Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1921, Page 2

- SAYS L. . BEST AID FOR HUNGRY RUSSIA Ex-Gov. Goodrich Reports te , Secretary Hoover Results of Survey. The United States is in a better po- sition to help in the relief of the famine areas of Russia than any ether country, according to a report today to Secretary Hoover by former Gov. James P. Goodrich of. Indiana. who has just returned from a six weeks' survey of the famine area In the lower Volga valley undertaken at the request of the Commerce Secre tary. About 25.000,000 bushels of grain are needed for the immediate relief of hundreds of thousands of People, who will starve unless some measure of help is forthcoming, the report said. “The situation ceedingly seriou: “On account of the drought almost total {ailure of the W rye crop in the lower Vol ,000,000 Russian farmers th a famine and many hund thousands of them will st ideath unless help is extended them at a very early date. in Russia i ex- Mr. Goodrich said. and the heat and er.’ In the Russian farmer. conservative by nature and individualistic in his deas, lies the hope of Russia. Amer- fca, with its vast surplus of food products, is in a better position to help these Russian farmers than any other country. The only hope of these beople is that America should furnish from 00.000 to 20,000,000 bush- «ls of corn and 4.000.000 to 5.000.000 hushels of seed wheat to feed the adult population of the Volga valley and to sow the millions of acres of land plowed and ready for seeding next Spring. o “The American Relief Administra- tion is doing splendid work and will foed 1.200.000 children in the famine aistrict until next harvest. 1f the parents are permitted to die of starva- tion and the land lie idle we again will be called on to help another vear. If corn and wheat be furnished for food and seed after next July the Russian farmer can take care of him- self.” Must Prepare at Once. Mr. Goodrich added that the grain for food would have to Teach Russia by March 1. the seed wheat by April and the seed corn hy the middle of April, but preparations for supplying the grain would ‘have to begin at once in order to permit .of its trans- portation in time for relief. The former Indiana governor paint- ed a vivid -picture of famine condi- tions in the lower Volga valley and declared that men. women .and_chil- dren were combing the land for “famine weeds,” which were tied in bundles, for food for both man and bea. - ile the people were starving in great numbers, he said, the fatallstic attitude of the Russiars was evident. but the Russian farmers impressed him as singularly similar to the American farmers of the middle west. HEARING RESUMED IN ALIENATION SUIT Testimony Today in Graham- Humes Case, Involving Half- Million Damage Claim. Testimony was Tesumed today be- fore Justice Staftord and a jury in Successful Naval blimp C 7 pointed Its nose out of the south shortly after 10 o'clock this morning, circled the city, and éame to earth at the Anacostia naval air station to complete success- fully the first flight ever attempted with hellum gas in lleu of hydrogen. The blimp, like a huge silver cigar. came proudly around into the wind and settled down with the ease of a veteran at 10:20 o'clock, completing |llle trip from Hambton roads in three hours and forty-tbree minutes, under udvérse weather conditions. _She braved a snow flurry on the last forty [iles of her trip, which left the kas himmering and shi v |she landed. e The crew. which included : Lieut. Commander Zachary Lansdowne, com manding: Lieut. Commander R F. [Wood, Lieut A T Sewell and Chief Machinist G. C. Ferris, were suffering slightly from the effects of the cold weather, hopping to the ground with benumbed hands and chattering teeth. Commander Proud of the Ship. “I'm proud of the ship.” said her commander when she landed. “Hellum is g great product. It may not have the lift that hydrogen gives, but it gave us no trouble whatever during this flight. We came up in nice time, but were never more (han 300 feet high on account of the condition of Ih: weather. It's a great product department _ visited morning. These included Rear Ad miral Moffett and Assistant Secre- tary of the Navy Theodore Roose- velt. Both congratulated the com- mander and crew on the success of the flight. Hot coffee awaited the crew, while batteries of photographers held them up for snapshots and motion pictures. A naval plane went up and circled the blimp to secure motion pictures of record for the completion of the flight. The air ship departed Hampton roads at about and was expected to arriv base before 3:30 o'clock. the ship th again_for 12 noon at the number of oflicials of the Navy | Naval Blimp C-7 Circles the City; Test of Helium Ga THE EVENING The C-7 is the fifst lighter-than- alr craft in the world to maké a flight inflated with heliua gas. Practically the world's entirs supply of this gas was carried in the silver bag. The