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SERENE SESSION -~ OFD. AR CLOSES Banquet Focuses Attention on Favorites for Presi- dent General. ‘Without a single disturbing note to Tuffia the serenity of its ciosing hours, the Fortieth Continental Congress of the Daughters of the American Revo- lution, pledging its membership to re- newed. vigilance over Communism and pacifism during the coming year, passed into the history of the national society yesterday as one of the most peaceful and co-operative in recent years. ‘With 1932 calling for the birth of a -~ mew administration, the acclamations given favorite Daughters last night at the closing banquet served to focus at- tention on possible candidates for presi- dent general. ‘The race seems to be between Mrs. Russell Willlam Magna of Massachu- Credit for the smooth running of the machinery of the Fortieth Continental Congress, according to visiting dele- tes, i due to District of Columbia ughters' in Charles Le Fevre, chalrman; Mrs. liam D. West, vice chairman, and local members of the House Committee, who, 'ause of their residence here, formed “planning and parking” group, at work several weeks before the opening date. Marshaled by Miss Harmen were the following national chairmen and com- mittee assistants: Mrs. Gilbert Grosve- nor, Molly Pitcher Chapter; Mrs. Clyde Kelly, Keystone Chapter, respectively chairman and vice chairman, Prograi Committee; Mrs. James J. Davis, wife of Senator Davis of Pennsylvania; Mrs. James W. Good, widow of the former Secretary of War; Mrs. Henry B. Joy, Mrs. Charles W. Richardson and Mrs. Willlam 8. Walker. with two District of Columbia Daugh- ters, Mrs. Harry B. Gauss and Miss Emma T. Strider, and followed up with Mrs. Clyde B. Aichison, Mrs. Gaius M. Brumbaugh, Mrs. Rex H. Rhoades and Mrs. Henry Y. Offutt. The House Committee read like a list of Washington social leaders, headed by Mrs. Le Fevre. Mrs, George M. Grimes, former regent of Army and setts, chairman of the Constitution Hall Finance Committee, and Mrs. Willlam Sherman Walker of Washington State, militant chairman of the National De- fense Committee. So far Mrs. Magna is the only candidate that has an- nounced for the highest office within the gift of the D. A. R. Altho Mrs. ‘Walker has persitsently contended she is not an aspirant, supporters of her national defense work declare they will “draft” her. & Credited for Big Sum. ‘Mrs. Magna has a record of $1,166,- 000 raised for Constitution Hall as her chief claim for presidential honors. Despite the business depression, which cut materially into gifts of cash and pledges, she reported to the congress yesterday, after some spirited bidding, the collection of $23,000 since Tuesday to_still further reduce the remaining debt of $575,000 on Constitution Hall. ‘women received ovations at the “love feast” last night, which was at- tended by approximately 600 delegates, the remnants of the army of 3,300 that T the peak of the con- gress. For Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart, who has still another year, the delegates showered praise and congratulations over the successful accomplishments of the first year of her administration. The fortieth congress was adjourned until April 18, 1932, shortly before 3 Navy Chapter, was chairman of the bulletin board; Miss Mary Oursler and Mrs. Mary K. Nalle were again in charge of the card index register; Mrs. John M. Beavers was chairman of buildings and grounds, including spe- clal ttee rooms; Mrs. C. C. Cooms, . Joseph H. Wheat and Mrs. Arthur S, Fields were in charge of con- cessions; Miss Aline E. Solomons and Mrs. Charles W. Richardson, who were in charge of decorations, are both for- mer regents of Mary Washington Chap- ter; Mrs. Conrad H. Syme of the Dis- trict of Columbia was seccnd in com- mand of seating. with Mrs. Albert F. Olson of Baltimore as chairman: Mrs. Harry Colfax Grove, State vice regent, was chairman of State boxes, with Mrs. William J. Sweeney directing the seat- ing in tiers. Congressional and national officers’ lists were supplied hostesses for the cor- ridors