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:B—2 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON ¢ CLOSER TO UNION = Preshyterian General Assem- bly Approves Report of Co- Operation Department. By the Associated Press. : CINCINNATTL, May 31.—Further steps »soward the unification of all churches "*having the Pres] form of gov- ¥ ernment were taken by the 142d Gen- *reral Assembly of the Presbyterian **Church in the United States with the ~approval today of a report from that ®*body's church co-operation and union “ department. The department was authorized to * take up & plan for organic union with ' the United Presbyterian Church, the . Reformed Church in America and other Reformed Churches and was instructed 3~ to report back to the next annual meet- ing of the assembiy Favorable action had been anticipated on a vote to merge also with the Pres- ‘byterian Church in the United States, “*which is the Southern branch of the *“denomination, having its own assembly and government, but at the recent meeting of that branch action was "Raken forestalling any immediate con- .. summation of the plan. Extend Investigation. ‘The Southern branch fitst adopted a majority report disapproving the unifi- " cation proposal, but later another was “substituted permitting a commission to make further investigation during the coming year. - Friendly messages from the Presby- - terian Church in the United States and <from the United Presbyterian Church, »'which now is meeting at Des Moines, t-were read at today’s sessions. The ~action of the United Presbyterians on the merger plan still is awaited. ‘The report of the church co-opera- tion and union department, submitted " by J. Ross Stevenson of Princeton, N. J., chairman, indicated that the greatest ““stress for the time being is to be laid “on the unification of the Presbyterian . Church in the United States of Amer- ica, which is the Northern branch, and the Reformed Church in America. Describing regional conferences held . last year, the department said that the {union of these two denominations ;hould' be k:.pt clelrlymln vle!'l‘h!e'nd- ess of any larger merging of the Pres- byterian family. . H Give Women Voice. The General Assembly amended its constitution today, in accordance with & favorable vote from the presbyteries, »+Whereby it joined the Congregationalists, ¥~ the. Met ts and Baptists in giving 3-Women a voice in the administration of +church affairs. 3~ _An overture officially was adopted the election and ordination +-0f women as ruling elders. In this ca- ;ramy the women will have the privi- viege of participating in the building .fowzn of the local churches, the Pres- sr-byteries and the Synods. <z, 'This also gives them the privilege of sebeing elected commissioners to the Gen- ' eral Assembly, with the probability that - the 143d assembly will see woman rep- « Tesentatives taking a hand in the inter- . nat affairs of the church. bars still remain, Speedway Friday. to save his life. ‘The against the ordination of women as pastors, for the committe on overtures reported today that the Presbyteries ’had voted down, 171 to 109. A proposal to extend them the powers of the ministry. ‘Wide Interest Shown. ving them 60 to participal women unusual interest, for the 280 Presbyteries which responded in the yoting represented virtually the entire number in the church. Through the adoption of resolutions offered by the pe; October 1, 1930, without the ment of retirement. ‘The pension sage is 65. All who have Ppassed the age of 70 by next October and who had been in active service for the five years previous will be able to Tecelve pensions without dropping from active service. RUSSIA PLANS TRADE SCHOOLS; STUDY FOR Delegation to Detroit Examines Workings of Auto Magnate's Educational System. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, May 31.