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HEHER STANDARDS URGED N BANKING President Mergler Tells American Institute Needs in Changed Conditions. More than 500 members of the Amer- ican Institute of Banking and their guests heard Henry J. Mergler, presi- dent of the national organization, make a stirring plea for higher standards of banking and more intensive educa- tion for individual bankers, at the twenty-eighth annual banquet of Washington Chapter, held at the Wil- lard Hotel last evening. Never in the history of the Nation, he said, has the banker occupied as important a position in domestic and international affairs as he does today. He is a leader, counselor, director and balance wheel in the economic life and well-being of every community. The period since the wer, the Speaker continued, has created the keenest competition in all lines of business. To meet this situation greater co-oper- stion is needed. The most useful work bankers and business men can do in the near future is to help bring about greater faith and confidence in all our institutions, The national institute officer declared that in travels all over the country he has found that this better sentiment is already spreading. Aubrey O. Dooley, president of Wash- ington Chapter, presided at the dinner. During the evening he paid a tribute to the late George O. Walson and the late Edward J. McQuade, both former local bank presidents and past presi- dents of Washington Chapter. Watch and Chain Presented. Frank M. Perley, who was president of the chapter last year, was presented with a watch and chain. Frank J. Hogan, who is general counsel of the District Bankers’ Asso- ciation, was another speaker. The entertinment was in charge of Harry Taylor as master of ceremonies. Edwin C. Steffe, a local banker, sang several solos. The other numbers were presented by professionals. Dancing concluded the evening. Members and invited guests attending the banquet included: J. Lorenz Ackerman, Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Addison, jr.; Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Amick, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard L. Amiss, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Anderton, Miss Gladys Atkins. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Baird, George R. Barker, Willard G. Barker, Mr, and Mrs, George A. Barnes, Raymond M. Beall, T. A. Bean, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Bell, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Bergmann, W. N. Berkley, James L. Berry, Miss Gertrude M. Bevan, Mr. and Mrs. Fred 8. Beyer, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Birgfeld, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Birgfeld, Francis R. Bishop, Paul J. Bissett, Edward M. Blaiklock, Smith Blair, Joseph Blake, ‘Theodore Bogley, Miss Virginia Boon, David Bornet, Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Boswell, Hugh C. Boswell, V. P. Bou-|H. dren, Mrs. Clara Bowers, Miss Kathryn E. Bowers, Frank Bowling, Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Boyer, Miss Nancy Broaddus., John F. Brawner, Miss _Lucille Broadwater, James A. Bruen, John L. Bryant. William Gordon Buchanan, J. Ross Burhouse, Mr. and Mrs. Harold W. Burnside, Miss S. Winifred Burwell, Joseph D. Buscher, Miss Jean Beyers. Mr. and Mrs. Willam A. Cady, Thomas M. Cahill. Willam W. Cairn- cross, Willlam Holmead Callan, John W. Calvert, George M. Carpenter, C. D. Carroll, Miss Susan V. Carter, Eu- gene Case, P. F. Cassady, John M. Cas- tell, Mr. and Mrs. R. Jesse Chaney, Miss Kathryn Chapman, Edna L. Christensen, John M. Christle, Edward E. Cissell, Mr. and Mrs. J. Wesley Clampitt, ‘jr; Dr. and Mrs. Willlam Earl Clark, Paul W. Clark, Roane A. Clary, Frank Clayton, Miss Helen Cleary, Theodore Cogswell. Miss Ruth D. Colburn, Rudolph G. Coldenstroth, Charles W. Collins, Miss Kay E. Cono- ham, Edward Cook, Frank C. Cook, Herbert Corley, I. I. Chorpening. B. L. Colton, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Cox, Miss Marie Cox, Robert Crandall, Miss Anne Preston Crawford, Miss Ellen C. Oraw- ford, J. Thomas Cronin, Miss Kather- ine Cross, Charles J. Crump, William P. Cummings, jr.; James Daniel Cush- man. Other Invited Guests. J. George Dagenals, Carlisle R. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd E. Davis, John H. Davis, Kenneth Davis, Miss Virginia Davis, C. Raeburne Deane, R. Morgan D'Espard. Miss Mildred E. Dehn, John M. DeMarco, Miss Martha Detrick, Miss Myrtle M. Detwiler, Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Detwiler, Victor B. Deyber, A. Dibrell, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond B. Dickey, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Dieter, Howard Dodge. Charles H. Doing, and Mrs. F. Joseph Donohue, Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey O. ley, John Dough- erty, Arthur Doying, James C. Dulin, jr.; Kent L. Dyer, €. Louis_Eckloff, Charles F. Ellery, Robert S. Emery, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Endicott, Harry England, Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. English, Earl Esinger, Henry W. Evans, Joshua Evans, jr. Charles A. Faloon, George L. Farn- ham, Miss Katherine E. Fenwick, Remick S. Ferguson, Frank S. Fisher, Robert Fitzhugh, Joseph R. Fitzpatrick, Joseph J. Flaherty, Mr. and Mrs. G. Elmer Flather, Robert L. Flather, W. J. Flather, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Flint, Miss Constance D. Fogle, Willlam P. Folger, B. Bruce Frantz, Miss Jeannette Frazier. Isaac Gans, Arthur Gardner, Mr. and Mrs., P. M. Garnett, W. M. Garrison, Mr. and Mrs. Albert 5. Gatley, Mrs. Ollie A. Gentry, Ernest E. Gerstenberg, E. A. Ginettl, Norman Glasco, Julian C. Goolsby, John R. Graff, James O. Gray, jr.; Miss Margaret Griffin, Earl H. Griffith, William N. Grimes, Law- rence V. Grogan, Miss Irene Guy. Miss Christine Haggerty, Harry H. Hahn, Frank N. Hall, Fred Hamiiton, Mr, and Mrs. William M. Hannay, Mr. and Mrs. John G. Harlan, Harry Fleet Harper, Col. Robert N. Harper, Miss Alice H. Harris, George Haskins, Rich- ard Hatton, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hearst, Miss Helen G. Hebrew, G. Frederick Heider, Harry H. R. Helwig, Ernest E. Herrell, Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. Herrmann, 2 beth L. , Frank 8. Hight, C. Vernon Hill, John R. Hill, Richard W. Hill, Theodore Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Hillyer, Robert Himes, Frank J. Hogan, T. Stanley Hol- land, Donald Hollingsworth, Miss Claire Hoskinson. H. G. Hoskinson. John D. Howard, Ralph Howard, Miss Roberta D. Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Willlam W. Hoxton, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Hulbirt, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Norris Humphrey, J. Gonway Hunt, Gilbert E. Hyatt, jr. Hans W. Ireland, J. Kennedy Irelan, J. Bickley Jackson, Miss Minnie A. Jenkins, John A. Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Jones, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Jones, Earl G. Jonscher. Miss Edith hn, Miss Edith Kal- Jenback, Henry L. Kaufman, Elmer Louis Kayser, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald E. XKeene, John R. Keener, Miss Margaret Xelly, Ralph R. Kidwell, Harry T. Kil- rick, Henry F. Kimball, Claude W. {sely, Miss Catherine W. Krieg. Robert H. Lacey, Collins Lamb, Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey O. Lanston, Frank YLarcombe, Miss Esther Lau, Mrs. Gert- sude Laubinger, Miss Ruth Laubinger, | ‘William H. Laughlin, Mr. and Mrs, Bo- litha J. Laws, Mr. and . Alfred H. Lawson, Miss Dorothy A. Lee, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Lee, Mr. and Mrs. Rob- ert E. Lee, Miss Isabel Leisinger, T. Hunton Leith, Mrs. Myrtle P. Lewis, George. . Tingebah, Arthur J; Lirm: George F. el ] ur J. Linn, Raymond P. Lochte, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Loughran, Ernest Love, Louis Lucas, Miss L, V. Ludwig, Charles B. Lyddane, Jack Lyons. Alton McAllister. Thomas J. Me- ‘Bride, Myles MoCahil, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. McClelland; J. Earle McGeary, Miss Evelyn McGhee, Willard McGraw, Miss Eda McKnew, Mr. and Mrs. La- nier P. McLachlen, John McLean, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. McMullan, Mr, and Mrs. William McNier, Miss: Ethel McOsker, ; J. ‘MacWilliams, James J. Madden, teMadden, Mrs. Delcy A. Maney, ;| 2nd Mrs. Robert S. Stun: l ’ THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, Boy‘ Scouts Pay Honor to Troop Masters EIGHT LEADERS RECEIVE AWARDS FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE TO BOYHOOD. | T 8chool. HE Silver Beaver, an award made by the National Council of the Boy Bcouts of America upon recommendation of Jocal councils, 15 presented to men who have rendered dist members of the group who on Friday night In the foreground is Maj. Willlam I. Stmpso of the Natfonal Muscum, while the seven other recipients—D. Vernon shall, Francis E. Matthes, R. Harvey Sargent, Frank M. Sherwood and Fred G. Stuart—look on. inguished service to boyhood. The acene above shows were honored by District troops at exercises held at the Mc] High n recelving the Silver Beaver from Dr. Paul Bartsch, curator Balley, John 8. Cole, Dr. William B. Mar- —Star Stafl Photo. William E. Markey, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Marks, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Marlow, Miss Sarah D. Marshall, Bur- dette Martin, Arthur E. Meade, Mr. and Mrs. Harold A. Meek, Miss Kather- ine Melton, James N. Menendez, Harry E. Mercler, Henry J. Mergler, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Miller, F. A. Miles, Leonard W. Mitchell. Charles A. Monroe, Mr. and Mrs. William M. Mooney, Alfred ‘W. Moran, Howard Moran, Scott D. Morris, F. G. Morrison, Edgar E.| Mountjoy, Ellsworth Moyer, Robert Mullen, George Myers. A. M. Nevius, Lewis R. Newton, Ar- | thur G. Nichels, Miss Elizabeth Nichol- son, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Noell, H. Sadt- | ler Nolan, Miss Ethel Norris, Norbert Norris, Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Nor- | ris, R. W. Nuchols. | A. H. Young O'Brien, Reginald | O'Donnell, Miss M. Roberta Offutt, Mr. and Mrs. A. Scoit Offutt, Stuart S. Ogilvie, Miss Grace Ortman, Benjamin Ourisman. | Mrs. Etheline E. Parker, Melville M. Parker, Miss Wanda G. Pearson, Frank | M. Perley, Jack Perry, L. M. Perry, Mi Mary Pfeiffer, Robert Phelps, Lincoln Phillips, Louie C. Pimper, Meredith . Polen, Ross E. Pollock, John Poole, Nathan Poole, Robert M. Poole, Mr. and Mrs, C. H. Pope, Stephen Porte: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fricei, Ralph Quinter. Arthur McD. Rector, Mrs. Helena D. Reed, Miss Margaret Reed, Oren Reed, | Maurice E. Reeve, Edgar P. Rees, Daniel | J. Reiber, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Reilly, | Miss Vera M. Rhine, Miss Eva Ricker, L. Pierce Riddle, L. Harry Rider, Jack | Riley, Howard Ritter, Miss Helen Rob- bins, Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Francis E. Robey, Miss Laura Robey, Frank Rodgers, Miss A. Pauline Rouse, Miss Mamie Rouse, Miss Mabel V. Royce, Miss Rose L. Royce, William F. Russ. Miss Edith Rutherford. Miss Rebecca St. Clair, Mr. and Mrs. Walton L. Sanderson, Audley A. P. Sav- age, George L. S. Scharf, Miss Mary P. Scheuch. Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Schoene- | man, William E. Schooley, E. Wallace ' Schreiner, F. Alvin Schreiner, George Schultze, John W. Scott, Edwin C. Seaton, Mr. and Mrs, Paul J. Seltzer, J. K. Seyboth, Frank J. Sherertz, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Sheridan, Alfred W. Sherman. Miss Hilda Shomo, F. P. | H. Siddons, Miss Dorothy Simmers, Wil- liam V. Simmons, Grant D. Simmonds, Mr. and Mrs. James B. Skinner, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Slaughter, “Duff” Sloan, Miss Dorothy Smith, Douglas Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Pred A. Smith, James Smith, Miss M. Louise Smith, Miss Norma Smith, T. B. Smith, Miss Maude B. Snead, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Soper, W. W. Spaid, Robert H. Speich, Harry | Statham, Carlton Stein, Nelson M. Stokes, Miss Vivian E. Stokes, W. Nor- man Stokes, Edward C. Stone, W. McK. Stowell, Frederick L. Strasser, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Strathey, Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam C. Strauss, R. H. Stringfellow, Mr. i Mr. and Mrs. | William C. Sullivan, Miss Mary Louise | Sweeney, Miss Louise Swift. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Talbert, Mr. and Mrs. Carter E. Talman, C. T. Thomas, Dr. Eliot H. Thomson. