Evening Star Newspaper, May 22, 1935, Page 4

A4 22 SECOND MILITARY - TRIAL IS SOUGHT Col. McMullen, Who Testi- fied in Probe, Would Fol- low Col. Williams. BY REX COLLIER." A second court-martial growing out of the lobbying investigation by the House Military Affairs Committee is expected by the committee, it was learned today. As the trial, in secret session, of Col. Alexander E. Williams entered its third day at the Army War Col- lege, a member of the committee dis- closed that on the basis of new in- formation received by the House in- vestigators, a court-martial will be sought for Col. Joseph I. McMullen, who recently was rebuked by Secre- tary of War Dern. Col. McMullen testified publicly be- fore the committee that he had re- cejved fees from the Cuban-American Manganese Co. and other firms which have had business dealings with the | War Department. In administering his “deepest censure” to Col. McMul- len for accepting these sums, Secre- | tary Dern said the transactions oc- curred beyond the time limit pre- scribed in the statute of limitations. Regquest for Delay. Chairman McSwain of the Housel committee at that time announced he | had requested Secretary Dern to de- lay retirement of Col. McMullen pend- ing investigation by the committee of alleged acts of misconduct by Col. | McMullen within the statute of lim- | itations. Results of this investgation, | it was said today, will be turned over to the War Department. Secretary Dern has advised Mec- | Swain that although activities of Mc- | Mullen previously comp! of by the committee were outlawed by mili= | tary regulations governing courts- martial, y were within the scope of civil law and that for this reason | he was transmitting a report of the department’s inquiry to Attorney Gen- eral Cummings_ These data since have | been turned over to United States At- | torney Leslie C. Garnett. Serenity of Rebuke. 1n a letter conveying Dern's rebuke to Col. McMullen. Maj. Gen. James F. McKinley, the adjutant general of the Army, wrote “It is affirmatively established * * * that you caused Government business | connected with patent clai with which you were associated your official capacity, to be placed with a law firm with which a member of your immediate family was employed. “It is further established that you | engaged in private legal activities for compensation as attorney for firms whose interests were closely reluted‘ to the interests of the Government. | “So scandalous was your action in this latter matter that positive steps looking to your trial by court-martial therefore would be taken did not the statute of limitations set forth in the | articles of war interpose a bar to the | prosecution of such a trial.” Col. Williams® Trial. Col. Williams is being tried as a result of testimony given the House | committee by Frank E. Speicher in connectlon with alleged financial | transactions between Speicher and Willlams when the latter was brig- | adier general in charge of the trans- | portation division of the Quartermas- ter Corps. Speicher was representa- | tive of a leak-proof automobile tube | concern interested in supplying the special tubes to the Army. Press and public have been barred from the trial by vote of the court- martial, which is composed of high of- ficers dressed in civilian clothes to | avoid attention. The sessions are be- ing held in the Officers’ Club at the | Army War College reservation. CASE, PALAIS ROYAL OFFICIAL, RESIGNS J. J. Hasley, Formerly With? W. B. Moses Co., Becomes General Manager. Alva C. Case, for eight years vice president and general manager of the Palais Royal Department Store, today submitted his resignation to the board of directors to take effect immediately. J. J. Hasley, formerly manager of the W. B. Moses Co., will become vice president and general manager. For several months he has been acting as Case's assistant. Case said he was not yet ready to announce his plans for the future, but implied he would leave Washing- ton. He has been an active member of the Greater National Capital Com- mittee. The resignation had not been long contemplated, Case declared. He first came to Washington in 1916, when the Palais Royal was owned by Abram Lisner and stayed until 1924. He then went for a while to Chicago and Newark, to return in 1027 after the store had been bought by Kresge Department Stores, Inc., a holding company which controls stores in many cities. N 190 TO GRADUTE IN NIGHT SCHOOLS Prof. Cooper to Address Exercises at McKinley High This Evening. One hundred and ninety students of the white night schools will be graduated this evening at exercises in the McKinley High School, beginning at 8 o'clock. The commencement address will be delivered by Willlam John Cooper, professor of education at George ‘Washington University and former United States commissioner of educa- tion. Edward J. Lockwood, director of night schools, will preside, and Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, vice president of the Board of Education, is sched- uled to present the diplomas. Commencement exercises for the elementary colored night schools will be held this evening at Armstrong High School. Mrs. M. A. McNelll, member of the Board of Education, will preside. