New-York tribune., 1919-09-27
Committees to Steer
Trade Delegations
Men versed in European Affairs
=, ILL Act at international
Conference

fClr tomm!ttces composed Of Amer
lean business men specially versed in
European affairs have been appointed
TO meet and confer with the DELEGATIONS
II the International Trade Conference
at Atlantic City from Great Britain.
France, Italy and Belgium. The special
Office OF these committees Will be to
make 1T certain that the commissions
from the Allied nations are received
ana placed IN touch with men who have
background OF knowledge of and
sympathy with the affairs of Europo
he committee, which has formulated
the programme for negotiations and CON
ferences with the delegation from Great
Britain, headed by Sir Arthur Shirley
Bcnn. has as its chairman Irving 4
bush, president of the Bush Terminal
Company. With him are associated E,
A. ;. Clarke, president of the Consol-
GATED Steel Corporations; John j. Ar
nod m}l' OF the irst National Bank of
chicago; Paul ID. Cravath. who spent
'ne greater Tat of last year in Eng
land on government missions, jerome
~. Green, of the banking firm of Lee
llgslnson q Co.; Vance c. Mccormick
Francis +. Powell Charles A. Stone
president of the American Interna
t'onal Corporatlonc William P. Bon
1rlght' international banker, and New
comb Carlton, pres ident of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company.
AT the head of the committee dca1inp
especially with French matters is Jo-
teph t. cotton. law partner of eX-Secra-
tary Mcs.doc; Paul Fuller, jr.. of Cou-
oeft Iros. international lawvers:
Nharles &. Dawes. of the Central Trust
company, of Chicago, who was head of
a. +. +. purchasing in France: GEORGE
4GInn Al.
hrm OF that name: William ]. Wilgus.
one OF the great engineers who volun-
'eered Tor work in France during the
war; samuel Mac Roberts, of the Ma
.onai city Bank, and DR.. William II
Nichois, OF the General Chemical Com
pany
FOR Belgian affairs the committee is
neaoeo hy Alexander j. ilemphill, chair
man OF the Guaranty Trust Company.
mn1cn mas been active throughout the
war IN Belgian financing and has lust
been appointed one of that countrv's
nnanclai agents here Mr.. Hemphiil's
associates are Guy +. Trip, Of the
eStlhghouse Electric and Manufact
urng Company; Edward G. Miner of
inc ftaudler Company, of Rochester.
pr. Vernon Kellogg, National Research
touncli; Lieutenant Commander John
A. 1ade, John Van Schaick. ir Red
,s vtVSs commissioners for Belgium, and
"iillam A. Law. president FIRST Ma
tlonal Bank. Philadelphia.
10 confer with the Italian delega
non, headed by Gughelmo Marconi
and Signor Crespi. the International
Trade Conference committee is presided
over by Robert p. Perkins. resident of
the Hartford Carpet Corporation, who
was Red Cross Commissioner to Italy
and is thoroughly familiar with its af'
fairs, Mr.. Perkins's associates on this
committee are George F. Baker. FIRST
National Bank of New York: Albert
Patterson. of the firm of Patterson &
Greenough: Edward n Hurley, Robert
". Woolley, Interstate Commerce Com
mission; Earl d. Babst, president of
the American Sugar Refining Company;
Calvin NJ. Smith. president of the firm
Of Young, Smyth, Field & Co.. Robert
+. Maddox, president of the American
Bankers Association and Dr. John Bas-
sett Moore