Evening Star Newspaper, May 27, 1933, Page 4

NEVADA, DELA, YOTING ON REPEAL Wet Wave Expected in West, While Both Sides Are Confident im East. By the Associated Press. RENO, Nevada, May 27.—Nevada's| reputediy liberal-minded. voters turn out st precinct mass meetings today to ex- press themselves on proposed repeal of | the eighteenth amendment. From Reno, in the northwest, across e S o ks Vogs, near. BOUNE: | E to Las Vegas, ne e «‘;u wave was predicted by most observers. The prediction wne & buedr ona mm"; to-one popular vo a few years in favor of a repeal resoluticn directed to Congress by the Legislature and the fact the State removed its own prohibi- tion lsws in 1923. § | Most of the mass meetings are set for 7:30 pm. This, combined with the. widely scattered locations of towns, is expected to make returns from the precincts late. Delegates selected will attend county conventions June 10. The county con- ventions in turn will elect deiegates to' & State convention set for September 5. BOTH SIDES CONFIDENT. Wets and Drys in Delaware Expect Victory on Issue. | WILMINGTON, Del.. May 27 (#). Their interest aroused by aggressive campaigns, voters of Delaware today are registering their attitude on prohibi- tion' repeal. ; The little State is electing 17 dele- gates at large to & convention in Dover June wet or dry will determine Delaware’s stand. Dry leaders made a determined ef- fort to keep Kent, Sussex and rural New Castle Counties dry. Wilmington | in the latter county, is wet territory and nearly half the vote I the State | is usually cast in this city. Rural residents of the three counties | o voted dry in local options some years ago, while Wilmington favored the sa- 24 and whether those elected are| Mrs. Rose Gouverneur Hoes Suceumbs After Brief liness. Mrs. Rose Gouverneur Hoes, \cut— granddaughter of President James Mon- roe, died: last night at Washington Sani- illness. The daughter of the late Samuel| Laurence Gouverneur, jr., and Marian Campbell Gouverneur, she was born in Foo Chow, China, while her father was consul there. She was the widow of Capt. Roswell Randall Hoes, U. S. N. Prominently Identified. Mrs. Hoes, who had lived in Wash- ganizati has been well known in the social life of the Canital for many yeans. A writer of note and an authority on. historieal subjeets, she was particularly DESCENDANT DIES 2 tarfum, Takoma Park, after a brief| SAFEY PATROLS | PARADING TODAY iMere Than 4,000 Sehoolboys Expeeted to March Along Pennsylvania Avenue. More than 4.000 schoclboy patrols will parade down Pennsylvania avenue | this afterncen, in their second: annual safety demonstrat | Clad in a wide variety cf uniforms, but all wearing the white Sam Browne belt and badge which is their official mark, the youngsters will step pruudlyl along to the music of nine bands, There also are to be approximately 73 floats in the line of march, many of them | Prepaced by the boys themselves. | The parade will form om C-mstitu- avenue. John Marshall place and Third street, and also on a large parking lot just north of that lo- cation. At 3 p.m. the coumn, headed by & motor cycle police escort, will swing into Pennsylvanis avenue at Johm Marshall place, Line of March. ‘The line of march from there on fol- lows: West om Pennsylvania avenue to Fifteenth street, thence south to Con- stitution avenue and again west past the reviewing stand near Sixteenth street, and into the Eilipse to disband. An interstate was xiv:n“ to the parade this year by the presence of patrol uits from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. Barly today the visiting boys were taken on a sightseeing tour of the Capital. Almost 3,000 of the marchers are ‘Washington boys. There were two groups | of girls in the column, one & crack drill team from Pottstown, Pa., and the other a group of girl cadets from the George Mmson High School in Alex- andria, Va. The line-up of the first division of the parade, as announced by the Ameri- can .Automobile Assaciation, spensor of the schoolboy patrol movement, placed Maj. Emest W. Brown, superintendent of police, immediately behind the motor cycle escort as grand marshal. Then | came the Washington High School Band, followed by automobiles lmnlndhmcnlyp.tfl(mm!m in which beer is now sold legally. “We will just let the vote speak for itself.” said Miss Jeanette Eckman, vlee] president of the Delaware division of _the Woman's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. “It is poor poli- predict results, but we are con- fident.” Horace Eastburn, attorney and one of the leaders in the drys’ campaign, i , “we have better than an even chance if the wets do not buy votes. Wilmington is their strong spot, but they have accustomed the voters. to being paid there. Since money is through.’ Polls opened at 7 am. (Eastern standard time) in Wilmington and at 8 am. elsewhere. All close at (Bastern standard time). POLICE GUARD USED DURING WEDDING = Practical Jokers Believed Respon- sible for “Threats” Against Bride. | Joseph Berman, Lewiston, Me.. {nsurance nk-lun.“éld his bride of Do Sioapeon of Waahington et , W tbe?r honeymoon after police attended their spot, dispatches. ‘The couple were married at Temple Israel by Rabbi Harry Levi. Things be- gan to bum OIL REGULATION IS URGED BY ICKES Senate Committee Told Capper- Marland Substitute Proposal Is Ready. By the Assoctated Press. Legislation to provide strict Federal oil regulation was urged to the Senate Pinance Committee yesterday by Secre- tary of Interior Ickes. Ickes testified that the Capper-Mar- land oil control proposal did not repre- sent the views of the President but that the administration was ready with a shorter suggestion. Senator Capper. Republican of Kan- sas, toid the committee he had a copy of the proposal in his pocket and | would propose it as an amendment to the broad industrial recovery-public works’ bill being considered. Ickes said regulation of the indus-| try was “essential to the recovery” Ol‘ the petroleum world and for its preser- | vation. | The industry, he continued, "]nclt.i‘l that reasonable control that is so neces- sary for its welfare.” | Before Ickes spoke, Representative Marland, Democrat of OKI , and Capper called for prompt action by this | Congress on oil regulation legislation to | meet desperate situation” in the industry. THREE NAVAL OFFICERS GET ASSIGNMENTS HERE | Lieut. Comdr. Ben Morcell Leaves French Post to Come to Navy Department. Rear Admiral A. L. Parsons, chief of the Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks, yesterday announced that Lieut. Comdr. Ben Moreell, now under instruction at L'ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, Paris, France, will be de- tached June 1 and come to Washington for duty. He will serve in the Bureau of Yards and Docks and will report here about June 30. Lieut. Willlam O. Hiltabidle, jr., who ‘has been under instruction at, the Army Industrial College in the Munitions Building here, will upon graduation go on duty in the Bureau of Yards and Docks. Admiral Parsons said Lieut. William L. Richards, who has been on duty in the bureau, becomes public works offi- cer at the Naval Air Station at Ana- costia. Will Get B. S. Degree at 59. bl press | Michigan Park Association Consid- She also was the founder of the James Monroe Law Office National of chairman Thomas Jefferson Memorial Founda- tion; one of the original founders of the Club of Colonial Dames of Washington: member of the National Society ef Colonial Dames: Daughters of the American Revolution; Daughters of the us Army; Robert E. Lee Memorial for W ] a member of the board of the House of Mercy and s trustee of the George ‘Washington Memorial Foundation. Aseembled Portraits. Mrs. Hoes latest work was the as- sembling of life portraits of George ‘Washington and his associates, shown at the Corcoran Art Gallery as a part of the Bicentennial celebration. She is survived by two sisters, Miss Maud tkflhfl Gouverneur of this city, and . William Crawford John- Monroe Hoes. Puneral services will be held at 2:30 pm. Monday, at St. Margaret's Pro- testant Episcopal Church, Bancroft place and Connecticut avenue. Burial will be in Prederick, Md. BUNKER HILL SCHOOL . | ceived the commendation of President PROTEST PLANNED , Cadet. carrying the distinguished guests. After the guests. came @& solid' unit of | massed colors with 150 American flags | and a float bearing the boys who have | received awards for saving a life or hpreventing an injury. Placed next in the order of march was a company of High School Cadets and dele- Pa.; Brad- : , High Point, N. C, and Altoona, Pa., followed by the Alexandria Post American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps, the girl cadets from Alexandria, the Alexandria patrols, the Pottstown girl drill team and the Fox Theater Band. The column was separated into 14 divisions, the last 13 units being com- posed of Washington boys. The reviewing stand was just east of Sixteenth street on Constitution avenue and those specially invited to occupy it included members of the Senate and House District Committees and Dr. William J. Cooper, United States Commissioner of Education. Committee in Charge. ‘The general committee staging the safety demonstration, which has re- Rooseveit, includes Selden M. Ely, representing the public school; Maj. Brown, representing the Police Depart- ment, and Theodore F. Behler of the American Automobile Association. Commit- tee, composed of Miss Elsle E. Green, 'Miss Ruth Dick and Mrs. M. T. Latti- a Police Committee con- A. C. GREGSON DEAD NEW YORK, May 27 (#).