AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1926, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[Reuter Telegrams.] U.S.A. DRY LAW. SAN FRANCISCO, January 1. The United States Circuit Court on Monday upheld the conviction of eight defendants in the steamer Quadra ease cm a charge of violating the' I olstead Act, and the collateral treaties to prevent rum smuggling. The ship Quauclra is owned in British Columbia. She was seized here, and from that, the convictions have resulted. ’1 lie decision sustains the right of the Government to seize vessels suspected as rum smugglers within twelve miles of the mainland, and. in effect, declares legal and binding the treaties and agreements between Canada and the United States for the suppression of rumsmuggling. U.S.A. OIL CASES. SAN FRANCISCO. January 4.

The United States Circuit Court of Appeals has handed down a decision giving the Government a sweeping victory in the ease against Air Doherty, the oil magnate, and upholding a deci'iion of the Los Angeles District Court on May 28th last whereby the Elk Hills reserve was ordered to he returned. Simultaneously the Appellate Court has reversed the Los Angeles decision regarding Air Doheiiv and granting approximately twelve million dollars as compensation for the development of the Elk Hills Reserves, and for the construction of storage tanks at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii. SCOPES AND EVOLUTION. NEAV YORK, January 4. A telegram from Nashville states the final brief in the Scopes case lias been filed by the defence in the Tennessee Supreme Court. The brief is signed by an array of noted attorneys, and presents many and complex arguments from history, jurisprudence, religion, science, philosophy, sociology and the humanities as to why the conviction should he set aside.

The brief says these legislators have seemingly forgotten the rivers of blood that flowed through the ages of religious controversy, and they have seenv ingly forgotten that the majority of to-day will he the minority of to-mor-row, and that a slight step taken by them to promote some religious doctrine, by pie vena ting the teaching of scientific theory, may to-morrow be used against them by those who shall wish to promulgate entirely different and overwhelming faith. The prosecution also will file a brief shortly and the appeal probably will he heard late in January or early in February.

EINSTEIN THEORY LEADS TO INVENTION. NEAV YORK, January 4. A message from Portland, Oregon, states that Air Joseph Pos, scientist and engineer, has invented an electrical apparatus which appears to have relieved, at least temporarily, eases of high blood pressure where established medical methods have failed. Air Pos declared the machine was merely an adaption of a new scientific principle which he has evolved through a modification ot the Einstein theory, involving what is called a time impulse, instead ot a space impulse. He then computed the so-called frequency of the blood in the human body, after which he was able to devise an apparatus inducing correct vibrations and restoring normal blood pressure. The Physicians’ Association has investigated thirteen eases of men and women undergoing treatment. Of these it is' reported that blood pressures of between 190 and 290 were all brought to normal, and remained there at the end of four months. The Council of the American Aledical Association is now investigating the device. Air Pos has claimed that by the same principle, other diseases could be cured, and that a so-called death ray could be produced, or the wireless telephone could lie directed to one locality and b$ unheard eleswhere,