AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1926, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] FOREST FIRES. . NEW YORK, May 19. A telegram from St. Paul, Minnesota, says: Thousands of people are fighting forest fires, which are seriously menacing a large section of the northwestern United States. Aeroplanes, canoes, row boats, automobiles and horses are being used to spread the alarms and to rally volunteers in an endeavour to check the flames in their progress .‘across villages, logging camps, and farms, and tracts of dry timber. These fires, sweeping southward from Manitoba (in Canada) have crossed the border into the State of Minnesota, being driven by :a strong wind. The Forestry Service at Duluth, Miehegan, has reported that seventyfive fires are now burning in the northern part of the- State of Minnesota, where the schools have been dismissed, permitting the older students to assist in fire fighting. The village of Choate, in the State of Wisconsin, and three million feet of docked logs were completely burned. Mean while, strenuous efforts .arc being made to control a lire in the Alleghanny National Forest in Pennsylvania, in which two million dollars’ worth of standing timber and other property lias been already destroyed. RUSH FOR. DIVORCE. OTTAWA, May 20. Canada, lias established a record for divorces -in the past year. The divorces granted totalled five bundled and fifty-one, of which more than half were granted to husbands. A CANCER EXPERT. NEW YORK, May 20. Surgery is the only effeetve means of treating internal cancer, said .Dr F rally is Carter AVood, a cancer expert, before the National Health Congress. He added that professional optimism regarding the curative value of radium and X-ray was not warranted. The public should realise there was no cure for this disease that had yet been found.