AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS

[IIECTKIIfI TEUECIIIAMS.]

.SI ’A NTS H IH)()T I. K(; (: KI! S. OTTAWA, June 5.

A telegram from .Montreal tin .vs: In the tusk of strikin'' :it the drug traffic. Canadian .Mounted I’oliee have played the part of traffickers themselves. They went to Spain lor the purpose of bringing hark drills. They had them smuggled ihrongh the Custom- at .Montreal, and alter a year's work <ompleted a ea.-e, ill" upshot being the aiipearanee of .Miguel .Molmpieer. Spanish Consul, and Itavmond Torrento. nnother Spaniard, before .Indue Ciisson. I’oliee Sergt. Rro.vii testified that lie was introdiieed to Torrento by Alnhi(pieer. receiving letters of introdiietion to person- in Spain and others who

arranged for bribery of Customs employees. The Consul’s counsel entered a formal protest against the latter-s arrest on the ground of diplomatie immunity. The hearing will he continued on .1 tine 11 th.

Sergt Drown said that during lndcaliugs with the Consul he claimed to he tin American drug importer on a larp;c scale.

the oil SCANDALS. washi.ni ;ton. v

Flagrant disregard of th" lan in th negotiations of the Sinclair and Douglierty oil louses is charged in the repot t to the r.S.A. Senate, which has hem, prepared for the Oil Committee, by its prosecutor. Senator Wnl-h. The Montana Kxccut ive’s order by whieli the late I’resident Harding trail--ferret! the naval oil reserves to the Department of the Interior. i« In Id to have lieen illegal.

The manner in which leases were negotiated seeretlv hv former Seercta >• > Vail is described as linvtng been 01 disregard id' the .Statutes. The leaseare declared to have been indefensibly wasteful, and as "ha;"d on a policy whieli Congress, aloin*. had the .» 11 •- h *. - itv to determine.”

'Vx-Senator Kail's neeeptanee of one hundred thousand dollars Irom Mr Dclieny is elmraeterised as ‘'in th." la-t depree reprehensible." Mr Denl.y (late Secretary to the Naval Department) and A.'sistant-M'cie ary llnoseveldl are exonerated troni any part whatever in the ler-e m '-" tuitions.

HOYS’ .MI'IIDKI! TRIAL. NKW YOltK. June ('■

At Chicago the grand jury votetl the indictments of the youths Leopold and Loch i:n three charges of conspiracy, murder kitlniipping lor ransom and murder.

The Crown asked that July loth be fixed as the date t>l the trial. Leopold, during an attempt In establish his identification 11 "itness. attacked his guard, hut hv was ipinkly subdued. A woman to-day lodged one bundled thousand dollars suit against the youths, charging that they kidnapped and attacked her three months ago. Unprecedented ellorts will he made to stive the youths from the hanging, wherowith each charge in their indictments is punishable. The defence will attempt to prove the youths’ insanity. The parents have enlisted the aid of a number <>l noted lawvers. It is understood h illiam Travel's .Jerome, who, while IJi-li'icl Attorney prn.-eeuteil Harry I haw will lie relaitit’d hv the deteme, wliitTi has already obtained I lie services ol a group of noted alienists, one ol uiiom has epitomised the dcloiice's scientific basis, namely, that over-education and too mill'll mental elfort on the part of an immature brain niton leade to a form of pliychosis that may he evinced in a desire to murder or maim, perversion, kleptomania or drunkenness. An at tempt will also he made to destroy the value ol the accused's confessions as evinced on the giotiud licit thov weie obtained under duress.

The rase- will prohahly resolve it sell into a legal liattle between tliree ol the wealthiest families In America. The Press continues a campaign favouring the inllicl ion of the death penalty as being tile Lest for all eoenern-

C.S.A. NAVAL CONSTR FUTON. WASH INGTO'N, June (i.

The hill authorising the construction of eight scout cruisers and the conversion of several coal-burning luittlesllips to oil burners, has lieen passed hy the Senate. The measure is rocomnionded hy the Navy Department tis necessary to bring the American Navy op to the standard establishment ns part of the eotmtiy’s naval policy. It has already passed the House.

A Mi: It 1C A AND JAPAN. NEW V()I!K. June

A iiii'ssSf'c from {'hostor, I’cmisylviiuiit, Niivs: Karanoske Fuiii. :i Japtiiioso, wlio liiis completed 11 is studies for Christian missionary wo; h. lots refused to aceo) t n diploma from 'ilu* Croze r Theological Seminary os ;i pmtost against tlit- Japanese oNclusioii. luijii in a loiter lo the Seminary authorities saiil: “So long ns such an oxelusion measure is imposed on ns in this so-ealleil Christian country. Ameiieau missionary work in Asia will have a most dillieiilt situation in teaching Christianity." Fujii’s protest is known to have the approval of those niissjon--31 rv societies who have consistently opposed the exclusion measure during the legislative stages, and who predicted its adoption would seriously hamper missionary endeavour in .'lapan. I'.S.A. MIN [STIC I * GOES lIO.MK. TOKrn. ./title O. .Mr Woods, the American Minister, has departed for home. Ife was gi ven an ellt husiast ie puhlic send efl - . TOKIO, dune A. A monster nicotine ‘of protest was held to-day. including re; resente I ire-, of every oflicial party in the Lower House. It adopted a resolution that every step he taken to maintain die Japanese position against America's anti-Japanese Immigration Hill. The 'demonstration was marked hy strong i'eolintr. The promoters intend to o. ganiso a campaign throughout the nation with a view to impress]no . n the people the gravity of the situation CANADIAN TARIFF \NI) BRITAIN. OTTAWA. .1 line *>. 1 At Montreal the Canadian Manufacturers Association minted a resolution requesting the (lovernmeiit to camel the British preferential iarill or increase the Canadian tariff m equalise the difference hot ween Canada and Pottain.