Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1930, Page 10

IMMERCAL BANK ACQURESBULDNG Buys 8-Story Structure at 710 Fourteenth Street for . Sum’of $225,000. ‘The eight-story structure located at 70 Fourteenth street, known as the Union Bank Building, has been pur- chased by a group of investors closely identified with the Commercial National today by of- ideration for the new owners stated that the building would be remodeled and be held for the future ex- jon of the Commercial National which recently merged with the Continental Trust Co., the merged con- cern now rating from the Com- mercial National Bank Building, north- west corner of Fourteenth and G streets. ‘The upper seven stories of the build- ing were erected about 20 years ago by Johnson & Nesbit over the original one- story structure built on the site of an early location of the American Security & Trust Co. When this bank moved to its present location, at Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, the becoming the property of the Conti- nental Trust Co. when it absorbed the savings bank. w?:t? 5 ago the property was red by ‘Washing- ton Investment Trust, Inc, Boston, CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. International Association of Art and Letters, Inc, will give an Oriental musical and dramatic salon at Pierce Hall, Sixteenth and Harvard - streets, tonight, at 8:30. “The Future of Air Transportation for Passengers” will be the subject of an address by Col. Paul Henderson, vice president Transcontinental Air Co., Inc., before the Amer- ican Society of Mechanical Engineers tonight at Cosmos Club. Dinner at 6:30. Adress at 8 o'clock. Ladies’ Aid Society of Grace Reform Church, Fifteenth and O streets, will serve a turkey dinner this evening, from 4 to 7:30 o'clock, the church parlors. Election of officers and arrangements for the arnual banquet will feature the business of the Northeast Business Men's tonight at the Blair School, Seventh and I streets, at 9 o'clock. XY ‘Women of St. Mark’s Luthern sl‘iuurch, Eighth and B street south west, serve a chicken dinner tonight from 4 to 7:30 o'clock. ‘The Junior Hadassah will give a. card y tonight, at 8 o'clock, at the tian Tea Room, 1210 G. street. FUTURE. Annual smoker and entertainment of the Old Line Club, composed of former University of Maryland students, will be held tomorrow night at the Lee House at 8:15. All Maryland men in- vited. Eddie Rupert, chairman of com- mittee in charge. Columbia Woman’s Christian Tem- pearance Union will meet tomorrow aft- ernoon, 2 o'clock, with Mrs. Frank E. Waring, 1423 Newton street. will be given to- :30 o'clock by the Pythian Sisters at > Rathbone 1012 Ninth street, A card party for the benefit of the Masonic and will ll’fl‘ll Star Home be held fomorrow ‘afterncon and eve- ning at the Masonic Temple, 4209 Ninth street. 3 morrow n at the home of Mrs. H. W. Snyder, 5124 Chevy Chase Park- ‘way, from 2 to 5 o'clock. Offering for the endowment fund. Those using the street cars should leave the car at Nebraska avenue. Alpha Delta Phi luncheon will be held tomorrow aftérmoon, 12:30, at the I Converts League Meeting. Rev. Francis P. Lyons of Chicago, and will address the League of the Catholic Daughte: America, meeting tonight at 8 o'clock Daughter of Representative Bankhead Seeks Freedom From Nevada Grid Star. Los Angeles Newspaper Says She Left Husbhand in Hawaii While on Honeymoon. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, January 23.—The Examiner today quoted Mrs. Eugenia Bankhead Hoyt Butt, daughter of Rep- resentative William Bankhead of Ala- bama, as saying she was en route to Wi , D. C., to procure an an- nulment of her recent marriage to Lawrence Butt, jr, Nevada University foot ball star. Mrs. Butt, who married the gridiron star in Reno December 18, nine days after she had obtained a divorce from Montor. Hoyt, arrived here yesterday from Honolulu, scene of the Butts' honeymoon. “He is & perfectly darling person,” the Examiner quoted Mrs. Butt as ex- laining, “but when we were married Reno he did not tell me that his divorce did not final until Jan- uary 19. Besides, he has a mind much younger than mine.” The Examiner says Butt's first wife revealed this detail of their divorce when she learned of his marriage to the sister of Tallulah Bankhead, the actress. Mrs. Butt was quoted as having told the newspaper she intended procuring an annulment in Washington and then leaving for Europe. The newspaper said she separated from Butt two weeks ago in Hawaii while on their honey- moon. _ FIRST WIFE FILES MOTION. Attorney Says Final Procedure Likely in a Day or Two. LOS ANGELES, January 23 ().