Evening Star Newspaper, May 18, 1929, Page 4

e SENATOR PRAISES BALLSTON CADETS Army Officers Address Corps | at Third Annual Banquet. Boecia] Disoatch to The Star ! | BALLSTON, Va. May 18.—The Cadet . Corps of the Washington-Lee High : A Schonl held it third annual banaue. | in the cafeteria of the scheol. State | Senator Frank L. Ball. Superintendent ; of Arlington County Schools Fletcher Kemp. Maj. Chauncey C. MsNeill, U. 8. A., retired. professor of military science | and tactics: James J. Scott, former ma- | tor of the corps and a member of the | {r»duating_class last year, and Maj. Krug McCloskey. commander of the | corps, were among the principal speak- | ers. J Cadets Are Lauded. ) Competing with 10 other military achool organizations of the State and carrying off second-place honors at Winchester recently. Senator Ball sald, indicates that the boys deserve much credit, having been organized for only a throc-year period. “There are thren things to be remembered and success is vours.” the Senator sald, “and they are. ambifion, the development of character and the determination to win.” It was | not the uniform that made a good soldier. nor the soldier that made the uniform. but the kind of service ren- dered to vour fellow men, he asserted. The Senator declared he was looking forward to the day when there would be keener competition between cadets of Arlington Countv and nearby corps. and he was working for a trophy which would g0 10 the winning company. simi- lar_to those given in Washington. Prof. Kemp, Maj. MeNeill and former Maj Scott lauded the cadets on th sucgess. accomplished under the leade ship of Maj. McCloskey. | demonstration agent. of Merrifield, sceretary, and Mrs. J. W, BIBLES AREVPRESENTED. Bon Air School Gets Gift From Fra- ternal Americans. Special Dispatch to The Star. GEWAPIPRIE DI wer . | "BON' AIR, Va, May 18—Frank U. The dinner was prepared by the home | Sanderson, past president. present>d to sconomics department, under the di- the Stonewall Jackson School, in rection of Miss Sally Lovering and Miss | of Baliston Council. No. 26, Orier of Mary Ames, and was served by the girls | Fraternal Americans. two Biblcs last of the class. Miss Lovering and Miss |night. Mrs. David Morgan, president ‘Ames were reciplent of a token by MR). | of the parent-teachers, accepted them McCloskey on behalf of the cadet corps. |in behalf of the school. A musical Other invited guests were Thomas J. | program was rendered by the school DeLashmut, president of the school | pupils. George Albert Veitch, past board. and Warrant Officer Louis S.|president of the Fraternal Americans, Yassell of Fort Myer. in charge of the | was in charge of the affair Cadet Drum and Bugle Corps Dr. P. M. Chichester, county health Musical (selections were rendered by [oficer, presented the school the health Miss Elizabeth Brewer and songs by | banner for the recent test of first-grade Misses Margaret Schroff. Marian Good- | and pre-school children. rich and Anna Croson. The school orchestra furnished music. e | SCARLET FEVER VICTIM. EARL OF EGMONT HAS ! Riverdale Il;;flll; Fil‘!('lo Die Dur- ing Epidemic. CONTEST FOR TITLE! soecis missuccn to e sia { RIVERDALE, Md.. May 18.—The epi- i demic of scarlet fever here claimed its 5 Brit. | first_victim yesterday, when Pred Rus- Albertan Farmer, Successor to Brit- | Lt QT e 16-month-old son ish Estate, Faced by Legal Pro- of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lynch, died at the residence of his parents, on Taylor ceedings Filed by Rival. avenue. fly of six, all of whom are at present iil of scarlet fever. He will be buried in Fort Lincolr Cemetery this after- noon. Rev. Keith Custis of the River- | dale Presbyterian Church officiating. It is unofficially reported that there © 45 cases of scarlet fever in the | township at present. Several public entertainments have been postponed be- By the Assoclated Press. LONDON. May 18—The Dail said today that the right of the present Farl of Egmont, known widely as “the rancher earl,” to his titie was being dis- puted. A claim to the earldom has been Ludema Sayre of Fairfax, Mrs. J. B. Davis of Burke, trea ville, Mrs. A. Harmon Roberts of Woodlawn. .Front row, Mr | The child was the youngest of a fam- VENING & ot < . Claude Oliver of Cox of