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proposition. Germany is the best Gus
toner for their grain, and an improve
ment In the German market would be
good business for them.
Both JugoSlavta and Rumania have
come to a sort OF crisis in their for
eign policy. Politically they are based
on France, but economically they would
have much TO gain by cooperation with
Germany. Signs Of strong German In
fiuence from day to day are cited both
at Belgrade and here.
Rumania is obviously getting closer
to Hungary. too.
minister, over the week end opened an
exhibition of Hungarian pictures with
warm words Of praise. At the same
time Rumanian play was given its
first performance at the Budapest State
Theater. The visit Of King Carols
brother. Prince Nicholas, to Budapest
where he was received with royal hon
ors, has aroused rumorS.
New Treaty Sought.
A German delegation to negotiate a
commerce treaty with Rumania is ar
irving in Bucharest this week. The
newspaper Cuventul, in a front-pare
editorial, today assails Mr.. Benes' pro-
lJOlAClCS.
Most important of all at present is
the new deal in Rumanian politics I'm
der the control Of the King, which gives
rise TO the belief that Rumania NAV
hereafter exert more independent
foreign policy. On the other hand. ii
is understood that Prince Ghika orened
the discussions today by firmly pledginR
unwavering Rumanian allegiance to the
entente.
Mr.. BeneS' enormous influence will,
OF course, be thrown heavily on the side
OF an unbroken entente front. All in
all, 1t Is the political conditions rather
than the economic which dominate
Balkan foreign policy today and the
German influence, is that little entente
solidarity is certain to be newly en-
phssized.
(Copyright, 1917
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LITTLE ENTENTE
OPENS CONFERENCE
TO WIN HUNGARY
Continued From First Paae.l

Of course, be the end Of the entente as
such.
The conference Is a hush-huSh affair
The meetings are strictly secret, jour-
nalists are forbidden entrance and no
communicates are issued.
Eduard BeneS, Czech foreign minis
ter, has enjoined his colleagues to COM
plete secrecy. The meetings are held
in the Rumanian ministry Of foreign
affairs in a big rocco building on the
main boulevard, which Is guarded like
q fortress.
The chairman who opened today's
deliberations is Prince Demetre Ghika,
Rumania's new foreign minister. The
other chief delegate is the broad-browed
Voja Marinkoyitch, Jugoslav foreign
minister.
The extreme secrecy Of the delibera-
tons Is caused not only by the fact
that this is the most important con-
ference in the history of the Little
Entente, but because of rurnored divi-
sions In the entente camp itself.
German Influence Seen.
Rumania and Jugoslavia are both In
clined to look with some favor on the
Austro-German union as a commercial
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RUSSIAN VIEWS PEssInsTIC.
Capitalists Unable to Solve Ills Of Cap
italiSt, Says Press.
RY HINTS n. WOOn.


BY JUNIUS b. WOOD.
BY Gable to The Star.
MOSCOW, u. S. S. r. May 4.-The
purposes of the World Congress of
Chambers of Commerce, opening today
in Washington with 200 delegates repre-
senttng As countries, are exposed In the
Moscow newspapers.
Explaining that the premier of Bel
GUM opens the congress with q recon-
mendation Of the proper medicine to
cure the ills Of the capitaliStic world.
including the conflict between the
United States and Europe, Ia Indus
trializatzia, organ Of the supreme
council Of national economy, continues:
Under raw, academic formulas, the
question OF unemployment concerning
millions OF workers will be concealed.
Capitalists, being capitalists, are unable
to decide such a question"
The So-called Soviet problem, which
today Is an important link in the world
economic chain, will be the center Of
the talk" the paper says. "They will
try to grasp it in order to find a way
out Of the blind alley in which the cap
italistic world Is caught.
Years have passed since the world
Knocked and made skeptical grimaces at
our flve-year plan. Business circles of
capitalistic powers are now interested
in Russia, not merely from curiosity, but
because the country is building social
ism and stimulating increased growth
OF the workers movement.
THE kings of the bourseS realize that
the world proletariat Is following our
example. The New York correspondent
of the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun
prophesies that the next 10 years will
see Q world conflict between Russian
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and American civilizations. the latter
perSonifying the highest developed cap
italiSm.
Possibly the Congress will adopt a
hypocritical liberal resolution camou-
flaging the real purpose-not to permit
the power over workers to slip out of
the directors hands. 1t is necessary
that we carefully watch the newest
demonstration in Washington.
AccpZzksht, 1917 -.-G--A--
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Factories to Use
Smoke Screens in
Polling War Planes
~ Cable TO Tha star.

