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GEN. FENG URGES WAR OF REVENGE Calls Upon All Factions to Unite in Throwing Off For- eign Domination. BY JAMES L. BUTTS. + and Cl June 30 otiations over the Shanghai incldent are ex- pected to open shortly. The Chinese are now showing evidence of more willingness to confine the discu to that incident and not introduce relevant issues. The Chinese nego tiators will be Dr. W. W. Yen ard Dr. C. T. Wang, both former premiers, and Admiral Tsi Ting-Kan, chief of the Ch customs servic chief representatives of the fo powers will be the Italian min Comdr. C uti; the Fr 'h minister, Count Martel and th charge d’affaires, Mr. The ne ons probak held in the former it the north lake in the i where they ca be molested Communist or t demonstrators, Newe. hpe Canto: icantly shootin blame The government silent regarding the evidently re: the on the howev: s violently attackin the British and ench, capitalizing on the original statement from the Canton Christian College, which de clared the marines' firing was un provoked, ignoring the subsequent abject retraction of this statement made by the vice president of the college, Alex Baxter. In connection with the Canton in- cident the minister of foreign affairs of the so-called Canton government has transmitted a lengthy protest to the Russian Ambassador, Leon Kara- khan, declaring peaceful paraders were massacred and asking that Karakhan circulate the interested powers. The British protest against the Kiukiang affair of June 13 complain that the Chinese police and soldiel did not attempt to check the mob, per- mitting malicious damage and incen diarism. The note reserves the right to demand full reparations, damages and apology for the insult to the British flag. Urges Fight to Finish. general,” Marshal Yu-Hsiang, today issued a lengthy bombastic circular telegram supporting the government's treaty revision request, demanding abolition es held by foreigners ing on all militarists trife and unite “to seize the opportunity to deal with the for- efgners for a radical change in the unequal treaties.” “I realize,” he stated, “that my troops are no match for the enemie: that China’s armament is inferior and that China’'s diplomats are less cun- ning, but I would rather fight to death than live controlled and ill treated. Therefore 1 wish to wage a war of revenge regardless of success or fail- ure, not giving in until the last man has_perished.” While the general situation appears to be much easier and no further vio- lent anti-foreign acts are reported, a deep undercurrent of foreign antago- nism is sweeping the country, (Copyright, 1025, by Chicago Daily News Co.) THREE NEW QUAKES HIT SANTA BARBARA AS RELIEF PROCEEDS (Continued from First Page.) The Feng ‘Christian chopped into fragments a foot square by the grinding force of the successive tremors. In ‘the older and residential _districts the earthquake had played queer pranks with the wooden homes built a quarter and a half century ago. One sagged crazily in front, its ga- ble hanging two feet nearer the road than its foundation posts. Another had buckled in the middle and leered at the passing world through bare bay windows, which until vesterday had been sheltered from the Summer sun by an old-fashioned veranda. Immediately next door was a little home of two stories, which looked much weaker in build than its neigh- bor, but here not a bit of damage had been done except to the chimney cap, which had been catapulted into a bed of roses. Torrents from broken wa- ter mains had rushed through a num- ber of home tracts, burying gardens and sidewalks. Back on the hills the old Mission of Santa Barbara, founded by the Span- ish fathers who came with the con- quistadores to the New World, still stood in part, defving the earthquake. It had gone through a similar quake in the eighties and was rebuilt, only to suffer a similar fate yesterday. The mission's tower, with its sweet- toned bells, crashed while a kneeling congregation bowed within. Then the congregation walked out over the adobe wreckage, led by the priest. Walls that could saved were propped up with great timber stays and throughout the night crews worked steadily clearing away the ruins. Now and then a new temblor made itself felt, a reminder of the terrify- ing leading Shake that had started the work of damage, and the pick ax and shovel squads sprang back for a moment, beyond the swaying piles, awaiting its passage before resuming their work. Nowhere, or only in very rare in- stances, did the men, women d children of Santa Barbara spend last night within doors. Many whose homes were wrecked were forced to sleep in the open, less pretentious Slept on Lawns. Others slept on their lawns from choice, not knowing when a fresh earth tremor might bring thelr ceil- ing down about their ears. Two facts stood out from many striking features in this city today. One w the continued, determined calm with which its citizens faced their destiny and duty, and the other was the absence of any serious fire, which in earthquakes elsewhere’ had added to the horrors of stricken com munities. The leading bankers and