Evening Star Newspaper, April 13, 1931, Page 7

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ORLD GATHERIG OF BLIND T OPEN - Helen Keller and Senator|*gisee Gore to Participate in Wel- come to Foreigners. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, April 13.—Some of the most interesting men and wom:n in the world were gathered in New York today to attend an intgrnational con- ference called by Presid>nt Hoover. They are men and women who, living in darkness themselves, have devotzd their lives to making life a little easier and happier for others who also are blind. comprise about one fourth of the of 120 delegates from 36 nations who ‘have come to attend the World Conference on Work for the Blind, b2- ginning, today. After a week of meet- ings and informal discussions in New York, lhe delegates will b2 taken on a taec train to .visit institutions for blind in Philadelphia, Washington, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Boston. Blind Since 4 Years Old. One of the delegates is Pierre Villey, professor of PFrench literatur: at the University of Caen, France. Prof. Vil- ley has been blind since he was 4 years nld Sent to school with children who were not blind, h> led them in scholar- ship. He stood first in the examination in literature when he raceived his doc- tor's’ degree from the Ecol> Norm: Superieure. The author of sevel work$ ‘on the social and p‘)rholog‘cnl aspects of blindness, Prof. Villey is cne of France's most act:ve leaders in the work for the blind. Another delegate is Capt. wuu-m Jocelyn Ian Fraser, head of St. Duns. tan’s, London. Capt. Fraser lost h!a sight in the Battle Of the Somme, when he was 18 years old. He went to Duns- tan's for training and eventually be- came head of the institution. Fraser has been a member of the don County Council and was for five years in Parllament. During British Broadeasting Co." Ty Committee, a post whlch he still holds. He is the author of the section on blindness in the 1928 edition of the lia Brittanica. He rides, rows, swims and skates, Blinded in Accident. Dr. Carl Strehl, founder and head of the German Institution for the Aca- . demic Education of the Blind, was blinded in an accident in New York ‘when he was 15 years old. Dr. Strehl 1! a nnklnz scholar in the field languages and holds a Ph. D.from the University cf Marburg. ht the (oredgn be welcomed to Miss Helen Kauer Gore, blind Senator EAKER BACK AT BOLLING Returns to Capitol After Second Failure to Set Speed Mark. Capt. Ira C. Eaker, noted Army Air Corps pilot, was back on duty at Boll- Pleld today follojving the failure. h-u\be of engine troul le. of his second attempt to lower the transcontinental speed reco: pt. Eaker flew here yesterday from Columbus, Ohio, where he was forced down Saturday when the motor of his fast Army pursuit transport plane failed under the grueling punishment of hours of work at high speed. He left the plane there for repairs end came here in an- cthr Armv plane, landing at Bolling Field at 6:35 o'clock last night. Whether he will make another at-| tempt at the record “denends on how | things work out,” Capt Eaker said. TEXTILE SHOW PLANNED Exhibit to Be Staged at Barker | Hall by Y. W. C. A. Wednesday. A textile exhibit will be sponsorsd by the education and industrial depart- | ments of the Young Women's Christian Association, at Blrker Hall, Wednesday, from 2 p.m. until 10 p.m. ‘The exhibition vllll in-lude homespun from the Nancy Hanks looms at Lis coln Memorial University, Harroga e, | Tenn.; celanese products and models prepared by the Women's Bureau, Do- partment of Labor, showing deveiopment and trends of the textile industry. type punched through for cooness. Matrix rubber ING SEEK AN[]THER BIRL =5 INTHORNE MURDER Police Hunt for Suspect’s Friend, With Him at Time He Robbed Visitor. Another girl entered the investiga- tion of the Thorne murder mystery today, when Chief Deputy Sherift Thomas Garrison of Prince Georges County began a search for a young woman whom he described as a friend of Cline R. T:egarden, owner of the revolver believed to have been used in the slaying. The girl is alleged to have been with T:egarden, a former Marine, when he ascaulted ‘and robbed Wmlam Lums- den, 26, of Releigh, N. C., on the night of February 3. The North Carolinian, according tn police, was beaten into unconsciousness et a lonely spot on Branch rcad south- east, after accepting an invitation to go for an ruhm(‘b le ride with T:egarden and a feminine companion. 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Teegarden, who was sentenced to five years in tte District Reformatory for assaulting and robbing Lums:den, has !'been transferred to the District Jail, where he was to be questioned by Gar- rison this afternoon. The same pistol which caused Tee- | garden, who is 21 years old, to be brought into the Thorne slaying renllud in his arrest in the Lumsden case. fingerprint on the gun, which, Wlth several buttons from a Marine private's roat, was found at the scene of the Is All Required to Deliver a Piano from JORDAN'’S 13th & G SALE of PIANOS LARGE REDUCTIONS Jordan’s sale permits you to save a great deal on the pur- chase of any piano”in the store. The reductions apply only during the sale now in progress. The small sum of $2 is only used in order to encour- age the purchase of a piano now. Your old piano, radio, or assault, was Tecgarden's, & check-up at Marine e ‘When confronted with the flnnrprlm zvldunee ‘Teegarden, ing to De- Brodie and _Thomas who arrested him, readily con- fessed the assault. Lumsden was so badly beaten, it was said, that surgeons at Casualty Howlul where he was taken after being fo on Branch road, md to take 47 stitches in his head, |n addition to setting several fractured ril At Garrison's request, the wnpon found at the assault scene was ex- amined by Lieut. John Fowler, Police Department balistics expert. Fowler said the four bullets which caused ‘Thorne's death were fired from a re- volver of the same type. An inquest will be held tonight in the WASHINGTON, D.. C.. MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1931, they of the same company. SAFFELL RITES SET Funeral services for William T. Saf- |fell, gr., 73 retired building contractor, will be held in the Immaculate Con- mum Catholic Church at 9 o'clock streets. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. 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