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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-30
PROF. JEAN LABAT
DIES AT HOSPITAL
G. U. Students Give Blood
in Futile Effort to
Save Teacher.

Prof. Jean J. Labat, director of the
department of foreign languages at
Georgetown University and formerly
on the staff of the French embassy,
died at the Emergency Hospital early
this morning after an illness of more
than a month He was Al years old.
Operated on for appendicitis five
weeks ago. Prof. Labats illness became
critical when intestinal trouble de-
veloped and it was necessary to give
him blood transfusions. Twenty-Five
students of his classes at Georgetown
University volunteered TO give their
blood and eight of them actually did
in transfusions that were made in an
effort to save his life. The prefer of
such services was made despite the
fact that most of the students had left
washington after the close of the aca-
demic year.
For number OF years past Prof.
Labat had been director also OF romance
languages at the School of Foreign
Service at Georgetown and was a mem
her of the executive faculty at the lat
ter institution. While at Georgetown
he continued his studies and was award
ed some years ago the degrees of bach
elor and master of arts. Just before
his illness he was completing his work
toward the degree of doctor of philos-
ophy. During the Summers he had
been in the habit of attending advanced
courses at the University OF Dion in
France. where he was president of the
foreign student body.
Served With French Army.
Prof. Labat was born in France Sep
TEMPER Is, 1889, receiving his educa-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-30
THE WEATHER

District Of Columbia-Partly CLOUDY
continued warm tonight; tomorrow
local thundershowers; slightly cooler in
the afternoon or at night; moderate
south and southwest winds.
AUTOMATICALLY cloudy with local
thundershowers tomorrow and in ex-
treme west portion tonight: slightly
cooler tomorrow afternoon; fresh south
west winds
Virginia = Partly cloudy, probably
showers tomorrow and in extreme west
portion tonight; slightly cooler tomor-
row in west and north portions. Mod
crate to fresh south and southwest
winds.
West virginia-Local thundershowers
tonight and tomorrow; slightly cooler
tomorrow.
Record for Past sc Hours.
Thermometer-(Sat Saturday, Midnight
"a; Sunday 4 am, So 8 am. 20:
noon, "a; pm, 90; pm, 80; mid
night, IS; am, 70; 8 am, n;
noon, SO.
Barometer Saturday Midnight
1908; 4 am, 5000: 8 am, 30.l6; noon.
3O16; pm, 30.09; pm, 3O.l2; mid
night, 30.l4; am, 30.15; 8 am, 30.15;
noon, 30I2.
Highest temperature. 90, occurred at
5 pm. yesterday.
Lowest temperature, u, occurred at
s IN. yesterday.
Temperature same date last year
Highest, ga lowest, 81.
Tide Tables
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
Today-Low tide. sgt am. and
500 pm; high tide, HOB am. and
ll:50 pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide. 6:25 am. and
6:56 pm; high tide, 1906 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose 4:45 am; sun sets
1888 pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises 4:45 am: sun
sets 1888 pm.
Moon rises 800 am; sets HOB pm.
Weather in Various Cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-30

