Evening Star Newspaper, June 23, 1928, Page 4

ANEW D. A R HAL " 15 STARTED HERE (Ground Broken for $2,000,- fi 000 Structure at Seven- ' . teenth and D Streets, was broken yesterday after- the rear of Memorial Con- r the new $2,000,000 itution Hall of the Daughters of American Revolution, which will \ the society’s national headquar- the 1 Jters at Seven Alfred J. Bro \e society's presi- ng the sod to oW used the same t Mrs Charles F rbanks. wife ce President, used in for Memorial Con- nd i e of the Con- he Daughters the organ- now the_audi- of Memorial Continental Ha aditorium will have & seating v of 4.000 of management Which Was in ses ed upon immediate chen it was ¢t e‘l‘e\x}m\ has $1.000 000 in 0 in the work L ‘rah“i*\}‘ \Effi(‘unsmuugn Hall is Pope, noted New Yor s donated the plans in ‘mother, who is & member zation. ’l'hexbusrd st yes. rdav's meeting. formally appro’ e ians and decided to break und at once p'r‘};‘edbma {ikewise approved a statue by Mre, Harry Payne Whitney Tepres enting the spirit of womanhood, which he society plans a dedicate next April. o e e ground-breaking _ceremol sarchitect, Wk honor of i ’l'f the organ: vice president general; Amos A. D(\( ‘Washington. Wwilllam an Walker of Washington State, Lowell F. Hobart, Mrs. John M. Mrs. James Charles Peabody. illiam Becker of New Jersey and Gavin of Indiana among REED'S STATEMENT DIMS CHANCES FOR BATTLE AT HOUSTON (Continued from First Page) s arrival hefe. It is true he did nok % very much or say it very loud, but &t was an innovation for- the “big “chief” of Tammany Hall to weicome & questioning crowd of a hundred or g dents. The Tammany did not roar. Judge juestions; & VoI y tmhth within & few feet of him could hear what he said, and there were constant cries of “louder. louder.” Judge Olvany's opening announce- ment was: “We have come to Houston the Asidewalks of New 'E. Sauh” There was some discus sion whether the New York leader had {'3ide8 his candidate or not in the South turing him as a “Lincoln.” _ | Brings No Message. Lincoln trampled on the hich was supported by 8 by very is- South, judge said he brought no mes sage to the convention from Smith, but ,mdded he believed the governor would £ind some way of communicating with She vention if it was necessary. Am whether the New York dele- gation had any wet and dry t for consideration, he sald at first that the deiegation had no planks to t. but later amended this re- mark, saying that he did not know nd that the delegation would decide st ifs Monday caucus whether it would offer any platform plank. Ofvany said, in reply to & question. @hat; the New York dz"fg‘m’l‘aem n‘u qeandidate at this time for vice- presi- Went. “We have a candidate for presi- ‘genty” he added with a smile “The Smith people are so far keeping their hands off the vice ntial momination until they have the first place on the ticket sewed up for Smith #nd signed and delivered in the con- wention Another harmony note was sounded here by a party of Woollen iqor president boosters, which rolled in from Hoosier-dom. In the party was Charles A. Greathouse, Indiana mem- ber of the Democratic national com- mittee and secretary of the committee. The Hoosier manager for Evans Wool- jen. A C. Salee, former State cahirman, gave out a statement which said in is un ) for Evans Woolle Indianapolis for the nomi- nation for president and it will remain stead!. and loyally behind him il a candidate is chosen by the con- “Have No Alliances.” ¢ Indiana are in the happy on of having no nces and no animosities. We are not agal body. We are for Evans Woollen intend to fight it out ong this line of non-entanglement and good will until a candidate is nom- inated Without anfriendliness to any other the Indiana delegation will Mr. Woollen, with the ardent the convention will come 10 n him as we who know him best do | Here was no belligerent call to battle In the Texus dele- national _convention, are rumbles of @p- fighting Smith, and st Al Smith the ow the delegation o the rumpus, 100, 0 tion for Preside y Gov. Dan ore | tructed to vote for Jones. appears Texas' most has w Moody @ m not o nominate Jones Jones vigoro letter urging “who brought the convention to there are more he Texus | Prevent his nomination oL adm delegates in others insist that the delegation Yorker Smith with ition even if d not join in Delegates. ment now claims they Claims 66 th manag committed to the either by convention or w Clalms ready W go 10 Smitk York Gov prin in reserve sfter a ballot If there is an on 1 of w “stop” Al Bwmilhi, it has nol yet on fuce. Senator Tor example real concerted action appe George gation of ne such allisnce *,n of the candidates to leern Wi fne they proposed o take. sati-Smils people officially ad- | ‘o erect on its grounds | mmdhld(ivu:mflnwthepreu.xhe(‘ W. C. Hogg, a member | prominent | and | I Texas| © the march |® leader of the Bmith opposition, may | other | ¢ 10 violent op- “|SLIP COVERS| delegates favorite son candidates who has the Georgla dele- back of him, said that he knew |, o He admitted, how- | er, that he intended sounding mn&, ' clalm they, NG STAR WASHINGTON. D. A. R. “BLACKLIST" CHARGES BRING EXPULSION TO MRS. BAILIE Board of Management Holds! Name of Organization | Is Injured. I l Society ‘Declared Eliminated From Connection With Accusations. Expulsion from the Daughters of the | American Revolution was the sentence the national board of management of | the society passed yesterday upon Mrs | Helen Tufts Bailie of Boston, whose | “blacklist” charges were held injurfous | {to the name of the organization. The | vote was unanimous, a statement made | public by the society’s officials said | The so-called “black list” which Mrs. Bailie had said she had seen in Massa- | | chusetts, was “thoroughly eliminated | [ from any connection with the national | soclety,” & statement issued on behalf of | | the board asserted. Mrs. Alfred Brosseau, president gen- eral of the society, issued a statement | declaring she regretted it had been nec- | | essary to expel Mrs. Bailie, but asserted | that “the good name of the organization |is above any personal feelix and she | rejoiced that it had been proved that |sored a “black list.” she said. | Holds Free Speech Not Issue. | | “The question of 'an issue” Mrs. Bro Without restraining that of others, we | | reserve to ourselves th ing to our platform | whom we pleas upporting organiza are w | our own policies.” i | "'Mrs. Bailie took the witness stand in | | her own behalf Thursday at the | the Navy > would bring it up to 33 ratlo or not.” MRS. B. TO FIGHT. June 23 (#).- CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Mrs, Helen Tufts Bailie, when informed . . Jast night of the decision of the na- ~ r spon- [ {the National Society had Never SPOD | o, g1 poard of managers of the D. A.| R., to expel her from that organization, said she expected such action and that e right to invit- | the last word. and listening 10 (utional rights as a Daughter of the| Being an entirely | American Revolution and I shall carry tion we feel We the matter before the National Con- | ell within our rights in initiating ' gress at the annual meeting next year.” year." free speech 1s 1ot it would only make her fight more vig- au declared. | urously. “The trial,” she said, “is by no means I stand on my consti- “In the meantime I shall continue to closed | equcate the 165.000 members as to the | Seasion of the national board of man- |real facts in the case.” agement, which investigated the charges | and she was represented by counsel, as | was the soclety. George W. Alger of | New York and Lawrence G. Brooks of | Boston represented Mrs. Bailie, while H. | Ralph Burton of Washington represent- | ed the soclety. Nineteen members of the society pre ferred charges against Mrs. Bailie in April, accusing her of “conduct calcu- lated to injure the good name nd dis- turb the harmony of the society.” Upon investigation, the executive committee recommended that the charges were ~well founded” and presented them to the board of management, which held the hearings. A mass of documentary evidence on both sides was considered by the board, at the close of testimony Statement by Sociefy. | The statement issued by the society | | sald: | “Mrs. Baille admitted authorship of | the pamphlet, ‘Our Threatened Heri- | tage. on which the charges of ‘giving out statements injurious to the name of the national society’ were based. LTh\s pamphlet, it was charged, con- tained ‘statements derogatory to the | good name of the society. belittled its | work, falsely accused its officers of un- | authorized acts, stated that its officers | were duped and hypnotized and con- tained propagands contrary to the ex presse@” policy of the society in re -gard to its patriotic work.’ | “One of the accusations made by Mrs. Bailie was that Mrs. William Sher. man Walker, chairman of the D. A. R. committee on national defense, had peared before the House committee on naval affairs and, in behalf of the | . A. R., had supported the then pend- | zation of the'D. A. R. showed that the National Daughters of the American Revolution, | by & resolution passed at the last meet- ing of the Continental Congress here, indorsed the 5—5—3 ratio. He in- troduced letters from Secretary Wilbur and Representative Fred A. Britten, | chairman of naval affairs committee of | the House, showing that even with the | program outlined by the Government, | the United States Navy would still be | under the 5—5—3 ratio. “Mrs. Bailie, under cross-examination, | admitted that aithough she had made | the accusations t Mrs. Walker | had been unfamiliar with the facts as | to whether the proposed additions to | 'EIGHT PERSONS HURT | "IN TRAFFIC MISHAPS | | | | Policeman and Truck l)river; Among the Injured, the Latter | Suffering Fracture of Arm. A policeman and a mail truck driver were among the eight persons injured | in traffic accidents in the past 24 hours. But one of the victims is thought to be | seriously injured. Policeman Craig L. Smith, 1430 Law- | rence street northeast, attached to the twelfth precinct, suffered cuts on the | |left leg and a sprined left ankle when | | nis motor cycle was in a collision in | tront of 132 Rhode Island avenue with | an automobile driven by William Ster- ling of the latter address, Smith was | |treated at Emergency Hospital, where his condition was said to be not serious. George Long, 35 years old, 1209 North Capitol street, the mail truck driver, suffered a fracture of the right arm when his truck was in a collision at Sixth and M streets with an automo- {bile operated by W. B. Gillette, 1438 | Spring road. He was treated at Provi- dence Hospital Knocked from his bicycle in a c |lislon at Twenty-ninth and K streets Paul Stewart, 17 years old, 112 Alle- ghany avenue, Takoma Park, Md., was taken o Georgetown Hospital and | treated for a possible fracture of the | skull. His condition had not been fully | deterniined today. Edward H. Thaden 12612 Pennsylvania avenue, drove the automobile with which he collided. Other traffic victims, none of whom was seriously injured, were: Alan Dins- | moor, 8 years oid, 1108 D street south- cast; Charles J. Lamdaris, 24 years old, {922 N street; Glass Howard, colored, 35 years old, 246 Tenth street northeast; | Lillian ‘Thompson, colored, 18 years old, | 203 R street, and Prancis R. Gray, 45 | years old, 1114 Eighteenth street. ; S5 Rumanian Communists Arrested. BUCHAREST, Rumania, June 2: The police have unearthed at Gallatz | l,y, extensive Communist organization. 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