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Hokitika Guardian, 29 February 1928, Page 3

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j (Australian Press Association & Sun CHICAGO'S MENACE. NEW YORK, Feb. 28. v As a protest against alleged city | maladministration in Chicago, tin Church Federation appointed Marcl: Till as. a day of public prayer, and adopted a resolution declaring conditions in Chicago such that the ballot box was wantonly violated, and life and property in a large measure was . unsafe, the homes of citizens were f menaced by bombs-, crime, graft and . corruption, besmirching the city’s good . name. Moreover, the evidence seems i clear that there Is a partnership bei tween criminals and some officials, • manifest by hundreds of gambling . joints, vice dens openly tolerated by negligent officers. PRESIDENT COOLIDOE. WASHINGTON. Feb. 28. Mr Coolidge feels there is nothing in tlie modified na'al programme likely to alarm other countries, but rather it will be regarded throughout the world as exceedingly moderate. The President holds that nothing further can be done towards sea disarmament b,v agreement among the three leading naval powers until 19:!l Treaty Conference, and that as the pre-ent United States programme is below three hundred thousand tons cruisers, which the American delegation set as a minimum at Geneva. Conlcrence and which British and .fapanase considered too low, the programme therefore will meet the approval of Britain and Japan. Meantime the House Committee has changed the Bill to read that all sixteen vessels planned in the programme must be laid down in three tears, but not necessarily completed within six. GIMME'S ROUT. NEW YORK, Feb. 28. Grime bus been scheduled for a return bout, with Garcia at Baltimore on 12th March. Grime’s manager states the bout cabled on 2nd February, should have been a decision for Grime, but was called a draw, due to a mistake in one of the judge’s figures.