AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 December 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

lUSTBAI.IAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. DRY LAW. NEW YORK, Dee 27. The. alcoholic deaths since December 21. non total eleven, New York having nine, and Baltimore two. New York: hospitals report ninety-five acute eases of alcoholism, of which seventeen are women. WASHINGTON, Dee. 27. Congressional investigation is ex peeled of claims that, through the diplomatic agents, honor is being sold to private citizens. Secretary Hughes has been asked bv Congressmen to intervene officially; in what is claimed 'o be systematic liquor trafficking by the servants of the legations. Ihe police attempted to seize liquor in an meat belonging to M. Sokolowsai, Polish Ambassador, who claimed int munity. Fourteen neoplc have been, artcsteJ for boot-legging liquor, which was obtained front the same apartment. qiio Warsaw Government has ordered M. Sokolowski to report on the matter. MODERN JEAN YAS-IKAN. /' NEW YORK, UDc. 28 John Keller, of Deliver, who was 10 ears ago sentenced lor burglary to L> years’ gaol, and escaped, has been pardoned by President Coolidge. Since his escape lie has lived a strictly religious life. Last November his wile betrayed him owing to a quarrel, and the police returned Keller to gaol, to serve K> years. Meanwhile the wile repented and assisted in getting a release, and lie returned home in time for Christmas. This case of a modern Jean \at jean has created wide interest. KU Kl.rx KLAN. WASHINGTON, December 27. Mr E. Y. Clarke, formerly in the_, • high councils of the Kit Klux Klan, has written to President Coolidge, olfering to co-operate with the executive to end the activities of the element which i-, converting the Klan into an organisation vastly different trout that planned by the founders. Air Clarke announces that ho will issue a proclamation calling on the belter element either to take hold and remedy the existing evils or to disband •.be organisation.