AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 November 1927, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

GRAFT CHARGE. WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. AVilli:int Long, a member of Burns’ detective agency, cabled yesterday, swore that H. R. Lamb, a Justice Department employee, talked at Potomac flying fields with a juror. Norman Glassnek. He failed to identify Lamb. Both Glassock and Lamb denied being at the field.

FLOOD DAMAGE BELIEF. NEW YORK, Nov. 8. With further danger from New England floods definitely past, the work of relief and rehabitation is progressing rapidly. Soldiers and Red Cross are caring for the refugees in temporary barracks. The situation generally has greatly improved, notwithstanding snow and intense cold weather, in some sections. Sufficient food and medicine supplies have reached the centres where suffering is most severe and danger of disease has been greatly lessened. It is impossible at present to compile a complete list of the dead but 85 bodies have been identified, the majority of whom were residents of Vermont. An enormous acreage of laud is undoi water rendering many homes still inaccessible to the rescuers with supplies, but the problem is now largely one of administration and re-establishment of lines of communication.