Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1928, Page 7

PASTOR WHO HIT D.A.R. QUITS POST Dr. Lynn Harold Hough De- nies Resignation Is Linked With Speech. | By the Associated Pross DETROIT, April 11.—Dr. Lynn Harold Hough, pastor of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church here, whose Tecent criticism of the Daughters of the American Revolution aroused na-| tional attention, has resigned, he sta here last night Dr. Hough, who has served the D« troit pastorate for the past eight yea emphatically declared criticism of his address delivered two wecks ago before the Detroit Open Forum, in Which le suggested that some commentators refer to the Daughters of the American Revo- Jution as Daughters of the Ku Klux! Klan, had no bearing on his resigna- | tion. Planned to Resign Previoasly. He declared the official board of the| church had known of his desire to re- sign prior to the address. Although indica! he had another pastorate der sideration, Dr Hough declined comment on the matter. As author, clergyman and speaker Dr. Hough came in for national atten- tion due to his frank treatment of cur- rent events, social problems and of affairs of the church | Before accepting the Detroit pastorate Dr. Hough had served for one year as president of Northwestern University | at Evanston, Ill, and from 1914 to 1919 was professor of historical theology at Garrett Biblical Institute. Served in Baltimore. He also has served in pastorates in Baltimore, Md.: Brooklyn, Arcols, Ind: K N Y, Cransford. N ed the fstry in 1898 At one time Dr. Hough stood charged with heresy instituted Rev. Levy Rird of Port Sanilac, Mich., but was unanimously cleared in a report of a special committee during the meeting of the Detroit Methodist Episcopal © ference here. Dr. Hough attracted attention when he suggested in a magazine article that “the fear that a Catholic President would suddenly turn the United States into a Catholic nation need not be taken seriously,” and urged greater tolerance lmnu the people of the country for the religious beliefs of their nexshbors LOST ALLIGATOR FOUND. Spent Seven Months in Cold River Without Harm. Correspondence of the Associated Press. HOT SPRINGS, S. Dak—The rigoss of a Black Hills Winter hold no fer- Tors for one Florida-born alligator. | It Jeft the comforsable tank pro-| vided by Jack Richards, its owner, to spend seven months in Fall River—and one of those months was the coldest | December on record in the Hills. Not only did the vagrant pe vive, it added 10 inches to its 21-inci length and acquired a decided whist- line. Vanishing last Summer, the al- ligator was not seen until a mail car- ;hf found it swimming about in the iver. o to and J min- —_— England now has 9400 blnl(lnx offices. 1| At least 100 people are engaged in vre- | ‘resented at the exhibition An After-Easter FRAULEIN GERDA MAURUS, One of the Austrian capital's most beau- tiful blondes. The resemblance of love- Iy women there to those in America is striking. POSTER CONTEST GAINS INTEREST IN FIVE STATES| | Artists and Au S(udem. Compete for Honor and Prizes in Confed- erate Women's Home Drive. Al Dispatch to The Star. ! RICHMOND, Va, April 11.—~ Five Southern States are already represented in the poster contest which was in- augurated here in connection with the fnancial appeal for a Memorial Home | for Confederate Women, according to an announcement made at campaign headgquarters. Competing so far are artists and art students from Nashville and Bristol, Tenn; Atlanta, Athens and | Griffin, G Birmingham, Huntsville and Florence, Ala; Jackson, Miss., and | Richmond and Staunton, Va. Prizes of $100, $50 and $25 -rc, offered, as well as three honorable men- | tions. The contest closes at 5 p.m. May y 10. The idea of the poster is to graphi- | cally \jsualie the service of the| Memorial Home, the cause it represents, and the sacrificial spirit of the women | of the sixties it commemorates. It is the intention of the board of the home to er and endow a beautiful build- ing here on the ground given by Robert E. Lee. Camp, U. C. V., that will Tot only provide a lasting and artistic | memorial to Confederate women but to represent them by serving through the years to come in their name lineal descendants of Confederate soldiers, sailors and marines. A fund of $750,000 is to be raised by public subscription | and bequest: $250,000 for the building, and $500,000 to !ndo‘ it. Nounshment Show Soon. “Nourishment” is