Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1931, Page 3

Nt Brown Beetles Carpet beetles and buf- falo bugs arg playing havoc T Wadiagioniliomes. HGN fumigation kills them — our moth-proofing process gives immunity for 3 years or more. SECURITY COLD STORAGE provides guar- anteed protection. Becuritp Storage 1140 FIFTEENTH ST | A SAFE DEPOSITORY FOR 40 YEARS CAASPINWALL . PRESIDENT e MARSHALL HOUSE The Emerson and Cottages York Harbor, Maine On the ocean. GOLF, York Country Olub, 27 holes; Sea Bathing, Canoeing, Orchestra. Elevators, Pire Sprinklers. _ || terday. | || Wide also, with 3500 chapters of the| |{land, president of the International . RED CROSS JUBILEE WILL BE OBSERVED President and Mrs. Hoover to Attend Banquet at Willard Hotel. Presid-nt and Mrs. Hoover will at- tend the golden jubilee dinner of the American Red Cross at the Willard Hotel Thursday night, the soclety's national headquarters announced yes- The jubilee will be nation- “ornnlnzkm participating. With Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes presiding, Mr. Hoover will make a speech, which is to be br3adcast over Nation-wide radio hook-ups. Mr. Hoover is president of the Amerlcnn‘ Red Cress, and Chief Justice Hughes is vice president. Judge Max Huber of Geneva, Switzer- Committee of the society; John Barton Payne, chairman, and Miss Mabel T. Boardman, secretary, will also be | speakers. More than 800 guests, about a third of them being from other cities, are expected to be present. Organized in Capital. On May 21, 1881, the Association of the American Red Cross was organized here at the home of Miss Clara Barton by a group of prorfiinent men and wom- en. A year later President Arthur, with consent of the United States Senate, announced by proclamation that this Nation had adhered to the treaty 23, 1881, reproduces the first story of the meeting at which the American Red Cross was born, in the home of Miss Clara Barton. organization at that time ended a Icng struggle by Miss Barton for the forma- tion of the organization. THE “SUNDAY STAR, A meeting of promineat citizens interested n the organization of a society of the Red Cross of Geneva, was held Saturday evening at NO. 1326 I street, at which Judge Lawrenes, 18t Contreller, presided, with Mr, Walter P, Phil- Hps secretary. Judge Lawrence spoke brlegg the great work accomplished by the Re: TO8E focleries during the wara w 1 have d turbed Europe and other countries | anization was created in 1sGf, ( g to ameliorate human suffering, whether! from the bullet, the sword or from R{’ tilence, | wherever civilization was known. MIss Clara| Barton read papers showing the efliclency of| the Red Cross societles in the twenty-seven countries where the crder s recognized. Mr, John Hitz spoke warmly in support of the plan, A future meeting for the election of cficers will shortly be held. : , i The picture, from & portion of the first page of The Star's issue of May The formation of the —Star Staff Photo. of Geneva, under Which this country became the thirty-second to guarantee protection of wounded on the battle- fleld, neutrality of doctors, nurses, hos- pitals and medical supplies and merci- ful treatment of prisoners of war, under t tl weary burdens,” as she said, in 1904, at served as a relief worker in three wars— | DIVORCED FROM WIFE employed in he age of 83 years. Records state she James M. Henderson, he Civil War, the Franco-Prussian WASHINGTON ;. D. €. MAY W 1931—PART ONE COMPETITIVE DRILL HINTS]GARDEN EFFECT PRIZES GIVEN McKINLEY CADETS Dr. Camalier and Col. 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War and the Spanish-American War, the division of loans and currency, | and the Red Cross under her aided | Treasury Department, yesterdsy was 22 disasters, among them johns- | sy, 3 town flood, Armenian famine, a South | ;T"d"’f o ;"';’c"m';” Ad':"d e Carolina tidal wave, Galveston flood, | divorce from Mrs. Pauline A. Hender- famine in Russia and many catas-|son by Justice Adkins in Equity Court. trophes in the United States. | The decree was entered on a cross- She died in Washington April 12, bill filed by Henderson to a petition 1912, at the age of 91 vears, and is| for legal separation instituted by Mrs. the Red Cross insignia, Mrs. Peter Voorhees DeGraw of 210 | Maryland avenue northeast, who is the only survivor of the meeting at Miss Barton’s home 50 years ago, will be a | special guest of honor. Attending the | dinner also will be 14 men and women from Dansville, N. 