AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1929, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS

ECHO OE MAYOR. THOMPSON'S CAMPAIGN. [United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] CHICAGO, December 18. Sustaining a writ of certiorari superior Judge Pam held that the former School Superintendent MoAndrew dismissed on 23rd August 1928, was not guilty of insubordination and that the “American First” charges against being here illegally prosecuted before •the School Board, which ousted 11cAiulrew during Mayor Thompson’s anti-British activities.

MANY LIVES LOST. VANCOUVER, Dec. 19. The blizzard dislocated traffic in Ontario yesterday and then moved southward through Mississippi valley The death list runs from thirty to forty. A feature of the snowfall of fifteen inches is that thousands of motor cars were left stranded or abandoned on the roadsides, the drivers being utterly unable to proceed. Huge snowdrifts piled up'in the howling gale. iSpringfield (Illinois) reports six hundred" automobiles are lost in the snowdrifts some of which are ten feet high. Some small town newspapers depended only on radio for Jicir news, all wires being down. Several places in Canadian West reported the mercury below forty. BREACH OF PROMISE. £90,000 DAMAGES GRANTED. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) DETROIT, Dec. 20. Bertha Cleavengcr, forty-three, won a judgment for £90,000 sterling winch is the largest ever awarded in the United States for a breach of promise action, tin 1917 she arrived from the country and started a rooming house business. John Henry Castle, one of her boarders, worked at a fiord factory for a pound sterling daily. Then they became engaged. The girl loaned Castle two hundred sterling starting him in a real estate business, bis partner being Henry Ford’s brother. He made a fortune of a million sterling. Two years ago Castle notified her he had married someone else. The trial lasted six weeks.