AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1926, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[Reuter Telegrams.]

AMERICA’S DRUNKEN MOTORISTS (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. The American Automobile Association, following on a nation wide survey. announced that the drunken automobile driver is running wild in tho large cities of the L nited States, and should he treated as a dangerous criminal The Association condemned the authorities for being more adept in lining motorists for trifling technical traffic violations. Detroit had 967 convictions of intoxicated automobilists in 1925, New York 282, Boston 526. AYashington 293, and Philadelphia 184. The survey, moreover, pointed out the convictions amount to less than a third of the arrests on that charge.

NORTH POLE QUESTION. NEAY YORK, Jan. 24

The question who discovered the North Pole, was re-opened following a lecture by Amundsen before Fort AA'ortli tent audience, in which he said Cook's story of the discovery is just, as plausible as Peary’s and lie deplored the weight given to the testimony of the Eskimos, whereon. Cook was discredited. Amundsen visiteo Cook in prison and talked over old times, both having been together in Antarctic explorations in 189<. Stofansson is inclined to credit Peary’s data, pointing out his own observations in 1915 showed land, which Peary called Crocker land. Major General Alophia Greely, a noted Arctic explorer, commenting on Amundsen's statements, said neither Cook nor Peary ever reached the North Pole. Greeley conducted an Arctic Expedition early in 1881, reaching the fnrtherest north up to that time and discovering new land, north of Greenland.