AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 February 1924, Page 1

AMERICAN ITEMS.

[nv tki.kohai'h—i'er press association", 1 RANK STATISTICS. WASHINGTON. Fehtunrv 27. Government figures .show the I'ailur of .seven Hath mil banks and ninety ii'i't State banks between January Ist 1 end February Gib. Between Angus :92c and Fc ruary of this year then I "ei'e 552 bank failures. i JQPi Hi SEIZED. WASH IX<iTOX, Ecbruan 27. I if|iKir worth fifteen thousand, was •cized by prohibition agents in two raids in Smi T'lauei.seo. LIQUOR. SEIZURES. XKW YORK, February 27. !1m recent nig liquor seizine on the liner Achi.uie has increased the vigiluui o ot the '! reasiiry Agents, who have muled i Is- Ta vd Sahand's liner Comte \ enle. v,’.n il has just arrived from Naples "nil two thousand immigrants. The age nis seized contraband, principally liquors, valued in excess of one Hundred thousand dollars. Another party ol agents meanwhile hoarded the Ward liner .Martinique I intu Jamaica and seized four thou•mill dollars worth of liquor. No arrests "ere made in either ease, as the oflieers and crews denied all knowledge of concealed liquors. KI.A.VsMFN'S CON.JR F.SS WASHINGTON. Fe'i 27. The Inrmniion of a new world wine liatotnal order was the lt.si It of ihe I kinsmen's Coagre-.; ,n i ipiti (leoraie called by ihe former .u ImI m ial Wizard. Clarke ■, t h.e Kit Kh > f lan. ’I he proposes ad ip. -d a |.".0. hilion declaring tlm la l .' r -irg-ii Ration l; ad grown away from the prinei;. ( s upon "liich it: was fo-.i.i-l • I ami a suhatituie Was ne'-c--:iry. ('ll!, ! V VRCTi! WASHING ft iV. i'. h. v. 7. ( harhs R th. a l\an-a- ml o| ei ati r ■■ ingot illt ilig ■• i! Ii ihe ex,, .wi SI.-tan-son to doiino live million Arctic m res in South-West fletsehol Maud "fii.h contain oil. lb- plan- reindeer in lake supplies (his summer and E--kimos to work if a lease i- olitaiueil.

A I ’lt IX!-: OFFER. WAS 11 r.VGTO.V February 27. Believing it more effective to attack j tin 1 war menace hy education, an unknown donor in Chisago offers £5.000 sterling to the man or woman who de--Vfvys-x the host | lan for teaching the hhihlron of all nations to hate ami oppose war. Details of the proposal will j given on Wedtie-day at a (’unvenfion j in Chicago of twelve thousand leach- i or- of Miitiomd education. TIIK Will IF SCOFRGF.

NEW YORK. Fehmary 28. ; Alarmed hy the increased marketing ! ol so-called tidiereulo-is cures, the New j [ York Tuberculosis Association, which is I the eounii-y's foremost municipal or- j ganisaiion to eonihat the disease has' i‘.-iied a .-tatement deehuing that there: I is no euro for tuhereulosis, and denying ! timt climate or altitude hail any eon- , siderahle remedial effect-, upon I la-j n sufferers. j , t The sfatemetil i-nut iniu-s. - ‘‘The best ]; "'ay to prevent and overcome tuhereii- j losis is bv increasing Ihe people's in- ! terest. I.nriwlr-dg.-. ami detenijinatiou | lo care lor their health. It i.-. neve.-j t , sary and often is inadvisahle. ry «»ek ; a recovery at a «'re«t di-lam-c from j, home, or in so-ealletl healih resorts. 'I he I , ''est means are good food. sufficient re- t. moderate exercise, abundant fresh .> air and freedom I com worry and over- -|-: "oik. People who I'-nin.miiee speeiPie remedies are nfton honest, but others fie merely cruel swindlers, whom all , should avoid.” Oil, SCAX'DA r.s. W.WSJHNGTOX. Felirnary 27. " I lie Renulilii n Ral ly's National ( nmmitfcc has Ltirned its guns against Bi-iuilor Walsh, the Denuierat. who is lending the oil scandal exposure, alleg- j, o.c that he lathered a Bill v. hereunder .de-srs Fall and Deuby (ex-Miuisteisi in-.goiiatc-d ihe i.i! lea-ex.

Senator Walsh immediately denied tins and Senator I.eurool. the Administration spokesman, rose also it the Semite in defence of Senator Walsh. thereby widening the breach within the lit publican Party organi.-al inn ('cabled February 21). I he Committer of Inquiry, mennubile ins published a score of telegrams, involving notably Pre.-ident Cnolidge's se( rotary, ami also Air McAdno’s sun, and Mr Palmer, who was the late President Wilson’s Attorney General, all of whom planned to apply unoflicinl press.'it to (iimiiel .Senator Walsh to drop the inquiry against certain witnesses. A 1 r Dougherty (A Itorncy-Ceiiera!). lollowing two White House coiifeiencev I .-day. hurriedly entrained for Chicago 'md Florida, Mipopscdlv upon pressing Government business, stating: •‘‘lt- is nut my purpose to consider even resigning. except after a fair hearing of the