Woodlawn.. Special Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va. May 18—The Fair- fax County Home Demonstration Agents' Advicory Council held its quar- terly meeting in the courthouse, with Miss Belle Burke of Charlottesville, dis- trict agen:. as guest. It was decided to | reorganive the council. and to replace members who have not been regular in their atlendance with more active workers in 4H Club activities in the different communities of the county. Miss Ludema Sayre of Falrfax, re- signed as treasurer, owing to press -of . and Mrs. J. B. Davis of r place. The re- quests of Mrs. B. H. Wiltig_of McLeau and Miss Nellle Neviti of Potters Hill for transfer from the county council to the district councils of Providence and Mount Vernon districts, respectively | were approved. The resignation of Mrs | Paul MofTett of Forestville was accepted Pians for holding the annual Summer camp of the 4H Clubs of Fairfax Coun- ty at Camp Kahlert on the West River, near Annapolls, Md., were approved and the council voted to assume responsibil- ity for providing bus transportation | from different points in Fairfax Coun- | ty, for the week of June 10 to 14. Miss Mary Lippard, home demonstration agent, reported that the clubs had raised over $500 for community projects during the school vear just terminated. with McLean and Oakion as leaders in the financlal report. “TRIAL BY JURY.” Play Will "; Prese;lul Tonight at Rixley Station. Special Dispatch to The Star. RIXLEY STATION, Va. May 18. “Trial by Jury,” & short play, will be STAR. WASHINGTON., D. C. SATURDAY, MAY 18 1929.° IRFAX HOME DEMONSTRATION COUNCIL 3 - (A Back row, left to right, Miss Belle Burke. district agent; Mrs. D, J. Garber of Woodlawn, Miss Mary Lippard, home Middle row, Mrs. J. U. Kincheloe of Fairfax, president; Mrs. Martin T. Webb of Annandale, Miss rer: Miss Edith Rogers of Fioris, Mrs. Mark Turner of Forest- Baileys Cross Roads, Mrs. E. D. Vosbury | MARYLAND SYNCD MEETS. Monday Evening at Boonesboro. Lutheran Sessions Open Special Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va. May 18.— The annual meeting of Maryland Synod | Lutheran Church, ‘wiil open Mond: afterncon in Boonsboro, Md.. when lay- men of the denomination wili have their brotherhoed sessicn, to be followed by a banquet in the evening. Sessions of synod proper will open Monday eve- | ning. and continue through Thursday. Sesstons will be held in the Lutheran Church at Boonesboro, the Rev. M. A. Ashby, pastor, and will be in charge of the Rev. Dr. J. Edward Byers. Balti- more, Md., cludes this secti PASTOR IS HONORED. Rev. W. H. Causey Elected Presi- | dent of Virginia Classis. | Bpecial Dispatch to The Ster MARTINSBURG, W. Va., May 18— | The Rev. W. H. Causey, pastor at Har- risonburg. Va.. was elbcted president of | Virginia_Class the opening session of the annual meet- ing in Winchester, Va. He served the | 1915-16 term as president. He suc- | ceeded the Rev. C. E. Robb, pastor at | Toms Brook. Va. who delivered (he | opening sermon. The Classis incluies Northern Virginia and Eagtern West Virginia_ churches. The meeting will adjourn’ today. Klan Funeral Services. LACEY, Va.. May 18 (Special Mrs. . Department of Justice and eventually | Elsle Virginia Coffman and Mary Hawes | Reformed Church, at | |OLD CHRISTMAS TREE PRACTICALLY DEAD Nation's l;rw;; s;r;ce. Used for prohibition ' agents told a judge Four Years, Rapidly Passing. in Federal Court vesterday that two Harvard students had been Substitute Is Promised. emploved to obtain evidence in iR i liquor cases. ) The agents said that one stu- | | Washington is going to have & new dent had been In the pay of the | | Government for three or four Liquor Trial Bares 2 Harvard Students As U. S. Dry Workers By the Associated Press. BOSTON, May 18.—Federal 10 HORSES PERISH IN VIRGINIA FIRE Thoroughbreds and 6 Build-| ings Destroyed on Har- desty Estate. B or e 'one that an. | | Sauare, just south of the Treasury and other had been used in a similar in the x!l'nflnw of ":e Whl':l Hl(lmue. for - s - s some four years, is practical Special Dispatch to The Star capacity, !'| "A petition for forfeiture of an WINCHESTER, Va. May 18.