Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1928, Page 6

¢ = TEDWILGOOSE e DR ORATOR TOMORROW Third of Elght Contenders From Public Schools to Receive $50 Prize. Technical High School will provide the third the eight contenders for the championship of The Star area in the fifth National Oratorical Contest when its best orator will be picked from the five survivors of that school's eliminations tomorrow night in the “Tech” finals With the contest in the Maryland and Virginia territory of this newspa- per's area awaiting their re- spective championship tesis, to be held Aprii 30 and May 2. the District of Columbia schools are providing all the forensic activity these days The pri- vate and parochial schools district o 10 schools, each repre- sentative picked ater the group phase ¢ e contest at 3 oclock to- morrow afternoon at McMahon Hall of Catholic University. when four of its schools contend for & place in that district’s finals. Tech's five rema comprise three bovs and two gir holding consistent! h the boy-gitl ratio which that school has maintained through most of the of contest participati i five orators has won his semi-finals prize of $20. and in their final battle tomorrow night they will be competing for a single award of $50 and the right to enter The Star finals, in which the three-month tour of Europe and a fur- ther cash award of $200 will be the Roal McKinley only its own ng con ach of Judges Are Selected. udged by a jury of Isaac Gans, prominent Washington business man: Mrs. Grace Havs Riley of the Washington Callege of Law. and Ma). J. H. Defabdort of the judge ad- vocate general’s office, McKinley's par- ticipants in its finals are Charles Pot- ter. Harry Schonrank. Victor Jaffe Miss Elizabeth Hoeke and Miss Louise Babcock To be composed Charles Potter. who is_speaking on *The Development of the Constitution,” it the 17-vear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Potter, 315 Webster street senfor at Tech. he has been a leader in his school's dramatics. having plaved prominent parts in the Spring piay last vear and again this year. He plans to enter Purdue University to study engi- neering following his graduation from Tech this June Harry Schonrank is the son of Mrs. Minnie Shonrank. 1207 G street south- east. He is 18 years old and 'a junior in school. where he is a student of the arts. Harry is particularly keen about music and is anxious to study at the Eastman School of Music. at Rochester, following his graduation from high school. He is a tenor and has taken leading roles in two of Tech's operas. He entered the oratorical contest. he said. because he wanted to develop “the other side of his education.” In the contest he is speaking on “The Devel- opment of the Constitution.” Young Jaffe, 16-year-oid senior. who speaks on “The Present Significance of the Constitution.” is the son of 8. S Jafle, 407 Dorset street. Somerset. Md. Of Russian lineage, Jaffe is a thorough- going advocate of American principles of government. Like Shonrank, Jafle is & musician. He is more interested in music than almost anything else, unless it be aeronautics. At present it seems a bit uncertain whether he will make music or seronautical engineering his chosen profession, but he plans to enter the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- ogy. using his cello to help pay his way. Contestant Heads Sorerity. Miss Hoeke is the daughter of Mrs Emma L. Hocke. 1348 Euclid street, and she is one of the leaders of her set at school. She is president of Tau Phi Borority and has been active in her school politics, having been secretary of General Organization, Tech's stu- dent governing body. She is 17 years old, a senior, and 1= making her bid for forensic honors with her speech on “The Devrlopmenl of the Constitution.” Babeock, who despite her 15 ym. - age is a senior in school, i the @aughter of Raymond N. Babcock, 4111 ‘Tweifth street northeast. She holds one of the best scholastic records and in ad- dition to her class standing has been active in non-scholastic movements. Bhe has represented her section in the “0. 0" and she is interested in the McKinley Girl Reserves. She also had & part in the Tech Christmas play. Her oration in the contest is on ent Significance of the Constitution " In the initial gnmr contest of the private and parochial schools district the contestant field will include Misx the | Holy Cross Academy. Miss Dorothea Marie Rehage of the Immaculate Con- ception. Academy and Miss Prancis E Appich of the Bacred Heart Academy Dr. Charles N. McCarthy, professor of history at Catholic University, will pre- ide, while the judges will be students of Ameriean history. American politica history and_logie picked from the clames of Dr. MeCarthy. Dr. Frank Hart and Dr. Leo Stock at the univer- sity. . Cosgrave in Auto Crash. DUBLIN. April 23 (@) - President Cosgrave of the Irish Free State was thaken up in an automobile accider yesterday. He had to turn off a coun- try road and struck a wall in order 1 avold colliding with