and_guest corridor, with Mrs, Alexander Ennis Patton, newly elected honorary vice president general, as chairman of the group and Mrs. James T. Morris, Mrs. Edward E. Eslick, Mrs. Edwin C. Gregory, Mrs. Royal Copeland, Mrs. Joseph E. Ransdell, Mrs. Hubert D. Stephens and Mrs. Harry C. Ransley as active assistants, Mrs. Ransley, as wife of Representa- tive Harry C. Ransley of Pennsylvania and mother of Miss Elizabeth Ransley of the Junior League of Washington, is o'clock yesterday afternoon, following the colorful installation of the 1y elected vice presidents general. Except for the one incident of the *blue penciling” of the anti-administra- tion speech of Representative Hamilton Fish, jr., of New York, who denounced the State Department in connection ‘with the killing of American citizens by . 0 and his Communist bandit following” in Nicaragua, the week's ses- sions were unmarked by controversial questions. Prohibition Issue Avoided. Prom the “drys” and the “wets” in|hana. policy thony Wi Pock homotary presides: presiden - :r’:nea Pznm;y]tv;n% lAutRyenr vainly sought to put the D. A. R. on "nelont';l for strict dry law enforcement by offering such a resolution from the floor. At last night's dinner, beautiful in its setting of flowers, Mrs. Walter L. Tobey of Ohig was the tostmaster, and Judge Harold B. Wells of New Jersey, speaker, appealed to the D. A. R. to carry on their traditions in support of American institutions and reverence for the things that are of the “press room” of the con- greze had been issued a bulletin pur- to be the “uncensored news of D. A. R,” coples of which were distributed to all delegates present. , | reception to the president general, vice co-operation. Installation of the seven new vice presidents general and the one honorary vice president general, Mrs. Alexander . Eunis Patton of Pennsylvania, furnished the closing touch to the sessions. Each new vice president general, elected to serve three years, was invested with the emblem of office by her predecessor amid ringing applause and generous distribution of bouguets. Mrs. William Rock Painter, chaplain general, admin- ictered the oath of office. New Officers on Duty. ‘The new officers who now enter upon their officlal duties are Mrs. Herbert Charles F. Bathrick of Michigan, Mrs. James Crankshaw of Indiana, Mrs. Wiuliam Henderson Vaught of West Virginia, and Mrs. Willlam N. Pouch of New York. Blections had been held by 28 State deltgations. The list of néw regents ano vice regents follows: tate regent, Mrs. Zebulon Judd, Auburn; State vice regent, Mrs. F. K. Perrow, ‘Anniston. Alaska—State regent, Mrs. John A. Clark, Fairbanks; State vice regent, Mrs. Henry L. Lien, Seward. California—State regent, Mrs. Frank Phelps Toms, Pasadena; State vice regent, Mrs. F. P. Gundrum, Sacramento. Colorado—State regent, Mrs. Emily M. Randall, Rocky Ford; State vice regent, Mrs. Albert E. Mor- ton, Pueblo. Connecticut—State regent, Miss Katharine Arnold Nettleton, Derby: State vice regent, Miss_Emeline Amelia Street, New Haven. Florida— State regent, Mrs. Rolland E. Stevens, State regent, Mrs. Richard Patton Erwin, Boise; State vice regent, Mrs. ‘Thomas David Farrer, Caldwell. Illinois ~—State regent, Mrs. David J. Peffers, Jr, Aurora. Indiana—State regent, Mrs. Roscoe C. O'Byrne, Brookville; State vice regent, Mrs. John McFadden, Gary. Iowa—State regent (holdover); State vice regent, Mrs. Clyde E. Brenton, Des Moines. Kansas—State regent, Mrs. J. ‘W. Kirkpatrick, El Dorado, State vice regent, Mrs. E. P. Pendleton, Princeton. Louisiana-—State regent, Mrs. C. W. Outhwaite, New Iberia; State vice regent, Mre.» James Harris Baughman, Tallulah. Maine—State regent, Mrs. Edward F. Danforth, Skowhegan; State vice regent, Mrs. Willlam Elroy Davis, Sanford. Maryland—State regent, Mrs. John G. H. Lilburn, St. Marys City; State vice regent, Mrs. Honry Zoller, Baltimore. Michigan—State regent. Mrs. James H. McDoneld, Glencoe Hills, Washtenaw road, Ypsilanti; State vice regent (vacant). Montana—=State re- gent. Mrs. Charles Sumner Passmore, Butte; Stete vice regent, Mrs. Roscoe Clgrke Dillavou, Billings. Nebraska— StAle regent, Mrs. E. H. Wescott, Platts- mouth; State vice regent, Mrs. Horace Jackson Cary, Kearney, Nevada—State regent, Mrs. Frederick H. Sibley, Reno; State vice regent, Mrs. Edward Warren Chism, Reno. North Clmlclx(:"pel—fil:{!