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CONSERVATION JoB BATILE IS ENI]EI]I Louisiana Militia Out, but Not Needed, as Court Decides Issue. By the Associated Press. | NEW ORLEANS, Decerber 2.—State militiamen, hastily mobilized by. Gov. | Huey P. Long as Robert S. Maestri | | prepared to assume charge of the State conservation department office, return- ed to civilian pursulls today, the need for their services apparently having passed with the peaceable retirement of | V. K. Irion, former conservation head. Irion surrendered his post yesterd: after losing a court battle for the offi For months' the title to the conser- vation department office had been tied up in litigation, with Irion, appointee of the late Gov. Henry Puqua. in phy- | sical possession to the exclusion of Maestri, appointee of Gov. Long. Re- cently the State Supreme Court up- held the claim of Maestri. Militia Is Mobilized. Attorneys for Irion, who claimed he for a writ of edas which would e permitted an appeal to the Fede- ral Court. Earl K. Long. brother of nor, and of counsel for Ma aiting yesterday with Irion's for the chief justice to act on the re- quest for the supersedas writ. said to Irion, who joined the group: “You e been and are holding the conser- | vation office by main force, and the militia_will be used to remove you." About that time, in another section of the city, residents were thrown into | excitement by the mobilization of the National Guard at Jaskson Barracks. It developed that Adjutant Gen. Ra. H. Fleming, on instructions from Gov. | Long. was mustering artillery and cav- alry units. Writ Is Denied. Meanwhile the supersedas writ was denied and Irion said he was ready to give up the conservation office. Maestri took charge and directed the discharge of all but two of the employes of the | department’s office. i Adjutant Gen. Fleming announced that the troop maneuvers constituted merely a “test mobilization.” STATE PAPERS TELL OF PRE-WAR EVENTS ¢ Extracts }‘mm Documents Published, Disclosing Austrian Move to Annex Balkans, Br the Associated Press. VIENNA. December 3.—Publication Sunday of extracts from:efght volumes | covering state papers on the Allflm-‘ Hungarian foreign policies from 1908 to | 1914 disclosed hitherto secret events ' which led up to the European conflict. The first part dealt pringipally with the efforts of Ausiria to annex Balkan States and the diplomatic conflict on this subject with Russia. Some chaptrs treated of reports by Ambassadors of the. hostility of King Edward of Eig- | land to the annexation plans of Austria | and his threat to to the Adrialic If an atempt was made | to carry out the plans. Later chapters promise disclosures of | the outbreak of the World War and an | effort to place responsibility for it. PRINCESS IS IMPRISONED FOR MlSSIONARY WORK Held in ancaw on Chn‘ze of Read- | ing Bible to Children of Soviet Workers. By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 3.—A dispatclr | to the Mail from Riga. Latvia, yestere jord mayor of London last year. had been imprisoned in Lubianka Jail in Moscow by political police for her | Christian missionary activities in R sla. The chief charge againt her wi e to be that she read the Bible to chidren of Soviet workers, The family here has 1o wo arrest, but said that, owin in e:mmunication, regular direct Princess Sophie. Sir Kynaston married as his -second | wife, in 1924, Princess Alexandra Lie- | ven. The princesses are daughters of the late Prince Paul Lieven, grand mas- ter of ceremonies at the Russian im- perial court OWNER THROWN FROM CAR DIES BATTLING ROBBER| Auto Thief Makes After Machine Crashes Into Tele- of the Lo difeulti they have not had correspondence with Bhcapa phone Fole. By the Ascociated Press ATLANTA, Ga. December 3.—Sam- uel H. Sulliva railway_cle killed here early Sunday in a cresh | resulting when a supposed automobile | thief lost control of Sullivan's car while | the latter clung to the running-board | and fought for its possession. The | driver escaped. Assisiant Fire Chief O. J. Paiker, re- turning from » fire call. told police he | met the car dashing down & residential | street at high speed, with the man later identified s Sullivan on the running- board atiempting to bring it o a hall The driver, he said, swerved shar to shake Sullivan off. The machine skidded and hed into a telephone pole, crushing Sullivan. Parker ‘said he saw'the driver lap ee How they disfigure , your face, to sa nothing of the itch- ing, burning and dis- comfort they cause. Why tolerate them then, when Cuti- “THE EVENING STAR. WASHTKGTON, D. T, 'TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3. 1929. Fourteenth street from Harvard to Park road is xll siressed up for the holiday season. vlored ligh . Latham. 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Their meetings will be held in the Hotel Washington. The foreign visitors are announced by the National Committee on the Ca and Cure of War as follows: Miss Katherine D.- Courtney of England, honorary secretary of the British Wom- en's Peace Crusade; Fralt Dorothes von Velsen, president of the German League | for quhll Citizenship for Women; Mme. ‘ Marie Louise Peusch of France, vice | president of the International Federa- tion of University Women, and Mrs, | Tsune Gauntlett of Japan, a leader in | organizing the Japanese women's peti- | tion for peace. With Miss Ruth Mor- | gan, vice president of the National League of Women Voters, representing | the United States, the group will par- | ticipate in a forum on peace de%lxned as the feature of the conference pro- gram. In announcing the meeting, Mrs. | Carrle Chapman Catt, chairman of the | National Committee on the Cause and | Cure of War, said: “It is apparent that there would be no more war if the six great powers, with their vast armies, navies and resources, should agree to | have peace. For this reason, women | from these nations have been invited | to consult with American women upen | the next steps which must be taken | and upon the existing gaps in the inter- | national peace program. 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