Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1933, Page 30

SCHOOL CONTRES AT DARKHOLLOW House President Built on Rapidan Tract Presented to Virginia. By the Associated Press. Established as an important center of community life, the school that President Hoover built in the Virginia Mcuntains three years ago will con- | tinue to bring the light of ‘“book- | larnin’ " to Dark Hollow. | The President included the tract on which the schoolhouse stands in his Rapidan _camp gift to the Common- wealth of Virginia for eventual inclu- sion in the proposed Shenandoah Na- tional Park. The plan is for the school to continue under State supervision as it has while being maintained by Mr. Hoover. Law- rence Richey, one of his secretaries, re- vealing that fact today, said also that Christene Vest, the ~specially-trained teacher, probably would stay on the job. Sightseers Attracted. Events have moved swiftly since sehooling came to the Rapidan on Feb- | ryuary 24, 1930. Over the scenic newly- paved Shenandoah tral, which comes very close to the -schoolhouse, sight- | secrs now are speeding in great num- | bers. That road will bring children to | school in & hurry—boys and girls who bave known what it means to trudge miles each day to learn from Miss Vest. | So_sequestered had been the life of Alabama Convicts Identify Cells With Ornate Name Plates By the Assoclated Press. MONTGOMERY, Ala., January 13-—Officials of Kilby Peniten- tlary have sponsored a departure from prison custom by placing name plates for the con- victs on the outside of each cell. The plates are made from the odds and ends of metal left over after Alabama’s automobile li- cense tags had been manufac- tured at the penitentiary plant and are finished in the same blue and white color scheme. SHAW GITES PERILS N EEONONY PLA Calls Program an Attack on “Whole Merit System in Government.” The present governmental economy program affecting employed personnel was assailed as laying the basis for “a most insidious and dangerous attack upon the whole merit system in Gov- ernment” by John Arthur Shaw, na- ticnal president of the American Fed- eration of Government Employes, in an address last night before Tariff Com- Blue Ridge mountaineers before the | mission Lodge at national headquarters, & Dresident came to camp there, they scarcely knew there was a world be- yend the general store at Criglersville. "he school radio and telephone were | ties. All the 20 children, ranging 1726 Pennsylvania avenue. Shaw hit in particular the proposals to decentralize the personnel record system now maintained in the Civil Service Commission and to require cer- age from 6 to 16, who came as pupils | tain Veterans’ Administration employes the first day, had to start at the be- ginning. Brand-New School. And what a start they had! A brand-new, two-chimney school house, | rt class room, part home for Miss Vest, on a spot 3,200 feet above sea level on Doubletop Mountain, Built-in book | in homes and hospitals to work a full day Saturday. and the marital status provision of the economy act. Officers of Bureau of Engraving and Printing_Lodge, No. 29, were. installed at the Hamilton Hotel last night by George L, Jefirey, fourth natlonal vice president. John R. Newman, who took the lead in the lodge's formation, was cases filled with the favorites of chil- | jnstalled as sident, dren, Desks adjustable to each child's | are dames G- Bon” n,g‘h&';e",fl,’,igf height. An open fireplace as well as a | dent; Miss Vinnie L. Harrington, second shiny new stove. vice president: Mrs. Tracy Thornett, re- Ray Burraker, the neighbor boy, Who | cording secretary; Charles J. Beck, prcug!m Lhre Pr;;ldfin :lgozlsmnfi‘rghsfi | treasurer, and Marian Skinner, ser- in return for riend Ve eant . Visit & school Douse, Tose at 5 a.m. that | & rec and sthel Conar i)’ Seorge first day to raise the school house flag Allen D. McCartee, George E. Jacobs, et sunrise. Reporters and photographers | Mary Campbell and Bertha Duncan are frcm Washington thronged in and delegates to the Central Labor Union Grandpa and Grandma Burraker, tland Miss Viola B. Ingalls and Mr 70, walked 2 miles to join in the first- | jacops delegates to the District Depart- day excitement. AIMEE W’PHERSON REPORTED IN COMA ment. Miss Nicie Perrell was appointed chairman of a committee to study a sick and death benefit plan to be es- blished. MAGAZINE TATLER FAILS Condition of Evangelist Described | Publication Which Rated Debu- as Serious, but Nature of Ailment Not Given. By the Associated Press. tantes Is in Virtual Receivership. NEW YORK, January 13 (#).