Evening Star Newspaper, July 4, 1935, Page 4

COLORFUL PARADE Dedication of Playgrounds and Athletic Events Fol- low in Celebration. Bpeclal Dispatch to The Star. TAKOMA PARK, Md., July 4—The 159th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence opened here this morning with the ‘booming of cannon, followed by a col- orful street parade at 9:30 o'clock and dedication of the new municipal play- grounds. The line of march was re- versed over previous years and con- siderably longer. The route of the parade was from the Maryland portal of the Piney Branch Parkway, southward to Cedar street to Carroll street, Carroll avenue, turning in front of the Takoma Park Volunteer Fire Department Building, where the reviewing stand was located; along Denwood avenue to the mu- nicipal playgrounds at Philadelphia and Holly avenues. American Legion Post Comdr. E. Brook Fetty of Takoma Park was grand marshal. Following the District and Mary- land police escorts came Mayor Fred- erick L. Lewton and members of the Town Council, Judge Herman C. HefI- ner, general chairman of the com- munity celebration, and his staff, past general chairmen and the United States Army Band, under the direc- tion of Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, jr. Next in line was a detachment of soldiers from Walter Reed Hospital; John E. Moorhead, representing “Uncle Sam”; Miss Carolyn Davis, at- tired as the “Goddess of Liberty”; veterans of the Civil, Spanish-Amer- ican and World Wars and auxiliaries and the Drum and Bugle Corps of Fort Stevens Post; District of Co- lumbia Veterans of Foreign Wars; the American Legion and American Legion Post members, which completed the first division. Second Division. Leading the second division was Miss Betty Cavanaugh, drum major. and the Takoma Park Squadron, Sons of the American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps, followed by Takoma Park | American Legion Post, the official flag post of the Department of Maryland. After the massed colors came another massed formation of the 40 colors presented to the post by the allles of the World War. Then came the auxiliary of Takoma Park Post, Boy Scout Troop No. 33, Boy Scout Troop | No. 36, Boy Scout Troop No. 38, Girl Scout Troop, Prince Georges County Drum and Bugle Corps and a large American flag carried by a group un- der the direction of Mrs. Anna G. Lingle. The Young Men's Democratic Club was next in the line of march, after which came costumed marchers from Silver Spring Public Health Lay Com- mittee. The Whittier Street Play- grounds' Boy and Girl Patrol was headed by Miss Elizabeth Jones, fol- lowed by costumed children from the Philadelphia avenue, Elm avenue and Takoma avenue municipal playgrounds, in charge of Miss Norma Lewton and Miss Virginia White, supervisorss v the front line of the unit was the uni- formed Takoma Park Playground base ball team. The Review and Herald Band led the third division, followed closely by a float from the Bliss Electrical School, in charge of E. W. Bond; float of Our Lady of Sorrows’ Church, in charge of Mrs. H. P. Ware; marching unit from Trinity Episcopal Church, float of the kindergarten of Mrs. A. C. Lyddane-Wilson, float of Pansy’s beauty shop and a float, “Lest We For- get,” by the Sons of the American Le- gion. A four-float train represented “Tom Thumb's Wedding Party,” ar- ranged by Miss A. Alberta Heale and Maj. C. Leonard Boyer and conducted by mothers of the children on the train. A float from the Washington Sanitarium, in charge of C. C. Pulver, concluded this division. Firemen Lead Section. ‘The Takoma Park Volunteer Fire Department occupied the front ranks of the last division, with a float in charge of Mrs. C. J. Spencer, repre- senting the ausiliary of the Fire De- partment. Next came displays of the Dome Oil Co., Park and Manor phar- macies, float, “Indian Rock Garden,” by Rufus M. Shenk; Takoma Motor Co. and a float by Nick’s delicatessen. A Continental soldier, represented by William Beale, stood at attention be- fore Betsy Ross, represented by Miss A. Alberta Heale, who was seated, holding a flag, which later was hoisted to the top of the 50-foot flagpole on the Maryland Municipal Playgrounds &t the dedication exercises. On arriving at the playgrounds on Philadelphia avenue a program of patriotic exercises took place at 11 o'clock in connection with the dedica- tion of the new municipal playgrourd. The exercises opened with a selection by the United States Army Band and the presentation of a large American flag, donated by Takoma Park Post and accepted by Mayor Frederick L. Lewton. Military honors to the flag | Harrison, who led Squadron No. 28, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1935. Above are shown some of those who figured prominently in the Independence day parade at Takoma Park, Md., today. Left: Carolyn Davis as Goddess ef Liberty. Right: George Gale, Betty Cavanaugh and Nancy Ann Drum and Bugle Corn Sons of the American ugxun —Star Sllfl Pholo. HOOVER DEPLORES PERIL T0 LIBERTY { Declares America’s Mission Is to Preserve Individual Freedom. By the Associated