Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1926, Page 19

« THE EVENING STAR. . WASHINGTON, D. G, MONDAY, MAY 31 19 NATIONAL GALLER URGED BY WOMEN Strong Plea Made at Conven- tion for Place to Show Country’s Art. BY CORINNE FRAZIER. Staff Correspondent of The Star. ATLANTIC .CITY. May strong plea for the establishment of a national art gallery in Washing. ton was made by Mrs. Rose V. S. Berry, chairman of the arts division of the General Federation of Women's| Clubs, in her report before the general session of the biennial convention. Asserting that the first greay effort of the arts division in serving its country for the past four vears has heen a play for a nationa! gallery at the Capital. Mrs. Berrv said: ‘The United States is the only nation of any importance in the world which hae ne national gallery. It is the only nation on the face of the earth that has never considered its artists an asset and art as worthy of saving.” “For two years we have worked, begging for $10,000.000 appropriation for a building to be known as the national gallery of art in Washington, D. €. It was not included, to our disappointment, in the Nation's stu- {»:Fadmw building plan. the first since Delay Is Serlous. To estimate the seriousness of this delay would be impossible. For nearly 20 years the United States received hundreds of thousands of | dollars in gifts of priceless paintings by the old masters, and of pictures by living men. Those that may be seen in Washington are hanging on temporary screens, miserably lighted and badly shown. Others are hang- ing in fireproof office buildings. and others utterly inaccessible to the pub- lic in the manner of their storage. These gifts have heen passed upon by men of great abilitv. The Nation has not accepted cast-offs, seconds or thirds: it has accepted the very best, but it has played bad host. It has heen ungracious to the donor. Year after vear it cheats itself of the privilege of exhibiting these. “This is an offense which is hard to explain from a public like that of America, but it is a small offense com- pared to the fact that the 1U'nited States has never in any way, by di- rectly concerted effort, undertaken to preserve for itself its own art. In this the art division of the General Federation of Women's Clubs is lead- ing a Nation-wide campaign. earnestly urging the co-operation of each State 10 persuade our United States Repre- sentatives and Senators to erect a building which woud enable us to be a gracious hostess to the gifts which have heen presented, and enable us further to begin this national collec- tion which would be to the honor of the American artists and to the glory of the American public.” Many Help Campaign. In forwarding this campalgn. Mrs. Berry declared, the art division has undertaken through women to place the problem of American art and the American artists before the American public. Many prominent woman artists,_according to the chairman have offered such gifts in support of the movemen: as have never heen offered for such a thing. Mrs, Archer Huntington, nee Anna von Hyatt, has donated her superb Diana, in bronze: Edith Barrett Parsons gave one of her laughing fountains: Har- riet Bingham Miller, Grace Talbott, Harriet Frismuth and a score of others each have donated a bronze trophy in the interest of American art and the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Princess Cantacuzene, prominent in both literary and social circles of Washington, who was scheduled to =peak this afternoon before the Gen- eral Federation convention upon na- tfonalism and internationalism, will he prevented from appearing because of illness. Her place will be taken on the program by Paul Harvey, lecturer and former editor of the In- ternational Interpreter. Mrs. -Harriet Hawley Locher, one of the Washington delegates to the blennial, spoke vesterday afternoon before the motion plcture committee of the federation department of ap- plied education. MEMORIAL SERVICES HELD. Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Barrett, Miss Gar- diner and Mrs. White Honored. ATLANTIC CITY, May 31 (®.— Memorial services were held vester- day at the eighteenth biennial con- vention of the General Federa- tion of Women's Clubs. Those whose memories were honored in- cluded Mrs. Court F. Wood. past president of the District of Co- lumbia_Federation, and chairman of the general federation’s civil service committee; Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett, past_president of the National Councii of Women and chairman of the American citizenship committee for Virginja; Miss Helen Gardiner, who was a member of the United States Civil_Service Commission, and Mrs. Frank White of Washington. A. GILBANK TWIGG DIES AT HOME OF PARENTS Wealthy Landowner, 55, Went to California After Break- down Year Ago. A. Gilbank Twigg, wealthy land- owner of Washington and Markham, Va., who was noted for his philan- throples, is dead in Los Angeles, it was announced here today. He was 55 years old and had been ill the past vear in the California city, where he was at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Twigg. who, with a sister, and his widow, Mrs. Josephine Conrad Twigg of 1820 Massachusetts avenue, survive him. Burial will be in Los Angeles, Mrs. Twigg said to- day. Mr. Twigg shot himself a year ago, just-a few days after he had suffered a nervous breakdown. It was follow- ing this that he went to California. He was the owner of Leeds Manor, at Markham, comprising one of the largest fruit orchards in the State, and divided his time between this estate and the home here. He was a member of several Vir- ginia patriotic and civic organizations, including the Virginia Historical So- ciety and the Virginia State Fruit Growers’ Association. BYRD ASKS CHANGE OF TOMB INSCRIPTION Mystery at Burial Place of Allen and Son Explained in Prom- ise of Pardoned Men. Special Dispatch (o The Star. . DANVILLE. Va. May 31.