AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1925, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[Reuter Telegrams.]

TOO LOGICAL

WASHINGTON, December W. The House on Tuesday defeated by 149 to 17, a proposal in the form of an Appropriation Bill Amendment which would have prohibited a resort to “ fraud, deceit and falsehood ” in the use of any of the 250 thousand dollars set aside lor buying liquor as evidence in prohibition enforcement cases

NORTH POLAR I’M/I OUT. XKAA' YORK. December '2'2. Stclansxon on Tuesday confirmed tlir reports ealded on .Monday. The explorer himself will not take part in the flight hut is assisting in the arrangements. Ah all metal Ford plain "ill he in charge of George Wilkins, "ho was second in command of Stefanssou’s Arctic expedition in 1913 and 1916. Tlie expedition will have the hacking of the National Geographical Society. A Detroit message states th‘c (light the object of which is exploration of ' Uncharted sections of the Polar Seas, is also hacked by the Detroit Aviation Society, of which Mr William Aze. the chief engineer of Mr Ford, is President, hut the Automobile Manufacuring Company officials desiy that Mr Ford himself is interested in the project. FASCISM IN U.S.A. WASHINGTON, Dee. 22. President Green, in a letter to four million members of the American Federation of Labour, warns them against the menacing influence and pernicious practices of both Soviet Russia and Fascist Italy within the United States. He declares: “Mu.solini is not satisfied with the powers of a dictator in Italy, where the sword has taken the place of reason, hut has extended the tentacles of Fascism to other 101111ries.” Air Green warns the Italian members -of the Federation anil Italian residents generally of organisations formed here which discourage the naturalisation of Italians under threat of persecuting their families in Italy if they disobey. Americans generally are urged to oppose Fascist propaganda, as strongly as Communism.