Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1935, Page 4

EXTENDED A WEEK More Than Half of $100,000 Fund Raised During Campaign. The National Symphony Orchestra’s sustaining fund campaign has been | extended to next Tuesday, it was made known yesterday following announce- rient that more than half of the | $100,000 sought has been raised. | “We had hoped the campaign would | be closed on schedule,” Mrs. Tracy Dows, co-chairman of the General Campaign Committee, told volunteer workers at what was to have been the final meeting in the Carlton Hotel, “but so many subcommittee chairmen have asked that the campaign con- tinue until April 2, two days after the orchestra’s final concert of the season, that it seems feasible to extend the drive until that date. ““All committees report a large num- ber of new subscribers and new friends of the orchestra are being discovered every day during the campaign. The number of contributors at present is about half the number subscribing last year, so that a large number of new | and ‘old subscribers are still to be | heard from, $2,000 Gift Reported. “Last year the campaign covered nearly three months, compared with this year's originally scheduled 10 days, and one of the main difficulties confronting the workers has been to get the subscribers to act promptly.” Committee chairmen and their field workers agreed that the time element is one of the greatest obstacles to im- mediate success, and that at least an- other week would be necessary in order to contact the great number of pros- pective subscribers as well as old sub- scribers who have not yet been reached. Another new gift of $2,000 was re- ported by the Metropolitan Committee. Mr. and Mrs. Christian Heurich's provisional gift of $1,000, contingent on being matched by four other simi- lar sums, was met by Woodward & | Lothrop, Mrs. Emile Berliner, the Friday Morning Music Club and The Evening Star. The Junior League has pledged $1,000, providing three other gifts of the same size are made. $500 Gift Is Anonymous. The anonymous $500 gift, which the donor stipulated must be equalled by nine others, has been matched by seven donations, including an addi- tional $500 from the Friday Morning Music Club and $5$$00 from the Arts | additional star of the United States Navy the three-star flag of vice admiral | FOR the first time in the history will fly from the masthead of the flagship of the Battle Force Aircraft Squadrons when on April 1 Rear Admiral Henry Varnum Butler, now commanding the Battle Force Aircraft Squadrons, will place an signed recently by President Roose- velt. Rear Admiral Butler, who several years ago purchased a home at 2206 Q street, was well known to Washing- ton business and social circles from the Spring of 1931 until the Fall of 1933, when he served as the fifty-first commandant of the Washington Navy Yard. The sudden death of Rear Admiral Ridley B. McClean in 1933 left a vacancy in the battleship divisions, causing the unexpected trans- fer of Admiral Butler from the Wash- ington Navy Yard to the West Coast. In May, 1934, Rear Admiral Butler relleved the late Rear Admiral John Halligan as commandant Aircraft Squadrons, Battle Force, of which the U. S. §. Saratoga is flagship. Admiral | Butler assumed his command as air- craft squadrons’ chief during the re- | view of the fleet in New York Harbor by President Roosevelt last Spring. Grandfather Justice. Admiral Butler, a native of New Jersey and a graduate of the Naval Academy of the class of 1895, first knew Washington as a small boy, upon his flag. in| accordance with an_executive order | REAR ADMIRAL HENRY VARNUM BUTLER. H. V. Butler, jr., he visited his ma- ternal grandfather, Joseph P. Brad- | ley, then -associate justice of Lhe‘ United States Supreme Court. Later, | as a young officer, Admiral Butler | served in Washington as White Bouse | {aide to President Theodore Roose- velt and as naval aide to Admiral | George Dewey. As an ensign and a* lieutenant (J.| |G.) Admiral Butler served on the Asiatic station and during the Span- | | ish-American War, he was cluse to | the heart of the action in and around the Philippines. It was during this period that he won the friendship of the beloved Spanish War Admiral | Dewey and as aide to Capt. Gridley present at Lhe time Admiral Dewey uttered those historic words, “You may fire when you are ready, Grid- During the World War, Admiral Butler commanded the U. 8. 