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WEATHER. (0. 5. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Showers this afternoon, followed by generally fair and cooler tonight and tomorrow. Temperature—Highest, 86, at 4:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 60, at 6 a.m. today. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 14 No. 30,318. post office, Full report on page 9. Entered as second class matte; ‘Washington, D, C. ENGLAND DEFENDS WARDEBT STANDIN NEWNOTETOU.S. Publication of Unexpected Message on Question Set for Tomorrow. LONDON IS SURPRISED AS WELL AS AMERICA ! Action Believed Result of Con- troversy Between Mellon and Winston Churchill. LONDON, M of the B the wa tained gar, eved to be eon- | British note which tched to the United tat publication of which is ow morning. News that had been sent caused swp in London, 2 was 1o hation of its until word was received that Howard, Britis mbassador livered it to the American partment. Result of Controversy. is understood to be the f the controversy over the bt between the American Sec- y of the T Andrew Mellon, and the Brit ellor of the exchequer; Winston Churchill It is thought to be in the nature of a reply to Secretary Mellon's view- point tha Britain is receiving mor rom her continental war debt- ors che is paying annually to the United States under the Wash- ington debt-funding agreement. Recently numbers of letters have 1 in the Pritish newspapers ging Mr. Mellon’s “misrepre- ‘The , in a,letter to Dr. Hibben, president of Tniversity, made public d Great Britain's sche- : from Ler debtors called for a substantial amount more than she would have to pay on her - American debt. Payments Called No Drain. “yt is true,” he siid, “that in the past two years Great Britain has re- ceived from Germany, France and Italy about $100,000,000 less than »she has paid to the United States, but it is equally true that from this year on Great Britain every vear will receive from her debtors a_substantial amount more than she will pay to us, 5o that her American payments will not con- stitute a drain upon-hég-own economic: esoutces.” Tl ‘was true also, he added, that Great Britain had agreed not to accept more from her debtors than the sums which, when added to the reparation payments from Germany, would equal those which she pays to the United States. However, even tak- ing thie into consideration, it was ob- viously inaccurate to say that the debt agreements which the United States thad made imposed a tremendous bur- den of taxation on friendly countries. Secretary Mellon's letter was in fesponse to a statement by Dr. [Fiibben and 116 members of the [Princeton faculty endorsing one writ- ifen by the facuity of political science of Columbla University recommend- ing reconsideration and revision of the debt settlements made with the Sormer war allies of the United States. Reply by Churchill. ew days after publication of the Ee:relmry’s }lener Chancellor Churchill declared in the House of Commons that, even if Great Britain received the full Dawes reparation payments from Germany for the next 60 years, she would not receive a sufficient amount to cover her payments to the United States, including the payments made in the past, before anything was received from her creditors. Tast Summer there was & similar aifference of viewpoints. Secretary Mellon, replying to a letter sent by Frederick W, Peabody of Ashburn- ham, Mass.,, to President Coolidge, advocating cancellation of all war debts, remarked that Great Britain bhad negotiated a rge part of her jodn from the United States “for purely commercial, as distinguished from war, purposes, to meet its com- mercial obligations maturing in America, to furnish India with silver, 1o buy food to be resold to its civilian population and to maintain exchange.” Loans Are Explained. “Our loans to England,” Mr. Mellon added, “were mot so much to provide war supplies as to furnish sterhing for home and foreign necds and to gave England from borrowing from its own people.” This drew an elabo- rate rejoinder from the British treasury. Great Brit ment said, neutral cu in,” the treasury state- i sterling and 11 her own s th ghout the war and n bore the burden of cover- terling equirements of her nental all act that the Unitea el able on entering her of additional Britain would have been , from the resourc disposal of her. allies, res in Amerl d, in bility, the British debt would never have able to place mee at the end. an prot Tnited been incurred.” REVOLTS ARE MINIMIZED. Calles Says Rebel Movements Lack Capable Leaders. Presi- t that in Mexic is and lacks capable The vernment, he fronted with two probl nection—the local Yac the te of onora, and “gangs of Catholic extremists he by “atholic pries Jalisco.” But wdded, is con- never ns in this con- | { uprising in | several W. A. LOKER WINS Leonardtown, Md., Youth Is First National Finalist to Be Selected. Graves of Eastern Second, and Catherine Birch of Tech Third. William Alexander Loker of Leon- |ara Hanl School, Leonardtown, Md., | today won the oratorical champion- ship of The Star region in the fourth tional Oratorical Contest. | Speaking on “The