business men of Santa Barbara planned to meet in general session today and outline the reconstruction. Last night they started the program by raising $10,500 in 10 minutes at a hastily summoned assembly to finance the clearing away of the wreckage. Just how the volume of insurance carried in the demolished territory will compare with the loss could not be ascertained early today. This will be one of the estimates likely ‘to be prepared at the business men's ses. sion this morning. No insurance adjusters were ob- rerved at work vesterday or last night and these, in all probability, will not také up their tasks until the city enigneer and his staff sur- veys the wrecked buildings today. It was freely reported about the streets that there was but little earthquake insurance in Santa Barbara, but the statement could not-be verified, A . [ said to | by s give way | plastic {to be broken up. There are thousands of earthquakes in the United States every year. Most jof them are too slight to be recorded. If it were not for the great number f them, which act as o safety valve, there would be one occastonally of |such violence that it would be likely {to shake all the works of man off the &lobe. | So says Dr. Willlam Bowie of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, in _con- an with the California and Mon : ikes of the past few days. Bowie is among the leaders in present school of geologlcal thought regarding the causes of earth- | auakes | In order to understand the mech- |anism of an earthquake, Dr. Bowle ay, it is necessar > globe as made up in two sections. s a solld ball made up of heavy plastic material which composes greater part of its mass. Just this material fs is subject to conjectures, but it is so formed that |1t can stand any possible strain with- out breaking. Crust Will Crack. | Everywhere surrounding this is a ;Hn-nnlo average depth of brittle crust, thr‘ earth upon which we live, which will crack under a strain, rather than in_an elastic fashion. Now. Dr. Bowie says. imagine this outer crust cut up into 200 square- mile sections. Some of these sections | would contain high mountains, some {low valle some the bottom of the {ocean. But each would weigh almost | exactly the same. The mountains are | made of lighter material than the sea bottom or the valleys. Thus the pres- sure upon every part of the, interior, ball remains about the same. ys Dr. Bowie, the continual of erosion, taking material from the mountains and de- positing it in the valleys and on the coastal plains, tend to make some sec- tions temporarily heavier than others When this happens an extra pressure is placed upon that section of the ball over which the heavier section is located. It bends under the weight and the outer section sinks into it. Sinks With Snap. But this outer sectfon cannot sink far without breaking. It breaks like a stick, with a snap, and this is the earthquake. The snap may occur in the higher section, which has lost some of its welght by erosion, or in the lower section, “which has increased in weight, due to the deposits on it of material from the mountains. The surface of the earth, Dr. Bowie explained, is somewhat like a pond covered with ice which Is in condition Place a heavy welght on one section of the pond and the ice may snap, sending tremors through a considerable area of the surface. The Montana quakes, Dr. Bowie said, probably can be explained on the first hypothesis. The mountains have been lightened by erosion, the plastic surface of the ball underneath has given to conform to the changed pressure, and there is a snap. Other Kind in Tennessee. Examples of the other ki &3 of earthquake, those in regions hwhere the eroded material has been deposit- ed, now are occurring in west Ten- nessee, due to sediment deposited from the Appalachian range. The great Charleston, S. C., earthquake was of a similar nature. The Santa Barbara quake, Dr. Bowle said, is due to a somewhat dif- ferent cause—the still continuing for- mation of the Sierra Nevada moun- tain range. All mountains of the earth, accord- ing to Dr. Bowie, are comparatively voung according to the geological clock. Sometimes sediment from higher regions will pile up on a plain until it is, for example, 5. miles thick. A tremendous pressure is bear- ing down on the surface of the plastic, ball underneath. It gives, just like a tennis ball would give, under extra pressure, but does not break. The accumulated sediment sinks lower and FORD FALS T0 D ONIDLEL . SHPS Twenty Tenders Are Made to Fleet Corporation to Scrap 200 Vessels. Bids from 20 indlviduals and com- panies were ppened by the Fleet Corporation today for sale of 200 Ship- ping Board vessels for scrapping, but the name of Henry Ford, who had been mentioned as a prospective bid- der, did not appear. No explanation was available as to why Mr. Ford, who had indicated an intention of bidding, did not submit a tender, and Chalrman O'Connor of the Shipping Board said he had re- ceived no communicatipn from the manufacturer on the matter. Only One Wants All. The bids were for varying numbers of the vessels under varying condi- tions and differed widely. But one