Mr, James Langford Stack, 21, heir to ai fortune left.by a Los Angeles and irene financier, was married in Rend to Miss Marguerite Bolton, 20, of Los Angeles PRESENT Roosevelt has awarded the Collier trophy to Pan-American Airways in recognition of the year's "greatest achievements for aviation in America," for the establishment Tars item appeared in the Public Notices column of the "New York Times":—"I, Chi-chen Wang, hereby announced my divorce from Wang chen Chih-lin, by mutual consent according to Chines¢ laws."
A croup. of 450 Italian vanguardists who, after touring Germany, spent some days in Berlin, have left the German capital after visiting the United Press. of-ithe trans-Paciffe air line, ssier OUnE their way home, reports Trans-Ocean. Stadium and are now So great was the number of refugees from the cities along the northern section of the Tientsin-
Pukow Railway that on Saturday the No. 301 passenger train from Tsinan to Shanghai was delayed for no less than ¢welve hours, says the "Sin-
Tue Fuehrer, Herr Hitler, decorat-the famous German painter, Professor Dr. Carl Bantzer, who is living at Marbug Lahn and who has just celebrated his 80th birthday, with the Goethe Medal for Art and Science.
Miss Marie Wilson, motion picture actress, has cabled to the American Legation in Peipfifg and the Department of State seeking assistance in determining the whereabouts of her' fiancee, Mr. Nick Grinde, Hollywood director who was reported last in Peiping.
Reorss to the effect that, Italian Foreign Minister, Count Ciano, will shortly make a journey to Scotland to confer with the British Prime Minister are not confirmed in authoritative quarters in' Rome, states Trans-Ocean, It is declared that no information concerning such a trip has been received.
Ir is officially announced that the agreement between Danzig and Poland concerning the trade with produce of agriculture, gardening and fishing has been extended for a further year until August 10, 1938. The new agreement was signed by the Danzig senate President, Herr Greiser, and the Polish envoy in Danzig, Minister Chodacki.
A press report that. American citizens have been instructed to evacuate Nanking by their consular authorities is absolutely groundless, Mr. Li Di-tsing, chief of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' intelligence and information department, is reported by the Chinese papers to have been informed by a representative of the U.S. Embassy.
A scone of Post Office messengers entered the Mansion House 1n a body and delivered a telegram to every Fuest at a banquet which was bein' held by the Lord Mayor "f London on behalf of the Boys' Hostels Astion. 'The messages were: from the Earl of Harewood, who was pr \sent at, the dinner, Ten minutes lot: r the messengers returned, collected the replies, and presented them smartly to' Lord Harewood, Wamev0n Young Women's Chris tian Association recently rejected, a legacy of £5,000, which was offered on condition that the club banned all forms of dancing. They are now appealing for help in securing an income of £250 a year. \An official said:—"We are facing increased calls on us with a reduced income. That legacy would very nearly have met our need, but we were not going to bind the' club for ever."
Tue Swiss Federal Council has empowered the Swiss Red Cross to ce-operate in the removal of women, children and aged men from Madrid, work which is being carried out by the International Red Cross, states Trans-Ocean. In order.to facilitate this task, the Federal Council granted the International Red Cross a credit of 80,000 Francs.
Tue appointment of new governors for three Spanish Republican provinees, Almeria, Cordoba and Albacete, is warmly welcomed Soviet Russian political circles which point out that all new governors are Yegistered members of the Spanish Communist party (reports _Trans-Ocean) and that their appointment affords further proof pt the harmonious ce-operation of the various groups comprising the Spanish Popular Front, Newnimeer Hill, comprising more than 2,000 acres of Sussex downland near' Brighton, was handed -over to the National Trust as the joint gift of Countess Buxton and Brighton Corporation, Lady Buxton presented some dgwniand and an avenue of beech trees, part of her Newtimber estate, in memory of Earl Buxton, trid Brighton Corporation decided to present adjoining downland, so that the whole of Newtimber Hill could be preserved as an open space for posterity. Brighton is the first municipal authority to make such a gift reported by the Moscow ation on Aug. 7 that a Soviet Russian frontier patrol, consisting of non-commissioned officer and two '8, was fired upon near Tachtabasar, by 22 bandits who had. cros-Sed the Afghan frontier. During the ensuing fight one of the Soviet Russian soldiers was wounded. The officer and the other soldier held out for two hours in spite of the numerical superiority of the attackers, eight of whom. were killed. The Moscow wireless station announced that the order of the Red Flag has been conferred upon the officer while his companion received a gold watch.
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