Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1935, Page 3

HUNDREDS HONOR J4 BUS VIGTIMS School Prepares for Over- flow at Williamsport Memorial Rites. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. WILLIAMSPORT, Md., April 17— Every room in the high school here was filled today with residents mass- ing for a community tribute to the 14 pupils killed in the Rockville bus trag- edy last Thursday night. s The high school auditorium would seat only 600, but loud speakers were installed in seven class rooms, up- stairs and down, to accommodate enother 500. In response to hundreds of requests, the memorial services will be broad- cast over Station WJEJ at Hagers- town. School authorities discussed the possibility of awarding posthumos diplomas to the six seniors killed in the crash, but were uncertain if this could be arranged. A mile-long cavalcade of automo- biles wound through the streets this morning in the funerals of two high school seniors, Phoebe Kelley and James Flurie, both 17. E The rites for these two young vic- tims of the tragedy terminated a four- day program of funerals, At least 1,000 townsmen and hun- dreds of visitors attended the two funerals and plans were made to ac- commodate these at the memorial service. Teacher Is Present. and THE EVENING . STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIT 17, 1035. This Changing World League Tells Abyssinia to Mind Its Own Business Take Its Troubles Elsewhere. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. Poor Hawatle, the Abyssinian dele- gate at the League of Natlons, was brusquely shoved aside when in a petulant voice he demanded justice for his country in its row with Italy. ‘The other delegates of the Council who are worried about the France- German problem, told him to mind his own business and take his troubles somewhere else—to Rome, for in- stance—and not bother the League with such piffiing things as Ethiopia’s independence. Who cares what hap- Go werme N DeNTgTuer. pens to Abyssinia anyhow, he was told in the customary diplomatic language. * kK % Because the opinions are divided within the Council regarding the cen- soring of Germany, at the demand of the French government, the discus- sions are centering around the elec- tion of a “rapporteur” for the French note of censure. It would be against the principles of the League to admit that there was a quarrel about the contents of the French draft. So by tacit agreement the dispute turns around the person who should report to the meeting of the Council the Miss Louis Funk, 27-year-old chem- | istry teacher, who accompanied her pupils on the fatal excursion, was to have a front place in the section re- served for instructors and former classmates of the victims. The seats immediately before the speakers’ platferm in the auditorium were reserved for surviving members of the senior class, pupils of the high school, teachers and members of the bereaved families. Reservations also were made for representatives of the Rockville Parent-Teacher Association, who were to attend to offer their sympathy to the saddened mothers and fathers here. Rev. Walter Byron Stehl, rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, was to eliver the memorial address. 5 fa'.ef Mr. Stehl replaced Rev. W. C. Huddle, pastor of Willlamsport Luth- eran Church, who had conducted eight of the 14 funeral services and was re- lieved of the additional duty. At an early hour automobiles filled | the zpproaches to the high school and blocked the drives in the community park lying in front of the ;chool site. Sponsors of the services said the loud speakers would be installed outside the high school should the attendance require outdoor accommodations. Business Suspended. Business was suspended during the service and until 6 o'clock tonight by proclamation of Mayor Richard G. Hawken, who was to preside at the rites. The exercises themselves were to be brief and simple. The music was to consist of af solo, “Face to Face,” by the wife of Rev. Mr. Huddle, and a quartet hymnal number. y The blooming Spring gardens and the shops of the florists in Washing- ton County were almost barren today from the inroads made upon them by the long succession of funerals. Flor- ists here and in Hagerstown sent emergency calls to Baltimore and Washington to fill the unprecedented demands. Bright and windy weather followed yesterday's snow flurries which whit- ened the surrounding hills just begin- ng to spring foliage. mhg\ cunptras% to %he flower-decked graves now sprinkling the surrounding hills, the high school auditorium French text. Madariaga was shoved aside as be- ing too pro-French. The Dane, who is genuinely a neutral, does not want | the job. The problem was soived in the typical League manner. The motion | went through without a reporter. | * * % x | Denmark is one of those unfor- | tunate countries which happens to be | Germany's neighbor, and which was | forced by the allies after the World War to accept a slice of Germany. The prudent Danes refused the large slice the allies offered her and acecpted only the Schleswig Prov- ince, which had been Danish until 1864, when it was lost to Prussic after the Prusso-Danish War.. But believing that it never pays to {get something for nothing—the Danes remained strictly neutral dur- ing the last war—they paid for Schleswig in hard cash. Denmark, during the war, sold the Virgin Islands to the United States for $25,000,000. This amount they turned over to Germany. Of course the Germans never saw a cent of those $25,000,000. The amount was grabbed by the allies on “account of reparations.” * X ¥ X Now, the Danish government lives in fear and trembling. The Nazi propaganda, favoring the return of Schleswig to Germany, is virulent in jthat province. The Danes are not | anxious to keep that newly acquired territory—although it was originally part and parcel of their country— and would rather have it go back to the Reich than have trouble with Hitler. In any case they do not want to antagonize Germany by playing into the hands of France and her allies. * X X ¥ The French have changed their tune at Geneva. At Stresa they had been caught in the honey-and-milk oratory of Sir John Simon and Ramsay MacDonald, and “agreed not to disagree” with the British regarding their request to get sanc- tions against Germany junking the Versailles treaty. At Geneva, surrounded by their friends, the Little Entente nations and | Russia, they don’t care what the {and is now lying down to digest it. against treaty