bid for the entire 200 was received, that being from the Boston and Iron Metal Co. of Baltimore for a blanket ale at $1,370,000. The General Metal Supply Co. of Oakland, Calif., made an offer for 193 vessels under varying conditions, which ran from $4,200 to $6,800 each. The Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. bid for 100 vessels, all in the James River, near Norfolk, the tender running from a total of $649,000 to $699,000, according to varying terms. Another offer, from Prairie-Buxton-Doane Co. of Phila. delphia, for 171 ships totaled $276,780. ‘Washington Man Bids. Other offers were received for ves- sels in varying numbers, under vary- conditions of sale and at widely scattered prices for each from J. E. Barnes of Washington, D. C.; the Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. of Chester, Pa.; the Dravo Contracting Co. of Pittsburgh, the American Ship Breaking Co. of New York City, D. L. Stafford, Jr., of New York; Charles A. Jording of Baltimore, the Sparrows Point Ship_Wrecking Co. of Mary- land, the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. of New York, the Waterside Salvage Corporation of New York, the Hart Enterprise Elec- trical Co. of New Orleans, the Co- lonna's Shipyard, Incorporated, of Norfolk, Va. which offered $2,000 each for the five lakers; Coleman E. Hittner of Camden, N. J., and the Union Shipbuilding Co. of Baltimore, w!lnch offered $6,000 each for 50 ves- sels. ‘The Baltimore and Carolina Steam- ship Co. offered $13.500 each for six of the lakers, to be held by it for to consider | 4tain sections of the country with fair THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1925 - EXPANSION OF HEATED EARTH CAUSED QUAKE, SCIENTIST SAYS Cities of Pacific Coast Sitting on Crust of Rising Loaf, W hich Cracks W hen Swelling Becomes Too Great, Dr. Bowie Explains. lower, but as it sinks it becomes sub- Jjected to greater heat. It is estimated that this heat increases 50 degrees C. a mile down. The result is that the atoms of the sedimentary mass, undergoing greater and greater heat, |undergo also a chemical rearrange- ment which decreases the weight per unit and swells the whole somewhat like a loaf of bread is swelled in an oven. The sedimentary mass is chang- ed into a mountain. Sitting On Rising Loaf. Parts of the Pacific coast, Dr. Bowle says, practically are sitting on the crust of the rising loaf. The con- tinual stresses caused in the material by. the expansion result in quakes like that at Santa Barbara. Between the Montana quakes and the Santa Barbara quake, savs Dr. Bowle, there can be no relation be- cause they are due to entirely differ- ent phenomena. All earthquakes, he claims, are local with about a 200-mile area. Dr. Bowie paints a_powerful picture of the great forces which are shaking the earth, sending up volcanoes, mak- ing mountains and islands. They are all fnherent in the raindrop. There is an average of 30 inches of rain over the surface of the world a year. This, if it remained where it fell, would make an ocean a mile deep over the whole earth in 2,000 vears. Now the age of the earth is estimated at approximately a billion and a half years. This means that 750,000,000 miles of rain have fallen upon the surface of the earth since the be- ginning. This illustrates, says Dr. Bawie, the tremendous force of erosion in geological periods. Entire Continent Changed. On an average one foot of material is eroded from the entire surface of the United States every 9,000 years. This means that the whole continent would be washed below sea level and a new continent set up in a changed position out of the material in about 'PICTURES SHOWING SANTA BARBARA IN RUINS yesterd: posing g Autos Carry More Than Street Cars 36,000,000 years. The force is illustrated by local geological history. Once, stretching down the Atlantic coast where the coastal plain now is, was s high range of mountains, the Devonian range, possibly covering the present site of Washington. To the west, where the Appalachians now rise, was the shore of a great sea extend- ing from the Gulf of Mexico into Canada. The forces of erosion have torn down the old mountains, built up the Appalachian range, bullt up the great plains beyond by erosion from the new mountains, and now are repeating the process. They are shifting the mountains either to east or west. The same process is going on along the Pacific coast, but it has reached a more critical stage, where the actual swelling of the sedi- mentary matter into hills is taking place. No Danger In st Inhabitants of great cities along the Atlantic coast need not worry, Dr. Bowle says, for fear the extra weight of thelr buildings will cause a give in the surface of the plastic ball underneath and cause an earthquake. All the buildings in New York and their contents, he claims, do not weigh so much as the dirt and rock removed in digging the cellars, so that there probably has been an actual lightening of welght. Earthquake prediction stillifs in its infancy, according to Dr. Bowie. They can be predicted only With great lee- ways of area and time. The earthquake survey planned by the Coast and Geodetel Survey, for