Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1928, Page 4

D. 4. R SESSIONS 10 CLOSE TODAY Banquet Tonight to End 37th Continental Congress: Many Delegates Have Left. ed ffom First Page.) N ual for ummign T assessment the work of v adopted approved a sco ed by the Won more piedges 1o d for erection g g Was ad exploded and th> bre: defeat of movement atory” the sgainst attitude toward soe: for a bigger Navs Wil Install New Officers. Completion of unfi iness and consideration of ne ss were 10 ¢ the sessions today. The seven | lect ents general will | New te | Tegents an confirmed. The resolutions committee | will make its final reports. { 1 banquet of the society wil night at 7:30 o'clock at the | Mrs. Frank S. Hight is | committee on arrange- | Margaret Withers and n Little are vice chair- ' chairman of t ments. and M: Mrs. J. Fran men. The sessions today were held In Me- | morial Continental Hall, due to the re- @uction in number of delegates. Among resolutions adopted vesterday | were the following: One indorsing the | bill of Representative A. J. Montague of | Virginia directing publication of the names of the heads of families as re- ported in the census from 1800 to 1840: commending the work of the Sons and Deughters of America; approving erec- tion of a monument in Smythe County, Va. to the memory of, Gen. Wmuml Campbell, hero of the revolutionary | battle of Kings Mountain; in further- snce of the movemgnt o provide chap- els for Army. d Petitioning Con- gress for a stant red, white and biue system of markers for the National Oldl Trails road. supported by the D. A. R. | An interesting report on the progress | being made in marking t National | ©Old Trails road was given by Mrs. John Trigg Moss. chairman of the committee in charge of that work, and Harry S. Truman. president of the National Old | Trails Road Association. addressed the | eongn on the development of this highway. The road follows across the | zn!u‘wnl the trails of covered wagon | ¥s. Mrs. Moss disclosed that Maryland's memorial marker for the road probably will be erected in Bethesda. A definite | site has not yet been chosen, she said. | Sites for other monuments have been selected at Lexington, Mo.: Council | Grove, Kans.: Springerville, Ariz: Al-| buquerque, N. Mex Lamar, Colo. Washington, Pa.: Wheeling. W. Va. Springfield, Ohio, and Vandalia, Ill. | Historic Spots to Be Marked. The markers are to be “of dignified and pretentious proportions,” and will | be located on historical spots or at place where they appropriately com memorate “some great act of historical | interest of the Revolutionary period.” rd monument selected for will depict the “pion er | with her children gathered the delegates edral at the op James E. Preeman ed 1o Annapolis k ed States Naval John's College. 4 were delivered to ess last night by Rev, Dr 700, pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterain Church; Mrs Bdith McClure Patterson and Mrs. Rob- ert Walbridge, president of the Amer- fean Legion Auxilia Invocation was Pfered by Mrs, Seiden Spencer, p ehaplain general of the national soci Elienor Cook and Eug § sertes of folk dances. The Army B for a o Acaden In her annual report o 5. A 1y oo, e tribute A "' arted CITES SCOPE OF BUREAU’S WORK FOR WAR CRIPPLES Assistant ClubTe Director s at City Is of ¥unds Yz~ oldiers were ich Bas copl e $4.208.508,30% 12 it for adjusted service amounts W more s e other ¢ Duresy Dureats people thousand of tu eentral office here Bues for Divorce, Langley, 1% sull for & i Langley, foor They Government of the la- certificates than three o the work of the fact that staff of 26.000 0 car o work Four wre employed indieaty he said require Mrs, Margaret | goud, yesterday filed divoree from mas E pisneger for & department store were married s Norfolk, Va, August 24, 1918, and have one child. Attorpey gohn . Bedier sppeared fur the wife, ) at the' G STAR. WASHINGTON, D NOTES OF THE D. A. R. CONGRESS | BY MARGARET POE HART. | Q With questions of insurgency safely | solved the attention of D. A R. dele- | gates turns to the absorbing issue, “Who kls to be elected president general in 119292 Inquiry among the leaders show that the leading candidate—one who ! has in every sense of the word been | drafted for this task—is Mrs. Lowell | F. Hobart of Cmeinnati, Ohio, organiz- | ing secretary general of the society. It id that consultation with more | than 150 of the leading women of the anization _recently brought _out enormous Hobart sentiment prevailing in the D. A. R. and it was decided to revert to the old method of having lead- 7 Ohio, Mrs. Hobart's State, pre- t her name for the highest office in ift of the D. A. R had no desire to become & nd had planned to returr e life after her present term But when the opportunity for vice was shown to her she ‘con- d to the use of her name if her wished it. Other candidates will of course, appear in the field, but it is thought that by 1929 the sentiment mingly for Mrs. Ho- there will be no doubt of her Her popularity anong the > ab expired t a erican hosts Like e will sident of th Auxiliary. has wo nds throughout the cc seau. it is thought 1 presiding offi cognizing factional diference ent only on