Evening Star Newspaper, May 26, 1931, Page 4

S0 HEALTH “FUND PROPISED Only-$11,000 Now Available in: Montgomery, Expert " Tells Citizens. *~BY WILLIAM S. TARVER, S$taff Correspondent of The Star. NORBECK, Md. May 26.—For $40,- 000 yearly Montgomery County could have a first-class Public Health Depart- ment, Dr. Allen Weir Preeman. head of the*School of Public Hygiene of Johns Hopkins University, declared last night in ‘an address befors the Advisory Citi~ zens' Committee, which will co-operate with him in making a survey this Sum- mer of public health conditions in the county. The meeting was held in the Manor Club. At present approximately $11,000 is available for public health work every ) year. Like most other things, Dr. Fres- mah declared, public health is purchas- able and Montgomery County must in- | crease several times its present appro. priation if it is to have a “top-hol Health Department. Educational Function. ‘The survey probably will disclose little that is new in conditions in the county, he asserted, bui its chief value will rest | in fts educational function. “We want to create interest among the people in conditions as they are and then we may be able to move them to act,” Dr. Freeman declared. The meeting last night was repre- septative of civic, welfare and. medical | organizations in all sections of the county, with almost every one who had been invited attending. Miss Lavinia Engle, member of the House of Dele- gates from Montgomery, who also pre- sided, cautioned those present to broad- cast the work of the survey, so as to ;t:r!::’eve the results Dr. Freeman de-! Estimate Is Tentative, DE. Freeman said that his estimate of the money needed to give .Mont- gomery the best possible health service was tentative, since he knew little of actual conditions in the county. ‘He éu.g-sud however, that the county probably needed from 10 to 16 more public health nurses, a milk inspector, a sanitary inspector and a modern labo- ratory. Results of his study will only point out the ways in which the County Health Department can be improved, Dr. Freeman declared. Actually to make improvements, he said, will cost money and all the surveys in the world will do no good unless needed funds are made available. Dr. Robert H. Riley, State director of public health, said that the State Health Department and the county de- partment will carry out as far as pos- sible Dr. Freeman's recommendations. Health Conditions. Dr. Freeman stressed the unusual | circumstances regarding public health | in Montgomery, caused by the rapid| overflow into Maryland of the urban | mflum:x of Washington. The county an urban, suburban and a rural health problem, he asserted, adding that it would be well to have a “health audit” of the county before conditions become too firmly ecrystallized for change- There are four principal problems which must be studied in the forfh- coming survey, Dr. Freeman said. He| named them as communicable-disease | control, water supply, sewage service and milk supply. The first named, communicable-dis- | THE EVENING STAR, Quizzed in Zirkle Murder fired the shot that killed Zirkle. have charged Martz with the crime. DOPE PEDDLER’S REVENGE SEEN IN CUNNINGHAM CASE —(Continued Prom First Page) given by Burch's mother, Mrs. Blanche Burch, of 714 Kentucky avenue south- east. She said Martz had remarked that he would “ga to the pool room to see who is telling stories on me.” Called Over Telephone. Martz had gone to Burch's apart- ment in response to a telephcne re- Guest from the latter that he come over and explain a rumor that he had been going with Burch’s wife, she said. Assistant Attorney Serica was unsuc- cessful in drawing from witnesses in- formation that the rumor emanated from the pool room. Mrs. Blanche Burch said she had tried t> stop her son from accompany- ing Martz into the pool room because she had seen the latter-with a pistol M. J. Kennedy of the United States Park Police said that while he was on a pleasure trip with Burch some time ago the latter told him he thought “Jimmy Zirkle was going with his wife.” Serica asked Burch why he tele- phoned the slain man three times on the day of the shooting. Burch denied RS. FLORENCE BURCH (left), M terday in their investigation of who was questioned by the police yes- the murder of Irving