AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1920, Page 1

AMERICAN ITEMS.

■.by Electric Telegraph—Cop/mgn" • THIRD PARTY PLATFORM. NEW YORK., July 14. A Chicago message reports the Third Party adopted the planks cabled on the fourteenth. AN AIR TRIP. . NEW YORK, July 15. Four army airplanes left Long Island at noon for the round trip to Nome, Alaska. WIRELESS BALLOT. NEW YORK, July 15. The Executive of United Radio Telegraph Operators Union ordered a strike vote to bo taken among four thousand wireless operators. The order was transmitted from ship to ship. The owners wili not negotiate. PRESS CONFERENCE. (Received this day at 8 a.in.) OTTAWA, July 17. It is announced at Afoot real that following on three days conference, the press delegations make a. forty seven days tour of Cnada- visiting nine provinces and covering 8,500 miles.

A RUSSIAN THREAT. ißeceived This Day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK. July 17. The Russian Soviet bureau announces it has notified Montreal concerns tha : contracts for six million dollars worts of supplies for Soviet Russia will be cancelled if England deports Morteva secretary to Martens, the unrecognised Soviet Ambassador to United State.. AMERICAN POLITICS. (Received this day at 8 a.m..) NEW YORK, July 17. Chicago reports that the dlssatisfiei element of the former Labour party have organised a new movement called the Liberal Party. The third party which for a time seemed likely to fusthe diverse elements now seems to b disintegrating.

EARTHQUAKE shocks. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, July i 7. Four (earthquake tremors wore felt throughout Los Angelos. Several buildings suffered slight damage. AMERICAN TRADE MATTERS. OTTAWA' July 16. j J. R. Howard, President of the American Farm Bureau Association, | speaking at Winnipeg, predicted the day would come when the United States, Canada, and Australia would form an international organisation to control the world’s wheat supply and feed the nations. unhampered by any gambling influence. Mr Howard invited the members of the Canadian Council of Agriculture to attend the Association’s meeting at Chicago, which will discuss ways of making the Middle Western States independent of the Chicago Grain Board. Chicago is dealing in grain futures to-day for the first tinrn since 1917. December wheat sold at 273 cents per bushel, and March wheat at 274 cents. Tfie Canadian Government has deemed that the Wheat Board shall not sell the new Canadian crop, while reserving power to resume selling should the eon dilions change

NEW YOU Tv, July Id. Speaking at Andover, Massachusetts, Mr Wood (President of the American Woollen Company) explained that niliough the United States needed la i fie quantities of woollens, the company could not open its mills, which for the greater part are closed owing to the inability to obtain orders.