AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

IUBTttAMAN AND N.Z. OARLIO ASSOCIATION

STERLING FALI.S. NEW YORK. Sept. -I

Sterling, during :i fortnight's gradtml (I,'dine, reached ll'ii cents. rt»i»rt'senliiig :i fiinmJiitivi* hiss ol buir cents. The hankers assert this decline is not ilia* to polii i*-:il reasons. !>nt is the result of seasonal oflerings against export trade. OBITCARY. VAXCOEVER. Septemher o. .Air William Trent, a noted international journalist, the associate <»!■ Primes, .Statesmen and writers. and the partii ipanl in most of the stirring events in Britain and Western Europe during the last third ol the nineteenth century, died at Victoria. British -Columhia, at the age of SO. He gained fame liv going through the Paris Commune with Cleorge Ogden. Being sentenced to lie shot as a spy. A (JAY PARTY. SAX PHAXCIKCO, Sept. I. A telegram front. I .os Angeles says: Twenty members of the Hollywood Cinema Colony, who include several prominent in the cinema industry, have I,ecu arrested and charged with disturbing the peace. Ihe police inteirnpted a gay party in the l.anrel Canyon. One was identified hy the police as Jules Be Baron, the head of the Re Baron studios; and another as Robert Conville, director for He Baron studios. Five of the party were women, whose names are not disclosed. .lack Slieiill, the ox-film actor, and W . B. Sherill’ in whose homo the party was staged, are charged with possessing lkpmr. ITALIAN FACTIONS. • Received this day at 9.-15 a.m.) . NEW YORK. Sept. 5. Loeatelli. the Italian aviator, was met hy police reserves at the Brand Ceitrnl station in order to prevent the threatened riot among rival factions. A crowd of five thousand Italians’ shouts of “Hurrah for Boeatolli,” were answered hy “Down with Boeatolli and the Fascisti.” Fearing an outbreak the police ordered the dispersing of the official welcome and escorted Locate! Ii to his hotel by a side street.

WIRELESS PICTURES. (Roee’ved this day nt 9.15 a.in.) NEW YORK. September 5. Wireless broadcasting of motion pictures will ho possible within a year according to the Secretary to Colonel E. IT R. Green, son of ITettv Green, who claimed to have perfected a. device functioning short distances.