R. Zirkle Saturday night in a Ninth street pool room. Upper right, Harry Burch, husband of Mrs. Burch, who was with Rcbert E."Martz, lower right, when Martz . Burch is being held by the police, who - — S BIRf; Photos PRESIDENT STUDIES ECONOMY MATTERS __ (Continued From First Page.) | drought relief and highway construc- tion. These totaled $160,000,000, pro- for unemployed on road building. As for the regular operating ex- | penses, Hyde foresees little opportunity of paring expenses without curt:Xing important services. The Secretary has not yet been offi- cially advised by the President that his department will be called on to offer suggestions for economies, but he has | ordered a survey with that in view. 370 Million Appropriation. ‘The department’s total appropriation for the present fiscal year is $370,000,- | 000, | gency morey. Also a part of the total was $109,000,000 for regular Federal | highway aid and $11,000,000 for forest | roads and trails. The remaining $90.- 000,000 went to running expenses. the extension service, land grant colleges | and similar agencies. For the 1932 fiscal year, beginning July 1, $225,000,000 has been appro- | priated, of which $137,000,000 is for | Pederal -aid highways and forest roads. Congress increased the Federal aid al- ease control, ne said, is by far the most | po° pad o ed, S0P E o P JECRT | lotment from $75.000,000 to $125,000,000 as is the sewage problem, he The speaker said he knew noth- ing at present of the quality of the milk produced in the county. Committee Named. i Pollowing Dr. Freeman's address Miss Engle announced an Executive Commit- tee for the General Advisory Commit- tee, It included Dr. Benjamin C. Perry, chairman; Dr. William T. Pratt, county health officer; Dr. G. V. Hartley, presi- dent of the County Medical Association; Dr. J. W. Bird, Miss Hermine Baden- hoop, Miss Engle, Supt. of Schools Ed- | win W. Broome, Miss Estelle Moore and Raiph Lee, , the first speaker of the| evening, traced the development of pub- lic health work in Montgomery during | the past decade. When he was ap- pointed health officer more than 10 years ago, Dr. Pratt said all he had to work with was a rubber stamp and a formaldehyde fumigator. He said that| at present the department had three | nurses and does work in the .school‘.‘ for the indigent, inspects milk and abates nuisances, as well as many other eference to Mrs. Burch, but insisted e only wanted him to come over and “have a few drinks.” Martz gave police an unsigned state- ment today, in which he declared the gun was accidentally discharged as he was about to hand it to Burch. | Caused Man’s Arrest. In the Cunningham investigation, po- lice disclosed that one of Cunningham’s deadliest enemies was a dope peddler he turned up here in 1922. Cunningham. | by agreement with District police and Federal narcotic agents, telegraphed the man to come to Washington with a large quantity of dope, for which, Cun- ningham said, he had a buyer | When the peddler arrived at Union | Station he was met by Cunningham | 28 invaluable and not likely to be and police, who arrested him and con- | | fiscated a large quantity of the drug. , The officers said the man promised vengeance for his betrayer. The prisoner later jumped a $3.000 bond posted on a charge of violating the narcotic act, and was arrested in Plattsburg, N. Y. He sawed his way out of jail. however, before Washington police arrived to return him to the District He escaped across the Canadian bor- arrested when orted him back New York line, He was sen- tenced to four vears PRESS IS INDUSTRY | HERE, SAYS WOOTON Correspondent Tells Civitan Club Importance of Activities in Capital Bureaus. press and na- this city makes The magnitude of th tional sasociations i them u we worth con ing by local citizens, Paul Wooton Washington correspondent of the Mc- Graw-Hill Publications and of Orleans Times-Picayune, declared an address at a luncheon of the C Club in the La Fayette Hotel today The importance of the activities these two agencies to W the amount of those connected into considerati told_his audien “There are th: city who dra ing_industry work of the activities rel tures of no dollars a 400 publ States main he said Asserting national associations “bring to Washington a large n of high-salaried and capable men wh have