Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1927, Page 11

— e . " CREDIT MEN LEAVE FOR CONVENTION 100 Delegates From Middle West Go to Providence Storm Center Known to After Day in Capital. | Friends as Kind-Hearted Man—=Golf Only Hobby. HAS FIRST VACATION IN 6 YEARS Controller General McCarI; Leaves for Two-Week Rest | at Thousand Islands. ; One hundred visiting delegates to the fifieenth annual convention of the Retail Credit Men’s Assocld to be held in Providence, R. I., this i left Washington for New York la night after a day of entertainment and sightseeing in the Capital. T)I(f)' came here from St. Louis, arriving in | We on shortly after noon. Allfoffice yesterday afternoon for the first were from the dle West. During | real vacation he has had since as- ay here they were guests of | suming the post in 19 1 Retail Credit Men of | *Thig man McCarl, . who entertained them at|on one hand there appears to devolve | night at the City Clup. | more mystery, fear and wholesome | mion dread than about anyone else in the | R e e Government service, but on the other, | 4. RAYMOND McCARL ot e iie | the man who has surprised other Gov- = I ¥ e . the | ernment chiefs with forward steps in | created by the same act which set Raymond Mec(s the sturdy | little Nebraskan, wWho for six years has been holding tight onto m's purse strings, as Controll General of the United States, left hi about whom 'HOLDER OF U. S. PURSE STRINGS |Wife of Comdr. Byrd Avoids Spotlight, | ButIs Given Credit for Aid by Husband | By the Associated Press. + BOSTON, August 5.—The spotlight | of public attention h: i to focus on Mra. Ri > wife of the intrepid naval aviator. | Although Comdr. Byrd recognizes |her as a fullfledged partner in his | aernoautic achievements, she refuscs [to take public share in his glory and | | declines to allow herself or her four, | children to exploited. When r husband n ht over th ivrd went North Pole in 0 the country a cret, husband off on | flight her home here. When she went to neet her husband on his lar and trans: flights ined in the ackground. ile Mrs. Byrd has in the honor that has been ;]n aped upon her husband, Comdr. Byrd himself after his flight to ance paid deep tribute to her and to his |mother as full partners in his adven ed” he said, “I should e mad but for two thin mother's sharing opes, and second, my wife's adroit discovery of the compelling urge with- have First, ¢ fondest ship bas been suc and mind able to try some other worth- while thing Byrd ought no | 4 cessful.” in me, which I thought T was con- ling. Promptly thereupon she cquiesced in taking up these hazard- ous efforts in deadly earnest.” When he returned safely from the North Pole, and again when he landed safely in France, he sald he thought: “Well, again this little family partner- ful, leaving body Although Mrs. Byrd has never made known publicly her feelings toward ‘dous undertakings in which and is engaged, members of household she is as eous as she is modest. At the time of the polar flight a nurse in the homa said, “Her worry since ‘omdr. Byrd’s departure has been something tremendous, but she has never winced and has been confident all the time that he would be suc- Before her marriage Mrs. Byrd was Miss Marie Donaldson Ames of Bos- ton. She was married to Comdr. Byrd at Winchester, Va., January 20, 1915, when he was an ensign. “Household sewing is becoming a lost art,” said W. P. Stewart at a meeting in Glasgow recently o+CHILE TO GIVE REPLY ON TACNA-ARICA PLAN| Will Act Tomorrow or Tuesday o6n V. S. Proposal to Solve Deadlock. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.. AUGUST 7. 1927—PART ‘1. By the Assoclated Press. | SANTIAGO, Chile, August 6.—The | today stated that orf Monday or Tues- | day next he would give an official an- | swer to the proposal advanced by the | United States toward the solution of the deadlock in connection with the? ‘acna-Arica borders. The belief was | expressed in official quarters that the reply would be a favorable one. The Tacna-Arica Boundary Commis- sion has been meeting in New York for some months past under the presi- dency of Col. Jay J. Morrow, with M, Riso-Patron of Chile and Col. Ordonez of Peru as the other membe In June M. Riso-Patron withdrew from the commission meetings follow- ing a difference of opinion as to what constituted a quorum. Col. Morrow | and Col. Qrdonez ruled that only two, | or a majority vote, was sufficient to deal with matters needing théir atten- tion, but Senor Riso-Patron insisted Chilean minister of foreign relations ||- on unanimity. Since the withdrawal of the Chilean member the State De- partment in Washington and the | chancellerfes of Lima, Peru, and San- | tiago, Chile, have been trying to s the problem in diplomatic chinne! VISION —pleasure, causes misunders retards learning, cripples e responsible for tragic body and mind. Remember the Address anding, ciency, handicaps your business and is often accidents. Health of vision is vital to health of Three- Day Special KRYPTOK Bifocal Lenses See far and near 'S SHAH OPTICAL CO. 812 F St. N.W. Saold regularly $15 This Is Not a Jewelry Store nd then dro ro! e | irbreteah = Porrdee x!