AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 February 1930, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS

PRESIDENT OF MEXICO.

SHOT IN JAW.

(United Press Association—By Electric

telegraph—Copyright)

NEW YORK, Feb. 5

A message from Mexico City states Pa.scual Ortiz Rubin was wounded in the jaw by a would-be assassin,' who fired on him a few hours after being sworn in to-day as President. The bullet was extricated and his condition is not serious.

A further message from Mexico City states six shots were fired. The President’s wife was grazed and a little nic.cc, Opelia, Ortega, was slightly wounded. A bystander was also hit. The assailant was arrested.

U.S.A. CAPITAL

EXTRA PRECAUTIONS AGAINST

CRIME.

WASHINGTON, February 6

President Hoover has announced that “at any urgent request,” Major General Crosby, of the United States Army, beginning on March 21st, will assume command of the police and allied services in the district of Columbia as “a guarantee to the official and unofficial residents and to the nation at large ithat the capital of the nation will bf'free of organised crime.”

CANADIAN AFFAIRS. VANCOUVER, Feb. 5

Hon T. R. Crearer. former Farmers’ leader, was elected by .ac-lamatioit, Dominion Minister Railways, succeeding Mr Dunning, who' succeeded Mr Robb, the late Finance Minister. ■ The action of the four Prairie Provinces’ Governments guaranteeing farmers 15 per cent, to support margin accounts with brokers, to-day averted a panic in the grain markets through the threats of brokers to unload a huge supply of wheat.