AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association,j AN EAIBARGO ON AIRPLANES. WASHINGTON, January 28. Secretary Air Kellogg, to-day restored the U.S.A. embargo oil the shipment of aircraft to Mexico. CRIAIE WAVE. U.S.A. PROBLEM. NEW YORK. Jan. 29. At Chicago, the National Crime Commission met to consider means to reduce the crime wave in U.S.A. It was 'attended by various noted public men, including tbe ox-Seeretary loi War Mr Baker, ex-Governor Lowden of Illinois, and the Police Commissioners of more than twenty large cities. The Commission paid special attention to tho use of firearms by criminals. Air Baker asked whether the Police Commissioners knew of any cases where citizens had really helped themselves bv using pistols for sellprotection. . _ Tho police answer was uiianiniousl> in the negative. _ . Among the suggestions made tor tne curbing of the dissemination of arms were the imposition of ai two hundred per cent tax on all machine guns sold by American manufacturers and an embargo on the importation of such weapons, save by tbe Government; the prohibition of tho use of the nibils to send arms; the prompt trials and the drastic, certain punishment of gun carriers: the manufacture and sale ot all arms to be under Federal supervision, keeping records of every gun manufactured from the time it is made to the moment it is sold ; and the deportation of aliens found carrying arms. Air Lowden stressed the punitive phase of crime control, citing figures to show that 59 per cent .of the crimes were inadequately punished. The police officials testified that the machine guns, the newest and most etiective weapon of the American gunman. were now being sold openly by ostensibly reputable sporting goods anil hardware iklnlors. In certain States political influence was used to obtain permits for criminals to carry firearms legally.