AMERICAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1928, Page 3

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) (Australian A N.Z. Cable Association. ORIENTALS IN CANADA. VANCOUVER, March 13. The movement to exclude Oriental ] from Canada has assumed an aeiiti | si age. The Premier promised t.» tabh all correspondence in the House on Hu question. i J. S. AVoodsworUi (Labour niembei for Winnipeg) called attention to tin anti-Oriental propaganda which win received through the .mails by member* of Parliament. Yesterday in British Columbia Legislature. a resolution was filed calling for a readjustment of the Japanese Treaty, repatriation of Chinese and Japanese residents, and new restrictions to prevent the entry of other Orientals Into Canada. The resolution was a result of both parties collaborating. There* are 411,500 Orientals in British Columbia at the present, time and there is a strong demand for a “White Canada.” TiR Al ELI-ON EX FLA INF. (Received this rlav at 11.0 a.m.) WASHINGTON. Alarch 13. Afr Al o I lon was called before the Senate Teapot Dome Committee. He stated AYill Hays posted the Sinclair bonds to him. He was busy and did not open the package immediately, blit told flays be would return them when be discovered the contents, and did so. He stated bis suspicions were not aroused by tin* transaction. Butler stated Hays met him ill New I A'ork and offered -him the package, ! which he said contained twenty-five thousand dollars in bonds, but lie refused to accept. lie denied a long series of questions as to whether he had knowledge of the Sinclair bonds. Will Hays, called, stated Alellon's testimony was correct, but said : " I have a very indistinct recollection of inv conversation with Butler.” Histated lie said nothing about Irom whom the bonds came and when asked why ho did not toll Butler he answered it was beenu.se he considered the matter irrelevant. CANADIAN ALP. INJURED. OTTAWA. Alarch 13. General A. D. Afellne (Conservative member for Vancouver North) was injured in a fall on his way home from Parliament. He was removed to the Hospital for X-ray. It is feared lie lias, fractured his skull. OTTAAYA. Alarch 13. An examination of .Mcßae showed a. serious fracture of the skull. Mis condition is not serious. STOCK EXCHANGE RECORDS. NEW YORK. Alarch 13. Trading on the Stock Exchange set :i new record when the sales passed the four million mark. Prices were irregular and the Radio C'oroporai ion >f America continued to he the sennational leader, opening at. 160 and ifter leading the sales to the record •on of yesterday later sagged to 1-10. tut recovered greatly lieforo the close. I'll is is the second successive day tbnt ill previous Stock Exchange records lave heeii broken, yesterday’s sales io tailing 3,750,000 slut res. Tfc is estilinted that bins two 'days upward novement added nearly 2.000,000.000 Inllars value to the issues traded in.