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\ 2 W - RUMBUYING BAN GRUNDY DEFENDS [MODEL ARBORETUM PROPOSED IN'D. C. IS FORUM SUBJECT Senator Sheppard to Discuss Measure He Is Spo.nsoring Over Air Tomorrow. Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, author of theeighteenth amendment to the Constitution, will discuss his pro- posal that the national dry law be amended so to make the purchaser of liquor guilty of violating the law along with ‘he bootlegger who sells it, in the National Radio Forum, arranged by The Evening Star and sponsored by the Co- lumbia Broadcasting System at 10:30 p.m. tomorrow. Senator Sheppard has already pre- pared and introduced a bill making purchasers of liquor guilty of violating the dry law and punishable, He in- tends to press this measure for action in the regular secsion of Congress, which opens in December. It is his con- tention that if prohibition is a wise measure—and he believes it is—and 1f it is to be enforced the law must reach the men who purchase illegal liquor as well as those who sell it. The bootleggers sell the greater part of their supplies to citizens who are regarded as stable, law-abiding men, and if these men were convinced that they stood in danger of being arrested as law violators they would cease pur- chasing liquor from bootleggers in most cases, Senator Sheppard believes, and the bootleggers’ trade would diminish rapidly. Senator Sheppard has been long a member of the Senate and before that he served in the House of Representa- tives. He early achieved a reputation as an orator. He is an eloquent and convincing speaker. Senator Harry B. Hawes of Missouri, who is strongly opposed to the bill in- troduced by Senator Sheppard to make purchasers guilty of law violation, will deliver an address giving his views of the question involved in the National Radio Forum on Thursday night, No- vember 7, at 10:30 o'clock. T. B. SARGEANT DIES AT VIRGINIA HOME Retired Real Estate Broker Was Lifelong Resident of Wash- ington. Thaddeus Bell Sargeant, 54 years old, of 3624 Park place, a real estate broker for more than 25 years before retiring two years ago because of {liness, died last night at his country home at Clarendon, Va. He was the son of the late Judge Leonard and Julia A. Sargeant, and was a lifelong resident of this city, being born here on January 10, 1875. His father was a Missouri probate court judge for a number of years, while his mother was the daughter of Assistant Secretary of Interior Bell, who served in that capacity during President Gar- fleld’s administration. Mr. Sargeant was actively identified in Masonry for 33 years, and was a member of Washington Centennial Lodge, No. 14, A. F. & A. M.; Mount Vernon Chapter, No. 3, Royal Arch Masons; Almas Temple of the Mystic Shrine _and Columbia. Commandery, No. 2, Knights Templar. In addition he held membership in the District of Columbia Chapter, Sons of the Ameri- can Revolution. He was the husband of the late Frances Page Sargeant and is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Sprtgg‘mdu; two sons, John Pape and Richard Page Sargeant, and one brother, Leonard Sargeant, jr., all of this city. Funera] services will be held at the residence Friday, with Rev. Dr. C. E. Hawthorne of ‘the Wallace Memorial Church conducting, and interment will in Rock Creek Cemetery, with Masonic honors. The hour of the funeral has not been set. —e WOMAN AND GIRL HURT IN ACCIDENTS Four Persons Injured in Series of Traffic Mishaps in City. Tinna Deresette, 35 years old, of 2400 Nineteenth street, was treated at the office of Dr. James A. Gannon, at 1905 Biltmore street, last night for in- uries suffered when run down at Con- necticut and Cathedral avenues by an automobile operated by William Styler Offutt of 3937 Livingston street. Harrison L. Gray, 20 years old, col- ored, of 1745 Kalorama road, Was treafed at Emergency Hospital yester- day for shock and possible fracture of several ribs, suffered when the truck he was driving collided at Nineteenth street and Dupont Circle with an auto- mobile operated by Delmar R. Lambert, 20-year-old employe of Bolling Field, Samuel 8. Wilmer, 50 years old, col- ored, living at 1501 R street, was slightly injured when run down at Fif- teenth street and Massachusetts avenue by a taxicab operated by Linwood Da- vis, whose address was not learned. Wilmer was treated at Emergency Hos- ital. B Eleven-year-old Virginia Lansdale, 231 Seventeenth street southeast, suf- fered a fractured left arm yesterday when she fell from her bicycle. She was removed to Casualty Hospital. . COLORED GIRLS HELD IN $25,213 THEFT Police Question Them Concerning Money and Check Taken From Mrs. Annie La Fontaine. Two colored girls are being held by police on technical charges of investiga- tion for questioning in the theft of two $10,000 bills and a check for $5.213 from the home of Mrs. Annie La Fon- taine, 470 Maryland avenue southwest. Mrs. La Fontaine is the wife of James La Fontaine, well known in sporting circles here. 2 The robbery occurred some time be- tween the night of October 22 and 24, according to Mrs. La Fontaine, who reported the theft to headquarters de- tectives Monday. The arrests of the colored girls by Detective Carleton Tal- ley, who s assigned tJ the case, followed yesterday. Mrs. La Fontaine sald this morning that the money and check had been given to her on October 22, and that she had hid them beneath the cushion of a chair in her sitting room. She had no occasion to remove the money from its hiding place until two days later, when she discovered the robbery. Payment on the check was stopped and the size of the bills is designed to make it difficult to negotiate them, in the opinion of police. Embassy Aide Under Knife. PARIS, October 30 (#).