AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

[Reuters Telegrams.]

TO 11X ADO CATA ST 1U) PH E. NEW YORK, May 27. At .Jackson, in Mississippi, a tornado swept simultaneously litany sections of the State during the night, killing 12, injuring hundreds, damaging property, and destroying crops. Communication with the stricken areas is impossible, because the wires are down. Kails were torn lip. ami several of the smaller railway stations wen* totally wrecked. All the local hospitals are reported to he tilled, ami the death roll is increasing hourly. The Red Cross are rushing to the relief of the villages, many of which are lompletely devastated, causing extreme suffering among the inhabitants, who were unable to It ltd. shelter during the night, nor escape the path ot the slut ill. A later report slates the total of dead lias reached 3L in Alabama and Mississippi t.l.ieii .States represent the (.outre < f the storm area. Rains, al'niiiing cloudburst proportions, following in the wake of the tornado, increasing the destitution of the inhabitants, and impeding the relief. Many localities Mere, in adtiiluii, swept by cyclonic winds, which completely demolished the ruins 101 l by the storm.

AMERICA AND JAPAN. TON'D, A lay 27

The Foreign Minister Malsui informed the Japanese Press that Ambassador llaniliara will return shortly from Washington, adding: !he Ambassador lias not been recalled, hut is returning to explain the immigration situation to the Japanese Government.

F.S.A. METHODIST BAX. NEW YORK, May 27

At Springfield. Massachusetts. the Methodist Conference, during a stormy session. adopted the resolution (cabled on -Ith. May) whereby the Methodist hail prohibiting dancing, card playing, theatre and circus going is partiaiiv lifted. The resolution requests the Methodists hereafter to refrain only from such divisions as cannot he partaken of in the name of Jesus Christ, and concludes with a warning against too frequent attendance at even blameless amusements, on pain ol expulsion from the church.

FIGHTING CANCER. ; NEW YORK, May 28. The City of New York has opened a Municipal Cancer Institute providing free treatment under the direction ot Hie foremost practitioners. The clinic has the latest equipment, operating rooms, research laboratories and X-,-ny rooms, with a therapy machine of 200,(210 volts. The Institute aims at discovering cancer in its iiiciiK*nt>. Doctors are being urged to send thither patients having growths that cannot he positively diagnosed. These, it proved cancerous, will he readily curable in the early stages. _ ' Dr Stewart, President of the New York Medicine Debating Clinic said: Cancer annually kills one hundred thousand people in the United States, exceeding the death rate of tuberculosis. In the city the cancer sufferers in 1!)23 exceeded BLOW. of whom fillTl (Fed. 1 regard this institute as a instinct step forward, and nmhdentiy awnit the discovery and cure of cancer there within a few years. - KA RTMQFA K K DISASTER. NEW YORK, .May 28. Port-au-Prince, in Haiti, reports that a:i —irthouakc -lrck wrecked building:) at Porte Do Pair;, killing three and injuring several. ' , , A church steeple was domnhsuco, . and the gendarmerie barracks were ■ badly damaged. The shock lasted ton . seconds. U was distinctly fell nl the capital, from which aeroplanes were sent to the affected city. • ;