Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1931, Page 6

GRAND BASTERS " LECT OFFICERS Massachusetts Man Heads Masonic Body—J. C. Keiper Re-elected Secretary. Herbert W. Dean of Cheshire, Mass., grand master of Masons in the State of Massachusetts, today was elected chairman of the Conference of Grand Masters of Masons in the United States for this year, at a meeting of the con- ference in the Willard Hotel. ceeded Milton L. Meyers of Oregon. J. Claude Keiper of this city, grand secretary of the Grand Lodge here, was re-elected secretary-treasurer of! the conference for the fifth succesive ear. T The grand masters and other high Masonic officials attending the confer- ence were greeted by President Hoover at the White House at noon. -James T. Gibbs, past grand master here, led the delegation. There was a luncheon at 1 o'clock at the Willard, and it was expected that the conference would ad- journ late this afternoon. Expect D. C. as Conference Site. This city was expected to be selected as the place for the next annual con- ference, and the time was to be set some time in the second week in May, to bring the Masons here during the week of dedication of the George Wash- ington Masonic National Memorial at Alexandria. % The session this morning opened by singing of America, led by Rev. Dr. John C. Palmer, grand, chaplain o the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbla, who also pronounced the in- vocation. ‘The address of welcome was delivered by Col. C. Fred Cook, grand master of the District of Columbia. Col. Cook expressed appreciation for the fact that the conference had met here again for, the annual conference. General plans for dedication of the Washington memorial at Alexandria were discussed at the morning session, with William S. Snyder of Pennsylvania as chairman of the Committee on | Agenda. Melvin M. Johnson of Boston, Mass., & member of the Executive Committee of the memorial association, suggested that there be nothing official in the dedication ceremony, except the “Blue Lodges.” Money was said to be in sight for heating, ventilating, wiring the memorial and building a road, but he appealed to the grand masters to raise further money so that Memorial Hall and the auditorium should "be ready for the dedication next year. Samuel Goodyear of Pennsylvania suggested that each grand jurisdiction make plans to take to its own mem- bership a celebration. Hits Soviet “Propaganda.” At _the annual dinner of grand mas- ters held last night at the Willard Hotel the Right Rev. James E. Freeman, D. D., Bishop of Washington, delivered a stir- Ting appeal to Masonic leaders to pre- sent a strong front against the forces which he declared characterized a “peril” in these times of unemployment. Scoring the “propaganda” which he said was pouring out from Soviet Rus- sia, and affecting many nations far dis- tant from Russia, Bishop Freeman said America should now be prepared to re- sist any such invasion upon the moral principles of this Nation. The princi- ples he recalled were those which pro- tect the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of iness.” Honest workmen, forced into unem- ployment throughout this country, he said, had begun seriously to reflect on conditions, “wondering as to se- curity and stability of our form of gov- ernment, wondering as to the economic justice, as to the political justice of this Government.” Such a situation the bishop described as “perilous.” The peril in it, he said, { | | He suc- | | special Reception Committee to greet| | To Be Feted LAWRENCE H. RUPP, ELKS T0 WELCOME GRAND OFFIGIALS Reception Being Planned for| Rupp and Staff on Visi- tation Friday. Eleven past grand exalted rulers of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks will act as guard of honor to Grand Exalted Ruler Lawrence H. Rupp, when he. with his staff, is ten- dered a reception in Washington on the occasion of his visitation here Pri- day. The reception is to be staged by the State Association of the Benev- olent and Protective Order of Elks of the United States of America at the Elks Club, 919 H street. Washington Lodge, No. 15, will have open house for visitors and members of its own lodge on the day of the reception. A dinner will be served in the club house and special entertain- ment has been arranged. The lodge will go into session at 7:30 o'clock in | the evening, with George E. Strong.! exalted ruler, presiding, assisted by the | officers. Plan for Reception. All past exalted rulers will act as a Mr. Rupp and his staff on their arival | here Friday morning. The ceremonies for induction of new members will take place in the lodge room, with the drill team of Washington Lodge, in com- mand of Maj. C. Eugene Sdwards, as- sisting. Past grand exalted rulers who will act as the honor guard are: J. E. Masters, Charleroi, Pa., present secretary of the Grand Lodge; former Gov. John K. Tener, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Joseph T. Fan- ning, Indianapolis, Ind. editor of the ks Magazine; Fred Harper, Lynch- burg, Va.; Rush L. Holland, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Murray Hulbert, New York City; Raymond Benjamin, Napa, Calif.; Charles H. Crakelow, Philadel- phia, Pa.; William W. Mountain, Flint, Mich.; William M. Abbott, San Fran- cisco, Calif., and Bruce A. Campbell East St. Louis, Ill. Those Who Will Assist. They will be assisted by Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler Charles W. Ben- nett and the officers of the association, headed by its president, Taylor Morri- son, Cumberland, Md. ! The association is made up of 13| lodges from Maryland, Delaware and | THE EVENING ‘STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESL \Y. 1931. TWO BANKS ROBBED OF NEARLY $50000 Bandits Bind 13 Employes in One Hold-up—Both Gangs Flee in Autos. By the Associated Press. HASTINGS, Nebr., February 25.