Dbig advantage of the helium is that it is nonsexplosive, while hydrogen is high-explosive. Static or electric connections provide no liability for explosions in a hellum bag, nor is there danger of ‘ignition from _sparks of motor exhausts. Probably the greatest disadvantage.in the use of helium is its cost of pro- duction, its availability and its buoy- ancy compared to that of hydrogen. Hydrogen, with 100 per cent purity and under standard atmespheric, con: ditions, has a buoyancy of 70 pdunés per 1,000 cubic feet of air displaced, while helium under similar condi- tions has 64.4 pounds lift. “The Navy malntains a helium plant at Fort Worth, Tex., where helium is extracted from natural gas by com pressor systems. It is required that a plant of this character be located where there is an abundance of gas and also an abundance of water for cooling the numerous compressors. The natural gas. after passing U. S. NAVY BLIMP, FIRST IN WORLD TO UI?]% HELIUM. MAKES R OLK. through this plant becomes a purer illuminating gas than before, ‘when it is then returned to the gas com- pany for commercial use. The natu- ral gas is first passed through lime, which ves carbon_dioxide; it 18 then liquefied, leaving nitrogen and helium gases, which are drawn off nd _further compressed, thereby liquefying the nitrogen and leaving jum, which is drawn off and compressed mto cylinders and placed in storage for shipment. Ships Especiully Relfable. he class C ships, under which C comes, are twin engined, and especl ly reiiable for patrol and convoy work. Their dimensions are: Length, 192 feet; maximum diameter of en- velope, 41 feet 9 inches; maximum height, 60 feet; maximum width, 53 feet 7 inches. The envelope has a designed volume of 181,000 cubic feet. Their fixed weight ready to fly is 7,940 pounds, leaving the balance for disposable welghts consisting ~ of crew, gasoline, oil, navigating equip- ment, radio, food. drinking water, ballast, bombs, guns eyc. By the Associated Press. OYSTER BAY, December 4.—The - 0ld Santa Claus who gladdened the hearts of Cove Neck school tots at Christmas time is gone, but the task of carrying the toy bag has descended upon the shoulders of his son. _Twenty-five years ago the late Theodore Roosevelt played Santa Claus for the children ‘of Cove By the Awsociated Press. BIKANER, India, December 5.—A religious fire dance was held for the Prince of Wales as part of the program of entertainment given during his stay here. Bare-legged natives danced through the embers of ‘a great bonfire built in the quadrangle of the fort. As they danced they sang wildly and snatched up portions of the-flery mass which sthey placed in their mouhts. A shower of sparks fol- lowed their footsteps and the heat T. R., BELOVED SANTA CLAUS, GONE; BUT SON WILL CARRY TOY BAG NOW Neck School. for four of his own tots were pupils there. And then it became a joyful habit with him to don the red and white suit and long whiskers so well known to little folk. Each year at Cove Neck the chil- dren wrote to tell Santa what they wanted. and Mr. Roosevelt carried the gifts to them. The Santa letters written at Cove Neck this vear have been sent to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt at Washington. BARE-LEGGED NATIVES ENTERTAIN PRINCE OF WALES WITH FIRE DANCE | of the fire could be felt ten yards away. Subsequently they piroutted before the prince, inviting inspec- tion of their legs and feet which were apparently moist and cool. Several members of the prince’s staff burned their fingers at- tempting to pick up some of the embers. Nautch girls danced, and a jug- gler danced on swords, spikes and saws for the edification of the royal visitor. The entertainment was completed with the singing of “God Save the King" in the Mar- gar tongue. [ Sidelights on the Conference, the half-million-dollar alienation nhitl Soiie o GHGROTARREIAL Savie naRit= of Lieut. Lofimer C. Graham, U. 8. N. against A. L. Humes of New York. a wealthy lawyer. Mrs. Jessie Grand~ jean, now of Yonkers, N. Y., who was employed as a tfained nurse at the Graham home in December, 1913, tes- tified that Graham's treatment of his wife, while she was recovering from u serious operation, was 8o harassing that the nurse cautioned him that un- less ho desisted he would cause the death of Mrs. Graham. Deposition Is Read. deposition of Michael Glennan, a banker of Norfolk, who has sued Graham for $50,000 damages for. al- leged alienation of the affections of Mrs. Mary Black Glennan, his wife, was read to the jury. In the course of his testimony a letter was read in which Mrs. Glennan notified her husband of how she and the child were enjoying their visit to her par- ents at Princeton, N. J., in 1918 A postscript to the létter attracted the eve of Judge Wright. counsel for Lieut. Graham, and he cailed the at- tention of the jury to it. The post- seript read: “Lorimer Graham spent the night ‘here as‘he was motoring through to Spring Lake.” The law- yer pointed out that the wife made ho effort to conceal the visit of Gra- ham and so wrote her husband of it. Judge Wright succeeded 4n suppress- ing portions f the Glennan. Attorneys Wilton J. Lambert, M. E. Harby and R. H. Yeatman, for the de- fense, have taken the deposition of Henry D.