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Ww EDNESDAY, Issued ¢ Military *)-) mame JUNE "9 Contrae lors for Air Mails. To Operate Passenger-Carrving Lines ( fre Planning © re al of China Second | Assistant Postmaster General Says Transcontinen- tal Route Is F orerunner of Other Se heduled Service. re stale” Is sal by _Ameri- Pyles ar "s one g Fs o7) <a a) = e 1 } j | Announced | ——— Assumes Office imo; Pan Fu. iPremier. 18 and 20, respec- | ‘ang Tso Lin upon wralistimo in com- - and naval forces ublic, and by Pan g nine cabinet ap- :aunced by the De- in summary form - of cabled advices ‘Minister, to China, “a text of the De- ty has informed the at Chang Tso Lin, as Gencralixgima, er date of June 18, cary government of | ‘ which the follow. rsimo of the Army pnand ‘all army and Chinese Republic. z the existence of tion eneralissimo ‘hinese Republic in ental functions and ts which should be e of the nation un- iilitary Government et officers to assist rrying out _govern- ier of cabinet “off ows: Premier, Min- ‘fairs, Minister for Snister of the In- lustice, Minister of at _Andustry, ‘Minis- ind Labor. Jen of the general- érsigned by Premier A the affairs’ ‘of any dries shall’ tlso* ‘be ih ministers , pro- ; gnandates appoint- pbinet, offices, shall category. jzation of the’ per- of the various min- : aly: fixed. Wy $ and mandates es ra W927," ns do | gute may de py Fpecially ap- Somers One Te ee! manera ena et ne en esennrenietpe meena dpnenlie tes = fas! reports “ further | fur a mandate was | Menger service between New Mexico, and Los Angeles, is being proposed. He recalled that it takes a tail road train 12 hours toa muk> thi« ip and said that a plane wos mabe it iu only a few heures, He said that in the Allenjue ryue, ? event this reute is taken over ty private | Post (five big urate aes aa mail contuactors, the will no deubt service. Reports were confined hy Mr. Glover to the effect that the Bocing and Na- tional Air Tiansport Companics plan to inaugurate an air passenger service over the transcontinental air mail aeute fiom Department | [Coutinerd fram Doge 23 tracters for the New York-Atianta air mail aeute, for night flying. he is cont- dent this firm will fellow in the path of ‘others dn devcieping con. thet “at aviation, This reute, he cent acu ChAlion As soem us work ot * yt nuWays ie Completed. Mri Gdever ale raphe the open Nat phe seta baad Cae. tb wet p ae Datise ! portation over radread pares wit he jus- ‘tifteadd by the speed aut saving of time, San Francisco to New York City. Ne said | he ix confident the eperation of such service will be profitable. Although he said that he had no in- formation regarding the future plans of the Pitcairn. Inc., of Philadelphia, con- Quarantine Proposed Against Orange Worm Insect: Reported as Having Appeared in Grapefruit . Groves in Texas. Les (Continued from Page 1 fruit crop to be matured during the sea- son 1927-28. This would necessitate re- moving all giapefruit from the trees in its early plages. The growere. accond- ing to this plan. would be reimbursed for the Joss of thcir crop by Federal and State funds. Other representatives maintained that the pest, being a tropical one, would be killed in the natural course of events by frost and that cleanup work would be ulnecessary, In mecting this ‘new menace to ‘the fruit industries of the Southern United States, the Department will undertake to eradicate this pest, and all quarantine and control measures will be based on this idea. During_the last month the Federal Horticultural Board of the De- partment, in cooperation with the Texas authorities, has entirély cleaned up all hangover grapefiuit and “destroyed it. The same measures were taken on the Mexican side of the valley opposite Brownsville under the most praiseworthy cooperation of the -citizens.. and local Mexican authorities. ’ During the’ last month two Department’ entomologists have been studving the situation in the Brownsville region and are now in Mex- ico to get additional data on fruit fly biology and distribution as a basis for the determination of eradication proced- ure. On the bacis of the ‘gformation brought out at tht hearing 4 all other data’ available, the Federal ,.vrticulteral Board will make ils recommendations to the Secretary at an carly dat as to quar- antine and ‘control measu - The value of the grape industry to