AMERICAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 November 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN NEWS

Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

U.S. ELECTIONS. NEW YORK. Nov. 7. Elections take ,place an. various Spates to-morrow, the chief interest centreing in the Eastern Section, where the issues, though local, have been bitterly contested. The New York State will elect .71 Mayors' and the State Assembly. Governor Smith and Dfr Rosevelt, son of Ihe former President have enlivened the campaign by a personal quarrel, the latter charging Hie Governor with countenancing gambling in the State capital.

Tt, is believed that if a Democratic Assembly is returned, it will he indicative of how the State will vote in the Presidential contest in 1928. A sharp contest is raging in Kentucky over the Governorship. The Democratic nominee opposes horse racing and organised Labour is therefore supporting Sampson, the Republican nominee.

New Jersey elects sixty members to the Assembly and seven Senators and it is believed to he a foregone conclusion that the State Legislature which is now preponderantly Republican, will remain so.

Detroit is torn by a vituperative campaign for the City Mayoralty. Dfayor Smith, who seeks re-election, favours the nonenforcement of Prohibition, while his opponent. Lodge, has declined to announce his policy. The Klu Klux Klan and churches are taking active part in the Philadelphia Dfunieipnl contest which is between the Republican candidate for the mayoralty, Dlackey, and the Independent Citizens’ candidate, Moore. The issue is the honesty of party oriqinisations.

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NEW YORK, Nov. 7. The ‘■'Sun’s” Washington correspondent states that it was said at. the State Department to-day \Hiat the White Engineering Corporation has the full hacking of the Tnited States Government in its proposal to build the dam. Reports from Cairo that the Egyptian Government is aroused over what is termed an unfriendly act. are discredited and it is pointed out that when the facts are learned, the affair will not appear so important as the cable indicated. The Abyssinn Government representative received the approval of the State Department, before concluding the agreement with DYliite. r l he Slate Department understands that matters are being discussed in London with a view to reaching an agreement.