which a_congressional appropriation s expected next yvear, is intended to chart every earthquake that occurs in | the United States, including the thou- sands of which no record now is kept. By tabulating the data obtained from such a study, he says, it may be pos- sible to forecast carthquakeé for cer- accuracy, although sclence still is far from seeing the way to predict them on the day and for a locality as small as a cit. PLANS T0 SIMPLIFY INCOME TAX STUDY Revenue Bureau Considering Method, Under Court De- cision, for Public Benefit. Internal revenue officlals are con- sidering means by which the study of income tax records may be made as easy as possible for the general public. In view of the Supreme Court decis- fon holding publication of these re- turns to be legal, the bureau officials have under consideration a plan to provide a duplicate set of records into which those who so desire may delve at their leisure during the hours that Government offices are open. Will Complete Plans by August 1. Last year, when the records were made public, restrictions were thrown about the time in which they might be inspected, so that the operation would not interfere with the work of the collectors’ offices. Some officials here believe that the work of putting this year's lists into shape for releasing to the public may not be completed before August 1. It is the intention to make them public To Ball Park Here More base ball fans journey to the base ball feld in automobiles than on street cars, according to a check-up made by the firm of Mc- Clellan & Junkersfeld in connection with thelr survey of transporta- tion problems in Washington. Counts were taken on three days of the week, and showed the fol- lowing results: Tuesday—In automobiles, 47 per cent; street cars, 45.2 per cent, and walking, 7.8 per cent. Saturday—In aptomobiles, 51.7 per cent; street cars, 37.7 per cent, and walking, 10.6 per cent. Sunday—In automobiles, 57.2 per cent: street cars, 36.5 per cent; walking, 6.3 per cent. The inestigators expressed the belief that the increased use of automobiles on Saturdays and Sun- days is due to the fact that more persons g0 to the park from their homes than from their places of business. The checkers counted 1,850 ma- chines near the ball park on Tues- day; 2,694 on Saturday, and on Sunday, 3,186. CHNESE SHUGGLE RECENING SETSN Four Hours Daily Despite Alleged Restrictions. Despite the official prohibition of im- ported radio sets in China, listeners-in in Shanghai are in some way rapidly increasing in number and are finding great enjoyment in hearing the four hours of broadcasting which is offered daily by the China Press-Kellog sta- tion, the only broadcaster operating in that city. According to a report to the De- partment of Commerce from Assist- ant Trade Commissioner A. Viola Smith, the smuggling of receivers into certain cities has been so great that removal of some of the present re- strictions on radio are being consid- ered. So interested have the Chinese be- come in constructing receivers and mounting them that many rare pieces of Chinese cabinet work have been created, and one of the prize exhibits at a recent radio show in Shanghai was a modern type of receiver built into a rare old inlaid Ningpo cabinet. The China Press-Kellog station, al- though not supposed to have any lis- teners, - nevertheless advertises its broadcast programs in the daily pa- pers and comes on the air for an aver- age of four hours of broadcasting every day. Included in its programs are market and stock reports, - ex- change quotations and special news itms, all in Chinese; phonograph records, occasional talks by prominent Station Sends Out Programs‘ Chinese and two hours of “jazz” every night from 9 to 11. On Thursday eve- nings the municipal orchestra of Shanghai presents special concerts for the station. Church services also are put on the air every Sunday. Cartoonist Devises New Ship of Desert; Sails Stalled Auto simultaneously in all collectors’ offices, and that course will necessitate hold- ing up some of them which are now complete. Blair Facing Another Issue. Commissioner Blair of the bureau is facing another question relating to in- come tax publicity as a result of a de- cision rendered yesterday by the Su- preme Court of the District of Colum- bia, which ordered the production of a number of actual tax returns before the Board of Tax Appeals in a case pending there. Officials held that when the returns were placed before the board and became a matter of rec- ord there they automatically became open to publicity .as evidence. Only the amount of the tax heretofore has been held available for publication. The court’s ruling was in a case brought by the Oesterlein Machine €o. of Cincinnatl, which would force the bureau, unless an appeal is upheld, to produce the returns of a dozen firms engaged in the same business, in or- der to show the board how tax figures were ‘arrived a prices ranging from $3,100 to $4.000 each. The bids will be tabulated and an- alyzed, but not acted upon until after the return from the Pacific coast late this week or early next week of Pres- ident Palmer of the Fleet Corpora- tion. Whether Henry Ford will later bid for vessels to operate in connec- eventual operation on oftshore trade routes. Another offer was from N. Bloch & Co. of Norfolk for 25 of the yessels now, in the James River at tion with his manufacturing business, Chairman O'Connor indicated, was a question “which probably woult be answered soon, S Two Girls Are Masts in Flight Before Sand- storm in Tibet. By the Aseociated Press. CHICAGO, June 30.