AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1929, Page 6

AMERICAN ITEMS.

NEW RELIGIOUS CULT. (United Press Association—By Electric felegr a ph—Copyright). (Received this day at 9. a.m.) NEW YORK, October 7. Los Angeles police investigated the weirdest religious cult following a confession by Martha Rhoades that the body of her daughter, aged 16, who died of diphtheria four years ago, had been carted from a dozen different houses and finally buried with seven dogs underneath a suburban dwelling. The police dug up two caskets and found the woman’s story correct. The body was fairly well preserved. Mrs Rhoades and her husband c were members of a new cult called “Royal Order of Eleventh Branch Headstone of Seventh Church of Joshua.”

Seven dogs buried with the girl wore symbols of the power of resurrection.

WASHINGTON, October 7

Mr Hoover and Mr MacDonald following their return hero to-day issued a joint statement: —We have frankly revealed all questions that might give rise to friction between our two peoples. Gratifying progress has been made and the conversations are continuing. OLD CITY DISCOVERED. / - NEW YORK. October 7. A message from Belzie, in British Honduras, states Colonel Lipdbergh flying yesterday over the once broad empire of ancient Maya Indians, in Yucatan Peninsula, discovered indications of a large ruined city which hitherto had been unknown to science. FIRF.i POWER CONFERENCE. WASHINGTON, October 7. The State Department late to-day received from General Dawes, in London, a invitation from Britain to participate in a Fire Power Naval Conference in London in January. The invitation is similar to that extended at the same time to Japan, France, and Italy.