Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1930, Page 6

NG STAR, WASHINGTON D. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1930. HARRY C. €. STILES | DIES OF PNEUMUNIA% Treasurer and General Man- ager of Engraving Firm lll Since Last Friday. Harry C. C. Stiles, treasurer and gen- eral manager of the Maurice Joyce En- graving Co., with which he had been associated for 35 years, died at his home, 2276 Cathedral avenue, early to- day after a short illness. He was 58 | years old. Mr. Stiles was stricken with | pneumonia last Friday. | Mr. Stiles had been active in many; J :g:nlnuon.t including & number of | liations with the Masonic fraternity. | He was former president of the| American Photo-Engravers' Association | and was for eight years secretary of the old Commercial Club, now the City Club, and at the time of his death was & member of the latter organization, He also was a member of the Wash- ington Board of Trade, Chamber of Commerce and the Advertising Club. His Masonic afliliations included mem- bership in Temple-Noyes Lodge, F. A. A. M.; Columbia Chapter, No. 1, Royal Arch Masons; Columbia Commandery, No. 2, Knights Templar, and Almas Temple of the Mystic Shrine, Born in Warren County, N. J., De- cember 8, 1872, Mr. Stiles had been a resident of this city since a young child. was educated in local public schools and at the Columbia College of Commerce. Mr. Stiles first went with the en- graving company as manager and some years ago when it was incorporated was named treasurer and general manager. Mr, Stiles was widely known in this city, where his many interests threw him into constant contact with leaders in the business and financial fleld. His sudden illness and death came as a dis- tinct shock to his many friends and as- sociates. He is survived by his widow, Adele Miller Stiles; two sons, Donald Stiles and Richard Stiles; a daughter, Miss Marjorie Stiles. and a sister, Miss Flor- ence Fraser Stiles. Puneral services will be conducted in All Souls' Memorial Episcopal Church, Cathedral avenue and Woodley road, Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. In- terment will be in Glenwood Cemetery. DR. OLIVER TO SPEAK ON HUMAN BEHAVIOR ! | Company Head Dies | i 1 | # i | | HARRY C. C. STILES. | CONSTITUTION VIEW ATTACKED BY BECK “Crowning Atrocity of the 18th Amendment” Is Scored | in Address. Special Dispatch to The Star. PHILADELPHIA, March 27.—James | M. Beck, Representative from Pennsyl- | vania, in an address before the Ameri- | can Philosophical Society, broadcast Jast night from the 141-year-old hall of the soclety, 104 South Fifth street, re- lated the “Changed Conception of the Constitution.” His address was sent out over a National Broadcasting Co. chain_of 15 stations, originating from WEAF, New York. “It is true that the changed concep- tion of the Constitution, due to me- chanical foices, has found even to this day little open expression from the bench or bar,” Mr. Beck said. “To Jjudges and lawyers, the Constitution is as the Bible to the devout—it is infalli- ble and omnipotent. The law is to bench and bar a religion; the judges are the high priests and the lawyers are the inferior clergy. Both regard the Constitution in the spirit of un- New Concepts to Be Explained in Mount Pleasant Church Address Tomorrow, in human behavior will at the Mount Pleasant New cone be explah Congregational Church tomorrow night by Dr. John Rathbone Oliver of Johns Hopkins University, who will speak on “Psychology in the Service of the Sou)” | COnsk for ‘the benefit of the Washington Life Adjustment Center, of which the Rev. Moses R. Lovell, pastor of the church, s inent List, "y iver, & prominen novelist, physiclan, coilege professor, eriminolo- gist _and el has emerged as & leader of the school of thought in religion and medicine of which the center is one of the most chai notable manifestations, INSURANCE l;OISON CASE JURY TO HEAR PLEAS Mrs. Gentry Testifies Husband, 18 Years Her Junior, Frequently Threatened Suicide. By the Associated Press. ELDORADO, Ark., March 27.