AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 October 1922, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION^

A WOMAN SENATOR. NEW YORK, Oct. 3. At Atlanta, Mrs Felton, the first woman in history to be appointed to a Senatorship, has been elected to nil the * unexpired term of the late Mr Thomas Watson.

CANADIAN RAILWAYS. i OTTAWA, October 5. The Canadian National Railways has been formally created through tho merging of the Canadian and Grand Trunk lines. The Cabinet Council approved. Sir Henry Thornton has been appointed as head of the new concern.

BIG U.S.A. FLEET. SHANGHAI, October 5. The American Asiatic Fleet, consisting of 22 warships, with 4000 men, has reached Shanghai on a three weeks’ visit. This is the largest naval unit to visit here for many years.

U.S.A. PROHIBITION. WASHINGTON, October 5. Mr Ralph Day, to-day resigned the office of Prohibition Director at New York. He revealed the latest methods used, by the “bootleggers” to smuggle liquor into the United States. Mr Day declared that 21 aeroplanes are operating regularly between New York and the Canadian border. They are all smuggling whisky. Both land and seaplanes are being used. They are equipped with trap bottoms, enabling them to drop the contraband liquor into the rivers, when they suspect that Prohibition agents are aware of their business.

Aeroplanes are also used to transfer liquor from ships.

U.S.A. PRESIDENT’S VIEW. NEW YORK, October 5.

Mr Davis (Secretary for Labour), addressing some railroad workmen at Detroit, declared that President Harding believes that the railway workers’ wages and conditions should be such as to make the employment so attractive that strikes will be impossible. The workman’s wages must be enough to make n home and to ensure that the struggle for existence will not deprive him of the essentials of life.