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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO 5 D. C., JULY 11930 OFF YEAR FOR MARRIAGE MERCHANT MARlNE BUT GRETNA GREENS KEPT BUSY SHUWS EXPANSIUN St. Charles County, Mo., Says Lack of Parking Space in St. Louis Drove - ARKAKSASBANKER SCULTYINFRAD | A, B. Banks, Head of Closed 71 NSSOMARES * INMEDEALGLASS Scenes a_t_ Fourth of July Fetes DAY 1S CELEBRATED AT TAKOMA PARK AND TAFT CENTERS. 18 Priests and Two Nuns Get Rudimentary Courses at Georgetown. — i A class of 19 Catholic, priests and | # nuns, destined for missionary work | in distant posts throughout the world, | are receiving a month of intensive | training at Georgetown University Hos- pital in the practical phases of medi- cal. surgical and dental first aid. The course, which opened July 1, is & service which Georgetown University Jms been rendering for a .number of years for the benefit of missionaries Who must spend years in the Far East, the tropics and other littte known posts far removed from any medical assist- ance. With 10 members of the Medi- cal and Dental School faculties volun- teering as instructors, the missionaries | are being taught how to mend broken{ bones, to combat the ravages of tropi-{ cal diseases, render dental first aid and | ;.hr principles of hygiene and sanita- ion. Guests of University. During their stay at Georgetown the Ppriests are the guests of the university | and are quartered and boarded at the college. The two nuns, who are to go' into the'interior of China, are among' the most enthusiastic members of this | medical class. They are from Mary- | knoll, N. Y. | Rev, John L. Gipprich, 8. J., regent of the Georgetown Medical and Dental Schools, is in direct charge of the post. Training in medical first aid given other missionaries in recent years. he said, Tas proved invaluable to them after reaching their distant posts. There they combine the duties of doctor and surgeon with that of spiritual adviser, and on more than one occasion the application of sanitation rules in tropi- cal posts has prevented the spread of epidemics, with a resultant saving of many lives. Along with first-aid prin- ciples, the missionaries are being taught the rudiments of medicine. Members of Faculty. : The faculty members and the eourses assigned to them are as follows: Dr. John F. Brazinsky, dental first aid; Dr. Leo B. Norris, diagnosis; Dr. Michael F. Kennedy. ear, nose and throat; Dr. Edward J. Grass, first ald; Dr. Edward Larkin, fractures and dislocations; Dr. Mario Mollari, sanitation’ and hygiene; Dr. Russell J. Fields, skin diseases; Dr. Nelson Gapen, therapeutics and materia medica; Dr. James R. Costello, toxicol- ogy. and Dr. Eugene R. Whitmore. The priests who are receiving this training are from various missionary orders in different sections of the coun- try. The course ends on July 31, and until then is still open to any priest who wishes to receive the instruction. There is no charge. FIREWORKS CROWD €onstitution Avenue Proves Value in Orderly Departure of Large Throng. The enormous crowd moved out of the Monument lot steadily and without incident last night after the fireworks display closed at 9:20 o'clock. Thousands walked quietly and un- hurriedly as the show was over, in all directions. to their automobiles and street cars. The recently increased width of Con- stitution avenue, which has just been opened to traffic between Fourteenth street and Virginia avenue, proved a big help in moving the vehicular traf- fic. It was only 20 minutes later, +9:40 o'clock, that the crowd had suf- ficiently cleared out to open the road- ways of the mall leading up to the fire- works ground itself, to automobiles. Extra street cars were provided by the railway companies to accommodate the crowd. Police had no difficulty directing the traffic throughout the area and no traffic accidents were reported. EDUCATORS CLOSE RECORD CONVENTION Attendance Doubled Over Last Year—Atlantic City Selected for 1932 Meeting. B the Associated Pross. 108 ANGFELES, July 4.