AMERICAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1928, Page 3

AMERICAN NEWS

A SHOCKING TRAGEDY. (United Service.) (Received this day at 12.2.3 p.m.) VANCOUVER, .May 29. Amazing kidnapping was disclosed at Toledo when Dorothy Sielongski’s battered Ixxly was found after she had been stolen from her bed. Dorothy, aged 7, was sleeping in the same room as her two sisters, when the kidnapper entered and snatched her struggling from the bed. The sisters screamed and the father aroused, ran into the street where a motor ear speeded away with the crying child. Twenty minutes later her body, beaten to death, with a hammer, and also strangled and with teetli marks in the legs was deposited upon the front porch of her own grandfather’s house, the fiend escaping a second time.

TJ.S. POLITICS. (Received this day at 11 U a.m ‘ NEW YORK, .May 29. Newspapers in the past few days have been full of accounts from the Middle West depicting a hundred thousand fanners are ready there to lay down their implements and march upon Kansas City to present an ultimatum to the Republican Party on the question of farm relief. There is no question that just now farmers feel ready to do tills, but on July 12th there will bo no hundred thousand eleven a single thousand encamped farmers before the convention doors. A dispatch from Chicago to-day states that farm organisations throughout the west are choosing a committee to send to Kansas City to present the following thesis: “The party is facing the greatest crisis in its history, and if Eastern Republican leaders will listen to the voice of the west and heed the demand for economic justice, a victory will follow, but if they continue indifferent to the needs and rights of the maize belt and farming states, if they force nomination of a candidate opposed to farm relief, no matter who he is, then defeat is invited and disaster will •-..’f0110w.” Such a committee undoubtedly will be present at Kansas City. A similar committee came to Cleveland / camped tillers of the soil is too highly imaginative ever for American politics. Both technical experts and more moderate Democrats agree that Mr I Coolidge was wholly right in vetoing tlie MeNary-Sangen Bill. They say that the farmer is sick and needs a doctor. Then Congress in the form of this hill sent a crystal gazer to diagnose agriculturalists disease, and the President rightfully kicked the magician down the front steps of White House, but a great cry from the west has its political roots in the quicken jnded ness of Hoover’s enemies in - once again concentrating their attack upon him. Hoover is against this bill therefore Lowden’s henchmen have shaken the farmer wide awake and said to him that from Hoover lie can get as little as from Coolidge. Hoover is in a quandary. If he wishes to get Coolidge’s personal support, and this is an important factor, lie cannot reply to liis enemies. It is interesting to note that Senator Burtes who announced his candidacy and pleaded that he is the friend of the fanner, also voted against the bill for the reason that he is Coolidge’s friend and would like to get Coolidge’s personal support for Ins Lowden, with Dawes as a so-called “dark horse ” behind him, thus again looms as an important figure. The question is what will Lowden he able to do at Kansas City. Thus it is that the farmer has the unique opportunity of becoming a pamZU of the Itenubtan Part*. not because he is loved for himself, hut because he can he used by one faction of the party to defeat another. The Democrats meantime look wit broad satisfaction upon the row in its neighbour’s house, for if it K''°' vs tense enough it may mean a victory for The Democrats frankly never liked the corruption issue, too much, “machine politician” among the Democrats is looked upon as a two-edged knife.

CANADIAN POLITICS. OTTAWA, May 29. Bournssa to-day withdrew his amendment for supply in external affairs. MINISTER IN A DIVORCE SPIT, (Received this day VANCOUVER. May 29. Rev Samuel 'Robertson Orr a Non Zealander, who was called to the pu ,n of a leading Vancouver chu eh. la. named as co-respouden by Joh Gordon Fleck, in a suit for dno.ee against his wife. Orr continues *> conduct religious services am lie can vindicate himself. . FIRST MINISTER. OTTAWA, May 29 - The Premier intimated in the Com mens that Phillippi Roy (Canadian Commisioner in Paris’) would probably -X bo the first Minister to France. QUEBEC- FLOODS. OTTAWA. May 29. Liter reports deny that the loig boom broke when Quebec villages were flooded.