AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. A WORLD FLIGHT. WASHINGTON, January 4. Secretary Weeks has announced that .six aeroplanes, manned by six officers, , who are now receiving special training, will attempt a round the world flight in the middle of March. The machines'"" will be equipped with the latest devices fo. safe living. A special committee is engaged in cunsummating plans covering every detail of file proposed flight. The course will he from Washington to Seattle the Aleutian Islands, Japan, Burma, India. Continental Europe, Eng land, b ■•laud. Greenland, Labrador, Atom al . and back to Wa-dmigtou. Tiie original plan wiis to include .Australia and New Zealand, ’tills lias been abandoned. F.S.A. AND SOVIET. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. As further evidence of Commumst'V propaganda in the United States, a communication signed by G. Zinoviev, and addressed to the Ameiiean Communists, ha - been published to-day, as part of Secret at v Hughes’.? defence of the F.S.A. Administrxtion’s refusal to deal with Soviet Russia under the present conditions. The communication, which appeared in the. Mciecow “Prnvda”. deebtres:--‘■’After having established a Workers Baity, those desiring to help the Communists to become, miy' a guild defending only the :n,arrow class,' interests of the proletariat, but a parfpfc of proletariat revolution, of Socialist" upheaval, .of the hegemony of the proletariat. must conduct the conquest of the peasantry.” MOVIE SCANDAL. NEW YORK, Jan. 4. There Is a nation-wide movement to withdraw all films showing Aliss Xormalid and Aliss Burvianee which is gaining headway. Two States already liave taken action in this direction, namely. Kansas and Tennessee, where the Boards of Censorship have requested the District Attorneys to seize such pictures when they are exhibited in the cinema theatres. The tnen in New Hampshire have decided voluntarily to cease exhibiting tlie.se films. The New York State Alotion Picture Commission lias declared that, so long as the actresses are not convicted of the crime, no action will he taken. The National Motion Picture Exhibitors’ Association, including tk? majority of the theatre owners in the country, is holding :i meeting for the putpuse of deciding what course to pursue. Mr llaye.s. who is on route to Los Angeles, has intimated that he is very much disturbed at the newest Hollywood scandal, and will take drastic action.