NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16495, 30 July 1924, Page 4

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

PRKMIKIi. MACDONALD MWIIiKD BY OVERSEAS VISITORS.

LONDON, June 30.—Hundreds of overseas visitors literally mobbed the British Premier at the Hampton Court garden parly. The report that a Canadian hulv went so far as to kiss Mr MacDonald in her enthusiasm is emphatically denied. Mr MacDonald was .unsuccessfully “pr<)lectfid’”by four Boy Scouts. He was ambushed in (lie great throng, and as lie was immediately surrounded by admirers his defence was difficult.

SUBMARINER COLLIDE IN U.S -MANOEUVRES.

WASHINGTON, June 2Q.-~ Another near-disaster in the navy occurred on Wednesday off San Diego, when two submarines making a submerged attack in practice sideswiped each other.

The two underwater craft, the S-33.and S-35, which collided, pulled through without any injury of personnel. The S-33 suffered no material damage at all, while the S-35 suffered only slight hull .damage, which is being repaired by submarine tenders.

The submarines proceeded hack to their base after the accident.

U.S. GOVERNMENT TO PROBE GASOLINE PRICES.

WASHINGTON, June 21.—The Government’s intention to go to the Bottom of the whole gasoline price situation, probably, through the courts, was indicated to-day by Attorney-General Stone. Enquiries instituted by the Federal Trnme Commission and the Department, of Justice are to form the basis of proceedings which it was stated will be started by the Federal Government, Results of the commission’s study of the price question, made at the request of President Coolidge, are in the hands of the Department of Justice, and Mr. Stone announced that he had directed members of his staff to collate data gathered by department investigators with that obtained by the Trade Commission.

BRUSH HANDLES HELD GREAT QUANTITY OF DOPE.

NEW YORK, June 16.—Narcotics valued at more than £400,000 were seized on Saturday on a- truck coming off a pier at Hoboken, N. ,1., it became known today. 11. D. Easterbrook, chief of the special agents of the treasury department, who conducted the raid l , said the seizure uncovered one of the most elaborate and effective schemes ever divulged foy smuggling narcotics into the States.

The drugs wore secreted in the handles of 50,000 scrubbing brushes. The cases in which they arrived had been watched since the steamship President Roosevelt docked on June 9, Easterbrook said.

On Saturday the treasury agents saw two men claim the cases and load them on a. truck, which was seized. Abraham Palowitz and Otto Anderson, both of New York, were arrested.

RED SEA SHAVE TRAFFIC.

STRONGER MEASURES. OF SUP PRESSIOJM.

LONDON, June 16.—fit was announced at the Foreign Office that the British Government have decided to reinforce the British naval forces in . the Red Sea by the dispatch of a division of fast destroyers.

Naval patrols, formed of sloops belonging to the British, French, and Italian Navies, are maintaining an active supervision of those- waters with a view to the suppression of the slave traffic from the African to. the Arabian coast. Their work consists in stopping and searching native dhows in order to ascertain that no slaves are being transported on board them. From time to time slavfes are discovered, the dhow arrested, and the slaves liberated and sent home.

It has, however, become apparent that the vessels now in the Red' Sea are not sufficient completely to suppress the traffic in slaves. There are numerous islands with,, 3'ocky creeks where the dhows, which sail by night, can hide during the daytime, and with a fresh breeze it is not always possible for the warships hitherto available to overtake the dhows. The Government hope, with the reinforcements of ' fast ships now being sent, to put an end to the slave trade in the Red Sea.

PRETTY TEACHER’S. CLAIM

LOVE SUIT AGAINST 82-YEAR-OLD

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SAN FRANCISCO, June 12.—Alleging that lie now refuses to many her despite his fervid protestations of love, Miss Eleanor M. Weston, a pretty music teacher of Oakland, has filed suit for 50,C00 dollars damages for breach of promise against Dr. George H. Jackson, eighty-two years old, wealthy retired physician, 'of Sacramento. Miss Welston says she first met the wealthy doctor while doing public* stenography in Hotel Land, Sacramento, and that he made violent love fo her. Oh October 4, 1922,, she avers, he propped marriage. Since that time, he has consistently refused to go through with the' marriage, she says. Dr. Jackson, at the home of a son, Dr. J. Allen Jackson, Yuba City, last night la lighted, at Miss Weston’s charges. “She might as well ask for 10C,COO dollars and try to get it,” the doctor said. “What use would I have for a wife? T'm eighty-two years old and likely to die. in a'couple of years. It’s blackmail; nothing else. I’ll , fight it.” Tli o wealthy physician, veteran of (he Civil War and a.'California pioneer, retired twenty-five years ago from' the practice of medicine in Woodland, \ 010 country. He owns several large.ranches. He said last night he would fight the suit and ask for a change of venue to Sacramento county.