1937-07-23 — Page 12

ARMAMENTS BOOST--- AND AFTER

London, To-day.

The meaures to be taken to pro- vide against the danger of reces- sion in economic activity when- ever the stimulus of the rearma- ment programme ceased, was the subject of a Commons question ansivered by the Prime Minister, who made a reference to the mat- ter in a recent speech at the Al- bert Hall.

Mr: Neville Chamberlain said that measures of the kind were not such as to fall within the purview of a single department of the State.

The whole matter was being studied by the departments most concerned and the Government would afterwards consider it in the light of these studies and -would then have to decide its

policy. British Wireless.

H.K. POLICE SERGEANTS COMMENDED

Mr. John Garner, Vice-President of the United States, whose elo- quence failed to save the Supreme Court reform measure in the Sen- ate yesterday, but brought agree

PROBABLE CAUSE OF HINDENBURG DISASTER

Berlin, To-day. Referring to publication of

the Report. of the United States Bureau Sergeants Bone and White of the of Air Commerce on the probable Hong Kong Police have been com- cause of the disaster to the Hin- mended by the Inspector-General of denburg, informed circles here state Police for their courage and prompt-[that the minute and important ex- ness of action in diving repeatedly amination of the tragedy ordered by under a junk which had capsized General Goering, the Reich in the harbour in an attempt to re- Minister, has not yet been complet- scue a Chinese female child on June ed. 17...

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COMPROMISE PLAN

Roosevelt Scheme Whittled Away By Senate

Washington, To-day.

The last nail was driven into the coffin of Pre- sident Roosevelt's Supreme Court Enlargement Bill yesterday when the Senate voted, by 70 votes to 20, in favour of returning the Bill to the judiciary committee with instructions to prepare a new mea-

sure.

The vote in the Senate was preceded by a dra- matic meeting of the judiciary committee, at which the Vice-President, Mr. John Nance Garner, con- ceded that the Supreme Court Bill was "out of the window."

-PARLIAMENT

RECESS

London, To-day. Parliament will be adjourned on July 30 and will reassemble on October 21, announced the Pre- mier, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, in the House of Commons yesterday.

The new session would be open- ed by the King on October 26.- Trans-Ocean.

Air U.S. SEAMAN

The investigation consists mainly

JUMPS $150 BAIL

It will be recalled that on that of laboratory tests in the experi- Walter King, a seaman of the day the junk was caught in a sud-mental station for wireless and elec-President Grant, who was on remand den squall and capsized. The other tricity at Graefelfing, near Munich, charged with malicious wounding at occupants of the junk were rescued and in the German aeronautical re- the Dreamland Dance Hall on. July but the child disappeared and was search station at Adlershof.

10, failed to make an appearance be- found drowned some days later.

fore Mr. W. Schofield at the Cen- tral Magistracy this morning and his bail of $150 was estreated.

A report on the German investiga tion will appear in due course.

500 WOUNDED Trans-Ocean.

OFFICERS

Salamanca, To-day.

Five hundred Spanish Nation- alist officers including one of the defenders of the Toledo Alcazar, Colonel Mendez Parada, have left here for Germany whither they have been invited by the German ex- Servicemen's Association,

The Spanish officers will go into a German nursing home where they will be operated upon and where they will stay until their complete recovery.

The National Spanish press ex presses deep gratitude for the "noble and chivalrous gesture." Trans-Ocean.

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MAGGIE SAID THAT SONNY WENT DOWN TO TH' OFFICE

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HIM TO WORK IN-THE OFFICE DON'T NEED ANY FIXING IT'S TH' BUSINESS-

It is stated the Vice-President pleaded with the committee with tears in his eyes for settlement of differences, after which the com- mittee agreed to ask the Senate for instructions to draft a sub- stitute measure.

NEW PLAN

new

It is understood that the measure, dealing only with the lower courts, will provide, inter alia, for direct appeal to the Supreme Court in constitutional cases and appoint- ment of lower court judges on a basis which need not be the age of existing judges.

It was generally conceded that the new plan would prevail in the Senate when it is presented by Senator Marvel M. Logan (Ken- tucky) later in the day. Reuter.

WEIRD STORY OF MYSTERY PLANE

London, July 18.. "phantom plane" has been making night flights over London. For several nights, including yes- terday evening, the citizens of this city have been mystified by the plane's appearance.

The flights have caused con siderable excitement here, and will form the object of a question next. week in the House of Commons. Newspapers, notably the “Sunday Referee," the “Sunday Express,” and the "Sunday Dispatch," have published sensational headlines re- |porting that the plane flew over the Houses of Parliament and Saint Faul's Cathedral at 12.45 last night and dropped

"bombs." four Havas.

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