AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 April 1922, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

• USIIIAI.IAN AND N.Z. CAULE ABSOCIAIION. AMERICAN STORM. NEW YORK, April 18. A Chicago message states that Middle West storm casualties reached 50 dead and hundreds injured. Cloudbursts following tire cyclone wreaked terrible havoc, the rivers overflowing their hanks and sweeping vil-

lages away

TEXAN VOLCANO

COLIMA ERUPTING

NEW YORK, April 18

A telegram from El Paso, in Texas, reports that the volcano Colima is in eruption. The inhabitants in the neighbouring towns are fleeing.

U.S.A. AND RUSSIA

WASHINGTON, April 18

The U.S. Secretary, Mr Hughes, has announced that the United States recognises M. Boris Badhemetcff. who was appointed by the Kerensky («overnment as Russian Ambassador to the U.S.A. Mr Hughes says that le will not be required to respond to a legal process, tints crushing the U.S. Senate Labour Committee’s attempt to subpoena Bakhmetiff to testify at the hearing of the charges against the anti-Bolshevik leader, Semenoff.

arbuckle films. 'Received This Day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 18

Hays, had of the newly organised motion picture Producers and Distributors Association, has annulled the arrangement for the release of three new Arbuckle films, on the ground that the whole matter may have the consider:tion it warrants. This means the loss of a million dollars revenue for cinema men. Arbuckle announced his trials, not including his attorney’s fees cost him 110,000 dollars.

PICTURE MAN’S FALL. Received This Day at, 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 17

William. Desmond, a cinema actor, was injured, probably fatally, by a fifty foot fall from a cliff while a picture was being taken at Los Angelos.

THE ATLANTIC FLIGHT. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.)

RIO JANIERO, April 17

Captains Counteho and Sacadora reached St. Paul Island at 4.50 this afternon completing a thousand mile leg from Port Oprav.

AIR M AN’S ACCIDENT.

RIO DM JANIERO, April 19.

A wireless received at Pernambuco, states that owing to :ifi accident t<» thf. plane, the Portuguese aviator' must abandon or indefinitely delay the remainder of his trans-Atlantic flight.

FATTY ARBUCKLE FILMS. NEW YORK, April 19. A Los Angeles message states “Fatty” Arbuckle is amazed at Hay’s order cancelling his films;

I’.S.A. (FINANCE.

WASHINGTON, April i 8

A revised Treasury Department report indicates that the United States will have a surpliis for 1922 of $47,000,000

It is added that for 1923 there will be $484,000,000 of a deficit, instead of approximately $200,000,000 as at first computed.

RUSSIAN FAMINE CHECKED. WASHINGTON, April 18. The Hon. Mr Hoover of the United States Ministry, has informed the Cabinet that the American relief work in Russia has stopped the famine.

TR ANS-ATLANTIC CABLE. Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.l NEW YORK, April 10. The Western Union Telegraph Com-

pany has announced that plans ate completed for the laying of a new cable across the Atlantic from New York, probably to a German port. The cable which is a new invention, will carry forty million words annually, compared with the present cable’s capacity for live millions