a natural interest in civic affair: Mr. Wooton said the largest national assoelation here has an operating bud- get of $4.000000 a vear Mr. Wooton suggested that steps be taken by local citizens to mike new- comers in the press association activi ties here feel they are a part of community and that other national associations now having headquarters elsewhere be encouraged to locate here OCEAN FLIER DUE HERE is tal Mr. Wootor ed to it resu less than half ar in this city. Mo hroughout the correspondents hi Comdr. Albert C. Read of NC-4 As- signed to Duty in Capital. Comdr. Albert C. Read. who com- manded the NC-4 in 1919 on the famous transatlantic flight, is coming to Wash- ington on duty in the Bureau of Aero- nautics, Navy Department. He will be detached from the U. 8. 8. Saratoga, | where he has been executive officer since | May, 1929. Comdr. Read. one of the wuunmmi aviators in the naval service, has hhn: e x| ce. Mm: cea he was attached to the office of naval operations here, and later cruized to'cities on the Atlantie nsml’ rfi\ut coasts and up the Mississippi ver, Middleton Indicted. The police havi the man has been in Washington re- cently and they say he is only one of a score of enemies which Cunning- ham mode as a police “tipster.” Meanwhile Policeman Waliace J. Middleton, whom Cunningham impli- cated in a_ deathbed statement, was | indicted today on a charge of “hi- | jacking” a quantity of beer and ale from a speakeasy in the 1200 block of I street on May 8 Police last night arrested another man for interrogation in Cunningham's Geath—Albert Gordon, 25 years old, who admitted he had been drinking with Cunningham in a rpeakeasy May 18, several hours before the death of the informer. While authorities are_convinced Gor- éon knows nothing of the actual shoot- ing they believe he can give vital infor- mation of Cunningham's activities and assoctates Just prior to his death Intoxicants Described. In addition to the larceny of the al- oxicants the grand jury in its of Middleton charged him aking $22 in cash. an clectric fan fountain_pen belonging to Mil- udelevit. The indictment charged quor, supposed to have been taken the premises were broken into. 1 o'clock in the morning, was 6 | cartons of beer. each containing 24 bot- ! tles. and 9 sacks of Canadian ale, each 1ding 48 bott'es. The witnesses presented to the grand ¢ | jury late yesterday by Assistant United States Attorney William H. Collins. in 2ddition to_Yudelevit, were Charles F. Wilson, 1743 P street; Stella and Edna Bakowski, 1208 I street; Detective Sergt. Brodie and Flaherty and Police- man Mostyn MAN, 75, TRIES TO TAKE OWN LIFE WITH KNIFE Niece Finds Daniel Shelton in Cel- lar of Home With Throat and Wrists Cut. Daniel W. Shelton, 75 years old, of 1231 T street, southeast, is in a critical condition at Casuality Hospital self imposed wounds of the throat and wrists inflicted in an attempt to end his life late yesterday, according to police. Shelton had been in il health for the past three weeks, police were told. A niece, Mrs. Cora E. Murray, found Shelton sl in a chair in the base- ment.of his lying nearby when she returned from a shopping trip. A staff physician from Casualty Hospital and members of the fire rescue administered emer- gency trea the hospital. to help the idle. Drought loans will be collected from WITH HIS CABINET| | items administered by the department— | viding aid to stricken farmers and Jobs | including the $160,000,000 emer- | NAIRTY SHFTED N SUPRENE COURT Liberal Thought Group Rules' in Decisions Now—Case on Chain Tax Cited. BY MARK SULLIVAN. The decisions of the Supreme Court | handed down yesterday, and even more those handed down last week, reveal a {new line-up in that body. The most { conspicuous illustration of it is the de- cision which in effect permits Indiana, as well as any other Stat, to lay a graduated tax on chain stores. The | decision permits Indiana to set a tax of only $3 a year on an individually owned store, whereas on chain stores the tax rises in an increasing scale from $10 on each of the first 5 stores up to |525_each on stores in excesse of 20 This is cne of the farthest-reaching decisions_in the whole history of the jcourt. The consequences of the appli- cation of the new principle go to the very foundations of the American so- cial