The cost of living in the Irish Free
State has dropped materially this wear
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-30
WORK INSURANCE
IN u. S. FORECAST
Employed Must Aid JobIesS
for Plan to Succeed, Roose-
welt Tells Governors.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SALT LAKE CITY, June 3O.-Un-
employment insurance, including old
age security, was advanced by Gov.
Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York
in an address before the national gov
ernorS' conference here today, as an
economic necessity to meet situations
such as he said exists in the United
States at the present.
Shorter working days and shorter
working weeks better planning of work
TO prevent periods of unemployment
increased public works, while they NAV
relieve unemployment will not elm
mate it, the New York executive said
Unemployment insurance we shall
come to in this country lust as GER
tainly as we have come to workmen's
compensation for industrial injury" he
said, Just as certainly as we are to-
DAY in the midst of a national wave
Of insuring against old-age want"
He warned against the possibility of
old-age insurance becoming a mere
dole" and also against "a national
tendency to pay the cost of unemploy-
ment insurance out of current revenues
OF Government"
Unemployment insurance upon an
acturlal basis, with the workers them
selves contributing to its support was
advocated as necessary to the success
of the plan
OF the present unemployment situa-
ton in the United States, Gov. Roose-
welt said: Personally 1 differ funda-
mentally with some eminent gentlemen
IN public life who recently have tried
10 sell the Nation a wholly new eco
nomlc theory, especially in 1928 and
1879. This theory, contrary to all
teachings OF history, was that prosperity
Cthat is. constant work for everybody
man and woman, who was willing to
work. would continue Just as long as
nigh wages continued combined with a
hlgh pressure selling campaign to dis
pose of the output.
We can wholly approve of the ress-
slrances against panic which came
from the conference in the Nations
capital last Autumn, but. on the other
hand, many people, irrespective of poll
tics. are sanely and soberly protesting
against the spectacle of officials of Cow
eminent and leading financiers Juggling
With figures in order deliberately to dis
tort facts. When between IL and Is
workers out of every 100 men are out
OF Job in many industries. It is
neither truthful nor useful to tell them
That employment is practically back to
normal, or that purely psychological
reasons only stand in the way of a 100
per cent output.
The truth of the matter is that we
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-30

ton at the College of st. joseph, in
Avignon, and The College de TAssomp-
ton at Mines. For a number of years
he was on the staff of the export de-
partment of the American Express Co.,
In Paris. The day the World War
broke he became member of the
French military forces and served with
distinction at the front for three years
with infantry and machine gun de-
tachments. In recognition of his rec
ord he was promoted from private to
lieutenant.
He was in the engagements of User,
ArraS, Somme, Verdon, Aisne, Rheims
and in the Argonne and was gassed and
wounded several times. He was deco
rated with the Croix de Guerre for
bravery in action. In 1917 he was de-
tailed to the United States as an at
tache to the French High Commission,
being made assistant in charge of re-
cruiting for the Polish army
While in New York and Washington
he took active part in the Liberty Loan
drives and after the armistice remained
in Washington as assistant to the mill
tary atTache of the French embassy,
in which work he was engaged several
years until he became a naturalized
American citizen.
Won Many Decorations.
Prof. Labat had been decorated by
several governments for his war work
and later for his academic achievements.
He was awarded the Polish War Cross,
the Order of the Star of Rumania, with
the rank of officer, and the Palms OF
Officer of the French Academy.
Joining the staff of Georgetown Uni
versity eight years ago, Prof. Labat
served both in the Foreign Service
School and Georgetown College. Under
his direction the French department
became one of the major departments
OF the university, with a large number
OF faculty members assigned to it under
his direction. In recognition of his
services he was made a member of the
executive faculty of foreign service a
year ago.
During his years at GEORGETOWN,
Prof. Labat founded four French clubs
and also was member of Delta Sigma
ri Fraternity.
He is survived by his widow. Mira.
Marie Labat. daughter of DR.. and Mrs.
William M. Stewart of Washington and
Forrestville, Md; a 12-year-old son,
Stewart Labat and relatives in France.
Funeral arrangements will be an
nounced later.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-30

are in the midst Of another turn Of the
wheel in the economic cycle and that
production in most industries has out
run consumption To this domestic
crisis has been added distinct falling
off in our exports"
The operation of the gross sales tax
of West Virginia was described by Gov.
William G. Conley of that State as the
greatest single source of revenue of
the State government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-30
Highway Work Rushed.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, June 30.-Anticipating
an extremely large @oflme of trafie on
the highways of the State over the
Fourth Of July week end, the State
Roads Commission is rushing to COM
pletion number of road improvement
projects which will facilitate the move
ment of the automobiles, according to
Harry D. Williar, jr., chief engineer of
the commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-30

GEORGE X. EASTMAN
OF Rochester. n. ", head Of the East
man Kodak Co, who was appointed
today by President Hoover as a mem
Der of the George Washington Bicen-
tennial Commission.
He succeeds Hanford MacNider of
Iowa, who has been named Minister
TO Canada.
The BicentenniaI Commission is ar
ranging plans for the George Washing
ton celebration here in 1882.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-30
CAST ASIDE ANTIQUATED
RIFLES FOR MACHINE GUNS

