Evening Star Newspaper, December 31, 1925, Page 17

Signing by European Powers of Locarno Security Treaties Outstanding 1925 REVIEW OF THE YEAR IN LAM IN GROWING REBELLIO AGAINST RULE OF CHRISTIANS Twelve Months of Civil War in China Recorded. Abd-el-krim Brings Strife Against France and Spain in Morocco—Druses Revolt. BY EDWARD PICKARD. { tice that she would not abide by u de. (her events | Cizion that gave Mosul to the British 1l othier eVents | e couneil of the league was called signing of the |} on to prevent one war nd did so. wugh they do not | Greece and Bulg; a wer ready to of the | fignt over some trouble on the Mace- th the | Gonian frontier, and the ( s went e the s far as to Invade Bulgarian terri- they give Lo v und occupy ral towns. The Dle | league council ordered that hostilities s | ceqse at once, saw to it that the orde; BALOIY | was oheyed, and sent a mission to set ide In the i tle the dispute. e was found at thont Fal- j;‘ | fault und had to pay damages to Bul ey | Earia- L measur i peace the Gre Krim Causes Trouble. Abd-eLKrim's attempt to drive «nd _Spanish from the Riff sh un independent gov- that part of Morocco but caused the vers wuch trouble Chey juined forces und after ed lunding _in in September Krim surrounded and was driven into the mountains. A group of American aviators formed an es f | cadrille and helped in the tizht against £ | the Moroccan ch #trikes in the Shanghai cot red by Russian Bulshevist agents, | sought to stir up civil war in | sulted in futal rioting in May Krim, | a unti-foreign made | necessary the landing ¢ luropean bluejackets and f foreign voluntee, the the more, | overnment at Peking was ut- ible to straighten out the tan- { August 5 the \Washington relating to Chinese customs of | and the open door went into effect, and in October the international con- ference to carry them out began its sessions in Peking. China demanded autonomy in the matter of the tariff, | and the conferees agreed to give it this not later than January 1, 1929, | provided that In the meantime China 1p- | should_abolish the likin In May a conference on the control the international trade in arms, ition and the implements of war opened in Genevi, and six weeks the representatives of 18 coun tries, including the United States, signed a convention regulating and icting that tratic. The same na tions and nine others then signed | protocol relating to chemical and bac | teriological warfare. binding them- | selves to accept the prohibition of such warfare within their respective limits, t 1e end that the prohibitio ay with | become a part of international law here | the \ssiu | French nd ernment n in not successfu Luroy e ex Au Dr uins for | Alhucemas Bay ors virtually nd the I wder on mills, fo. | who China nd Spain L foree nly enraged nd the un on treaties 1y Twelve Month of Wi | Saklatvala Exclusion, More than le nations. attend e confer- the Interparliamentary Union, | was held in Washington in Oc ry of State Kelloge re passport 400 ¢ represent i The radicals protested bitte been 1 In Decembs premier miinister negotiations Ame n nged ecime Lot again and wiis 1d heur The c of D taly and satisfactorily Rumania to those nt Coolidge, t the Peru whou 11 between wmd Chile over cit prov NTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS I t been sent Gen there to arrange and of the Inhabitants s Chileans did wd \ing | ics in Great fally eventful. Britain were not The Liberal party recovered somewhat from its erushing | defeat in the elections of 1924, and squith, who was raised te peerage as the Earl of Oxford, continued as its leader. Lloyd George pledged to him his unqualified loyalty. The Labor party did all in its power to combat the Baldwin gov- | ernment, but Itself badly split between radicals and conservatives, Al parties und elements except the radical Laborites were kept busy fighting the schemes of the Commun- ists. The government refused to ad- forelgn Communists to the coun- attend the conference of the ‘ommunist party in Glusgow luter canceled the permits Communists to live in G | 1 i itish many Britai Whiat tmport on’ Ay t vas called one nt events in the of the most post-war his British Empire occurred when Great Britain re. turned to the old standard. Australia New Zealand took this step at | e time, and the Unlon of South followed suit on July 1. Can ready back on a gold basts, L the midvear the currency of the entire empire was virtually on + pre-war footing, The government July with a threw British coal u have been ruinous | | i ATrica ered into | \ | was confronted in | of a general strike ners. which would o the country. The . | only