Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1932, Page 19

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL 17, 1932—PART ONE. TWO RACE MEETS PEN SPRING SERIES My Lady’s Manor Point-to- Point and Middleburg Hunt Events Held. BY ROBERT B. PHILLIPS, JR. Two of the five annual Spring stee- plechase meets in Maryland and Vir- ginia were run off yesterday afternoon, with favorites and honors in the feature races of My Lady's Manor point-to-point and the Hunt Cup. an outsider despite the had won the Piedmont Cup at | len Farm last Fall, captured iddleburg Cup for Malcolm Me- Middleburg, Va. while Brose r won the M rd County me d More than 10,000 spectators gathered from all points of the spor.ng world to witness the running of the two his toric timber events Sunnybank Open. fiddleburg card opened with pank, a 1',-mile flat race, h'R. B. Young rode his own to a deci: victory over J. E. Ryan and his bay gelding Last Cast. Jack Skinner was third on J. Y. W. Martin's Doctor Rankin, Racketeer II and Stonedale had the race to themselves throughout the Vir- ginia specialty which followed the Sun- nybank, and ter was headed throughout the running. Mrs. Som- merville's entry led the way twice| around the mile and one-half course | and was in & strong position 8s the pair cleared the last jump, but was| closed out by Stonedale’s superior | speed. The cup was won without mis- hap to any of the seven starters. In the William Skinner Memorial Cup, Jack nner, brother of the| horseman in memory the race | was established this year, was thrown | at the first jump and suffered painful | but not serious injuries to his right | arm and _shoulder. Admiral Cary| Grayson's Dinner Dance took an early Jead, but was <ly cut off and put out of the by the favorite, Annapolis, vinmill's Vir- | ginia Lightning. The latter two had the rest of the in hand, and An- napolis, formerly a star as a flat racer, closed fast in the second round to win. Miss Julia Whiting’s Prospero was down at the second jump, but the rider, Mr. J. George, was not injured. , &5 most had ex- Aries rac Grubstake Disappoints. Srubstake, owned by Mrs. Raymond | Belmont. disappointed his backers in the outsiders dividing | yland honors at the | | o e TOCLE S P » oy elihd K A W s U A~ e - jump in the Wi was_ established at the first honor the race 6. 0. P. CONVENTION OFFICERS CHOSEN Dickinson Will Be Keynoter. No Action Taken on Per- manent Chairman. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO. April 16—The voice of L. J. Dick junior Senator from Iowa and champion of the administra- Rose Hill event, a 3-mile cross country | for horses that had never won a| Tace, when, while holding a strong lead. he fell at the farthest jump of the | brush layout. The second runner. War Horse, also went down at this obstacle, | and Duncan Read immediately took his | own Silvery Jim to the front to win from Dr. L. M. Allen’s Ostend [ Four of the eleven starters tumbled in the competition for the Loudoun Plate, | fifth and final event of the day, but| none of the jockeys was hurt. W. A. Phiilips' Noon Joy and Mrs. J. | H. Whitney's Disdain headed the field as they first came by the specially con- structed grandstands, but before the 2- mile brush run was completed both | were backed out of the honors by Wil- lam Almey, jr. on his Point Breeze and Allison Stern on his own Festoon. Official, equestrian and Old Dominion society turned out in full force for the | races, braving the high winds and dust clouds which swept across the hills throughout the afternoon. Among those resent were Secretary of War and rs. Hurley, Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison, Col. Patrick Day of the British embassay, Mrs. Andrew | Mellon and Paul Mellon, Mr. and Mrs. | Warren D. Robbins and their daughter | Helen, Admiral and Mrs, Cary T. Gray gon, Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, | Miss Evelyn Walker. Willlam Hulbert, Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney. Julian | St Srders of So00et Town. e doorkeeper, and J. N. Johnston of Kan- Green, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. ter Gwinn, Dr. and Mrs. Holden, Mr. and Mrs Mrs. W. Plunkett Stewart and others, Wins Second Time. Brose Hover's victory for Benjamin Behr of Chicago marked the second | year this horse has won My Lady's Manor, but was not as easily gained as | some had anticipated. The chestnut gelding beat out Wallace Lanhan's| Reel Foot an the flat in the stretch winning by a neck. The second race saw less severe com- petition, with the novice timber-topper | Kahler winning by 10 lengths over Mrs. T. W. Durant’s Fugitive. Mrs. Durant’s colors came to the fore ver, in the John Rush Street | final event of the Maryland card, when Charles White brought th Durant entry to the Rag a head in front of Mrs. Francis Garvin's Netta | Run. Marcal Delporte’s Star Easter was_third The summaries at Middleburg are: The Sunnybank, Aries, R. B. Young, cwner, riding; Last Cast, J. E. Ryan, owner, up. The Middleburg Cup—Stonedale, Malcolm McGiffin, James Ryan up: Racketeer II, Mrs. T. H. Sommerville, Noel Laing up. The William Annapolis, Mrs Noel La