—Earle C. SENATOR MORRIS SHEPPARD. MM, CURIE TORET MONEY FOR RADIUM President Hoover to Make Presentation in Behalf of U. S. Women. From the hands cf President Hoover, Mme, Curle, internationally famous French sclentist and chemist, will this afternoon receive a draft for $50,000 with which to purchase a gram of ra- dium. i ‘This draft, which is being given to Mme. Curie on behalf of a group of American women, in recognition of er great contributions to science by her almost ceascless experiments and researches, will be encased in silver. The presentation will be made in the auditorium of the National Academy of sciences in-the presence of & most ditsinguished company. Mr. Hoover will pay a tribute to the noted Frenchwoman in a brief speech which he will make as he‘presents her with the draft. Purchase in Belgium. It has been explained that since radium is no longer manufactured in this country the women doners decided upon the draft, which Mme. Curie can use in puschasing a gram of the preci- ous element. The purchase will be made in Belgium and the radium will be used by the sclentist in the Curie Polish Cancer Hospital and Laboratory in Warsaw. Mme. Curle, accompanied by Mrs. William Brown Meloney, —magazine editor of New York, arrived in Wash- ington at 6 o'clock last night and went directly to the White House, where she will be a house guest until her de- parture for New York tonight. No Program Planned. No pr has been arranged b, the | o, President and Mrs. Hoover for the en- tertainment of the noted guest today. She has been in ill health for som~ time and preferred to remain as it as ible. However, she accompanied Mrs. oover on an automobile ride about the city during the forenoon. At luncheon at the White House the President and Mrs. Hoover invited a few personal friends, including Secretary of Interior vm&ur and Mrs. Wilbur, to meet their visitor. A dinner party has been arranged for tonight in Mme. Curie's honor. About 30 guests have been invited. The presentation ceremonies at the National Academy of Sciences are scheduled for 4 o'clock. Dr. William H. ‘Welch of Johns Hopkins University will | preside. Mme. Curie was a guest at the White House eight years ago, on which oc- caslon she was presented with $50,000 worth of radium. The late President Harding made the presentation. SENATE RE-ELECTION IS SOUGHT BY NORRIS Nebraskan Says He Has Challenged on Basis of Principles. Been By the Assoclated P Senator George W. Norris of Ne- braska last night announced his candi- dacy on the Republican ticket for re- election next year. In lengthy statement, the veteran Nebraska independent who last year campaigned for the Democratic presi- dential noniinee, sald he had been forced to lay aside a desire to retire from public life by a challenge against hlmstell and his principles of govern- ment. Senator Norris said a “virtual al- liance” has been formed “between the Republican old gudrd standpat machine inside the State and those who control that machine from the outside,” and that Samuel R. McKelvie, former Nebraska governor and a member of President Hoover'’s Ferm Board, has been “selected” as his opponent in the Republican primary. MILK STRIKE IS ENDED BY ARBITRATION BODY Kansas City Chamber of Commerce Intervenes to Bring About Agreement on Terms, By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, October 30.—A milk strike which has been characterized by sabotage, threats and the arrest of dairymen who used vic'ence in an at- tempt to achieve their object ended here yesterday when producers and dis- tributors agreed to a compromise of- fered by a Chamber of Commerce arbi- tration committee. Regular milk deliveries to pasteuriza- tion plants at the old wholesale price began last night. For more than three weeks the milk distributors have been hauling milk to Kansas City from dis- tant points in tank cars. A production cost fact-finding inves- tigation was promised by the arbitration committee. It also was agreed that Dr. le'de Kino, milk economist from Penn- sylvania, would be invited to make a survey of the situation, An arbitration committee of nine per- sons, according to the terms of the pact, then will be named to study the results of the investigation. This committee will make price recommendations which |the warring factions have agreed to accept. Ban English in Movies. MEXICO CITY, October 30 (A)— The municipal council at Puebla 1s reported in a dispatch to El Universal to have adopted an ordrance forbla- ding the display of motion pictures with Il Taylor, assistant trade commissioner at the American embassy, was operated on today at the American hospital after o sudden attack of appen@* His condition is satisfactory. English subtities and talking pictures THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1929. EYANSON'S ACTS Pennsylvanian Debates Tariff and Politics in Clashes With Lobby Probers. (Continued From First Page.) President Harding. He admitted that there was a private wire from the Con- gress Hotel, in Chicago, to the late Sen- ator