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Evening star., 1926-04-11
The Story the Week Has Told

old struggle between Chang and WI.
Presumably most Of the Kuominchun
forces formerly in the metropolitan
area have retreated to Kalgan or
elsewhere, but some still hold the city
and one hears Of no hostilities except
some futile bombing by anti-Kuo-
minchun planes.
The above is an unsatisfactory
sketch, but I cannot better it from
the dispatches.
X X X +
United States of America.-The
President has appointed Col. Carmi
A. Thompson of Ohio special
commissioner to survey conditions in
the Philippines, the Hawaiian Isla ands,
Guam and Samoa, and report, with
emphasis on the Philippines. The
survey will chiefly take account Of
economic conditions and possibilities.
A White House statement reads In
part as follows:
THE decision Of the President to
take this step follows the increased
interest in Congress recently in regard
to the Philippines. Moreover, the
President feels that an intensive
study of the possibilities Of these in
sular possessions may lead to an IN
creased development of their natural
resources, and that such Il study Will
be of great benefit, not only to the
United States, but to the Filipinos as
we'll "
In the Philippines. as we all know,
political and economic considerations
are intertwined and confounded. and
no doubt Col. Thompson Is expected
to make suggestions toward remedy of
this unhappy condition. He is to be
assisted by a number of Government
experts and Is directed to report not
later than next November. Apparent
ly the President will have things to
say to Congress early in the next
session concerning our insular pos
sessions in the Pacific.
There is a Democratic movement
afoot in the Senate looking to substi-
tuition for the commission headed by
Col. Thompson Of a bipartisan joint
committee of Senate and House.
BY a vote of 265 to 81 the House on
Thursday decided that the question
of reapportionment of House seats is
not one of constitutional privilege and
approved the decision of the House
census committee to pigeonhole pend
ing bills proposing reapportionment.
The House vote flies in the face of
established precedent.
The $4,000, 100000 Ward Food
Products Corporation mas Deen or
dered dissolved by a consent decree
issued by the Federal District Court
at Baltimore.
The ship Chantier. conveying the
Byrd Arctic expedition. left New York
Harbor on Tuesday.
The freshman class at Harvard is
to be limited to 1000.
* X 4
Can't. Wilkins.-Capt. wilkins motor
sledges which set out from Fairbanks
for Point Barrow with supplies Chief
ly gasoline) for the Arctic exploration
by airplane, to be based on Point Bar
row, became stalled en- route (they
proved too wide for the trails) and so.
If the exploration was to start on
scheduled time, it became necessary
to convey the minimum supplies re-
quired by airplane. On March 81. in
his great plane Alaskan. Capt. VIII
kins made one trip to Point Barrow
with supplies. On April he returned
in the plane to Fairbanks. He will,
within a few days, fly back to Point
Barrow with the rest of his supplies
Evening star., 1926-04-11

mary of the most important
news Of the world for the
seven days ended April 10:
Belgium.--The Belgian franc has raj
lied from it's low point of 3.67 cents
on New York Exchange to 3.92. It's
depression has been attributed in part
to sympathy with the French franc
and in part to the breaking off. some
weeks ago, of negotiations between the
Belgian government and a group of
British and American bankers, which
had in view the placing through the
bankers of a loan of the equivalent of
$3.50 900 900, the proceeds whereof were
to be used for stabilizing the Belgian
currency. The bankers refused to drink
when the water was reached, but it
is understood that the negotiations
have just been resumed with good
prospect of success. Report to that
effect has boosted the franc.
X X X X
France.-The French Senate struck
out from the supplementary taxation
bill sent up to it from the Chamber
the clauses providing for government
monopolies in oil and sugar, to take
effect April 1, 1927. Otherwise 1t
made only trifling changes and it
passed the measure so revised. The
Chamber accepted the Senate's
changes, 260 to 144; so the crisis is
over 1t was feared that the Cham
ber would make things nasty over
the proposed monopolies, but it did
not. 1t acquiesced in the Senate's
proposal that the monopoly projects
be referred to special commissions for
study and report. The French peo-
pie are taking q long breath, though
every one knows that the govern
ment's position is still very pre-
carious.
Louis Malvy has resigned the post
of minister Of the interior.
1t is now definitely established that
conversations are taking place be-
tween emissaries duly authorized by
Abd-el- -Krim, on the one part. and the
French and Spanish governments, on
the other.
Meantime, no doubt in the hope of
thereby inducing the enemy to offer
him better terms, Abd-el-krim is
making minor attacks and putting on
front as though he were about to
attack in force. One hears that the
Riff here demands possession of Alhu
cemas and must have an outlet to
the Mediterranean. The demand
seems reasonable enough. Abd-el-
Krims great hope Is that, as of old.
mutual suspicious and jealousies will
prevent effective Franco-Spanish col
laboration-a hope, if rumorS are cor
rect, not too forlorn.
Apparently the French authorities
in Syria have begun somewhat earlier
than had been intended their carefully
planned Spring offensive. aimed to end
completely insurrection and banditry.
An important success against the
Hauran Druses is reported. NJ. de
Jouvenel, the French high commits
sioner. seems confident that recently
established understandings with An
CORA and with Lord Plumer, in Pales-
tine. will prevent the Druses from
getting military of other supplies in
any considerable quantity from across
the frontiers.
X * X X
Italy.-On April Mussolini was
wounded in the nose by pistol shot
fired by an Irish woman, the Hon.
Evening star., 1926-04-11
NEW CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT
DETAILS EXPLAINED BY PAGE
Relieves Minds of Many Members of Congress by
Full Description of Operation of Recently
Changed Measure.