—Having se- mcted Atlantic City, N. J., for their 1932 meeting, teachers and school offi- cials attending the National Educa- tional Association Convention here wer> en route to their homes or on vacation trips today. ‘Willis A. Sutton. retiring president. est- mated 22.000 persons were here for the sixty-ninth annual meeting. This is more than twice the number attending any previous convention, he said. ‘The board of directors adopted & resolution commending the stand of Gov. Richard J. Jussell of Georgia, in declaring _2gainst proposals made in Georgia, that would effect drastic cuts in educational appropriations. FOUR BOYS IMPLICATED | IN THEFT OF FIREARMS| Police Charge Youths Took Part' in Robbery of Store Entered | Four Times Recently. Pour colored boys, held by police | pending an investigation of several rob- | beries, were reported today to have ad- mitted implication in the robbery of the | store of Harry Goldman, 1317 Seventh | street. The store was looted four times | during the past few months, pistols and | rifles being stolen. The boys were booked as Leon H. SBtewart, 13, and his brother Frances, 14, of 715 Rhode Island avenue; Reg- inald Daniel Bush, 13, of 1856 Eighth street and Robert Henry Gray, 16, of 306 P street. Detectives R. J. Cox and L. M. Wilson arrested the boys and recovered several of the pistols that had been sold. They i have located the rifles and expect to | recover them. FARM METHOD TO SHIFT ‘WINNIPEG, July 4 ()—Mixed farm- | ing on a large scale is expected to fol- low the arrival here during the Sum- mer of & number of farmers from Min- nesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin under a colonization scheme sponsored by a Minneapolis syndicate. The syndicate, through ‘Winnij agent, has purchased 30,000 acres of farm lands in the Lakeview district, north of Portage La Prairie, about 75 miles to the northwest of Winnipeg, and is negotiating for another 30,000 actes in the province, though its loca- tion has not been disclosed. The vanguard of the American set- tlers is expected to arrive in the Lake- view district soon. Hungarian Vote Backs Regime. BUDAPEST, Hungary, July 4 (#).— Pinal efection returns in the voting for the Chamber of Deputies give the gov- em;;nt parties 177 seats out of a total of 3 5 o 1 | | | j ‘Washington for the camp on July 13. Upper: School children of Takoma | Park take part in holiday parade. Lower: Troop 12 of the Boy Scouts march by reviewing stand at the new Taft Recreation Center, in Woodridge section. D.£. GUARD RIFLE TEAMS SET RECORD| High Score of 784 Made by Three Groups at Spring Lake, N. J. Special Dispatch to The Star. SPRING LAKE, N. J, July 4 —Three District of Columbia National Guard rifle teams today broke the course rec- ord of 780 points out of a possible 800 to win first, second and fourth places from 33 entries in the two-man-team match of the Eastern small-bore tour- nament. First Lieut. Walter R. Stokes, medical detachment, 121st Engineers, and Sergt. Theodore L. Harrell, ordnance depart- ment, State detachment, scored 394 and 390, respectively, for their record 784 total. Three teams shot a 783 tally, that consisting of Capt. Clarence S. Shield, Company E, 121st Engineers, who made 392 points out of a possible 400, and Staff Sergt. Alex J. Thill, ord- nance department, State detachment, 391 being given second place because of a higher team score at the 200-yard stage. W. A. Seaver, with a 396, and L. E. Bittner, with 387, who represented Bear | Rock Rifle Club of Allentown, Pa., though tied in the aggregate at both the 100 and 200 yard stages with Pirst Lieut. Thaddeus A. Riley, headquarters, 121st Engineers, 393, and Capt. Just C. Jensen, ordnance department, State | staff, 390, were given third place over | the local Guardsmen because a 197 | score at the 200-yard range by Seaver was higher than either of the 194s col- lected by Riley and Jensen. The match | comprised 2 sighting and 20 record | shots by each individual at each of the | 2-inch 100-yard and 4-inch 200-yard | bull's-eyes. | Samuel Tekulsky, Roosevelt Rifle Club, | New York City, won the Spencer match | and Prazee Cup, with 193 points out of | a possible 200. Two District of Colum- | bia Militia experts finished in the | money. Staff Sergt. A. J. Thill getting | eighth prize, with 194, and Lieut. W. R. | Stokes, fifteenth, with 193. | HUGE BASE BALL POOL | LANDS 18 MEN IN JAIL New York P:orlirce Sa; ';'icketx Werej Also Being Printed for Fake Sweepstakes. