Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1929, Page 4

l 4 " | - KELLOGE T0 SPEAK ! AT GEORGETOWN | Special Exercises to Be Held '+ Tonight Commemorating ' Foreign Service School. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg . will make the principal address at the special academic exercises to be held by Georgetown University tonight at '8:30 o'clock in Gaston Hall, honoring the tenth anniversary of the founding of its School of Foreign Service. A distinguished gathering of diplo- mats, officials of the Federal and Dis- trict Governments and prominent edu- cators will be the guests of Dr. W Coleman Nevils, 8. J., president of the | university. on’ the occasion, which marks | the completion of a decade in pioneer work of training for the foreign service rofession. In recognition of Secretary ellogg's outstanding success in the advancement of the cause of interna- tional peace and understanding, the | university will confer upon him the honorary degree of doctor of laws. A similar honor will be bestowed upon Dr. William F. Notz, dean of foreign service, | for his services in developing the work | of the school. Dr. Nevils, who formerly was regent | of the Foreign Service School during a previous term at Georgetown, will ex- tend felicitations to the youngest de- rtment of the university, which now grown to be one of the largest, Dr. Edmund A. Walsh, S. J,, regent of the school; Dr. James Brown Scott, chairman of its graduate committee, and the deans of the various departments of the university also will make brief addresses. In honor of the occasion, the School of Foreign Service has announced eight prizes and medals which will be award- ed to the winners at the June com- mencement. These are: ‘The Taraknath Das gold medal for the best essay on trade possibilities b.- | tween the United States and India, founded by Taraknath Das, an alumnus | of the school. ‘The Miguel Cruchaga gold and silver medals, founded by former Ambassador Cruchaga of Chile and renewed this Year by Senor Benjamin Cohen, for the > t papers on Chilean-American rela- ons. ‘The Pamilla Clarke prize in French, founded by Mrs. Pamilla Clarke of South Pasadena, Callf., for competition by the graduating class. ‘The William F. Notz gold medal for proficiency in economics, awarded by Alpha Chapter of the Delta Phi Epsilon Fraternity. ‘The W. Coleman Nevils gold and sil- ver medals, founded by a friend of the school, for the highest records in the c!o‘\:ze' on foreign relations of the United ‘The Delta Sigma Pi gold scholarship key, founded by Nu_ Chapter, to the senior attaining the highest scholastic standing throughout the four-year course. ‘The Kappa Alpha Phi prize, founded by Alpha Chapter, for the best paper on commercial policies and treaties. The Edmund A. Walsh gold medal, founded by Delta Phi Epsilon, for the highest average in international law. - AIDING HOME. OWNERS IN CONSERVING COAL M. and M. Association Unit Will Establish Furnace-Cleaning Serv- ice to Promote Heat Production. A furnace-cleaning service will be in- augurated here shortly on a cost as an aid to coal consumers by the coal division of the Merchants and Manu- facturers’ Assoclation, it was announced today by James E. Colliflower, chairman of the division. ‘To assist users of coal for household heating to get greater efficiency from each ton of coal, coal dealers have de- cided to organize a Furnace Vacuum Cleaning Service, Inc., a non-profit bureau, which will, upon application by consumers, provide an expert to clean soot and dust from home heating plants. An assessment sufficient 1o cover the cost of the operation of service would be made, it is announced. An automobile and vacuum appliances are to be provided by the bureau. Joseph Murphy has been named pres- ! ident of the service bureau, Fenton Fadeley, vice president, and Edward D. Bhaw secretary. DR. DURANT TO LECTURE HERE AGAIN THURSDAY “Ys Progress a Delusion?” Will Be Subject of Noted Author. Wasl n will have another oppor- | tunity to hear Dr. Will Durant, author of “The Story of Philosophy,” this week. In conjunction with the eighth event offered by the Community Institute of ‘Washington, Dr. Durant will be heard in the auditorium of Central Commun- ity Center Thursday evening at 8:15 o'clock. “Is Progress a Delusion?” will be_his topic. Dr. Durant, who became famous while teaching at Columbia University, has spoken under direction of the bureau of lectures of the New York Board of Education, Kansas City University Ex- tension, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, as well as in Cleveland, Chi- cago, Boston, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Dallas and other leading Amer- ican communities. ‘The two remaining events in this sea- son’s institute course are: Dr. Harlow Shapley's address March 6 and Thorn- ton Wilder's address March 27. Tickets may be procured at the Wil- lard newsstand and at the headquarters oll the American Automobile Associa- | tion. LEGION GROUPS TO HOLD | RALLY