Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1931, Page 20

"B—4 = GEODETIC SHIP -~ ON MISSION HER Hydrographer, Ocean Bed Mapper, Newest of Fleet, to Be Inspected. ‘Bound for Georges Bank, off the New England Coast, to take part in the monumental task of mapping the m of the Atlantic, the Hydro- grapher, newest addition to the fleet of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, has ddcked here and will remain several days to permit inspection by Govern- ment officials, including those from the Department of Commerce of which the Survey is & part. Embodying all the most modern de- wices for the work she will undertake, the Hydrographer is the first Diesel electric-propelled ship to jcin the Sur- vey fleet, her sister ships using steam. Keel Laid Three Years Ago. ‘Her keel was laid in August, three | years ago, at the plant of the Spear Engineers, Inc., Portsmouth, Va. and she was launched in December, 1929, with Miss Cecil Lester Jones, daughter of the late Col. E. Lester Jones, former director of the Survey, as sponsor. The Warwick Machine Co. at Newport , Va., completed the Hydrcgraph- ef, and she has just been accepted. «She is 16712 feet over all, and has béam of 31!; feet. Her displacement is 750 tons. The Hydrographer cost approximately $450,000. She carries a czew of 61 men. The apher will take the place of another vessel of the same name, and the Bache, which both have been placed out of commission. With Other Vessels. The two vessels with which she will serve on the charting mission are the Oceanographer, which was the noted yacht Corsalr, given to the Govern- ment something more than a year ago by J. P. Morgan, and the Lydonia. Three ships are necessary for this work, two to hold stationary points, and the third to perform the actual sbunding operation, using the others a8 guides for distances. ‘Eventually the mapping will take in the Atlantic Coast and the Gulf. The work was started last Summer and carried on_Antil weather interferred. ‘The samé program is being carried out this Summer, and it is expected 2ht still another season will be neces- sary for completion. ‘The Hydrographer put into port Fri- aay. MORATORIUM ASKED “ON WORLD WAR DEBT Suggestion of Remission Is Made as Means of Rehabilitating ‘World Trade. he Associated Press. lOT SPRINGS, Ark., April 18.— hibald R. Watson of New York, editor of the United States Law Re- viw, said tonight a round table dis- n of allled war debts had been ed in an effort to suggest means of rehabilitating world trade. He said a) number of prominent publicists, esonomists and industrialists had con- Igred with him on the subject. 2'The idea is that the question should considered - primarily from an e ic point of view, uninfluenced by considerations of sympathy, philan- tiiropy or sentimental obligations of any sort” he said. “The general feel- i is that, while the United States has already dealt with its foreign debtors, it might be to the commercial amd financial interests of this Nation ifJa moratorium should be allowed or same further consideration given to the x4 in whole or in part of the ‘mnd war debts.” »“No fundamental modification of the Yeung _wiould be involved,” Mr. Watson “The agreements made ia London and W would not % affected. It would simply mean di- viding in half all payments, both con- ditional and unconditional, for 1932 and 1933. The proposed arrangement would apply equaily to the British, who re- ve frcm Germany and France what thiey pay to the United States. Mr. Watson said loss of this remis- sfon in annuities in 1932 and 1933 weuld be made up by France and the Uhited States by an equal reduction in military and naval expenses. RAPPAHANNOCK VALLEY 70 HAVE CLEAN-UP WEEK | pEvery County and Town in Vicin- . §ty of Fredericksburg Expected to Participate in Program. [Bbecial Dispatch to The Star. JFREDERICKSBURG, Va., April 18.| +The first week in May has been set | mside by the Rappahannock Valley Garden Club as “clean-up week,” when virtually every county and town in the vieinity of Fredericksburg will initiate | & campaign to improve the appearance | of premises visited by the annual| pligrimage of tourists The plan is expected to meet with broader success this year than in the | past since nearly every organization in Fredericksburg and five counties have | declared themselves in favor of beauti- 1ying the section, whose historic land- marks are visited annually by hun-| dreds of thousands of sightseers. SUSPENDED TERM GIVEN | Justice Gordon Lenient With Nolan Due to Good Postal Record. Declaring that Norman R. N bhad served for many years in the Post Office Department, had been sufficie pmmished by the lcss of his $2,100 § apd in view of his former excelient re utation, District Supreme Court Jus-| tice Peyton Gordon yesterday placed him on probation under a suspended sentence of two years. Nolan was caught taking letters ad- giressed to the Catholic Indian missions, Which contained small sums of money. 