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Evening star., 1922-04-18

The Southern Railway Company has
appealed to the Interstate Commerce
Commission for authority to assume
and guaranty the payment of $4,000
600 equipment trust notes. to run fit
teen years and bear sig per cent in
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Washington has had Peoples
Savings and Commercial bank for
some time, and it now has a Peoples
Sav3ngs Bank, on L street just east
of 18th street northwest
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which will be presented to workers
when the present agreement expires
April 20. Building trades unions will
contend for a continuation of present
scale which was adopted a year ago
after protracted arbitration hearings.
PITTSBURGH. April 1S (SpeciaD.-
One Of the largest building contrac-
tors In Pittsburgh, man who has
been handling big contracts all his
iife. announces business 'on his books
is the largest he has ever had. He
stated that he already had expert
enced shortage of labor.
BOSTON. April Is (SpeciaD.-War-
rem Bros, one of the largest road
building companies in the world. took
orders in the first three months of
this year for the construction OF
100000 square yards of road. The
area laid by the company in 1921 was
9.635 900 square yards and In 1920 was
1929. 900
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MORE ACTIVE AND FIRMER.
Wide Print Cloths Set Pace in Dry
Goods Trading.

NEW YORK, April IS (SpeciaD.-
The dry goods market was more ac-
tive and firmer today. More differ
ent constructions are receiving at
tention. although the wide print cloths
set the pace. Converters again were
In the market footprint cloths and
sheetings and prices were well main
tanned. The improvement was more
manifest in sentiment than in actual
price changes. Sellers are maintain
ing a sitter attitude and some were
disinclined to make commitments for
future delivery. Sateens and fine
goods continued to receive some at
The raw silk market was strong,
with advances of 35 cents a pound on
double extra cracks well maintained.
Some manufacturers. however. are
holding off. expecting the market to
relapse again in spite of the firmness
shown in Yokohama.
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MILLINERY BUYERS NOW HOLD &.
CENTER OFTTIE BUSINESS STAGE
Activity In New York Market Is Accen-
tuated by the Excellent Easter. Trade.
Conditions Elsewhere.

industry. but a continuance OF the
strike for thirty days or more Is
bound to check outputs and cause
reactionary tendency.
Basic grades of iron and steel have
advanced. indicating still further
price increases in finished materials.
Recent advances in the latter are
being maintained. and orders are
keeping well ahead of production.
Sheets and tin plate are leading the
steel percentage procession. but other
lines are pressing close behind. Steel
men are not disposed to light addi-
tional furnaces with prospective fuel
supply uncertain. but most of the
plants still have large stocks of coal
and coke
Companies handling material from
ore to finished product are out Of the
market as sellers of semi-f1nished
steel. such as blooms. billets and
slabs. This has strengthened the mar
ket for pig iron and semi-finished
steel.
AS yet machinery markets have not
quickened extensively. but a short
period of factory and mill activity
will remedy this. Lines connected
with the building industry are enjoy
ing Improvement. the effect on soft
woods being particularly marked
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POTTERY NEARs CAPACITY.

EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio, April IS
Since close of first quarter of 1922
there has been decided improvement
in the general ware branch of the
American pottery industry; and, TAX
ing the entire trade as a unit. opera
tions are on a basis of from 80 to 9s
per cent of capacity. Demand for
high-grade border dinnerware is ex-
ceptionally active and advance busi-
ness Is being booked by the majority
of the manufacturers. Some have
such orders on file for third and
fourth quarter. delivery, but not in
the volume listed in the correspond
ing term of 1919. Demand for din
nerware for curreAt delivery is also
good This shows that both retail
and jobbing distributors are in need
Of merchandise.
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FINANCE AND TRADE NOTES.

