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He | has had wide experience as an M(‘ teacher, having also served as an in- | | structor in the Minneapolis School of | Art. A native of Jersey City, N. J. where he was born 42 years ago, | Lahey studied at the Art Students' League with such distinguished artists as Robert Henri, Kenneth Hayes Mil- ler and George Bridgman. He has| studied extensively in France, Italy, Spain and Germany. Won Tuthill Prize. | | A regular exhibitor in national ex- | hibitions of contemporary painting. | Lahey was awarded the Tuthill Prize | at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Beck Gold Medal for portraiture | at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. He is well known | as a painter in oil and water color and is an etcher, as well Many of the American museums |and private collectors own works by Lahey. Examples of his work may be seen in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Mu- | seum of American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Aris, Detroit f | Institute of Arts, Addison Gallery of 609 C st. Metro. OIS N.W. The Economical, Convenient Way to Borrow Money o B Definite, Easy MONTHLY PAYMENTS $6.15 per $1,000 OR $6.90 per $1,000 OR $8.00 per $1,000 NO COMMISSIONS OR OTHER CHARGES except tile expense and small appraisal fee GRADUAL REPAYMENT T e b e o paid up 1n 25 vyears: on the second plan, in 19 vears and |1 months: on the third plan in 15V vears, YOU PAY LESS INTEREST EACH MONTH Under these economical, convenient plans for bor- TOWINg money., you pay back a little of the loan each month, with interest only on the outstanding principal. You pay a less | June 30, | sided.” he said. American Art, New York Public Li- brarv and in such private collections | as those of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jir.: Miss Maude Whetmore, Mrs. C. J Sullivan and Franz Hirschland. He is a member of leading artists’ organizations, including the American Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers, Century Association, Amer- ican Fine Arts Society, American | Print Makers and the Salons of | America. | He is an experienced lecturer on art and was one of the artists pre- sented by the College Art Assoclation, | his lecture on *“The Artist’s Point of View" having had a popular reception at the Whitney Museum. Brooklyn | Museum, Montclair Museum and other places, Weisz Vice Principal. A« one of the oustanding younger artists of the country. Lahey bringe to the Corcoran School of Art a sym- pathetic understanding of the art stu- dent’s problems, based on his ex- perience as a creative artist and teacher. Eugen Weisz, formerly an instructor in the Corcoran School, becomes vice principal under the new arrangement. | In co-operation with authorities of the school he has worked but a pro- gressive policy designed to encourage self-expression and individuality based on “sound fundamental principles,” it was stated. Mrs. M. M. Leisenring and Hans Schuler will continue as instructors | and Kenneth Stubbs, a former stu-| dent of the school. has been appointed | assistant instructor in the drawing! classes. ‘The enroliment of the school is con- siderably in excess of last year. So| many students are entering the be- Rinners’ drawing classes that addi- tional space is being provided to ac- commodate the qverflow, it was an- nounced. | Bankers (Continued From First Page.) { | deplored the “overbanked” condition | of the country. | “A mad scramble to establish a | bank opposite every gasoline station | across this continent is not a situa- | tion which can be contemplated with any degree of satisfaction,” he said. He noted, however, that only 132 primary national banks had been | chartered since October 31, 1932, re- | marking “This is the smallest number | of national banks chartered in any three-year period during the last 30 year | " Tracing bank earnings over recent | years, O'Connor said national insti- | tutions during the year ended June 30, 1932, suffered a deficit of $139.-/ 780.000, or 891 per cent, based on | capital; for the next year, a deficit of | $218.384,000, or 14.39 per cent, and for the following vear, a deficit of | | $303,546,000, or 17.46 per cent. On| 1935, the situation was | changed, showing a profit of $71,- 372,000. | O'Connor viewed the future with | optimism and begged his listeners to | | do likewise. “The storms of vesterday have sub- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTION, D. C WEDNESDAY, Papa and Mama Swan keeping watch over their six voung cnes after the last of six eggs laid by one of J.. Memorial Park were hatched recently before sevaral hundred curlous the black swans of the Montclair, N persons. interest n their preservation, Because of the rarity of black cygnets in this country, it was said, the town has taken an ofcial Wide World Pholo. OB HANGS BOYS. VISTING NURSES - FOR SLAYING GIRL'FUND CUT §25,000 Plea of Minister Jeered—Act Effect of Next Year's With- RICHARD LAHEY, New York artist, who will become principal of the Corcoran School of Art December 1. FOUR BIDS STUDIED ONHOUSING PLANS Apparent Lowest Offer Is $66,440 for Langston Terrace Project. Pully vears after the Public Works Administration had allocated the original funds for low-rent hous- ing in the District, officials today were studying four bids received on pre- two liminary construction phases of the Langston terrace project for colored families on Benning road northeast. The apparent low bid of $66.440 was submitted vesterday by the Charles H. Tompkins Co. The other bids were Bahen Wright. Inc.. $89.