Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1935, Page 14

TWO ARE DROWNED AS BOAT CAPSES 3 (THERS SAVED Man and Woman Die Get- ting Into Skiff for Picnic Trip. BODIES ARE RECOVERED FROM POTOMAC WATERS Owner of Boat Was on Way to Lock It Up at Time of Agcident. While its owner was on his way to take his small skiff out of ferry service across the Chesapeake & Ohio canal yesterday afternoon, a man and a woman were drowned in attempting to use the boat. The body of Mrs. Norma Sinclair, 53, housekeepér at 2930 M street, was recovered a few minutes after the boat capsized. The body of Robert L. Donohue, 54, the other victim, was not recovered until shortly after 11 o'clock this morning. Despite the swift current, which carried Mrs. Sinclair down- stream yesterday, Harbor Precinct po- lice recovered Donohue’s body within a few feet of where the boat sank. Donohue, a retired undertaker, also had lived at the M street address. Three companions who survived the accident were taken to the seventh precinct for investigation. They are Reginald De Koven Hereford, 44, a contractor living at 3288 N street, Frank Edward Greenan, 46, and George Howitt Allen, 44, both sales- men of Buffalo, N. Y. Hereford later was released under $50C bond pending an inquest. The party was on its way to the banks of the Potomac where a vicnic was to have been held. They nad been drinking at the home of Duno- hue, one of the'men told police, and then drove to the canal in an auto- mobile owned by one of the Buffalo men. Searching along the canal for a place to cross, they found the akiff and got in. Mrs. Sinclair was the last to step into the boat and as che got aboard, the small craft capsized. ‘Woman’s Body Found. Her body was taken from the water by two boys and a girl—Fred Rest, 4500 block of Canal road; Fred Beaver of Capitol Heights, Md.,, :nd Mary Nalls, 2133 Twenty-fourth street—after it had lodged on a rope across the canal about 100 vards from the scene of the drowning. They said they were walking on the banks of the canal when :hey saw a straw hat and a cigar nolder, with a cigar in it, floating down the canal. Looking up the canal, they said, they saw the head of & woman appear above water. They put out in & canoe and brought the woman to the bank. They said she apparently was dead when they took | her from the water. An ambulance, summoned by Mrs. P. W. Rest, mother of one of the young men, took the woman to Georgetown University Hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival. E. A. Phillips, 4500 block of Canal road, was the first to arrive on the scene after the drowning. He helped the three survivors crawl from the water to a small pier. He said the small skiff evidently had capsized be- fore it left the pier. Liquor Is Found. Police found two pints of liquor | and several bottles of beer in the| overturned skiff. Neither of the | liquor bottles had been opened. The skiff is owned by W. H. Stock- man, who lives between the canal and the Potomac River. He said it had been used as a ferry for his fam- ily and visiting friends, but that at the time of the drowning he was on his way to nail on oarlocks to con- vert it into a rowboat. While fire- men dragged the canal for the body of Donohue, Stockman pulled the skiff to the bank and made his alter- ations, He then placed a padlock on it. The boat previously was pro- pelled from side to side by a rope tied to each end and to the banks on both sides. Hereford made a statement to police | in which he told of efforts to save Mrs. Sinclair and Donohue. “When the boat went under, I got hold of Mrs. Sinclair and started for the bank with her,” he said. “But Donohue, who couldn’t swim, grabbed me by the neck and Mrs. Sinclair got away from me as I struggled to escape his hold. After the struggle I was barely able to save myself.” Police quoted Greenan as saying he Tescued Allen, who could not swim. Donohue conducted a funeral par- lor with his son, Robert L., jr., until about three years ago, when he re- tired because of his son’s ill health. ‘The son, who works in the Agriculture Department, said last night that Here- ford had been trying to sell his father life insurance for some time. He said Hereford was the only one of the three men he knew. FLORIDIAN GIVEN START HOME BY JUDGE HITT Car Token, Good to 14th and ‘Water Streets—Drunkenness Case Is Dropped. The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion will have to intervene in his be- half if James Travis, 21-year-old Floridian, succeeds in home on the ticket handed him in Police Court today by Judge Isaac R. Hitt. Travis, who was arrested by Pvt. E. G. Smith on a drunkenness charge, sald he had just come here from Florida and