AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. THE BOX PEACE PLAN. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. In answering the Senatorial charge of propaganda and the allegation that the winning peace plan was chosen by a packed jury, Mr Box has announced his offer to let a Senate Committee itself select a suitable plan from among the 22,000 submitted if?" the recent contest. Mr Bole added that he would pay one hundred thousand dollars to the author ol the plan thus selected and defray all expenses in n nationwide referendum thereon. Hu*

aso offered, in all respects, to give tho committee plan the same financial support as he accords the present play. Mi- Bok explained that the offer was influenced by the intimation at a committee meeting that he was predisposed to a particular kind of plan which he denied. THE SHOOTING OF DINES. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 A Los Angelos telegram says that there appears to he a conspiracy to suppress evidence at the preliminary x, hearing of the case against Horace Greer,” Mabel Nonnand’s chauffeur, charged with shooting Cortland Dittos. This was the statement made by Judge Walter llanby in a declaration which was evoked by the lailurc of Alabe I Normand and Dines to remember a number of tilings in connection with the case.