Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1932, Page 21

AL FRANGE BOWS AT BRIAND'’S GRAVE Half Million Line Streets as “Prince of Orators’” Cor- tege Passes. By the Assoclated Press. | PARIS, March 12—The world and his homeland gave final honors today to Aristide Briand. Half a million per- sons Jined the streets of Paris as his body was borne from the foreign office, | over which he presided so many years, ! to Passy Cemetery. | Because Briand was the “apostle of peace,” he was accorded a peace-lover's funeral. Instead of the usual gun car- riage, an ordinary horse-drawn coach bore him to his grave, and the part played by the military arm of the na- tion was cut to the minimum. | In a funeral oration at the for-| eign office, Premier Andre Tardieu called Briand the “prince of orators.”| At his funeral he received the last ap-| tion of the colors of Follow Me Post | plause of his people. Throng Stands Bareheaded. The half-million, massed the length of the majestic Champs Elysees, stood bareheaded and watched the hearse go slowly by. At the end of the cortege a delegation of war veterans displayed a placard on which was inscribed Briand's famous utterance welcom! y into the League of Nations: ‘Away with cannon and guns!” That phase caught the imagination of the throng. At first timorously, and then whole- heartedly, men, women and children clapped their hands. It was to the sound of that spontaneously , popular spproval of his striving for peace that he passed from the Paris stage as slowly and majestically as he used to descend from the rostrum of the Chamber of Deputies or the League of Nations As- sembly after one of his oratorical triumphs. For comparable popular homage to a civilian Paris must hark back to Wood: row Wilson's triumphal entry in De- cember, 1918. Although the army, in & brief but im- ve march past his coffin at the foreign office, honored the premier who defended Verdun and who organized the Balonika expedition, it was the common ?wpb who formed the procession that ollowed Briand to the grave. The “Finest Flower.” His funeral day was marked by an- other signal step toward the peace for which he strove. Just before the begin- ning of the ceremony, Premier Tardieu, his successor as foreign minister, an- nounced that he and Sir John Simon, British foreign secretary, had reached a 'wor| agreement by which France and Great Britain will co-operate to soften the political rivalries of Europe and to speed the continent's economic revival. “That is the finest flower that could be laid upon his tomb,” said one of M. Briand’s intimates, ‘The funeral ceremony was held in the foreign office, and it was attended by President Doumer and all high gov- ernment officials, as well as representa- tives of almost 60 nations. When the presidential party, escorted by Republican Guards in full ‘uniforms and with drawn sabers, arrived in the foreign office the tribunes already were filled with official guests. Judges of the high courts were in their red robes and diplomats in full dress with decorations, Edge Among Mourners. MB;aleurln. lulmlmlitl , and then the “Marse! " was ed—and thou- sands of people, from Paris and from all France, along the Quai d'Orsay, uncovered at the sound of the anthem, Among the noted mourners present ‘were Ambassador Walter E. Edge, rep- Tesenting President Hoover; Lord Tyr- Tell, representing King George; Naotake Bato, representing the Emperor of Ja- nn: Bir John Simon, representing the of Nations; Malcolm Mac- Donald, representing his father, dP;lme Minister and Am- bessador von Hoesch of Ger- PRESS CLUB 0BSERVES 24TH ANNIVERSARY | Oorrespondents of Out-of-Town Newspapers and Local | Writers Guests. Celebrating the twenty-fourth anni- of its founding, newspaper folk. Members of the club had as 5 'hxng C&ued(e,h es correspondent, was the hit | skit in a blackface role ween acts the Radiotone Quartet, by WRC and composed of Wil- Abernathy, Edwin Steffe, Louis Annis and W. E. Braithwaite, sang a | number of songs. Other members of the cast in addi- tion to Catledge were George Benson, Minneapolis Tribune; Edward T. Fol- llard, Washington Post; Franklyn Walt- man, Baltimore Sun; Paul Hodges, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Lewis ‘Wood, New York Times. FOR RENT WORCH’S 1110 G N.W. Troubled For Years With Salt Rheum Healed by Cuticura “For years I was troubled with salt rheum. It started with a terri- ble itching and burning on my lower limbs and then large blisters would form. My face and arms also were. affected and were 80 sore that I cow'd not do work of any kind or wash xes of Ointment I ) Mrs. Edgar Orleans St., Otsego, Mich. Daily use of Cuticura Soap, with touches of Cuticura Qintment as Will Preside ADMIRAL COONTZ TO OFFI- CIATE AT DEDICATION. ADMIRAL ROBERT E. COONTZ, Senior vice commander in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, who will pre- side at ceremonies incident to dedica- and Advance Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in the Interior Depart- ment auditorium Tuesday night. ANALOSTAN ISLAND SUBIEET OFTALK James F. Duhamel to Give| Historical Society Data on Fairfax Home. Analostan Island and Belvoir, the Fairfax home, will be discussed by James F. Duhamel