was willing to return there if released. “How soon can you start?” inquired the court. “Right now,” sald Travis. “Pine,” replied the court. “Here is & car token; get started.” The token, under present condi- tions, will carry him as far as Four- teenth and Water streets southwest. LIGHT BIDS ASKED Park Officials Prepare for Light- Army Officer’s Domestic Career Further Involved by Wedding * ” Miss Anna Cooke, 22, Is Third Bride of " Capt. T. H. Nixon. Sister Eloped in Jan- uary With Scarlett, Family Chauffeur. The tangled domestic career of Capt. Thomas Hay Nixon, Army offi- cer stationed at the War Department, was more involved than ever today, after his marriage last night in Bel- fast, Me.,, to Miss Anna Cooke, 22, Chevy Chase, Md. Miss Cooke, who becomes the third Mrs, Nixon, figured last January in the widely-publicized elopement of her sister, Jane, 19, with George Scarlett, chauffeur for Mr, and Mrs. Howard de Walden Cooke, parents of the two girls. Although the Army officer contends he was free to marry Miss Cooke, the second Mrs, Nixon, one-time George White “Scandals” beauty, has a suit for absolute divorce pending against him in District Supreme Court, charg- ing infidelity. The titian-haired second Mrs. Nixon, now living with her mother in Brookline, Mass., haled her husband into Police Court June 20, 1934, and accused him of dragging her by her hair about their Macomb street home. Desertion Charged. Two and one-half years before Mrs. Nixon filed her divorce suit, which is scheduled to come to trial in October, the captain sought to have a Penn- sylvania court declare the marriage null and void on grounds of desertion. ‘The Army officer announced yester- day his divorce had been granted and freed him to marry Miss Cooke. Gwynn Gardiner, attorney for the second Mrs. Nixon, said here: “I am astonished to learn of this action in Pennsylvania. I do not understand it.” The captain has been paying his second wife $150 a month alimony for 12 months a} the order of District Supreme Co and must continue to do this, Gardiner said. Miss Cooke and Capt. Nixon were married after they had successfully appealed to a Maine probate judge to waive the five-day wait demanded by State statute between the an- nouncement of the intention to marry and the actual performance of the ceremony. They obtained their Ii- cense Wednesday and were married last night by Rev. William F. Skerrye, pastor of the Federated Belfast Church. The strange romance of the third MRS. THOMAS H. NIXON. Mrs. Nixon’s sister Jane and chauf- feur was short-lived. A week after their return from an automobile honeymoon which took them as far South as Florida, Jane left him never to return. Scarlett was accused by the irate Mrs. Cooke, mother of the bride, of taking $5,000 worth of jewelry as well as her daughter, but this charge was dismissed by Judge Donald A. De Lashmutt in Rockville as a purely family affair, Soon - thereafter, Scarlett filed a counter suit in District Supreme Court asking $100,000 damages of Mrs. Cooke in connection with his arrest on the jewelry charge. Before this the young chauffeur had lost his bride, who disappeared one day from the home of her aunt, where the two had been living, leav- ing a ring and a note to the effect the situation had become “impossible.” Annulment Sought. Mrs. Scarlett rollowed this disap- | pearance with the third court ac- tion resulting from the elopment, engineered by Anna Cooke, who also took the trip to Florida, and asked annulment of her marriage. She said Scarlett had misled her on his abil- ity to support her. Mrs. Scarlett’s now brother-in-law, Capt. Nixon, was divorced several $1571 437 GRANTED D. C. FOR PROJECTS 10 GIVE 2200 JOBS W. P. A. Makes Allotment. Capital Will Provide $128,535 of Sum. WORKERS NEXT. WEEK WILL NUMBER 4,300 All 11,000 Employables on Relief List to Be Used When Pro- gram Is in Full Swing. District officials today received a grant of $1,671,437 from the Federal Works Progress Administration for projects designed to give steady em- ployment for a year to 2,200 per- sons now on relief list. The District will contribute $128,535 to the costs. ‘The additional workers will be as- signed to the new programs next week, bringing the total operation under the new employment plan to 4,300. When the program is in full swing, all 11,000 employables on the Dis- trict relief list will be at work. Work programs of the office of National Capital Parks call for tLe use of $908,884 of the sum just al- lotted. These include clearing of lands for new parks, new park roads, improvement of old roads and grading and landscaping at Anacostia Park. Other allocations -are for grading ard landscape work on public school