MEETING TONIGHT | Bession Scheduled to Start at 8 P.M. in Memorial Conti- nental Hall, A rally meeting of the American Legion, American Legion Auxiliary and their friends, will be held tonight at & o'clock in Memorial Continental Hall, Seventeenth and D streets. Depart- ment Commander Harlan Wood today invited all veterans of the World War who are eligible to membership in the legion to attend. A program with speak- | Boston and charged ALIENS INTO U. S. Smuggling This is the seventh article of a series of twelve on the international smugglers’ rings which have unloaded 1.300,000 alien wunde- sirables on the United States since the 1924 quota law closed the gates. BY NORMAN KLEIN. ‘The “underground railroad” runs be- | tween Montreal and Chinatown—Bos-~ |ton, New York and Newark. Over this whisper of a highway travel hundreds of contraband Chinese. They could travel at greater comfort and more cheaply on a Canadian National express train. But they use the under- ground because they're furtive, un- wanted allens, smuggled by border- {:xmdpmg syndicates at $250 to $1,000 a ead. Aside from the Chinese, who are so wild to get into the United States, they sell themselves into bondage for years | to repay the smugglers, thousands of Germans, Poles, Russian, British and Italians crash the back gate into New | England annually, immigration authori- | ties say. Smugglers, oftentimes alliens who themselves once were border jumpers, have many ingenious ruses for defying the quota law. Forty foreigners, according to the police at Hamiltor, Ontario, paid con- siderable sums to one Louis Michnie- wicki to ride acress the border in this smuggler's coffins. The immigrants paid $200, $300 and $500—according to how much they had in their money belts—and climbed into coffins equipped Wwith air vents for living occupants. Then the coffins were shipped by express to various towns across the United States border. Charges Are Robbed. The foreigners were somewhat wrinkled and quite hungry when they were taken out of their coffin com- partments, usually in some rear room of a foreign quarter tenement, but they were in America and that was the chief thing. Convicted on & smuggling charge, Michniewicki was sentenced to six months in prison. His fellow conspira- tors ‘got away. Some of the wildest attempts to jump the border take place up in Vermont and Northern New York, Two Schenec- tady, N. Y., men loaded three Czecho- slovakians in their automobile one night and dashed over the country road. But two border patrolmen on motor cycles gave them a hot chase and ran the car down at Hyde Park, Vt. ‘The three aliens told a story of ex- tortion and mistreatment. That is nothing new to the immigration men on the Canadian border. They hear almost every week of scoundrelly treat- ment of smuggled aliens. Sometimes these foreigners are led to the border. They have already paid hundreds of dollars to their guides. But that isn't enough. ‘The smugglers present revolvers, re- lieve the Europeans of all they have, and then abandon them. The immi- gration patrols find them stumbling about in the woods. Last Summer there were desertions by the score from foreign merchant ships docking at Montreal. d stowaways, according to the Shipping Federation, cleared out of Italian, Jugo- slavian and Grek vessels, and stam- md southward across the American er. One Big Ring Smashed. Four stowaways in an Italian freighter were smoked out of the ship during fumigation and Italian police were put on the trail of leaders of a smuggling ing. On the first of the year immigration officlals in New York felt the Canadian police authorities had at last smashed the greatest passport-forging and alien- smuggling ring ever operated. One| alleged rone was arrested, accused of bring in 35,000 Italian peasants on illegal pasports and “selling” them to farmers at $10 a head, as well as taking large fees from the immigrants. Crews and officers of coastal sieam- ships have been accused of bringing allens from Canada into United States ports. Three officers and six seamen of & British steamship were arrested in with smuggling 15 aliens. ‘The arrests follo in- formation from Stamford, Conn., and Jersey City that three taxicab loads of Chinese and Spaniards had been overhauled by police. Back in 1924, when the quota law theoretically padlocked the gates to millions of Europeans, there was a syn- dicate of taxi men in Montreal who openly advertised along the river front that they would take allens over the border. They did, Indeed, bring hun- dreds into the United States from Rouses Point to Ogdensburg, allowing the ailens to work their way as best they could down through New York State to Manhattan and New Jersey. Canada s Sieve for Aliens. Rum runners, too, did a flourishing business, bringing aliens at a price of $10 to $200 along with their contraband Scotch. In one year, Canadian govern- ment records show that during six months more than 160,000 immigrants arrived from Europe, but a check-up revealed that