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 4—Police today declared they had broken up the larg- est base ball pool and sweepstakes ring in the city. Eighteen men, charged wiih being the principals, agents and em- | ployes of the ring which was believed | to have handled about $25.000 a day, | were taken before a magistrate on gam- | bling charges. | Detective said they found thousands of base ball pool tickets in the three- room flat which they raided. In an- other apartment, opening upon the first | and with a concealed entrance, they sald they found sweepstakes tickets, la- beled $1 each. for an “all-American | company futurity.” ‘The tickets indicated the drawing was for September 16, under supervision of “The Pred. S. Pennington Post 1773, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Las Vegas, Nev." It was for a race at Belmont Park September 19. The entire project was a fraud, the police declared. | A printing shop was operating at top | speed turning out tickets. Two prisoners were released in $2,500 bond until Monday. the others paroled on gambling and bookmaking charges. | LOVING CUP TO BE GIVEN T0 HONOR BOY AT CAMP| Bronze Medal Also to Be Awarded Winner at Club's Va- cation Center. ‘The honor boy at Camp Reeder, where members of the Boys Club spend their Summer vacations, will be awarded a loving cup presented by Pearson & Crain, jewelers, it was announced yes. terday. i If the same boy wins it twice in suc- | cession or two years in three it will be- come his permanent possession. . A bronze medal will be presented the win- ner each year. It was also announced that Frenk H. Edmonds has given a large float to the camp. He has also donated two loving cups, to be awarded the best swimmers in_the junior and senior classes. The second group of boys will leave TRICK THEFT CHARGED Trio Are Blamed for Loss in Small Change Racket. ‘Three men who gave their names and address as Charles D. Bradshaw, Scott J. Tucker and Benhart Tucker of 917 Twelfth street, today were charged with “larceny by trick” after their arrests on a complaint made by Georgetown filling station operators. Seventh precinct police chlrrd the men with having worked a small change racket on the stations. Only a small amount of money was reported to have been lost. The three were arrested when one station operator obtained the tag num- ?dr ‘:1 the machine in which they were 8. R RS Piano Manufacturer Dies. ST. , Germany, July 4 (®). —c-m. retlredyhe:fi’ of the piano concern bear his name, died today at the age of 11, From the Reviews lfld NGW! 0{ Barrymore and Shearer Make Much of “A Free Soul” IS8 SHEARER'S new film Yet it i8 one of the most absorbing that this con- istently excellent actress Soul,” it began its local career yes- terday at the Columbia, and should remain there until the Summer well gotten over their first bloom. more’s perform- ance is a clever although rays is one of the most sordid- seen on The plot, too, is full of melodramatic thunder. which means strike home. But un- Norma Shearer, ~ der the fine Director Clarence Brown, and by the adaptation of some of the actors, one sits through most of it with in- may be considerably stirred by the force of the climax. The greatesi disappointment is excellent actors on the stage today. should seem so absolutely colorless. Before the footlights Mr. Howard screen seems to melt his talents to a minimum—and while he is aver- agely good, he is not by any means the upshot of the story all the more surprising—for Mr. Howard suddenly acquires a good deal of character man who had insulted his (How- ard’s) intended wife. Up until then one didn’t suspect that Mr. Howard completely fanciful lover, he had made love to Miss Shearer with a gentle fire that didn’'t seem capable another man's brains out. When the brains had finally been blown out he seemed like a pretty good ‘Without benefit of her usual co- lossal wardrobe and with little of the wildfire spirits of amnes hat Miss sume, she is seen as the daughter of a haughty inebriate who falls in love with a gangster and then de- tippling parent finds that his gal loves the sleek-haired proprietor of a fashionable gambling he slap him in the face. Whereupon she repents and he repents and they decide to go out to the open and forget their mutual habits. ‘The father, a clever lawyer in his sober moments, however, goes back belongs to Mr. Barrymore. has appeared