AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1928, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

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U.S. A. PRESIDENCY. WASHINGTON, -May 5

Rep resell tilt vies ol various negro organisations have started a movement to enter ai. independent combination white and negro “ticket” or President and Vice-President at the a proaching elections. They have held a mass meeting at which they endorsed “General” Jacob Coxey, iit- olie time a leader of the army of unmployed, ior President, and Doctor Simoii Drew, a negro minister, for Vice-President.

They also have passed a call for a national convention here on the lourth of June.

IfEELI NAS SECT A RI A X ISM. WASHINGTON, .May 4

Senator Heflin, renewing his characteristic attack oil Governor AI Smith, said: “He is not nominated yet. People are determined they are not going to have Tammany. It is not religion with me, hut L object to being told by the .Pope that I must practice his religion. If Smith is nominated I will take a boat for Europe.” U.S. FINANCE. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m). WASHINGTON, Ala.v 5..’ Efforts 01. the part of the Treasury Department to recover about thirty million dollars additional taxation from former stockholders in the lord Alotor Coy. has ended in a defeat for the Governmeiil, The Board of lax Appeals ruled that stockholders had paid all they owed and should in lace receive a remind of the amount which was unofficially estimated at a million. The chief- interest centres around Senator Cozens, from whom the Government claimed toil million, and who will now receive a 500,000 refund. A romantic aspect of tlie case lies in the fact that Cozens in 1905 bought -!4 fpr dollars worth of Ford stock tor 2100, and later sold the same for twentynine million.