AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1922, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION EX-PEBSI DENT WILSON. (Received this day at 11..‘10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, December •'>. One of Mr Wilson’s closest friends states the former President may recover completely from the paralysis from which he has suffered in the last three years. Recently Mr Wilson has been able to walk a considerable distance unassisted. While it is not expected that his health will ever he robust. it is believed he innv soon have the free use of his limbs.

DEFALCATIONS. fßeeeived this dnv at fl 30 a.n.) NEW YORK. Oct 5. Detroit police have just discovered ini usual defalcations by an employee of Ford Motor Company, and obtained a confession of a timekeeper who stole for the purpose of maintainin'; deservin'; hoys at the University. The defalc'ati""s totalled ten thousand dollars. The timekeeper came to know tw" students who worked in (lie Ford plant in summer-time. The declared lack of money during the term would keep them from the University. He took their time cards and continued to claim their nay weekly, which he forward OI to them. The theft was suc(cssl'cl and he therefore obtained the time cards of nine other men who had left the Ford employ and drew a, weekly pay. which also he partly appropriated to his own use. The students have made part restitution. KLU Tv LUX KLAN. (Received this dnv at 0.30 a ntA NEW YORK, Dee 0. Direct action against the TChi If lux Klu,n, cabled on 27th November, began ■to-day in New York. Two errand juries started an investigation and also proceedings in Chicago on. Klux membership among municipal employees. One Chicago .judge also questioned every prospective juror whether he was a member of the Klan. Cougi'tLsman Tinkham of MassaohuiK Mg-sT sent a. letter to Mr Harding asking why the President wa < so anxious to enforce the eighteenth amendment whilst the fourteenth amendment which guarantees votes to negroes is a dead letter to Southern States, due to Klan activities. He asked the President to urge Congress to decrease the representation of those southtirn states as the law, provides in ease of violations of the fourteenth amendment.