thousands of this num- ber were mysteriously . missing inside two months. It was no mystery, however, to Amer- ican immigration men. Canada, they say, is a sieve through which unde- sirables from Europe sift across the in- ternational boundary. A few years ago there was no sys- tem of “protected territories” in the “bohunk racket,” and the attorney gen- eral's office at Ottawa was compelled to investigate the deaths of men drowned in the St. Lawrence and Detroit Rivers during fights between rival alien-smug- gling gangs. Another route into the United Sjates, across the Niagara River, has let many illegal aliens slip across. Smugglers located in Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal and St. Catherines have their charges over the Niagara routes, fre- quently fooling the 25 men of the bor- der patrol in that region. Three years ago it was estimated that 20,000 aliens entered the United States clandestinely across Niagara. Foreigners are ferried across the Ni- agara in rowboats and carried &s pas- sengers on automobiles across the in- ternational bridge. Before the border jump is made the smugglers “Ameri- canize” the newcomers with feather- edge haircuts and snappy college clothes Immigration inspectors at Buffalo once learned that a railroad detective was helping aliens come through in freight cars. His price was $35 a man. In Winter, when the river freezes be-! low the cataract, there is an ice bridge THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON: D. C: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18 1929. “UNDERGROUND RAILWAY" RUNS BY HARD ROUTE Many Ruses Adopted for Defying Quota Law—Clients Often Robbed by Syndicates. and Vermont are constantly warring on smugglers’ parties. Sometimes there is a fight. Gilbert Carter, village con- stable at Youngstown, N. Y., was shot by alien smugglers while he was patrol- ing the banks of the lower Niagara River. A member of a smuggler gang waiting for a boatload of allens saw Carter, a special immigration officer, creeping forward in the darkness and shot him five times. For a while airplanes were used to carry foreigners across the Canadian border. It has proved unprofitable. An airplane advertises its presence too much, the smugglers decided. Villagers seemed too curlous about planes com- ing down in their neighborhood. Nowadays, the smugglers’ rings prefer to lead the allens to farmhouses on the Canadian side, then herd them across the border under cover of night. Easily deluded, these new arrivals from Europe are frequently victimized. Canadian mounted police rounded up 200 Sicilians near Mill Cove, 40 miles southwest of Halifax, on September 13. 1928 The Sicilians, through in- terpreters, said they had paid from 2,000 to 10,000 lire each to be brought by an Italian ship to America. ‘When the ship reached Mill Cove from Italy the captain cast anchcr and summoned the smuggled passengers. “It has been a successful trip,” he said to them. “We have arrived. Take your bags now and go ashore. It is only 3 miles to the United States. Ab:hurt walk and you will find fine jobs.” ‘They walked instead into the mount- ed police One of the tricks on the Canadian border is for smugglers to pretend they are agents for church and charitable organizations devoted to the fate of immigrants. They meet the new ar- rivals at Montreal and whisper direc- tions for taking secret overland routes into the United States, where other agents meet them and lead them to New York. One Clergyman Accused. The pastor of a Ukrainian church was arrested at Rouses Point, N. Y., ac- cused of being the representative of & Montreal smuggler who had been ex- pediting aliens for many months across the border for $100 to $1,000 a man. Said a Canadian immigration in- spector at the Canadian border: “With 10 guards, Awo railroads and 20 highways in this district any smuggler who lets himself be caught should never leave home without a guardian.” No wonder smugglers’ syndicates, with offices in many citles both in North America and in Europe, do a business of $7,500,000 to $10,000,000 annually, ac- cording to the estimates of Govern- ment immigration authorities. High profits—cash profits—explains why smuggling of aliens from Canada into the United States provides a lucra- tive but precarious occupation for some hundreds of Canadian and United States citizens who reside near the in- ternational boundary. The business is most flourishing in the neighborhood of Windsor and Detroit, the populous districts on both sides of the line, making it easier for aliens to be slipped across, but the New Eng- land route still is good. Many pass into the United States mingling with the crowds of regular daily travelers. Others, who frequently are lald by the heels sooner or later, enter as tourists and remain. Their difficulty arises when they desir¢, at some later and more Pmspemus ‘Phase of their careers, to leave the United States on a visit either to Canada or Europe. ‘They cannot return. They have no United States