AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1925, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

auitralian AND N.Z. GAULS ASSOCIATION. BIG GIFT FOR EDUCATION. NKA\ YORK, February 21. Hr Siiiom Guggenbcimor, former U S.A. senator, and one of America's richest men, prominent in the copper mining industry, announces a gift as a preliminary, ot three million dollars for founding and endowing fellowships for advanced study abroad. 4be Inundation is so comprehensive that it will probably rank next to the Rhodes Scholarship. It is a memorial to bis son who died in 1922. It-offers young men and women worldwide opportunities under most free conditions to conduct research in any field ol knowledge and opportunities to develop talent in fine arts, including music. The scholars ages are to be 2-4 to 35, but no age. Units are laid down. For each scholarship 2500 dollars yearly will be available and more may be advanced. Air Guggenbeimer lias enlisted Air F. Aycdlotte (Swarthinort College President) and Secretary for the Rhodes Trustees in America aod ether Rhodes Scholars to conduct the foundations. The scholars may study in Australia. 4he aim is to supplement the Rhodes Foundation. 4'herc are no race, colour or creed exceptions, and American residents of any nationality can become, scholars.

THE TRAGEDY OF PROHIBITION. CORRUPT OFFICIALS’ END. '."Received this day at 8.30 a.in.) NEW YORK, Feb. 23. Aliasing from Kansas City since Wednesday the bodies of Herbert Lovejqy and Goerge Peters, formerly Federal detectives, who bad been chasing bootloggers, have been found. They were murdered with tho obvious evidence that fearful torture was applied. Kerosene was sprinkled over the bodies, which were set on fire and dumped into a bole. Blazing timbers found to be deeply charred were thrown in upon them.

Lovejov’s tongue was cut out. Peters was also mii tilated. Anonymous letters to the Chief of Polico declared the men had raided scores of moonshiners, and seized their liquor, and had sold it in Kansas City, without making reports to their superiors.