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SHIP AFIRE AT SEA
LOWERS LIFEBOATS
FOR 300 ON BOARD!
i
City of Honolulu, Owned by
U. S., Two Days Off Pacific
Coast.
I
VESSEL GETTING S.O. S.
RUSHES TO RESCUE
Second Call for Help Says "Very
Bad Fire Raging," and Asks
Immediate Aid.
By the Associated Tress.
SAX FRANCISCO, Calif., October
32.?Fire sweeping the steamer
City of Honolulu was beyond con*
trol at 10:10 a.m. today and the
ahip was being; abandoned by the
captain, chief engineer, first officer
and radio operator, the last four
aboard the venae!, a radio diapatch |
received here today Maid. I
The inat message from the ahip '
said:
"Captain and g;ang; leaving; Mhip.
Good-bye to you all.**
LOS ANGELES. Calif., October 12.?
With some three hundred passengers j
Company's new steamer City ui j
Honolulu was reported by wireless j
today afire two days off shore from ]
this port on the return trip of its \
first voyage between Los Angeles and j
VJ r> n n 111 n !
The City of Honolulu is a Shipping
Board vessel of 17.500 tons and was
allocated to the local company fox
six months' trial for service between
this city and tile ri.aw?u"au lsiunus.
It left September 23* with more than
300 passengers, mostly tourists, and
it is believed a large number of these
were returning on the vessel.
The position of the City of Honolulu
at 5:5S o'clock t'nLs morning was given
at Latitude 31.07 north and longitude
131.40 west, according to the last
radio advices known here to ha\e
been received from the vessel which
were picked up by the Federal Company
beach station at San Francisco.
Three vessels are known to be near
the City of Honolulu, the transport
Thomas and the steamers Enterprise
and the City of Eos Angeles.
LOWERING LIFEBOATS.
Burning Ship Sends Out Second j
Call for Help.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., October 12.
?Lifeboats were being lowered at
8:47 o'clock this morning by the
passenger steamer, the City of Honolulu
which was afire in the Pacific
ocean according to a wireless message
received today.
The message as received here was
addressed to the steamer Enterprise,
which was in latitude 32.17 north and :
longitude 136.12 west. The message
said the Honolulu "was lowering
boats now," and asked the Enterprise
"if she was coming."
Twelve minutes before the Honolulu
sent word that she was lowering
boats she put out her second S. O. S.
call. This message repeated the previous
position of the burning steamer
as latitude 31.07 north and longitude
lai.west.
In addition to the S. O. S. call the
Honolulu said a "very bad fire was
raging ' on the vessel and immediate
assistance was asked.
The Matson Navigation Company,
owner of the steamer Enterprise,
which is bound from Hawaii to the
mainland, said th^t their vessel was
rushing to the assistance of the burning
liner and should reach her between
noon and 1 o'clock.
At 9 o'clock the Federal Telegraph
Company received a wireless message
saying that passengers were leaving
the ship. A message relayed to the
Sdatson offices at the same time by the
, steamer Enterprise gave the Honolulu's
position as "1,406 miles east of
Honolulu."
WOULD FORBID POLITICS
in iiinn OTiTr nrnnrn
innibtiaiftitumuu
Churches of the world must demand
for ch^ef magistrates and ministers
?f state of the nations the same freedom
from political control now enjoyed
In some measure by judges. Dr.
Charles S. Macfarland, general secretary,
said in a report today to the
administrative committee of the Federal
Council of Churches.
Dr. Macfarland, who has Just returned
from a tour of Europe, said there is a
growing feeling among the people of
all countries that the "present confusion
In world politics is in a large measure
due to the fact that men in power are
seeking first to maintain their own administrations;
second, to uphold their
respective parties, and third, after taking
care of the other two, to do what
they can for their country-"
"It is clear," continued the report,
"that the church throughout the world
must find her voice and utterance demanding
freedom for chief magistrates
and ministers of states, such as we
) now have in some measure for Judges
of courts, so that the dead hand of partisan
and personal politics shall be forever
cut off from the body politic."
WOMAN ATTACKED
WATCHES NEGRO DIE
IN ELECTRIC CHAIR j
RALEIGH, N. C., October 12.?
Mclver Burnett, negro convicted
of an attack on a white woman,
was put to death In the electric
chair at state prison here today In
the'presence of his victim. Burnett,
who had stoutly maintained
his innocence during the trial, was
heard to mumble something as the
jailers strapped him in the chair.
