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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-14
Gen. SHUTS Talks
With President at
White House Today
South African Leader Is
Greeted as Acquaintance
of Long Standing.

BY the Associated Press.
Gen. Jan Christian SHUTS, inter-
nationally known peace advocate, talk
ed with President Hoover today for
more than half an hour.
The South African leader came to
the White House executive offices with
Eric Hendrix Louw, Minister from the
South African Republic, but formalities
were dispensed with and President
Hoover greeted SHUTS as an acquaint-
ance of long standing.
AS the general entered the executive
Office President Hoover said to him:
IT am certainly glad to see you again
sir, after these many years"
President Hoover and Gen. SHUTS
were associated together in Paris dur
ing the peace-treaty period, at which
time they we're both serving on the Su-
preme Economic Council.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-14
MARITAL TROUBLE
IS MUS|L DEFENSE
Court Witness Tells
of Finding Lost Money
Under Ground.

Domestic difficulties, growing out of
the alleged misconduct of his wife,
were blamed today by the defense for
the alleged mental disturbance of
Lieut.. Charles MuSil, naval paymaster,
who is charged with taking $54, 65l.2 1
of Government funds which, however,
have now been returned to Government
custody.
This was developed when the special
general court-marital was resumed at
the Washington Navy Yard, under the
presidency of Capt. Willis Mcdowell.
The defense introduced nearly q score
OF dispositions from persons in various
parts of the country including naval
medical officers, friends and neighbors.
In pursuing this line of testimony,
the defense sought to back up the part
of the report recently submitted by a
board of medical officers who examined
Lieut.. Musil, pointing out that he had
evidently been laboring under nervous
strain.
Declares All Money In.
Lieut.. Charles w. Fox of the Bureau
of Supplies and Accounts, Navy De-
partment, took the witness stand and
told the court that the entire $54,-
651.2l which Lieut.. Musil is accused
of having taken has been returned to
the Government. The money was
found in various amounts, the witness
explained. $46,9 600 being recovered at
Blue Plains, D. c., where 1t was buried.
He testified this sum was deposited on
October Is last; 81 ,497 was recovered
on October 80; $4,000 was secured in
Chicago from Lieut. MusiPs former wife,
the witness asserted, and deposited on
November s.; $1,000, received in the
form of check from the bonding com
pany in exchange for Is shares Of In
ternational Telephone and Telegraph
stock, recovered in Chicago and ac-
cepted by the bonding company at the
value paid by the accused officer, was
deposited on December Is; $3.50 was
received frc:n the bonding company by
check and deposited on December 81
and $l,704.21, a request for checkage
executed by the accused to make
restitution of missing funds complete
was deposited few days ago.
James H. Taylor, chief of the Navy
Departments Identification Office, was
the prosecutions next witness, and he
told the court of the recovery of the
sac, 300 on q chicken farm where the
accused ofIicer's father lived at Blue
Plains, D. C. In company with two
Marine guards. who accompanied the
accused officer from New York, MIR
Taylor said that Lieut.. Musil took them
to a point near a chicken house, back
of his fathers home, and indicated the
place where the money was buried. with
his foot. Naval officials, working on
the "hunch" that the accused pay
master had brought part of the missing
funds TO his fathers home here, had
searched the farm without success for
a week or 10 days to locate the cash.
Defense Counsel Scores.
Lieut.. Arthur p. Spencer. defense
counsel, developed from Mr.. Taylor that
Lieut. Musil had given his information
concerning the buried money voluntarily
and that the witness had been led to
the exact spot by Musil.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-14
ITALIAN UNIVERSITIES
BAN CLASS BUSHES

ROME R).-CIass rushes and other
general rough housing are to be banned
from Italian universities.
The annual feast of the matricula-
tions," which roughly corresponds to Q
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ruetion In Amer
lea, is this year to be celebrated "in
Fascist style" Deputy Roberto Maltini,
secretary of the Fascist university
groups. has ordered that 1t be coma
memorated by open-air meetings, and
with set sport programs, instead Of the
free-for-all that has been the custom
In past year.
Deputy Saltini's circular to Fascist
varsity group secretaries solemnly de-
crees that they must remove from the
students habits of useless noise produce
ton and bring them back to the taste
for good things and to the beauty o.
strong things"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-14
ADRIFT ON ATLANTIC,
RESCUED BY STEAMER
Man in Small Skiff Taken Aboard
Ivy 0lsen-Act Is Termed
=, Miracle.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NORFOLK. Va. January 14.-Res-
cued from what shipping men deemed
almost inevitable death in the Atlantic,
William Larsen Of South Port, N. c.,
who on last Friday was carried adrift
In q small skif from his fishing smack,
and for whom shore stations and Coast
Guard cutters have been searching ever
since, yesterday afternoon was safe
aboard the steamer Ivy Olsen.
Larsen was picked up off Cape Ro-
maine, N. c., 200 miles south Of the po-
sition at which he was reported adrift
to Coast Guards Friday. In view of
weather conditions along the coast Fri
day and Saturday, the rescue was little
short of miracle, Coast Guard officials
here said.
They stated that the cutter Modoc
would take Larsen from the Olsen.
which is New York-hound, and return
him to South Port.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-14
LONDON PREPARES !,
FOR DELEGATIONS
Statesmen of World Are Fast
Gathering for Naval
Conference.

