Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1929, Page 19

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 1, 1929—PART ONE. What an Ideal Time to Open a Charge Account! NATION'S “DROUTH | oo e | OF WIT DEPLORED Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin Among Speakers at Pen Women’s Breakfast. Women’s $2.50 & $3.00 Washable Gloves ¢ | EC At a Bargain Price Excellent qualities of capeskin, imported kid and tan and brown suede gloves, in fancy cuff styles, slip-ons and one-clasp styles. All colors and all sizes. Gloves are ideal gifts—especially these, $1.50 Full-Fashioned Silk Hose 2,000 pairs women's 1 pure thread silk hose in chiffon and service weights, slight irregulars. Also PERPECT quality full-fashioned Bemberg- to-the-top hose. All the fashionable colors. Street Floor The economic and social revolution | in the midst of which the world finds | itself has precipitated a constant search | for new thought expressions and better | understanding of the new uses of words, | Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president of George Washington University, told the National League of American Pen| To the Host of Women W ho Have Inquired About the Anfiual Event—and to All Washington—We Announce’ ‘Women, at their celebrity breakfast at the Willard Hotel yesterday, in a whim- sical discussiog of modern trends. “As life is taking on new meanings,” he said, “so we are trying to express | them in new ways—decipherable some- | times to ourselves alone.” Going further into the new uses of | words, and the consequently deeper hidden meaning of certain “modern” authors, he quoted this couplet: “Oh, the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And her daughter; They washed their feet In soda water.” Attempt to Decipher. “A distinguished group of editors,” he added. “and one indigent college president sat for two hours recently and pondered in an effort to decipher thc meaning of this poem—and yet there are those who still contend the worid today is void of humor.” “Nothing so leavens words, thoughts or actions, nor gives them power and strength as the element of humor,” said Richard Washburn Child, former Ambassador to Italy and author of note, who chose for his subject “Where Is Our Sense of Humor?” Mr. Child declared in America today people are suffering from a “canned thought epi- demic on ‘causes,’ the urgently needed remedy for which is a dose of humor.” “We're becoming so earnest over our pet ‘causes’” he declared, “spending millions of dollars in distributing ‘canned thought’ to further them, that we are working ourselves into a per- petual headache.” John J. Daly, dramatic critic of the Post, also spoke briefly. Ruth Bryan Owen Responds. Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida responded to a toast with a greeting. Mrs. Bonnie Busch, president of the league, introduced the speaker. Mrs. Nina Reed, who took over the program following the speakers, an- nounced that to test the facility of the penwomen in the new uses of words a contest would be staged at the next celebrity breakfast. Miss Reed reviewed briefly Mr. Child's latest book, “The Writing on the Wall,” and then introduced the following writ- ers, who review their own ' recently published works: Miss Katharine Met- calf Roof, James C. Young, John Pell and Miss Margaret Fischer. Miss Bettie N. Powell followed the re- viewers with a short talk on “Snapshots From a Traveler's Diary,” and Mrs. Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas, poet and dramatic reader, concluded the program ‘with a group of readings in costume. TONDORF FUNERAL SERVICES ARRANGED Scientists and Georgetown Univer- sity Faculty Members to Attend. Attended by members of the George- town University faculty and many local scientists, services will be held tomorrow ‘morning at 9 o'clock in Dahigren Chapel for Rev. Prancis A. Tondorf, 8. J., director of the Seismological Observa- tory. who died suddenly Friday. Right Rev. John M. McNamara, aux- fliary bishop of Baltimore and pastor of St. Gabriel's Church in this city, a_ former pupil of Mr. Tondorf, will officiate at the mass. The assisting priest will be Dr. W. Coleman Nevils, sl_L J., president of Georgetown Univer- aity. The presiding officer at the recitation of the office of the dead will be the dean of the Georgetown Medical School, Rev. John L. Gipprich, S. J. Rev. Joseph Bluett, S. J., and Rev. Themas J. Stokes, S. J.. members of the col-| lege faculty, will be the chanters.| Burial will be in the college cemetery. Among the many messages received at Georgetown yesterday following the scientist’s death was one from the former director of the Astronomical Ob- servatory, Very Rev. Edward C. Phil- lips, 8. J., who left Georgetown a year ago to become provincial of the New ‘York-Maryland province of the Jesuit Order. “There will be many a little child as well as grave old scientists who will mourn his loss,” he said, referring to the fact that Father Tondorf, who never sought recreation except in a short afternoon stroll on the campus was joined almost daily by a little| group of neighborhocd boys and girls. | He looked after their welfare and saw that they received necessary medical attention at the university hospital and | once a year he took a day off from | his duties and went picnicking with his | young friends in the country. | TWO TRAINMEN Dlé AS FREIGHTS CRASH/ Blinding Snowstorm Cause of Col- lision Near Sibley, Va.; Fire- men Called for Blaze. By the Associated Press. SIBLEY, Iowa, November 30.