AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1928, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS.

MURDER SUSPECTS ARREST. STEPS TO PREVENT DISORDER. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph--Copyright). (Received this day at 8 a.m.) HONOLULU, September 22. At twilight to-night the peal of a siren on the Aloha 'Power summoned the National Guardsman to duty to prevent disorders in connection with .the arrest of Miles Fukunaga, tin twenty-year-old Jap, who the police state is suspected of being the slayer of the ten-year-old girl, Jameson. Threatening crowds jammed the streets in the vicinity of the police station, where' the suspect was being questioned.

Fukunaga said: “I’ve been a had boy and .1 want to toll it to mother.” As, the police . batons protected him from the mob, be said: “ What does if matter? Let the crowd get me. 1 don’t care.”

DRAMATIC SCENES, (Received this day at noon.) HONOLULU, Sept. 23. A dramatic sc«ne was enacted behind the gray lava walls of “Oihana Makai,” the Honolulu police station, as Miles Yutnke Fukunanga unfolded step by; step the crime story o,f his kidnapping and killing of the girl Jamieson. , Fukunaga said he had a hard time killing the girl who fought fiercely, being almost as strong as the slayer. ■ Meanwhile firemen with levelled streams of hose lines forced, back the infuriated mob while the National Guards were mobilised. The city was a scene of .pandemonium, automobiles dashing 'wildly through the thronged streets and armed men hurrying hither and thither. Major William llcopie, commanding the National Guards, stated that at seven in the evening the situation was under control. It had also been arranged for the American Legion to render assistance if necessary. Fukunaga had marked September 25th. on the calendar as the- day of surrender.

FLORIDA DEATHS. NEW YORK, Sept. 21. A message from West Palm Beach says the Florida hurricane deaths reached 1085 .to-day. FLORIDA DEATH ROLL. VARIATION IN ESTIMATES. i NEW YORK, Sept. 22. A message from .West Palm Beach states: Governor Mert'in estimates Florida’s total deaths as the result of the hurricane at fifteen hundred, • following on an inspection of the devastated area.

A NOTABLE ENGAGEMENT. NEW YORK, Sept. 22. Her engagement to Sir G. Wilkins, the noted explorer (who is an Australian) was announced by Afiss Suzanne Bennett herself. Sir G. Wilkins, who has sailed for ATontevideo, whence he will join a whaler and will proceed to Deception Island, the base for bis Antarctic exploration flights, has .refused to discuss Miss Bennett. lie admitted, however, that it was true, but said that no date for the wedding luid been set. NEW. YORK, Sept. ,22. When interviewed, Sir G. Wilkins declined to confirm or deny bis engagement to Miss Bennett. Ho added: “We are very good friends, but I cannot say anything this time.”

ANOTHER. MURDER. NEW YORK, Spot. 22 '[he Detroit police fear that Arthur Ruben, the Secretary of the Motion Biotue Operators’ Union, one of the strongest Labour organisations in Detroit, has been slain by kidnappers, who abducted him from his office yesterday.

Ruben was actively engaged in a factional tight in the Union’s ranks, with a private detective agency involved. He was attending his business undei the protection of an armed guard, bul eight armed men entered his office and forced the staff of twenty to hold up their hoPds. They then, carried Ruben away, presumably to his death.

- THE TARIFF ISSUE. NEW YORK, Sept, 22. A message from Hardin, Ahmtana, states Air Curtis, in a political address comparing the position of wool in the United States under the Underwood and Forduey-McCumber Taridis, said the imports of clothing wool wore more than fifteen times less in 192'i than in 1921. Ho said the arguments that the tariff increased the cost of American clothing wore groundless, and added he saw no reason why the excess of Imports over exports of wool, which in 1927 reached 2*85 million pounds, should eon tin we with, millions (if acres of hind available for raising sheep. He cone luded that in July. 1928, a pound of wool raised by the American farmer bad 39 per cent, more purchasing powv:m- of no'n agricultural commodities than) before the war.