8. San Francisco, flagship of the Mine-laying Squadron, Atlantic Fleet, and with the sguadron of 14 mine-layers, crossed the Atlantic wnd with the British Grand Fleet laid a large part of the North Sea mine barrage. Admiral Butler was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for his World War services, with the follow- ing citation: “For exceptionally meri- torious services in a duty of great responsibility as commanding officer of the U. 8. S. San Francisco engaged in laying mines in the North Sea.” After the war, while at the Naval War College, Newport, R. I, Ad- miral Butler became strongly im- pressed with the necessity for increas- ing the air arm of the fleet and the development of its tactics. In 1926, he took the course at the Naval Alr Station, Pensacola, and qualified as a naval aviation observer, being ome of the first senior line officers of the Navy, exclusive of the late Admiral Moffett, to apply for this. In 1929, Admiral Butler was as- eigned to duty as commander of the Alrcraft. Squadrons, Battle Fleet, his first command with the aviation arm of the Navy. Veteran naval flyers are jubilant over the presidential decree, because it not only bestows a signal honor upon Admiral Butler, who has won the hearts of his entire command, but also gives full recognition to the im- portance of fleet aviation in the Navy and places this branch of the service on a parity with the most impor- tant commands in the Nation's first line of defense. In addition to his Distinguished Service Medal, Admiral Butler has also been awarded the Dewel Medal for services in the Spanish-Amefican War and campaign badges for the Spanish-American War, the Philip- pine insurrection and the Boxer re- bellion. G. 0. P. WINS IN DANBURY Sweeps City Offices—Economy Program Is Voted. DANBURY, Conn., March 26 (#).— For the first time since 1927, Danbury went Republican yesterday and the G. O. P. made a clean sweep of all offices from Mayor-elect Adam A. Roth | down. Roth, who based his campaign on economy, was given a plurality of 418 votes over Mayor G. Walter Morgan, Democrat, who was seeking re- when with his mother, the late Mrs.'on the U. S. S. Olympia, he was ! election. ] w. & 1. Club. Two more $500 gifts are ex- pected before the drive closes. A substantial gift was reported from the New York Beef Co. Mrs, Ernest Gruening, co-chairman of the Gov- ernment Committee, stated that gifts totaling $66 have been received from the Tariffl Commission. Six-year-old Billy Hendrickson has pledged a dollar, which he hopes to raise by saving a penny a day. HITLER REFUSES TO BARE SIZE OF PROJECTED ARMY (Continued From First Page.) Hitler would be invited to participate in the proposed defensive air alliance. Such an invitation would carry with it at least tacit approval of Germany’s new military air fleet, the creation of which was announced only a few days before Hitler’s surprising conscription declaration. It was predicted generally that Sir John and his colleague, Capt. Eden, would take home with them more in the way of agreements than Nazi leaders would be willing to admit to a German populace accustomed to blood and thunder pronouncements. Observers also regarded it as likely that the visitors would leave behind something in the way of concessions which the alert propaganda ministry could interpret as an indication that the powers have at last been coerced into conceding German equality in the family of nations. Considerable speculation has been provoked by the fact that Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Reich economic dictator, did not attend the first day discussions and apparently is not to be invited to succeeding deliberations. Yesterday's talks, lasting nine hours, were said authoritatively to have pro- duced agreements on three issues, all of which, however, were regarded as secondary to the problems up for dis- cussion today. These agreements were: 1. A concession by the British that they would not insist on inclusion of a mutual assistance provision in the proposed Eastern security pact. 2. Assurance by Hitler that although Germany requires adequate military forces to defend Europe against Rus- sian Bolshevism, she has no intention of attacking the Soviet. 