7 = { n, who | Six Get Licenses. LEONARDTOWN, Md., April 18 (Spe- 1) —Six marriage licenses have been | ed at the Leonardtown Court House within the past few days, as follows George Gray Malcy, age 27, of M chanicsville, Md., end Anna Madelis Lfonn, age 18, of Mechanicsville, M Philip Morris Purrington, age 31, of Hartford, Conn., and Ann Elizabeth Analyzing the The Writer Finds She Is Motives Behind the W. a “Get Together” Meeting. INCE it seems to be impossible to write too much about wets and drys, this writer seizes upon the opportunity presented by the meeting here of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform and Pmceeds now to try to de- scribe that fairly novel human speci- men—the woman wet. Looking over several hundred in- stances of that specimen in the con- vention rooms of the W. O. N. P. R. this last week, young impressionable reporters were principally impressed by their smartness, their elegance, their good care of their clothes and their good care of their looks. They were indubitably a striking crowd from that point of view. They went farther to- ward an altitudinous average of social charm than any other convention that Washington has witnessed in our days. Beauty column writers were delighted by the spectacle presented by the rostrum where the dark-eyed, ash- haired blonde president, Mrs. Charles R. Sabin, and the black-haired olive- brunette secretary, Mrs. Courtland Nicoll, stood together. Society column writers were delighted by the prevalence among the delegates of such na as “Bayard” and “D Pont” and “Putnam” and “Pierpont” and “Wendell” and “Roosevelt” and “Van Rensselaer” and “Root.” Very Serious, Nevertheless. Hence arose a certain sensitiveness among the delegates against current de- scriptions of their movement as one of “society women” and “the smart set.” ‘There was some justification for their feelings in this matter. They were, it is true, “society women,” numerously; but they were also, for the most part, very serious women. > The roll of their records shows them to have served much on school boards and hospital boards and charity society boards and visiting nurse asso- ciation boards and the boards of all the other standard sorts of philan- thropies and benevolences and social services. These women, in considerable num- bers, were “smart set” but not smart set.” The “fast smart set” women, as & social group, were not present. They are not interested in public toils. They are mot interested in Teforming anything. They were back drinking tea or cocktails, which they find they can secure without reform activities. Their Prohibition Analysis. The “smart set” women present were there precisely because of their reformistic tendencies. The economic analysis of their situation is this: Under prohibition it has been the men of well-to-do families that have chiefly succumbed to the ravages of bootleg liquor. In order to drink much, it has been necessary to have money. People with money have been able peculiarly to exempt themselves from the prohibition law. It is they that have been the main support of the bootlegger. It is they that have suf- fered most in their physical and moral health from the services of the boot- . Well-to-do women, as a class, have seen more drinking in their homes under prohibition than before it. In so far as they are interested in sobriety and scandalized by excesses in the use of liquor, or in other words, in so far as they are reformistic and up- lifty women, they tend to be critical of the eighteenth amendment. Thus a strange paradox appears; women join the Women's Christian ‘Temperance Union because they want more sobriety. Other women, ently circumstanced, join the Woren's Organization for National Prohibition Reform and work for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment because they, too, want more sobriety. ‘That is the obvious economic reason for all the pearls and diamonds in the convention of the wet women here last Tuesday and Wednesday, and at the same time it is also the obvious social differ- | THE SUNDAY “Woman Wet” Actuated by Some of the C. T. U., and Suggests MRS. CHARLES R. SABIN. reason for the dominance among them of women whose faces showed whole- some habits and high ideals and honest, pure intentions. It would be wholly unfair, however, to dismiss the convention with & cussion only of its “society” aspects. The delegates present were, of course, women who could afford to pay their railway fares and their hotel buils. Women with less money could not come to the convention, unless they ‘were residents of the District of Colum- bia. In the District one can see that the women's organization for rational prohibition reform is by no means a merely social register affair. It in- cludes in its membership here many hundreds of women engaged in earn- ing their own livings as school teach- ers, for instance, or as