THE WIDE WORLD.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17158, 7 October 1926, Page 9

THE WIDE WORLD.

NEWS PROM EVERYWHERE. CONTINUE. AIR SERVICE IN i WINTEK. BERLIN, August 50. * The International Air Traffic Association has decided that the air services will he continued throughout the winter. It is planned to put on sale through tickets for international service similar to rail tickets. " MA " FERGUSON FREES 2325 CONVICTS. „ AUSTIN (Texas), August 30. Governor Miriam A. Ferguson returned to the executive office after her defeat in Saturday's runoff, primary to issue eighteen clemency proclamations to 'State prisoners. The clemency grants included six full pardons and hrings the total during her administration to 2525. SALE OF SALMON. ' INCREASED BY ADVERTISING. SEATTLE, August 30. Over 1,100,000 cases of salmon were sold during the national newspaper campaign this year, as compared with 205,000 cases in a corresponding period in 1925, -when no advertising was used, jilk tho Associated Salmon Packers reported f hero. The campaign was carried out in V fifty of the leading papers of tho country. MARCONI INVENTS LOUD . SPEAKER A TEN-MILE RANGE LONDON, Aug. SO. Senator William Marconi of Italy, inventor of wireless, has announced the perfection of a wiroless loud speaker which can be heard for ten miles. It is tho invention of a memher of the staff of the Marconi Company and Marconi says it has already been tried out at Cowes with success. CRIPPLED AIR PILOT. NGN.STOP FLIGHT OVER ANDES. BUENOS AWES, September 4. i Lieutenant James H.; Doolittle'., American air pilot, arrived here at 3.50 p.m. on Friday, having made a nonstop flight over the Andes, 1436 kilometres, in about 7£ hours. Lieutenant Doolittle made his hazardous flight in a crippled condition. Both ankles had been broken in a recent fall in Chile. FLEAS AND COTTON. NEW YORK, August 26. The cotton crop in several southern American States has suffered considerable damage from a flea insect that ravages the plants, according to the Agriculture Department. The insect?, which feed on buds and growing tips of cotton plants, have invaded all tho southern States from Texas to Georgia. They insert sharp beaks into the growing plant and extract -sap, killing branches and buds. The cotton fllea or cotton hopper, as it is sometimes called, breeds in other plants and' then migrates to cotton. , A BURGLARS' UNION. NEW YORK. August 26. An organisation of criminals, chiefly • irglars and hold-up men, exists in the United States, under the name of the; " Bank Robbers' Association of |jg America " to provide legal aid for its % members when 'the law grips them, according'to Mr. O. E. Carlstrom, At-torney-General of Illinois., " These: criminals," he said at a meeting of tho International Bar Association, "have retained the services of one of the most ' ritliant lawyers in the- Eastern- States. There are only three hundred first-class bank robbers in the country-, and this 5 group is banded together in a powerful organisation to provide for the defence of members who become.entangled in the law, and for means of escape from the scenes of their crimes. The association parallels in extent and efficiency the ' bootlegging' gangs of Chicago." MONEY FOR GERMANS. BONDS OVERSUBSCRIBED. BERLIN, August 25. Queues reminiscent of tho war bread and butter lines were seen in Bcrtin when the steel trust of Germany launched it&"sale of 7,500,000 dollars' worth of 'bonds on the stock exchange. A special room was reserved for the onslaught to prevent confusion and collisions on the Bourse, where representatives of the bankers and the public signed up for 710,000,000 dollars' worth of shares in the" first hour, while only 7,500.000 dollars worth were available. Confidence in this security is so strong in Germany because the public is convinced that in a few weeks an agreement between French, German and : Belgian steel magnates will be perfected and that this industrial entente will protect the value of the property of ; the German steel trust under all the conditions of peace. WORLD'S CROP- OUTLOOK. PROMISING FROM CANADA'S VIEWPOINT. CHICAGO, August 30. In the world's wheat situation, thero rare 'larger supplies in the United States ajid Canada than a year ago. At the same time there is a smaller harvest by 150,000,000 to 200,000.000 bushels in Europe as compared with last year, and a bip decrease in the rye crop, which is one of the most important bread grains ini Europe. The important factor that generally determines prices around January 1 is the out-turn of the Argentine and Australian crops, which have at present had a favorable start. Should they be seriously damaged, it is believed that the whole world's wheat situation would be materially strengthened and prices advanced, depending largely upon the volume of speculative buying and the way foreigners take cash wheat in various position?. .

