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TOBE ARGUED
ATCONFERENCE
PAN AMERICAN CONFERENCE IN
J. WASHINGTON WILL BE At
TENDED BY REPRESENTATIVE
, FROM 20 COUNTRIES.

Washington, May 31.-With the opening
mere on Tuesday next of the second Pan
American Commercial conference, there
will be inaugurated what Is considered
the most important trade gathering ever
held in washington and one of the most
important international meetings as
sembled for any purpose. The inaugural
session will be presided over by Frank l..
Polk, acting secretary of state and acting
chairman of the governing board of the
Pan American Union. The conference
will continue four days. The program and
arrangements are in charge of Director
General John Barrett and a SUB commit
tee of the board composed of the am
bassador of Mexico, the minister OF
Venezuela and the minister of Ecuador.
Representatives of manufacturing,
banking. shipping and other commercial
interests from all over the United states
end all the other twenty American re-
publics of North and South America. will
be present to take part in the discussion
of the large international trade prob
lens which are on the program A spe-
ciaI cable service has been installed in
the beautiful Pan American building
where the sessions are 10 be held so as
to permit direct communicat ton between
the United States and Central and South
America during the progress of the con-
ference.
After-the-war trade development be-
tween the United States and the other
Fan American nations is to be discussed
in all its phases at the various sessions.
Aviation as q aid to Pan American com
merce is a feature of the program, and
the topics range from this to trade marks
and packing methods. They include
shipping and transportation financing
trade and the future of Latin American
Investments, loans and bonds; trading
methods for both exports and Imports;
parcel post, patents and trade marks.
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Guiding advertising and publicity: en-
gineering, including construction of
railways waterways. irrigation systems
and so on; educational and social auxili-
aries to commerce. and a number of
other topics on related matters.
Senior Don Beltran Matthew, ambas-
sador of Chile, Acting Secretary of State
Folk, Senior Don Ignacio Calderon, min
lister of Bolivia, and Speaker Gillett of
the house of representa- tives, are to speak
at the opening session; and among those
scheduled to address other meetings of
the conference are Secretary of Com
merce Redfield DR.. Carlos Manuel de
Cecpedes, minister of Cuba; Edward ~.
Hurley, chairman of the United States
Aonipping Board; Charles NJ. Schwab,
president OF the Bethlehem Steel corpor-
alton; Frank A. Vanderlip. president IF
the National City Bank of New York;
senior Don Julio Zamora, financial COM
missioner of Bolivia; ]. j. Arnold, First
National Bank of Chicago; DR.. Jose San
tia go Rodriguez. Venezuelan commercial
commissioner; Julius c.. Lay. acting for
eign trade adviser of the State Depart
ment; DIR. Burwen s. Cutler. chief OF
the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce, Department of Commerce;
Carlos Arellano, of the Mexican Cham
Der of Comm cree; John L. Merrill, presi-
dent of the Central and South American
Gable company; DR.. L. S. Rowe, assist
emit secretary of the treasury; Sr. Leopol-
dino Cunha. DR. Teodoro Laangarrd
Menezas and Renato de Macedo Sodre of
Brazil; Emilio s. Godoy, of Cuba; Felix
Nieto del Rio Of Chile; w. S. Kies, vice
president of the American International
corporation; Francisco Escobar, consul
general of Colombia: Otto Praeger sec
ond assistant postmaster general: ] ohn
T. Newton, commissioner of patents
Ernesto C. Perez. consul general of Ar
gentina in New York; Mario l.. Bill, con-
sui general of Uruguay in New York;
Augusta Villanueva, Chilean financial
commissioner; John Yavasour Noel. Of
Peru; J. E. Lefevre, charlie d'affaires of
Panama: CamiIo Porras. consul general
of Panama; Manuel Rodriguez Gutierrez.
secretary of communication and public
sistant director of the Pan American
Union and other representatives Of The
United States and Latin America
The widespread and rapidly growing
! interest in Pan American commerce
which has manifested itself so noticeab!y
s.nce the close of the war. the necessity
and advantage OF a frank and fun ex-
change Of views on every phase of Pan
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