3. Further assurance by the Reichs- fuehrer that Germany is ready to enter a treaty of amity and friend- ship with Lithuania provided she is satisfled the rights of German minori- ties in Lithuania are adequately guar- anteed. o> SOc garment GROSNER of 1325 F Street Sloane A New and Interesting Presentation of Furniture of the Popular Periods ACH of the famous types of furni- Donald Richberg, New Deal co-ordinator (center), again takes the reins of the N. R. A. This time he is helped by Phillip Murray (left), vice president of United Mine Workers, and William P. Witherow (right), former president of Steel Products Co. of Pittsburgh. PRESIDENT STUDIES RELIEF PROBLEM AS HE SPEEDS SOUTH (Continued From First Page.) President left word in Washington that he would like the- $2,000,000.000 bonus question to be postponed until he returns from his vacation. Ahead of the vacationer, say a week, perhaps two, of deep-sea fishing on the yacht Nourmahal of Vincent Astor, a distant relative, who is pub- lisher of the magazine Today. Herman P. Gray of West Palm Beach, Fla, fishing guide for three Presidents, sent word that barracuda | and waho were in abundance near the | Bahaman reef. But the presidential party was expected to stay near the Florida Coast so that Mr. Roosevelt could return quickly should Howe | suffer a relapse. The President this afternoon will board the destroyer Farragut, 341- foot vessel commissioned last June, at Jacksonville, Fla., accompanied by the destroyer Claxton, the Farragut will swing out to sea quickly to meet the Astor yacht near the fishing grounds. In the President’s fishing party were expected to be the same friends who accompanied him on two previous ex- peditions. Among these were Kermit Roosevelt, son of President Theodore Roosevelt; Judge J. Frederic Ker- nochan of New York; George St. George ang Lytle Hull of Tuxedo, N. Y, and Dr. Leslie Heiter of Mobile, Ala. The President was accompanied on his Southward journey by a secretary, Marvin H. McIntyre, who will estab- lish headquarters at Miami and main- tain contact between the Nourmahal and the White House, where another secretary, Stephen T. Early, is on duty. The legislative program which Mr. Roosevelt worked out with Senator Robinson was described as a list which | would satisfy the administration if Congress adjourned without acting upon anything else. 711 Twelfth St. ture designs, from the early American of the time of the Pilgrim Fathers to the present, has its fitting place in the furnishing of the homes of today. The names are familiar—the motifs have distinct charm and character, but nowhere has one been able to see displayed each of these;, schools of design in its proper grouping and” consistent environment. Heretofore the most orderly exhibit has been at best a scramble of styles and a motley medley of periods. House With Beginning tomorrow, you can see here each seriod <ndividually assembled in sympathetic setting—living room, dining room and bed room groups—presenting effects as they would really appear installed in your own home. Thus you can study styles, plan furnishings— assured of their authenticity and unhampered by incongruous accompaniment. It is a notable advance in store service—an unique exposition — interesting to every one who recognizes art as co-important with in- trinsic value. That you may review the display leisurely we have arranged to remain open Wednesday and Thursday Evenings March 27 and 28—From 8 to 10 0’Clock No sales will be made and you are personally =invited to be our guest on these evening occasions. W.& J. SLOANE Free Parking on 12th Street Opposite the Store 711 Twelfth Street DIstrict 7262 ' Green Shutte.r.s n PRINCETON GRID PLAYER IS ARRESTED IN THEFTS Frank B. John, a Senior, Held ‘Without Charge—Hearing Slated Tomorrow. By the Assoclated Press. PRINCETON, N. J, March 26.— Frank B. John, 23-year-old Princeton foot ball player, was held by State police today in connection with a series of dormitory thefts which netted $2,000 in jewelry and cash. Although no formal charges were lodged against the young athlete, State Patrolman Howard Lamberton said he would be arraizned tomorrow on charges of breaking and entering and receiving stolen goods. John'’s detention followed the arrest in New York of Wintkrop Partello. 21, of Mansfleld, Ohio. Authorities said that much of the loot from the campus burglaries was found in Par- tello’s room in New York and that he had implicated John in the thefts. John, whose home is in Pottstown, Pa, is a senior. He was a regular guard on the 1933 and 1934 Princeton foot ball teams, two of the most suc- cessful elevens in the university’s his- tory. —_— Annual Recital Given. St. Matthew’s Church Choir pre- sented its annual recital of liturgical music last night in the music building auditorium of Catholic University, di- | rected by Malton Boyce, M. Mus. —Harris-Ewing Photo. | choir leader. Finer.--- Blend;d by E;perts "SALADA' . _TEA GROSNER of 1325 F Street Presents: another winnet! and try one on. rtgbly the coat d—try to comfortable se’rvice. They oney’s worth. the Champion $4(0) Ask About Our 10-Pay Charge Plan GROSNER f 1325 F Street