AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

[Heutkks Telegrams.] SECOND AIDS CHAIM.IE (HAULIN' AMENABLE TO SCHOOLING LAW. (Received this day ;it 10.2*5 a.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2. A telegram from I .os Angeles say. that All's Charlie Chaplin (nee l.ita drey) until recently the film comedian’s leading woman, i.s still subject to California’s compulsory schooling Jaw, being hut sixteen years old. IdQUOB LAW VIOLATIONS. WASHINGTON. December 2. Liqotir law violations in the National capital detected by the city police totalled 1 1,01 M for the last li.scal year and 0.0111 were arrested for intoxication. Afore than twenty thousand gallons of high power illicit beverages were seized. Liquor violations have increased by 1211 arrests over the previous year.

CANADIAN El N A NCI KILS GAOLED. OTTAWA. Decemehr 2. A further group of Canadian financiers in high positions were sent to gaol in connection with the failure of the JJome hank.. Chains Barnard, a millionaire of .Montreal and a corporation lawyer was sentenced to two years for authorising false returns to the Government during the filial two years of the Bank’s existence. Colonel Clarence .Smith received, one year and Sydney .(ones, auditor, four months.. Ocean Smith, chief accountant, had his sentence suspended because he gave the Government every assistance during the prosecution of the directors. The losses of the depositors exceeded three million sterling.