AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1928, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

By Telegraph— Press Assn., Copyright. AILNE DISASTER. OTTAWA, Feb. 10. A message from Sudbury, Ontario, states that 47 men have been trapped in the Hollinger gold mine. They are all believed to be dead. s Two lioilies have been recovered. ,Smoke is halting the rescue work. The blaze was caused by spontaneous 1 combustion in an abandoned working. 1 \ MINERS ENTOMBED. 1 VANCOUVER, Fob. 11. * Seven miners Wore taken alive from gas-tilled levels of Hollinger gold mine 1 at North Bay, and there is still hope ‘ that the remaining forty men may he ' saved by the morning. 1 Two relief trains carrying gas masks 1 broke all sjiecd records front Toronto ‘ to Timmins. 402 miles. i ANOTHER DISASTER. • 1 NEW YORK, Feb. 10. ‘ At Everett. Massachusetts, at least 1 ten were killed by an explosion in : United Ten Still Refining Plant ot the I Beacon Oil Coy. i U.S. POLITICS. NT AY YORK. Fob. 11. Jolm .tdams, a lormer Chairman of i the Republican National Committee, emphatically denied the sensational 1 charges at present being circulated throughout the United States in the “whispering campaign" that lands involved in the Teapot Dome oil lease helped t.o pay the Committee's deficit in 11’21-22. Mr Adams was Committee Chairman from 1921 to 1924. LA FOB BETTE’S RESOLUTION. WASHINGTON. Feb. 11. The Senate adopted the La toilette resolution by a vote of ot) to 2t). The resolution has no binding effects hut merely expresses the new of the majority of tho Senate. An amendment commending President Ooolidge for his Observance of the two-term precedent, was struck out. 'I lie Senate also defeated an amendment expressing the opinion that unexpireTl presidential terms tilled out by \ iee-Presi-denG' should not count, as a lull term in considering the third term tradition. Four Democrats joined with twentytwo Republicans against the resolution while eighteen Republicans and one former Labour (senator joined with Ji Democrats in voting for the affirmative. The Senate’s action not only ends the hopes of drafting Air Coolidgc. but more importantly indicates that the Republicans have definitely lost control of tho Senate in tho present session, which will probably seriously hinder Mr C’oolidge’s legislation programme, and shows Hie extensive latent powoi in the hands oi La Follette and his insurgent followers. It is not likely that they can display the same strength at the Republican National Convention, hut they can prove an even more powerful irritant than La Follette s lather and hi- group proved in 192-4. The resolution now gives the Presidential campaign a definite trend towards new figures in the Republican Party. CANADIAN PROTEST. OTTAWA, Eel). Id. A resolution urging the application of a dumping duty on Australian and New Zealand butter was passed unaniinouslv at Western ( anada Dairy ( onvention at Regina. J. A. ( aulcier (President ot National Dairy Council) - reviewed the efforts of Canadian and - Australian deputations to Ottawa. 1 lie - result was that Australians ship on consignment, keep the butter tweuty- > four hours, and then sell, evading the - anti-dumping duties. He claimed that i butter prices were thus depressed on the coast. Butter selling on the prairie i at 47 i cuts brought only JI at Ysitis couver. lie was sure the Government i would cancel the treaty if enough t pressure were brought to hear on them. > Four hundred delegates voted. THE PROHIBITION ISSUE. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. 1 Senator Willis lias replied to Seuat tor Borah, declaring that he is coinr pletely for Prohibition, and the enforced inclusion of the plunk on the v Republican National plntiorm, specifically favouring the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment and A ol- " stead Act. t THE .MISSING BONDS. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. Mr Rock feller junr. testified before r tin* Senate Oil Committee regarding s the mysterious continental company deal. Rockfellcr protested against Iw*ing subpoenaed and declared that the r invitation to appear would have been ‘ sufficient. He severely criticised the stewards’ action. He said: "I have every confidence in Colonel Stewart’s s integrity, but I. am bitterly disappoinled that he did not testily, lie stated s that he knew nothing about the missing bunds, hut would do everything possible to assist the Committee in j spite of the objection raised by many administration leaders.

ARBITRATION TREATY. U.S. OFFER TO GERMANY. WASHINGTON .Feb. 11. An Arbitration Treaty similar to that recently -igned by Fiance and l?ic United Stall's will he offered to Germany soon alter.the Senate acts upon the French Pact. There is at present no Arbitration Treaty between the United States and Germany, because those countries did not sign such an agreement when Senator Elilm Root negotiated a score of arbitration pacts in IPlffi and 1909.