in. Entitled “A Free crocuses have Lionel Barry- character the screen doesn't by any guidance of terest, and in the final sequences one that Leslie Howard, one of the very is an intense and vital actor. The what he should be. This fact makes and shoots, without any fear, the had that much blood in him. A of attaining force enough to_ blow fellow—but not up until then. Shearer is oftentimes made to as- clines to marry him. When her Is her such names as makes her spaces, there to breathe deep of ozone to his cups as soon as the aroma of the East is upon him again, and * Miss Shearer, too, flies into the arms of her loving but thundering lover. Suddenly she discovers that he is “chea Suddenly he finds t! she doesn’t mean to marry him. ‘Then—presto—her lover ' comes to her rescue and a few minutes later & bullet ends the battling gangster’: life. Sorrow, imprisonment, shame, and then—well, it comes out all right—thanks to Mr. Barrymore, who is 50 good in the film, as is Miss Shearer ( icularly at the scene of the trial) and Clarke Gable as the Romeo whose methods came a trifie too brusque. Good to the last drop—or almost— even if you don't believe all the hokum. And even then pretty . “Men of the Sky” Opens at ‘the Metropolitan. NTRIGUE behind the lines of war, the daring life of a spy and the pénalty that he has to pay when caught, is the substance of “Men of the Sky.” current at the Metropoli- tan. The title of this to be misleading, for the airplane has little to do with the story. Jack Whiting, late of “America’s Sweetheart,” and Irene Delroy have the leading roles, those of the boy and girl wi romance is shattered by the outbreak of the war. Miss Delroy as the lovely Madelene Au- bert, daughter of Dr. Aubert, an be- spy as role of & in Caught in the web of secret artli= | film proves uw'.ga lighter, more carefree Front Row Washindt_cm.s Theaters. fices, she is forced to forsake her love for (Jack Whiting) and stand with her father for service in the Prench Intelligence, while Jack, mis- understanding her motives, in des- peration joins the French Air Force. His first assignment is to fly a mem- ber of the Prench secret service into Germany for the purpose of com- municating with operative M-3, Having gotten behind the lines the agent is killed and Ames takes his commission in hand. Following in- structions to enter the villa if he hears soft, slow music, he finds M-3 is none cther than Madelene Au- bert. On his second trip, after his request that he may become an agent was granted, he finds the Ger- man intelligence has prepared a re- ception for him and he is unavoid- ably betrayed by Madelene. In the party of German officers is one Eric von Coberg, at one time a tennis opponent and great friend of Jack. In spite of the influence of von Co- berg and a kindly German colonel, the two have to pay the price of death, to which they go together fearlessly. ‘Man Eaters.” the eleventh of the 'Adventures in Africa” series, a comedy and a Graham McNamee Universal Newsreel complete the bill. J.N.H. “I Take This Woman,” New Feature at Palace. DMIRERS of Gary Cooper will find him with more of a tired look, gaunter, and given less to & smile, ih his new film “I Take This ‘Woman,” now current at the Palace. It is the kind of role, however, a rough, rugged, roving role, which al- lows him the meticulous drawl and the “Virginian™ accent which tossed him so high in cinema favor. which suits him best, and at yesterday's first showing the audible sighs of pleasure, from the female legions in- dicated that he was being muchly appreclated—and how! Most to be wondered at is how cadaverous Mr. Cooper looks in heavy cotton pajamas and how odd he looks when he wakes up in the morning. (The description of this scene will have to stop here, but it is the one which caused the most murmurings yesterday.) He and Carol Lombard spending a Winter in the wooly west (everything seems to be West this week around town) are as strange and handsome a couple as one will find happily (cinematically) married anywhere —even though a ct had to come and live with them and Miss Lom- bard eventually gave up her hus- md and ran back home in the . Not much original about this. But it is all done in a carefree way— rising neither particularly to one thing or another. It is the old “Great Divide” story