up Hiil, Ches- | Raymond | | Skinner Memorial— T. H. Sommerville, Virginia Lightning, William Street up. The Ro Hill—Silvery Jim, Duncan Readmonwer riding; Ostend, Dr. L. R Allen, W treet up. Plate—Point jr., owned, up; iding. nen’s race called off for lack of sufficient en In Maryland Lady's Manor. Behr, owner, Frank Bonsal Reel Foot, Wallace Lanahan, Rieman MeclIntosh up Right Royal Cup—Kahler, W. H. De Courcy Wright, owner, Albert Pocock up: Fugitive, Mrs. T. W. Durant, Charles White up. John Rish Street Memorial-—Polinos, Mrs. Durant, White riding: Netta Run, Mrs. Prancis Garvin, Crawford Bur- ton up. NEW MEXICO APPOINTS RUTH M'CORMICK SIMMS un Breeze Fistoon, the results Brose Hover. were: My Benjamin ., up; owner, Gov. Seligman Names Her Mem- ber of Commission on World’s Fair. ¥ the Assoclated Press SANTA FE. N ina Mc ] 16 —Mrs. Simms, former | today received 1 recognition as a resident ¢ Mexico. thur appointed Mrs v Mex Seligman, Democrat Simms a member of his "0 commission to investigate recommendations with re- o's participation in cago. E i Albert G. Simms, congressman from New Mexico. STOCKS FI)'( IDENTITY Bearch of Pockets Solves Case of Amnesia Victim. LOS ANGELES, April 16 (#).—Identi- | fied by means of cancelled checks and | valuable stocks found in his pockets, | Benjamin B. Foster of Philadelphia was | in & hospital today, the victim of | amnesta. The stocks were in an envelope for mailing to the National Bank of Philadelphia Foster was found in the lobby of & R. T. Corbell, muet tion's farm relief policies, will sound the call to arms of the Republican party next June Senator Dickinson was selected key- noter and temporary chairman today by the Convention Arrangements C mittee of the Republican National Com- mittee. His was the only name s gested. The keynoter was eiected to Senate only two years ago, but leadership in the farm relief movement dates back much farther. As a mem- ber of Congress for 12 years Dickinson was a militant member of the “farm bloc,” a spokesman for the equalization fee and the McNary-Haugen bills. He fought for higher agricultural duties in the tariff bills, helped obta taxes on oleomargarine and other dai substitutes, and was co-author of a bill which would have given the Secretary of Agriculture dictatorial powers over the grain futures markets Other Officers Named. Party leaders had already agreed on Senator Dickinson for keynoter, so th work of naming officers for the June 14 convention tock but a few minutes The other convention offizers are to be Lafayette B. Gleason of New Yo secretary: James Francis Burke o Pennsylvania, parliamentarian; Lehr Fess of Ohio, assistant parliamentarian Sanders of Indiana, sergeant at sas, assistant doorkeepe Representative Bertrand H. Snell of New_York, Republican floor leader the House of Representatives, has be slated for the post of permanent chair man of the Chicago convention, but the Arrangements Committee took no ac- tion regarding that position, saying only the convention itself had the pow to name the chairman Senator Fess Presides. Senator. Simeon D. Fess of chairman of the Repu Committee, presided over toda: ing, which was an executi With the problem of conver quickly disposed of, the waded into the mass of deta be arranged before th ather In the Chicago Stadi June. There was some talk outside t mittee room that the nation quarters during the Fall would be located in Chicago. Some of the committee members favor the plan but no decision was received. This de- cision also was held to be in the prov- ince of the full new National Com: tee or the convention itself Seating and other arrangements of the convention hall were explained tc the committee by Edward N. Hu chalrman of the Chicago commit whicn landed both nationsl conventions for this city, and Sidney Strotz, presi dent of the ago Stadium Policeman to Speak. GERMANTOWN, Md r (Special).—Theodore F. Vollten of the finger-print branch Montgomery County police has been announced, will speak before the Germantown Grange Gra Hall here. Monday evening. He talk on photography and finger HE camera caught this bad spill in the steeplechs Bad Spill Caught by Camera L §o meet at Midd Memorial C , suflered painful in m Skinr race. Skinn \ew Air Squadron Adopts Monolith As Tis Insignia The Wask n M to be the the adopted loc R OF PATRIOTS NAMES DR. STARR Col. Grant Made Honorary Governor for Life by Dis- trict Society. Dr. Har of the Dic ociety Founders and F ing the results of the election of office Th He ensuing rsday ipon which prepa re completed tion following of Fulton, treasurer; genealogist gistrar: Dr historian; Rey chaplain, and State’s attorney 3 are Decatur Hills and Col. H rence Leon- John 1934-35, Dr. R. J. C Grant and Henry White- Clarence nag, eme Court DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS U Opens Work Creation Month RGE REPAIRS TO PROPERTY. Commissicners, shown signing owners in the District to mak fashionable hotel yesterday after hav- ing sat In & lobby chair all day, staring property to maintain the a in reviving noimal employment R. LUTHER H. REICHELDERFER. b irman of the Board of District proc ng on all property repalrs and other improvements to their activeness of their homes and to assist Left to right: E. G. Bliss, chairman of blankly end refusing to speak to any the Work Creation Committee of the District of Columbia Committee on Employe ment; Dr. Reichelderfep, H. G. Outwater and Oscar Leonard.