AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 October 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

U.S.A. PROSPERITY. WASHINGTON. Oet. 20. The U.S.A. Secretary for Agriculture Air Jardino, says that agriculture is in a*better position in the l nited States to-day than at any time since the war. This is due principally to an advance in the prices of cotton, dairv products, and live stock, and also to a lack of conspicuous surpluses or shortages of crops. The production per capita of population is the most smallest hut one in the last 33 years. The South could sell its cotton crop for two hundred million dollars more than it got last year. This improvement affects almost one third of the American farms. The Western cattle and sheep prices are on the most firmly-renutiterative basis since the 1920 collapse.

U.S.A. PRESIDENCY. WASHINGTON, Oet. 20. The first aspirant for. President Coolidge’s mantle was officially announced in connection with the candidacj 01 the Republican nomination lor the Presidency in 1928, when a letter from Senator Curtis was published to-day. permitting his lrieiuls to use his li.mu • lie added, however: ” 1 will not consent to become a candidate it it ml be onlv for the purpose of being used ns a so-called stalking horse for anyone else.” . The general opinion among political observers, it is said, accords Senator Curtis little, if any. show tor the Republican nomination. It is not overlooked that he has a Party standing as Republican leader in the Senate, and other attributes which give Ins cause strength. He has the advantage of agreeable personality, and a picturesqueness, since he is partly of Indian blood, and lie is the chief of the Kaw Tribe. Senator Curtis’s secretary to-day declared that he was a partisan for President Coolidge until recently.

CLERGYMEN’S VOTE

AGAINST PROHIBITION

NEW YORK. Oct. 27. The Church Temperance Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church announced on Thursday the returns of the second poll throughout the nation, of episcopal clergymen, showed they voted two to one that prohibition was not the best solution of the liquor problem, and that the Volstead Act should he amended. I, A BOR RIOTS. NEW YORK, Oct. 27 A message front Trinidad, Colorado, states cheering members of the I.M.AA. led hv a girl aged 17. fought mine guards in Delagtta Canyon. A dozen persons were injured, but the strikers succeeded in reaching and eh .sing Relagua Aline, one of the largest properties in the locality. Governor Adams, fearing the rapid approach of a crisis, has ordered the National Guard to he ready to advance to the mines at the first sign of serious vi donee.

TRANS-PACTFIC FLIGHT. SAN FRANCISCO, Oet. 20. It is understood that Lieutenant Pond will attempt to break the world’s record for a sustained flight over land with the ‘‘Southern Cross” before lie begins the trip to Australia.