Evening Star Newspaper, June 6, 1929, Page 4

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, JENE 6, 1929 | | ARE PAID TRIBUTE Grand Ball Tonight and Pa-“ rade Tomorrow to End Reunion. Br the Associated Press CHARLOTTE. N. C., June 6.—Surviv- ors of the gray-clad hosts of the Con- | federacy today paid honor to those who have passed away, transacted the busi- ness of the annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans and rested in preparation for the big events—the annual ball tonight and the parade to- morrow The dead of the Confederacy were | memorialized at noon in a service at the armory. with Dr. Albert Sidney Johnston, pastor of the First Presby- terian Church. as the speaker. This afternoon election of officers and selec- | thmn of the 1930 meeting place were to close the business of the reunion Dances of 60s to Be Revived. | Wearied with the frolicking and play | of the first two days, many of the 3,500 veterans registered up to this mggning remained in their room during the day. Tonight they expected to take on & renewed taste of youth with the grand ball, when the dances of the 60s and 70s were to be revived. The veterans were assured of having the dance floor to themselves for the first hour or so of the grand ball. Rules bar all men ex- cept veterans from the building until after 10 o'clock, when the Sons of Con- | federate Veterans and other men will | be permitted to enter. The excitement of renewing old ac- quaintances and being able once more to recount to comrades the experiences | of 65 years ago brought quite a few of the veterans fo their beds. At least a| dozen were in hospitals. ill and today | J. W. Hancock, 89, of El Dorado, Ark., died "at the Emergency Hospital of | heart trouble. Most of the others were | suffering largely from fatigue and over- | Bxiament | Special Correspondent of The Star. Biloxi to Be 1930 Host. | CHARLOTTE, N. C.. June 6.—From The veterans were expected this aft- | the ranks of the lingering thousands of St S S near the | Confederate veterans the years have old home of Jefferson Davis, for their | - : X O oo o e Biloxl i ‘the omly city | Winnowed out all the fat men. Even that has applied for the reunion, and | the drummer boys now are 84 or more. der-in- | It is lean, hard, wiry men who have Capt. Edmund Wiles, comman 5 chief of the Sons of Confederate Vet~ | fought off the barrage of the years and who are now frolicking through their who is managing the reunion. that it tedly e T thirty-ninth annual reunion here. Fifteen bands. snappy. high-stepping would be chosen. Gen. R. A. Sneed of s t ly idate men- L e outfits, unbeatable both in volume and artistry, have worked this town up to tioned up to today for commander-in- fef. P ffe Sons of Confederats Veterans|a happy frenzy of delight as they blast and the Confederate Memorial Associ-'back the years and usher in romance ation planned to close their convention | Cpeer “Star Spangled Banner.” bSO e s | The United States Marine Band has Through 39th BY LEMUEL F. PARTON, erans, o | made the veterans just about as happy | as anything that has happened. A few FRANCE TO CONSTRUCT | years ago, when the Confederates held $1,000,000 EMBASSY ON | thelr, convention in Atlanta, Sousa re- B s | fused to play “Dixie,” because he didn’t | figure it quite up to his musical stand- PLOT NEAR PARK SITE [ara. About the last of the old scars | had healed, but this Sousa incident was | a lingering irritation. There was some anxious conjecture as to whether the Marines would play the beloved gld & series of reception salons, from the | tune When, at the big meeting at the Windows of which an unobstructed view | armory last’ night. the band turned of Washington's Joan of Arc statue. in | Joose with “Dixie” the crowd “tore off Meridian Park, erected during M. JUles | the roof.” Then the crowd cheered (Continued From First Page) They are, front row, left to right: La . Whitehurst. 