AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

TRAFFIC TRAGEDY. NEW YORK, Oct. 15.

A message from Indianapolis states: Sixteen persons were killed when an inter-urban car crashed into an automobile trailer filled with men and women on their way to a dance. BIG RADIO STATIONS. NEW YORK, Oct. 14. Delegates of the Radio Conference have arrived here from TV ashington for an inspection and tour of the high-power transmitting stations of tho Radio Corporation of America at Long Island. The delegates will be given a dinner upon their return to New York, and will inspect the Nation;* Broadcasting Coys new studios, returning to Washington on October 10th.

NORWEGIAN VESSEL SUNK. NEW YORK, Oct. 15. From ton to fifteen men are missing as the result of the sinking of the Norwegian freighter “ Bseggen,” 15 minutes after she came into a collision with the liner “ Paris.” LOST AND FOUND. VANCOUVER, Oct. 15. General Frank A. Sutton, who was with the Royal Engineers when Gallipoli was stormed, and later was military adviser to Changtsolin, the Manchurian warlord, was lost for a day in tile underbrush while investigating ( railway and water power possibilities in Northern British Columbia, but after twenty-four hours wandering was found safe.

MASKED VIOLENCE IN U.S.A. (Received this day'at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 15. Likening the conditions in Crenshaw County, Alabama, to those existing under the Spanish Inquisition, a special Grand Jury, following a week’s inquiry, entered 102 indictments against men charged at Lerverne with conspiracy in masked violence. All but one of these were members of the Ku Kiux Ivlan. The jury made sweeping charges that the men were high in the councils of the Ivlan and were “ unworthy of trust.” The report stated : “ This barbaric terrorism of the rule of the mask and lash, can be attributed directly to evil leadership in the Ivlan, at war with all constituted authorities.” The report then mentioned the name of the minister of the Station, stating: “If he had been as continuously engaged in serving his congregation, as in serving the brutal floggings to defenceless men and women and attempting to regulate the morality behind the Ku Ivlux Ivlan mask, many of these crimes would not have been committed.” The charges grew out of twenty cases where men and women were taken from their homes during the night, and flogged and tarred and feathered, and often driven out of the community, because of alleged immoralities.