Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1930, Page 18

FIDAD CONERES AN EONPLETE American Legion Announces Group to Entertain For- eign Veterans. Plans have been completed for the @leventh annual congress of Fidac, the inter-alliéd war veterans' organizations, t0 be held here next menth. ‘The American Legion announced yes- terday, through Maj. Julius I. Peyser, vice president of Fidac for the United States, the personnel of the general ar- rangements committee which will out- line the program of the sessions and arrange the entertainment of the dele- gates from nine European nations. Committee Named. The following prominent Legionnaires Eonstitute the committee: Edward L. White New Haven, chair- man; Col. Lemuel Bolles, New York, secretary; Maj. Peyser: Maj. Gen. James Harbord, president of the Radio Corpo- ration; Brig. Gen. W. W. Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad; Col. Henry D. Lindsley, past national commander; Brig. Gen. Roy Hoffman, one of the organizers of the Legion: Mrs. Joseph H. Thompson, national chairman of Fidac Auxiliary; Col. Frederick M. Alger, past commander of New York: Samuel E. Aronowits, Capt. Arthur E. Brundage, Brig. Gen. A. W. Reynolds, James A. Noonan, Dr. Carlton B. McCullough, Col. H. Nelson Jackson, Brig. Gen. L. R. Gignilliat, head of Culver Military Academy; Maj. William F. Deegan and Arthur Ball. This committee will welcome the delegates when they arrive in this country, September 14, arrange the reliminary session in New,York and he plenary sessions to be held here in Memorial Continental Hall, beginning September 18 and lasting four day, after which the delegates will go on a tour of principal cities of the East. Entertainment Arranged. A round of receptions and entertain- ment has been arranged for the dele- gates and their wives as well as mem- bers of Fidac Auxiliary, which is meet- ing here at the same time. Each day of the congress has been dedicated to a different nation, in the following order: Jugosiavia, Belgium, Great Britain, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Ru- mania and Czechoslovakia. The Fidac convention is bringing to this country many of the leading po- litical and military figures of these countries, including members of Parlia- ment and the nobility. Fidac is the largest ex-service men's organization in the world, being com- posed of Societies numbering nearly 10,- 000,000 members, banded together to maintain friendly relations among the nations allied in the World War. The American Legion is the constituent member of the United States. England THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON i | through her fourth attempt and the | said. his client was in New York and WEALTHY WOMAN wms | wealthy widow of & former city alder-| planned to return to Europe. DIVORCE IN FOURTH SUIT | man was granted a divorce today from | Mrs. Brenner gained the right to ter husband, sé1f-styled “Count” Enrique | résume the name of Lottie G. Brenner. Dechow Von Buelow, who is.several In her divorce she charged cruelty, and Gains Separation From Self-Styled years her junior. testified that after the murriage Von < . 9 Count After Withdrawing Three Her attorney, Barratt O'Hara, denied g‘:x;é?m ;:mg Dowel 2: attorney in Other Petitions. knowledge of a “nancial settlement, and 2 Lamton S Von Buelow's aitorney said his client| n, . p. wilson, president of the By the Assoctated Press, gust 16— had given up & one-third interest in|willowbrae, Scotland, Bowling Club, has st 18 Arter DAYINE | he $1,000,000 Brenner estate wmm.xyiwm the club championship five times ira Tottic Bremner Von Buslorce multei and without recompense, The attorney in eighi years. G STREET AT ELEVENTH Now, while you can get the most for your money—in home. Particularly in this sale, when the or Budget your furniture e.fpenditures. T ree-Piece De Luxe Fiber Suite settee; smart, colorful and comfortable............ is Tepresented by the British Legion and France by a half dozen ex-service men's organjzations. OIL MAN'S BODY TAKEN TO OLD HOME Wealthiest Independent Operator Died in Johns Hopkins Hospital. By the Associated Press. BAUTIMORE, August 16.—The body of Thomas B. Slick, the wealthiest in- dependent oil' operator in the world, who died here early today, was taken on a special train to his old home at Clarion, Pa., tonight for burial. Funeral services will be held there Monday. Slick died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the Johns Hopkins Hospital following an operation for goiter, performed August 5 He rallied after the opera- tion, but suffered a relapse on_Friday and died early this morning. He had been a patient at the hospital since June 27, when he entered for treatment to build his strength to a point where he could stand the operation. The Oklahoma City oil operator started the career which was to lead him to the title of “king of the wild- catters” and a fortune of nearly $50.