Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-14

measures, China is prepared to deal ef-
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
In the trials for the Thames Cup in
the Royal Henley regatta on the
Thames. England, the 15o-pound crew
of Columbia University was beaten by
four lengths by the crew of Trinity
College, Cambridge, England, but the
next day the crew of the Browne and
Nichols School Of Cambridge, Mass,
crew In a Semi-final and then beating
the Thames eight In the final by a
length and a quarter. The time of the
final was minutes and % seconds for
the course of mile and five-sixteenths.
The victory was a popular one. and
truly, as Horace would say, those lads
hit the stars with head uplift." The
Grand Challenge Cup for senior Fights
was won, as usual, by the LeandeT
Rowing Club of London.
The American aviators Roger @. Will
liams and Lewis A. Yancey were de-
feated in their effort to make Rome
in one hop from Old Orchard Beach
Fuel shortage compelled them to de-
scend at Santander on the Spanish
coast at the end of 3112 hours. Lucky
for them that they barely managed to
make land, for their craft, the Path
finder, is a land-plane, q single-mo-
which carried Chamberlin from Roose-
welt Field to Germany. The engine <
Wright Whirlwind. This is the sixth
nonstop supervolation Of the North
Atlantic by Americans, the previous
ones being the flights Of Lindbergh
Chamberlin, Byrd, Brock and Schlee
and Stultz and Amelia Earhart.
The national origins provision of the
! immigration act became effective on
provided for in the act (passed in
1920. The total of immigrants an
| nually admitted hitherto under the
act was 164,667; henceforth it is TO be
1874.
THE annual quota of any nation
atty" reads the newly effective pro-
vision, shall be q number which bears
/ the same ratio to 100000 as the num-
Der of inhabitants in continental
United States in 1920 having that ma
! tional origin bears to the number of
! inhabitants in continental United States
| in 1920, but the minimum quota of
any nationality shall be 100."
President Hoover had recommended
repeal of the provision referred to, but
the Congress didn't see 1t that way.
1t is, however, expected that efforts for
repeal will soon be renewed. Under
! said provision the quota of Great
i Britain and Northern Ireland rises
from $4,000 to 65 ,720; that of Germany
| falls from $3.50 to $3.50; that of the
Irish Free State fall from 28,570 to
| 1880. Other countries whose quotas
are increased include Austria, Belgium,
Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Po-
| land and Spain. Other countries whose
quotas are decreased include Czecho-
slovakia, Denmark, France, Norway,
] Portugal, Rumania, Sweden and Swift
| zerland.
Thirty-eight governments have for
mally protested to Washington against
| this or that proposal of our tariff re-
vision BILL The Spanish government
| fears it will have to denounce the
modus vivendi which now governs
Hispano-American trade relations II
certain features Of the bill are not
eliminated. The Uruguayan government
fears that the good results from the
| Hoover goodwill mission are to be
nullified, that constructive Pan-Amer-
! icanism" is to get q shrewd knock. The
French government most aggrieved,
sends little treatise arguing the mat
ter up and down. Switzerland protests
that enactment Of certain provisions OF
| the bill. would most disastrously affect
| the Swiss watch and embroidery ti-
dustries. The Persian government
laments that other provisions threaten