AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1930, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS

i SOVIET WHEAT DEALS. (United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, Sept. 22. At Toleda (Ohio) the Secretary .of Agriculture, Mr Hyde, said to-day that the Government’s investigation of three Chicago grain houses shewed the sales were double the amount which at first were admitted by .Russians; also that it indicated that manipulations had been under way for months instead of a few days -as, at first thought. EIGHTEEN LIVES LOST. \ U.S.A. SHIPPING TRAGEDY. ■ iSAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22. A coast-guard cutter has recovered the pilot-house, steering wheel, and two battered lifeboats from the missing steam-schooner “South Coast.” They ivere found twenty miles off. the boast of Oregon. There were eighteen aboard the yessel. , CANADIAN POLITICS. ! " OTTAWA, September 22. ■ Parliament will be prorogued this afternoon, after passing the Tariff Bill .permitting Premier Bennett to proceed to the Imperial Conference. CANADIAN REPRESENTATIVES, I (Received 11.10 a.m.) . v\ . OTTAWA, September 22, . Honourable Guthrie Stevens and Du* pre will accompany Premier Bennett to the Imperial Conference as well , as representatives of wheat pool and western agriculture generally go as technical advisers.