AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1926, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[Australian & N.Z..Cable Association.] MEXICAN ALIEN LAIV. MEXICO CITY, April 20. A neu' immigration law issued on Tuesday authorises the executive to decide upon the ndmissability of aliens, which means that admission can be refused to any person . LIQUOR ENQUIRY. WASHINGTON, April 20. Bishop McDowell of the Methodist Episcopal Church testified before the Senate Committee. He said the proposition to amend the existing law was made on * behalf of bootleggers, booze dealers and boozo consumers who had steadily broken the law established byduo process. Doctor Wilson, a member of the Methodist Board of Temperance, declared there was a conspiracy to import aliens into United States to violate the liquor laws. He said between fifty and eighty-five per cent of the violators are aliens.

Doctor Barton of the Southern Baptist Convention, denied that prohibition was ruining the youth of the nation. Ho said: “M.v observations have convinced mo that it is not so much tho juvenile flapper as the grown np flapper who needs attention.” Tho progress of the enquiry shows tho Dry’s are concentrating against Now York, where the State legislation has now passed a bill authorising a referendum. THE ARCTIC FLIGHT. VANCOUVER, April 20. No direct news lias yet been heard ■of Wilkins and Eielsen who left on Thursday for Barrow. lie was seen the same day by Eskimo hunters near Thetis Island! They evidently encountered fog and got off the course. There is no reason yet to worry as the party was reported in good spirits and hoped to make the coast line on Thursday. RAILWAY RATES. OTTAWA, April 20. “ Should substantial reductions in the freight rates bo essential for the well being and development of any section of the Dominion, relief should take the form of a Government subsidy without tho disturbance of the reasonable tariff fabric,” said Sii Henry Thornton, President of the Canadian* Railways in the annual report tabled in the House of Commons on Tuesday. Sir Henry, while admitting that material progress bad been made in tho direction of producing and open, ating results which relieve the Government from, any further financial burdens, lie sounds a warning that operating earnings cannot be made in tho face of the continuance of reduction of railway tolls. NATURAL HISTORY. NEW YORK, April 20. The Field Museum of Natural History at Chicago has announced that an expedition will be sent to the subArctic this summer. It will be led bv Captain Donald B. MacMillan. "NAVAL ARMAMENTS. NEW YORK, April 21.

Referring to armament limitation, when discussing the international issue in an address hero on Tuesday, Mr Secretary Kellog said: “The United States Government would welcome an agreement which would complete the work begun at the Washington in tho 1921 Conference, particularly ns there is a danger of competitive construction, which formerly existed, particularly with respect to capital ships. It may he still continued in a less nggrevated form.. This is true with respect to cruisers and other types ol naval craft not dealt with by tho Washington Treaty.”