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Immigration Plan Support is Urged

Commissioner Holds Aliens Would Not Replace U. S. Workers Under System.

No American citizens would be thrown out of work by aliens under a plan for extension of the principle of selective immigration outlined in a radio address last night by Harry Hull, commissioner general of immigration.

“My appeal to you, my countrymen,” Hull added, “is that we follow this far seeing vision of our President, so that in the future immigrants shall not enter the country who are unneeded or undesirable.”

Hull said 241,700 Immigrants entered the United States last year and that it was a reasonable estimate that more than 50 per cent of them “are today displacing American citizens who are gainfully employed.”

Posted inMaritime & Naval History Ship Histories Shipwrecks & Nautical Disasters

Collision Between the Steamers Black Swan and Luna

Illustration of the collision between the Black Swan and the Luna, showing the two steamers collided with the vessel to the left, the Black Swan, going down by the bow. Rescuers row boats toward the disaster.

The steamer Black Swan, belonging to the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company, left the Queen’s’ Wharf, Melbourne, at 10 o’clock on Tuesday, morning, 16th July, for Launceston, and had at 11 o’clock got nearly abreast of the breakwater running off from Williamstown, when the steamer Luna, coming from Geelong, reached the same spot. The two vessels then came into collision, the Luna striking the starboard bow of the Black Swan stem on, cutting into her to a considerable distance. So great was the force of the shock that it was with difficulty the Luna could, by backing astern, extricate herself, and the Black Swan‘s head was forced from the course she was going right round.

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Hunters To Take Field

Exodus From City For Opening of Season Seen

The mighty chicken hunters start out tomorrow.

North Dakota’s annual hunting season—the biggest sport of all for some—opens. Seven hundred hunters’ licenses had been issued by the county auditor today, and it was certain that there would be an exodus from the city for the first day of the sport.