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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 215, 11 September 1929, Page 7

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AMERICAN SCANDAL. " Big Navy" Propagandist's Work To Be Probed. ADMIRALS CLEARED. (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (Received 9.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, September 10. The Senate Naval Committee on Tuesday voted for an investigation into the activities of United States shipbuilding corporations in connection with the international naval limitations conferences. A letter from Mr. E. G. Grace, president of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, was made public from White House. He said that the company had severed its connections with William Schearer, who alleged that he acted at the Geneva Conference .on behalf of several big naval construction firms in an attempt to defeat the disarmament talk, as soon as they determined he was a propagandist. President Hoover, in a letter to Mr. McClintock, a member of the House of Representatives Naval Committee, denied that there had been any connection between Schearer and Rear-Admiral Hilary Jones, now retired, who was one of the United States delegates at the Geneva Conference in 1927. Schearer also denied receiving confidential naval information from RearAdmiral Jones or Rear-Admirals Robinson, Plimkett, Pratt and Wiley.