Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1932, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR. SEE LEGAL BARRER INAT.VERNON AL Virginia Assembly Consent Also Needed, Declares Howard Smith. A legal obstacle was seen today by | Representative Howard Smith of Alex- | andria, Va., to be in the path of the move for the Federal Government to! | acquire Mount Vernon He described this difficulty before ‘the | House Fublic Lands Committee, which is considering the Treadway resolution to request the Secretary of the Interior | to ascertain on what terms and con- ditions the property might be purchased {rum the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Associa- jon ith referred to the charter under whi it functions and quoted it to show that the Washington home can- not be sold without the consent of the Virginia Assembly. Sees Strong Oppoesition. “While this bill seems to me to be rather innocuous, these ladies are op. posed to it and don't want it enacted into law,” Smith said. “I am sure you do not want to do a futile thing and the Mount Vernon ladies have no right to alienate the property When Repr ative Leavitt, Repub- lcan, Montana, suggested the resolution be amended s0 as to let the Secretary of the Interior negotiate with the Com- monwealth of Virginia as well as the assoclation, Smith said he would be op- posed to that change. Representative Treadway, Republican, Massachusetts, author of the resolution, said, however, he would have no objection “The George Washington home should be a national shrine, no matter how useful the ladies have been,” Treadway remarked. “The American people want it turned over to the Federal Govern- ment.” Stresses Patriotic Duty. Me criticized two things about the nt administration of the estate: 25 cent admission fee and the hours st which it is open. “That patriotic group of women could | do nothing more patriotic in this year of the Bicentennial than to say to the| Becretary of the Interior: ‘We'll forego any individual rights we have and turn that property over where it belongs, Treadway said. The committee agreed to take the Pesolution up in executive session. COLORS DEDICATED BY VETERANS’ POST Dorothy Mackaill Is Guest at Ceremonies of Police and Fire Organization. Honored Police land Fire Post, No. 2249, Vet- erans of Foreign Wars, last night| dedicated colors at a ceremony in the| Interior Department Auditorium. Dorothy Mackalll, the screen star, Whol is ‘appearing here this week, was the guest of honor. Supt. of Police Glass- ford was master of ceremonies, and taks were made by Representative Kvale of Minnesota, = Representative Menlove of Missouri, @nd Mrs. John Al ea Dougherty. Commissicner Crosby, in charge orl th> Poilce and Pire Departments; Fire | Chief Watson, Capt. - Ray C. -Mont- ECImTY. exl] of Park Police: el Miller, hus of Miss Mackaill, Ma). Harvey L. Miller, Marine e were other guests. While the Overseas Band played, the co'ors were massed on the stage, with a guard of policemen, firemen and Boy Scouts. Afterward there was & pro- gram of entertainment. Pvt. J. E. Bennett of the Trafic Bu- reau, heads the post. PLAN PASSOVER SERVICE Adas Tsrael Congregation to Open Festival Tomorrow Night. g “Fights Schall CHALLENGES ELECTION OF MINNESOTA SENATOR. EINAR HOIDALE | Of Minneapolis challenged the election of Senator Thomas D. Schall, Minne- sota Republican, in a petition submit- ted to the United States Senate. He charged violation of State and Federal corrupt practices acts. —A. P. Photo. 53 WENDEL HERS PICKED IN GERMANY Court at Havelberg Names Two Groups as Proper Legatees of Estate. By the Associated Press HAVELBERG, Germany, April 19— { The high district court of Branden- burg has ruled that the heirs to the $100,000,000 fortune left by Ella Wen- del when she died In New York last year are the groups Tepresented by Mrs. Gertrude Ohsann Kay of San Fran- cisco and Adelaide Elizabeth Kroeger of Bremen. Germany. The decision of the high court, ren- dered by Judge Joachim Rudolphi, is not binding, but was regarded here as necessarily commanding attention in New York, where the Wendel will, which has been presented for probate, faces a fight from 2,000 claimants. The decision was given at the con- clusion of a four-day hearing in this small town 80 miles northwest of Berlin. The hearing was held here because the records of the St. Laurentius Evan- gelical Lutheran Church, dating back as far as 1611, and involving the Wen- del forebears, were available here. 53 Persons Named Heirs. The ruling named the heirs in a blanket decision. It said 53 persons represented in the Kay claim and the claim of the Kroegers were the