Evening star., 1937-08-27
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS

than one-half of China's foreign trade,
With or without the neutrality act in
force, they add, international trade with
the Far East will be seriously affected
for many moons.
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Starting on Columbus day, October II,
on a 200O0-mile flight which will take
them to al OF the 81 American repub-
lies four airplanes will carry . message
about the Columbus Memorial Light
house which 1t is planned to erect in
the Dominican Republic, the Pan
American Union announces. Taking OF
from the site OF the proposed lighthouse
these messengers of the air will proceed
down the northern and east coast of
South America, thence up the west coast
OF that continent on through Central
America and Mexico to the United States
and Canada, and return to their point
of departure by way of Cuba and Haiti
All Of the American nations are being
asked to contribute to the erection OF the
memorial to the great navigator" and
national committees are being appointed
in each Of them to stimulate intereS. in
the project.
Announcement by Hungary Of its 10
tentions to resume partial payments on
its postwar debt to the United States,
which proposal has been accepted with
gratitude" by this Government, Is &C
cepted by officials here as favorable
omen that other nations may follow suit
The negotiations with the Hungarian
government. once suggested, were quickly
kA ~ nh
Hungary will pay in the form of partial
interest on its debt is small, officials
expressed themselves as highly pleased
that this beginning has been made The
agreement was concluded through an ex-
change OF notes between Secretary Hull,
in cooperation with the Treasury DE-
partment, and Anthony de Balasy,
Charge d'Affaires of Hungary In Wash
ington.
Ever since the disappearance nearly
two weeks ago on his flight over the
North Pole from Moscow to the United
States of Sigismund Levanevsky and his
flve companions, Constantine Oumansky,
Charge d'Affaires OF the Soviet Embassy
here, has been engaged in = responsible
and herculean task. He has been occu-
pied almost day and night during thst
trying period, in cooperation with his
government and in efforts he has been
making at this end, to arrange expedi-
tions and means to help in locating the
lost flyers. Long distance telephone con-
versations with officials of his govern
ment in Moscow and with its represent
atives in Alaska and Seattle and other
parts of this country, as we'll as frequent
conferences with of1icials here, have con-
stituted part of the work which the
young Charge dAffaires has been called
on to perform. Mr.. Oumansky, who is
Counselor of the embassy, actively in
charge thereof during the absence Of
Ambassador Troyanovsky, came to
Washington last year to assume his du-
ties here.
Few people in the United States realize
the rapidity with which the mileage Of
highways has increased in the other
American republics during the past few
years, according to G. Keech Ludewig.
chief OF the division Of financial and
economic information Of the Pan-Amcri-
can Union here, This progress during
the past few years, he asserts, Is moth
ing short Of phenomenal" He illus
trated this by pointing out that in the
10 countries Of South America there had
been an increase Of more than IS per
cent In the mileage Of highways open to
trafhc at the end OF 1886 as compared
with year previously. This vas r.
dected In automottve exports from the