— Arthur Verge, attorney, said here today that a motion for a final decree of divorce had been filed here for Mrs. Lawrence Butt, first wife of Lawrence Butt, jr., Nevada University foot ball star, but had not been granted. Final procedure is likely, Verge said, in a day or two. The attorney said he knows nothing of any legal complications arising from the marriage of Butt to Eugenia Bank- head Hoyt before the divorce decree of his first marriage became final, an had no knowledge of any action in- tended by the first wife other than that looking toward of the final decree. Mrs. L. M. Butt of Santa Monica, mother of Lawrence, said she knew of no difficulties arising in her son’s second marital alliance. FRESHMAN IS BRIDEGROOM. Mrs. Hoyt Remarries Soon After Reno Divorce. December 18, as Jeanne B. Hoyt, Mrs. Eugenia Bankhead Hoyt was married o Lawson Butt, a freshman at the Ur?- versity of Nevada, a few days after she had divorced Morton M. Hoyt. The Hoyts were divorced in Reno Tomarried atier Hoyt had dived of 3 al v a "fl-r:;" in midocean. young woman is the daughter of Representative Bankhead of Alabama. ROBERT LYNN COX DIES; INSURANCE EXECUTIVE Succeeded . Grover Cleveland as Head of Presidents’ Association. ‘Worked as Printer and Lawyer. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, January 23.—Robert Lynn Cox, 64, vice president of the Met- ropolitan Life Insurance Co., died at his home in Montclair, N. J., last night of embolism of the heart. He was born on a farm near Warren, Il and became a farmer, foundryman, publisher. and printer, lawyer and life insurance executive. He. served as at- torney and secretary of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents while Grover Cleveland headed that organi- zation and upon the death of Cleve- land, in 1908, succeeded him as chief executive of the association. He relin- quished this position in 1916 to accept that of third vice president of the Met- ropolitan Life Insurance Co. He be- at 601 E street. Father Lyons founded the local league. came vice president last year. Burial will be in Buffalo, N. Y. Obtaining a license at Reno, Nev., on | the MRS. BUTT REPORTED ON WAY TOD. C. TO ANNUL MARRIAGE MRS. EUGENIA BUTT. DETECTIVES JAL 848 IN 3 MONTHS Inspector Shelby Reports 444 Convictions and 158 Cases Pending. Officers attached to the detective hu- reau made 848 arrests during the quar- ter ending December 31, Inspector Wil- liam 8. Shelby, assistant superintendent of the Metropolitan Police Department and chief of detectives, declared this morning. Convictions were obtained in 444 of these cases, 158 cases are pending in the courts, while 210 were dismissed and 38 nolle Stolen property, upon which a valua- tion of $83,085 was placed, was recov- ered by operatives of the detective bu- reau during the past quarter, including clothing, bicycles, automobiles, jewelry d | and other articles. 762 Autos Recovered. A total of 848 automobiles were re- ported stolen during the three-month period, of which 762 have been account- ed for as recovered, leaving only 86, or less than 10 per cent of the number stolen, still unaceounted for. ‘The automobile squad made 84 ar- rests during the quarter, with Detective Sergt. Frank M. Alligood leading both in the number of cars recovered and in the number of arrests. One hundred | tion. and seventy-two cars were recovered by uad, while 39 others were recov- ered by owners on information fur- nished by members of the squad. Policemen in the various precincts re- covered 272 stolen cars and 253 were recovered by owners without police as- sistance. Twenty-six machines re- ported stolen were found to have been Tepossessed by finance companies for failure to make payments. Bicycles Recovered. ‘The bureau received reports on 158 bicycles and 85 were recovered by head- quarters detectives, 30 were recovered byhownm h:n&e 10 n‘;eumck};d nd“qp by policemen precincts. Headquar- ters detectives made 26 arrests in con- nection with bicycle thefts. The clothing squad was especially active, handling 243 assignments, in- volving