Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1931, Page 5

THE EVENI o BATH CONTROL T AS CONMONTE Foes of Bill to Legalize In- formation on Practice Testify Today. By the Associated Press. Opponents, of the Gillett bill to legalize dissemination of birth control information today marshaled their testimony before th: Senate Judiciary Subcommittee. Ralph Burton of Washington, repre- senting the National Patriotic League, declared advocatas of birth control “have been us:d 2s cats paws by Com- 1,000 Diners to Pay $100 Plate to Hear Einstein Make Talk By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 14.— Prof. Albert Einstein, sclentist, whose wife holds the purse strings of his domestic household, will speak at a dinner in New York March 4 at which the charge will be $100 a plate. One thousand guests are ex- vected to attend. It will be in the interest of the $1,000,000 Palestine drive. ;womm ASKS $25,000 FOR FRACTURED BACK | Elizabeth Blumenkrenz, 1726 Church | RED CROSS 10 CUT PROGRAM MARCH T iAgency to Reduce Feeding as i‘ Soon as Crop Credits Are Arranged in South. The American Red Cross will start in March to taper off on its feeding program of drought-stricken people in the South. National headquarters of the Red Cross stated that the present ration system will be abandoned as fast as farmers establish credit. STAR,” WASHINGTON cial cases and exceptions to the rule | that general feeding will end at that | time. Families able to make crop ar-| rangements shculd not be fed .beyond | | that arrangement date.” | | | | May Feed Into April. | Elaborating on this statement, | ficials at headquarters said the general feeding program will be closed down over a period of several weeks in ac- cordance with the varied credit systems | in the 20 drought States. | They predicted the Red Cross would | still be feeding fairly generally through- lout March and perhaps, in some re- | ymote and hard-hit, secticns, into April. of- | they said, the- Red Cross will cease feed- | |ing people just as soon as they could | |be stimulated to care for themselves. | | Supplies will not be cut off, however, | | until credit is available. |APPLE VENDOR HEL | .- G, \ In justice to donbrs to the relief fund, | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14.. 1931. MISS RUTH PUTNAW AUTHOR, EXPRES 2 |Sister of Dr. Herbert.Putnam Takes Grippe as Nurse, Dies in Geneva. Miss Ruth Putnam, author and his- torian, and sister of Dr. Herbert Put- nam, librarian of the Library of Con- gress, died in Geneva, Switzerland. on Thursday, after a brief illness from grippe, which she contracted while nursing a_sister, Mrs. Robert Spottis- wood Pinhey, who succumbed to the street, has filed sult in the District| In Louisiana and adjacent plantation Supreme Court to recover $25,000 dam- | States March 1 has been set to stop | IN ROBBERY OF TRIO| | malady February 2, according to word ‘ received here today. Emil Bryan Cundiff was held In| ™y ierment will be in Geneva. where “Luxembourg and Her Neighbors” and then, six years , “The Life and Letters of Mary Putnam Jacobl,” a sister, who died ‘in 1906, and who was the wife of the celebrated Dr. Abraham For many years Miss Ruth Putnam and Miss Edith Pytnam, resided at 2025 O street. In 1924 they went to Geneva to be with Mrs. Pinhey, an in- valid, who was the widow of a British judge in India, Four Die in Year, Miss Ruth Putnam’s death marks the fourth in the family within a year, a brother, George Haven Putnam, who died last February, being first to go. Th> surviving brothers are Dr. Put- nam. Kingman Putnam of Bronxville, N. Y. and Irving Putnam, head of G. P. Putnam’s Sons. Miss Putnam was an alumnae tru: of Cornell from 1900 to 1909. She was | A member of the Woman's University Club of New York, the Society of Dutch Letters at Leyden, an honorary memb:r of the Instiiute of the Grand Duchy | BRIGHTWOOD CITIZENS FIGHT PAVING LEVIES x: Association Adopts Resolution Op-| posing Manner of Making Assessments, | The Brightwood Citizens' Association | last night renewed its opposition to the ‘manner of making special assessments for the paving of roadways and the lay- | ing of curbs and gutters, in a resolution | unanimously adopted at a meeting held in the Paul Junior High School, Eighth and Nicholson streets. 1t was brought to the attention of the mecting that the bill being sponsored by Senator Capper, chairman of th* Senate District Committee, is a substi- | tute measure for the Borland ch has been held uncenstitutional by th2 of Luxembourg and of the American |)scal courts and which has been opposed Historical Association, | by the association for a number of years past. and John Ogden were elected members of the association. ‘The association will request the plac- of a “stop” at Eighth and Nicholson streets, at the main entrance to the Paul Junior High School. § Charles W. Ray presided at the meet- ng. MATCH ‘MONOPOLY ASKED Colombia Would Get $10,000,000 Advance Royalties. BOGOTA, Colombia,” February 14 (#).