—The magazine Tatler and American Sketch, which rated the debutantes and pro- vided comments on the society scene by “Audacious,” formally passed out LOS ANGELES, January 13—T|of McPherson Hutton, evangelist, was re- ‘The Windsor Publishing Co. assigned ported today by her physiclan to be in | jtg gssets to Daniel Diamond to be sold & coma. for the benefit of creditors. The action ‘The physician, Dr. L. C. Audrain, de- T o in ae eriodk bt is equivalent to a Federal receivership, dzcclined to discuss the nature of her allment. The evangelist was said to be con- except that the debtor chooses his own assignee. ‘The company acquired the Tatler fined to her bed in the parsonage of | 220Ut three years ago. Angelus Temple of which she is pastor. Mrs. Hutton has been reported seri- Qusly ill cn' numerous occasions during the last two years. Her illness began with a nervous breakdown. _Later, while on a honeymoon trip to Central America with her -husband, David L. l}fi:uon, jr., she contracted ,a tropical ess. Several months ago when her hus- band lost a breach of promise suit to Myrtle St. Plerre, & nursé, the evan- gelist fainted on being told the news. She fell to the concrete floor of her home, and was reported to have suf- | fered a skull fracture. Two weeks ago Hutton reported wife was se- | riously ill. . PHILADELPHIA BUDGET CUT $6,322,000 MORE 1933 Ordinance Awaits Signature of Mayor After Extensive Revision. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, January 13.—Mayor J. Hampton Moore’s signature of the 1933 budget ordinance was awaited to- day to permit opening of the city's books for the ensuing year. At the mayor’s request, City Council | hacked another $6,322,000 from the | much-revised budget last night and £2nt it back for his action. Before the latest reductions the budget totaled $81.417,113, Slashes totaling $662,000 were made | in the county departments and other savings amounting to $1,060,000 were achieved in a variety of ways, but a| lump sum of $4,600,000 was cut from | the Department of Public Safety, with the c.pectation that it will be restored befcre it is needed for police and fire- men’s payrolls. Restoration of this sum from a Phil- adelphia Rapid Transit Co. sinking| fund, originally intended to aid the| city to buy the Broad street subway, is | contingent upon approval from the | Public Service Commission. MARRIAGE ANNULLED ]‘ AFTER THIRTY YEARS| | ‘Woman, 82, Says Husband Deserted | Her, but Left Evidence He Had Another Wife. ‘ LOS ANGELES, January 13 (#).— Mrs. Mary Emily Cameron waited 30 | years before asking an annullment of | her marriage. Superior Judge Robert W. Kenny went to her home here yesterday be- cause she is 82 rs 0ld and infirmities | prevented her from appearing in Do- | mestic Relations Court. . The judge said she told him she was married at Newark, N. J.,, February 17, 1903, to Albert Edward Cameron, but that he soon deserted her in St. Louis, taking her $800 and leaving behind evi- dence that he had another wife. Judge Kenny granted the annull- ment. e | MONTREAL CHURCH BURNS TR T | ¥aluable Relics, Paintings and Wood Carvings Lost. ! MONTREAL, January 13 (®).—St.| Louis de Prance Church was destroyed by fire yesterday and its valuable col- Jection of relics, beautiful paintings and WO N slightly For hours it it apeared as ml general PRTGL the city. . VARAARAAAAAA EISEMAN’S SEVENTH AND F $25 UITS 18 NOTHING DOWN Just Pay $6 IN FEBRUARY - $6 IN MARCH $6 IN APRIL The Most Liberal Offer in Town Men—buy one of these all-wool, stylish suits— pay nothing down—just $6 in February, March and April. 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