NEWS FROM OVERSEAS

Taranaki Daily News, 19 January 1935, Page 15 (Supplement)

NEWS FROM OVERSEAS

LIFE RISKED TO SAVE CAT Rather than order his men tp risk their lives for a cat, the Chief Constable of Plymouth, Mr W. C. Johnson, lately went himself down a cliff on the sea front. He led firemen to the clifftop when a call for help came. The cat was trapped in a hole 60ft below- The task of saving it was so dangerous that the chief found himself unable to ask others to undertake it. He lowered himself down a rope to the level of the cat and induced the animal to come out of the hole. Holding it in his arms he was hauled up to safety, GERMANY’S "ONE-POT SUNDAY” A feature of Germany’s relief campaign this winter is the ' One-pot.an. the-fire Sunday,” On the first Sunday in each month every housewife, whether she can afford five courses or two, will be compelled to serve only. one course, and this must be cooked in a single utensil, The answer is stew t with perhaps an occasional ‘hot-pot. In cage any housewife should *have difficulty in devising one-pot meals, for her family, sheets containing 100 recipes are on sale at the price of one penny from the newsboys at every street corner. The money that would have been spent by the housekeeper on soup, salad, and sweets must be calculated and laid aside,' to be collected at her door in the course of the next few days. The idea behind this order is not the mere collecting of the money, but the furtherance of the ideal that all men shall eat, and he who has, should share with his brother who has not. WOOLWORTH HEIR MARRIES QUIET WEDDING TO PRINCESS Another member of the Georgian nobility has married into the Woolworth millions, says the Nice correspondent of the “Daily Express. In June. 1933, Barbara Woolworth Hutton caused a surprise by marrying Prmce Alexis Mdivani, _ On November 6, this year, Mr Sumner Moore Kirby, another heir to the Woolworth millions, married in .me greatest secrecy the lovely, raven-haued Georgian beauty, Princess Leonida Bagration-Moukhranskv. She is 20 years of ago. Mr Kirby and his biide were in Florence on their honeymoon. Mr Kirby took stringent precautions to keep his marriage—the fourth in his 39 years—a strict secret. None of his friends were informed. He even arranged that the bans should not be published in the Nice register office, where the marriage took place. The princess’s parents were the only wit* nesses of the marriage. Mr Kirby is the son of Mr Kuby, one of the founders of the famous “Five m-d Ten Cent Stores.” He lives in a chateau at Montebello, near Nice. ]

BOY’S SEVEN MISHAPS CORONER’S DIFFICULT TA§K A coroner at Hull recently returned an open verdict at the inquest on a years-old butcher’s errand boy because he could not determine which of seven accidents was responsible for his death. It was stated that the lad had been knocked off his bicycle by a motorcar, been upset by an Alsation dog. been bitten by a Pomeranian dog, fallen off his bicycle, bumped his head while leaping out of a meat van. struck his head against the edge of a rail, and fallen off some railings on to concrete. The victim was Christian Alexander Lewis, described as a lively boy.SHAMEFUL CHECK ON DRIVER CLOCK CONCEALED UNDER SEAT A van driver salesman sued a pie manufacturer in a London Court recently for £6, two weeks' wages in respect of unlawful dismissal. Counsel for plaintiff said when lead’ ing his van, plaintiff found a clock, by which the time the van was moving and when it was stationary could bo checked. He took it off and started on his round, but was recalled by defendant. who ordered him to pack up." , Defendant, giving evidence, said he had the clocks put under the seat so that the drivers did not know they were there. . In giving judgment for £6, with costs, Judge Konstam said he knew nothing more shameful or un-English than to conceal such a device in a van with a view to catching the driver out. MAN’S ATTACK WITH POKER OLD LONDON SHOPKEEPER BEATEN A 68-years-old shopkeeper in Camberwell Road, London, was savagely attacked with a poker by a young man who called at his shop. The shopkeeper was Mr Charles Hudson The young man asked to look at some cameras in the shop window and as Mr Hudson turned he took a poker rom •■nder his overcoat and struck him. Mr Hudson went round the counter to the assailant, but was struck several times until he fell to his knees. Mr Hudson was taken to the King s College Hospital for attention. . He told a “Daily Mail” reporter last night; “There was a devilish look on his face as he attacked me, and he kept muttering: “Be quiet.” Then suddenly he straightened up and walked calmly to the door, only looking back once, to throw the poker over the counter, and valked out.”