"What is he saying?" asked the
woman.
"Tell them I'm guilty," replied
the negro, without lifting his
eyes.
It took three shocks of one minute
each before physicians were
satisfied that the man was dead.
? Ten women in all witnessed the
execution and one of them fainted.
The woman Who had accused Burnett
was accompanied by her husband
and mother-in-law.
MRS. HALL'S <
TESTED FOR
Dyed Soon After
Jersey Double
Murder.
Rector9s Wife Again
in Limelight of
E-J-m*
M V
Hy tb#> Associated Press.
SOMKKVII.LK, X. J.. October 12.
?- liny ii wnd Schneider tliin afternoon
repudiated the alleged conlesslon
*n uhlrh he accused Clifford
Hayes, nineteen, of the murder
of Rev. Kilward Wheeler Hall
and .Mrs. Eleanor Rlnehardt Mills.
Hayes was released a few moments
later in custody of l:i*
counsel.
NEW BRUNSWICK. N. J.. October
12.?Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, widow
of the Rev Edward Wheeler Hall, was
brought back into the limelight by investigators
of the murder of her husFRANCE
CAN'T PAY
"FOR FOURYEARS"
Needs Money to Reconstruct
Devastated Regions, Says
Newspaper.
SEEKS DEBT SOLUTION
"Highest Authority" Quoted as
.Maeavoring 10 iina new
Scheme.
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, October 12.?France will be
unable to meet any part of her debts
> for the next four years, as all avail1
able receipts for that period must be
H devoted to reconstruction
of the
d e v a s tated regions,
according
to the Paris Herald,
which quotes
"one of the highest
authorities of
the French ministry
of finance."
The government,
adds the newspaper,
is doing its
utmost to find a
new formula for
the settlement of
POINCA&E. the European
| debts and repara
I nunc laiiftir, auu will piuuaui} &u limit
a scheme drawn up by M. Poincare
when the interallied financial
congress meets at Brussels.
This plan calls for a revision of the
total of Germany's indebtedness on a
basis of actual reparations only, the
charges for pensions, war allowances
and the like being wiped from the
slate. This would reduce the French
claim by nearly 25 per cent.
.No Ratification Soon.
Discussion of ratification of the
Washington naval treaties Is far
down on the schedule of business of
parliament, which opens tomorrow.
The treaties will bedealt with, however,
in so far as reports from the
naval committee on them will be
made to the chamber or deputies.
The government's program Is so
heavily laden with questions that
were deemed of more urgent importance,
such as the financial situation
and the current foreign question.
that open discussion on the
Washington treaties in parliament is
almost certain to be postponed until
1923.
The government expects to vote
the budget in time to forward the
document to the Senate,- before December
1. It has been decided that
discussion on the naval treaties can
wait until next year, and unless some
ardent supporter of the Washington
agreements, perhaps former rremier
Briand himself, forces their discussion
while the budget is before the
Senate in December, thdy will be
held over until next year.
No pressure Is being brought to
bear upon the government from any
quarter to advance the consideration
of the Washington pacts.
Examination Completed.
Deputy Georges Mandel, who was
chief secretary to former Premier
Clemenceau, has been appointed one
of the two reporters on the treaties.
Under French parliamentary usage
he makes a study of them and
has lust completed his examination.
Deputy Lacour de Granmalson, the
second reporter, who has been assigned
the task of examining the
various phases relating to poisonous
gases and the freedom of the seas
to neutrals, has not yet finished his
work. He expects, however, to be
ready to submit his report to the
naval committee before November 1.
Deputy Mandel's report, which is
devoted to a discussion on the points
relating to capital ships and minor
craft, is understood to advise against
I r&tincation. Several amendments
are suggested In the report, among
which is one for replacing- the lost
French dreadnaught France, and
! there are some reservations as te
i French sea power.
FOUR PLANES TO RACES.
Machines Carry Boiling Field Men
to Witness Pulitzer Derby.
Four airplanes, two of them Navy
Martin bombers, left Boiling Field
shortly before noon today for Selfrldge,
Mich. The bombers carried
Capts. Davis. Bourne and Archibald
of the Marine Corps and the other
two?Dehavllands, carried Majs. R?Inburg
and Walton and Col. Lahm and
Lieut. T. P. Smith.