—Saliling the Gobi Desert in a 70-mile gale and sand- storm with a temporarily disabled automobile and an improvised =ail held aloft by two women of the party, was described by John T. McCutcheon, cartoonist of the Chicago Tribune, in a letter published in that newspaper today. McCutcheon, “Barney” Goodspeed and their wives, who have circled the earth in six months, are now in Paris. In the letter, McCutcheon said they reached the desert early in the day and found it “as flat as a billlard table and the trail so level that the car made an average of 25 miles all forenoon.’ “Then came a 70-mile gale with a terrific sandstorm that stung our faces like needles and filled the mag- neto and carburetor with sand. There we were out on that vast level ex- panse with -only a little group of Mongol huts far away to the south. The girls stood up in the car with a heavy sheepskin coat held as a sail. We gave the car a shove and then for mearly all the way the wind car- ried the car along. I got a movie of it. The car had 1,400 pounds of load on it - It ‘was & -regular-ship: of the' B i e e 29,000 to Find Sunshine Among Tomorrow’s Bills While Uncle Sam's gray-clad letter carriers are passing out the regular assortment of monthly bills to the householders of Wash- ington tomorrow morning, the: also will be spreading a little joy here and there as they deliver ap- proximately 29,000 of the refund checks from the Potomac Electric Power Co. A. G. Neal, controller of the power company, estimated today ihat more than 29,000 of the re- funds due consumers as a result of the settlement of the electric light rate case would be in the mail this afternoon, representing approximately $1,000,000. This is less than half of the total amount to be returned to electric light users and the remaining checks will be issued as rapidly as claims are verified. = O PRISONER DIES OF LIQUOR IN MARYLAND PRISON Another Is Il From Same Cause. ‘Warden Probing Smuggling of Rum to Convicts. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., June 30.—Frank Lee Young, 35 years old, of Prince Georges County, serving a two-vear term for assault and robbery, died at the Maryland Penitentlary early to- day of acute alcoholic poisoning. An- other prisoner whose name the pen officials refuse .to reveal, is said to be critically ill from the same cause. ‘Warden Brady is making an investi- gation to iearn how the liquor was smuggled into the institution. As he lay writhing on his death bed Young made a statement to the war- den and Dr. Willlam T. Riley, cor- oner for the central district, that he had drunk a quantity of supposed whisky, provided by a fellow-prisoner whose name he steadfastly refused to reveal, even though warned that he was dying. Brady and Dr. Riley are convinced that the liquor was smuggled in from without the penitentiary walls, and was not brewed from the highly pois- onous alcohol used in the iron foundry and the shoe and furniture shops. Young was first taken ill Sunday night, but disguised the can of his sickness. He was reported as fit for his penitentiary work yesterday morn- ing, but collapsed shortly afterward and was removed to the prison hos- pital. HEARS MACMILLAN RADIO. Bochester Man Reports Picking Up Bowdoin Signals. ROCHESTER, N. Y., June 30 (#).— C. E. Dengler of this city reported to- day that he was in radio communi- cation last night with the Bowdoin, Donold B. MacMillan's ship, now en route to the Arctic. The message re- ceived here said the Bowdoin was off the coast of Labrador, approximately 1,250 miles from Rochester. Mr. Dengler, whose station is 8KS, first received signals from WNP on the Bowdoin Thursday. Arrange- ments were made last night, Mr. Dengler sald, for his. station to han- dle, if possible, messages :frem .the MacMillan party tonighis Pictures copyright, ‘What is left of the famous Arlington Hotel, where several are reported killed as a result of the earthquake of morning. The picture below shows the ruin of the California Hotel. One of the walls has fallen away, ex- e interior furnishings of the hotel. 1925, by P. & A. Photos. 