AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1928, Page 6

AMERICAN ITEMS.

LIBEL ACTION. W. R. HEARST PAYS DAMAGES (United Press Association—By Electric Tclegrapl).—Copyriglit). WASHINGTON, December 25; A mesngo from Jersey City states that Mrs Francis'Hail, and her bro■tberi Willie. Stevens, have: discontinued their libel action against William Randolph H.earst, upon a handsome payment’by the: latter for libelling them, in connexion with charges that they murdered the Rev. Edward •Wheeler and. Eleanor Mills, the choir leader in Mr Hall’s church. Hearst’s tabloid newspaper pursued them with extreme ferocity through the most sensational maze of evidence but. the jury freed them. COSTLY HIGHWAY. BOSTON TO NEW YORK. WASHINTON, December 25. A message from Boston says that plans have been forwarded for the construction of a four-lane motor-car ’highway from Boston to New York, •which will cost £100,000,000. i MEXICAN JUSTICE. NO SUMMARY EXCTJTTONS. .... *• ' •* MEXICO city; Dec. 26. President Gil has issued an order for 'the abolition of’summary executions, announcing that’ respect for human ■life would be strictly enforced in Mexico, where even rebels must be tried formally henceforward. A BIG ESTATE. NEW YORK; Dec. 26. Judge Albert Gary (late Chairman of United States Steel Corporation) who died on 15th. August 1927, left an estate of slightly under thirteen million dollars. P A N-AMERICAN. CONFER ENCE. . ‘ ' WASHINGTON, Dec. 26. - The text of the protocol whereby 'the.; .pan-American Conciliation Con'•ference hopes to settle the BoliViaParaguay border clash, was cabled to the disputing Governments to-day. ; ‘An answer is not expected before 29tb ■December, - but the conference deb*, indicated they boned to announco.. a peaceful *md' satisfactory 'solution of the dispute before Nev • Year’s Day.. They also declared .-both '.Governments were agreed on the basic points needed to reach a. settlement.