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintend- ent of schools, will address colored night high school graduates tomorrow evening in the Cardozo High School Dr. Leonard Z. Johnson will preside. : Revenue at $3,875,000,000. :'Total revenue of the gold, coal, dia- mond and other mines in South Africa last year was $3,875,000,000, ’ Indicted ,by THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Grand Jury (Story on Page A-1.) EDWIN J. DAVIS. SPEEDWAY TRIAL | CRASHES KL 3 Stubblefield and Two Others | Die in Attempt to Qual- ify for Race. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, May 22.—A gap- ing hole in a concrete wall, a break in a wire fence, today marked the race track where speed cost lives of a veteran driver and two newcomers. | W. H. (Stubby) Stubblefield, vet- eran of the motor speedway course; his mechanic, Leo Whittaker, and | Johnny Hannon, Eastern driving sen- | sation, rode their racers over the walls to death yesterday. Never before had three persons been killed in a day during attempts to qualify for the 500-mile race held each | May 30. The fatalities cast gloom among drivers and associates, but did not silence the roaring motors being tuned up for the long race. The faces of those who dared death on the hazardous turns of the 2%- mile course were a bit grim, but their feet rested as heavily as ever on the accelerators of their speedsters. Four- teen already have passed the test of 25 miles at more than 100 miles an hour, which defeated the three who died. Others await resumption of qualifying trials Saturday to win Pplaces in the starting field of 33. Feared Deaths, Dave Evans, veteran race pilot, yes- terday told friends there would be fatal accidents because some of the drivers were taking the turns too fast. | Stubblefield, Los Angeles driver. leaped the wall on the southwest turn vesterday, stripping the front wheels from his racer, which overturned and landed 20 yards outside against a fence. He and Whittaker, also of Los Angeles, were tossed clear, but died en route to a hospital. A tew hours before, Hannon had smashed through a retaining wall on the northeast turn before he com- pleted his first lap at the wheel of a racer owned by the veteran Leon Duray. His mechanic, Oscar Reeves of Indianapolis, was in serious condi- tion in a hospital today. Yesterday Stubblefleld was trying to qualify one of a three-car team en- tered by Phil Shafer of Des Moines, Iowa. Shafer and Cliff Bergere of Los Angeles, are to drive the other cars. The three had one of the best records for consistency of any team to enter the race. Stubblefield had finished four races and Bergere five, while Shafer, 42-year-old veteran, has proved a steady driver. Three drivers who qualified for the race yesterday before the second ac- cident, are Egbert (Babe) Stapp, Los Angeles, 116,736 miles an hour; A. B. (Deacon) Litz, Dubols, Pa., 114.488, and George Connor, San Bernardino, Calif,, 114.321, SPOTTED FEVER FATAL TO SON OF DR. LORIMER Case Is First in Washington Area This Year—Funeral Rites to Be Tomorrow. David Lorimer, 3-year-old adopted son of Dr. Frank Lorimer, secretary of the Population Association of Amer- ica, and Mrs. Lorimer (Dr. Feith Willilams of the Bureau of Labor Statistics), died this morning of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, the disease carried by infected ticks, found in both Maryland and Virginia. This is the first case of the disease in the Washington area this year. Besides his parents the child is survived by a sister, Joyce, 11. Services will be held at the Mount Pleasant Congregational Church to- morrow at 4 p.m. CONVICTED IN FIGHT Former Student Accused of Strik- ing Cadet Captain. A squabble during a McKinley High School cadet drill several weeks ago resulted in the conviction by a jury in Police Court today of Richard Huntt, 19, of 223 S street northeast, on a charge of assaulting a cadet cap- tain. Judge Given deferred sentence for a few days. Huntt, a former student, was ac- cused of striking Cadet Capt. Richard Hilder of Glen Carlyn, Va, in the mouth, knocking out one tooth. Tes- timony was to the effect that Huntt was engaged in a ball game on the street where the company was drill- ing and was reprimanded by Hilder for getting in the way of the cadets. JOHN M. BOLAND. HOUSE OF MERGY TALK DRAWS 600 Flower Print Authority Traces Garden Trends in Lecture. About 600 persons responded yes- terday to the appeal of the board of managers