News In A Nutshell

Northern Advocate, 19 March 1937, Page 5

News In A Nutshell

Four members of the British Imperial Policy Group, headed by the Earl of Mansfield, arrived at New York by the Berengaria. They are to spend three weeks in a study of Ams; rican handling of problems common to Britain, for example Communism, unemployment and conservation. A fifth member arrives on Monday.

Defying the court’s injunction, the sit-down strikers remained today in the Chrysler Plant at Detroit. Twenty thousand union sympathisers massed outside the plant in a demonstration intended to show their approval of the strikers’ defiance.

The British Budget will be introduced in the House of Commons on April 20, according to an announcement/ by the Prime Minister, Mr Stanley Baldwin.

The King had his first win in flat racing when the two-year-old. Jubilee, was successful in the Molyneaux Stakes, five furlongs, at Liverpool. It was the colt’s first appearance and the first time His Majesty had been represented in flat racing.

Mr F. F. Moody, husband of the noted tennis player, Mrs Helen WillsMoody, announced yesterday '{hat she had decided to abandon amateur tennis, and to make a series of short tennis films for the cinema. This auto'matically would classify her as a professional, although she is resolved not to play tennis professionally.

Humours persist, in spite of official denials,, that Bolivia has issued a confiscatory decree against the Standard Oil Co., as a prelude to a series of such measures against United States capital throughout South America. It is stated that this is a result of the belief that President Roosevelt’s “good neighbour” policy means that American 'investments in Latin America will be unprotected.

Protesting against co-education and fearing that girl students would appear in excessive numbers university students rioted at Gaza says a Cairo message. Police fired shotguns and injured several students.