GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

~ • BRITAIN,AND SOVIET. \ ____ (United Prjwa Association—By Electric lele^aph—Copyright j. LONDON, 24. “I think youvwill find the officiai communique most satisfactory,” said M. Dovgalovsky after two hours’ discussion with Mr A. Henderson at the Foreign Office. The communique announced Mr Henderson submitted the list of subjects for discussion and procedure, to be adopted in any (forthcoming negotiations, was considered. He will again meet" Dovgalovsky tomorrow. EX-LABOUR LEADER. ■NOW A DIRECTOR. LONDON, Sept. 24. 0n the nomination of the Governor of the Bank of England, Mr Frank Hodges, the former miner, who formerly held the position of General Secretary to the British Miners’ Federation, has been elected one of the Directors of the Lancashire Cotton Corporation, which already is controlling fortyeight spinning and weaving companies. . U.S.A. CAPITAL. LIQUOR LAWS. WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. President Hoover, having issued a peremptory demand that the Senators who have been declaring that Washington is one of the “wettest” cities in the United States, should produce evidence, Senators Howell aiid Brookhart to-day replied to him in the Senate. They instanced certain Clubs which have served liquor under the protection of the former Prohibition Commissioner also describing a dinner attended by Senators in a prominent hotel at which liquor was served. Senator Howell asked that General Butler who several years ago cleared up vice conditions in Philadelphia should be put in charge of prohibition enforcement in the city of Washington.