Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1931, Page 29

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 29, 1931—PART ONE. c=3 |TIBET EXPLORERS BLESSED AS THEY START ARDUOUS TRIP D O, YORKTOWN VICTORY in the | December 13, as that chosen by the| With their bicycles stacked against Gen. | American Congre: | the church wells, 400 cyclists, including for Oc- | - - many girls in shorts, attended a serv- services | south Africa shipped 143 bales of |ice at St. Ann's Church, Manchester, i (R ith u;‘?;: ostrich feathers to the United States in ‘gngiand. before starting on their Sun- seriousnes and gra f this year. ay run. of heart which ihe recognition of such | e third quarter of iy . reiterated and astonishing interposition of Providence demands of us.” i bers of the diplomatic corps In Wash- | journed to offer thanks to God }ington. Dutch Church in_Philadelphia. Most Rev. Pletro Fumasoni-Biondi, | Washington in “After Order: apostolic delegate to the United States, | tober 20. will intone a psalm Te Deum at the| | chapel exercises at 9 o'clock in the | evening. Since the fifth century Te Deum has been the Thanksgiving hymn of the church and on the occasion in PROBE OF ACTOR'S | DEATH CNTNUES Police Await Toxicologist’s Report on Findings in Robert Ames Case. and screen Meanwhile they investigated the 42- old actor’s affairs of the heart and is marital history, and sought to learn whether one of his four ormer wives had an engagement with him Thanks- giving night, as he had told a friend Ames' body was found by a maid in his Park Avenue Hotel suite late yes- terday. A physician sai apparently been dead since morning and death s due to a hemorrage from a ruptured bladder. An autopsy, ordered because authori- s wanted to know if ubere were tributing causes, failed 1w establish it city to cologis which ake several Many Photographs Found. In Ames' quarters were a quantity of Bleeping powders, six botthes of Wh ©f which one had been partly emp mnd many photographs of young women fThere were three photographs of Ina ifClaire, actress, whose divorce from John silbert becomes effective next August ed, telegram from Hollywoo Maid: “Darling am reces: Hotel records showed three long-dis- hnnrs calls had mes to Miss Claire, 50 a.m. yesterday Miss Claire remained in seclusion at cr hotel apartment in_ Hollywood all est night and today. Hedda Hopper, n actress friend, denied for her that she had been engazed to marry Ames fmnd said Miss Claire had not talked with ithe actor over the telephone night be- F¥ore last. Ames’ last wife was the former Muriel ©Ozkes, New York society girl. The day jgiter his marriage to her on February .30, 1927, suit for breach of promise was started by Helen Lambert, New York might club entertainer. She asked 200,000 on the ground that she was to {have become his bride the same day he #narried Miss Oakes. Son Claims Actor’s Body. The fourth Mrs. Ames obtained a di- 4force last year, charging he had ridi- culed her as a member of “the idle ¥ich The first Mrs, en put through from the last one at Ames was Miss Alice Gerry of Fall River, Mass. She was the mother of the actor’s two children, June and Robert, jr. His second mar- yiags was to Frances Goodrich, actress. Both ended in divorce. He married Vivienne Segal, musical comedy star, at Newark, N. J., in July of 1923. The marriage followed a series of annymous verses, attributed 1o Ames, which were written about Miss Segal's any | By the Associated Press NEW YORK, November 2 sailing last night on a two. tific expedition to Tibet, eight men and la woman received the blessings of a special service at the Cathedral of St the Divine, under Bishop William anning. Under the direct sponsorship of the Explorers’ Club of New York, the expe- ,_|dition will arrive in Shanghai January |10 and start as soon as possible for | Tibet | To Determine Elevation. | The explorers will attempt to deter- | {mine whether Tibet is ~ higher than | Mount Everest. Seeds of _Oriental | | plants are to be obtained for the United | | States Department of Agriculture, | meteorological observations made for the United States Navy Department [and ethnological and entomological | data gathered. Y. W.C. A. WILL OBSERVE | WORLD FELLOWSHIP DAY | ——— \ Room and Memorial Tablet to Be Dedicated at Rites Wednes- day Morning. | World Fellowship day will be cele- brated Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock at the Young Women's Chyistian | Association with the dedication of a | world fellowship room. | At the same time a memorial tablet to Mrs. John Nicholson, late member of | the World Fellowship Committee of the | local Y. W. C. A, will be unveiled. | | Rev. Charles