AMERICAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 March 1928, Page 3

AMERICAN NEWS

/ (Australian Press Association & Sun.) A FOOLISH REPORT. VANCOUVER, -March 21. A message from Bongor, .Maine, states it was reported 011 Tuesday afternoon that a Canadian aeroplane searching for HinehclifFc sighted what was believed to he wreckage and two bodies, on a mountain in .Mouschcad Lake region. The searchers were hit. able to land in the rough country. VANCOUVER., March 21. A further message from Bongor Maine, states a detective has traced ( the Mincht-liffe rumour to a joke by n woodsman. 1 ( RADIO LICENSE REFUSED. 1 i (Received this day at 8.50 a.m.) 1 OTTAWA, March 21. : I The International Bible Students Association were refused Further radio broadcasting licenses, because of their lectures containing controversial roligious matter. Half a million signatures 1 to protest are sought in an aerial appeal. The matter is to be aired in the 1 Commons. The refusal is declared to ‘ bo an attack on free speech. NAVY APPRO PR lAT lONS. WASHINGTON, March 21. The annual Navy Appropriations Bill reported to the House to-day provides for the largest expenditure since before the Washington Conference, a total or 309,190,259 dollars. It includes a fund for continuing the .construction on ten vessels now building and modernising - two others, including the gun elevation. 1 the beginning of work on two new dirigibles, building two more submarine 1 salvage vessels' and additional aero- ’ planes, and maintaining marine corps 4 in home activities and Nicaragua and China. The Committee says it can see 1 no prospect of declining naval costs in ' the near future and all indications point * to. an appreciable upward trend. Thu t large outlay in 1929 is explained by the < fact that all the eight ten-thousand-ton cruisers authorised in 1924 will be under construction at one time. Looking into the future with an eye on . sixteen new vessels recently autlioi ised, the report declared the funds required • would swell nil aggregate of future appropriation bills, to sums considering in excess of the total bill now presented. The total direct appropriation is jihmu twenty million dollars above 192 i, but with appropriations already authorised in an urfgent deficiency bill at the prosent' session, the increase will be nearly forty-fliree millions. NAVY DEBATE. WASHINGTON, March 21. The present bill does not carry fuiuls 1 for the new programme. Its pmui pal feature is that aviation gets the lion’s share, totalling 31.315.000 dollars or an increase of over oO per cent, on 1027’. Tlie ppropriation committee publishes in the report testimony grv- ' tM . at the bearing and it transpired, that Mr Wilbur and other naval officers rejected the proposal of Chairman French, of the sub-committee to cut the expenditure by agreeing with Britain and Japan to de-cotnni.ss.on part of the fleets. Air Wilbur contended that ship operations were needed m order to keep the crews in training. SHIPPING CHARGES. VANCOUVER. March 21 The Cornish steamer Tromendow, under Capt. Tregoniug, arrived to-day in ballast from Australia to load wheat for Britain. The captain reported that wheat was available in Australia for the load home, but loading expenses in Australian ports were so heavy it l JK was cheaper to send the vessel six r thousand miles to Vancouver to load practically at equal rates. He blamed the Australian income tax and Height duty 011 goods consumed in port. REVELATIONS PROM ISED. WASHINGTON March 21. Senator Walsh called a special' meeting of the Senate Teapot Dome Committee, upon receipt of a despatch from El Pass (Texas) that Air Fall had announc'd he was ready to tell the whole Teapot Dome story when his doctors informed him that he had onlysix or seven montljs more to live. Air Walsh said the sub-committee would probably be immediately authorised to go to Texas and take Fall’s J~ testimony. Fall said: “I have never been a liar but I have never been in a position yet where I could go on a stand and tell the whole story, every word of it. ' want the public to know my story.”