Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1930, Page 42

NEWS OF THE ,CLUBS Chevy Chase Branch, L.'A. P. W., will meet June 30 at 4 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Clarence C. Calhoun in Chevy Chase. The Winter program will be outlined at_this meeting and the president Mrs. Richard Yates, will preside. Kit Carson Woman's Relief Corps met at Grand Army Hall June 19, with the president, Mrs. Margaret V. Marsh, presiding. The guests of honor wer Adjt. E. D. Godfrey and Col. William F. Dorsey and Mrs. Burroughs of Phil Sheridan Corps. Mrs. Tillie D. Entriken, past depart- ment president, installed Mrs. Sarah McMillan as chaplain ‘and Mrs. H. Wingate conductor, : Hanna being compelled to resign this ition on account of the illness of er husband. The death of Past Presi- | dent Mrs. Caroline M. Gury was an- nounced. Adjt. Godfrey was latet host | at a nearby restaurant. Beginning July 2 the corps headquar- | ters will be in the Soldiers, Sailors and Marine Club house, 1015 L street, and the meeting night changed to the first and_third Wednesday of each month. | During the Summer recess only two | meetings will be held —July 2 and | August 20. The et of Columbia League of American Pen Women on June 30, will announce two new prize contests. One for the best short story closing about Christmas time, nated by Miss Jean Stephenson, for the Best drf wing of = coat of arms done ac- | ™ #oraing to prescrined rules. This -on- test wid close in the Spring.. The yea book, now ready, will be distributed. After the meeting a reception will be tendered the new president, Mrs. Estelle M. Moses, by Mrs. Eugene Peters. All members are invited. The Quota Club had as guests of honor at the meeting June 19 at dinner at the Women's University Club, Miss Eleanor Eckhardt, president of the Washington Club, recently returned from the convention of Quota Inter- national held in Winnipeg. Canada, and Miss Katherine Tancill of the Washington Club, newly elected treas- urer of Quota International. Mys. Lilla Capers was toasfr aster, the program consisting of a revsw of the international conventions ¢ the past five ye . Miss Tanet W. of the convention in Phila¢ *Iphia, held n 1926 Mrs. S. V. H. Pickett and Miss Marie Werman each gave a short talk on the Baltimore convention in 1927 Miss Alma McCrum reviewed the con vention in Davenport, Iows, in 1928: and Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest reviewed the convention held in Worcester, Ma in 1929. Miss Eleanor Eckhardt gave a report of the last convention held in Winnipeg, Canada, at which time Miss Catherine Olney of Worcester, Mass., was elected president of the Quota International. Other guests were Mrs. Elizabeth White. secretary of Quota International, Who gave a brief resume of what has been_accomplished in the:various clubs in the past year, and Miss Dorothy Barton, one of the Washington clubs proteges, who was the guest of Miss Julia Stevens. Council of Jewish Women—At the ‘Woodmont Country Club the evening of July 9, the members will be hostesses at a party. Games will be played and refreshments served, followed by danc- ing. This affair is being given for the Mary | Mrs. Maud | | accompanted on the pi the other prize. do- | liake spoke | benefit of the éolinéil's /religlolis and ol;a‘er llanthropic activities. HII. Henry Jaffee is chairman. The Washington Zonta Club met at the’ Raleigh Hotel, June 25. The meet- ing was informal and given over to the singing of club songs, lead by Leonore Reed and Prancis Gutelius. Elizabeth Haney, vice president, gave a report of the Zonta special en route to Seattle convention which she accom- panied ss far as Minneapolis. The fol- lowing members _entertained _gues Miss Ann Muddiman had her sister-in. law, Mrs, Earll Muddiman of Pitts- burgh, Pa.; JMary Sigman had Mrs. O. C. Meeds Miss Ida M. Larson and Hettie Anderson had her sister, Mrs. Will M. Sawyer of Duquoin, Ill. Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Becker will address the club at the July 2 meeting, Soreptomist Club.