The Archive · 1936

Frees News in Brief

'A large first-class all tanker built to the order of the British Tanker Ca. was launched on Aug. 18 from the yard of Cammell Lard at Birkenhead.

Charles _F, Marks, carpenter of loin, Cal, is" buioved 10 have harried just three minutes after oded up Reno records. Ho Was

Stained "his divorce to Mise Jes Howard, also of Frese.

Rubber roads may' make rubber lyres unnecessary as the result of experiments now, being carried ott fu' queensiend, 'Zhe Tubber being ied' is sent from "Papua, "New A tage sceident ocedired on Aut 1a" when ihe Aniwerp-Dunkie tran wat derailed near thebiehavelde ta. Passengers severely Injured ahd' fom One engineer was lilled, four

Bikers received minor wounds. and Work will begin next week on a atreratt factory at Radiorg oveniry, which ta be constructed snd operated by the Government onjuntion with the Dalmlar Com= fang. It estimated that it wil cost more than 2500000, When the factory work for neary' 1,000 men.

The Secretary of Slate for Tndla, Lord Zetland, has appointed Mr, JO. Walton to" be, Ausistant Under-Secretary of State for India, on the ftppointient of Sir R. HA. Carter to Permanent Seeveiary of the Ad-

Jarge Japanese concern for 1,008,000 Toe request recently made by a

Inectares concession in the. Amazon region, on Aug. 10. was turned down bythe Mationai Security: Committee oF dhe Braaan Senate.

Second-Lieut, William W. Harding and Private Francis Maier, Army, were both killed when the pursuit "aeroplane in which they ing were participating caught ire in mda, Nicaragua has formally accepted the Invitation to participate in the Pan-American Conference which opens here on December 1. Up) to now, Nicaragua was the only Amerlattend. eae can' country which had refused to 'The Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee have resolved to convene the Seventeenth Extrordinary All-Russian Congress of 'Soviets on' November 29, 1930, in Moscow. The agenda of the Congress {is the confirmation of the Constitution of the RSFSR.

Because of his alleged Communist sympathies, Senor Liborio Justo, the Argentinian President's bon, " was arrested upon entering Brazilian territory in. the State of the Rio Grande do Sul and taken back to the frontier under police, escort, Ton members of the "Gold Shirts," 'a Fascist organization recently banned by President Lazaro Catdenas, wore Killed at San Luiz de la Paz, Guana lutao Province, during @ battle with Mexican troops. The leaders of the organization were recently arrested.

The well-known political writer, "Pertinax," who ever since the Great was" been editor of "eho de promoted from to "officer" of the Legion of Honour on recommendation of the French Foreign Minister, M, Yvon The German Far East Association held "an entertainment in connection with the Congress of the Chinese JStudent "Association at Bad Saarow this evening. Moving pletures.show-{ing the work of the "Strength through Joy" movement as well as of the life in the labour' service camps." were Presented a illustrations for lectures.

Changes in the rates of pay, which came into operation in Great Britain last month are estimated to have resulted in an increase of "nearly '£60,000 in the weekly full-time wages of over 1,000,000 workers and in a decrease of about £2,800 affecting 44,000 persons. The principal inferease was in the engineering industry. who 'The half-yearly analysis of the Jage distribution of unemployed men Jand women, made by the Ministry Jor Labour, shows that while there was a reduction between May 1695 trid last May in the numbers of the unemployed in nearly every' age, a group reduction was greater proportionally among persons under 25 years of age. Men under 35. years years were 449 per cent. of all the unemployed men in May 1035, but this May, the percentage had fallen 8 per cent.

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