AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1925, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

*U«TKALUN AND N.Z. OABLS ASSOCIATION. YANKEE MUDDLEMEXT. (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. The Republican leaders opposed to the activities of the Aircraft Investigation Committee suddenly stilled the inquiry thereby creating widespread astonishment. The Committee peremptorily announced to-day that it bad adopted, in executive session, the resolution to bold no further bearings. The Committee will draw up its report during the summer and present it to the C!)th. Congress in December. It is understood pressure from the House leaders, heads of Departments, and others lias been exacted to stopthe hearings and the Committee was also notified the House would not appropriate more money for the investigation.

The .Committee, at present, lias no money available, llcfore concluding it voted against the proposal to ask Secretaries Weeks and Wilbur to bold a special bombing test on the North Dakota to settle the dispute whether aircraft can sink a battleship with bombs. The latest development is interpreted as due to the fear among the Administration leaders of uncovering further scandal along the lines of the oil investigation. ft is not believed, however, that stifling tfie Committee’s inquiry will end the matter, as public interest everywhere is extensively aroused anil the press is manifesting the keenest attention in it.

ANT (-TOBACCO CRUSADE. NEW YORK, Feb. 22. The Metropolitan newspapers have opened an editorial attack against the movement. “Evening Telegraph” comments on the apparent mildness ol the piopagandist and says the question arises, “how long can any reform movement stick to suasion and avoid politics?” Apparently the tobacco crusaders do not yet 'feel that they arc strong enough to lie impudent. The “Journal of Commerce’ says that apa rently the reform workers are asking what can we do, anil now those interested in producing, selling and using tobacco may well regard the move*"jncnt with more seriousness than on_ tie surface it seems entitled to. Had a similar position been taken up twenty years ago with regard to alcohol the country might not have bad to undergo the humiliating experience of the present conditions. . ' The “Evening World” says the purification of the people by legislative enactment has been so brilliantly successful in the ease of prohibition that another forward movement is launched to end the tobacco habit. I here must be an organisation like the anti-Salonn (League with headquarters, officers, held agents, lecturers and publicity These must be put on a salary. A lane all they want funds to carry on the great Work that is of primary importance.

SEEKING ANCIENT ClT'l'S. RIO JAN TCI! 1(), February 22 Other expeditions besides I‘awcelts tore /operating 711 tins eonti lent. A despatch from Lima says two a lele.it cities, one Inca ami the second of P- -• ]ncn origin, were discovered m the mountains near Curco, including store buildings and a temple in the mountains.