AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1928, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

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EMPIRE DAY. CANADA PARTICIPATES. OTTAWA, May 25. By direct telephone between Ottawa and London Premier King participated iu the Empire Day Celebrations m Hyde Park. Ho said Canada was proud to ho associated with the British Lslc.s and other nations of the Commonwealth in proclaiming allegiance to tlie Sovereign.

CONGRESS ACTION. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) WASHINGTON, May 26. The Senate to-day defeated tlie Navy Bill by a vote of 44 to 22. There is little likelihood of the measure coming tip again for consideration this session of Congress, for the Senate on Monday will consider the Mouse of Representative’s resolution asking for a Congressional adjournment next Tuesday. Congress will leave much business undone at the adjournment. PACIFIC CABLE. Australian Press Assn.—United Service OTTAWA, May 2(1. Questioned in Parliament on Saturday regarding the report that the Pacific cable had been sold to the Eastern Telegraph Company and that Canada had acquiesced, Premier King stated lie understood no conclusion had been reached, hut lie promised information immediately it was available.

OBITUARY. WASHINGTON, May 26,

Thomas S. Butler (Chairman of the House Naval Committee) is dead, aged seventy-two. lIEIIIH OF SIR F. DRAKE. OTTAWA. May 26. A Montreal message states:—Two castles in England, a sixty-five million dollar estate, and family jewels of untold value arc claimed by four hundred residents of the Province of New Brunswick, as being the heirs ol Sir Francis Drake, the famous Admiral and searover.

The Rev. P. J. Quigg and Rev. A. E. Stairs, have sailed to-day Tor England to establish the claims.

ARCTIC EXPEDITION. OTTAWA, May 26

Under the direction of the National Museum of Canada. Air Cornflius Osgood, aged 23 years, of Chicago, U.S.A. will explore the Arctic regions for a year and a-lialf alone. His work will be in the sphere of anthropology. He will take a phonograph to record the Eskimo songs and the Indian songs.

JAPAN'S TERMS. WASHINGTON, May 20,

Japan replied to-day to the America n anti-war treaty proposals, agreeing to participate in negotiations among the six Powers for such a pact. The reply was an acceptance of the American draft.

The Japanese pointed out that their rights of self-defence and their commitments under existing international agreements must he protected in any pact which they sign, hut they suggested that these provisions need not lie written into the treaty. U.S.A. TAXATION CUT. WASHINGTON, May 25. The :Senate has adopted a report on tax reduction presented by a joint conference of the House and Senate, and providing for a reduction in taxation of 223,-195,1,00 dollars, thus exceeding the U.S.A. Treasury’s “safety limit” of reduction of 20 million dollars. The Senate decided to kill an amendment "providing for the publicity of tax returns. This was also recommended by the conference. A bill for the reduction will he presented to Congress, and members of both the Houses feel that President Coolidge will approve of the bill, which constitutes a defeat for Mr Mellon (Secretary of the Treasury) ill his insistence on the revelation of the inheritance tax payments. U.S.A. BILL’S DEFEAT. WASHINGTON. May 26. The United States Senate has failed to pass the McNary-Haugen Fanil Relief Bill over President Coolidge’s veto (message cabled May 23). This Bill lias been passed twice by Congress, but again it fails to become law. The Senate voted for the Bill, 50; against, 31. This gave four short of the necessary two-thirds majority. Most of the politicians believe that tiiis action will throw the farm relief question directly into the Republican National Convention, with the possibility of a spectacular fight- by the “Farm Belt” States to force the Convention to repudiate the President. It also directly involves the presidential chances of Mr Hoover, who supports President Coolidge, and General Dawes and Mr Lowden. who have supported the Bill,

NEW YORK. "May 27

Andrew Payne, of Claremont, Oklahoma, a school-boy, is the winner of the 3,450 miles trans-continental footrace from Los Angeles to New York. Ho ran the distance in 573 hours, 1 minutes. 34 seconds in eightv-five laps. He receives 25,000 dollars as fust prize. A NEW EXPLOSIVE. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m). NEW YORK, -May 23.

On Friday a message from Pasadeiie stated a new explosive, of which radium is an important ingredient, was reported by Alilktary Professors of the Californian Institute, of Teelin neology to have shown itself thirty per cent more powerful than T.N.T. and fifteen per cent more effective than commercial dynamite in official tests conducted to-day. The inventor is Captain Zimer, of Los Angeles.

AVHEAT COAIBINE. OTTAWA, A fay 26

A message from AYinnipeig states that the producers of nine countries including Australia and New Zealand, have signified their intention of attending the World AVheat Pool Conference at Regina on June 6th. to consider the co-operation. “Under tho Southern Cross” is the title of an address to be given by Air Charles Judd, of the Victorian AVheat Pool.

EMPIRE DAY. NEW YORK, A fay 26

Britons from every part of the Empire joined in the celebration ol Empire Day here. Howard at a reception tendered in his honour said, “Never in the history ol the world has there been any political entity like the British Empire to-day. It is composed of a federation of free people, and however much we may have been criticised, in the- past whenever the British Empire has been it lias lieen for the progress of civilisation and happiness of the world.

THEFT CHARGE. NEW YORK. May 26.

At Albany. Airs Knapp (cabled on 22nd January) was convicted in the first degree of grand larceny of theState census funds to-day. The maximum penalty is ten years’ imprisonment. The imposition of the sentence will probably occur next week.