MONEY PASSED.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 224, 21 September 1929, Page 9

MONEY PASSED.

: BIG NAVY SCANDAL. r Disclosure At American Seriate Investigation. SHIPPING MAN'S ADMISSION. (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (Received 10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, September 20. American shipbuilders spent £23,600 t in. seeking the passage of the Jonesl White Merchant Marine Act of 1928, Mr. ' Clinton L. Barbo, president of the New 1 York Shipbuilding Corporation, testified ! on Friday before the Senate Committee ' investigating the activities of shipbuild- [ ing firms at the 1927 Geneva Naval t Conference. i The inquiry was brought about by the big navy disclosures against Mr. William Schearer, who was alleged to . have acted at Geneva on behalf of shipping firms in an attempt to defeat ' naval limitation. i Mr. Barbo said that Schearer had been paid about £9350 in all by the NewYork Shipbuilding Corporation, the New Port News Shipbuilding Corporation, | and the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Cor--1 poration. He said that Schearer had not b<jen authorised to get into* the cruiser fight at Geneva. He asserted that the shipbuilding companies now .employ Frank Lord as their representative at Washington to keep them informed, to run errands and to get the facts not carried by the Press. He insisted, however, that Lord had no authority to -interfere with the legislation.