of a debutante who married her father's ranchman in a romantic moment, and then had plenty of time to get tired of him afterwards. In the end, al- though a divorce looms in the off- ing and although wine, song and other men come back into her life, the girl realizes what her “man” means to her. 8o she follows him into. the very teeth of a circus, watches him ride an exciting “ro- deo” ride and then, when he takes & tumble, convinces him that she would like to nurse him back to health, happiness and their little home in ‘West. . Mr. Cooper will please the ladies in this and Miss Lombard, the gentlemen—the rest of the actors being pretty generally dreadful. On the stage Dave Schooler plays classical music, with the orchestra hobbling along in the background; the Phelps Twins sing prettily and look even better; the Swifts show zou the latest impossible steps, and the Three Jacks (maybe these “threes” have been reversed) do about the cleverest juggling ever seen on these boards. Then there are 32 young ladies who do a splen- did dance to “When the Night Is Young” and an assortment of news- reels, etc, to round out two hoy 3 urs”siesta. §% 5 POLICE USE E)n AERIAL Results of Schmeling Fight. Bcfi ling-Stribli; e‘t mel =1 u-nenngr the Mflu Ins) returns of the to the head- pection i the Three - I M. dheovml ‘wastebasket. New Trade Route Map Indi- cates Growth of U. S. Shipping'Since War. By the Assoclated Press. A marked expansion of the American | G! merchant marine in the last dozen years was noted yesterday by the Shipping S mew trad new trade route map prepared by the board’s Bureau of Research was cited to show that American flag lines now “have sailings from 16 Atlantic|the Coast ports, 18 Gulf ports and 29 Pa- cific ports,” reaching ‘“practically every important forelgn and non-contiguous port in the world.” Eleven Before World War. ‘This was contrasted with the situa- tion at the ing of the World) ‘War, when vessels “flying the Stars and Stripes had almost disappeared from the high seas.” Of 40 foreign ports enumerated as having from 5 to 15 American flag services today, the statement said only 11 had any o lar service prior to th: World War. “In those days,” the statement said, “an American traveler or shipper had but to point to the lack of American flag services for a valid excuse for the use of vessels of other nationalities. But this condition has changed. 75 From New York. “From New York, our largest port in point of foreign trade and shipping, no less than 42 American flag lines operate a total of 75 services. “On the Pacific Coast, Los Angeles and San Francisco each have 32 American flag lines; Seattle, 18; Tacoma, 15 Portland, Oreg., 10; Anacortes, Wash., 7, Astoria, Oreg. and Everett, Wash, 6 each; Bellingham, Wash., 5; Grays Harbor, Longview, Port Ludlow, Wash., and San Diego, Calif., 4 each, while several others have from 1 to 3 services each. Philadelphia has 26, Boston 17 and Portland, Mr., 8. JUDGE HITS EVIDENCE IN RUM RING TRIALS Says It Is Not Substantial Enough. Prosecutor Says He Can Prove Case. By the Associated Press NEWARK, N. J., July 4—Pederal Judge J. Lyles Glenn said yest:rday evi- denec presentsd during the first two weeks of trial of 37 men indicted as members of the Atlantic Highlands rum syndicate was “not substantial” enough for a jury to convict the defendants. “The Government has produced evi- dence that certain yachts and trucks dr owned by a few of the delendants were used in some business or other,” Judge Glenn said. “But in not one instance has any evidence been produced that either the yacht or truck carried one bottle of liquor. The Government should attempt to prove one of the 36 overt acts against the defendants.” The judge's declaration brought from | Assistant District Attorney Leslie Sal- ter the statement that “the court seems to be pulling one way and we se:m to be pulling another.” “We are attempting to prove and eventually will prove,” Salter said, “that all the contact boats and trucks were us=d by these defendants in the alleged effort to violate the prohibition law.” NEW TOOLS OF SCIENCE TOPIC FOR DISCUSSION Symposium at Buffalo August 31 Planned to Let Chemists Xnow Latest Discoveries. