AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

.Australian oc N.Z. Cable Association.) GILES ABANDONS FLIGHT. SAN I-RaNUSCU, Dec. 3. Giles announces he lias abandoned further attempts on a Pacific flight, because he is run down and ail in. He says his Detroit backer, Rosowurno, will probably find another Giles intends to take a long rest. Kingwford-S'initli returned and brought his plane to a sate landing. He immediately announced he will make a second attempt at dawn tomorrow. The fliers had been only 139 minutes aloft. Air currents over the sea and Portland Bay shook the heavily loaded plane so violently that the pilot experienced the greatest difficulty in controlling the machine, and ho was compelled to dump eight hundred gallons of petrol, 40 miles out from Golden Gate. They sent radio messages before landing, saying the tail of the plane was faltering and the windshield sheltering the cockpit was “coming unstuck.’'

CONGRESS OPENING. WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. Congress opens on Alonday w ith one of the most important legislative programmes before it. and the prospect of internal party differences, which may seriously delay necessary action on many pressing problems. The question has been raised whether Senators will elect that Varc. of Pennyslyvania and Smith .of Illinois, should take their iseats, ins against both charges have been made of expending groat Kums of money to secure election, and this may disrupt the Republican party. If these two are not allowed to take their seats the Republicans will have only an opposition of forty-seven Democrats and one former Labourite insurgent, mid-western and the western Senators Aloregueer have announced they will take extreme measures to force through their programme of radical agricultural legislation. ALijor questions on which Congressional action is demanded, are farm relief. Afississippi flood control, return of enemy alien property, unification of railway systems, disposal of Government merchant marine and the naval programme.