Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1930, Page 24

B—8 0. ROAD EXPERT - ACTVE AT PARLEY ' Capt. H. C. Whitehurst Has ! One of Leading Roles at Atlantic City Meeting. By » Staft Correspondent of The Star. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, January 16. =—One of the leading roles in the larg- est annual convention of the American | {Road Builders’ Association, now in prog- {Exess here, s being taken by an oficial jof the District of Columbia government, iCapt. H. C. Whitehurst, co-ordinator {and chief engineer of the District En- gineer Department. {1 Capt. Whitehurst is president of the | {{youngest and largest of the divisions (!of the association, the city officials’ {1 division. This is one of the most active lgroups at the convention this week. “'with representatives of the municipal governments of approximately 1,000 cities in the United States in attend- ! ance. The division was organized two vears ! ago and Capt. Whitehurst has been its president ever since, despite a precedent which limits the chief of other divisions | to single terms in almost every case. Elections by Ballot. Elections are by ballot in each city represented in the division, the results being announced at each annual session. Capt. Whitehurst formally was notified of his election for the second term this ‘week. It has been a busy week for Capt. ‘Whitehurst, who not only is called ; upon to side at all meetings of his division, g\:: also some of the meetings of the division's several subcommittees. He also heads the delegation from the District of Columbia !:!vemment. num- bering nearly 20 officials and employes of the Engineering and Highway De- partments, ‘While a number of the District repre- sentatives have come here on leave and | are paying their expenses, they are holding themselves subject to Capt. Whitehurst's orders so that the District . of Columbia may obtain the greatest ; possible benefit the convention, Whicl deals with the multiple prob- THE EVENING STAR, BISHOP'S PRAYER WITH LINCOLN | Dr. Clarence True By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, January 16.—Dr. Clarence True Wilson, secretary of the Maethodist Board of Temperance, Pro- hibition and Public Morals, has re- vedled here what he termed the first story of how Lincoln reached his de- cision to issue the Emancipation Proc- lamation. Dr. Wilson's account is based on old letters and journals found in trunks of the late Bishop Matthew Simpson of the Methodist Episcopal Church. struction, maintenance and engineering and allied fields. Committee on Airports. One of the important committees of the city officials’ division is participating in its first annual convention this week. This is the committee on municipal air- ports, under the chairmanship of Maj. Donald A. Davison, Assistant Engineer Commissioner of the District of Co- lumbia. Among the representatives of the Dis- trict Government here, in addition to Capt. Whitehurst and Maj. Davison, are ngn. Hugh P. Oram, C. B. Hunt, District highways engineer; L. P. Rob- ertson, A. S, Fennell, consulting engi- neers; Maj. L. E. Atkins, Miles Rouse, F. M. Davison, maintenance en- gineers, and Roland M. Brennan, chief clerk of the engineering department. There also are a number of Federal of- ficials present, among them Representa- tive Frederick N. Zihlman of Maryland, chairman of the House District com- mittee; Col. Harry H. Blee, director of aeronautical development, Department of Commerce; Edwin A. Schmitt, as- sistant United States District engineer for the District of Washington; Thomas B. McDonald, chief of the Bureau of Public Roads; Frank Curran, highway specialist of the automotive division, Department of Commerce; A. C. Rose, A. M. Wintermyer, E. A. Willis, Henry Aarone C. H. Frey and H. W. Hendley of the Bureau of Public Roads; W. I Watkins, Bureau of Chemistry and Sofls, 'DECLARED EMANCIPATION CAUSE Wilson Quotes Old Letters and Journals Owned by the Late Matthew Simpson. ‘The trunks had been stored unopened in Philadelphia for half a century and Dr. Wilson was recently given access to them. Story Locked up for Years, “The story of how Lincoln reached his decision has been locked up all these years in Bishop Simpson's trunks,” Dr. Wilson sald at a weekly meeting of Methodist preachers here. “On the morning in guestion, Bishop Simpson, a_close friend of President Lincoln, called at the White House while the President was still at break- fast. He was cordially greeted and the two retired to Lincoln's study. It was there that Bishop Simpson suggested that Lincoln carry out the emancipa- tion idea. ““If the South wins, the slaves still remain in shackles,’ said Bishop Simp- son. If the North wins, they will re- main in shackles, and yet this war is being fought to prevent the extension of slavery.’ “*But,” said Lincoln, ‘it would not be constitutional,’ ““It is not constitutional for you to shoot down the citizens of the United States as your armies are doing now,’ replied Bishop Simpson, who continued to argue with the President that it was F.| a responsibility to God to free the black man. Lincoln Holds to Argument. “After a time, the bishop's old journal reveals, the President said, “I | will do this at the earliest moment when God gives us a victory. Let us pray.’ “Bishop Simpson then tells how the two knelt in prayer and ‘prayed round twice’ The emancipation proclama- tion was issued shortly afterward.” Bishop Simpson, for many years a resident of Philadelphia, died here, June 18, 1884, at his residence at 1334 Arch street. His trunks contain inti- mate correspondence he had with Secretary of War Stanton, Gen. U. S. Grant and other Government leaders | during the Civil War. Because of the epartment of Agriculture, and B. Root, automotive division, Department lems of highway layout, materials, ‘con- — of Commerce. P. | intimate nature of the letters, members of the family had refrained from open- ing the trunks until recently. WASHINGTON, SEVEN AREINJURED | INTRAFFIC MISHAPS Two Children and Five Adults Are Hurt Slightly in Accidents. Two children and five adults were victims of traffic accidents reported by the police today. Five-year-old Juanita Powder of 521 Sixteenth street southeast was knocked down at Kentucky avenue and E streect southeast shortly after 4 yesterday afternoon by the automobile of Louis O. Cox, 1416 K street southeast, and bruised and shocked. She was taken to Providence Hospital. Horace_ Carter, colored, 10 years old, of 1602 Vermont avenue was knocked down in front of 1221 Twelfth street about 3:30 yesterday afternoon by the | | automobile of Milton F. Howlin, 711 I | street southeest, and his face cut. His mother took him to Garfleld Hospital, where he was given surgical aid. | ~ Henry Kembal, 65 years old, of Pree- | 1and, Md., visiting on upper Fourteenth street, was knocked down ut Thirteenth and Monroe streets about 8 o'clock last night by the automobile of W. S. Hol- land, 1210 Shepherd street, and his face sughllf cut. He was given first aid at Garfield Hospital. While crossing on E between Fifth | and Sixth streets yesterday morning, | Edmond Stewart, colored, 63 years, 2510 | High street southeast, was struck by | the automobile of Thomas Fegan, 2714 | M street, and his hip slightly injured. | He went to Emergency Hospital and re- | ceived first aid. Willlam_A. Bolden, 818 Taylor street, was the driver of an automobile that struck and injured Thomas Donn, 54 years old, of 423 Pennsylvania avenus, at Sixth and I streets.late in the after- noon. Donn, who suffered a laceration n{t L{qa scalp, was treated at Sibley Hos- pital. John Seaver, 62 years old, 116 B street, was treated at Emergency Hospi- tal about 7:30 o'clock last night for a slight injury to the back of his head. He received the injury as a result of being knocked down by an automobile at Pennsylvania avenue and First street. A collision between a delivery truck driven by Blair C. Scrivener, 21 years old, of 1217 L street, and the automo- Full-fashioned Bemberg Hose, | famed as the aristocrat of rayons. Subject to very slight irregularities. Large selection of fashionable col- ors. - | SILK HOSE—Seconds and irreg- ulars of $1.50 full-fashioned and | seamless thread silk hose and 69¢ and $1.00 silk-and-rayon and 98¢ rayon hose $2.00 SILK HOSE—60 pairs full- fashioned pure thread silk hose in New Shipment 1,200 Pairs '$1.00 Bemberg Hose Satisfaction Since 1859 79c Another Great Underselling of Women’s NGSPAL) 810-818 Seventh St. NNW. D. C., THURSDAY, bile of Albert R. 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