Evening Star Newspaper, November 12, 1929, Page 7

11066 RECEIVES * RIBBON OF LEGION [ ‘Distinguished Group Sees i Presentation okHighest French Honor. g As & reward for having promoted | ‘world peace by bringing about the sign- ing of a general pact for the renun- ciation of war, Frank B. Kellogg has been accorded the highest distinction possible for the French government to confer. Ambassador Claudel, President Doumergue of PFrance, last night presented Mr. Kellogg with the | scarlet cordon of the Grand Cross of | the Legion of Honor. Cabinet Attends. Joining in the ceremonies honoring the former Secretary of State were the members of President Hoover's cabinet, diplomatic representatives of the 13 countries which with the United States and France signed the pact and a large part of the Minnesota delegation, repre- senting the home State of Mr. Kellogg. ‘The Ambassador in his address of presentation. paid tributes to Kellogg and Foreign Minister Briand of France, collaborator in the accomplishment of the treaty. Appropriate Honor. “If the dead of the great war could all arise from their tombs,” Ambassador Claudel said, “they would say that this red and flaming badge of honor could find no better place than across your chest.” Replying, Kellogg declared the part Briand and himself played in making the pact effective “was that of those | who longed for peace and who em- braced every opportunity to bring peace to the world.” He asked the Ambassa- dor to convey his appreciation to the Prench President. Tepresenting TREASURY TO ANSWER | INQUIRY ON DRY FUND 3 Senate to Get Figures, Though They Will Not Be Made Public. The Treasury Department will an- swer in quick order the request of the Senate for a statement showing how $2,700,000 appropriated last Spring is being spent for prohibition enforcement, but the answer will not be made public by the Treasury. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon re- eeived from the Senate yesterday the resolution calling for information as to the use of that part of the money which had been given to the Prohibition Bureau. The total additional appro- priation was .‘vided among the Coast Guard, customs and prohibition forces, and it is known that some of the funds were used for adding to the force more Federal agents. — Mexico plans to complete next year the Calles and Don Martin irrigation gmj(d‘. throwing open to cultivation 00,000 additional acres of land. WASHINGTON, C., TUESDAY, ANUVEMBRLIK 12, 1929. THE EVENING STAR, ~— KELLOGG IS HONORED BY FRANCE Frank B. Kellogg, former Secretary of State, receiving the grand cross of the Legion of Honor from Ambassador Claudel at the French embassy yesterday. bassador Claudel, Mr. Kellogg and Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, From left to right are: Jules Henry, secretary of the French embassy ; Am- —P. & A. Photo. PACIFIC HIGHWAY PLANS INDORSED Alaska-to-Buenos Aires Route Ap- proved by Convention in Ses- sion at San Antonio. By the Associated Press. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., November 12.— Proposed plans for an international Pa- cific highway from Alaska, through s, Ariz., to Buenos Aires, Argen- , were indorsed by the Western As- sociation of Highway Officials, meeting here yesterday in advance of the fif- teenth annual convention of the Amer- ican Association of State Highway Of- ficials, opening here today. Highway officials from virtually every State in the Union were arriving last night for the meeting, which will con- tinue until Priday, when the delegates will make a trip to Monterey, Mexico, to inspect highway building now in prog- ress in_that republic, ‘The Western Assoclation, composed of the officials of California, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado, adopted resolutions urg- ing the Federal and various State gov- ernments to complete all sections of the internatfonal Pacific highway. It went on record also favorable to legislation authorizing the Federal For- est Bureau to transfer strips of national forest lands to private individuals in exchange for strips of privately owned forests along State and national high- ways, in order to preserve the beauty of the roads. Soviet Russia recently ordered 12 deep-sea fishing steamers from Ger- many. |Terror of Ranches, Is Treed and Slain Hunter, With .Only One Shell in Gun, Fires Fatal Shot as Beast Charges. By the Assoclated Press. —Citvilization, with its convenient herds of live stock to be raided when the mood urges, has written finis to the marauding career of a giant mountain lion that for years levied heavy tribute on domestic animals of Ute Pass ranches. The end of the predatory beast was not without its drama. Successfully eluding hunters for a survivor of the region. His depreda- tions were unchecked. Yesterday the beast took for his kill a large buck deer, which marked the beginning of the end. Six hunters set out on the lion’s trail, located with the discovery of the deer kill. Dogs treed the lion after 20 miles over mountain country. Two shots at the crouching form in a tree only served to force the beast to the ground and stralght for one of the hunters. ‘The L e e UPHOLSTERING of the Better Class SEGAL BROS. No Branches. Cam are f Giant Panther, Long| i i i e decade, this one lion appeared the sole | VW ror o meating Q| 1232 14th St. N.W. North1742 || | hunter, Mark Dusenpurg, had only one At the last leap of the animal Dusenburg fired and leaped aside. The tawny creature fell, a lifeless heap. e Bk Silence in the Studio. ‘When a talking movie is in the process of making special care is taken to block out all foreign sounds. The actor out- side the scene, who happens to fall over a chair or meet with some similar nolse- making accident, gets no sympathy, but instead brings down the execrations of the director upon his head. 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