AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.

TO CONFER WITH PRESIDENT.

NEW YORK, Sept. 18

Tho New York “Times’s” Washington correspondent learns from a White House spokesman that President Coolidge expects to see Air Lloyd George should be tome to Washington on his forthcoming visit jto America. The spokesman further declared that tho President deemed it unthinkable for Air Lloyd George to he in Washington without calling at White House. This emphasis has strengthened in official circles a belief that President Coolidge means to confer with Air Lloyd George exhaustively concerning European conditions, with a view to more active participation in foreign affairs, especially since the collapse of President Coolidgo’s tentative plan for an aircraft limitation conference. It is felt here that Mr Lloyd George’s analysis would he authoritative enough on which to base a programme of Amcritan co-operation.

WORLD'S POLO CHAMPIONSHIP

NEW YORK. Sep. 19

At Westbury, the United States Army polo team won the military polo championship of the world, defeating the British Army in two out of three matches. NEW YORK PRESSMEN'S STRIKE. NEW YORK,' Sept. 18. Eleven of tho afternoon newspapers are affected by the pressmen’s - strike. They united their fragmentary forces which contrived to operate the presses of tW “Evening Post,” and succeeded in issuing a mid-afternoon edition, entitled “The Combined New York Evening Newspapers,” the front page of which bore a series of the “mastheads” of co-operating newspapers. This enterprise enlisted the efforts of publishers of most diverse policies, including a Ilearst paper and a German language paper. Afoanwhilo the strike situation is unabated. There is only tho slightest hope of issuing to-morrow’s newspapers. In the suburbs the dailies published extra editions, and rushed to the metropolis, with scores of newsboys. The International Union officials have branded the strike as “illegal, ’ and have appealed to the men to return to work. The Union has called for volunteers to come and help the papers to resume, and to maintain the integrity and honour of the International Union.

TOWN ALMOST DESTROYED. (“Sydney Sun” Cables). (Received tnis dav at 9.2,5 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sep. 18. The mining town ot Eldorado was almost completely destroyed by lire. At Berkeley, the fire destroyed a thousand houses. The loss there and in othoi parts, it is stated, is estimated at four million dollars. A heavy pall of smoke hangs over the country, and the forest fires continue to sweep tho districts just north of San Francisco, which is suffering from a protracted heat wave. Two hundred houses wore burned at Port Kahuna, and the flames are now spreading to the Napa district. HELP FOR WHEAT GROWERS. Received this day at 9.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Sep. 1. It is officially stated that President Coolidge is working out emergency relief measures for the wheat growers, who are threatened with ruin. Thousand of farmers faeo a position of selling their crops at far less than cost, and ibis when many of them are alreadj broken after two unsatisfactory years.