breakers. Britain had to follow Prance this time. * k % % Realizing that the League, as a unit, cannot do anything constructive, plans are being formulated for mili- tary alliances between nations which consider themselves threatened by the rearmament of their former foes. Yielding to Mussolini’s pressure, the French agreed to allow Austria, Hun- gary and Bulgaria to re-arm to the same proportional extent as Germany. At Geneva, Benes and Titulescu raised Cain with Laval, pointing out that these countries are as likely as not to join Germany, once they are fully armed again. Litvinoff con- curred. Laval, in order not to disap- point Mussolini and to satisfy his friends, suggested a new combination of military alliances to include Ru- mania, Czechoslovakia and Russia. Thus he hopes to kill two birds with one stone. * K Kk % ‘The authoritative idea of the lead- ing officers of the various general staffs in Europe and in the United States is that Germany will not be- come aggressive for the time being at least. Blomberg has too much sense to start a war which he is not certain of winning. No intelligent chief of staff, it is said, will ever begin a war unless he has at least 45 per cent certainty that he will win, And wunder the present circum- stances Germany has not an even 10 per cent chance of being vic- torious if she were to attack any of her neighbors. * X X x But that does not mean that Hitler will not continue to agitate in order to obtain, by the same methods he obtained the cancellation of the Ver- sailles treaty, whatever else Germany may want. Hitler was compared by a diplo- mat at Geneva yesterday with a boa constrictor who has swallowed a steer This my be so. Hitler may not do anything active for the next few months. But what can hold back another Nazi move in Austria, or at Memel? * X % X Hidden forces—officially disavowed by governments, but unofficially en- couraged by them—are at work to hasten the disruption of Europe. The plot to assassinate Laval, Tit- | ulescu and Benes is not the work of | some mad anarchists. Nor is the anti-German uprising in various towns in the Polish Corridor, one of those sporadic rows which occur in sections where people of two differ- ent races live side by side. They are | all the work of what is called “hidden | diplomacy,” as was the murder of Chancellor Dellfuss and King Alex- ander of Yugoslavia. Governments, as such, have nothing to do with these | provocative actions, but their agents do. * ¥ X ¥ In the meantime the Council of the League of Nations has to sit in judg- ment to condemn Germany's actions. Some years ago, when President Coolidge returned from church on a | Sunday, he was asked what the ser- | mon had been about. “Sin,” was the answer. “And what did the preacher say?” | “Was against it.” replied the Pres- ident, in his usual laconic manner. ‘The same thing applies to the gen- tlemen at Geneva. They are against British say, and are determined to push their demand for sanctions i seemed drab and undecorated. An American flag hung before the speak- ers’ platform, crowded with chairs for the school board, visiting delegations and city officials. - MONEY DEMAND BRINGS GUARD FOR ACTRESS Gladys George, in Divorce Plot | Probe, Said to Have Been | Visited by Two Men. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, April 17.—Gladys George, stage star, was being guarded last night by city detectives after re- portedly receiving a visit from two | men demanding money in connection | with the counter divorce suits of her- self and her husband, Edward H. 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ALAMOSA, Colo., April 17.—A blind | battle with dust four miles in the air, more terrifying than a trans-Andean flight, was described today by Miss Laura Ingalls, whose attempt to set a new transcontinental speed record for women ended here. “Stupendous, terrific, tragic,” were the adjectives used by the 120-pound black blizzard through which she flew blind before landing her new mono- plane near here yesterday at 6:50 pm. (Eastern standard time). She had been in the air 10 hours and 40 minutes—four of them spent in blind navigating—since taking off on her projected non-stop flight from Los Angeles to New York. Before retiring, Miss Ingalls made a hurried three-mile trip to the air- port to see that a deputy sheriff was guarding her $20,000 ship. ‘Then she had a telephone conversa- tion with her New York backers, who were understood to have encouraged her to make plans for & new attempt at a transcontinental crossing in 15 hours or less. 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He mentioned the fact that Secre- tary of the Interior Ickes, who has been administrator of public works, reported to him only a few days ago that it will be necessary to institute new studies of applications for allot- ments, because of changed conditions. He said Ickes reminded him also that new information must be supplied by States, countiestand municipalities in their applications for allotments. He said this will take a little more time than was at first anticipated. Here- tofore, all this information was not required when any application was made. For instance, the application now must include a definite estimate of people that will be employed under the project in question and some definite date for completing the proj- ect must be given. The President said some of the States already have good plans for carrying on work-relief agreed upon, and that he hoped the other States would not delay matters. 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To what extent these projects are | carried out, however, depends upon the | allocation that the President makes of | the $4,000,000,000 work fund. The contemplated division of the fund would be about $400,000,000 for | low cost housing under public works and between $400,000.000 and $500,- | 000.000 for helping persons on farms | back on their feet. —o— —— MINISTER IS FREED CHARLOTTE, N. C., April 17 @ —| Earl C. Rhyne, 35, of Charlotte, identi- | fied by Lois Kestler, young Kannapolis school teacher, as the man she said, criminally assaulted her at Kannapolis | last Wednesday, was freed by Superior Court Judge W. F. Harding after es- tablishing an alibi at a habeas corpus hearing. Rhyne, an automobile salesman and ordained Baptist minister, presented a long line of witnesses who testified he was at a cottage prayer meeting | here at the time of the alleged crime. R N T I N I W. F. 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