means found to avert it was the oy | Subsidizing of the industry for nine +ihe | months to the extent of nearly 850 jer | "00.000, S0 that the miners’ wages he reduced. Within « nonth it was found that the necessary «vments had been greatly underesti- General unemployment in- ised during the year and the cost living continued to rise. al Troubles. aside from and Syria, were Premier I[lerriot il April 10, when the gov- finance il was defeated | rliament. Paul Painleve there- | became premier and he gave finance portfolio to Joseph Cail- who Was convicted during the of treasor Aristide Briand teok =t of foreign minister. Caillaux o more successful than his pred- lecessors and the cabinet resigned Painleve formed a new T.i { ministry, but this went on the rocks = in Geneva in Sep- | in November. Briand was made pre- Sinbér with tor Raoul Dandu. | mier again and Louis Loucheir, one rand of Caneda ne president, received | Of the wealthlest of Frenchmen, be- Great Britain's protest against viola- | came minister of finance. ton of the Mosul frontier by Tur The revolt of the Druses in Syria, and referred the dispute over that rich | held by France under a mandate, be- il region to The Hague court. This | came serious in July and the tribes- ribunal turned it over to the World | men defeated the French forces sev ourt and referred back to the coun- | eral times. They filtered into Damas- ted ori olicy to | French F pa olidge it Il an dis reac warare in m land The fan ernment’s P Dece nournced would onfere Soviet wis: » such ) prepre t Russia were representatives oi k eague of N ts annual meei! ited St PR | of the league, but Turkey gave no-' cus and started an uprising thers, in d |of the immense Stinnes fortune | the rule of the dire: { have been henefic THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ©, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1925. (EEATD] — LocARNO RITY e ZONGRESS PASSED SRR IR AND RATE BiLl R ¢ s - A)“, 3 CART™H GMAKE{»‘ THE WEST L LRS00, Lot ERRIFIC HOT SUMMER ASTOUNDING 6Q0WTH SHENANDOAR DISASTER OF FOOTBALL HAD HIS HANDS FuLL QUEEN ALEXANDRA FRIEDRICH EBERT ecs oF GEaMANY ~ SENNINGS BRYAN THOMAS R MARSHALL LA FOLLETTE LADD oF N DAKOTA N.MECoRMICK OF 1L SEN. SPENCER OF M WARREN 55 ToNE LABOR LEADER Oftickui of wheat und rye for home to kill 1t warfare Leb: which capital eps du rthe o ndustries K the 1 Monarchists and Natior ctions for Prest resulte 1d and eral other g made Field Marshal von Hind & their inee and at the second clections. April he was < freely ficted that but the old sol- of loyalty to the he desired Chancelle ~d by Fore on one oceas sentenc to death Modernizing of Turke Kemn: his intr Greec and He but sup 1 1 ¥ b ipire, rkey pledge pady thereaft indicatic » monarchism . now slightest returt Luther v pnted in m ious revolt of the Kurds ed it and execut Har S other ways he is mod ernizin irkey Egypt got Into troubk w Britain when a group of radics lered Sir Lee Stack, the sirdar. itish exacted the death penalty the as compelled 1¥ ptian gove to v concessions that tightened the British { grip on the disputed Sudan territory ad Mirza, the young Shah of . enjoyed life so much to return to b N try, so on October 31 the Parliament | deposed him and put an end to his dynasty. Rlza Khan, the premier who Lssnme A. « wdmin nances of cellent rec wa the 1 mically the for Germar severely a1 1 by heavy at competition pr the rld not good susfered removing year was Akriculture industries were ham taxation and cut- The breaking up fter | death of its founder was marked by a long and picturesque duel betwe his heirs and the banks Mussolini’s Rule Still Firm. In December the cabinet resigned 0 that & new ministry fully in favor of the Locarno treaties might be | formed. Benito Mussolini continued to rule Italy with a firm hand and the posi- tion of the Fascisti was strengthened in the Autumn by a split in op- position, the M aalist Socialists severing their connection with t other groups forming the Aventine hlo The dictatc began year by taking steps to suppress the oppo- sition organizations and newspapers and before the twelfth month was ended the Parliament had at bis be- hest passed a number of laws, ele toral and otherwise, that made scism supreme and Mussolinl’s dic- | tatorship complete. In November the police uncovered s plot to assassinate | the premier and overthrow the ernment, and one result of this was a renéwal of measures to suppress the Free Masons. Primo de River tator of Spain, caused some sury in December by announcing that the time to end the military dictatorship had come. He formed a civilian cabinet, retaining the position