grounds, $407,036; Water Department, for replacement of old mains and new main projects, $90,000; Gallinger Hos- pitaj for landscaping and draingage work, $94,000; Public Library, for car- pentry work, $4,474; Sewer Depart- ment, for roadways and sea wall at department yard, $26,208; Electrical Department, for street lighting sur- vey and other work, $18,428; Home for Aged and Infirm, for renovation of buildings and road improvements, $13,343, and Bolling Field, for a va- riety of physical improvements, $208,- years ago from his first wife, a girl | 256. from Georgia. Five years ago he married the second Mrs. Nixon, who left him in 1932 when the two lived in Penn- sylvania. Later they were reunited and lived together for a year and a half, until June 20, 1934, when Mrs. Nixon told the Police Court the cap- tain pursued her with a shotgun and threatened to import “some one from Chicago” to kill her. Saves Gems JEWELER TAKES GUN FROM HOLD-UP MAN. . EZRA RAVEN, Jeweler, of 1706 Pennsylvania ave- nue, saved his sparkling wares last * night when he wrested a gun from a robber, who demanded Raven's diamonds and silver. The hold- up man fled. RETAILERS RESUME SATURDAY OPENING/ { Most of Leading Sto;'el on New Schedule, Following Holi- day Period. For the first time since July 6, most of Washington's leading retall stores are open on a Saturday. For the past two months many stores have granted a two-day holi- day each week end. Others that have had half holidavs or closed on Satur- day afternoons at 2 o'clock returned today to full time. Beginning next week, Woodward & Lothrop announced, their working schedule will be 48 hours per week with an increase in pay of 10 per cent for all employes. This schedule will restore the hours in force prior to August 1, 1933, when N. R. A. cut the schedule to 40 hours. The pay restora- tion will restore the rates prior to June 1, 1932, when pay was cut 10 per cent. Other Washington stores are ex- pected to follow a similar program, although none has announced definite plans yet. ‘W. & J. Sloane, Charles G. Stott & DR. JOHN B. WHITELAW APPONTED BY G. W. U. Former Member of Smith College Faculty to Be Assistant Pro- fessor of Education. 10 GROUPS PLAN CONSTITUTION DAY Re-enactment of Historic Scenes Part of Tentative Program. More than 70 patriotic, civic, busi- ness, religious, military and fraternal organizations were represented at a meeting last night at the District Building under auspices of the Amer- ican Legion to plan for a great Con- stitution day celebration to be held by the District department of the Legion. p ‘Tentative plans call for re-enact- ment of the constitutional conventiori and a pageant depicting the drafting of the Constitution in America and the signing of the Magna Charta in England. This is to take place at the Water Gate, the Capitol, the Lincoln Memorial or the Sylvan Theater. It also is planned to hold a torch- light parade ending at the scepe of the pageant, which will be staged as soon as the parade is disbanded. Following the pageant a large fire- works display is planned. Chairmen of special committees were appointed last night by Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, U. 8. A., retired, gen- eral chairman of the Committee on Arrangements, as follows: Civic affairs, Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen; program, Joseph J. Malloy, department commander, American Legion; public safety, Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police; pag- eant, Col. H. 8. Kimberly; publicity, Norvelle C. Sharpe, American Flag Association; essays, F. Regis Noel, American ~ Bar Association; parade, Willlam Morrel, American Legion; finance, F. Winship Wheatley, District Bar Association; citizens’ associations, A. J. Driscoll; Federation of Civic Service Clubs, George Fraser, and Fed- eration of Business Men's Associations, Arthur C., Smith. POLICEMEN ARE BARRED FROM GENERAL SEARCH Warrant for Assault Held Pre- cluding Evidence of Un- taxed Liquor. Policemen entering houses with war- rants for the arrest of occupants on one charge cannot search the prem- ises and get evidence for another charge, according to a ruling by Judge Robert E. Mattingly in Police Court today. The decision was concurred in by Assistaat District Attorney Karl Kindleberger. The ruling was rendered in the ease of Lawrence Frazier, colored, 300 block of M street southwest. Pvts. Bernard F. Day and T. M. McVeary, fourth precinct, went to Prazier’s home to serve & warrant for assault. After making the arrest, they testified, they looked in & closet and found several half-gallon jars of alleged untaxed liquor. They admitted they had no reason to believe the liquor was there. Charles Williams, colored attorney, moved to dismiss the evidence and Kindleberger immediately agreed it was improper. The court sustained the motion without hearing arguments. CAR HITS 4 OTHERS; MAN HELD AS DRIVER Young Woman, Passenger in Auto, Is Treated at Hospital. 