AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1930, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS

y . ' WHEAT PRICES, ■ (United Pre«a Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, September 23.' Correction: —Winnipeg prices slumped after opening the market upon the rumour that October wheat was dropping under the twenty year level to - 742 cents,, ADVICE TO FARMERS. WASHINGTON, September 23.: Chairman Legge, commenting on the t ,4* wheat situation, exhorted farmers to V use feed wheat for cattle in the place of maize “to end all this excitement.” WHEAT POOL. OTTAWA, September 23. • A message from Winnipeg states mysterious unfounded reports, which were quickly denied, that the Cana-. . dian wheat pool was in a. shaky l financial condition and would be taken / over by Western Provincial Governments, sent-wheat down two and . thre*.quarters to two and half cents, i. per-;bushels. October wheat'closed at ’the; year's record low level of sev- .. entv-three and a quarter, November NOTORIOUS GANGSTER. *hi« day at 9.40 a.m.) VANCOUVER, September 25. v A message from Philadelphia states: . Jack Diamond, the notorious gangster,, deported by England, France, Bel-' ginm and Germany, arrived home. ' He was met by a, welcoming committee of three Philadelphia lawyers, thirty detectives and an automobile load-, ofarms and tear gas bombs.