the people of the Rio Grande Yalley sae ; riding.” ‘ al Boow aed, | po) Oe that othe gastatuen ene-thad higher than le estinvated would he about tnihoud sates, Commericial avintien, retarded by the fat that the pusht erally has been frightened? ba trose avia- Pturs the duo “air-stun.” ara “a Whea this phese of av passed, Mr. cariying will come te stay. . are oie ‘ + wis presented by R. B. CO reager, a banker Tes. Four hundred thou. sand acres in the valley. now under irri- gition, are potential grapefruit orchards, Sixty thousand acres are new in citrus trees, 3.500 of which were in bearing this | seasen, The estimated production of these trees is 1330 carloads of grape- fruit annually. ~The production was val- ved at ST0U per acre. or S38.000,000 for the existing acreage, Inspection to Be Made Of Reclamation W ork’! Secretary W ork Alxo to Visit Land Offices and Indian Tnstitutions, The Secretary of the Interior, Dr. Hubert, Work. stated orally on June 2b that he would leave W ashingten about the, middle of July for his annual inxpee- tiot tour of western reclamation projects, Indian institutions, land offices, Geologi- cal Survey stations, and uther outposts of the Department, Ne expects ic be gone about six weeks. Dr. Work said that he would confine his trip to the States west of Chicago, nevth of Karsas and cast of Idaho, and that he probably would meet with his advisory committce on the Colorado River situation in, Denver on July 15. During the tour, Dr. Work ‘said, he will visit at some of the land grant colleges, in connection with the two- year sutvey of those institutions which will be begun by the Bureau of Fau- cation on July 1.. a Colombia Reduces Dulie _ On Certain Foodstu., aes hs The rates of Tapert Guty oon erntyls foodstutis have been aedned byt a Colombian deerce effective June 10 £ 3r gross kilo), states a cable from mercial Attache Willian: Beaz, at R- ce { | t far ery he sah has been | ewe, sion ig: Glover saith air passenger: | | | tab ete ate eee A en RR Ree een eee oe “T1b) ops "tap DV. Sellers Named to Command Special Squadron Selected as Successor to Rear Julian LL. Latimer. “Admira * War Record ds Given Commanded Rattle ship “Wi. . consin” and Alea) “Frans. port Agcomeiinon.? ‘ Sejectis 4 , . PUL S NA ha, Taatime Service Si June 21 b- Curtis D. WwW te Seog Admiral ter Ses retin s Matbip + eXplaincd, “Aad req ested te he relieved fon: : atart of the Special > of his con. in Nicaragua, Gar of his daughter. Loura, whe is in Pan- ama. He is normally cue for a change of assign: ent. having served about two or in his Peesent command, it was Saic Mi alse ses ferces erietis iiness tathe _ Selected For Promotion, The § Sect! ion Ruard of the Navy, Sec- retary Wilbur said, has selected Cép tain Sellers for promotion to the rank of rear. . admiral, which promotion, before it be- comes cifective, ‘must be approved by President Coolidge. : The full text of a statement relating to Captain Sellers’ record, made public by the Department of the Navy, follows: Captain Sellers was born in Austin, Tex., in 1874, and appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Texas in _ 18480, _He was appointed a captain in... $18. During the World War Capiain Sellers : commanded the battleship “Wisconsin” and the transport “Agamemnon. "In .- 1919 he served on duty in the Office of : Na¥al Operations and later served on the ~ staff of the President of the Xaval War College.” In'1920 Captain SeNers served in the Burcau of Navigation and in 1921 | he was selected as the aide to the Sere." tary of the Navy. _After serving as aide. to the ‘Secretary ~ of the Navy, Captain Sellers was placed . in command of the new naval training ~ station at San Diego, Calif. At present ~ he is Chief of Staff of the Commander a “of the Scouting Fleet. 2.5: ry pe enn | se just made public by the Department of ~ Commerce, The, reductions pre Jisted as folluws:., ae Rice (item. $2), from “0.04 to 0.01 peso: wheat (item 43), from 0.03 to 0.01 peso; beana, (item 41), from 0.04 to 0.01 peso; sugar (item 35). crude. fr8m 008 tp 0.93 peso; sugar (item 35) refined, 0.12 to 0.05 pero: what flour Cig teem 6.08 to 0.04 pesos salt meat (item 17), - from 0.10 to 0.05 peso; af item 24 36), from 0.03 peso to free list; pore lard (item 25). from 0.10 te 0.02 at BRED, | (item 25), from 0.10 te, 0.02 pes. 5 = me iN ‘ome at . She ce tee — , Re. a