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Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1924, Page 2

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«ÜBIIIAI,IA.N ANU IS.Z. CABLtS ASSOCIATION. DAM BLIND IN OLDMAN STOCK.. .M'.lt urn iy. -tog. i•->. (stories ol laoutous prolits lor small investments are circoi.aeo oy Ou.*wiuoo last year pant • > moo.is n,. i.i joariis worm ot ticrinan war bonds, ami easoeil lit toe pievaolog ipiotailo-s ol li.jil dollars oiiiing toe past wee... I'l iTssian war loans, anu ll t.eie worm lour uuuuretl itonais per niiiiiou inari.s. tnree motiliis ago. luoognt. ten umis toe original sum. vltlter tiermall •*,- eiiriltes mite risen m pioporllon. J lie rise m general is asenoeu to the recent taroitraole reports regarding the Dawes plan lor reiiamlitaiing l.erinany. HELP LOU CHINA. U A.SIII.M.ToN. Aug. 15. The Hetl Cross Society has earned liundreil tlioilsaml dollars tor the rv\.~w ol the victims of tin- Hoods, winch a*e sweeping several provinces of China. Cniled States Minister. Mr Sihuriian, at felting, reports ten millimt l»t‘«l>lo are a Heeled, and ten million molars Will lie needed lor relief worn. \ PROFESSOR'S OPINION. OTTAWA. Aug. 15. Professor William M< Dotigall. a noted psvchologist of Harvard Pmversity. speukin- helore the llritish Eugenics I-durational Society at Toronto. declared : "A' I watch the American people speeding daily with invincible optimism down the path that leads to v destruction. I seem to lie watching one ol tlie greatest tragedies of history. In his opinion, the conditions of Coiled States are desperate, it Hie h,||k of the people cannot la? brought to see the situation of the nation it is owing to the disregard of eugenic methods in maintaining and improving it- stock. These methods, according to McDougnll. are birth control, selective immigration and wages graded according to the size of families.

A FLOATING CABARET. NEW YORK, Aug. Hi

•■Anchored fifteen miles olf Fire lslaud." says an article in the " 1 ribune." "is a seventeen thousand ton liner, living the British Hag, and convened into a palatial lloating cabaret, where any kind of drink is obtainable. The silverware and linen aboard are stamped with the name of the former Dcrman liner "Froderich tier Grosso.” The vessel’s name “has been printed out. The liner is the scene of nightly parties given by wealthy patrons. Speedy boats and yachts are living between the liner and the shore. The vessel frequently shifts its position. Only those known to the captain know where she tan he found at all times. Wine sells al LI per quart.” KID McCOY. LOS AND ELKS, Aug. 15 The gnu that killed Mrs Moors, tor whose death Kid .McCoy, the expugilist. is being held, was found within two feet ol her head. Ihe autopsv surgeon declares that tills fact tends to support McCoy’s story that the woman committed suicide SMUGGLERS CAO LED. OTTAWA. Aug. 15. Miguel Maluqiier, Spanish Consul, and Raymond de Torronto, a not hot Spaniard, whom, the Canadian Mounted Police, alter years of pursuit in Europe, had apprehended, were charged at Montreal with importing narcotics into Canada (as cabled on 51 h June), hoth were found guilty and sentenced to six months’ gaol. Their trial has lasted over two months. The accused countered the charges by asserting that their arrest was illegal, because it was made by an invasion of traditionally inviolate premises, the Consulate. The Court disallowed this claim, but exercised clemency, in imposing a_ short term of prison, whereas the maximum is seven years. AMERICAN WORLD FLIGHT. MARTIN’S PLANE FOFND. VANCOUVER, Aug. Hi. A message Irom Port Moller, ell Alaska, states: William Sullivan reports that lie lias found the aeroplane that was wrecked on the* 1 -Itlt April, when .Major Frederick Martin, the Commander of the l nited States World Fliers, was forced to land. Ihe plane struc k gradually sloping ground There is no mountain within a mile of the* spot. Sullivan opines that the plane was living very low when it hit the slope, if. he says, the machine had been 101 l fed high, it would have passed over all the* elevations in the vicinity. Tin* plane was found by Sullivan •’!''» miles from Connery, at which Major .Martin and hi- ’ maclianieian arrived after tin days’ wandering and hard ship- in the -now and brushwood. The mncJiiiic was hopelessly shattered. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 Lieut Lowell Smith, commanding the Cniled Stales globe livers, has reported in tin* r.S.A. Service that In* will hop off from Reykic.vik. in Iceland, tomorrow. The delay has been due to the establishment of a new base in an ice free* harbour, that ha, been found h v lbe scouts in Greenland. The plan is to lly to Angmagsaliis, in Greenland, to-morrow, and in Ivigtut on Sunday.