AMERICAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1928, Page 3

AMERICAN NEWS

(Australian it X.Z. Cable Association.) BYRD EXPEDITION. NEW YOU... -oarcii 11. Commander Byrd .meed the South Pole expedii. .» would cost I £00.1)90 dollars, lie would leave about September Ist. The Right personnel of the actual air dash twin Ross Ice Barrier base to the Pole would heiiyrd, Bak-lieu and Bennett, in a special three-motor. all-metal plane. Besides, three others would he used on the expedition, which would consume from eighteen months to three years. OIL SCANDAL DISCLOSURES. (Kecoivod this day at 8.50 a.m.; WASHINGTON, March 10. With apparently no end to sensational developments in the oil investigations, it is to-day disclosed that Mr Mellon admitted. Hays sent him a package in 1923 containing fifty thousand dollars of liberty bonds, part of i Sinclair’s 2(;0 thousand dollars donation to the Republican National Committee and asked him to cash them. Mellon returned them, declaring thorn to be a dummy to cover up the source of funds and make up for a shortage. He thereafter contributed fifty thousand dollars of his own money to the campaign committee. | It, is indicated the Senate Committee will call on Mr Mellon and Mr Butler, the present chairman of tho Republican National Committee and a close fliend of Mr Coolidge to testily. Mr Borah launched an attack on the Republican party to-night. He said: “Give the people the issue. \ on do not have to sell your campaign funds, the awful conditions of widen have boon revealed to voters of the party, are as indefensible as they are intolerable.” AN AVALANCHE DISASTER. BUENOS AIRF.S, March 11. A messngs from Santos, Brazil, states eighteen bodies were recovered from an' avalanche Iron. Mount Serratt. situated in the city’s centre on Saturday at dawn burying a hospital, fourteen houses and some two hnn--1 died people. Frantic digging among ' the earth and rocks for the others ! is proceeding. The shifting of earth is hindering operations.