AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

iostkalian and n.z. cable association. U.S.A. CANADIAN AGREEMENT. (Received this dav at 9.20 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. Administrative arrangements between the United States and the Canadian Governments will he made effective ill reasonable time to permit of an interchange between them of a formula for the clearance ol vessels currying liquors from Canada and the smuggling of liquors, narcotics, silks and other merchandise Horn one •■ouiitry to the other. AMERICAN JUSTICE. Received this day at 9.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 According to an anouncement made by the State Department, one ol the most unusual cases in the annals ol American jurisprudence lu' s 11 -t ended. Charles Craig, comptroller ol New York, and the city’s chief financial officer, was two years ago sentenced to sixty days imprisonment for contempt of court in having criticised a Federal judge, in a letter, for his decision dealing with the public service corporation. Craig appealed and the case ultimately reached the Supreme Court of the United States which reaffirmed the sentence. A storm of popular protest was thus aroused throughout the nation and the press declared unanimously that ('roe speech in America lias suffered the severest blow since the foundation of the Republic. Craig declared his willingness to go to gaol. hut his friends appealed to President Coolidge, who remitted the sentence upon the advice ol Mr Daugherty who. however, scathingly attacked Mr Craig and advised that the remission was only because New York City would he the sufferer front the lack of Craig’s services. AEROPLANES COLLIDE. NEW YORK, Dec. 4. A telegram from San Diego says that two naval airplanes collided during manoeuvres at a thousand feet a! titnde and were forced to come down. Two men were killed and both machines were destroyed. U.S.A. POLITICS. (Received this day at. 0.25 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. Speaker Gillette was not re-elect, d. Four ballots were taken and the House of Representatives adjourned. The Progressives threaten to block the opening of Congress indefinitely. NORTH POLE EXPEDITION. WASHINGTON. Dec ’1 Definite plans for a naval expedition to the North Pole, to he anilertakei probubily next summer by aircraft, have been announced by the SmTetarv for Naval Affairs, Mr Denby.