Evening Star Newspaper, September 4, 1935, Page 20

FLOWERS HASSED ATQUEEN'SCRYPT Leopold Limps Behind Hearse and Princess Sobs at Funeral. By the Assoclated Press. BRUSSELS, September 4.—More than 1,800 wreaths had been delivered to the Laeken crypt of Queen Astrid of the Belgians today. Trucks were | busy throughout the night conveying the flowers from the palace. The body of 29-year-old Queen As- trid was buried beside those of Bel- glan monarchs yesterday. Beside it was placed a wreath of her favorite flowers—orchids—a final gift from her huskand, King Leopold. Leopold himself, his face drawn, limped behind the hearse on the jour- ney of nearly three miles from the palace to Ste. Gudule Cathedral. He! was bare-headed and his right arm was in a sling. Once he stumbled and nearly fell. Only the clattering of hoofs and sobs of more than 300,000 Belgians broke the silence. The funeral was held six days after an automobile | driven by Leopold overturned in | Switzerland, killing the Queen. Seven-year-old Princess Josephine | Charlotte, eldest of Astrid’s three | children, sat at®her father's right on & throne inside the Cathedral choir. | Tears rolled down her cheeks. | Leopold buried his face in his hands. | When the cortege came out of the | church the King watched the placing | of the coffin in the hearse. He was so engrossed that a member of the staff had to fasten up the black sling in which his arm was hung. COURT HOUS.E BESEIGED FOR OLD-AGE PENSION| 1,000 Elderly Missourians Rush Kansas City Offices to File Applications. By the Associated Press. KANSAS City, September 4.—More | than 1,000 elderly persons, a score | of whom fainted, rushed the Jackson | County (Kansas City) Court House yesterday to apply for pensions under Missouri's old-age pension law. It was the opening day for the applica- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON Two Prominently Mentioned For Gen. MacArthur’s Post Craig and Simonds Among 21 Regarded Eligibie. By the Associated Press. , Speculation as to the appointment of a successor to Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur as Army chief of staff in- creased in military circles here today as & result of the general's luncheon visit with President Roosevelt yester- day at Hyde Park. Although there are 21 officers hold- ing the rank of major general in the Army, any one of whom is eligible for appointment as chief of staff, observ- ers here were inclined to believe that the choice lay between Maj. Gen. Malin Craig, commandant of the Army ‘War College, and Maj. Gen. George S. Simonds, deputy chief of staff. Army circles considered it probable that the President discussed with Mac- | Arthur the question of his successor. The general has been retained long past his four-year term. Philippine Port Official. MacArthur has been invited to take charge of the military branch of the new commonwealth government of the Philippines, which will be inaugurated November 15. Since chiefs of Army branches must work in close co-operation with the chief of staff, Secretary Dern is under- stood to have decided to defer recom= mending appointments to fill existing vacancies until the President, as com- mander in chief of the Army, selects MacArthur's successor. | The vacancies to be filled before January 1 include the chief and assistant chief of Air Corps, adjutant general, inspector general, and desig- nation of three major and brigadier generals. | Maj. Gen. Craig, a West Point| graduate in 1898, saw service in Cula| in the Spanish War, the Boxer Rebel- lion in China in 1900 and went to Prance in 1917 as chief of staff of the 41st Division. Later he commanded the 1st Corps, and after the armistice | went to Germany as chief of staff o!" the Army of Occupation. Since thc‘ World War he has served as chief of Cavalry, assistant chief of staff, and| has commanded the 4th and 9th Corps| Areas and the Panama Canal Division. Gen. Simonds’ Record. Maj. Gen. Simonds was graduated | from West Point a year later than Craig, served in China and the Philip- tions. Many of the men and women, all over 70, were bent over canes and crutches. Half of the fund for the pensions {s being derived from a sales tax, collected through the use of mills| stamped on “milk bottle cap” card- board discs. The Federal half has been held up by failure to pass a deficiency bill at the recent session of Congress. The maximum pension is $30 monthly, PLEADS INSANITY Youth, Accused of Setting Denver | Fires, Sent to Hospital. DENVER, September 4 (#).—War- | ren R. Cramer, 17, accused of setting fire to 21 Denver buildings, pleaded “not guilty by reason of insanity” at his arraignment yesterday on a charge of arson and grand theft. District Judge Henley A. Calvert or- dered him placed in the Colorado Psy=- copathic Hospital for 10 days of ob- servation. Police said the Oakland, Calif, youth told them he set fires in Jack- eonville, Fla.,, before coming {o Den- ver. o SUIT DEADLINE gET Dawes’ Bank Stockholders Have Until Oct. 1 to Answer R. F. C. CHICAGO, September 4% (&) — Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson yesterday set October 1 as the dead- line for defendants to file answers in suits brought by the Reconstruction Finance Corp. against 4,300 stock- | holders of the Central Republic Bank & Trust Co. O. J. Rogge, R. F. C. attorney in | the litigation to recover $14,000,000 from the stockholcers of the bank— known in financial circles as a “Dawes institution"—asked that a | trial date be set in November. The suits involve an expected de- ficiency in the repayment of a $90,- 000,000 loan made to the bank in 1982, . “FAME A VAPOR” CHICAGO (&) —For years Oscar W. Hanke dreamed of a musical career with a symphony orchestra. He is 85. Just before he locked himself in & hotel room and turned on the gas, he wrote, “Farewell everybody. Fame is but a vapor. The only earthly cer- tainty is oblivion.” But Police Lieut. Louis Diana and a fire department rescue squad revived him. At the hos- pines, and became an instructor at the | first officers’ training camp at Platts- | burg when this Nation entered the World War. In September, 1917, he sailed for France as chief of stafl of the 26th Division, and later was chief of staff of the 2d Army Corps, serving on the British front. He commanded the American em- barkation center at Le Mans in 1919, and since has been assistant com-| mandant of the Army War College, | commandant of the Tank School at| Fort George G. Meade, Md., and| assistant chief of staff, War Plans Division, SLUMBER HELPS ~ YOU TO SUCCESS See These Features: @ Oven Heat Control ® Patented Thermowell @ In-a-Top Broiler end Griddle @ Automatic Lighter WHAT does an old mat- tress cost in discomfort—in | sleepless _nights — frayed nerves? 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