—The last meeting was held June 25 .at the La Fayette Hotel. Miss Nora Huffman, first vice president of the club, presided in the absence of the president, Mrs. Mary Lewis, who 1is w\lflni Europe. A Soroptomist chorus, Dr. Lulu I. Wlurs Mrs, Marie Pierce, Miss Gene Bea | ington Soroptomists which was com- posed by Miss Gillespie. They were 0 by Jewel Downs. Attendance prizes for the past six which were, in the form of corsage bouquets, were presented to 16 nbers of the club. by Mrs. May D. Lightfoot, chairman of the attendance committee. Miss Mary Burke started the club off on a season of play. by introducing a game at the luncheon in which all the members took part. New members in atiendance at the | iuncheon were Miss Mary Judge, secre- | tarial servi Miss Mary Benton, pho- | tographer; Helen * Heimel, apartment | house manager. and Mavel Bronson, | oral hygienist. | Vateless District of £olumbia League of Women Volers—Mrs. Roscoe An- derson, second vice,.president of the National League, was ‘the guest of honor at a luncheon of members of the board, | June 19, ‘at the home of Mrs. Elwood | Street. Miss Hulda Moorehead of the | National League, was also a guest as well as an aunt of Mrs. Street, Mrs. Mary | Cogswall. ‘Women's City Club.—Mrs. William Lge Corbin, president, presided at a meeting of the board of directors Tus day evening at the club house. Mrs. Lyle B. Steever, aeronautical diretor. , | reported the progress of the aviation | section and outlined the plans for the hich includes the purchase of rships. - Members of the pioneer class receiving ground instructions are Miss Mary Esther Croggin, Miss Virginia Diedel, Mrs. Campbell Gray, | Mrs. Ethel George Harris, Mr. Claude Harris, Miss Helen M. Hawley, Miss | Beaufort. Kelly, Miss Marle Saunders and Newell Atkinson, who serves as | secretary of the section and is editor of the Eagle Wings bulletin, issued weekly by the section. Mrs. Edgar T. Brown is chairman of the aviation section and club members and others interested in aviation are invited to join this section, the only section admitting for mem- bership men and those who are not members of the club. Appointments of ti prrxidenc were ild welfare, Mrs, A. J. McKel- law and legislation, Mrs. ‘Clara Wli(ht Smith; public amusements, Mrs, 8. M. Parker; library, Miss Elaine pley; drama, Mrs. Edith Sears; mus Miss. Gertrude Walter. Garden ny dinners are being planned by the cl man of the business and pmlaulonu section, Dr. A, Frances Foye and Miss Julla D. Connor, chairman of the Dis- trict hisf section. Mrs. J. Garfleld Riley, chaifman.of ‘flowers and garden supervision, plans to add to the attrac- tiveness of the garden-and exterior: of the club house wlth additional. plants, flowers and shrubbery. Members interested in the advance- ment of their game at cards will find Mrs. T. H. Dawson, meeting with a group Mondays' at 10:30 a.m. at the club house, where instruction in con- tract bridge is given. Mrs. J. K. Frelot continues the classes of instruction in contract bridge Fri- days at 10 Miss Elaine Eppley, library chairran, reports new books being added to. the circulating library at the rate of six each month. . Mrs. Edith Sears, chairman of ‘the drama section, with its members and friends_held a picnic dinper party at Hains Point Thursday evening, with w short business meeting following. Mrs, Merritt O. Chance, house com- , reports and exhibits ishings for the club house and announces meetings of this commijttee will be held twice a month, one meet- ing in the morning with luncheon fol- lowing and the other in the evening at dinner with the business meeting in connection. District of Columbia Federation of Women'’s Clubs, Mrs. Edgar B. Meritt president, will present Mrs. A. B. Mc- Manus, who will be the guest speaker and will tell of her trip to Java. Re- ports of the recent biennial conference held at Denver will be given, as well as refucts of presidents and chairmen, that were not read at the annual meeting. ‘The meeting will be held tomorrow at the Roosevelt Hotel at 11 o'clock. Fol- lowing luncheon a program of songs by Mrs. Dorothy Sinnott will be given under the direction of Mrs. Arthur J. Seaton, chairman of music. All mem- bers