U.S.A. AFFAIRS

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 December 1940, Page 7

U.S.A. AFFAIRS

JOHNSON ACT REPEAL [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] WASHINGTON, December 14. The chairman of the House of Representatives Military Committee (Mr. A. J. May), announced that on January 3, the first day of the new Congress, he will introduce a bill to repeal the Johnson Act, which he termed “punitive legislation.” AIRCRAFT CARRIER. NEW YORK, December 14. At Norfolk, Virginia Hornet, the first of eight ne\y" r..rcraft carriers under construction, -has been launched at Newport News. It carries 83 planes. ARMY RESERVISTS. WASHINGTON, December 14. The War Department has ordered the mobilisation of 28,739 Regular Army Reservists by February 15. NEW LOAN’S SUCCESS. WASHINGTON, December 15. Mr Morgenthau has announced that subscriptions for the five hundred million dollar note issue total 4,073 millions. ATLANTIC PATROL. \ NEW YORK, December 14. The United States Navy starts a daylight air patrol of New York’s sea approaches on Sunday, thus supplementing the destroyer neutrality patrol. patrol will extend 75 miles over the Atlantic, filling a gap that has heretofore been existing between the shore and the destroyer route. MEXICAN NAVAL BASES MEXICO CITY, December 14. It is announced that the Mexican Navy plans to build docks and aerodromes on Isla Margarita, in lower California, and also on Isla Mujeres, in the province of Quintana Roo, and Isla Pichilingue at Baha La Paz. The Acapulco docks will be lengthened and an aviation base constructed at Zihuatanejo.