AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1926, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]

MOTOR WORKS IN CANADA. OTTAWA, April 16. Following the now reductions ii motor import duties announced l»y tin Canadian Government, reports stati the motor factories in general continm their operations in Canada temporarily but an alteration is indicated. Maui of the companies will find it imperative to begin transferring important parti of their operations from Canada to tin United States, and to increase theii imports, both of motor ears and mater ials from the United States, accordinp to a statement by Air T. A. Russell the President of the Automobiles Industries Association, following a meeting to-day, at which the automobile manufacturers discussed the reduction.* of the duties on motor cars in the Federal budget oil Thursday. NEW YORK, April 17. The stock of the Ford -Motor Company. of Canada suffered severe declines on the kerb market here yesterday and to-day, dropping 160 points in two days. The sellers acted under the belief that tihe reduction in the Canadian tariff would largely wipe out the advantage of iho American companies operating in Canada. OTTAWA, April 17. The Canadian automobile plant of Messrs Dodge Bros., at Toronto, announces that it will close on Saturday as the result of the reduction of the Canadian tariff on automobiles. Six hundred men are affected. It is announced that the General Motors Co-operative, which closed yesterday, will resume operations on Alonday. The suspension was necessary in order to make price rendjustmentjs. NEW YORK TUG MEN NEW YORK, April 16. The strike of three thousand tug boat workers, operating four hundred tugs, in New York Harbour, has been settled, in favour of tho workers. i\ lc will be allowed increases in pay varying from ten to twenty-five dollars a month, and a ten-hours day. as well as overtime. Tho agreements run one year. CAX AI HA N CA BIN KT. OTTAWA, April 17. Air H. S. Behind has resigned the Federal Portfolio as Alinister of Health and Soldiers’ Civil Re-estab-lishment. Air J. C‘. Elliott (.Minister of Gabour) has been sworn in as Minister of these two departments. Air Belaiid’s resignation is for the purpose of reducing the size of the Cabinet. U.S'.A. C-RfAl INAL IT Y. NEW YORK, April 17. Judge Cavanagh, of the Chicago Superior Court, addressing an Assemblage of manufacturers, said that tho lawlessness in the United States to-day was unparalleled in the history of eiviliation. There were, lie declared, no lower than one hundred and eighteen thousand men and women murderers at large in the United States who had never been brought to justice. During 1925, there were more than ten thousand criminal homicides, compared with only one hundred in England.

“Evil minded men in the United States,” he said, “have no respect mr tho law, because it has been their experience that they need have no fear -of its penalties. Tin* criminal knows that the chances arc three to one “that he will never be arrested; if ho kills, twelve to one that he will never lie convicted ; and more than one hundred to one that lie will not pay the full penalty for his crime." Judge Cnvanngh recommends the reform of the Judicial procedure, and the abolition of the tenderness for technicalities, which has encouraged and protected criminals. EARTHQUAKES AND ERUPTIONS. ’GREAT FORESTS AND HIGHWAY DESTROYED. (Received this day at 8 a.m.i VANCOUVER, April 17. A telegram from Hilo, Hawaii:!, states that tcrriflic explosions eon Under on Friday night to mark the sinister advance of Manna Loa, a volcano which has been in eruption for several days. The Catholic-Church, with the residence, was buried under twenty teet of lava in its progress to the sea which it is expected to reach within thirty hours. Following a severe earthquake shock another outbreak has appeared near the summit on Friday* night tor the fiist time, crimson lava fountains geysoring high into tho air, being visible on the opposite side of the Island marking the flow of the lava as it separated fanlike towards the edge ol the Pacific. Great forests and a. large section of the highway have been obliterated. HONOLULU, April 17. The Hilo eruption grew more spectacular to-day as fiery boulders came ns large as houses and started to roll down the mountain side. The lava flow from Maunaloa, which burst into eruption .a week ago has caused further damage to the forests. It is unknown whether the lava actually reached +he sea.

DRY LAW ENQUIRY. t (sUx>«ived this day at 8 a.m.l I, WASHINGTON, April 17. n W. Raney, a former Attorney-Gen- v oral of Ontario, fold the Senate, Comjnitteo that legislation for light beer (' in Ontario had been a failure. Ihe 1 Wets were dissatisfied because insufti- a cients Drys apposed, which was due to j the weakening of the enforcement experiment. Other Canadian provinces with Government distribution, of hard liquor, likewise had fallen into disrepute. He charged Quebec with fostering the drinking habits of the people rather than discouraging them. the recent police investigation of Montieal hud repealed sensational conditions or drinking, prostitution, protection of crime and wrong doing but it bad resulted in little change. Convictions for the violations of the Narcotic Act during 1921 numbered 981 in British Columbia and 220 in Quebec. Both were Government controlled, whereas there were only one hundred in Ontario where there was prohibition. 1 Air Ralley said in Manitoba the jail population had increased when the regulations succeeded prohibition. U Professor Irving Fisher, a Yale mversitv economist, said that prohibition created a defiant attitude among the college students, but it had saved tU United States six hundred million dollars merely through increased industrial energy, so therefore it should be retained. JP* CORRUPTION IN US. A. PEOPLE’S MILK SUPPLY. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) NEW YORK. April IS. One of the worst scandals in the history of the pure food laws of this c will he disclosed in another month s investigation by the Health Department revealing that three hundred thousand gallons of adulterated milk has been sold daily for years. The investigation also shows that nearby municipalities are affected in a similar manner, Jersey City » ««PPj> be ;„g 21 per cent adulterated, and in ’ - many cases to such an extent as to he P 'Corruption existed in the Health Department of New York and it is heng disclosed that the Department’s injectors are not trusted, and that urnformed police are being used to test tll The Department’s efforts to stop shipments of so-called bootleg milk into city were frustrated when the railway employees were bribed by invested parties to hide the impure supplies. The creamjvasjiduUernted

heavily, all with oils. A clique ol blackmailers existed, levying tribute upon the dishonest dealers under threat to reveal the conditions.

Four men are now being held by tho police and grand jury indictments nro expected. One of the blackmailers confessed that he collected one hundred thousand dollars yearly.

The Department’s officials claim that powerful forces arc working against them, incriminating evidence being stolen from the record room.