—The government yesterday asked congress for authorization to grant a monopoly on match manufacture in Colombia in return for $10,000,000 ad- vance royalties to be paid into the treasury by the manufacturers. Although the name of the company making the offer was not made public it. was understood the Swedish Match Co. was invoived. $250 in Clothing Stolen. Fntering by breaking the glass in a side- door, thieves stole wort] al from the Circle Cab Co., Inc. | general feeding, because the first two ik i /118 | weeks of that, month are the “furnish- , ged personal in- | ing" period for cotton farmers. when jurfes. She declares she has suffered a | credit arrangements for the next erop broken back as the result of being |are made. knocked down by a cab of the company | November 5 while crossing Mass: chusetts avenue at Thirteenth street. | She asserts that the driver of the ve- 15,000 bond for action of the grand | mrs Pinhey and another ‘sister, Miss | jury by Judge John P. McMahon in Edith Putnam, who died last May, are Police Court today on a charge of |also buried. holding up and robbing three musicians _ The daughter of George Palmer Put- on February 1. ,nam, founder of the New York publish- The hold-up occurred at Seventeenth |iNg house, and Victorine Haven Put- and M streets, where Cundiff, an apple Dam, Mi Putnam was born in Yon- vendor, is said to have forced the men Kers. N. Y., in 1857. The South Dakota Wool Growers' Co- | The assqciation indorsed the bill now | $250 from the store of Jaseph Fleich- Operative is marketing 3,800,000 pounds | in Congress providing for the closing man, 934 Pennsylvania avenue, yester- of the State's wool crop this year, sayz ot barber shops on Sundays. day morning, the store told Carl Nadasdy, manager. | stanley B. Foltz, Maurice E. Oliver 'police. munistic propagandists.” He said passage of the bill proposed by Senator Gillett, Republican, Massa- chusetts, would “break down the mar- riage state and foster fre: love.” Advocates Already Heard. / A lengthy list of thosz supporting the Instructions to Chairmen. Representative Sandlin, Democrat, measure appeared yesterday. . Representative McCormack, Demo- ¢rat, Massachusetts, asseiled what he described as “the principal argument advanced by the prop-nents vesterday —namely, that the world is in danger of overpopulation.” “The earth,” he , “is capable of supporting 7.000,000.000 and now con- | tains only about 1.750.000.000 “The evils of poverty and disease do ot flow frem overpopulation, but from properly. Bad Results Feared. “This bill would facilitate and en- | courage the distribution into every part of the country of obscen: and indecent | publicaticns.” said *William F. Mon- tavon of the National Catholic Wellare | ierence. * “In his lates; annual report the Post- master General comments in no unis on the danger already existing. bill would open the | floodgates and would irremediably in- | jure the morals along with the health | of the Nation.” -He said, passage would “in great measure nullify” existing laws | in many, States prohibiting circulation | of birth-control information. " Mrs. Norton Opposes. “I challenge the statement that| thousands of women are sponsoring this bill,” said Mrs. Mary T. Norton.| Democratic Representative from New Jersey. “Paid lobbyists of the Birth Control| League should not be confounded with| the fine womanhood of America, the vast army of mothers, who consider the bearing of children their greatest privilege. | “The advocates of birth control would have you believe that children’ are an affliction, a liability, enervating and many other horrible things,r when as a matter of fact they are the great- est gifts of God. “The dissemination of birth control literature would be unnecessary if men and women would practice self con- trol.” f Finds Doctors Against Bill. “The distinguished men and women of the medical profession are arrayed | against the bill” Mrs. Morton said. “I | have personally discussed this matter | with the leading doctors in my State | and found that 33 out of 35 were abso- | lutely opposed to the dissemination of | birth control literature. believing that such literature would fall into the | ‘hands of adolescents and cause much human misery. | “It is said continually that this in- | formation is necessary to the poor. I | resent such implications and challenge its honesty. “The proponents further contend | that they are concermed with the | health of women. Surely they must know that nothing abnormal and con- trary to the law of nature will tend to safeguard the health of any woman. Presents “Moral Plea.” Dr. Howard Kelly, president emeritus of Johns Hopkins University, said he spoke “for the great mass of American men and wom:en, Protestant and Cath- olic, in presenting a moral plea.” Referring to a statement by Dr. J. ‘Whitridge