NEWS IN BRIEF

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23281, 25 February 1939, Page 5 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF

Five people have been killed in Austria by avalanches following the recent, thaw.

Two warships of between 7000 and 8000 tons are to bo ordered for the Swedish navy. Immigration of Central European refugees into Trinidad has been banned for "economic reasons." Mr. A. B. Brown, first negro member of the British Guiana Legislature, died in Georgetown at the age of 81. Heir Hitler has complained that the German National anthem, "Deutschland Über Alles," is being played too quickly. King Carol of Rumania will in future be saluted by the outstretched hand — the "Roman salute" —instead of by the traditional bow.

Following the decree forbidding Italians to serve in Jewish houses, there lias beeu'a demand from the Jews for Chinese domestic servants. The Italian War Ministry has released from military service men who belong to the 188.'J conscript class and therefore have attained oo years of age. The "Slovensky Hlas," formerly the newspaper of Dr. Hodza, Prime Minister of Czecho-Slovakia during tins September crisis, has ceased publication. Colonel Gromoff, champion pilot of the Soviet, made a New Year resolution that he will recapture the world's non-stop air record from the Royal Air Force. ' , The footbridge of Saint-Cyr, over the Loire in France, was swept away by huge masses of ice which had broken up in a thaw and were flowiug downstream. Miss Constance Talmadge, the film actress, was granted a divorce at Chicago from her third husband, Mr. Townsend Netcher, whom s'he married | in 1929. A member of the Danish political police, Kaj Yttesen, was arrested and charged with having given away secret documents from the Danish State to Danish Nazis. A piece of food lodging in his throat caused the death of Thomas Trotter, aged 49, a groom, who was found unconscious in the street at Maisons Laffitte, near Paris. ."In recognition of its political services," Dr. Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, has conferred on the German wireless organisation the title of "The Great German Radio." Bermann, Soviet Commissar for Posts and Telegraphs and formerly assistant to the Ogpii chief Yagoda, shot early this year, has ,been publicly denounced as an enemy of the people. Dr. Paul Einzig's book, "The Bloodless Invasion," which deals with Ger-

many's trade drive in Soutlr-Eastorn Europe, has been banned" in the Reich by order of Herr Himmler, the chief of police. Herr Nathan Ries, proprietor of a Jewish hotel at Frankfurt, has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment for breaking seals placed on the door of his storeroom after the pogrom in November. Mr. F. T. McClellan, a British schoolmaster, of Horsmonden, Kent, recently appointed to a post at Chillon College, Montreux, was killed while skiing on the Mannlichen peak, near Gnndelwald. One of the outstanding figures in American shipping for the past 40 years, Mr. P. A. S. Franklin, chairman of the International Mercantile Marine and the United States Lines,, has retired to make way for his son, Mr. Jolm Franklin, who is president of both companies. J