AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1923, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION, GOVERNOR I.M REACHED. (Received this day at It. In a.in.) NEW' YORK, November 10. An Oklahoma City telegram says Governor Walton of Oklahoma was removed from office by the Stale Senate Court impeachment. AMERICAN CORRUPTION DOC TORS' Dj i’LO.M AS ROCGI I'l . Received this day at 2..‘Hi a.m.) NEW TORI'., ..m. 111. A .scandal. involving physicians m _ nearly every Mate in the Union, has been disclosed as a result ol the investigation legaidiug the medical college operating in Kansas City, which issued diplomas for rush instead ol granting them alter the completion ol a. fixc'l course of study, t.rmluales, numbering probably twenty-live tlmiiennd., thereupon assumed residence in various States, in maiiv cases sending substitutes to take lho State examinations which are necessary - taming a license Ln practice, and were thus able to become accredited physicians in the best known hospitals in New York, Boston. Chicago, Hartford and other large cities tire holders ol fake diplomas. Extraordinary grand juries are now investigating the charges m Kansas City and Hartford, and steps are being taken to truer* venal graduates w hereve r practising. MEDICAL ALCOHOL CDNSCAIED. WASHINGTON. Nov. ID. The prohibition bureau has announced that chemists simps. upon physicians’ prescriptions permitted by the law. dispensed 1 .liiilLNtilJ gallon-, ol spirits ami 39,,02 gallons ol wmc dining the fiscal year, 1923. this was the American consumption oi alcohol for medical purposes. PANAMA CANAL PROMTS. /Received this day at 9.0 a.m.) WASH IN< ;TON, Nov. ID. It is announced that lor the iisral year, PITS .the Panama Canal profits ‘totalled 12.01i3,0:K> dollars representing a gain ol *2.StillI!HI dollars o\ei the previous year. All nations but. one increased their shipping tnrotigli the canal. 3907 vessels utilised the canal in 1923 as compared with 2,30 vessels iu 19’'2. Governor .Morrow, of • U,e Canal reports that its commercial importances is rapidly approaching that of the Suez Canal. BANK FAILURES IN ITS.A. fKocoi red this day at 9.0 a.m.) CHICAGO, Nov. .19. The collapse in the price of wheat and frozen credits resulted m Uu ' failure in six days d twenly-lour 1, Rinks in the Northern Miuneopo.i* Federal Reserve districts, twenty-one thereof being in the State ot .sort i Dakota, whoso position is pnrtieti.i.ii> unfortiinato, since its wncat mop is small, and of inferior i|Uiility hi oimpnrixnn with the crops of neighbouring States. Western hanking circles arc considerably agitated l- !' multiple of failures, ami toe leaf is felt -*f the possibility «u large. een-i..l institutions, whereupoa t.u *1 Banks depended, being unable to withsuuul lilt' blow.