- Flood, representative in Congress from Virginia, who is ill at his home. The deposition will be Tead later to the jury. NEVER LET HUSBAND COOK, WARNS ADMIRAL Chinese Tells Women That Re- sultant Independence Would Prove Fatal. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, December 5.—Admiral Tsai Ting-kan, senlor adviser to the Chi- nese delegation to the Washington armament conference, digresged from routine In an address here yesterday to suggest whimsically that a woman who would keep her hysband never should permit him to learn to cook or mend his clothes. “It makes the husband independent of the wife, and that is fatal,” he said. The emancipation of women in China was the admiral's theme in speaking at the Boston Community Church forum. Later, at the Phillips Brooks house, at Harvard, where he addressed the Harvard Chinese Students' Club, he asserted that China would not recede from her stan? ‘hat Shantung be re- tdrned unconditionally. He urged his arers to spread the doctrine of & 'square deal for China. “The installment plan of house fur- nishing was originated by a Baltimore furniture man. Former Kaiser To Wed Widow of High Officer, Reports In Berlin Say. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, December S.—Ac- cording to the Zwoelfuhrblatt,’ former Emperor Willlam has decided to marry again. The Iady of his cholce, the mews- paper says, is tl widow of Bigh officer from Dansig, who was killed in the war. The newspaper professes to have received the information from a mont trustworthy souree. testigony of | idor ed olive-drab and labeled “For official use only,” which have been assigned to the various delegations attending the conference, at first were distin- guished by little flags, which their drivers attached to the radiator caps. Now all are made easily distinguish- able by an official badge-in the form of uniform circular metal tags fas- tened just inside the windshield. Each disk is painted in with the col- ors of the flags of the various na- tions. A delegate or other official comes bounding out of the offices in the War-Navy building and at a glance can pick out from the long walting line the car that is assigned to his use. At the bi¢ dinner given by Am- FRENCHNAVYPLE P THS WEEK Ambassador Jusserand Con- | fers With Mr. Hughes Re- garding Vital Parley Issue. BS the Associated Press. Jules Jusserand, French ambassa- at Washington and one of | France’s armament conference dele- gates, called on Secretary Hughes to- day to inquire when the matter of ltmitation of the French navy is likely to be taken up. Mr. Hughes was understood to have replied that this ‘question would be taken up this week. This would mean, also, that the limitation of the Italian navy would be examined at the same time. The French delegation's proposal is that France be allowed 300,000 tons of capital ships and 75,000 tons of submarines. The French delegation is under- stood to have been rather-anxious to begin the consideration of their navy to be at work instead of waiting, for the reason that they would like 2 deeision on other questions. Vice Admiral De Bon, who has now been here three weeks, has matters of some urgency awaiting his attention in_Paris. M. Viviani, if the principle respect- ing the French navy cap be arrived at before December 14, ‘still desires to sail for home on the Paris, duy to leave that day. He would leave M. Albert Sarraut, the French colonial minister, as the head of the French delegation. AERO SUPREMACY SEEN. Admral Declares Battleships and Forts Will Become Useless. DETROIT, Mich.,, December &5 — Capltal ships and land fortresses will be useless in future wars, owing to the development of air forces, Admiral Willlam F. Fullam, U. 8. &., declared here. Admiral Fullam<came .to De- troit to speak before the Society of Automotive Engineers and the Detroit Aviation Society. The airplane, the admiral said, would, in the future, be the super- instrument of warfare and both sur- face and submarine units of the navy would be modified to conform to the capabilities of air craft. 