for financial contributions to the House of Mercy, their response taking the form of attendance at a lecture held in Whitby Hall, at the Cathedral School for Girls. Gordon Dunthorne, collector and authority on garden and flower prints, was the guest speaker, illustrating his address with lantern slides and exhi- bition of about 150 prints from his col- lection. Traces Style Changes. Speaking on the subject of seven- teenth and eighteenth century Eng- lish gardens, Dunthorne traced the changes in garden style during that period, showing how the Italian, French and Dutch influences were present at different times. One of the earliest fashions was that of precise geometrical arrange- ment, he said, to be followed by a formal school in which shrubbery and plants were clipped and molded into figures. The landscape school, empha- sizing the use of trees and grass more than flowers and fancy shrubbery, was a later development. Funds to Aid Home. Dunthorne was introduced to the audience by Mrs. Henry Curtis Mor- ris, president of the board of man- agers of the House of Mercy. Proceeds from the lecture are to be used in sup- port of the institution, a home for unmarried mothers, which is operated under jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church. Although the home is supported principally by endowment, the board finds it necessary to amplify those funds each year through a benefit party in the Spring and an apron and food sale in the Fall. The lec- ture yesterday took the place of the garden party which has been the usual form of the Spring benefit. ———— COLD DIP HELD “CRIME” NEW YORK, May 22 (#).—The 29th annual convention of the Boys Clubs of America heard yesterday that it is wrong to send boy campers plunging into icy water for a pre-breakfast dip. Prof. E. K. Fretwell of Teachers’ College said “A fat boy can hit the cold water in the moming with some benefit, but for the thin, high-strung boy it is nothing short of a crime to make him take a plunge before break- HUNDREDS GATHER FORNR. A RALLY New Dealers Leave Trade Heads® Demonstration Entirely to Public. ___(Continued From First Page.) American and something against which our strength may be of little avail.” ‘There were many representatives of code authorities in the crowd. One | of them, however, a machinery manu- facturer from New York City, told a different tale from that expounded by Cheney. He said, before the meeting started: “N. R. A. has been good for labor and the consumers’ goods trade. But it has just hampered our business. We would be hamstrung if the ad- ministration extengion bill went through.” He declared that he came to Wash- | ingtor: “just to see what it was all | about™ and said great pressure had been brought on him to attend this meeting, that he had been flooded with telephone calls, personal calls | and letters, urging his presence in | ‘Washington for this occasion. The Industry and Business Com- wittes for N. R. A. extension is the organization set up by Cheney to urge continuance of the recovery agency. He established it in New York about two months ago and at oncs Legan wu make arrangements for today's rally. He originally sought the appear- ance as speakers today of leading figures in the administration, but the New Dealers, after charges made last week by Republicans concerning al- leged administration complicity in the “farmers’ march,” refused © have anything to do with the session. The delegates began to arrive by train today. Most of them ieached Constitution Hall by 9 o'clock, but | had to wait outside until nearly 9:30 when the doors were opened. As they entered the auditorium, an organist played a quiet march. Blue Eagle labels were strung all along the edge of the stage. As the dele- gates sat down, attendants obrought out two pictures of President Roose- velt and set them upon the stage facing the audience. There were sub- dued handclaps. Several women were among the dele- gates, chief among them, Miss Virginia Kirkus, a member of the Booksellers’ Code Authority, and Miss Bessie | Beattie, secretary of the Apparel In- | dustries Committee for N. R. A. Re- newal, both from New York City. | _ In the front row sat Wilbur W. Hub. bard, who has manufactured ferti- | hz‘e; in Baltimore for 55 years. He | aala: “The N. R. A. is & great organiza- | 33, I operated in | tion. From 1929 to 19: the red. When the code went into | effect my business showed an immedi- | ate and marked improvement. I am | now making money again.” | The meeting opened with the read- ing of a long list of telegrams from | business groups all over the country, | | which were unable to send representa- tives to the rally. A great many came from Code Authority members. Busi- | nesses ranging from funeral direction | to tapioca processing were represented in the wires. | Cheney in his speech this morning severely