Butler Bros, New York, declared
the regular quarterly. 3h per cent
dividend, payable May Is to stock-of
record April 20.
Republic Steel Increased the num-
ber Of it's sheet mills in operation in
Youngstown district to thirteen this
week, and also has its plate mill in ac-
ton. Youngstown Sheet and Tube has
increased active number of pipe mills
to ten, leaving only one idle unit. Semi
finished steel prices are strong.
Fight for control of Remington
Typewriter at the annual meeting to-
morrow at Ilion promises to be very
close. An Independent shareholders
committee is seeking to oust present
management.
Sales of Loft Candy for first three
months of this year were S1,434, ,223,
against $1,64s.4s7 for corresponding
period in 1921.
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UNEVEN MOVEMENT
IN BOND MARKET
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, April 1S.-For the
first time in weeks the bond market
today was inclined to reaction. The
weakness in several of the foreign
external loans could be traced to the
late developments in the European
situation and was coincident with
slightly lower exchange rates. French
government 7Ie and SIS, French mu-
nicipals. Department of Seine Is, Jap
anese As, Swiss SIS and the Paris.
Lyons and Mediterranean 6s all sold
off a point or more.
1t was evident that realizing sales.
following the recent general upward
swing were having their effect Lib
erty bonds remained steady. but de-
spite the continued easy money con-
ditfons and the stimulus afforded
particularly by the Treasury's 3i2
per cent borrowing rate, the United
States government group showed no
signs of bettering the recent high
levels around par.
- Extends TO Rails.
The uneven movement of prices eX-
tended to the railway section as well.
Here such favorites among the Junior
rails as the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas adjustments, the st. Louis and
San Francisco incomes and the New
York, Westchester and Boston 4i4s
were down point to points.
The Erie As, series B. struck a new
top ond so did the rie-Pennsylvania
Coal As at So Green Bay debenture
Bs, Detroit United Railway 412s on
the Detroit voters approval of the
company's purchase of the company,
and the Missouri Pacific 6s. reached
new high prices.
Greater New York fractions We're
strong with Third Avenue adjustments
and the Hudson & Manhattan adjust
ments both up about a point.
In the industrial division. Consoii-
dated Gas Is first sold off fractionally
and then rose sharply to new high
around 113 in sympathy with higher
prices for Consolidated Gas stock.
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CANADA SELLS LANDS.

REGINA, Saskatchewan. April 1S.-
From September 1. 1905, to December
81. 1921, the federal government sold
5.53S.S7S acres Of farm lands in Sas-
katchewan for $16,619,107, and school
lands in the same province with an
Alberta during the same period the
government sold 3.944,0S2 acres for
$11,773.264, and s54,0S2 acres of school
lands for $13,204, 200. Money collected
from sale of school lands Is held In
trust for the provinces.
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REFLECT STEEL DIRECTORS.

HOBOKEN, n. j., April 1s.--Stock-
holders of United States Steel, at their
annual meeting here, re- elected the four
retiring directors-E. R. Gary, James A.
Farrell and George F. Baker. George F.
Baker, jr., was elected director to
succeed Daniel G. Reid and Eugene 9.
Burlington was elected to the board to
fill vacancy At the meeting 1928. 1852
shares Of preferred and 2.072,137 shares
of common stock were represented by
proxy. Shares represented In person in
cluded 345 preferred and 5.l45 common,
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SCOTIA FRUIT PROSPERITY.

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, April 1S.-
With the shipment of 1,117,010 bar
rels and 6,494 boxes of apples from
the port of Halifax during the pres
ent season, Nova Scotia has enjoyed
one of the most prosperous years in
the history of the fruit industry.
Most of this fruit was grown and
packed in the province. Nearly all
the shipments were sent to the. Brit
ish Isles.
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LIVING COST IN ENGLAND.

LONDON, April 1S.-British Labor
Gazettes index number of cost of living.
based on average workingman's family
consumption and assuming 100 as July,
1914, worked out on March 1 at 1856.
compared with 1SS on February / and
1872 at the end of 1921. The high point
reached in the British cost of living
as thus estimated was the 276 of No
vember 1, 1920, to which it had advanced
from the 225 of the armistice month in
1918
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TREASURY CERTIFICATES.
WOOL is MORE ACTIVE.
Transactions More Numerous
Prices Well Maintained.

BOSTON, April IS (SpeciaD.-The
wool market is showing the effects
of better sentiment in woolen goods
and the garment trades and trans
actions today were more numerous
than last week, with prices well
maintained. The report that an
agreement had been reached in Ro-
chester between clothing manufac-
turers which provided for wage cut
of about Is per cent aroused favor
able comment in manufacturing cir
cles. Some fine Australian wools
have recently been taken from bond
and nut on the local market.
The American Woolen Company
is credited with the purchase of a
quantity of fine and fine medium
wools in Arizona on a basis of 50 to
&c cents, unsecured.
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GERMAN SHIPS LAUNCHED.