Constitution,” | this 17-year-old orator defeated nine other “district” champions in this region in the third unit of The Star als held in the auditorium of the tional Museum. stern High School adjudged second his' oration on “America’s to Constitutional Govern- ment,” delivered in the first unit of the finals, held in the Central High chool Auditorium this morning. Catherine Birch, spokesman for the McKinley High School, won third place with a speech on “The Constitu- tion,” also delivered in the first unit of the finals, Shared Program With Loker, The contestants who shared the speaking program of the last unit with Loker were John Bell, jr., cham- pion of the Virginia schools district, and Miss Bessie Cush, champion of the Washington private and parochial schools district. The rating of the winners of the first three places in the contest was decisive but not overwhelming. Loker was a definite winner in the judg- ment of the jury. Two gave him first place, while the third rated him sec- ond, making his total 4, according to the low-point total system. The Graves boy's total was 10, while Miss 4 NATIONS OPEN ECONOMIC PARLEY U. S., Turkey and Russia Only Non-League Countries at Conference. best with By the Associated Press. GENEVA, May 4.—The great inter- national economic conference, sum- moned to evolve plans to stabilize economlic <conditions throughout the world, was opened today in tion Hall. Some 1,500 delegates were present, representing 46 nations, including the United States, Soviet Russia and Tur- key as non-members of the League of Nations, and the hall presented an even more animated and crowded scene than during meetings of the League Assembly. Former Premier Theunis of Bel- gium, president of the conference, in his opening address declared there had never been a meeting so comprehen- sively qualified to study the problems which jeopardize “the two preclous boons for which mankind is eyer yearning—peace and prosperity.” Need of Guidance Stressed. The conference, he added, must help maintain peace by providing guidance in the economic field in the face of difficulties which made the world un- comfortably dangerous and sensitive. M. Theunis emphasized that the conference primarily must survey the world’s economic situation to deter- mine the economic causes of the pres- ent instability. It must also examine economic tendencies which may influ- ence world peace, giving particular attention to the problem of commer- cial and tariff policies and interna- tional industrial agreements. The last point was probably specifi- cally European, he remarked, but the delegates must not forget that in- terdependence of nations means that every measure affecting the economic life of one nation produces effects in all other countries. M. Theunis expressed the opinion that it would be found that disloca- tion of economic relations because of the World War has had more serious consequences than the material havoc wrought. He belleved that the crux of the existing difficulties was that trade, particularly in Europe, had been unable to keep pace with the developments of means of production which have equaled and even sur- passed the pre-war level. The first task of the conference was to elect a vice president, M. Louis Loucheur, former French minister of finance, being unanimously elected for the post. Soviet Attitude Watched. As the delegates assembled, interest was focused on the attitude of the Soviet delegates. All were. anxious to learn whether the Soviet would display a moderate attitude. All the countries of the world, with the exception of Spain and Liberia, are represented. American representatives were con- cerned chiefly with the question whether the conference would adopt a policy of *selling combines,” and if so, how far the policy would be carried. Under such a plan, they feared ef- forts would be made to compel America to accept fixed monopo- listic prices on European goods. Another fear entertained by the Americans was that the conference | would go on record as fostering state | subsidies to companies exporting raw materials_required by _the United @h ¢ Foening WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1927-FIFTY-TWO PAGES. ORATORY FINAL IN STAR AREA FROM D. C. PUPILS ‘WILLIA! MORE DIKES BREAK, PUTTING IMMENSE AREA UNDER WATER Crevasses in Northeastern Louisiana Open—10 Par- ishes Inundated. THREE-FOURTHS OF ONE RAILROAD SUBMERGED Despondency Settles Over Thou- sands Made Homeless When Poydras Was Dynamited. Birch followed closely behind with a total of 12. As champion of The Star reglon, “Aleck” Loker will represent this area in the national finals May 27 in the Washington Auditorium. In addi- tion to that honor, the young Mary- lander will travel for two and a half glorious months through I countries with the other tionalists. Wins Additional Award. Along with the European tour, which will begin July 2, with passage on the U. 8. 