to be the title of | an exhibition that is to be held in Ber- lin this year. The German Hygiene Museum of Dresden will display a spe- ctal group, “Man and His Food,” which will have the purpose of showing all the functions of the human organism. | paring models for this particular ex- hibit alone, it being one of the im- portant tasks of the museum to en- | lighten the general public on the most | reasonable method of nourishment. Other museums and a number of edu- cational organizations will also be rep- lot | States THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., GOVERNMENT LOSES $2,700 AT HOSPITAL Clothing Said to Have Been Taken and Sold Through Second- Hand Store. he (!n\crumrm has been defrauded of about $2,700 worth of property in the past year as the result of the oper- ation of a group of four men who are alleged to have obtained clothing at Walter Reed Hospital through the for- gery of an officer’s name and disposed it through & second-hand store rin by two ¢f them, it was disclosed late | yesterday in Police Court. Pvt. Edmund M. Clark, detailed to the quartermaster department of the | hospital, who is alleged to have forged | | the name of Lieut. Stanley A, Clark to b\\!\fi orders, was turned over to the military authorities by Assistant United Attorney Ralph Given. alleged accessory, Roderick C. a_former soldier at the hospita held wr the grand jury under 00 bond. He is charged with the actual transfer of the property between Pvt. Clark and the storekeepers. Samuel Gritz and his son Harry, operators of a clothing store at 1335 Seventh street, who are said by police to have received the property, will be arraigned in Police Court Tuesday. All of the men were arrested Sundly on a warrant sworn out by Lieut. Clark by Detective Clement Cox of the he quarters clothing squad. Between $600 An Pace, and $700 worth of goods were recovered | by Cox in Gritz's store. According to police, Private Clark for the past year has been putting in orders for clothing not needed by the patients, and then giving it to Pace who would sell it to the Gritzes. Recently, how- ever, Private Clark, instead of allowing the orders to go through the regular channels for approval, began approving them himself, it is said. by forging Lieut. Clark's name to them tenant became suspicious and instigated an investigation. When Private Clark learned of the in- vestigation, police say, he deserted. He was arrested on road. PICKPOCKET SENTENCED Jack Moore, Tnken on White House Lawn, Gets Six Months. Jack Moore, known throughout the munlry as “Stuttering Jake,” the pick= pocket, who was arrested on the White House n Monday at the egg-rolling by Headquarters Detectives Frank Var- ney and H. E. Brodie, was sentenced to | six months in jail when he pleade guilty before Judge Isaac R. Hitt in Police Court this morning to a charge of vagrancy. According to detectives, Moore con- fessed that he was stealing purses from women and was going to make a “big haul” as soon as the band started to >lay and every one's attention was rivet- ed on the musiclans. Judge Hitt im- | { posed the most severe sentence allowed | bond i« by law because of his record, he said. TWO BIG EVENTS “Dollar Day” and “Trade-in Day” $20, *30 and *40 Allowed on Your Old Suite § ‘The lieu- | Delivers Any Article Make your cholce of a sulte or odd 25 CENTS BRINGS ARREST. Lack of Bridge Toll Breaks Up Youths' Florida Trip. ‘The lack of 25 cents to pay bridge toll broke up a trip to New York to take in the bright lights this Sum- mer after a Winfer spent fishing in Florida for Chrisflan W. Frank and James A. Hughes, each 19 years old. ‘The boys were arralgned in Police Court today. Both pleaded guilty and were held for the grand jury under $1,000 bond each. The boys, on their way from Florida, took a car belong- ing to Allen Mertz of 1601 Wisconsin avenue, for the purpose of completing their journey in style, All went well until they came to the Havreé de Gras toll bridge. The required fee was 75 cents. ‘They pooled their resources and found that they could produce only 50 cents between them ‘The constable at the bridge, becoming suspicious, locked them up and tele- phoned the Washington police. They | were brought back to Washington by Jett, | ONE OHIO GIRL INJURED AT CATHEDRAL RECOVERS Six Others Expected to Leave Hos- pital in From Few Days to Two Weeks. | One, of the seven girls who were con- fined to Emergency Hospital after they were injured Monday in