News Nutshell

Northern Advocate, 9 August 1938, Page 5

News Nutshell

The steamer Canberra Maru, after searching Douglas Reef, reported by wrieless that she found no trace of the missing Hawaii Clipper, but was continuing to search in the area. ♦ * * •

Producing a pistol after kneeling at the altar with his bride, Kazimierz Tokarczk, aged 34, shot her dead, and then committed suicide, says a message from Warsaw.

A local native named Karo was hanged today on the beach at Port Moresby, New Guinea, for the murder of a native acting-constable named Ume, and also his wife and child. Several hundred natives gathered on the beach and chanted the death-song, which was audible to Karo, who said he was prepared to pay for his wrongdoing. ■ • m • Nearly complete returns from the. Democratic primary election in Kentucky give Mr A. W. Barkley a lead of 50,000 votes over the Governor, Mr Albert B. Chandler, for nomination to the Senate. This assures Mr Barkley of renomination. It is a signal victory for President Roosevelt, who visited Kentucky and urged the voters to return the Senate’s majority leader in spite of Mr Chandler’s popularity owing to the balancing of the budget by the State administration, in sharp contrast to the national policy.

The death has occurred at Moscow of Konstantin Sergeyevitch Stanislav--sky, the famous director of the Moscow Art Theatre. * c <t * \ A fire rendered homeless 8000 labourers and their families from thatched slum dwellings, says a message from Manila, while a similar fire at San Pablo rendered 10,000 homeless. ♦ * « • Mr Chamberlain is suffering from nasal Catarrh, and is returning to London tomorrow from the north of Scotland for treatment. V s? * * The Foreign Secretary, Viscount Halifax, was among the volunteers who lent a hand to fight a fire which broke out on his estate near Carrowby, Yorkshire, during a thunderstorm. The fire occurred in a farm building, on Woodley Wold, part of Lord Halifax’s estate, when the barn and granary were struck by lightning.

* * * * A by-election in the city of Oxford is necessitated by the death of the Conservative member, Captain R. C. Bourne. * • • m Prince John of Liechtenstein and Count Charles Lonyey fought la duel last evening as the culmination of a four-year-old quarrel. Prince John was slightly injured, * * $ # The “Daily Telegraph,” discussing the constitution of the Civil Air Guard, suggests that one of the commissioners might be the New Zealand avfatrix, Miss Jean Batten, whose experience would prove most useful. Her appointment would necessarily be dependent on the length of her stay in England.