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar A. Thorup, Willlam B. Thrift, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Tiflany, Charles O. Tingley, Frank M. Totton, Ross L. Tot- ten, Norman E. Towson, Brison C. Tucker, Miss Margaret R. Tucker, Miss Marion Turner, Mr. and Mrs. George 0. Vass. Herbert W. Walker, Mr. and Mr: Andrew T. Wallace, Mr. and Mrs. Wi mer J. Waller, George E. Walton, Do: ald R. Warburton, George E. Warfield, Miss Virginia Warren, Richard Wa kins, Dolphin Webe Raymond L. Weber, Mr, and Mrs. J. M. Weidman, Charles K. West, George B. Whidden, Miss Alcena White, P. G. Whitton, . and M George A. Wick, Miss Marion Willett, Edward N. Willlams, Miss Eleanor Wil- liams, Miss Tracy Williams, E. Percival Wilson, Stanley Wolfe, Miss Mildred C. Woodcock. Mrs. W. O. Woods, Robert Wrenn, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wyatt. W. Hayes Yeager, Mr. and Mrs. Al- bert E. Yeatman, Joseph D. Yerkes, FREE WIFE OF ESCAPED QUTLAW IN OKLAHOMA Tulsa Police Also Release Son, 7, of “Pretty Boy” Floyd— Trail Is Lost. By the Associated Press. TULSA, Okla., February 13.—Mrs. Ruby Floyd, wife of Charles (Pretty| Boy) Floyd, Oklahoma ocutlaw, was released from the city jail today after three days of imprisonment. With her was released her seven-year -old son, Jackie, whose cry of “That's daddy!” upon seeing Floyd’s photograph ldehdtymed,:go ‘woman. i ® Clyde Chuhulate, Cherokee Indian arrested at a bus station at the same time Mrs. Floyd was taken into custody there, also was freed. Meanwhile the trail of Floyd, sought for murder and bank r ries, appar- ently had been lost. He engaged in two gun fights with Tulsa officers this week and slipped through a raiding squad which surrounded his house here Wednesday at dawn. Mrs. Floyd sald she would return the boy to & public school he attended here. R T R SICKNESS ENDS FEUD Sickness has melted a long-standing litical frigidity between Senators ohnson and Shortridge of California. For years the two Republicans have been political enemies, but when | Shortridge was taken to the hospital recently for a serious operation, it was Johnson who picked up his chores in behalf of California. Johnson himself fell ill last week, ,but upon his return to the Benate recently again took over the duties of his fellow Californian, #nd has been carrying on for him since, . | past 64 years,” the venerable Civil War \rom the British lfeboat RECOVERS FROM to Politics in Next Election. Claims Honor of Being First | Yankee Mayor of Dixie Town. Having survived his eighth apoplectic stroke, Judge James Allen, 87-year-old “political patriarch” of Vienna, Va.| hobbled into town yesterday on his cane and announced his determination of “getting back into politics” for the | forthcoming presidential election. “I've only missed voting once in the veteran and former member of the Wisconsin Legislature declared, with a eporter’s desk. | 'hat was when Taft was elected, and | I would have cast my vote then but| for the fact I was in the hospital with my first stroke. Just had my eighth a few weeks ago, but I fooled the doc- tors again, and here I am!™ He conflded his intention of voting for Al Smith if that gentleman gets the Democratic nomination. He sald he was a Republican in the old days back in Wisconsin, but became u “Southern Democrat” when he moved to Vienna about a quarter of a century ago. He served eight years as mayor of the Fairfax County town and for many years was a justice of the peace there. “I believe I am the only Union vet- | eran_who ever was elected mayor of a Southern town,” Judge Alien remarked. | Judge James Allen to Return} 'VIRGINIA POLITICAL PATRIARCH EIGHTH STROKE o . JUDGE JAMES ALLEN. He served in the Wisconsin Legis- lature fn 1879 and was a close friend of the late Senator La Follette. “I used to ride the present Senator La Follette and the present Governor of Wisconsin on my knee,” he declared. He was a sergeant and drillmaster of the 27th Wisconsin Volunteers, Com- pany F, during the Civil War and his clothing was torn by a bullet at Vicks- burg. He recelves a pension for his war service. His wife, Mrs. Matilda N. Allen, is 83 and quite as active as her husband. The couple will celebrate their sixty- srcctnd wedding anniversary on April 14 next. U. 5. HELD IN NEED OF FASCIST RULE Flumiani, New York Author, Cites Political Difficulties in Address. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass, February 13.—A Fascist regime is needed in the :110HK :\;flifi‘rflm economist, todsy t.olg elega an oupitatat Communist leaders intercollegiate conference. ~ The con- the Willlams College Liberal Club. “I belleve a fascist n{tme is needed here,” he sald. “Look upon your clection coming. What do you see? Two partles with no fundamental dif- ey dominated by men with desire for per- sonal and individusal success. peopies have no faith in their leaders.” umiani said that whether a leader power some other way might not be of particular concern. The fundamental its realistic spirit, and “its method of tackling problems without being in- distortion of preconcepts or prejudices or_too radical preferences.” for President in 1928, told an audience which heard a Socialist address sylvania instructor, that a comparative of violence by the working lepression Br the Associated Press. United States, Carlo M. Flumiani, New prominent Socialist, gathered at an ference is sponsored by political situation. A presidential ference in their program. are “The fes have no doctrines; the was elected by the people or came into characteristics of Fascism, he sald, were fluenced by the mental and emotional Norman Thomas, Soclalist candidate Maynard Krueger, University of Pm:! man in the current d ‘was be- king man was afrald of being connected with the Communist theory, inevitable revolution, Round table discussions were held at the afternoon session. The leaders included Flumiani, Thomas, Krueger, Prof. Jacob Viner of Chicago Uni- versity and Harold Spitzer of North Adams. ANNE ARUNDEL ELECTION OFFICIAL MADE JUSTICE C. G. Hill, Sr., Takes Place Vacated | fox, Recently by Myron 8. Cotton. Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md, February 13.— Charles G. Hill, sr., yesterday qualified as a justice of the peace for the second election district of Anne Arundel, second precinct and immediately tendered his resignation as & mem- ber of the County Board of Super- m)&? gmmm il g was_appointed & justice of i o0 iy R nation of Myron 8. Cotton. . Cot! Justiocs peace in December at the request of Gov. Ritchie, after he had been fined $300 and costs by Ju Robert Moss in the local Circuit Court after he entered a plea of guilty to an in- dictment for the possession of slot machines returned against the Shelton Park Corporation, on 8. Cotton, manager. serving 51 years as s life eaver, Coxswain Richard Chadwick has retired RAINEY ANALYZES SALES TAX PLAN - {Says Theory Is to Levy on Product as It Is Ready for Consumer. By the Assoclated Press. A widely but thinly spread manufac- tures sales tax for hundreds of indus- tries is being considered by the House Ways and Means Committee as one of the most important sources of revenue for the new tax bill. Representative Rainey of Illinols, ma- Jority leader and chairman of the Ways and Means subcommittee studying the sales tax proposal, said yesterday the tax appeared the most feasible if it could be properly applied and col- lected. He said it was preferred by American industry generally to heavy taxes on a few big industries. Rainey held it would be necessary to levy some sort of sales tax in order to obtain the $1,241,000,000 necessary to balance the Federal budget in 1933. ‘Would Hit Imported Articles. ‘The tax would not ly to food- stuffs, medicines or cloti except possibly furs and similar clothing which could be classified as luxuries. Imported articles, including gasoline, would be compelled to bear the same rate of taxes, probably 1 or 2 per cent, as domestic products. ‘The proposed levy is a modified form of the Canadian manufactures sales tax system. “The theory we are working on,” he sald, “Is to levy the tax on the finished luct as it leaves the last manu- acturer and is ready for consumption. It would be kept away from the con- ;mfir and would not be imposed by the er.” Revision Would Be Avolded. Rainey explained that while automo- biles, radios and similar articles would be taxed under the plan, the levy would not be as much as if taxes were levied individually on five or six big indus- The bill would