Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1930, Page 25

YHE SUNDAY POLICY IS CHANGED | THREE ADVENTIST AT CAMP LETTS Enlarged Staff of College- Trained Men to Superivse Extended Program. ~The Washington Y. M. C. A. has ted & new policy for vhe operation g -m&nmu. its vacation retreat for ys, whereby an enlarged staff of col- lege-tratned men will have personal su- pervision of an extended program of Tecreational activities. Athletic stars and other campus lead- rs of more than half s doren universi- | are included in the list of senior counselors who will compose the staff of the Rhodes River camp when it opens for the season next Friday. Heading the group, as camp director, will be James C. Ingram, boys' work director of the Washington “Y,” who has been directing boys' Summer camps for the past eight years. Mr. Ingram will have charge of administration of the camp and will direct its activities. Shaw to Be Associate. J. Sidney Shaw, graduate of Duke xmvnsuy and for three years a coun- lor at Camp Letts, will be associate director and supervisor of athletics. JAMES C. INGRAM. HUGHES ADDRESSES : Dr. Vernon Beam of George Wash- ngton University Medical School will Be physical director of the camp. Hall Hopper, for the past five years rector of social and dramatle. actvi- jee 8t the camp, again will be in charge ©f feature programs. Other members of the staff are Max Brown of George Washington Univer- Bity, a student of physical education and a two-letter man at G. W. U.; Thomas S. Graves of Northwestern and George Washington Universities, who has starred at college in foot ball, track and other sports and who has directed hoys' camps; Wilbur D. Bailey, gradu- xrol William and Mary College, for- 1y associate religious work director of the local Y. M. C.A.and a former coun- selor at Camp Letts; Bert Bergranoff of George Washington University, well known foot ball hero and member of the G. W. U. Troubadours; Robert M. , botany student at Penn State, Who will specialize at camp in nature study and woodcraft; Henry Amos of H.u?vlmfl and George Washington Uni- versities, athlete and member of the G. W. U. champion Glee Club and of the Troubadours, and Herman Goodman, g:dulte of New York University and Lewis Hotel Training School, stew- #rd of one of the leading hotels here, ‘Wwho, as camp steware take care of & phase of camp lif s uppermost in the minds—and appetites—of young gpmpers, “chow.” Junior Counselors. In addition to the senior counselors, #ere will be an auxiliary staff of junior eounselors, most of whom are local high school students or graduates. ‘The camp chef will be Steve Thlgen. for two years cook at a Southern boys’ camp and an experienced chef in hotel and Pullman circles. All preparations for the opening of the 200-acre camp have been completed. All buildings have been redecorated in ‘white it and equipment has been or replaced. Busses will carry to camp the first two-week con- tingent of campers, who will board the vehicles at the Central Y. M. 31736 G street, early Friday mornin, Boys from 10 to 18 years of age are ble to attend the camp. It is not 'y that they be members of the Y. M. C. A, Director points out. Full information may be obtained from Mr. Ingram at the boys' depart- ment of the “Y,” 1732 G street. ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT OPENED BY VETERANS 1,000 Foreign Wary’ Delegates of | Maryland Department Gather | in Cumberland. @pecial Dispatch to The Star. , Md, June 14— fim are about 1,000 delegates and | visitors \ pment of the Department of land, Veterans of Foreign Wars, | which was formally opened tonight with a banquet. ‘The business sessions of the encamp- “mment will be held Monday, , ‘Takoma Park. Perry Point, Seat Pleasant, Indian Head and Cum- berland. = Henry Hart Post, No. 1411, s host #o the convention. CHORUS GIRL'S WEDDING TO MARINE ANNULLED QGouple Married After Annapolis Party in 1928, and Then Sepa- rated, She Says. 7 the Associated Press NEW YORK, June 14.—Mrs. Alice K. Jeflerson Mitchell, a Broadway chorus 1, who sald she was married to a utenant of Marines at Annapolis @fter a dinner party, was granted an #nnulment yesterday. She said that on June 24, 1928, while ¥isiting her mother at Annapolis, she H. sttecded a party at which Lieut. Bruce | Milier, Roland P. Monson. William Ma- Mitchell was the guest of honor. She apd the Marine officer were the only | fed persons present and she sa: after & few drinks were servi suggested that they get married They drove to Ellicott City, Md., and e married, the officer giving his first jme as John and her occupation being recorded as stenographer. Then, she , 1t was sald, the lieutenant took her immedi- | ately back to her mother’s home and she did not see him again until July, when tl discussed getting an annul- t. Mitchell is from Texas. BRITIéH GlRI: WILL SEEK SPEED BOAT LAURELS Betty Carstairs Determined Fight