AMERICAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1928, Page 3

AMERICAN NEWS

Australian Press Assn.—United Service TROPICAL STORM. NEW: YORK, August S. A message from Jacksonville states a terrific tropical storm is sweeping south and central Florida, causing damage..to property estimated at five million dollars, unroofing scores of houses and laying waste crops and crippling public utilities. It is believed there are no casualties. WOMAN'S VIEWS. TORONTO, August 8. Miss Isobel MacDonald has issued the following message to the women of Canada: “Women coming into publiclife do not work against men, but cooperate with them, improving publicaffairs. Ido not believe the equality of men and women cannot bo compared. Women are just as important ns men, but not equal to any more than A and B in the alphabet.” CANADIAN SPEECHES. VANCOUVER, Aug. 8. .•A .message front Antigonisli states 'that R. D. Bennett, Tory Leader, who is touring Nova Scotia-, declared that 591,000 people had left Canada in six years and only 513,000 were brought in. There was no work and people were leaving the country. Why were there no jobs? For the year ending May 31st. Canada purchased fifteen million pounds of butter and solt\ five hundred pounds, yet only two years ago Canada sold twenty-five million pounds. There wene 25,000 cases of New Zealand butter on order. Canadian farmers were being placed in unfair competition with New Zealand producers. Canadian butter was being displaced by New Zealand, and herds were being depleted. What was going to happen under these circumstances P No wonder people were leaving the country.

Speaking at Davidson, Saskatchewan, in reply to Mr Bennett, Premier King refuted the blue ruin talk, declaring the prosperity of Canada was almost unpecedented. ITALIAN FLYER INJURED. RIO DE JANTERO, Aug. 8. Major Delprete, the Rome to Brazil flier, may loose both legs as the result of a crash in which he and Captain Feirrarin were injured. A GYMNAST’S FALL. VANCOUVER, Aug. 8. At Chicago, a year ago, Constance Argyl, a graceful trapeze performer reached for a rope and grasped a handful of air. When ' picked up forty feet below surgeons found she had broken both her wrists, collarbone, jaw »»d one leg, besides which her ankles were dislocated and also had internal injuries. “I have no idea how it happened,?’ declared Constance on resuming work to-day.