'Lean., Hard and Wiry Veterans Frolic Reunion With Minds Far in Past. | just as loud for “The Star Spangled | Banner."” Sam Newton. from Cleburn Parish, | La.. has a buckskin suit and a muzzle- loading gun. about 7 feet long. He is !by no means the only Daniel Boone in the lot. One of the “boys” from | Panola County, Tex.. “packs a bowie knife and knows 63 verses of the “Chisholm Trail." Pete Kitely, one of | the “razorback” crowd from Arkansas has a trained badger which carries the | meat home from the butcher shop, and his grandfather—Mr. Kitely’s—knew Davy Crockett and Adams Poke. Hedgehogs and Badgers. | That badger story, told out on the camp ground, reminded Adam Pruett | of Missouri Ridge of his pet. hedgehog, | | Katfe, who slept in the kitchen and | once licked a timber wolf. The tales | are endless. These are Siegfrieds of | America’s Niebelung, and with them | will pass the lore of a deep and allur- ing_wilderness. | There is, in this gathering of vet- | erans. a complete isolation from all the | disturbing and perplexing realities or today. They are in and of the past Around an army tent there is a crowd of eager lads painstakingly following | }me instructions of a gnarled and knotty old veteran who s showing them how to make & squirrel trap wrile he telis them about Chickamaugee (Copyright. 1929.) | Jusserand’s ambassadorship. may ‘had. M. Claudel desires to fill the new embassy with modern French furniture and furnishings, rather than with “museum pieces.” like Empire, Ver sailles, Marie Antoinette or Louis XV suites. He thinks the embassy should internally be the expression of twen- tieth century France. i Includes Living Quarters. In addition to housing the embassy FARE RATE INCREASE WILL BE CONSIDERED The Public Utilities Commission will contain living quarters for certain mem- | consider the request of the Washington, | hold & public hearing in room 102, Dis- | proper and its offices, the building is to | trict Building, at 10 am. June 19, to | bers of the embassy staff. These ac-| commendation will take up the Fifteenth | street end of the building. The em-| bassy will front on Sixteenth street and | stand in the midst of Washington's most | famous diplomatic quarter. Within a block or two in various directions are the embassies of Italy, Spain, Cuba and Mexico. and the legations of the Nether- lands, Poland, Lithuania and Persia. Representative Stephen G. Porter of Pennsylvania, chairman of the House foreign affairs committee and the com- | mission in charge of constructing Un\l?d‘ States diplomatic and consular bufld- ings abroad, takes lively interest in the French embassy plans. 'He hopes it may | rise in “synchronization” with the $1.000,000 foreign-service office build- ing which Uncle Sam is putting up in the Place de la Concorde at Paris. Mr. Porter thinks it would be an ideal ar- rangement to have the Washington and Paris corner stones laid on the same day in 1930, and, if possible, later dedi- | cate the two buildings 2t the same time. | The Pittsburgh congressman also would | like to see Uncle Sam match the French | idea of having statues of Washington and La Favette in the Washington embassy by piacing statues of La Fayette and Franklin in the hall of our Paris building. i 1920.) FOR SITE. (Copyright, NEGOTIATING i Japanese Embassy Planning Monu- | mental New Structure. The Japanese government also is planning the erection of a monumental new embassy here to house its Wash- ington representatives, it was learned | today. Negotiations are under way for the purchase of a site for the building, | designed to house adequately the Am- | bassador and his staff A number of sites have been under consideration and it is not known | whether the new quarters will be erected on “Embassy Row” on Sixteenth street or in some other section of the District, The chancery of the Japanese em- bassy now is housed in the large four- story building at 1600 Rhode Isiand avenue, leased in June, 1927, from Harry ‘Wardman, and Ambassador Katsuji Debuchi and Mme. Debuchi have their residence at 1321 K street. The chan- cery formerly was located at 1310 N street. Famous Blue Bird Of Paradise Added To Zoo Collection Two rare birds of Paradise were received today at the National Zoological Park &s a gift from the New York Zoological Garden. They were brought back from the interior of New Guinea by an expedition headed by Dr. Lee S, Crandall. Members