Evening star., 1925-08-30

miners union officials for strike.
commencing midnight August 81, OF
l48.000 OF the 15S,0oo miners in the
Pennsylvania anthracite fields. Ten
thousand safety" men viii be left Oh
duty, to prevent flooding and cave
ins. Eight hundred and twenty eight
mines, operated by 1876 coal COM
panieS. are affected.
Charles Frederick Chandler, great
chemist, educator and citizen and
charming personality, is dead at the
age OF IS. tie was dean of the school
OF mines of Columbia University for
33 years
1t is reported that Cornelius Van
derbilt. jr, and associates. are about
10 establish great commercial air
base ne2r Atlanta, and contemplate a
number Of Southern airplane lines
ITO include CubaJ. The planes are to
carry freight, express and mail, but
no passengers.
Our 1924 wheat crop was greater
than our 1923 crop, while the aggre-
gate 1924 crop of the rest of the world
was less by about AL .00O, 900 bushels
than the corresponding crop of 1928
by recent estimates our 1925 crop will
be less by $4,000, 900 bushels than our
1924 crop, while Europe's 1925 crop
will be greater by 200 900 900 bushels
than its 1924 crop. 1t Is not likely
that we shall export much of our 1925
crop.
\ Cotton. 45-foot yawl. with three
Norwegians aboard. arrived in New
York Harbor on Thursday, 73 DAYS
from Norway. The little stunt was in
honor of the centenary of the arrival
in New York Of the first group of
Norwegian immigrants.
Miscellaneous-Amundsen's schoon.
er, the Maud, has arrived at Nome en-
route to San Francisco.
Some say that bullfghting is seeing
its last days in Spain. Others assert
that Spanish enthusiasm for that ele-
CANT sport is vastly increasing. At
any rate. the Prince of Asturias and
some other Spanish royal personages
have Joined the Iberian Society for the
prevention of cruelty to animals.
As the process of liquidation" of
the SHINES properties proceeds, it
looks as though the assets will prove
TAR from sufficient TO balance the liza
bflities, and that SHINES widow and
younger son. at any rate. will be left
penniless. Edmund, the elder brother
by an ingenious maneuver, salvaged
as he thought, score or more mill
the wreck, but the legality of that
transaction is being questioned, and
even Edmund may join the thousands
of penniless victims of his fathers
sinister genius.
On the 22d, while the Zionist con-
gress was Grating and resoluting else
where. in Vienna some 10000 persons
largely veterans in uniform and
Hakenkreuz gentry participated Gun
der the watchful eye of the police) in
an anti-Jewish demonstration with
music, instrumental and vocal, torna-
does of denunciation, and Bacchic
ceremonies.
The commission appointed by the
League of Nations to decide on the
question of the Danzig mail boxes
has decided in favor of Poland.
The French reply to the Berlin note
of July 20 concerning the security
pact was delivered at Berlin on Au.
gust "A. 1t Is most conciliatory in
tone and proposes a conference lin
which, presumably, Great Britain,
France, Italy, Belgium and Germany
would participate) looking to consuni-
nation Of pact. The Luther gov
ernment finds the note acceptable as
the basis OF a conference, and replied
to that effect on the eth. The
promptness Of that reply Is regarded
as significant.