promoting the good Hobart has won and has the gift Her ense is George Maynard Minor, honor- S to her credit of Connecti- | publication n al for im a nation all the tory to marked uring her regime as presi- I they were widely quoted he world as examples of sound d statesmanship g in the Memo- Y nted A colo br The delegat all in evening gowns, and the flags of theé States, with tall palms, formed effective background for the strik- : and handsome gowns worn by the Daughters. | | Many of the delegates have already| The Deleware Dau |left Washington and a large number |full for the Delaw are leaving this morning. The sessions oday will find the delegates busy say- ing farewell to their associates. The banquet tonight at the Willard Hotel will bring the Thirty-seventh Congress to a close. Mrs. Frank S ght is chairman of the banquet com mittee, Miss Margaret Withers, vicr chairman, and Mrs. J. Pranklin Littl> vice chairman in charge of tickets. the presentation by the pages of the crongress of a wrist watch to Mrs. John Denison Nevin. chairman of pages. and & bar pin to Mrs. Archibald I. McColl, vice chairman. The pages last night were in colorful evening gowns, last | night's session baing the only one the pages were privileged to wear g other than white District of Columbia—Rain tonight | and possibly tomorrow morning; not| much change in temperature. Maryland and Virginia—Rain tonight and tomorrow; mot much change in temperature. - i West Virginia—Rain tonight and, possibly tomorrow morning: colder to- | morTow. i Record for 24 Hours. | Thermometer—-4 p.m.. 60; 8 pm., 55 12 midnight, 51 am., 45; 8 am, 45! 11 am, 48. Barometer—4 p.m., 30.12:"‘! pmy 30.18; 12 midnight, 90.24; 4 a'm., 30.247 8 a.m., 30.30; 11 am. 30.28. Highest temperature, 60, occurred at 4 p.m. yesterday. Lowest temperature, 44, occurred at 6:30 am. today. Temperature same date last year— Highest, 83; lowest, 61. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and | Geodetic Survey.) Today—Low tide, 3:42 am. and 4:26/ pm.; high tide, 9:37 am. and 10:08 pan. Tomorrow—Low tide, 4:34 am. and 5:20 pm.; high tide, 10:28 am. and 11:02 pm The Sun and Moon. Today—Sun rose 5:23 am.; sun sets 6:52 p.m. ‘Tomorrow—8Sun rises 5:21 am.; sets 6:53 pam. Moon rises 7:07 am.; sets 10:11 pm. Automobile lamps to be lighted one- half hour after sunset. Condition of the Water. Great Palls—Slightly muddy. Weather in Various Citles. sun Temperature. ®n Weather. | My FORKAGN cenwioh time, todsy. ) Temprernture Westher 128,000 | ¢ bimervagions ) 70 Part cloudy .h‘v‘ o, 7 Clear 1 L 2 Cloudy |POLES MEET LITHUANIANS BERLIN, April 21 (4%)~The threads o the recent Pollsh-Lithuanian parleys |at Koenigsberg were picked up again | yesterday, when three delegates from cach country met st the Lithuanian le- gation In Berlin w fix & working sched- de for the mixed commissions of ex» perte appointed 1o straighten out press | ent controversial points . Produels of 42 countries were res celved lnlo Persgusy last yesr, Mrs. Hobart, | There was no afternoon session of the congress, but hundreds of delegates | went on a pilgrimage to Washington Cathedral, led by national and State officers, while still other delegates went to Annapolis and a visit to the United States Naval Academy. At Washington Cathedral the dele- gates were greeted by the Very Rev ton. Rev. canon of Washington Cathedral: | Joseph Fletcher, librarian of Washing- ton Cathedral, and Mr. Edwin N .ewis, executive secretary of the cathe- | dral. In a buief talk given in Bethle-| { hem chapel, Dean Bratenahl welcomed | | the delegates to the cathedral and | praised- their patriotic stand on vital | issues of the day. The dean said in | | particular that such organizations as | | the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion keep the roots of Christian civiliza- | tion alive and that their activities al-| | ways went back to the principles on | which the country was founded. He | quoted President Coolidge’s statement | that “the strength of a nation is the| strength of its religious convictions | The D. A. R. pilgrims were then shown through the cathedral chapels and in- spected the beautiful cathedral gardens. | Many of the Daughters went to An- | apol terday afternoon, and visited | the United States Naval Academy, while others took sight-seeing trips about Washington. The Georgia Sate delegation enter tained at dinner iast night at the Wil- | lard. having a number of prominent members of the delegation and several national officers as honor guests The Georgia delegation were guests of Mrs. William J. Harris and Mrs. Wal- ter F. George, wives of the Senators from Georgia, who entertained at tea at the Congressional Club. Among those assisting were Mrs. Herbert Franklin trs. Julius Y. Talmadge, Mrs. Howard L McCall and Mrs. John M. Slaton. Utah has but two chapters of the D. A R. in the State, but regardless of this the Utah box in the new Constitu- has been paid for. Mrs. Oscar K. Mauldin, State regent of South Carolina, presided at the meet- ing of the South Carolina delegation Thursday. Thirty delegates and alter- nates were present at the meeting and the delegation had its State dinner fol- lowing the mee The District of Columbia