—Star Staff Photo. one, police said. - | | | | | | | i | | ! inner was thrown | eman in whose | ar Staff Photo. | STIMSON IN GENEVA READY FOR PARLEY. | Plans to decide over the week end and Sees Simon, Drummond and Henderson—Conference Is Hopeful. | to get a goodly number of the 36 Massa- Secretary of jeneva today 1to the wo! interest luncheon with sh roreign secre- 1 dlsarmament by the Sino- | Giuseppe | rland; isited Switze e~ n called on S v general of | Nations, and on Arthur | president of the conference. | During the n 5 n | | conferred with m | can de In { e hoped 1e League Henderson. permen, te said man and the ward across a 1 rented for a Jus art treasures, Bruening, who om_Beriin, had ith Maxim Litvinoff for foreign affairs, in of the CENTRAL CASTS TO GIVE SHAKESPEARIAN DRAMA Groups Will Portray Roles in ;ht's Dream™ idsummer Ni Performances, t Wed- urday ium, be plaved by Wi e Milburn. H Adele Whit Moran, Harold vens, Lorraine ard at the the Frid The cast on v mghts will in- Alice Alpert Hart, Edythe 1d Luria, | gwood | nder the direction instructor in music ram of Mendelssohn the presentation er the direction t and J. C. Clag- rete 1 ¥y membe DENIES VIRGINIA LEGION DEMANDS BONUS ACTION Commander Answers Statement of State V. F. W. Head Urging ‘ Veterans' Agitation. April 16—Dr Virgimia De- an Legion, sald today Virginia World War desire to insist upon when such action an already By the A CHAS A. T. Finct partment, Al he is confident veteran do not help for themsely would “seriously embarr urdened Government was expressed in reply of Portsmouth, Va., Vir- CITY, Va. commander he payment balance of the full face sted compensation in- ficates,” ch indicated the attitude nnaires will be that of ion, “that the eco- condition of our all citizens, wheth- or not, ought to r any additional bur- nment at this time." he the Detroit co: nomic and fir rvice me in from placi den upon the Gc FILES FOR S'ENATE SEAT Barbour of New Jersey Seeking Republican Nomination J. April 16 (®).— W. Warren Bar- filed with the petition as a can- Republican senatorial Secretary of State didate for the nomination Barbour, named by former Gov, Mor- | gan F. Larson 1o fi | the unexpired term | of the late Senator Dwight W. Morrow, designated himself as s “regular Re- publican.” . | {votes by Catholic Chu |'To See Her Father ROOSEVELT-SMITH OPEN FIGHT FEARED Governor Off to Minnesota, While “Happy Warrior™ Plans Stump Tour. By the Associated NEW YORK, April 16—Gov. Frank- | lin D. Roosevelt packed his bags tonight for a trip to Minnesota, Alfred E. Smith debated whether he should do political stumping and observers spec- | ulated over the possibility of a bitter | open fight between the pair The Governor's speech in St. Paul v will be his first since Smith | hed a veiled attack on him for magogic attitude With him as he speeds weStward tonight the Governor will have six | drafts of the address he is to deliver. His close friends here say Smith is not | mentioned by name in any of them But in the final draft, which Roose- | velt will write on the train, he is ex-| pected to take the advice of his con- | fidents and include an { his now-celebrated adio talk. some Aim at Farm Votes. In St. Paul he will be in the of strongly agricultural district His a rs have suggested e might win | over many nominally Republican farm | clearly outiining his ideas for g the small home and farm! owner. | Smith himself is considering invita- | tions to address supporters in Massa- 1setts and Pennsylvania before the April 26 primaries, at which a total of 112 delegates will be elected. Out of the 468 delegates far, Roosevelt has 2 ple none heart elected so 5 either instructed d or claimed for him. Smith has but 8 standard bearer is on gathering in a siz- of the Massachusetts 1sylvania blocs. His friends in Boston want him to deliver a speech there and are bringing great pressure to bear on him. Smith announce on Monday whether he will If he goes to Boston, where he has | supporters, there is a possibility attack on his former gubernatorial succes- even mention him by iates Roosevelt campaign managers g on winning 60 of the 76 egates from Pennsylvania and hope | chusetts elect Fears New Fight. If Roosevelt collects a sizeable per- centage of the 112, they add, the fight for the nomination will be virtually ov They think Roosevelt sentiment would then sweep him in without a real con- In Connecticut, however, Homer S Cummings, former national committee rman, expressed fear a bitter fight uld_develop a month from today ts of ate pick their to his paity to end what “stop-Roosevelt” movs necticut, where an active being conducted Roosevelt’s nom- said it would cticut to put itself out of harmony with “the forces which will control the Federal Government for the next four years.” W. J. 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