AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1923, Page 1

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION, U.S.A. BOGUS DOCTORS. (Received this day at S a.m.) Ni’.\i iORK, November 24. As toe authorities widen the intensity of the investigations into the faked physicians’ diplomas, deplorable details are lc-voaled. the Connecticut State Health Department- in examining recent death certificates and in investigating the circumstances of decease declared that at least two hundred patients of impostor physicians in this State alone died most suspiciously. One practition. or had six deaths w ithin four months, lie killing one patient with an overdose of ether when attempting a minor opera-

tion. Ihe authorities estimate that possibly twelve thousand patients of the lake doctors have died in the past five yeais throughout the country. Three s mli practitioners in Hartford and New York for whom warrants, charging them with manslaughter, have been issued have lied, it is believed to Canada. A\nrrants have also been issued for the owners of the Kansas City College and the College of .Mis- out i who solj the ! diplomas on an organised and a wide reaching bribery system, hy which many officials in many States received large stun.- oi money for the issuing of the illegal documents which were necessary to enable tile impostors to practise medicine.

ANTI-FASCISTS IN U.S.A. CONST],ATE,S BOMBED. NEW YORK, November 24. The “New York Times” Philadelphia correspondent says that a national M'iinrh, wherein the Federal Department of 4ustice is participating, is being conducted for six voting Spaniards who are believed to be tile representative- ot the Am i-Faseisti organisation who bombed the Italian and Spanish Consulates here, slightly injuring nearly loriy per-ons and doing considerable damage to property. Tile bombing is believed to he as a proT -t against, the recent Fascist! agreement between Mussolini and Die. lator Riviera. The Spanish Consul, who narrowly escaped death, stated that he had been visited during the previous day by nearly a sente of unemployed Spaniards whose in lions he considered suspicious. He gave them each a dollar and asked them to return the next day.

Spectators declare they saw- several Persons who. speaking Spanish, were skulking about the Consulate previous to the explosion. Guards have been stationed at the Italian and Spanish Consulates in other American cities to prevent further outrages. XKAY YORK, November 23. A message from fndianpoiis, in Indiana, says: Growing evidence of the boldness of hank bandits, despite the special vigilance of the police was furnished this afternoon in two successive rnberies hy the same band of three robbers, who entered a Bank, covered the employees and customers with pistols, snatched ten thousand dollars, and escaped in a motor. Eater they invaded another Bank, taking fifteen thousand dollars.