News In A Nutshell

Northern Advocate, 2 December 1937, Page 7

News In A Nutshell

A message from Newport News, Virginia, states that Mike Rittei', aged 77, a junk dealer, shot dead Sue Stokes, aged 11, and seriously wounded Mary Coleman, aged 12. He was enraged when he found the girls writing with chalk on his property. The of Johann Weichselberger has been found riddled with bullets, says a message from Vienna. He was formerly a member of the illegal Nazis, who threatened him after he left the organisation. It is believed that a secret tribunal sentenced him to death. Four young Nazis have been arrested and will be charged with murder.

A small demonstration by women dressed in back was made outside the Italian Consulate in Sydney at lunchtime yesterday. They carried a placard bearing the inscription: “We mourn for Spanish children killed by Fascist bombs.” The police were quickly on the scene and seized typed statements expressing horror at Italian intervention and air atrocities in Spain. They then dispersed the crowd.

A Jerusalem message states that a native police sergeant and constable were murdered by an armed gang near Haifa. In a spectacular lire, a copra shed, belonging to Messrs. Burns, Philip, and the South Sea Company, Ltd., situated on. the beach in front of and opposite the Customs building at Apia, was totally destroyed. It is estimated that the loss on the building and contents is .£13,000.

When a convict, attempting to escape from Parkhurst Prison. England, was hemmed in by warders, he vaulted a wall and smashed windows in the Governor’s house until overpowered. Other convicts, hearing that he had been recaptured, caused an uproar, smashing furniture in their cells.

The President of the Board of Trade. Mr Oliver Stanley, received the Swiss Minister and. the trade delegation, which was headed by a delegate from the Swiss Federal Council for Foreign Trade and Commerce, The delegation has. arrived in London with the object of negotiating a trade agreement between Switzerland and Britain. —• (8.0. W.).

The Capetown correspondent of “The Times” says that, carrying hundreds of packages of gifts from England and Capetown, a Norwegian scientific expedition has gone to lonely Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic Ocean, where it will remain for six months. The expedition hopes to provide the inhabitants of the Island with the “first really happy Christmas for many years.” A fortnight’s trial .with nine-car trains, each carrying more than 1000 passengers on the Edgwarc-Morden . fif section of the London tube railways, have been so satisfactory that the Railway Transport Board may add further extra trains to ease the congestion of this line.— (8.0. W.)

The secretary of the National Federation of Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, Mr G. R. Colvin, slates that the Now Zealand Government has informed the British Government that it is contemplating increasing the duty on imported leather footwear fcr adults by imposing duty and quota restriction. Mr Colvin says the Now Zealand Government has expressed its willingness to accept representations by British manufacturers, who will put forward their case.

Further rain last night caused the abandonment of the benefit cricket match, which was a complete disappointment. The gate receipts for the two days of play amounted to £01!). hut, with the funds in hand and expected, Richardson and Grimrnott should receive more than £BOO each,

Filing suit two weeks ago on grounds of cruelty, the screen and radio singer. Ruth Etting, has secured a divorce from Martin Snyder, attorney, who ciid not contest the action, says a Chicago message. The Tokio correspondent of “The Times” says the Japanese Cabinet has approved the recognition of General Franco.

Mr George William Merriman, one of the best-known wool growers in Australia, was fatally injured when his car overturned near Yass, says a Sydney message. His only son, Frank, an authority on stud Merino sheep, was cTitically wounded. An unidentified warship, believing she was being bombed, fired on a plane belonging to the British aircraft-car-rier Eagle. The plane was emerging from a cloud-bank 30 miles east of Hongkong, and dropped a smoke bomb to ascertain the direction of the wind.