Penrose’s home, in Philadelphia, during that convention, but insisted that Senator Penrose was too ill to dis- cuss politics at that time. Senator Caraway, in the course of the questioning, asked Mr. Grundy what the members of the Pennsylvania Manu- facturers’ Association did when they went before the Pennsylvania Legisla- ture. He wanted to know whether they opposed a State tax on corporations. “Yes, partly that” admitted Mr. Grundy, “but in general we had gone there fo encourage the development or industry in the State.” Blaine Questions Grundy. Senator Blaine, who was a youn lawyer back in Wisconsin at the time Grundy first qualified as a tariff expert before congressional committees in 1897, volunteered to give the veteran Pennsylvanian a “reputation” today, and Grundy smilingly announced that he wasn’t worried aboyt his reputation. Blaine was interrogating the witness about the tariff schedules comprising structural iron and steel in connection with the use of these products in the manufacture of farm implements. He declared that under the tariff increase proposed by the Senate finance commit- tee, the increased cost of farm imple- ments would amount to $8,520,000, or a total tariff tax of $29,000,000. This, he said, despite that farm implement manufacturers virtually control the American market, and export nearly sz,o':%,ooo more goods than are im- Tt Grundy commented that structural steel and iron is on the free list, when the importer can demonstrate that it is for use in the manufacture of farm im- plements. He was asked by Blaine to furnish a table showing the amount of steel thus imported free of duty on such & declaration, “I appeal t8 you to give us that in- formation,” said Blaine. At one point in the examination Grundy described the farm relief bill as a gift to the farmers. Blaine pointed out that Congress authorized a loan of $500,000,000 to agriculture. “I think nobody expects that it wili be gotten back,” Grundy remarked. “Do you think the farmer is going around passing the hat?” Blaine asked. Senator Caraway bobbed up and ob- served “he soon will be, if you have anything to do with it.” Grundy an “Angel” to G. O. P. Characterizing Grundy as an “angel” of the Rerubllcln party, by virtue of having collected $700,000 in 32 counties in Pennsylvania for the party’s cam- Ralnn last Fall, Blaine said to Grundy e had not “any doubt” that he had a very great influence on the Republican organization. “When you put the con- tributions on the basis of investments with the understanding that the con- tributors might expect aovernmenul favors, then you are entitled to influ- e Grundy broke in: “Please don't put words in my mouth,” he said. nator Caraway faced Grundy. Officials and Tree Experts Discuss Conservation Program. ‘That the nucleus for the whole sub- ject of forestry development throughout the country lies in the establishment of a national arboretum in Washington, where the best specialists in this line of conservation and propagation can carry on extensive experiments which will be object lessons for State arbore- tums and nursurles, was stressed today by high Government officials and offi- cers of forestry and tree associations. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde and Frederick A. Delano, a member of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, discussed this phase of re- forestation work at luncheon at 1:30 o'clock in the Cosmos Club under the auspices of the American Forestry As- sociation. Hoover Hears Plans. Earlier in the day the conservation delegates had conferred with President 8 | Hoover on a national program for safe- guarding the public forests and the need of carrying on the work in con- nection with the national arboretum here was called to his attention. With the acquisition of land and establishment of a national arboretum on the outskirts of Washington, under the administration of the Department of Agriculture, already authorized by law, the Government officials pointed out that a start has been made at the Capital after many years of efforts to obtain this essential and basic outdoor laboratory. . ‘The first requigife for the arboretum is to acquire enough land in the Mount Hamilton tract along the Anacostia River on which to plant the trees for study and demonstration purposes. Work Is Well Started. This work has been well started, it was said, with 190 acres already pur- chased, 78 acres under condemnation and with the President having author- ity under the law to turn into the ar- boretum some 400 acres adjacent which are already owned or are being re- claimed by the Government. ‘The Federal budget, which goes to Congress in December, will carry rec- ommendations for approximately $85,000 to do preliminary work in plowing and planting temporary crops on the ar- boretum tract in order to get it into shape for tree-growing developments. The next important stage in the building up of a national arboretum will be for the Federal experts to carry on experiments with the planting of varfous kinds of trees. Leads in Movement. ‘The American Forestry Association and its score or more of affiliated bodies is a unit in supporting the move- ment to make the National Arboretum in Washington the largest in the country and comparable to the finest in the world. Linked as it is with the nationa: conservation program, the need of such an_experimental base under the eyes and care