Evening star., 1921-01-23
INQUIRY IS PROPOSED
OF us. INTERVENTION
Part Taken In the Government of Haiti
and Santo Domingo May Be
>. Investigated.

to participate in q competition for
the design of a statue which will be
placed In Montevideo by the govern
ment of Uruguay. The statue is in
tended to represent the type of
gaucho." or early settlers. who were
the forerunners of the present in
habitants of the republic. Prizes of
$1,000 and $1,000. respectively. will be
awarded the first and second COM
petftors. The government has ap-
propriated approximately 100000 in
! gold for the construction of the me-
mortal.
Bernard Noll of the Department of
Commerce left Washington last week
| for Rio de Janeiro, where he will
become trade commissioner in the
office of the commercial attaciie
there. Before leaving for South
! America. Mr.. Noll secured. through
| the chief clerk of the bureau of for
| eign and domestic commerce. a po-
lice pass. signed by Maj. Harry l.
! Gessford. superintendent of police
essary. Although Mr.. Noll antici-
| pates no need for such a pass. he
has found in his travels in South
America that such an Identification
| is helpful.
John ETH. sculptor of New York,
was in Washington last week. He in
! formed officials at the American
| ho he CT nf nr
Orten, a former professor of natural
history at vassar College. will be
! shipped to Peru in May and will be
unveiled in August. DIR. Orten died
some years ago. while on a trip of
/ exploration in Peru and Bolivia. His
| statue will be unveiled on a little
! island in the center of Lake Titicaca.
! which lies on the borderland between
Peru and Bolivia. The statue was
bought with funds subscribed by the
students of vassar.
| The Argentine embassy here has
prepared and forwarded to Argentina
| a bulletin on how to increase produc-
! tion of hogs. prepared with the as
| sistance of the department of aSri-
i cultural education of the National
| Harvester Company.
| A Senate committee last week ap-
proved a resolution authorizing the
| President to- require the sugar equal
,,ization board to purchase 1882 tons
Of suSaf. iih66ffSd from Argentina BY
the American Trading Company Of
New York. under an understanding
with the Department of Justice and
the Department of State. The sugar
! cost 81 cents a pound and now is
worth about cents, and the gov
4, ernment stands to lose approximately
| $2.7S0.000 by the transaction. The
| committee, it is understood, will re-
! port the resolution out when all data
F, on the deal has been examined.
| A statue OF tsoiftar. which has stood
. on Bolivar Hill, in Central Park. New
York, for more than thirty years. will
be replaced by another statue of the
South American hero, to be unveiled
April 19. About five years ago the
government of Venezuela decided to
| replace the old statue with another
! which will be the gift of the vene-
zuelan government to the city Of New
York, and the new statue is now
completed. Ceremonies for the unveii-
| ing are being planned Jointly by the
Department of State, the city govern
ment of New York and the Venezuelan
legation here Many Of. the South
American diplomats in Washington
are expected to attend.
*xk
Henry NJ Hill, former consul Of
Panama in Central America and now
in Washington on private business.
characterizes as 1.-THE most unfortu-
nate act yet committed by the mill
tary authorities in the Panama Canal
Zone" the action of United States au-
thorities in taking over small tract
of land near Colon, which it WAS
claimed was necessary for defense of
the canal.
THE people of Panama find it diff
cult to understand such an act of
seizure of property by the United
States" he said, especially since the
recent visit to Panama of President
elect Harding, who voiced his desire
for maintenance of the most friendly
and cordial relations between the peo-
pies and the governments of the
United States and Panama"
The Rurale Society of Buenos Aires.
the leading authority in the Argen-
tine Republic on animal industry. has
forwarded to the embassy here a re-
port on the dairy industry in Argen-
tina which shows it's rapid progress
since 1914, when the total butter pro-
duction was 9.307 tons and cheese was
Sab tons. In 1920 the production
reached 20.939 tons Of butter and 21,-
ITO pounds Of cheese.
The Rurale Society now is busily en-
gagged in organising an international
dairy exhibition to be held in Buenos
Aires during May. Invitations have
been sent to American breeders OF
dairy cattle and manufacturers of
dairy machinery and products. Ar
Rentina has imported many dairy