AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1926, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] MEXICAN BISHOP FOUND DEAD. NOGALES (Arizona), Aug. 3. The Mexican Press in Nogales, in the State of Arizona, in Mexico, says: Recently arrested, the Catholic Bishop of Huejutla, was found dead in • the prison cell in Vera Cruz. Further details are lacking. BIG RUBBER PROJECT. NEW YORK, Aug. 4. Following on a Conference between Mr Harvey Firestone, of the Firestone Rubber Company, and President Coolidge, it was announced that the United States has planned to encourage the development of rubber plantation in the Philippines, in order .to make America, independent of foreign rubber. Mr Firestone, who has investigated the conditions in tho islands states that the American capitalist is ready to undertake the enterprise if the Philippine land laws are amended to permit of extensive land holdings for a period of seventy-five years, and thereby within fifteen years, the United States would no longer ho dependent on the British rubber. Mr Firestone found tho Philippines particularly suitable for rubber-grow-ing, especially that of the island of Mundanao, and the adjacent islands. Rubber growing, he believed, would be most helpful economically to the islands, and would make the people there more contented with American rule.

SHOT IN MISTAKE. NEW YORK, Aug. 3

The Rev. John Moss was exhorting an open air congregation of mountaineers at Mortans Town, in Kentucky, when a rifle shot was heard. Rev. Moss dropped dead, with a bullet in his breast.

On the second shot being fired, Airs Robinson, who was sitting in the front row, toppled over dead. The meeting was hurriedly closed. Next day, Clifford Wilson, aged sixteen. was arrested. He confessed that he believed that the Rev. Moss was a disguised Prohibition detective, and that he therefore decided to shoot him.