snother car The President’s machine was put out of commission he escaped injury he Pres- | | | | | | | | | | | | | Prohibition Amendment INTNG STAR, WARHINGTON, 1. T. " MONDAY. KPR HEADED BY DU PflNT 170 lndustrual Leaders Named on Board to Seek Repeal of 18th Amendment. Reorganization of the board of di- rectors of the Association Against the has been ef- fected, it was announced today. with the naming of 70 men. who are de-' | seribed as directors and officers in or- ganizations employing over 2,000,000 | men and women The executive committee of the new | board will consist of Pierre 8. du Pont, | | R CHADWICK, Whe was chosen recently to represent John’s College in the private and parochical schools distriet. CATHEDRAL GROUP IS MEETING TODAY Bishop Freeman and Pepper to Address National Cam- paign Committee. The Spring meeting of the Washing- ton Cathedral committee is being held this afternoon at the residence of Mr and Mis. John Hays Hammond on| Kalorama road. Bishop James E. Free- man and former Senator George Whar- ton Pepper of Pennsylvania were sched- uled to deliver the principal addresses Mr. Pepper it executive chairman of | the national campaign now in prog- | ress 1o raise money for the completion of the cathedral The cathedral committee includes many persons of prominence and its activities, since it was organized under the direction of the late Right Rev Henry Yates Satterlee, Bishop of Washington, have led to the organiza- tion of other committees of a similar | character throughout the country Plans for the completion of the edifice and of the College of Preachers were to be outlined by Bishop Freeman and Mr. Pepper. The host, Mr. Hammond also a member of the national commi | tee for the cathedral. of which Gen John J. Pershing is chairman. The executive committee for the Washington Cathedral includes the fol- | lowing members: Very Rev. G. C. F.| Bratenahl. Mrs. Robert S. Chew, Mrs. | Gibson Fahnestock, Mrs. John Hays | Hammond. Coleman Jennings. Mrs. Hennen Jennings. George B. McClel- lan. Mrs. George Wharton Pepper, D William C. Rives, Mrs. William C. Rives, Mrs. Walter Tuckerman and Mrs. Wil- | ¥ ] liam H. Wilmer. PRESIDENT ASKS FUNDS FOR U. S. AIR MAIL ABROAD ik siats 'Sopni Allotment of $1.750.000 and Recommends Establishment of New Line. Supplemental A supplemental appropriation of $1.750,000 for carrying foreign mails by | air, including the establishment of an | air mail route from San Juan, to San- | tiago, Cuba, by way of Santo Domingo, | and Port au Prince, was recommended | to Congress today by President Coolidge. A letter of Director Lord of the budget | approving the appropriation sald it is contemplated that all of the regular | first-class mail from the United States | to the countries reached by the new routes will be carried by air. The annual post office supply measure carried an appropriation of $300.000 for transporting foreign mail by aircraft. | Director Lord said the amount would take care of the two routes now in op- | | eration, New Orleans to Pilotton .na\ Seattle to Victoria With the funds asked today it is prn- posed to establish three new routes, the | director said. one of which will lhwrh‘ the Key West to Havana route, aiready in operation. Four-fifths of the admission price u. moving picture theaters in Asia Minor is_now iaken by the government MENU PEAS Are Always Good. You Will Like Them. Ask Your Grocer. JAMES M. 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George Barnelt, Thomas N McCarter. head of the Public Service Co. of New Jersey: Dr. Samuel W. Lam- bert, president of the New York Acad- emy of Medicine: Col. Norris G. Os- born. editor of the New Haven Journal- Courier: R. L. Agassiz, president of the Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper | Co.: Robert K. Cassatt, Philadelphia banker: Emory W. Clark, president of the First National Bank of Detroit Richard T. Crane, president of the Crane Co.. Jullan Codman, attorney, of | Boston: Lyman Delano of the Atlantic Coast Line, Walter Douglas. president | of Phelps, Dodge & Co.. Willlam P. Eno | of Washington. Prederick J_Fisher of the Cadillac and Fisher Body Cos. of Detroit: Henry B. Joy. Detroit: Ad- | miral W. W. Kimball of Washington snd Samuel talist CAPT. J. H. STAPLES DIES. Noted as Hero in Saving Passen- Rea, Pennsylvania capi- gers From Blazing Ship. NEW YORK, April 23 (#)—Capt John N. Staples, hero of the fire which destroyed the Clyde liner Mohawk off Lewes, Del.. January 2, 1925, died of & hnrl ttack at his Brooklyn home Sat- He was 59 years old. Whllt in command of the liner Mo- in January, 1925 Capt. Staples discovered a fire raging in the ship's hold as she was off Delaware, bound from New York to Charleston, 8. C..and Jacksonville, Fla. He brought his ship | to the Delaware Breakwater and super- | intended the transfer of 207 passengers and 75 members of ‘“* crew to rescue | vessels A widow, two sons and two daughters | { survive STEEL & High Ouality | Somerveli, Betty Clark and Dennis Conn Clark is appearing in