AMERICAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1928, Page 2

AMERICAN NEWS

EMPIRE TRADE. Australian Press Assn.—United’Service VICTORIA, B,C, Sept. 13. Pointing out that Australia had purchased much more in Canada than Canada had purchased in Australia, Mr G. N. Mackay (Australian delegate tq the Empire Parliamentary Association) at a dinner in their honour here,' urged Canada to buy from Australia, hides and wool that the Dominion now bought in foreign countries.

GANGSTER’S OBSEQUIES. NEW YORK, Sept. 12. Obsequies for the assassinated gangster chief, Tony Losbarda, at Chicago, resulted in the largest turn-out of hoodlums and racketers that Chicago ever has seen. The gangster, King Capone, wanted for numerous crimes, arrived in a bullet-proof, expensive sdan. Alert gunners in high-powered cars parked among two thousand hoodlum mourners. Many exchanged greetings with : their left hands, keeping their right hands in their pockets ready for action. Despite there was no police protection, perhaps due to its absence, the re was no violence.

U.S.A. NEWS. BY RADIO NEW YORK, September 11 A Chicago message states that a 22 hour air mail service from Chicago to .Mexico City will begin on October Ist. Air Charles E. Hughes, recently elected a judge of the Court of International Justice at The Hague, started to-day from Genoa on his return to U.S.A.

The Chairman rnf the Democratic Party’s'National Committee said he was surprised that the Republicans did not carry Maine State by a larger majority. The Republican National Headquarters at Washington was highly plpased. over the outcome of the Maine elections. Chairman Work issued a statement saying that “as Maine .goes, so goes tho nation,” but Mr Herbert Hoover refused to comment.

An investigation at Atlanta revealed to-day that C. S. Carnes, who disappeared on August 15th, after having served for several years as Treasurer of the Baptist Home Mission Board, and during that time created a shortage of over one million dollars in the Board’s finances, had used some of the money in backing two pretty young women seeking careers as motion picture actresses. Five men were slightly injured at Norfolk, Virginia, aboard the battleship North Dakota, which is being dismantled at the Norfolk Navy Yard, when an explosion occurred ill the magazine of the vessel.

TELEVISION. NEW YORK, Sept. 11. V' message from Sehnectady states: The General Electric Company gave a demonstration to-day of a, perfectly synchronised and simultaneous broadcast' by radio and television of a dianiatic performance. The experiment took forty minutes and it was conducted between two rooms in the same building. The pictures broadcast wore small, only of nine square inches, and they were somotimes blurred and confused. However, the voices and the action were received in a natural manner. It was pointed out that it ml be a long time before tins form <>f entertainment will be rcafv for practical use but the engineers involved predict that, in the future there w.l. bo television theatres in ipa’D’ Plncos, receiving simultaneously single pci <‘ijnances occurring at one distant spo ,