1 | | | |IS ONLY MISLEADING NEWS | | | | representatives of the press who are covering the conference “the host didr! a thoughtful thing. He delivered the only speech of the evening and. as he does not speak English, he had prepared in advance mimeographed copies of his talk, which were dis- tributed by the waiters, so that the guests could follow his stirring phrases. ¢ Secret service men assigned to the various delegations find. their dni‘y job a lengthy one. From after break- fast until very late in the afternoon the representatives of the different countries work without ceasing. Al- most invariably they dine out and, later, attend some evening function. “I'm going to send my folks my photograph to show them how 1 look.” remarked one of the men as- signed to_this work by the Depart- ment of Justice. I seldom see my bed before midnight, but at that I'm not working nearly so hard as the bassador Ricci Saturday night to the'delegates are.” SAY INTERVENTION TALE Portuguese Diplomats Here Declare Project as Printed in London Paper Has Never Existed. The project of intervention in the affairs of Portugal on the part of France, Italy and Spain never existed, according to the Portuguest legation | in commenting on dispatches | here, published in this country November 30 stating that, according to the London Times, such intervention was being seriously considered as the re- sult of the grave internal i then obtaining. PREE “According to officlal informatio the Times did not publish a ‘leader’ on the matter, but only misleading news coming from_ Lisbon.” says an official statement from the legation here. “The Portuguese minister at London has protested on the subject, and has been informed that such a project’ of intervention never has existed.” Another telegram has reached the legation here from the Portuguese government at Lifbon certifying that the news was an unfounded rumor emanating from Lisbon. According fo the London Times, the powers were 5ald to be considering the assumption of u mandate to quell the * vi ot bolshevism.” il rare URGE CARE OF TEETH. Bad condition of the teeth of W - ington school children is -I.m..?:. school authorities. Statistics recently compiled and made public today show that out of 18,123 pupils examined during the last scholastic year by déntal inspectors only 1,888, or 10.4 per cent had no defective teeth. School authorities pointed out that if children take better care of their teeth their health will be bettered, d there will be less illness and ab- sences from school. Grover Cleveland Ferris. SESSION OF 67TH. CONGRESS OPENS Continued from First Page.) Rt mates and the alternative budget. The facts are that the figures in both the estimates and - the alternative budget are exactly the same as the lestimates representing the recom- {mendations of the budget bureau lafter having revised the departmental esumates. by, The alternative budget using these | same figures presents them in 4 more {orderly and efficient arrangement, de- i partmentally, 80 that instead of ap- { propriations for one department being |scattered through several {here and there through the .book of estimates, they are arranged so that all moneys for any department or jagency are grouped together. | Debt Up to Senate Tomorrow. i Following the intraduction of the | usual resolutions fxing the daily time of meetifig at 12 o'clock, provision fop | notifying the. House that the Senate !was in session and providing for the {appointment of a committee to act jwith a similar House commitiee to {inform the President that Congress 1 was in sessfon, the Senate went into §{ recess until 3 o'clock. Senator Lodge jintroduced these resolutions. { Efforts will be made tomorrow in the Senate to have the foreign debt funding bill made the unfinished busi- { ness before the Senate. Senator Pen- {rose of Pennsylvania, chairman of the finance committee, Served notice to this effect this afternoon. He sald {that the finance committee would meet i tomorrow morning to consider the {House funding measure and that it would be reported to the Senate to- morrow afternoon for consideration in connection with a similar measure already on the Senate calendar. Seven Months Expected. Leaders of both houses predict the extra scsslon will occupy probably | seven months, extending into the next congressional campaign. Questions of legislative policy, numbering nearly twelve, and scores of lesser matters will be pressed for action by their sponsors. President Harding’s address to the fon will be of paramount in- terest, not only in the recommenda- tions he is likely to make, but be- cause the message will be delivered in the presence of members of an in- ternational conference, as many of tue ueiegutes to the conference on armament are expected to attend. Tariff, the pre-eminent question be- fore Congress, will in all probability be dealt with by the President in his | address, as_well as the requirements of the merchant marine and the fund- ing of the allied debt. The President’s ! stand on the latter question is known to be that of immediate and favorable 1 action. Arms Discussion Likely. Discussion on the floors of both houses concerning the arms confer- ence, as well as feflections in appro- priation bills for the Army and Navy of the conclusions reached by the delegates, are practically assured, leaders y. The naval supply bill will, no doubt, rest on its oars pend- ing a settlement of some sort at the arms conference, while the measure dealing with Army funds will be held over for late study