be so drafted that in the event an industry became weaker for any cause Congress Would remove its without revising the revenue struc- Rainey sald until it was decided defl- nitely how much additional revenue could be obtained from a gift tax, in- creased individual and corporate in- come taxes and the rearrangement of the brackets, it could not be decided how heavy manufactures sales levy should be. FREED ON $10,000 BOND Woman Charged With Criminal Syndicalism Is Released. PINEVILLE, Ky., Fel 13 (™). —Mrs. Clarina H{ehehon,m-;{. of New York, under a charge of criminal syndi- calism, was released today on uo,ooehxummm by & New York friend throu; surety company. clan and a nurse came to take her to Knoxville. She developed & severe cold, attributed to exposure to dampness during the flood here. pa::l)glcmdnh'“.'am MO ere Jan! 3 mmmmmmmmpm of the Communistic of America 3 her baggage at a hotel, D. C., FEBRUARY NAVY SELECTIONS TEDIOUSLY MADE Secret Methods of Board Bared in Filling 64 Com- manderships. 14, Secret methods employed by & Navy Department Selection Board, to choose officers for promotion in the service, were revealed yesterday by the Bureau of Navigation in response to numerous Tequests received from officers. The board announced Friday the choice of 64 leutenant commanders to be pro- moted to the rank of commander, when vacancies occur. - Each member of the Selection Board, the bureau asserted, takes this oath: “You, and each of you, do solemnly swear or affirm, that you will, without prejudice or partialty, and having in view solely the special fitness of officers and the efficiency of the naval services, perform the duties imposed upon you a8 provided by law. So help you God. Eligibles on Test. ‘The board has before it the names of all eligible officers with their records. The fitness reports in current grades show their professional standing and the special report jacket is furnished by the bureau. Other fitness reports, in prior grades, and records of general courts-martial, courts of inquiry and boards of investigation are furnished by lthe office of the judge advocate gen- eral ‘When the board convenes, officers’ records are distributed to the individual members of the board, thus: The presi- dent of the board takes the record of the officer whose name is at the top of the eligible list and the other members of the board take the records of the succeeding officers. Thus, the bureau explained, the president of the board reviews thoroughly in detall the first, tenth, nineteenth, twenty-eighth, thirty- seventh, etc. The next senior member reviews the second, eleventh, twentieth, ete. Digest Then Is Given. After all the records have been exam- ined by the individual members, each member of the board gives a digest of the record and service of the officer un- der consideration. All members then join in a free discussion of the officer’s case. Thus the individual cases are discussed, until a sufficient number has been reached covering the vacancies existing or prospective. Following discussion of the records, the board goes into executive session and balloting starts. The president is then given s list of officers each mem- ber of the board would promote. On a tally sheet, the names of officers re- ceiving votes are recorded by the official recorder of the board, as announcement is made by the president. Each officer receiving six votes is recommended by the board. e S ’WII.I.IAMSON DEATH IS HELD ACCIDENTAL Coroner's Jury Returns Verdict in Case of Washingtonian Killed in Crash. A verdict of accidental death was re- turned by a coroner's jury which con- ducted an investigation into the death of Alva P. Willlamson, 64, 5819 Cole avenue, who died at Emergency Hospital shortly after having been 1932—PART ONE. SEMINAR TO HEAR NOTED CLERGYMEN Plans Announced for Meeting to Promote Religious Lib- erty Principle. Three outstanding Washington clergy- men, a Protestant, a Catholic and a Jew, will address the first National Conference of Jews and Christians to convene here March 7 for the purpose of promoting religious liberty end mutual understanding among all faiths, The Oapital speakers are the Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Episcopal Bishop of