AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 January 1925, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

[Hkotehs Tei.eouams. 3 arms conference. REQUEST TO PRESIDENT. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m ) WASHINGTON, .fanuary 21.. "Without discussion. <i record vote* of the Senate- accepted the amendment to tile Naval Bill, requesting President C oolidgo to call another arms conference. It has been indicated recently that President Coolidge did not consider the time ripe Jor such a. conference in the administration and Senators find been expected to oppose the amendment as untimely, hut they did not explain their failure to do so.

Secretary Hughes was called upon today by the Senate for a copy of the Paris reparation agreement and such information concerning the circumstances surrounding tUe negotiations as may be. necessary to a. full understanding of the terms.”

U.S'.A. FLEET’S VISIT, NEW YORK, January 21. Admiral Fiber has returned after a two weeks’ sojourn at Washington where he conferred with Messrs Hughes, A\ ilbur, Hoover and Howard and met the President and Commissioner. TTe discussed with Mr Wilbur the projected visit of the fleet and furtner advanced the suggestion that the delegation of American business and professional men should visit Australia with the fleet or arrive there at the timeiof the fleet’s arrival. Both Mr Wilbur and Mr Hoover heartily endorsed the proposal which will lie further considered following the Senate’s fiction on the Naval Appropriation Bill. Mr Wilbur informed Admire Fiber that lie had asked the State Department to communicate witlij the Australian Governor-General through the British Embassy, the details of the itinerary of the fleet in order to enable the Australian Government to perfect plans for its reception. Admiral Fiber everywhere found great enthusiasm for the Australian visit and a deep friendship for the Australian, people.

KING OK I! CM HOW. HOW OFFICIALS WEEK HOODWINKED. (Received this dav at 9.25 a.i11.) NEW YORK, January 21. As an instance of the ingenuity of the bootlegger in hood-winking the officials, Roy Olmstead, formerly chief Prohibition officer at Seattle who two years ago turned bootlegger, lias made his fortune, becoming the Rum King of the Pacific Coast. His successors in the Government service assigned their host woman detective to entrap Olmstead. Sim succeeded so completely that she married him and turned over all official secrets to him.. The Government, which was chasing him on liquor import;:, allowed him a broadcasting license, for he had gained a great reputation along the .Coast by rending lied-time stories to children. The Court proceedings showed that these were code messages from his Rond to his rum-running ships operating between British Columbia and American cities between British Columbia and American cities. When the radio announced that Peter Babbit rail into the forest, it meant that an American revenue cutter was leaving Seattle next morning on a, scouting expedition.