& &rewnt. 5‘!“’;: Bydney Perry r, Henderson: Vice regint. Mrs, William Henry Belk, Charlottd. Oklahoma-—State regent, Mrs. Frank Hamilton Marshall, Enid. State vice regent, Mrs. Bamuel Weidman, Norman, South Dakota-—State regent, Mrs. Charles A. Lafferty, Huron; State vice regent, Mrs. Asbury Franklin Laity, Y te mnt. Mrs. Joseph Nashville; State vice re- A. Enox, Cleveland. regent, Mrs, William Hayes gent, " | curator general of the soclety, ucep"_zhd e than in her native Philadel- . Miss Elizabeth Ransley is founder- regent of her chapter and was the youngest regent delegate to the fortieth Continental Congress. The Tamassee D. A. R. Industrial 8chool, in South Carolina, had one of the most interesting exhibits at the congress. Numercus articles made by the children at the school were on | display, and many delegates purchased -woven bags, rugs or copper ciga- rette trays, bowls or cups to take home with them. Other displays in the lounge of the hall were by schcols to which the D. A. R. contributes, a flower booth conducted by the Dorothy Hancock Chapter of the District of Columbia and | a display of famous ccats of arms | made by Miss Carrie L. Barnett of the Louis Chapter of Alabama. Conspicuous in the group was one of the Harrison family. ~Mrs. Caroline Scott Harriscn, wife of the President, was the first president general of the D. A. R. As- sisting Barnett at her booth was Mrs. C. B, Tullis of the Louis Chapter. Chiet Thomas O. O'Connor of the Fire Department attended his seven- teenth D. A. R. Congress this year. When contributions were made last for the Constitution Hall fund Chief O’Connor loaned his hat to Mrs. Rus- gn ‘William Magna to collect the dona- ons. ‘The_Countess Beatrice de Tavora of New York is converting one of her houses into a resident club house, to be called the Harkness Memorial, for the use of the Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution, at 39 West Sixty-ninth street, New York City. She will give a perhaps more at home in the Nation's Clfl\t«ll phia. | presidents general, officers and daugh- ters to inspect the club hotise May 6. Mrs. G. W. Wallace Hanger, formerly vice president general from the District, now resident in New York, is spending the week in Washington, warmly wel- | comed by a host of official, D. A. R. | and girlhood friends. Mrs. Hanger is| always at_home where there is service | to be rendered. Mrs. Albert N. Baggs, regent. Mal. L’Enfant Chapter, District of Columbia | D. A, R.. unveiled the official bronze | marker of the District of Columbia D. | A. R. on the grave of Plerre L'Enfant in Arlington Cemetery April 2. the graves of seven other Revolutionary ‘The Credentials Committee led off Bous | trade. Perry Herring McPFaddin, Beaumont; | State vice regent, Mrs. N. P. Sanderson, | Texarkana. | Utah—State regent, Mrs. George Ru- | dolph Whitmeyer, Ogden; State vice | jreg=nt, Mrs. Stephen A. Cobb, Salt| Lake €ity. ‘Washington — State regent, Mrs. | Prank L. Cooper, Everett; State vice| regent, Mrs. Charles X. Larrabee, Bel- | , lingham. West Virginia—State regent, Mrs. Paul O. Reymann, Wheeling; State vice regent, Mrs. Gory Hogg, Lewisburg, ‘Wisconsin—State regent, Mrs. Joseph Ackroyd Branson, De Pere; State vice regent, Mrs. William H. Cudworth, Mil- waukee. ‘Wyoming—State regent, holdover; State vice regent, Mrs. John Corbett, | Laramie. Relics Given D. A. R. Museum. Relics of early American periods were | presented to the D. A. R. museum yes- jterday. Mrs. Samuel Jackson Kramer, | the gifts for the society and thanked donors. Maryland presented a horn drinking cup used during the Revolution by Sergt. Maj. John Morrison of Lancas- ter County, Pa. The gift resented by descendants of Sergt. Maj. Morrison, Mrs. Letitia P. Wilson, Mrs. Lucy Wil- son Debert Willlams and Mrs. Dorcthy Wilson Debert Conrodt of the