Evening Star Newspaper, September 14, 1936, Page 2

. P A—2¥ENkE Y THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1936. ADMIRAL STICKNEY - DIES AT HOSPITAL G. 0. P. Candidate From Second Virginia District in 69th Year. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va. September 14— Rear Admiral H. O. Stickney, U. 8. N., retired, and Republican candidate for from the second Virginia district, died yesterday at Portsmouth Naval Hospital. Death resulted from a kidney ail- ment and complications for which he had been under treatment for several days. | Stricken with iliness last week while | in the midst of his active congres- sional campaign, Admiral Stickney, who was in his 69th year, was taken to the hospital. After a short period | of apparent improvement, he suffered a relapse early Friday morning, fol- lowing which his condition grew steadily gvorse. Admiral Stickney had made his home in Norfolk since his retirement from the Navy in 1921, after 33 years’ service. Upon his retirement from the Navy 4n 1921, Admiral Stickney took up the study of law and was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1923. Shortly after- ward he became associated with the local Republican organization, served for a time as chairman of the Norfolk City Republican Committee, managed Menalcus Lankford's successful cam- paigns for Congress. and last Spring, himself was named as the Republican nominee for Congress at the conven- tion at Princess Anne Court House. Party Without Candidate, His death leaves the party without @ candidate. Lankford said some time ago that he would not consider run- ning again, and it was beligved likely that the nomination will now go to James M. Wolcott, Norfolk attorney and Republican leader. In 1926-27 Admiral Stickney was drafted back into Government service, as United States commissioner to the Sesquicentennial Exposition in Phila- delphia, in charge of all Federal par- ticipation in the exposition. Admiral Stickney was born on De- cember 10, 1867, in Pepperell, Mass., the son of Walter Brooks Stickney and Mrs. Lydia Jane Stickney. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1888 and in 1895, on October 16, married Miss Jennie Griffin Mihaldo, sister of Aaron Mihaldo of Norfolk. Served in Capital. In 1918 Admiral Stickney went to the Board of Inspection and Survey in Washington, and the following year became senior member of the Pacific Coast Board of Inspection. with head- quarters at San Francisco. In July, 1921, he was appointed commander of the train for the Pacific Fleet, and retired December 27 of that year. He then came to Norfolk to make his home and take up the study and prac- tice of law. Funeral services for Admiral Stick- ney will be conducted Tuesday after- nocn at 4 o'clock at St. Luke's Epis- copal Church, with the rector, the Rev. W. Taylor Willis officlating, as- sisted by the Rev. E. P. Oiner, rector of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. X The body will be sent to Washing~ ton Tuesday night by boat for inter- ment id Arlington National Cemetery ‘Wednesday, the time to be fixed later. Besides his wife, Admiral Stickney is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Sarah Gilman and Mrs. Eva Greenleaf, both of New Hampshire. CATHOLIC ALUMNI MEETING PLANNED Holy Cross Alumnae Committee at Work on Convention in Alexandria Next Month. Bs 2 Btafl Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., September 14.— Plans for the State convention of the International Federation of Catholic Alumni, which will be held here Oc- tober 11, 12 and 13, are being com- pleted by a committee of the Holy Cross Alumnae, headed by Miss Jean Fannon. The convention, expected to be at-| tended by 100 members of the federa- | tion in Virginia, will have Mrs. J. J. ! Sheeran, Long Island, N. Y. a co-! founder of the I. F. C. A, and Mrs. | William Connell, Pittsburgh, interna- | tional president, as guests of honor. | Opening with a high mass at St.| Mary's Catholic Church on Sunday, | October 11, the convention will con- ! tinue with a dinner Sunday in Wash- | ington, several luncheons, leght-[ seeing tour, a banquet and dance | Monday night and will end with a luncheon at the Army-Navy Country Club Tuesday, October 13. Assisting the general chairman in arrangements are Mrs. Lee Donnelly, Mrs. J. J. Baney, Mrs. Francis H, Fannon, Miss Jane Aitcheson, Miss Marie Quinn, Miss Mary Louise Tul- lock, Miss Anna Mess, Miss Margaret Shuman, Miss Edwardina Warren and | Miss Carroll Greene. Franco (Continued From First Page.) assets into cash at this point to help | unseat the Popular Front government of Francisco Largo Caballero, whose leap into the forefront 10 days ago brought the resignation here of all but three of Spain's diplomats. One of the rare pieces which FPranco will offer is a huge ved and gold English crown derby, one of the choicest types of china made. It has the pigeon-blood background typical of crown derby, with heavy gold overlay in a vine-leaf decorative motif. Other high lights in the sale will be: A pair of old bronze copper Span- ish plaques, beaten into shape by smiths of the Renaissance. The fig- ures are heads of Spanish knights, bearded and wearing the steel visors of the warriors whose swan song Don sang. A terra cotta bust of a charming Spanish woman, with a graceful lace | shaw! floating down from her high comb. An old Spanish treasure chest, made of walnut and carved with delicate Spanish Gothic arches. When the top is lifted the chest becomes & seat, for within is a secondary top covered with red damask. There are Chantilly lace mantillas in the lot, as well as three silk em- broidered shawls—one black deco- Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. GOLF. HERE is a new, very trick golf club on the market about which every golfer really should know. It is so designed that the grip sort