AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

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[ItEUTEIIS TeIECUAMS.]

VOLCANIC nisi Ul{ 15ANCKS

(Received this day at 9.A! a.n HONOLULU, 'day

Huge waves and the heaviest surf since 190(5 were noted here as the result of the volcanic disturbances throughout the Hawaiian Islands. At, some points the water disturbance amounted almost to tidal waves. Slight damage is reported. The steamer Kinau which is being held at Ilona is unable to return here bccaifee (if the heavy seas.

FISHING TREATY RATIFIED. WASHINGTON, -Way 31. The treaty with Great Britain for the preservation of the Halibut Fisheries in the North J’ncifie Ocean, including the Behring Sen, was ratified without reservation to-night.

CRIME MYSTERY CLEARED

(Received this day at 9.2.1 a.m.' NEW YORK. Mav 3

A telegram from Chicago says an amazing crime mystery after the duration of n week had an extraordinary denouement to-day when the State Attorney, Mr Crowe, announced that Nathan Leopold, Junior, fifteen, and Richard Loch, eighteen, sons of a millionaire merchant here mid University students, had toil fessed to kidnapping n»d murdering Robert Frank. the fourteen year old son of a wealthy, socially prominent business man. De-

tails revealed show an unusual criminal planning and desperate fearlessness, they sending a wreath to the

fuiior'il mid even threatening to kill Frank’s sister. Leopold mid T.ocb six months ago deeided on an advent tire to dissipate ennui, and concocted a kidnapping scheme. “We always had plenty of money, they said, hut thought a- little sum of ten thousand dollars might ho useful to them. A

week rgo they picked upon Franks, who was a student at ail exclusive school. They drove up in an automobile and invited him to have a ride. Frank’s lather then received a. note asking for money. The father enlisted police aid. hut the next morning the hoy was found dead and mutilated. Few crimes have aroused such anger throughout the country. Leopold, however, had lost his spectacles whileleaving the body ill nil isolated spot. This proved his undoing.

JAPAN’S PROTEST

(Received this day at 3 a.m.) WASHINGTON'. Mav 31. The text of the Japanese protest against exclusion is published and stresses the measure wholly disregards the spirit and circumstances which underlinine the treaty of commerce and navigation, Japan no longer being able, in view of the exclusion, to continue the undertakings assured under the Gentlemen’s Agieement, tile patient, loyal, scrupulous, observance whereof for sixteen years it appears, has been wasted. Japanese immigration - r into United States is too recent to Permit a judgment concerning the as similahiliy of race The note further declares the pressure of invidious di.scriminations whereof Japanese residents

in some American States have been subjected, have not offered an atmosphere .suitable for demonstrating their adaptability. International discriminations even if based on purely economic reasons, arc opposed to the principles of fairness and justice n i>on -which the friendly intercourse- of nations must l>o dependent. Japan therefore enters it solemn protest against exclusions.

A CHI'ItCH TUNE. NKW A'OIIK, May 31. A telegram from Cleveland say.* something of a devour surrounding the famous English Ritualist suits last winter by Bishops Court when Brown was found guilty of heresy, the Judges being unanimous. Sentence was post foiled until October I Ith. in order to afford Brown time to prepare an appeal. The Court ruled defendant believed to have taught publicly and advisedly a doctrine contrary to that held by the Protestant Episcopal Church of

United States. Brown issued a stute- ' mollt that this, which is the first heresy trial in this chinch, is the lest and means the subordination of every dogma to the progressive .revelation of science. The verdict <was pronounce in the same church where Brown was baptised and ordained, lie was a witness in his own defence and is a benevolent figure witli silver white liaii which flowed over his collar. In a gentle voice lie told how the reading the Haeckel, Darwin and Marx slowly nietnmorphised his beliefs. I believe in the bible but I interpret symbolically The American Churches punishment of heresy may he an admonition, suspension anil deposition.