system. In quarters aware of the turning-point nature of this decision, it is sald, and it is undoubtediy true, that the court, as it was constituted two would never have decided S is way. The changed trend of majority thought in the court constitutes by far | the most important current news in Washington, The shift that has hap- pened in the balance of thought on the court has much more real weight than, for example, a transfer of power in Con- gress from Republican to Democratic, | or vice versa. “Liberals” Now Rule Court. The change in th> Supreme Court is | not. of course, to be described in thg words Democrat and Republican, but in those of, to use the words loosely, con- | servative and liberal. Up to about Jai uary of last vear, the court was divid into, again using th~ vords very loose- Iy, conservative ard three liberal. | Decision _after decision was handed down with, speaking rcughly. the con- servative six writing the majority opin- ion, while the liberal minority wrote dissents. With that condition axisting, two of the conservatives, Chief Justice Taft and Justice Sanford, disd during 1930 To fill their places President Hoover appointed as their successors the pres- ent Chief Justice, Charles E. Hughes, and Owen Roberts. It now turns out that Messrs. Hughes | and Roberts take prevailingly the lib- eral side. In consequence, the court now divides five liberal and four con- | scrvative. This was the division in the | | Indiana chain store tax case, the five liberals supporting the right of the| State to tax chain stores on an ascend- | ing scale, while the four conservatives | dissented. Speaking very loosely and | subject to much qualification, it may | be said that whereas two years ago the | conservatives wrote the majority opin- ’xvm. they now write the dissenting | ones. Three Groups on Bench. | Perhaps a more accurate spectrum of the present shades of thought in the | court would, speaking broadly, picture three groups. At what political termi- nology would call the extreme right are four conservatives, Justices Van De- vanter, Sutherland, McReynolds and Butler. At the extreme left are two, | Justices Louis D. Brandels and Oliver | | Wendell Holmes, called liberals in or- dinary terminology, especially by those who like their shade of thought, but, occasionally called radical by those who find it repugnant In the middle is a group clearly to be described, in reasonabl: use of the terminology.’ as liberal or progressive. | They are Chief Justice Hughes and WASHINGTON, no information that | R with | farmers next Fall when their crops are | harvested. States which have borrowed | from the $80,000.000 cmergency high- | way fund will repay the money over a | five-year period through deductions from their regular shares of Federal aid. | Cut Seen Difficuit. i After deducting extension service and | land grant college funds, between $40,- | 000,000 and $50,000.000 remain for the department’s actual expenses. Secre- | tary Hyde said attempts to reduce this would be extremely difficult unless serv- ices are restricted. The work accom- | plished by such agencies as the Weath- | er Bureau, he added, has been regarded | cur- | tailed. | A survey to determine to what use | abandoned Army posts could be put now | is in progress. Hyde feels, however, that no immediate saving could be ef- fected inasmuch as a slight saving iza be | would be eaten up by costs of moving | experiméntal stations from rented lands | to Government property 1 Special Excursion Rate PITTSBURGH $5-50 Detroit ..$11.50 Chicago, $15.50 St. Louis, $17.50 Cleveland, $8.50 One Way Baltimore $0.75 § Phila’phia 3.25 New York 5.25 Atlantic C. 4.25 richmond 3.00 4.00 %-Day A;l-[xpyenn our to New York. ! Times Square Hotel 317 Guaranteed Lowest Fares Everywhere Nevin Bus Lines 503 14th Street N.W. Phone ME. 4437 Trip 1.2 5.25 || 8.25| 1:25 e with a butcher knife | | d"rushed the man to | Justices Harlan F. Stone and Owen J. Roberts. uniform in all cases. Justice Roberts, with the four conservatives and enabled them to have | Hughes, Stone and Roberts, because of | their position in the middle and pos- sibly for some other reasons, kind of balance of power and for that reason may be sald, speaking loosely, to are.the newest members of the court. Messrs. The line-up, of course, is not | In