of the expe- dition obtained them while they still were nestlings from natives, and they were raised in camp. One 15 the famous blue bird of Paradise, which is one of the Marlboro and Annapolis Motor Line, Inc., to increase the rate of fare now charged within the District from 10 tokens for $1 to four tokens for 50 cents. At the same time the commission will consider a petition from the Brad- bury Heights Citizens' Association ask- ing that the cash fare of 15 cents now | charged in the District be reduced to a | straight 10 cent fare. ‘The token rate now in force was put into effect by the company during April | and May in an effort to attract new business fare reduction has resulted in a loss of $712.35 in that period. People’s Counsel Ralph B. Flcharty, however, reported to the commission that he found the loss was only $43.38, and that the in- crease of the number of rid 1219 F St | Acording to the company the | tracted by the lower fare would soon wipe out this loss. He will oppose the company's petition. D. C. KIWANIANS GUESTS | OF ALEXANDRIA CLUB | Members of the Washington Kiwanis Club were the guests of the Alexandria Kiwanis Club ac an interclub meeting in the George Mason Hotel, Alexan |'dria, Va., this afternoon. Members ' of the Manassas Kiwanis Club also at- | tended. The Washington | headed by Edgar Morris, president: James B. Edmunds and Merriit O, | Chance, vice presidents, and Claude W Owen, trustee. ‘The meeting today was one of 17 interclub meeting, which are being held by the 49 Kiwanis clubs of the Capitai Kiwanis - disirict. which includes tre clubs of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia. Merle E. Towner of Baltimore, past governor ot the Capital Kiwanis district, addressed the meeting on “Interclub Relations.” delegation was | Colored Kid, Water Snake, Patent Leather, Satin and combination colors. $6-°° to *10 Back row, left to right: Committee of Washington Board of Trade which today made an inspection of traffic and streets in the Capital with Director Harland of the Traffic Bureau. Horace Peaslee, Director Harland and Captain H. secretary of the Board of Trade; W. R. Ellis, Col. Robert L. Longstreet, E. D. Merril, general manager of the Washington Rapid Transit Co.; Oliver Metzerott and G. V. Graham, chairman of the board's streets and avenues committee. Proctor, Richard Schulze, Robert 1. Cottrell, executive wrence M. Star Staff Photo, CONFEDERATES CHEER LUSTILY FISHER BODY PLANT AS MARINE BAND PLAYS DIXIE GUAR DED IN STRIKE Police Disperse 750 Men at Oak- land, Calif., Where Piece Work Cut Is Said to Hit Pay. By the Associated Press. OAKLAND, Calif.. June 6—Police today guarded the East Oakland plant of the Fisher Body Works to prevent demonstrations by striking metal work- ers, who quit after demands for a 50 per cent increase in wages and the abo- lition of “piecework” were refused. About, 150 men are employed at the plant. Yesterday the workers gathered before the plant and when the officers of the company became alarmed at the demonstration the police were sum- moned to disperse the men Paint Up NOW! People A hos of the natu appea very and splendid contractor, it it LOOKS run down, ou can't get the right price—ever. Let us heip you Phone Fran BUTLER-FLYNN Paint Company N Havana-Panama California SHRINERS INSTALL 13 OFFICERS TODAY Selection of Convention City’ to Conclude Business | | of Convention. E | LOS ANGELES. June 6 (£)—Sev- enty-five thousand Shriners here at their fifty-fifth annual convention drop the curtain today on a week of fun- making. With the post of outer guard, only | contested office of the Imperial Council, filled by Walter S. Sugden of Wheeling, | | W. Va., who was clected at yesterday's | | conference, ~there remained but_two more functions—the installation of the | | thirteen officers at high noon and selec- | tion of a 1930 convention city. In a brilliant parade, 10,000 Shriners marched before thousands of spectators | last night. Official Review Staged. Under the dazzling beams of arc | lights, the Shriners staged their official review down Figueroa street, the bands, patrols and chanters of 54 temples marched by street