AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1923, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. CIII.MTXALS’ DARING ESCAPE. NEAV YORK, March 27. A message from Atlanta, Georgia says n sensational escape from ga< 1 occurred to-day from the largest Federal prison, which is situated there. A notorious mail robber and an equally notorious forger hound and gagged u nurse in the prison hospital. They ropes from the bctl sheets, let ujlmsolves down outside the walls, bold up a citizen in an aulomnbik' and offered him 1000 dollars if he would drive them to safety, Upon Ins refusal they kidnapped him and made their escape. Confederates outside the walls had left weapons and changes of S’"" 1 ' ; fm them. The convicts after carried far from the city by itizen’s car, permitted him to ill his automobile. PROHIBITION. —MOTION BY sum: LF.CTSI.Atcr.es. NEW YORK. "March 27. Albany mc-snge states that the Hon. A. F. Smith, Governor of New I'ork State, declares he believe* in the enforcement of the Prohibition amendment, hill he n.-ks (' n ngress to amend the Volstead lain to jeriuH a -.ei per cent, maximum al-i'holir >-niit“iir in beverages, and to al'ow individual Stales through the popul.u vote to fix the lit iitit i i"t t m alcoholic content. Mr Smith defended the tetion t.f the .Yew York Legislature to mrmnriali-e Congress as baing within its right-. In tlie meantime the Fppei House the New York l.eei-laliire bathe Eight centh A'ineiidiiienl. Mid providing a less than one-half ol one per coni, alcoholic content for beverages. The action of the New York St,ate is considered important, since it contains one-n uth of the national population.

Contrasted with the action cf the New {York Slat:' Legislature, the Pennsylvania Legislature to-day passed n measure proposed by the Governor, the Hon. A. Pinchot, nlmlisbing saloons in dry form, and providing for the strictest enforcement of Prohibition in any State of the Union. NEW YORK. .March HO. The New York “World's" Washington, correspondent states that another jrfiTm international controversy has been ♦used by the Amtrieon Prohibition, the Shipping Board which recently found a considerable number of purchasers among Canadians of its smaller vessels. The Anti-Salon League, however. (Il'f'.v the Board's attention to the fact that • i .with the transfer of these vessels to the British registry they extend the liquor .smuggling trade. r l he Board therefore wrottT a clause into the Sales Agreement whereby vessels must not engage in practices which are unlawful in the United States. The Canadian Government has entered a protest against this, as thci-e vessels if tinder American registry, would he subject to seon il outside the threemile limit. The Canadian authorities take the ground that it these ships are iuterferred with outside the three-mile limit nmv, it would he violation ol International Law. SEPARATE treaty. (Received this day at H a.tn.) WASHINGTON March 2!>. The Administration spokesmen indicated that the United States would resume negotiations for a separate I i eat,\ with Turkey when the Near hasi ( (inference reassembled, probably ni Aprils