the collapse of a scaffold at the Washington Cathedral | had today sufficiently recovered to leave the hospital. She Is Miss Alice Long- necker of Whitchouse, Ohio. She was | discharged last night and rejoined the party of 75 visiting Ohio ‘high school girls and boys with whom she came. |~ There were 10 girls and their chap- eron who were hurled 15 feet to the | ground when the scaffold gave way un- | der their combined weight. Miss Mil- | dred Gwynn, the chaperon, and three of the girls left the hospital after treat- | | ment The condition of those remaining in WYANT BILL SCORED BY GEN. JADWIN Step Backward, Says Chief of Army Engineers, Criticizing Trans- fer of Flood Work. By the Associated Press. Mississipp! flood control was injected yesterday Into the move to transfer the public works activities of the Govern- ment to the Department of the In- terlor with the declaration of Maj. Gen. Jadwin, chief of Army Engineers, that if the Mississippi River Commission had been under the supervision of Army Engineers, flood control would have been accomplished “years ago.” Opposing the Wyant public works bill before the House expenditures commit- tee, Gen. Jadwin was questioned by Representative Jacobstein, Democrat, New York, concerning the miotives be- hind the move to transfer river and harbor work to private engineers. “Some one is going to get a big part of the difference between the $300,000,~ 000 flood work on the Mississippi and the billion and a half which the work will cost under the modified bill,” Gem. Jadwin predicted. Gen, Jadwin declared that the Wyant measure was opposed to the best inter- of the country and would consti- a step backward. “If you are going to transfer the Pngln(‘el‘ officers to do the work,” he sald, “you should transfer the chief of engineers, the chief of staff and the Secretary of War to be the board of directors.” “I think you would lose a great deal ¢-ordinating the engineers in the rd ef vub" " he added. “but 1't know what you would gain, MAINE VACATION URGED. Four Congress Mombers Tell Pres- ident of State's Attractions. the hospital is painful, but not consid- ered serious. Some of them will be forced to remain here for at least two weeks, it was said today. Those who are still in bed are Miss Pearl Studer of Whitehouse, Miss Ethel | Burrows of Waterville, Miss Leona Mes- nard of Whitehouse, Miss Lois Askey of Whitehouse, Miss Laura Peifer of White- house and Miss Inez De Muth of Water- | ville | all but the two last named, both of whom will be released within the next | | few days. | ey GOVERNOR T0 RUN. 4 Towa Executive Will Seek Third | pext vacation. | Term—Favors Bond Issue. | DES MOINES, April 11 (#.—Gov John Hammill today formally an- nounced his third term candidacy for | the Republican nomination as Governor |of Towa, In his platform statement he | indorsed and urged referendum approv- al next November of a $100,000,000 State » to complete the primary road tem in six years, Rolled Into One ‘The offer made to President Coolidge yesterday by Gov. Brewster of Maine | of a Summer home on the ocean front not far from Bar Harbor, Me., was followed today by that of four mem- bers of the Maine congressional dele- gation. Senator Hale, who headed the dele- gation, said afterward that, while the Broken bones were suffered by | place offered by Gov. Brewster would | be suitable in every way for the Presi- dent’s purposes, he and his associates did not mention any particular spot or locality to-the President. They merely reminded him of the beauties and other attractions to be found in Maine, and expressed the hope that he would | select some spot in the State for his They were assured by the President that he would give Maine serious con- sideration when the time arrives. 14 Lieut. Col. Fleet Transferred. Lieut. Col. Henry W. Fleet, Infantry, at the Army War College, has been as- signed 10 the 1st_Army Division with station at Miller Field, N. Y., effective | in July. ° S e e’ 2> e R . 