of trained Government spe- cialist is emphasized by the association. With the gradual acquisition of the land_near the Anacostia River, above the Benning Bridge on Mount Hamil- ton, and the activities of the National Arboretum Council, completion of the undertaking is regarded as only a mat- :1‘;1 dgl time if Congress will provide Se “Now don't discredit your testimony before the ink is dry,” he exclaimed. “What do you mean?” Grundy asked. “I mean that you have testified to substantially what the Senator is saying and there is no use discrediting it.” “I don’t think I said that,” Grundy commented. “Well, you ought to read your testi- mony,” Caraway said. “I've read it.” “Well, read it again,” the Arkansas Senator said. “You'll find it interest- ing.” ‘Wool Question Is Raised. Another item in the tariff bill about which Blaine questioned the witness was that proposing an increase on wool blapkets, that, he said, would result in an hdded cost of $16,250,000 to the con- sumer. He asked Grundy if he could justify the increase. ‘The witness replied that the proposed increase was caused by the increase in the raw wool schedule. Later, Senator Walsh, whose State produces a great amount of raw wool, took issue with Grundy on the raw wool schedule and pointed out that the pro- posed increase in raw wool carried in addition a 50 per cent ad valorem tax, Grundy previously had said that the larger part of the increase was com- pensatory. Chairman Caraway, on the suggestion of Senator Walsh, directed the com- mittee’s special investigator to address a telegram to a West Virginia pottery manufacturer, requesting him to ap- pear before the committee. The wit- ness, a Mr. Wylie, has been identified as having demanded the dismissal of Prederick L, Kosh from the tariff com- ion, because of an alleged prejudice in favor of pottery importers. Three Attack Grundy. Benators Borah, Caraway and Walsh took Grundy to task today for his char- acterization yesterday of their native States as “backward commonwealths,” and each was prepared to discredit the witness' assertion as to its progre Senator Borah pointed out that while the percentage of illiteracy in Pennsyl- vania is 4.6 per cent the percentage in Idaho is 1.5 per cent. The expense per capita for education in Pennsyl- vania $17.65, Borah said. “Would it increase your estimate of Idaho to know that the expense per capita for education is $17.28?" Borah asked. Senator Caraway and Grundy went back to the Civil War for a brief ex- change when Grundy asserted at one point that the people of Pennsylvania contributed more men and more money than many States. Senator Walsh also attacked the statements made about ‘“backward commonwealth,” but Grundy insisted that he was willing to stand on his statement, BURGLARS GET $50 WATCH AND $13 FOUNTAIN PEN Home Robbed While Owner Was Absent—Army Officer’s Uniform Stolen From Locker. A gold wrist watch, valued at $50 and a fountain pen worth $13 were reported stolen from the home of Thomas G Boles, 908 Eighth street, yesterday. Boles told police the theft was per- petrated during his absence. An Army officer’s uniform valued at $50 was reported stolen from a_ locker in the basement of 1121 New Hamp- shire avenue, entrance having been gained by forcing the lock from the door. Robert F. Davis, occupant of an : artment on the third floor, reported e theft, Police of the second precinct were told of the presence of an intruder in an apartment at 707 Rhode Island ave- nue, yesterday. Clof valued at $25, property of Taft Lower, was stolen. BURNS PROVE FATAL. Mrs. Mary Turner, colored, 88 years old, whose dress ignited from a gas heater in her hume, 330 U street, yes- ‘The project will cover about 800 acres. Army engineers have drained the Ana- costia flats to make way for the arbor- etum in its first stages. The site is considered an admirable one as it has a great variety of solls necessary for conducting experiments. HOOVER IS TOLD NEEDS. Forestry Conservationists Say Funds Must Be Provided. A plea to President Hoover to give his full support to a balanced program of Federal forestry activities and to allow the full amount of appropriations au- by law for such a program was made today by George D. Pratt, presi- dent of the American Forestry Associa- tion. Mr. Pratt headed a delegation repre- senting 22 national and regional or- ganizations, who called upon the Presi- dent at the White House to bring to his attention the reductions made in the' national conservation budget, which threatens to handicap the work of the Government during the coming fiscal year. “The Government is following a futile {mllcy of locking the stable door after he horse 18 stolen,” Mr. Pratt told the President, “as there is not adequatc fiscal provision for fire prevention.” He stressed that the appropriaticn for fire prevention is negligible. This he said, fires caused over $3,000,- mage in the national forests and cost $2,600,000 to suppress them. “If adequate funds were provided,” he said, “the losses would be materially re- duced.” Other spokesmen for the delegation were Robert P. Bass, former Governor of New Hampshire, and John W. Blegett of Grand Rapids, Mich., repre- senting the lumber Industry. “We are confident that you recog- nize in our forests one of the Natlon's greatest assets,” Mr. Pratt sald, “both actual and potential, and that all ques- tions involving perpetuation of our forests