- 319; Easthon-Melyvin Co.. $72679. and Jeffress-Dyer, Inc.. $91.078. They are all Washington firms. C. W. Fitch. assistant director of housing. presided at the opening in the Interior Department While it was expected would be made shortly the award and excava- | tion work begun soon after, there was no Indication when the date would be set The Langston Terrace project is virtually all that remains of Secretary Ickes’ once ambitious hopes to con- struct low-rent housing projects in Washington on a grand scale. No end of difficulties obstructed the pro- gram from the beginning Finally, when he had selected a site in South- west Washington. near the Army War College. property owners protested condemnation proceedings and won their fight in the District Supreme Court to block the housing develop- ment Next Ickes obtained a site in Ana- cosia, after being compelled to aban- don several others elsewhere. but P. W. A. money for housing ran short and this development probably won't be started for a vear or so. of 25 to 22 over Frank H. Brooks of Pittsburgh. who withdrew. Charles F. Zimmerman of Hunting- ton, Pa, backer of Adams. said he considered the fight an “out-and-out question of States’ rights versus cen- tral control of banking under the New | Deal bureaucracy.” Adams, a bitter foe of the Roose- velt administration, said in a con- Building. ! “Will of People,” Says County Attorney. he Associated Press COLUMBUS, Tex., November 13--A mob of some 00 persons. including several women, hanged two colored boys last night for the brutal slaying of Geraldine Kollmann, 19, high school honor graduate. Ten masked and armed men forced two officers to surrender Ernest Collins 15. and Benny Mitchell. 16, who allegedly had confessed attacking the girl and throwing har body into a creck October 19 County Attorney O. P. Moore said today he believed the lvnching was “an expression of the will of the peo- ple.” “T do not call the citizens who exe. cuted the Negroes & mob,” said Moore By County Judge Cite« Ages. County Judge H. P. Hahn =aid: “I am strongly opposed to mob vio- lence and favor orderly process of the law. The fact that the Negroes who so brutally murdered Miss Hollmann could not be adequately punizhed by law because of their ages preveits me from condemning those citizens who meted justice to the ravishing mur- derers last night.” At Austin Gov. James V. Allred said he did net know the facts, but the thougint of “lynching was deplorable at any time.” Moore's statement came soon after Justice of the Peace E. C. Thrower said he wonld conduet a court of in- qQuiry during the day. The town was quiet The mob hurried its victims to a tree a mile from the Kollmann farm and quickly “strung them up.” despite the plea of Rev. E. B. Marmion, Epis- copal sector, to “let the law take its course.” Mob Jeers Rector. The mob listened to him in silence and then broke into a chorus of jeers. White folks, please don't do this,”! pleaded Mitchell as the knot slipped about his neck Collins, apparently unshaken. peered into Mitchell's face and grinned The two prisoners were chained to- gether about the neck. Failing in an effort. to break the chain, the mob hustled the youths beneath the tree and threw two ropes over a limb, Sheriff Frank Hoegemeyver and Deputy Harry Townsend were return- ing the prisoners from Houston, where they had been held for safe keeping 10 Columbus for Juvenile Court trial today, was Cars Block Officers. The maximum sentence they could have recelved was confinement in a reformatory until they were 21 y old. A large caravan of motor cars blocked the officers’ path at a bridge 11 miles south of Columbus. away with the prisoners, leaving,the road blocked by automobiles. An hour after the boys were hanged. Sheriff Hoegemever reached the scene and cut the ropes. The bodles were delivered to the boys' parents, BRIDGE CLASS TO OPEN Maxwell member of will start L. Johnston, associate the Culbertson Studios, A new class in contract bridge at Central High School to- night, under auspices of the Com- munity Center Department. This will be the last new class of The mob sped| drawal of Service to Re- lief Patients Averted. Withdrawal of payments by the public assistance division for nursing of patients on relief will cut income of the Instructive Vjsiting Nurse So- clety by about $25.000 in 1936, it was announced yesterday by Miss Gertrude H. Bowling, executive director of the society. It is expected. however, she said, that the society will continue to administer to patients on the relief rolls. Miss Bowling, who was reporting to & meeting of the board of dircctors, sald 6519 patients had been attended during October and 15428 visits made. Of these visits, 11335 were paid for by the Community Chest and the re- maining 4.093 either by patients di- rectly or by contract service Mrs. G. Howland Chase, president, who conducted the meeting. announced appointment of a special Advisory Committee on Administrative Policies under the chairmanship of Mrs. Har- lan Fiske Stone. Other members are Mrs. Whitman Cross. Mrs. John W. Davidge and Miss Janet Houtz. Mrs. Charles B. Crawford, ¢ m of the Supply Committee, 1eported attendance of 32 at the last meeting of her group. Mrs. Emory Scoit Land reported three meetings of the Nursing Com- mittee, the Jast one being held in the Georgetown branch office where the work in that section of the eity had been discussed Miss Houtz told the board of the interest of the Washington Council of Social Agencies in the Community Chest campaign. Miss Houtz is rep- resentative of the Visiting Nurse Society to the Board Members Coun- cil of the Washington Council The treasurer’s report was submit- ted by Mark Lansburgh Those present were: Mrs. Wilder D Baker, Miss Elizabeth Bryan, Mrs Cross, Mrs. Crawford. Mrs. Hutchin- son 1. Cone. Mrs. Davidge, Miss Houtz, Miss Virginia Hunt, Mrs. Land, Mrs, Cresson