—A dis- closure has just been madegelative to removal of the famous inscription on the grave of Ployd and Claude Allen. wather and son who were electrocuted 31.—A i before | H. M. JOHNSON EXPIRES; 35 YEARS IN SCHOOLS Supervising Principal of Seventh Division Was 66—Funeral ‘Wednesday Afternoon. Hosmer M. Johnson. supervising principal of the seventh division of the public schools of the District and one time principal of Eastern High School, died at Garfield Hospital yesterday after an illness of about four months. He was 66 years old. Mr. Johnson had been a teacher in the schools of the District since com- ing to Washington from Kansas about 35 years ago. He was a mem- | ber of the Masonic fraternity and of the Natlonal Education Association. He is survived by a son, Frank M. 1 Johnson, of New Haven, Conn.; & i daughter, Miss Margaret Louise John- son, of this clty: three brothers, Frank Johnson of Kansas; Rev. Mil- ton Johnson and Dr. Charles John- son, who is a medical missionary in China. He also leaves a sister. Funeral services will be conducted at the Metropolitan M. E. Church Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Rev. James Shera Montgomery, chap- Jain of the House of Representatives, will officiate. Interment will be in Rock Creek Cemetery 4 LAWYER RECALLS IDEFEATING LINCOLN Liberator Conceded Chess Game With Glance at Board, Man, 96, Says. By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, May 31—E. P. | Bradstreet, 96 vears old. Cincinnati attorney, likes to remember on Me- morial day & game of chess he played in a hotel room in Hannibal, Mo., 70 vears ago. His opponent was Abraham Lin- coln. Bradstreet won. Bradstreet is the nestor off the Cincinnati_bar. He is physically active and mentally alert in spite of his years. Met Party on Train. He met Lincoln on a train when the latter was on his way back from the West after his debates with Douglas in 1858. Lincoln had gone to Yellowstone Park for 2 vacation. Bradstreet was in the same day coach with Lincoln and his party, which included Secretary of State Baker of Illinols. “Throughout the long ride,” sald Bradstreet, “Lincoln entertained his companions with jokes and storfes. I did not know who this gaunt, homely man was, but evidently he was a leader. 1 made Inquiries and found out it was the Lincoln who had made a national impression by his debates with Douglas. Lincoln Conceded Game. “Reaching Hannibal, my wife and T went to a hotel to await arrival of our steamer. She and I were plaving chess in one of the public rooms when Lincoln came In the back door and. looking up, I found him standing by my wife. ‘We invited him to join and I played chess with him until his steam- boat whistle blew. Lincoln studied the board for a few minutes, saw that he was at a disadvantage and then sald graciously, ‘I give you the game.' " FIREWORKS PLANT EXPLODES; 3 DEAD Allentown Concern Was Making Pyrotechnics for Sesquicentennial. Br the Associated Prems. ALLENTOWN, Pa., May 31.—Three men were killed and one injured ves. terday by an explosion that wrecked the plant of the Pennsylvania Fire- works Co. near here. The plant went up with & rumbling, thunder-like roar that was heard for many miles. Those killed were Nicholas Tumini and John Tumini, proprietors, and an unidentified man. The plant was working on a quarter- million-dollar order for the Sesqui- Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia and had already shipped one carload of the pyrotechnics. The fireworks plant was on the site of a powder works that blew pp about 40 years ago, killing one man. TROPICAL SCOURGE REPORTED CURBED Striking progress toward the stamp- ing out of dengue fever, scourge of the tropics, through the voluntary submission of more than 75 American soldiers in the Philippines to test in- oculations, was reported today by the surgeon general of the Army, Maj. Gen. Ireland. The work was done by the Army Medical Research Board in the islands and resulted in the discovery that the same mosquito which is the carrier of vellow fever, the aedos egypti, also is the spreader of dengue. Preventative measures based on the research- work 'were inaugurated among the garrisons in the Philip- plnes a year ago at the conclusion of the study. Reports of the results reaching Gen. Ireland show that the number of dengue cases nas been re- duced from 80 soldiers in every 1,000 in 192¢ to less than 20 cases per 1,000 this vear. In commending the big group of en- listed men who volunteered their serv- ices as test cases, the commanding general in the islands issued a general order pointing out that human sub- jects were considered essential by the research board and that the discom- fort and guffering to which these sub- jects submitted was beyond and above the normal requirements of duty. The fever about five years ago swept across the Southern States from Texas to Georgia, about 2,000,000 cases being reported. in 1913 for their part in the Carroll County courthouse shooting. Tt has become known on the highest authority that when Gov.iHarry Byrd pardoned Sydnor Allen and Wesley Edwards, serving long terms in the State penitentiary for their participa- tion in the shooting, the executive stipulated that the offending plaque should be removed. That the two liberated men lost no time in comply- ing with this stipulation is evidenced by the changing of the inscription. which cbarged the State of Virginia with the ““judicial murder” of the two men, = SCOPES' CONVICTION ARGUED ON APPEAL Dr. John R. Neal Defends Anti-Evolution Law—Hays Attacks Statute. By the Associated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 31.