AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 April 1928, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian Press Association.) LARGEST SUBMAR INF. NEW YORK, April 2. Portsmouth (New Hampshire) reports that State V Four, reported to lie the largest submarine in the world, has been put in commission in the navy yard there. It tarries a crew of 7!) men. CHICAGO GANGSTERS. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, April A C hicago message states the suburb of Citero, the .stronghold of the notorious gangster " Scarfaee -VI ” Capone, elected city officials, and before noon one mail had been killed and two badly beaten. Five gunmen were arrested oil route from Chicago, allegedly to support Capone candidates, with firearms and other weapons. .Meantime both political and gangster circles are increasingly anxious over the Federal Government’s prohibition activities, which are growing daily. Ti coal intelligence agents to-day arrested a well-known gangster, allegedly involved in the nleoltol business, whom they connect with the recent bombings. It is generally feared that the United States Government has decided to take a hand in purifying Chicago.

U.S. FINANCE. WASHINGTON. April 3. Mr Mellon recommended to the Senate Finance Committee a total maxi muni tax reduction of 201,115,000 dollars which is 23.885.000 below the previous estimate. FLYING PRIZE. NEW YORK, April 3. Bn ron Dezuilen Denybelt has arrived. He is offering a prize of thirteen hundred thousand francs on behalf (it the Belgian Royal Aero Club to the first aviator to fly from New York to O.stend between 25th June and 20th July. OIL SCANDAL. WASHINGTON, April 4. Birch Helms, a Texas oil man. testified before the Senate Teapot Dome Committee that Harding and three Cabinet Officers had warning in April 1022, that there was secrecy in Fall’s lease to Sinclair. Helms declared ho protested to Harding and Hoover, the former Attorney-General, Dougherty, and the former Secretary of War. Weeks, personally and by telegram, against the secrecy surrounding the lease. CHARGE OF ARSON. OTTAWA. April 3.

At Quebec, Arthur Antonio Bedard, 21. on a charge of arson in connection ith 'tho fkoloeauat at Hospioe. St. diaries and St. Berchman’s Academy oil December 15th. and 16th. was arraigned at the session’s court and remanded without‘hail. Over fifty lives were lost in the fires.