AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

[Reuters Telegrams.] VANCOUVER, May 2" Finch states the eruption is similar in ferocity to Hint of 1790. It is easily possible to he the cause of the downpour of redhot ashes and boulders over miles of surrounding territory.. Finch advised those not required ft* remain at the hotel near the crater to depart. Flames from exploding gas are emerging from the pit. A lETH ODI ST R ES( BATKINS. (Received this day at 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, Mml 21. Methodist Episcopal general conference at '.Springfield, Massachusetts, adopted a resolution, condemning wains the suicide of civilisation and advocating a world conference of churches to conduct a campaign for peace. The conference also urged Mr C’oolidge to call a conference to consider more liras-' tie international armament reduction, and demanded of wealtli and labour as n counterpart of any further conscription of human life in war.

FURTHER GRAFT EPISODE. A PRINTING SCANDAL. (Received tliis day n( 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 25. Atlantic City reports another remarkable revelation of Governmental corruption made liy George Carter, liend of the Federal Government printing office, who has issued a carefully prepared .statement of twenty-six type written pages, outlining the details of graft, wholesale race track gambling and bootlegging which flourished unrestrainedly among four thousand employees leading to the expulsion of ‘2GB employees, including the Deputy public printer, and the chief clerk. Carter, unconcerned, is still in office. One foreman, a trusted messenger between the office and Capitol, was discovered to he bootlegging for members of Congress. Even hoy apprentices were buyers and consumers of illicit liquor. Race track gambling became a greater concern than work, many women employees being kept constantly penniless, by almost daily losses. Carter’s most amazing charge dealt with the existence, of an oath hound ring within the printing office, which dominated the policies and personnel, persons from whom it sought lavour being favoured, and those it desired removed being removed. Carter was appointed by the Harding Government The printing office’s annual business totals twelve million dollars.

A BOY MURDERED. IR\ceived this day nt 10.10 a.in.) NEW YORK, May 20 The Chicago police are baffled over the murder of the fourteen year old son of the millionaire dacob Franks, who was bold by kidnappers for ten thousand dollars ransom. The hoy’s mutilated hotly was found in a swamp. The parents were ready to pay the ransom. A CHURCH DISPUTE. OTTAWA, May 2d. By a narrow majority the Dominion House of Commons, in committee, postponed the operation of the Church Union Agreement Bill till after litigation in courts started by a wing of the Presbyterians, is settled.