AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1923, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. MAX Iv ROBBERY. .\K\V VO I? K. O.t. 2.-'. Norwalk’s [Junk at I .os A uncles, was robbed of three thousand sterling, The robbers alter travelling three aides outside the town, boarded an aeroplane and were conveyed to Mexico. ’WEIGHT CARRYING All! RECORD. XKW VOI! lx . Oct. 28. At Davt-.ui .Ohio. the Bailing bomber, the world’s Greatest aeroplane, established an international weight-carry-ing altitude and enduranee record. Equipped with sis motors it remained in the air for one hour, nineteen minutes 11 seconds, at an altitude of fifteen thousand feet, carrying H> bombs weighing 0,01)2 pounds. A NTH ROLOt IICAI, DISCOVERY. (Received this day at 10.10 a.tn.) NEAY VOI! K. Oet. 28. Scientists engaged in excavations at Santa Barbara, C’alilornia, is convinced that the skulls of men uncovered there arc of greater ago than the Neanderthal man of Central Europe. Doctor -E Harrington of the Smithsonian Institution, states he is certain a new link of the. anthrological chain has been definitely established. Tools and implements also were found greatly in advance to those supoosed to have been employed by Neanderthal. Ihe distance between the distended jaws ol the Santa Barbara skull was seven inches. U.S.A. If Kid 1 FOR 0 Kl? At ANY. (Received this day at 12.1 n p.m.l AVASIfIXGTO.N. Oet. 28. The United States Government is considering a plan for exporting hity million bushels of wheat to Germany to assist in meeting the crisis w hich is threatening widespread sullering. Ihe Allan is favourably regarded by l’resiflent Coolidge and linked with the Depurations oll’or. the cost of the grain toi export will he met by a two year loan from the AVnr Finance Corporation, Details of the proposal will he submitted to the Secretary for Agriculture, by a Committee of leading grain men who see in it a method of assisting the American farmer uiul preventing famine in (lerniany at. the same time.