before the Columbia Historical Society Tuesday evening at the Cosmos Club. Walter 8. Pratt, jr., will give a biographical sketch of John Bell Larner. Nothing remains of the mansions of Belvoir or Analostan Island, Mr. Du. hamel explained, although there is ni' the bill before Congress to rebuild Belyoir house for an officers dwelling at Fort Humphrey and a bill is also before Congress for the Government to accept Analostan Island for & Theodore Roosevelt memorial. Referring briefly to the subject he will discuss next Tuesday, Mr. Duhamel said that “George Willlam Fairfax the grand-nephew of Lord Thomas Fairfax and son of the first owner and builder of the mansion, was a few years older than Washington, and his ‘sister had married Lawrence Washington. Two in British Service. “Two of the Fairfax boys,” he added, “had died in the British service, one in the navy and the other in the army at Quebec.” George Willlam Fairfax had served in the militia and Lawrence Washington in the British navy. With this martial background there is little wonder that Washington should have aspired at an early age to military honors, and that the influence was great is evidenced by his own statement that he regarded Belvoir as his second home, and that he spent much of his early life in the sports of the Fairfax “While the Fairfaxes exerted this military influence no one exerted a greater influence in Washington's devo- ton to Virginia and its independence and laid the foundation for his states- manship than George Mason of Gunston Hall, who acquired Analostan Island early in life, and left it to his son John Mason, who built a house and raised & thousands of cannon between 1800 and Commander of Militia, “John Mason was, during the first 10 years of the existence of the City of Wasl the commander of the militia, was president of the first Dis- trict of Columbia bank and eventuall: owner of the Foxhall or Columbia Foun- dry that supplied our Government with gg:’xunds of cannon between 1800 and “John Mason left many descendants in this vicinity, one of them being James Murry Mason, a partner in the Mason-Slidell episode. “George Willlam Fairfax did not favor the independence of the Colonies and returned to England at the breaking out of the Revolution.” D —_—— From New York's City Hall to the city line is somewhat over 14 miles. 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The Army day observance April 6, | the 15th anniversary of the entry of | the United States into the World War, will be marked by the appearance of | thousands of marching Regular Army men, Reserve officers, Cadets and vet- erans of Indian, Civil, Spanish and World Wars, the District of Columbia Bicentennial Commission announced yesterday. | Program Worked Out. | A definite program for this event, which is_under the auspices of the Military Order of the World War, was worked out at a meeting held in_the commission_offices this week, at which both the United States and District commission were represented. Officials of the police and traffic departments also attended the session to perfect regulation of the parade which will be on Pennsylvania and Constitution avenues. General arrangements for a Fraternal | day celebraticn, to take place in Octo- ber, will be considered at a meeting in the local Bicentennial headquarters Wednesday afternoon. At that time Dr. George C. Havenner, executive vice president of the commission, will confer with the representatives of more than a score of fraternities represented in | the Capital. The line of march for the Army day parade, it was decided at the meeting | this week, will be from New Jersey ave- nue southeast, and contiguous thor- oughfares, across the East Plaza of the Capitol, then down the north roadway of the Capitol through Pennsylvania avenue to Fifteenth street, thence to | Constitution avenue and Seventeenth | street. Reviewing stands are to be | erected along the line of march and the President and other distinguished guests are expected to view the pro- cession from a special stand on Con- stitution avenue. The march across the | Capitol Plaza is to give members of | Congress an opportunity to see the | parade. Huge Parade Expected. | The principal plan expected to be | proposed at the meeting Wednesday on | the Fraternal day observance will be a | huge parade along Pennsylvania and | Constitution avenues. Efforts will be | made to attract delegations of march- ers from outside of the Capital in addi- tion to units from all the fraternities Tepresented in Washington. Baltimore, according to the District commission, already has indicated its intention of participating by sending large marching units, and like intima- tions have come from Philadelphia and other cities. The date for the celebra- tion has not been set other than that it will occur in October and that it will not conflict with the ceremonies inci- dent to Navy day, October 27. Indications are, Dr. Havenner said yesterday, that the fraternal parade and other ceremonies that day will make it one of the outstanding days in the anme District Bicentennial celebra- on. List of Conferees. 