BERLIN, April 1S.-During March
eight vessels aggregating 5000 tons
were launched in Germany. thirteen
ships of $1,000 tons were completed
and sixteen ships of 51,474 tons were
purchased. The proportion of foreign
registered tonnage in the Hamburg
trade for the month was 71.5 per
cent, while the proportion of foreign
vessels by number in the Hamburg
trade came to 42.4 per cent, of which
2 per cent was ascribed to American
vessels.
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Fuel Supply Uncertainty
Is Retarding Trade Factor
By IL. Ii. LAUFMAN

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PITTSBURGH, April 1S.-The strike
of the coal miners is the only retard-
ing factor in the business situation
here. To date the strike has made no
especial impression on production ex-
cept in coal and coke. There is a for
ward movement in other branches of
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LOWEST IN SIXTEEN YEARS.

SYRACUSE, April 1s.-Franklin
Company announces a cut in prices
of cars. which makes them cheaper
than at any time in sixteen years.
Reductions of as much as s1,500 un-
der wartime prices are included
Wage rates will not be disturbed<
at present, it is officially reported. bu
the other factory overhead has been
csIt.- Production on a larger scale 10
planned
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Commodity Reports
From Various Sections
I.uln her.

San FRANCISCO, April IS (Spe-
ciaD.-Labor troubles continue in
lumber mills of the state Lumber
prices have been cut by some jobbers,
but tendency is toward higher levels.
owing to enormous demand not only
from middle west but from middle
Atlantic states
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Machinery.

ALTOONA. Pa. April (SpeciaD.-
Pennsylvania car shops are working
at near normal capacity Orders
have been received for twenty steel
dining cars and for equipment of
electric cars for service. in the Phila-
delphia district. 81
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BOND AND CURB MARKETS.
CURB.
In New York Curb Market.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press:
NEW YORK, April 1s.-Following
is a complete list of today's transac-
tions on the New York Curb Market
up to 2:15 pm, with sales of each is
sue and the high. low and last prices:
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AutOm ObfleH,

ATLANTA. April IS SpeciaD.-
Ford plant here, idle for more than a
year. has resumed with 300 men on
payroll. More will be added as busi-
ness warrants.
CLEVELAND. April IS (SpeciaD.-
Work at Peerless Automobile plant
is moving along satisfactory, and un-
official figures place March sales at
about 4o0 cars Company is expert
encing some difficulty in getting
enough inclosed bodies to fill orders.
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Paper.

HOLYOkE, Mass, April Is (Spe-
ciaD.-Mills of American Writing
Paper are operating at so per cent
of capacity. compared with so per
cent at beginning Of year.
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Vegetables.

HAZLEHURST, Miss, April Is (Spe-
cia).-The shipment of spring vege-
tables from this section began in
earnest this week. although carlot
shipments will not be started much
before April Is. Peas are high. Car
rots and beets are selling for less than
81 a hamper.
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Steel,

PITTSBURGH, April Is (SpeciaD.-
Bars, plates and shapes are regularly
quoted at $3.50. The recent 50 ad-
vance in sheets is being well main
tanned, with mills largely supplied
with orders for present quarter All
independent mills have raised prices
on nails, staples and barbed wire 81,
leaving plain wire and fencing un-
changed. Strips have advanced 50 on
hot rolled and SO on cold rolled. Hoops
are firm at s1.90. Railroad spikes
quoted at $2.25.
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Buttons.

ROCHESTER, N. Y. April IS (spe-
ers here declare that they are in no
fear of competition from the compo-
sition buttons now on the market.
They assert that the nut buttons are
capable of higher degree of finish
than the composition products.
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DIVIDENDS. >

Stock Of Pay
Record. able.
Butler Bros, q. 621ac. Apl % May 10
Idaho Power Co., q, IF. $l13.Api. 10 MAY !
Lancaster Mills, q, pf, S175.Apl. II May
Public Service Investment
Co, q, 81. .Apl. 10 May
Public Service Investment
Co. a, pf, $15O..... Apl. Is May
st. Lawrence Flour Mills.
Ltd, q, $1.50. .Apl. ~ May
Ltd, a. pf, 81 $l.75........ .Apl. 90 May
Texas Power & Light Co.,
q, pf, $1.75.-t.... ........... .Api. IL May
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Notes.

KANSAS CITY, April Is (SpeciaD.-
Building contractors are preparing
a new wage scale calling for 20 per
cent reduction in present wages,
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BONDS,
On New York Stock Exchange.
Quota lions furnished by Redmond & Co)
OTHER BONDS.

