U.S.A. HAPPENINGS

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 January 1926, Page 5

U.S.A. HAPPENINGS

KILLED BY MOTOR CARS.

(Reuter.) WASHINGTON, January 22. Deaths through automobile accidents in the seventy-nine largest cities in 1925 number 6370, an increase of 282 over 1924. New York leads with 1001, Chicago is next with 598. COAL STRIKE. A telegram from Wilkesberre (Pennsylvania) says that a new plan for the settlement of the anthracite coal strike was placed before miners and operators, and has been accepted by the latter. The miners will reply to the proposal on Friday. LATER. A message from Scranton, Pennsylvania, states that the united mine workers of America to-day accepted the new plan advanced for a settlement of the anthracite collieries strike. A FATAL DUEL. Two special officers employed as watchmen at San Francisco decided to settle an argument with guns. They stood almost toe to toe in a downtown street, whipped out the guns, exchanging shots, with the result that Special Policeman Grant was instantly killed. The other officer was seriously wounded. TRIP TO PALESTINE. hundred and nineteen passengers sailed on Thursday for the Holy Land, bn an inter-denominational pilgrimage. Many mortgaged their possessions to pay the fare. The trip will take fifty days. Bottles were carried to bring back water from the river Jordan. PROHIBITION’S OPPONENTS/ General Andrews, in charge of the Federal Prohibition enforcement, addressing a number of prominent citizens.,, cited numerous demoralisations which had followed the enforcement of the Act. “Prohibition,” he said, “has wiped out the source of liquor supply, but not the demand, so there has sprung up a new source of supply called the bootlegger. The latter is represented in the Courts by the best legal talent. He is rich beyond the dreams of avarice, because of the price you pay him. He bribes and corrupts Government agents. I don’t mean just policemen, I mean all the way up and down. You are financing a very real menace to society in not obeying the law personally.” General Andrews advocated the determination of the true state of affairs by scientific statistical and Congressional investigation. Mr R. Fulton, a coming financier, who presided, pleaded for obedience to the law until it is repealed, saying, “This indifference to enforcement is gravely perilous. The subterranean practice, hidden disobedience and questionable expedients, employed to avoid exposure, are a menace to the virility of American life.” Meantime, Dr Jackson, State-Com-missioner in New Jersey, addressing the New Jersey School officials at Atlantic City, stated that pupils _ of schools and colleges in the United States ' were drinking proportionately as much liquor as the adults. For this state of affairs he blamed the latter’s example. A BIG CLAIM.

A suit against John Weekes, former Secretary for War, for 1,102,000 dollars, alleged to be involved in- a claim settled Sn 1921, in connection with the purchase by the United States of Australian shijls, wAs filed to-day by Charles' Brewer, a former employee of the Department of Justice.