of premier. On’ the whole. torate seemed to Al to the country In Portugal cabinet crises, small military revolts and Communist upris. ings were rather frequent Belgium experienced several changes of ministries, and so did Pajaund when Skrzynski came into power in Novem- ber. Gen. Pangalos led a successful mill tary and naval coup d'etat in Greece in June and the government was upset without bloodshed. Pangalos there- upon hecame premier. In September he dissolved the national sembly and ordered new elections In Bolivia Jose Villaneuva was elected Russian Activity. | President, but would not promise sub- Soviet Russta did not gain the con- | servience to the party of President dence of the other powers to any Saavedra, so at. the instance of the great extent, for the diplomatic ef- | latter the Congress declared the elec- forts of her rulers in that line were | tion void. On September 3 Saavedra offset by the continuance of holshe- | turned over the office of chief execu- vist propaganda abroad. Having falled | tive to the president of the Senate to entice the proletarial of western | and new elections were ordered Europe, they turned their attention| Conditions in Brazil, Argentina and especially to Japan and China. At|the other South American states were home their chief concern was the |reasonably good throughout the year, state of mind of the Russian peas.|though Brazil did have serious labor antry, which was so dissatisfied that | troubles and a small revolutionary revolt was in the air. As usual, there | movement in the state of Rio Grande were crop failures in various districts | do Sul. and famine conditions were predicted, despite which the government ex- ported wheat for political purposes. After trying prohibition for 11 years |excesses in some of the Mexican states Russia was put back on a wet basis |our neighbor to the South enjoyed 1% on October 3, when distilled liquors | months of remarkable prosperity un- containing 60 per cent of alcohol and'der the administration of Presldent 4 £ tions wom | | h Great mur- The for the 1d certain on the Mill ist American il the g made an r the fitions In Arabi insettled during the year, owin; the min nt warfare between All, King |the Hedjaz, and Ibn Saud, King Neid and leader of the Wahabis. | captured Mecea, but was defeated Al Jeddah vear 1o Inter of of Ibn by Amundsen’s Flight. Cupt. Amundsen made a_spectacular |attempt to fly over the North Pole, hopping off from Spitzbergen with two planes on May The expedition succeeded in getting within 150 miles of the pole, but was forced to descend and lost one of the planes. After great bardships the intrepid explorers re- turned to Spitzbergen on June 18. Latin America had a comparative- 1y uneventful year, which means there were fewer revolutions than usual. ,On January 23 the navy junta gover: ‘ ZOv- di officers and a few days later the army {and navy reached a peaceful agree- ment and recalled President Alessan- drl from his voluntary exile in Eu- rope. In Octoher Alessandri re- | signed and was succeeded by Emiliano | Figueroa. Solarzano was inaugurated Prestdent of Nicaragua in January, und Barahona of Honduras. On Au- | gust 3 the American marines were withdrawn from Nicaragua after keeping the peace there for 12 years Mexico Prosperous. ment of Chile was overthrown by army | PACT £ A GREAT YEAR Foa THE PAUL PRYS \ IN THE NECK , AS USUAL » [ worps) ;e\n‘f\,‘y [semes | ) < oo HO AN, ABoTTE O RUM VCTOR F LAWSON, UBLISKER CHRISTY MATTHEWSO 0N SINGE GEN NELSON A AMy LOWELL CAMMILLE_FLAMARION HERBERT T NGTED AsTRONMERE/ Q"D F'IC AFFAIRS 1 electors of the States d went through the Presidentis met Jun formalit Vice | Calv ary 12 ve President Unite Charle ed in of States, Coolidge an. re declared elec dul postal employes | and of the Assoctate | Supreme Cour and the Presic hinet n Janua appointed Attorney Stone to the va- ominated fgan to be A few days luter aries B. W Mic! | Attorney Gene When the Senate | met in special sess@n after the in lauguration one of ite first acts was to i reject the Warren nomination because jof his former business connections. The President sent in the name again | and again it was rejected. Mr. Cool idge thereupon nominated John G. Sargent for the place and he was ac- cepted. Secretary StateHughes ed from the 1 March 4 1 was succeeded Frank B. Kel , then Ambasss to Great Brit Secretary Weeks, who en ill for many months, re n October 13, and Dwight F. Assistant Secretary, was given the portfolio. Mr. Davis' position was filled by the appointment of Col. Han ford Nider, former national | mander of the American Legtor liam M. Jardine of Kunsas was 1 Secretary