With a new Federal corrupt prac-
tices act passed since the last con-
gressional election, and with pri
maries coming along, members of
Congress are generally uncertain
about how it affects them. To- re-
lieve their minds William Tyler Page.
clerk Of the House, has sent a circu
lar letter to the House members.
They need have no worry about
making any return of their expenses
in the primary campaigns. The Fed
eral corrupt practices act, passed in
February, 1925, does not apply to
primary elections or conventions. ion,
The law makes this definition: 1.-THE
term election includes a general or
special election but does
not include a primary election or con-
vention of a political party"
The House committee in its report
on the bill said: THE limitation in
the bill as to expenditures by candi-
date applies only to the campaign
leading up to the final election, and
not to the primary campaign.
States Control Primaries.
The primaries were left out, not
because Congress did not want TO IN
clude them, but already the Supreme
Court had decided that provisions of
the old law were unconstitutional.
In other words, Congress has no
Jurisdiction over State primaries, ana
nearly all the States have laws gov
erning the matter which prescribe the
amount that may be expended in
behalf of candidates. Some four or
Ave States are the exceptions.
The most important provision OF
the new law is that 1t requires re.
ports of committees-strictly political
and otherwise-which receive and eX'
pend money in behalf of the candi-
dacy of any person, of any political
party. for presidential election and
for Senators and Representatives in
Congress. The subsidiaries of such
committees by the terms Of the new
law are brought within the meaning
of the law. In other words, COM
mittee with headquarters in Wash
ington is required not only to report
concerning it's own immediate re-
ceipts and expenditures, but also of
those of it's branches and subsidiaries
throughout or within the States.
Evening star., 1926-04-11
Brutality in Alabama Convict Camps
Soon to Be Obliterated, Citizens Say

that It was a profit" There can be
no profit" materially or morally. in
thing so shockingly at variance
with the teachings Of civilization. AS
the newspapers published by me have
unreservedly asserted, nothing whole.
some can come from a view that puts
financial gain before the States good
name or the clean conscience of it's
citizenship, whether that profit be to
the State or a profit to anybody.
Nor Is the horror of the brutality
Of this system lessened any by the
fact that for every dollar that flows
into the State treasury from this
source, probably anywhere from two
to five dollars are flowing into the
pockets of private corporations, the
largest of which is of absentee owner.
ship.
But the system is doomed. This
spot is soon to be obliterated from the
shield Of Alabama, for, even in it's
limited form, it is wholly out of har-
mony with the dominant sentiment
of intelligent and progressive men and
women Of every walk Of life in the
State. Three of the four candidates
for governor. one of whom will take
| Office next January, have been out
spoken in their condemnation of the
system and their pledge to end it.
Only one candidate. the heir of the
present administration, Is silent, and
his silence on the Issue will insure de-
feat.
Evening star., 1926-04-11