- 000,000, as a teamster in the ofl flelds near his Pennsylvania birthplace. He moved his operations to the Southern Illinois fields, and later sold his in- terests for $2,500,000 to “retire.” Unable to stand an inactive life, he moved to the Southwest and started to d again. In 1929, at the age of 45, he sold his holdings to the Prairie Oil & Gas Co. for $45,000,000, and again “retired.” A few weeks after the sale he again entered the oil fields, and at the time he entered the hospital here was building new operations in Okla- 8, Kansas and Texas. Mr. Slick's widow, two sons and thter, who survived him, were at dside when he died, and accom- panied the body to Clarion tonight, SLAIN MAN’S WIFE AND SOLDIER HELD! | Autopsy Upon Joseph Reimer Be! veals His Skull Was Fractured. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star, BALTIMORE, Md., August 16.—Mrs. Margaret Reimer, estranged wife of | Joseph Reimer, whose charred body was found yesterday in the remains of a bonfire at his Back River shack, and Pvt. George Rutter of Fort Hoyle were held today for investigation by Essex police. Almost, simultaneously it was an-| nounced an autopsy performed by Dr. James White of Essex had revealed Relmer's skull was fractured by a blow struck with a heavy instrument. A hammer was found on a bench near Refmer's cottage. and police are con- sidering the possibility it may have been used by the slayer. Mrs. Reimer and Rutter were held after they had made conflicting state- ments as to the soldler’s whereabouts during the last two days. When he was auestioned by Lieut. William Dorsey of the Baltimore County police, Rutter said he spent_yesterday and the day before at “Fort Hoyle. Jthough the soldler's statement is salel to have been verified by one of the offfcers at the fort, Mrs. Reimer, accord- ing to police, -declared Rutter was at het home in’ Magnolia, near the fort. When he was told of Mrs. Reimer's sm\enl, Rutter declined to make any comment. BIRTHDAYS OBSERVED Tuberculosis Health Camp Group Members Given Picnic. & birthdays of 12-year-old. Billy txis, and 11-year-old, Helen Walker, both members of the tuberculosis health camp group at Fourteenth and Upshur streets, was celebrated vesterdav after- noon by the entire camp group of 60 boys and girls with a picnic into Rock Creek Park. They' were taken to camp in cars volunteered by friends of the camp and under the supervision of Miss Mabel Tallmadge, assistant superintendent. and Mrs. Marietta Smith, in charge of the colored children. A troop of Boy Scouts Three-Piece Fiber Suite, 19.75 Soft French green enamel, spring seat cushion. 58-inch settee, armchair and rocker. D. C, AUGUST 17, 1930—PART ONE. A Century of Nitrate Exparhfivl.l Bave: Do Ve rol e o sriare A Slip of the Tongue. ' that their ter_was The nitrate fields of Chile have been icencisg. ~ @ speaking pure Gaelic. How Born in Warsaw and never having pe neither the Skotnckis por their doc- eters. worked for 100 years and the visible " Gapitai invetsed in the industry| heard any lan | bee guage spoken except her | tor could understand. e PMcial deovelopinet ot My benil | amounted to _sbout 475,000,000 gy | native Polish, little Marle Skotnicki| Marie is a normal child in every re- in 1690, but nitrates had peen wsed 1 Dloyment 18 given to 6500 and difett| started to talk, bt no one could under- |spect. and 1s more than ordinarily the manufacture of gunpowder since government has collected nearly 1,000, stand her. She jabbered away with evi- | pretty. On no other occasion has she maintenance to 350, the second half of the eighteenth cen- | called by her ‘duties on nitrate and dent fluency, but her words meant | done anything to indicate that she is ,000 in export nothing to any one until a doctor wa nrlhlnl but & h y, happy tury. Nitrate y one s | & t & healthy, gil. The ury. production has Teached | jodine from 1880 to 1929. only more than 100,000,000 serves are estimated at more than 3,- bewildered parents, think- ——e ing that the child was the victim of | Marie's great-grandfather, who by the possible explanation. was that 000,000,000 metric tons. Nitrate sources| ‘The world wave of mergers and other | some malady which started her gibber- | way, was dead, m-ngl years before ccupy an approxmate ares of 33,000 forms of industrial consolidations has | ing in meaningless sou Marie was born, lived auate kilometers, of which only 6,000 ' reached Cubs. e_doctor TELEPHONE DISTRICT 4400 8 land where inds, told the amazed father ! 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