Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-27

very notable figure in the history OF
aviation.
For the first six months Of this year
our exports totaled $2,0T9. 841 900 in
value, as against $2,623, 245, 900 for the
corresponding period of 1929, and our
imports totaled $1,735 SAP 900, as against
$2,286. $4,000 for the corresponding
period of 1929. Our June foreign trade
turnover was the lowest months turn
each being about $100,000.000 in value
below the totals of June, 1929.
The yacht Wetamoe, the Morgan
aspirant to the honor of defending the
Americas Cup against Shamrock v,
derives her name from an Indian
princess who figured in the early history
of the Massachusetts, Bay colony. She
was the wife of a brother of King
Philip. She had for LADY of the bed
chamber" a white woman, Mrs. Row
landson, who had been carried off by
the Indians in raid on the whites.
Mrs. Rowlandson describes her as "a
severe, proud dame, bestowing every day
in dressing herself nearly as much time
as any white lady of the land" powder
ing her hair. painting, wearing sundry
trinketS, fine red stockings and white
Shoes" She came to grief crossing a
stream near the present Fall River, fly
i
their pretty way, cut off her head and
set it on a pole in Taunton.
On July 10 the Shamrock v sailed
for the United States.
We are glad to welcome to our shores
the Turk Hight FARO Agha, who claims
to be 1856 years old. We suspect he's a
little out in his reckoning. though no
doubt he's very well on in years. Sup
pose he's really that old, consider what
he's old enough to have seen. He was
/ year old when Battle OF Bunker Hill
was fought, the Bastille fell when he
was II. He was Al the year of the
Battle of Waterloo. He was 81 when
Lincoln died. He has been bald for a
century. It makes you dizzy
The population of New York City,
according to the recent census, is $685.
084, representing an increase of 1885,
0S6, or % per cent, since 1920.
NOTES Seven hundred Swedish
farmers occupy farms occupied contin-
uously by ancestors for over 400 years.
1920.
Draw a line across the Italian Pen
insula from Naples to Bari. Then draw
parallels to it through Foggia and
Potenza, and you have there a belt
ravaged on the night of July % by
earthquake; official estimate of about
1000 killed and 1000 injured. Fortu-
nateIy, the main force of the visitation
hit the countryside and the smaller
towns, rather than the greater cities.
An agreement for settlement Of the
five-hundred-m million dollar foreign debt
of the Mexican government and the
Mexican National Railways has been
struck between the International Com
mittee of Bankers on Mexico (headed
by Thomas W. LamonD and the Mex
lean government. The principle OF
settlement is the same as that applied
in the settlements of the war debts
owing us.
All of the nitrate interests of Chile,
including the holdings of the Guggen-
helm brothers, have been consolidated
in $375,000,000 company (the Chile
Nitrate Coz, in which the Chilean gov
eminent Is so per cent partner. For
Its share in the new company the gov
eminent drops the export tax, which
has yielded about $30,000,000 yearly.
The Guggenheim extraction methods
Will hereafter exclusively be used.
The League of Nations Committee
on Intellectual Cooperation has been
holding an annual conference at
Geneva, under the Craftsmanship of
Prof. Gilbert Murray of Oxford Among
the delegates is Vernon Kellogg, Sec
rotary general of the National Research
Council of the United States. An
other delegate Is Prof. Tanakadate of
Toxic. who Is leading a movement for
adoption by Japan Of the Latin
alphabet.