and shortly thereafter his great at
tempt to determine whether or nc
there is land in the unexplored region
will begin. If he has no more serious
mishaps, he should beat" Byrd and
Amundsen ito it," 1t is said that, II
he discovers land, he will at once
point back to Alaska, pick up an oi1cer
of the United States Army, and re,
turn with all speed to the discovered
land. to which the officer Will lay
claim, with due formality. tNeithef
wilkins nor his pilot is an American
citizen, though the expedition is un-
der the auspices of the American
Geoera phical Society and the Detroit
Aviation Society,"
But, indeed, the exploration or the
"unexplored region" has already De
gun. On March 81, wnen capt. WI
kins arrived over Point Barrow, ne
could not resist the temptation To
keep on q bit. He flew 140 miles far
ther north, 70 miles beyond the pre-
vious 'farthest north" in that region
attained by the steamer kariuk oil
Stefansson's 1918 expedition:
He could see about 30 miles north'
east and west from the plane. but
saw no land. The motors worked per-
fectly in the extreme cold, d most
comforting fact.
Wilkins is not concerned about the
Pole itself, which has already been
discovered; his object is to expose the
last great secret of earth's surfaces
He proposes to end his glorious enter
prise with a flight from Point Barrow
over the vicinity of the Pole to Spitz
bergen.
MiscelianeOus.-Clash e W n
Hindus and Moslems are reported
from India more frequent and bloody
than for a long time past. The Mos
lens usually furnish the provocation
for the greater glory of Allan. You
see here on a petty scale what was II
India before British control, what VII
be again on the grand scale shoulo
British control cease.
Three Spanish planes hoped on
from Madrid on April 3, intending tt
dv TO Manila and thence on to Toxic
August Thyssen. the great Rum
captain of industry and often callec
"the father Of the vertical trust, II
dead at 81. The fortune he leaves
is estimated at the equivalent o.
| 500. 900 900. 49,
Cheerful news comes in of thu
Austrian economic situation.
The Pashitch cabinet or the KING
dom Of the Serbs, Croats and Slovene:
having resigned, King Alexander ha!
invited Nikola OuZounovitch, rad
ical dixie Pashitch). to form new
cabinet. Ouzounovitch hopes to re
store the amicable relations betweer
the radicals and the Crotian peasants
party, recently brusquely broken or
and to include members of that party
in his cabinet.
Elections for a new President o
Greece are being held by installments
| There seems little doubt that Premier
Pangalos will turn out an easy win
ner, but whether the election methods
are honest is another question.
We still await announcement OF th'
| official reaction of our Government
to the regulations. promulgated b!
President Gales of Mexico, to govern
application Of the recent Mexican lan(
and petroleum legislation.
Secretary Kellogg and the Peruvian
and Chilean Ambassadors at Wash
ington are in conversation looking Il
settlement of the Tacna-Arica ques
ton.
Evening star., 1926-04-11
SEES In WHITE INDIAN TRIBE
POTENTIALITIES OF NEW RACE
Dr. r. G. Harris, Scientist, Reports Careful Analysis
of San Bias Group as Showing Blood and Color
May Be Perpetuated.

ris will say: Their appearance Is
obviously the expression of a homo
zygous recessive condition, due orig
inally to a mutation in one or more
genes"
This means that some time in the
past something happened within the
germ cells Of the brown San Bias In
dians that caused the white character
istics of the white Indians to appear.
The brown pigmentation usually gains
ascendancy over the white or partial
albino characteristics in the offspring
but occasionally the white becomes
dominant and a brown Indian couple
will have white child.
Legendary Story Quoted.
According to legend, the San Bias
have hated the white race since the
days of the Spanish conquest, and
therefore the white Indians have been
looked down upon by the browns. AL
though they were not banished to the
hills and did not form separate col
onies, as previous reports brought by
Mr.. Marsh indicated. infants that
proved to be white upon birth were
often killed and even now white In
dian men are forbidden marriage al
together. White women are allowed
to marry, but fer one reason or an
other, no doubt mainly because the
brown women are far more attractive
than the white, this Is very rare. The
production of new white race is
therefore hindered, since the largest
number of white children would be
produced by the marriage of white
Indian men with white Indian women.
In spite Of the artificial restrictions
that customs impose. birth of white
children to parents Of brown or light
brown coloration is so frequent that
so to 100 times as many white are
found among the San Bias as would be
expected If the same ratio of one
albino in 10000. the usual figure
among other races. also was true for
the San Bias. Actually seven-tenths
of l per cent. or 1913 out of the
estimated 20,100 San Bias Indians are
white, remarkable percentage.
DIR. Harris and DIR. Hrdlicka both
will say that the white Indians de-
serve a most thorough investigation
from all points Of approach.
Evening star., 1926-04-11