The aviators will make the 460-mile
journey to witness the Pulitzer
trophy races, which started near Detroit
today.
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WAT TO BE
BLOODSTAINS
!>IICS. EDWARD W. HALL.
' band and Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt j
| Mills today, when detectives visited |
; her home and took away a scarf and
fawn-colored coat which she had dyed
' (Continued on Page 2. Column 2.)
33 Are Rescued
ByU.S.Submarine
As Storm Rages
An unusual exploit of the sea
was recorded today in two cryptic
messages received by government
departments, reporting that the
submarine N-2 had rescued and
landed safely the crew of thirtythree
stranded on the tank
steamer Swift Star, when she went
aground off Rlock Island.
No details of the submarine's pe- j
| culiar adventure were contained
in either of the messages, one of
which came to the Treasury Department
from the coast guard
I station at Wakefield, K. I., at the j
same time that the other was be- i
ing copied at the Navy Department
by radio from the mine
sweeper Chewink. Previous reports
had indicated, however, that
the heavy sea made it impracticable
for a larger vessel to approach
the Swift Star for rescue
work.
CMITU CAIICIWTfl
umiiiiuftiLOimu
1LLJMC0RD
Empire State Governorship
Fight Hammer-andTongs
Affair.
IS AN UNUSUAL PARALLEL
;
Voters Must Choose Between Two
Popular Double-Fisted
Fighters.
BY X. O. MKSSEXfiKTI.
Stuff Correspondent of The Star.
NEW YORK. October 12.?At the
rate the political campaign in this
state is getting up steam, they will
have to set a deck hand on the safety
valve before It gets into midstream.
The two candidates for governor are
going at each other hammer and
tongs and first thing you know they
will be calling each other a hard
name and branching out from that.
It all started when Elihu Root, at
the republican state convention, gave
Gov. Miller a boost on his rceord as
governor which fairly lauded him to
the skies. It would have been
thought that New York never had a j
real governor before. It made Alfred |
IE. Smith, the democratic candidate,
sick, and he said that when his time
came he proposed to pull out some
of the peacock feathers and strip off
the yellow jacket with which his opponent
had been invested. He had
been governor himself just before
Gov. Miller and thought he had been
a good one.
Wades Into G. O, P. Record.
The time came last night for Mr.
Smith to start the undertaking and
he went at it with a vim. Before an
audience of some 2,000 whooping
democrats at Yonkers he waded into
the republican Tecord in a way that
showed his old-time form as a twofisted
fighting man was still unimpaired
by two years' aloofness from
the political arena.
He declared that the much-vaunted
economies of the Miller administration
are a delusion and a snare, based
upon expert juggling of figures and
'twisted bookkeeping. He asserted |
that the Miller campaign is a smoke
screen to hide the real shortcomings
of the Miller administration, and a
burning delinquency, in bringing to
destruction the efforts of a bi-partisan
organisation to present a plan of real
reform in state government.
Then he proceeded to analyze the
economies claimed by the Miller supporters
and sought to show that they
" ?'.v ?|/vvtwu? viaiiua Ilia L V'UUIU 11UI
stand up under the dissecting knife.
Well, people In Washington who read
the news of Congress know how It Is
themselves. They have many times
and oft seen the majority leader In
the House, whether republican or
democrat, at the close of a session,
present the table of appropriations
and figure out one result, while the
minority leader, with the very same
figures, would produce an exactly opposite
recapitulation and conclusion.
And yet it Is said that figures don't
lie.
Attltsde of Newspapers.
One notable feature of the campaign
at this stage Is the way the newspapers
are treating the opposing candidates.
The metropolitan press
without exception Is giving the candidates
an "even break" on the re-v
ports of their speeches and claims. It
is putting a terrible responsibility on
the man In the street and the voter at
(Continued on Page X, Column l-j
GREEKS 10 ACCEPT
MUDANIA TERMS
AND QUjTJHRACE
French Officially Informed
Athens Will Not Oppose
Drntn/.nl
i i \j iuuuii
RUSSIANS DISSATISFIED
AT PARLEY EXCLUSION
Tchitcherin Regrets Failure of
Efforts to Establish Closer
IT. S. Relations.
R.v the Associated Press.
PARIS, October 12.?Greece has decided
to sign the Mudania armistice
convention and evacuate Thrace, according
to the conditions stipulated in
that document, the French foreign office
was officially informed today.
