GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1932, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

NON-UNION MINERS BESEIGED /United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) • DUGMER (Indiana), Ju-lfy 24. : An eleventh hour . flare-up of defiance by the 1000 union pickets who have kept twenty-seven non-union miners beseiged in a mine shaft for forty hours, threatened to shatter the truce 1 . arranged by Governor Harry Leslie. Instead of disbanding as they had P'i-pmi.sejd, the 'pickets lyteteated several miles from the Hoosier Mine and reformed ready to converge upon it again at a moment’s notice. .Tlte"! Adjutant-General of the Indiana National Guard considered the stuation so serious that he ordered all three Guard companies quartered in Shakamak State Park into the trouble zone.

/ |g ACQUITTAL OF BANDIT. ' m : -■M LONDON, July 25

A message from Ajaccio says that Corsica’s Robin Hood, Jean Ettori, was acquitted iat Baitia of a charge of murder committed in 1904. The verdict was highly ' popular, admirers presenting him with ,a new rifle. Ettori for many years robbed the rich and assisted the poor. He defended some inhabitants against less scrupulous, outlaws. When the campaign to clean out the baiulffcs began, Ettori, scorning flight, surrendered, being confident that he would be vindicated, owing to his popularity. vSWISS BANK FAILS. BERNE, July 25. The Banque d e Montreux, which was founded in 1868, has closed its doors, giving as the reason for its failure the decline in tourists visiting Switzerland. 3The BariqW, Vaudoise has taken over the defaulting bank’s obligations temporarily:, j U,S. AMBASSADOR’S DENIAL',' 11 ' 1 j i'iife __ *1 ’ ' ' iif; NEW YORK, July 26 The American Ambassador, Mr Andrew Mellon, who is returning to the United States by the Majestic, denied reports that he intended to re'Agn. -INDIA AND' JAPANESE DUMPING. CALCUTTA, July 26. The Government is contemplating taking steps to check the dumping of Japanese goods in India,.