of Agriculture on February 14. A change in the White House it- self that was of especial politicfans_was the resignation Bascom Slemp as secretary President and the appoiniment Everett Sanders of Indiana place. bine by a Davis dips of Coolidge. | President { mer vacation Coolidge spent at the Swampscott ura- Mass | and during the vear he made several |to angr ‘trips for the purpose of delivering ad-' Reid. Mitchell's The more Important of the | were to St. Paul. Minn., for the Norse- | American centennial celebration: to | Omaha for the meeting of the Amer- iican Legion, and to Chicago for the conventlon of the American Farm Bu- reau Federation. Vice President Dawes was exgeedingly active In carrying on his campaign for revision of the rules of the Senate, making speeches on that topic In many parts of the country. ‘When the Sixty-ninth Congress opened its sessions on December 7 he w: ready to go on with his figth, but with- out glittering prospects of success. The Republicans were in full con- trol of the new Congress, but the old tnsurgent bloc in the party was there again undaunted by discipiinary meas ures by which its members v e CARTOON PERU SHAKE HANDS CLARA MORRIS CAMOUS ACTRESS Quick i of | . to the|y | | | | i KILLS 1000 | ; | | other me: g Fvent [PROSPERITY BEAMS ON AMERICA, REFLECTED IN PROPOSED TAX CUT rvice Controversy Holds Nation—Shenandoah Wreck, Coal Strike, Scopes Evolution Trial, Prohibition Issue, Santa Barbara Quake. | Air smuggling p the bribery of coa Curzon of Kedleston nmander of Brit In April—Jean tenar; Archbi Elwood tomobile which involved ardsmen. Lord Rawhnson, h forces in Indla de Reszke, famous op Christie of Oregon inventor of first au nt, American «ine, American rson, secretary of t g Prohibtion Debate. The wets did not relax their ef forts to have the prohibitlon amend- ment repealed or the Volstead act lib- | painter eralized. When Congress met Repre- | muthor sentative Hill of Mayland led off with | United s a resolution for rogeal of thel In May eighteenth amendment, with a provi- | lish * sfon that the action of eich State on | 1 the proposal be taken through u State | Ay convention of delegates ted by | mier popular vote. He also Introduced a bill to let each ate define “Intoxi cating beverages for « i and sures to modify the scount Leverhulme, Eng p king”; Maj H. A ndholtz, 1 \.; Herbert Quick, rican author; W. F. Massey, Pre New tand; Miss Amy Charles Viscount Gen entorce ment | | y AGGREIAT ING— MOsQUITo With a number of introduced the beginning the He put at the top list ‘the tax-reduction measure 1t had been prepared by the. wa rd means commitiee du ill proposed a cut in In tic si ast yme and other reduce the national reve than $323,000 000, It was virt & non-partisan meas: 1 seemed assured of passage. La Follette Position. nes more President Dawes Senate procedure, erest in house at first ntered on ititude of Senator Robert M. La Follette, jr., of Wiscon sin, who had been clected to succeed his'1 ither. the leader of the insur- nt ¢ yOUng man gave every in- tion that he would follow closely n the footsteps of his sire. of 1 Senators had passed Ladd. of North Da Sorlfe had appointed an avowed follower of succeed him. Some onposed the seating the ground that ht under the to fill a senatorial Iston of Indiana, s Democratic wheelhorse, died October 14, and A. R. Robinson, Republican, was appointed to flil the vacancy One of the most spectacular political battles of recent times was that waged for the mayoralty of New York. It be gan with a hot contest for the Demo- cratle nomination between Tammany whose choice was State Senator Jimmy” Walker, and the Hearst fol- lowing, which urged the renomination of Mayor Hylan. Tammany won out, and in the election Walker was easily the victor over F. D. Waterman, the Republican nominee. Mitchell’s Court-Martial. William Mitchell, by his deter- mined fight to improve the Air Serv- ice of the Army and Navy, made his name a household word. Early in the vear his outspoken superfors resulted in his removal from the office of assistant chlef of the Army Air Service, but he talking and writing until the War Department had to order his trial by court-martial. Meanwhile the Presi- dent had appa ed a special board to inquire into the condition of the Afr Service, and this board, after lengthy rings, made 2 report upholding -hell in many of his criticisms. It ndemned, however, his pet scheme making the Air ‘Service an inde- pendent department. The colonel’ trial supplied many sensations, rang- ing from the withdrawal of Gens. Summerall, Sladen and Bowley from the court on the ground of prejudice clashes