RUSSIANS ARE DISPLEASED.
Expect Equal Voice in Near East
Decision.
By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
Copyright. 1922. ^
MOSCOW, October 12.?Foreign Minister
Tchitcherin said in an interview I
today that the decision of the allies to "
let Russia attend one of the two con- Q
ferences concerning the near east settlement
was unsatisfactory. He could
see no reason for two conferences when
one ought to be sufficient to deal with
the whole issue.
"Russia," he continued, "objects to
a settlement being made in the near
erst without her presence. We think
our government has now sufficiently
proved its stability, permanence and I
solidarity to entitle it to be Invited *
to participate with the other powers
on eqaul terms for the consideration
of this international problem, in
which our interests are supremely
concerned. Moreover, we are convinced
that Russia is suthcientlv
strong to make any settlement negotiated
without her concurrence of
little value." I
Regret* I*. 8. I* Out.
Russia's foreign minister expressed
keen regret at the failure of the recent
efforts to establish closer rela- ^
tions with the United States.
"The request that an American
technical commission be allowed to
examine the resources and conditions
j in Russfa was made in such a way
I that it conveyed an implication of our
Inferiority. Russia is not Kgypt and
cannot be dealt with in the same way. r
"The demand for access to all documents
and insistence upQn the right .
to visit any part of Russia the com- J
i mission might desire to see was not in a
accordance with our status. We have j,
no objection to a commission seeing
whatever it wishes to see, or to visit- 1
any district it desires to visit, provid- e
ed It comes, not with a suggestion of -j
i Inferiority on our part, but as from
equal to equal. It was because of this
that we made our request in order i
that there might be no misunder- 8
standing on this point." e
No Rent Difficulty.
The correspondent asked M. Tcliit- t
cherin what he would do to promote
closer relations with the United ^
States, suggesting that the seizure A.
of the National City Rank funds in the p
early months of the revolution, and e
the consequent failure to make a settlement.
might have accentuated the 1
difficulties. f
"I do not believe that the question
between ourselves and the National |
City Bank is the real difficulty." was
the reply. "That is quite capable of
adjustment and would be adjusted g
in any general settlement between
the two nations. The cause goes
deeper. Many Americans believe still
that we are brigands and anarchists
unfit to associate with other nations, o
They get their views from persons q
who have not seen Russia in se\'eral
years or who Judge everything from 11
the years of revolutionary upheaval." t!
Points to Other Nations. n
"And many others," the writer b
added, "believe that Russia is still n
respoonsible for much of the revolutionary
activity maintained in the
United 55tates." tl
"When people tell me this," M. n
Tchitcherin replied, "I point to the
example of other countries. England
after the world war had great revo- *
lutionary activity for which Russia p
was held responsible by many per- s
sons there. Today with Russian trade '
missions established in London the
revolutionary activity is much diminished.
The Bame is true .of Germany, t<
where Russia has an embassy. In
Italy, where the revolutionary party
was formerly active, it has lost much b
of its power, although a Russian t
mission is working there. In France,
where Russia is not represented,
there is, nevertheless, much unrest.
VICTORY FOR RUSSIA. 8
r
Failure of Trade Pact With British *
Moscow Reprisal.
By Wireless to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1922.
BERLIN, October 12.?Maxim Lltvinav,
Russian vice commissar for
trade and foreign affairs, summed up
the views of the soviet government
on the near eastern situation in a
statement which he made to the
writer today.
"Kemal Pasha's victory in the near
east is a greater victory for soviet
Russia than for Turkey," he said.
"For one thing, the treaty of Sevres
was completely upset by it, proving
that in the long run such treaties are
nothing but 'scraps of paper,' a term
which, in my opinion, will also be applied
eventually to the pact of Versailles.
But above all, we believe and
hope that the debacle of the British
policy in the near east will mean the
downfall of Prime Minister Lloyd
George, thereby making easier the
adoption of a new attitude toward soviet
Russia.
If it had not been for the treaty
between Moscow and the Angora
Republic Kemal Pasha would never
have been successful.
"We i regard the British prime
(Continued on Page 2, Column 2.)
SEVERE QUAKE IN PERU.
Shock Does Considerable Damage.
Telegraph Wires Down.
By the Assoclsted Press.
LIMA, Peru, October 12.?A violent
earthquake of one minute's duration
occurred yesterday over a wide area
in southern Peru, causing considerable
property damage at Arequipa and
numerous small villages, it Is announced
in cable advices from Arequipa
today. .
