Evening Star Newspaper, June 22, 1930, Page 12

A—12 ORGETOWN MEN 10 STUDY ABROAD ighteen Are to Spend Sum-| mer in Foreign Countries, Making Investigations. Andrei de Porry of Clarendon, Va. | founded is year at the Georgetown University |. Bchool of Foreign Service by Prince inner of the history medal, bert de Ligne, the Belgian Ambas- dor, is one of 18 Georgetown students | ho are already preparing fo continue eir studies in foreign countries this | mmer. Before returning next October rry will attend the special language rses at the University of Heidelberg | University of | Germany Grenoble, Fri Pive other students, Richard Bourdon W. G. Lynch, E. Leibacher, C. Stack and W. Showalter, have enlisted as cadets before the masts on merchant and pas- senger vessels, on cruises around the world, in furtherance of their studies | of international shipping. Conduct Investizations, While some of the students will at- tend educational institutions during the the Summer, others will conduct economic " the preparation of | LEO FEIST. TIN PAN ALLEY'S 'GREATEST SALESMAN, DIES investigations in theses which they will submit for addi- tional credits at Georgetown upon their return in the Fall. Mexico will be visited by three students, V. J. Reilly, M. Mango and Halleck Rose, who wlll study Spanish | and Spanish literature at the University | | of Mexico. In the past 10 years many Georgetown students have studied in | that country, on one occasion a special delegation from the school accompanied by faculty members, having spent the Summer at Mexico's famous university. Sessions of the Academy of Interna- tional Law at The Hague will be at- tended by A. C. Viau, W. E. Speis and D. L. Keblinger, and Philip Raine will study Spanish 'at the University of Madrid, while Edmund Becker will take Work en Trips Abroad. Four of the Georgetown students will | eonduct special investigations on their | trips abroad. George Owen will pr E;e & thesis on American manufactu; subsidiaries in France and Ger- many and John B. O'Shea will make & study of railway transportation in half a dozen European countries, including England. Another student, Horace Pascal, will make economic studies at San Remo, Italy. while K. C. Lau is headed for Hawaii to make a report on the pineapple industry there, in con- mection with his studies. It is expected that a number of other students at the Georgetown School will be leaving Washington during the eourse of the Summer for trips abroad, Which officials of the school are seeking 1o encourage. They feel that such tri not only offer special advantages to the | students themselves, but also tend to| foster closer intellectual relations be- | tween the United States and other | eountries. DODGE REAPPOINTED IN RETIREMENT PLAN Minister to Five Nations Takes| State Department Office After Resignation. H. Percival Dodge of Boston, Ameri- Minister to five different nations, rdly was ordered detailed to the Department for duty, with the nnk oluf::’.:l nhfllcer of the first class, Whieh was accepted so that Iu mkhl shortly l’e'.ll'! after Jong serv- the Governmen Dfle like other members of the American Diplomatic Service, submit- ted his resignation as Minister to Den. mark when President Hook took ‘office. In reorganizing the foreign service, President Hoover accepted Mr. Dodge's De | | THE SU NDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, A mass parachute descent was feature of Italian air pageant at the Littorio Aerodrome, near Rome. rnvll family and Benite Mussolini llkznded | The Italian Music Magnatc. Un erter. Amassed By the Associated Press _ MOUNT VERNON, N. Y., June 21— ‘Leo Feist, one-time corset salesman who | ular music publishing, died today at his 'home here. He was 60 years old. fucd from arthritis and was & virtual | invalid, but until a few. days before his death he directed from his home the business that bore his name. When Leo Feist first “entered upon his publishing career about 35 years ago, he was an unsuccessful song writer who made his living selling corsets. In the subsequent years he saw the prod- uct of his ditty factory go into every country ‘of the wotld, including the Temote parts of Africa, It was Peist who introduced modern business principles into music publish- ing, giving first national, then inter- nl'-hnll distribution to Tin Pan Alley's | product. | youth which the established publishers | rejected. Finally he published one him- self, followed by several others, He would compose tunes at night and take them around to orchestra leaders to have them played. Then he would take & bundle of copies under his arm and make the round of the stores to sell them. As soon ss he had saved $200 he en- larged upon this business by establish- ing his own house and publishing the '.uus of others, having by that time | given up the hope of himself being = | successful song writer. The first “hit” tune put out by the Young House was “Smokey Mokes.” one of the first of the cakewalks in| 1895. ‘The business grew until annual sales ran into millions. of eopies. Peist was one of the early; business sloganers, himself devising the familiar line “You Can’t .Go Wrong: With a Feist Song,” which