— Three robbers held up the Hastings Na- tional Bank today, bound and gagged 13 employes, including three women, took $27,173 and escaped. The trio entered the bank about 6 a.m. through a rear window. As bank em- ployes arrived, each was bound, gagged and taken to the basement. Thirteen persons had arrived and were bound and gagged before 8:45 a.m. when the time lock permitted the opening of the vault. Several bank officials were forced to accompany the men to the vault where the robbers scooped up $27,173 in gold, | silver and currency. ‘The robbers loaded the loot into a new sedan and escaped. Not a shot was fired during the rob- bery and not a person was injured dur- ing’ the 2 hours and 50 minutes the \‘bhrsl: bandits were in command of the ank. $20,000 SEIZED IN OHIO. Robbery Takes Place Dayton. DAYTON, Ohio, February 25 (#).— Six bandits armed with sawed-off shot- guns held up Norman W. Burgmier, manager, and eight employes of the central branch of the Union Trust Co. in the heart of the business district this morning and escaped with between $18,000 and $20,000. The hold-up came 10 minutes after the bank opened. Three men who en- tered the bank while their two com- panions waited in a machine at the curb, forced the bank employes into a rear room. While one stood guard the other two scooped up all available cash. Taking off their masks, the bandits walked leisurely from the bank, entered the automobile and drove aw: police, in an armored car arrived in time to see the bandits' car speed away, and started in pursuit, but lost trace of the bandit car. ‘The hold-up was the most daring staged here within recent months and since two bandits were killed in an at- tempt at robbery of a branch bank in the southern part of the city. in Heart of PLEA FOR NEARBY LINES AT DINNER, Resolution Against Abandonment of Roads Into Washington Adopted. CLARENDON, Va., Pebruary 25.— The most concerted effort yet taken against the abandonment of ths two Virginia electric railroads entering Washington was begun last night at a meeting of the governing bodies of the city of Alexandria and counties of Ar- lington and Fairfax, which was called by Reprasentative-clect Howard W. Smith. Two actions of far-reaching effect on the three jurisdictions represented were taken last night, the first in the form of a resolution against the aban- donment of the railroads and the sec- | | DEPOSITS SHOW BIG GAIN JORLESS DAY ROTS OEEUR N EUROPE Police Keep Control of Com- munist Demonstrators in Many Countries. Capital Banks in 1931 Compared With 1918 Condition. Bank deposits for Washington have increased strikingly during the past 12 years, according to a graphic table compiled by Dorsey W. Hyde, jr., secre- tary of the Washington Chamber of Commerce, from the quarter-annual calls of the Treasury Department and made public today. Figures in Hyde's chart show that the Capital's entire deposits in local financial institutions were $267,718,307 in 1930, as compared with $122,646,119 in _1918. RECREATON REA By the Associated Press. Riots occurred in a dozen European cities today as the jobless observed “in- ternational unemployment day,” but the police were prepared in advance and nowhere did the demonstrations get out of hand. ‘There were speeches to factory work- ers in Moscow, a round-up of Com- munist suspects in Paris and riots of minor proportions in Berlin and its suburbs. The National Guard was out in French factory towns and special precautions were taken in Southeastern and Central Europe, where these oc- casions have made trouble in the past. Reports from various cities where the day was observed indicated that less | than two-score had been injured in street fights with police. Moscow Criticizes Capitalists. The day was observed in Moscow with lectures at which workers told of un- employment abroad and criticized the capitalist system. A. Lozovsky, secretary general of the All Russian Trade Unions, summed up the Communist idea in a special article | published in the newspaper Rabochaya | Moskva. “The imperialist. countries,” the arti- cle read, “after 12 years of success, have now reached a great crisis. Banks have crashed and today millions are unem- ployed and hungry. “While no exact figures are obtainable | ‘iL is estimated that more than 30.000.