Brax- ton Chapter, Maryland. A green silk folding fan of the Revo- Jutionary period was given by the Dis- trict of Columbia. The gift was pre- sent by Miss Sarah E. Cushing of the Army and Navy Chapter in memory of yher aunt. Miss Anng Cook Cushing of Horde Island. The District of Colum- bia also presented the D. A. R. libra: a copy of “Ancestors in Silhouette,” complled and autcgraphed by the donor, Mrs. P. Neville Jackson of London, England. The book contains a collec- tion of silhouettes of the ancestors of many Americans cut by August Edouart, the brilliant silhouettist of the nine- teenth century, and a brief history of | the_silhouette: soldiers were similarly marked, Mal. L’Enfant, revered as the friend and con- fidant of Gen. Washington, by whom he was selected to make the survey and plan for the National Capital in 1790, died June 4, 1825; was buried in Prince Georges County, Md., and reinterred in Arlington April 28, 1908. Mrs. Charles Burton Jones, retiring vice president general; Mrs. James T. Routree, incoming vice president gen- eral, and Mrs. Ike Barton McFarland, national chairman, Sons and Daughters of the Republic, have been decorated by the minister of public instruction and arts of France as officers d’academie for m | services rendered France in the erection of the D. A. R. monument to La Salle in Texas. Indiana &ues at the Continental Congress this year included Miss Esther Zahrt and Mrs. Kenneth Stookey, Fort Wayne; Mrs. Mattie Hardin McKrill, i Miss Josephine McNamee, ‘Wabash; Miss Genevieve Pickrell, Miss Flora_Hunter, Indianapolis; Miss Har- riet Farmer, Bedford; Miss Margaret Oakes Laporte; Miss Mary Hostetter and Miss Doris Helen Stroube, Rcach- dale. Mrs. Harrlet Vaughn Rigdon, trea- surer general of the Daughters of the American Revojution, had as her per- sonal page during Continental Con- gress Miss Florence Merritt of Fort ‘Wayne, Ind. Miss Merritt served last year as assistant chief of platform pages. She has served Mrs. James Bliss Crankshaw, Indiana's retiring State regent and newely-elected vice president general, as personal page at three State conferences. ‘Three generations were represented in the D. A. R. and C. A. R. gresses by one family group. Mrs. Florence H. Williamson represented New York City chapter as a dclegate and shared honors with her daughters, Mrs, Burns H. Waters of Baltimore and Mrs. Philip J, Hickey, jr., of Phoenix, Ariz. In the children’s congress were Ruth Tracy Waters of Lighthorse Harry Lee Chapter, June Elizabeth Watezs, Burns H. Waters, jr., and Richard Wil- liamson Waters, all of Baltimore, and Donald Mansfleld Hickey, “Phoenix, grandchildren of Mrs. Williamson. An outstanding member of the dele- gation from the State of Washington was Mrs. Eliza Ferry Leary, honorary vice presiflent general. Other members of the deélegation who made the long Iin trek across the continent to attend the Fortieth Continental Congress were Mrs. Wesley DuBois, State regent; Mrs. Martin B. Connelly and her daughter, Miss Martha Connelly, who was a page; Mrs. Arthur L. Hawes, Miss Mary Dwight and Mrs. E. 8. Prentis. The annual Indiana dinner given by the Hoosier D. A. R. delegation was a brilliant affair at the Willard Hotel, with a notable group of honor guests. Mrs, Lowell Fletcher Hobart, presi- dent general, headed the guest list, which included Mrs. Rigdon, treasurer general; Mrs. Russell William Magna, librarian general; Mrs. Thomas Kite, honorary vice president general; Mrs. James L. Gavin, retiring vice president general, and Mrs. James F. Trottman, Wisconsin; Mrs. Charles F. Bathrick, Michigan; Mrs. Charles E, Herrick, Illinois; Mrs. William H. Vaught, West Virginia; Mrs. Willlam H. Pouch, New York; Mrs. James T. Roundtree, Texas; Mrs. Walter C. Johnson, Tennessee, and Mrs. Herbert F. Gaffney, Georgia. Mrs. Crankshaw, Indiana's new vice president general, presided at the dinner as retiring State regent. Others invited of the Indiana group were Mrs. James E. Watson, wife of the Indiana Senator; Mrs. Beardsley Fris- bee, Cassadaga, N. Y. sister of Mrs. Crankshaw, and Mrs.' W. R. McCoy, Tulsa, OkIa. - The hospital Toom was i charge of Mrs. Ruth M. Nash, of Fort Washing- ton Chapter, N. Y. She was assisted | by _two volunteers, Miss Irene Mahan, year | 3 Spanish War nurse, and Miss Edith Sherman. Canada’s Jobs-JInocrease. OTTAWA, Ontario, April 25 (P).