8. Leviathan, Loker, a champion of this region wins also an additional award of $200. The meeting in which Loker was declared victor was held at noon at the Museum. The first section was staged at Central High School and the second in the Dunbar High School. It was by far the most en- thusiastic unit of the whole of the finals. School yells and loud cheers bid fair to split the building before the (Continued on Page 13, Column 2.) LINERS IN CHINA WILL GARRY GUNS All Dollar Ships Touching Shanghai te Be Guarded, Officials Announce. By the Associated Press. HONG KONG, May 4.—With the arival here today of the American passenger and freight steamer, Presi- dent Lincoln, it was learned that plans “being discussed for' T guards and machine guns on all Dol- lar Line steamers touching at Shang- hai. This step is being considered because of the firing on the President Lincoln from the native section of Shanghai May 1. Indiscriminate firing on British war- ships in the Yangtze river continues, The gunboat Cockchafer was under rifle fire today near Nanking, while convoying steamers, but there were no casualties. The destroyer, Wand- erer was fired on at Kiangyin, a mem- ber of the crew bheing slightly wound- ed. Both warships returned the fire. The United States Destroyer Pope arrived here today from Manila. LAWYER BARRED FROM CLIENT American Engaged to Defend Mme. Borodin, London Is Told. LONDON, May 4 (#.—An Ameri- can lawyer engaged to defend Mme. Borodin and other Russians about to be tried with her on charges of con- spiracy against the Northern Chinese government has not been permitted to speak to the prisoners, said a Peking dispatch to the Daily Express today. The name of the lawyer was not given. The Westminster Gazette's Peking correspondent, reporting the arrival at Peking of Mme. Borodin and the other prisoners, said they were under military escort and a strong guard. It was stated that the Northern au- thorities had not yet decided whether these prisoners, who were arrested when the Soviet steamer Pamiat Lenina was seized, should be tried to- gether with the agitators captured when the Soviet embassy compound in Peking was raided by Marshal Chang Tso-Lin’s agents on April 6. GOVERNOR’S DAUGHTER RUNS AWAY AND WEDS Michigan Executve Absent When Peggy Green Becomes Bride of Fellow Student. By the Associated Press. LANSING, Mich., May 4.—Miss Peggy Green, only daughter of Gov. and Mrs. Fred W. Green, eloped yes- terday with Norval Tyrreil of Detroit, a fellow student at Michigan State Col- lege, and the two were married at Bowling Green, Ohio, it became known today. Choosing a day when the governor was absent from the ital, the young couple left East Lansing by au- tomobile yesterday forenoon, drove to Bowling Green and were married by Rev. Paul J. Gilbert, pastor of the First Presbyterlan Church, returning later to Detroit. The bride, who fs 19, and Tyrrell, son of a Detroit investment broker, (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) plan to return to school to finish their studies. By tho Associated Press. Strides made by the United States as an industrial -Nation were strik- - | ingly illustrated today in data pre- own in the | pared for the Commerce Department MEXICO CITY bands were dispe £ to, G ment issued tc presidential § bureau, uerrero a'state- by Prof. E. E. Day of the University of Michigan and Woolief Thorne of the Federal Reserve Board. The data | covers the advance since 1899. | The quantity of manufactured goods produced by the country in 1925 was found to be 163.4 per cent greater than that of 1899; the number of wage earners employed was increased hy 88.2 per cent, and hvrse’\wer of U. S. Manufactures Gain 163 Per Cent, Report Covering 26 Years Indicates electrical, steam or other energy in- creased 229.6 per cent. There were only two classes of in- dustries whic were not producing more in 1925 than in 1899—liquor manufacture and ship building. No legal liquor of any kind was found to have been manufactured in 1925 while in the ship-building field, it the 1899 output is represented by the fig- ure 9, the 1925 output dropped to but 7. The most notable increase in a, sin: gle Industry was reported in that de- voted to automobile production, which had an index figure in 1899 of 5 and in 1925 had soared to 238, By the Associated Press, NEW ORLEANS, May 4.—New crevasses above and below St. Joseph, between Vicksburg and Natchez, curred today along the Mis loosening flood waters Wi make more thousands homeless and add immensely to the vast stretch of territory now under water. The great valley flood has hit a number of railroads hard, but prob- ably few have suffered proportionately any more than the Louisiana South- ern, which literally has been cut in two by the flood waters pouring through the artificial crevasse at Caernaryon. The Louisiana Southern is a 45- mile road, following the bed of the ssippi_southward from New Or- leans to Point a la Hache, with a spur line_through St. Bernard Parish to Shell Beach, on Lake Borgne. It serves a great industrial field to the south of the city as well as a large canning and trucking territory. Only One-Fourth Above Water. After the inundation of St. Ber- nard and Plaquemines Parishes are complete, only about one-fourth of the line will be léft out from under water, this béing immediately south of New Orleans, where the road serves a ship- building plant, stock yards, the Amer- ican Sugar Refizery, reputed the