AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1923, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. DRY LAW SCANDALS. NEW YORK, Sept. 28. Several interesting matters relative to prohibition occurred to-day. The City Commissioners of Washington sent a demand to the L’nitcd States Commissioner of Prohibition, whose headquarters are in Washington, that he discharge several of his agents, who are charged with accepting bribes from ‘bootleggers', and that a greater effort should he made to enforce the prohibition law in the City.

The Federal Council of ( liurchcs. re--1 icscnting all the Protestant ecclesiastical bodies in America, has called upon its membership to get behind the movement and compel the authorities to enforce prohibition. The Council declares that t;ntiMitil laxity exists among those whose duty it is to enforce the law and the church organisations must revive tlm war against liquor which the churches fought five years ago. The Council hopes also to enlist all .Jewish organisations in this campaign. Regular and special .juries in New Yoik City, with a calendar of 102 charges of violating the prohibition laws have rein rued indictments against only two persons, dismissing the remainder. The .fudge, in dismissing the juries, declared “The greatest menace to law and order in America is Communism and the situation created hy the prohibition laws.” RAILWAY DISASTER. TRAIN FALLS INTO RIVER. NEW YORK, Sept. 28. At Caspar, in Wyoming, one hundred pa-sengers tire missing and thirty-seven Indies have been recovered from a tai'wav train, which tell through a weakened bridge into a liver that was swollen by storms. Five (.ouches were submerged. Rescue was impossible owing to darkness and the storm. The survivors agreed that there were one hundred people trapped in the submerged coaches. SFRYIYOR’S DESCRIPTION. (Received this day at 9. In a m.I NEW YORK. Sept. 28.

A survivor from the railway disaster at Casper describes the sudden overturning of the coaches in which lie was sitting, with a scote of others,

unconscious of the river’s proximity and the weakened bridge.. I oiler them the train settled in the liver's naze within a few seconds. He escaped front the window and swum until a mpe was thrown to him hy the engine driver on the hank. The dark-

ness. rain and torrential current contused tin' victims. Smile could l-e heard screaming for help. A lew sat on the ('till of the overturned parlour tun while it slowly sink into the river bed and the waters dosed over them. Four other coaches were never visible to the survivors after the fall. ft is estimated that a hundred and twenty-five people were aboard and only twenty-five wee discoverable four In to s later. SKA LOOTERS. ißeceived litis day at 9. In a.m.) NEW YORK, Kept. 28. Lloyds, as represent atives ol the underwriters of the wrecked steamer Cuba havu asked for protection from looters, of the abandoned vessel, which lies partly submerged thirty miles from Los Angeles. Last week sixteen armed men hoarded her and looted the radio outfit, other moveables and cargo valued at C.’SO.OIMI. Police boats visited the wreck and were warned off, the looters tlireatouiuir to shoot, claiming they were in possession under the derelict law . Ihe police. um-eruiin ..f their authority, wit bill ow.