A race within a. race. In the White
Indians of Darien. famous as part
of San Bias tribes that are resisting
Panamanian oppression and rule,
there lies the potentialities of new
white race.
Such is the conclusion of DR.. Reg
inald G.. Harris, director of the bio
logical laboratory of Cold Spring Har-
Dor, Long Island, n. Y, who last year.
with the assistance of Mrs. Harris and
r. o. Marsh. the civil engineer and
explorer who brought the white In
dians to America made a first hand
genetical study of the San Bias in
their native villages, hitherto closed
to foreigners. white or black.
How he made a careful ANALYSIS OF
the family histories of the white In
dians is told in a scientific report to
appear In the next issue Of the Amer
incan Journal Of Physical Anthropol-
ogy Of which DR.. Ales Hrdlicka. an
thropologist of the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition, Is editor.
That the condition white Indian
is genetical in nature is amply DEM
onstrated by the data contained In the
family histories" DR.. Harris will say
in the report. "The white Indians
thus hold potentialities for race pro-
duction."
Indians Not Contaminated.
The San Bias Indians. both brown
and white, are uncontaminated by
Caucasian blood since their customs
and race prejudices have assured ex-
ceptional purity" of their blood, DR..
Harris found. Mr.. Marsh's party, of
which he was a member, was the first
white group that had eyer been al
lowed to stay in one Of the San Bias
villages overnight. Moreover, the
white Indians, as well as the brown
from which they came, are clearly
Indians, not hybrids, and DIR. Hrdlicka
in another article in the same journal
will say that the San Bias are related
to and apparently the same as the
famous Mayas of Central America and
Mexico who, years before the time Of
Christ, has civilization whose ruins
today puzzle and astonish archeolo-
gists.
In the technical sense the white In
dians are partial albinos, but DIR. Har-
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Continued from First Page)
lagos give one example. Not a few
Of our officers and men must recall
Flirey, almost in the center of our
front of attack. OF this village little
or nothing was left when / saw 1t in
1919, but now a magnificent town has
been reconstructed, built with a pleas
ing fidelity to the charming Lorraine
style, with the broad street, the low
house and the broad barn with it's
great Roman arch, the whole picture
one in which the architecture of an
older and nobler age has been re-
peated without modification.
Scores of New Villages.
What was true of Flirey was true
of score of other villages Coming
from Thiaucourt, itself completely re-
built along the broad highway.
through the forest of Mont Mare, the
road along which our troops advanced
to victory, one has wide sweep east
ward and westward over all the bat
tlefield, with old Mont Sec still domi-
mating the landscape. And here as
about Verdun one had the same vision
Of dozens and even scores of villages,
with bright roofs and gay walls, the
do not know how to put in words
| the sensations that one had on these
| fields of the almost incredible rebirth
| of countryside. The fields were
| plowed, the" roads and bridges re-
built, the towns and villages entirely
restored and there was a feeling that
what had been done was not merely
done with industry, with courage. with
devotion, but with confidence In the
| future, robust optimism which
having expressed itself in war in the
defense of the land had revealed itself
anew in the reconquest from the
| wilderness which man had created.
For those Americans VINO are still
planning to see the battlefields Of the
| World War ! would say, Come quick
| ly," if you would hope to see even a
faint suggestion of what the wartime
| circumstances were. Indeed, in sense
| it is already too late. But for all
| Americans who saw those regions In
the time of struggle and in the utter
desolation of the. first months after
the armistice and have never re-
turned l would say, Come soon, too
| that the greatness of the miracle can
be appreciated and that new witnesses
can be found to the utter indestructi'
hility of that France which exists
beyond the walls of Paris and entirely
distinct from the mad turmoil OF
rather ignoble politics"
Old Roman Camp Stands.
One final detail may be significant.
| Three or four miles south of the
/ Champagne battlefield, just outside
| the devastated area, now given over
! to artillery and bombing practice and
the single area where one may still
see something of the wartime coun-
tryside, there is an old Roman camp
which still, after nearly 1000 years,
Evening star., 1926-04-11
BY FREDERICK I. THOMPSON.