of federated clubs are invited. Capt. Wendell Wolfe Chapter, at a recent meeting, elected Miss Frances Davis Shirley as registrar, to fill the un- expired term of Mrs. Lena B. Dowler, who is in California. The chapter voted $299 for philanthropic work for the ensuing year. Maj. L’Enfant Chapter members and their husbands spent June 21, after- noon and evening, at Treetops, in C. |Sherwood Forest, as the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Albert N, Baggs. Supper was served. Later an informal business meeting was held at which the chair- men for the State committees were chosen, A special bus earried the party back | to the Willard Hotel about 10 o'clock. ‘When the town council of Suth!l’llnd England, recently refused to_ purchase Love Tunes the Shepard's Reed,” by Richard Jacks, R. A.. because the figures had insufficient clothing, it was bought by popular subscription for the public library. _ PUBLIC LIBRARY Recent accessions to the Public Li- brary and lists of recommended reading Hl appear in this column every Sun- y. Theater. Baird, J. P. Make-up. VUQ-B 16m. Or-tmn‘ Allen, and J?ulu Act- ” Tl'wodme B(-ln Lighting. TH- Harding, Alfred. The Revolt of the VU83-H217r. Theater Lighting. the Amateur P-KIC era Company. 3 Design in the ham, George. ‘Theater. VUF-Shb4. Civilization. Becfl A., ed. Toward Civilization. -B383t, Bent Sflu Machine Made Man. FE- neteher. J. G. The Two Frontiers. G83-F63t. Smith, Preserved. ‘A History of Modern Culture, v. 1. FE-Smé67. Taylor, H. O. Freedom of the Mind in History, - 1923. FE-T21 1. Birds. Daglish, ‘l F. The Life Story of Birds. PE-D and Baldwin, 8. P. Man- ual for Bird Banders. ‘PE-L63 Martin, J. L., and Hay, Jam Wayside Inn for Birds. n-unw. Singing and Voice Culture. Gescheldt, "Adelaide. Joy.. VXV-G33. Hall, J. W. A Resume of His Lectures on Singing. VXVA-H 14. Lloyd, Robert. The Robert Lloyd Tone System. VXV-L77. Murphy, VXV-M! Myer, E. J. The Sclence and Art of Breathing. VXV-M993s. War. Allen, W, C. War! Screen. JQ-Al 53w. Aston, Sir G. G.- The Study of War for Statesmen and Citizens. U-As8Ss. Norton, H. K. Back of War. U-N832. Palmer, J. M. Statesmanship or War. UC83-P 183s. Chain Stores. Jones, A. C. Piggly Wiggly Store Man- agement. 1927. RUY-J71 Lestico, H. H., and Ret(ber‘ C. R. Chain Fruit and Vegetable Man- agement 4 v. HK-L567 c. Lestico, H. H., Schno\ o( the Chain Store. 6 v. HK-L5! Whitaker, J R. The Organization of Chain Grocery Companies in Rela- tion to Scientific Merchandising. HK-W580. Biography. 92Ad la. Cecil, | " The Lifé of Cowper. Forssell, Nils. Fouche, poleon Feared. E-C837c, the Man Na- 1928. E-F82(.E. ter Scott. L. Since I Was Twenty- -R938. To the Best of My Memory. E-T2145 ‘Wilson, W. Williim Pitt; Younger. E- PG“?'! Make Singing a; Behind the Smoke | | and Barnett, H. R.|| Adams, J. T. The Adams Family. E-| David. The Stricken Deer; or, | Gwynn, Stephen. 'fll; Life of Sir' Wal- | NEW TYPE CONCRETE OPENS WAY| FOR STILL HIGHER SKYSCRAPERS Material, Developed First for “Stone™” Sl'ups in. War.. Reduces Wexght in Constructwn pro;ects. By the Associated Press. ©IT¥, N..J, Jine 28.— The possibility of towering skyscrapers, dwarfing even the soaring buildings of Manhattan, which thrust their spires |:crete 1,000 feet above the pavement, appeared vesterday in the revélation of a new type of concrete recently developed for construction ‘work. - Structures- of 100 stories or. more were predicted. ‘The new building material, which was discussed before the annual meeting of the American Soclety for Testing Ma- terials in & paper by F.'E. Richart and V. P. Jensen, research experts of the faculty of the University of Illinois, runs, it was said, from 25 to 35 per cent lighter than the older mixtures of concrete. Consequently, they pointed out, in a bullding of given size the. welght of concrete being - less, the strength and dimensions of the steel structure designed to support it can be materially reduced, reeiting in an enormous proportional saving of net weight and decrease in foundation load, ‘The lessening of dead weight lnd load Imposed by such buildings a of the poulbllnv of ge-lly ines ed heights with accepiable safety factors and & decreased cost in the construc- | tion, the paper said. ‘The new material, .2 contrete aggre- llu develops weigh! | the quastior ur?.lbe mld mn. as high s 150 ite, & product of burnt shale, was developed ly | per cubic foot. Thl new during ‘the war for a light -weight -con- ore for construction of coneréte ps. S S e MINE HOURS DISPUTE -ROUSES .LABOR PARLEY By the Associated Press. GENEVA, June 28.