AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 May 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. AMERICAN PROHIBITION. DOUGHERTY RULING UPHELD. AVASHINGTON, April 30 The Supreme Court upheld the Dougherty ruling under the prohibition amendment that foreign ships cannot bring liquor within the three mile limit, even as sea 6tores, thus upsetting the Federal Court injunctions cabled on 12th and 13th October. Simultaneously the Court upheld tho Dougherty ruiing that there was noth', ing in tlie prohibition amendment preventing American ships carrying liquor in foreign waters. The Supreme Court decision was made on appeals from the Lower Court decisions in the first instance bv Douglierty and in the second instance by American Shipping Companies.

a sitgaii liovcorr. NEW YORK, April 30. Housewives throughout the country are organising a boycott, for the purpose of lowering the price of sugar, now being retailed from ten to twelve cents per pound. \ arious women s clubs and organisations in New York. Washington, Chicago, Buffalo ami oth'er principal cities are conducting a series of mass meetings and a house to house canvas in an effort to persuade housekeepers to refrain from buying until sugar is cheaper. VIEWS ON DECISION. NEW YORK, April 30. The New York “Times’s” Washington correspondent says: '’The antiProhibition forces were at first inelin- •, od to lake Too much satisfaction from the Supreme Court’s decision re ships and liquor. They have lieen pointing out that American and foreign vessels could take on liquor cargoes, at soino port of call, and leave them on entering, or departing from, the American territorial waters. The Prohibition forces, however, aside from indicating that this would take so many vessels out of their way, have asserted that legislation would he introduced during the coining session of Congress forbidding any vessels on American registry from carrying liquors at any time. The Shipping Hoard, furthermore, has announced that Government-own. -T 7 ed vessels will continue dry, irrespective of the Court’s decision.