Press. GRASS VALLEY, Calif., July 4— | Preservation of individual liberty is the mission of America, former Presi- dent Herbert Hoover declared here to- day in a Fourth of July address. Returning to the scenes of his early career as a student mining engineer, Hoover in a prepared talk praised the American conception of liberty as voiced in the Declaration of Inde- | pendence and the Constitution and | warned his audience that a world- | | wide attack upon individual liberty | had reached a crisis. “America has today a transcendent mission to civilization far beyond our own safety,” he declared. “It is our high duty to hold bright the light of individual liberty. From that light alone can come the material and spiritual redemption of mankind.” Raps “Slave Psychology.” The former Executive asserted in- dividual liberty already had ceased to exist in “whole nations,” with popu- lations totaling 500,000,000 suffering from ‘discouragement and disillusion” and, “with a sort of slave psychology, men would rather be safe than free. “And it has turned out they are not safe,” he added. America’s safety from attacks upon | liberty, he said, “lies in holding fast to the fundamentals of the great con- | stitutional charter of our liberties.” He continued: “That is no mere legalistic parch- ment. It is an immortal expression of the spirit of men who would be forever free.’ It is the invisible sen- tinel which guards the door of every | home from the invasion of coerion, intimidation and fear. * * * Its great list of freedoms should be a part of | our daily thought, third only to the! Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount * * * Holds Weak Need Protection. “It is not reactionary to hold fast! to these fundamentals, to oppose tyranny and to support liberty. We realize that life is different in 1935 from 1776. The functions of Gov- ernment must always be expanded to restrain the strong and protect the weak. This is the preservation of liberty itself. “These are times for genuine pro- gressive action—that we recover pros- perity and that we secure the better distribution among all the people of the abundance which has been the product | of our system of liberty. But there are things that must be permanent if we would attain these purposes. The Attorney Injured In Fall, Fighting Enraged Blue Jay John C. Eversman Beset by Bird on Visit to New Rochelle. ‘Warding off an attack by an an- gered blue jay, John C. Eversman, ‘Washington attorney of 1705 K street, fell and fractured his right arm yes- terday. Eversman, Eversman, The brother of Miss Alice Evening Star music the home of ris sister, Mrs. James F. Curley, in New Rochelle, N. Y. The screaming jay darted from the| woods. Eversman wildly waved his| |arm. The bird hesitated, then flew | again at the lawyer's face. Eversman flailed at the bird so| vigorously that he fell heavily to the ground. The jay went scolding back into the woods. Eversman's wrist was broken. Mrs. Curley hurried her brother to a hospital. GAPT. . 6. ZIEGLER Naval Medical Corps Officer to Rest in Arlington—Died in Norfolk, Va. On Monday Capt. John George Ziegler, Medical Corps, U. S. N.,, who | died in Norfolk, Va. on July 1, will be buried in Arlington National Cem- etery with full military honors. The last rites here will be held at 11 o'clock at the Fort Myer, Va., chapel, | with Capt. Sydney K. Evans, chief of the Navy's chaplains, officiating. The Navy Department today an- nounced the honorary pallbearers as Capts. Harold W. Smith, Henry A. May, William J. Zalesky, Frank E. Sellers, Montgomery A. Stuart and George C. Thomas. All are officers in the Navy's Medical Corps. Capt. Ziegler was born in Reading. Pa., September 4, 1880. In 1901 he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and was named an act- ing assistant surgeon in the Navy in April, 1908. He passed up through the various grades until he attained the rank of captain on December 1, 1931. Known as an outstanding psy- chiatrist, Capt. Ziegler spent most of his duty in naval hospitals. Two tours of duty, he served the Naval Hospital here, with addi- tional duty at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. He was stationed at the Naval Hos- pital, League Island, Pa., during the World War. He was stationed at the New York Naval Hospital for three years before reporting for duty at the Norfolk Naval Hospital in September first of these is liberty * * *” were then led by Post Comdr. Fetty, followed by a bugle call, “To the Colors,” and a 21-gun salute to the flag. At the base of the fiagpole stood Boy and Girl Scouts, uniformed mem- bers of the Takoma Park Playground base ball team and other children’s units. Miss Clara Mae Tarbett sang & solo and Councilman John R. Adams delivered the dedicatory address. Greetings were extended by Dr. Ed- win W. Broome, superintendent of achools, on behalf of the Montgomery County Board of Education. Athletic Events Set. At 1 o'clock the activities were re- sumed on the District side of the town, where a swimming meet for boys and girls of Takoma Park only was to be staged. The events were