NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16321, 3 January 1924, Page 8

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

i TpO.COS^Y.,,^^ WASHINGTON. .Nov. s—Thc Navy Department to-day called a halt on further aerial speed trials by Lieutenants Brow and Williams, who have been shattering air speed records for the past few days. Admiral Moffatt, head of the navy air service, telegraphed them his congratulations, but ordered them not to try to exceed the world speed marks set yesterday, on the ground that to do so would entail unnecessary expenses. NO ’PHONES, CARS, OR PAPERS. PAYNESVILLE, Minn., Oct. 30.—As tin. economic measure, thirty farmers v ' of .this vicinity, at an indignation meeting here Sunday night, decided to divorce themselves from luxury. They null hereafter do without telephone, daily newspapers, automobiles, go to town only when absolutely necessary, and will buy the necessaries of life from surrounding stores. Those who have automobiles agreed to sell them. CAN PUT FLOWERS TO SLEEP UNDER ARTIFICIAL LIGHT. NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—Scientists announce the successful completion of experiments conducted by the Wcstinghouse Electrical Manufacturing Company in collaboration with Columbia University, which demonstrated that, with artificial light, they could put flowers and vegetables to sleep and awaken them at will, releasing them from’ the dominance of the sun. I TEACHER CRIPPLED IN SAVING PUPILS. ! PARIS, Oct. 28.—M. Vasgies, a Paris teacher, to-day risked his life! to save two of his pupils who were in danger j of being run over by a heavy lorry. Boys were leaving school and 1 , were running on to the: road when the' lorry appeared. The teacher seized the two boys nearest the lorry and threw them bodily on to the pavement. He himself slipped on the road and the lorry passed over his leg. He will bo a- cripple for life. SCORE OF CHILDREN HURT IN AUTO SMASH. SEATTLE, Nov. 9.—Twenty-two Sunday school children were injured, two perhaps fatally, when three automobiles carrying them to Aberdeen, Wash., from a picnic at Copalia Beach, twenty miles northwest of Aberdeen, went over a 20-foot embankment, according to advices received here. The accident was blamed on a dense fog. The car's were said to have turned over, throwing tho children out or catching them in the wreckage. TAKES HAND OFF WHEEL—BABY HURLED TO DEATH. SEATTLE', Nov. 5. —The son of Hildirig Hoglund, of Foster, south of Seattle, aged nine months, was killed on Saturday when the father took his hand from the stealing wheel of his automobile to> caver up the baby. J The tragedy occurred on a sharp turn ' known as Cemetery Curve, east of Ar-: lington, Wash. When Hog hind l'each-} ed back to assist his wife in pulling a blanket back over the child, the machine j lungedf into a ditch and hurled) the child to the concrete pavement. FRENCH INSISTENCE ON POUND OF FLESH FATAL. RICHMOND, Va., Oct.' 30.—If‘Premier Ploincare of France insists on trying to collect from Germany the j full amount of reparations as fixed at the London conference, he will defeat j the Hughes plan for settlement, Mr, 1 Lloyd George declared on Monday. Hoj said that if Franco insisted on 132,-1 000,000,000 marks in reparations “ Germany will lie down like a tadpole | and won’t oven make a wriggle” towards trying to pay such an impossible sum. WIFE OF VIOLINIST CHECKS . RED RIOT. LONDON, Nov. s.—Mrs.’ Fritz Krcisier queUcd a Communist riot in Berlin recently. She is; interested in maintaining a. community kitchen in the palace of the former Kaiser to feed the destitute. Beautifully dressed, in her luxurious limousine, she started for the palace, stopping at bakeries aloug tho ! way to fill her car with bread. A crowd of hungry, unemployed Communistic workers, thinking her a hoarder, surrounded ’heir car and bewail threatening her. • Borrowing tho leader’s knife, Mrs. Kreisler cut and distributed generous; slices of the bread until her supply was exhausted. JEWELS WORTH £IOOO MISSING V AFTER MOTOR. SMASH. . BAGGAGE “SEARCHED FOR RESTORATIVES.” LONDON, Oct. 28.—Jewellery .worth over £IOOO, belonging to Mrs. Curtis S. Read), a wealthy American, was missed after a motor smash in the Kirkstone Pass, Westmoreland. Mrs. Read and her daughter were in a big touring car, and as they were travelling down the heavy gradient tho driver lost control, tho car racing down tho hill and crashing through a wall. The driver only sustained a few bruises, but Mrs. Read and’ her daughter were taken to the Penrith Hospital, where they are progressing favorably. baggage was searched for restoratives, and among the bags was a grey leather dressing-case, opened at the time, but now missing. In this case were Mrs. Read’s letters of credit and jewellery, including a blue leather jewel-case. V HIGH COST OF LIVING. ■ CONDITIONS IN BRITAIN. ■ PROFITEERING ALLEGED. LONDON, Dec. 2.—“ Extortionate greed and organised combination are keeping retail prices far above fair or legitimate values,” writes Sir Sydney Low in the Weekly Dispatch, in the course of an article trenchantly exposing the methods of. J the middlemen. Het quotes Australian beef as an example of the “scandalous blunderings which have) been notorious ever since the first year of the war, when the profiteers sajjr their opportunity, and used it ruthlessly.” Australian beef, Ins points out, can be put on the hooks at Smith field market fox’ sd, but the householder is' lucky if hff purchases it from the butcher at from three to four times that price. “Officially, one should' be able to live at a little more than half tho cost of 1921, but 30100113/ meals and commodities cost as much as in the worst (lays of thd war. For herrings, which aro sometimes sold at Grimsby for 8d a hundred, fishmongers charge as xhuch as 6d each ! “Who is making these enormous profits? Unhappily, profiteering is just