the play “2X2= being given all this week by the G. W. U. Dramatic Association at the Ward- | man Park Theater. Mr. Connell i di- | recting. HEARING ON D. C. AIRPORT DUE TOMORROW EVENING, House Subcommittee to Take Testi- mony on Question of Rival Lo- cations Under Consideration. The second congressional hearing on the question of establishing an _air- port for Washington will be held to- morrow_night at 7:30 o'clock in the House District committee room by the subcommittee on parks and play- grounds, of which Representative Florian Lampert, Republican, Wiscon- sin. is chairman. Col. William Mitchell, former assist- ant chief of the Army’s fiying branch: Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant. 3d, director of public buildings and public_parks of the National Capital: Maj. Brehon H. in charge of this Army en- gineering district: Henry A. Berliner, president of the Berliner Aircraft Cor- poration and the Potomac Flying Serv- ice, Inc.. Dorsey W. Hyde. secretary of the Washinigton Chamber of Com- merce, and_Lawrence Williams of the Board of Trade, are among the wit- | nesses available for testimony. The hearing will be on the Stalker bill to establish an airport on the site between Hunter and Gravelly Points. 208 LlflUOé ARRESTS. Sixty-four arrests on charges of sale posession and transportation of intoxi- cants were reported during hours which ended at 8 o'clock this| morning, and seizures included 348 quarts of whisky, 152 quarts of brandy, 84 quarts of alcohol, 23 quarts of gin, 6 bottles of beer, 2000 galions of mash and one still One hundred and forty-four persons were arrested for intoxication during the two-day period. there were three arrests for driving eutomobiles while intoxicated, and four for drinking in public. wWOOoD ~ Low Cost 605—13TH STREET N.W. A Guaranteed Special Milk HIEEN you buy it's Special. for the use of the S Simpson's called There should he a “special” guaranteed butterfat pecial Milk know why reason word “special.” Special Milk is because of its content. Simpson’s Special Milk is guar- anteed to test Butterfat. 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Discussing the measure yesterday in | | New York City, where he went to attend lllf annual meeting of the Associated Press of which he is a member by rea- | son of his ownership of the Wyoming Star Tribune-Leader at Cheyenne, Mr Deming said he thought “chaos and confusion” would relgn in the prohibi- tion service should the Brookhart bill | be enacted. | “The bill has been reported favorably | by the Senate civil service committee ot which Senator Brookhart is & mem- ber,” he said. “I do not belleve that Congress, as a whole, has given much thought to this bill except as individual members have been importuned by em- | ployes of the Prohibition Bureau who | fatled in our_examinations “Senator Brookhart is an able and conscientious man, and is friendly 10| the merit system and to the cause of | | prohibition. " He is sincere in his present | efforts, of course, but I believe mistaken as to the alleged demoralizing effects of | [our examinations upon the prohibition | service. ‘T understand his initial interest in this bill arises from the fact that he | knows certain employes of ‘the Bureau | of Prohibition whom he believes highly | competent and who failed in our mental | test “Upon the recommendation of Presi- | | dent Coolidge. the Anti-Saloon League, land practically every one else interested in the success of prohibition, Congress | refused to bring the old employes into the classified service without examina- tion when it passed the act of March J 1927, because of the conditions in_the bureau under the old regime. Only {one exception was made, namely. the {commissioner himself: the language be- {ing plain and emphatic that all others should submit to open competition in examinations held by the United States Civil Service Commission “Imagine the chaos and confusion that will ensue if the old crowd—good, bad and Indifferent—are now forced into the prohibition organization by the | Brookhart bill. | ness have developed the fact that a sur- prisingly large number of the old em- | any position of trust “The Brookhart bill, if passed. judgment, will practically nullify the {open competition feature of the act of March 3, 1927, and bring upon Con- | gress widespread criticism for break- ing faith with thousands of applicants now In the process of being certified for -pmmtmenl : TWO SHOT IN ROW. Our examinations and | | nvestigations as to character and fit- | ployes have records that unfit them (nr‘ | in my BIBLE SOCIETY NAMES NEW GENERAL SECRETARY Rev. G. W. Brown of Pittsburgh Succeeds the Late Dr. A. C. Ryan. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 23.