AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

[Rkdteuh Tei.kohams.] EQUALITY OK RACES. (Received this day at 9.25 a m.) NEW YORK, October 30. The presidential candidate Davis, addressing a capacity crowd of negroes, advocated .equality of opportunity for all, regardless of race, creed or colour.

A BANDIT OUTRAGE. NEW YORK, October 30. A dispatch from Mexico says bandits entered the home of C. D. I'adon, Canadian manager of the Mazapil ( upper Cov at Zacatecas and shot him dead.

ONTARIO OFFICIALS SENTENCED. OTTAWA, October 30. C. A. Matthews, former deputy treasurer of Ontario, has been coiivieted of conspiracy in the taking oi a secret commission and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary.

FLIGHT TO NORTH POLE. WASHINGTON, October 30. A study of the flight of the Shenandoah to the West Const and return is exported by Mr Cnolidgo to furnish information upon which will he based the decision as to a ilight by a dirigible to the North Pole. The President lias been told the Shenandoah's flight in everv way compared with Z.R. 3 s Atlantic trips. An important consideration leading to the abandoned Noith Pole project last year was the hesitancy to risk the only zeppeliu type of ship owned by the Government. With two craft now available that consideration disappears.

PRESIDEXTIAL CANDIDATE. NEW YORK, October 30. La Folette, the Presidential candidate devoted an address almost entirely to an attack on Wall Street, which he declared controls the economic and political life of the nation.