News In A Nutshell

Northern Advocate, 25 June 1937, Page 5

News In A Nutshell

Masses of flowers from residents of Vienna and a shoal of telegrams from England and other parts of the world were received by the Duke of Windsor on his 43rd birthday. The Austrian Government extended its good wishes, and so many Austrians and members of the British colony called at the hotel that the management provided a book in which the congratulations were entered. Extra police kept back the crowds outside the hotel.

The International Rotary Conference at Nice has appointed Mr. Burgess Watt, of Hobart, Australia, as governor-elect for the 65th district, and Sir Robert Garran, of Sydney, formerly Commonwealth SolicitorGeneral as governor elect of the 76th district. San Francisco has been chosen for the next conference.

A Federal Grand Jury indicted 55 people, including 13 women, alleged to be members of the largest and most elaborate diamond smuggling ring ever to have operated in the United States. The ring is stated to have brought in 13,000,000 dollars worth of gems illicitly in the past seven years. Many of them are residents of Antwerp. which is the ostensible centre of the diamond smuggling activity.

A merciless industrial purge is being continued in Russia, says, the “Times” Riga correspondent. Arrest and dismissals in the past ' week number thousands, and hardly a branch, of industry has escaped. A large number of directors, managers and high officials have been arrested, and will be tried on charges of incompetency and criminal negligence. ; • • ft ■ • • « ' Mr. Starling Childs, a New York banker, has, given 10,000,000 dollars to Yale University for creating a Cancer Research Foundation. The will of the late Mr. George F. Baker, banker, has been filed. He bequeaths 15,000,000 dollars for humanitarian purposes. His estate, estimated to be worth 50,000,000 to 100,000,000 dollars, has been left to his widow. • ♦ • » A telegram from Newport, Rhode Island, states that the American yacht Ranger won her seventh victory in the trials for the America Cup, defeating Yankee by five minutes 30 seconds over a course of miles. It is now considered a virtual certainty that Ranger will be the defender of the cup. « • • • A man, found shot in a waiting room at the Sydney railway station with a rifle beside him, who subsequently died, has been identified as Terence Leslie Gee, aged about 25, a wool classer, of New Zealand. Detectives are inquiring into the circumstances. • • » • The Trades Union Council and the executives of the National Labour and Parliamentary Labour Parties have instructed their delegates to the Labour Socialist International conference to be opened in Paris today, to advocate the reference of the Spanish question to the League of Nations, and to demand the restoration of the loyalists’ right to buy arms. ♦ * * * The International Boxing Union, says a Paris message, has decided to recognise the winner of the Sehmelir.g-Farr bout as world champion. *. m • • Mrs Amelia (Earhart) Putnam, the American airwoman, flying eastward from New York round the world, arrived at Sourabaya from Bandoeng. She will leave for Koepang tomorrow. 9 * • * Lord Cranbourne, Foreign Undersecretary, announced that he had been inforriied that negotiations were progressing between the Spanish Government and the International Red Cross for the evacuation of a large number of women and children from Madrid.—B.O.W. •** . * It is announced that Joe Louis will defend his world heavy-weight boxing title against Len Harvey. The fight will take place in London in the middle of August.