Williams of the Johns Hop- kins faculty concerning giving informa- tion to women in ill health, he said, “Doctors are permitted to give such ad- wvice to sick people and will continue to do_so. Dr. Kelly protested against “degrada- tion,” which he said resulted from th2 use of contraceptives. He condemned the “gross immonlity of a pamphlet re- cently published in Brookiyn,” adding, he “would feel like shooting a man who put such a pamphlet in the hands of one of my four daughters.” IMPOSTORS SEEK FUNDS FOR CHEST Director Street Warns Public to Inspect Credentials of So- licitors Now. A warning to the public to demand to see the credentials of persons seek- | ing contributions to the Community Chest was issueed today by Chest offi- cials. It was explained that individuals | purporting to represent the Chest had ! been asking for donations since the | close of the campaign. | “The campaign is over, and so far as we know, there should be no solicit- ing of funds for the Chest” Elwood Street, director, said. “We realize that there are a number of people, who for | some reason or other, failed to give | to the Chest this year and who really | want to subscribe. “Those people can accomplish their cesire by mailing or bringing in their checks to Community Chest headaua: ters at 1418 I street. While the Chest went over the top, its goal was based on the absolute minimum requirements of Chest organizations and there are plenty. of needs for any additional | funds that may come in. | “Any person solicited for funds, how- ever, should either know the solicitor personally or should demand to see the | solicitor's credentials before turning | over any money or pledge for the Chest. Any legitimate solicitor, per- haps seeking to clean up in order to make & quota, will gladly show such | credentials.” SOCIETY NAMES OFFICERS Wnuhlnlloni;n .Ch-o!Q: Vice Presi- | dent of Horticultural Group. ; Robert Pyle of West Grove, Pa., was elected president of \the American Hor- ticultural Society at a meeting of the organization at the Interior Department auditorium | Other officers were elected as fol- | lows: Pirst vice president, Knowles A. | Ryerson, Washington: second _ vice president, Mrs. Francis King, Alma, Mich.; ‘secretary, C. C. Thomas, Takoma Park, treasurer, Roy Plerce, Washington. i Directors—Miss Isabel Busbee, Ral- | eigh, N. C.; Pairman Purness, Media, | Pa.; Mrs. Helen Fowler, J. Marion | nd D. Victor Lumsden of Wash- | Just Think of It— The Star delivered to your Sunday. Can you afford to be without this service at this cost? Telephone National 5000 and de- livery will start at once. ‘Wampler and Joseph C. Turco. and sustained serions injury. ! Edward C. Kriz, Wayne H. Morris a failure of government to combat them | joscph H. Hurley appea? for the boy. ; | Louisiana, disclosed the plans for his hicle ignored the traffic light. She is | State following A communication from represented by Attorneys T. Morris| Everett Dix, assistant manager for the Eastern area, informing him of the The Griffith-Consumers Co. was sued | instructions sent chapter chairmen in for $10,000 damages by John Moore, a | Southern States. minor, through mother, Mrs. Dora | “Families should be advised as early Moore, 1244 Lind'n street northeast. | possible that financing arrange He says he was struck by a truck of | ments will be expected to take care of he company December 17, last, at Con- | family food as well as crop reqaire- ecticut avenuc and Albemarle street. | ments by March 1,” the chairmen were Attorneys malies unable to make financial | arrangements zhould be treated as spe- WOODWARD | to drive after jumping into their auto- mobile near the Army and Navy Club, Tutored at home and prepared for college privately, Miss Putnam was graduated from Cornell and then studied in the universities of Geneva, Leyden, Paris, London and Oxford. Wrote Many Books. Beginning to write in the Miss Putnam was the author of many books, including “Annetje Jan's Farm.’, | erim According to Cox. however, | “Wiiliam the Silent,” “A Medi“val Prin- | the man maintained he had perpe- | cess.” “Charles the Bold.” “Alsace and trated only one robbery | Lorraine.” “The Name of California where they had been playing Milton Strauss, one of the mus |told of the robbery, which he netted Cundiff $5.75. | Detective Richard Cox, who arresied Cundiff, testified the man told him the gun used in the robbery had been purchased for use in a series of similar ns, said & LOTHROP 10™ 11™ F aND G STREETS Cats-Eye Tricot Turbans First in Washington at Woodward & Lothrop 3 _)): e Almost simultaneous with its Paris showing is our showing of this newest creation of Agnes'—Cats-eye Tricot—in four distinctive versions—a halo style, two models combined with belting ribbon and a bicorne. Black, _green, blue or brown with white; beige and brown. Copy, $8.75. MiLLinzry, THIRD FLOOR. 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