— Canadian manufactories noted employ- ment increases on April 1, but heavy seasonal losses were reported in log- | ging camps, the bureau of statistics announced today. - . Advances were also reported in build- ing construction, transportation and Curtailment was indicated in highway and railway construction and coal mining, the report said. D. C. Page MRS. HOLT O. FLEETWOOD, Who served as a page at the D. A. R. Congress, _representing the American Liberty Chapter of the District of Co- | lumbia. eal comfortable rocker with in natural slat Rigidly constructed for solid maple posts, finish. Double cane sea back. long serv 905 7th St. NNW STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL PRINCETON ALUMN (. OF . CONGRESS HONOR KILPATRICK Retiring President Receives Ovation at Association Banquet. More than half & hundred graduates of Princeton University and their guests gathered at the Chevy Chase Club Friday night in attendance on the annual banquet of the Princeton Alumni Association of the District of Columbia, which was in the nature of & love-feast in honor of Maj. John D. Kilpatrick, retiring president. A new tour of duty for this Army officer com- ls his removal from the National ‘apital and the relinquishment of his office in_the local association. Maj. Kilpatrick acted as toastmaster. Dinner arrangements were in the hands ot a committee headed by F. Moran McConihe, '26. Kenneth 8. Clark, '05, without whose sympathetic services few Princeton parties of this sort ever oc- cur, was in charge of the music. ‘The guests of honor and speakers of the occasion were Edward H. Duffield of the class of 1882, a trustee of the university, and Prof. Alexander H. Smith of the faculty and of the class of 1901. Dr. Smith, in a scholarly talk, pointed out the fact that too often the research man and the author of professional and other books brings to his alma mater an amount of fame and gains for himself a reputation more widespread than the man actively engaged in the teaching and guiding of mature youth. He made a plea for the presence on faculty rosters of more able men who love teaching and for their more ample recognition. Urges Broader Requirements. Mr. Duffield’s speech was inspirational and dealt largely with past and present trends in university life. He expri e hope that some day the of a college diploma, especlally from Princeton, might indicate not purely the ability to gain certain academic marks, but might be based, as are the present- day requirements for entrance, on a much broader foundation, inclu ex- cellence in numerous ~non-academic es. Only physical exhaustion terminated the contributions of the toastmaster and retiring president, who for more than three decades has been famed wherever Princeton men foregather for | his ability as an entertainer. During the evening a special commit- tee headed by Charles Henry Butler was | spontaneously empowered to bear to an | adjacent dining room and to present to Mrs. Herbert Hoover, honor guest at the banquet of the Columbian Women of George Washington University, as many of the floral table decorations as { he could conveniently carry with the | compliments and best wishes of these and of all Princeton men. The bouquet was graciously received. Formalities Are Ended. ‘The strains of “Old Nassau” ended the formalities, whereupon the dinner | broke up into & number of small re- unions. | Those present included John W. Haines, E. K. N. May, D. C. Colladay, George Strayer, jr.. H. A. Jackson, R. H. A. Carter, E. H. Martin, Larry Parker, Marvin M. McLean, E. E. Col- laday, F. Moran McConihe, Kenneth S. Clark, Bryon E. Ogden, R. M. Kauff- | mann, G. Thomas Dunlop, Huston Thompson, Cafirflund Nixon, H. Alex- | ander _Smith, John D. Kilpatrick, Ed- | ward D. Duffield, Alfred Pearce Dennis, Victor Kauffmann, A. J. McCartney, L. K. Rutter