—Andrew Patterson of Sioux City, engineer, and Gilbert Evans, St. James, Minn., brake- man, were killed in the crash of two Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha freight trains, one north and the other south bound, near here to- ! night. i The collision occurred in a blinding snow storm. Patterson and Evans were aboard the south-bound train. Fire followed the crash and prevented | wrecking crews from removing the| engineer and brakeman who were im- prisoned in the wreckage. The blaze also threatened oil cars which were being hauled. but the Sibley Fire De- plrtment succeeded in quenching it. Two cars of the northbound train were hurled from the track and a third was cast upon the tender, and the fire- man of the train, whose name was Bloom, was injured. B. F. Bridwell, engineer of the northbound train, was not hurt. FIRE SWEEPS BLOCK. $1,000,000 -;);mlge Incurred in Parkersburg, W. Va. PARKERSBURG, W. Va., November 30 (#)—Damage which representatives of insurance companies said would total upward of $1,000,000, tonight was caused by fire which swept one of the principal business blocks in Parkers- burg. One fireman was hurt by flying lass. 4 ‘The fire is thought to have started In the boiler room of the Camden Theater, which was closed. Firemen with apparatus were sent from Marietta, Ohio, and nearby West C. C. MOTHERSEAD. WORKER FINISHES Former Western Union Mes- senger Retires as Manager of Credits Division. for the Western Union Telegraph Co. as a messenger three years after the| Civil War, was retired yesterday after || completing 61 years and five months || continuous service, approximately the ast 15 in the position of manager of credits and collections. Yesterday, shortly after noon, he was presented with a radio and basket of || flowers by his associates, many of whom | have known him since they first, went : to work for the company. Taff Makes Presentation. | ‘The presentation was made by H. Frank Taff, general superintendent of the company’s offices in this city, who congratulated Mr. Mothersead and told him of the esteem in which he was held by officials and employes. The presen- tation was made in Mr. Taff's office. | Mr. Mothersead was the recipient of || a letter from T. W. Carroll, general manager of the Eastern division of the Western Union Telegraph Co., who felicitated him on his long service. ] During his many years with the com- || pany, Mr. Mothersead had become widely acquainted at the Capitol, White House, embassies and legations, in ad- dition to having a wide acquaintance in the business world. Messenger Under Johnson. Mr. Mothersead’s first employment was as a messenger in the United States Senate during impeachment pro- ceedings agalnst Andrew Johnson. He entered the employ of the Western Union Telegraph Co. in July, 1868, as a messenger. | He subsequently was promoted to office boy, later to receiving clerk and then to cashier. After holding the lat- ter position for some 10 or 15 years, he was promoted about 15 years ago || to the position of manager of credits and collections. i He resides at 718 B street southwest, where he has long made his_ home. He is a member of the Odd Fellpws and past noble grand of the Metro- || politan Lodge of that organization. He || was born in Alexandria, Va. but has || resided here continuously since boy- || hood. He reached 'Eh seventy-fifth | | birthday September L He was married in June, 1879, to Miss Laura Virginia Garrett of this city. They have a daughter, Mrs. Ray- mond W. Bruy)l, who also lives in i ‘Washington. Mr. Mothersead in robust health at- || tributes it to “regular habits and get- ting 8 or 9 hours of sleep each night. JAHNCKE CONGRATULATES || BYRD FOR POLAR EXPLOIT Message Is Radioed to Little Amer- ica From Naval Station by Assistant Secretary. The congratuations of the Navy were added today to the messages sent Comdr. Richard E. Byrd in recognition of his flight over the south pole. Assistant Secretary Jahncke, on be- half of the service, had the Naval radio transmit to Little American the brief message: “Congratulations to you and your associates.” Assistant Becre‘ury Ingalls, for aeronautics, said that “the flight again proved the great value of aviation in the scientific world.” Deputies Scour Florida Morass For Lost Sheriff Officer and Indian Guide Are Missing After Clash With Swamp Gang. By the Assoclated Press. LOST MANS RIVER, Fla.,, November 30.—Monroe County deputy sheriffs to- day were searching the Shark River Archipelago of the Ten Thousand Islands, an uncharted area of land, water and mangrove swamp on the Southwest Florida coast, for Sherift Cleveland Nites and King Gomez, his Seminole guide. They disappeared into the vast morass Wednesday in search of a fugitive, it was said. Much concern is felt for their safety by those who have lived in the wilder- ness. The officer had only a can of beef and a loaf of bread when they started. The Indian guide is believed to be familiar with the trackless waste, however. Leaving Key West last Tuesday, Sheriff Nites and two deputies crossed the 80 miles of water and arrested Wil- liam Rewis, said to be an ex-convict, charged with cutting the throat of Joseph Hamilton, a deaf mute, at Lost Mans River, and with wounding Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hamilton, the mute's parents Rewis, surrounded at his cemp in the middle of the swamp country, surrendered. Leaving the deputies with the prison- er, the sheriff and his guide pus! on up Lost Mans River in search of Tom Anderson, alleged partner and ring- leader of a gang. The deputies are said to have waited 30 hours for Nites and then fell back before members of the gang, who gath- ered in boats, each manned by an armed rifleman. They took Rewis to Key West, being piloted out of the intricate waterways by Salvatore Gomez, brother of King. Obtaining food and fuel, the deputies started back Friday to the islands to continue the search for their Virginia towns. Cold weather handi- capped the efforts of the fire fighters. — The Victoria Cross, Great Britain's most famous war decoration for bravery, is held by 467 men. chief. The Hamiltons charged that the trouble was the outgrowth of a quarrel over fishing grounds. Rewis, they claimed, poached on ir preserves and had beaten their —Star Staff Photo. || bl YEARS ON JOB C. C. 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