because it may also be-affected. The conference has also influenced the disposition of two more pieces of legislation—the Panama canal tolls and the proposition of funding of the allied debt. The canal tolls measure has been urged by many leaders to be held in committee until an agreement is reached by the international par- ley. Budget’s First Trial. This Congress is the first to deal with the government's expenditures in budget form. The House and i sppropriations committee will take up the combined supply bill, with the ex- pectation of having all of its items to the Senate by April 5, according to Chairman Madden of the appropria- tions committee. Plans for committe¢ consideration H Upper—The g dirigible making a I Lower—The ‘crew which ted Lansdowne ( bills ang | y-making flight. Left od, assistan of the budget items as made known { by Chairman Madden call for disposi |tion of the work by the five subcom | mittees, all of which will start their | labors December 12. Mr. Madden said | the program arranged would place; the first supply bill before the House! January 6 and that they all would have been submitted by March 27. Reclassification Date Set. The measure dealing Wwith reclassi- fication of federal employes has been tentatively set by Representative Mondell, republican leader, for con- sideration next Friday. Reorganisa-| tion of governmental bureaus and | functions, including the administra- | tion of Alaska, is another subject that! is due for early consideration. ! The allied debt funding bill will be the first business of the Senate, ac-| jcording to present plans, Its finance | committee, Chairman Penrose said. | would meet tomorrow and'adopt the House proposal for a commission of five, which would be empowered to arrange terms with the foreign na- tions concerning payment of interest and principal of the war loans. In a few weeks the Scnate will take up a question long under discussion— the resolution to declare Truman H. Newberry, republican, the duly elect- ed senator from Michigan and to deny claims of Henry Ford, democrat, to the seat. Agreement has been made for a vote on the resolution early in January. Those seeking to defeat Mr. Newberry assert there will be sev- gral “republican votes cast against im. Will Work on Three Linex. The Senate will also work on three, investigations under way or ordered and another porposed. A special com- mittee, headed by Senator McCormick of Illinols, has been at work several months on an inquiry into naval ad- ministration of Haiti and San Do- mingo and is now on the islands. De- cember § another special committee, presided over by Senator Brandegee ot Connecticut, is to begin an in- Vestigation of the charges made by Senator Watson of Georgia of illegal executions in the American expedi- tionary forces. The West Virginia Imining troubles inquiry has been completed, but a report of the find- ings has not been made. Senator King | of Utah has a resolution which pro- pose an investigation into the alleged Tobby of dye and chemical interests, and this is expected to be acted on £oon. The railroad and agricultural in- quiries have been progressing for several months, but neither can be expected, according to leaders, to take concrete’ legislative form before at least another month. ZIONIST CHIEF COMING. | Nahum Sokolow to Head European Delegation of Jews. Nahum Sokolow, president of the executive committee of the World Zionist Organization and chief of the delegation: that brought before the peace conference the Zionist claims to Palestine, will arrive in Washing- ton néxt Sunaay, at the head of a European Zionist delegation, ac- cording to announcement by the local Zionist arrangement committee. Emile Berliner, honorary president of the local Zionist district, has ac- cepted the chairmanship of the recep- tion committee to represemt the Jew- ish community in welcoming the guests. Headquarters for the recep- tion activities have been opened in the Harrington Hotel, where the ar- rangements committee will continue the preparations begun more than a week ago in anticipation of Sokolow's arrival. Sokolow will be the principal speak- er before a mass meeting- at Poli's Theater next "nnd- . it was an- nounced. Admission will be by ticRet only, which may be secured at head- quarters. ——— Londen iets a shewer of sqot to the extent of four and’s half pounds per acré every dav. = : ding at nmaval air station. Anacostia, D. C.. toda ot; Lieut. A. T. Sewell SCHOOL ESTIMATES to right, Lieut. SUFFER EAVY CUT Approximately $3,500,000 Eliminated From Amount Fixed by Board. Education week got underway with a poor start in Washington. consid- ering the fact that the school esti- mates for the fiscal year of 1923, which were submitted to Congress today, carry but few of the provi-| in! sions for mnew schools included the original budget of the board of education. Approximately $3.500,000 has been cut from the estimates pre- pared by the school