to;include several 25 and 50 yard races in the new swimming pool on the Takoma Recreational Center and at 2 o'clock a water polo match between the Van Buren street swimming pool life guards and the Municipal pool life guards. The field contests were set for 3 o'clock on the Whittier Street Playground; horseshoe tournament for men at 3:30; a tug of war between picked teams of men from the Takoma Park Presbyterian and Trinity Epis- copal Churches, and concluding at 4:15 o'clock with boxing, wrestling and tumbling events by the Metropolitan Police Boys’ Club, with M. F. Fox as referee. The day’s program will con- clude with fireworks on the Philadel- phia Avenue Playgrounds at 8 o'clock. Judge Herman C. Heffner, president of the Takoma Park Community League, was general chairman of the Community Celebration Committee; ‘Walter Irey, president of the Takoma Park Citizens’ Association; Mrs. B. M. Coon, president of the Takoma Park ‘Woman's Club, and Wallace C. Ma- gathan, president of the Citizens’ As- sociation of Takoma, D. C., were vice chairmen; Hardin Cg Waters, secre- tary, and Robert M. Lyon, treasurer, critic, was walking in the garden at| FUNERAL MONDAY, ARMY LAUNCHES PLANE PROGRAM First Contract Awarded in Plan to Boost Strength to 2,320 Ships. | By the Associated Press. The first definite step to increase planes was taken yesterday, when the | War Department awarded a $243,578 contract for 26 primary training ships. | The training planes, to be produced by the Stearman Aircraft Co. of Wichita, Kans., are the initial acquisi- | tion of 474 planes expected to be se- cured this year with approximately | $23,000,000 now available. Contracts for 85 bombing planes are expected to be awarded on August 22, and contracts for pursuit, cargo and | other types at intervals soon after that date. Despite an expected increase of nearly 500 planes this year, War De- partment officials see little hope in materially increasing the Air Corps’ strength until larger appropriations are made or funds allotted from other sources. The Air Corps now has approxi- mately 1,300 serviceable planes, and the annual losses, through deprecia- tion and accidents, total more than 400 machines. War Department officials expected that funds available would purchase between 700 and 800 planes. Consider- ably higher prices for planes and parts | and a decision to concentrate on the purchase of combat types—which cost much more than average types—made it impossible to stretch the funds to | cover the larger number desired. Planes to be acquired this year will be allotted to the recently organized general headquarters air force. METEORIC CAREER MURRAY, Ky. July 4 (#).—Ed- ward Freeman, managing editor of the Murray College News, did his editing yesterday standing up. Playing in an amateur base ball game here, he slid into third base with such force that matches in his pocket ignited, firing a celluloid comb, and incidentally, his pants. Three coaches and a physician made the “putout,” but the umpire called him safe. OPEN ALL DAY SATURDAY 'TIL SIX MANY WILL GUARD GOLD IN TRANSFER Secret Service, Army, Po- lice and Firemen to Take Part in Move. By the Associated Press. Extraordinary precautions will be taken to guard the precious yellow metal when the Government moves billions of dollars of its gold bullion from New York and Philadelphia to the new vault to be constructed at Fort Knox, Ky. Picked men of the secret service— the primary duty of that famous agency is to protect Uncle Sam's money—will direct the guarding of the precious monetary reserves which are to be transferred from war-time, vulnerable coast cities to more isolated inland territory. The gold probably will be shipped in several trains of steel express-mail cars, with a detachment of secret serv- ice men, a squad of postal saspectors, Treasury guards and a company of Regular Army soldiers with machine guns aboard each train. Police and Firemen to Help. ‘When the gold is taken from the assay office in New York and the mint in Philadelphia to the trains, the Government's protective forces will be augmented by hundreds of policemen and firemen. Transfers of gold usually take place at night. Batterles of searchlights flood transfer operations the Army Air Corps strength to 2,320 | When appropriations were made | and spectators are kept at a distance. ‘The guarding of the shipments also will involve painstaking precautions to prevent possible accidental or willful derailment of the trains en route to FDrl Knox, which is aboul 31 miles | om Louisville. As a matter of fact, Trmury officials are much more fear- ful of the possibility of a “crank” at- tempting to wreck the gold trains than they are apprehensive of efforts by bandits to stage & hold-up. In addition to the iron-clad protec- tion which will be placed around the gold cargoes, two important consid- erations weigh heavily against the suc- cess, or even the attempt, of a raid on the bullion by a bandit gang. Disposition Difficult. First of all, the gold bars are so heavy and cumbersome it, would be extremely difficult for robbers to make a