AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 November 1928, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS.

BIG TAXATION ACTION DROPPED.

vUnited Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

WASHINGTON, November 2">

The Government’s attempt to levy an additional income tax assessment nl OO.IHKJ.Ono dollars against the original Cord motor stockholders lias been definitely abandoned.

HUGE ESTATE

AMERICAN El N A.NCI ER’S DEATH

NEW YORK, November L’.’i

Mr Thomas Eortune Ryan, aged seventy-seven, a financier, died, leaving an estate estimated at more than COO, (l( K), (100.

THREE KILLED IN AIR .SMASH

(Received this day at 10 a.m.)

VANCOUVER, November -I!

A report from Boston states having bought a plane two weeks ago, William Lang, aged twenty-four, convinced lie had mastered flying, offered two friends a pleasure flight. The plane fell a thousand foot and all were killed.

FLIGHT RECORD ATTEMPT. VANCOUVER, November L’O

At Fresno, California, in an effort to break the world’s sustained flight record, Pilots Lee Sehoenshair and John Bugliclmett i, made a perfect takc-ofl to-day, in a single l motored plane, with a total load of TOoOlbs. f J hey have Old gallons of gasoline, and forty gallons of oil, and believe they have suflieienf

A YOUNG PILOT. ONTARIO, Nov, -JO

.luck Armstrong, aged hmrleen. the voiiiigcst pilot in ( anada, bus completed u trip to Toronto with two passengers. Ife lias more than a hundred living hours to bis credit.

a'merican inelucnoi

NEW YORK. Nov. 20

The New York “Sun” in a leader, commenting on the American influence in Australia aml New Zealand, says: “It is partly a matter ol geographv New Zealand and Australia being much nearer to America than England. American inventiveness and practical application ot its results are other factors. An Australian or New Zealand farmer cannot but be aware of America when an American alarm clock awakens him and an American sewing machine sows at his wile’s requirement. Mutual inteiest iu Pacific problems, and similar democratic ideals further tend to bring Australians and New Zealanders and Americans together. Britain naturally desires to keep Australia and New Zoaland purely British and , intelligently endeavours to •accomplish this, but it is a question whether a deliberate policy, no matter bow assiduously it is applied, can do much to offset the natural forces.”