PARIS, France, May %.-Smoke
screens for factories viii be an
innovation in the next war, as
shown by experiments made in
the French textile district at
Tourcoing, near the Belgian
frontier.
Two nozzles placed on the roof
Of factory elected Opaque smoke
which in 3 minutes formed an
immense cloud a mile square and
completely obscured the plant
from airplanes. A part Of the
experiment was to ascertain how
toxic gases act in peace times
when inadvertently spread from
chemical plants and menacing
populations in the valleys, as oc-
Cured recently in Belgium and
in Northern France near Lille.
1t is thought that emanation
Of most toxic gases can be pre-
vented by securing better COM
bustion by means of the steam
pyramid method and by prehydro-
genation.
copyright, 1s31.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-04
AUTO CRASH FATAL
John W. steelman of Washington

John w. Steelman Of Washington
Dies in Maryland Accident.
John w. Steelman, colored, 20. for
eight years a machinists helper In the
composing room Of The Star. was killed
early today when an automobile ran OF
the Baltimore Boulevard near Savage
and overturned.
Robert Brozerlne, also colored, of Jes-
sups, Md, another occupant OF the car,
escaped serious injury. The accident
was investigated by Maryland police.
Steelman lived in the 1900 block Of
Fifteenth street.
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BRITAIN DENIES COLLAPSE.
Foreign Office Declares Negotiations
Are Continuing.
BY NEGLEY FARSON.

BY Gable to The Star.
LONDON, England, May 4.-The for
eign office declared today that the dis
customs with the Chinese government
on extraterritoriality have not yet
broken down.
The British still hope the Chinese
will grant the chief demand for four
areas around Hankow, Canton, Shang-
hal and Tientsin to be considered re-
served areas, In which there will be a
long transition period from the present
position Of foreign Jurisdiction over
their own nationals to complete Chinese
control
Shipping Is Of vital interest, as YES
sells flying foreign flags are now In
vioiable. If the Chinese proposed L.
mile limit becomes operative, crews
and cargoes will become subject to
Chinese Jurisdiction.
Co.. 800 ,%uI.;s....s.IsSS
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Fire Damages Patuxent Steamer.

BALTIMORE, Md. May 4 (F1.-The
Patuxent River steamer BERTHE E. Tull
was badly damaged early today by
flames which started In the engine room
and swept through the upper decks.
The 100-foot oil burner was tied up at
a.pien -,.-.....-
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appointees of Chang, to declare inde-
pendence in those provinces. In so
doing, the leaders accused their sup
posed chieftain Of aspirations inimical
to the interests Of the revolutionary
government and demanded his over
throw.
Juomintang conservatives, who are
carefully remaining behind the scenes,
today phophesied their movement was
destined to spread throughout the ma
ton, if the generaliSsimo declines to
heed the real voice of the Kuomintang
and the nation"
BRITAIN DENIES COLLAPSE.
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NOTICE NOT RECEIVED.
Office Of Attorney without Word on
No Appeal.

The Office of Frank j. Hogan, attor-
ney for Albert B. Fall, early today had
not received notification from the for
mer Secretary of the Interior that he
would not again appeal his conviction
of accepting a bride from e. L. Doheny,
oil man.
Hogan, who has been in Europe, Is
expected to return today to Washing
ton.
Fall was sentenced to a year in jail
and q fine Of 100000 in the District Of
Columbia Court of Appeals. Pending an
appeal, the mandate committing him to
prison was stayed 80 days in addition
to the regular period of Is days.
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Jurisdiction Held Lost.
Ransom Sent for Missionary.

HANKOw. China. May P9...Nego-
tiations seeking the release OF Rev.
Oscar Anderson of the Swedish Luth-
eran Mission, who was abducted and
taken to Kingmen April II, Ie1t here
today, taking $4,000 Mexican and
supply Of medicine and mlsceAaneou
AEtac2ea a Hansopa, -----1--As.
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Continued From First Page.)
a brief entry closing the case. as fol-
lows:
This case was heard upon the petit
ton and the return thereto, whereupon
1t is adjudged that the return Is insult
ficient and 1t is ordered that the petit
toner be discharged"
Shockey was arrested about two
months ago by police of the seventh
precinct and entered q petition for q
writ Of habeas corpus, which resulted
in Justice Stafford's dismissal of the
case.
Jurisdiction Held Lost.
Though the finding applies only to
the Shockey case, it is the opinion Of
officials at the Court House that the
result will be turning Of police au-
thority in the tract over to Virginia,
with jurisdiction in the Virginia Fed
eral courts.
Crandall Mackey, Shockeys attorney,
declared that more than 100 arrests
which have been made by District
police in the bridge head" tract were
made Illegally and the victims have the
right to sue for false arrest ana Tor
return Of fines paid or forfeited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-04
CHINESE EXPECTED
TO ABOLISH PACTS
AS FARLEY FAILS

