AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

[Rkutkrs Telegrams.]

RUSSIAN PURCHASES OE COTTON (Received this day at 9.2 n a.m.) NEW YORK, .Tune 12.

An all Russian textile syndicate announces that Russia has purchased forty millions dollars worth of cotton from the United States since the first of the year.

FIRPO’S FATHER

[ R KUTK its Telegrams.]

(Received ton’s dav at- 9.2 n a .ni ) BUENOS AYRES. June 12. Unis Eirpo’s father lias been release! from o private insane asylum, beiu-j declared sound mentally by the medical officials. The pugilist’s father said he had been unjustly detained in the asylum at the instance of his son. POOLS IN CANADA. (Received this day at !).•(."> a.m.) OTTAWA. June 12. The crops from approximately eleven million acres in Alberta, Sa-kati-bew-ail and Manitoba farmlands a ill be sold this year through co-operative pools. The farmers board of directors ill threo provinces meet soon to discuss the possibility of orgai i-ing a joint central selling agency to prevent overlapping in their effort to produce economy in the administration. UNANIMOUS FOR .MR COOLIDGK. NEW YORK. .Tune 12. It is arranged to nominate a candidate for tlk‘ Vice-Presidency this afternoon when the Convention will adjourn.• Not in many years has the Republican Convention come so near unanimity in the selection of a Presidential candidate. The call of the States was scarcely half over when the necessary mamajority to nominate was recorded in Mr Coolidge’s favour. VICE-PRESIDENCY, (Received this day at 12.110 p.m.) CI.i;VKI/ANI>. .Tune l'J. ‘Louden, a former Governor of Illinois has been nominated as Vice-Pre-sident bv the Republicans.