ill- ' KILLING BY SOUND WAVES j i RUSSIAN PROFESSOR \S INYEN- I | . TION | RIGA, Aug. 25. | I The Ukrainian Press has published a sensational story of an extraordinary .' inyontion made 'by a professor of Kioff ; lUnivorsity, Dr. Goldman, which uses sounds as instruments of destruction. Professor Goldman is said to have invented an apparatus Which sends out to a long distance sound waves of such strength that, they kill every live being. According to tho Press this inj volition is being financed by tho Soviet Ukrainian Government. i A NEW LANGUAGE. 1 : JOHANNESBURG, Aug. 20. i Ijr. Doke. of the Rand University, has returned from a trip to Lambaland. .Northern Rhodesia, whore ho used a ' dictaphone to register inflexions of language. He states that he found a sound ' foreign to every European language, the using as a symbol the letter r, 1 or d although the sound differs in ■sound. . j V -He.relates that in the tribal organisation inheritance comes from the mother. ■• the father having, no authority over the children. Upon marriage the husband must,reside, in the bride's village and ; lienca is 'always at the beck and call of his mother-in-law, who is not slow to take advantage of the position. WEMBLEY DISCARDS "AMEN/' "MANY HYMNS RUINED BY IT." j ' ' LONDON, Aug. 25. ' : The singing of ''Amen" at the end of hymns is 'to be dispensed with at St, Augustine's. Wembley Park. The priest-in-oharge, the Rev. G. S. Day, makes the "announcement in the current garish magazine," and says: "This will e mosmall gain from both devotional and s 'artistic 'standpoints. It seems superfluous to'sing 'Amen' unless .1 he •hymn'is 'definitely a prayer'; or'ah ase'riptjon; to i the Blessed Trinity. From the artifctie) standpoint many fine hymns are ruined,, by the singing of 'Aniens.* A great many of our hymns end on a thrill ing.'clitiiax. which is tapered away to.a fine' point by an 'Amen' usually sung half-heartedly and with a dvi'ug-away effect." ■-.'•■

! LADY NOVELIST'S .CLAIM. ! MISS HURST ACCUSED OF ! PLAGIARISM. j LOS ANGELES, Aug. 23. Miss Olivia Seymour has iiled a suit claiming £120,000 damages against Miss Fannie Hurst, the well-known novelist, the Famous, Players-Lasky Film Corporation, and the Liberty Magazine, alleging plagiarism in Miss Hurst's story, "Mannequin," which appeared in the Liberty Magazine with a view to being filmed. Miss Hurst, it is stated, received £50,000 from the Lasky Corporation and £SOCO from the Liberty Magazine. Miss Seymour declares that she submitted an identical story under the name "Resemblance," which was returned to her six months later. j | AN AERIAL CABLE. ] TABLE MOUNTAIN RAILWAY. ! i CAPETOWN, ug. 26. The Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Co., Ltd, has obtained a concession from the city council for the construction of an aerial cableway up Table Mountain. Construction must begin not later ' than October 1, and the scheme lias to be completed within three years. The cableway will cany passengers up the vertical face of the mountain; overlooking the city, the terminus being on the mam western buttress, us49ft. high. This will be the first mountain railway in South Africa. The .operating company is being formed in Capetown. | CHERRY BRANDY U.S. BAN ADVERTISEMENT, j NEW YORK, August 14. Under an extraordinary decision of Mr. Edward Barnes, solicitor of Customs at New York, several thousand copies of " The Key to London," a monthly publication of the' American Information Bureau, 199, Piccadilly. London, • have been temporarily refused admission t'o the United States. Mr. Barnes does not consider the magazine in any sense guilty of "moral turpitude." but he has found that.it' contains an advertisement for cherry, brandy, thereby violating a section of the Volstead Act, which forbids the circulation of periodicals containing liquoi' advertisements. 11 ii i mmmmmmammammmii