NEWS IN BRIEF

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23133, 3 September 1938, Page 14 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF

A special course on "racial politics" for Austrian judges has been opened in Berlin. A number of seventh-century tombs have been discovered at Fesscnheim, near Goettingen.

The first world conference of hairdressers will lie held at Cologne from October 2 to 9.

The Governor of Ceylon, Sir Andrew Caldecott. opened a, new graving dock in Colombo Harbour.

Signor Mussolini has decided that civil servants of all ranks must in future wear uniform.

An institute foi the scientific investigation of silk-worm culture is to be opened at Celle, near Hanover. Great Britain is one of the very few first-class Powers which have not established schools for training dogs for military purposes.

The use of any other kind of leather than that derived from bulls' hides for motor-car upholstery or armchairs has been prohibited in Germany. The women of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee are said to have the smallest and prettiest feet; the largest sizes are sold in West of Fngland towns.

South Africa is Britain's only source of supply of ostrich feathers* which range from Is to 21s each. Last year feathers worth ,{J]l !)2 were imported. When asked to pay for the beer he had ordered, a customer in a publichouse at Hamelin, near Hanover, drew a revolver and shot dead the publican and another man.

Rumanian diplomats in future must obtain the permission of the Foreign Office to marry, and the personal permission of the King before marriage with a foreigner.

Twenty-live thousand adult and juvenile offenders are put on probation in England and Wales each year, and the proportion of those who lapse back into crime is verv small.

Special "film shows" in St. Catherine's Church. Liverpool, have proved so popular that galleries, unused for 108 years, have had to be reconstructed to provide additional accommodation.

The German ban on social or business intercourse with Jews, which has hitherto applied only to officials, under pain of instant dismissal, has now b.-on extended to "unofficial professions."

j While attempting to separate a lion and a lioness fighting over their two Cubs, Dick Foster, keeper of Belfast. Zoo, was injured on the arms and legs. 'J he cubs were killed during the fight".

'I lie Soviet glider pilot, Kartashoff, claims to have set up a new international record by gliding about 100 miles in a straight line without landing. in a two-seater glider wiih a passenger. Two of the 1") occupants of a large French flying-boat were killed and eight were seriously injured when the machine stalled and crashed into some rocks at Coliguon, Cherbourg, while undergoing trials.

•Tulins S. Berg, a Democratic representative in the New York State Senate, shot himself dead in his office after learning that the Grand Jury had voted an indictment charging him with embezzlement, false representation, and larceny by trickery. '1 he Spanish Republican Government is issuing new 20-contimo and 45-ccn-timo postage stamps to commemorate the feat of the J.'lrd Division, which, though cut off, resisted for two months in the Pyrenees before being forced to retreat over the frontier.

A keeper of the Munich Zoo named "Werner was fatally injured recently by a four-year-old elephant which attacked him suddenly and mauled him with its tusks. The elephant was born in the Munich Zoo and from its birth had been attended by Werner, whose favourite it was.

In connection with tlio campaign launched by the Rumanian authorities against the high cost of living, it is proposed to punish shopkeepers who disobey the new maximum price regulations by putting official signs, bearing the word "speculator" in big letters, outside their shops.

Youngest grandfather in Ttalv is the title claimed for Signor Ettore Fern ice,' a Neapolitan harbor. Horn in 15)03. ho married when lie was 16, and a daughter was born within the year. She in turn married in ID.'iG at 16. and in October of that year gave birth to a son. The grand father was theti only 3.'}.