are deserving of your most seri- ous attention.” He called attention to the fact that the Woodruff-McNary bill which Con- gress passed last year authorized an ex- penditure of $8,000,000 for three years of forest acquisition in the East. The lfirst year the full appropriation was grnnud under stress of special needs, e explained. For the present fiscal zsn’x)ro 0t)he appropriation was cut by $1,- “We strongly urge at least the full appropriation for the coming fiscal year be granted,” he said. The same condition applies, he said, to the Clark-McNary bill, which prec- vides for encouraging forsst practice and protection in co-operation with the States, and the McNary-McSweeney law, which authorizes about $3,000,000 annually for forest research. cabinet officers addressed the delegates who met at the Cosmos Club. They were Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur and Secretary of War Good. Others attending included Joseph M. Dixon, Assistant Secretary of the In- terior; Walter Newton, secretary 1o President Hoover; Senators Henry W Keys of New Hampshire, and PFrederic C. Walcott of Connecticut; Representa- tives Grant M. Hudson of Michigan, Don B, Colton of Utah, John W. Sum- mers of Washington, and W. C. Hawley of Oregon; Dr. John C. Merriam, presi- dent, Carnegie Institution of Washing- ton; R. Y. Stuart, forester, United States Forest Service; Horace M.’ Al- bright, director, National Park Service, and Henry L. O'Malley, commissioner of the Bureau of Pisheries. . STARTS FOR ATLANTA. CINCINNATI, October 30 (@) — Former State Treasurer Bert B. Buckley of Dayton, convicted of conspiracy to bribe a prohibition officer, will leave for morrow night to serve his two-and. half-year sentence, according to United States Marshal Stanley Borthwick. Buckley, according to the evidence of the Government at his trial, conspired with two Cincinnati attorneys and a brewmaster to bribe former Acting terday afternoon, resulting in her being severely burned, died at Emergeney given in English. The dispal sald the measure was to end the invasion of the language. Hospital shortly after 7 o'clock last night. Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt gave a cel te of M:cm&l death. Assistant Federal Prohibition Adminis- trator John F. Eckhart to inform them in advance of Federal inspections at Cincinnati breweries. is ‘afternoon at a luncheon, three the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary to-| REPORTERS GO TO JAIL Three reporters for the Washington Times, who were sentenced to 45 days in jail today for contempt of court, are shown here in custody of the United States marshal. O'Connell, Times city editor, and Linton Burkett and Gorm an Hendricks, the other two reporters. CLEVELAND MUSEUM RESTORES OLD CARVING TO JUGOSLAVIA THREE REPORTERS ARE SENT TO JAIL IN CONTEMPT CASE (Continued From First Page.) District jail for 45 days, or until such a time as this contempt shall have been purged.” It was understood that the men might purge the contempt by answering the question. Each Entered 49 Speakeasies. Each of the men told the court they had been admitted to and had pur- chased whisky in 49 speakeasies In Washington. They explained, however, that they had been able to gain ad- mission only through the assistance of friends and that they had promised these friends not to divulge to the authorities their names or the names of the bootleggers. Their only purpose in going to the bootlegging establish- ments, they said, was to develop a news story felating to crime condition in Washington. “All of our information was gained in confidence insofar as the Government was concerned,” Burkett said, “and we feel that to violate this confidence would be to violate professional ethics. If we gave the names and addresses of the men who sold us the liguor we would be placed in the position of prohibition agents, stool pigeons and snoopers.” Hendricks testified that to comply with the jury's request would bring them into public disrepute and that the violation of professional ethics would cause them to lose their positions with the Times. Judge Asks About Duties. Justice Gordon asked him if he re- garded it as any part of his duty as a newspaper man to buy whisky. Hen- dricks said he felt that it was if his su- periors gave him such an assignment. Daniel E. O'Connell, city editor of the Times, had previously -testified that the names and addresses of the bootleggers had been given to him by his men in their reports and that he had given these reports to the grand jury. O'Connell said these reports contained | all the information that his reporters could have given the jury. The jury, he said, wanted the reporters to testify per- sonally and to swear to warrants before & United States commissioner, and that he did not believe they should do this. Defense Attorney George D. Horning announced he would file motion for an appeal. Nell Burkinshaw represented the United States attorney's office. CITIZENS INDORSE POLICE INQUIRY, Southeast Association Pledges Snp-j port in Any Move to Better Conditions. Congressional investigation into the Police Department, district attorney's | office and the District Building was fa- | vored last night by the Southeast Cit-' izens' Association, which represents the | community served by the fifth police precinct from which Wilbur William Hand, Ohio bank robber, recently escaped and where Detective