for Country in Place of Segrave, Personal Friend 4 B the Associated Press LONDON, June 14 —Miss Betty Car- irs, undaunted by the tragic death of E® Henry O. Segrave at Windermere esterday. salled aboard the steamship erengaria for the United States today with motor boat, Estelle V, with which she hopes to establish a new record at Detroit. She will be the only British entrant for the international trophy as the result of Segrave's fatal injuries when his r, Miss England II. over- turned while olng at a speed of about 100 miles an P:our. Miss Carstairs expressed deep regret ot the death of her rival and friend but said she would not change her plans @s she was determined, for the e of British prestige, to make & good fight g the :vp!q against her American Wictim of Spider Bite Improves. RICHMOND, Va., June 14 (Special). =Woody Mitchell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lebrun Mitchell of Alum Ridge, Va. s improving in a Roanoke hospital. He was bitten by a spder, and for a -:: condition was gflde it Teports from are rfiz be is ed. here for the eleventh annual (ton B. Boyer, i Ralph Hickerson, Maurice David Holtz- | to | GRADUATING CLASS Benjamin Franklin University Exercises Held at May- flower Hotel. ‘The increasing importance of ac- countancy as a profession and an ally of business was emphasized by James P. Hughes, president of the American Society of Certified Public Accountants, last night at commencement exercises ! of Benjamin Pranklin University, held at the Mayflower Hotel. Of the 93 women and men who were awarded degrees, 12 received the degree of master of commercial science. E. C. Bosworth, dean, conferred the degrees, assisted by Belford E. Hunsinger, director of the School of Accountancy and Business Administration. President Kennedy Presides. John T. Kennedy, president of the university, who presided at the exer cises, introduced Mr. Hughes, who de- livered the principal address. Glenn Willett of the law faculty made the presentation of the 17 members of the class who graduated with honors. These were Thomas H. Burhans, Richard F. Cook, E. Roxy Dale, Boyd C. Edelin, Isadore Feldman, Robert Fessenden, John W. D. Fowler, Bernard T. Flinn, Clarence J. Hurlbut, Mildred V. Garner, Charles D. Gibbons, Bruce E. Miller, Hester V. Sias, Teresa E. Smith, Rob- ert . E. Stromberg, William H. Wert- man and Jesse C. Willard. The award of prizes was made by Needham C. Turnage of the law faculty. Three graduates of the evening de- partment received university gold prizes for academic excellence, first, second and third prize winners being, respec- tively, Clarence J. Hurlbut, E. Roxy gold prizes awarded to day department graduates were won by Mildred V. Garner and Robert A. Fessenden, re- ceiving first and second prizes, re- spectively. For the highest mark in the final examinations in theory and practice of accounts a gold prize was awarded Charles D. Gibbons. Mr. Gib- bons, Miss Garner and Mr. Hurlbut were officers of the senior class: The Charles B. Couchman prize for techni- cal excellence in the preparation of financial statements was also awarded to Miss Garner. Music was furnished by an orchestra under the direction of Wilbert J. Smith of the class of 1927 and by Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur G. Sindell, who were ac- companied at the plano by Ervine J. Stenson. List of Graduates. A complete list of the graduates follows: Masters of commercial science—Mil- Paul Justus Conner, Thomas L. Costagini, Jerome Payser Priedlander, J. McDonald John, Her- bert Richardson Miles, Harry Thomas Quirk, Wilfred J. Reardon, Le Roy Schaaff, Isadore M. Slegel, Harry J.| Trainor, Herbert Lane Wooten. Bachelors of commercial science— Aubrey Sherman Barnett, Joseph Daniel Bresler, Leon George Bureau, Thomas H. Burhans, Elmer P. Carison, Clar- ence Alfred Cole, Francis Marion Cole, | Joseph Christopher Columbus, Richard | Pranels Cook, Joseph T. Corbley, Leo W. | Cote, Paul ¥. Craun, E. Roxy Dale, Thomas V. Delaney, Arthur Ross Dem- ing, Walter T. Dent, Spencer John Drayton, John Jeremiah Dugan, Alton J. 8. Eccleston, Boyd Colgate Edelin, Perry D. Edwards, Joe W. Elliott, The- | resa Lins Fakler, Isadore Feldman, Rob- ert Arthur Fessenden, John Walter Fisher, Bernard T. Flinn, John War- Fowler, Prants, Ernest P. Freeman, Virginia Garner, Charles David Gib- bons, Robert Pitcalrn Goss, Jullus Ham- biger, Henry Orme Herman, James man, Clarence Julius Burlbut, Clifford P. Johncox, James F. Kirkland, Hugo W. Kurandf, Louis Leventhal, John Car- men Liberty, George F. Lingebach, Rose Lisensky, George Francls Lynch, Harry A. McCann, Richard Daniel McCarthy, William James McGaulev, Agnes Maeki- son, Bruce Ervin Miller, George | gruder Morgan, Jerome Stanton Murray, James M. O'Brien, Frank Paul Orbello, .: Paul F. Perry, Maud S. Pherson, Raymond C. Renneberger. Vernon E. |Reynolds, Charles Edward Robertson, | Louis