New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-06-10
Crane Doesn't
Know 1t if He
Got 20 Years
Former American Minister
TO China, Home on Aqui-
tania, Gives Possible Rea.
son for Prison Report
Friend Was Convicted
DIR. Shahabender, Mission
airy Who Conferred With
Him, Is Given ID Years

II French military court. sitting in
Damascus convicted him Of melting
riot and sentenced him 10 a term Of
twenty years' imprisonment early in
May, Charles r. Crane. former Amer
lean Minister 10 China, is not aware
Of the findings. He returned last night
on the Cunard liner Aquitania from
Southampton. after four months In the
land Of the Moslems. and had ,arried
for several weeks IN france. but
throughout his leisurely journey home
ward nothing official has come to him,
he said. that would indicate conviction
By the military official, Of the French
mandate in Syria.
The reports coming from Damascus
70 this country" he said. probably
emanated from the trial. conviction and
the sentence to fifteen years impris-
onment imposed upon Or. Shshnbcnder.
worthy missionary and graduate OF
Beirut College. who had talk with
me several times il Damascus The
fact that he conferred with ne appar-
emily has been sufficiently criminal 10
merit for him a sentence OF fifteen
years.
Conditions Serious IN syria
while in Syria had no unpleasant
experiences with the French huthori-
ties. and | encountered no difficulties
with the French government willis in
Paris. Conditions are serious in Syria.
and haven't any idea just now what
shall do about u. IL anything At all.
After few days az my home in this
city | will 20 20 my summer place at
Woods Hole, Mass, and attend 10 some
work for the Marine Biological LAbora-
tory. OF which an president"
Mr.. Crane was accompanied By his
young granddaughter, Miss Bruce
Crane. and several servants.
Arthur Curtiss James who with Mrs.
James and a party Of friends made a
tour OF the world in his auxiliary yacht
Aloha returned on the Aquitania ae-
companied By his wife. A. T. Aiyord
and W. J. Matheson.
The yacht. which took the party on
its journey OF 10000 miles, left New
York early in September OF last year
and returned 20 Newport last week
after the owner and his party had dis
embarked ut Marseilles. Mr. James
said that he had encountered ideal
weather throughout the trip with the
exception Of six days OF violent weather
on the Pacific.
Alma Gluck Is Back
Miss Alma Gluck. the soprano. wife
Of Efrem Zimbalist, the violinist, re-
turned after a short visit 20 Leipsic.
Germany, whittier she had gone 20 buy
a home for the parents Of her husband
who are now living in Constantinople.
There is so much red tape just now
binding the German laws she said,
that | did not get the home ! had
planned on. The law requires that
should build a home in which 20 house
the owners. | did not want 20 build,
preferring 20 buy home already built.
/ compromised, however. By building
n roof apartment on a house already
constructed and at the end Of ten
wears this will revert to the German
government
She said she received cable mes
saccs from her husband who Is touring
through China and that the cabled
replies she sent 20 him while she was
in Vienna cost her 10000 kronen q
word.
c. 7. SPEEDING. purser Of the Aqui.
tania. was the guest OF Niseount and
Lady Aston at the Derby Stakes on May
81. Mr. Speeding said that at 1880
.. m. Just before the first race, an air
plane $4,000 feet in the air, invisible 10
Tho multitude below. wrote with a
trail Of smoke across the sky the words
Daily Mail" the letters being a mile
in height The two words, Mr. Sped.
ding said. remained in the sky for hall
an hour after they were written, the
aviator taking twenty-five minutes to
perform his feat.