citizen- ship papers to show, nor have they any permit to enter or even & vise from the cconsul of their own nation in the United States. To re-enter they must be smuggled across again, and it is this re-smug- gling which is today one of the most profitable businesses of alien smugglers, Many of the people desiring to be re-smuggled into the United States have become wealthy in the course of years since they first illegally entered it. Re-Smugglldg Is Profitable. ‘They have established homes and reared families, but if by any reason they have to visit another country, they know that they are risking home, wealth and happiness, and so are will- ing to pay large sums to be safely admitted into the United States again. Fast motor launches, such as are used in smuggling liquor, are also employed in smuggling aliens across the Great Lakes. To a lesser extent boats are employed on Lake Champlain. Many more ingenious devices are also in use but the automobile conveys more aliens into the States than either trains or boats. Recently, in the Niagara district, it was found that aliens were being con- veyed across the river in the iron cage which travels across the gorge on an overhead wire. This was being done in the dead of night. Near Trout River and Rock Island there are houses which are so exactly on the boundary line ti some rooms are in the United States, some in the Dominion. Suspicions of immigration and cus- toms officers are often directed to such houses, but never yet have they been Jjustified by arrests. ‘The most recent incident in which one of these houses figured was at Trout River, where a Canadian farmer named Knight was arrested when, as he claimed, he was in Canadian territory. He had just left the boundary house by the Canadia door, and when he was arrested by American officers was cling- Joseph T. Fi Philadelphia, —"Without ' the Without cost MELVILLEE. STONE RITES HELD TODAY Pallbearers Are Men Who Worked With Associated Press Manager. By the Associated Press. - NEW YORK, February 18.—Funeral services for Melville E. Stone, counselor | and formerly general manager of the Associated Press, were held this after- noon. ‘The services were conducted by Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick at the Park Avenue Baptist Church. Burial will be private. The pallbearers were chosen largely from men who were employes of the Associated Press while Mr. Stone was general manager. Most of them still are in service. They are: J. R. Youatt, Joseph J. Jones, M. F. oran, Arthur S. Thompson, Jackson 8. Elliott, Frederick Roy Martin, Charles . Boynton, Charles Stephenson Smith, W. J.” McCambridge, Byron Price, Dr. Oscar Watson and J. A. Bates. From every point throughout the world have come expressions of sorrow at the death of Mr. Stone and warm tributes to his personality and his Jjournalistic genius, Men of public affairs, including Presi- dent Coolidge, President-elect Hoover and others, have sent messages of con- dolence to the family, News stories and editorials have been printed in the newspapers of Europe, Asia and Africa. Figures prominent in world politics and | diplomatic circles have joined in deplor- ing his death as an irreparable loss to American journalism. Col. E. M. House said Mr. Stone was “America’s greatest unofficial statesman.” POLAND HONORS MEMORY OF MELVILLE E. STONE Newspapers Remind People of His Fair Attitude During War ‘With Bolshevists. By the Assoclated Press. WARSAW, February 18 —Foreign Minister August Zaleski yesterday said: “I am deeply touched by the passing away of Poland'’s true friend, Melville E. Stone, He was awarded the high order of Polonia Restituta for his keen sense of fair play demonstrated during the long years that he remained general manager of the Associated Press. I ex- press my most sincere condolence.” Zozislaw Dembicki, president of the Union of Polish Press Syndicates, said: “I was deeply moved by news of the death of Melville Stone. The Union of Syndicates of Polish Journalists sends sincerest condolences.” All Warsaw newspapers published obituaries and reminded their readers of the fair attitude of Mr. Stone during the war with the Bolshevists. —eeeeeeeeeen ing to a post six feet on the Canadian side of the line. This case may become a cause celebre, as it was further complicated by the refusal of the American immigration officers to permit Knight, after he was released on bail and had returned to Canada, to re-enter the United States, although he was commanded to do so to face trial. In the end this prohibition was overcome after reference to Wash- ington. Knight was accused of having smug- gled allens across the border. In fact, the tmmigration officers charged that this was his principal occupation. It occasionally happens that Montreal taxi drivers are paid large sums to cross the border with aliens. The taxi drivers are not looking for trouble—and the allens find themselves held up shortly after crossing the border. Carelessness Traps Many. Allens who have entered