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-04
D. C.-VIRGINIA LIME
HELD AT HIGH TIDE
BY SUPREME COURT

Continued From First Page.)
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-13
DIR. Williams, Famous
Heart Surgeon, Dies

IDLEWlLD, Mich. = DIR. Daniei
Hale Williams, one of the most dis-
tinpuished of American physicians
and the first to perform an operation
on the human heart. died at his sum-
mer home in 1dlewild at 3 a. m. Iues-
day, August 4. q =,
DR.. williams had been i'll for sew,
eral wears. suffering from partial
naralytic stroke. OF late years he
had wintered in Washington, u. W
and passed his summers here.
Born in 1858 in Hollidaysburg' ia.
DR.. Williams was graduate o.
Northwestern University medica
school. an institution in which NJ
later held the first surgical eilnle a
Meharry Medical College in l900. III
founded provdent Hospital, Chicago
in 1892; was surgeon-in-chlef o
Freedmen's Hospital, Washington. u
lei. t80S-9S: was an attending phYsl
clan of Cook County Hospital, Chiea
90. 1903-9, and an associate on Tn
Staff of st. Luke's Hospital IN On
caqo when he retired from aetlY
practice. He was member oil '.
American Medical Association. IN
CHICAGO Medical Society, reno
: Of the American College OF Surgeon
and of the Illinois State Board
Health.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-13
ANDERSON SAYS
HE WILL SEEK
DEPRIEST SEAT

CHICAGO. = Alderman Louis b.
Anderson, who has represented the
second ward in the city council Tor
MANY years, declared this week that
if things continue to look as they
do now, he will oppose Represen-
tative Oscar DePriest for nominal
tion to a third term in the First
Illinois district.
The recent re-maping of the state
into new congressional districts has
thrown the great majority OF the
colored population into the first dis
trict. Since this time, Mr.. Anderson
has been sounding out the district
and reports that he is gratified witt
his findings
II had been said that the recent
!! visit of Benjamin j. Davis, fornel
Republican national committeeman
from Georgia, to this city two week.
ago. had other objects than the fill
ING of a speaking engagement. On'
of these other objects was believed
to have been to represent the lie
publican National Committee in
conference with Mr.. Anderson. TIL
object of this conference. so it IS re
ported, was to establish an under
standing with the alderman whereof
the Republican National Commute
might support his campaign Tor cor
gress if he agreed to give the con
mittee certain support. 1t also ma
Gated that Congressman DePrlest
not in the good graces of the con
mittee and that the administratlo
would probably like to see him bea
en-.
. Representative DePriest, who is
= present in Texas, and his hackers
not concede Mr.. Anderson chan
- to realize his congressional hope
a a and to give him fight to reta
q his post as committeeman Of T.
!, second ward, announce that hepf
Continued on Page 81
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Neero and Chinese American Are Partners
In Fast Growing Photo Engraving Comp y

The Sun Photo Engraving Com
many Is interracial not merely from
the point of view of ownership ana
production but also in that its chen
tele is mixed. Customers OF the com
panv inelde Negro publishers and al
vertisers, white magazines and an'
yertisers, as well as Oriental publ
cations and business houses. Among
fho individual and firms served are
w G. Handy, "Father of the Blues.
who has had some title covers Tor ms
nopular music done in the shop; Ma
Geo Pinkard and Clarence. Williams
also music publishers; the Menu, pub
LEGATION of the Rev. G. Wilson Bee
TOMS World Gospel Feast Party; the
Belstrat laundry, the Broadway Ma
gazine, the Long Islander, jersey
Mail and other publications.
I'VE do not find race any handlcaL
in getting business" Mr.. Van fassei
saws 1--WE have found that we get
GOOD break from white firms as wei
az from colored and Chinese, becaus'
we are equipped to do first Gas
work and we feel able to do it. ou
(Continued on Page ~
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Officials Declare Bishop Grant Not Guilty
Trial Was A Farce Says Ira Bryant