Robert Langdon, who was recently arrested on a prohibition charge, was detailed. The organization pledged its fullest , Right to left: Jack Nevin, jr., reporter; Marshal Snyder; Daniel E. —Star Staff Photo. Medieval Ivory Pane By the Associated Press. United States. ‘The ivory, extremely valuable to the collector, had been reported stolen from the Cathedral of Agram, or Zagreb, in Jugoslavia. ‘The report was the sub- ject of an international investigation carrled over several weeks, involving the Jugoslavian government and deal- ers in the United States and Europe. Several stories, conflicting as to de- Europe regarding the alleged theft, nearly two months ago, causing consid- erable comment. Some of the stories referred to it as a painting and others as a diptych and mentioned its pur. chase by an American museum. Motte, Inc., of New York, in good faith July, 1928, the museum putting it on display and publishing a descriptive account of it. The museum’s publica- tion connected with the Jugoslavian Cathedral, whose inventory taken far back as the fourteenth century had mentioned it. De Motte, in turn, bhad bought it in good faith. Last month the Jugoslavian Minister came to Cléveland and stated to the museum that he had received advices from his government that the panel had been stolen from the cathedral, although the theft had not been report ed until the Summer of 1929. CLEVELAND, Ohio, October 30.—A little 10-by-12- some medieval artist, possibly at the time of Hugh Capet in France, had carved in rich relief to depict the life, suffering and death of Christ, started back fo Jugoslavia yesterday at the conclusion of an international drama here. Amid formal ceremony Frederic Allen Whiting, director of the Cleveland Meseum of Art, handed it to Leonidas Pitamic, Jugoslavian Minister to the tall, had circulated in newspapers of | The ivory was purchased from De | as| 1, Stolen by Unknown Hands, Turned Over to Minister to United States. inch panel of ivory that imitation of the carving had been put in it place. de Whiting notified Willlam M. Millikan, curator of decorative arts at the muse- um, who was traveling abroad, asking him to investigate. Whiting also imme- diately withdrew the panel from exhibi- tion, locking it in a museum vault. The investigation, made in co-opera- tion with the house of De Motte, dis- closed the passage of the rare carving through the hands of four dealers, but the unnamed person from whom the first of the four had bought it was traveling, whereabouts unknown. Hit- ting the blank wall, the investigators | halted. Whiting, econferring with Millikan and the New York dealer, decided to return it to the Minister. Pitamic, with an escort, arrived by automobile from ‘Washington, received the panel and left immediately. In a short address he praised the museum for its action. ‘The carving is believed originally to center. Most of its history is obscure, but it is believed to have come qriginal- ly from a medieval atelier in Liege, ‘ Belgium, and to bear the influence of the | famous Metz School at the time of the French Carolingians. The museum's purchase price was reported to have been $10,000. = Dead at 78 co-operation in any move made by Con- - gress to better existing condi‘ions in the H District and voted to send a letter to | the Senate District committee indorsing ! 1ts_investigation. | The police were defended as well as condemned by citizens. Some were in favor of waiting for the result of the senatorial investiga- tion before taking any, action. Charges that the newspapers are sup- pressing facts about the state of affairs in the Police Department and the Dis- trict Bullding were made by Clarence C. G. Degman of the association. Other members, however, defended the papers. A. G. Herrmann was re-elected presi- dent for his twenty-sixth consecutive term. Other officers are H. W, Lynn, first vice president; Dr. Victor Farrcll, Henry Andre, third vice president; R. J. Jones, treasurer; G. C. Glick, secretary, and W, J. Carey, sergeant-at-arms. The association went on record as favoring the 7-cent carfare for street | cars with universal transfers, PAYMENT OF DEBTS BY ARGENTINA ASKED Chamber of Commerce Urges Presi- dent Irigoyen to Act on His Promise. By Cable to The Star. BUENOS AIRES, October 30.—The Argentine Chamber of Commerce sent to the minister of finance yesterday a note urging prompt payment of the gov- ernment’s current debts. Many ac- counts owed by the governmer.t to com- mercial and industrial institutions have remained unpaid for more than a year, President Irigoyen rcfualnf paymert | pending investigation of all detalls or the transactions. ‘The amount of current bills owed to local firms was estimated some time ago at $34,000,000. Many of these,debts | were contracted during the administra- | tion of President Irigoyen’s predecessor. Marcelo de Alvear. The chamber of commerce note to the finance department calls attention to President Irigoyen's promise of Sep- tember 7 that the accounts would bé paid immediately, ard asks the minis- ter of finance to take the necessary steps to liquidate. THIEE SMASHES WINDOW. A stone wrapped in a plece of news g:per was used to smash a window at anc’s jewelry store, southeast corner of Seventh and G streets, early this morning. ‘The hole was discovered by a night watchman about 5:30 o'clock, noise of the breaking of the glass not having at- tracted