board. When presented to the Commis- sioners by the school board the budg- et called for an approriation of ap- proximately $12.000.000. The school estimates now before Congress ask for $7.575,280, of which $2,156,000 is specifically recommended for a school building program Provisions In the original budget for sites for new buildings for Tech and Business high schools, together with those for additions 1o Western and Armstrong high schools, were eliminated in the slashing process the estimates went through in the hands of the Commissioners and the budget bureau. Only a few pay increases are pro- vided in the “budget. although "the original estimates carried recommen. dations for higher remuneration for officials, teachers, janitors and other employes of the school system. The few wage increases contained in the budget, however. are considerably smaller” than those recommended in the estimates drafted by the school j board. . The school budget before Congress provides a raise in pay for the super- intendent from $6.000 to $7,500 a year. The original estimates asked for $10,000 for the school head. Cut Causes Disappointment. School authorities were reluctant to discuss the reduced budget today, in- dicating that before making any com- ment they wished to make & compari- son of the board's original estimates with those sent to Congress. It was apparent, however, that they are dis- appointed in the drastic cut made in the budget. It was pointed out in school circles that the reduction in the estimates will not allow officials to carry out their proposed progressive education- al program, and that the congested conditions cannot be relieved mate- rially by the building program allo ed fn the budget. This point the au- | | 1 | i thorities will emphasize at their con- | at the Franklin School Thursday night. WORLD COURT TO MEET. First Session at The Hague Will Be Held Next Month. THE HAGUE, November 17.—The first session of the permanent court of international justice is to be held here in January. The Peace Palace, which up to the present has served chiefly as an at- traction to sightseers, will become the seat of the court. If the offers of the Carnegle Institution are accepted the court will have the entire right wing of the bullding at its disposal. ——— RICH CAFE OWNER ON TRIAL CLEVELAND, Ohio, December 5.— Moe H. Baron, weaithy Brooklyn, N. Y., cafe owner, and three other persons cl with conspirdcy to defraud the government, went on trial in federal court here today. i ference . with representatives of the|by Justice various civic and trade organizationsorder of t | REAL ESTATE SPECULATO Fopo A AFFECTED BY PARLEY ‘ACTION 1 Plight Typical of General ,Comfitién and _ Brings Up Question of Future Policy to Conference Representatives. BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. Far-sightéd real estate investors who during the last year have been securing options on tracts on the Chinese mainland opposite Hongkong will be seriously affected by progress already made in the confer-| ence’'s discussion of leased areas in| China. Their plight is typical of a general condition in the republic and brings up an important question of future policy to the representatives of the nine powers. With Japan, Great Britain and France offering to cancel certain of their present leases under specified conditions, it would seem logical that an agreement be reached among all the powers against negotiating leases with China Hongkong is an island, and the city ich is popularly called Hongkong ually named Victoria. On the mainland “opposite this city is the city of Kowloon, also a port and th terminal of the railroad to Can Part of Kowloon is included in th tritish colony of Hongkong, and the remainder of it, derable of the land back of i Britain under a lease expiring June 9, 1997. Corl and iron were discovered in the hills farther back, and the an- ticipation until the conference took up the subject last week was that Great Britain would have no trouble in extending her leased territory to include the valuable deposit The fate of a single le i would be only a speck on the gre map of China is significant only be cause it is one more step in the grad- ual territorial encroachments. 