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Mingled in with this group will be diplomatic representatives of the 52 nations. Dr. R. P. Andrews of Dansville will describe the first movement to organize a chapter on August 22, 1881, by Miss Barton to send food, clothing, money and other relief to Michigan pioneering families who had lost their possessions in a forest fire. Shortly afterward, simi- lar units were organized in Syracuse and Rochester, N. Y., in the former, Susan |'B. Anthony being a founder. Recommended Detalls. After Henri Dunant, a young Swiss, had witnessed the close of one of the most sanguinary struggles in_world's history upon the battlefield of Solferino in Lombardy, between the forces of Prancis Joseph of Austria and Napo- leon, III, he recommended details | which today are incorporated in the Red Cross of every civilized nation. In 1863, after the movement hatl gained ground in Europe, an effort was made to perfect an organization here. Fred- erick H. Seward, then Secretary of State, however, warned against “en- dun?'lmg alliances,” and the matter was At the close of the Civil War Miss Barton, a New England school teacher, tl e to become one of the first women Gov- ernment clerks, and who had served as a volunteer relief worker on battlefields near this city, took up the movement on the lecture platform. Iil health forced her to go to Switzerland, where, after recuperating, she was invited to the Franco-Prussian ‘War. She served on several battlefields. ml;er l’efllmm to this she ay up the movement, attemptin | to obtain c-nsent of the Geneva txuly'. | The administrations of Grant and | Hayes were hostile to the movement, | but James G. Blaine, Secretary of State under President Garfield, gave the | treaty the first friendly consideration | when he urged its acceptance, recog: | nizing its wisdom as a humanitarian measu re. | Meeting Is Called. | Miss Barton, the moment Mr. Blaine | wrote favorably to her, called a meeting in her home on the night of May 21. | Describing this meeting afterward, Mrs. V. Boynton, one of present, and a long-time friend who had been | her “service lies” behind the | battle_lines during the | Civil War, sdid: “There were about 75 | people in the room at the time. Clara | Barton got up and said, ‘My friends, I | have asked you here tonight because I | must have some‘one to help me to de- | cide what I should-do. I have worked now for nearly seven years trying to get America to join the Red Cross, but |1 cannot do anything with it. The people do not understand it, and Con- gress is afrald of entangling alliances. {I am di and I do not know whether I can keep up the work or not. | Therefore, I have sent for you, who are my friends, and I want you to tell me Wwhether I should drop it or carry it on. | I want every one of you to get up in |turn and say what I shall do.’ | _“She turned to the right, and the | first person said, ‘Go on with the work.’ Then every woman and man in that | room said the same thing. All of them |said, ‘Go 6n with the work,’ and then and there we took an oath of allegiance to the Red Cross and we pledged our- selves to see that the work was car- ried through.” | Miss Barton was elected president of | the infant soclety that night, and those | present signed its first constitution and the application for a District of Co- lumbia charter. Continued at Head. Clara Barton continued for 23 years g down her | Ad Out— This Evening Corner House H.R.HOWENSTEIN G: 130 W STREE T NORTHWEST buried in North Oxford, Mass., her Henderson July 10, 1930. birthplace. semi-governmental agency, and with an annual membership exceedin adults, and 7,000,000 school who is secretary of the i Seventh and H Sts. Southwest Mrs. Henderson had charged her The American Red -Cross today, & husband with desertion and cruelty, and | in the cross-bill filed for the husband 4,000,000 children | hrough the Junior Red Cross, is gov- rned under a congressional charter by Attorney Raymond Neudecker, it was alleged that Mrs. Henderson be- came infatuated with a married man, with the result that the latter was separated from his wife. The Hen- dersons were married May 10, 1917, in Prince Georges County, Md., and lived together until December, 1929. ety. 0000000000000 0¢ Wrecking ENTIRE CITY BLOCK 00000000000 Apply on Job 8® o™ . wed B AMERICA CONSTRUCTION Co. 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