OTHER BONDS
Quotations by the Associated PressD
NEW YORK, April l8.-Transae-
tons in the most active bonds on the
New York Stock Exchange today
were as follows.
Sales Tin 81, ,OOOl.
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COttOns,

BOSTON, April IS (SpeciaD. -
Market for cotton goods shows no
sign of Strengthening despite the
fact that many mills in New England
are closed down.. Even with a 20
per cent cut in wages. print cloths
are selling below cost of production
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Hops.

SAN FRANCISCO. April 1s (Spe-
cial). Last sale of valley hops
brought Is cents a pound. There is
little activity manifested in futures.
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Fruit.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 8 (Spe-
ciaD.-The large prospective crop
of peaches has been cut by frosts.
Some estimates put loss at over 25
per cent Orchards undamaged are
in fine shape and a fine quality Of
fruit seems certain
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Jewelry.

PITTSBURGH, April 1S Especially.
-Terheyden Company, Oldest jewelry
house here, reports decided in
crease in trade. and states that pro-
spects favor still greater expansion
NEW YORK, April 1s (SpeciaD.-
Demand for earrings of cheap con-
struction have furnished jewelry
trade here with many orders Dia-
mond prices continue firm, and sales
this season are exceeding those ~of
1921 by about 10 per cent.
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Coal.

BOSTON. April 1S (SpeciaD.-
There is enough coal in New England
to last for several weeks, and in
dustrial plants are not worrying over
possibility of fuel shortage
PITTSBURG, April 1S (SpeciaD.-
Minimum price on furnace coke here
is $3.50 at the oven, as high as 81
being quoted.
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BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BIIENOS AIRES. March 24.-The
/ elaborate arrangements for the cap
ature or destruction Of the Anachron-
istic creature reported to have been
seen in an Andean lake have been
last night the expedition which left
last night for Patagonia under the
auspices of the Buenos Aires Zoo
logical Garden.
The members of the party are all
we'll armed, carrying elephant rifles
and lassoes. A quantity of explosive
Is also being taken, with which to
mine the lake and thus scare out the
monster-be it plesiosaurus. glypto-
don or megatherium. as variously re-
ported.
The zoos taxidermist Is taking
along embalming materials Tor use
in case the beast is killed. Another
item of the outfit Is q gasoline motor
with which to propel the boat to be
constructed on the shores of the
lake. The expedition will proceed
by rail to Neuquen, thence by camions
to Bariloche and from there on horses
into the territory of Chubut. where
the lake is situated fifty miles from
a settlement called "13 de Octubre."
Prof. Onelli, director of the zoo.
who organized the expedition. has
directed that, IL it fails to find the
animal after six weeks search. the
party shall proceed to other parts
Of Patagonia. He said to the corre-
spondent:
II am laughed at, but l am con-
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ELECTIONS TO BE FAIR.

HAVANA. March 24:-President "a
vas, in a statement just issued, de-
clared there will be no Illegal cleo
tions in Cuba under his administra-
ton. The presidents declaration was
made in answer to a statement Of
Col. Carlos Mendieta at a recent po-
litical meeting that President Har-
ding recently stated that the tri-
umph of a minority over majority
by illegal means would be no longer
possible in Cuba.
President Zayas in his statement
referring to the alleged utterance of
President Harding declares that his
stand with regard to illegal elections
is taken mot because President Har-
ding so states and desires" but be-
cause the standard of conduct in the
government maintained by Zayas is
respect for and observance of law
and devotion to liberty"
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GEN. COXEY THREATENS
MARCH ON WASHINGTON