1f this step is not taken it may be doubl significant as marking the end of the nibbiing off of China Varied Problem. Ceded territory. leased municipal concessions or settlements foreign spheres of influence, treat ports and open cities are varying de grees of what China usuaily calls “violations of her territorial integ- rity.” Ceded territory is absolutely in the possession of forei coun- tries either as colonies or part of their empire. Leased territories are much the same all for ninety-nine years' period. though in some the Chinese maritime customs, posts and telegraph and other Chinese govern- territory mental agencies are § lled. Concessions and settlements are districts in cities, specified by sepa- or by imperial decrees of foreigner: in gen under rate treaties put under the control for residence and business, eral being. concessions when a single power and settlements when ! governed by several jointly. Chinese are prohibited by law from owning property or business in them. and at the same time foreigners. except missions, are prohibited from own- ing property or doing business out- side of the concessions of territories, except in certain specified cittes. The incentive to extend them is obvious. Under Chinese Control. The specified cities where foreizn- ers can engage in commerce remain under Chinese jurisdiction. There are forty-nine treaty “ports”’ some of them accessible by mnothimg more nautical than a springless PeKing cart, and thirty-three other cities open to international trade. The present conference discussion, which resumes Wednesday, is only over leased ter ritories. As most of the ceded t ritory has developed from lease: DIRECTS I. C. C. TO FIX COMPENSATION IN CASE the Appellate Court Mandate in Matter of Waste Merchants’ Services for Public Carriers. The District Court of Appeals to- day. in an opinion by Justice Robb. reversed the judgment of the District Supreme Court and directed the is- suance of a mandamus to the Inter- state Commerce Commission to com- pel it 1o fix the amount of damages or compensation to which the mem- bers of the Waste Merchants' Asso- ions of New York is entitled for cervices performed tor public car- riers in connection with the loading of certain freight at New York har- bor points. Chief Justice Smyth dis- sented. The Interstate sion found that Commerce Commis- the services were irendered, but holding them to be of mutual advantage to the shipper and the carrier. declined to allow com- pensation. ~ The District Supreme Court agreed with the commission and refused the mandamus. ‘The Appellate Court reverses this finding and holds that there is noth- ing in the statute upon which to base a con: to withhold compensation from ship- pers performing proper services for a carrier where, as here, the ar- fangement was for their mutual ad- Vantage, the theory of the statute ev! dently being that the carrier recei ing from the shipper services which under the carrier's tariff schedules it was obligated to perform should fairness be compelled to make rea- sonable allowance therefor. e In the present case, the court points out, the commission’s conclusion of law is inconsistent with its finding of . fact. and this inconsistency results from a misconception of the statute as interpreted by the United States Supreme Court. that the commission has erred in the exercise of its discretion, but rather that its failure to give effect to the plain mandate of the statute amounts to a refusal to exercise any discre- tion under the statute. LOSES APPEAL ON WILL. Mrs. Constance S. Gracie Seeks to Establish Document Claimed Lost. Mrs. Constance Schack Gracie, widow of Col. Archibald Gracie, has lost her appeal to the District Court of Appeals in an attempt to establish an alleged will said to have been e by her daughter, Mrs. Edith :l‘n:r:ple Gracie Adams, shortly before ihe latter's death in New York city December 31, 1918.. Mrs. Gracie Claimed that her daughter had left her valuable securities, and that the will was lost or destroyed. ‘The court of appeals. in an opinion Robb today, affirmed an he District Supreme Court the cross-bill brought by in the Bquity Court American Security and in whose vauits the ing to her daughter's and her son-in-law, individually and the daughter's dismissing Mrs. Gracie against the Trust Company, securities belong! estate were kept, Dunbar B. Adams, as administrator of estate. The lower court held that an equity Without jurisdiction to enter- f:;l.:l-u-un to establish a lost will. appealed from this order, but the appellate court sustained the action of the lower tribunal. —_— URGES BROTHERHO00D POLICY, CINCINNATI, Ohio, December 5.— An increasing appreciation of the fact that universal brotherhood is the only thing that will perpetuate peace, was noted by Dr. J. Stanley Durkee, pres dent of Howard University, ‘Washing- ton, D. C., in an address on “Crown Solomon,” before the twentieth an- nual conference of the colored men department of the Y. M. C. A. here to- day. 'sl:he conference ended its four-day session with a series of inspirational discussions. the | foreign | clusion that Congress intended in | The complaint is not | | tWo might be classed together. are hey. Ter.