—The first of & series of trade schools to be established by the Russian ernment soon will be ‘under col lon at Nizhni Novgorod. ‘Thi became known today following & Tecent visit here of a delegation of industrialists to inspect the Henry Ford trade schools. The school will in no way be con- nected with the Ford interests, but is expected to be patterned closely after the Detroit trade school. It will be ad- Jacent to “Autostroy,” the name given .to the plant to be built at Nizhni Nov- gorod for the manufacture of motor ‘cars. The curriculum for the Russian school will include Russian, physics, .chemistry, auto mechanics and shop ;mechanics. Present plans call for fa- iellities sufficient to accommodate 650 ,to 750 students, of whom 20 per cent | will be girls. The Ford Co., it was an- inounced also, is planning to establish & trade school for boys in England. It iwill be temporarily located at Man- ichester, near the British plant of the {Ford Motor Co. Ltd., but later will be fremoved to a point adjoining the com- ipany’s larger works now under con- istruction at Dagenham. Restricted to {boys between 12 and 18 years old, it iwill duplicate the Ford trade schools fhere, in which two weeks of shop work are alternated with one week in the class rooms. INEW YORK TO HOLD - RUSSIAN INSURANCE ;‘tlh Insurance Superintendent to| i Xeep $6,000,000 Belonging to Slavic Companies. By the Associated Press. { NEW YORK, May 31—Six million fdollars in Russian fnsurance funds shall iremain in the hands of the State su- jperintendent of insurance while the ‘Soviet government remains unrecog- inized by Washington, the appellate idivision of the State Supreme Court ay. :_ Refugee directors in Paris of the Russian companies to whom the money i belonged had sued to recover it. Albert !Conway, the State superintendent, con- ‘tended that the policy holders or cred- /itors of the companies were the ones fto whom the money should be returned, ;and that as long as the Soviet govern- “States it would be impossible to search . them out. Alabamans Fear Census. TIRANA, Albania, May 31 (P).—A recent national census, announced to- ! day, put the population of Albania at (833,000. Census officials belleve that IN'NEW TERRITORY Vote to Hold Convention of| Denomination Next Year at Kansas City. CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 31.—North- | ern Baptists, with Dr. Albert W. Beayen | of Rochester, N. Y., as their newly- elected president, will hold their 1931 convention at Kansas City, Mo, in ter- ritory dominated by Southern Baptists, | 5] it was decided today at the conven- tion here. This is the first time in the history of the Northern Baptist convention that it has decided to meet in the Southland. The vote for Kansas City today was unanimous, as was the vote for Dr. Beaven, who is president of the Col- gate-Rochester Divinity School. Movie Censorship. The Baptists also entertained a mo- tion of the resolutions committee recommending Federal supervision of | the motion picture industry. The com- mittee said some pictures are demoral- izing to children and that some of the practices of the industry interferes with cordial foreign relations. ‘The resolutions committee condemned the liquor interests for misleading the public through what the committee termed the wet press; gave its approval to transfer of liquor enforcement from the Treasury Department to the De- partment of Justice, and commended | Canada’s stand in refusing to license | exportation of liquor to dry countries. Mrs. Willebrandt Speaks. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt ad- dressed the convention tonight, adher- ing to her policy of refraining from discussing the prohibition question, | which she adopted after leaving the | office of Assistant United States At-| torney General. HYATTSVILLE CLASS NIGHT SET JUNE 16 Exercises for High School Gradu- ates to Be Held on That Date. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., May 31.—Mon- | day evening, June 16, has been set for the annual class night exercises of the graduating class of Hyattsville High | School. The exercises will take place in the school auditorium. John Haney fll! Riverdale is president of the senior class. Prof. K. J. Morris, principal of the | school, has announced that admission | to the graduation exercises to be held June 18 in the National Guard Armory {will be by card only. Difficulty was Billy Arnold (at left), youthful Chicage driver, !;)ealdn: inte microphone immediately after winning the 500-mile automobile race at the Indianapolis —P. & A. Photo. Ten Successive Drivers in Indianapolis Race Get Smaller Prizes. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May 31— Checks totaling $50,150 were handed Billy Arnold of Chicago here tonight for winning the annual 500-mile auto- mobile race here yesterday. Willlam (Shorty) Cantlon of Detroit, who finished second, was given $13,800, and Louie Schneider of Indianapolis, who was third, got $6.950. Others to finish in the t 10 received the following: Loule Meyer, South Gate, Calif, fourth, $4,200; William Cummings, In- dianapolis, fifth, $3.000; David, ans- ville, Ind., sixth, $2,700; Phil Schafer, Des Moines, Iowa, seventh, $1,800; Rus- sell Snowberger, Philadelphia eighth, $1,600; Leslie Allen, Chicago, ninth, $1,500, and L. L. Corum, Indianapolis, tenth, $1,400. ‘The money was distributed at a ban- quet. The 28 drivers who finished out- side the first 10 divided $10,000 in con- solation prizes. The money was dis- tributed as follows: Claude Burton, Flushing, Long Island, N. Y., $550; M. P. Cucinotta, Messin Italy, $510; Chet Miller, Detroit, Mic! $480; Harry Butcher, Wilmington, Il $450; Melvin Kenealy, Los Angel $420; Zeke Meyer, Germantown, P $385. Ernle Triplett, Los Angeles, $3: J. C. Macdonald, South Bend, Ine $375; Roland Free, Indianapolis, $37 Tony Guiotta, Kansas City, Mo., $36! Frank Farmer, Philadelphia, $3 wil- liam Denver, Audubon, Pa., $355; Joe Huff, Indianapolis, $350; Wilbur Shaw, Indianapolis, $345; Joe Caccia, Bryn Mavwr, Pa., $340; Cy Marshall, Indianap- olis, $335; Charles J. Moran, jr., Belle- vue, Del,, $330; Jimmy Gleason, Phila- delphia, $326; Lou Moore, Los Angeles, $320; Deacon Litz, Dubols, Pa. $315; Egbert (Babe) Stapp, Los Angeles, $310; Johnng Seymour, Escanaba, Mic] $305; Peter de Paola, Hollywood, Calif., $300; Marion Trexler, Indianapolis, $205; William (Speed) Gardner, Pitts- burgh, $290; Baconi Borzacchini, Bo- logna, Italy, $285; Rick Decker, Great Kills, Staten Island, N. Y. $280, and “Cy” Marshall (at wheel), who was injured, and his mechanic, Paul Mar- shall, a’ brother, who was killed in an accident during the 500-mile motor race on the Indianapolis Speedway, Indianapolis, Ind., Friday. to a hospital when the injuries were determined, and Paul died in spite of efforts Both were rushed —Associated Press Photo. BAPTISTS OF_NORTH REPUTED HIRELING SLAYER S KLLED Gangster Is Paid in Kind at Busy Chicago Corner. Two Are Wounded. By the Associated Press. €HICAGO, May 31.—A reputed hire- ling killer was pald off in kind today, | with pedestrians on a busy Southwest ' Side corner witnesses to the trans- action. . Shotguns, leveled over the side of a peeding .automobile, ended the life of Philip Gnolfo, whose police record start- ed with ‘an arrest for gun-toting at Greensburg, Pa., in 1915 and progressed through extortion, aicohol peddling and alleged murder at so much per head. The same shots Wwounded @armelo Gueli, 48, Toledo, Ohlo, and caused an- other occupant, ‘6f Gnolfo’s auto to be cut by flying glass. - He was Joseph Fiannaca, 34, Rochester, N. Y., who said he was in the dry goods and oil busi- ness there. Still more shots that strayed from their mark struck Edward Ziattos, a 14-year-old boy, who was passing the corner with his brother. He was wounded in the arms and legs. One of the crimes of which Gnolfo oy a, awyer and politician then"?nlood: Twentieth” ward, three year ago. “Gnolfo was long overdue,” Chief In- vestigator Patrick Roche sald. “The boys say he ‘got’ Henry Spingola and had to duck out of town. It was only a few months ago that he dared to show his face in Chicago.” Gnolfo apparently was unaware he was trailed by the killers. When they fired the broadside killing him, his auto | crashed into a parked machine, veered | over a sidewalk and plunged into the wall of a church. Gueli and Fiannaca fled from the scene and were found later hiding in a private home a few doors away. Both told police they were in Chicago on legitimate business. WIFE ASKS INSURANCE Sues Company for $240,000 Value ® of Life in Fraud Cas COLUMBIA, Mo., May 31 (/).—Mrs. Maud Pearman, wi R. Pearman, was slaln by Dr. Andre: J. Bass, in a $200,000 insurance fraud plot, today filed suit against the Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. of Fort ‘Wayne, Ind., for $240,000. Mrs. Pearman seeks to collect $200,- 000, the amount of insurance issued on Pearman's life under the name of Wil- liam Folta, asks $20,000 in attorney's fees, and $20,000 in penalties for “vexa- tlous refusal of the company to pay.” The body of Pearman, a garage me- chanic, was found near Gravette, Ark., | last March. Bass pleaded guilty to the murder at Bentonville, Ark., and was had in handling the crowd last year. sentenced to life imprisonment. By the Associated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y, May 31—An tion from Poland telling Anthony Andrzejewski of the remarriage of his first wife. Just a few days ago Anthony thought he had two wives. Today he knew he had none. Anthony married his first wife in Poland in 1912 and a year later came to the United States to