—Election of | Rev. George William Brown of Pitts- the | burgh as a general secretary of American Bible Society was announced today, Succeeding the late Dr. Arthur C. Ryan, he will be in charge of the relations between the soclety and the various denominations seeking its aid. Rev, Dr. Willlam I. Haven, a general secretary for 29 years, will take charge of versions on May 1, In addi- tion Yo supervising some of the foreign agencies. The board of managers has placed Rev. Eric M. North, an soclate sec- retary, In charge of distribution of | Scriptures at home and abroad. with the title o{ zenrrll necrc!ary ’ GEORGETOWN PRESIDENT | GIVES TALK ON CHARITY | Others Speak at Quarterly Meeting of 8t. Vincent De Paul Society. An address on the rewards for Chris- tian charity, delivered by Rev. W. Lyons, S. J. president of George- town University. and a discourse on the necessity of observing the spiritual side of itable work by the Rev. Dr O'Grady wege the principal features of the regular quarterly meeting of the Soclety of St. Vincent de Paul of Wash- | ington held in Holy Trinity School in Georgetown yesterday. The meeting, which was in the form of a breakfast, followed a mass in Holy Trinity Church celebrated at 8 o'clock | by the spiritual director of the George- town conference. At the meting, which was opened by the president, George J. Cleary. the members were welcomed by the spiritual director, and reports of the various con- ferences were read. Father Lyons and | Pather O'Grady were the principal speakers. Others were John Hadley Doyle. John McCarron, Louls Krauss and John Pellen. GEO. M. BARKER CO. CLOSED Tuesday, April 24th on account of the DEATH | Gotored Man Wounded, One Seri-| ously, in Gun Battle. A shooting affray at 1672 Kalorama road, last night sent two men to hos- ! pitals, one of them in a serfous condi- | tion. The more serfously Injured was George Johnson, colored. 24, 2418 | | Seventeenth street. He was shot three | times. and his alleged antagonist. | Agustus W. Burress, colored, 30 was | | wounded once. The latter was charged ' | with of Charles | SINCLARLEWSS WILL WED WRITER 'Dorothy Thompson to Be| Bride of Novelist i May in London. | | B the Awsociated Pre | ROME, April 23 the American novelist. declared to the Associated Press correspondent today that he will marry Dorothy Thompson, also an American writer, about the | middle of May. The marriage will take | place in London. Sinclair Lewis was on his way to | London to perfect arrangements for his | marriage when found by the corre- | spondent at a hotel here. His nnnu—“ is staying at Naples, where she has just | finished writing a book on Russia “You can say truthfully that I am | marrying the daughter of a Methodist | | minister.” chuckled the author of | “Elmer Gantry.” He added | Thompson exercised his ministry in North Tonawanda, N. Y. My fiancee is a graduate of Syracuse University.” Will Tour Great Britain. Immediately after the wedding Mr and Mrs. Lewis will start on a three- month tour of Great Britain, from Kent | to north Scotland. The novelist said they were. having a 17-foot “caravan” buiit, to be drawn by a touring car, which can be parked by the roadside | when ey wish to tarry at any at-| tractive =pot | “It is as completely equipped as a modern bungalow. with kitchen and living room.” continued the writer | smilingly. “I will do the driving and | Dorothy the cooking. We are return Ing to the United States in September.” | Mr. Lewis said his future wife would icontinue her journalistic work and | other writing. and he warmly encour- aged her in this Divorced by First Grace Hegger divorce from Sinclair Lew on April 16. The couple w in 1914 Miss Dorothy ~Sinclair Lewis, Wife. Lewis was granted a | Reno | re married | Thompson is an Amer- SHELDON BRAE BURN iean woman who has been well known as & Furopean corresporident of Amer- ican papers fof six or seven years. She 'Am( mnrmd in Vienna several years Dr. Joseph Bard, a Hungarian phnmophvr This marriage was dis- solved last year. Miss Thompson served the Philadel- phia Public Ledger as Vienna corre- spondent and later was several years in Bvrlm as correspondent for the New York Evening Post. She has traveled widely in Europe. Her latest articles were based on an extensive trip through Russia. Her romance with Sinclair | Lewls began last year at the time of the Communist uprising in Vi when she and the author of Street” flew from Berlin to Vienna to | cover the story. It has been rumored in Berlin for | months that Miss Thompson and Sin- clair Lewis would marry as soon as Mrs. Sinclair Lewis obtained her divoree. Miss Thompson retained her maiden name when she married Dr. Bard. Be- fore going to Enrope she was active in | equal suffrage work in New York and was a speaker In several campaigns, “That young man stayed very late, complained the anx- ious mother of a popular daughter. “‘Shouldn’tyouspeak to him?"” “He seems a very likable chap,” was her husband’s sooth- ing reply. “He at least had the good taste to leave me a package of Yorktown Cigarettes.” Nothing could sur- pass Yorktown Cigarettes as a peace offering. Blended from seven friendly tobaccos, they create a feeling of mutual good will. Do you wish to make a friend for life? Then buy a package row. 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