property valued at $27,827.93, of which. $7,510.50 was recovered by headq rs men and $2,188.15 by owners and precinet policemen. —_——— GAS VICTIMS TREATED. Man and Wife Partly Overcome by Fumes. Partly overcome by gas fumes escap- from a defective heater, Paul ider, 78, and his wife, Mary Schneider, 70, of 5567 Warder street, were given first aid treatment mem-. bers of Fire Rescue Squad No. 2 and Dr. Edwin E. Roberts of 3213 mrg: lven\lz.c th:ls mm;n{h Their wx::::ma was not serious and they were pe: to remain at home. Florida has 41 officially approved air- ports. STEPHEN MATHER DS SUDDENLY Had Served as Director of National Park Service Un- der Three Presidents. Stephen Tyng Mather, director of the National Park Service under three Pres- idents, organizer of the service, and the man credited with forcing public recog- nition of the national parks and rais- ing them from the status of orphans of the Nation to the stature of national playgrounds, is dead at Brookline, Mass., where he had gone several weeks ago for treatment at the Corey Hill Hospital. Mr. Mather's death last night was sudden and unexpected, as several of his friends in Washington had received letters from him as late as two days ago. A second stroke of paralysis, which came 15 months after he suf- fered a similar stroke in Chicago on election day, 1928, caused his death. Funeral services for Mr. Mather, who had received national and inter- national recognition for his outstand- ing achievements in the field of na- tional park development, probably will be held Saturday afternoon at St. Mark’s Church, New Canaan, Conn. He will be interred at Darien, Conn., where he maintained a home. Health Forced Resignation. Mr. Mather's death came 13 years and 1 day after he took over the direc- tion of the national parks, and only a little more than a year after his resig- nation from the post of director of the National Park Service. After serving as an assistant to the Secretary of the Interior in charge of national parks for more than two years, he was appointed director of the service in May, 1917. after having been in charge of the parks since January 21, 1915. Failing health forced his resignation as direc- tor of the service on January 8, 1929. He was succeeded as director by Horace M. Alhl’l{h', who had been acting di- rector of the Mather’s illness. At the time of his death his legion of friends throughout the United States, numbering many men and women high in the official and social life of the na- tion, were marshaling for a permanent testimonial of his wark. This testi- monial, known as the Stephen T. Ma- ther Appreciation, now will probably take the form of a memorial, according to_friends ?&re. ’ e - H rs of the organization in mm, and a meeting will be held in March to decide on the form of the testimonial, on the return from a trip to South America of John Hays Hammond, chairman of the national committee. Others on the committee are: Representative Louis W. Cramton of Michigan, Dr. Gilbert H. Grosvenor, president_of the National Geographic Soclety; Dr. Vernon Kellogg, secretary of the National Research Council; The- odore W. Noyes, editor of The Star, and Mrs. Henry A. Strong, chairman of the ‘board of the Hattle M. Strong Founda- George W. White, president of the National Metropolitan Bank of ‘Washington, is treasurer of the fund of $150,000, to be raised to create the tes- timoniél. One of the suggestions made to perpetuate the work of Mr. Mather is purchase of a grove of sequoia trees and their inclusion in a park to be named after him. ‘Worked for Civic Betterment. Possessor of striking personality and having the faculty of quickly making friends and holding them in bonds of mutual work and companionship, Mr. Mather leaves a lasting imprint on na- tional life. Unebtrusive, vigorous, a man of the outdoors, ever pressing for expansion of the national parks nl:l.