Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1935, Page 14

A-14 BENEFIT PLANNED FOR GIRLS' SCHOOL St. Gertrude’s Guild to Give County Fair Festival in May. Prominent Washington women banded together as the St. Gertrude’s Guild are planning a gala benefit in May for St. Gertrude’s School of Arts and Crafts on Sargent road, Brook- land. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt heads the list of notable names on the Honorary Committee. St. Gertrude's offers private school advantages to young girls who through no fault of their own have been unable to keep up with the usual class room schedule. It provides special methods | of academic instruction, as well as| training in handwork and house- hold arts. Girls of all creeds, who pass the required medical and mental tests, are admitted. Founded in 1926. Dr. Thomas Verner Moore, educator, suthor and lecturer, founded the school | in 1926. Dr. Moore is professor of | psychology at the Catholic University | and director of a clinic for mental end nervous diseases at Providence | Hospital. | May 27 has been set as the pros- pective date of the benefit festival. The entertainment is to take the form of a county fair, with gay booths, side tents and refreshment stalls. Officers of Guild. The officers of St. Gertrude's Guild are Mrs. Robert Whitney Imbrie president, Mrs. Raymond Francis Garrity treasurer, Mrs. Albert Joseph | Gerre corresponding secretary, Mrs. Francis Xavier Callahan recording secretary, Mrs. Peter John McGovern historian, and Mrs. Milton Ailes, sr., Mrs. Daniel Callahan, Mrs. John Cammack, sr., Mrs. James Edward Duke, Mrs. James Garnier Hashell.l Miss Sarah Lee Mrs. Warwick Mont- | gomery, Mrs. Harold Percival Norton, Mrs. B. Francis Saul, Mrs. George Percival Scriven and Mrs. Joseph P. 1 ‘Tumulty, all vice presidents. On the honorary committee are | Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, jr., Mme. de | Laboulaye, wife of the French Am- bassador; Countess van der Straten- Ponthoz, wife of the Belgian Am- bassador; Mrs. James Couzens, Mrs. | Arthur Vandenberg, Mrs. Edward P.| Costigan, Representative Virginia | Jenckes, Signora Coppola Viola, wife | of the air and military attache of the Italian embassy: Senora de De Bayle, | wife of the charge d'affaires of Now an Extra STAR OF YESTERYEAR PLAYS BIT ROLES. Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG, A movie box office champion of 20 ears ago, with an annual income of $200,000, is now in the movie extra ranks. She is shown here in an “atmosphere” role in a produc- tion btlnz fllmed in Hullyv\ood x‘mv\ Dublin Cabmen Hold Derby. Blaze OREGON CAPITOL DESTROYED BY FIRE Sweeps Through Brick-and-Frame Building With $1,500,000 Damage. By the Associated Press. SALEM, Oreg., April 26.—Oregon's State capitol was virtually destroyed last night by a fire that started in the basement, quickly swept upward and spread throughout the entire struc- ture. Three hours after the fire was dis- covered, firemen held no hope of pre- venting the flames from devouring the rest of the $700,000 60-year-old build- ing. An hour and a half after the blaze started at 6:30 p.m., the 187-foot cop- per dome crashed into the inferno and sent out showers of sparks which threatened to ignite the roofs of Wil- lamette University Building and resi- dences across the street. Late last night, however, the danger Lord Mayor Byrne distributed the | prizes at this year's annual cab derby in aid of cabmen and their horses, which was held in Phoenix Fark, Dub- lin, Irish Free State. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. to these buildings apparently was passed as all of Salem’s fire-fighting equipment and three pieces of appara- tus from Portland, 50 miles away, con- centrated efforts on the capitol. Unofficial estimates of the damage ranged up to $1,500,000. Few of the expensive f of the brick- frame building were saved. The fire was discovered about 6:30 o'clock by Henry Weslowski, janitor, who turned in the alarm. ‘Whether important State records were destroyed could not immediately be determined. The State carried no insurance on the building and had only about $140,- 000 in a special fire fund of its own. DRSS Japanese Goods Curbed. El Salvador’s new tariff has tended to restrict imports from Japan. 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