the United States illegally often give themselves away by their carelessness after getting across the border. They overlook the fact that there are immigration officers and immigration stations inland. Their enthusiasm over their successful entry often leads them to abandon pre- cattions to soon. 8o they fall into traps by being too confiding with new acquaintances. ‘There are many instances known to the Montreal officers of the United States | Immigration Service of aliens having | been trapped in Plattsburgh, St. Albans and other New York and Vermont points. ‘The worst feature of this alien traf- fic via Canada, immigration men say, | is the conspiring of relatives in Amer- fcan cities. They are the ones who induce kinfolk in Europe to make the back-gate pilgrimage. They are often the ones who finance the journey and who pay the smugglers’ agents. You'll find these agents in just about every foreign district in New York, Jersey City, Boston, Philadelphia and other cities. They pose as bankers, as travel representatives, as labor agents. ‘The border, patrol, occupied on the frontier, has its hands full without prosecuting these back-of-the-line con- | spirators. In article No. 8 tomorrow Mr. Klein tells of the 10,000 35,000 aliens plot- ting in Cuba to slip into the United States, and how smugglers prey on them, throwing them overboard, if necessary, when pursued by the Coast As soon as you notice throat inflammation, irri- ion or difficulty ing, take Tonsiline —the safe, depen sore throat remedy. At druggists, 35c and 60c. Hospital size $1.00. Sore Sore Throat Remedy ToNlelNE The National Earn $2,500 to $10,000 a Year in America’s 3rd Largest Industry! HOTE!S. Clubs, Apartments, In- stitutions, Schools, Colleges, Tea Rooms, Restaurants, Cafeterias are daily calling for Lewis-trained men and women. Over 70,000 high- class positions paying $10,000 open annually in We Put ;l::flin Touch With Positions $2,500 to hotels Let us show YOU how big pay. H STONE IS PAID TRIBUTE FOR UNTIRING EFFORTS London Times Eulogizes Associated Press Manager for Uplift of Journalism. By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 18—In a long eulogistic obituary of Melvine E. Stone today, the Times dwells on “his untiring efforts and rare gifts of organization with which he built up an unrivaled news-gathering organization that ex- tended into every corner of the world. ...+ Ina country where pournalism at times curate, the Associated Press under Stone acquired a regumflm\ for exact and truthful news. wholly unblased and uncolored by prejudice or partisanship. “Mr. Stone was one of those—and they are very few—who seem gifted with an extra sense, sometimes ex- pressed as ‘a nose for news.’ No event ever seemed to take him by surprise. He was always prepared, ready for every emergency. “The fullness and accuracy of the service collected and supplied by Mr. Stone and his fellow workers practically ended the old days of ‘scoops’; the As- sociated Press covered everything and it came to be trusted from experience. “His volume of reminiscences, a charming work, reveals a man true and kindly, eminently interested in his work and his duty, which he always sought to | fulfill to the utmost of his capacity, | anxious to perform it well and fittingly and to maintain the highest standards of his profession—which are truth and accuracy.” WANG MOURNS LOSS. Chinese Nationalist Official Pays | Tribute to Stone. NANKING, February 18 (#)—For- eign Minister C. T. Wang of the Na- tionalist government, in commenting on the death of Melville E. Stone, said: “Mr. Stone's work in building up a world-widé organization for the col- lection and dissemination of impartial news reports has long been recognized and constitutes a great force for world unity and international peace. “Mr. Stone was internationally recog- nized as an outstanding figure of journalism whose service was long known in China. T am sorry to see the passing of a man who has played such & great role in building up one of the world's greatest press associations. King Alexander Expresses Grief. BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, February 18 () —King Alexander yesterday said: “I have learned with keen and sincere regret of the death of the world-famous American journalist Melville E. Stone. His untimely ing leaves an unfill- able gap in the ranks of the veteran journalists who have built up the great traditions of the Associated Press.” More American automobiles are being sold in Belgium than at any time in the past three years. 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O'Con~ nor, publisher and so-called Father of |the House of Commons, contributed | nearly a column to the Telegraph to- day of reminiscences of Melville E.