A. Robertson, J. Thone Sasscer, Glenn Kenneth Shriver. Hester Virginia Sias, Teresa Elizabeth Smith, E. Wilson Stewart, Maxwell Harrell Stokes, Rich- ard Marcuson Stretton, Robert Earl Dale and Willlam H. Wertman. Two| today. { Stromberg. Edward Longworth Tadlock, | Belle Whiting Thompson, Annebel Lee Tillett, George Allen Warner, Willlam Henry Wertman. jr.: Joseph B. Weser, | Harry Widom, George Thomas Wilkin- | son, jr.: Willlam Henry Wilkinson, Jesse | Conrad Willard. | CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. | TODAY Annual picnic, Red Triangle Outing Club, club house on Canal road. Breakfast, Tau Bsta Phi Sorority, Chinese room of the Mayflower Hotel, 10:30 am Breakfast, Notre Dame School gradu- ating class. north room of the May- | flower Hotel, this morning. | Tea. Tau Beta Phi Sorority, Chinese room of the Mayflower Hotel, 4 p.m. FUTURE. Meeting, Federal Post, No. 824, St. Agnes Church 46 Q street, tomorrow, 8 pm. Moonlight excursion down the Poto~ mac, Lafayette Lodge Chapter, No. 37, O. E. 8, aboard the 8. 8. City of Wash- ington, Friday night, leaving Seventh "ur'd’: wharf at 8:30 pm. Dancing and eards. Benefit performance, “Your Uncle Dudley.” National Theater Players, Na- tional Theater, tomorrow night, auspices of Ladies Auxilia; National Capital Post, No. 127, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Meeting, Daughters of Union Vet- erans of the Civil War, Mrs. Ellen pencer Mussey Tent, No. 1, Logan 8) Hell, 1502 Fourteenth street, tomor- Tow evening. Card _party, St Stephens Hall, Twenty-fourth and K street, Tuesgay, 8:30 pm. #: OFFICIALS NAMED Several Changes in Person- nel at Takoma Park Head- quarters Are Made. Three members of the executive com- mittee of the world's general confer- ence, Seventh Day Adventists, with headquarters in Takoma Park, have | been named officials in the two new divisions into which the former Far Eastern division conference has been divided. The newly named officials are Prof. Frederick Griggs, for & number of years educational secretary of the general conference, who was elected president of the Far Eastern division, with head- quarters in Manila; Rev. J. C. Thomp- son, for several years associate secre- retary of the Sabbath school depart- ment, headquarters in Takoms Park, who was elected secretary of the educa- tional and young people’s departments, with headquarters also in Manilla, and Dr. H. W. Miller, who for 11 years was medical director of the Washington Sanitarium in Takoma Park and also & member of the executive committee of the denomination, elected president of the China division, with headquar- ters in Shanghal. There will be several changes in the personnel of the leaders of the denom- ination in Takoma Park as a result of the election of officers there. Rev. W. A. Spicer, former president of the general conference, has been elected a traveling secretary. Rev. H. H. Hall will be the secretary of the publishing department, succeeding Rev. N. Z. Town. Prof. C. W. Irwin was chosen head of the educational department as successor to Prof. W. E. Howell, who was elected a member of the executive committee. Rev. C. E. Weaks, who for the past five years has been the director of the publishing work of the denomination in Europe, was elected associate secre- tary of the publishing department, as was J. A, P. Green, formerly of Balboa, Canal Zone. Prof. C. P. Crager, who for the past 12 years was educational secretary of the South American - division, with headquarters in Buenos Aires, was elected associate secretary of the gen- eral conference educational department | and will reside in Takoma Park. CATTLE FRAUD TRIALS | OF 33 MEN BEGINS Deals Allegedly Involving Around $3,000,000 to Be Aired in Towa Courts. By the Associated Press. FAIRFIELD, Iowa, June 14 —Thirty- three cattle dealers and farmers, usder indictment by the Jefferson Camnty grand jury for alleged fraudulent cattle deals, said to have involved approxi- mately $3,000,000, were called into court ay. Ending & two-year investigation, the grand jury yesterday returned three in- dictments. One indictment for con- spiracy to defraud applied to the whole group, while the other two, applicable only to certain of the defendants, were on _charges of false pretenses. The indictments were the outgrowth of alleged fraudulent deals in which the complainants charged that they bought “scrub” cattle which the de- fendants represented as high-grade feeding stock. The defendants were said to have purchased the cattle from the Kansas City stock yards and Texas ranchers. ‘The defendants are alleged to have advertised in various farm journals and newspapers. The prospective buyers would be taken by one of the dealers and shown high-grade feeding stock. Invariably, it was sald, the haser went home before the eal were shipped. Afidavits by the purchasers said on their arrival home they found their cattle of inferior grade and not the stock they originally bought. $1,000,000 BREWERY DESTROYED BY FIRE| Chicago Plant, Where Fortunes! Were Made, Occupies Full Block on Business Street. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 14—A $1,000,000 brewery th: h which Terry Druggan | and Franki ke, beer barons, were | reputed to have made their fortunes, | ‘was destroyed by fire early today. ‘The plant, a five-story brick strue- ture at Twenty-first street and Albany avenue on the southwest side, occupied & full block. The blaze started on the second story from an undetermined cause. The entire fire fighting equip- ment of the west and southwest divi- sions was called out, but the flames had aspread throughout the brewery before firémen arrived. Soon afterward, the roof caved in carrying a water tower with it. The flames shot hundreds of feet in the air and attracted a crowd estimated at 15,000, | ‘The brewery, first of a string operated | by Druggan and Lake, was padlocked in | 1926. ‘A year later they obtained per- | mission to reopen it as the Troy Ice & | Beverage Co. | FIRST ICE PLANT BUILDERi DIES IN ALABAMA HOME G. B. Blakely, 86, Credited With Construction of Factory 50 Years Ago. By the Associated Press. BUFAULA, Al June 14—G. B, | Blakely, 86, who was said to have con. structed and operated the first artificial ice plant, died at his home here late last | Thursday nig! It was while Mr. Blakely was em- | ployed as superintendent on construo- tion of the Columbus, Ga., iron works, 50 years ago that he was credited with constructing the first artificial ice plant, at_Apalachicoln, Fla. | Working under the direction of Dr. | Robert Gorrie of Apalachicola, who de- voted a long period to development of | the principle of manufacturing ice, Biakely constructed the. plant, Several years later Mr. Blakely came | to Eufaula, where he built an ice plant | which he operated until his retirement | from business eight years ago. SWAT THE FLY Take advantage of an early start by an aggre sive war on the fly ng the beginning of the season. The Star has for free ribution wire-handled swatters, Ask for one at the main ofice of The Star, 1ith and Pa. Ave. N.W. S'I'AR, LIFE-SAVING CLASS TO DRAW LOCALS Intensive Instruction Planned by | Red Cross to Combat Drown- ing Fatalities. Several Washingtonians are expected | to register for instruction in a first-ald and life-saving institute, which the Ameérican Red Cross will convene next WASHInuLUN, D. C, Juink South River about four miles from An- napolis. Ten days of intensive instruc- tion will be afforded in the training of | Summer camp _and water front leaders. | D. Melville Oarr of the Pirst Aid and Life Saving Service of the Red Cross, will direct the institute, with the assist- ance of 14 faculty members, who will supervise training in work designed to prepare institute members for the Sum- mer guard against water accidents. ‘The month of July, which marks the height of the swimming season, sends drowning to second place in the list of accident fatalities, the automobile be- ing the first cause of accidental death. The Red Cross works on the theory that deaths by drowning nearly all are due to ignorance or carelessness. Wednesday at Camp Pawatiks, on the A doctor will be on duty at the camp 15, 1930—PAK I ONE. and an experienced woman instructor will be in cl of women attendants. ‘The use of the camp is being given by the Baltimore Y. W. C. A. The in- ptitute will close Saturday, June 328. Sentenced to Hang. LOS ANGELES, June 14 ().— Augustus Gingell, 35, & meat cutter of Glendale, was sentenced in Superior Court here yesterday to be . uged for murdering his wife, Vers, and her alleged lover, Sigurd Bjorneby, at the Gingell home last February, The date of execution will be set later. Notice of sppeal has been filed. Gingell came home and found his wife and Bjorneby together. He pleaded the unwritten law. SEATTLE WINS CONCLAVE Chicago Group Awarded BService Cup at Building Owners’ Meeting. BILOXI, Miss., June 14 (). —Seattle, Wasin, was awarded the next conven- tion of the National Association of Bullding Owners and Managers yester- gAy at the close of a week's meeting ere. ‘The achievement cup for the greatest service during the year was awarded to the Chicago group and the at- tendance trophy was presented the Atlanta delegation for having one ma: ]n"m meeting for every 16,000 popu- ation. B9 Estate Worth $95,081.80, MARTINSBURG, W. V., June (Special) —An appraisal of 981.80 was B a; C. ‘A. ‘ever, f?‘ll-.dmy. here ay in a report at ty clerk’s office. Some local 18 included, but most of the estate sists of bank stock, including 209 Baltimore, National Bank of $53,000; 60 shares Federal listed at ll'.‘:fl 5 fablyen ?:Eg National Bank, shares Farmers and tional of Winchester, Vi $9,075; 9 shares Citizens' Nation Charles Town, W. Va., listed at $1,620. 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