AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

lUBTHALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. ARAI.AAIKNTS AND DEBTS. NEW YORK, Aug. 30. President Coolidge has matte it know n that lie will assert all the rights given the t'nited States under the treaties made at the Arms Limitation Conference with regard to tlie elevation of naval guns. He states that he would loathe to make any movo which would stimulate further competition between the nations, feeling that foreign countries .should pay their debts to the United States before spending additional money on armaments. N.Z. STFA.MFR LOST. NEW YORK, Aug. 30. The oil tanker “Orowaiti,” 1 (dunging to the New Zealand Union Company. which recently ran on the rocks off Point Sal, on the coast of California. lias been given up as a total loss. WRANGLE ISLAND. VANCOUVER, Aug. 30. A Seattle message states Colonel Hroome, advance officer of AlacLaren’s (light, informs United States naval officers that a vessel named “Rod October” flying the Russian flag and carrying a company of infantry was seen sailing through the ice from Petropavlovsk for A\ rangol Island, with orders to take all the inhabitants prisoners, seize all the shipping and establish Russian ownership of the Island. 200 DELEGATES POISONED. NEW YORK, Aug. 30 Over one hundred women delegates at the American Legion Auxiliary Convention at Worcester, in Massachuotts, wore suddenly stricken with illness. Tt has now been diagnosed as ptomaine poisoning. The seizure followed on a banquet on Thursday. The condition of twenty-five is described as serious, but not dangerous. Virtually every ono of the two hundred delegates needed modioal attention.

CLEAN UP WANTED

U.S.A. ADM IN ISTR ATI ON

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29

Senator Wheeler, who is a eandidato for the Vice-Presidency, has renewed his war on "the Daugherty Gang,” in public office. In a formal statement, Senator Wheeler dea,lt with affidavits allegedly made in Atlann penitentiary by George Remus, the Ohio "Bootleg King,” repudiating his sensational testimony last spring befoiw the Daugherty Committee: “The testimony before the Investigating Committee.” the Senator continues, “has disclosed that the present Warden of the Atlanta penitentiary was a close friend ami a political associate of Harry Daugherty. This incident makes it clear that President Coolidge still has house-cleaning 1° do.”

HERRIN SENSATION. NEW YORK. August 30

Telegrams from Herrin, in Illinois, stile that six men were killed and several were injured in a clash in the streets. Troops have been ordered to the .stent’. It is believed the shooting was the put-growth of the trial of Carl and Earl Shelton for the slaying of Caesar Cagle, si Kill Kltix Klansnuiu in tlie rioting last February. Tho shooting occurred two blocks from tho Courthouse. and started when two motor ears passed each other, men from each at once opening fire.