largest in the world, and the great storage plant of the Sinclair Ol Co. of Louisiana. Despondency born of inactivity has settled over the refugees from St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parishes, whose farms and trapping preserves were desolated by the angry Missis- sippl that New Orleans might be spared its wrath. In the haste and strenuous action of a hurried evacuation there was lit- tle time for sorrow. All energy went into the hasty removal of household furniture, live stock and children, Many of the residents of the two par- ishes postponed action until the last m_ox:;né,‘ hoping that their homes igh #aved, hundreds not.leaving; Then, protests failing, they mnmgi belongings into such vehicles as were available, took a last look at their homes through moist eyes and jour- neyed to New Orleans. Inactivity Is Irksome. In the days that have passed, however, there has been plenty of time for thought. Men sit quietly on the white iron beds of the refugee barracks. The inactivity of indoor life after the freedom of the fields and marshes is irksome, Few care to read. Sometimes they stroll down to the front of the massive, barnlike struc- ture and stand solemnly at the en- trance. Less frequently they wander aimlessly about the city. The younger -ones chatter away, sometimes_with references to. their homes at Poydras or Shell Beach, at De La Croix Island or Braithwaite. Pictures and vaudeville perform- ances given by local talent and by pro- fessionals from local theaters are staged regularly. Many Still in Area. ‘While several thousand of the in- habitants of the two parishes fled be- fore the approach of the flood created by the artificial crevasse, a good pro- portion have refused to move, pre- ferring to take their chances in land they know to adventuring in a city comparatively strange to them. Most of those who have remained are trappers and their families. They are familiar with floods and the muddy waters hold no terrors for them. Their homes, for the most part, are built on raised platforms on the banks of the myriad small bayous in the marshy land, which rarely pass a Spring without overflowing. No especial preparation for the re- ception of the flood waters was made, in most cases. When the trappers heard that the levee was to be broken and had been persuaded from armed resistance, they passed it off with a “Let ’er bust” and shrug. Every family in the lower section has from one to a dozen pirogues, a small canoe-like boat. These are used to make the round of traps and will be used in the present emergency to bring in supplies. In addition to the pirogues, most of the families possess small shanty boats, which the trap- pers live in during the season and use to move about along their trapping lines. Now these will become the only homes of many of the residents. 7,000,000 Acres Covered. Every parish in northeastern Louis- jana for the first two tiers along the river, extending 10 parishes down- stream to the mouth of Red River, has felt the grasp of the waters which already have covered 7,000,000 acres of land and rendered more than 200,000 homeless as they moved upon the Gulf of Mexico. The 10 Louisiana parishes already covered, either entirely or partially, were Morehouse, Carroll, Quachita, Richland, Madison, Franklin, Tensas, Catahoula, Concordia and Avoyelles. ‘Water streaming from four breaches in Mississippi River levees was mov- ing down to join backwaters from the Red River, while flood waters from the Quachflafand the volume released by breaks fn Arkansas cov- ered other portions of the territory. Tallulah virtually was abandoned as its population fled to Vicksburg and Delhi before a lake released by a break in the Mississippi embank- ments near Milliken's Bend. Resi- dents of St. Joseph and Waterproof spent a sleepless night awaiting the jingle of telephones which would tell them that the Villa Clara levee had been smashed. Train service on the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Railroad was annulled and all equipment not pressed into relief service was removed from the territory. Many of the people in the path of the Millikens Bend Crevasse had been preparing for the invasion for two weeks. All were thought to be out of the area, Delhi, located on a ridge west of Bayou Mason, was a_place of refuge (Continued on %, Colump 7) “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 103,983 UP) Means Associated Press. STy ovEp ] OFFICIAL, AT DESK, TELEPHONES TO FLYING PLANE DURING STORM MacCracken Warns Party En Route From Quantico of Thundershowers and They Land Safely. While an electrical storm raged overhead at noon today Willlam P. MacCracken, jr., assistant secretary of commerce for aeronautics, from his office in the department at Nineteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, en- gaged in a two-way conversation over his telephone with four occupants of an airplane flying between Quantico, Va., and College Park, Md. The demonstration, given to show the extent with which the depart- ment’s radio-airplane telephone com- munications experiments have prog- ressed, took on an unusual feature when the storm broke a few moments after the airplane