between Congressman chief counsel, with the forces of the judge advocate. Mitchell not only repeated his many charges against the Air Service, but elaborated them and made others, and while they were contradicted by numerous wit- nesses, perhaps as many testified in the colonel's favor. Having no warfare, no really serious business or economic troubles, and not much in the way of politics, the peo- ple of the United States devoted a great deal of attention to prohibition, its enforcement and its violation. It could not he denied that the dry law was not being thoroughly enforced. so in June General Andrews, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, was put in full charge of the job. He made sweeping reorganization of the Federal ort t the the Senators Mr. Nye Stats cor vacancy had ution Se; e de- |enforcement machinery, depriving Pro- prived of most of their important com- | hibltion Commissioner Haynes of most | mittee assignments. In the lower i house they refused to support the Re- publican candidate for Speaker, Nicho- las Longworth of Ohio, who neverthe less was elected. The Republicans also amended the rule concerning dis- charge of committees so that a ma- Jority of the House must sign a petl- | tion to take legislation out of a com- | | of his powers and dividing the country into 24 districts with administrators responsible to him. The orders went out that the flood of illicit liguors en- tering the country must be dried at the sources, and the minor violations of the law were left largely to local au- thorities. The Coast Guard was called upon, and all Summer its vessels were | mittee’s hands and place it before the active,along the Atlantic seaboard es- |woman members—Mrs. Rogers | Massachusetts and Mrs. Kahn of Cali- | fornia on the Republican side and Mrs. | Early in Despite labor disputes and agrarian ' House. In the lower house sat three | pecially of | fleets ] with the result that the rum hich had been lving off the New England coasts’ were dispersed. ixm the Federal agents Norton of New Jersey on the Demo- in New York wncovered a big liquor | ers | manding an increase | | Another | tha | criticisms of his | kept on | There of little need Scopes o remind read the trial in Dayton Tenn., in which the school teacher convicted of violating the State forbidding the teaching of an t f the origin of mankind contrary that found in the Bib Vith Wil lam Jennings Bryan leading the pr n and Clarence D). . Ch t chief counsel the the contest wi tween funda mentalism and liberalism, and peo ple of the country learned more ahou Charles Darwin and the thee lution than they would 1 ne. However, the) decision” in this contes was found guilty on his ¢ sion that he had vio Only a few days after the trial Mr. Bryan was found bed C h, Farl of Ypres turton, president of uis Falk Taw eory | Lou therhood of Krutt- nund J M. La could be no Mr Scopes dmn Dakota. (roon, Americar Williams ) of Quebec 1. Charles R rector of the Veterans' Bure: John W. Thompson, a millior tractor of St. L were fou on June 30 of having con fraud the Gov on ¢ soldiers’ hospitz An fines and fmprisonment I INDUSTRIAL—LABOR | Forbes, former di and s nmer = forme Temple Lawson, » Ne Sir George Stettinius, New 1 V. Vanderbilt statesman; Paul AL C, James Ad. Bour Only one great strike marred yvear's record in the United The anthracite miners in w adoption of the check the operators, and after | negotiations the mine. out of the mines on cause the stock of owing to the us: and ¢ stitutes, the consumer did greatly, but the effects of the strike on the miners and operators and the business men of the min towns were serious. President Cool fused to interfere, but asked | to give the Chief Executiv | Secretaries of Comme | the authority to i rises There were strike s in the East, of garme “w York and elsewhere terers because of a I Ralston’s Death « = hr Mathewson, f James B and philan n, United States 1; Eugene San. man Isaac Bishop Frederick Island; Bishop E. Hampshire or. H. J. nd edf- leader Gen Baltimore o her sub- rvene er e non of Salt peror of Yo Braziiiar former pres 1kee and miners of Nova & for several months The American F held its annual me City in October, turned dow ositlons for co-opera sian ades unions the Soviet gove Prestdent Green and The Supreme Court Ur States on April 13 held nsti tional that part of the Kansas in trial court act prov sory arbitration October it ruled agains minimum wage law fo sped Fec al rt of equi erated the International Harvester ¢ of trust charges, and Secretary ¢ Jardine dismissed ti eral charges against the me Ar ur and M Violent fluctu: the Cricago Board the ire of