AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z, CABLE ASSOCIATION

F.S.A. DEMANDS

NEW YORK. Alareli 11

The New York “TimosV Washington ee;ro-pnndeitl enquired trmu the Stat< Department whether the l nited Stairs wc»,ilci u l>\ Alli'd slate-men -according »" 1 de-ui:lelms iceeived line that America -liorl t use l lie German .-hips now hold 1., ~ y the costs of the army of neeitpat ion. The Stale Ik-paitmeiu nj.lie,! t 'at it w ill not accept this preposition and will make this position dear in a Note which Air Hughe- will despatch to ihe Assistant Secretary to tim Treasitiy. Mr Wadswmtli. who i-ee.-t. The X -te will a.-k Air Wad-worth insi-i Dial tli.- United State- must receive it- -Imre of the costs, and will permit n>> withdrawal 1 rotn tbit attitude.

I’lti iFESSIONAI. POISONERS. NEW YORK. Mardi 14. A Chicago message says: A woman named Tillie Kliuiek, who is involved m an extensive poisoning scheme (as cabled on November 111 hr- been convicted of murder. She has ljeen sentenced, upon the jury’s recommendation, to liie imprisonment.

Mrs Kliniek was charged with killing three husbands and with badly crippling a fourth husband, by putting arsenic m their food. She collected tile life insurance on each dead man thus arousing the suspicion of the insurance companies, who. with the aid ol the police, have unearthed a strange organisation of professional poisoners.

GOLF.

AUSTRALIAN AND N'.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

KIRKWOOD AND HAGEN WTN. NEW YORK, March LI. \t Winter Park, Florida, Kirkwood and Hagen defeated Down and George bv live up and four to play. Hagen tied with the course record with (>*.