AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1930, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS

BORAH AND THE SOVIET

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(Received this day at 8 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. Senator Borah is attempting to intercede with the Soviet on bcliali of fourteen Jewish. Rabbis recently arrested. He is working intimately with the State .Department;-which'is taking no action, ,'ihe-Senator- admitted lie has

sent .a cablegram to the Soviet autliori- . ..ties at,Moscow asking details of the ,’i .. . reported .jjrvest; but declined to discuss too.ease pending a reply. “Several days ago 1 was asked by ~ , many. Americans to interest myself in the situation and;], do so. I am still working in the matter.” . MISTAKEN ALCOHOL. -•' I MOTOR SPIRITS DRUNK. OAKLAND (Nebraska) Feb. 23. A group of young men, attending a carnival here,, drank poisonous antifreeze, an alcoholic mixture used for automobile radiators, .believing it was wine. Five died and six others are seriously ill. , 3 hey had found the mixture in a jug in,;a friend’s.cellar. RUM-RUNNER, CAPTURED. NEW LONDON (Connecticut) Feb. 23. The Coastguard made an important rum-runner capture when they seized to-day the British sloop “Isabel” as she was transferring 24,000 bottles of liquor to the American contact boat “Mohawk.” Both vessels and crews were captured. The liquor haul was valued at 150,000 dollars. The contraband had been shipped from. St. Pierre, Miquelon, a French possession. RECEPTION FOR. WILKINS. MONTEVIDEO, Feb. 22. Wilkins arrived here bv hydro-aero-plane with Chessman. They left the . . steamer Henrik Ibsen when, about 125 . miles from port and flew here in 4 little more than an hour. A reception was given for the explorer by the staffs o-f the . American and the British Embassies • and Uruguayan authorities. The steamer is expected later in the day with other members of the expedition.