AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

[Reuters Teueukamh.J GOMPJSRS AGAINST FA EM EHLABCHJR PARTY. NEW YORK, June. 10. It is understood that in the event of Senator l>a Folette not being designated as the Farmer-Da hull rites’ Candidate for the Presidency, they will mono ■ Mr Parley Christensen, who was the Party’s candidate in 11)20. The American Federation of Labour has. Jong a ,f o repudiated the parmerJ.ahourites, whose melldtershi]) includes _>- every variety of Radical, especially the I. IV. AY. The chief importance lies in the fact that the various so-called Third Parties will inevitably mean weakening Bepulv lican and even the Democratic strength thus increasing the possibility that no Party will secure a majority, the Klectoral College tlmreupou putting the choice of President upon Congress. s.mcggdkd drugs SEIZED. NKAY YORK. June Id. Drugs valued at mure than two miilion dollars were seized on a truck coming from a. pier at Hoboken, New Jersey The seizure is said by agents ot the Treasury Department to have uncovered one of the most elaborate and cflcctive schemes ever divulged in connection with the smuggling of narcotics. DR. GDO A* MR.’S C’DATAIS. XFAY YORK, June 18. Addressing the Medical Association at Butte. Doctor Glover, said: “prom every type ol cancer, I have been able to isolate, in pure culture, the specific organism, which, when innoculatcd into health animals, produces this disease. Afterwards l have recovered the organism again in pure culture from these animals. I have also been able to render immune, healthy animals, against cancer organisms which may he described as gramositivc bacillus. Tt forms u small coccus-like spore which passes through the finest lieikfeldt idler. The serum preparation is similar to the one used for diphtheria antitoxin. My research shows that cancer is not herditary." e