AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 June 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

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IMMIGRATION LAW

NEW YORK, June 2. Nearly 25,001) immigrants, some of whom arrived years ago, will shortly he deported as the result of a Supreme ' Court decision reversing the decisions , A of the lower Courts, whereby the wife and children of an alien, already admitted, could enter the United States without regard to the quota. The lower Courts unanimously upheld this right, which was first advanced by a Jewish rabbi, who enlisted the greatest legal talent in tho United States to save his wife and children from being deported. .Many immigrants, basing their hopes on the rabbi’s earlier victories, set out for America, hoping to gain entrance, while others being detained on Ellis Island were admitted; but the Supreme Court’s reversal caused an

upheaval. The latest victims are one hundred Italians, arriving to-day, who were on the high seas when the decision was given.

The police were compelled to guard several liners, which were crowded w...i deportees.

THE U.S.A. GLAND ROBBERIES,

TWO YOUTHS IDENTIFIED

NEW YORK. June 3

Charles Ream, a taxi-cab driver of Chicago, has identified Leopold and Loeh as the youths who, in February, lured him to an automobile and rendered him unconscious by the use of ether, lie picked himself up in a swamp where be was thrown after 1:10 gland operation bad been crudely performed on April 7th.

Marvin Wolf, aged 24. the son ».f a Jewish millionaire, went to a corner to post a letter and never returned. A week later his body was fon t I in the sewer, mutilated. The police state they have reason to believe that Leopold and Loeh are involved in the ease.

Julius Rosenwald. President of Sears and Rosebruck, America’s greatest mail order bouse, visited the police in attempting to aid Loeh and bis lurtner in the latter's trouble. The pol.ee allowed him to read the boys’ coniesston, wherein they alleged detailed elaborate plans to kidnap Roscnwald’s own grand son and kill him after experimenting on hint. GRAVE CRIMES. NEW YORK, June 3. The two accused youths, throughout ,•_> hours’ questioning by the police, generally maintained their composure, being apparently secure in the belief that they will escape the consequences of tTioir deeds.

Loeh, though the younger, reveals a persuasive intellectual, calm, answering questions with a wealth of studious detail and ponderous rhetoric. Leopold, who is instructed in ornithology, and is a law student, realises the probable consequ6nccs of bis crime, but Loeh is less informed legally, and be displays extraordinary bravado, in-

timating that money will liberate them aiul remarking that the jurors will be taken care of. Meantime a feeling throughout tho nation grows that the youths are archfiends. subordinating ethics and humane instincts to the pursuit of their monstrous precocious conceptions of scientific research. The ease presents the most startling divergence of criminality ever encountered in American criminal types. NEW YORK, June 3. In connection with the murders by Loeh and Leopold, the police strongly suspect the youths have been responsible for the death of Louis Trace a fellow student at the University of Chicago, who was shot after being (lined to cuter a motor near Leopold’s borne. The authorities also believe tbo youths caused the death of another follow student, whose body was found floating iu Lake Michigan. Further evidence is the publication of a mysterious letter wherein Leopold threatened to kill Loeh if the latter revealed certain unnamed secrets.-

REDUCED TAXATION. WASHINGTON. June 2,

President- Cooliilge has signed ihe--. Tax Reduction Bill. Passed over Ins veto, which reduces the levy of the l’e eral Government on almost every taxpayer and especially benefits those with small taxable incomes. The Bill reduces by ’2.1 per cent taxes on 1923 incomes payable this year. More than a score of excise anil miscellaneous taxes lm vo been repealed within thirty days.

SCHOOL DESTROYED. SAN FRANCISCO. June 2. In connection with the fire at the Hope School. for suo-normal girls. Airs D. Thomas, flic matron, sacrificed nor life in a vain effort to lead the girls from the burning structure. AViltrid Ringer, son of an attendant, was among those killed.

CHILD LABOUR. WASHINGTON, June 2

The Senat'* ap; roved of the constitutional amendment empowering the Federal Government to limit, regulate or prohibit the labour of children under eighteen years of age. The amendment already has lieen tipproved hy the House of Representatives and now goes to the States for ratification.

AN AMAZING VOYAGI'

NEW YORK. June .1. An adventurous voyage by ail Arnerican is reported. Alter heating oft Chinese pirates, floating through two 'typhoons, losing his rudder, eating chowdog and a part of a IG-foot python which he killed in single combat, end making a two-year voyage across tlie Pacific and through the Atlantic in a .Tift junk of his own construction. Captain George Alarde, a Canadian, of Dutch parentage, lias anchored in Shecpsheail Bay. He said be planned to remain until lie i- tired of it. 'I hen' » - he will sail through the Panama Canal lor China, for a farther adventure. ■%:, EXCHANGE DECLINE. NEW YORK, June 4. Exchanges during the past week have been slowly declining. Sterling lias reached 132‘ cents, representing a net loss of 21 cents. Tile franc has touched r, 1 10 rents, suffering a decline in excess of three cents. NEWFOUNDLAND POLITICS. NEWFOUNDLAND. June 3. The defeat of the Hickman Government at .Monday’s general elections is conceded by the administration. Returns available indicate the election of eighteen oppositionists and two Government supporters.