had presented as testimony a photo,
statir copv Of the contract entered
into whereby Bishop Grant agreed TO
nav the Glass family, a daughter Of
whom had accused him of being the
father of her illegitimate child, 81
900 this body met with the intention
OF standing by the bishop, he sad
Before the opening of the trial,
said BRYANT. ~ had been told that |
was to be objected to on the GROUNDS
that was a layman. Another an.
enrd position without any warrant
Of law. | outwitted the committee
bv presenting myself to them as an
attorney for Miss Glass, a layman.
Having thus been taken by surprise
they could offer no excuse Tor an
objection to my appearance as sueh.
The committee was composed OF
Rev S. P. Fielder, of Mississippi ant
the Rev. f. N. Johnson, the brothe,,
az w. Decker johnson, and the ta5i
of keeping them in line and SEEM
that they voted straight had evident
/ " been assigned to w. Decker Jonn
SON. for he was there only for IN
] CONTINUED on Page 3D.
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Outline ) COMPL ANTS IN charge
AGAINST Grand EXALT TED RULER
Chicago Defender
Fires Six Employees

cHICAGO.-A drastic shake-up IN
the personnel of the Chicago Defend
err resulted Saturday in the discharge
of six men. five from the editorial
department and one from the busi-
ness office.
Those dismissed from the editorial
department were Franklin A. Young,
managing editor; Dewey Jones. city
editor and former editorial writer;
Clifford A. Maekey, theatre critic I.
Daniel BuIley, sports editor. and
Samuel Sheppard, reporter. DeVer
Young, assistant auditor, was the
other man released.
| The new managing editor Is LII
cius Harper. who served IN that posi-
ton for many years until he was sup
planted by Young more than a yeai
ago. For few months Harper
worked on the Chicago Whin until he
returned ON the Abbott enterprises as
managing editor of Abbotts Month
", magazine.
When Young was put in as man
aging editor an almost complete
cleanup of the editorial department
was made so that he might function
with men Of his own choice.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-13
f40I 0RED AMERICANS Denied Civil RICH 5
F7bs Plan Libel Suit Against Finley wilson
Hold Tuskegee Murder
Suspect Until October

TUSKEGEE, Ala. - Tom Harris.
Arkansas lad and Tuskegee football
star, arrested in connection with the
Shaving of Miss Mary Booth, sister
in-law of Principal Robert k. Motion
of Tuskegee Institute, will be held IN
iail until October, anyhow, Sheriff
Rilev told the Negro Press.
Nothing new has developed to solve
the mystery of the killing OF the Tor
mer head nurse of the Tuskegee HOS
pital. Requests made by hef 10 d
relative have been reported as pos
sible motive for the killing.
Sheriff Riley declared that a state
ment t., the effect that Harris was
being / cid without charge was mot
correct. "Why do you want to peer
into cnse which might hurt some o. OF
the leaders of your race?" the sheriff
asked the Negro Press correspondent
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-13
Negro Brakeman Is
Given Carnegie Medal

O'KEEFE, West Va.-The Carne-
pie medal for heroic deeds and a sum
of $500 has been awarded Garfield
Muse of this town, brakeman on the
Pocahontas division of the Norfolk
& Western Railway, for unusual bra
very in saving the life Of 4-year-old
Harold, +. Wallace. es,-...,.z,
The small boy narrowly escaped
death when he calmly walked down
the track before a Norfolk d Wesf
ern freight train. The engineer rec
ognized the object on the track to Dc {
child when he was less than ~,
feet distant, with his train moving a.
the rate of 80 miles an hour. Ht
! TANNED on his brakes too late t'
stop the onrushing engine:
| Moving east on an adjoining traci
was a work train. Brakeman Mus
of its crew stood ON the rear platform
of the cab of his train. When his ca
was approximately 80 feet from TN
how. with the onrushing engine les
than $50 feet away, the braKema
saw the child.
In flash he leaped from his tralr
raced to the westbound track an
snatcbed the child to safety. as tn
engine all but crushed both the chi
and the rescuer. -,
The medal the hero received
awarded for unusual acts OF herolsi
bv the Carnegie Hero Fund Commi
sion
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AVIATOR
LEAPS 5000 FEET
IN EXHIBITION