attention of neighbors. ination of the interior of the window disclosec. the taking of several rings. Detectives Carlton Talley and Harry A. Cole conducted an investiga- tion, assisted by police from the sixth' precinct. JOHN WILLIAM HUFFMAN. JOHN W. HUFFMAN DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Funeral” Services to Be Held To- morrow at Family Residence. Interment in Maryland. John William Huffman, 78 years old, died at his residence, 1307 P street, yesterday after a long illness. He re- tired from active work a number of years ago. . Funeral services will be conducted at the residence tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Interment will be at Mount Zion, Md. Mr. Huffman is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Phillips Huffman, eight daughters, Mrs. Annie E. Head of this city; Mrs. Rebecca F. Wine of Baltimore; Mrs. Artie Panopula of Long Island: Mrs. Mary F. Harmon and Mrs. Clara J. Harmon of Halpine. Md.: Mrs. Nellie C. Wiseman of Cherry- dale, Va.; Mrs. Nora May Shumate of Saranac Lake, N. Y, and Mrs. Dera Irene Bradley of this city; three sons, Joseph A. Huffman of Cempton, Calif.; John H. Huffman of this city, and Perry E. Huffman of McLean, Va. He also leaves 21 grandchildren and one great grandchild. Mr. Huffman had been married for 54 years. He was a native of Dayton, Va. MAN FOUND liNCONSCIOUS.g Automobile Mechanic Rescued From Gas-Filled Bedroom. Charles P. Hoskins, 47, an automoblile mechanic living at 223 Indiana avenue, was found unconscious on the floor of his room this morning with gas flowing from an open burner. first ald treatment by Dr. John Baber of Emergency Hospital, and members of No. 1 rescue squad and later removed to the hospital, where he is expected to | recover. .. Ankle Broken by Fall. Robert C. Shackelford is in Casualty Hospital this morning with a broken left ankle suffered last night when he either leaped or fell fro second-story window of his home at 616 C street northeast after he is sald to have had a quarrel with his wife, Mrs. Edna Shackelford. Shackelford is said to have told hospital attaches the quarrel with his wife resulted from an argu- HOWELL CONFERS WITH PROSECUTOR Nebraskan Discusses Capital Prohibition Situation With Rover. Continuing to show a keen interest in the enforcement of prohibition in Wash- ington, Senator Howell, Republican, of Nebraska held a conference yesterday | afternoon with District Attorney Rover. | Senator Howell has been injuiring into dry law conditions since he de- livered a speech in the Senate several weeks ago, in which he said the law could be enforced in the National Cap- “ital if there is the will to enforce it. His speech at that time drew a state- ment from the White House, inviting the Senator to furnish any information | he had as to violations to the proper | authorities. Upon leaving the office of tfle district | attorney yesterday, Senator Howell said | he had a = satisfactory interview and that he had discussed generally | the prohibition situation here. The Senator said he had not given any de- talls to the prosecution for presenta- tion to the grand jury because he had no first-hand information, as he had pointed out during his speech in the Senate only what appeared on the pub- lic_record. The Senator said he had no intention of going before the grand jury and had only inquired of Mr. Rover what had been done about the padlocking of places against which cases appeared in the record. Mr. Rover had no statement to make about the conference, which he referred to as a “friendly chat.” Since making his speech in the Senate, the Nebraska Senator has been at work drafting a bill to provide Washington with a local prohibition law, similar to the State enforcement act, to supplement the na- tional prohibition law. He intends to introduce this bill early in the Decem- ber session. MRS. C. B. TIMBERLAKE | DIES IN STERLING, COLO. Wife of Representative Succumbs After Extended Illness. Funeral Friday. Mrs. Charles B. Timberlake, wife of Representative Timberlake of Colorado, died this morning at her home in Sterling, Colo., after an extended ill- ness. Funeral services will be held Pri- day morning at the residence, and burial will be in Denver. The Timberlakes were married in Washington during 1921, while Mr. Timberlake was attending Congress and Mrs. Timberlake was an employe of the He was given | General Land Office. Mrs. Timberlake came to Washing- ton from Colorado about five years be- fore her marriage. She formerly was Mrs. Martha Katherine Ballard. Guggenheim Will Fly. NEW YORK, October 30 (#).—Harry F. Guggenheim, who will-represent the United States in Cuba, intends to be a flying envoy. He proposes to use an airplane in ail trips which his dutie: | make necessary. 2 Amazed at Morals. COLON, Pangma, October 30 (A).