AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1926, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

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STRIKE SETTLEMENT,

NEW YORK, Jan. 22,

A message from Scranton, Pennsylvania, states the United Mine Workers of America to-da.v accepted a new plan advanced for a settlement of anthracite collieries strike.

AMERICAN BOOTLEGGING

NEW YORK, Jan. 22

General Andrews, in charge of the Federal. Prohibition Enforcement, addresed a number of prominent citizens and cited numerous demoralisations which had followed the enforcement of the Act which lie doubted had beneficial results. “Prohibition,” lie said “has "wiped out the source of liquor supply, but not the demand, so there has sprung up a new source of supply called the bootlegger. The latter is represented in the Courts by the best legal talent. He is rich beyond the dreams of averice, because of the piriee ■you pay him. He bribes and corrupts Government agents. ] don’t mean just policemen. I mean all the way up and down. You are financing a very real menace to society, in not obeying the law personally.” Andrews advocated a determination of the true state of affairs by scientific statistical congressional investigation. R. Fulton, a coming financier, who presided, pleaded for obedience to the law until it was repealed, saying: “This indifference to enforcement is gravely perilous. The subterranean practice, hidden disobedience and questionable expedients employed to avoid exposure are a menace to the virility of American life." Meantime, Dr Jackson, State Commissioner of Exaction in New Jersey, addressing New Jersey school officials at Atlantic City stated pupils of schools and colleges in XTnited States were drinking proportionately as much liquor as adults. For this state of affairs he blamed the latter’s example.

WAR TIME CLAIM. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. A suit against John Wcckes, former Secretary for War for 1,102,000 dollars, alleged to he involved in a claim settled in 1921, in connection with a purchase by United States of Australian ships, was filed to-day by Charles Brewer, a former employee of the Department of Justice.

TRADE MONOPOLIES. WASHINGTON, .Tan. 22. President Coolidge looks with disfavour upon loans being made by American hankers to foreign Governments for the support of trade monopolies in the materials which enter into American consumption. This attitude the President made clear to-day without reference to any particular Government or monopoly.

MOTOR MANUFACTURE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23,

The production of passenger automobiles and motor trucks in 1925 in the United States created a record, the former totalling 3,817,038 compared with 3.262,76-1 in 192-1, and latter totalling 496.998, compared with 377,-34-1 in 1924. U.S.A. COAL STRIKE. NEW YORK. January 22. The latest information from Philadelphia states that an effort to end the anthracite coal strike has apparently failed. The operators arc announcing that tlie new proposals did not meet any of the requirements of the situation.

LARGE HOTEL DESTROYED. ELEVEN DEAD—I x. E MISSING. (Received-this day at 9.30 a.m.) VANCOUVER, January 24. The count early this morning shows that at least eleven are dead and five missing, while thirteen injured are ill the hospital, as tile result of a fire which destroyed the Lafayette Hotel, Allentown, Pennsylvania. The building was one hundred years old and valued n.t two hundred thousand dollars. NEW WORLD’S RECORDS. NEW YORK. January 25. Three world's records held by Johnny Weismuller, were broken at Buffalo, last evening, when Walter Alufer, of Cincinatti, clipped two-fifths, of a second off the hundred yards backstroke which he swam in 1.5. Then, without stopping, lie went one hundred metres further in 1.11), as compared with Weismuller’s 1.12 3-5. Walter Spence, of Brooklyn, swam one hundred yards, breast stroke, in 1.9 2-5, establishing a new record by a . full second. A LOST COLONY. RIO DE JANIERO. Jan. 23. The discovery of a lost Polish colony, numbering one thousand people, in the Dace River Valley, in the Ksperitu Santo State, is reported by a Polish naturalist, Stanislaus Prjyjemski. The discoverer found these Poles grouped in complete isolation. They still are talking the Polish language, but the original settlors were "ound to he dead, and their children and grandchildren had no knowledge of their relatives in their mother country. BIG HOTEL FIRE. VANCOUVER, Jan. 23. At least eight persons are dead and a score are injured, with the possibility of other Ixulies being in the ruins of the La Fayette Hotel, at Allentown, in Pennsylvania, which was burned this morning. HEAT BROADCASTING. NEW YORK, January 24. “ It is more improbable that we may be able to broadcast heat waves than to broadcast sound waves,” is the opinion of Professor S. E. Dibble, of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, who declared that research workers were now seeking “to discover instruments to control heat waves, especially a detector which would pick them up, hold and amplify then;..” The Professor said the transmission of heat by atmospheric conductivity was essential on account of the gradual exhaustion of the elements of the fuel. He believed the day was not far off when centralized plants would be used to broadcast heat to homes and office buildings.