DETROIT. Mich. March 24.--"Gen.'
Jacob s. Coxey of Massilon, Ohio, who
led "Coxey's army" in the march on
Washington in 1894 in the interest OF
economic Legislation he sponsored. an
nounced today that he was planning
to gather his followers for another
drive on the Capitol in an effort. he
said. to induce Congress to pass bills
he has presented as offering aid III
relieving unemployment.
Mr.. Coxey said he has -four bills in
Congress and two more in prepare
ton, which will solve the economic
problems of today If Congress will
pass them"
II am to have conference next
Wednesday on the most important or
them-the legal tender money bill,
he said II have promised the unem-
ployed If this bill is not given proper
consideration l will act. I will give
Congress time enough to consider
carefully, then if the bill is not pass
ed, / will Issue call"
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Heights, Va, was asked to take the
child after it had been formally COM
mitted to that institution. Officers of
the colony replied that the institution
was filled to overlooking, and that
they had a waiting list of several
hundred patients.
The mayor, acting as magistrate.
committed the child to the Children's
Home Society, and it was sent to
Richmond A week ago the mayor
was surprised to learn that the So
ciety could no longer care for the lit
tie one. and d day or two later Rev.
Mr.. Driscoll. agent of the society,
brought the child back here.
Doors of state institutions are
closed against the helpless child. the
mother can do nothing for it. and no
one seems to want an afflicted child.
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PRE-GEN0A CONFERENCE
MAY BE HELD IN RIGA
Delegates of Baltic States, Poland
and Soviet Russia Expected
to Meet.

By the Associated fress.
RIGA, Latvia. March .2S.-A pre-
Genoa conference of some kind be-
tween delegates Of the Baltic states,
Poland and soviet Russia probably
will take place at Riga, perhaps be-
ginning Monday. but the asenda has
not yet been framed. There is some
uncertainty as to which states Will
participate. as it appears that some
of them frown on the idea of confer
ring with soviet delegates. thinking
that such meeting might prejudice
the Genoa delegates against them.
Poland. however. has replied. through
the Polish minister at Riga, that she
will send representatives.
When the soviet delegates arrive at
the Latvian frontier they will be ac-
companied by guard of Latvian SOL
diers, and while in Riga will be
guarded constantly by Lettish off,
Gals. 1t is intimated that not even
newspaper correspondents will be al
lowed. to approach them.
The soviet requested permission for
the delegates to bring with them
guard OF red soldiers, but this was re-
fused. The other states through
which the Russians will pass also
have arranged soldier guards for the
time the delegates are within their
territories.
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NO HOME FOR CHILD.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
WINCHESTER, Va, March 24-What
to do with a two-and-a -half year,
child afflicted with epilepsy has been
occupying the attention Of civil and
police authorities, tho Red Cross and
the Virginia Chi1dren's Home Society
for the past week. and today they
were no nearer a solution of the prob
lem than when they started.
More than a year ago the mother,
unable to care for the child, appealed
to the Red Cross for aid. and the
state Epileptic Colony. at Madison
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Genuine Wa1rus 90 A6
Suit Cases at. .&/s r.

~ and e inch sizes, durable and
good-looking leather lining and all
the accouterments belonging in ex-
pensive cases, fitted with best hard
ware. Also other genuine leather
suit cases at this price-$o.45.
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at $3.15

A Saturday-only price. 24-incf Suit Case,
of fiber, in natural leather color. 1t has gen
and good, firm lock and end clasps. Remem-
Der, the price is for tomorrow nly$315.
On Sale Saturday, MEMS Wear Shop-First Floor and
in new Luggage Shop, Fifth Floor
Lansburgh & Brother
The Washington times., 1922-08-11
Congressional Party Sails
Tomorrow for Europe.

hOtuOFEOW IOF EuTOpSs
The group OF Senators and Con.
gressmen who will represent the
United States at the meeting Of the
Interparlimentary Union, which IL
to meet in Vienna on August 2s, will
sail tomorrow from New York on
the President Harding. In the party
are Senator William B. Mckinley
Senator Selden p. Spencer, Senator
Edwin r. Ladd, Senator III. T. Cara
way, Senator William J. Harris, Con
gresham Andrew J. Montague, Con
gresham Theodore z. Burton. Con.
Rressman Henry w. Temple, and
Congressman William A. oldfio,d
Miss Julia MATHS, niece Of Senator
Mckinley, will accompany him, az
will also II. NJ. PindeIl, of Peoria.
ILL.,, and ]. w. Stipes, or Champaign
Ill. Mrs. Montague will accompany
Congressman Montague.
-
The Consular Association enter
tanned at dinner las, evening at the
Washington Country Club. Charlie,
c. Eberhardt, president OF the asso
ciation--also consul general at lArg,
for Eastern Asia, including ths
Straits Settlements, Australia, Ocean
lea. and the island of the Pacific
presided. Wilbur J. Carr, director
Of the consular service, attended
also all of the consuls general n,
large who are now in Washington
holding a conference, and various
other consular officers.
Dinner was served on the varanda
and was marked by a number of in.
teresting speeches.