—Alvero C. died at the New York Hos- yesterday (e He was 51 PUT OFF AT GENEVA President of Council Not Satisfied With German Explanation. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, May 27.—Complications arose today in regard to settlement of the problem of Germany’s treatment of German Jews in German Upper Silesia. Sean Lester of the Irish Free State, president of the League of Natlons Council, toid the council he was unable ?j)' mmt t‘h;w b‘;zu.n of difficul- 8, quest| was stponed, until Monday. i Friedrich von Keller, German dele- gate, telephoned to Berlin prior to the council session. hut was unable to reach Chancellor Hitler as the German cabi- net was holding a meeting. - It was understood Mr. Lester was in- sisting on something more definite than the German statement yesterday that responsibility for any discrimination against Jews rested on German local authorities. He desires Germany to make a report concerning abrogation of the regulations affecting Jews in Silesia, | Reed, it was said. Herr von Keller gave a broad hint that Germany would refuse discussion of the situation of Jews in Germany as a whole when the council was con- sidering an allegation that Nazis had ge:fil intimidating employes in the Saar ley. The German delegate approved a re- port that the rights of functionaries would be safeguarded, but added: “The internal affairs of Germany can not be a subject of discussion at Geneva.” A plebiseite in 1935 will determine whether the Saar is to return to Ger- many. INDIAN AFFAIRS POST GIVEN 2IMMERMAN President Appoints Illfhoisan, Har- vard Graduate, to Be As- sistant Commissioner. William Zimmerman, jr. of Illinois, a Harvard graduate, has been ap- pointed by President Roosevelt as as- sistant commissioner of Indian Affairs. Zimmerman, whose choice was an- nounced yesterday. is a native of Chi- cago. After graduating from Harvard in the class of 1910, he took a one- year course at the umiversity'’s Gradu- ate School of Business Administration. He served as one of the editors of the World Beok and Compton’'s Pic- tured Encyclopedia, schoel reference books, and im 1817 became vice presi- the Columbia Conserve Co., Indianapolis, and had a large part in carrying out the “industrial des racy” plan under which the ownership of that business was turried over te the workers. Zimmerman is married and - ers Appeal to Board on Over- Thursday night at a joint meeting of the Michigan Park Citizens’ Association and the Parent-Teacher Association of the Bunker Hill School. It was peinted out that the school now has an attendance of 106 pu instead of the 80 which the is built to accommodate. According to Vincent C. the school’s hindergarten is now loeated partition of glass. He said this had very poor heating system and, use of drafts, the children were subject to colds at all times. . Mr. Vincent said efforts were being made to present the petition at the next meeting of the School Board. Mrs. Freeman Stricklin was elected president of the Parent-Teacher Asso- ciation. Other officers elected g . Ralph Mease, secretary; Vincent L. Smathers, treasurer; Mrs. James Wine- berger, first vice president; Joseph Coe, second vice president; Miss Margaret Pepper, third vice president, and Charles E. S. Rich, historian. Pormer Representative Simmons of Nebraska spoke at the meeting on the early history of the country and told how small organizations of ecitizens helped the country in genmeral and their respective communities in par- ticular. Representative Muldowney of Pennsylvania, a member of the House Distriet Committee, also spoke, inviting members of the association to call upon particular objectives in District af- fairs. -— BURLEITH GARDEN CLUB OPENS FLOWER SHOW Spring Exhibition Being Held at Mount Tabor Church, on Wis- consin Avenue. The Spring Flower S8how of the Bur- leith Garden Club opened yesterday at Mount Tabor Church, Wisconsin ave- nue and Thirty-fifth street, with 45 groups of peonies, irises, roses and other hard flowers on display. First, second and third prizes will be awarded in each class. Mrs. C. Ralph Forester of 3721 S street is president of the club, and the show, which will be open to the public until 10 p.m. tonight, is being staged under direction of Mrs. Gertrude Moser, chairman of the Exhibition Committee, assisted by Mrs. Laurinda Marchett! Schumaker, Mrs. Carl Smith, Mrs. | Towson Price, Mrs. Earl Weeks and Mrs. George Middleton, | _The judges of the exhibits were U. 8. | Shewmaker of the National Capital Dahlia and Iris Soclety and Aubrey B. Carter of Chevy Chase, Md. | MAY TRANSF.ER OFFICERS Navy and Marine Corps Group Considered for Dam Project. | Between 