Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-01

predecessor Ga Kenseikai mani. But
since Tanaka took the helm there has
been a drift of Seiyuhonto members
to the opposition until now perhaps
half Of them are lined up with the
latter. The government and the OPP
position now are fighting for the s.
votes OF the smaller parties (which
have, on the whole, inclined toward the
opposition). the government, moreover.
hoping to win back some OF its lost
Seiyuhonto supporters The present
indication In that the government will
he able to realize this hope. the Seiyu-
honto not desiring general elections
Just yet. nut that the recovered sheep
will be lost again SO as TO necessitate
general elections late in 1928.
4 Pan.American Railway.-Interest
Is being reawakened in the project OF
| n pan.American railway. For many
years the project has been under con.
sideration by pan.American railway
committee under the direction OF the
board OF the Pan-American Union.
This committee consists OF seven mem.
hers. one from each OF the following
named countries: Argentine. Brazil.
Chile. Mexico and three from the
United States.
A report is 10 be submitted by the
committee to the international con.
ference opening in Havana on Janu-
airy 16. The ideal. OF course. is a sys.
| TEN which should connect all the capt
tai cities OF the Western Hemisphere.
but there are differing ideas as TO the
best routing. OF course. good deal
OF construction now existing would he
linked up in the completed system.
| The United States and Mexican sec
lions are. YOU may say. completed.
The section through Peru proposed by
one OF the two chief plans presents
the gravest problem-runninS through
primeval forest and jungle. over lofty
mountains. across wide rivers, the
altitude varying from 1900 10 about
1900 feet.
Another plan would have the rail-
| road avoid the Andean heights. run.
| ming east through forest and Jungle
a country as yet only family explored,
scarcely inhabited. but OF magnificent
promise. There is good prospect that
the Central American section down To
the Panama Canal will DO completed
by 1888. Complete realization Of the
South American part OF the prof ect
would open up houndless possibilities
OF colonization exploitation. cultiva.
ton. cattle raising. etc.
-
United States.-On Friday. Deem.
Der -. Mrs. Frances ". Gravson took
OF from New York in the last ~ sew,
eral attempts 10 be the first woman
To supervohte the Atlantic. App,r,
emily her Sikorsky monoplane Dawn
was lost between New York and Nova
scotia. Her fellow voyagers we're
Lieut.. Oskar Clndal. pilot: Rrice Colds.
borough. navigator and radio cperator.
ana Fred X. Wright. engine expert.
hr"nson Cutting has been appointed
ny Gov Dillon Of New Mexico. Sens,
tor from New Mexico to M the un.
expired term OF A, \. jones. recently
| deceased
In II revised calculation for about 50
or our most important crops Of 1877
the Department III Agriculture esti,
mates their total value at $S,tsS6se.
ouo as against $T.taS. iSa 900 last wear,
Iho cotton crop il estimated To ex,
| ceed In value last years crop by $sia.,
ia, 600.
The airniane carrier Lexington isis,
| ter or the Saratoga. om,ntssiunea the
other day. was on neccmter IL Put IN
| commission at the Fore River plant az
the hethlehem Shinbai,dlng Corpora,
| ton.
The Yale University endowment
fund has gone over the top, Passing
| tho $so,ooo. 900 mark set for II, With
| acquisition ot this fund. lale becomes
i the richest university In the United
states with q total endowment f,ind
ef over SIS, opa. 600, slightly above Har,
vards and some $40. eeo. 900 above ~,
iumhia's,
Notes, d 7en the merntng OF
Christmas day, after an altnisht ses,
| sion. the differences between Senate
/ and Chamher having been tranea cut.
tho French Parliament passed the
1923 budget, Total revenue IL est,,
| mated at ~ Aaa, ate 900 francs aud ex,
rendtture at as.a.t .tat 900, AN estt,
mated surplus, therefore, NJ aa, Aas 900,
I'm NoVemher \ representatives et
| - countries uneiudtng Great hritatn
| Germany, France. Japan. isa,y and
| ltolianh signed u convention Tor the
abolition of prohibitions and r~stvlc,
| ttons an expartattaa aud importation,
| tina United States representatives de
' aiining 10 sisn