AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 May 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION

THE WORLD COURT

WASHINGTON, May 2,

A l.os Angeles telegram says that in a live-election there Capt. Fredericks has been elected to the bederal Congress on a platform the chief issue whereof was that the United Stines should join the World Court. Capt. Fredericks in a policy speech declined that he would not care to go to M ashington unless his constituents endorsed the Court.

Mr Sam dumpers in a statement said the American Federation of Labour endorsed the proposal that the United States should join the World Court. ALLEGED ANARCHY. NEW YORK, May 2. At St. Joseph, Charles Rulhenberg was found guilty of criminal anarchy. Ivuthonbei g was charged similarly as Foster, who, it is believed, will be retried, the State believing that it can secure his conviction. ltuthpiiberg will he sentenced on June ith.

(The facts of the ease were that tho trials in the ease of Foster and Rutlieiibcrg lasted for several months. Foster was one of 32 alleged members ot the Communist Party in America and Riithenborg another. Foster was arrested over a year ago during a secret conclave, and the prosecution alleged this conclave was formulating plans, under Russian Soviet direction, for a proletarian revolution in America. Alter sensational evidence at a hearing lasting a couple of months, the jury divided, six against six. The defence did not deny Communist principles, but declared no violence was advocated, and that the law under which tlie prosecution acted was a violation of free speech. This judge, at the end of Foster’s trial, ordered Ruthenbergto be re-tried, with the above result.)

ATTACKED WITH A IvTvTFl'

NEW YORK. Mn.v 3

A .Syrian maniac, a silk weaver, with a huge knife, attempted to assassinate John D. Rockfoller. junior, who is many times a millionaire in his own right. Tile Syrian attacked him as Itockfeller was about to step out of his auto after coining from his home to his office. Four guards, after a struggle, overcame the assailant, who was taken to a hospital for observation. OPIUM TRAFFIC. NEW YORK, -May 2. The “New York Times” Washington correspondent says:—“Air Hughes (Secretary of State) has designated a committee beaded by Representative Porter, to attend an opium conference at Geneva 4/11 May -ft. !he committee will follow* closely the policy* of the Power resolution, in favour of all countries restricting tlie traffic, and will suggest an international convention for governing the production and distribution of narcotics:. They will also he prepared to co-operate with the conference in every way possible, although the meeting is essentially u body operating under the auspices of the League of Nations.”