farm ind { Jardine, and at his insistenc In October adopted stri prevent price manipul: | ind re nment and re-eis Newspape WOMAN STOCK TRADERS. Wall #ip Recent Years guished her sex as New York news paper women, the W Street Journal. He eley was her em muci everyhod Somé av on Secretary rs f one of ti i DISASTERS Natu kind to the humar race during the re was not and pre the spec the destruction dirigible, Shenan Ohio on September as the airship was on her way to some State fa; the Middle West. Comdr. ary Lansdowne an 13 of | crew were killed. Another misfortune befell the Navy cn September 24, when the submarine 8-51 was rammed by a | steamship off the Rhode lsland coast and went down with 33 men. Among other disasters were these: In Feb. ruary—Mine explosion in Dortmund Germany, killed 138; Kansas City live. stock pavillon and motor show burned, | the loss being $2,500,000; mine explo- | sion at Sullivan, Ind., killed 51 In | March—Thousands died in carthquake in central China; tornadoes in south ern Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ten- |r. nessee and Alabama killed about 800, In May—Mississippl River steame capsized. 22 drowning: destructive earthguake on Japan's west coast; ex plosfon In North Carolina coal mine killed 52. In June—Seventeen killed by mine explosion urgis, Ky.; 45 killed in train wre New Jeérsey; earthquake wrecked Barbara, Calif., killing 11 000,000 in property. killed by collapse of dance hall Boston. In August—Fifty kille boller explosion on excursion steamer | near Newport, R. I: Italian subma- | rine lost with crew of 49. In Septem.- | ber—Mine explosion in Korea killed | 160. In October— Eighteen killed in | train wreck near Memphis, Tenn. Tn [ i, fore November—British _ submarine lost | p, volime for the last with crew of 6S; $3,000,000 fire on New | veqrs, and in some cases for all time Orleans docks; west coast of Florida | ycoording to leaders of industry ravaged by storm So great was the demand for mer chandise in the closing weeks of the vear that manufacturers were forced » very lar increase output. In some lines three shifts were worked which means 24-hour operations. While th n of profit in some | branches of industry was not as large | as it was in other years, this shrink aze was mo 1 made up in heav fer production and consumption, and {as a result the key industries wili {round out the 12month period with the greutest net earnings ever re ported. Outlook for trade in 1926 is more { promising than it has been on the eve | of a year for & long time Wi taken $1 th it a hu great Navy . in a storm over 1 have chi v ven if, I stock goes up anc is he prophes vou—what you thereby that you t 1f int moneymakers, that woman is or matters ng he does double ir , What is that to the habit into af prehend to men and ough belong to me | exclusiv put vou fessiona fit for women o knew Jenny Tom Scott number Junes owning k in that NEW INDUSTRY RECORD. Yes July { Baltimore Reports Best Last Half Dec: ade. Special Disp st BALTIMOR facturing and December 31— Ma commercial activities district in 1923 NECROLOGY Outstanding among the names of those claimed by death during the year are these: In January—Archbishop Henry Moeller of Cincinnati; Guernsey Moore and George Bellows, Americ artists; Dr. Norman Bridge, Chicago physician_and philanthropist; Harry Furniss, Enelish cartoonist a thor; D. G. Reid, “tinplate king C. Eastman, publisher of Chicago Journal; Field Marshal Baron Gren fell, British soldier; George W. Cable American author. In February—John Lane, English | publisher; Julius Fleischmann, Cincin- | nati millfonaire; Thomas W. Lawson, | Boston financier; Mrs. Clio Bracken, | Americgn sculptress; Fred W. Upham, Republican leader of Chicago; M. . De Young, publisher of San Francisco “hronicle; President Marion Burton of | University of Michigan; James Lane | John A. Topping, chairman of the Re- Allen, American _author: Hjalmar | public Iron and Steel Co., sees good Branting, former Premier of Sweden: | demand for steel continuing through Medill McCormick, United States Sen- | 1926, with operations comparing favor- ator from Illinois; Friedrich Ebert, |ably with A possible President of Germany. decline in demand r building ma- In March—William A. Clark, copper | terial and automobile requirements, he magnate; Bishop W. A. Quayle o | believes, will be more than offset by Kansas; Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, first Presi- |increased purchases from the railr dent .of Chinese Republic; Marquis and in the agricultural districts. PREDICTS GOOD YEAR. Steel Magnate Expects Large Orders to Continue. NEW YORK, December 31 (8)—