AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 September 1926, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] A BTG STEAL. NEW YORK, September 7. The first trial of a former member of the United States Cabinet in the, history of the United States begmT’tftnmorrow morning in the ledeial Comt, when the ex-Attorney General, -Mr Dougherty, will appear along with Colonel Miller, who formerly was #he Alien Property Custodian, to answer an indictment charging them with defrauding the Government of their “unbiased and unprejudiced services ” through sharing with others the sum of .’’.ill thousand dollars in bonds and a. cheque for fifty thousand dollars, also " Suisse Pour Valuers de Dtctaux ” of seven million dollars in the assets of the American Dfetal Company, impounded during the war as alicn\?|rv and Dfiller both 'p!e\ded not guilty upon their arraignment last year. . , , , This trial will be attended by sensational disclosures concerning the administration of the property taken from Germans upon the United States declaration of war. CHICAGO THEATRICAL STRIKE. 400 SHOWS CLOSE. NEW YORK, September 7. At Chicago, throe thousand musicians in the theatre orchestras are on strike, and four hundred cinemas and vaudeville shows are without music. The walk-out is due to the refusal of a wage increase. CHICAGO RAILWAY DISASTER. NEW YORK, Sept. 7. Eight were killed and one hundred were"’injured at- Chicago when a local train, while -discharging' passengers, was run into by another train, and the coaches were telescoped.