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Kingsford Smith's Epic Flight.
NEW ENGLAND AUSTRALIA RECORD ALMOST CERTAIN
London, To-day.
Aur Commodore Sir Charles Kings- ford Smith, the famous Australian airman, who left England last Wed- nesday to fly to Australia, continues to make record progress. Yesterday he reached Surabaya. Dutch East Indies from Alor Star, Malaya, hav- ing covered over 7000 miles in aix
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is using
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all- British Penyival Gull Low Winged Moth aeroplane with a range of 1.800 nules, and is at present well ahead un the schedule of the existing England-Australia flight re- cord of days, 26 bones, 47 minutes, set up last year by Mr. Charles Scott
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POLISH PRESIDENT WEDS HIS SECRETARY
67-Year-Old Statesman's Romance With Divorcee
Warsaw, To-day. The 07-year-old President of Poland, M. Ignacy Moscicki, was yesterday married to his secretary, Mlle. Maria Dobrzanska, who ob- tained a divorce earlier in the year from her husband, Captain Nagorna, by special Papal dis pensation.
The Premier. M. Alexador Prystor, attended the
ceremony,
while Cardinal Kakowsky blcared The union.Remer.
WAR DEBT TALKS IN WASHINGTON
British Case For Reduction.
CAUTIOUS U. S. ATTITUDE
Washington, To-day.
Following the war debt meeting
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JOCKEY JAPAN
STRIKES HINDER
RECOVERY DRIVE
HINDER U.S IMPORTANT
N.R.A. MAY REGULATE ALL WAGES
STATISTICS REVEAL AN UPWARD TREND IN BUSINESS
WASHINGTON, TO-DAY,
DISARMAMENT
DEVELOPMENT
Conciliatory Tone By German Delegate.
BUT FRANCE UNABLE TO MAKE CONCESSIONS
Geneva, To-day.
There was an important and un- expected development in the disar- mament position last night.
STRIKES CONTINUE TO HINDER THE UNITED STATES
Herr Nadolny (Germany) and M. RECOVERY DRIVE, THOUSANDS OF STEEL AND COAL Paul-Boncour (France) conferred STRIKERS IN THE PITTSBURGH AREA RETURNED TO for 90 minutes. The German dele WORK YESTERDAY, BUT 35,000 MINERS ARE STILL OUT gate expressed the sincere desire of his Government to reach a aolu- IN WEST PENNSYLVANIA.
Coal strikes continue in Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Ala-tion to the disarmament question. hama, while silk strikers from New Jersey and Pennsylvanla are but any Convention must be such protesting against the Silk Code wages. Ten thousand automo- that Germany could freely 'accept bile and tool and die strikers have protested to the National In- and carry out. dustry Recovery Administration, alleging that employers are de liberately violating the Recovery Act. -
The possibility of the N. I. R. A. regulating all wages soon is en- visaged by Senator Wagner, who is appealing to the American Federa. tion of Labour to arbitrate before striking.
The Consumers' Board have created local branches to pre vent profiteering and have also appealed to Mr. Harold L. Ickes, in Washington, yesterday, Mr. Dean Secretary of the Interior to postpone the steps to fix the price of Acheson, United States Under-Se-oil, because the consumers' petroleum bill has increased at a rate Sir Charles Kingsford Smith creiary of the Treasury, has reveal of U.S.$500,000,000 annually and oil wages by only U.S.$125,000,-
Reuter. expected to leave for Wyndhamed that Sir Frederick Leith-Ross 000 annually, Australia, at dawn to day British Wireless Service
KINGSFORD SMITH ON LAST HOP
-
Sourabaya, To-day, Air Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford Smith took off for Wyndham W. Australia, al 4.55 n.m. local time.--Reuter,
PLANE CRASHES IN FLAMES
Seven Dead In U.S. Air Tragedy.
PASSENGER PLANE EXPLODES
IN MID-AIR
Chesterton, Indiann, To-day.
thetr
Seven people lost lives when an air-liner ex- ploded in mid-air and crash-
in fames near a farm here. Four
passengers bound for
jurged that the present radically al-
REASSURING.
tered world economic conditions BABSON'S REPORT IS were unforeseen when the debt set- tlement was made as justification for the reduction of the British obligations.
No suggestion was advanced re parding the amount Britain had in, mind to offer as a basis settlement.
Sir Fredrick Leah Ross assert-j
that
United The
ed
Optimism In Credit Expansion Scheme.
New York, To-day. The fundamental trend of busi- Stuterness in the United States is upward tertgred with payments in despite the inevitable temporary gods, thus limiting the scope influrries, declares Mr. Roger Ward sharh transfers could be made. Babson, the well-known American
Negotiations will be resumed to statistician and economist, in
'reassuring statement issued yester-
day
Router.
Proposals Awaited
From Britain.
Washington, To-day.
8
day.
As soon as the Administra- tion's credit expansion policy is more sound and logical, it shouldi
RANCHERS - FIGHT STRIKERS.
