AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1928, Page 1

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

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BID FOR. SUPPORT,

NEW YORK, July 12.

With the selection of Itaskob as Chairman of the Democratic Committee, Smith is seen to take the policies of the party definitely into his own bar os.

Raskob was chosen in the face of much opposition, since he is a Catholic and the most militant individual in the Association against proliibiton. Moreover, the appointment .seems to he a frank bid for the support of organised business. In keeping with this policy, Herman Lehman, a prominent Wall Street hanker, has been selected as Chairman of the Democratic l 1 inance Committee.

Rasltob is expected to appoint Owen Young, who is Chairman of the Board of the General Electric Company, c-.s a member of the National Committee’s Advisory Board,

DIRECTOR OF SMITH’S CAMPAIGN NEW YORK, July 1.2. Jack Racksob,' chairman of the Finance Committee of the General Motors Corporation, was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee and will direct Smith’s campaign. another candidate. NEW YORK, July 12. The Third Party (the Farmer-Labour-Prohibition Party) lias, according to a message from Chicago, nominated Senator George Norris, of Nebraska, as a Presidential candidate. fake 'aoccidents. NEW YORK, July 12. Thirteen lawyers, and five physicians have been named members of a ring that employs men and women to fake falls over manhole covers and sidewalk obstructions, in' an elaborate scheme which costs insurance companies six hundred thousand sterling annually. Tlie scheme was for one man called “a Hopper” -to find a defect in a sidewalk, trip over it, then fill a false claim for injury, and the physicians associated with the ring'would furnish a false medical certificate.

WASHINGTON, July 12. Senator Norris fo-day declined the third party nomination.