Washington; the Rev. Dr. Prancis J. Haas, director of the N tional Catholic School of Social Se: ice and Rabbi Abram Simon of the Washington Hebrew Congregation. Bishop Freeman will speak on “My Expectations of the Seminar,” Father Haas on “The Values of Community Co-operation” and Rabbi Simon on “The Significance of the Intergroup Movement.! ’ Their talks, coming on the first day of the three-day seminar, will be broadcast over a Nation-wide radio chain from 4:15 to 5:15 o'clock on the afternoon of March 7, President is Invited. President Hoover has been invited by the nationally known sponsors of the seminar to open the conference at the Willard Hotel. Newton D, Baker, for- mer Secretary of War and a candidate for the Democratic nomination to the presidency, will deliver the closing ad- d.res: over a coast-to-coast radio net- work. The conference, the first event of such wide scope ever held in the United States, is the outgrowth of a series of smaller seminars which proved so successful that the National Con- ference of Jews and Christians decided g pui;h l'.fi.lelu.I’I.lnhzdrhin efforts to com- t inter-religlous distrust and antago- nism. The main purpose o:‘\he Spon- soring Committee, which was organized in 1928, has been stated by former Secretary Baker, one of the three co- chairmen, as follows: “The National Conference of Jews and Christians associates a number of thoughtful and earnest, people in an effort to analyze and ally the prepudices which exist between Protestants, Cath- |olics and Jews. The conference seeks to moderate and finally to eliminate a system of prejudices which we have in | part inherited and which disfigures and | distorts our business, social and poli- | tical relatfons.” | Prominent Backers . | The list of sponsors and advisers of the *National Conference carries the names of many outstanding American leaders, inclu former Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York, Owen D. Young, Nicholas Murray Butler, Jane Addams, New York Times; Clark Howell, editor of the Atlanta Constitution; Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, jr.; Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills. Henry Mor- benthan, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice Benjamin N Cardozo of the New York Court of | Appeals, Rev. Harry Emerson. Fosdick, Rev. Dr. 8. Parkes Cadman, Daniel C Roper, member of the District Board of Education, and scores of others whose names are notable in business, politics, letters, journalism, law and education. Mrs. Robert Whitney Imbrie of Washington is chairman of the Com- mittee on Arrangements for the semi- nar.- Members of her committee are Miss Hettie Anderson, Mrs. Jennie Ber- liner, Eugene Clark, James Cobb, Rossa F. Downing, Maurice D. Rosenberg and struck by an automobile driven by Wil- liam A, Park, jr. 21, of 6326 Sixteenth street. Park had been released by police in custody of members of his family. Witnesses testified that Wiliamson had stepped from in front of an auto- mobile at the intersection of Geargia and Colorado avenues into the path of Park’s coupe. The accident occurred shortly after 8 o'clock Wednesday eve- ning and Willlamson died two hours T, Howard Mobely, 4816 Kansas avenue, e accident was unavoidable. Sims Richardson, colored, 214 F street northeast, was held to the grand jury by the coroner’s jury in connection with the fatal shooting on the night of January 23 of Aloysius Brown, colored, 1153 Budens Court. Brown died at Casualty Hospital Monday. Richardson had engaged in a fight, which terminated in the shooting, wit- nesses testified. Richardson was on parole from the South Carolina State Penitentiary, where he had served a sentence for murder. Pioneer Sportsman Dies. NEW YORK, February 13 (#).—Dr. John Prederick Freund, ploneer sports- irplane pilot, of Scarsdale, N. Y., dled of heart disease yesterday at the Medical Center. A native of Germany, he was 57 years old. Offers Quality Merchandise RAINIER MOUNT Specialetl';is“ MT. RAINIER Hyatts. 