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Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1930, Page 2

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RADIO BLASPHEMY

YANKEE GAOLED AND FINED

(PORTLAND (Oregon), Nov. 17

“The Oregon Wild-cat,” as he calls himself, Robert Gordon Duncan, was sentenced to six months in prison and fined £IOO. Thin is the first- conviction ip this continent for. blaspheming over the radio. Duncan had his own broadcasting station. During the recent elections, lie discharged many, heated personal attacks. He assailed also the chainstores system in such wild language that the Government suppressed his station.

AIR SMUGGLERS. • REGULAR FLEET ; IN USE. DETROIT, Nov. IS. Two aerial smuggling syndicates, operating 30 aeroplanes, have been indieted I by the grand jury. They landed ‘liquor, narcotics, and alien persons, at various cities hundreds of miles from the international boiuylary. COLLEGE DRINKS. “OFFICIAL BOOTLEGGER.” NEW YORK, Nov. 18. It is announced that a leading college, which is unnamed, is discussing within the Faculty the establishment of a college “speak-easy” mid official bootlegger, with' the understanding that he sell only beer properly made. The plan is to save students from deadly .bootleg whisky, gin, and other poisonous concoctions. NO UPROAR. SALVATION ARMY CONFERENCE. LONDON, Nov. 18. “Absolutely untrue,” said Commissioner Maxwell, of Sydney, to the rdpresenkAtive of the “Sun,” who asked him if there was any truth in the reports that the recent Salvation Army ‘Conference had broken up amid uproar, and that General Higgins had threatened to resign during the discussion of the proposals to limit the general’s powers and to appoint trustees for the Army’s funds. Commissioner Mackenzie, of Melbourne, nodded his assent, and added that the conference had been most harmonious throughout. Commissioner Maxwell said: “Naturally, with so many assembled, there were many different minds. Otherwise, we should be a mere collection of nincompoops. Nothing in the nature of noisy scenes occurred. General Higgins proved himself a magnificent leader and chairman, and endeared himself to everyone.” r ... LONSDALE’S SECRET. TAX-DRAIN ON CHARITY. LONDON, Nor. 20. “At on© time, T used to spend £30,000 a . year on hospitals,” said Lord Lonsdale, England’s most famous sporting peer.* Now. owing to taxation, th» income from one pfivt of my estate, which used to he £120,000 a year, is only £2OOO, and I have contributed nothing'to hospitals.” Lord Lonsdale predicted that increased taxation would be disastrous to hospital charities.- “The time-will come when we shall have nothing to give them.” ■ ■- 'AFTER 27 YEARS: DIVORCE REFUSED. - •- ‘’• PARIS, Nov. 19.

, A man applied for a. divorce in 1903.' To-day the application was refused.

The ca«e passed through the hands of three generations of judges and of many lawyers,