AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian ifc N.Z. Cable Association.) STORM RESULTS. ST. JOHN’S( Newfoundland) Aug. 28. Communications are still nnrestored. Tlie toll of Thursday’s storm is thirty-three dead. Five schooners were sunk with all bands and eleven others destroyed, but the crews are safe. Twenty-live fishing boats were destroyed at. Bonauista. The coastal steamers Argvle and Pliilomena are ashore, all bands being safe. Losses are feared among the Grand Banks fishing licet.

RECORD SWIM. HONOLULU, Aug. 28,

Weismuller added a third world's record to his credit when he swam 21!P vards in 2 minutes 13 3-5 seconds.

MILLION-HOLLAR BOOK. NEW YORK, Aug. 20. Charles Lindbergh's hook, entitled “We,” is meeting with a. phenomenal demand, and the aviator, who recently flew alone from America to Europe will easily make a million dollars profit out of the sales, and perhaps double that.

MURDER AT NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Aug. 28,

Two sensational robberies and a murder occurred during the week-end here. Judson Pratt, tlio son of a wealthy architect, was shot and killed wliii'e delivering a -1,700 dollars pay roll to his father’s firm.

A policeman, who usually accompanied Pratt when the latter drew large sums of money from the bank, for conveyance to the firm, was today arrested. Tbe policeman bad purchased a new automobile with cash and bad spent the evening with a companion at the Night Clubs, where lie handed out hundreds of dollars as tips. He claimed that he had come into a legacy. Mrs James Snowden, a leading society figure, after acting in an amateur musical review, given at a fashionable watering place at Southampton returned home and left one hundred thousand dollars worth of jewel's, j which she had worn during the performance upon her dressing table. This j morning the jewels had disappeared, j Therq is no clue.