make a new 4 the correct figure is much nearer one mmnn. but as many superstitious Al- nian; hid in caves and mountain astnesses to evade enumeration, the smaller figure stands. home. A son was born after Anthony left. Then came tHe World War. Anthony enlisted in the United States Army | COUPLE PARTED; EACH REWED; REDISCOVERY MIXES AFFAIRS Pole and Wife Separated in War-Time Confusion—Court to Annul Later Marriage. “Enoch Arden” tale with variations was | gy, {meint went unrecognized by the United | disclosed here today by official informa- | could find no trace of them. |and went overseas. His wife and son | had fled from their native village, and | despite efforts of both FPolish and nited States Governments, Anthony In 1925 he married again. Recently he received word indirectly from his son, now 16 years old, and decided to have his second marriage annulled and return to Poland. | Today he received word that his wife | had married again and was the mother 'hose husband, William ' w Chet Gardner, Denver, Colo., $275. AWARD AFTER DEATH MADE IN CLINIC FIRE Medals Given Under Vail Fund In- D. €, . .JUNE 1, Y CHURCH ADVANCES | Cvmveen orsoow_awro cuassic | [ARNOLD RECENES HUSTICE OFFICILS | §90,150 FOR RAGE|TO HANDLE DRY LAW Change to Occur July 1—Pro- hibition Enforcement Proc- esses Reviewed in Detail. BY JESSIE DELL. Member United Sates Otvil Berviee” Com- ‘mission. On and after July 1, the Department of Justice will have sole responsibility in Federal prohibition enforcement. The law authorizing the transfer of enforce- ment activities from the Treasury De- partment to the Department of Justice becomes effective on that date. Every step of investigation, arrest and prose- cution will be under the direction of the Attorney General. The act creates a Bureau of Prohi- bition in the Department of Justice. It provides for the appointment by the At- torney General ithout regard to the civil service laws, of a director of pro- hibition, an assistant director and at- torneys; and, in accordance with the competitive provisions of the civil serv- ice laws, such other officers and em- ployes as may be deemed necessary. Ap~ proximately 2,500 of the Treasury em- ployes will be transferred to the De- partment of Justice. “Backward Step” Indicated. Many regard as a backward step the exception of attorneys from the com- petitive system. It is claimed that once the safeguard of ‘the civil service sys- tem is removed, political or personal in- fluence steps in, however good the in- tentions of the appointing power may be. By the operation of this reorganiza- tion act, the Bureau of Prohibition created in the Department of Justice will be provided with a force of agents, inspectors, investigators and others re- cruited under the civil service system and expected Lo be a vast improvement over the personnel appointed under the old method of political or personal pref- erment. In the prohibition discussion, for and against, which followed Senator Borah's assertion last December that the Vol- stead law could not be enforced with the present enforcement personnel, one thing that all seemed to overlook was that there had been no basis for judg- ment as to the results of enforcement efforts under personnel recruited through 'n_competitive examinations given by the United States Civil Service Commission, including character tests. The law of March 3, 1927, placing pro- hibition enforcement positions in the competitive classified service, was passed because the prohibition ranks reeked with corruption. Not until now could it be said that the force has been fully recruited under the civil service system. It took three years to bring clude Those to Four Cleveland Telephone Employes. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 31.—Four tele- phone employes who distinguished themselves in the Cleveland, Ohio, clinic fire of May 15, 1929, have been awarded gold and silver medals by the Theodore N. Vail Memorial Fund. All worked for the Ohio Telephone Co. One of the gold medals, the committee of award announced today, went to Miss Gladys I. Gibson, operator, who lost her life in the fire because she remained at her post to p out the alarm which brought assistance. More than 120 persons died in the fire and explosions which followed it. Other awards connected with the Cleveland fire were to Gerald T. Ma- haffey, district traffic superintendent; Benjamin G. Spaeth, district plant su- perintendent, and James J. Roonan, dis- trict installation foreman, silver medal with cash award of $250. All participated in rescue work, and, working in relays, maintained telephone communication with the clinic during the fire. Among other award winners else- where Mrs. Myrtle Dorothy Hull, agency chief operator of the South- western Bell Telephone Co., Elmdale, Kans. Walton A Turner, jr., of Cleveland, maintainance foreman, won a posthu- mous award. SARCASTIC GERMAN EDITOR FINED $200 President von Hindenburg Asks Prison Sentence After Press Comment. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, May 31.—German politi- cians of the Extreme Right, who can- not refrain from bursting into sarcastic domment against President von Hinden- burg for his signing of the Young plan, must hereafter be prepared to pay an occasional forfeit. ‘This, in effect, was the decision of & Berlin court, which today fined Dr. Paul Goebbels, National Socialist Reich- stag member and editor of a Fascist periodical, $200 for an article which asked: “Is Von Hinderburg Still Alive?” Attorneys for the President, plaintiff in the suit, asked a prison sentence for the defendant, but the court took into consideration that he was fighting the Von Hindenburg policies of government administration rather than the Presi- dent personally. e V. F. W. FIGHTS VETO OF PENSION RAISE National Group Asks State Leaders to Seek Votes of Representatives for Measure. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, May !l.——!eekl.nls to have Congress override President Hoo- ver’s recent veto of the Spanish-Ameri- can war veterans' pension increase bill, national headquarters of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States | here today telegraphed all State com- manders of the organizations to urge | their _congressional - representatives to vote for passage of the measure over the President’s veto. “If Mr. Hoover's veto is permitted to defeat this proposed pension increase, the tributes that were uttered over every soldier’s grave in the ceremonies of Me- morial day can only be interpreted as meaningless phrases,” sald R. B. Handy, jr., adjutant general of the V. F. W. “More than 100,000 veterans of the days of '98 will be benefited by this | legislation, and mm, too long delayed already, is extremely important to their welfare.” DURNELL LO.SES APPEAL Race Horse Trainer Must Clear Status in New York. LOUISVILLE, Ky, Msy 31 (P — C. E. (“Boots”) Durnell, race-horse trainer, today lost his appeal to the Kentucky State Racing Commission for a trainer’s license. ‘The commission held its third hearing on Durnell's case today, and upheld the of two children. The annulment decree will be signed | by the court here next week, but An- | thony today declared he woul bring | Stefan, the son whom he | seen, to ffalo_and ! home for o here, d _make & report of its license committee, which had reported unfavorably on Durnell's application for a trainer's license earlier in the year. tabled until his status in New York is e | The license committee ' t| never ' recommended that Durnell's request be Zeppelin after & this about. Force of Employes Greatly Reduced. Of the 2,600 employes who held. the prohibition enforcement jobs when the Civil Service Commission was called in to clean things up, not more than one- half are in office now. The incumbents were subjected to exactly the same tests “tllhm applied to outsiders trying to get in. All told, nearly 36,000 persons, men and a few women, applied for the pro- hibition examinations given by the & Service Commission during the past three years. Of this great number of applicants, about 10,000 qualified in the experience and mental tests and reached the hurdle of character investigation. ‘There, more than 4,000 of them, or more than 40 per cent, came a cropper. A character investigation in a civil service examination is & personal in- %ulry by an agent of the Civil Service ‘ommission among the applicant’s em- ployers, neighbors, associates, and fel- low-townsmen generally, covering a number of years immediately preceding. It includes fingerprinting for compari- son with police records. Evidence of facts in an applicant’s history involving moral turpitude, bad habits, disrespect for law, or unethical dealings is _con- sidered ground for rejection. Every ailable source of information, high and low, is used in gathering the evi- dence, Plea For Additional Funds. The Civil Service Commission con- tended long and loudly for funds for character investigations of applicants for prohibition enforcement