Daughters have given a platform chair to the new | Constitution Hall in honor of Mrs. Eli Helmick, registrar general. hiers have paid in © box in Constitu- tion Hall, five memorial chairs, and pur- | | chased a State flag to be used during | congress. The Delaware Sons of the | American Revolution gave $100 toward | payment for the Delavare box. The Gen. David Forman and Gen Washington Chapters of Trenton, N. J.. have pledged a platform chair in honor of Mrs. Calvin Coolicz>. Mrs. George De Bolt, former his- torian general, Stat> historian and sec- | retary to the Board of Education of | Fairmont, W. Va, is a distinguished | member of the W Virginia delegation. The New York delezation was enter- | tained at a recepticn and dance Thurs- dav evening by the New York State So- ciet: Acquitted by Jury of Manslaughter Charge After Fatal Crash | With Fire James O'Donnell, 123 Pifth street sutheast, was acquitted late yesterday 2fternoon by a jury in Criminal Divi- | $on 1 before Justice Siddons of a charge of manslaughter in connection with the death of Fire Licut. Samuel L. Gal- lavan July 25 last. O'Donnell claimed that it was the car of the police liquor | squad which was pursuing him that | struck the horse cart on which the | = lieutenant was riding and dragged him for 50 feet. He admitted his car struck the hose cart. but said that it was| nearer the front fender than where the officer was standing on the running | rd. | Attorneys James ‘Shea and John | H Burnett defended O’Donnell, while the | orosecution was conducted by Assistant United States Attorneys Neudecker and Burkinshaw. The jury was composed of Miss Margaret Haltigan, daughter of Patrick J. Haltigan, reading clerk of the House of ntatives, and 11 men. and was the first jury on which | A woman was serving to be locked up | for the duration of the trial. | Fan TWO SEVERELY BURNED AS AUTO CATCHES FIRE Tank Becomes Ignited While Being Filled—Flames Spread to Nearby Car. Jesse Thompson, colored, 50 years old, a Pullman porter, and Mrs. Jennle Thompson, colored, his wife, 48 years old, were severely burned last night about 8:30 o'clock when their auto- mobile caught fire in front of a flling station at 306 Rhode Island avenue. A lighted cigarette is blamed by the police for starting the fire while the tank of the car was being filled with gasoline, the fluid igniting and causing | such a sudden outburst of flame that husband and wife were unable to avoid | being burned. | Mrs, Thompson was burned on the face and hands, while her husbands | feet and hands were burned. The flames spread to a nearby car, firemen’ex- tinguishing it before it had spread to the filling station. Husband and wife, the latter reported |0 a critical condition, were taken to Freedmen's Hospital and given first ald ‘h‘y‘ Dr. P. C. Brooks. Because of thelr serious conditions they were detained In | the hospital, It is not necessary to have had an Ac- count at this Bank to Borrow, M} MORRIS Al Easy “to Pay Monthly Deposit Yor 12 Months $540 , $1,200 $100. r $6,000 $500.00 | | boyhood, and reminiscences of her own | Columbia, and marched to the tomb of | and the flag saluted. Mrs. Howard gave AR PLGRINS VI T, VERNON Mrs. Eleanor Washington Howard Tells of Childhood to Convention Visitors. The story of George Washington's childhood at Mount Vernon were told to members of the National Society, Children of the Revolution, during their nnual pilgrimage to Mount Vernon to- day, by Mrs. Eleanor Washington How- ard, vice prosident of the society, and great-great-grandniece of Gen. Wash- The pilgrimage closed the third annual convention of the which has been in session here ving at the Mount Vernon . the children formed a proces- jon, headed by Color-bearer Trimble Sawtelle and Bugler Hamilton Colt, both of the itol Society of the District of | George and Martha Washington. There a wreath was. placed on the sarcophagi for George Washington by Mary Bar- bara Haberkern of Gov. Alexander Mar- tin Society, Winston-Salem, N. C.. and for Martha Washington by Cora Maxine | Bressler of the Pennsylvania Mayflower Soctety, Renovo, Pa. i Following this ceremony, the children proceeded to the C. A. R. tree, midway | between the tomb and the mansion house, where patriotic songs were sung her talk there | During the exercises around the free, of Mount Vernon, rev ry | of the tree, splanted from Concord, | Mass., 30 years ago, by the originators | of the societ Yesterday afternoon the presidents of | the societies attending the convention discussed problems of mutual interest at a meeting in the children’s room, Me- morial Continental Hall. | 'COMDR. ROSENDAHL | | IN'URED IN CRASH | Lakehurst, N. J., Officer's Auto in? Collision Near Camden on Re- } turn From Philadelphia. By the Associated Press. CAMDEN, N. J.. April 21.—Comdr. Charles E. Rosendahl, in charge of the naval air station at Lakehurst, was | injured slightly last night in an auto- mobile erash in Pensauken town- ship, near here The commander, who had addressed the American Philo- sophical conven- tion in Philadel- phia, was retu:ning to Lakehurst when his car and one driven by Clarence Martin of River- | side, N. 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