AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 August 1928, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Australian Press Assn.—United Service HOOVER DENOUNCED. NEW YORK, August 19. Doctor Nicholas Murray Butler, the President of Columbia University, and a lifelong Republican, who is considered in many quarters as Presidential material for that party, lias addressed a letter to tlie editor of the “ New York Times ” in which lie expresses his complete disapproval of the stand taken by Air Hoover regarding prohibition, and also as the attitude of the United States towards its naval programme in connection with the projects for world peace. Dr Butler denounces as wholly fallacious Air Hoover’s statement that a strong navy would be a factor for. the preservation of peace. “ What sort of mind and nature is it which can, at this stage of the world’s history, deliberately find a basis for respect in force, rather than in justice?” Dr Butler asks. Of prohibition. Dr Butler says: “The Eighteenth Amendment is an alien—an unnaturalised invader of the American constitution, which must be deported by the people.” Dr Butler’s letters are believed likely to become notable in the campaign, this being due to his promience in the Republican circles. HUGE LIQUOR PLANT. IN HEART OF U.S.A. VANCOUVER, August 19. At Memphis, the police have discovered bootlegging headquarters on a greater scale than anything heretofore known in America. A liquor plant capable of an output of ten thousand gallons weekly was located on a fortified island lying in the Alississippi River, sixty miles from Alemphis. Virtually all of its five hundred negro inhabitants are held in a state of slavery, and are unable to leave. The only visitors are armed rum-run-ners, who handle liquor business on a tremendous scale.