AMERICAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 November 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) FORD SUED. ■NEW YORK, Nov. 18. A message from Detroit says that Edsell Ford has issued a statement in which he denied that his father promised the stockholders of the original Lincoln Motor Company to reimburse them for losses suffered when Ford bought the firm in 1922 for eight million dollars.

IJis statement said: ‘‘We bought the assets of the old Lincoln Coy., from the receiver appointed by the District -Court. No conditions were attached to the transaction and no obligations were imposed upon us to pay the stock holders or creditors of the old concern. The value was paid by the Receiver for the property and we voluntarily paid all the general creditors an additional amount of over four million dollars purely out of generosity.” A cable on tbe 15th inst., stated that two thousand stockholders in the old Lincoln Motor Car Company were suing Ford for six million dollars, alleging that he failed to keep a verbal promise to buy their stock when be bought the company from the Federal Court Receiver in 1922.

KANGAROOS AS FOOD. SAN FRANCISCO, Now. 19.

.America is going to eat kangaroo , MO at. A shipment is now on the way to Portland. Oregan.

“Don’t be surprised,” says a Portland paper, “if after dinner some evening, say about December 1, Pa leaps out of bis chair and over the dinner table, while little Johnny does an Tunnel man loop over the chandelier and baby skips from high chair to crib in one long hop.

“For the family may have eaten a few hundred calories of Australian jumping meat, sometimes known as bouncing steaks or kangaroo cuts of leaping loin. However, if the family has, it will he particularly favoured because there’s going to be for the time being, only a small amount in Portland.

“Believe it or not, Portland is going to eat kangaroo meat, right lrosh in cold storage from the kangaroo pastures of faraway Australia. The first shipment lias been ordered, and soon will he on its way. It probably will be the first roast, fried, boiled or broiled fence-leaping kangaroo that Portland has ever eaten. “The first is to lx? shipped from Sydney by special order, October 23, in a. steamer’s refrigerated compartments, and should be here around the end of November. A cable lrom Sydney stated the meat would lie accompanied by the skins, hut since skins are not considered polite to eat doubtless they will be used for other purpose. Whether or not Portland and the rest of tbe Pacific Coast takes to kangaroo steaks remains to be seen, but Alaskan deer, Egyptian pheasant and other oddities from the four ends of the earth are already eaten hero with relish.” GENEVA NO EFFECT ON PROGRAMME. WASHINGTON, Nov) 18. White House states that while President Coolidge expects the Navy will he increased by some cruisers, the Geneva failure will have no effect on the programme, which he .will recommend to Congress.