registered nurses. The one streak of likeness that runs through the whole member® ship of the women's organization for national prohibition reform is to be found in some special opportunity its | members have had, because of posi- | tion or because of occupation, to ob- home in. their drawing rooms| SCrve prohibition failures rather than prohibition successes. A further trait in the organization deserves to be mentioned. It is one of high political importance. It is the low average age of the members. Of course, there was Mrs. John Marquard of Philadelphia, who is over 80 and wears a cap. Most delegates, however, were in middle age and an extraordi- nary percentage of them were in the category of “young married mothers” or even in that of “young unmarrie girls.” One Mother's Perplexity. This writer rather rudely remarked to a robust and earnest matron in her_thirties: “How about children back home?” She replied: “That's just it. All the men I know Just simply will insist upon drinking. That means bootleggers. Now what and I to say to the children? Am 1 to tell them that bootleggers are all right? Or am I to tell them that their fond father is all wrong? What's a woman to do in such circumstances?” She looked sweet and good and very perplexed. She was a reformer, if this writer ever saw one. It might be a grand idea next time to have a con- vention of wet women and a conven- tion of dry women here simultaneously and let the sweet and good mothers | of both sides talk it out together. As | a reporter, who pines to see how long the two sides would stay sweet, but who realizes that both sides are plenti- | fully equipped with goodness, this writer earnestly advocates the double- | convention plan for our lady wets and drys upon the occasion of their next descents upon Washin 3 (Copyright. 1931.) the EX-POLICEMAN ARRESTED ON PROHIBITION CHARGE Former Winchester Officer Accused of Conspiracy—Liquor in Car Is Charged. Special Dispatch to The MARTINSBURG, W. Va., April 18.— L. M. Guthridge, former policeman in son County, W. Va, jail for arraign- ment before & United States Commis- sioner here on a charge of conspiracy to violate the National prohibition law. He was arrested in Charles Town yes- terday on & liquor violation charge, but Federal officers took custody on a war- rant that has been out against him for some months and which he has been evading. Officers arresting him in Charles Town sald he had liquor in the car in which he was driving. —e CHAIRMEN ARE NAMED 0. E. 8. Chapter at Vienna Enter- tains Grand Officials of Order. | Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. VIENNA. Va, April 18—Harmony Chapter, No. 60, O. E. 8., at its regular meeting_ entertained Grand Patron Harry F. Kennedy, Assoclate Grand Conductress Nellle Cosdon and Past Grand Patron Alfred C. Cosdon of the Grand Chapter of Virginia. The worthy matron, Mrs. Mildred H. Wiclline, ap- pointed the following committee chair- men to serve for the ensuing yeai Ways and means, Mrs. Elsie Bayn sunshine, Mrs. Mildred Burner; 4 struction of new members, Mrs. Sadie Babcock; membership, Mrs. Wilhel- mina Fox; entertainment, Mrs. Vera C. Hamiltrn; social, Mrs. Clelia Boushee. By the Associated Press. Metropolitan Opera Co. against Roderich Mueller Gut- tenbrunn, whose novel, Raff,” she charged, was & thinly veiled cartoon of herself. The author was convicted and sen- nced to a month in prison after a trial which lasted two days and was attended by many of Vienna's social leaders. fused to accept Guttenbrunn's apology, which was offered in an effort to settie Leker, age 18, of Leonardtcwn; Royal G, Thomas, age 23, of Charlotte Hall, Md., and Florence E. Green, age 24, of h Edward Hill, ], Md, and Ida Hall, Md; Forest H Miedzinski, age 24, of %rh':svu:e, Md., and Agnes Eleanor T;d?muon. age 20, of Charlotte Hall, M Forest Fires Reported. /ACCAKEEK, Md., April 18 (Special) —IThe Indian Head Pire Department ex a forest fire on the farm of the litigation amicably. At one point in the proceedings the court was cleared while the judge read passages from the book describing muv. “Love | the Neve Frele press calls the Life” of the heroine, Grete Levita, i Winchester, Va., s being held in Jeffer- | Diva Has Libeler Jailed IENNA, April 18 —Maria Jeritza, prima donna, tonight won a libel suit “Riff- Baron Popper, the diva's husband, re- MT. RAINIER SCHOOLS LEAD IN ATTENDANCE Report Shows They Take Most of Honors in Prince Georges County. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., April 18. | —Children in Mount Rainier schools carried off most of the honors for at- tendance in Prince Georges County last month, according to the report of Miss Kathleen Shears, county attendance of- ficer. Winners in the various classes, ac- cording to the report, were: | Edgewood, one-teacher school, Mrs. |Sarah V, Elliott, teacher, 98.2 per cent; Ardmore, two-teacher school, Mrs. Ruth Fuller, principal, 96.6 per cent; Mount Rainier grade school, Mrs. Katherine P. Reed, principal, 96 per cent; Mount Rainler, junior and senior high school, Forrest P. Blunt, principal, 96.4 per cent. The Duckettsville school, headed by Charity Quander, lead the colored group with an average of 96 per cent. | LUTHERANS RAP RUM | et Tllinois Synod Hits State Law Repeal Attempt. CHICAGO, April 18 (#).