AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1925, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] SENATOR LA FOLETTE DEAD. (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) WASH IXGTON, June 19. Senator La Colette died this afternoon, from heart failure, induced hv a general breakdown and an attack of bronchial asthma. WASHINGTON', June IS. Senator La Collette, who was 70 years of age, started life on a Wisconsin farm. He climbed his way through most of the State offices to Senator of United States/ which he has held for twenty years. The climax of his career was reached when lie entered the last Presidential campaign, polling five million votes aaginst Coolidgc and Davis, as an Independent, for which he was later ousted from the Republican Party and deprived of seniority honours. Since then his health has gradually failed. It is lielieved the strenuous campaign hastened his end. La Collette was the instigator of the sensational Teapot Dome investigation. ITALY’S WAR DEBTS. WASHINGTON, June IS. .Mussolini has officially notified Britain and the United States that Italy is ready to open war debts negotia tions.

FALLING LIRA. NEW YORK, June 18. A new low record for the Italian lira, was established to-day. A CHURCH NAME. OTTAWA, June 18. A message from Toronto states the General Council of the United Church of Canada has instructed the executive council to register a formal protest against the use, by any religious body of the titles of any of the churches entering the United Church. The action is a direct challenge to the decision of those remaining Presbyterians to call themselves Presbyterian Church in Canada. CURRENCY CONTROL PROPOSAL. OTTAWA, June 17. The suggestion that Canada should recommend to the League of Nations concerted action by the members to stabilise price levels, through the control of currency, is made in a. report filed in the House of Commons hy the Banking and Commerce Committee.