| | Stone drawn from his personal ac- | quaintance and other sources. | “If ever there were a born journalist,” | writes Mr. O*Connor, “it was he, To se- |lect between the true news and the | false, the news with honest or dishon- | est intention, required the keenest dis- crimination and the firmest will. No- body ever dared to question his impec- | cable integrity or to whisper a word of “susplclon against Melville Stone and his organization. His death has made the | world less bright.” | Other papers today devoted consid- | erable space to biographies of Mr. Stone. | Lord Riddeli, English journalist, said today: i “I deeply regret the death of my old |and valued friend. He was much be- | loved here and will long be remembered for his outstanding ability and kindly | ways. He was one of the greatest news gatherers of this or any other age and | a notable example for all journalists.” JOINT MEETIi\IG PLANNED. | Karl Bloomingdale to Address Ad Club and Soroptimists. | A joint meeting of the Advertising | Club and the Soroptimists Club will be addressed at 12:30 o'clock tommorrow by Karl Bloomingdale. Philadelphia advertising man, in the National Press Club ballroom. Mr. Bloomingdale's subject will be, “Little Chats With | Actors and Actressess.” Norman C. Kal, past president of the Advertising Club, is chairman of the committee in charge. The enter- tainment program will feature Miss Esther Melick, soprano, accompanied by Sam Holland. PET TERRIER MISSING. Injured Woman in Hospital Asks Dog Be Located. Mrs. Etta Brown, 1427 Thirty-fourth street, 0 was injured by an auto- mobile while waiting for a street car Saturday night at Wisconsin and Massachusetts avenue, has asked police to find her pet terrier, Cricket, who dis- appeared at the time of the accident. A request for the terries was made by Mrs_ Brown upon her arrival at Georgetown University Hospital, where she was treated for shock. a charge account at Sol It is merely an added fea- ut the right kinds of paints, stains and other fin- ishes—also to provide them at the right prices. Dupont Duco for Autos and Furniture “Barreled Sunlight” WINDOW, PLATE & AUTO GLASS CUT TO ORDER HUGH REILLY CO. PAINTS & GLASS 1334 New York Ave.—Phone Main 1703 WARDMAN PARK HOTEL Unrnouncar QrINNOVAITION New~/omething Novel inner and Jpper Dances AUSTRIAN CHANCELLOR GRIEVED BY STONE DEATH “Champion of Free Press” Regard- ed as Wise Statesman, Friend of All Nations, By the Associated Press. VIENNA, February 18.—Chancellor Ignaz Seipel, who made the acquaint- ance of Melville E. Stone when, as monsignor, he attended the Eucharistic Congress in Chicago, was deeply moved yesterday on learning of the death of the dean of American jour- nalism. “The death of this great champion of a free, untrammeled press and foe of censorships and political bias.” he said, “is a loss, not only to Ameri:a, but to the world. Austrians recall with gratitude the efforts of Melville Stone to make known to the world through the Assoclated Press this country’s great suffering during the terrible famine period. Not only was Mr. Stone an eminent and brilliant Journalist, but he was a wise statesman, whose death all nations of the world who numbered him as their trusted friend will deeply mourn. I express to his family and to the board of di- rectors of the Assoclated Press my sin- cere condolences.” Indiana Banker Kills Self. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., February 18 (#).—James S. Royse, sr., 56, president of the Terre Haute Trust Co., commit- ted suicide yésterday by shooting him- self through the head with a revolver. Financial worrles and ill health are understood to have prompted the act. ‘The suicide occurred while Mr. Royse was seated in his automobile on a side road near his suburban residence. HELLO, FOLKS: “pi WARM TRIBUTE PAID STONE BY COL. HOUSE “America Has Lost Her Greatest Unofficial Statesman,” He Declares in Eulogy. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 18.—Messages of condolence from world figures con- tinued to pour in to the family of Mel- ville E. Stone, counselor a&nd retired general manager of the Associated Press. Among the messages received today by Mrs. Stone was one from Col. E. M. House, confidant and adviser to Presi- dent Woodrow Wilson. It sald: “My sympathy goes to you and your daughter today in full measure. You are bereft of a husband and a father— America has lost her greatest unofficial statesman. He had no peer in the sphere of his influence, an influence as wide as the written wora. Until some one worthy of the task tells of his many Eubllc services this world can never now-how vital they were. Able, honest and courageous, he leaves his family and friends the priceless heritage of an un- sullied name.” ) John Stewart Bryan, publisher of the Richmond News-Leader, sent the fol- lowing message: “The death of Melville E. Stone is a rsonal loss to me as to many. I first eard him speak at the University of Virginia in the nineties on duties, ideals and power of the press. Those ideals he translated into action. Though he no longer lives the great fleld of news- gr'per publishing is eternally greater for luence.” 2—The Budget Boys and back on WMAL_Wednesda: PM. 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