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 4—New tools of science will be discussed at a sympo- sium of the American Chemical Society at_Buffalo, August 31. In announcing this today, Prof. Ernest H. Huntress of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said scientific discoveries have come so rapidly that it 15 difficult for the workers in any one field to keep adequately in touch with the progress of the others. The symposium is planned to bridge this hiatus, to let chemists know what's new in their own science. Among the tools will be the instruments used to measure radiation and pry into the structure of atoms, catalysts, distilla- tion, high pressures and high tempera- tures, microscopes and the whirling apparatus called the centrifuge, Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will preside at this symposium, —_— ALABAMA POLITICIAN DIES OF HEART ATTACK L. B. Musgrove, 74, Twice Sought Seat in Senate From Native State. By the Associated Press, JASPER, Ala, July 4—L. B. Mus- grove, 74, prominent Alabama politi- clan, mining operator and newspaper publisher, was found dead in bed at his ‘home here early tday. Death was attributed to a heart attack. Musgrove twice sought a seat in the United States Senate, opposing the late Oscar W. Underwood in 1920 and Sen- ators Hugo Black and John Bankhead in the 1926 Democratic primary. He also was one of the nrlnclg;; own- ers of the Deep Water Coal & n Co., one of the largest coal and iron com- panies in the State, and for years pub- lished the Mountain Eagle, a weekly e. Ml'lfmmw his races for the Sen- ate, Musgrove sought in 1924 the back- ing of the Alabama Democratic dele- gation for the presidency in opposition to Underwood. HITLER GROUP RAIDED Munich Police Occupy Headquar- ters of Party. MUNICH, Germany, July 4 (A).— Adolf Hitler's party headquarters, thé palatial “Brown House,” was occupled today by the Bavarian state police. All National Socialist members wearing their brown shirt regalia in defiance of the ban on such uniforms were taken to a police station. After their names and addresses were taken they were re- The Munich police e chief has placed & on e pul streets a ban on wearing R belonged to uniform, dress or even cating. that the wearers political organizations. HONORED IN ENGLAND L BRI Wastebasket Employed to Tune In San Antonio Girl, on Good-Will Tour, Serves for Il Mayoress. land, July 4 (#)—Miss RD, Eng! h bt Ruth Eldridge of San Tex., party of 11 American bnzl ‘member uo! L) visit on & et today nad ‘honor |0’'NEIL HOLDS NAVY | Couples By the Associated Pres Marriage had an off with little improvement fore 1932, but atill Cupid f the grass of 's year in 1930, froicked over ked over s country’s 49 Gretna reens. Forty-eight of them managed to keep up to Census Bureau standard for the Gretna Green status—a ma rate three times as great as the in which they lle—in 1930 stal ‘now nearly comj . One was Miss Alice V. Hagan, marriage and divorce statisticlan, who has kept & close check on Gretna Greens, and how they got that . has roughly classified them into marriage centers of sentiment, of enterprise, of exigency, | and of convenience. Little Brown Church. An outstanding example of the sen- timental Gretna Green is Chickasaw County, Towa, where a choir sings, “Oh, Come, Come, Come, Come, Come to the Church in the Wildwood,” and the couples do come to tell ever after they were joined in “The Little Brown Church in the Vale.” Chickasaw's m‘l” rose from 716 in 1929 to 836 to|might have gone to Cecil County. There. ing judge” went the credit for the Gretna Greens of enterprise, for Clark County, Ind, there was reported “an extensive marriage parlor business at Jeffersonville,” mostly couples from Lo Bad s “miareyibe oages Sty " a ng ge,” friei to New Orleans elopers, Kent caunt): Md., kept its mharriage license office open after hours, winning some of the wedding emoluments which otherwise Liberty County, Mo., encouraged bride- | grooms to “enjoy ‘one_more day of | liberty and then honeyrhoon in Excel- | sior Springs.” New England Exception. To- increasingly stringent marriage laws, all the Gretna Greens of exigency were ascribed. Only in the New Eng- | land States, Miss Hagar said, were the laws requiring posting of marriage in- tentions observed without some Gretna | Green overflow in a neighboring State. | Smooth roads for motoring couples | were counted a considerable factor