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4   LONG ISLAND DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1960

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[[caption]] PLAQUES FOR PIONEERS:  Two pioneers of aviation, honored at a dinner by some 200 veteran airmen, receive plaques from Elmo N. Pickerill of Mincola, president of the OX-5 Club of New York. Left to right are Mrs. Blanche Stuart Scott of Rochester, the first woman to solo an airplane in the United States; Dr. Paul Studenski of Brentwood, professor emeritus of economics at New York University who is celebrating the 50th anniversary of his first solo flight; and Pickerill.  The OX-5 Club, which sponsored the dinners is named for the famous engine designed by Glenn Curtiss that powered most of America's World War I training planes. [[/caption]]

T-Men Smash Art Smuggling Ring 
 
Treasury agents have smashed a nationwide art smuggling ring and seized more than $400,000 worth of Chinese art objects brought illegally into this country from Communist China. 

The investigation took agents half way around the world and to at least six cities in this country. 

The most valuable item recovered was an 800-year-old scroll painting of magpies and butterflies attributed to the artist-Emperor Hui Tsung of the Sung Dynasty. It was valued at $65,000.

Another smuggled scroll, the Treasury Department said yesterday, was a 12th Century painting, "Birds and Flowers," sold to the Boston Museum and valued at $25,000.

Agents said other smuggled objects were found in the Cleveland Museum and the Freer Gallery, Washington, D.C.

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DEALINGS with Red China are forbidden under the Trading With the Enemy Act. 

The biggest haul was at the C.T. Loo Galleries, in midtown Manhattan, where paintings, screens and other objects, including the $65,000 Hui Tsung scroll, were recovered. The objects were valued at $282,000. The gallery is owned by Frank Caro, a native of France, but now a naturalized American.

He was described as one of two major dealers who had cooperated in the investigation.

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AGENTS GAVE this account: 

The government got onto the smuggling operation some time ago when a treasury agent learned that a millionaire Hong Kong dealer and collector, J.D. Chen, was involved in transactions that brought ancient art abjects from Red China to this country.

Tourists or immigrants from Hong Kong brought in the objects as personal effects. Sometimes the items were [[cutoff]]

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jects to American dealers, particularly the Loo Galleries and Charles L. Doue, a Berkeley, Calif., dealer. 

The search led agents to the Boston Museum, where an examination of records indicated the "Birds and Flowers" painting came from a Los An-...

000 worth of smuggled goods, and to the Loo Galleries.

Caro and his wide, of Lodi, N.J., had visited the Far East and on their return were searched at Honolulu by customs officials. They were found to be carrying some broken jade of minor value

in the illegal goods but had no connection with the actual smuggling. 

Another raid was made last night on a "second" major art dealer in New York, but his identity was not disclosed. 
E.E. Minskoff, chief of enforcement for the Treasury [[cutoff]]

Mamie 64, Celebrates With Ike 

AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI)
President Eisenhower, pronounced in "great" health [[at?]] the age of 70, helps his [[wife?]] celebrate her 64th birthday today. 

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