\a educational and recreative lines, he seen the development of the National Park Service from little more than a vision and a few desks in a small office in the Interior Department Building to the vast organization it is today, stretching its network literally from Maine to Alaska. Always a leader in the cultural life of the community, Mr. Mather was instrumental in the forma- tion of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, was one of its membcers for several years and always stood for civic betterment alopg ap- proved lines. He always had en & deep interest in the development of the National Capital and his advice had been sought on many occasions by leaders and developers. of . thought along those lines. He virtually created the post of di- rector of the National Park Service. When he took over the task under Sec- retary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane, the parks were not in a prosperous condition Congress had bought or set aside land for them, but their develop- ment_ stopped at that point. Nothing had been done to make them popular Now costs you no more to get " the best coffee You’ve long wanted to enjoy the luxury of this master blend of five of the world’s best coffees. You’ve wanted to taste the rich, deep flavor of this vacuum-packed coffee that comes to your cup actually oven-fresh. Now you can drink the finest coffee . . . at the price you have probably been pay- ing for inferior coffee. Get Boscul today «.. treat your family! park service during Mr, | Washi STEPHEN TYNG MATHER or accessible and they were operated as separate units, Rehabilitation and development of the national parks became a pet project of the director. Possessed of a ecom- fortable private fortune and a host of friends, this man who had worked his way through college and had later gone into newspaper work, brought his un- nunln, interest to the cause of ‘educa- tion of the people to the parks and their development. Criticism Won Position. ‘The manner in which he became identified with the public parks is an interesting story. One Summer he had visited several national parks and ex- pressed his displeasure at the methods of their exploitation. On his return he wrote a letter to the authorities in Washington registering his protest in characteristically vigorous terms. A short time later he received a letter from Secretary Lane, who had been a college chum, reading as follows: “Dear Steve: If you don't like the way the national parks are being run, why don't you come down here to| ington and run them yourself? I mean this' sincerely. - Come on.” The two met a few days later in Chicago. “You're just the man I'm looking for,” Secretary Lane said. “You are going to Washington as my as- sistant.” It was all news to Mr. Mather, but when Secretary Lane told him h- h: already announced the appoin:ment to the newspapers, Mr. Mather agreed to go. He arrived in Washington with the rank of an assistant to the Secretary and. the salary'of a stenographer, went to work. His authority was am- ple, even though the job itself was tle’ more' than a mirage. From that humble beginning has come the great network of national parks, which at- tract hundreds of thousands of persons nually and today wield vast authority along educational lines in the national H roadways and other man m«m mike the accessi- Born in San Francisco July 4, 1867, Mr, Mather worked his way the University of California by sell- degrees at his in Washingto X’.“ # ‘University n. & youn; man he went to New York and obulnes a reportorial job on the old New York Sun, where his industry and zeal was quickly revealed. This ne iper back- nd taught him the e of pub- W] he later turned to ad- v-nnni :’nmnlmugl:ll park develo;‘ml:nl&. Conclu newspaper work hel little for hfm he Jolnexe the Pacific Coast Borax Co. in New York and later in Chicago, where he opened its West- ern offices, One of his jobs was mak- ing friends for ‘the borax company, which then was under fire and needed help. Borax in those days was hauled across the desert by mule teams, In his campalgn of publicity he showed mule teams in many important cities throughout the United States, But, with the aid of chemists, he evolved a new method of refining raw borax, and after an unsuccessful attempt to have his company adopt the method, formed partnership with a young engineer %hn knew of other borax deposits. They formed a company to challenge the borax frust, with Mr. Mather at the head, and were successful. That com- pany is the Sterling Borax Co., whose president Mr. Mather was at the time of his death. Used Own Money for Parks. Shortly after his successful fight with the borax trust, when his business was on a firm foundation, he came to Washington to head the park service. Not satisfied with the funds Congress