The southern railway suffered damage
to its Mollendo section, between
Arequipa and the coast.
The telegraph wires south from Lima
are- down.
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IP LIQUOR ORDER
HELDUPBYCOURT
J. S. Enjoined From Enforcinn
naiinhorlv/ Rulinn hu
niy uuuvji iwi ij i luinivj \j j
Federal Judge.
:URTHER HEARING OCT. 17
Vessel Companies Win Initial Victory
in Fight on Dry
Ban.
ty tlio A**oofate<l Pre**.
NEW YORK. October 12.?Federal
udge Learned Hand today granted
. temporary restraining order proibiting
H. C. Stuart, acting collecor
of the port; Ralph A. Day, fedral
prohibition director for New
fork, and John G. Appleby, chief
one prohibition officer, from putting
nto effect the federal order to seize
hips and liquor under the Daughrty
prohibition order.
The order was granted on applicaion
of the International Mercantile
larine Corporation, acting for the
Lmerican lines included in that corloration.
It specifically affects the
teamers Finland and St. Faul.
The order will be in force. Judge
land said, until a Hearing: scheduled
or October 17.
PREPABES RUM WARNING.
iecretary Mellon to Notify Ship
Owners of Penalty.
Notices to foreign and American ship
wners acquainting them with Attorney
ieneral Daugherty's opinion barring
quor from ships and tentative instruc- j
Ions to customs ofllcers for enforce-;
lent of the rulings are in preparation ,
y Secretary Mellon and may be an- '
ounced before tonight. 1
Foreign ship owners will be notified
hrough the State Department's diplolatlc
and consular representatives
broad, who are ft) be instructed to give
Ir. Daugherty's opinion the widest
ossible publicity. Notice to American
hip owners will be sent out direct by
iecretary Mellon.
The Treasury Secretary's instructions
o customs officers and prohibition
gents will be of a tentative character,
ut he hoped to have formal regulalons
prepared within a week.
Question of Seliure.
In enforcement of the prohibition
igainst foreign ships within the threeaile
limit, Mr. Mellon was representd
as taking the view that no genral
policy of seizure of offending
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THE ALIBI.
j Embassies Not
! Embarrassed
By Dry Ruling
Foreign missions in this city will
not be seriously embarrassed by the
enforcement of the new liquor policy
of the United States in line with the
Attorney General's opinion.
Whatever wet goods are desired
for the personal use of the ambassadors
and ministers and their official
staffs, it is stated, may be brought
to this city, Baltimore. Annapolis or
New York, on warships flying the
flag of their respective countries and
transported from the dock to the embassy
or legation in this city by
motor cars displaying the national
coat of arms.
It is reported that an arrangement
of that kind has been suggested to
the diplomatic corps by officials of
this government through the State
Department.
PLANlAFETYDRIVE
TO CUTACCIOENTS
Chamber of Commerce Men
Confer With Commissioners
on Proposal.
Prospects for a safety-flrst drive
in Washington became brighter today
when William F Ham and A. E.
Seymour visited the District building
a*; representatives of the Chamber
of Commerce and indorsed the
proposition.
They conferred with Commissiqners
Rudolph and Oyster, offering to cooperate
in making a success of any
movement siartea to ma?e me streets
of the District safer both for the
I pedestrian and the motorist.
L Mr. Seymour eaid he suggested to
1 Commissioner Oyster that if a noaccident
week is decided upon that
it start on November 13.
fhombfr Would Act.
He said that President Albert Schulteis
of the chamber has had in mind
tor several weeks a revival of the
street-safety movement. The chamber
has a meeting: of its full membership
slated for the evening of November
14.
If the Commissioners designate
that as Safety week, he said, the
chamber will make safety first the
keynote of its gathering.
Mr. Ham is chairman of the public
I safety committee of the chamber and
j has called a meeting of his associates
j for 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
Would Limit Accident*,
j As president of the Washington
Railway and Electric Company, Mr.
I Ham said that organization would
i give a full measure of support to a
: campaign to reduce accidents.
"I do not believe that the mere deI
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Vext Sunday |
AGREEMENT CUTS
HARD-COAL PRICE
$9.25 May Be Maximum Tor
Charge at Independent
Mines.
