AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1923, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUBTHAMAN AND N. Z. CAULE AHBOCI iHO> C.K.A. AND NOinVAV. WASHINGTON', .(mi. 2. President Harding lias let it. Ii known that the United States will pa $12,000,000 coinpeiisation to Norway which the Hague Arbitration Com awarded to Norway lor the use ot ship during the war. The Court’s announcement ol the dr cision on October 13th last caused con sidcrahle unpleasantness, due to th American arbiter’s protests that tlv award was a manliest departure Iron the terms of submission. A delieat situation arose between Norway am the railed Stales, with other forcin' Powers as interested onlookers. President Harding feels the I'nitci Slates cannot afford to renounce, b; action, its own advice to tho other Pow ers to settle their difficulties by ar bitratinn, and will therefore, the cor respondent says, lake its medicine lik* a good follow. ENEMY PROPERTY SEIZURES. WASHINGTON. .Inti. 2. The Kile my and Mien Property Cus lodmii ha> strongly urged, and President Harding has approved, that legislation he introduced in Congress to return *14,3(52,1)00 dollars worth of enemy property seized during the war. This affects only property in trust of one thousand dollars or under. JEWED ROBBERY. NEW YORK. .lan. 2. The police have just revealed the details of an extraordinary robbery which occurred on New 5 car’s Eve in this l> city of extraordinary crimes. Mrs Hugo Schoelkpf the wife of a miilioaire, was attending a party in the Hat of a *o-oiallv-promiiient New Worker. Site walked down the stairs when leaving, in the early morning, to reach her waiting motor, hut on reaching the tlooi below the friend’s Hat, three men seized and cldorofolined her. and dragged Ji her into another vacant Hat, where (hcv hound her, and took Irom hoi $200,000 worth of jewels, a pearl necklace .her diamond bracelets, and rings. IMMIGRANTS WANTED. NEW YORK, January 2. The National Association of Manufacturers has issued a statement declaring the nation is economically menaced by n growing shortage of farm and factory labour, due to the present three per cent, restrictive immigrati n law. The Association has announced its programme for immigration. T.ojrislation is to he suggested to Congress for empowering, the Secretary for I.'bour to admit aliens during a time ol labour shortage, also “providing for the exclusion of undesirables by examination abroad and provision for the supervision of aliens by means of registration anil education for ejtixenship.’’ BCSINESS FAIRERES. NEW YORK. January 2. A total of 22.400 mercantile firms in the United Stales failed during 1022 tbe largest number in any years of ■the country’s history. The liabilities amounted to £(110,955.000 dollars. Tbe assets were slightly' more than 50 per cent of tbe total. RACE RIOTS. MEXICO CTTY. Jan 3. Mr Wilfred Gore, a well-known Eng-li-li financier, who, with a group, of English capitalists, had been investigating Mexican business conditions " was killed by a stray bullet fired during tbe New Year’s Eve celebrations at- Saptilpa ,iu Oklahoma, following o : i a light between negroes and policemen, wherein one officer was killed and three wounded. Riots ensued, noinv negro lieintt- being burned by whites. The police were compelled Li; demarcate the negro quarters. an firmed guard marching along the dividing lin.\ and the negroes not being permitted to cross into white territory or whin* into tho negro quarters.