Evening Star Newspaper, December 3, 1931, Page 26

THURSDAY, GIRL BEATING CASE B—10 = THE EVEN STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. DECEMBER 3, 1931. \tlonll Association for the Advancement l\mder $500 bond, Mary has heen staying |of Colored People, who was to have \M, the home of Justice of the Peace and to ring the old fire bell 200 times A patriotic program will also be | arranged. “ | Mr. Duhnmel presented to the associ- | | inting on wood which he BANQUET MONDAY 527 thought belonged to old Perseverance “Wa<hmgton ltself“ to Be Engine House at Eighth and Pennsyl- vania avenue. He thought it might have Text at Annual Gathering of Association. been used to decorate the engine when - engine was not in us>. Washington | Tophnm recalled having seen the paint- ing there. Mr. Duhamel also told of riots which took place in 1857 in which some fire- | men participated. - A framed ticket to the Cleveland in- augural ball was presented to the asso- | ciation by Mrs. J. Walker Tucker and accepted with appreciation DARROW T0 TALK AT GOLORED RALLY |Chicago Attorney to Address Closing Session of Con- ference Here. New Members Accepted. ! An etching, elaborately done by pen | in 1876 by his grandfather, A. Golds- borough Broff, formerly a secretary of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants, ! was loaned to the organization by Mr. Jackson, who also left on display a> crayon sketch of his own, showing an old_mission in California Twenty-five new members were elect- ed as follows: Thomas M. Med- ford, Dr G.eorge Fiske Dudley, Apple- ton Prentiss Clark, Charles Frederick Cook, Harry H. Skippon, Clarence Parsley, Byron . Adams, Luther M.| Cornwell, Arthur G. Bishop, Samuel | G. Trusler, Edward Cooper Rittue, | ’ ¢ Joseph Barrows Bogan, Willlam McK. | guet was made al the monthly meet- | Clayton, George L. Starkey, Arthur F.! ing of the association last night at the | gteinberg, James T. Townsend, Julius Old Union Engine H Expleining | T peyser, L. E. Breuninger, Willlam the “text” of the evening, Mr. Noyes | g ‘pinckel, Herbert P. Gerald, George seid it would on various phases |s° watson, Henry G. Hanford, James | of Washington, sueh as ‘“Washington AT the Beautiful, the Inanimate,” “Wash- | SoTg| Arthur P. Greeley and Willlam ington, the City of Its People, the e ol “CREED DAY” PLANNED Animate,” and “Washington, the Amer- 1"llm7»(* City That Is to Be. Mr. D. A. R. Chapter Outlines Feature The city of Washington will be the principal theme around which several addresses will center at the sixty-sixth annual banquet of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants next Monday night at the Raleigh Hote Gilbert H. Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic Soclety, who is editor of its magazine, and Theodore W. Noyes, president of the association will be the principal speakers. Five- minute informal speeches may also be mace by the Washingtonians present as gu Annguncem slans for the ban- some of was characterized by Mr. “one who is a thorough and student of Washington and its ast i present President | Noyes said that in a recent number of the Geographic Magazine Mr. Grosvenor had presented by both pictures and text a “most wonderful picture of Wash- ington.” |tennial celebration was outlined at a Other Program Details. | meeting Tuesday of the Continental “It will be a kind of home-folks gath-'| Dames Chapter, D. A. R., which will act ering” said Mr. Noyes. “The text of |as sponsor for the day's celebration on the evening will be ‘Washington Itself.’” | orii'3 1937 Further detalls of the banquet were explained by Washington Topham, | Miss Helen Stout, State chairman of Revolutionary relics, who chairman of the Entertainment Com- is credited | mittee. There will be music by George | With originating “American Creed day” H. O'Connor and Matt Horne. John | Plans in connection with the Bicenten- Ciagett Proctor will read & poem ap-|Dial, outlined the program for the day SeCRihie B the secesion The meeting was presided over by the All officers of the association, headed Tegent, Mrs. George Hillyer, by Mr. Noyes were unanimously re- lanta, Ga elected for another year, on motion of John B. Dickman i The