AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1925, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

[Reuters Telegrams.]

MOTOR RACING RECORD. (Received this day at 12.110 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 110. At Indianapolis Pete De Paula, a nephew of the famous Ralph De Paola piloting a .Duexcnhcrg special created a new record at the thirteenth annua! £0.9 miles automobile race before 145,000 spectators, which is the largest assemblage ever witnessed at a. sporting event in America. Penny Hill was second and Phil Shafer third. Do Paola. drove all the way, |r time being four hours fifty-six minutes tiiirty-nine and a half seconds, this being an average of slightly more than 101 miles per hour, which is nine minutes better than the previous record. 'Twenty-two drivers started.

A KIDNAPPING PLOT. MARY PICK FOR I) TO HF, VICTIM. /Received this day at 8 a.in.) NEW YORK, May 20. News from Los Angeles states that three men have been arrested in connection with an alleged plot to kidnap .Mary Pieklord. The detectives state that the men arrested had been shadowed for two weeks. They planned their disguise as “ Shriners." now in convention here and to operate from a ear decorated with Shrine colours. Miss Pick ford was to have been forfeit from her automobile while hound for her home from the studio and her chauffeur sandbagged. The kidnappers planned to demand one hundred thousand dollars per day following her abduction, increasing the demand as the search spread. Miss Pieklord was selected alter Pola Negri, Buster Keaton and others were considered. Mjss .Pickford, in co-operation with the police, went through her picture work during the week as usual, her home also being heavily guarded.

Adrian Wood, one of the men nr routed gave details in a signed confession.

TRANSMITTING PHOTOGRAPHS. NEW YORK, June 1.

ITni<(no tests of n new use for t lie frimsniissioii of photographs liy wire were niado in Ghieagi, Now Aoi k and Atlantic City simultaneously and successfully. The action of a mail’s heart was photographed in New A oil; and the picture immediatelv transmitted I>v wire a thousand miles to Chicago. Thence a. diagonsis was made by a heart expert and was promptly broadcast by a physician to Atlantic City convention hall, where Aniercin.li medical members were gatliereil there. Fifteen hundred doctors compared the broadcast with the cone thrown on the screen nt the elect 10 Stethogram or chart of the heart heat ( ,nd the cardiogram of the heart action taken in New York two hours earlier. The convention noreed the test opened up amazing possibilities.