AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 April 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

harpy thaw to be released. (“Sydney Sun” Cables). (Received this dav at 9.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, Apirl 13. Evelyn Nesbitt is lighting every way ill her power to keep Harry Thaw in the asylum as physicians recently declared him sane and Evelyn sees visions of the dissipation of his million dollars and poverty for her twelve year eld son if Thaw is released. She has, therefore petitioned the Courts to keep him under restraint, TEAR GAS AND BURGLARS. f-' BANKS LATEST DEVICE. VNFIW YORK, April 1)3. Tears are the underlying method of a new device to prevent bank burglaries in Chicago. Many banks throughout tko country have installed a system whereby tear gas is released whenever the vault is tampered with. A score of bandit gangs drilled safes recently and.found all they could do was to cry, cry, cry. The only remedy was to rush into the open air. The Orange State Bank in a Chicago suburb was attacked and the dense fumes quickly permeated the building, so that the weeping bandits were forcetj, to lean into a waiting automobilo, leaving tools and cash behind them.

WRANGLING IN U.S.A. SENATE. THE INVESTIGATION FEVER. (Rccoived this dav at 11.25 a.m.) WASHINGTON, April 12. As a result of a day’s wrangling debate’in the Senate, there emerges the prbhb''ity of a comprehensive investigation of prohibition. The Republican regulars, following Senator Walshs and Rjb'.nson’s scathing attacks, abandoned the policy of silence which lias been the rule since the scandals began. Senator Watson, encouraged by president Coolidge’s letter, defended the admiiiistiation, denouncing the internal revenue investigation as a partisan move designed to uncover the scandals iu the prohibition unit, saving : __“Wheii wo voted for prohibition we knew flic law could not lie enforced in live or ten years; but voted, therefore, with the understanding that it would progressively be enforced. There is no use dragging in gossip and scandal having satirical vituperation and aspersion s<) far unequalled. The Committee, if it begins wholesale investigation, will probably not end its labours before the eve of next

election. Mr Heel hereupon offered a resolution to expunge President Cnolidgo’s letter from the records. Senator Walsh followed, calling the letter tiie most arrogant lever transmitted to a legislative body in the history of English speaking people. In the rneanitme, a tabulation of „ Congressional investigations committees show a total of eleven Senate and five House of Representatives, costing iu excess of a million doilurs. with 1 Jiight further investigations asked for A*"""’ in pending resolutions. The Louse of Representatives by 322 •- votes to seventy-one adopted the .lolinson rmmgiratioii Bill, restricting immigration U> two per cent, of foreign born recorded in tile census of 1891) providing for the exclusion of Japancsc. The latter section was incor- * porated in the Bill without even a formal attempt to amend it. thus substantiating the predictions ot certain mem lavs who resented Baron Hanihora’s c.oimiiunication which they said contained unfriendly intimations in the event of exclusion. The section was adopt 3d. Meantime the sentiment of the Beu- ~ ' ate seemed to increasingly tacoui exclusion, several iiiHucntial Senators openly iiinting they would adopt the exclusion provision in order to promptly reduce what they deem foreign meddling in exclusion affairs. Senator King introduced in the Senate a l..solution to empower President Cooiidgu to appoint a commission to co-operate with the League of Nations Commission in drafting a plan io> land, naval and air disarmament. The measure is a democratic substitute for the l’erper resolution, which authorised tlm P trident to call a new disarmaLIICXJT. wood resigns. (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) WASHINGTON, April 14. The War Department lias announced President Coolidge’s acceptance of the resignation of Lieut. Wood, son of General Wood (Governor of the Philippines) «ho is reputed to have made eight hundred thousand dollars in stock speculations during the past eighteen months, while in the service of the Philippine Department.

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