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Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1926, Page 1

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[by telegramt—per tress association.] NEWS BY RADIO. WELLINGTON, May 31. The following new items, broadcasted from tits New York “Times’s” building by the Australian Press Association, were picked up by Mr Shrimpton (junr): NEW YORK, May 31. Evangeline Booth, Commander of the

Salvation Army in the United States is dar.erously ill, and yesterday suffered a serious relapse. Physicians. however, hope for her recovery. At,Marion. Ohio, the corner .stone of the Harding Memorial Tohih, honouring the late President Warren Harding, who died in office, will he laid to-day. Fifty thousand persons will attend the ceremony. News from Ithaca (Now York) .states that Leonard M. Spear, a local resident, who was hitten by a diamond hack Texas rattlesnake in the Cornell University Laboratory on Friday, lias a good chance of recovering. Two doses of antivenom serum, sent from the Bronx Garden, New York City, was administered to him. The serum was rushed by train and''car to Ithac i a. WASHINGTON, May 31. President Cnolidge. in dedicating a monument to John Fricson, designer of the famous Monitor naval vessel used in the Civil War, and which revolutionised naval warafre, paid a tribute to the greatness of the Swedish race, of which Kricson was a member. The Crown Prince of Sweden was present in his official capacity at the dedication ceremony. The most notable wedding that Washington has yet seen, took place on Saturday at. noon, when Alisa, only daughter of Senator Mellon. Secretary to the Treasury, was married to David Bruce, eldost son of Senator Bruce, of Maryland. President and M-s Coolidge were present at the oeromony. The Northern Baptist Convention meeting here placed on record its support of the Anti-Saloon League ; r. the present phase of the prohibition fight.