Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1929, Page 18

B00K O ESSAY | GNENTO PTAK {Librarian of COngfess Is Honored ‘on Thirtieth Anniversary. Dr. Herbert Putnam, librarian of , Friday was presented a lume containing original essays by 61 contributors written in honor of his thirtieth anniversary as head of the Rational library, The presentation was made by Dr. ‘Warner Bishop, librarien of University of Michigan. The vo):fn was edited by Dr. Bishop jo:}u‘g th Dr. Andrew Keogh, librarian ale, Dr. Putnam also recelved a check for $1,000 for the purchase of rare musical autographs or editions from the recently organized “Friends of Music in the Library of Congress,” of which Nicholas Longworth, Speaker of the House, is president. Essay by Senator Fess. Senator Fess, chairman of the joint, committee on the Library of Congress, is the author of the first essay in the wolume, and writes on “The Library.” {Senator Burton and Senator Gillett ifollow, each with an essay . entitled “Herbert Putnam.” Miss Gratia A. Countryman, lbrarian of the Minne- apolis Public Library, writes on “Mr. Putnam and the Minneapolis Public Library”: Charles F. D. Belden, director fof the Boston Public Library, on “The {Library Service of Herbert Putnam in iBoston”; Richard R. Bowker, editor of he Library Journal, on “The Appoint- fment of Herbert Putnam as Librarian jof Congress”; Melvil Dewey, on “Herbert {Putnam”, and Dr. Willlam Warner /Bishop, who before he became librarian of the University of Michigan was perintendent of the reading room of he Library of Congress, on “Thirty kem of the Library of Congress, 1899 1929." Jusserand Among Others. Then follow other contributors in broad, M. Jean Jules Jussérand, for- erly Ambassador of France to the {United States; Sir Frederick G. Kenyon, idirector of the British Museum; A ugo A. Kruess, general director of the ian State Library; M. Plerre Roland-Marcel, administrator general fof the National Library of France; T. P. iSevensma, librarian of the League of INations, and Mgr. Eugene Tisserant of the library of the Vatican. | Maps accompany two of the essays #nd there are also in the, volume five ‘g‘ raits of Dr. Putnam. One is from o El:-mum order, among_ them, from | in; album of the class of 1883, Harvard llege; three are dated respectively, 1898, 1900 and 1912, The frontisplece §,8 Eometien of # RO U Laura Gilpin of & . Putnam, executed &o 1923 by his &ghte\', Miss Brenda Putnam, who at the presentation. Gl return the latter part of next wh. “You boys will never regret this,” Smith quoted Brill as say- m’. The uncle, hat amassed a fortune, died March 3. * PLANE FAILS IN HUNT FOR SOUTHERN CROSS Craft Returns Without Trace of Missing Airmen, Lost in Australian Bush. - By the Associated Press. SYDNEY, New South Wales, April 6.—The airplane chartered by the Syd- ney Sun, which departed early today to search & 30-mile-wide coastal area north of Wyndham, Western Australia, and investigate smoke signals reported seen there, returned tonight to Wynd- ham without havi found a trace of the lost airmen of the Southern Cross. A number of bush fires along the coast, which presumably had given rise to rumors that Capt. Charles Kings- ford-Smith and his three companions were sen'g{‘n‘ up smoke signals, were vestigated, A supply of tobacco was dropped to aborigines in the vicinty of Thurburn Bluff, where it had been hoped that Capt. Kingsford - Smith would be found, to induce them to remain in the neighborhood. Later, a message was dropped in & bottle near a government launch Which was searching the coast to ask the crew to question the aborig- ines for possible information. The search will be continued to- morrow in the area of the Forest and Drysdale Missions. . 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