—The Illi- nols Conference of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Synod today adopted a resolution approving prohi- | bition laws and_condemning “the at- tempt of the Illinois Legislature to | nullify the effect of the eighteenth amendment by repealing the State en- forcement act.” ‘The resolution expressed the convic- | tion that more intensive and extensive educational propaganda should be used to_solve the liquor problem. The conference embraces s Tllinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Towa and Michigan. HIS NOVEL LAMPOONED HER LIFE. | | | | | | n | whom, the Metropolitan prima donna | contends, the author caricatured her. At this second da: witness testified that he Grete Levita as Meria Jeritza because of the trial one recognized | the heroine’s figure was described as | “elim.” Vienna's figured.’ other singers were He knew, he said, that most of “full- | Among today's witnesses were the director general of the State Opera, one | ? the best known of Vienna's concert | u-:n:dlmmmy. all expressed a bellef that Mme. was pictured in the novel. STAR, WASHINGTON, 13 MINERS ARE HELD IN DEATH OF DEPUTY One of Accused Seriously Wounded. Unemployed and Officials in Battle. D. C., APRIL 19, By the Associated Press. HARLAN, Ky., April 18.—Twelve coal miners tonight were in jail charged with banding and confederating and Wil- liam Burnett, seriously wounded, was in a hospital, charged with slaying Jess Pace, deputy ahex‘xfl, following & bat- tle Priday between forces of Sheriff J. H. Blair and unemployed miners at Evarts, 9 miles from here. Four of the prisoners, Sheriff Blair said, were identified as members of a gang of 100 men who drlgll‘d Charles Carpenter, an employe of the Black Mountain Coal Corporation, out of automobile at Evarts Thursday night and beat him. ‘The clash Friday afternoon was the result of the arrest of members of the group who are charged with beating Carpenter. Sheriff Blair said he was expect'ng no more trouble. Pioneer Music Promoter Dies. CUMBERLAND, Md., April 18 (Spe- clal) —Ingham Lord, 49, a pioneer in the promotion of better music here, for 29 years choirmaster and organist in Cumberland churches, died yesterday after a lingering fllness. He was a native of England, arriving in this country with his mother when a small boy, settling in Philadelphia and coming to Cumberland about 1902. the Sutton Vane p! Club Players at the Mrs. Otto Wagner and Paul Alexander, two of the principal characters in “Outward Bound,’ ts Club on April 21 and 22. 1931—PART ONE. In “Outward-Bound” Cast MEMBERS OF CAST OF PRESENTATION OF THE ARTS CLUB. ‘hich will be presented by the Arts | YOUTH, 17, GETS 20 YEARS FOR SLAYING OF GIRL, 15 Virginia Boy Had Denled Murder of Companion While on Visit to Church. By the Associated Press. 18 —Mmltunm. LLOYD GEORGE SEEN IN DICTATORSHIP BID Report Says Only Philip Snowden Blocks Cabinet Post for Liberal Party Leader. ted | By the Associated Press. witness stand the youth claimed the shooting was accidental. He denfed existence of jealousy or any other feeling that would have caused him to want to harm the girl with whom he had started to walk to church on the night of the fatal shooting. His testimony was in conflict with that offered yesterday by the girl's father and sister, who said that when first questioned by them Runion had denied knowledge that the girl was dead, but quoted him as later saying he had shot her because she refused to accede to his wishes. FIRE PERILS COURTHOUSE Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., April 18—Camp- bell County's old court house, buill nearly 100 years ago, was threatened by fire early Friday, but the damage to the structure will probably not be more than $1,000. Principal damage was In the office of Robert A. Rus- sell, commonwealth’s attorney, where the fire started. Besides ruining a law library fire destroyed papers and rec- restored. —Star Staff Photo. | ords which can not be LONDON, April 19.—The Sunday Ex- press says David Lloyd George has ob- ined Jle consent of leading members of the cabinet, except Philip Snowden, for a Liberal-Labor alliance “which by exercise of his personality he might easily convert into a dictator- ll’|3‘g‘e newspaper says the Liberal lead- er'’s terms include a vigorous - ment poll%y based on the raising of a national development loan, wholesale schemes for road building, electrification, and the perhaps one or two ministers presence in the cabinet Lioyd George objects. 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