HANKOW (P).--Banu1ts in Central
China have cast aside their old-fash-
Toned rifles for more modern weapons.
including the machine gun.
Two years ago"it was unusual to be
held up by a Chinese bad man carry
ing anything more formidable than an
antiquated revolver or ingle-barreled
pistol. Today Thompson guns are the
style.
Mounted machine guns are also en-
ployed by the bandit gangs. Some have
been purchased from foreign gun-run-
ners while others have been contributed
to the lawless elements by deserving
soldiers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-30
Davis Action DELAYED.

BY Int HSsDCiaIeu Fre6s,
The Senate Judiciary Committee de-
ferred action today on the nomination
of Henry E. Davis to be assistant attor-
ney for the eastern district of South
Carolina after receiving a protest
against him from representatives of or
ganiZed labor, who asserted ne was
hostile" to their interests.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-30
ALC0RN RECOMMENDED
Hess Sends Name to Hoover for
Pension Commissioner.

~ the Assoclated Press.
Albert D. Alcorn, Cincinnati attorney,
was recommended today to President
Hoover by Representative Hess, Repub-
ncan. Ohio, for appointment as Com
missioner of Pensions.
Mr. Alcorn, former national COM
Eiander Of the Spanish American War
Veterans, would succeed Earl D. Church,
who died recently.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-30
WAVES HEARING
colored Man Awaits Action by
Grand Jury in Death.

Arraigned before United States Com
missioner Reedham G. Turnage, Buster
Buchanan, colored, who is charged with
murder in connection with the fatal
stabbing of Perry Wilson. colored,
waived preliminary hearing this morn
ing and was committed to Jail without
bond to await presentation of the case
before the grand jury.
Buchanan, according to police. stab
bed Wilson last month during an
alteration in the 1900 block of Pomeroy
court. Buchanan was arrested at Cape
Charles, Va. last week for District
authorities and was brought back early
yesterday by Detective Sergt. John
Fowler and Tom Sweeney.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-30
FACES JURY TRIAL

II Quarts of Liquor Alleged Found
in Mans Garage.
Charged with possession of four cases
of whisky, Joseph Suber, colored, 20S
Morgan street, was held for jury trial
at Police Court today under $500 bond.
Suber was arrested Saturday night
by Policemen w. r. Latin and William
McEwen of the eighth precinct after
several unsuccessful attempts Seventy
two quarts of liquor was found in a
garage said to belong to the colored
man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-30

SOLID-COLOR SHIRTS
are popular. Broadcloth
or Chambray. Blue,
Tan, Green, Peach, Grey,
$1.95
C REPE OR FAILLE
TIES in new Summer
patterns. Hand-tailored
and silk lined. Get an
assortment 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-30
Superpower RadiStelegraph.

Canada's director of radio has made
arrangements for construction of a
new superpower radiotelegraph station,
which Will be in operation on Lulu
Island, south of Vancouver. earlv next
Autumn, according to reports TO the
Department of Commerce. It will be
the largest station on the Pacific Coast
with a range of 5000 to 5000 miles
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-30

4 GLADSTONE BAG to
get you there in good
style. Genuine cowhide.
Ful'length straps. Spe-
clal at .$l2.75
A "CHEVO" ROBE is
handy. For beach or
lounging. Fast color and
washable. Full length
sash. Pocket emblem
1895
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-30

Two American women writer's recent
ly bought in England Charles Dickens
faVorite tea service and private letters
which were bequeathed by the novelist
to his parlor maid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27
REAL ESTATE BOARD
ADDS GOVERNORS
Governing Body Announces
Six. Additions to Act as
Executive Committee.