C. E. Nelson, Charles Henry | Butler, J. Scott Maltman, Charles H. | Bradley, J. R. Hill W. L. Beale, jr.; | Moncure B. Berg, Walter G. Dunio) William Floyd Crosby, John W. Chil- dress, George G. Howell, John A. Selby, Henry Ravenel, J. E. Murdock, Lee D. Butler, Thomas Pearson, R. McC. Dun- lop. J. W. Gidley, Oliver Metzerott, P. E. Evans, H. Haines, C. S. Heritage, Richard P. Dunn, Charles P. Lukens, | Jr.; George C. Warner, jr.; W. N. Wood | and Philip King, jr. |LEGISLATURE TO MEET IN UNOFFICIAL SESSION | Mississippl Governor Refuses to Issue Call Without Pledge Against Impeachment. By the Associated Press. JACKSON, Miss.,, April 25.—Leaders in the Mississippi ture today per- fected plans for their “unofficial” spe- cial session on Tuesday to deal with a financial emergency in the State, while Gov. Theodore G. Bilbo was de- clining an invitation to attend the meeting. The Governor sent his “regrets” to Speaker of the House Thomas Bailey, saying he would be out of the city and reiterating he had no intention of call- ing or sanctioning a legislative, session until a “substantial majority” of both houses shall have signed a pledge against starting any impeachment or other investigation proceedings. Legislative leaders have declined to sign this pledge, but have promised in- dividually to have a no-investigation resolution adopted if the Governor will issue a special session proclamation. As a result of the refusal of Gov. Bilbo and Lieut. Gov. Bidwell Adam to act Bailey has called the House to- gether for Tuesday, and Senator W. B. Roberts, chairman of the Senate Fi- nance Committee, has summoned the senators to the Capitol. The legisla- tors hoge to find means for ral $5,500,000 to meet a treasury deficit and to keep State institutions going and to have their action legalized by requesting the Governor to issue a pre-dated legislative call after their labors are completed. GLIDER for the Small Porch $5.95 Colorfully covered in orange and green— and green and grey striped duck. All steel frame, 42 inches long. | Frank D. Keaton, Los Angeles real es- T0 BE HERE MAY 4 International Eody Will Seek Remedies for Trade llls and Hear Hoover. A cure for the ills that beset business threughout the werld will be sought at the sixth general congress of the Inter- national Chamber of Commerce which wiil open here a week from tomorrow. The congress will bring together representatives from the commercial and industrial fields of about 25 coun- tries. It is the hope and belief that agreement will be reached on definite principles of action to be applied in- ternationally by Government co-opera- tion to. hasten recovery and promote stebility of business. In their deliberations here, the dele- gates, who will number in their ranks | the leaders in their respective lines, will | hear the findings of a two-year study | by a committes on international eco- | nomic relations. Thus they hope to get | down to concrete facts and not deal in | generalities. Hoover to Open Congress. Ar address by President Hoover will open the cony at 10:30 am. May 4. He will be followed by Georges Theunis, former prime minister of Belgium and president of the International Chamber, who will give a review of world business conditions. ‘That afternoon there will be a plenary session at which a survey of wotld trade will be presented from the viewpoint of Eurgpe, Latin America, the Far East and the United States. International economic relations will Le the subject before plenary sessions on three succeeding days; commercial policies will be brought up at the fifth plenary session, and a final plenary sessjor on May 9 will end the gathering. 