AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 July 1929, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY. IN A KANSAS TOWN. (Per Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). NEW YORK, June 28. A message from Topeka, in Kansas, states that a young woman, unassisted, and with a revolver that is believed to have been unloaded, forced a citizen to .drive her to the Security Benefit Association in a busy , part of the city, where she intercepted two employees of the Association, and took from them a satchel containing fourteen thousand dollars! She said: “Drop that package or I will blow your insides out.” She fled on foot into a nearby, building,, and escaped, discarding the revolver, which was found to be without any cartridges. ANTARCTIC CLAIMS. NEW YORK, June 30. Henry Kitteridge Norton, a well known publicist, writing in the “New York Times” on Antarctic claims, cabled sth April, states: “ The United States might reasonably set up a claim to the section of the Antarctic 6f what is known as Wilkes Land. It is like British claims, more or less indefinite in extent.” The. writer then outlines Secretary 'Hughes opinion in 1924 that possession does not support a valid claim to sovereignity, unless the discovery is followed by valid settlement of the discovered country and concludes: “While this position may be considered acquiescent in that it sets up no claim to American sovereignity on the Antarctic continent, it should not be overlooked that its reasoning would deny British claims to a large part of this area.” ' T , : 1 A CHICAGO OFFER. \ LONDON, June 30. Immediately on the retirement of Wensley, it is announced the Chicago police authorities have cabled offering Wensley a post iti an advisory capacity with a view,., elf strenuous efforts to clear Chicago of gangs of murderers and thieves'. .„ Wensley is awaiting the arrival of the agent, who is bringing the'.details of tho offer. ' , LONDON, June, 30. Wenslcv’s retirement from the head of the Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard, ends the career of a man whom Sir Richard Muir described as the,greatest detective of all, time. • ' ; N , ' / , ,