The governing body of the Washing
ton Real Estate Board was enlarged
from to IS members by creation at q
special meeting this week of board OF
directors to take over the functions OF
the Executive Committee which hereto
fore has been the controlling and adj
ministrative body of the association, ii
was announced today by John A Petty,
executive secretary.
The change in the organization, it Is
pointed out, authorized by q change in
the ~by-iaws of the board, makes possible
q wider representation among members
engaged in various branches Of the real
estate business and would accomplish as
wen as large measure Of participation OF
individual members. in the admtnistra-
ton of the board.
A proposal to eliminate the Nominate
ing Committee, Mr.. Petty reported, pro
duced considerable discussion, yet the
proposal was almost unanimously re-
jected by the meeting, at which the at
tendance of active members was the
largest of any business meeting In the
history of the board.
by unanimous vote afiliated men,
bership in the board was abolished,
thus leaving membership limited to two
classes, active and associate, with Ii
censed brokers, banks and trust COM
pan1eS eligible to active membership
and statesmen and employees of active
members eligible to associate member
ship.
"a more compact organization was
perfected by the creation of four major
committees, consisting Of. five active
members each to function in the differ
ent branches of the real estate busi-
ness, namely: Property Management
Committee, Mortgage and Finance Com
mittee, Brokers Committee and Business
Property Leasing Committee. These
committees, to be appointed by the
board of directors, viii take over the
activities of the several divisions which
formerly existed in the board.
1.-THE amendments adopted win be
put into operation after the annual
meeting and election of officers to Sbe
held October Is. At this meeting nomi-
nations will be submitted by the recently
appointed Nominating Committee con-
sisting of Ben T. Webster, chairman;
H Clifford Bangs, jr.: j. Mckinney
Berry, Theodore M. Judd and Percy H.
Russell" =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27
SCHOOLS TEACH GIRLS
HOME LOWING DATA
Special Assessments, Land Con
tracts and Commission Rates
Part of Course.

Debutante schools, that used to spe-
cialize in the social graces, are now
teaching the girls all about special as
easements, land contracts and commits
sion rates, says the National Association
of Real Estate Boards in the ninety
seventh Of its series of articles for the
public.
Educational bodies from coast to coast
have recognized home owning as irnpor-
tant and have included in their cur
ricula courses designed to better equip
their students for the experience. Uni
versitfes and schools have anticipated
their students becoming property own
ers and have created new courses de-
signed to make them better manaeers
Of real estate.
Practice houses have appeared on the
canpuSeS of universities and suites Of
rooms have been set aside to teach
young women the art of home -making
from furnishing to cooking and financial
management.
Statistics show that the majority of
women waste realty holdings, and down
South daughters Of the rich 20 to a
school with rigorous hours to learn how
to efficiently Handle the estates they
some day wiz inherit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27
LOCAL FIRM SELLS
STAR MODEL HOME
Or. Elmer R. Shepherd Buys
Residence Overlooking
Foundry Branch Park.

DR.. Elmer r. Shepherd, 1906 Six
teenth street, has purchased the home
at 1909 Forty-fourth street, overlooking
Foundry Branch Park, it Is reported by
Wavery Taylor, Inc, builders.
The home, which was one of the
model homes sponsored by The Star in
corporation with the Operative
Builders Association earlier this year,
was erected by the firm from plans by
Waverly Taylor in collaboration with
Porter & Locke, local architects. It is
an English group house embracing new
features in home design, equipment and
decoration.
A setting for the home Is provided by
the landscaping plan, which embodies
lawns, walks, flowers, shrubs and a
stone pedestal In the rear garden. An
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27
30 FIRMS EXCEED
TEN million ASSETS
Figures Held Evidence of
Success of Building and
Loan investments.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special dispatch TO Inc star.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, September 81
Fifty-flve building and loan associations
belonging to the United States Building
and Loan League now have assets ex-
ceeding 100000 900, H. F. Cellarius, sec
retary-treasurer, reported here today.
This speaks well for the success of
this type of investment from the point
of view Of those who continue to put
their funds in building and loan asso-
Citations and it speaks well for the small
home financing situation for the coming
year, as the holdings Of the $4,000, 900
companies, as we'll as money invested in
a myriad of other smaller associations,
are available at once for home buying
and building" he said. The United
States Building and Loan League has
1900 other member associations in ad-
dition to the SIS big ones.
The Pacific States Savings & Loan
Co. of San Francisco has the largest
assets of any association in the country,
showing on June 80, 1880, $65, 1857 ,06l.
In second place is the Railroad CO.
Operative Building & Loan Association
Of New York City, with $59,656,455
In third place is the Farm & Home
Savings d Loan Association, Nevada,
Mo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27
{. S. SCHAFER co. MOVE
TO NEW BRANCH OFFICES

