AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1922, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. COMMISSION TO FIND FACTS. „.. . WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. The Senate’s Labour Committee has favourably reported on a bill for the creation of the proposed Coal Commission, the measure empowering President Harding to choose representatives of the mine operators, the miners, ol the public as he sees fit. The bill i~ to provide for five members -a salary of 7500 dollars each. The Commission will make a complete investigation of the costs, profits, and working conditions in the mines. The commission will report on the advisableness of nationalising the coal distribution of coal to the industry.; on methods for the ising of employment in the mines, lor the stopping of strikes, and for the doors.

SALE OF A HUSBAND. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 22. An extraordinary offer has been made by a rich woman to buy another woman’s husband was revealed to-day, and admitted by all the persons involved. Mr s Edith Spreckles Wakefield, aged 39, who was divorced from a millionaire, and is now tire mother of three children, the eldest of whom is 19, offered Mrs Kendrick, who is 24 years old, and is dying of tuberculosis, one hundred dollars per month for the rest of her life, if she would permit Mr Kendrick, who is a newspaper artist, aged 39 to live with Mrs Wakefield.

Mrs Kenrick declares that she is considering the offer. Mrs Wakefield is planning to obtain a divorce from her present husband, who is her second. The Kendricks have a year-old oaby. All the persons concerned had ail amicable talk, at which the advisalilo ness of the arrangement was conced-

ed. SAN 'FRANCISCO, .Aug 22. Mrs Kendrick’s attorney now announces that Mrs Wakefield will be compelled to pay her client 25,000 dollars or whatever the Court will gn?e her in aii alienation of affections suit, before sbe will release her husband, and that she will oppose all divorce proceedings until this is done.

NOVA SCOTIA STRIKE. MONTREAL, August 22. The annual Convention of the. Dominion Trades Congress has telegraphed to the Premier of Canada, Mr McKenzie King, protesting against the presence of Canadian troops on the Nova Scotia coal fields (as cabled on August 16th). The Convention pointed out Ibafc the strike of the miners is “one hundred per cent, effective,” and that it only be broken by military forces ““ which, Labour fears, is the intent of the Government.