Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1931, Page 43

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WHITE HOUSE GETS SILVER HEIRLOOMS Historic Pieces Bequeathed by New York Man Are Received. & Bome historical and valuable articles of silver, exhibited in the New York Metropolitan Mussum of Art since 1914 end bequeathed to the “Government of | the United States of America” by the lats James Clark McGuire of New York, have been brought to Washingten to | be placed in the historical plate and china collection 2t the White House. They include a silver tray, once the property of George Washington and Iater used by President Madison and the Jovelv Dolly; two sterling silver candlesticks of ur]v French nineteenth century period, also used by the i- gons in the White House; two silver castors and a_silver drinking cup, also once in the Weshington household be- fore its acquisition by President Madi- son. Brought t@ Washington. The articles were brought to Wash- ington Priday by Francis Seaman of New York, co-executor of Mr. McGuire's estate with the Title Guarantee & Trust Co. of New York, represented | by Thomas A. Foster, assistant trust officers of the company, who came to the city with Mr. Seaman. According | to law, the gift had to first be passed | by the director of public pulldings. rnd | public parks before it could be placed | in_the White House collection. The late Mr. McGuire was a lineal de- | scendant of William Madison, brother of James Madison, and the articles be- | queathed by him to the White Houss | have been in the Madison family since | the earliest days of the Nation. Lived in Capital. Mr. McGuire, wro died last December in New York, was formerly a resident of Washington, having as a young gerved in the Government archit office, and later, as engineer, ®\the construction of the Po: \ ~Puilding, at Twelfth sireet and Penn- &ylvania avenue. WHALES OF ANTARCTIC FACE EXTERMINATION Wholesale Slnugh(er Dnoms Ocean Leviathans, Scientists Say—Big Catches Made This Season. HOBART, Tasmenia () —E: minati:n of the whale in An in the near future, unlcss there is er. Posible tre escape of any whale that | it sighted Enormous catches have been made | this season. FARMERS DIG up CANOE Tndisi Relics Near Toronto M-\y Link Tiscovery of Lakes. Daughter of M Secbright of Wi fore her marriage in n | Miss Anna Amelia Secabrig RADIGAL SOCIALIST PARTY LOSING 0UT Group Slowly Being Edged Out of French Political | Picture. PARIS, May 22.—France is witness- ing what obscriers blleve will _prove to be a historical turn in internal poli- e Radical Socialist party, which a large hand in the formation on Franes, is slowly dying, out of ‘the picture by So- of by-elections held 1 elections of 1929, R TOPONTO. M~v 30 (P —An Tndfan . | more than 207 years in a rose garden on Eaton. to provide the miss- r highway which 14 1 the discovery of the Grea Lakes, and 92 visit of th> first wh'te man to the of Toronto. The boat is large enough to accommodate 16 men. It is 23 feet long and 32 inches wide. out of a cedar log, it is still in good candnion CHiLD IN WELL SAVED £-Year-0ld Pull'-d to To'p of 35- Foot Hold With Hooks. MILWAUKEE. Moy ently unharmed Fonder was rescu e#bandoned well T 2'; houss ty 102 Loretta opening in the back vard ing was too nar to deseend i finally was provised grappiing hook. WET AIR AFTECTS MJSIC Wastuhantw Tt S)’\neds Sound of High Pitch. LOS ANGELES () —Experiments of Dr. V. O. Knudsen of the University of California at L-s Angeles show that sounds of high pitch can travel much faster in moist air Yhfl'\ in ¢ry | Musie heerd at a ance has an entirely different au from that on a humid day, he says. Chinese College Closed. SHANGHAI (M. Nanyang Medical | College, a privately owned institution of | this city, was closed by the Nanking | overnment on the ground that it acked facilities to teach medicine. WHERE TO DI * : * Every Night at Brinkley’s —there is dancing to orches- tral music, tasty toasted sand- wiches for the hungry — and never a cover charge. o b Prinkley’s M B33 8tK St. S.E. VEBER’S CAFE Come and dine with ns and he runothe= one of our satisfied custemcrs. 402-4 H St. N.E. 2 ]ood (rille We Are Stll Serving Oysters on Half Shell Hard and Soft Shell Crabs . N.W. | 1207 E St 4 NEVER CLOSED v the use of an im- | on a dry day " t i until iy So s have er voting powcr. | This latter consideration had much to €o with s ~nce last Jjan- uary, + lling in be leades would that they would be able totiaru'a gov- ernment. And their increase would have been 2t the exnonse of the Radical So-lal tieir more moderate brothers of tix left. The party is rnmp’m‘d largely of ) ' Permznent Waves Jrnior é‘e’:mln-nh Grl/ INC. 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