NEWS IN BRIEF

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22819, 28 August 1937, Page 5 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF

Our silver coins contain GO per cent silver to 50 per cent alloy. About one quarter of the million regular golfers in Britain are. women. Tennis, with nearly .'!,000,000 players, is Britain's most popular summer sport. Natives of East Africa churn milk into butter, to use it as a dressing for their hair and not for eating. The annual congress of the Nazi party, in Nuremberg, will last from September 6 to September 13. Viscount Konoye, younger brother of the Japanese Premier, Prince Konoye, has decided to give up a political career for music.

Pavilions have been provided in the parks of Birmingham, where old men can meet for talking and cards, dominoes and chess.

Since the London Schools Swimming Association was formed in 185)3, moro than 1,000,000 schoolchildren have been taught to swim. Mrs. Duke, widow of the American tobacco magnate, Mr. J. B. Duke, left approximately £2,500,000 when she died about 12 months ago, aged 80. Slag wool, made from the waste slagheaps to be found in mining districts, is used in Britain for the purpose of making buildings sound-proof. Mr. R. Arclibold, tlio American airman, recently Hew a seaplane 3000 miles across tho Continent from California to New York in 17 hours.

In England wireless sets are most numerous, in proportion to householders, in Hertfordshire, Kent, Surrey, Warwickshire and Nottinghamshire. Within the City area, tho Lord Mayor of London ranks second only to the King, and takes precedence of other members of the Royal Family.

Plants have a nervous system, which is affected by strong emotions, just as in the case of the higher animals, according to a famous Indian scientist.

Chewing the food longer and more thoroughly, with the idea of eating less, is one German scientist's plan for helping his countrymen to cut down waste. Tho average child should have three or four meals a day, even if they are small ones, because he or she digests food much more rapidly than does an adult.

Clerks in the registrars' offices in Germany arc now supplied with lists of "Nordic" names, as parents are discouraged from using foreign-Sounding names.

News has been received in. Warsaw that Jozef Kowalski, a Soviet journalist who was expelled from Poland about two years ago, has been arrested in Moscow.

Crown Princo Michael, heir to the throne of Rumania, works in a motorcar factory for some hours every week. He is also a Boy Scout. He speaks English, French, Italian, and German.

The house of a Jewish merchant in Varna, Bulgaria, was wrecked recently by the explosion of a bomb, and a* bomb exploded at the same time in a Varna synagogue. Bad coins to the face value of £BOO, which had been taken by one of Britain's big railways, were recently melted down and the metal, weighing about one hundredweight, was sold for £9.

M. Louis Massotte, aged 31, a French test pilot, who had established several world records, was recently killed when he crashed while flying a new type of machine at Toussus-10-Noble," near Paris.

Brnbournc Stadium, tho "Lord's" of India, now being constructed on the sea front at Bombay, at a cost of £35,000, is expected to be opened in December, and will have accommodation for 36,000 spectators.

Pr ir.-ee.ss Juliana of the Netherlands, accompanied by her mother, Queen Wilhclmina, and her husband, Prince Bcrnhard, unveiled at the village of Baarn, a memorial to lier grandmother. Queen Emma.

It is estimated that £10,000,000 will bo needed to build new hotels in Rome and renovate existing ones to meet the influx of tourists which it is hoped tho exhibition of 1941 Avill attract to the Italian capital. Slaughterhouses throughout Italy have been ordered to remove all fat from carcases before they are sent to tho markets, and to hand it over for the manufacture of glycerine for national defence purposes. Nahas Pasha, the Premier, and the other Egyptian delegates to the Montreal Conference, were cheered by enthusiastic crowds when they arrived back in Cairo after attending the Coronation in London.

An escaped gorilla which has outwitted the combined efforts to capturn it of the police, the fire brigade, and search parties armed with guns at Domazan, a village near Nimes, is to be shot at sight. Six women lay workers are being secretly trained to take oyer certain of tho pastoral duties previously performed by the clergy belongings to the Confessional Movement in the German Evangelical Church. Luxurious living-rooms, bathroom, telephone, and electric-light are features of a tomb built for himself by a wealthy Egyptian. Though still hale and hearty, lie spends a lot of time reading in this costly place. - School buildings made of light steel and quickly erected are being tried in a district in Sussex, where a sudden rush of inhabitants created a demand. These buildings are easily adapted to rises or falls in the population.

Among the unusual foods eaten in other parts of tho world are crickets in East Africa, grasshoppers among the Shoshone Indians in Nevada, worms and grubs among the Indians of California, and ants in South America. An elderly Dane recently had an alarming experience: his long beard became entangled in the chain of his bicycle and he could not extricate it. He was found crawling backwards along the road, dragging his bicycle behind him.

After verification of the distances by the Topographical Department of the Belgian Army the cup for the GordonBennett balloon race has been awarded this year to the Belgian pilot, M. Demuyter, who covered a distance of 894 miles.

Benjamin Sexton, 33-year-old brewers' lorry-driver, has made a name for himself in medical history. His whole body is "upside down." Not only is his heart on the wrong side but every other organ in his body is reversed. Yet he is perfectly healthy. Before a crowd of 25,000 in Angel's Camp, California, the frog Emmet Dalton, bred and trained on the ranch of the late Mr. Will Rogers, won the ninth annual jumping frog * competition of Calaveras County, and made a world's record with a leap of 13ft. Oin.

A recent collision off Aalesund between the Nobel, 160 tons, which was loaded with dynamite, and a Norwegian tourist vessel, Stella Polaris, 6020 tons, resulted in the sinking of the Nobel, injuries to several of her crew, and the death of tho captain's wife, although no explosion occurred. At the inauguration of tho international Congress of Pen Clubs in Paris by M. Zay, Minister of Education in tho Blum Government, Mr. Humbert Wolfe, on behalf of the foreign delegates, thanked the French Government for the support it had given in founding in Paris tho Maison Internationale des P.E.N.