had called Mrt Mac- Cracken on the telephone. Designed specifically to communi- cate weather reports to airplanes in flight, Mr. MacCracken took advan- tage of the opportunity to inform the plane’s passengers of the storm over Washington and suggested that the plane return to Bolling Field. The reply, clear as over a normal tele- phone, with the exception of a little statle, was that his advice would be (Continued on Page 13, Column 6.) BLEVEBLLN T0 COVER UP CRIME Probe Theory Killer Feared Exposure by Albert Baker. BY DAN RING, Staft Correspondent of The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., May 4. —That 9-year-old Albert Baker, whose body was found in a stone-weighted sack in the Rappahannock River Monday, after a 10-week search, was brutally murdered by one who feared some sort of exposure from the boy, was the theory tentatively adopted by authorities here today as the search for the murderer commenced in ear- nest., % The tangible facts in the hands of the investigators are meager. Their only clues thus far are the two smooth round rocks, weighing four or five pounds each; the burlap gunny sack, weighted Ly the rocks, that held the body of the boy; the 8-inch cord that secured the mouth of the sack and the knowledge gained from the autopsy yesterday. Dr. John G. Cole, coroner, in com- plete control of the immediate inves- tigation, discovered at the autopsy that the boy’'s skull had been frac- tured at the base in a position which indicated that the blow must have come from below, as though through % fall or by an awkward, upthrusting low. Hemorrhage Followed Blow. Discoloration of the brain establish- ed that a cerebral hemorrhage had resulted from the blow. Coroner Cole also found a black line around the neck which, he reported, opened the possibility that death could have been hastened by strangulation with a cord. With these slender indications at hand, police officials here by process of elimination endeavored to build up a theory as to the cause of the murder and the motive. Two theories of motive for the apparent brutal murder of the 9-year-old boy are put forward: 1. Possibly because he knew too much; possibly because he had been watching bootleggers in an operation in one of the alleys near the place where he was last seen and had been discovered by them. 2. Possibly a person accidentally causing the head injury, but in @ position to explain it, had hastened his death and concealed the body. The theory that the boy was knocked down by an automobile by one who secreted the body later and disposed of it was discarded after the autopsy, since it was found that an automobile injury could not have pro- duced the condition of the skull as shown in the autopsy. Town Profoundly Stirred. Profundly stirred by the murder, this old American town groped about aimlessly Monday night and yesterday for a definite starting point into the mysterfous maze of circumstances surrounding the case. The autopsy really started the of- TN BUSHES CALLED FAVORABLE factory, U. S. Chamber of Commerce Is Told. Generally satisfactory business con- ditions throughout the country were reported at today's session of the fifteenth annual meeting of the Cham- ber of Commerce of the United States. ‘While the Midwest is facing a crisis. and New England is in the midst of one, the South and far West have solved their problems and are on the threshold of & new era, speakers for the four sections said. Thousands of farmers in the Mid- west today are struggling to save their farms and homes from fore- closure, Silas H, Strawn, chairman of the board of Montgomery Ward & Co., Chicago, declared. “The farmers are not enjoying the almost unprecedented prosperity that prevails in the industrial centers of the country,” he said. “The trouble which began in 1920 still persists in the Central and Western States and in the cotton-growing country of the South. Alternatives Are Cited. “There is no considerable difference of opinion as to the cause of the trouble, It is only when a remedy is sought that the discussion widens. Although Congress was flooded with measures, culminating in the McNary- Haugen bill, no one has as yet pre- scribed a panacea for the diffiulties.” One observer, he said, has declared that unless something is done, one of two things must happen: The farm- ers will organize to control the food supply of the country, or they v ill accept their position as hopeless and settle back into a form of peasantry, and either alternative will be a na- tional calamity. The situation as to the farmer In the Middle West may be summarized as discouraging, Mr. Strawn con. «cluded. New England has reached the stage of “industrial maturity,” John 8. Law- rence of Boston said. As the birth- place and first home of the factory in America, he said, it was the first sec- tion to experience conditions that come with carrying assets and lia- bilities of long established, and in some instances antiquated, businéss methods into a modern era. However, he predicted New Eng- land would not be the only section that must face these conditions. Far- sighted men in other parts of the ) PRESIDENT TELLS OF AMERICA'S AIN New Civilization Being Built