AMERICAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 October 1927, Page 3

AMERICAN NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.! TO CONQUER EVEREST NEW YORK, Aug. 12. To conquer Mount Everest by airplane is the plan of Capt. John Noel of the Royal Geographical Society, London. “A man can be lowered,” he says, ‘‘by a rope from a plane flying six miles high. I am willing to be the man.” He says food supplies for Everest can bo dropped there, and then the adventurer would bo lowered, and using liquid oxygen would walk down the mountain. Two of Noel’s men in the last attempt reached within GOO feet of the summit when they were lost.

AMERICAN VIEWS. NEW YORK, Oct. 13. The American Federal Labour Convention at Los Angeles endorsed the immediate independence of the Plrilippines, and also approved of the exclusion of Asiatics from Continental United States. GRIM SUICIDE. VANCOUVER (8.C.) Oct. 7. A few minutes after Henry Miller, a real estate operator, was caught in a raid upon a counterfeiting plant at Los Angeles he made a confession, and the police were then enabled to trap his confederate.

When the police captured Miller he admitted that he expected Aeolti, and the offiers caught the latter red-hand-ed. ‘‘Let mo steady my nerves with a cup of co/fee,” cried Miller, who must have slipped poison into it, because ho fell dying at the feet of his daughter within a minute of consuming the draught. Miller formerly carried on a legitimate business in a large way, but a series of reverses carried him down until ho eagerly accepted the proposal of Joe Alcoti to manufacture money.

“SET A THIEF.” CHICAGO. Oct. 7. AVhile Lester Lawrence was a prisoner at the Detective Bureau, a fellowprisoner picked his pocket, taking diamonds valued at £IOOO. A search disclosed that the thief had pushed the gems through a hole in the floor.