AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1928, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS.

CHICKEN MIXTURE. BOYS’ BODIES USED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Oopyri gli t). NEW YORJK, September 25, The formula for the mixture of chicken feed, found at Riverside Chicken Farm, Los Angeles, where Gordon Northcroft was accused of the murder of '.four boys, was disclosed by the investigating officers as conthining evidence indicating with startling horror, it being alleged the degenerate youth after killing his victims with an axe, cut up their bones and bodies and fed them to the chickens, the mixture listed being so many parts of bran, wheat, bonemash and then the little boys two and a-half parts. Colour has been given to the authenticity of this recipe from the fact that only shreds of the bodies so far have been obtained. GOVERNOR SMITH. BITTERLY ATTACKED. NEW YORK, September, 24. A report from Warren, Ohio, states that the bitterest personal attack upon Governor A 1 Smith (Democratic candidate for the Presidency) thus far made by an important Republican Official was to-night launched by Mrs Willebrandt, who is assistant Federal Attorney-General ~and one of Mr Hoover’s closest advisers. In an address before a group of Presbyterians at Warren, Airs Willebrandt declared: Governor Smith’s policy of “retreat” on prohibition is in line with his “years of Tammany training.” She alleged that Tammany always protected saloons and said Governor Smith’s Tammany connection was a serious reason for opposition to him. She also said: “Smith has not enlarged the horizon of his early life and has used forces of Tammany and the underworld as stepping stones with inevitable political obligations thereby imposed.” She quoted 'from the Encyclopaedia Britannica to back her statement that Tammany was an organisation of’ “corruption, blackmail and vice.”

AMERICA’S NAVY. (Received this day at 11 a.m.) WASHINGTON, September 25. Air Coolidge is proceeding with his programme on the assumpton that the pending Naval Bill authorising the construction of fifteen cruisers and one aeroplane carrier will pass Congress this session. The Bill was approved by the House last session, but was crowded out. The President understands it will be taken Up shortly after Congress is convened, and will be enacted law. • ”