'VERTICAL MOVEMENT ' BLAMED FOR DAMAGE | By the Associated Prese. | Director Tondorf of the Georgetown | University sismographical laborator- ies. one of the foremost authorities on selsmic disturbances, advanced the opinion here today that the Montana |and California earthquakes were not co-related. The cause of the California shocks, he said, was local. Lesser tremors, he believes, may continue there for several months as an aftermath, but they will be of little consequence. Commenting on the theory of fore- casting earthquakes, he said that “no suspicion, as far as I know, was had by any seismglogist of the occurance of the California shocks, although that region has been carefully studied.” The disaster at Santa Barbara he attributed to the pronounced vertical movement of the earth, which was held to be the most damaging tvpe of temblor. This was in marked con- trast to the horizontal movements in Montana_and in Canada. In Cali- fornia, the Georgetown seismograph showed, the horizontal movement was of a moderate character. —_—— D. C. TEACHING LAW REPEAL IS URGED BY NATIONAL GROUP (Continued from First Page.) Tennessee evolution law. It described the Tennessee law as ‘“‘a menace to educational, religious and political liberty,” and offered its assistance to all organizations and individuals en- gaged in defending John T. Scopes, the Dayton biology teacher, who now holds the public limelight for teaching the theory of evolution. The District public schools will fig- ure prominently in all of the conven- tion proceedings. Virtually one-half of the convention calendar is devoted to subjects of immediate and vital con- cern to the Washington schools. Free text books for all senior and junior high school pupils in the Dis- trict, platoon schools, -intelligence tests and a modified teachers' pension Jaw for the Washington teachers are the chief topics scheduled for discus- sion as far as the National Capital is concerned. The federation is ex- pected to take a definite stand on all of these questions. Delegates from every section of the United States, representing approxi- mately 20,000 classroom teachers, are attending the convention. Miss Selma Borchardt, teacher at Business High School, is the spokesman for the ‘Washington deputation. She is a vice president of , the federation and its legislative chairman, and after the conclave here will sail for Europe with three other Washington women to at- tend the second world conference on education, at Edinburgh, Scotland. T. F. BARRY DROPS DEAD. ASBURY PARK, N. J., June 30 (®). —Thomas F'. Barry, Chicago, president of the Globe Mutual Life Insurance Co., dropped dead of heart disease in the North End bathing pavilion last night. The body was found by two boys, who notified the life guards. With his daughter, Mrs. Webster Dietz, and secretary, William J. Alex- ander, Mr. Barry came to Asbury Park on June 23 for his first visit in 25 years. He left the North End Hotel for a stroll before dinner last evening and shortly afterward was found dead. The body will be sens te Chica- gotoday, _ - = | SPLIT N ZIONST RANKS 5 HEALED Seceding Leaders Renom- | inated for Places on Na- tional Executive Board. The split in the ranks of American Zionists was m definitely healed today, when several former leaders who left the movement in 1921 were named for places on the new national executive committee. Judge Jacob M. Moses of Baltimore, chairman of the nor ions commit tee, rep vention of the Zionist of Amer] at the Mayflower Hotel, the names of Judge Ju Mac ew York: Dr Stephen 8. Wise and Dr. Harry Frie denwald, Baltimore. ‘Thelr * nomination was said Zionists to give definite indic that all traces of the bitter which rent the organization at one time had vanished. The split oc- curred at the Cleveland Zionist con vention in 1921, when a group headed by Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, Dr. Wise and Judge Julian Mack, broke away from the organiza- tion over the establishment of the Palestine Foundation Fund, formed at that time to carry on its construc- tive enterprises for the development of the Jewish Homeland in Palestine Organization by tion fight Formed Own Body. The dissenting group formed own economic body, the Palestine Da. velopment Council. which recently was merged with the newly-formed Palestine onomic Corporation Practically all of the rank and file of | the Zionist members who left the or ganization in 1921 were sald today 1o | have returned to active work during the past The nomination vear of their erstwhile leaders was greeted by | the delegates with cheers. Loufs Lipsky of New York, renomi. nated as chairman of the organization also received an ovation. Announce. ment of election results will be made late this afternoon or tonight. 1,000 Homes to Be Built. Judge Bernard A. Rosenblatt, presi- dent of the Palestine Securities, Inc today reported that in view of the acute housing shortage in Palestine, the Palestine Securities, Inc.. bej the sale of $1,000,000 of first mortg: bonds, bearing 6': per cent to finance the building of 1,000 new homes in Palestine. More than halt the offering was reported as sold. Judge Rosenblatt said Palestine Se. curities, Inc., which is controlled Jointly by the American Zfon Com- monwealth and Zionist Organization of America, represented ‘the first Zionist attempt to engage in the up- building of Palestine on a strictly business and sound investment basis.” The flow of capital from America to | Palestine Judge Rosenblatt estimated {as totaling from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 a year. Tracks of Land Being Bought. The American Zion Commonwealth was reported by the president, S. J. Weinstein, as having built and colo- nized the flourishing colonies of Bal fourfa, Herzlia