500 and 800 officers of the | Navy and Marine Corps may be trans- ferred by executive order to the Ten- nessee River Authority, the Civilian Conservation Corps and other agencies to be set up under the public works program, it was learned yesterday. Navy Department has submit- d to the Waite House & memorandum, him at any time in seeking aid for their | in ome of the corridors, fenced off by a 0™ U™F anp G StrEETS STATIONERY OPPORTUNITY has three children. WoobwARD & LOTHROP Prone DistricT 5300 SENATE WAR SEEN OVER HELVERING Vigorous Minority Report Made ni Confirmation Fight on Revenue Head. By the Associated Press. A battle is stirring Senate over appointment of Guy T. Helvering of Kansas to be er of In- terna] Revenue. Over the opposition of all its Re- | publican members, who joined in a vigorous minority report, the Senate Pinance Committee approved the Hel- vering appointment yesterday and it will be brought before the Senate soon. | _ At the same time, confirmatory action was withheld on Arthur E. Morgan of | Ohio as a member of the Tennessee Valley Authority and S. B. Gibbons of | New York to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, at the respective re-' quests of Senators Clark, Democrat, | of Mosouri and Couzens, Republican, of Michigan. Clark asked that confirmation of Morgan to help supervise the Muscle Shoals-Tennessee basin development be delayed pending an inquiry into his stand on flood control. Couzens has protested all the Chief Executives nom- inations to Treasury positions. The Helvering appointment was a] proved by a 10-to-7 vote and in the minority report Senator Hastings (Re- publican) of Delaware laid the ground- work for a party row over his nomina- | tion, but Democratic leaders were hope- ful that he witimately would be con- | | firmed. | | The Finance Committee made a lengthy, executive inquiry into charges involving Helvering's actions as an in- come tax lawyer here and into accusa- tions that he demanded eampaign con- tributions from postmaster applicants while a member of the House, Senator Walsh (Democrat) of Massa- chusetts voted with six Republicans— , Couzens, Keyes, La Follette, | Metcalf and Hastings—against Helver- | ing, while the following Democratic majority reported his nomination fa- vorably: King, George, Barkley, = nally, Gore, Clark, McAdoo, Lonergan, Byrd and Chairman Heggison. — MAGAZINE IS ANALYZED BY KIWANIS “CLINIC” Washington Club Dinner Guests of Manassas Organization at Virginia Town Last Night. “The Kiwanis Magazine Clinic” was staged last night by members of the ‘Washington club, who were dinner guests of the Kiwanis Club at Manas- sas, Va. The magazine, which has an international circulation, was ana- Iysed section by section. Those on the program were Wil- liam N. Preeman, Dr. Edward H. Etz, Dr. David L. Maxwell and George P. Mangan, all of the local club, who dis- | cussed the magazine; Charles A. Fergu~ | son, who spoke on the necessity for community clean-up campaigns; Lewis Breuninger and George A. Small, who entertained with his “one-man band.” Seven members from Arlingten County accompanied the local party of 14 to Manassas. in_the Licensed to Wed. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., May 27. —Marriage licenses have been issued here to the i Sinclair, 29, Jackson, 23, both of Washington: Prank Ward, 20, Clinton, Md., and Margaret Townshend, 22, New Win - Md.i William T. Slater, 25, and len M. ‘Williams, 18, both of Washington. SBAND WAS ASHAMED OF HER, \ By the Associate® Press. . BRIDGEPORT, Conn, May 27— Fredericka Fry Del Guercio of Green- wich, who inherited $5,000,000 before her marriage, in a bill of particulars to her divorce complaint against Eligio Del Guercio, & law clerk, on file yesterday in Fairfield County Superior Court, charges her husband with being ashamed to be seen with her. ‘There are 14 counts of alleged cruel- ty. Mrs. Del Guercio asks for custody of their 16-month-old son, Eliglo. Mrs. Del Guercio, the adopted daughter of John H. Fry, noted artist, and Georgia Timken Fry, inherited $5,000,000 of the Timken Roller Bearing fortune from her foster mother when she became of age in 1931, TIMKEN FORTUNE HEIRESS SAYS Former Fredericka Fry Alleges 14 Counts of Cruelty in| " Divorce Bill. | Her wedding, at Greenwich in 1931. was estimated to have cost $250,000 for decorations alone. 3 In her complaint, Mrs, Del Guercio asserts her husband undermined her health by wrangling, and by his insist- ence that she transfer some personal property to him. She says he became abusive after she refused. Although in {ll health, she charges, in_ December. 