- | 000 are without work in ecapitalist | states. with an equal number in colo- | | nial countries. In the U, S. 8. R. there | {is no unemployment.” | 75 Held in Paris. In Paris 75 persons were arrested | during the morning for refusal to move on or for attempted haranguing of | workers. Ten foreigners were among the manifestants arrested. They face | immediate expulsion from Prance. Ten | alleged militant Communists who were | arrested yesterday ~“as a preventive | | measure” were held throughout the day. | | Minor rioting developed in Berlin, At the Labor Exchange in the central part ;or the city, police were bombarded with | beer steins and rocks. They retaliated | | using their blackjacks and cleared the rioters out of the building and streets. | | Sporadic attempts to form parades were frustrated by police. | Many Wounded in Fight. | . In Szolnok, Hungary, police arrested | | 12 members of a Communist commit- | tee who admitted that they had en- | | gaged in reorganizing the Communistic | | movement throughout the Hungarian agricultural districts In Gottingen, Germany, Communists who had come to town for a hunger | march started trouble by attacking Fascists and police, firing a number of | shots. Beven were seriously injured and others received minor wounds. | In Northern Bohemia, where several | | sanguinary encounters have been staged | between unemployed and police, all | garrisons were on their guard and those | {in the citles were reinforced. Ap- | proaches to towns were guarded and railroad stations were occupied by | e . '$ Brookland While he did not have the available data, Hyde said that he was certain that the percentage of increase in this city was much greater than the ratio for the entire country. DRY AGENT KILLED IN FAMILY QUARREL Richard H. Duvall Victim of Shot| Alleged to Have Been Fired by Brother. OCCOQUAN, Va, February 25— Richard H. Duvall, State prohibition officer, of Prince William County, is dead from a gunshot wound alleged to have been inflicted by his brother, Ulysses G. Duvall, who is out on $1,000 bail pending action of the grand jury | at the April term of court. | The killing took place on Monday | night on the county road near Hoadly, where both Duvalls lived, and is said to have occurred when the dead man | and his brother continued a quarrel | which had begun several days earlier. The men met on the road opposite the home of Henry Methyl and ac-| cording to the story told by Ulysses | Duvall, his brother began cursing him and, declaring that he would kill him, reached for his gun. The brother fired | one shot, which entered the officer’s| side and killed him instantly. The | brother then went to the home of Hezikian Reid, justice of the peace, to give himself up, but flr}dmg no one home proceeded to the® residence of Frank Davis, where he reported tho} killing and told of the quarrel. 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Millions of our unemployed are thus placed at the disposal of the propagan- dists.” Bishop Freeman described the eco- nomic situation as world-wide. He re- ferred to conditions he had found in England, where he said the “dole” had been adopted to “supply & sop to the{ unemployed to enable them to bridge the present diffitulty.” “God forbid the dole ld ever be established here,” he red. But in the modern world, ‘where all nations are brought closer together than ever in the past, he emphasized anything in England affects the United States, and anything in the United States affects Europe. “What is happening in Mos- " he warned. “may be reflected in this great republic of ours.” The speaker stressed that now was the time for emphasizing loyalty to the ideals of the republic. “I have unbounded faith” declared the bishop, “that we shall weather any . storm. But eternal vigllance is the price_of liberty.” The American peo- ple, he charged, had become affected by a “kind of supineness—compla- cency,” because the Natlon lies between two seas and betwgen two other na- tions which give D@ trouble. Appeals to Masonic Leaders. Calling upon the Masonic leaders to keep on the lookou' and on the alert, he appealed to them to carry back to all sections of the country a determinstion to “insist upon the most,_ utter loyalty to the ideals you and T hold indispensable to the security of life and property.” Christian institutions of the cou: he said, were on the “defensive,” sisting “attacks on them which were never greater than at this critical hour.” The church, he said, was “hold- ing its line, pmwctmg its front,” but he shared with Gen. Pershing a great Pope to see the churches “take the offensive.” The National Cathedral, which is being built here in Washing- i1, he said, was considered by Persh- saz to hold “the most strategic posi- tion in the republic.” The presiding officer at the dinner was Milton L. Meyers, past grand master of Oregon. And other speak- ers included J. Claude Keiper of this city, secretary of the Conference of Grand Masters; George D. Riley, past grand master of Mississippl, and Otto C. Hagmeler of Oregon. Smallpox Kills 167. CALCUTTA, India, Pebruary 25 (#). —One hundred and sixty-seven persons have died of smallpox here in the last six weeks and more than a million were vaccinated in the past fortnight in an attempt to check the epidemic. SMITHS MOVES&STORES FURNITURE DFALLKINDS : Coroner’s Jury Orders Both Men| Cambridge, Wi n and Washing- ton. 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