AMERICAN CABLE HEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1926, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE HEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]

SMUGGLER GAOLED. VANCOUVER, Sept. 1G

}■ A San Diego message states I’laeide t Joseph Duerest, wanted in San Francisco for theft of 195,000 dollars ol Australian bullion from tho steamer Sonoma in 1921, was found guilty at the Federal Court here on a charge of smuggling aliens into United States, and was sentenced to 1} years in the penintentiary. San Diego police have received letters and finger prints from San Francisco poliqe and say they have positively identified Duerest as the fugitive quartermaster of the Sonoma, who is sought for the bullion theft.

AIR JAMMED.

NEW YORK, September 14

Radio experts, especially throughout tho Eastern United States, fear the worst kind of jumbled conditions when tho air is crowded with a multiplicity of nev," stations. This autumn and winter several of the largest air advertisers have already presented their farewell performances because what is called “ clean copy ” is now impossible to obtain since the ether is jammed with heat tones and squeals. Sixty-five new stations were licensed within the four months, bringing the. total number of broadcasters to 303. These are jamming each other on the air in unprecedented fashion. Tho newspapers are tiring of playing nurse to an infant industry which they feel has outgrown its swaddling clothes and they are cutting out free publicity. They are also reducing their space devoted to radio.

CORNER IN GOLD. NEW YORK, September 15. Mr .Tames 51. Cox, a former Gover•nor of Ohio arid Democratic candidate for tho Presidency in. 1920, who has just returned from, abroad, attacks tho United States’ foreign policy, - He says; “Children yet unborn will I)o old men before we have exacted our last pound of flesh. Our orogeny will reap the harvest of our blunders, AVc can corner the gold of tho earth, hut it will plague ns in time.”