in Pan-American Move- ment, He Says. America’s recent disavowal of im- perialistic political designs on Central and South America was carried a step further last night by President Cool- idge, who assured the representatives of 20 sister republics that it is the purpose of the United States to use its vast resources ‘not to control them but to co-operate with them.” The President’s address, broadcast over one of the longest “hook-ups” yet established, was delivered at a Joint session of the third Pan-Ameri- can Commercial Conference in the ‘Washington Auditorium the Chamber of Commerce of ‘the United States. More than 4,000 delegates, representatives of the governments and business interests of the Union of Pan-American States, gave Mr. Coolidge a tremendous welcome, Building New Civilization. The Pan-American Union, Presl- dent Coolidge said, is creating a new civilization in the Western Hemi- sphere. As the chief spokesman of the largest single member of this union, he called upon the delegates to further this civilization by “mutual helpfulness, mutual confidence and mutual forbearance.” Carefully avoiding any mention of existing high tariff barrier, against which Central and South American countries are outspoken, the Presi- dent touched on the broader aspect of trade between the Americas. “We expect other countries to pro- duce commodities which we can use for benefit,” he said, “and we expect to produce commodities which they can use for their benefit. The result is a more abundant life for all con- cerned. “It is this mutual interdependence which justifies the whole pan-Ameri- can movement,” the President de- clared. “It is an ardent and sincere desire to do good, one to another. Our associates in the Pan-American Union all stand on an absolutely equality with us.” Evokes Hearty Response. It was this avowal of a-disinterested and impartial commercial policy which perhaps evoked the heartiest response of the pan-American delega- tions. President Coolidge visualized through the interchange of trade a Western Hemisphere of closely linked republics working in helpful co-op- eration. “In 1830, nearly a hundred years ago,” said Mr. Coolidge, “the value of both exports and imports amounted to about $25,000,000; 50 years later it had reached more than $200,000,000, only a little less than three times as much, and during the lasf 10 years it has averaged not for from $2,000,000,000, again increasing almost tenfold in 50 years. In the hundred years, or a lit- tle less, the increase has been nearly a hundredfold. Balance Favors Others. “In this exchange of commodities the: country has, as is known, pur- chased far more from them than they have purchased from us, or, in other 'words, the visible balance of trade has been in their favor. During the last five years our purchases have amount- ed to a total of $5,068,000,000 and our sales to $3,781,000,000, showing a dif- ference of $1,387,000,000, or an excdss of about 34 per cent. . For the century the excess would be greater, probably by more than 40 per cent.” John W. O'Leary, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, presided, and introduced Mr. Coolidge. Lewis E. Pierson, chair- man of_the Pan-American Commercial Conference, and Secretary of Com- (Continued on Page 13, Column 3.) (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) Petruchio, in Cowboy Chaps, Uses Whip On Modem Shrew By the Assoclated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 4.—“The Taming of the Shrew” is the latest fielal machine in motion yesterday aft- ernoon. Chief of Police A. 8. Perry called in Conway Apperson, the- 1l year-old playmate of Albert Baker, who was the last known person to have seen him, Conway, who was brought to Fredericksburg by his father, W. E. Apperson, who moved to Stottsylvania, shortly after the dis- appearance of rt, told the story of his associations “with Albert' on the afternoon that h; was M{“amm ‘onway with Albert at about 4:30 ‘on the after- | Shakespearean play modernized. An ultra-modern adaptation, which saw the actors in 1927 costumes and before an enthusiastic a: of Tadelife gita, the bui? blared forth, Army Now." evy main in Shakespeare Play She, far from resenting his tactics, retaliated in tuneful declamation to his “I Can’t Get Over a Girl Like You, Loving a Boy Like Me.” In the wed- ding scene, the finale of the first act, “You're in the ' Padua, as the setting, ylelded to tic critics were critical in the chorus, which they N 0L the g too hard,” and of the’ chorus girls, who looked a little o0 “sweet” for their parts. - Patronesses-included Mrs. ‘A. Law- w, wife of the president of | distribution will be useful to all mem- bers at *|Radio Programe—Page 27 Ly TWO CENTS. ARGENTINIAN HITS AMERICAN TARIFF AT TRADE SESSION Pan - American Delegate’s Talk Brings Warm Defense by J. H. Fahey of Boston. SENSATION CREATED AS HARMONY BREAKS South American Says His Group Adopts Motto: “Buy From Those Who Buy From Us.” Harmonious relations at the sessions of the third Pan-American Conference reached a o | stage today when American tariff barriers to the free exchange of commodities were vigor- ously attacked by Luis Duhau, presi- dent of