AMERICAN CABLE NEWS
'Australian A N.Z. Cable Association.) “GENTS PREFER- BLONDES.” NEW YORK, Dec. 22. Sebastian Kresgc, the (A 1 -year-old lmilti-milliij/inire five and ten cent, store magnate, got a lot of favourable frontage publicity when lie donated £IOO,OOO to assist the prohibition party to uphold the Volstead Act. The praise, however, turned to acid the next day when his wife opened a suit for divorce, naming his blonde secretary. Gladys Ardelle Fish; eo-eo-spondent, and asking the authorities to prosecute Tvrosgne criminally under the Mann Act.
This provides punishment for wealthy gentlemen who travel in sleeping cars between one State and another accompanied by ladies other than their wives. U.S. BANK 11 UPTiCIMS. NEW YORK, Dec. 29. During the fiscal year ended June 39th, -1927, there were 18,738 bankruptcies in the United States, involving liabilities amounting to 801 mil--1 inn dollars. The creditors recovered only 74,394,000 dollars. Wage earners constituted the largest group of bankrupts, numbering 18,000; merchants, tho second largest, 12,000; farmers, the third. 0,000. The total liabilities in 1927 exceed those of 1917 by five hundred million dollars.
LINDBERGH’S ELY. BELIZE (British Honduras), Dec. 30. Lindbergh arrived to-day from Gun teirinl City.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 December 1927, Page 3
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