—Ten AHOESHRRITeHEEBotabs: Alifes. oalvasy (w |}/ L CHISLIRIEHEN NGRSl | rt. 5 E. Good: h, large barn, three garages, two henneries. | | SSurt. Ms), Eeney %. Goodnough. immense quantities of feed and the tor. explained outside of court complete farm equipment of C. T. that any person with information Hardesty, jr., were destroyed by fire early that would ald in the enforce- one that has Sherman Two heavy wirings of Christmas bulbs is blamed for the demise. | The American Forestry Assoclation, | which donated the Norway spruce to bs | used as & national Christmas tree. is | donating another to replace it, and this | | new tree is expected to come from fl‘:e todey in’ Clarke Counly, causing an t of the d v Amawalk Nursuries at Amawalk, N. Y cstimated 10ss of $15.000, partly nsured. | | ot Of the dry law would be | | o atter part of the coming week. I The origin was undetermined. Har- g " | | will_then be planted. under authority | desty sid the bam was enveloped in of Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of the ames when his family awoke between office of Public Buildings and Public 2 and 3 o'clock. Berryville flreml‘u‘sERvE HUMANITY, Parks. S saved the Hnm"{'_\' colonial mnr;sinln. The association is anxious to have 1100 feet distant, after a two-hour battle | the new tree so placed that protecting | e e e { ADVICE TO NURSES | iire'tun"se paced wenl bac of it 1o e . £ | | keep the crowds at a safe distance, and | ENSIGN AWAITS TRIAL g i e that the nem tee it o i i i be placed on a little height. The new | 3 | Representative Simmons Pays tree will be placed in Sherman Saare | ! Tri fons |-and care is to be taken with it so that ON DESERT'ON CHARGE Tribute to Profession in Address | Crivding and overburdening with col- Fi | to Gallinger Hospital Graduates. g:’:e;f’""‘ IR - | & . - |~ Placed in Sherman Square in 1625. Sk e xiyeW LI NeE Ohte) Sixtren student murses, graduating | was destined 1o be (he focal point ot a g 1 s urses, was destined to e focal point for a Before Authorities Unless from Gallinger Hospital last night, were | Yuletide celebration spread over the | ation. Former President and Mrs. surt Is Held. urged by Representative Simmons of | coglidge were among participants in S | Nebraska to approach thelr new duties | the local fete. S e SRR o ;ln'hn apirit of “service to humanity” | | Former Ensign Beverly . Wilson of | Mher than to devote their entire.en- | |the Nayv is awaiting court martial at Crgies to monetary end i | Norfolk on a charge of desertion, naval | The nurses. who have been students authorities safd yesterday, and the ques- | at the Capital City School of Nursing, | tion whether he was <ane at the timn | Were nresented with their diplomas by | of his mysterious disappearance on Dr. Edgar A. Bocock, superintendent of October 13, 1927, will not come before the hospital. Mr. Simmons and Dr. naval authorities unless the court mar- ' Robert G. Bloedorn spoke. thal is held. | _“When the new hospital facilities and Attorneys for Wilson are seeking his | the new nurses' home, provided for by freedom under a writ of habeas corpus, Congress, have been completed,” Mr. contending that he was dropped from Simmons said. “the opportunities for the Navy rolls six months after he | training at Gallinger Hospital should be disappeared and therefore is beyondi second to none in the country. In the the jurisdiction of the Navy. | future potential nurses will se I If Federal Judge D. Lawrence Groner, | the privilege of training at your u. before whom the writ was sued, decides | tion.” the Navy has jurisdiction, he mav then | Those graduated were: Gertrude Anne plead loss of his memory as a defense | McKenzie and Florence Elizabeth Mc- for his desertion, the naval authorities | Kenzle, sisters, of Novia Scotia: June sald. If Wilson is held beyond juris- Glazier, Mildred Martha Scheffier, Jane | diction of the Navv. it was believed | Ingebor Gulbrandson and Thelma Ir- | that an appeal might be made to the | verna Meek of Ohlo, Jessle Glum, | L | Powell of Virginia: Alice Jane Watts, Wilson disappeared from Newport, | Margaret Genevieve Brown and Emily R."I. while at the Naval Torpedo Rose Sekora of New York: Frances School and was found six months later | Mary Cronin and Frances Deignan of in Panama. He was a private in the Maine; Gertrude Turner King of Georgia Army then. |and Hermina Fisher of Washing- | to_the, Supreme Court if necessary. Every one reads Ring W. Mo RN | ton, D. € short stories—perhaps you |MEXICAN PbLICE ARREST | : Shkes D | ALLEGED SEDITIOUS BAND Prussian Minister 0.K.'s Concordat. BERLIN, May 18 (#).