Evening Star Newspaper, June 27, 1932, Page 10

A—-10 = CHEATHAN IVEN LE SHRNE PLS Son of Confederate Leader| to Direct Stratford Restoration. | Maj. Gen. B. F. Cheatham, retired Army officer and son of one of Lee's| commanders in the Confederate Army, has been appointed superintendent of | Stratford Hall, now being restored as| the birthplace of Gen. Robert E. Lee and the ancestral home of the Lees in| America. Mrs. Charles D. Lanier, president of | the Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation, Inc., in making this atmouncement here today through Mrs. Cazenove Lee, State director for the District under the foundation, said Gen. Cheatham already has accepted the appointment and will take up his duties July 1. The post was tendered him by Mrs. Harry B. Hawes, wife of the Missouri Senator, | who is chairman of the foundation's Committee on Employment and Man- agement. Work Already Started. Gen. Cheatham, who resides with his wife at 2101 Connecticut avenue, will have charge of the program of resto- ration, which already has been started following consummation of Stratford Hall's purchase by the foundation. Full stewardship of Stratford is now as sumed by the Lee Memorial Foundation, and members of the organization are actively co-operating in plans to make it one of 'the outstanding historic shrines of the country. Mrs. Hawes, in offering_the post to Gen. Cheatham, said: “We feel the great reconstruction program contem- plated for this national historic shrine Justifies us in offering this position to one of your outstanding ability and ex- | perience I expressing his apprecial Cheatham said: e, . “No one can come in contact with the women who compose your founda- tion without being profoundly im- pressed by their unselfish devotion to a really great cbjective. * * * As you have visualized it, the protection and Thetuation of Stratford as a shrine ’comes a patriotic duty worthy of the best that is in us, and it s withy that feeling that I accept your offer.” Gen. Cheatham has a distinguished record of service in the Army, having been appointed captain in the Quarter- master Corps 31 years ago and serving in various capacities until he became Quartermaster General in ‘was retired at his own request in 1930 with the rank of major general. Served in World War. | During the World War he went to | Prance with the first contingent of | troops as quartermaster of the 1st Di- vision. After serving on the staff in | Prance for a year, at his own request he was assigned to duty commanding the 104th Infantry, 26th Division, from | St. Mihiel through the Meuse-Argonne offensive to the end of the war. | In accordance with the provisions of a special act of Congress in 1930, he | ‘was restored to active duty in order to | participate in the pilgrimage of Gold Star Mothers to France, but returned to the retired list the following year. He was decorated with the Distin- guished Service Medal for services in the field in France and is a holder of the French Legion of Honor with the rank of commander. LURAY MAN IS FOUND VICTIM OF ASSAULT | Youth, 19, Surrenders to Police. Attack Made From Behind With Rock. Special Dispatch to The Star. LURAY, Va., June 27—Found un- conscious near his home here Saturday night, Charles Knight, 76-year-old truck gardener, is in a serious condi- tion, with concussion of the brain, fol- lowing a blow on the head. | Investigation revealed he was struck by & rock thrown by Johnny Sigler, 19, who surrendered to the sheriff about | an hour after Knight was found. Sigler claimed self-defense. Knight, who regained consciousness yesterday morning, alleged he was struck from behind and knows nothing of what occurred. He is said to have objected to Sigler's attentions to his granddaughter. | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JUNE 27, ADVERTISERS SHOW INCREASED PROFITS Heads Lee Shrine | Users of Newspaper Space Gained in Sales. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, June 27—Many com- panies have maintained and even in- creased their earnings by consistent newspaper advertising, the American Newspaper Publishe) Association sald | vesterday in announcing the results of | & survey by its bureau of advertising. One automobile concern which in. ‘Survey Reveals Consistent: 1926. He | | MAJ. GEN. B. F. CHEATHAM. | 'EX-KLAN PROMOTER | PRONOUNCED SAN Clarke Reveals No Trace of Mental Disorder, but Offices of New | Order Are Closed. | - By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 27.