positions. It now insists that it be given additional funds to the used in applying character tests to applicants for all law-enforce- ment posi! It may be accepted as fundamental that no law, however worthily conceived, can be more honestly and effectively enforced than those entrusted with its enforcement are themselves disposed and able to en- force it. A hopeful sign is _the reduction of personnel turnover. In May, 1927, the Bureau of Prohibition of the Treasury Department furnished the Civil Service Commission with statistics showing that out of a force comprising approxi- mately 1,600 positions of prohibition nt, there had been 1,077 separations, luntary and involuntary, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926. Personal Standards Discussed. This was & separation turnover of 67 per cent. During the first 11 months of permanent appointments of prohibi- tion agents under the civil service sys- tem, covering a total of 876 positions, 160 separations occurred, a turnover percentage slightly in excess of 18. This is a reduction in separation turnover of more than two-thirds. Of the 18 per cent, about one-half resigned shortly after appointment because of the hard- ships of the service. When it is con- sidered that personnel standards are now higher than formerly and that surveillance of enforcement officers is more thorough, this reduction in turn- over is encouraging. It will be interesting to watch results under the new organization. It will have & better start than the former one had in at least one important department, that of personnel. C. E. IN SESSION More Than 350 Members Attend Party for SBecretary. Special Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va, May 31— More than 350 Christian Endeavorers athered at Tuscarora Church, near gare. Thursday night, to give F. C. Dixon, Baltimore Christian Endeavor interstate secretary, a surprise birth- day party, and Berkeley Tounty C. E. Union presented him wits an initialed brief case. Mr. Dixon feelingly acknowledged the expression. Principal business discussed at the meeting concerned plans for the annual West Virginia State meeting to be held next week in Morgantown. - BOWIE VOTES TOMORROW Special Dispatch to The Star. BOWIE, Md., May 31.—Bowie's an- nual town election Monday will be a tame affair, there being just one candi- date for each of the three commission- ers’ posts to be filled. C. F. Réum, rail- road man, will be the aspirant for the seat_on the commission now held by E. C. Day, who will retire. Commis- sioner C. E. Clarke and George W. Mc- Cauley are standing for re-election. All ‘commissioners will serve one year. Polls will be open in the fire house from 3 to 7 pm. Judges of election will be Noah Joffe, J. W. Ryon, sr., and Melvin Edlavitch. Dirigible Returns. LAKEHURST, N. J, May 31 (®).— | The_dirigible Los Angeles returned to its hangar at 9:30, tern standard ime, tonight, to ‘ 3\2‘ to the Curtiss Trophy air races at the Anacostia Naval Alr Station at Wi 1930—PART ONE. Cyclists to Hold Contests Today In Potomac Park Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 34, di- rector of public buildings and public parks, has granted permis- sion to the Century Road Club Association to hold a bicycle meet today in Potomac Park. This meet is to take place be- tween 9 and 12 o'c this morning in the roadway sur- rounding the polo fleld in West Potomac Park. The United States park police have been instructed to keep the roadway clear until noon, when regular traffic oconditions are to be resumed. $967,450,000 ITALIAN BUDGET IS SUBMITTED Deficit in Commercial Balance Is Reduced Approximately $48,- 000,000 in Year. By the Associated Press. ROME, May 31.—Senator Antonio Mosconi, minister of finance, presented the budget to the Chamber of Deputies today and said that Italy’s financial situation was comforting. ‘The budget totals 19,349,000,000 lire (about $967,450,000), which is an in- crease of 778,000,000 lire (about $38,- 900,000) over 19: Senator Mosconi said the deficit in the commercial balance had been re- duced last year from 7,361,000,000 lire (about $368,050,000) to 6,411,000,000 lire (about $320,550,000). He added that the currency circulation had been re- duced, while the reserves of the Bank of Italy increased so that the reserves represent 66 per cent of the currency and 59 per cent of all debts in sight. Marines March to Game. BALTIMORE, Md., May 31 (#)— arrived by bus to meet the Baltimore firemen’s team, 1,500 Marines from the formed for a parade. Maj. Gen. Smed- ley D. Butler, commandant, was on hand to lead his men in the parade, in which 800 firemen also marched. DINING suite with 3 A 4 finishe! made an colors. r Rockers, 0dd Fiber RocKS w:"c‘o;;::f Usually selting for i cever TR $12.50 weeeet Preceded by their base ball team, which | Quantico, Va., base detrained today and | L5,V PREPARE FOROTH RELNON Confederate Survivors to Meet in Biloxi, With Session to Open Tuesday. By the Associated Press. BILOXI, Miss., May 31.