—The in the trial of Mrs. Bertie Gentry, ), accused of poisoning her husband to collect his insurance, reassembled today to hear the final arguments of attorneys. prosecution has asked the death ‘The defense has based its case on theory that James E. Gen- Commitied sicide by polsen because o use o financial troubles. Mrs. Gentry was the last witness on the stand last night, testifying that he tly had theratened to commit DETECTIVE LOSES SUIT O'Shea Divorce Action on Ground of Desertion Dismissed. Special Dispateh to The Star. LEONARDTOWN, Md., March 27— ‘The sult of Lawrence A. O'Dea, Wash- detective sergeant, inst his e, Edith L. O'Dea, for divorce on grounds of desertion, was dismissed hyl the Circuit Court of St. Marys County yesterday, and the decree refused by Jfl%: William Meveral Loker. court ruled that the residence of ll"\‘e ‘ghlmm e mnl mmuhfi by the e 'nee as contemplal Mary- land code. ¥ . o ‘The court also stated that it thought the evidence fell short of proving the separation deliberate and beyond any Teasonable expectation of reconciliation. il CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Card party, Mispsh Chapter, No. 8, ©O. E. 8, Masonic Hall, 1210 Wisconsin avenue, tonight. Dance and card party, Robert Le Bruce Chapter of the Order of De Mo- lay, Wardman Park Hotel, 8 p.m. Meeting, Widows and Orphans’ Asso- eciation of Veterans of All Wars, G. A, R. Hall, 1412 Pennsylvania avenue, 8 p.m, Meeting, University of Michigan ‘Women’s Club, 2801 Thirty-fourth place, $,pm. Mrs. Jumes G. Cumming, host- Conduit Road Citizens’ Association, Bt. David's Parish Hall, 8 p.m, Sermon, Vermont Avenue Baptist Chureh, '$:30 pm. Preacher, Rev ulla Sayles, pastor of the Providence Baptist Churcty % Free study class, United Lodge of ‘Theosophists, Hill Building, Seventeenth and I streets, 8:15. Subject, “States After Death.” % FUTURE. eeting, Gen. John A. Logan Chapter, Daughters of the Defenders, room 137, Willard Hotel, tomorrow, 3:30 p.m. ng, Ohio Girls' Club, at Thomas 1326 Massachusetts avenue, 30 p.m. . Meeting, Women's Alliance of All Souls' Unitarian Church, Plerce Hall, Fifteenth and Harvard streets, tomor- Tow, 11 am. Speaker, Dr. Arthur W. Hummel, head of the Chinese dlvision of the Library of Congress. Luncheon, Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, Hotel , tomorrow, 12:30 p.m, Concert and dance, Georgia State So- reasoning pietism, “Regard Law as Final Truth.” “Thus, lawyers are too likely to regard the doctrines of the law as final truths, hav their sanction in some judicial ipse dixit, or political document. They forget that, even in the field of religion, he Master sald of the institution of the Sabbath that it was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath; and, similarly, lawyers might well reason, idering the fallibility of all human laws, even of constitutions, that the true criterion of any law as its practical service to the common good. “Time will not suflice to fllustrate the portentous changes to which the Constitution has been subjected. I can only indicate a few. The description of the electoral college, except as an empty form; the profound change in the representative system, due to the democratic ideal that a rep- resentative should think with and not o marked the different functions of the executive, legislative and judiciary; the steady deterioration in power of Con- gress as the great council of the Re- public, and - correspo: aggrandize- ment of the Executive, until is, in everything but name, an elective king.” “The perversion of the taxing power, whereby the Government as- sumes powers never granted to it; the even greater perversion of the power of appropriation, whereby the Federal Government has persuaded the States, by the moral bribery of Federal grants, to yield their reserved powers; the de- struction of the equitable principle that direct taxation should be appor- tioned among the States in proportion to political power in the House of Rep- resentatives. “State Rights Destroyed.” “The slow destruction of the power | of the State over domestic commerce by the expansion of the Federal com- merce power; the creation of numerous bureaus and some departments to effec- tuate purposes which are not within the sphere of Federal power; the social- istic experiment of aiding failing in- dustries by grants from the Federal | ‘Treasury; the perversion of the taxing p power to redistribute wealth; the ap- | pointment of diplomatic mrzunufiv:sl to represent our country in foreign lands without the sanction of the Sen- ate; the power to declare war without | the consent of Congress by acts which | make war inevitable, and, finally, the crowning atrocity of the eighteenth | smendment, which invades liberty in & manner which Washington and Frank- ling would have stood agaiust, and which in this respect, relegates the once proud- ly consclous States to the ignominious position of being mere police provinces.” SECOND JURY FINDS | ‘RED’ CRANE GUILTY | Former Major Leaguer Is Convict- | ed of Second-Degree Murder Charge. By the Associated Pr | HARRISBURG, Pa., March 27.