—A bill_estab- | T lishing a concordat between Prussia | Charge Priest With Purchase of Ammunition for Use in Booxs, AisLrs 23-35, First FLOOR. and the Holy See was passed by the | Prussian ministry of state last night after three hours of debate. “Cristeros™ Area. By the Associated Pr MEXICO CITY. May 18 —Secret police have arrested Fiilberto Villagomez, the | priest Justo de Jariza and Concepeion | Obregon, with seven servants and em- | ployes, after a raid on the home of | Viliagomez, where alleged seditious liter- ature was found. | The police said they had learned of | the priest’s connection with the group ! through records and had approached 10™11™ F axp G STrrETS 1 community Christmas tree, for | ROBINSON FORESEES MEAGER FARM RELIEF Senator Believes Special Congress Session Will Be Occupied With Tariff. Fight. By the Astociated Press LITTLE ROCK, May 18—Senator Joe T. Robinson, Democratic leader, here for a visit, yesterday predicted the end of the present session of Congress would find the farmers of the country very little better off than they were before He sald he belicved the session is likely to extend well into the Summer. ¢ | due to a large extent to the tariff fight. “The increased cost of goods to con- sumers throi P ariff,” Senator Robinson said, “prob- bly will more than offset the advan- tages to be derived from stabilization corporations and loans under the farm aid act.” Eqauip Now for the Year “"GENERAI GENERAT, TIRE CO. (of Washingten) th and Eve Sts. N.W. Nation Open Evenings U Woobpwarp & LoTHROP 10™ 1™ F axp G Streets “Round-up” The Collected Short Stories of RING W.LARDNER A book characteristic of America—a native product of a native art up to the present. Lardner, for his comedy and for his deep insight. Read this new book of his r favorite is among them. Round-up, $2.50 WoobpwArD & LoTHROP made by a sexagenarian baker. James | William Perceval, living in North Lon- | don, and legal proceedings are being | instituted. The claimant said he is & son of Augustus George Perceval. a son | of the sixth Earl of Egmot, and as such | ought to have succeeded to the title in 1897. i It was understood the present title | holder, until a few months ago plain (Mr. Perceval, an Alberta farmer, has not yet received any money from the estate and it 1s unlikely anything will be done until the question of the claim is settled. The present earl and his son arrived | recently from Canada. They have been | the subject of much curiosity and have | at varlous times expressed & preference | Tor life on an Alberta farm as compared | to the luxury of an earldom. MUSIC MALTON BOYCE'S RECITAL. A musician who has long been esiab- d as a leading figure in musical | endeavors here, but who has not been | heard in formal solo recital for several | seasons at least, appeared in a recital | of piano music at the Masonic Aud presented here tonight by the choir of | Dorothy J. Marceron, wife of Joseph A. St. Mary's Episcopal Church in the Marceron, died after an iliness of sev U | parish hall. | el months. Funeral will be from the SCHOOL PAPER FIRST. ‘Those taking parts in the play are 'home of Mrs. Toone, Lacey, Sunday at | Miss Helen Bagley, Mrs. F. W. Cramp, 1:30 pm. and burial at Walkers S PR Jules C. Ricker, Maj. E. W. Cushing and | Chapel. An impressive funeral cere- SpssiatBumatch fo ThE kst T. K. Burchard. F.'W. Dudley is in mony by the women of the Ku Klux DANVILLE, Va., May 18.--The Chat- | charge of stage arrangements. Mrs. Klan will be held at the grave, Knights terbox, local high school publication. has | T, K. Burchard is directing the musical | of the Ku Kilux Klen also will attend. cause of the epidemic. added to its string of honors, being awarded first place for the fourth con- secutive year by the Southern Inter- scholastic Press Assoclation. The Chatterbox is a bi-weekly pub. lication. The Cavalier, a monthly mag azine, published by the students, was given first place in the magazine ‘class. Mrs. Nora Payne Hill is mentor of these publications and teacher of English in the nigh school. ~ B. & 0. Work Car Robbed. By a Slaff Correspondent of The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., May 18. Robbery of a Baltimore & Ohio Rail- road work car, while standing on the | siding at Linden, was reported (o Officer ! Joseph Nolte of the Northern District station of Montgomery County police here yesterday by Balvimore & Ohio Rallroad police. The value of the m ‘terial stolen was $162.50, according to | program. A musical program will also be in- cluded with piano solos by Miss Vir- | ginia Bestor, Miss Amelia Bates: vocal solos by Mrs. H. C. Littlefield, Mr. W. W. Grimes and Mr. Barrett Fuchs, | WASHINGTON-LEE LOSES. | 8chool’'s Chance to Enter Btate 8 i ries Goes With Defeat. By & Staff Correspondent of The Star, BALLSTON, Va., May 18.