AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1924, Page 2

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[Reuters Telegrams.] EASY HONOURS. DEGREES BETWEEN TRAINS.' NEW YORK. Afay 13. According to a despatch from Hartlord, graphic testimony respecting the character of the Kansas City Aledieal College was offered during the hearing, iip.in appeal, of 20 phyis.icians, whose licenses to practice were withdrawn fdlowing the national .scandal of fake di-

plomas. An export medical investigation declared that the janitor at the eollego kept the attendance roll, while only three of the 30 members of the faculty went near the college to draw their salaries.

Another witness declared that the college was a harbour for derelicts from everywhere. A otorinarians arrived in Kansas City by one train and actualy left by the next, with medical degrees for which they had paid 203 dollars.

A witness who examined the college building found it liltTiv and eomnletoIv lacking in equipment and facilities. The appellants, who were present in Court, angry at the revelations, ami attacked the witnesses with their lists. A fight ensued and detectives were compelled to beat several of the physicians into submission.

CASKS OF CORRUPTION. WASHINGTON. Alay EL The various Congressional investigations which are steadily going on have revealed several interesting incidents of corruption.

The Shipping Board Committee learned that vessels which cost millions were secret!y disposed of for a twentieth part of their value. The steamer City of Eos Angeles, upon which 2.382,000 dollars were spent to convert it into an oil-burner, was sold for 100,0‘K) dollars, being appraised for the Board by a member of the firm which purchased it. The Daugherty Committee learned from a former agent oi the Prohibition Enforcement Service that efforts to firing influential violators of the \ olstead Law to justice had been frustrated, and cited various eases in which guilty persons had been permitted to gain freedom upon payment of lines. Witness drew a picture indicating that Ohio was less dry than before Prohibition. He alleged that the Department of Justice took no action. A witness in the war fraud rases stated that he passed bribes aggregating many thousands of dollars to agents disposing .of surplus War Department Limber, which had been used in tho construction of cantonments.

IS IT RELIGION lNEW YORK, -May 11. A telegram from Lebanon, Pennsylvania, says that, following the ravages ol’ diphtheria within the Faith Tabernacle (cabled on Alay 4) the State medical authorities entered the colony and forcibly administered anti-toxin to the affected persons, and established quarantine, and they are now hopeful : f -eon checking the disease, which, within three weeks, has caused nine deaths. Five of the victims succumbed within a single family. The authorities endeavoured to persuade the mother to rcceive_Jiiodic:il treatment herself, with her' four surviving children. She at first declined, but subsequently submitted to treatment, but she refused to give her verbal consent. The officers were obliged to use force upon several other resistant parties, one of them offering* opposition so sfremioiisly as lo oblige the officers to initiate a formal prosecution to compel him to submit to treatment, because of the danger of infecting tho, neighbou rs.

JAP 'VARSITY IN CALIFORNIA. SAN FRANCISCO, Alnv 14. A telegram from Sacramento, California, says that to create a hotter understanding between Japan and tho United States, the American horn Japanese propose to establish in California tho first Japanese University in the country. The articles of incorporation were filed to-dav, the headquarters being in Sail Francisco. A sum of 12.240,000 dollars has been subscribed for the establishment of the University.

CABARETS CLOSED. NEW YORK. May 1L Eight P,roadway cabarets, including the most prominent ones. reports “White I,’ight” district, halve beell closed for a year under the “padlock’’ provisions of the Prohibition Law.

CO-OPERATION NEEDED [RiariT.its Ttu.EuitAMS.]

fitoceivcd Ibis <lay tit 0.0 a.in.) NEW YORK. May In ' "Unles-s Britain and United States co-operate to forward peace, there wjH he no peace,” said Air W. Al. Hughes, j addressing the English speaking union jof United States. “There can lie no j peace on all this broad globe, without j the co-operation of the English speaking peoples in these countries, to which Providence has given sovereignity over half the human race. This, lacking peace is Imt a baseless dream.”