Newbold, Mr. George Hewitt Myers. Mrs. John M. Sternhagen, Mrs. Stone. Mrs. J. W, Turrentine, Richard Wilmer, Mrs Charles F. Wilson and Miss Bowling n Thursday, Friday and Saturday Lansburgh, | Save 25% to 50% NOVEMBER 13, 1935. FLEMING ELEGTE 8.4 PRESIDENT Washington Banker Given High Office—1935 Act Tribute to Zeal. Robert V. Fleming. president of the Riggs Natlopal Bank: was clected president of the American Banker's Association today In New Orléans, succeeding R. 8. Hecht. During the past yvear Mr. Fleming hax been first | vice president of the association He was pald the highest honor In | the gift of the maociation because of | | the brilliant service aiready rendered | {the organization while chairman of | | the Committee on Federal 1o ton | and of the Federal Logislative Coun cii. and his more recent fight againat what were considersd by bankers as dangerous and unsatisfactory pro. posals contained in the orlginal bank- Ing act of 1935 which wae gibatly modified when it finally went through Congress For the work he did on this bill, .which coversd a period of many | monthe, he hax recelved unstinted | pralse by his associates. As & resident o' Washington, bankers from all parts of the country calied on him to oppose | the bill in its original form. With | President Hecht and other A. B. A.| leaders, many aweeping changes were | brought about, bankers now consider- ing the banking act of 1935 the best | measure of the kind ever enacted And this is only one instance of the nard work Fleming has done for the axsociation. For many years he has been one of the most active members of the Executive Council. Born Here in 1890, Born in Washington In 1890 he re- eived his education in Priends School, Western High School and George Washington University. He began his | business career as a runner at the Riggs National Bank in 1907, holding various clerical positions up to 1916, when he was made assistant cashler. He became cashier and secretary of the board in 1920, & vice president in | 1921, first vice president in 1924, president in 1925 and since st Jan- | uary has also been chairman of the | Board of Directors, Among his other business connec- tions Fleming is a director of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., | Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. of | New York and Acacia Life Insurance | Co. He was president of the Wash- ington Board of Trade last vear. He | is treasurer and a life trustee of lhci Corcoran Gallerv of Art, holds Jike positions with the National Geographic | Society and is treasurer of the Cham- | oer of Commerce of the United States. In civic and public aflairs Mr. Fleming is a George Washingion Uni- versity trustee. director, Columbia Hospilal for Women; treasurer Na- tional Symphony Orchestra Associa- tion of Washington; vicz president and trustee, Community Chest: mem- ber, Washington Cathedral Coundil; | trustee. 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Finn Phone ME. 0218 Located 20 ¥ n MeGill Bullding ! portant. office. heen active in the affairs of the Dis- ’ trict, Bankers' Association, serving as | president in 1928-9, and al one time and another holding every other im- He was a member of the association’s Program Committee which arranged for the A. B. A. Na- tional Convention in Washington last year. He also la a member of the Association of Reserve City Bankers. The new A. B. A, leader was award- ed the Cosmopolitan Medal and Cita- | tion as the citizen of Washington who performed the most outstanding civic service in 1933 and in 1927 the order | of Commander of the Crown was con- | ferred upon him by the King of Italy Republican in politics and a Mason, | he 12 & member of the Metropolitan. National Press, Chevy Chase, Burning Tree, Rotary and Alfalfa Clubs in the Capltal. One of the first things he did for the Diatrict Bankers’ Association was 10 originate the present system of set- tling Clearing House balances in Washington—& method whereby pay- menia In eash are eliminated and aetllements are effected through tele- graphie transfers through reserve ac- wounta at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, In the early part of the national de- presaion, he was called upon to serve a2 chairman or member of almost every imporiant emergency or recovery committee organized in the Fifth Re- serve district, including the Wash- ington unit of the National Credit Association, bank liquidation com- mittees, loan committees and several advisory commitiees to such Govern- ment. organizations as the R. F. C He is chairman of the Advisory Loan Committee of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Mortgage Co, and is a member of the Housing Advisory Council of the Federal Housing Ad- ministration. CIVIC GROUP TO MEET A meeting of the Southwest Civic Association will be held Friday at 8 pm. at Randall Junior High Schoo! 1o express appreciation for the use of the school building as a community center. Supt. of 8chools F. W. Ballou, mem- bers of the Board of Education and Community Center officials have been invited. Music will be furnished by the Boys' and Girls' Glee Clubs of Randall Junior Hizh School BANK CREDIT FOR INDIVIDUAL If you are in need of financiol assistance tc core for unforeseen emergencies, or for sickness, repairs, or perhaps to con- solidate your indebtedness, this bank wishes to make it clear that you should never feel hesitant about seeking o loon here. We ore always glad to consider an ap- plication, and will you come in and talk with us ebout your financial problems. Morris Plan Bank 1408 H St. N.W. CONVENTIONS SOUGHT Chicago Opens Campaign for Dem- ocratic and Republican Sessions. 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