WILMINGTON, Del. = While
thousands of spectators watched
wide-eyed from the ground, Colonel
Hubert Julian, said to be the only
licensed colored pilot in the country,
and one time commander of the ADJ
yssinian Imperial Air Corps, flew
over Bellanca Air Field, and later
made a parachute jump from about
5000 feet up, landing slightly to the
right of the center of the field. Sun
day afternoon.
Colonel Julian, who last week sue
cessfully passed examinations for the
reissuance of his pi | OF s license,
which had lapsed because of INSULT
cient activity in the air, was given
an ovation by the crowd as he en-
erged from the offices of the Air
Service Inc, operators of Bellanca
Field, and climbed into the cockpit
of a Field biplane.
Makes Jump
Following his exhibition of sole
flying in the Fleet biplane, Colone
Julian took time out for only rev
minutes. He climbed into a Stinsor
cabin plane, piloted by white ava
tor. and the plane scared off. Bank
ing and climbing the Stinson mount
ed to about 5000 feet elevation
From that altitude Colonel julia
plummet for about 1000 feet, Julia
pulled the rip cord of his Chute an
it's white folds beloved out quickly
He floated down slowly.
Plans Nonstop Flight
Thomas f. Moore, white, of Me-
) York City, one of the hackers c
{ the proposed nonstop flight to |
: made BY Colonel Julian from Ne
/ York to Abyssinia in the Bellant
plane. Roma" was at Bellant
Field Sunday. He is planning NJ
n tionwide tour for Americas only &C
r ored pilot, preparatory to the pr
: iected New York Abyssinia non-stt
e flight.
y An organization for the promote
u of aviation among Negroes will
e launched on. national scale, WI
% nrominent citizens here in charge
!. the main office. Branches Will
=, % organized throughout the COUNT
=, with contributing members.
h Julian and Moore will receive
"a mart of the fund, but the memb'
IS ship money will be handled by ci
IN zens who will purchase a plane a
financially support the movement
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fEnternrise News Bureaul

MOBILE, Ala. - That the trial
last week in which Bishop X, A.
Grant was freed by board OF hign
church officials, with Bishop II. r.
Parks, presiding, was farce, was
voiced this week by Ira 7. Bryant
editor of the Young Allenite.
There are thousands of well-meanI-
ING ministers and laymen in Meth
odist churches, said Editor BRYANT
who have deeried the constant at
tacks made upon bishops in general
and who have clamored for some
orderly procedure of church trial as
the proper means for righting the
many wrongs charged against the
heads of the church. There were
those who felt that the Grant case
offered an excellent chance Tor meet
/ ing the above criticisms and proving
that such public denunciation OF the
rascals as had been INDUCED in, were
the only safe means for arouslng
sinfully abused membership, and per
chance save the church by a paraly
cation Of its collections.
Despite the fact that this boar'
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IS
AIDING NEGRO
SAYS BULLETIN

NEW YORK C1TY.-That COOP
Grafton is rapidly developing among
the various organizations which are
interested in the economic advance
ment of the Negro is shown in bull
letin issued by the officials OF the
National Negro Business League.
The bulletin SAYS in part:
"The National Negro Business
League has pioneered and expert
mented for years on methods to ere
ate and make successful Negro bus
inesses and latterly has proved the
value of it's present course to try to
save the remaining Negro grocery
stores and to add to their number.
Here we say that there is constant
! w cry from our ministers and
other leaders that something must
| be done to prevent the chain stores
and other races from driving to the
wall the few remaining Negro gro
Gerry and neighborhood stores. Well.
| Mr.. ALBION l.. Holsey, secretary and
other officers Of the Negro Business
League have found the way to pre-
vent the Negro merchants from be-
ing wiped off the map.
"For instance, Mr.. Holsey and as
sociates after heart-rending efforts
and meagre support from faithful
few race people have demonstrated
in New York City and several other
cities that it is possible for the Ne
gro grocery store to meet the com
! petition of the chain and other store;
and prosper and thus make places tol
more race men and women.
, Now the point is, the Negro Bust
ness League must maintain an Office
. in the business section of New 1orl
/ City in order for it to serve as tn
. clearing house for contacts betwee
: the race merchants all over the cour
4 try and the big producers, manufat
. turers and dealers. 1t require
n money, yes a big chunk of it, to equi
!. ard maintain that office and SER
) ice. Up TO now the effort and e
N pense have been borne by a fat
. full few, but these cannot alone co
# tinue to carry this load, and witho
ID help the program cannot be e
pr tended over the country.
* 1.-THE Negro Business League
10 therefore. appealing to race bu
~ nesses, churches and organizatic
n to have their officers, employees a
he members to join the League.
annual membership fee is only So.