and Afulah, s having purchased large tracts of land in other sections of the country for future colonization activities During the past year Mr. Weinstein | reported more than 200 American Jews | have planned to settle their European relatives on land they have purchased in Palestine, and will invest no less than $1,000,000 in setting up their rel- atives in self-supporting occupations there. An old Roman aqueduct has been re- stored in the region of Herzlia, Mr. ‘Weinstein reported, and is now dfain- ing the entire region. The aqueduct was said to have been allowed to fall into decay during the centuries of Turkish rule. Frieda Silbert Ullian, chairman of Junior Hadassah, reported that thg organization numbered 103 units, 127 groups and 4,625 members to forward its main activity of supporting de- pendent and orphan children of the country, cared for in private homes and institutions of Palestine. Junior Body Has 800 Clubs. Young Judea, a junior Zionist or- ganization, reported through its presi- dent, Dr. David de Sola Pool, that it now consists of 800 clubs in 146 cit- ies, that more than 10,000 celebrations had been held during the year on the occasion of important Jewish holy days, and that it had supported the work of the Palestine Boy Scouts. The convention yesterday went on record, with only six dissenting votes, as favoring extension of the Jewish agency, official adviser to the Brit- ish mandate authorities, to non- Zionists. The resolution was intro- duced by Morris Rothenberg of New York and was passed after consider- able discussion. In its resolution the convention “viewed with satisfaction the action taken by the non-partisan confer- ence, convened under the leadership of Louis Marshall, at which steps were taken to invite Jewish ‘organiza- tions not affiliated with the Zionist organization to send representatives to a conference to select delegates, which will constitute the American section of the enlarged Jewish agency."” Israel Goldberg of New York in an address yesterday afternoon declared the British government should be more helpful in the re-establishment of the Jewish national home and should not permit its policy to be dictated by “a group of Arab agi- tators who are not interested in the economic upbuilding of Palestine.” Appeal to British. “We are grateful to the British gov- ernment,” Mr. Goldberg said, ‘‘for the work it has done in Palestine, the in- stitution of a modern government, the building of roads, the enforcement of law and order and other achievements. These things, however, are done by the British wherever ‘they colonize, whereas the Palestine mandate im- poses upon the British government the obligation of actively facilitating the Jewish national home.” Mr. Gold- berg, in a resolution introduced to the convention, called upon the World Zionist Congress to make formal rep- resentation to the British government regarding its administration of the Palestine mandate. A feature of today’s sessions was that part devoted to the Hebrew lan- guage and its importance, with the en- tire program being conducted in what was said to be the Hebraic used in biblical times. Reuben Brainin pre- sided, and addresses were delivered by David Yellin, Emanuel Neumann, Dr. Soltes, Dr. Spiegel, Dr. Rieger, Prof. Chaim Chernowitz, Dr. S. Bernstein, Abraham Goldberg, Dr. Israel Shapiro and Dr. Schmarya Levin. Committee heads named were: Committee on committees, Max Con- hetm, Chicago: organization, Nathan D. Kaplan, Chicago; finance and budget, Louis Topkis, Wilmington, Del.; public_investment enterprises, S. J. Cohen, Philadelphia; revision of Palestine budget, Emanuel Neumann, New -York; Jewish agency, Morris Rothenberg, New York; public funds, Judge Willlam Lewis, Philadelphia; general resolutions, George J. Gor- don, Minneapolis: education, S. Borowsky, New York; Jacob Ginsburg, Philadelphia;: tions, Harry T. Kellman, Baltimore; mandate, Benjamin Rabelsky, Bos- ton; general policy, Rabbi Solomon Goldman, ~Cleveland; credentials, George E. Gordon, Boston, and nomi- natl Judge Jacob\ M. Moses, Bal- N ity TCEBDN WAKERS ARE FINED R0 Sixteen Concerns Plead Guilty to Violations of Sher- man Anti-Trust Law. By the Aseociated Press. CHICAGO. June 30 frigerator manufacturing companies pleaded guilty in Federal Court toda » the Indictments in the furniture cases under the Sherman antitrusi act and were assessed fines ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 each. The refrigerator group is the seconid class of manufacturers to plead guilty most of the chairmakers having plead ed guilty recently and were assessed similar fines The refrigerator companies their fines were as follows Fined $5,000—Alaska Refrigerator 0., Muskegon, Mich.; Belding-Hall Co.. Belding, Mich.: Chailenge Refrig erator Co., Grand Haven, Mich.; Cold Storage Refrigerator Co., Eau Wis.; Gibson Refrigerator Co., ville, Mich.; Tennessee Furniture Cor poration, Chattanooga, Tenn. Fined ' $4.000—Curney Refrigerator Co.. Ltd., Fond du Lac, Wis.. McCra: Refrigerator Co.. Kendalville, Ind | Rhinelander Refrigerator Co., Rhine | lander. Wis: Seegar Refrigerator C¢ { St. Paul, Minn Fined ' §3,000—Illinois