Evening star., 1921-09-18
TALKS ON EXCHANGE
MAY BRING BENEFITS
Results Expected From Pan-American
q Conferences on Finance and Industry
Called by Secretary Mellon.
celebration in Mexico City
as Panama's Representative.

centennial celebration in Mexico City
as Panama's representative.
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Final steps toward the creation of
the Gorgas Memorial Institute for
the study of tropical medicine will be
taken tomorrow at a meeting of the
provisional board OF directors of the
institute at the Pan-American Union
building. A permanent charter, al
ready outlined. will be adopted. and
ways and means decided on for flnanc-
ing the project. preliminary steps al
ready having been taken in this di-
rectfon. The permanent board of di-
rectors for the institute will be Sc
lected and a board of trustees ap-
pointed.
The Argentine ambassador, Tomas
A. Lee Ereton. will mediate certain
claims between United States citizens
IN Panama and the government Of
Panama arising from minor riots in
/ Colon in 1915. The settlement of the
claims by third party was sug
gested in notes which passed between
the United. States and Panama fol.
! lowing the alleged destruction of
property in Colon by American work
men employed on the canal construc-
tion. Mr.. lie Breton accepted the post
of mediator at the invitation of the
State Department. made last week.
Such a union as that proclaimed in
Central America last week by the
constituent assembly of the Fedora
| tion of Central America. meeting at
Tegucigalpa. capital of Honduras. has
| been the hope in Central America for
| centuries. 1t has come only after
years of fruitless endeavor. but the
| formation of the present union. COM
posed now Of Guatemala. Honduras
+, and Salvador, seems to be on per-
! manent basis. Before many months
the federation probably will be COM
| pleted by Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
! Central America. conquered by the
Spaniards in 1898. passed through
until 100 years ago. when the Napo-
leonic wars gave the Spanish colonies
an opportunity to fight for freedom
and shake off the Spanish yoke.
| Central Americas independence was
proclaimed September As. 1921. in
Guatemala City. giving freedom to the
people of Guatemala. Honduras. SAL
vador. Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The
states failed to perfect a union. but
on July i. 1882. Central America again
which met at Guatemala and pro-
| claimed the second Federation Of
Central America.
| Lack of communication facilities
and the ambitions of petty politicians
| caused the states of the federation
to drift apart. and by 1888 the second
federation had ceased to exist. it's five
states having become individual re-
publics. There has always been
strong sentiment in favor of the fed
GRAFTON. however. and Guatemala and
Salvador never have repealed the con-
stitution of the old union.
Thursday. the 18th of this month.
Central Americas centennial of her
independence from Spain. saw the
birth of the newest federation. which
hope will never be dissolved. The new
nation is believed to be a real union
of the states with people of the same
race, religion. ideals and aspirations.
and speaking the same language
The Venezuelan Commercial Agency.
with headquarters in New York. re-
ports that wireless stations are being
4 erected in Caracas. La Guaira. Mara
cay, Maracaibo. Valencia and other
large cities of the country as a step In
the modernization OF Venezuela. The
station at Caracas has long-range
sending apparatus, and is in touch
| with points in the United States and
Europe.
Importers and exporters have COM
planned some time of the inadequate
cable facilities provided between this
thought that the new wireless plant
at Caracas will do a great deal to-
ward obviating the difficulties of COM
imunication.
Senior Alfredo Agalos of Chile. who
has come to this co6ntry to study pro-
hibition enforcement. reached Wash
fngton last week, and will remain in
the capital a few days before starting
on a tour of several weeks which will
take in the principal cities of the
United States. He will study the vari-
Gus methods of enforcing the prohibi-
tion laws and make a special report to
his government, which is considering
the advisability of partial prohibition
in certain areas of Chile.
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Albert r. Lamb. a former private In
the Washington police force, who
went to Panama as chief OF the Pan
anna police during the late Maj. Pull
mans term as chief of police, is in
Washington. Mr.. Lamb was wounded
; during the first skirmish between the
Panama and Costa Rican forces fol-
lowing the revival of the White award
controversy last February. He ex-
poets to return to Panama when he
! has recovered.