Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1929, Page 18

a8 w HARRIS DRY BILL BALKS CONFEREES Groups Fail to Agree on $24,000,000 Prohibition Enforcement Item. Conferegs of the House and Senate | failed to reach an agreement yesterday | on the $24.000,000 increase in prohibi- ation funds added to the deficlency ap- “propriation bill by the Senate and an- other conference was called for Tues- y. . Spokesmen for the Senate demanded that the House be given an opportunity 10 have a direct vote on the prohibition increase, but the House delegates stood gn Two hours of wrangling failed to reak the deadlock. The House refused by a vote of 240 to 141 to consider Senate amendments to its deficiency bill when the proposi- First Flying Missionary Com- pleting Training in Wash- ington. Decision to Fly Prompted by Inaccessibility of Region. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. | The world's first flying missionary is | ready to spread the gospel in remote | corners of the world. He is completing both his mission and his aviation train- ing in Washington. The name of this pioneer Christian soldier of the air- plane era is the Rev. Joseph M. Rick, C. 8. C. He is a native of Houston, Tex., stands six feet and some odd tion was placed before it early last week | inches in his stockings, and weighs a and it ordered a conference with the Senate for adjustment of the question. Senators who voted by almost a two bit more than 200 pounds. Father Rick nt to the University of Notre Dame s an. engineering student. But he to one majority for the $24.000,000 in- | cnded up as a candidate for the priest- crease are insistent that the House b given an opportunity to express itself | on their amendment. ‘While the conferees ended their meet- | ing yesterday in a tight deadlock, confi~ dence was expressed that an under- standing would be reached this week. STher> have been intimations that some ‘of the House leaders would prefer to have the entire bill lost rather than ac- cept the huge dry fund which has been ry Mellon. objected to by S CHURCH TO CONDUCT LINCOLN EXERCISES | President and Other Government Officials to Hear Oration by Rev. J. S. Montgomery. Services in ‘commemoration of the 119th anniversary of the birth of Abra- bam Lincoln will be held next Suaday €vening at 8 o'clock in the Metropolitan Memorial M. E. Church, under the aus- pices of the Hoover and Curtis Club 4and the Republican State committee for the District of Columbia. ‘The President and Mrs. Coolidge, the ‘Vice President and Mrs. Dawes and the Vice President-elect, Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, are expected to be Many members of Congress ‘will attend the exercises, which will be conducted by Rev. James Shera Mont- gomery, who will deliver the memorial oration. Rev. Dr. Montgomery is pas- Stor of the Metropolitan Church and ichaplain of the House of Representa- ‘present. tives. * The choir of the Metropolitan Church has arranged a special program for the exercises. ‘The followin William Tyler Page and Mrs. K, A. Har- riman, invitations, and Thomas P. Lit- tlepage, broadcasting. are members of the committee in cfiarge: T. Lincoln Town- send, chairman;- A. E. Chaffee, chairmen; W. J. Dow, secretary; May D. Lightfoot, assistant secretary; John Lewis Smith. chairman of meeting; Ed- ward F. Colladay and Virginia White Speel, guests; Edgar C. Sny@er, press; ood and is now a member of the Con- regation »0f the Holy Cross, which founded and still conducts the big Western college famed—with -~ other things—as the home grounds of Rockne's “Fighting Irish” foot ball team. Father Rick was recently ordained ning in mission sclence at Holy Cr: ollege, the Notre Dame unit at the Catholic University of America. ‘The Holy Cross Congregation has charge of the American mission known as the Diocese of Dacca in Bengal, India Father Rick has the “foreign mission vow,” hence his preparation for the particular field in which he is soon to preach and fly. Taking Flying Instructions. During the past year, with the per- mission of his superiors, Father Rick has been taking regular instruction in flying, most ef which he obtained at Hoover Fleld. He is on the eve of making his first solo flight. Then he may pin the wings of the flyer next to the cross of the missioner. The term “sky pilot” can thenceforward be ap- plied with full meaning to the pries aviator. Where aviation fits into the mission scheme in India is better understood when one knows something of Bengal. Heretofore the missioner traveled afoot or aboard the slow native boats. Neither mode of travel was conducive to health or to speed. Jungle paths servé as roads, that is, when not under water. During much of the year the rivers of swampy, fever-infested Bengal are over their banks and most of the country. These conditions suggest that a hydroplane would be more than useful out there. Father Rick agreed with this theory and offered himself as the personal equation in the experi- ment. Immediately there cropped up the practical question of the wherewithal for a plane. According to the rules of the order of which Father Rick is a member its priests and brothers live un- der the vow of poverty, that is, the in- dividual possesses no wealth, all prop- erty is held in common, and each mem- ber is provided the means only for a has been simple living. Under these conditions Father Rick could never have financed the project which will so greatly en- You Can Save ONE-HALF & MORE in This Absolutely ALL Cecats That Sold Frem $25 to $29.75 .85 l Sizes to the Roman Catholic priesthood and ( PRIEST WILL SPREAD GOSPEL FROM PLANE IN'BENGAL. INDIA | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FEBRUARY 3, 1929—-PART .1 REV. JOSEPH M. RICK. large