actual descendants of Johann Sebastian Wen- del, antecedent in direct line to Ella ‘Wendel. Baron Karl yon lewinsky, represent- ing the Americhns, submitted a brief of the case and eonducted pleadings on behalf of Edwird Bloom, a San Fran- cisco attorney. The final result was a 46-page document replete with seals and photographs of the original church and record and signed by Judge Ru- dolphi. | In his findings the judge went back to the early Wendels, eliminating what he termed non-relatives. It wes developed during the hearing that one of the ancestors of Ella Wen- del, Johann Gottfried Heironymus Wen- del, was the official executioner in San- dow, Germany, about 1800. Attorney Won't Comment. George Flint Warren, sr. attorney for the Wendel estate in New York, declined to comment on the decision of The Adss Israel Synagogue will begin | the annual Passover festival tomorrow | night with services at 7 o'clock in the| temple, Bixth and I streets. Services the Havelberg, Germany, judge, recog- | nizing two sets of Wendel heirs At this stage of the court iligation | involving the Wendel will, which gave most of the fortune to charity, April 25 | has been set as the date on which Sur- and Thursday of next week. .| rogate Foley would hear a dispute as Rabbi Solomon Metz will preach ser- | to whether the Surrogate’s Court of mons_at morning services Thursday and Priday this week and Wednesday of next week. ; Fine Arts Chairman Opposes Mt. Vernon Acquisition by U. S. Moore Voices Sentiments | on Shrine Before D. A. R. Congress. Charles Moore, chairman of the Pine Arts Commission, went on record last night before the D. A. R. Congress as opposing the acquisition of Mount Vernon by the Federal Government. “Never, I hope,” he said, will Mount Vernon “be wrested by impersonal gov- ernment from the tender care of the women of the Union who saved that sacred home, who have restored its old- time elegance, and who now maintain its high estate with love and intelli- gent devotior.” It was in connection with an ad- dress on “Washington—Vision and Re- ality” that Mr. Moore expressed his sentiments about the great American shrine, linked now, he said, with the great monuments of the National Capi- tal by “a glorious highway” and the Arlington Memorial Bridge. “The opening of the bridge and highway this Bicentennial year are the Nation's act of commemoration,” he sald, Quoted on Prediction. omed to see George Washing- ted in Mount Vernon and the | ton Monument, Mr. Moore out, the country fails to realize the larger and truer conception | his spirit incarnate in the City of Washington as a supreme work of | art “A centuyry hepce,” he quoted Wash- ington as writing. “if this country keeps united, will produce & ecity, though not as large as London, yet of 8 magnitude inferior to few others in Europe. To Washington, the Nation's capital could only be a paper city, Mr. Moore declared, “but in its plan he endowed 4t with the heritage of grandeur, dig- lnllg':nd beauty. We of today are his Protecting Care Required. Mr. Moore reminded the D, A, R. delegates that the National Capital is theirs to guard and protect “Ever the City of Washington, abounding in historical associations, rich in monuments to national heroes, requires your protecting care and your intelligent thought, not alone on pa- triotic anniversaries, but at all times,” he said. “And especially on the No- vember day when you go to the ballot box, because the Senators and mem- bers of ogflrm you elect are made z.h tution of the United States zesponsible rulers of this clty,” New York County or of Westchester County had jurisdiction to probate the will. PAGEANT TO SHOW BOY SCOUT AIMS Forty District Troops Will Take Part in Event for Festival of Youth at Monument May 14. Porty Boy Scout troops of the District of Columbia Council will present a pageant, “The Scout Trail to Citizen- ship,” in connection with the Festival of Youth to be staged on the Monument grounds May 14 under the direction and sponsorship of the District Bicentennial Commission. Approximately 800 Scouts and leaders, under William L. Leitch, will participate in the pageant. The festival itself will include events in which children of pub- lic and private schools of the District will take part. The various features of the Boy Scout organization, beginning with the entry og a boy as a “cub,” will be traced in the pageant, culminating with the de- picting of the world-wide phases of scouting by uniformed Scouts of all nations, Groups of Sea Scouts will demon- strate the handling of cutters and stage a life-saving drill in the Tidal Basin. 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