0 950 %, . % . a8 % R WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1928. JOHN SAUL RETIRES. Membership Chairman of Trade Board Had Fine Record. John Saul, chairman of the member- ship committce of the Washington Board of Trade during the past year, retired from that post yesterday after- noon at a meeting of the committee at the Carlton Hotel. During his incum- | bency the committee established a record of 720 new members without a membership drive, bringing the total membership to more than 3,000, it was announced. ‘The successor to Mr. Saul is to be named by the new president of the Board of Trade, who Is to be selected next week by the newly constituted | board of directors. Election of new | members of the board will be held at the annual meeting tomorrow evening at_the Willard Hotel, William R. Ellis, members during the present administra- tion. than 50. Luther Linkins now is vice chairman of the committee. ‘The principal speaker at the meeting | of the board tomorrow evening will be Edwin C. Graham, president, who will submit his annual report outlining the activities of the organization during | his administration. Reports will b(' submitted by the aviation committee, | public order committee and the secre- tary and treasurer, CROSSMAN TO GO BACK TO VETERANS’ BUREAU | Former Medical Director Will Re- sume Post, Succeeding Dr. B. W. Black, Resigned. Dr. E. O. Crossman, | director of the Veterans’ Bureau, will resume that post, succeeding Dr. Ben- jamin W. Black, resigned, Director Frank T. Hines of the Veterans' Bu- reau announced today. Long Island, superintending construc- tion and equipment of a new Govern- ment hospital. Announcement of the change in med- feal directors of the bureau was made of the bureau in the presence of both the retiring and newly appointed direc- tors. The council consists of leading members of the medical profession from | different parts of the country who lend their advice and assistance to solving problems of the World War veteran. The council meets twice each year, The session_will close tomorrow. Dr. Black i3 to become medical di- i rector of hospitals in Alameda County | G with headquarters in Oal cretary of the | committee, himself brought in 75 new | Saul was responsible for more | | | former medical | Dr. Crossman has been at Northport, | at a meeting of the medical council | TWO FINED $300 EACH FOR SELLING WILD DUCKS Center Market Storekeepers Plnd‘l Guilty—Given Warns Against Violations. Two Center Market pleaded guilty to selling wild ducks in violation of the law, and a fine of $300 was arralgned before Judge Robert E. Mat- tingly in Police Court late yesterday. The men were Charles Wells and John E. Thompson. to have sold six ducks to Deputy United States Game Warden Moody Creighton. Creighton also bought 15 ducks from Thompson. The prosecution of the case was the result of a letter from Chief Deputy United States Game Warden Talbott Denmead telling of the purchase. Assistant United _States Attorney Ralph Given, who handled the case, issued a warning this morning that if | the storekeepers continue to sell game birds the penalty will be more severe the next time. tence under the law is a fine of $500 and 6 months in jail | WEDDING TO BE AT “Y. W.” | Maryland Man to Marry Miss Vir-| ginia Padilla Tomorrow. The board room of the new You Women's Christian Association Bu)ld- ing, at Seventeenth and K streets, will be used tomorrow evening for the flut‘ time as the setting for a wedding cere- mony. It will not be an ordinary wed- ding, either, but will be a pan-Ameri- can marriage, for the bride, Miss Vir- ginia Padilla, a member of the In- dustrial Club of the Young Women's | Christian Assoclation of this city, is a native of Jacaleapa, Honduras, and has lived in ihe National Capltal only a few "The groom will be John Zier, a Mary- land man, and after & honeymoon, the couple will make their home in East | Riverdale. Miss Salda Hartman, in- dustrial secretary of the Y. W. C. A., & to be maid of honor at this interna tional wedding. and the brother of the bridegroom, Paul Zier, will serve as best man. All arrangements for the wed- ding are in the hands of the Industrial Club of the association. The ushers will be young women belonging to the club. They are Misses Helmi Kasanen, Emily | Bell, Ruth Sebolt and Winifred Killelea Mrs. Albert H. Putney, chairman of the industrial committee of the Y. W. C. A. will play the wedding march, and Dr. Albert H. Putney will give the bride storekeepers | imposed on each when they were | Wells s alleged | - |BARRY FARM CITIZENS | THANK PARK OFFICIALS Additional Hanlf Acre for Play | ground Appreciated by Resi- : dents of Section. The Barry Parm Citizens’ voted last night to thank t Capital Park and Planning Commissic ! for acquisition of an additional acre of ground adjoining the Bar Farm Municipal Playground. east {Nichols avenue southeast. 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