AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1929, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS.

WRESTLING. NEW WORLD’S CHAMPION. (United Press Association -By Electric Telegraph-- Copyright). NEW YORK, Jan. 4. At Boston, Gus Sonnenherg. a Dartmouth University football star, won the heavyweight wrestling championship of the wmlc! on Friday night, when Stranger Lewis was disqualified after refusing to return to the ring after being hutted out seven times. Sonnonborg took the first fall with the famous .lying tackle. AHI RECORD. YANCUuEii, January 7. Date on Saturday niglil Question .Mark passed the 11.1 ill hour, passing the Line of Graf Zeppelins cruise from Germany to America, and op Sunday morning il is expected she wil class of airship of I IS hours, class of airship of 188 hours. CONTEST IN SOUTH AMERICA. LEUNGS AYRES. Jen. (5. Yiclorio Cam polo knocked out George Cooke in the ninth round on Saturdai evening. AIR FLYING RECORD. (Received this day at !). a.m.) LOS ANGELES, January 7. Question Mark with iPi hours on Saturday night was passed as official as the longest aircraft flight. That o Graf Zeppelin was 111.1 and unoifieia! 118 hours hours of the French dirigibh Dixmude is the only endurance main lelt. A GREAT PEACE MOVE. WASHINGTON, January 7. At the closing of the plenary session of the pan-American Arbitration Conference, every American nation, exrep' Argentine, which was not represented formally signed two virtually similai agreements for compulsory con: illation and arbitration of disputes arising iinong themselves. Air Kellogg others pronounced it one of the great cst steps ever taken toward permanent apace. Thirteen nations signed wit + reservation protecting the principals or national detente- domestic sovereignty. KELLOGG TREATY. WASHINGTON. January 7. The debate on the Kellogg Treaty continues in tho Senate to-day. Ratification is expected early in the coining week. On all sides “ rcsolutionists ” are seeking to have interpretation o' the resolution made part ot the ratification, lmt gained little headway. Senators McLean and Swanson carried on the principle debates, McLean jibbing at the treaty and demanded an attachment ol Moses resolution while Swanson states hi* would vote 'lor it though it is a. “ gesture. 1 because it is a gesture for peace, not hostility.”