the Argentine Rural Soclety, and as warmly defended by John H. Fahey of Boston, former president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Following in the wake of President Coolidge’s address last night, in which he assured the pan-American delegates of the United States’ aims only at commercial co-operation in its deal- ings with Central and South America, the attack on this Government's tariff policy created a sensation at the con- ference session today. Indicates Retaliatory Measures. The controversy was precipitated by Mr. Duhau in an add¥ess, during which he declared: *“It is not upon the shifting sands of commercial prejudices that inter-American soli- darity should be built, but upon the solid ground of economc liberty.” In explaining why the Argentine Rural Society had proclaimed as its motto, “Buy from those who buy from us,” Mr. Duhau indicated retaliatory meas. ures by Argentine commescial inter- ests if readjustments of the American tariff are not made soon by Congress. Reflecting the sentiment of the Ar- gentine Rural Society and likewise a great proportion of South American business associations, Mr. Duhau pre- sented to the conference the following resolution: “The development of pan-American interchange must be sought principal- ly in the gradual reduction of cus- toms duties. . “It is desirable that commercial dif- ficulties that may arise between American nations be previously studied by commissions of business men interested in promoting com- mercial interchange.” Referred to Committee. This resolution, which will be the subject of much dise during the remaining days of the conference, was referred to the resolutions com- mittee in accordiance with the rules under which the conference is func- tioning. “The principle, ‘Buy from those who buy from us,’ does not constitute our final aim,” declared Mr. Duhau in resuming his attack on American tariff barriers. “It is not the expres- sion of our permanent international economic policy, it is only an emer- gency measure to be employed while the customs barriers that suffocate the economic development of nations exists. “The conviction that the gradual overthrow of customs barriers will bring to all countries the classical ad- vantages of international commerce inspires exactly the economic aspira- tions of Argentine’s agragrians, free from all artful interpretations of na- tionalisms.” “These reasons,” Mr. Duhau added, “reflect a frank and sincere attitude which we owe each other in the ef- fort to study our commercial diffi- culties.” Tariff of Fiscal Nature. The antagonism of Argentine to ex- isting tariff barriers, Duhau said, should be re-enforced with measures “pending to oppose the investment in our country of chemicals proceeding from countries that discourage impor- tation of Argentine products. This is because of the simple reason that having to meet the financial services of those loans through the exportation of merchandise, and not being able to introduce merchandise into the credit- or’s market, we would be forced to export to those markets which are already overloaded with our pro- duction.” After pointing out that the Argen- tine tariff was principally upon indus- trial articles and that with respect to those goods coming from the United States “it has a fiscal rather than a protectionist character,” he went on to state that “on the other hand, al- most all the duties falling on Argen- tine products in the United States are of an altogether protective nature and become prohibiti.e in some cases. For instance, he added, that is what hap- pens to beef and wheat imported from Argentina in significant quanti- ties. Beef Gluts Market. “In regard to beef, our present ex- cessive supply is glutting the Brit- ish market, whose reduced merchan- dising power has lowered prices, seri- ously harming our cattle producers. “If this country allowed the yearly entrance of 350,000,000 pounds of Ar- gentine beef, that amount would only represent the relatively small propor- tion of 5 per cent of the total con- sumption. But the same quantity would constitute 28 per cent of Ar- gentina's average exports of dressed beef in the past decade, and 23.3 per cent of an exportation calculated at 1,500,000,000 pounds.” Mr. Duhau declared the starting point of this economic movement rests on the ..ank revision of cus- toms tariffs. This object should be reached through the establishment of a permanent board of business men and institutions from hoth countries interested in interchange,” he sald. That board would study the complete mechanism of trade in all its details, for this cannot be done during the short period of the congress. “I offer these suggestions to the :merrcag bunme;u men assembled ere, and am ready to hel) you may put forth.” A ol Fahey Introduces Resolution, The, upshot. of today’'s free-for-all discussion ‘of tariff barriers was a resolution offered by Mr. Fahey coms mitting the Pan-American Union to the following program: “Resolved, That the governing board of the Pan-American Union direct a compilation of statistics which upon ‘olmflla dunlon in comple nderstanding of technis o

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