Evening star., 1926-04-18

Democratic nominee for Senator. Mr.
Smith is classed as a dry.
For the third consecutive month
our balance of foreign trade for
March was unfavorable, imports to-
falling. S445. 900 900 in value, exports,
1915, ,000, 900.
The February adverse balance was
$50 900 900. The balance for the nine
months ended with March was IA
rorable TO the tune of about S25a..
$50 900 as against favorable balance
for the corresponding months of the
preceding fiscal year of about S946,.
$50, 900.
John Ferguson Weir, painter and
sculptor and first dean of the Yale
School of Fine Arts. is dead at IS.
He was a brother of the late J. Alden
Weir, the famous impressionistic
painter. His statues of Prof. Still
man and President Woolsev of Yale,
installed on the Yale campus, are very
fine pieces OF work.
Yale University has received q gift
OF sl.oOO.ooO from two anonymous
donors for an art museum. The
building Is to he worthy of the mag
nificent new ARCHITECTURAL scheme for
the university
The Norge.-The Italia n built, semi
rigid diriSible Norge. in which the
Amundsen- Ellsworth Mobile polar ex.
pedition hopes to fly over the Pole from
Spitzbergen to Point Barrow Alaska.
determining en- route whether or not
there Is land in the ''unexpIored
reSion" between the Pole and Alaska.
left Rome on April 10 and % hours
later arrived at Pulham Field. near
London 1.4O0 miles from Rome).
where she was put up in a hangar.
She left Pulham near midnight on
the 18th and tied UP 10 q mooring
mast at Oslo, Norway. at pm. on
the 14th 600 miles from Pulham).
She left Oslo at l am. the 18th. for
Gatchina, a little south of Lenin-
grad, where a hangar and mooring
mast had been especially erected for
her, arriving at Gatchina at S pm
600 miles from Oslo). She is expected
to leave Gatchina on or about May l
for Kings Bay. Spitzbergen. the
base for the Supra Pola flight, where
hangar and mooring mast have been
erected for her. A mooring mast has
been erected at Vardo at the peak
of Norway, against the possibility
that climatic conditions might make
II IO SLOD there on the vow
age. Gatchina-kings Bay.
Capt. Amundsen and Lincoln Ellis
worth with a. shipload of supplies.
will be waiting at Kings Bay to Join
the Norge; landing crew of Nor
wegians will be there to maneuyer
her into her hangar. The fight from
Gatchina to Kings Bay is regarded
as more hazardous than the Supra
Polar flight. The latter should be
made in from 40 to IS hours: the
Norge Is fueled for 60 hours. The
distance Kings Bay-Pole is about
500 miles: the distance Pole-Point
Barrow about 1900 miles.
Against the possibility of descent
to the sea, the Norge Is provided
with eight light boats. each capable
Of carrying at most three persons.
The Norge's behavior to date has sur
passed expectations: Col. Mobile, her
Italian designer and pilot, is han.
ding her in mastery fashion, She
flies the Norwegian flag which Capt,
Amundsen planted on the South Pole.
Any land discovered on the Supra
Polar flight will be claimed for Nor.
way.
Miscellaneous French franc
fell to 3.35A cents on New York
Exchange the other day, the lowest
ever.
A voluntary sinking fund for amor
tization of the public debt has been
established in France. Its prospects
seem bright.
Gen. Pangalos has. by a heavy ma
iority. been elected President of
Greece.
The correspondence between the
Mexican governme mt and our Govern
ment relating to the recent Mexican
land and petroleum legislation has
been published. What shall we say?
At least a a4ruclal understa ndine seems
70 have beem reached.