—For | the second time within seven months Samuel (Red) Crane, a former major league base ball player, last night heard | & jury return a verdict of second-degree murder against him. Crane was on trial | for the killing of John D. Oren, & brick salesman. Last September a jury returned a similar verdict against Crane for killing Miss Della Lyter, State highway de- mt employe. Oren and Miss Lyter, a former friend of Crane, were shot and fatally wounded last August 3 while seated in a hotel here, The verdict carries a penalty of 10 to 20 years' imprisonment, At _both trials the State demanded the death penalty. The defense main- tained Crane, who once played with ‘Washington, was so intoxicated he did not realize what he was doing. SISSON CALL.S HOMELAND | GREATEST TRADE FIELD Vice President of New York Guar- anty Trust Co. Compares U. 8. With Europe. NEW YORK (#)—Great strides are being made in the developement of foreign markets for American made | goods, but the United States remains as the greatest field for expansion be- llevs Francis H. Sisson, vice president of the Guaranty Trust Company. clety, Washington Hotel, tomorrow eve- ning. g n:am* lflr Points A-olhocultlnn "of . Milans apter, No, 41, E 8, mlml. Eumrflly. 9 pm. Card party, Keane qyuncil, Knights ©f Columbus, 918 Ten... street, tomor- Tow night. 5 ) Its potentialities are seen when its population is compared with countries of Europe. Sisson said that if the density of the ulation of the country were equal France e would be_ four times its present population, Germany it would be increased to 1,150,000,000 and to be boosted to 2,100,000,000. “GENUINE WHISKY” IS REPORTED SEIZED Police Told Liquor Was Kept for| Friends—Take 276 Quarts | in Raid. Two bottles of “genuine whisky," | reputedly kept on hand for particular | friends, and 276 quarts of “run-of-the | mill” boverage were reported seized when Sergt. O. J. Letterman and his vice squad raided a house in the 1400 block of Eleventh street yesterday. Four colored persons were arrested. Mary Jones, 17 years old; Lovassa Blackstone, 31, and Geraldine Brown, 18, were charged with sale and posses sion of liguor and maintaining a nuisance, Walter Brown, brother of Geraldine, giving his age as 18 years, was charged with illegal possession and maintaining a nuisance, CASHIER ADMITS THEFT Civic Leader, Year After Surrender. TAYLORSVILLE, Ky., March 27 (#). | —A bank cashier who was a deason in the Baptist Church and a civic leader. Edwin A. Reed, Kentuckian, Gets sentenced to a year in reformatory, Unified control of Chinese government railways has just been accomplished. | torlan; MAINE POTATO FARMERS TO VISIT WASHINGTON Group Will Be Received by Hoover | at White House Tomor- row Afternoon. ‘Washington will be visited tomorrow | by 140 farmers from Aroostook County, | Maine’s famous “potato empire.” The farmers began a 3,500-mile tour today in a special train. They will ar- rive in Washington at 9 o'clock tomor- row morning. They wiil go to the White House at 1 o'clock to be received | by President Hoover. They will be en- tertained at luncheon later by Senators Frederick Hale and Arthur R. Gould. The delegation represents a business stimated this year at $57,000,000. A | re of them plant from 200 to 600 cres each. The principal varieties of potatoes raised in Aroostook County are on display in an exhibition car. They will be shown to buyers throughout the South, MUSICAL SOCIETY ELECTS Catherine Benson was elected presi- ‘| dent of the Rho Beta Chapter of Mu Epsilon, honorary musical society, last night. Other officers chosen in the same election included Ruth Thomas, vice president; Nell Canine, recording secretary; Dorothy Todd, corresponding ecretary; Helen Lyon, treasurer; Ger- rdue Dyre, chorister; Anne Smith, chaplain; Mildred Maxwell Smith, his- Betty Gray, warden, and Tamara Dmietreff, alumnae secretary. Miss Benson, the new president, and Miss Evelyn Scott will represent Rho Beta Chapter at the biennial conven- tion of the sorority in Mackinac Island, Mich., in June. The Women's Shop of the RALEIGH HABERDASHER 1310 F Street There’s not a trace of last year in this 1930 Suit Fashion! Clever . . . youthful . . . chic ... and so modestly priced, too. . . . 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