granted the park service, Mr. Mather dug deeply into his private fortune at various times to attain objects he deemed desirable in national park de- velopment. His pleasing personality went a long way toward making friends for the parks, in and out 6f Congress. One of the projects into which his own money went was purchase of the Tioga road, across Yosemite National Park, in Cali- fornia. Others included purchase of groves of sequola trees and provisions for_quarters for the plrk rangers. One of his forbears was Cotton Ma- ad | ther, the famous New England minister, while another was Elder Brewster. He had purchased and restored the old Mather homestead at Darien, Conn. His home was in Chicago, where he d | maintained a residence at 5638 Dor- chester avenue, and had extensive real estate interests, although he had lived in Washington since 1915. He was ;m%wn in Chicago as the “perfect land- jord.” Mrs. Mather and a daughter survive him. He was a member in Washington of the Cosmos Club and the National in histo YOUR CHOICE Order any of these C-mphelr‘l Soups from your grocer. CHARITIES GROUP T0 NAME OFFIGERS Annual Election Scheduled to Be Held at Y. W. C. A. Tonight. * Officers and new members of the board of directors of the Associated Charities will be elected at the annual meeting tonight in Barker Hall, Y. W. C. A. Building, Seventeenth and K streets, Dr. William J. Kerby, pro- fessor of sociology at Catholic Univer- sity, will speak on “The Social Worker as an Interpreter.” Cuno H. Rudolph, who has served as president of the society since 1916, has asked that his name not be brought up for re-election in view of his frequent absences from the city. A report of the year's work showin, the growth of the organization's worl since its affiliation with the Community Chest will be presented. During the past year relief disburse- ments increased from $66,997.60 in. 1928 to $93757.38 in 1929, or very nearly 40 per cent financial assistance went to 1,203 families, or a little more than half of those under care. Others were assisted in finding employment, in securing medical attention, legal aid, and in making family adjustments. of onge kind or another. visitors of the Associated Charities re- port 518 instances where connection with relatives was strengthened, and 178 where church connections were made more vital. Friendly visitors were secured for 95 families and ' general health examinations for 285. ‘There were 10,190 individuals in the families under care, and of these 5,620 were children under 16 years of age. It is pointed out that this means that 1 child in at least every 25 of Wash- ington’s child })opulnion Was a member of one of the families of the Associated Charities last year. Glass Dancing Floor on Ship. NEW YORK, January 23 (#).—The steamship Paris, all dolled up after a fire, has a glass dance floor in the grand salon flluminated from under- neath by 1,200 bull Press Club, in addition to clubs in oth- er cities, and also was a member of the District Soclety, Sons of the American Revolution. Mr. Mather had received from the King of Sweden a decoration in recog- nition of his outstanding work in n tional park devel from the National Institute of Social Science of New York and the Cornelius Amory Pugsley Foundation also had been presented to him for similar achievements. For example, the | in ment. Gold medals | VIRGINIAN REPORTS LOSS OF $95 MATCHING COINS Again the penny-matchers are at it, and Victor Mitchell of Huddleson, Bed- ford County, Va., is $95 poorer. 4 He was strolling around Union Stas tion yesterday -afternoon awalting the train ‘that would bear him back home after his trip to the city when a “friendly sort of a fellow” walked up and began to converse with him. proposal that they take a stroll followed and they made their .way to North Capitol and I streets where they were joined by a third, who, it develop= ed, was a friend of Mitchell's “friend.” A penny matching contest ensued and when the game was finished Victor found himself 895 out, according to the story he told sixth precinct police. ATTORNEY LOSES CASE AGAINST OHIO WARDEN COLUMBUS, Ohio, January 23 (#).— Robert E. Lee Maxey, New Yorgnu. torney, lost his $436,500 damage suit against Warden P. E. Thomas of Ohie Penitentiary when Federal Judge Benson' W. 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