3 Killed; 15 Injured.
Bakersfield, California, To-day. Three people were killed arid 15 injured here, yesterday, in a pitched battle against the and striking cotton-pickers
ranchers.-Reuter.
WALL STREET CHEERED.
Market Resists Bad News.
New York, To-day. help to bring the country out of A truders are cheered by yester During the war debt talks, here the depresston on more natural day's showing that the New York yesterday. Sir Frederick Leith-Ross lines, he states. - United Press, Block Market is able to resist bed submitted to Mr. Dean Acheson, a per S. C. Gold Bar Co.
detailed argument and statistics Flowing why the United States should reduce the debt immediately. Meanwhile, Mr Acheron contends Amerien from New York, the that all proposals must originate pilot, co-pilot and the steward- with the British, therefore, little news are reported killed.-Reuter, progress is expected until Sir Frede-
BRITISH REVENUE
STILL RISES.
Expenditure Lower By £33,500,000.
London, To-day. The latest Treasury returns
-how
1
of
rick Leith-Ross makes a formal pro-.
al regarding the percentage reduction.—United Press, per 6.C. Gold Bar Co.
Continued on Page 12).
SLIGHT MISHAP TO EMPRESS OF ASIA.
Aground For Two Hours
that the ordinary revenue In Sea Of Japan.
for the current financial year up to October 7 umounted to £287,228,-
725. At the corresponding.date
LOCAL DOLLAR
EXPORTS EXCEED IMPORTS
Washington, To-day, The United States Com. merce Department states that the nation's exports for the first eight months of this year amounted to 944,527, 000 tons, and the imports to 890.131,000 tons. Waited Press, per S. C. Gold Bar Co.
RELEASING FROZEN BANK ASSETS.
Washington, To-day." The United States Administra-
tion's financial adviser, Mr. Bruere, The R.M.S. Empress of Asia, states that President Roosevelt will from announce, probably within a week, which arrived this morning
In news like the sharp reduction unfilled tonnage, United States steel, and the falling price of wheat and copper, according to Mr. Henry Waixer.-United Press, per S.C. Gold Bar Co.
U.S. COTTON PRODUCTION
Washington, To-day.
Herr Nadolny's whole tone was extremely conciliatory, but Mr. Boncour emphasized that France is unable to make any concessions on fundamental points-Reuter.
SIR JOHN SIMON.
FOR GENEVA.
To Attend Disarmament Bureau Meeting.
London, To-day.
The Foreign Scoretary, Sir John Simon, left Croydon by air for Paris yesterday afternoon, and went 02- wards to Geneva by the night train. Before leaving London he received the German Ambassador, Dr. Hoesch.
von
Sir John Simon had originally in- tended to proceed to Geneva Inst week end but delayed his departure to be present at Monday's Cabinet meeting when the latest develop- ments in the Disarmament
situn-
tion, including the German "obser- {vations" communicated last week, were considered.-British Wireless Service.
INDEPENDENCE FOR PHILIPPINES.
Act Rejected By Both Houses.
Manila, To-day. The Philippines House of Repre sentatives, by 58 votes to 22, yester- day approved the action of the Senate by rejecting the Philippine |
3 YEARS INSTEAD OF 10
It is estimated that the 1988 cot-Independence Act-Reuter. ton production in the United States, to date, totals 12,885,000 bales, as: compared with 13,002,000 last year. The placed condition on October 1 was 66.7 per cent."as compared with! 54.2 per cent on the corresponding date of last year.—United Press per S.C. Gold Bar Co.
ARGUMENTS FOR INFLATION
Washington, To-day. Following the Philippine Legis- latures rejection of the Indepen dance Act, Senator King, of Utah, has announced his willingness to re-introduce his Bill providing : In-
dependence for three ears instead of 10.ALE
Meanwhile, the sugar interest are campaigning for the imposition fof duty on Philippins sugar and also the limitation of exports, re- argdless of the outcome of inde pendenceUnited Press, per 8. C. Gold Bar Co.
of last year the amount stood at Shanghai and Japan, went aground a plan for a giant Federal corpora- £280.725,641.
|for about two hours in the Sea of tios to liquidate frozen bank assets.
More Money Instead Ordinary expenditure to date for Japan after leaving Kobe, at about by giving Reconstruction Finance) the current year totalled. £360,670,- 8 p.m. on October 7. No damage Corporation debentures to receivers. Of Higher Prices. 238, which le about £88,500,000 less was incurred and the vessel lifted and conservators of closed banka, in than the total ordinary expenditure with the tide and continued her exchange for frozen assets.
Washington, To-day, at the corresponding date of last voyage to Muji.
The Government would then dis- Senator Elmer Thomas, in an in- year.British Wireless Service. The passengers on board, who count the Reconstruction Finance terview with the United Press, de $544,000,000 GOLD HELD BY were. at dinner at the time, were Corporation paper for cash for pay:clared that the opposition was only
U. S. HOARDERS unaware of the accident:
ing depositors-United Press, per increasing his determination". La BC. Gold Bar Co.
bring about inflation in the United
Washington, To-day,^ States.