—Warriors of the sixties will be face to face with flery fighters of later dates as the United Confederate Veterans open their forteith reunion here next week. ‘The colorful opening night, Tuesday, Southern memorial day, will ring with the oratory of former United States Senator John Sharp Willlams, whose caustic wit 10 years ago left indelible impressions on a Congress he left after years of service. None the less remembered will be Admiral Thomas Pickett Ma- gruder, United States Navy, whose out- @poken expressions of the country's naval policy were published a few years ";'he older generation will speak through its commander-in-chief, Gen. R A. Snead of Oklahoma City, while the Sons of the Confederacy, who by custom sponsor the opening, will be represented by John Ashley Jones of Atlanta, commander-in-chief. c"’é"“' the opening climax, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, only Confederate organization mot in annual session, will have its president- general, Mrs. L. M. Bashinsky of Troy, Ala., as its representative, and the Southern Memorial Association, in joint meeting, will present its president-gens eral, Mrs. A. McD. Wilson of Atlanta. ‘The reunion’s mammoth gathering will be the opening night these three Confederate organizations assembling as one in a specially erected auditorium. The reunion curtain will rise to the stirring strains of the “Star Spangled Banner” and “Dixie,” played by the United States Marine Band, attending the gathering through Government mission. Clarksville, Ark., Usually Sell 0 » Pc:xlly Selling for 31' 6 U’“Ben\\(i(u\ Amer'\&a;\i“\\ab Vg hip. 4 workman® l-enather upholsterys 1ot O hed in W2 cretonne uphols! gns T Birmingham, also on the program. CIVIL WAR CHURCH BREACH MAY HEAL | made Unification to bring By the Assoclated Press. DES MOINES, Iowa; May 31.—A breach which has separated two meme bers of the family of Presbyterian Churches since Civil War times may | be closed through the contemplated merger of nine denominations. With the United Presbyterian Church of North America as mediator, church- men say that the Northern Presby- | terian Church and the Southern Prese | byterian Church are being brought te a common ground preparatory to unite h:l') with other groups and with each other. While the misunderstandings of the Civil War still seem to prevent the Northern and Southern denominations from merging, both have indicated that they are ready to unite with United Presbyterial to delegates to the assembly of the lat- ter denomination now in session here. By vote today the assembly approved of efforts which its representatives on an interdenominational committee have about Presbyte: unity and provided that the work shall continue. The question must go to th various presbyteries before being re turned to the assembly for final action. Presbyterian Church of the United States of Amer- ica, the United Presbyterian Church ef North Ameri Southern and several Reformed Pre byterian Churches, of which the Dutch and German are the largest, is con- templated in the plan approved. Representatives churches, speaking here, indicated that, their congregations favored the merger, of the the of the Proposed Presbyterian Mer- ger Might Join Groups Separated in 1861. Church, according Northern, reformed Woman Kills Self With Gun. DANVILLE, Va., May 31 (Special) — 25, committed suicide Boys' Unit, and the |at her home near here this morning, a., Police Band are'using a shotgun. the act was given. pe The official reunion band, the | Miss Ada Chattin, (i .PC. ED : $159 Reversible . %su lly Selling e e jacquard ";‘.oa;‘r;:\ub chair an U ho‘s:l":dsh'\‘c:‘nl Large pushycs ing-filled € " :’pe‘;ndg“enpon. tery, 75 I No explanation for ‘ frigerators X » ite a-poor Rl ice 1( ,95 Stools, 24-inch 26, ‘::'h e $ (ron;r;ftf " Uswally selling K‘:“:{“finish- Usually 3 A for 321 R ish ena A el fiois weer for s21 iyory enam T B - by Cribs, VO R Large Size Boy and .7 5 5-Pe. 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