throngs and into the | | Coliseum before nearly 70,000 spectators | for_three hours. To match the splendor of the Shrin- ers parade, the motion picture industry | prepared to flash 14.000,000,000 candle- | power on nearly 40 floats. in a pageant | tonight. The display, which also_ will | include the presence of a score of fa- mous motion picture stars, s estimated | to have cost $250,000 and was made a | gift to the Shriners by motion picture | magnates i Officers Move Up. Leo V. Youngworth of Los Angeles will be installed as imperial potentate to succeed Frank C. Jones of Houston, Tex. Ten other officers each will move up one post, the imperial treasurer, James Burger of Denver, Colo., and the imperial recorder, James R. Price of Richmond, Va., retaining their positions by unanimous re-election yesterday. Choice of a convention city appar- ently lay between Toronto, Canada; | Minneapolis, Minn., and Atlantic City. N. J. with a noticeably strong leaning toward the New Jersey ocean resort. i The adjournment of the convention | will bring no change in the 1929-30 program for the Shriners’ Hospital for | Crippled Children. A motion to increase | the appropriation $600.000 annually was | tabled until next year, Nearly 25 bookmakers in England have reported that they have been duped recently by a gang with & new trick of passing 10-franc notes as £1 Bank of England notes. One-half Gallon of “ACME” Outside White Paint Will Improve the Ap- pearance of the Front of a 6-Room House And Only $2.00 Costs klin 151-152 607-609 C St. ! of Quebec, Ch on Round the World Liner: Cruise to California on pala- tial Liners in the company of world travelers. Many of them are starting and others com- pleting a trip Round the World. Enjoy a visit in Havana from noon to midnight or stopover for two wecks or longer. You g0 through the Panama Canal during the daylight hours. Visit Balboa and Panama City. epecial roundtrip summer fare, effective until Novem- ber 30, 1929, $350 to Califor- nia on Dollar Liner and re- turn via any direct rail route. Magnificent Round the World Liners. All cabins are amid- ships. 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Egg Plants, 50c Dozen prinklers—Garden Hose STAGE IS PREPARED FOR FLOWER SHOW Peony and Horticulture So- cieties’ Exhibitions to Open Tomorrow. The ballroom of the Willard is being transformed todey into a great mass of vari-colored blossoms in preparation for the opening tomorrow afternoon of | the annual exhibitions of the American Peony Society and the American Horti- cultural Society. Immediately after the show Saturday the flowers will be taken over by the local chapter of the Natlonal Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild for distribu- ton in local hospitals. The annual banquet of the American Peony Soclety will be held at the Wil- lard {omorrow evening. School children are to be admitted free to the show on Saturday when accompanied by their teachers The following judges for the Ameri- can Horticultural Society exhibits were annqunced yesterday: Mrs. Frances King, Miss Hedwig Krueger, Charles N. Elliott, Mrs. L. Helen Fowler, C. E. Gapen, Mrs. F. H. Shultz, Fairman Fur- ness, G. E. 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Jack Honore, barber, says he cashes some- thing like $100,000 in student checks annually and in 16 years has lost $1.' POLICE ATTRIBUTE DOG ATTACKS TO NEGLIGENCE Alleged failure of dog owners to com- ply with the muzzling regulation is the reason police assign for a number of at- tacks upon pedestrians since the regu- ation became effective a week ago. Three additional instances of persons being bitten by dogs were reported by the police yesterday. They were Aloise Walker, 9 years, 3216 Tunlaw road Thelma Hill, colored, 9 years old, 1825 F street, and Lorean Maddox, colored 18 months cld, 321 F street southwest. The Maddox child was bitten by her motker's dog while in the rear yard at her home, where a muzzle was not re- quired to be worn. The other children were bitten by dogs of neighbors while at play. Fully 25,000 new automobiles were introduced into Japan last year. . 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