1In going into commercial policies, the congress will take up the important questions: of tariff and commercial treaties. Economic relations will bring up, among other issues, that of all forms of transportation, including the ques- tion of co-ordinating rail and motor service, which is as pressing a matter abroad as in this country at present. Will Study Phoblems. Production, agriculture, employment, wages, communications, protection of trade marks, patents, designs and models, commercial arbitration and double taxation will be other items for study at the plenary sessions and for groyp conferences which also will be held throughout the congress for more intimate discussion of problems. ‘This will be the first general congress that has been held in this country since the chamber was formed 10 yea |ago to_improve business between na: | tions. Pive countries then held charter membership; now there are 46 repre- sented in its councils. Approximately 1,000 delegates are expected here, with about half that number being American busiress men. Sflas H. Strawn of Chicago, who is vice president of the International Chamber for the United States, heads the American Committee which directs the participation of this country’s interests in the chamber, The first session of the congress will | be held in Constitution Hall; thereafter the gatherings will be in the Chamber oi. Commerce of the United States |lillfltzing, Connecticut avenue and H street. KILLER FOUND INSANE Decision May Save Los Angeles , Man From Death Sentence. SAN RAFAEL, Calif., April 25 (#).— tate man, sentenced to hang for the murder of Motley H, Flint, Los Angeles banker, has been found insane by a board of ph;xlcinns who examined him, Dr. Léo L. Stanley, San Quentin prison physician, disclosed today. A formal complaint charging Keaton with insanity will be filed Monday in | Superior Court, where Keaton will have 8 hearing. If he is found legally as well as medically insane, the elderly real estate man will be spared a death sentence. Keaton shot and killed Flint while the banker was testifying in a civil suit in Los Angeles. Keaton accused Flint of dissipating Keaton's savings in the | Julian petroleum frauds. MISSIONARY TO SPEAK Miss Willis to Address Banquet at Petworth Church, [ Miss Katherine Willis, missionary | representing the Women's Foreign Mis- sionary Socfety of the Methodist Epis- copal Church in China, will speak PFri- day night at a_Young People’s Society thank offering banquet at the Petworth Methodist Church. Miss Willls is a teacher in Wha Nan College, Foochow, 26, 1931—PART ONE. Figure It Out Yourself If the Wet Crusaders Are Younger Than the Drys, But the Drys Live Longer Than the Wets, Which Race Will Survive? BY WILLIAM HARD. R. RUFUS F. LUSK, publicity engineer extraordinary for those youthful foes of pro- hibition _called “The - saders,” has now discovered— absolutely statistically, of course—that prohibitionists will presently be just like Ichthyosauri. There won't be any of them. They will be extinct. They are passing on; and, more and more, they are leaving no prog- eny behind. They proaching disap- a] ching B earance of i foes from the face| of the earth, Mr. Lusk consented to be interviewed by the press. said Mr. Luck, “a Lusk, high pile of reports erous battalions of ‘Crusaders’ from all over the country giving the ages of their cers, and giving also at the same time the ascertained ages of the leaders of result shows that soon we shall have nobody to fight. It is a disheartening our fighting spirit instead of simply leaving it all to the passage of time.” Mr. Lusk Ixuaed in perturbed con- templation of this problem. “Say on,” “Well,” sald Mr. Luck, “here’s a typical report. h:l": from Chicago. Look ’ there are, as you see, respectively 31 and 40 and 40 years old. On the other four most eminent prot of the dry cause in C] are respectively 52 the disparity! It is extremely significant.” “we have many venerable men on our side. We are not without the wise that at Charlottesville, Va., our chief commander is 55 years old. Note, also, tatives there in the management of our cause we have a gentleman 56 years years old. We are by no means desti- tute of the stability that comes from My point is simply that while wefl'nu and our dry opponents are both equip- sage mx experience in human affairs, it is we that are the young have to be content with the leaves which so soon must fall.” Recovering from the obsequies of the leaves, Mr. Lusk proceeded. of the officers of our