AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 February 1926, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] JUNE DISASTERS. NEW YORK, January 29. Five were killed in a gas explosion in a coal mine in West Frankfort on Friday, hut no tire broke out, as had been reported. Safety measures, it is believed, saved more than eleven hundred miners front possible injury in the mine, which is one ol the largest and most modern in the world, 'ihe damage suffered was negligible. NEW YORK, January 29. Thirty men tire reported to have been killed through a gas explosion in a coal mine twenty-five miles from Birmingham. Alabama. Twenty men were rescued. NEW YORK, January 29. News has been received from Benton. Illinois, that a fire is raging in a coal mine at AYost Frankfort, where an explosion occurred on Friday trapping front fifteen to forty men. One is known to be killed. Three have been rescued.

A FLIGHT RECORD

XKAY YORK. Jan. 29. News has been received from Dayton. Ohio, that in a specially equipped airplane. Lieutenant John Alacßeadv on Friday reached an altitude ol 35.800 feet, thus establishing a new American record. Tie attempted to break the world’s record . but was ' forced to descend two hours after he took off by a super-charger which ceased to function. dry law crisis. WASHINGTON, January 30. T,. “Wet” leaders point to two small developments in the prohibition situations, namely a warning by the Federal Department of Justice that illegal warrants for searching dwellings where liquor is suspected no kmgor will he tolerated ; and, secondly, an immediate reduction in the number of Federal prohibition agents. They say this marks the end of the Anti-Saloon League’s domination of the Government’s activities, and consequently the beginning of an era of sanity in the drv law enforcement.

The “ Drys” were obviously depressed. and have admitted the result will markedly affect the enforcement. The illegal warrant declaration has been followed by a judge’s freeing a'dry law violator, whereto he said; “It is claimed that he was guilty and deserved a sentence, but his conviction has been accomplished by a plain violation of his constitutional right, and by a method which I cannot sanction. Approximately six hundred out of nineteen hundred Federal Agents will he dropped, because the Prohibition unit is exceeding its eleven million dollars years’ appropriation. There is no likelihood that the force can increase next year, since the Congressional appropriation therefore is slightly less.

S( ’A X DIX A YIA X AIIG RA N TS. OTTAWA. January 29

Four thousand European Lutherans will fie brought to Western Canada to settle on farms in 102(1. These emigrants wiH he drawn principally from the Rcaudanavian countries, and their headquarters will he established at Hamburg, in Germany.