Ultra-short wave radio-telephone elroults would also be utilized for connecting, the Hebrides and other islands, where neither telegraph or telephone communication have hi-thereto been available. the United Kingdom itself, he continued, where progress way! also! evident during the las, twelve months, 6,200 new circuits had been added to the trunk system. In' the sphere of Imperial and foreign tele~ graphs, all else had been eclipsed by the recent announcement by Cable & Wireless and its associated Washington, Apr. 2 'The record peace-time' appropriations to finance the Navy in the next fiscal year, approved by President Roosevelt, is distinct from the "Big Navy" Bill, which the Senate is at resent debating. It carries funds to start work on two new battleships, two cruisers, eight destroyers, and six submarines. It also. provides money to continue work on two bat-Heships, three aircraft-carriers, eight cruisers, 43 destroyers and sixteen Br. Boy Scouts Fund seeciat, 10
London, Apr. 90.
Lord NuMeld, the motor magnet has promised £50,000 to the Boy Scouts Fund provided the Fund reaches its objective of £500,000.
Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts organiza tion, who is en Foute, from South Africa, sent a cheque to the Fund for £500. A message accompanying the "cheque said: "I am heartily ashamed of being a broken reed myself."
'The Fund, launched by the Duke of Kent at' Mansion House, has as lis object the preservation of the Scout movement and the placing of touting on a square basis for all time.
The King and Queen and -other members of the Royal family head the appeal, the influential signatories of which include the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Baldwin, the leading trade unionist, Mr. Ernest Bevin, and leaders of all religious denominations—Reuter, U.S. Bankruptcy Act companies overseas that they" were introducing a new rate schedule to all_parts of the Empire.
The maximum rate of 1s. 34, per word for full-rate telegrams between Empire countries, he concluded, re~ presented a truly notable advance in Imperial "communications,—Wireless through Router Washington, Apr. 25.
The Supreme Court by a vote of six to two today affirmed the constitutionality of the new Municipal Bankruptey Act, replacing the act which the court invalidated in 1936, Observers believed that the new statute was carefully drawn up to meet any possible court objections.—United Press.
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