Wood, will conduct the | | memorial service and members of the | American-Oriental Society will take | part. | Immediately following the dedicatory | services there will be a joint luncheon | to be held by the committees on world | fellowship and public affairs. Mrs. Fred | E. Wright will preside. Huston Thomp- n, former Federal Trade comm sioner, will be the principal speaker. | MICHIGAN CLUB TO MEET Government Officials to Speak at Dinner-Smoker. Dr. Elwood Mead, director of the Bureau of Reclamation, and Dr. Ly- man J. Briggs, assistant director of the Bureau of Standards, will be the prin- cipal speakers at the second dinner- smoker of the University of Michigan | Club of Washington, tomorrow night at 7 o'clock at the University Club, Dr. Mead will speak on “Boulde: Dam—Its Purpose in the National Util- ity Scheme,” and Dr. Briggs will discuss ‘Measurements of High Speed in Ii dustrial and Scientific Work.” J. Row- nd Bibbins, chairman of the program, i1l tell about his Summer flying trip | Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh, | ture, the American Geog: Eight Men andm{for China to| IHANKS PLANNED Begin Two-Year Scientific Study in Remote Region. Still and sound motion pictures will be made of Tibetian life. A rescarch will be made along medical lines The expedition also plans a series of mountain-climbing _surveys for the American Geographical Society. It will endeavor to establish an_uniform_sys- tem of nomenclature in Tibetan, Mon- golian and Chinese for all places mountains, lakes and rivers, Lamb Is in Charge. Gene Lamb, formerly of Washington, D. C. is in charge. His wife Corine is the only woman in the party. The other members of the expedition in cluGe John A. Logan, _Youngstown, Ohio, and Jack Theodore Young, Hono- ulu The expenses of the journey, esti- mated at $100,000, will be borne by the organizations that will share in the | fruits of its efforts. These include the the United States Department of Agricul phical Soclety the 'United States Navy Department and the American Dental Association | which, 150 years ago, the people of the [French, Polish and German Diplomats to Attend Rites at Georgetown. Thanksgiving exercises commemora- tive of the sesquicentennial of the vic- tory at Yorktown, Va., under the auspices of Georgetown Uni- versity the evening of December 13 in Dahlgren Chapel, the same day on United States and France, by proclama- tion of their governments, offered uni- ersal thanks in the churches for the winning of American independence. ‘The guests of honor on the occasion of the revival of this historic religious incident at Georgetown will be the Am- will be held | 1781 it was sung in all the Catholic churches in France and this country. the president and directors of George- town will receive the guests at a formal reception in honor of the French Am- bassador and Mme. Claudel, the Ger- witz and the Ambassador of Poland The reception will be held in the presi- dent’s suite at the college and in the adjoining “Hall of the Jesuit Cardi- nals.” of the three countries Dr. Nevils said, “in grate- fal remembrance of the services ren- dered during the Revolution by Admiral of France; Baron von Steuben of Ger- many and Casimir Pulaski and Tadeusz Following the exercises in the chapel, | Congress in a bo man Ambassador and Frau von Pritt-| | one of thanksgiving and prayer. Compte de Grasse, Marquis de Lafayette | On the French side, the Minister, le | Chevalier de la Luzerne, had a Te| Deum sung in the Philadélphia chapel | of St. Mary's at which members of | the Assembly and | Council of Pennsylvania, the heads of departments and the leading citizens of | the city were present. An appropriate | sermon was preached by the chaplain of | the French legation, the Abbe Bandole. | On October 26, 1781 Congress issued | a proclamation of Thanksgiving and set aside December 13 as a day to be uni- | versally observed in all the churches as One month later King Louis XVI of France, the swift sailing frigate sent by Admiral de Grasse having just arrived with the news of the Yorktown victory on No- vember 26, issued a notification to the Kosciuszko of Poland and their com- | bishops and archbishops requesting that patriots " Te Deums of thanksgiving be sung in Congress upon receiving news of the | the churches of every diocese of France. victory at Yorktown immediately ad- | By a coincidence, he set the same day, —_— bassadors of France, Germany and Po- land, as the official representatives of | those three countries which contributed | so largely toward the final success of | the American struggle. Dr. W. Coleman | Nevils, 8. 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