officers are: President, Mr Noyes; vice presidents, Henry L. Bryan, Washington Topham, Dr. William Tin- dall, S. Willard Saxton, John Clagett Proctor, Christian Heurich, Charles A Langley, Percy B. Israel, George Spransy, John Joy Edson, Fred A. Emery, Joseph P. Keefer, John R. Ma- honey; recording secretary and treas- urer, J. Elliot Wright; assistant record- ing 'secretary, William E. Wise; cor- responding secretary, James F. Duha- mel; chronicler, John Clagett Proctor: financial secretary, John R. Mahoney, end marshal, Frank W. Dowling. Committees Consolidated. | A wrist watch presented by the Great- er National Capital Committee to the association as second prize for its entry in the Halloween parade was given to George B. Jackson, who prepared the float and enacted the role of George ‘Washington in the float showing Wash- | ington and his first cabinet. A photo- graph of the participants was presented to_the association by A. C. Harmon. The committees on Parades and Bi- | centennial were ordered cumolldnmfl‘ to carry out the association's pro- grams participating in Bicentennial affairs next year. For February 22, Washington's birthday, which is always celebrated by the associa- tion, it is planned to decorate the old | Unjon Engine House, according to Mr. Dubamel, chairman of the committe CLEARANCE! Choice of EVERY FELT HAT IN STOCK Every felt hat must go—these prices assure quick disposal. Values from $3.50 to $10 of Bicentennial. 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John- son, president of Howard University | will be the speakers at the closing ses- sion tomorrow night of the conference of leaders of the colored race which opened here last night. Described by Kelly Miller, dean of Howard University, as ‘“non-partisan but essentially political, the result of Nation-wide agitation by Representa- | tive Oscar De Priest, arousing the Ne- gro to a sense of political duty,” the | conference opened at the Metropolitan Baptist Church last night. Judge James Cobb of the District of Columbia | Municipal Court delivered the address of welcome, when the topic under gen- | eral discussion was “Disfranchisement, Recalls Reconstruction, | The speakers included Representative De Priest. He said that despite his sturdy affiliation with the Republican | party, he. would vote the Democratic ticket locally if he lived in the South. | “In this connection,’ De Priest de- | clared, “there will be no party and no candidates indorsed by this conference and none condemned. but we trust a | platform by and for the Negro will be | developed on which we can go before the country in 1932.” Thomas E. Miller, 82 years of age, colored memeber of the House of Rep- resentatives from South Carolina when Rutherford B. Hayes was elected Presi- dent, told of reconstructioa days follow- ing the Civil War. Archibald Pinkett presided over the session, which included also an address by P. B. Young, colored editor of Nor- folk, Va., in which was presented an ) exhaustive study of disfranchisement in the country. Willlam Monroe Trotter, secretary of the National Equal Rights League, also spoke. ‘Walter A. White, nscrem\ of the Na- Solvcs Iht Gift Problem! 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M. E Church, where the topics under discus- slon include “Civil Service,” “Distribu- tion of Federal Educational Funds” and “Economic Opportu'xill(“ > WOMAN FOUND DEAD Body of Mrs. H. E. Braunersenther Is Discovered by Hotel Employe Mrs. Harrlet E. Braunersenther, 76, | widow of William Braunersenther, was found dead today in her room at the Willard Hotel The discovery was made by an em- ploye of the hotel, who visited Mrs. Braunersenther datly at the request of her daughter, Mrs. Edwin D. Bri wife of Brig. Gen. Bricker, assistant chief of ordnance. The hotel worker summoned Dr. Fred Guyer, house physician, who pro- nounced Mrs. Braunersenther dead Coroner Joseph D. Rogers was notified Mrs. Braunersenther is said to have been living at the hotel for about a year. Massachusetts avenue Her daughter resides at 3700 TRIAL DELAYED AGAIN | Continuance Given at Hyattsville Because of Illness of Accused Stepmother. 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