AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 March 1930, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS

U.S.A. CENSORSHIP

[United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]

WASHINGTON, March 18

After a twelve-hour sacrimonious debate over the censorship provisions of the Tariff Bill, the United States Sen r ate has adopted an amendment restoring the prohibition on seditious and obscene hooks, and lodging the teem pi\ship in -the Federal D.strict Courts instead of in the Customs Service.

BRITIS H AMBASS AD O R

(Received this dav at 9.40 a.m.) NEW YORK. March 19

Sir Ronald Lindsay. British Ambassador to United States, landed today. "With respect'to Sir Esme Howard's polity of importing no more liquor, Lindsay said he-was not a teetotaller. He would prefer to examine the situation, before deciding. H,e intimated lie probably would not follow Howard’s ' course. He had bought what remained of his predecessor’s stock in 'the Embassy’s cellar.

THE PROHIBITION QUESTION,

(Received this dav at 9.40 a.m.!

WASHINGTON, March 19

The ex-Si?i?retary of the Navy, Mr Daniels, testifying in the House prohibition hearings, said there was but one alternative to national prohibition, and that was a return to the old saloon, “with its heartbreaks and products cf drunkenness and poverty.” He added that there were imperfections in prohibition, but it was preferable to the saloolt. He decried light wines and beer as a declaring most anti-prohibi-tionists “wish their drink to have kick in it.” Horace Taft (brother of ex-Prcsi-

dent Taft, and head of a noted boys school) testifying, declared his brother while at first doubtful of prohibition,- later found the results “glorious.” Witness said schools showed /bine benefit of prohibition. Under, questioning lie- added that Baron DenuimnV had “believed'’ accusations that millions were being spent by foreign liquor dealers to urge a repeal of prohibition in United States.

BRITAIN’S AMBASSADOR

NEW YORK, -March 19. Ambassador Lindsay has arrived. He said he was not certain whether to follow Sir Esme Howard’s example in not importing wines to use at the British Embassy. “It is a severe question,” and he had not made up his mind about it and would rather look about a bit before discussing it.

A STEAMER SEIZED

NEW YORK, March, 19

A report irom Seattle, Washington, states the freighter “Chief Capilano” owned by the Canadiun-American Shipping Company, Vancouver (B.C), was boarded and seized by a United States marshal from a coastguard cutter, allegedly on United States side of the Strait of Juan De Fuca waters, in connection with a twenty thousand dollar cargo claim against the owners by a Portland (Oregon) firm, arising from the sinking of the steamer Chief iVlaeQuilla, near Aleutians, in December 1928, allegedly because of unseaworthiness. The Chief Capilano was bound from Vancouver for the Orient with wheat.

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.

NEW YORK, March 19

Call money at 2 per cent., the lowest since 1925, encouraged strong speculative support on the Stock Exchange with a “hull” market resembling days before last autumn’s break. Tickers were' thirty minutes behind. Many small traders came hack and prices jumjied precipitately. United States Steel gained two points to reach 18., and. industrials and railway _ shares moved up similarly. Profit-taking ,late in the day caused only a small reaction.

TRAIN SMASH

(Received fb!«. dev nt 11 n.m A VANOUVER, March 19

A section of a sewer pipe weighing two ton was being dragged across the tracks of the North Western Railway near Chicago late at night when it rolled off tlfe skids and stuck in the mud. Despite heroic efforts to avoid a disaster two trains crashed into the obstacle, both locomotives exploding. One engineer. Carl Kutzner was killed. When the sewer pipe was found to be immovable, there was a scurrying for a red lantern, hut nothing was found soon enough to warn a trian which came speeding out of Chicago. The locomotive was thrown across the double tracks and within half a minute another train,from the opposite direction dashed into the wreckage. All the crew except Kutzen jumped to safety when they realised a smash was inevitable.