Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10

created a family sulphurous stencil at
the outset of 1.-The new things"
The President has summoned the
Congress to meet in extra session on
April Is for the special purposes of
effecting further agricultural relief
and limited changes of tariff" 1t Is
understood. however, that the Presi-
dent will expect also passage of resolu-
ton postponing the effective date of
the national origin quotas provision of
the immigration act, and of reappor-
tionment and census bills.
The other day the Postmaster Gen.
eral opened bids for carrying mail be-
tween Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone,
and Santiago, Chile, the contract pro-
viding that the contractor may be re-
quired to extend the service over the
Andes to Ruenos Aires and Montevidio.
The route will be as follows: Cristobal !;
Buenaventura and Tumoca, Colombia !;
Esmeraldas and Guayaquil, Ecuador;
Punta Talara, Trujillo, Lima, Tomas
and Mollendo. Peru; africa, Iquique,
Antofagasta Caldera, Coquimbo and
Santiago, Chile, three times week in
each direction. Connection will be
made with an air mail route between
Cristobal and Miami recently estab-
lished. With institution of the new
route there will be direct air mail serv-
ice between Montreal. Canada, and
Santiago. Chile.
Award has been made to the Pam
American-Grace Always, Inc, of New
York City which company has had
some successful experience In CONNER
cial aerial navigation.
A company denominated the New
York Air Terminals, Inc, heavily cap
italized, Is about to establish a great
airport, covering about 900 acres, just
east of the Hackensack River and
southwest of Secaucus, N. j. The prof.
ect involves construction of a seaplane
basin with depth of As feet and area
Of Sc acres, to give seaplanes and amphi-
bianS q run of over 5000 feet. good
deal of filling-in will be required. 1t
Is said that work will start at once
The new port promises to be a lusty
rival of the News TX airport, officially
opened on FebruscY II.
Elihu Root is a. Geneva at work (of
course in an unofficial capacity on a
formula which should be at once salts
flying to our Senate and the govern
ments now participating In the World
Court and enable us to participate in
that body. 1t is task calling for all
the address and exquisite technique Of
which Mr.. Root is master.
X
GERMANY.-Of the 100000 per-
sons in Europe included in the minori-
ties more or less under League of Ma
tions protection" some 1900, 900 are
Germans--in the Saar, Poland (includ-
ing Silesia), the Baltic States, South
Tyrol, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, etc.
DR.. Stresemann. the German foreign
minister and the most important man
in German politics, does not like the
treatment of the German minOritieS in
sundry cases, thinks the league sadly
fails of it's duty in that connection. He
was expected to trumpet forth his feel
ings on the subject at the fifty-fourth
session of the League of Nations Coun-
Gil, which opened on March 4. He de-
cided, however, not to stir up how
d'ye-do that might adversely affect the
deliberations now taking place In Paris,
and SO the grand discussion was post
poned.
ITALY.-A committee, consisting of
four generals, an admiral and Senator
appointed by the government to inyesti-
gate the Italia episode. has rendered its
report. The committee was ordered to
inquire: ca Into the causes Of the de-
struction of the Italia; (b) into the
conduct of the survivors; Co into the
conduct of the rescue parties.
The committee ascribes the wreck to
a faulty maneuver" and fixes full re-
sponsibility therefor on Gen. Unberto