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Now statuary in the grounds is corroded and broken. Windows are patched. Within, once gorgeous hang- ings and rich furniture are covered with dust and shrouded in white covers. Lives Practically Alone. Thompson, his millions gone, and divorced from his wife, lives alone, save for a caretaker and housekeeper. Twenty years ago he was surrounded by a brilliant household and dashing com- nions. P e Thompson fortunes waxed until he became one of the wealthiest men of his time. He entered politics and aspired to the governorship, carrying his banner to the 1912 Republican State meeting in Harrisburg on a special train to the accompaniment of bands and a cheering delegation. He lost his one bid for State-wide | power and thereafter contented himself with local politics. Followed by Misfortunes. Fortune's smile turned to frowns in 1915. He was declared bankrupt and Was unable to realize on his $70,000,000 of assets to meet obligations of $22,- 000,000, Nearly 15 years later his misfortunes | were climaxed by arrest on a charge of embezzlement, preferred by his niece, the Princess of Thurn and Taxis, for- merly Lydia Niceolls of Uniontown. Thompson was in jail for eight days for contempt of court because he failed to repay sums as ordered by the court. Then they released him because of danger to his health. Since then he has been a recluse. MAROONED MAN RETURNS Arrives from Va., Resort as Friends Plan Rescue. Marooned for & week at Skyland, the mountain resort he owns near Luray, Va., George F. Pollock returned to Washington vesterday just before the scheduled departure of a party of friends to effect his rescue. Mr. Pollock sald he had an ample supply of food and fuel and could have stayed on the mountain indefinitel: His chief concern was over the su pension of telephone service on ac- count of last Sunday's blizzard. He had been unable to communicate with his family. He finally got down the mountain on horseback. He was kept busy for several hours after his return answering telephone calls fyom anxious friends. —_— Nearly three-fourths of all goatskins exported from India “last year were shipped to the United States. Luray, | “UNHOLY THREE” PROBED $30,000 Demanded in Letter for Baby’s Return Tonight. HARRISBURG, Pa., March 12 (P).— Pennsylvania State police have been requested by the New Jersey State po- lice to investigate the sending of a let- ter postmarked Plymouth, Pa., demand- ing $30,000 for the return of the Lind- bergh baby tonight. The letter was signed “The Unholy Three.” It stated that the money should be delivered in $20 bills by a woman, who should be in front of the Plymouth post office at 8:30 o'clock. The child, the letter sald, would be freed a half hour later. OFFICER TRANSFERRED WALDORF, Md., March 12.—Patrol- man C. C. Sherman has been assigned to the sub-station of the State police here by transfer from Belair sub-sta- tion. He will succeed Officer W. K. May. who will go to Belalr. The switch is effective Monday. | 1932—PART ONH. WEALTHY WOMAN HERMIT DIES AT 38 Mrs. Ida E. Wood Succumbs in Cheap Hotel, Her Home for 25 Years. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 12.—Mrs. Ida E. Wood, who lived as a mifion-dollar her- mit in the heart of Manhattan since the panic of 1907, is dead. Her years were 93 and her memories of a bygone day were priceless. She died shortly after noon today in the third-rate hotel in Herald Square where she had lived a recluse’s life for nearly a quarter of a century. Pneu- monia took her after a heart attack had sapped her strength several days ago. Her personal physician and four | nurses stood by the bed in the tiny| two-room suite and watched helplessly the passing of the woman who knew New York when she and it were young- sters. Her nephew and personal gulz.l‘d-J ian, Otis F. Wood, alone among her rel- | atives was there at the end. Ida Wood was the widow of Benja- min Wood, brother of a New York mayor and publisher of a Democratic newspaper in the time of Abraham coln. Once she danced with Edward, Prince of Wales, and she was a social leader for 20 years during the post- Civil War period. Prepared Own Meals. | Her story remained her own until | last Summer, when her kinfolk found | she had been living alone within a stone's throw of Times Square since the death of her sister Mary. She had | refused medical or legal advice and al its earlier id a life of | P Learn how | Nature can help you. Phone or write for free literature. Sold in Washington 15 Years Mountain Valley Water America’s Foremost Health Water From HOT SPRINGS, ARK. 230 Woodward Bldg. Met. 1062 ' most starved herself by cooking meager meals over a gas burner. When her nephew was appointed guardian, her secret world tumbled at her feet. Under her protesting eyes and in spite of her grumbling words, a search of her belongings uncovered nearly $1,000,000 in mouldy currency and coins, an equal amount in jewels and invaluable mementoes of her in- o andired thousand dollars were h;g en a brown paper parcel in :;-xurzmumm ook and. $500.000 more from a secret pocket in her skirt. Forty rusted trunks, some of them in her room and some in storage, disgorged among the gems a diamond necklace she had worn at the Infanta Eulalia’s ball in 1893. 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