AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS

, AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION CANADIAN TEAM FOR AUSTRALIA. OTTAWA, January 21. A Winnipeg message states Unit Folloivini! on tlie receipt of the Sydney despatch ace: ptiiL 1 Canada’s terms for a tinir of Au..t:a!in. an official of the D-miiuioi: I'octh.i 1 ! At-cciation A.iLd that they ■■urt ,'ratihtd at the rei.ren.t----1 com aR sections of Canada for representation in the All Canadian team. Mr Davidson. Secretary. announces that over one hundred names lmvo been submitted, including, twenty-eight from Montreal, twenty-two from British Columbia, sixteen from Saskatchewan, fifteen from Alberta and fourteen from Manitoba. The officials declare that the final selection of the team will not be made until the complete details are received! - roni the Australian Association. U.S.A. OIL SCANDAL. TWO DEI’A RTMENTS INVOLVED. iTtoceived this day at 0.0 a.m.) WASHINGTON. Jan. ill. The appearance of A rebibald Roosevelt, a son of the ox-Rresident, before a Senatorial Committee investigating the lease of (iovernment owned oil lands to private interests promises to precipitate a widespread scandal, involving two Cabinet Departments. Roosevelt, who is an employee of the oil company which secured the leases, testified that upon the advice of bis brother Theodore, who is Assistant- , Secretary of the Navy Department, be (Archibald) resigned bis position in order to protect the family name, and he intimated that he was dissntislied with the manner in which the leases were secured. Roosevelt’s evidence added further complications to the ease in which insinuations ol bribery have been freely made and much damaging testimony adduced. The facts ol the ease, briefly, aie that A. 15, Fall, ex-Seeretary of the Department ol the Interior, baling obtained jurisdiction over these oil lands from the Navy Department, which held them as naval oil reserves, leased them to the Sinclair Oil ICbmphny. (Exports estimated the lands contained twenty-two million barrels of oil. The Navy Department received payment for only J,600.000 bn rrels. MEXICAN REVOLUTION. NEW YORK. Jan. ‘2'2. A message from the Tampico states Mexican Federal troops have captured Guadalijara. the capital of Jalisco.