The United States Treasury ṇyan-j No Benefit To Growers
"We should reduce the dollar to terday announced that gold exceed: From Sugar Agreement, what it would buy in 1920," he said, ing U.3.$544,000,000 was still in the "That would not be infation, but possetaion of the public, regardless Washington, Today, simple justice. If it went below of the Government's efforts to im« The United States Secretary of the 1926 value then it would be in poundUnited Press, per S,C. Gold the Treasury, Mr. Henry C. Wallace, fationi
"We are trying to raise price
reducing the
DECLINES.
Silver Falls 3/16.
The dollar to-day marka a fall of % opening at 1/4%.///
Silver, both spot and forward, dropped back 9/16 yesterday, closing prices being 18 5/16 and 18% res pectively.
The cross rate, London on New York, is 4-G$4.69 and New York on London is 20$4,09%; ·
ANTI-WAR PACT SIGNED IN SOUTH AMERICA
Six States Treaty-Bound (7
Outlaw Aggression
Rio de Janeiro, To-day, An anti-war: treaty "outlawing aggression and forcible acqulal tion of territory, was yesterday signed by representatives of Argentina, Brandly, Chila, Mexico, Paraguay, and Uruguay, in the presence of many, diplomats and notabilities-Reuter.
has announced that he refused to it would, penalise rather than maalat sign the sugar-agreemant; because
the majority of the continental sugar growers, United 18.C. Gold Bar Co.
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MOUNTED POLICE
CHARGES
Required To Quell Vienna Rioters.
A PROTEST AGAINST BAN ON NEWSPAPER
Vienna, To-day. Riots have broken out in Ottakring, a working-class suburb of Vienna, following a demonstration of protest against the Government ban on the Austrian Newspaper. "Arbeiterzeitung."
Mounted police charged the demonstrators, making many arrests, before peace was rea- tored.
Police were drafted to other working-class districts of Vien- na in consequence of the de- monstrations, while all en- trances to the city and the bridges over the Danube were guarded by police.-Reuter.
"DOUBLE TENTH" IN LONDON.
Tea Party Held At China House.
London, To-day. Sixty Chinese students and numerous British - friends packed China House, London, yesterday, at an in formal tes-party in celebra Lion of the anniversary of the Chinese Republic.
WAR"
SHARP TOKIO REPLY
BELLICOSE
AND BOASTING
ARTICLES
High Tension Over Č.E.R. Dispute.
TASS CORRESPONDENT MAY BE EXPELLED
Tokyo, To-day.
The Foreign Office is awaiting a full report from the Japanese Am- bassador to Moscow, Mr. Ota, be- fore deciding the course of action to take in regard to the Moscow. “revelations.***_Before" action ü taken, however, the War Office and possibly the Cabinet, will be con- salted.
A Foreign Office spokesman to- day recalled the recent "boasting and bellicose" article in the Soviet
press which led him to the belief
that the Soviet was possibly trying to jockey Japan into war. Не added: "As both brave dogs and coward dogs bark a lot, we must await developments before decid- ing which the Soviet is.”
h is reliably learnt that the So viel has/refined to continue the Railway negotiations here until the arrested Chinese Eastern Railway officials have been released.
Meanwhile the Tass correspon- dent here is being examined this afternoon in order to decide whe- ther he should be expelled-Reu-
}ter:
C.E.R. DISPUTE
BECOMES MORE
COMPLICATED
Manchukuo Replaces Soviet Officials.
THREAT OF INTIMIDATION BY POLICE
Moscow, To-day. Further incidents between the Soviet and Manchukuo over the management of the Chinese Eastern Railway were reported yesterday by the official News Tass Agency.
It is stated that the Soviet Consul-General at Khabarovsk has enquired, into the charges on which the Soviet employed of the C.E.R. were arrested.
A representative of Man- -chukua replied that they were merely arrested for examina- tion in connection with un in-. quiry regarding suspected transgressions of duty,"
The Consul General insisted on The guests were received by their immediate release, and the Mr. Su Lea-chang, Warden of Manchukuo representative under- China House, PINNI
took to forward the request to hir The celebratione concluded
Government, but the Consul Gen- with a dance at the Ham Bone eral was not allowed to visit the, Club, Jast:night. — Reuter.
WETS” TRIUMPH
AGAIN,
Prohibition Doomed.
$ TO 1 VOTE IN FLORIDA.
Jacksonville, Florida, To-day; Incomplete but substantial returns show that Florida I voting six to ong against pro- hibition, and is thus likely to become the thirty-third out of The rainfall in the Colony for the the, 86 States required to vote 24 hours ending at 10 am-to-day was wat in order to and prakibi," 14 inch Total rainfall since Januaryion in the United States |fe 65.40 inches, against an average of
78:48 inches.
likely
Reuter,
arrested employees.
(Continued oh Page 12),
CONFUSION OVER ADMINISTRATION.
Manchukuo Orders Countermanded.
Harbin, Today,
The Boviet General-Manager of the Chinese, Eastern Railway 'has countermanded all orders issued by the Manchukuo Assistant Manager, resulting in serious considerations, * Manchukun” la considering/
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