AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1925, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

'Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] BANDITS AT LARGE. NEW YORK. Aug. IS. The entire state of Oregon is terrorised by the wild shooting and kidnapping of a trio of desperadoes, lom ( Murray, Ellsworth Kelly and .lames . Villus, convicted murderers and highwaymen, wlio broke from Salem penitentiary, killing two guards, n fortnight ago. Since then hundreds of sheriff’s and their deputies have boon hunting them all over the State. Ihe ; bandits dodge here and there, steal- j ing money, aminuniiioii and loud. The | latest exploits concerns four friends who were playing cards in lin* vi!t igo j of .Monitor at two o’clock on Monday morning, when the bandits kidnapped the quartette in two motors cars ni l foiled them to drive towards Portland. , Daylight found them close to the , suburbs of the city. I hey approach? ! a farmhouse, ol which the bandits took possession forcing the Newman family and card players to remain in the house all day. ].ate at night they took the motors and drove towards the cityThe tmnditx’ chief is Murray, who dictated a statement explaining regret at the killings. “So my mother may know the truth.” lie said. He left his lingcr-print at the farm house, so the police would recognise it was genuin *. Macmillan arctic expedition. WaKIIINGTOX. August 18. The .MacMillan naval and air expedition. which is searching for undiscovered Arctic continents, will in all probability be abandon,l this week, according to indications here. Mr Wilbur sent a radio message to • Lieut.-Commander Byrd, asking for a report on the weather conditions and whether Byrd believed it was worth while to continue the search. Simultaneously. though not in reply. Commander Byrd dispatched a radio message to Mr Wilbur, stating that unless the livers were favoured with exceptionally good weather for the remainder of this week, it would he necessary to abandon the proposed Polar Seas iliglits. The officials of the Navy and the National Geographic Society, whom Mr Wilbur consulted before sending his message, are of the opinion in favour of the cessation ol the llight anil an immediate return '.southward and the beginning of other portions of the expeditionary programme in the uncharted areas of Baffin Island, lying west of Southern Giccnumu, From the start the cxi>editiou lias encountered a series of unforseen and delaying difficulties. Firstly, the ships ran short of fuel, the delay being in coaling and then on arrival at Ktah the disclosing ot the necessity for constructing a special platform on the bench before assembling the planes at Singe <m the 3rd. August. \\ hen the planes were launched the weather was .so severe and unprecedented for summer snows and logs, hammered operat ions. The period permitting air exploration expires on 25th. August when the midnight sun wanes, whereat ter conditions will la* much worse. In the brief lapses of a storm the aviators (lying westward from Ktah in attempting to linil a base for supplies found the fiords clothed ill ice, being unable to land. Finally they settled in Flagcr Fjord to tvhiili they are still carrying only small amounts of provisions due to the difficulty of rising from the water. One plane was out of commission for several days, due to the heavy ) Arctic seas springing up. AMERICA FOREGOES INTEREST. WASHINGTON. August 18. The Debt Commission on Tuesday reached a final agreement re the funding of the Belgian War debt and al interest charges on the money loaned during the war will lie foregone. WASHINGTON. August 18. Belgium will lie allowed to repay the 171,300,996 dollars loaned during the war over a period of sixty-two years, and balance of approximately 210.009.(.:;)'I dollars loaned after tin* arniislict will be repayed in tin? mi me period with interest ai three and a half per (cut. after the first l<*n years. AMERICAN STEAMER DISASTER. NEW YORK, August 18. A telegram from Rhode Island, says that three men are missing and a dozen) more are m a dangerous condition, while another hundred are injured, as the result of an explosion on the steamer AlacKinac. hound from Newport to l’awtucket. The boilers of the vessel, which carried 677 excursionists, burst. Three firemen are missing, and are believed to have lx*en killed. The explosion tore the entire middle section of the boat apart, and scalded the passengers and the officers ' who were near the engine room. Fearcrazed the crowd became frantic. Many jumped into the water. 1 An unverified report .says that five are dead. A distress call was sent to all the battleships and destroyers in the harbour, and the Naval Hospital, where the injured were taken, resembled a shambles. In the AlacKiua disaster, the death list has increased to twenty-three. Physicians at the Naval Hospital said ■ that ten more would die before daybreak. U.S.A. FLIGHT TO HAWAII. NEW YORK, August 19. A Sail Diego message states that if tile llight to Hawaii arranged on June 20th. last, proves successful, Hawaiian capitalists and sugar planters plan a two-million dollar commercial flying company, to make regular Iliglits between Hawaii ayd the l liited States. .Meanwhile destroyers have been ordered out to patrcl the route. The llight is scheduled for September 2nd. Amateur radioists are asked to cooperate in an effort to make new distance lecords and to coinmunicaie to the Navy Department, news of the plane- on the flight.