AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1928, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

SIX PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH. Australian Press Assn.—United Service VANCOUVER, Aug. 20. Minneapolis reports state that six wer burned to death when a high speed bus, hound for Chicago, with ten passengers, plunged into a ditch and took fire.

The big motor bar was turning a corner when it collided with a truck, and fed by fuel from the broken gasolene tank, the flames enveloped the victims. Even the chemical extinguishers operated by firemen failed against the gas fed flames. Walter Pickard, a pugilist, saved two passengers by pulling them through a. window, though he himself had a broken arm. Several victims Were knocked unconscious by the collision, because they could be seen through the flames, sitting upright in their seats, with their heads bent. It was two hours after the collision when the charred remains,, were removed. TRANS-PACIFIC MAILS. WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. The Oceanic and Oriental Navigation Company has entered a hid with the United States Post Office to carry mails from Los Angeles to Auckland for from two and-a-lialf to eight dollars per nautical mile, depending upon the speed and gross tonnage of tlie ships used, No action has lieen announced on the bid HONOLULU SPEECHES. HONOLULU, Aug. 20. At the Women’s Pan-Pacific Conference, Mrs Britomarte Janies, responding to Miss Jane Adams’ invitation to give a personal testimonial to the value of the Women’s Conference, said at a luncheon to-day that the Women's International League was for peace and freedom. The fact that so many people confused Australia and New Zealand, she said, served io bring home to the delegates the closeness of those countries.

Mrs Risclibeith compared Honolulu and Geneva as places, of which there were few in the world, where a true international understanding was reached. Miss Eleanor Moore told of an Australian proposal to make the next Armistice Day a world-wide Peace Conference occasion. STEAMER ARRIVES BATTERED. VANCOUVER, August 21. ' A message from Panama states the steamer IV. S. MeKenney, which was thought lost in a storm off California, lias arrived there badly battered. She is reported tlie loss of fourteen men, who were washed overboard. SWIMM ING MAR ATHONS. VANCOUVER, August 21. A message from Toronto states tiie ■Antipodes will be represented among over four hundred world aspiring champions in tlie third Wrigley swimming marathon on Lake Ontario on September sth. Fifty nationalists of one hundred trades and professions are represented among the entrants for the event. Sixt.v-six women have entered for a ten-mile swim on August 29th, the first five earning the right to compete in a 15 miles marathon at Newport.