—Washing- ton-Lee High School yesterday lost the base ball championship of Eastern Vir- ginia to the South Norfolk High School team in a game played at the school | here, The score was Norfolk, 6; Wash- | Ington-Lee, 3. | ‘Washingion-Lee, by its defeat of Culpeper, had already won the district the report, and included 10 pairs of | championship. but by its loss of yes- | Appropriate music will be rendered by the band of Balston Klan. No. 6. WooDWARD T U F aND G Streers him incognito and sold him 200 rounds | t_'u' ammunition which they charged he | itended taking to the “Christero” area in the state of Jalisco. | Dispatches to El Universal from | Puebla Teported & two-hour engage- | ment at Jaguey, Tlaxcala, between 126 | alleged “Christeros” and federals. The | insurgents were defeated, abandoning | nine dead, among them a colonel. Two federals were killed and seven wounded. & LorHroP | | Gifts for torium last night. The musician wa: incoats, 4 rain hats and Malton Boyce, generally well known &s |2 {arpaulins. the organist and director of music at| St. Matthew’s Roman Catholic Church. | Mr. Boyce also has won & reputation &s | an artistic accompanist. Malton Boyce spent four years of | study in the College of Music at Not-| tingham, England: one year at the | Kirchen Musik_ Schule, " Regensburg, Bavaria, under Dr. Haberl, famous ex- | ponent of polyphonic music; and two | years in Oxford, England, as organist | nd choir dircclor. A" With this background of study, it 1s not difficult to understand why he could attempt such a terrifically task- | ing program as he presented last night | entirely without notes and win such en- | thusiastic approval from his audience. He played two familiar “war horses” as his encores, Sinding’s “Rustle of Spring and Liszt's “Twelfth Rhapsody,” after ong program. X% Matter of fact, with the excep- tion of the first group of three prel- udes and fugues by Bach, practically every number on Mr. Boce's program, i« frequently heard and doubtless has been played by many in his audienc which seemed to inciude a large num: t Perhaps, partly be- cause of this, the Bach group seemed the finest performance of the evening. Mr, Boyce hat an admirable. indi- vidual touch with excellent tone c-lor and he gave clean-cut, authoritati. reading of these three preludes and, fugues, so delightful in their variety. The Beethoven sonata which followed, the famous “Moonlight Sonal was not nearly so interesting or was it given | traditional reading. There were blurred tones and jerky unpoised rhythms. In the Chopin group the ballade and| nocturne were not particularly inter- | 4 esting; the waltz showed Mr Boyu'.l of this exq marvelous dexterity to advantage; the two preludes and the “harp” etude were the outstanding features of this group. having real poetry in interpretation and discriminating use of pianissimo effect In the next group Palmgren’s Night" and Arensky's “Cuckoo good contrast to the older classic Mendelssohn “Rondo Capriccioso” was | plaved with terrific speed and brilliance, | The planist was at his best as tech- nician and interpreter in Weber's intri- | cate yet melodious “Invitation to the | Dance,” given with adherence to tempo | Tequirements, yet nicely varied shading ( of the color and emphasis. The latter | part of the Liszt “Liebestraum” delightfully played, compensating for somewhat disjointed effect in the open- ing phrases. “La Campanelia”™ by Liszt, was another highlight of the evening. Malton Boyce showed that he fs in- deed a gifted and thoroughly trained | musicien worthy of more frequent A pessances as & soloist and also of much arger audiences than he had lnsth;m, plan- tinctive. 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