President Hoover declared that life and property in the United States were less safe than in any country in the world. There were, he continued, 9,000 murders a year in the Union. "Arrests were made only in half the cases, and in less.
than one-sixth of the cases the n.|slayers were convicted. Compared of with Great Britain, taking int account the difference in population, there were twenty times as many.
muners in the United States and least fifty times as mary rol-beries.
President Hoover admitted that prohibition had increased the volume crime, but declared thet, out of and other provinei standstill owing to the flames vading the track, while telegraphis communications have been cut off.
Up to the present there has been no loss of life-—Reuter.
San Sebastian, The forest fires on Mount Dual in the Pyrenees, mentioned day, have been brought under control, except in the vicinity of the town of Irun, on the Franco-Spanish frontier, where they are still raging The heat of the contagration: the neighbourhood of San Sebastian can be felt in this town, although the fires are ten miles aw Te Hague, Apr. 18.—The Second Chamber, by 48 votes to 43, to-day adopted a bill granting a bonus to the Dutch beet-sugar industry for year, from September, 1929, to September, 1980, with the proviso that this should not exceed 12 for. ins per hundred kilogrammes, It ig estimated that the grant will cost the Government 4,000,000 forms Reuter. the total number of felonies last year, under eight per cent. involved the Eighteenth Amendmest.
There were two immediate problerss confronting the Government, he added, namely, to investigate the existing agencies for enforcement of the law and to re-organize the system of its enforcement—Reuter. tary's present stock holdings viol the old which forbids, Secretary of the Treasury to hay any direct connections with trade tee the Secretary Reports by the Secretary: of the
merce and the Secretary of ture were shown to members of th agricultural committee of the upper house, which vonsidercd the faye relief Lill. These reports all chee Tengeed the economic. feasibility. of the debenture vian in the bill mitted by Senator MeNary. ever, St was explained, the debentuya plan was included in the appre hhoase measure since President Hoover did not personally oppose ite—United Press.
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