AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 March 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] SERIOUS EPIDEMIC. SAN FRANCISCO, March 21. A serious epidemic of influenza and mumps have, developed on hoard the army transport- ‘'.‘Chateau Thierry,” which, is carrying nine hundred men, who are destined for China. Five men are already dead, and there are <3O seriously ill. The vessel is making full speed for San Francisco. Army ambulances are waiting to transfer the sick to the local hospital. The transport, besides the troopers, also carries 125 officers and the wives of thirteen members of the Congress, who are eiiroute l.i China to investigate the position. The seriousness of the epidemic i> strossed hv the War Department, particularly since the vessel Juts been travelling from New York since the Bth. of March, and the greatest, amount of sickness occurred while the vessel was in the central American waters, making a stop at any port impossible, due to a lack of adequate hospital facilities. , A NEW YORK ORGY. WASHINGTON, .March 21.

One of the most interesting eases in American jurisprudence has just*ended when the Supreme Court decided that Fail CaiToli, the noted American theatrical producer, must sene a year and a day in Atlanta Penitentiary, as a result of perjury arising out of a Prohibition Law action. Cyrroi'l was charged with giving a birthday party a year ago, at a New York theatre, at which a nude chorus girl bathed in a bath-tub filled with champagne before

some invited guests. The Prohibition officials prosecuted Carroll, but they wt re unable ro prove that the bath-tub contained liquor. Carroll denied that the girl was in the bath-tub, but this was proved. Can-oil spent many thousand dollars in carrying the ease to the highest Court in the land. His only hope now is that President Coolidge may grant him a pardon. AUSTRALIAN MISSION IN U.S.A. NEW YORK, March 21. The .Australian Industrial Mission, after travelling overnight, arrived at Grand Rapids. The Mission protested strongly against the speed of its travelling. Already the Mission lias decided that it is impossible for it- to hold regular meetings owing to the desire to make individual inquiries. The members have decided to keep separate notes, and to endeavour to co-ordinate their views when there are meetings held later to consider their report. Mr Valentine has complained that they have been unable to talk to the. employees of factories. He adds that when he stopped to talk to a- worker he was stolen away somehow. He says that the interview which the Alission had with one employees’ representative on a Group Council with employers. was stage-managed.

If the Mission’s inquiries went deeper. he says, it might he shown that the Americans are no bettor off than the Australians are under their compulsory svstem of arbitration.

The experience .of other members of the Mission, including the employees’ delegates, was the opposite of Mr Valentine’s. many obtaining the names of workers whom they interviewed.