Evening Star Newspaper, September 1, 1926, Page 19

LARGEST MEATLESS Banquet Prepared in Chicago for 2,000 Theosophical Society Members. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, September 1.—A ban- quet described as the largest meat- less feast ever served in the Occident was made ready today for 2,000 mem. bers of the American Theosophical Soclety. Three hundred dozen scrambled €888 with mushrooms will furnish the plece de resistance of the feast, which' tonight will conclude the soclety’s three-day convention here. The conventio gave attention to- day to Theosoph outh moveme: the world sociéty of voung Theos phists. The order aims to gath young people throughout the world interested in liberal thought. Third degree rites of the co-Masonic order were conferred today on a large class of candidates, mostly Theosophists, *by Mrs. Annie Besant, international Theosophist president, who is the only thirty-third degree member. The lodge admits men and women, and is modeled along the lines of Scottish Rite Masonry. It existed only in France until Mrs. Besant won a chapter for England some years ago. Jiddu Krishnamurt, accepted by Theosophy as the physical vehicle for the reappearance of a world teacher, shrugged his shoulders today at ex- pressions of disappointment by his fellow worshipers over the failure By the Associated Press. If the Russian Soviet zovernment is prepared to move toward settlement of the Russian war debt to the United | States, as indicated yesterday by,a Moscow foreign office spokesman, it ton officials any intimation of such an intention. Should a formal overture be made, decision would rest with the American Debt Funding Commission, whose members now are nearly all absent from Washington. Any Soviet com- ,mission probably would be denied entry to this country unless its pro- posals had been examined in some has failed so far to give Washing- ! 'THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1926. Russian Move to Settle Debt to U. S. Has Ngve'r Béen Made to‘ Officials Here detail and found promising in advance of its arrival. For months officials have ing rumors that the Soviet &h near- ight pro- pose a debt settlement as a bid for recognition by the United States. but these reports never have been believed here. Neither has the administration shown any disposition to react favor- ably to any suggestion that the ques- tions of war debts and recognition be combined in one bargain. For the present the American policy of non-recognition stands unchanged in every detail, and officials expect it to remain so unless something very specific comes out of Moscow. | SEEKS BRITISH ESTATE. 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