The Archive · 1934

Foreign News in Brief

Major Harry Louis Nathan, Liberal M. P. for Northeast Bethnal Green since 1923, has joined the Labour Opposition.

The new Turkish law excluding The experiment conducted by the British Broadcasting Corporation for 2 Mshour clock has not sufficiently converted public taste to justify the Government ordaining the 24-hour notation officially. sions will probably be answered by stringent reprisals against the 200000 Turks living Bulgaria and it is reported that Bul-gona is planning to expel all Turks.

Herr Hitler's special S. Corps (Schutzstafel) has been raised to the status of an independent organization of the Nazi Party in view of its great services in the recent "purge." The "S. Corps" originally comprised 150 men, but now numbers between 200,000 and 300,000.—Reuter.

After deliberating for 3% how the jury finally acquitted Mil Hickman, 49-year-old port engineer of the Matson Line, of the murder of 'Miss Louise Jeppesen, a 23-year-old Sunday' school teacher "of Ogden, Alcatraz Island, a penitentiary it San Francisco bay from which it is suid there is no possible escape. has seen taken over by the Department of Justice and is to be prepared to imprison the most desperate of thie The Republican State Central Commitice of North Dakota has called a meeting for August 1, presumably to nominate a Republican candidate to replace Mr. William R. Longer, the deposed Governor, who refuses to be ousted from office.

Appointment of Rear-Admiral Samuel L. Bryant as Commander of Battleship Division Two comprising the first line battleships Penn: mania, Arizona and Nevada, has been announced by the U.S, Navy Department, effective on September 1.

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