Philadelphia bat- talion: 29, 27, 26, 29, 27, 35, 27, 29, 25, Glance now at the chief p; dists of, and the chief wntnbum the one of them is under 55 or 60! Too bad—for them.” “I have combined the findings of these reports into tabulations and compre- Accordingly, here they are: The average lle'zl the Crusader wet The average age of the dry leaders against whom the Crusaders in their Eighty-nine per cent of the Crusader wet leaders are under 50. - Eighty-four over 50. ‘Twenty-two per cent of the Crusader 30 class there are no outstanding dry leaders at all. sters are wiser than that great dry supporter, Mr. John D. Rockefeller, sr., “I maintain,” replied Mr. Lusk, “that they will last longer.” “I' have here” e from _num commanders and other important offi- the dry forces in their vicinities. The prospect. Our problem is to keep up Wets Held Younger. sald the reporters. :'l‘u over. The t| top commanders of hand, as you see, the and 50 and 'i'f'f.?a 60 years old. “Of course,” continued Mr. Lusk, counsel of advanced age. Note here that among our other elected represen- old, and we even have one who is 62 protracted residence n this globe. with the of men of stirrings: of life ln“q'.:‘:ktwree and they Average Difference 20 Years. “Glance here,” he said, “at the ages 40, 28, 30, 30, 32, 36, 27, 27, 35, 26, 28. dry effort in Philadelphia. Hardly a “And, naturally,” Mr. Lusk went on, hensive conclusions. Here they arel” leader, Mr. Lusk, is 38. various localities contend is 58. per cent of the opposing dry leaders are wet leaders are under 30. In this under “Do you maintain that your young- who is 927" Mr. Lusk was asked. Word of Mr. Lusk’s statistical ex- Regular Delivery Over 100,000 families read The Star ever day. The great ma- Jority have the paper delivered regularly every evening and Sun- day morning at a cost of 1% cents daily and 5 cents Sunday. If you are not taking advane tage of this regular service &% this low rate, telephone National 5000 now and service will start China. 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He instantly e o opponent Dr. Dinwiddle. rohibition are -driven when they have to compare ages of grou; leadership and consult mortality tables to bolster up their faith in a distant lneucces& {-lowevsr. while do! that, may not encourage, but it will cer- tainly enlighten them to know that abstainers from beverage alcohol beat the expectancy tables and live appreci- high-ball drinkers and . the families Americans who :{: hibition are not glven to race s le in the same de- gree as the families some of the aulfi-l;l’llho‘n:dires who chiefly sponsor e variega wet programs of today. | Within the next feVn! weeks it will ‘ge apparent, even to the youthful ‘cru- saders,” that American youth is not all ‘wet’ and that not all of the ‘elder statesmen’ of the reform called pro- hibition, have become passe beaten & retreat.” o Drive on Youth Forecast. ‘Thus Dr. Dinwiddie forecast s re- vealment which it is believed will n’o'n happen of a big drive by the drys to show that , 100, are enlisting multi- tudinous young bloods of the new n. Mr. Lusk, nevertheless, refused moved. He sald: o “Since prohibition came into force the number of American boys girls who have the age of 21 is, I find, 18,943,021. Twenty-two per cent of our wet ‘crusader’ leaders have emerged out of that group. It is the group that presently will be politically dominant. . Where is the dry leader that has arisen out of it? So far as our inquiries show, he does not exist.” ‘The reporters left Mr. Lusk with his eyes firmly fixed upon the idea that soon some new, sympathetic James of ‘middle-class A. KAHN INC. downward Sterling Silver. are the most dinary reduc- tions ever asso- ciated with ‘sil- ver of estab- lished merit. Repousse Pattern 6 Medium Forks 6 Table Spoons 6 Table Forks Cream Soup and & good- | 4 fund 6 Dessert Spoons Salad Forks, Individual............. Two-Piece STEAK SET With Stainless Steel Blades. FARM AID FUND NEARS NEW PEAK U. S. Board Will Have About $200,000,000 Available After July 1. 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