IN AMERICA

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 23 November 1923, Page 2

IN AMERICA

I'EB PRESS ASSOCIATION—COFYBIQUT NEW YORK, November 21. At Baurmount in Texas, a boiler explosion demolished a sugar refinery. Fi teen were killed and twenty injured. NEW YORK, November 21. 'Hie Republicans are seeking Io eaten the voles ol the farmers, who are al present dissatisfied, by offering them a programme inchiding a great camo system from Chicago to New Orleans. Central and Western farmers are now liaiidicapped in delivering crops o. Europe and the Atlantic seaboard cities. Transport will be reduced to <n<, third by a waterway connecting the Mississippi with the Great Lakes. NEW YORK, Nov. 21. At Fort Worth, Texas, Dr Frederick Cook, the Arctic explorer and oil man, was found guilty of using the mails to defraud, in promoting oil companies, on all of twelve counts. He was sentenced to fourteen years and nine manths imprisonment, and fined 12,000 dollars. Thirteen others received, prison terms from one year to eight years, and large fines. Cook’s partner, A. K. Eckman, was sentenced to seven years imprisonment and a similar fine. WASHINGTON. November 21. A delegation of prominent church men, representing thirty Protestant communions with 20,(JOO,00.0 members, personally presented a petition to President Coolidge asking him to. use his influence io make Ihe United States a. member of the World CourtThe delegation also expressed satisfaction with Mr Hughes' efforts to convene a conference' to inquire into Germany’s financial condition, and urged the United States to call an Economic Conference to deal with tn-.-conditions in Europe.. President Coolidge thanked the visitors, and promised to give their request his due ecmsiderasiuri.