AMERICA

Southland Times, Issue 17788, 18 July 1916, Page 5

AMERICA

ITIIfIIXG THU Cl TV OF BROTHERLY’ LOVE. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, July 16. ! A great raid, designed to.clear tlie city j of criminals, took place at Philadelphia j to-day. Nine hundred arrests were made. The charges range from drug selling to ; highway robbery. The round-up was carefully planned and cleverly carried out. Tlie majority of the arrests were made in tlie ’’Tenderloin’’ (homes and haunts of the criminal and viciousl district. When the police stations were overflowing the other prisoners were taken to public halls. More warrants are being served. The raid is tlie sequel to numerous house and highway robberies constituting a wave of crime. OVERSTRAIN. NEW YORK, July 16. Paul Smith, manager of tlie Chalmers Motor Company, had a nervous breakdown and committed suicide by jumping from the 13th storey of a hotel. The company have just completed £1,000,000 worth of cars. AIR SERVICE. NEW YORK, July 16. The Aero Club are establishing a dally business aeroplane service between Manhattan |sland and the City of New York. INFANTILE PARALYSIS. <Reuter's Telegrams.) LONDON, July 10, The Dally Telegraph’s Washington correspondent states that Mr Rockefeller has donated 50,000 dollars to fight the infantile paralysis epidemic, which rages unabated in New' York. Four hundred deaths have already occurred this month, PANAMA CANAL. AND AMERICAN NAVY. LONDON, July IC. The Daily Telegraph’s Washington correspondent says that during the debate on the United States Navy Bill,in the Senate Senator Lodge admitted that the navigation of the Panama Canal was so unreliable that the transference of the fleet was uncertain. Therefore a Pacific fleet must be built in addition to the Atlantic fleet. DEATHS FROM HEAT WAVE. . - / ■ NEW YORK, July Hi. Received July 17, 6.5 p.m. Fourteen deaths have been caused at Detroit by the heat wave. STRIKE RIOTS. NEW YORK, July 16. Received July 17, 6.5 p.m. Longshoremen’s strike riots are reported from Seattle and Tacoma. Three people were shot seriously.