‘m\.‘:lx‘,\mx:\“’;\?u:x)x:t piiitne Moentment O Sz ownien Iunihalsewinioger vaiem y h_the Zoological gone for awhile, and great|Government, known as the Bridge to Fort ¢ be expected to go up from |and accotinting act. thence to Arlington, where they | Various parts of the Government ma- | Thousands of decisions have been ted the I Mansion and the | chine in the National Capital. handed down with the signature of omb of the Unknown Soldier. But the sighs of relief, which may [J. R. McCarl, in a firm hand, with ? arise at thinking there may be sur-|u broad-pointed pen. The nature of Visit Lincoln Memorial. cease from the grim vigilance of this|these decisions, sharply protecting Returning over the Highway Bridge [ Watchdog of the United States|as they do the taxpayers' money they visited the Lincoln Memorfal, | Treasury, may all be for naught. For |under multitudinous statutes, often and then went to the City Club for | McCarl has left his right-hand man, |have fallen as hard blows on the dinner, where omed by | Judge Lurtin R. Ginn “sitting on the | recipients. McCarl has made many John W, Ta dent of the [lid” as *“Acting Controller eneral, enemies in the Government service, 2 “ with the whole force of faithful assist- | Who were unable to use the Federal ants and employes, who swear by |funds as they thought the funds their chieftain, McCarl himself. The [should be used. He has made many history of s and its husiness of the General Accounting Of-| friends. One of his closest official of Credit 3 | fice is expected to proceed along the | friends fs the head of one of the rs were same strict lines. |great Government agencies which Louis, president of Off on Automobile Trip. spends enormous funds. e But the picturesqud figure of the Severe on Friends Also. - Controller General himself, with his| McCarl's decisions on this organ- ¢ Infectious smile, his ever-present | ization have been interpreted as flowing black windsor tle, his ready-|being as severe as on any other. rippling speech and domfnating per-| J. Raymond McCarl himself is as sonality, will be gone for the first |enthusiastic that handlers of the time, Nation’s dollars shall be honest and “How long?" he was asked. scrupulous to the last cent, as he “Oh, only two weeks. I must get |anxious that the workers under him back to busin was his quick | shall have as decent working con- ditions as possible under the pressure of the general accounting office sys- | tem Just before he went v on his vacation, the Controller General was commended for his latest step express- | ing confidence in employes by re. moving the necessity of a nota public oath for sick leave of two days or e Only the employes’ own written word i now necessary. “Government workers ought to be treated as human beings,” he said, brief e I, T1TE. WRIGHT FURNITOURE. O I i e Here Are Just a Few of the v Hassocks sto. | Reductions Now Being 'Featured $1 1 IN THE WRIGHT CO.’S 1 AUGUST SALE!! A Visit to Our Store Will Show You Many Waysto Save—Now Either of These Styles Covered Velour ALL METAL BATH Cottor ROOM Filed, Tdeal for the Auto or Home. Mr. Tal t 1 eredits, and detailed briefly 5 White Enamel Assoc director of the natio Louis. urgh, of Lansburgh & he Associated Retail hington, will be a Providence conven- deliver an address, Busine: at the session, August have been made by the vidence Association to entertain 8.000 delegates from all parts of the United States and Canada. s vacation will be a motor trip to the Thousand Islands country of the St. Lawrence River, with rest and recreation there. IcCarl, the official who makes ons, the most severe of w ich come to public notice, but thousands of which are buried in the big books where routine business goes through- out the big Federal machine, has N(‘q\l:l'ed :lf ;oputatkm in many quarters of being a hard-boiled. tight-fisted individual who Spemds aii :l'loxn\\"kut;g hok:uw in devising regula- S to bar the ndi FOVY j- tons tols spending of Govern Only Hobby is Golf. Tallentire, | His friends know him as ol -{a heart so responsive that he - J. Dunn, Mr. Lansburch, | seclutles himself dellber;‘:;}l\'};fi e Eugene Bentty, Kenneth J. Blundon |to be thereby the better enabled. 1o nd Albert Denham. Mr. Talkes will |arrive at conclusions of the hesg PRty hased on the law, instead of the nmittee. that arranged the | heart based on feelings, of the Western credit| A man with on y—1 v terday, included -Mr. Os- | —has allowed mm'éerx‘)::i u.'Ii”d}\-Z'r'f . Coonin, Mr. Tallentire | sion, goli. He is chairman of the kes. 50l committee of the Congressional Country Club. He fs said to play a fair” game of golf. He gets pleasure from it, and is good company, but those who know him best say' that he gets the best stimulation in life out of his work itself. He spends BUILDING COLLAPSES IN CENTER OF LONDON [+ i | el i Crash of Structure Near Bank of | 35 before him and -his'bix office. | Congress McCarl has served about six years | England Heard Mile Away. of his term of 15 years as the first None Hurt. Talkes to Preside. Stephen H. 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