AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 October 1925, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

1 | Reuter Telegrams.] j fjCIiXKIDLK CLP WINNER. I MAY YORK, October 2(1. j Lieut. .James Doolittle in a U.S. 1 Army Curtis racer won the international Jaijih's Schneider Seaplane trophy race at Hallimore. (INK MACH IXK QUALIFIES. .\K\Y YORK. Oct. 2(1. Britain's entries for the Schneider Cun rare at Baltimore were reduced l i one when Hinkler's plane badly damaged its pontoons as it commenced its third attempt to (pialify. Ihe British Glostei'-Xapier passed the navigability test on Fridtiv and will he i! ■a I v British ch ’.llenger. A RKMARKABLK CASK. NK WYORK", Oct.. 20. In run nert ion with the tornado, a IS markable ease is reported. Afrs Lucille Grey mis hanging out her clothes

from a tilth story apartment when a girt ol wind Mew her out. The amlmIn" 1 e rushed the liudy to the hospital in time for the surgeons to perform a

: ae-areait operation and deliver the child alive.

I'.S.A. IRRIGATION SCHEME. WASHINGTON, October 21. Ibe Dcpartmcm ot the Interior announce- that twenty-six million dollar- ol I'ctleriil fund- are to he expotldcd mi the irrigation of worthless lands six thousand unoccupied farms, and various Government, reclamation project-. H .states polities forced works to he built in the past in different ‘'talcs, and this was the main cause, also easy purchase terms, which resulted in much land being occupied hv inexperienced settlers, while the absence ‘ i a credit agency handicapped others. Only one pros]K>ct met the obligations "'hen due. whereas one third of the annual maintenance cost was unpaid, "’hit'll "'a- expected to he repaid by the settlers. To tittle two hundred million dollars have lieen spent to irrigate two million acres supporting half a million people.