1110 TAKOMA PARK Pansy’s Beauty SHalon We make _the lovely more lovely e SILVER SPRING PURE NORWEGIAN COD LIVER OIL U.S. P. re 90 Vitamin Tested Dudley and Kiefer Pharmacists Silver Spring, Md. Phone Silver Spring 763 Brown and | William Franklin Sands. [ Details of Program. | Opening at 1:30 pm. March 7. at the Willard. the conference will take up first a discussion of “Situations in | American Communities,” under the chairmanship of C. E. Silcox of the In- | stitute of Social and Religious Re- search, Toronto, Canada. Following this general discussion of basic prob- lems, the seminar will divide into round table groups to consider the work to be done in both public and church schools, preparatory schools and colleges, as well as the effect of journalism on inter- group attitudes and the “specific tasks of ‘younger clergy.'"” Major problems and issues emerxlnq from the afternoon round tables wil | be laid before a unique U-table general session that evening, at which the fol- ‘lcwmg well known religious leaders will speak: Bishop Francis J. McDonnell, president of the Federal Council of Churches; Rev. Dr. John A. Ryan, Na- tional Catholic Welfare Council, and Rabbi Louis Mann of Chicago. Other round table conferences will be held the second day, with a discussion of the part of the press in the move- ment for improving inter-group rela- tions scheduled for the final day. Co-chairmen ~with Mr. Baker are Roger W. Straus of the American He- brew Congregation and Prof. Cariton J. H. Hayes of Columbia Universitye YOUR COMMUNITY STORE at Special Prices Each Week HYATTSVILLE THERMAT HEATING PAD Water Bottle week, *1.00 SPIRE’S PHARMACY HYATTSVILLE Hyatte. 3 BROOKLAND, D. C. North 3244 HYATTSVILLE ATWATER KENT RADIO $1,500.00 Prize Contest What would you call this .startling new Neon Tunming Light? Get Entry Blanks Here Hyattsville Hardware Co., Inc. Dealers Phone Hyatts. 205 Phone Greenwood 1915 Edison Electric ' 6 for $1.08 Sizes Up to 60-Watt J. Frank Campbell ‘Blace to ss0d, Bardware, TRe DAL ts Sna ook 1300° Good Hope Rd. S.E. 13 Anacostla, D. C. [SECRET AGREEMENT John H. Pinley, associate editor of the | DENIED BY SOVIETS Reports of Pact With Japan on Manchuria Domination De- clared Absurd. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, February 13.—Responsible Soviet officials today denied reports g:bnshed abroad of a secret agreement tween Japan and Russia. ‘These reports were considered absurd in foreign quarters. It was pointed out that when Russia proposed & non- aggression pact to Tokio recently a cool reception was encountered. A report that Russia, under threat of war, had agreed to Japanese domina- tion over all Manchuria and part of Mongolia was published in London. JOB AGENT IS FREED Charge of False Pretenses Shelved in Probe of Fees. A charge of obtaining money under false pretenses against John D. Kendall, operator of the Washington Business Bureau, has been nolle pro&sed, the United States attorney’s lice Court office announced yesterday. Kendall had been found guilty by Judge Isaac R. Hitt after he had been arrested in connection with his opera- tion of the employment agency. How- ever, the judgment was subsequently vacated and a motion for a new trial granted. Kendall was accused of accepting fees from a person whom he promised NEW OPTIMISM MARKS U. S. RETAILERS’ SESSION Most of Merchants Kxpeot Recov- ery to Take Definite Form Be- fore Close of Year. By the Associated Press. 8T. LOUIS, February 13.—Optimism more pronounced than at any time since 1929 prevalls among merchants attending the convention here of the American Ratallers’ Association, and representing all parts of the country, officials of the assoclation sald Thurs- day. Scott R. De Kins of 8t. Louls, sec- retary-treasurer of the association, said most_ of the merchants looked for & definite upturn in business by the lat- ter part of 1932, BANNS MADE PUBLIC Miss Silverthorne’s Wedding to Dr. De Trafford to Be Set. PARIS, February 13 (#).—The banns of the coming marriage of Alice Sil- verthorne, niece of Mrs. Ogden Armour and formerly the Comtesse Frederick de Janze, to Raymond de Trafford, for whose shooting in 1927 she was tried and acquitted, were posted at the city hall at Neuilly yesterday. Miss Silverthorne said the weddin, would take place very soon. She woui have to “settle the date” with Dr. de ‘Trafford. she said. She was divorced from Count Janze in 1927. de — . 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