—The appeal In the Scopes case finally reached the State Supreme Court for oral argument today. The small courtroom was crowded. Dr. John R. Neal introduced visit- ing counsel, and K. T. McConnico, for the State, reported the illness of lenk M. Thompson, attorney gen- eral. Dr. Neal attacked the wording of the antl-evolution law on, technical grounds, expressing the opinion that the law violated both the constitution of the State and the fourteenth amend- ment to the Federal Constitution. Charles Strong of New York, coun- sel for the Unitarian Laymen's League, which intervened as amious curiae, spoke in behalf of Scopes. He zaid there are sincere Christlans who did not belleve the teaching of the theory of evolution weakened faith in God and declared the Uni- tarian Laymen's Teague considered the law un-American and unconstitu- tional. Appealing “for the preservation of our institutions, for the protection of sclence, for the conservation of liberty of mind and of thought, and of eduction,” Arthur Garfield Hays of New York asked the court to declare unconstitutional the anti-evo- lutlon act. Mr. Hays, counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, in arguing against the law, which prohibita the teaching of any “theory that denles the story of the Divine creation of - man as taught in the Bible," declared |it abridges the rights of citizens with- out due process of law and denles to them the equal protection of the law guaranteed by the fourteenth amend- ment to the Constitution. SHRINERS GATHER . INPHILADELPHIA i Caravans From 158 Temples There for Opening of ! Imperial Council. | By tbe Associated Press. | PHILADELPHIA, May 31.—Phila- | delphia today was the mecca of ishrinedom. Caravans from 158 temples in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Pai a Canal Zone and the Hawaiian | Islands were either here or on thelr way for the 624 Imperial Council ses. sion of the Ancient Arabian Order. { Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and for | 'four days the city will be the scene of a carnival of splendor, music and jol- {lification. The session formally opens | tomorrow. Today’s program called for parades {of the Nobles from the headquarters | of various temples to Independence Hall, shrine of - American freedom. Later induction exercises were to be held for 1,000 new members. Tonight thousands of dancers will make merry on the Arabian way—half a mile of Broad street bedecked with colorful streamers, flags and lights. As mid- night approaches, patrols of musiclans will invade hotel lobbles and provide impromptu entertainment and nov- elty stunts. At the same time the in- augural ball of the Sesquicentennial Exposition will be under way at the Municipal Auditorium. where Tmperial Potentate James C. Burger of Denver and officers of the Imperial Council will be guests of honor. CLARK SAYS FACULTY ARE NOT NURSEMAIDS American University Head, in Con- vocation Sermon, Says All Are Crusaders. Jesus as the teacher of simplicity in method and magnification of truth “to its highest power” was held up as the great example by Dr. Lucius C. Clark, chancellor of American Unl- versity, In his convocation sermon yes- terday to the graduates and faculty of American University at Hamline Methodist Episcopal Church. “The students of any day need help,” sald Dr. Clark. They need the ordinary kind of good sense and pro- tection the real professors can give them. There are too many students with high-powered cars and low-pow- ered judgments to make it safe for any of us. Some students are unwill- ing to profit by any experience of their elders. They are unwilling to accept a historic basis upon which to begin their own life. They are not to be satisfled with anything less than experiencing realities. A series of years with this attitute toward life and the probabilities are that im- mature childhood running unrestrict- ed, dealing with high-powered factors of life, will wake up dazed, having missed a foolproof road and landed against a stone wall of reality. Our professors are not intellectual nurse- malids caring for your hopeful vouth. They are crusaders with you in the holy quest for truth.” Such students, Dr. Clark said, were in need of the guidance of professors endowed with the ility to follow the example of Jesu: ‘who reduces every truth to its simplest terms of expression” and “magnifies every truth to its highest power.” “That professor,” said Dr. Clark, “who can see so much in his own field .and magnify every item of it 50 as to excite the students’ enthusi- asm for sustained mental activity is little less than a genius. These are ;lhe kind of teachers our world must ave.” Dr. Clark pleaded for the ‘leader- teacher of today to sit down with that other Teacher and learn how to teach and lead.” Peace for the world, Dr. Clark be- lieved, would be greatly advanced by “the teacher and student groups of the world who came unprejudiced to their task and without years of hatred to_their toil."” Special Summgr Courses Commercial Art Illustration Interior Decoration Ask For Booklet LIVINGSTONE ACADEMY 1517 Rhods Taland Ave. __Franklin 7435 McCormick Medical 'Glassss Fitted College Eyes Examined Dr. CLAUDES. SEMONES Eyesight Specialist son SRt e ALL THEORIES FAIL | INMPHERSON CASE Search for Radio Operator, Friend of Woman Pastor, Is Continued. | | By the Associated Press. i LOS ANGELES, Calif., May 31.