in | building up the Gretna Greens of con- | venience—"just a nice auto ride” from | some large city being a reason often | given by county officers for marriage totals out of proportion to the size of a | n Sentimental also was the appeal of |tow: Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio, ‘a beautiful place to get To those much-publicized characters, “the marrying parson” and “the marry- | the St. Louis City Hall. Unique, however, was the explana- tion of St. Charles County, Mo., which | sald they got their couples because | there was no place to park in front of | BRAZL DEDICATES .. AWVZADE BFT Nation’s President and Am- bassador Morgan Attend Ceremonies. By the Associated Press. RIO DE JANEIRO, July 4.—Presi- dent Getulio Vargas and Ambassador Edwin V. Morgan today attended the dedication of the “Amizade” or friend- | ship monument presented to Brazil by the people of the United States through | the offices of the American Chamber of Commerce of Rio de Janeiro. Bright Winter sunshine bathed the American and Brazilian colors and brightened the uniforms of Boy Scouts and the blue skirts and whitz blouses of thousands of the schoolgiris. A | Brazillan army battalion was in full ess. Richard P. Momsen delivered an ad- dress in behalf of the Am:rican Cham- | ber of Commerce, while Emundo de | Miranda Jordao replied in behalf of the Centro Carioca. ‘Today's dedication was part of the Fourth of July program of th= American colony. The statue, in marble form. was | presented to Erazil at the time of its centennary in 1922 by Charles Evans Hughes, and accepted by the then Mayor Carlos ' Sampaio. - Months later the statue itself arrived in Brazil, but owing to a difference of opinion as to where it | should be s<t it had lain in storage un- til recently when the site vas fixed. The | base is carved from Brazilian granits. The statue repres:nts a woman and is 26 feet high. In one hand she holds olive branch and in the other clasps the entwined flags of the Unit'd States and Brazil. On the base is a plaque with busts of Washington and Nose Bonifacio, who is considered the father of the Brazilian republic. NEGLECT IS DANGER Commander of American Legion Classes Ultra-Pacifists in Three Groups. By the Associated Pre: MURPHY, N. C. July 4—Americ in neglecting to build up its Nav; gambling with the security of its citi- zens, Ralph A. O'Neil, national com mander of the American Legion, told gathering of Legionnaires from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee here today. “Permanent peace has attracted a large portion of the energy of Legion patriotism—the patriotism of men whe abhor war from personal experience— but the time kas come when the pacifis element in America must be scotched in its efforts to strip the Nation of its defensive forces,” the speaker said. The dangers of ultra-pacifism the na- tional commander classified in three groups. | “The first,” he said, “consists of a/| comparatively few Communists from the steppes of Russia, well supplied with mone: Placed in the second group were | those Americans who profess to belleve | complete disarmament will mean per-| manent peace. | The third group he called the more | dangerous because “by ‘continual objec tions of necéssary expenditures for ade- quate national ~defense, they would | weaken our national defense structure to such an extent that, although the | skeleton would remain, a new body | would have to be built after an emer- gency had burst ypon us. | MAJ. FRANCO DECLARES | CHARGES ARE FANTASTIC| Writes President Zamora Protest-| ing Accusations Growing Out of Uprising. By the Asosciated Press. MADRID, July —Maj. Ramon Franco, Pablo Rada and other members of the Republican Revolutionary party, have written President -Alcala Zamora protesting charges made against them In connection with the recent uprising at the Tablada Airdrome, in Seville. The letter, which was signed oy Franco, nl:ll t::dmugmz ‘were “f-‘:\ tastic” an greatly damaged candidacy as deputy for Seville. Franco, according to the latest election returns. was defeated in Seville, but was elected in Barcelona. “If the accusations inst us are true” the letter read, “then we should be l.m:rluned If not, the government should quickly annul the Seville elec- tion because of unjustified coercion by the military forces.” Franco_bitterly attacked Minister of Interior Maura, whom he blamed for his predicament. e RIGH? RETURN IS SEEN MOSCOW, July 4 (#).