AMERICAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1928, Page 3

AMERICAN NEWS

(Australian Press Association & Sun.) U.S. NAVAL PROPOSALS. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. Representatives of peace religions and church organisations appeared before the House of Representatives Naval Committee and opposed the suggested naval programme as a menace to world peace. The deputationists declared the agitation for a huge navy was creating distrust of United States among other nations, particularly Britain and Japan, which might end in war, if the programme were carried out. Doctor William Hull, of Swartsmore College said: “If you gentlemen could only talk with American people outside of Washington, you, too would he amazed and startled by the hatred for English people which is already flaring up, stimulated by this projrosition. Doctor Arthur Brown (Secretary to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions) repeated to the committee a 1 great amount of hearsay evidence of an alarmist nature which he claimed he had received from the American navy and army officials, to the effect that in certain circles war between America and Japan was considered inevitable. U.S. TRIAL. NEW YORK, Feb. 15. News from Los Angeles state the trial has commenced of Hickman and his youthful companion, Wei by Hunt, for the murder of a chemist, cabled on sth. January. FINANCIAL. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. The Federal Reserve Board announced Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank will raise the re-discount rate from A.) to four per cent, on Kith. February. SENATOR’S JNTRODUCTION. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. Senator Robert Wagner introduced a resolution calling for senatorial investigations into unemployment, which according to Wagner has assumed very serious proportions.