AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAJILE ASSOCIATION. JEWELS RECOVERED. NEW YORK, Feb. 15 The police are recovering much stolen jewellery by a unique method. Mrs Sehoelkoph, wife of a Buffalo brewer, attended a swell hall in 1922 wearing £50,000 worth of jewels, which acre luLor stolen. The police arrested Alfred Mohan, keeper of a fine New York jewellery store, hut were unable to prove anything against him. He finally promised, if given his liberty, lie might do something. When assured the police were not following him, he disappeared for days at a time and always returned with some of the missing jewels. First he found £20,000 worth in a fruit jar, and later returned a third batch, nearly completing the total recovery, U.B.A. NAVY. NEW YORK, February 17. The “New York Times” Key West (Florida) correspondent says the Board cf Nava! Engineers has declared four of the eighteen capital ships of the United States Atlantic fleet unfit for fifty, and has ordered them to he retiied. They are the Wyoming. Utah. Arkansas, and Florida. These have such antiquated generating plants that they are unable to make more than 12 knots. The vessels require new boilers. not having been refitted in this respect since they were constructed in 1919. Congress has repeatedly rejected a proposal to appropriate approximately one million dollars required to recondition the vessels. It is believed now that Congress will he compelled to protide the funds to convert them into oil burners.