message from San Jose, Costa Rica, states that a trade treaty with the United States has been signed, the first since the re-election of President Roosevelt. • * • • Britain’s philanthropical motor magnate, Lord Nuffield, announces that he is giving £2,215,000 to create a fund under which Morris Motor employees, in addition to receiving holidays with pay, will share benefits in the firm. The sum is represented by 1,000,000 ordinary shares in Morris Motors, dividends from which will produce the fund.

One of the main features of the Government’s recently announced air attack defence plan, said the “Daily Sketch,” is provision of facilities during fog including the throwing of a belt of light many miles wide across the sky from the South Coast, over London, to the East Coast. Giant bombers, trapped in this area of light, would be easy prey to the 300 miles an hour interceptor machines which have been ordered in large numbers.

The Duke of York was installed Grand Master Mason of Scotland at the bi-centenary celebration of the Grand Lodge of Scotland at Edinburgh.

The death has occurred of Sir Edwin Deller, principal of the University of London, who was injured together with several other officials when an accident occurred during an inspection of building progress last Friday.

The newspapers repox't that an operation performed at Newcastle Hospital in a case of angina pectoris, which, if finally successful, will constitute a remarkable advance in surgery. The heart was joined to the vascular tissue through the diaphragm in such a way as to augment the blood supply. The patient is recovering. British Official Wireless. * H» w « The investigating committee of the United States Senate announced that the expenditures of both parties in the recent Presidential campaign amounted to the record total of 13,000,000 dollars. The committee stated that a method of curbing the sums spent was urgently needed. * * « • A denial of the belief that the new German-Japancse pact allocates mutual economic spheres of influence in the Dutch East Indies was given by the Foreign Office spokesman, Mr Eijhi Amau.