Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1926, Page 22

- FORFIGNERS HELD | - INCHINESE SIBE 21 Americans and 5 Euro- 4 Peans Face Starvation ® Unless City Is Saved. tonese government Two weeks' bombardment sault having failed to wrest the c its Cantonese blockaded it starve it into submission. Unless week, it is believed, Wuchang must There are two - of relief. from the fall sible, Fang. he able to push troops past opposing Cantonese forces 150 miles down the | Yangtze River from Wuchang. ntered into an alliance with Wu- “u, Whose troops are the defend- has Pi ers of The Pei-Fu Forced out of Hankow, ted Pross . September 18 21 Amerie: s hemmed n with the opulace of Wiichang by the rmies of the Red Can- and as: northern army defenders, having completely | and settled down to | relief comes within one | faint chances The first, and_most pos- is that Marshal Sun Chuan- ruler of Eastern China, may lw He | guidance Nipponese professional and busin of Y. M. C. A. officials. \ leaders, who are touring the United States for a general exchange of ideas mericans, were greeted by the Navy Department head this past week while seeing the Capital under the NEXCODECLARED N CRTIGAL STATE Economic Conditions Require Gold Certificate Issue, Dr. Wolff Says. By the Associated Press SAN ANTONIO, Tex., September 18. —Economic conditions in Mexico, ag- gravated by the Catholic boycott, are critical, Dr. Walter Wolff, German political economist, declared here to- day. Dr. Wolff announced that a sur- vey of conditions in the southern re- public had just been completed, the result of which will be reported to the faculty of the University of Heidel- berg. The findings may have an influ- ence on the investment of German capital in Mexico, he sald. Figures revealing that only 2 per cent of the land of Mexico is under cultivation and that American capi- tal far exceeds that of any other nation in oil investments were quoted by Dr. Wolff. He estimated that the United States had $850,000,000 invested in the Mex- ican oil industry; England, $200,000,- 000; Holland, $40,000,000, and Mexico. Wuchang. second remote chance is Wu himself may bring aid. across the from Wuchang. Wu-Pei-Fu reinforcements at his | 70 miles north, but he | Mice southern armies and may | o to break through in | ve Wuchang if at all. | Tso-Lil “hang Shantung as been be coming from his allies, Chang ictator of Manchuria, and 'sung-Chang, of Province. governor Ruth Morgan of New Yo made chairman of the new | created peace committee of the Int ‘Wu's reinforcements are said to Inaliunal Woman Suffrage Alliance. CED. L Association Head Becomes East Ohio Gas President. CLEVELAND, September 18- (). — Ralph W. Gallagher, for the last four vears vice president and general manager of the East Ohio Gas Co., a Standard Oil Co. subsidiary, was to- | Gas | position in the oil and gas industries $11,000,000. Discussing economic conditions, he said: he only cure now is the stabiliza- tion of business conditions, a balanc- ing of gold and silver by the issuing of gold certificates and the encourage. ment of business. The agrarian pol- icy is not working out as was expect- ed; ignorant Indians are not capable of cultivating their few acres without tools. The petroleum laws are anti- forelgn in nature.” day named president of the company to succeed M. B. Daly, who died Sep- tember 8. Mr. Gallagher holds a commanding of the National ation, being president of the tion of America. The University of Texas has an in- come of $10,000 a day from oil royal- ties. Cuban Sugar Men To Sue U. S. for $41,000,000 Profits By the Associated Press. MONTREAL, Quebec, September 18.—Cable advices from Havana.to leading sugar interests here state that an influential group of Cuban planters and sugar mill owners is petitioning the Cuban government to take action against the United States Treasury for the recovery of $41.000,000, alleged to be the profit made by the sale of sugar to the allied natlons during the latter years of the World War. Dr. Sainz de la Pena, Cuban consul in Montreal, confirming the advices, said reliable information had reached him to the effect that the planters and owners would themselves press the claim if the Havana government refused to act. U. S. SHIP ON FIRE. ST. JOHNS, New Brunswick, Sep- tember 18 UP).—The cattle ship Wi- nona County of the Oriole Line, American Merchant Marine, was on fire today at Sand point. The blaze, believed to have started in a lower hold, was fought with steam. The Winona County was about to sail for Liverpool with a cargo of sugar, fodder, rolled oats and grain. L Fgpun il Army Mule's Victim Ne;n 100. PORT ANGELES, Wash., Septem- ber 18 (#).—Matthew Fleming, a-vet- eran of Western Indian wars and in- valided out of the Army before the Civil War when he was kicked by an Army mule, will celebrate his 100th birthday October 9 at his home in Sequim. MRS. LONGWORTH LEADS G .. RACE Wife of Speaker May Be Ohio .National Republican Com- mitteewoman. | By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, September 18. —Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth of Cincinnati, wife of Speaker Nicholas Longworth, is the foremost among half a dozen candidates for Republi- can national committee woman from Ohio to succeed the late Mrs. John Gordon Battelle of Columb ‘The candidacy of geveral prominent women Republicans has enkindled a scrap in the party ranks, which has caused the State chairman, ¥red Warner, to .decline apy appointment until after the Nouvenfber election. in the hope that the jation wi The fight, howevel refice, as the qdestion of the old and the new committees. Mrs. Longworth's aspirations were strengthened somewhat this week by the withdrawal of Rose Moriarity of the State Industrial Commission and Mrs. Wilma Sinclair Levan of Steu- benville. Hanged for Killing Wife and Son. ‘ CANON CITY, Colo., September 18 (®).—Ray F. Shank, convicted of the murder of his wife and 19-year-old son, Paul, in Denver an September 16, 1925, was hanged at the & tentiary here today. EXHIBIT TO TOUR WORLD, th;um Naval Leader Behind Schooner’s Trade Mission. BERLIN, September 18 (#).—An industrial exposition will leave Bre- men tomorrow for a world tour on board the four-masted schooner Vater. land, which is scheduled to reach New York in 40 days. The cruise is managed by Count Felix Luckner, the naval commander, who, in 1917, broke through the North Sea block- ade with the German cruiser Sea Addler and raided commerce until captured near the Fijl Islands. The venture is bheing suppor prominent German industrie: the world in an attempt to gain cu« tomers. e Six men were killed in the coal mines of British Columbia durinz 1925 and five in the metalliferou< aceording to official report. Calvert St. Bet. 18th & 19thN.W. 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