AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 December 1925, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[Australia <fc N.Z. Cable Association.] RECORD BLIZZARD. NUMEROUS DEATHS. NEW YOKE. December 27. A cold wave, which struck many parts of the United States on Boxing Day, is now increasing in intensity, the gale first reduced the temperature below zero in New York ■ and 2 ,]<»- glees below in Chicago, where live died. The fall in temperature was great at Minneapolis, to 13 below zero,

and at Port Covington (New York) to IS degrees below. In Kansas on Nmas Eve the storm originated. The centre of the cold wave on Boxing Day was off Nova Scotia. The fall in temperature below zero extended down to the southern States bordering the Gulf of .Mexico. Heavy snow storms are predicted. hack of coal, owing to the anthracite miners’ strike, aggravates the situation. NEW YORK. December 27. The cold wave is increasing and is spreading over a wider area in the tinted Slates. The mercury had been lowest in Nile City, in Montana, where it reached twenty-eight below zero, while in Montreal it reached thirteen degrees below, in Chicago eight below, in New York seven below, and in Atlanta (Georgia.) eighteen above were recorded. There have been three deaths from cold in New York and a total of nine deaths in Chicago. Coastguards, in a freezing gale, are attempting to rescue a crew of five from a ncliooncr that is aground in Chesapeake Bay. The (ires have totalled filly in New York and 130 in Chicago. Numerous automobile accidents have resulted from the icy streets.

T 1 >e snlfering is specially acute among the families of the striking anthracite miners in Pennsylvania. The mission societies all over the country are taxed to the utmost to provide food and shelter for unfortunates.

The weather forecasters predict no relief before the New Year.

NEW BOMBING BEANE. NEW YORK. Dec. 2(1

The New York' Times’s London correspondent says; The new type ol bombing aeroplane, said to be one of ■ lie most formidable in existence lias been adopted by tile British Ministry. Tie' machine can mount with a full load of bombs to a height of four miles, and at that level, approach the objective at a hundred miles an hmir. The machine is a mdeiiim-sized biplane of finO horsepower, a gunner and two movable machine guns having a place in the cnchpil. just behind the pilot, who himself is armed with two fixed guns. The biplane also has a new means of protection and new methods of carrying bombs. TYPHOID FEVER IN CHICAGO. NEW YORK.. December 27. Thirty-five cases of typhoid in Chicago. whereof three died and five others are still serious, were traced to Margaret Benge, an Sll-year-ohl typhoid carrier. The State Health Commissioner states that in November last. Margaret cooked squash taken from her garden, and everyone who ate of this dish caught the disease ill a malignant form. Margaret had typhoid when she was in her sixties. Years ago she was recognised as a carrier, and >he agreed to avoid handling other people’s food. She also promised not in mingle with people outside her home.

JEWISH CONTROVERSY. NEW YORK. Dec 20

Kahhi Stephen Wise, .New York's Jewish leader, shock Judaism to its foundations ibis week, when ho declared I hat Jesus was a great moral and ethical leader. So sharp wa- the criticism of Wise, from all corners of America, that he n lie rod to resign the chairmanship of the I nited Palestine Relief Euml. Wealthy Jewish friends railed to hi-, siihg bill that failed to stem tin* i i'li- ol discussion, and Jew-

bli communities in many cities are sharply- divided as to what stand they should take. Rabbi Gump of Providence agrees with "Wise that Christ was not a myth, hut an ethical light u hub Judaism gave to the world.