In any statement or comment re-
specting the mining camp convict con-
tract system in Alabama, recently
bringing a measure of reproach upon
the State, two essential facts should
be kept in mind: One Is that the peo-
pie Of Alabama are opposed to this
method and have officially denounced
It, and the other is that it will exist
only in limited form and for the ten.
ure Of Office Of the present governor.
ending next January. Except for a
combination of selfish politics and a
minor financial interest it would not
exist today. This combination of flnan-
cial interest and political machine, it
can be unreservedly asserted, does
not reflect the sentiment Of vast
majority of the citizenship Of Ala
bama, who recognize that no defense
of the system can be made upon any
grounds.
Apologists for the system offer the
weak and offensive argument that it
yields the State revenue Of more
than half a million dollars a year.
They even refer to this income as a
profit" If Alabama coined from the
sweat and blood of these penal
charges subjected to the brutality Of
the mining camp any amount Of
money the spiritualized sentiment Of
the manhood and womanhood Of the
State would revolt at the suggestion
Evening star., 1926-04-11

New refrigerating methods. used in
Canada, can preserve fish for six
months or more. so that 1t will taste
as if II had just been caught.
Evening star., 1926-04-11
New City Has Replaced
War-Devastated Verdun

Continued from First Page.)
Evening star., 1926-04-11
BY HENRY w. BUM.

. HE following is a brief sum-
mary of the most important
news Of the world for the
seven days ended April 10:
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-09-04
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK

Chicago, Sept. 4--lU. s. d. Of Al
Hogs 2.UOO: mostly steady; supply
insufficieht "a fully Vent values; top
l4.SS; desirahlc hogs scaling l6O to
2lO pounds mostly l3.66(dpl4.lI; 2aO
TO 400 pound butchers l2OOGpi3.25
largely; tight packing sows upward
to l.26; lew heavies below 9.26;
yOod slaughter pigs mostly 1a.OO@
1850; few mixed ieeds carrying light
light 400: shippers 100; estimated
hOldsver 1000; hsavywcight hogs
! !26@l0.40; medium a3.00@l4.26;
light l3.15GplA.l5. light hight IS .OO6iy
14.OO; packing soWA, o.OOGOl1 Sc; ;
slaughter pigs l2.WOGl3.75.
Cattle 1000; compared week ago;
general steer trade active; receipts
largest Of year, supply fed steers
smaller, grusscrS more numerous; fed
heavies fully SO cents higher: year-
lings and medium weight Is to 80
cents higher; grass slaughter steers
about 20 cents up: stockers and
feeders firm; spots 10 to Is cents
higher on lightweight stockcrs: cx-
IRENE top ll.0O paid for $50. to l,2O4
hound offerings, 1882 and 1880
pound steers 1890; 1880 pound bull
Ocks 1886; yearling heifers 1876;
MOntanas up to 900; fat she stock Is
I" ~ cents lower: common grass heif-
ers showing most decline; all cutters
and bulls 10 to 1t cents off; vcalers
80 to Is cents lower.
Weeks bulk prices follow: Fed
steers 0.25@l0.5O: grassefs 1900
8.2b; fat cows 6.26Gl7 90; heifers 100
nv.25; all cutters I.256D4.7b; veal
calves l4.OO@lA.75; stockers and feed
ers .G.76GI7.5O.
Sheep 1000; odd loads natives
1875: culls 1000: for week C,3OO di.
rect and gre doubles from feeding sta
ti0ns; fat lambs closing 80 to Is cents
lower: culls TO cents lower; sheen
mostly 81 Gems lower; yearlings 26 to
10 cents lower: feeding lambs 25 cents
higher; weeks top: Fat range lambs
ll.95; natives 1926; practical top
1876; fut yearling wethers 1900; fat
ewes CTS: range feeding lambs 1890;
hulk fat range lambs 14.35@iA.85: fat
natives l4.OOQT1A.6O: cults 0.bO@1O.00;
wethers ll.OO@ll.5O; fnt
ewes 5.50NO6.bO; range feeding lambs
l3.75@l4.75.