AMERICAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 March 1928, Page 3

AMERICAN NEWS

(Australian Press Association & StinA U.S. NAVY CHANTS. WASHINGTON. March I. The House Naval Committee to-day authorised ilm appropriation of IT--800,000 dollars for the modornisatjon of two battleships instead of 3-1,070,-000 requested by the Navy Department for the renovation of five c apital ships. The Bill increases extra pay for submarine officers while on active duty by twenty live per cent. Enlisted men get slightly more than 2o per cent, their increases ranging from five tc thirty dollars monthly, depending on * length of service. The committee als. approved of n flat rate of pay ol ter dollars per hour for naval divers on gained in salvage operations at a depU greater Ilian 60 loot. The modernisation of the battleship; Pennsylvania and Arizona was author ised, including the elevation of lour teen inch and sixty inch guns. ELECTION* CAMPAIGN FUNDS. IV (Keeeived tins day at 8.30 a.m.l WASH IXOTOX March 1. Will Hays, former Chairman of the Republican National Committee, told the Senate Committee that Smchiir advanced 2(50.000 dollars olf the liean campaign deficit in IP-1. F Hays stated he later returned a hunS thousand to Sinclair, hut the balance of 100.000 was Sinclair’s personal campaign contribution. Mays further declared he did not know if the bonds were those of a mysterious ( ontinent.il Trading Coy. The Mouse Naval Committee approved of the modernisation of two battleships, and also pay increases lor submarine personnel. CANADIAN TAB IFF VANCOUVER. Feb. 1. \ message from Westminster states nfbrooation of the Australian Troaty V. and "immediate application of a dumpincr clause, to hotter under the oxJ port bonus system was demanded in a V resolution passed by the Fraser Valley t .Milk Producers’ Association, the largest in British Columbia. Copies of a resolution, which also opposes the extension of agreement, to New Zealan< were forwarded to the Premier. WRESTLING. NEW YORK, March 1. At Portland in a wrestling match Thye wort from Kafmann, of Oolum- ' bus (Ohio) by two falls.