Co.. Morrison, Til.: Ranney ator Co., Greenville, Mich Secretary Gets Off. Fined $2.000 — Arlington Refriger- ator Co., Arlington, Vt.; Baldwin Re frigerator Co., Burlington, Vt Dil lingham Manufacturing Co., Shev bovgan, Wis The case of William H.Cove, Grand Rapids, Mich., secretary of the Re frigerator Association, was dismissed on motion of the Government. Roger Shales, special assistant to the At- torney General, said Mr. Cove had not been particularly active in con- ducting the affairs of the association for the past two vears and that he was also a defendant in the pendink indictment inst dining room and bedroom furniture manufacturers Only 2 of the 18 members of ihe association remain to be arraigned The fines assessed totaled $68,000 making a grand total of $234,000 = far levied against the defendants the furniture cases. “Only Technically Guilty.” | A statement by E. R. Johnston o counsel for the refrigerator companies said: “The National Refrigerator Manu facturing Association has been in ex istence for a great many vears. It is a voluntary association, composed of 18 of the leading manufacturers refrigerators and ice boxes, The ac tivities of the association have been confined to ffie dissemination of trade information and meetings of the as sociation to discuss conditions in the trade. The association has no formal rticles of association and has never had the advice of counsel, either ir |its organization or in the carryving or |of its activities. “The members of the association decided to plead guilty after consuita tion with counsel and after being a vised that in their past activit | they might have been guilty of tech nical violations of the Sherman act “The association members were ¢ conscious of any violation of the Iz in conducting their association, and if | guilty of any infraction of law at a it is merely technical in character. “The members of the associatic emphatically deny that they time conspired or combined to char or maintain excessive or non-comps tive prices, as charged in the in ment.” The statement added that price of refrigerators vary greatly and tha the association never had sought monopolize the manufacture and = Two companies, one the Harde Manufacturing Co. of Cobleskill, N. Y were not represented at the hearin today. NINE KILLED IN WRECK. Refrigerator Refriger i at ar Russian Express Is Derailed, With Fatal Result. MOSCOW, June 30 (#).—Nine per- sons were killed and 32 injured when the Chita-Moscow express on the Transsibierian Railway was derailed vesterday at Taiga, about 100 miles east of Novo Nikolaevsk. ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va.. June 30 (Spe clal.—When a fire occurred in the George Washington Restaurant this morning at 2:30 o'clock the steps be came so hot that it was necessars for Fireman Harrison of No. 1 Com pany to bring a small child, which was in the second story of the build ing, down on a ladder. The child's parents and a sister came down the steps. The damage was slight, being not over $250. Capt. Campbell, local police head, received a telegram from the chief of police of Nauk, N. J., requesting him to hold Louis Greenstein and Adam De Saivo, who left home Satur day to go to Florida, for their parents, who were coming after them. The Alexandria Citizens' Band will give its first concert of the season Friday night at 8 o'clock on Washing ton street between Prince and Duke streets. It is planned to give concerts every Friday night during the Sum- mer months. It is expected that sev eral times during the Summer out-of town bands will be obtained for con certs. Chautauqua to Return. The return of the Swarthmore Chau tauqua next yvear has been assured A representative has been here since the close of the last Chautaugua ob taining the necessary guarantors, and already an executive committee of 2! and 30 financial backers has been ob tained. State Senator Harry Flood Byrd one of the candidates for governor was a visitor in Alexandria for a short time yesterday while on his way to Fairfax Court House. Miss Marlon Adams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Adams, and Raiph Larson, State editor of the Nor folk-Virginia-Polit, were married here yesterday afternoon by the Rev. P. L. Vernon of the First Baptist Church. At a joint meeting of the Alexan dria Booster Club and the Retail Mer chants’ Club held last night in the Chamber of Commerce rooms, finul plans for the celebration to be staged on Haydon Field the afternoon of July 4, in conjunction with the Boost- er Club drawing, were completed. In addition to the drawing for the $1,800 worth of awards there will be an athletic carnival in which a number of cash prizes will be awarded. Three Cars Collide. In an accident which occurred yes terday afternoon at King and Lee streets a truck owned by W. A. Smoot & Co., an automobile driven by Leroy Jamieson and a truck owned by the Arthur Bryants Sons, Inc.. col- lided. The car driven by Jamieson was demolished. In Police Court this morning Justice Duvall dismissed all llhm. saying he was unable to find any violation of the trafic laws, ’

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