--The convention on hours of coal mine labor, adopted yelurdly 75-33, today failed to obtain & two-thirds majority on a second vote and precipitated a spirited controversy in. the. international labor conference. When #t was announced that today's | Yote was 70-40, excitement arose. Dr. Sitzler, flermln delegate, proposed that be placed on the agenda of next vear's session. The British spokesman, Mr. Emanuel | Shinwell, declared responsibility would | rest upon the German government, which, he said, had swung over votes.at | the last minute by reserving judgment owing to the exclusion by the conven- tion of all forms of overtime. Sitzler deniéd * responsibility, The in different mix- | Italian representative .raised technical ture proportions from 93 to 112 pounds | objections to the German proposition, tests, whereas the older forms of con- crete utilizing erushed rock or gravel 'bA. ‘The Voice and Singing. | per cubic foot, it was brought out ln|lh||:h the ¢hairman dverruled. By a vote of -108-22 the subject was put over for a yea . Owing to-the iliness of the it, Mrs, Alvin Day, wumm. Mrs. Margaret Rule, pre: Devotional services were con- ducwd by Mrs, L. A. Cole. Mrs. J. M. ‘Burkitt gave a report of her work with them inese young people. Mrs. Charles short resume of the work 'of ‘her union, Mrs. nelen Flynn gave vocal selections, with M Franklin A« account of the residence of he and his wife in Alaska a few years ago.- Miss Frances Montgomery of )Iom,rnl Can- ada, ‘was a guest, - assisted her. aunt, Mre. Aflll!ll, in serv- ing refreshments. .|range the annual re] work in printed 'forii Mrs, David Lum, Mrs. John E. Taylor, Mrs. Charles V. Burnside, Mrs. Oliver Ports,- Mrs. Charles Montgomery and Mrs. Charles Windle. the chairman last Thursday at her| home, on Shepherd street, to perfect plans for the work that will follow im- mediately after the close of the annual | ‘The fim Taylor Young Peaple's Branch gave a straw ride instead of its annual picnic. Miss Julia Rouse acted A meeting of the Takoma Park Union was held at the reservoir in Rock Creek "Park with a picnic dinner. Afterward A short business meeting was held and it was voted to decorate a float for the Takomg, Park’July 4 parade. A |semitic agitation. leuel' was read from Mrs. H. W. Claire ppreciation’ of the gift sent from the |mlm by Chaplain Oliver, who re- cently went to ' mtiice WORLD FINANCIERS Michigan avenue the vice ident of the Brookland | gave an Miss ‘Helen' Newell Sointed to ar- “of the year' is as follows: Conference Burnside at) By the Associated Press, TO MEET JULY 15 in Switzerland Will Discuss Young Plan Loan and Bank Project, BASEL, Switzerland, June 28.—C: ference of international financiers, %t which the world’s banking situation-will be discussed, has been called. to here on July 15, The conferees will represent the ba of issue of 20 countries partici) g the Young plan loan recently Issued by the Bank for International SettfA- ments. The first purpose of this session will be to discuss the loans to their countries. ‘Two hundred million dollars of the They mei with|Young plan loan aiready has been dis- tributed. There remains about $80,000,000 more, which will be recelved within the next lo days and which, it was announced tod has been reserved for Sout a and South Africa. KING GIVES JEWS PLEDGE, BUCHAREST, Rumania, June 28 (#).—King Carol II told a delegation of rabbis and Jewish members of Pa liament today that he soon would i sue an ordinance prohibiting ant! Rumanian Jews long have com- plained of persecutions and frequentl? sought protection from -previous ad- entsin, China, with | ministrations. 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