—As | the period since Aimee Semple Mc- Pherson, pastor of Angelus Temple, disappeared while bathing in the surt at'Ocean Park neared its second week || today the case seemed no nearer solu- || tion. i The theory that she drowned re-| mained unsupported with the evangel- | | i 1st's body still unrecovered, while the || bellet of many that she may still be || allve has been supported by nothing more tangible than rumor. Although a complete investigation of her disappearance has been prom- ised from several sources, such action has been retarded by the double holi- day of Sunday and Memorial day. Yesterday, however, investigators at- tempted to locate agaln Kenneth G. Ormiston, former radio operator at Angelus Temple and friend of the missing woman. Ormiston appeared voluntarily last week to say ihu he had nq knowledge whatever of the case, but he isf| wanted for further questioning. He,| was found at Salinas two days ago |/ and later was traced to Santa Bar- bara, but there Je was lost. | GOVERNOR DENIES | SELLING PARGLE Brother Took Fee to:Obtain | Convict’s Release During || His Abense, He Says. | By the Assoclated Press. LITTLE ROCK, Ar May 81— || Complete denial of having anythii to do with the activity of his brother, Floyd Terral, in securing a pardon for Lee Mode, convicted of burglary, and a declaration that the affidavit given to the press by J. A. Mode, Conway merchant and banker, that he paid the governor's brother $1,000 to secure a pardon for his son Lee was prompt- ed for “political motives,” were made || by Gov. Tom J. Terrall in a statement sued on his return to the city last night. Lee Mode was one of the nine con- victs pardoned by S. D. McCall, State Senator, while acting as governor in the absence of Gov. Terral last Au- tumn. The nine pardons were held || invalid by the State Supreme Court, to which body Gov. Terral carried the fight to vold the executive orders is- sued by Mr. McCall. The governor's statement followed a statement by Floyd Terral earlier in the night, after Mode's affidavit, had been given newspapers, embody- ing the same charges that he made in a statement Saturday Says Pardon Was Promised. Mode’'s statement and affidavit charged that Gov. Terral told him that his son would be given a sus- pension of sentence and advised him || to return to the capital on a certain date and that on his return to Little Rock he found the governor out of the city, but through payment of $1.000 to the governor's brother he got the pardon for his son from the acting governor. Gov. Terral termed the portion of || Mode’s statement relating a promise || of clemency from Him as a “lie.” H “Mode knew that he had no chance on earth of securing clemency from || me,” Gov. Terral said. “Hence his appeal to Acting Gov. McCall. Referring to Mode's charge that he pald the governor's brother “$1,000 and was now trying to get it back, since the pardon was held invalid.” the governor said: “He complained that he paild my brother $1,000 for securing the pardon and now that I had fought them and the court held || the pardon void, he felt that I should give his son clemency. I made it plain that my brother was not run- ning the governor’s office. If Floyd Terral did not have any source of revenue except fees for pardons, his famlily would starve to death. My op- position to those who try to live upon convicts by getting fees out of them for clemency is well known. Admits Taking Fee. I Floyd Terral in a statement last night admitted that he had received $1,000 for assisting Mode in getting his son a pardon from Acting’ Gov. MecCall, but that it was his fee as an attorney. He said that he ar. ranged a meeting between McCall and Mode. His brother neither knew any- thing about it nor had anything to d}o with it, he declared, adding, “I didn’'t think I was_ doing wrong, and my brother shoufd not be blamed.’ Gov. Terral is making the race to succeed himself in the Democratic pri- mary, equivalent to election in_this State, to be held in August. He s known as the ‘no pardon, no parole governor,” not having issued a par- don or parole since taking office. The nine pardons -issued by McCall during the absence of the governor last Fall were held invalid.in Chan- cery Court and the ruling sustained in the Supreme Courts Two of the par- doned men are now fighting extradi- tion in Texas _and the other seven, including Lee Mode, have never been apprehended to be returned to com- plete their, sentences. TIGER °A&" NONE BETTER A. G. HERRMANN 750 Tenth St. SE. _ Lactobacillus Acidophilus Milk A.f‘y'-'l‘x'%"iy'-‘a'e'.;".":!:" NATIONAL VACCINE ANTITOXIN INSTITUTE 1518 U St. N.W. 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