AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1925, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

'Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] FORD’S PURCHASE. (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) NEW YORK. Aug. 9. Henry Ford has purchased Stout Metal Aeroplane Company’s interests in Detroit for £200.1X11). Ford’s aim is to advance aeroplane development. H ■ said the first tiling to lie done _ is to make aerial navigation fool proof. At present is is 90 per cent, man anti 10 per cent, plane. The percentage must he reversed. A PATRICIDE. NEW YORK. Aug. 0.

At l’arkeitburg, lowa. Murrell \ aiidervborts, son of a Methodist pastor, admitted killing his father and wounding bis mother, ft is supposed that the boy was insane, owing to over study.

KI.ANSMKN PARADE

(Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) WASHINGTON. Aug. 9

White rolled Klnnsmen from a score of States, estimated at thirty to fifty thousand, paraded the streets on Saturday. and gathered at the loot ol the Washington monument. ’I he meeting dispersed when a deluge of ram was followed by a lightning storm, just as the services were about lo begin.

\ negro lynched. NEW YORK. Aug. 9A mob at Excelsior Springs dragged a negro ussailnut ut n white gn prison, and hanged him, protesting mnocettcc. NEW AIOTOR FUEL. great RESULTS CLAIMED. NEW YORK. August 9. In connection with the production o, the reported new fuel. "Inch is to be marketed under the name Synthol, n may bo manufactured from petroleum, coal or lignite. Its base, according to analysts who have tested the product, is benzol. -Several varieties of alcohol, and a mysterious metallic catalyst not unlike tetrathyl lead, make up the mixture. It’s action in the new motor designed for its use is said to be more nearly like steam j«>"er than any internal combustion engine yet devised. The mis. in cylinders, is at a higher compression than used in an ordinary engine, and expands without explosive force, and hisses from tlm exhaust valves like escaping steam. It is claimed the new fuel will revolutionise motor ami aerial transportation.