AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 January 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. FAST FLYING. AMERICAN SPEED RECORD. NEW YORK, Jah. 18 Lieutenant Alexander Pearson, established a speed record by arriving with a passenger in an army aeroplane from Dayton, Ohio, a distance of 592 | miles, iii four hours thirty-two- minutes. which is twenty-eight inimrNie less than the best previous noii-stop record. PRESIDENT HARDING ILL. AN ATTACK OF INFLUENZA. WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. i President Harding has been ill hv * several days suffering from a slight at-* tack of “grippe.” His doctor ordered him to bed. and all engagements have been cancelled for tlic remainder of the week. DEATH OF WALLACE REID. A FAMOUS CINEMA ACTOR.

NEW YORK. Jan. 19 A Los Angeles telegram records the death of Wallace Reid, the film star, v Wallace Reid’s death followed a re ; lapse lmm a complication of diseases, lb- was weakened hy overwork and neijii.r to an announcement hy Mrs Reid, he used narcotics, which lie had taken during a temporary illness. Reul suffered a breakdown two months ago. Pneumonia set in and when Ins recovery was expected, ail intestinal ailment caused a relapse from which he "as unable to recover. PRESENTING A REVOLVER. NEW PLYMOUTH. Jan. 18 An unusual incident and one about which there were some menacing features took place in the main street here last night, as a result m which \ tit lion v Kellv appeared m Court this morning to answer a series ot charges arisin- out ol the occurence. iho charges were: <J) of assaulting a constable by presenting an unloaded revolver at him. saving: “I’ll fix you ; i*ij with resisting a constable *lll the execution of Ids duty: M with carrying lirearms without a license; (O with having in bis possession an unrcdslered revolver, and m) with presenting ail unloaded revolver at a cont'Vhe Magistrate sent Kelly to gaol lor one month and inflicted lines totalling ff 12. KU Kl-UX CRIMINALS. NEW YORK. January 20.

U Bastrop, the prosecution witnesses identified two more men as members of the Kn Klux Kl»n gang which kiduapped Daniel Richards- \ further sensation has, been caused by a statement by a youth that he was held up by a hooded band last- night but was released 011 the band find i.g 111-.li he "as not the man they wanted. DRV LAW TROUBLES. NEW YORK. .January 20. According to a. Trenton, New Jersey, despatch, the anti-Saloon League has passed a resolution urging that the Army and Navy should bo utilised to establish n blockade to prevent rumrunning and liquor smuggling. This step is considered necessary in order to check the flow of intoxicants into the United States. The Navy would be. used to check liquor smuggling along the Coast, where beyond the threemile limit 21 vessels loaded with F.u----i-opun stocks are making for small boats to unload the wares surreptitiously. The .Army would he used on the Mexican and Canadian borders.

STR R. HORNE. (Received this day at 8 a.m. - ) NEW YORK, .Tan. 21 Sir Robert Horne, in a speech at an English speaking union gathering, expressed sympathy with France. Ho de-•-■htred be bad never sympathised with Germany, but be pointed out that unless German capitalists were made to believe Germany is a country safe for 1! oui, and this cannot bo done it you begin to seize by force any material -.'•hereupon Germany depends for carrying out her trade, there will be a collapse of organisation of the civilised society of Europe, such as the world lias never known before. He called upon United States to furnish some fresh idea to deal with the great problems now afflicting the human race, and said lie looked in tlie end to the situation being saved by the sagacity of the American people, who were able to take a more detached viewpoint, and whose influence was overwhelmBAD I.KjrOR. WASHINGTON. January 19. A message from Philadelphia states Hint four men were found dead as the result of a od alcoholic poisoning. GAOLED AGAIN. NEW YORK. January 20. A Marion telegram says that the five defendants who weie acquitted at the Herrin Gal are till far from being free men. They were returned to the gaol cells on Friday night. Two are to nv.: it another trial, together with eight others, eh rge-.l with murdering another victim. The case will liy heard before the eo-of ends its session on February -h While at first the trial was regarded lightly by the enti.e district, a more sober - : v. is now taken, owing to the notoriety, for m -chants complain that business is poor since the county bus earned tile name ol “Bloody AYill'amsen." li is now feared that tile acquittal of the minors will still further inflame the general public against the district. rj.S.A. AND EUROPE. WASHINGTON. January 19. Tlie group led in the Senate by Senator Johnson are pressing the Government for fuller details of Mr Hoyden's activities at the Reparations Commission. ami as to what extent the Administration lu • s [ ,girted him. At the meetings of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senator f.odge was instructed to obtain the most complete information from the State Department. Secretary Hughes and himself may he called to appear before this commit tee. Senior Johnson and others favour Mr Hoyden’s recall. Certain information concerning bis activities at Paris can he verified. KT.U KT.AX SENSATION. NEW YORK. Jan. 21 A Bastrop telegram reports further sensation in the Ku Klux Klan inquiry. John Parker, a former sheriff, vn- shot dead by a Khnsmnn during arguments over the hands affairs',