the natural- | tion cases yesterday, for example, | usually liberal, ‘stood & majority. Justices hold a in a decisive position. The three Hughes and Roberts having Easy to Pay Monthily Amt.of Deposit Note For 12 Months $10 $15 $20 $25 $30 $45 $100 $500 $120 $180 $240 $300 $360 $540 Half Price Sale | of Brass Bronze Ebony Dutch Silver Glass Lamps Leather Goods Plated Ware Silver Jewelry To close stocks in departments which are being discontinued. Galt & Bro. Established 1802 Jewellers & Silversmiths 1107 Pennsylvania Ave. B C. TUESDAY, MAY .26, 1931 SUPREME COURT INVALIDATES LANGMUIR RADIO TUBE PATENT R. C. A. Receives Crushing Blow in Decision Favoring | De Forest Company. 1,400 Station Licenses Held | by Defeated Concern Jeop- ardized by New Ruling. BY ROBERT MACK. | Perhaps the most valuable of the| thousand or more patents that unite to| make radio, which might have meant| to its owners a most powerful radio | monopoly, today stands invalidated by the Supreme Court of the Unitedi States, | The Langmuir high vacuum tube— | the life-blood of modern radio and of | the miraculous electronics art—is sim- | ply a “scientific explanation” of old| processes and cannot be patented. the court has held. The decision. handed down Monday in the case of DeForest| Radio Co. against the General Electric Co., has been in litigation for nearly five years. Blow to R. C. A. It was another crushing blow for the Radio Corporation of America, cus todian of the pool of radio patents of General Electric, Westinghouse and | other R. C. A. associates, It follows the R. C. A’s defeat at the hands of| DeForest in the Supreme Court just a month ago in another tube case. in which the R. C. A. was held to have violated the anti-monopoly laws. ASs a result of the latter decision some 1,400 radio station licenses held by this com- pany and its subsidiaries legally are in jeopardy. The Langmuir patent is a process of been_appointed by President Hoover and Mr. Stone by President Coolidge. | Incidentally, it is an ronic fact that Messrs. Hughes and Stone, especially Hughes, were hotly denounced and their confirmation_opposed by self-designated Progressive Republicans and Democrats | |in the Senate, who expressed their dis- approval in the familiar phrases about “tools of Wall Street.” The Senate at- tack on Mr. Hughes was so violent as to be sensational The ascent of liberal thought into dominance over conservative emerges into notice just now because the court on three successive Mondays—last week this week and next week—is handing down an accumulation of important de- cisions. The cleavage between liberal and conservative and the dominance of the former appear particularly in two areas of decisions. One, speaking broadly, emphasizes human rights and constitutional guarantees to the indi- vidual, such as freedom of speech These human rights the liberals of the | court tend to protect or enlarge. The other group of decisions, again speak- g very roughly, tends to restrain pri- te property rights and to enlarge the powers of State governments in dealing with private property Of these decisions now being handed down in the clearing up of the year | work, by far the most fundamental is the one in the Indiana chain store tax case. Even to suggest the effect of this decision is beyond the scope of a brief | dispatch. Also any definition to the effect of the decision would be, of course, in part hypothetical and con- troversial. Perhaps it would be reasonably safe, to say that this decision, among many other far-reaching effects. opens the way for State governments, in laying taxes and for other purposes, to make, to a very greaf degree, a discrimination | between small businesses and big busi- | nesses, between one-man businesses and | multiple businesses and to deliberately foster the small business at the expense of the large one. However, if this decision is a8 epoch- making as much of the most thought- ful part of Washington considers it. the | complete exposition of its significance | will fill many a future book. ] (Copyright, 1931.) THE @ Hopbyy days a - The sun 15 coming out! season, months of raininess ‘are over! The spring gayer than ever ond reds, sparkiing greens, brilliant yellows . . and happy faces must go with them. frocks are gay * Take off your winter gloom. Toke away that