criticized Senators Nye of | North Dakota and Borah of Idaho, | both Republicans, and King of Utah, Democrat, for their “unceasing and | | unrestrained” attacks on N. R. A. and | defended the presence of Code Au- | thority representatives. “As for the code authorities,” he said, “let me point out that they are the elected representatives of indus- try and most of them are doing mag- nificent work. They are elected just as Senators are elected, and without anywhere near as much wire-pulling and chicanery. They are men chosen | by their fellow men and they are entitled to respect and consideration. “Give us N. R. A. in accordance with the House program and we believe | America will, long before the lapse of two years, be out of the woods and on the high road to prosperity.” . RECEPTION TONIGHT | bicolors, white or pale Dr. Joseph R. Siz00, pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, and Mrs. Sizoo will be given a farewell reception by their friends and fellow church workers in the lec- ture room of the church at 8:30 o’clock tonight. They will sail late this month to visit the churches of Eng- land and Scotland. Dr. Sizoo will go abroad under the sponsorship of a foundation recently established by Lord Leverhulme, which provides for interchange of ministers between Great Britain and the United States for the purpose of pro- moting better understanding and good will between the people of the two countries. OW PRICES Folding Cots—Studio Couches —Special Metal Beds with Coil Springs—Mattresses. Specialists in this line—Modest Prices H.A.Linger,925 G St. IT...es L YOUR Ho% Phiuos SAVERToN o, WE RUG CLEANING RENEWS AND BEAUTIFIES Soiled carpets or rugs are al- ways unsightly . . . always dis- turbing to housewives who take pride in keeping their homes spic and span. 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He is orange in the face, with green stripings. Lolo, whose name means “lazy,” is from around Hawaiian waters, but he is seldom seen there. He appears only when dug up like a potato. Released, he dives straight to the bottom, stands momentarily on his nose, shivers vigorously once or twice and is gone. He has burrowed under the sand. IRIS SHOW HONORS WON BY SIMMIONS Woodbridge Garden Club! Has Third Annual Event. Bozarth Second. W. T. Simmons won the greatest number of points in the third annual iris show of the Woodridge Garden Club last night, with W. H. Bozarth second. The show was a brilllant exhibit in number of entries, quality of the flowers and variety. ‘The different, classifications and the first place winners in each were: Bearded iris, collection of 40, Mrs J. L. Bishop; collection of 20, Mr. Simmons, and collection of 10, A. R. Hester; specimen blooms, white Venus de Milo, Miles Gas Station; pink, Rosy Dawn, Mr. Simmons; lav- ender or light blue, Ballerine, Cath- erine Sherwood: yellow, Pluie d'Or, Mr. Simmons; dark blue or purple, San Diego, Mr. Bozarth; red purple, Rubeo, Mr. Bozarth Plicatas, San Francisco, Mr. Bozarth; lavender or purple, Havanal, F. H. Goetzer; yel- low and bronze or brown and purple, Henri Riviere, Mrs. Bishop: blinds standards and Falls similar; Doliy Madison, Mr. Hester: standards and Falls different: Ambassadeur, F. J. Roy; seedling, Mr. Simmons; vases of iris, six stalks, Mr. Bozarth: 12 stalks Mr. Bozarth; color varieties, three stalks to a vase, white, Mrs. A. L. Foster; pink, Mr. Simmons; lavender, Mr. Simmons; yellow, Mr. Simmons; dark blue, Mrs. Foster; red, Mrs. Bishop. Miscellaneous iris, three stalks of one variety, Betty Gamble: six stalks to a vase, T. E. Marquis. Artistic ar- rangement, iris predominating, small basket, H. C. Kinner; large basket, Mrs. Ida McKeown; bowls, H. T. Stowell. Columbine, Mr. Stowell: painted daisy, Mr. Marquis; pansies, Mrs. T. E. Marquis; minjatures, large, Mrs. Marquis; small, Mrs. Marquis; pop- ples, J. W. Hardey; pinks, Mrs. Mar- quis; shrubs, H. J. Clay, and miscel- laneous flowers, Lucille Zuendel, Music Entries Increase. Entries for the recent Portadown Musical Festival in the Irish Fiee State numbered 1,330, an increase of 250 over last year. 8} W = Pale Dry Ginger Ale Golden Ginger Ale Lime and Lithis Orange + Club Soda Grape + Root Beer « Sarsaparitla WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1935. 