— After six years of study in the United States three San Blas Ihdians have re- ment which the couple had engaged in while attending a darice earlier gduu evening. . Mrs. A. F. Broad, mother of Capt. turned home to teach, much impressed by medicine, sanitation, business ability and generosity up North, but amazed at the morals. Racial intermarr: is have been a panel for the cover of a | religious book. A jewel was set in the | !Injured Traffic Officer Able IRITES FOR BURTON CONDUCTED TODAY President and Other High Offi- cials Attend State Funeral in Senate Chamber. By the Associated Press. A simple private funeral service, last- ing but 15 minutes, was held today for the late Senator Theodore Burton of Ohijo, at his Connecticut avenue resi- dence preceding the special services at the Capitol. The committee of 20 Senators includ- ing Senator Fess of Ohlo, which was appointed to accompany the body 1o Cleveland for burial, attended. Rev. Jason Noble Pierce of the First Congregational Church, read ths twenty-third Psalm. Ohio newspaper correspondents were active pallbearers. Members of the late Senator's family present were Miss Grace Burton, a niece, of Cleveland; William Burton, nephew, of Omaha, Nebr, and Mr. and Mrs. Burton Liese, the former a nephew, of Providence, R. 1. The Senate chamber was prepared for a state funeral of impressive and simple solemnity, attended by President Hoover, members of the cabinet, the Supreme Court and others high in of- ficialalife. Body Leaves Tonight. ‘Tonight the body will bs placed on board a train for Cleveland, where it will be interred. A large delegation from the House and Senate, in both of which branches of Congress Senator Burton served, will go to the Ohio city for the services there. ‘The service in the Senate chamber was placed in charge of Rev. Z. B. Phillips, chaplain of the Senate, and Rev. Jame Shera Montgomery, chaplain | of the House, while the program in- cluded addresses by Senator Fess of Ohio, and Representative Hawley of Oregon. Senator Burton and President Hoover were friends for many years. Several times the Chief Executive visited the legislator during the several months of illness that preceded his death on Mon- day night, and he was anstinted in his praise and appreciation of Burton's Ppublic career. President to Attend. His decislon to attend the funerzl services at the Capitol was announced shortly after they were arranged. Sim- ilarly, President Coolidge attended serv- ices for Representative Martin Madden of Chicago, which were held in the chamber of the House. The announcement by Senator Fess of his colleague’s death caused an im- mediate adjournment of the Senate of | two day's duration, so far as the transaction of business was concerned. It was officially called together today for the funeral services. 'BYRD SLEDGE PARTY | NEARS END OF TREK Supporting Group Has Only One More Depot to Lay Before Starting Return. | By Radio to The Star and the New York Times. BY RUSSELL OWEN. LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, Oce- tober 30.—The supporting party re- ported Monday night that it had reached 81 degrees south and had the | third depot load. They have only the load for the last depot now, at 81 degrees 45 minutes, and are traveling com- paratively light. But between them and that depot is the crevassed region 5 miles wide which Amundsen had some difficulty in cross- {ing. They should be at the fourth de- pot ready to return in three or four days if the weather is good. Copyright 1929 by the New York Tim: and the St. Louls Post Dispatch. All rights for publication reserved thraughout the PASSENGER IN LIQUOR [CAR HELD ACCOMPLICE . Man Convicted as Being an “Aider and Abettor” Before Justice Gordon. From the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star. For the first time in this District a passenger in a car “convoying” a load of liquor was held yesterday to be an “alder and abettor” under the Jones- Stalker act by a jury in Criminal Di- vision 1 before Justice Peyton Gordon. Romolo Joe Gentilucci, who wag a passenger in the convoy car, in which was no liquor, was convicted when the evidence offered by Assistant United States Attorney R. F. Camalier showed that liquor was being transported in a car following the convoy, and that the latter car bore a registration tag in the name of Gentilucci. Vernon L. Green of Baltimore, who was driving the liquor-laden vehicle, and who was jointly indicted with Gentilucei for transporting intoxicants, pleaded gullty LOANED GUN TO BOY; POLICEMAN ON TRIAL Officer Pleads Not Guilty After Being Suspended From Dauties. Policeman Raymond Padgett of the seventh precinct, who was suspended last night after he had been arrested for lending & gun to & minor, appeared in Police Court today, pleaded not guilty and demanded a jury trial. J;xgge John P. McMahon fixed bond at Padgett, veteran of the World War, is charged with lending a .32-caliber pistol to 16-year-old Robert Vaughn of Twenty-ninth and Q streets. The po- liceman said that he did not know the boy was a minor and that he lent him the gun for target practice. It was dis- covered when another boy reported to police that Vaughn had attempted to sell him the revolver. Detective N. 8. Hodkinson of the seventh precinct arrested Padgett after he had been ordered to report to the precinct. QUITS HOS| PITAL. to Leave Bed. Policeman Raymond V. Sinclair ol the traffic bureau, who was seriously injured when his motor cycle crashed into a parked car while he was chasing a s ing motorist on October 17, w: released from Garfield Hospital today. The'man who broke all police records for making arrests in 1926 and who was the leader in the late police drive Hubert Broad, the hoted airman, has|cause for the death penalty among |against traic violat rs reports he is been nominated as the next Mayor of Waterford, ‘England. these Indians, and women are hidden from the sight of visitors, anxious to get back on the job. ankle is still in a plaster cast,