AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] ■NEW YOlttt, May 18. News from New Orleans states: With the frenzied flood-waters racing towards the village of St. Martin's, fifteen hundred Arcadian peasants, whose homes are doomed, are scattering like ants to the highlands. Observers state that there are wares reaching at their crests to a height of from thirty to forty feet, which are sweeping everything aside, and it is only a matter of hours before the hamlet will ho submerged. Ah' Hoover, who continues to battle his way through the torrent, aboard a cutter, lias recounted the tbrilling rescue of a five-year old boy by guardsmen, who leaped from the cutter when the child was hurled into the maelstrom from a falling bridge. The roads to the highlands are choked with frantic humanity, many of whom have become separated from tlicir families and they tall by the wayside weary with grief and fatigue. DE PIN EDO REACHES QUEBEC. OTTAWA. -May 18De Pineilo left Montreal this morning and arrived at Quebec ill the afternoon. He was given a reception bv the local Italian colony, and civic officials. He plans to proceed next to Sliippegan Island. U.S.A. ATLANTIC FLIGHT. NEW YORK, May Iff. A series of disagreements in connection with the proposed flight in a Bellance plane (as cabled on April 14th) to Paris, lias culminated in a temporary lega ]injunction being obtained by Loyd Bertrand, who recently was appointed the pilot for the proposed flight, .restraining the Columbia Aircraft Corporation and Air Charles Levine, the Chairman of the Board, and the hacker of the flight, from attempting the Paris flight without him. Tt was first proposed that Chamberlain and Acosta should attempt the flight, but Acosta withdrew, giving his weight

as the excuse. It is understood that lie had disagreed with Levine. The latter then appointed Bertrand. There were continual disagreements over the prize money and the insurance. The airmen aired their grievances in the newspapers. Bertrand eventually offered to buy the plane outright, which was refused. Levine ultimately dismissed Bertrand, thus causing the application for the injunction. This involved situation is likely to delay the flight for a-considerable time.

GIANT AIRSHIP. WASHINGTON, May 18. An Air Commission has lieen appointed to examine the designs for two projected airships that have been authorised by Congress with six million cubic feet capacity They are expected to travel six thousand miles at an averoge of fifty knots. It; is estimated that each ship will cost- four millions. Their construction will occupy three years. SCHOOL TRAGEDY. FORTY-TWO DEATHS. NEW A’ORTv, May 18. The latest casualty list in ccnnec tin with Bath (Michigan) Schorl ex plosion gives 12 dead, most of whom are children. There were 49 ini lied, some of whom arc expected to di>. THE PERPETRATOR KILLED. NEW YORK, May 19 The searchers in the ruins o" ihc Hath Si'hoolhouse were forced to Lcsis: hv darkness. By AVednesday evening they had recovered the bodies of firiyoue victims, including thirty-five pupils. Andrew Tvehoc himself was killed. 1 r is believed he dynamited the building to revenge himself on the trustees, who had refused to reduce the mortgage which they held oil his farm. LIQUOR. AS MEDICINE. NEW YORK, May 18. The American Medical Association lias adopted a resolution to the effect that physicians should he empowered to prescribe such amounts of alcoholic liquor for their patients as each case requires. The Association lias recommended the abandonment of the existing system, whereby physicians are allowed to prescribe only it small fixed quantity.

Tlie Association also advocates the withdrawal of the alleged non-alcoholic drinks sold as "medicine which actually are intoxicating, and/are being consumed in tremendous quantities as beverages.