370 GRADUATE FROM EMERGENCY Commencement Exercises Will Be Held Tonight in Nurses’ Home. Thirty-nine nurses will be grad-| uated from the Emergency Hospital Training School for Nurses at com- mencement exercises tonight at 8 o'clock at the nurses’ home. The exéreises will open with & cessional of the nurses i Un#AOIr, x: lowed by the invoeation by Rev. - J. Hart, veetor of St. John's Church. | ‘The address to the gradusting class | will be made by District Health Offi= | cer George C. Ruhland. Prizes will be awarded by Mrs. | George Scriven, president of the | Women's Board of Emergency Hos- | pital, to the students having the| imghen scholastic averages for the year. Honor students are: Marie Dennis, | third year: Hilda Bennett, second | | year, and Florence Warren, first year. | Honorable mention: Millicent Koelker | and Iris Hill, first vear; Annie Elder | and Deborah Daniel, secend year; Ce- celis Kriatchko and Louise Hansom, | Barker, Susan B. Bricker, Annie L. | Campbell, Nellie C. Coleman, Dorothea H. Girts, Evelyn C. Hardesty, Mar- garet E. Hodget, Dorothy M. Hunter, | Lillian M. Kroll, Nellie M. Mitchell, Gertrude B. Murrill, Helen L. Rinde, Dora E. Warlick, Pauline B. Wood- ward, Dorothy Wollerton, Miriam R. Bates, Amelia Cushwa, Margaret J. Davis, Helen M. Dennis, Evelyn M. Frenks, Hester P. Gottschall, Una E. Hall, Elizabeth O. Harness, Mary E. Harwness, Iris H. Hill, Rebecca 8. Keagle, Irene E. Kennedy, Millicent K. Koelker, Elizabeth N. Leek, Mary A. McDevitt, Louella Peters, June Roue, | Cora F. Siggins, Ruth H. Spruill, Miriam 1. Stine, Mabel M. Tabor, Ruth T. Wester and Eleanor V. Wingfield. -— SWISS FRANC WINS BERN, Switzerland, May 22 (#).— Dr. Albert Meyer, minister of finances and customs, announced yesterday | that foreign attacks against the Swiss | franc had ended. “Speculation against the Swiss franc Fas ceased during the last few days,” said Dr. Meyer. “We won the victory. Exchanges throughout the country re- | port that the speculative sale of Fed- | eral obligations has either stopped completely or been greatly reduced, | resulting in a slight rise of the mar- ket.” ALASKA SCOURGE WANES| POINT BARROW, Alaska, May 22 (#)—The influenza epidemic which | has resulted in more than a dozen | deaths in this northern outpost, was described as virtually over yesterday | by Dr. Henry W. Greist, medical mis- sionary here. | In a statement expressing apprecia- | tion for offers of financial assistance the missionary doctor explained that milk and crushed oats are his most pressing need. The milk and oats are needeq, he said, in case of a new out- | | i SOUTH | EAST WEST e BUS CENTER e Penna. Ave. at 6th St Phone Distriet 4224 | 'BANDITS GET $180 Awarded Medal DR AMES WINNER OF LANGLEY MEDAL Smithsonian Bases Honor on Advances Making Aviation Safer. The Langley Medal for Aerodrimics of the Smithsonian Institution was presented yesterday to Dr. Joseph B, Ames of Johns Hopkins University, chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and for years one of the foremost figures asso- DR. JOSEPH S. AMES. IN HOLD-UPS HERE —— -« \ About $180 in cash and articles ranging from whisky to a shotgun were | obtained in hold-ups and burglaries last night and early today. One of the hold-up victims, Hugh V. Roberts, 6512 Pirst street, was robbed of $41 by three colored men, one of | whom gave him back his pocketbook |and a dollar bill. The hold-up was | staged in the 1400 block of R street. George Babaklis, night manager of a lunch room at 736 North Capitol street, was held up at pistol point in the place by two men who obtained | $28.50, of which $25 was in pennies. A burglar who entered the home and grocery of Isadore Kline, 201 H street, obtained $100 from the grocer's pockets in the bed room on an upper | floor and took a quantity of liquor | from the store. The burglar cut tele- phone wires after gaining entrance by cutting a glass panel from the rear door. In another burglary, $12 in cash and a shotgun were taken from the home of A. C. Phillips, 14 Q street | northeast. 01d Cemetery Reopened. On April 6, 1876, Mrs. Margaret Wray reserved space in a Hartlepool, England, cemetery, and on April 6. 1935, the old cemetery was reopened | to fulfill her wish. F St. at 1ith ciated with the scientific development of American aviation. The presentation was made by Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes, chancellor of the institution, in ac- cordance with a vote of the board of ~4s at {ts annual meeting in Jan- " pesolf AWard, it was stated in medal, was “in recogiéfll 'anying the passing improvement of he’} the sur- ance, efficiency and saf y of Afferl- can aircraft resulting frc.1 the funda- mental scientific rese-rel -8 ondbicted by the National Ad'sa Committee for Aeronsutics unde t '.‘dnfl of Dr. Ames. Setabl the medal ad been awarded as follow. In 1909 to Wilbur and Orville Wright for advancing the science of aerodromics in its application to avia- tion and demonstrations of thé prac- ticability of mechanical flight. In 1913 to Glenn H. Curtiss for his development of a hydroaerodrome and to Gustave Eiffel for his researches on air resistance. In 1927 to Col. bergh. In 1929 to Charles M. Manly, post- humously, for his pioneer contribu- tions to the development of the air- plane engine and to Admiral Richard E. Byrd for the North and South Pole flights, Charles A. 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