since it is believed no participating ma
ton. would care to take the RESPONSE
bility before the world of thwarting
one Of the greatest peace moves In
history. Despite French statements
which have caused anxiety IN some
quarters. certain influential Japanese
and English observers state the Tardieu
government Is genuinely anxious to
arrive at an armament limitation agree
ment.
Positions Of Powers.
Delegates point out that this is not
which will attempt to reduce ornaments
to degree where only, in the words
Of the Japanese, the national security
equilibrium will be maintained"
Stated as simply as may be, the
national positions prior to opening of
the conference are about as thus:
Great Britain and the United States
agreeable to naval parity, with aboli-
ton of submarines and extension Of
holiday ON capital ships; Italy insistent
on naval parity with France; France
insistent upon naval superiority over
Italy and retention of submarines:
Japan seeking parity with no other ma
ton, but proportion of 10 per cent
of the strength Of the worlds strongest
navy for its own fleets, against a so
per cent strength granted at the Wash
ington Conference.
On the face none of the clashing
viewpoints appear SO formidable as to
be insurmountable. 1t generally Is
agreed that, unlike other conferences of
this nature, the forthcoming meeting
will be held under more friendly and
optimistic auspices than has ever been
the case before.
London is making ready to welcome
the delegations and the throngs Of ex-
perts, attendants, secretaries, journalists
and the like. Reservations at most OF
the leading hotels already have been
taken and even the smaller hostelries
anticipate crowding.
LINER INCRFASES SPEED.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-14
LINER INCREASES SPEED.
United States Delegations Desire to
Land a. Early as Possible Friday.

United States Delegations Desire to
Land ~ Early as Possible Friday.
8. g. GEORGE WASHINGTON. jan
uary II R1.-With good sailing weather
forecast, the George Washington pushed
eastward at increased speed today In
an effort to land the American naval
delegation at Plymouth as early as pos
sible Friday.
A train will be waiting at Plymouth
to take the Americans directly to Lon
don, where they Immediately may throw
themselves into the necessary work pre-
liminary to the conference itself, which
convenes next Tuesday.
There has been no untoward develop
ment aboard to make necessary the &C
tolerated movement Of the ship, but
Col Henry l.. Stimson, American Sec
rotary of State and head of the dele
cation. recognizes that the earliest pos
nier Ramsay Macdonald of England,
who. as host of the conference, VIII
have many things to occupy his mind.
Col. Stimson's program includes, hrst,
a conference with Premier Macdonald,
followed with conversations with Andre
Tardieu, French premier, and Dino
Grandi, Italian foreign minister. 1t IL
believed he may make some effort TO
smooth out Franco-Italian differences,
WHICH AuHllLLculy may obdAu III tAAC -wcJ
of q fve-power agreement on naval Inn
itation.
It was believed the first meeting OF
Col. Stinlson and, Mr.. Macdonald would
not be marked by discussion OF naval
problems, but would be devoted instead
to the best methods Of procedure for
the opening phases of the conference.
The American Secretary OF State Is
anxious particularly that the first ses,
sions of the conference be not marred
by any element which might cause irri-
tation in any quarter, and he is ex-
pected to throw his influence to mutual
examination of the field in general
way before any attempt Is made to pro-
pose detailed programs. -
It is In this spirit that he Is with
holding comment on the recent Franco
British exchange. although he Is read
ing official and private dispatches con-
corning that exchange Of notes with
considerable interest.
UMMnWITRT ANC VVET COME
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-14

Miss Oleda Schrottky, director of dra-
mates for the National Girl Scouts. will
arrive in Washington tomorrow to con-
duct a three-day conference in dra-
mates and story telling for Washington
Girl Scouts. at the organizations head
quarters, 1925 NJ street.
Study courses will be conducted by
Miss Schrottky Thursday, Friday and
Saturday mornings at IL O'Clock and
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday eve
flings at o'clock. Saturday morning
at IL o'clock she will conduct a story
telling hear, to which all Washington
Girl Scouts are invited. In the after
noon, at O'Clock Mrs. Frederick H.
Brooks will entertain at tea in her
honor.
1t was announced that while the lee
lures are arranged primarily for Girl
Scouts, the organization will accom-
modate as many visitors as possible.
Arrangements are being made for at
tendance through Miss Dorothy Greene.