NEWS BY RADIO FROM NEW YORK RECEIVED IN N.Z.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17865, 5 June 1926, Page 2

NEWS BY RADIO FROM NEW YORK RECEIVED IN N.Z.

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 5. The following news items broadcast from the “hew York Times” building by the Australian Press Association were picked up by Mr Shrimpton, junr.:— WASHINGTON, June 4. Mr T. B. Kittridge, Assistant-Direc-tor of the League of Red Cross Societies, speaking before the second pan-American Red Cross Societies’ Conference, said that war and disaster over the whole world took toll of 52,000,000 lives between 1914 and < the present time. President and Mrs Coolidge gave a garden party at White House to 1000 war veterans from neighbouring hospitals. The Senate yesterday passed a Bill already approved by the House of Representatives, authorising a five-year building programme for the Naval Air Service, and providing an outlay of 85,000,000 dollars over the period of the next five years. The measure now goes to President Coolidge for his signature. NEW YORK, June 4.—The steamer Maude, the second vessel to bring a large cargo of whale oil into this port during the past month, arrived from Melchois Bay, in the South Shetland Islands, with 26.000 barrels of oil, valued at 750.000 dollars. She will be followed during the next two weeks by two other steamers, carrying cargoes of the same size. The Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden visited Thomas A. Edison, the noted inventor, at his labatories near here. Tod Morgan, of Seattle, junior lightweight champion, knocked out Steve Kid Sullivan in the sixth round of a scheduled fifteen round bout. Foreign exchanges at New York are:—London, 4.861 dollars; Paris, 3.20 i dollars: Rome, 3.531 dollar's. ST ANDREWS, Scotland, June 4.—For the fifth time the American golfers have beaten Britain’s best players and retain the Walker Team Cup, but only by a bare margin. In the single matches the Americans scored three and a half points to Britain’s four and a half, and thus won the cup by six and a half points to five and a half. The cup was returned to the American team.