174 Arrests in Campaign. After allegedly running his auto- mobile into four parked cars in the 600 block of Fifteenth street northeast early today, George E. Lister, 37, of 313 Eighteenth street northeast, was released on bond of $500 on charges of reckless driving and failure to change his address on his driver's permit. Miss Catherine W. Burgess, 25, of 503 B street southeast, passenger in Lister's car, was treated at Casualty Hospital for head and leg injuries. The 174 arrests for the 24-hour period ending at 8 a.m. today brought the total number arrested during the seven-week safety drive to 9,546. Charges against those arrested to- day and yesterday include 30 of speeding, 1 of reckless driving, 4 of neglecting red light and-139 miscel- laneous. Accidents during the period number 13, in 11 of which persons were slightly injured. Miss Helen Clum, 320 Fifteenth street northeast, shown in the center, has been chosen to represent Washington in the annual beauty and personality contest to be held in Atlantic City next week. Miss Betty Gray, 1004 Independence avenue southwest, on the left, was second choice of the Judges and Miss Ethel Zepp, 1226 F street northeast, on the right, took third piace. MEETING RESUMED BY COLORED ELKS All-Night Session Held as Order Pushes Business Toward Adjournment. After an all-night session, which did not end until nearly 6 a.m., col- | ored Elks resumed today the task of | completing the business of their| thirty-sixth annual convention. The Elks had settled down to busi- ness right after their colorful parade Tuesday and have been working hard ever since, with many sessions last- | ing far into the night. Last night's, | | however, was the longest. Early today, the Elks completed the elections begun Wednesday by choos- ing the following for one-year terms: Dr. F. H. George, Paducah, Ky., grand esteemed leading knight; Joseph A. Brown, New York, grand esteemed | lecturing knight; John Freeman, Philadelphia, grand esquire; John S. Ross, Washington, grand inner guard; Claude S. White, Indianapolis, grand ltflel’. Each was re-elected by accla- mation following suspension of the rules. Edward W. Simons, New York, was elected grand trustee for a term of | three years. The dnticipated contest over this position did not develop and Simons’ election was unanimous. ‘To Brooklyn Next Year. Brooklyn, N. Y., was chosen for next | year's convention in the last week of August, winning out over Boston, Cleveland, Baltimore, Norfolk and Milwaukee. ‘The night session recessed at 5:40 a.m. today until 10 a.m., when reports from grand lodge officers were read. In day sessions yesterday the &Elks rejected all proposed changes to their organization’s constitution, with one exception—they accept a change re- ducing fees for district deputies and elimination fees for reinstated mem- bers. ‘The Convention's Shrine Committee proposed that a national colored Elk shrine be erected in Washington. Others favored a site in Freehold, N. J. Describe Fight for Laws. A. Mercer Burrell, a member of the New Jersey State Legislature, and | Hobson Reynolds of the Pennsylvenia Legislature, described the successful fight in their States during the past year for civil rights legislation, while Henry Lincoln Johnson, jr., of Wash- ington, discussed methods by which the Elks could campaign for similar measures in the District and other States. ‘Young members of the Junior Herd Baby Cries Alone on Park Bench As Parents Go Dominic J. Naples, jr., seven months | old, and positive in his views, stirred, looked up at the open sky and de- cided he didn't like it. It was cold and dark and the middle of the night, although Dominic J. Naples, jr., probably didn’t realize that. Lustily, he registered his vocal pro- test and kept it in high until two passersby heard the commotion and stopped to investigate. They found Dominic wrapped in a blanket on a bench in Potomac Park, not far from the river wall. Quite probably, they reason, his mother had jumped over- board. They hastened to the Park Police office, informed Sergt. R. B. Jenkins of their discovery and accompanied him back to the scene. Before they left Harbor Police were notified and a boat and two men set out for the ap- proximate location to search the river, —Star Staff Photo. BILL AUTHORIING LA000FIRD.C. AVERWORKSGHE Improvements to Include Channel Deepening and Water Front Clean-up. EVENTUAL WIDENING OF WATER STREET PLANNED $614,000,000 