as flagrant find destructive as ever. No fiscal systeffi can make the community comfortable or prosperous while it is plundered and blackmailed in this fashion.” JOKED AS 27 STITCHES ARE PUT | IN WOUND. SASKATOON, Nov. s.—Twenty-seven [stitches were‘required to close a deep gash in tho stomach of Jack Hill, employee of a lumbar yard, when lie was caught in -a revolving saw. Hill talked and' joked with the doctor as the \ wound was being closed without the aid of anaesthetics. Ho asked for a cigarette and fainted when tho stitching was finished. Ho will recover. “KILL. THE JEWS” IS BERLIN j RIOTERS’ CRY. ! BERLIN, Nov. ; s.—Crying “Kill them,” crowds rioted in tho Jewish quarter of Berlin. Furious men and women tore clothes from residents of the district, seizing their foreign money. A Jewish butcher stood bis ground with a meat axe, and severely injured several in a mob which tried to raid liis shop for food and foreign currency. Squads of police, called out to protect the Jews, fired point blank into* the crowd and drove them away. The crowd quickly gathered again in tho Alexander Plate near police* headquarters, crying, “Kill the Jewish stock exchanger dealers.” Police were unable to prevent rioters from attacking few straggling dealers from the Bourse. IRISH HUNGER-STRIKE SAID TO BE HUGE BLUFF. DUBLIN, Oct, 22.—At Sinn Fein headquarters to-day it was stated that BCOO men were on hunger strikes in the various camps and prisons in Ireland, including Newbridge, Curragli, Kilkenny; Cork, qnd Gormanstown. “There will be no releases from prison until tho Government —this Government elected by the Irish people—is recognised by theso pooplo who call themselves diehards. They are British subjects in London; they call for tho King’s protection in England, and they call for I)e Valera’s protection in Ireland. But we are offering to forgive the past,” so declared President Cosgravo at a big demonstration in Dublin. “There have been many big hungerstrike bluffs in the past,” lie added, “but this present hunger-strike is one of the biggest. When we sent up independent doctor into the prison lie found brown bread and pastilles good for 48 hours in every hunger-striker’s pocket. Stack and Do Valera, would not join the rank and file in this strike. Stack declared himself incapable of hunger-striking.”