! REDUCTIONS IMMEDIATE
(
i
j Fifth of Anthracite Output Af
j fected?Bigger Operators' Quoj
i tation Is $8.35.
An agreement which is expected t<
result in fixing the maximum prio
of anthracite mined by "independ
' ent" operators at $9.25 a ton at tht
| mines has been reached between th?
Pennsylvania authorities and Fue
Distributor Spens, representing tin
federal government.
The agreement, announced here to
day by W. D. B. Ainey, chairman o;
the Pennsylvania fuel commission, it
j regarded by officials as assuring im
I mediate reductions in the hard coa
! prices now charged by independen
operators controlling 20 per cent o
the output, thus removing a prici
discrepancy that has been the caur
of complaint in all consuming terri
tories.
I Chairman Ainev. trith Mr Cnon.
| and with Eugene C. Felton, repre
I senting the fair practices committe
j in the anthracite industry, reache<
j the agreement at conferences hel<
I last night and today.
I Restrict Hold-Out Operators.
I The largest part of the productioi
! of anthracite, an amount estimate*
by officials at 70 per cent of the to
tal, comes from a group of larg
mines which now are charging fron
$S to $S.35 a ton, while some of th
independent operators have beei
charging up above $12 a ton. Th
arrangement by which the price wil
be held down to $9.25 is described a
an indirect one, but it is said to b
probable that mine owners who re
fuse to a^ide by the decision wil
have their operations restricted b;
use of the government's power t
regulate transportation.
"In view of the fact that a numbe
of so-called individual or independen
operators have signified a willing
ness to set prices below the $9.2
maximum and also that this maxi
mum is a reduction from prices pre
vicusly charged." Chairman Aine;
said today, "the Pennsylvania fue
commission approved the recommen
dation. It is joined in this approva
by the federal fuel distributor.
States to Re Notified.
"Notification will be sent to all stat
fuel authorities of the action of th
i . .
commission, wun lists of operator
subscribing to prices of $9.25 an<
under. By direction of the fuel com
mission and the federal fuel distrib
utor, the fair practices committe
(also representing the Pennsylvani;
fuel administration) will proceed im
mediately to consider the remainini
approximately 5 pfcr cent of the tota
production for the purpose of eithe
recommending the prices which it 1
fair for them to charge or the ad
visability of discontinuance of sue]
costly production.
The committee will be directed t
conclude its findings and make it
i report on or before October 31.
A large part of the difficulties lead
ing to complaints by consumers ha
been due to impossibility of ascer
taining in advance what would b
the cost of anthracite shipment:
Many eastern cities have been sup
plied with anthracite shipments i
which the same quality of coal ha
been sold for four or five differen
prices. Under the plans the differ
ence will be only about $1 a to
whether an order is supplied from th
independent mines or from the large
producing units in the industry.
POWER PLANT RENEWS
MUSCLE SHOALS LEASE
Renewal for another year of th
lease under which the Alabama Powe
Company operates the government'
electrical generating steam plant a
Muscle Shoals, Ala., was announce
today by Secretary Weeks.
The contract was renewed on th
same terms as originally negotiate!
a step which Secretary Weeks sal
was necessary "to enable a number c
cotton mills and other industries i
southern states, including North an
South Carolina, to continue operation!
and which otherwise would have bee
compelled to close down or material!
curtail production because of die
turbed conditions In the coal trana
portation industries and lack of da
. loped hydro-electric power."
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STATUES OF BURKE
AND BRYCE,FRIENDS
OF U. ^PRESENTED
! Notable Gathering at Exercises
as Burke Memorial
Is Unveiled.
OFFICIALS AT BRYCE
CEREMONY IN CAPITOL
Speeches Tighthen Bonds of
Friendship Between America
and Britain.
Before a distinguished assembly of
American officials, foreign diplomat?
and prominent visitors from Great
Britain, gathered in the small triangular
park on Massachusetts avenue
at 11th street, the heroic bronze
statue of Edmund Burke, "Great Britain's
most far-sighted and brilliant
of statesmen," the gift of the Sulgrave
Institution to the people of the
United States, was unveiled with impressive
ceremonies at 3 o'clock this
afternoon.
Presented by Sir Charles.