—The prospect that Kulaks who u“r: expelled tz;:: their village communities and ved % :;l'x:lr franchise wmw&c the! ;.'Illvll restored was today a decree issued by the Cen Execu Comnmittee, * o i INJURED IN COLLISION Car and Auto Crash. Miss Elizabeth Brady, 20, of 3906 Huntington street, slightly injured | last night when an automobile in which | she was riding collided with a street car at Massachusetts avenue and G strest. e was removed to Emergen, b pital for treatment. Anna lfiaug geo;- nett, 19, of the Chastleton Apartments, | who was driving the automobil o le, escaped i Trust Company, Sentenced to Year in Prison. By the Associated Press. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., July 4—A. B. Banks, president of the closed American Exchange Trust Co. of Little Rock and until a few months ago one of Arkansa. foremost financiers, was convicted to- day of acceptirg a deposit in_ an in- solvent bank. The jury fixed his sen- tence at one year in prison. Banks went on trial a week ago. The charge was that he assented to acceps- ance of a $672 deposit from Mrs. Lillie Rothschild in the American Exchange Trust Co., last November 15, the day before the bank closad. The closing of the bank was followed by the failure of more than 40 other banks in Arkansas in which Mr. Banks was interested, and likewise resulted i the collapse of his insurance companies. Faces Second Count. Mr. Banks' bond of $5000 was al- lowed to stand, pending an appeal to the State Supreme Court. Four other officlals of the closed bank were indicted with Banks. He was the first to be tried. He also is under a similar indictment at Osceola, growing out of the failure of a bank there of which he was president. Beginning his business career with & small insurance agency at Fordyce, Ark, 38 years ago, Banks gradually branched out into banking as well as insurance, and became head of a big insurance’ banking group. Blames Caldwell Failure. He founded the Home Insurance |Miss Elizabeth Brady Victim of | Companies of Arkansas, which were carried under with the collapse of his banking interests last November. On the witness stand yesterday, Banks attributed the run on the American Exchange Trust Co. to the interests which Caldwell & Co., investment house of Tennessee, held in it. He asserted the failure of the Tennessee concern wiped away the depositors’ confidence. Caldwell & Co., in 1929, purchased & large stock ownership in the American Exchange Trust Co., and also control- ling interest in the Home Insurance es of Arkanasas. WHERE GOOD FURNITURE COSTS YOU LESS W orthwhile REDUCTIONS! On Good July—and _housecleaning time at the WRIGHT Co.—an event that pro- vides unlimited opportunities for sav- ings on GOOD Furniture—all cos and former prices have been uttterly disregarded—we must clear our floors. Prices that Mean immediate DISPOSAL Check every item! b et B (1) $125 2-pc. Bed-Daven Velour Upholstered. (1) $185 3-pc. Upholstered Suite Covered All Over in Rich Mohair—A Real Value. (4) $195 4-pc. Bed Room Suites 3 in Walnut—1 in Maple. (3) $18 Gate-leg Tables: - Mahogany Finished. (11) $2.95 Argentine Fibre Rugs...... 36x72, (1) $34.50 4-ft. Box Spring. Damask Covered. (20) $4.95 Large Maple (1) $85 6-pc. Dinette Suite. ....... Antique Maple Finish, (2) $55 3-pc. Fibre Suites. ........ Cretonne Upholstered. (5) $15 Double-deck Coil Springs. .. All Sizes. (9) $34.50 Inner-spring Damask Covering. Furniture \ Close-out Prices on All Azcumulated Floor Samples, Odd Pieces, Discontinued Numbers, Slightly Marred Pieces s port Suite $69,5() - $90Q.50 $1.95 515 Porch Rockers $3.35 . $7.75 Mattresses. (6) $4.50 Steel-frame Lawn Benches. $2,98 (8) $9.95 Ladder-back Chairs. .. Fibre Rush Se (1) $29.50 Simmons D’ble Day Bed Windsor Ends (3) $15 Nursery Chest Enameled Finished. (3) $24 Cogswell Chairs.......... § Choice of Tapestry of Jacquard Upholstery— . Graceful (2) $16.50 Inner-coil Mattresses. . . . Real Sleeping Comfort—Nati (6) $35 Sets of Dining Room Chairs Walnut—1 Arm—58 Side Chairs. (7) Baby High Chairs 53 o o) Enamet. Finish With Metal Tray. . $7.25 $14.95 $7.50 14% - $Q.95 $17-50 7WRIGHT= 905 7th St. N of Drawers. .. onally Advertised.