successful getaway with a loot of value commensurate with the risks in- volved. Second, owing to the fact that the Government has outlawed private possession of gold, robbers would have a difficult job disposing of the metal. A million dollars’ worth of gold weighs a ton, and a thousand dollars’ worth of it is & rather big load for any man to tote around comportably and inconspicuously. On the other hand, paper money in large amounts is relatively easy to handle. person, and his highly valuable cargo probably never would be noticed. Protection Easy. Robbery-proof protection of the vast gold reserves to be stored in the | paratively easy undertaking. In a dition to the mechanized Cavalry unit terranean vault can be constructed with walls of steel, cast iron and con- crete hard enough to Tesist the most expert and indefatigable vault-crack- ers in the world. last year in the basement of the specially-chilled cast iron which is | reputed to be so tough no tool now | known to technology can scratch it | and no heat yet developed can melt it. | Mrs. Nelson Armstrong Dies. HURON, S. Dak., July 4 (#).—Mrs. Nelson Armstrong, 85, who as a young actress was backstage in Ford's The- ater the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, died here Tuesday. She fell and broke her hip about a week ago. Mattresses Remade ss The Stein Bedding Co. 1004 Eye St. N.W. ME. 9490 GROSNER 0 f /325 F STREET .AIR COOLED , , . FOR YOUS COMFORT A man | could carry $500,000 worth of paper i currency in $500 bills concealed on his | vault at Fort Knox, will be & com- At Great Savings Tomorrow stationed at that Army post, the sub- | The two-story vault which was built | Treasury Building here, has a wall of | Jury Trial Asked By Patr Accused Of Beating Boy, 9 Georgetown Residents Arraigned on Charge of Assault. Two Georgetown residents, Elsie Gill, 33, and Theodore Seibert, 30, are scheduled for trial by jury in Po- lice Court within the next few weeks as the result of an alleged beating ad- ministered to 9-year-old Charles F. ‘Wolfe, 3285 M street, on June 28. The man and woman were arraigned in Police Court yesterday on a charge of assault and demanded jury trials. So severely was the boy beaten when he was found playing in a tree box in front of 1212 Potomac street, the residence of the defendants, that it was necessary to take him to George- town University Hospital for treat- ment for injuries to the legs and body, members of the Police Court office of the district attorney were told yesterday. The child and Policeman William O’Connor told Assistant District At- torney Louis Whitestone that the for- mer had been playing quietly by the tree when the man grabbed and held him while the woman secured a stick and administered the beating. The defendants told police, it is | claimed, that they had been annoyed | by the noise made by children playing in the vicinity of their home. The child’s father and several other wit- nesses are scheduled to testify for the | trial. SHOT, HE BLAMES‘WASP Discharging One. GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., July 4 (). —A wasp's sting yesterday sent Frank J. Boyer of Cambridge, Mass., to a a revolver shot wound in the head. It happened this way: When a wasp perched on Boyer's arm while he was sitting in his parked car, he picked up a pouch of tobacco containing several .22 caliber shells. ‘The pouch hit the metal dash of the car and one of the shells exploded. 1 Fine Grand Rapids Twin-Bed Suite, 8 pieces mahogany. $595. Now 1 Twin-Bed Suite of 8 pieces, walnut and Carpa- * $295 thian elm. Was $425. Now 1 Twin-Bed Suite, walnut chief- ly, 8 pleces. Was $235. 1 Maple Dresser with separate mirror, Grand 539.50 Rapids make, Was $120. NOW aco.oo Government when the case comes to Sting Causes Man to Jostle Shells, | Gloversville hospital for treatment of OPEN ALL DAY SATURDAYS WRITERS' LEAGUE | GROUP RETURNED Cuba Claims Investigation Commission Members Are “Agitators.” By the Associated Press. HAVANA, July 4—The Cuban gov- ernment, shipping 15 professed in- vestigators back to the United States, charged today that they were “agita- tors who had come here to disturb public order and carry on a campaign of subversive propaganda.” A formal statement, issued from the presidential palace, explained that the government considered the “uninvited visit” of the commission to investigate social and labor conditions “unjusti- fled interference in the internal af- fairs of Cuba.” The Americans, protesting against their treatment, sailed for New York on the liner Oriente last night, after (T Z, % 7 7 THIS IS A VERY just 24 hours in Cubs, spent in the Tiscornia Immigration Station. c“flcofla Odets. young Liberal play- ""(h leader of nianeed) Byt ‘bt Atstican wm' League, asserted that the delegatian was undaunted and that it would re- turn with a new group—“names they can’t bar from Cuba.” Two New York school teachers, Re- gina Lazar and Mamie Keselinko, who were detained with the commission after also arriving aboard the Oriente, were held at Tiscornia overnight. 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