in Projects Over U. S. Contained in Harbors Bill Approved by President. ‘The rivers and harbors bill, author fzing $614,000,000 of improvements, was signed today by President Roose- wvelt. This measure stamps congressional approval on a number of projects al- ready started with P. W. A. funds, but Congress must appropriate money later for several hundred others. The bill authorizes an expenditure of nearly $2,000,000 of Federal funds for various improvements in the Washington Harbor, including the deepening of the channel in the Po- tomac and Anacostia Rivers, the con- struction of a turning basin near the navy yard and the rehabilitation and beautification of the water front. Berth Space Planned. The improvements along the water front will result in the destruction of unsightly buildings, the construc- tion of a yacht harbor above the War College and the creation of a berthing space for 286 boats. In ad- dition a new wharf will be erected for the joint use of the Harbor Police and the Fire Department. A new pier for the use of boats from the District Work house and reformatory and three new piers for commercial vessels also will be constructed. Plans for the improvements contem- plate the eventual widening of Water street to 160 feet and the construc- tion of a new bridge at the head of Washington Channel. Coulee Project Involved. Included among the P. W. A. proj- to Sleep in Car| | On their return Dominic was still | | vocal. Police and passersby joined in | | the search for somebody who might | | have owned the youngster. Before | | they completed their investigation, | however, a sle=py couple emerged from | 8 nearby automobile and explained | that they were Mr. and Mrs. Dominic Naples, sr. They said they had lost | | their lodgings because of inability to ‘pcy rent, had come to the park to | spend the night, had parked Dominic, swathed in a blanket, on the bench d then had gone to sleep in their | tomobile, a taxicab, with which the | elder Naples was attempting to earn | a living. | Thus reunited, the family was taken to the Harbor Police office for further | | questioning, out were released later. | Today Naples, who is 50, said he will apply for public relief for his wife, 20, | | and son, so Dominic, jr., need not dis- | turb passersby in Potomac Park. of Columbia Lodge presented to the convention resolutions calling for es- tablishment of playgrounds in sec- tions of the South where none are now provided for colored children and proposing & national athletic con- test among members of Elks’ young people’s organizations. Dr. William J. Thompkins, chair- man of the Elks’ health commission, showed motion pictures demonstrat- ing incidents in the fight on tuber-| culosis here, CAFE LICENSE POWER AIDS RUHLAND’S DRIVE| Prettyman Rules Commissioners Have Right to Revoke Permits for Sanitary Vielations. Placing & new weapon in the hands of Health Officer George C. Ruhland in his drive to make restaurants ob- | serve all sanitary rules, the Commis- sioners yesterday authorized action for revocation of business licenses in cases of flagrant violation. ‘The action was taken in sdopting a formal legal opinion by Corporation | Counsel Prettyman holding that the Commissioners had power to take such steps under terms of the District license act. The ruling was given on request of Dr. Ruhland. ‘The health officer decided yesterday to prosecute seven more cases of viola- tion of sanitary rules. The infrac- tions were discovered by inspectors operating under Dr. Reid R. Ash- worth, chief sanitary inspector, in un- announced visits to a long list of eat- ing establishments. Police Officers Sworn Into New Posts Chief Clerk Howard D. Crawford is shown administering office to seven mmbers of the Metropolitan Polic Department Left to right: Crawford, Pvt. J. T. White, Sergt. SRR B. Chenault, Capt. Harry G ‘William E. Holmes and Supt. Ernest ‘W. Brown R SEVEN PROWOTED POLIE SHORN Friends Watch as New| Oaths Are Given After Headley Retirement. Seven members of the Metropolitan | Police Department, who advanced a | | step in rank as a result of the, re- | | tirement of Inspector Albert J. Head- | ley, renewed their oath of office to- | day at informal ceremonies in the | office of Supt. Ernest W. Brown. | Standing at attention in front of | Maj. Brown, the officers were in- | | ducted into their new positions after | | taking the oath, administered by the department’s chief clerk, Howard E. | Crawford. | On the sidelines were a group of | friends of the promoted men, includ- ing Mrs. Harvey G. Callahan, whose husband, in the comparatively short span of 15 years, has advanced from a rookie to a captain. Officers Congratulated. Maj. Brown, as