thereafter appeared on’ every sheet of music his house' pro= duced. During the war, “Over There” for which, Mr. Feist paid $25,000 to its ajthor, George M. Cohan, made one | fortune, while “Rose of Np Man's w made.an even larger one. ‘The ‘best selling piece of: Ill, 'ha'- ever, was “Star of ‘the *East.” . Some Tesignation, leaving him with Do alter- | Jon -I:IVC 1but forced retirement. n view of Mr. Dodge’s long associa- tion with the foreign service, having entered it in 1899 as third secretary of the American embassy at Berlin, the State Deplnment offered him an as- &t the department with rank of first-class officer. As that is the class from which ministers are selected, he may later regain the higher rank of envoy. Mr. Dodge’s first appointment as Min- mru Was to Honduras and Salvador, intly. to Salvador, Morocco, Panama, Kingdom of the Serbs, Croates and Slovenes, and Denmark. He repre- sented the President the marriage ceremonies of King Alexander with the mnk of Ambassador. and earlier in eareer was chief of the Latin-American division of the State Deplrlmtnt. WILL ISSUE STAMP FOR BRADDOCK DEATH | Bpecial Print. to Destruction of Force of British General by French. By the Associated Press. ‘The 175th anniversary of Braddock's defeat, in which the French and Indians mowed down the British regulars and | George Washington gave abundant evidence of military genius and bravery. soon will commemorated in pecial postage stamp. The stamp will carry as a central de sign Washington's statue. On'a semi eircular panel will be “Battie of Brad dock’s Pleld.” ‘THe new issue will be placed on sale July ® st Braddock, Pa., scerfe of the to the British during the | nch and Indians Wars. In suceession he later was | Commemorate | ties of a small Dublllher among whi ‘was a reverie ealled “Star of the Se It was the practice piece with ‘which he had lumed 10 play the piano. When he heard, therefore, that its composer, Mrs. Amanda Kennedy Moore, & Bos- ton piano teacher, had sold the orig- inal copyright for $1.50, he had a new one taken out in her name under the | new title, s0 that she could have s share of the profits. Felst also was publisher of the llk Caruso's compositions. One day the great Italian tenor wanted some one | 1o write the lyrics for a song. Feist | | sent over - his "secretary, Earl Carroll, now, the producer of Broadway musjcal | shows. “Dreams of Long Ago” was the result of the Caruso-Carroll collabo- is | Tation. 410 11th St. NE. 4 Rooms, Kitchen, Bath and Porch, $40. | SWAT THE FLY Take advantage of an early start by an aggres- sive war on the fly at the beginning of the season. The Star has for free distribution wire- hlnd]ed' fly swatbers.. Ask for one-at the main office of ' The . Star, 11 and-Pa.-Ave.- Specials Monday and Tuesday Genuine Toric Glasses Far or Near Complete With Shell or Metal Frame $3 .50 Complete Outfit, With Case and Cleaner Included Genuine Toric KRYPTOK Invisible Bifocal Lenses First and best quality. Kryptok Bifocal Lenses (one pair Best lenses F n.‘-. Sold rcguhrly 315. to see near and far). . price Monday and T Toric Special $7 .50 KAHN OPTICAL CO. ductxve Dltty Factory became an American magnate of pop- For several years Mr. Feist had suf- | He had written several songs in his | the | successful as a Song Millions by Pro- | pARpther Feist composer was Mabel | McKinley, niece of President William McKinley, whose| “Anona” was hummed | almost as widely in the late 90's as | | the “Maine steln Song” now 15‘ | crooned over the radio. Mr. Peist is survived by his wife | | Mrs. Bessie Meyer Feist, and three sons, | Mason, Milton and Leonard. He was | born in New York of Alsatian parent- ‘age. DE PRIEST NAMES THREE Nominee for' West Polnt Is Son of Military Science Professor. Representative’ Oscar De Priest “ of | Chicago has nominated three young |men of his congressional district for |admission to the West Point Military Academy to fill existing vacancies, in his quota. They are Benjamin O. 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The new carrier is to have a dis- and appro- priations for the vessel aggregate $600,- 000 in this fiscal year and $3,450,000 for | the fiscal year 1931. The legisiation a thorizing this vessel required that con- | struction was to be undertaken prior to June 30 of this year, and that the total | cost, including armor and armament, is | to be kept within $19,000,000. t The new carrier’ is materially smaller than either the Saratoga and Lexing- ton, which have been criticized in some quarters as being too expensive and awkward to maneuver. Acid Soil Conditions Quickly corrected by a liberal use of CARBIUM PLANT FOOD without the slightest injury to even the tenderest vegetation. Costs $1.50 for a Fifty-pound Bag CONGER BROS. Distributors ‘for the District o Columbia. 23rd Street & New York Avenue District 9775 D. C., JUNE 2, FARM BOARD SEEKS BANK CO-OPERATION Legge, Chairman, Urges Joint Action With Mortgage Banks. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 21.—Development | of a definite program of co-operation | between the Federal Farm Board and |Administration at Cambridge: .Capt. 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