The E. s. Schafer Co. has moved
into its new executive Offices to their
newly acquired two-story brick building
at 400 Georgia avenue. The building
was completely remodele6 by the
Charles H. Tompkins Co. to suit the
needs Of the plumbing and heating
supplies firm.
A spacious show room occupies the
entire 20 foot frontage of the building.
The sales and store room Is located to
the rear OF the show room. The ofices
and second floors.
The occupancy Of this building gives
the Schafer company its fourth Wash
ington branch. 1t has stores in
Bethesda, at Fourth street and Rhode
Island avenue and on Thirteenth street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27
MARYLAND SAVINGS
INCREASED 100000
Survey Places State Third in Total
Number Of Building
Associations.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, September 27.-Despite
business depression and unemployment,
groups afhliated with the Maryland
League of Building Associations had an
increase of 100000 in savings de-
posits in 1929, according to a survey Of
the United States League of Building
Associations.
The survey also gave Maryland third
place among the States in reference to
the total number of building associa-
tions and tenth place with regard to
total resources
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27
BALTIMORE JOINS PLAN
Real Estate Board Head Names
Committee to Organize Owners.
Special Dispatch to The ST.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, September 27.-Cleve-
land r. Bealmear, president of the
Real Estate Board of Baltimore, has
named committee of realtors to work
out a plan Of organization of property
owners here to join in the national
movement against high realty taxation.
The committee is composed of the
following: Harry E. Gilbert, Clinton L.
Riggs. Henry Kolb. Mr.. Bealmear and
Guy T. o. Hollyday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27

other feature Is the covered porch
sheltering the front entrance.
The third floor has q studio arrange
ment, especially attractive feature Of
the home.
The Washington times., 1930-06-10
THE SMALL BULLETS IN THIS HAND, FIRED FROM A RE-
vOLvER WITH A MOTHER OF-PEARL HANDLE, KILLED 2.

"Here's the smell of the blood still; all the per.
fumes of Arabia DW not suOeeten this little hand.
l. Oh, oh, OhP'
That's Lady Macbeth says after her has been
and gone and done 1t, killing treacherousy his king
Little things in life produce big results for good and for
evil.
The rat in the fable gnawed the and freed the on
small kind of rat according to scientists destroyed
the race of giant dinosaurs gnawing at their feet
According to Others the dinosaurs wiped out when
volcanic erupons filled the atmosphere with dust making
unfit for the monsters breathe and cutting off the full
force of the suns acniC rays which dinosaurs needed
In great dixie hole small that child could it
with its finger would closed Immediately destroy the
dixie and flood whole countryside germ small
not be under microscope and will pass through
porcelain filter starts it's way from China creating
plague that kills millions
And the other hand, AN IDEA, without size shape
weight ten billion times smaller than the smallest germ gives
to human beings the law of gravaton the steam engine the
spinning jenny the electric light and everything worth while
that we possess.
All Of which leads to the fact that in modern prohibition
bootleg civilization very powerful thing is the little bullet
The bgness itteness Of things is made clear to
minds BY COMPARISON You realize how small these little
bullets when you them lying in the palm of hand
These bullets from tiny pearlhanded revolver taken
from the dead bodies of Mrs Guy Bates Post who the
weknown American actress Adele Rchie and her most init
mate friend Mrs Doris Palmer The former according the
officials killed her friend then killed herself
Two lives were cut short by these four tiny pieces Of
metal driven by small charges Of powder.
And what small bullets, vcousy fired do to human
life evil words Of SANDER vciously uttered do to char
acter.
Reckless BULLETS reckless WORDS reckless making of
laws reckless disregard and contempt of law the
foundation Of crime and prohibition bootleg
civilization.