well as Inspectors L. I. H. Edwards and James F. Beck- ett, congratulated the officers. The superintendent said to them: “Each of you have taken on added responsibilities. In your former posi- tions, you gave efficient, loyal service. In your advanced ranks, I trust you will continue to give a high standard of service. “You have already contributed your part toward making the depart- ment & model for the Nation.” Capt. William E. Holmes, first pre- cinet, who moved into Headley’s va- cated inspectorship, but was not given the title of assistant superin- tendent, was detailed as night super- visor of the department—a position which corresponds to a night super- intendent -of police on most other police forces. Callahan to First Precinct. Capt. Callahan was assigned to command the first precinct, replacing Holmes. The other officers “"me and their new assignments follow: Lieut. W. J. Cunningham, assigned to the Trafic Bureau; Lieut. R. C. Pearce, assigned to the first precinct; Acting Lieut. J. E. Fondahl, assigned 1o the first precinct; Sergt, J. E. Silvea, to second. precinct, Maj. Brown also announced a series of other changes in personnel, which included the transfer of Sergt. L. T. Johnson from the fifth precinct to the Traffic Bureau; the transfer of Sergt. B. F. McAllister from the second to the third precinct; the transfer of Pvt. John T. White from the second precinct to the Traffic Bureau, and the promotion of Pvt. W. C. Lewis to an acting sergeant. Lewis will remain at the Traffic Bureau. ects the measure seeks to validate are the $63.000,000 Grand Coulee project on the Columbia River and the $13,.- 000,000 Parker and $10,000,000 pro- posed Head Gate Rock Dams on the Colorado River. P. W. A. allotments already re- ceived by various projects listed in the bill total $288,020,549. GEODETIC SURVEY GROUP TO WORK ON 300 Workers Here Told Fate of Jobs Rests With National Emergency Council. Future employment of about 300 technical workers in the Coast and Geodetic Survey rests in the hands of the National Emergency Council, the employes were told last night at a mass meeting in the Y. M. C. A, Eighteenth and G streets. The workers, who have been given notice that today is their last day of employment, plan to continue in their jobs pending definite action on an ap- plication for funds from the Works Progress Administration. ‘They believe that if funds are granted, they will be paid in full for the time they work in completing data and maps of uncharted areas of the United States begun some time %go. Several hundred field workers, dis- missed nearly a month ago, also hope to be restored to their jobs. A committee from the Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists and Technicians told the mass meeting that E. K. Burlew, administrative as~ sistant to Secretary Ickes, had been | interviewed in an effort to get the . money necessary to make the survey a “white collar” project under the new work-relief program. bt The application for funds already has been passed upon by the National Resources Board and referred by that board to the emergency council. From the council it will go to the Al= lotment Board for final action. The workers decided to maintain a . standing committee to see the pro- posal through to the end. SECRETARY RESIGNS |, AT HECTIC MEETING Employes’ Local Considers Posi- tion of 300 Employes of Mail Equipment Shop In a hectic session marked by the resignation of its secretary, Lodge No. 105, American Federation of Gov- ! ernment Employes, last night was told by President J. A. Brown that em: | ployes of the mail equipment shop will have to continue on a 15-day annual leave with no sick leave, but with a 40-hour week. The meeting was called to clarify the position of these employes, num- bering about 300, with respect to the annual and sick leave bills which were left pending in the Senate largely because of a controverted ' amendment to include this class of postal workers in the 30-day annual leave bill. Under the Mead bill which passéd Congress, these employes will go om, the 40-hour week October 1. 3 ) The secretary of the local, Mrs. M.' L., Wise, resigned after she had been criticized by members for reportedly . sending a resolution to E. Claude Bab- | cock, A. F. G. E. president, before it had received the signature of Presi- dent Brown. Later, other members declared her action was in good par- liamentary form. Mrs. Wise had tendered her resig- ' nation at a previous meeting, it was ' learned, but it was not accepted. . Last * nl(h\ after the controversy over the} ruo'l.uuon. she declared her office va- | canl TEXAN APPOINTED P.-T. MEETING SHIFTED f National Managers to Gatber in Chicago September 16.