AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 March 1926, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]

U.S.A. AND WORLD COURT. WASHINGTON, March 24. President Coolidge sees no reason why tho United States should further explain tho terms upon which it agreed to enter the World Court. Ho believes tho reservations adopted by the Senate when it approved of American Court membership, speak for themsel- | ves., and that neither tho League of Nations, nor anyone else, can fail to see the purpose and effect. Consequently he doubts whether any good purpose would ho served by sending an American representative to the meeting called by the (League Council, to discuss the scope of American ratification of tte Court.

A SHIPPING- DISASTER. RIO DE JANIERO, March 24. Eighty passengers, the captain, and the’ first and second engineers of tho Brazilian River steamer “Paes do Carvalho’’ perished when the vessel sank, following on an explosion, in the Solinioes River, one of the upper forks of the River Amazon. Seventy-eight passengers and several members'of tho crew were rescued. POLITICIAN’S PESSIMISM. WASHINGTON, March 24. Senator Bruce (Democrat’) of Alaryland in the Senate, predicted that with a few more years’ prohibition, “half the people of tho United States would ho in the penitentiary, and the other half drunk with nobody left to look > after the Commonwealth.” GIGANTIC BUILDING SCHEME. "NFAV YORK, Alarch 25. The combination of office and apartment buildings eighty stories high, linked hv elevated traffic causeways „nd landing bases for aeroplanes, is tho aim of a new corporation to solve the traffic problem. It is proposed to spend an initial SO.OOO.OOOiIoL on grand central skyscrapers linked over tho streets.