AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) HEAVY" LIQUOR SEIZURE. NEW YORK. Aug. id. 'lhe biggest liquor seizure made lor a long time, was effected when the police marine patrol and the coastguards captured the three hundred loot steamer Ansonia. beside the Statue of Liberty, alter chasing her from Staton Island dock. The liquor L. valued at a million dollars, and was seized, also six motor truck-, and three automobiles. Thirty-six ot the crew and forty-three other persons on the dotl; were detained. Attention was first drawn to the Ansonia when the largs trucks arrived in I lie early hours of the morning, and a large number of men were actively engaged unloading the vessel at an hour when the dock is usually deserted. Tho patrel telephoned to the authorities, and officers quickly arrived and surrounded the dock, whereupon the crew attempted a dash for freedom in the open sea, but were soon overtaken.

ANOTHER PLANF CRASHES

NEW YORK, Aug. IT •At Los Angeles. Arthur Rogers, the St. Louis entrant for the Honolulu race, was lulled when his machine crashed in its first trial flight. FLOODS IN' Ii.S.A. NEW YORK, Aug. 13. The Red Cross announces that it is still providing fur over one hundred and thirty thousand destitute victims of the floods in Arkansas. Missi.ssippi. and Louisiana. The total number of those rendered destitute is estimated at six hundred and seven thousand, of whom the Red Cross lias been able to assist in rehabilitating ciglilv thousand. It also fed two hundred thousand of the refugees’ cattle. 'lhe waters which inundated approximately toil millions aereas, still cover one hundred and seventy thousand. Already TUB thousand acres have been replanted. ,

NOTED A Fill OR DEAD. NEW YORK. Aug. 13. James Olliver Curwood. the author, died at Osossu. .oieliigan, to-day from siueptoeotcos infection. PACIFIC FLIGHT. THE DOLE RACE. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13. Frank Clarke, with his relief pilot, Charles Babb, stole a march on the other contestants, when at 1.33 this afternoon, they hopped off for Honolulu in their biplane.

Clarke Intel not signed the voluntary agreement to postpone the flight, as had the other fliers, and without making any announcement, he had a full load of petrol put into his machine, saying, “I’m only going for a ride.” Then ho revealed his plans.