1931, and January and February, 1932, her husband forced her to entertain his friends. At another time, she says, he became abusive because she refused to sell se- curities to aid his father’s ‘yflmm; busi- ness at Port Chester, N. Y, ‘The bill also alleges Del Guercio was friendly with other women while resid- ing in a Central Park apartment in New York in 1932 ROOSEVELT TO GIVE COLLIER AIR TROPHY Glenn L. Martin of Baltimore to Receive Highest Award for Aviation Work. The Collier Trophy, highest award for aeronautical achlevement in the United States, will be presented by President Roosevelt to Gienn L. Mar- tin, of Baltimore, at the White House at_noon next Wednesday. The trophy was awarded to Mr. Martin for 1932 for his development, as president of the Glenn L. Martin Co. of “an outstanding bi-engined, high-speed, weight-carrying airplane.” The airplane for which the award was made is the sensational Martin bom- bardment plane, developed for the Army Air Corps, and said to be one of the greatest advances of the g&st year in the field of military aviation in the world. The Collier Trophy, custody of which’ is in the National Aeronautic Association, is awarded annually “for the greatest a the value of which has been demon- strated by actual use during the pre- ceding year.” The award to Mr. Martin was made on the basis of a recommendation by a special committee appointed by for- mer Senator Hiram gham of Con- hievement in America, | necticut, president of the National Aeronautic Association, and compased of F. Trubee Davison, former Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation; Admiral Emory 8. Land, U. 8. N.; former Post- master General Frank Hitchcock;: Har- ry H. Blee, director of aeronautic de- velopment, Department of Commerce; Charles L. Lawrance, former president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Com- merce; c-gt. Earl N. Findley, publisher of “United States Air Services,” and James G. Ray, noted test pilot. |U. S. EMPLOYES NAME \ELIZABETH KILGORE HEAD | Chosen President of Union No. 372 and Installed at Tuesday's Meeting. Elisabeth Kilgore has been elected president of the Federal Employes Union No. 372. Other- officers are Charles Kothe. Grace E. Reardon and Marie Mazourek, vice presidents; Alfred Harmon, secretary-treasurer, and Bea- trice C. Robertson, guardian. Louis A. Rosafy was named delegate and Walter Keeton alternate to the eonvention of National Federation of Federal Employes at Kansas City, Mo,, in September, Mr. Rosaly has been a Federal employe for almost 50 years. The officers were elected and installed session of the local was set for June| 27, after which no meetings will be held until September. | at Tuesday night's meeting. The next | gaard FEDERAL: RESERVE BUYSU.S. SECURITY Takes First Step in Expan- sion Plan in Purchase of $25,000,000. By the Associated Press. ‘The Federal Reserve System, putting into effect the first step in the Presi- dent’s expansion plan, has purchased $25,000,000 of Government securities. This brings to $1,862,000,000 the total ot such paper held by the banks. It ‘was $19,000,000 Jess than the banks held March 8. ‘The Federal Reserve Board's weekly statement of the condition of Federal Reserve Banks today showed the pur- chase, authorized earlier in the week, had been made. It was said at the board's office, however, that no further announcement of the system's pur- chases under the permission given in the farm relief law would be made cegshm the weekly condition statement. e newly enacted law authorizes the system to purchase the securities up to $3,000,000000 and hold them for a specified perfod to aid in expansion by producing easier credit and freeing money to be used for loans to business and industry. ‘The statement showed gold still was returning to the Treasury as desired by President Roosevelt in his executive order forbidding its circulation in this country. An additional $21,726,000 came into the Federal Reserve Banks during the week, making the total gold Teserves amount to $3,499,234,000. Since March 8 a total of $815,695,000 has returned to the Treasury from cir- culation. On May 24 the total mone- tary gold of the country was set at $4,314,000,000, an increase of $1,000,000 in two weeks and of $71.000,000 since the start of the bank holiday. Circulation of money continued to decline, indicating decreased hoarding and continued confidence in the banks. On May 24 the money in circulation in the country amounted to $5,795,~ 000,000, a decrease of $57,000,000 in the week and of $1,743,000,000 since March 8. Serves Sentence Piecemeal. Judge James H. Wolfe of Salt Lake City ordered Joseph Snydergaard to jail for contempt of court. - Snyder- said this would cost him his job, so the judge permitted him to xerv: his sentence in week end install ments. 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