posty look of too many away those fired lines on to your eyes. Your cheeks cre asking for that glow- ing color which your new frocks demand « Elizabeth Arden’s Anti will stimulate your circulation, a patting of Ardena Skin Tonic gives the pleasant tingle you have missed, not to mention the individual wants, « It is time to rejuvenate. You will feel it in the air, Some of it will reflect in your face. But don't wait hopefully for June to br You wont it now. And nature needs help to pay back o whole year's depression| These preparations are our Elizabeth Arden Salon, where a spe- cially trained Arden girl lecting the Arden cosmetics for Swummer s Street Floor. use.—Jeclleff ELIZABETH ARDE Washington : 1147 Connecticut Ave. | all tube-controlled devices and its new- | entitled in 2ddition to recover triple r 1 DR. LEE DE FOREST. tube evacuation making possible the re- markable results of present-day radio. It is the basis for the development of est offshoot, the electric-eye or photo- electric cell, has been called the closest approach to the human brain cell by| man. It is the heart of radio, of tele- vision, and of electrons generally, and is used in X-ray machines, for surgery, for levelling elevators at floors auto- matically and in a thousand other modern pursuits DeForest Right Uphled. Lee DeForest invented the first vacu- um tube, but the patent expired some six years ago. The court held that the | chief distinction between the Langmuir and the DeForest tube was in the higher vacuum of the latter, and that Lang- muir simply applied previous knowledge | to the art. which is unpatentable. The suit_originally was brought by General Electric against DeForest for alleged in- fringement of the Langmuir Patents. The Federal District Court at Wilming ton, Del., held the Langmuir patent in. valid and was sustained by the Circuit Court of Appeals at Philadelphia, only | to have the latter court reverse itself | later. DeForest then appealed to the United State Supreme Court, which now affirms the original opinion of the District Court. Independent tubz manufacturers, says Oswald F. Shuette, executive secretary | of the Radio Protective Association, who | has waged a relentless battle against R. C. A, Win a sweeping victory in the decision. ~ He declares that had the | Langmuir patent been sustained, every | manufacturer of high vacuum tubes of | every character “would be forced to pay 715 per cent tribute” to R. C. A. and its associates. Patents Invalid. Now about 15 tube manufacturers are understood to be licensed to use the Langmuir patents along with other| R. C. A. tube patents. Since the patent is held invalid, this licensing arrange- ment insofar as the Langmuir process is concerned, automatically is termi- nated. R. C. A. in all, controls ap- proximately 4,000 radio patents, of which the Langmuir process was held possibly the most valuable, “Out of about 25 radio tube patents on which the courts have now handed down_their decisions, every one has been held to be worthless,” Mr. Schuette said. “Yet the independent radio indus- try has spent mcre than $500,000 de- fending itself against these suits and 15 formerly independent tube companies have paid hundreds of thousands of dol- lars in royalties to escape further liti- gation. “As a result of the decision, these companies should not only recover the | royalties they have paid, but they are damages for all the injuries they have suffered. Already $50,000,000 worth of these triple damage suits have bee filed by tube and set manufacturers an moré are coming.” (Copyright. 1931) new CEES re here again Depressions of the past . bright blues days of indoors. Wipe d bring back the sparkle -Brown Spot Ointment special creams for those ing back your old self always on hand in will aid you in se- N © Blizabeth Arden, 1931 | Reed, New Britain, SPELLING CONTEST BEGUN IN MUSEUM Two Trophies and $2,500 Cash Await Champions Among 23 Bee Entrants. By the Assoclated Press. Two trophies and prizes totaling | $2,500 today waited award to the cham- | pions among 23 contestants in the sev- | enth annual National Spelling Bee | ‘The contest started in the auditorium | of the National Museum at noon and was expected to consume the entire afternoon. | The boy or girl who stood up longest | under the barrage of difficult