— Nation | Macao, Portugui | Hongkong, Gr. Kowloon, Gr. Formosa, Japan | Korea, Japan LE, | Kisochow. Japan | Kwang Ciigw Wan. ¥ Liaotung, Japan Kowloon, Gr. Brituin Wei Hai Wei, Gr. B { in respect 1o nineiy-nine-y leases ‘1898 was busy vear iChina. Russia received only a tw | ty-five vear lease for its portion the Liaotung peninsula, Dairen, b Japan transformed it to the lon |term period in the treaty of 1915, fol- lowing the twenty-one demands. The {other holds leus which Japan | (Tsingsao) was originally secured by [ title amended iands. Germany and its the twenty-one de. Japanese Viswpoint. hag alw contended chief criticis of her policy territortal grandizement in China is that she started fifty years hehind the other natioms. Formosa, which was acquired after the Chino-Japanese war and Korea, which was annexed Aug ust 1910, after it had been defined ‘as independent. might fairly be p in ssification as Indo- China and the Makay peninsula, wh | lightly - distant past als | a part of ¢’hina { The number of treaty jopen cities in w hich fo » |reside and trade and the 2 which each nation has negotiated tn secure 1his privilege Great ! Sapan {Uaited States { imper-al decrees.. i France : H Russia ; Cnspeciti i { Total : Under Maritime Customs. of the “ports” and ngtze. two of the Kowloon, Dairern and Tsingtao. 1 Yatung. one jGartok and G icities, are in Tibet. | Kwang Chow Wan iin leased territory. are under the Chi- inese maritime though in ! Tsingtao a former German rule is fc tlowed that only Japanese shall be ithe foreign staff and only X0 per ce of the collections turned over | China. ® The foreign concessions and settle- ‘ulvnls ted in sixteen of the treaty “ports” and in Tsinan. one of {the open cities. The United States jdoes not hold any concession. while Antung. on the Yalu river, the boun- dary between Korea and Manchuria is the only port, and Mukden. a few | miles north of there, is the only city he has opened by treaty. Great Brit- . "France, Japan. ltaly und Bel {gium hold cessions in separate or | the same ¢ Those Germany., { Austria and Russia have been re- !yoked. The United States religuished hers in Amoy in 1899, Tientsin before the war had nine separate govern- | ments within its limits in addition to |its own ! In the settlements i as in Shanghai. nation having the citizens of ea treaty rights in China have a voic in the local foreign government pro- portionate to their property holding 1921.) CANADIAN ELECTION HAS TARIFF ISSUE Lower Imposts Would Prove Dangerous, Is Cam- paign Cry. { fowcial Dispatats o The Star OTTAWA. Canada, December Americans will watch Canada’s gen- eral election tomorrow with more than usual interest. as there has been |so much wild talk of what United !States industrial barons will do 1o this country if the next party in pow- jer in parliament reduces the tariff | However, most of this has been Ipurely for election purposes. The 600 |United State industries that have {branch factories in Canada and are {well jrotected are not likely to see taril conditions which would mean their ciosing down. ) campaign has been repetition of the 1911 reciprocity but with three parties airing iews instead of two The situation is_unprecedented . in the Dominion. With three parties. ! fairly well balanced, and a fourth much in the minority. the situation is further complicated by the fact that largely a ne. their | there are thousands more to go to the polls than at the last gencral election. All women twenty-one and over now have votes and the atti- tude they will take cannot be fore- casted reliably. Whether the new party (the progressiues or farmers. Junder Mr. Crearer) will pull out strong enough to get a straight ma- {jority of the 235-odd seats is doubt- ful. It looks more like Premier | Meighen's party getting about eighty- {five seats and the other two part | seventy-five each. Whatever the re {sult is, group government seems in sight and there are many who proph- esy another general election within two years. —_— SIX, TRAPPED IN AUTO, DIE IN CANAL PLUNGE Two Families Wiped Out When Machine Slips Of Road Into Water. TOLEDO, Ohio, December 3. and Mrs. Joseph A. Roskuski their_tive-year-old daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Bernard K. Laver and their daughter, aged four, were drowned yesterday afternoom when the sedan in which they were riding slipped off the River road into eight water in the Miami-Erie canal at Waterville, twelve miles from Toledo. The two families had been riding in Laver's machine. They were on their way home when the accident happened. A watch worn by Laver stopped at 8:35 o'clock. The accident was dis- covered at 6 o'clock by Will Isham. & farmer, who was taking his horses to the canal for water. Isham se- | cured help the water. The bodies were inside. Apparently it had been impossible to open either door of the closed car. NEW YORK’S MANUFACTURES. More than one-twelfth of the man- ufactures of the nation are produced in New York city, the census bureau announced today. The total value of the city's manufactured products o 1919 was $5.267,343,000. ~Of the | cities in New York state with a popu- jation of more than 25,000, Mount Vernon showed the largest increase in the value of manufactures in the decade, with 279 per cent increase over 1909. e e I It is computed that the average man #peaks in the course of a year 11,000, 000 words. feet of - and hauled the car from