THE WORLD'S NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17186, 9 November 1926, Page 5

THE WORLD'S NEWS

NEW YORK BROADCAST HEARD AT NAPIER iPer Piicsb Association.) NAPIER, this day. Mr. If. R. White, radioL2AT, Napier, yesterday picked up the following items sent out by U2NO. New York Times service : NEW YORK, November 7. Wall street welcomes the President's tax rebate plan. Radicals in the Government Workers' Union demand the ousting of the Billman gangster policing squad, which is urdercd lo be disbauded by Mr. McLaughlin. A People's League has been formed to give service on little things in the life of New Yorkers. Foreign language editors demand that Governor Fuller should oust Judge Thayer for the Saceo and Vanzetti murder decision. Colonel Hnyward sails for a hunting trip in East Africa. Three children perished in a burned bungalow in Amagansett, Long Island. ( olumbia University will erect a medical service building and require all students to undergo medical examination. New York State "wets" are preparing for a prohibition l>attle in 1928, with'Governor Smith as the possible Presidential nominee. ATHENS. November 6. Fifty thousand Greeks in Athens are expected to go to the polls to-day to elect a new Assembly. NEW YORK. November 7. An international conference is meeting here to seek uniformity of taxes on antoists. The Jewish Education Association reports that 100.CCO children-are reeeirher religious instruction. In the Hail murder case Mr. Dickman, on the stand, -says he got a 2500 dollar bribe from Beekman to drop Hall in the case of an inquiry. The defence attacks hi? record as a military deserter. A chair in medical history,'the first of its kind in America, has been established at the John Hopkins University. PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 7. Scientists are gathering here for the autumn meeting of the National Academv of Science. SAN FRANCISCO, November 7. A British official who recently returned to San Francisco from China says that reports concerning the use of opium in the Orient are exaggerated. PHOENIX (Arizona), November 7. Mr. McAdoo is angered by being subpoeried in the Arizona campaign fund inquiry. ' WASHINGTON. November 7. Democrats attack the tax rebate plan, and seek a general reduction. General Andrews warns all " dry " agents to quit holding up autos without good cause. Prohibition takes first place in political discussions at the Capital. Four scouting battleships are to go on the reserve to give the aircraft cruisers 36C0 men. The Soviet's Washington bureau savs tjiat Russian productivity equals its pre-war rate. Btinkers oppose the plan to restrict distillers' sales of medicinal whisky. ROME. November 6. Sismor Mussolini, pending an answer to Franco on the Garibaldi plot, apologises for the attacks on the French Consulates. A serious coal shortage confronts Italy and ..all Europe. COLON (Panama), November 7. Panama's new immigration law revives the old dispute over the Canal zone sovereignty. BELGRADE. November 6. Yugo-Slavia'.s Premier says his country has reached a satisfactory stage of constitutional stability. MOSCOW, November 6. Bnlsrakof's plans, based on a revolution, have stirred the Moscow Intelligensia. BERGEN, November 6. Norway's " dry " repeal threatens Sweden's liquor control system. MEXICO CITY, 'November 6. President dalles offers a Bill for stricter religious laws in Mexico.