News In A Nutshell

Northern Advocate, 21 June 1937, Page 5

News In A Nutshell

The Boeing Aircraft Co., of Vancouver, has been awarded a Canadian defence contract of 600,000 dollais for 11 bombers, to be constructed wholly of Empire materials. * • * • After a collision at an altitude of 500 feet, two Moth planes crashed at Acacia Ridge, on Cooper’s Plains, says a Brisbane message. Both the pilots, Miss Esther Cully, a nurse, and Mr Jack Barrett, were killed. • ■ » * • A Government motion in the House of Commons stating that, in the opinion of the House, it is expedient that the salaries of members of Parliament should be increased from £4OO to £6OO a year, will be debated on Tuesday.—(B.O.W.). • * 9 9 The annual report of the Chief Inspector of Railways shows that last year the liability owing to passenger casualities in train accidents on British railways was one passenger killed in every 582,000,000 carried, and one injured in every 35,000,000. —(8.0. W.). 9 9 » • Sydney was lashed by a gale at the week-end, accompanied by heavy rain. Figures show that 5.34 inches have fallen since Thursday evening. Between 9 a.m. cn Saturday and 9 p.m. today, four inches were recorded. « * 9 * The King, wearing his Field-Mar-shal’s uniform, and the Queen attended the Aldershot Tattoo and were cheered tumultuously by the 70,000 'spectators. The attendance at four performances was 621,500, a record. * « • e The fifth consecutive trial race to select the America Cup defender was won yesterday at Newport, Rhode Island, by Ranger, which led by seven minutes over a course of 28 miles.

In the finals of the Queen Club tennis tourney, Mile. Jedrzdjowska defeated Miss K. Stammers, 6—3, 6—o; Budge defeated Austin, 6—l, 6—2.

The Prime Minister of Belgium, Dr. van Zeeland arrived at New York on Saturday. He said the principal purpose of his visit was to meet President Roosevelt and to receive an honorary degree from Princeton University. He would not discuss reports that he would explore the possibility of a world economic conference. « * » • The Vienna correspondent of “The Times” states that, after intensive diplomatic negotiations, the Austrian Government has agreed to allow a great reunion of Austrian and German soldiers at Weis in the middle of July. Strong German pressure was used to have it allowed.

An Australian art union ticket brings £6OOO, involving medical aid and much-needed assistance, to Mrs. N, Tibbs, who has been bedridden for 10 years, says a Vancouver message. Her husband, a Great War veteran, died in May. Mrs. Tibbs was subsisting on a small pension. '

The newspaper “Le Peuple” says that Dr. Schacht (Germany), Colonel Beck (Poland) and Baron von Neurath (Germany) are playing Germany’s diplomatic game to bring Europe under the domination of a junta, comprising Britain, France, Germany and Italy, which would lose France the friends she has, without gaining ne.w ones, and would leave Germanism a freer hand in Eastern Europe.

Mrs Amelia Putnam, who is flying eastwards round the world from Florida, has arrived at Singapore from Rangoon, which she reached on Saturday from Calcutta.