AMERICAN ITEMS
U.S. POLITICS
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(Received this day at 11 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.
Airs Norman, a member of the House of Representatives has tabled a motion calling for a national referendum on prohibition, with the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, to the constitution, if the people vote it down.
CHINA’S PART
(Received this day at 11 a.m., OTTAWA. Jan. 20
“The day China goes is the way Asia goes,” is the declaration bv Mr Armitage, an Australian editor, in the course of an address at Toronto. China will be a leader in ten years, where Japan and Russia had failed.
CANADA’S ARMY
(Received this dnv at 11 a.m.) OTTAWA, Jan. 20,
Viscount Wiilingdon (Governor-Gen-era) assured the Infantry Association that he sympathises with their demand for more money for militia. Major General McNaugliton (Chief of Staff) declared that ’ the army must be maintained.
A GLIDER’S LICENSE,
(Received this dav nt 11 a.m A
NEW YORK Jan. 20.
A San Diego report states: Without previous experience of non-motor flying, Lindbergh took off in a glider and flew half a mile over the ocean. Fie attained ah altitude of obOft. and remained aloft half an hour, and on return was awarded a Ist. class glider license, being tlie 9th. in the United States.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1930, Page 5
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