his activities in the missionary field. A generous layman did the need- ful. In consequence the very near fu- ture will see the Texas padre winging his way from the broad waters of the Nitai River in the Garo Hills down to the malaria marshes of boggy Band- hura. Cholera Frequent in Outposts. The venture, it is predicted, will actu- ally revolutionize the life of the mis- sioner in the jungle stations. Food, more or less fresh, can be taken to the outposts to vary the eternal diet of curry and rice. Bread, for instarte, is never known in the outer missions where the missioner may see another white man once in six months. Cholera is a frequent visitor to those outposts whence it takes days of excruciating travel by foot, by ox-cart and by boat to reach the nearest doctor. The plane can take medicines out or return the sick in a few hours. Just before the outbreak of the World War, “Joe” Rick went to Notre Dame, ambitious to become an engineer. The priesthood was not in his plans. With the opening of hostilities, Students-Engi- neer Rick donned the uniform of the Notre Dame S. A. T. C., and did his squads east and west until the armistice, The time spent under the tutelage of Holy Cross priests and in the atmos- phere of their missionary spirit led young Rick to reconsider his career. From the School of Engineering Rick went to Holy Cross Seminary, thence to Moreau Seminary at Notre Dame for his scholasticate. In 1924 he received his degree from the university and came to Holy Cross College in Washington to complete his theological studies. He was ordained to the priesthood at Hou- ston, Tex., December 22, 1928. MARY-I;AND MAN, 94, DIES. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md., February 2.— John C. Coblentz, one of the most prominent citizens of the Middletown' Valley, died here Thursday, aged 94 years. Funeral services were held at his late home yesterday. He is sur- vived by his widow, and the following children: Mrs. Jchn 8. Renn, Fred- erick; Rev. Elmer L. Coblentz, Read- ing, P: . Harman Coblentz, Brad- dock Heights, Md., and Miss Lora Cob- lentz, Fultz, Md. 2 Final Coat Clearance COATS MUST GO! Every Fur-Trimmed and Fur Fabric Coat in Stock in These Three Tremendously Reduced Clearance Groups Group Two All 2 Ceats That Sold From $29.75 to $49.75 .90 All Sizes Ceats That Sold From $49.75 to $79 SOTHERN TO AID JUNIOR THEATER Famous Actor Will Appear in Se- lected Scemes Taken From Extensive Repertory. Much encouragement has been given to the plans of the Junior Theater by the active participation in its- presen- tations by an actor of so much repu- tation and practical experience as E. H. Sothern, who will appear in dramatic | recitals from famous scenes selected from his extensive repertory, in addition to officiating in an advisory capacity. | The opening performance, which will occupy the stage of the Wardman Park Theater February. 8, will be “Little Women,” a work that has been held in warmest affection not only by children | but by grown-ups as well. Leslie Kent will give the role of “Meg.” - . STATUS OF MINORITIES IS ASKED OF LEAGUE! e 1 Stresemann Advocates Placing of | Disputed Question Upon Agenda of March Council. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, February 2.—The league secretariat has received a letter from Dr. Gustav Stresemann, German foreign minister, asking that the question of the League of Nations guarantee for protection of minorities be placed on the agenda of the next meeting of the council in March. ° This is a development of the dispute between Dr. Stresemann and August Zaleski, the Polish foreign minister, at Lugano, over the German minorities in Polish, Upper Silesia, and of ti The indicates that Dr. Stresemann is de- termined to have the whole problem of minorities, numbering about 40,000,000 in Europe, examined by the council. 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Louis Sinclair Grigsby has just re-! ,signed after four years as assistant| | secretary of the Associated Retail Credit | Men, Inc, to become executive secre- tary of the Credit Bureau of Wilming- | ton, Del., a merchant-owned and oper- ated organization cistributing credit in- formation for the State. Mr. Grigsby was born in Washington 30 years ago. He entered the employ of the Assoclated Retail Credit Men as bank representative in October, 1921. He served on the educational com- mittee of the National Retail Credit Association two years. Mr. Grigsby is a Masom @nd belongs to the Potomac Boat Club afd formerly | was a member of the Thirteen Club, of which he is past secretary. He served as secretary of the Federation of Civic E. H. SOTHERN. he families in Japan must keep their living costs within $50 monthly. average Japanese family includes Club Executives and has been on the public order committee of the Washing- ton Board of Trade. He was first | president of the Sunday School Basket | Ball League of this city and for the | | past year has been regent of Muni- | cipal Council of the Royal Arcanum. Drunkenness Arrests. MOSCOW (#).—The daily average of intoxicated persons picked up on the streets of Moscow has reached 175, On church holidays the number rises to from 500 to 750. The total arrests for drunk- five persons. R TRADE:IN VYoro- Old. FURNITURE Refurnish your home with modern up- to-date furniture and trade in the old| Our allowances are very liberal. enness during 1928 exceeded 100,000. l LE CAPITAL LOUIS SINCLAIR GRIGSBY. Ileana Will Study Sculpture. BUCHAREST, Roumania, 2 (#)—Princess Ileana, Dowager Queen Marie of Roumania, has | left for Munich, where she will take a short course in painting and sculpture at the invitation of the German Society of Fine Arts. 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