The striking and inspiring memorial
was presented officially by Sir Charles
Cheers Wakefield, baronet, former
Lord Mayor of London, in behalf of
the Sulgrave Institution, which is
, composed of high-minded men of
i Great Britain, Canada and the United
| States, bent on forwarding close
! friendship between the three Englishspeaking
countries. The statue was
I nni-uilu/9 I. /"U ? ..1 l, rrU .,*>
1 Miss Freda Wakefield. following
which it was accepted in the name of
the American people by Secretary of
War John W. Weeks.
Bronze Unveiled In Capitol.
These ceremonies were preceded
this morning: at 11 o'clock by the
. dedication and presentation of a
bronze bust in the Capitol in memory
of Viscount James Bryce, who
won the hearts of all Americans by
- his sympathetic understanding and
courageous friendship durfng his many
years as British ambassador in Washington.
In presenting the memorial to Edmund
Burke, the Irish-born states0
man. who with his fiery eloquence.
prophetic foresight and zeal, so finely
e defended the cause of America just
- before the revolutionary war, Sir
e Charles Wakefield paid a beautiful
tribute to his great idealism and the
e big part it played in history.
] Place for Leadership.
"Surely the world craves for magnanimous
leadership, for wider vision
and truer charity," said Sir Charles.
"We believe that the spirit that inspired
Burke must prevail today if
the wounds of suffering nations are
] to be bound up and the waste places
- i ? Wa KOMavo
e i that that is the destined mission of
the American and British peoples,
e and it is our fervent hope that our
- visit and our efforts in the promotion
of friendship and understanding:
may help to promote this ideal.
"Great and sublime unities between
* English-speaking countries." he cone
i tinued, "transcend and obliterate old
j i divisions and bitter memories. And
a I that is why we are here today with
this statue of Edmund Burke for your
acceptance, to add to the monuments
of this impressive and magnificent
Capital city of the United States. We
I hope and believe that you will like to
j be reminded of the great Englishman
who championed your cause, and
whose eloquence and generosity of
e outlook have colored political thought
.1 i and theories of governance down to
p ! our own times."
II Extols Jlurke's Memory.
e
1 In opening his address, S:r Charles
s said:
e "We are assembled today to do honor
1 to the memory of Edmund Burke, one
th* ar.>QtPHt of Knelish narllamenta
0 rians. Of particular interest to us to*
r day by reason of his heroic and det
termined political campaign in defense
T of the rights of the American colonists,
3 he was in everything he undertook per"
haps the wisest and most far-seeing of
" our English statesmen. His speeches
? in opposing George Ill's stupid
and un-English American policy have
1 become classics in political literature.
Their wealth of eloquence and sagacity
of Judgment, in spite of the passionate
sincerity, which inspired them, did not
^ avail with the ignorant and dishonest
e assembly to which they were addressed,
e
s Word* Sank Deeply.
d / "It is impossible, after a lapse of
- a century and a half, to say what
* ; would have been the effect upon world
? j history had Burke's eloquence pre
j vailed. What is certain is that his
Bj j utterances sank deeply into the hearts
r and minds of wiser Englishmen of
a succeeding generations and laid the
* foundations of the more generous and
" intelligent policy which has brought
. into being the free commonwealths
0 j and dominions of the British Empire
8 j of today.
j "The bitterness of the American
" i revolutionary war has long since
; passed away. No Englishman who
" | has studied the period would attempt
to defend the foolish king who mis_
j took force for strength and ob
\ stiracy ror wisaom. nidi wc ?c.r
n j unfortunate in the character of our
? j ruling" men at a critical period in our
11 history is probably the truth of the
" matter. But for us the dark pagre in
our history is illumined by the cour?
age of Burke.
Welcomed Washington's EflUj.
"We in England have recently
welcomed the effigy of Washington, in
Trafalgar Square, amongst other mighty
heroes of our race, and also in the
e crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral, where it
T stands near the dust of Nelson and
8 j Wellington. We have, ti^ our Sulgrave
t j movements, rediscovered and readorned
d i Sulgrave Manor, the ancestral British
! home of the Washington family. We
! remember that of the American cole
! onists who threw oft the yoke of George
1. Ill over 91 per cent came of English,
d Scotch, Welsh or Irish stock. We reif
member that all your Presidents, save
it three, have similarly sprung from BritU
ish family roots; that the basis of your
g,! law is the common law of England, and
q j that a thousand affinities of blood,
y political temper and outlook, and relig,
lous kieal and inspiration, pronounce
us in every truth to be akin.
> I "It Is my great privilege to adit
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