The surgeon, Rear-Admiral Percival Disorders broke out on Mar, 22 be-Nicholls has been appointed medical tween Rumanian " National-Peasants Director-General in the Navy to be and members of Extreme Right polic effective from June 2, Hear-Ad-cal organizations in a village near miral Nicholls succeeds the surgeon Sibiu (Transylvania), when one Na-Vice-Admiral Sir RW. Basil, Uonal-Peasant was Killed and many Mr, James Watson Gerard, will lead others of both sides, were injured, the American delegation at the Core-Ray Woods, a professional stunt pation ceremonies of King George VI.
Mr. Gerard was the American Amman, on Mar. 22 leaped from the San Francisco Bay Bridge, and broke his bassador to Germany during the back in striking the water. He was World War, between 1913 and 1917. rescued by a passing launch, Woods The US, House of Representatives made his leap without obtaining per=
Rivers and Harbours Committee today approved eighty projects calling, for the expenditure of $22,098,000, including "improvements to Welles Harbour, Midway Island, at a cost of $1,041,000.
Five persons, including four children ranging from four to thirteen years of age, were cremated in Baldwin, N.Y. on March 23 when fire destroyed the residence of Mr. William Morse, of Baldwin Harbour, L, 1. 'Three' others were seriously burned.
Another major American air disaster occurred near Pittsburgh, on Mar, 25 when a Douglas transport plane of the Transcontinental and Western Air Express crashed five miles south of the Alleghany airport, killing thirteen occupants.
The Postmaster-General, Major G.
Tryon, announced in' the House of Commons that a special 3¥4d, stamp would be issued in commemoration of the Coronation. It would be the same size as the Jubilee stamp and would bear the portraits of the King and Queer mission of the authorities, Tribesmen unsuccessfully attacked the picket of a British" camp Damdil, on the Indian North-West Frontier, on Mar. 21. The pickets of two other camps were subjected to a heavy fire and an attempt was also made {o blow up a bridge over the Tachi River, Ati Riba el Askari, a brother of the late Iraq Home Minister, Jufa Pasha, who was shot in a military uprising last October, has been found shot in his own home, He was an ex-emeer and since last October had kept entirely aloof from polities, The murder is believed to have been committed from political motives.
The names of the fourteen peers who will carry regalia at the Coronation have been announced, 'The Marquess of Crewe has been appointed Lord High Constable. Knights of the Garter who will carry the canopy at the King's anointing are the Marquess of Londonderry, the Earl of Lytton, the Duke of Abercorn and Earl' Stanhope, The Coptic monks of Elemoharraca who recently instituted a strike to force the resignation of their abbot, have won the day as the abbot has been suspended. The monks will be allowed to elect a new abbot and are of to be penalized for their be haviour.
Nineteen persons were killed, and five others were taken to a hospital with serious injuries when a motorbus" overturned near Salem, TI, and burned its occupants, There of the ive injured persons may die, physicians said. The passengers of the bus included twenty roller-skaters en route to the annual Cincinnati roller= skating derby.
M, Jacques Doriot, former Communist Deputy and' founder of the French Popular Party, has deliver-oda long memorandum 10 the ress asserting that the Communist} France had constantly received subsidies from Moscow and that the party was never able to live without these subsidies. Moscow, he says, is trying to transform the Franco-Soviet mutual assistance pact into a miliary alliance.
Paul Jouhaux, son of the French {rade union leader, has been sentenced by the Liege court to two months' imprisonment for his part in conducting an illicit" trade in war material. Large quantities of arms had been purchased in Belgium and shipped to Spain before the police discovered this trade In January, Miss Betty Compson, the film-actress, who a few years ago visited the Far East and made several personal appearances in Shanghai and Hongkong theatres, has obtained a decree of divorce from husband, MY. Irving Weimberg, She was granted alimony of $50 per week from her husband, who isa theatrical. agent and who accompanied her on her trip to the Orient as business managel Mr. C. W. Thomspon, of Richmoit recently found a bottle off at Richmond containing the message, "Finder please notify Jack Dwyer, Baguio Mi, Province, Philip pine Islands." After notifying Mr. Dwyer, Mr, Thompson received a reply revealing that the Philippine resident had launched the bottle from, long, Beach during a plenle on Mareh'8, 1935,
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