Evening Star Newspaper, November 21, 1929, Page 16

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16 * o2 W. H. BURGESS DIES i INMORRISTOWN, PA. | Pottery Expert as Member of Tariff Commission for Four Years. Willlam H. Burgess, 72, former mem- ber of the Tariff Commission, who as| & representative of the United States Pottery Association, was among the first | witnesses called by the Senate com-| mittee investigating lobbying, died \'r(-i terday at his_home in Morris Heights, | Morristown, Pa., according to advices | Tecelved here today. | Burgess became ill shortly after he returned to his home from Washington after a second appearance before the lobby committee. Death was unex-| pected. In a special report to the Senate on the testimony Burgess gave the com- mittee, Chairman T. H. Caraway, Demo- | _WILLIAM H. BURGESS. '"THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON., D. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1929. tee when the tariff schedules were being iscussed. Burgess had taken the po- sition that Koch, also a pottery ex) ving information and advice prejudicial to the interests of domestic manufacturers. { Subsequently Chairman Thomas O. Marvin of the Tariff Commission testi- | fied that no formal charges had been entered against Koch, and that in their absence the commission would take nc action. In his last public statement, issued shortly before his death, Burgess cx- pressed deep resentment at the treat- ment he had received at the hands of the Caraway committee and reiteratec a denial of any improper conduct. Sent to Europe on Missions. | Burgess represented the American | Government several times on missions | to European countries in the study of | pottery conditions. He was American | consul to the pottery-producing district | at Stokes-on-Trent, England, from 1890 to 1893. During the World War he was | |'a department head of the War Indus- tries Board and in 1919 performed a | Government mission to the Orient. i A graduate of Princeton University | in 1877, he entered business in New | York under the name of William Burgess & Co., importers and jobbers of china and pottery ware. crat of Arkansas, sharply condemned | the pottery expe; terized his conduct before the commit- | fol tee as an approximation of contempt of | er the Senate. | sic appointment by President Harding and | i in 1925 to represent the domes- | plained of Koch's activity as a com- 7 :TS";’&%’% Tanitachurers in customs | mission expert assigned to assist a Sen- | according to the number of chimneys it The ator before the Senate finance commit- matters and as legislative agent. Back in 1890 we nailed this sign to the front of our store and ever since then—~Wash- ctivities and charac- | Caraway report accused him of an ef- afternoon at the Burgess home, with to bring about the removal of Fred- 7 1 bring about the remoNal O Erea: | interment, to follow Saturday at East on the ground that Koch was| Burgess served as a_member of the | friendly to the chief owner of a Japanese Trariff Commission for four years under | firm of pottery importers. Funeral services were being held this Orange, N. J. which is paid in chickens by each house possesses. ingtonians have remem- SR Nebraska, and the only class whose ranks have not been thinned through the years, met for reunion in Lincoln, Neb., this week. They are, left to right: Judge Among the peculiar local taxes in|yyjlliam H. Snell, Tacoma, Wash., and Judge James Stuart Dales, corporation |of irregularities, Burgess testified that he had com- | Sark, one of the Channel Islands, 5 one | c.crotary of the university, of the class of 1873. The university opened its doors | POlice, Tecreation and engineering de- 58 years ago and the two judges comprised the first class to graduate. GEORGE &.CO SNOW HITS MIDWEST AS MERCURY TUMBLES | Continued Cold, With Zero as Low, Is Predicted for Region Tonight. By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, November 21. — Frigid | temperatures held sway today in the ‘Mlddle West and Northwest, and in many places the ground was covered with snow, Continued cold and fair weather, with readings ranging down to zero was the forecast for today. Some of the low marks for yesterday were: The Pas, 6 below; Minneapolis, 14; sioux City, 14; Bismarck, 6, and Sault Ste. Magle, 16. | _In Chicago the thermometer is ex- pected to reach 10 above by nightfall. 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