—Edward Young Clarke, former high Ku Klux Klan official and more recently promoter cf a new fraternal organization called Esskaye, Inc., has been pronounced sane by psychiatrists of the Cook County Psychophatic Hospital, to which he had | himself ccmmitted as a paranoaic. | Dr. V. G. Urse, one of the hospital's | chief alienists, said yesterday no trace jcould be found of mental ailment and | such a report would be made to Judge }Chflrlcs Allen at a sanity hearing for | Clarke Thursday. Clarke was commit- | ted to the county hospital for cbserva- tion last Tuesday on request of his counsel, who produced a report of a physician terming him a paranoaic. | . State attcrney’s investigators have had Esskaye, Inc., under surveilance. Clarke had promised to “cure” the economic |ills of the Nation through it and mem- | bership fees ranging from $10 to $300 | were asked. Offices of the organization | are now closed, hcwever. ! creased its newspaper budget 33 per| cent, the bureau announced, showed & | 40 per cent increase in earnings during | 1931. A manufacturer of electric re- | frigerators spent $200,000 last vear in | newspaper space and dollar sales for Ug’ng year were 460 per cent of sales in | 1930. Of four leading tobacco manufacturers who increased newspaper space in 1931, three showed an increase in earnings and one a slight decline frcm the high net of a year preceding. Aggregate_ex- penditures of these four companies* in newspaper advertising were increased | from $20,000,000 in 1920 to $26,000,000 in 1931 and aggregate earnings in- | creased from $105,200,000 to $111,300,000. On the other hand, the bureau said | that four tobacco companies which de- creased their aggregate investment in newspaper space in 1931 showed a 45 per cent decline in combined net earn. ings. McComb, Miss., residents have agreed to collect and sell waste paper by the carload to maintain its Boy Scout! organization | | | In the morning Shake into your shoes some Allen’s Foot=Ease. It will give you a day of rest from hot, tired, smarting, ach- ing feet, stop the pain of corns and Make new or tight shoes y.2 Sizes now sold. ~or free sample address Allen’s Foot=Ease, LeRoy,N. Y. i¢ Allen’s Foot=Ease THREE DIE, 3 MISSING | | IN OKLAHOMA FLOODS ! Thirteen Plunged Into Creek as | Small Bridge Gives Way—More | Rain Forecast. ' | By the Associated Press CHICKASHA, Okla., June 27.—Sud- den floods Sunday in South Central Oklahoma claimed at least three lives and three children were missing, be- lieved drowned in Rush Creek. More rain was forecast Thirteen persons were plunged into | the creek when a small bridge col- |lapsed as the party in a wagon was crossing after attending church services. Eight were saved. | The bodies of Mrs. John and Mrs. iCBI\'m Lindsey, sisters-in-law, were re- covered, one seven miles down stream. Three small children of Mrs. John Lindsey—Mary Ruth, 1: L. D, 3, and Eugene, 4—were missing. Near Tishomingo, Thomas D. Wade. 25, a highway worker, drove his auto- mobile off a washed-out bridge approach on Sandy Creek and was drowneed. Streams subsided quickly. The Cana- PERPETUAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION PAYS 5% Assets Over $27,000,000 Surplus $1,250,000 JAMES BERRY. President EDWARD C. BALTZ. Secretary 1932. dian River was high but not dangerous at Oklahoma City. Heavy rains were general over the State. S e SUSPECT TAKES LIFE AFTER EXTORTION QUIZ Manager of Grocers’ Supply Com- pany Leaves Note Denying Charge at Salt Lake City. By the Associated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, June 27.—How- ard R. Parr, 57, manager of the Grocers’ Supply Co., who was accused of an at- tempt to extort $750 from David A. Me- | Millan, suburban banker, is dead of | poison police said he took at his home here yesterday after writing a note de- nying the charge. Parr was arrested last Thursday night when he moved & stone at a cross-roads officers said the writer of two threaten- ing messages to McMillan had named as a rendezvous. He asserted he alighted from his motor car at the cross-roads for another purpose and accidentally kicked over the stone. 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