words| was to receive $1,000 in cash, a trophy {for himself and one for his school. Prizes ranging from $500 to $25 were to go to each of the other contestants. Each entrant was sponsored by @ newspaper in his or her home State. | The contestants were: Catherine Lu cas, Akron, Ohio: Helen Gengler, Lau- reldale, N. J.: Maxson Hopkins, Batavia, | N. Y.. Elizabeth Doton, Pomfret, Vt.; Dorothy Greenwald, Muscatine, Iowa: Blanche Krell, Detroit; Geraldine | Young, Hartford, Conn.; Esther Chafetz, | West New York, N. J.: Joseph Dignan, | Louisville: Mary Scheidler, Millhousen, Ind.; Katherine Smith, Memphis: Beryl | Hardacker, Harwich, Mass.; Pauline | Conn.; Margaret Morrow, Omaha: Janet Brophy, Stir ling, N. J.; Mary Carter, Pownal, Me Irene Priller, Mount Morris, IIl.; Mar: Young, Gooding, Idaho; Nelda Mar- | chant, Midvale, Utah: Roland Light, Mishawaka, Ind; Aaron Butler, ir. Weir, Kans.; Charles Michel, Beilaire, Ohio; Ward Randall, White Hall, TiL. TWO WOMEN INJURED BY CAR AT CROSSING | Both Stepped ‘Out From Behind| Parked Car When Hit, | Police Told. Mrs. Mary 8. Vigderhouse, 38, of 1529 Upshur street, and Mrs. Mary Wolfe, 39, | of 1420 Varnum street, suffered cuts and bruises yesterday afternoon when they were knocked down by an sauto while crossing Sixtetnth and Varnum streets. They were treated at Garfleld | Hospital. | Police were told the women stepped from behind a parked machine and were struck by a car operated by Rath- bone T. Lallande, 50 years old, of the | 2600 block Adams Mill road. Thrown against the side of a street car when it came to a sudden halt, Miss | Laura J. Graddick, 69, of 3320 Sixteenth | street. a Treasury Department clerk, re- ceived a fractured knee yesterday after- noon. She was taken to Emergency ! Hospital HOOVERS ATTEND TITANIC UNVEILING flStimson Is Chairman at Ded- ication of Memorial to Dead of Shipwreck. President and Mrs. Hoover arranged to attend the unveiling of the Titanic Memorial, at the foot of New Hampshire avenue on the banks of the Potomac River, this afternoon, in the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway. With the ceremony scheduled to com- mence at 4:30 o'clock, Lieut. Col U, S. Grant, 3d, director of public buildings and public parks, prepared to present Secretary Stimson as chalrman of the occasion. The principal address will be delivered by Representative Robert Luce, Republican, of Massachusetts, chairman of the House Committee on the Library. Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington, will pronounce the in- vocation. Mrs. William Howard Taft will unveil the memorial, and the Ma- rine Band will render “The Star Span- gled Banner.” Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, the sculptress of the memorial, which ex- hibits & figure emblematic of the spirit of sacrifice, will be introduced to the assembly. Mrs. John Hays Hammond, chairman of the Women's Titanic M morial Association, which has super- vised the creation of the memorial, is scheduled to present the statue to the Republic. Following the address of Representa- tive Luce the Marine Band will play “America” and Mrs. Robert S. Chew and Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, jr., will present wreaths. Benediction will be pronounced by Rabbi Abram Simon. The playing of “Taps” will close the program. e memorial bears this inseription: “To the brave men who perished in the wreck of the Titanic April 15, 1912. They gave their lives that women and children might be saved. Erected by the Women of America.” D ROOSEVELT BOOMED Campaign Clubs to Be Organized Throughout Western States. SAN FRANCISCO, May 26 (#).— Morris Morgenstern, Cleveland attorney. arrived here yesterday and announced he would crganize Franklin D. Roosevelt for President clubs throughout Cali- fornia and other Western States. Morgenstern said Roosevelt for Presi- dent clubs will be organized soon in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and other cities. @ Closing out our New Yerx Avenue Store brings you these low prices at the start of the season! New 1931 $2.50 & $3 STRAWS @ Style plus quality at savings @ Stocks are new, sizes complete @ On sale at all three stores and $2 Spri any Summer CAPS ‘1 All-wool fabrics! Rubber visor! Pure 2 leather sweatband! m. 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