AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1925, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[Australia it N.Z. Cable Association.]

U.S.A. COAL STRIKE. NEW YORK, December 21. A message from Wilkesbarne. Pennsylvania, states: The unexpected duration of the anthracite coal strike is making the Christmas season a disheartening period of pestilence, privation and want to the families of one - hundred and fifty thousand anthracite miners, who have been out of work for fifteen weeks. An investigation revealed long lines of people of all ages daily awaiting food and cast off clothing and that the householders are hoarding impure anthracite coal, for ' which they pay sixteen dollars per toil (the former cost was seven dollars), or tire burning imported hitinnenoiis coal at fabulous prices, though there are millions of tons of coal underfoot. The hospitals have only one day’s supply of fuel ahead. The schools are closing, due to a lack of heat, and there are outbreaks of scarlet fever and menslse. The Scran ton district reports .‘?(i cases of scarlet fever this month, whereas during December of 1021. when there was no strike, only five were reported. Workers desiring to mortgage their homes are unable to find lenders. The are also facing disaster due to a lack of buying. The investigation has disclosed one home where the father of eight children is ill with tuberculosis, the mother is too ill to leave the house, and the coal bin and cupboard are empty.

FRANK M UNSEY REAR. NEW YORK. December 22. Frank Munsev. the newspaper publisher, died on Tuesday of peritonitis, following an operation for appendicitis. another, volar flight. NEW YORK. Dee. 22. Reports are current- that Henry Ford, who recently entered the airplane manufacturing field, is to hack a trnns-Polar non-stop airplane flight, early next spring from Pt. Barrow (Alaska) to Spitsbergen. The flight, according to the report, is being arranged by Stofansson and others. The report also informs that -Lieut. John Macßeadv (Army Trans-Continental flier) and Lieut. James Doclitke (holder of several army flight records) are to pilot the plane. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.

The project for the Volar flight lias been presented to the War Departments by Ford’s chief engineer, but the officials decided that Congressional authority is necessary for Government participation.