AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULE ASSOCIATION. DEBTS TO F.S.A. WASHINGTON. Oct. G. [’resident Coolidge is unalteringly opposed to the cancellation by the United States of the debts owed it by the European countries, according to a statement from White House to-day. HOUSE OF DAVID. NEW YORK. Oct. G. The Michigan State Attorney General's Office states till' Australian authorities have been authorised to arrest Benjamin Burnell, head of the House of David. If he is apprehended, the .Michigan authorities will begin extradition proceedings at once. AN EARTHQUAKE. OTTAWA, October G. An earthquake shock demolished the stone wall of a seminary in Quebec. DISTILLING COAL. NEW YORK. October 5. Great interest is being taken in Detroit in a plant for the distillation of coal which Air Henry Ford is building. The process lias been discovered by ATr R. Carachvistic. an Italian. It removes from the coal various tar products. including valuable motor petrol, and leaves a. residue which gives in burning, many times the heat which is derivable from coal. This extra heat more than pays for the original cost of the coal.

Air Ford’s plant which is nearing completion, will bo ready to determine the commercial value of the piocess bv December.

THE CONVICT .MURDERERS

(Received this day at 8 n.m.) NEW YORK. Oct. G.

At Edysvillc. Kentucky the throe convict murderers were lound dead when the attackers entered the h.u----riead-d mess hair where the convicts laid held out since milking their dash fin* liberty on U ednesday morning. hollowing on a <onlereiico with tic authorities to-day tin* militia inflicted a hand grenade barrage, alter which they forced ammonia to pour into the mess hall. Then tin- soldiers battered in the door, entering the room alter the gas had done its work. The three desperadoes lav dead on the floor, one obvioiislv having been dead for '-l hours, while the other two had flesh wounds in the heart suggesting that they had suicided to escape death I ruin the ammonia. PRISON M ('TINKERS. NEW YORK. Oct. G. At Eddyville the Kentucky State Prison authorities conferred with the leaders of the militia, in endeavouring to formulate a plan whereby the three convict murderers might tie dislodged from the bullet scarred mess hall in which they have been successfully entrenched for the third successive day. The authorities are inclined to use dynamite against the barricaded desperadoes. Meanwhile. a belief i.s spreading that the mutineers have escaped via an elevator or have sought safetv by hiding in the kitchen boilers or bread ovens. A censorship meanwhile is established until to-morrow, when the prison authorities will meet the Press representatives,