AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 October 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

lUBTKALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. FROMIBITION PROBLEMS. WASHINGTON. Get. 21. ’('he. ievent movement among tho various bodies, and individuals, for Letter enforcement of the prohibiiton law, continues to grow in strength. Tile .Methodist Episcopal Temperance Board has issued a statement to the effect, that Air A. AY. AlcEon, Secretary of the Tioasury. and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Mr Blair, neither by conviction nor by inc-liim-tion, were fitted for the responsibility of discharging their duty. The board claims that the Commissioner of Prohibition. Mr Haynes, would completely enforce prohibition "if given an opportunity, and calls upon President Collidge tio take personal charge of the enforcement of Hie A oisteail law. asking Him to demand that the America people shall obey prohibition. if only because it is the law fixed by American policy. Tiie board also calls upon tbe State

governors to eo-oporate. Mr Gilford 'Pint-hot. Governor ol Pennsylvania, lias issued another stall-' meat contending that the States cando little, and that the Federal Government must assume the chief burden. Charges are now being made, that Penny sylvan in is probably the wettest Sla-to in iho t nion.

NEW YORK SENSATION. NEW YORK, Oct. 22. In investigating the discovery of a quantity of hones found in an old kettle in tile basement of a mansion owned by Edward Drew Clark, of Los Angeles, ' tin- police-suspect that the hones are thee of George Schick, a wealthy broker who disappeared in August. Clark, his wife and Schick’s wife i" September obtained the power oi attorney in connection with Schick’s property and a charge of forgery has since been preferred against them. Experts stale the indications are that the body from which the hones came was disnuMiiboro:! and boilod down. DEPRESSES MONEY MARKET. NEW YORK. Oct. 22. On Monday morning the markets rearted very appreciably to the news of the German Separatists movement in the Ruhr and in Bavaria. Foreign exchange felt a very sharp effect, sterling reaching as low as I dollars !i cents, being the lowest since November. 1022. The franc and tla- lire also dropped half a cent to five and threequarters. and four and a-half edits ies[>ectively. Marks reached forty-four billion to the dollar. Industrial and commercial stocks were generally lower. The Geriiiaii-Ainoru-iius are very much stirred by the separntionist news. Fnited German societies, representing seventy-five hundred thousand Gernian-Amerieans, have issuel on u]>penu to the members to help Germanv in her hour of peril, and to provide adequate financial assistance to sot Germany upon her feet before she disintegrates.

The newspapers, in editorial comment. dwell on the uncertainty of the outcome of the establishment of new republics and indicate the French will probably find they created a Frankenstein when titer encouraged the Se{>aratists.