of collapses if the club swinger gets more right hand than left into his swing. The purpose of the .club, of course, is to tell the user just what' is wrong with his swing. A chap out at Indlan Spring must have been pretty disconcerted by what the new club told him the other day. W W ¥ R On his first swing, the grip “gave” | just enough to nearly break his back. | On the second, the club flew out of | his hands. On the third, he smacked | himself in the back of the neck. Apparently that was par for the | course for at that point the chap | dropped everything and headed for the nineteenth hole, where his wife | probably will find him now, still drowning his sorrow. { * ok % % CHEMIST. James Smithson, the Englishman whose bequest made possible the Smithsonian Institution here, was quite a chemist. Dr. Charles Moore, chairman of the Fine Arts Commission and keen student of history, recalls that Smithson once caught a tear from a lady’s cheek and “detached the salts and other constituents of which it was composed.” * x ¥ x ENVOY. | WWHEN Randolph Zelov returned to his home in Philadelphia after a recent visit in Washington to . his | grandmother, Mrs. Grace Porter Hopkins, on Biltmore street, his local relatives remarked that this 10-year- old was more lively than Penrod, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn com- { bined. On his return to Washington ! a fortnight later for a stop-over on | his way to visit other relatives in Vir- ginia, Randolph was urbane, poised and the embodiment of Emily Post's ideas of a well-mannered youth. Mrs. Hopkins could not account for the complete reversal of form, the | dying down of the tumult and shout- 'ing. It developed, upon inquiry, that ;the boy's father, Victor Zelov, well- | known inventor, had talked to the de- | parting Randolph something like this: “Son, you are going to Virginia as | the ambassador of the Zelov family. If you conduct yourself properly; family will win respect; if you forget you are a gentleman, the family loses.” The lesson must have fired Ran- dolph’s imagination. Norman Davis himself, that roving Ambassador of the United States, could not have been more punctilious. * x x x SIGN. 'HE text and position of a sign on a ready-to-wear store for men definitely has disconcerted an opera- tive with an eye to the unfitness of E5N Ze “You look so good,” says the sign, which, apart from the English in- volved, is odd in that it can best be read when one comes out of a tailor | shop directly across the street. { Our man, reading the sign as he yheard his wife scream. UTILTY INDUSTRY ANSWERS WARNING Assails “Bureaucrats” Reply to Statement by President. The utility industry hit back today at President Roosevelt’s warning of last Friday that additional meritorious public power projects may be de- veloped by the Government unless private rates come down, the retort taking the form of an accusation that “further destructive and unconsitu- tional Federal competition” is being planned by the “Washington bureau- crats.” 4 Philip H. Gadsden, chairman of the Utility Executive Committee, served as spokesman for the industry in today’s reply to the administration. His interpretation of the President’s remarks before delegates of the Third World Power Conference was that they constituted “a clear-cut admis- sion of New Deal guilt in the abuse of constitutional functions for the purpose of achieving unconstitutional objectives.” “From the lips of the President of the United States,” Gadsden con- tinued, “at last we have an open and an official declaration that the real purpose of this hydre-electric program of the Gavernment is not flood con- trol, not navigation, not conservation, that the real purpose is to force further reduction of electric power rates. “No other interpretation can be placed upon the President’s words than that the recent official emphasis upon navigation, flood control and conservation are but a constitutional smoke screen cloaking the unconstitu- tional Federal power program. “The statement before the Supreme Court by Mr. Stanley Reed, New Deal in arguing the Wilson Dam-T. V. A. ca: last Winter, is pertinent. SaidMr. Reed: ‘If we assume that this act—the T. V. A. act—was primarily for navi- gation, then it would be valid. But actually for the purpose of developing power and selling it commercially, i the act would be invalid." | “It is significant that the President, | while making his first campaign year | defense of his yardstick theory failed to answer or explain the substantiated charge that electricity sold from these wasteful and unnecessary projects costs the people much more than the same energy if sold by the private utilities, any ostensible saving by way | of lower rates being made up twofold | from taxes levied on everybody. “He has served notice upon the | millions of citizens whose savings are | invested in operating utility com- | panies that, unless rates are adjusted to suit the arbitrary views of Wash- | ington bureaucrats, then the proper- | ties in which they have invested their | savings are going to be subjected to | | furtver destructive and unconstitu- | tional Federal competition.” | | B — ‘MAN ROBBED OF $150 BY GANG OF THUGS Atgacked After Rushing to House Where He Heard Wife Scream. A gang of thugs who frightened a woman and then robbed her husband of $150 was sought by police today. | The marauders inclyde four colored | men and one white man, John S. | McCauley told authorities in report- ing the crime. McCauley, who operates the Wash- ington Delivery Association at 3613 Georgia avenue, was walking at 9:30 p.m. Saturday in front of the house of Harry L. Willlams, 2008 Eighth | street. From inside the Williams house he McCauley ran to the rear to determine the trouble and reached the back door just in time to meet the four hood- lums scurrying out in a retreat toward the alley. McCauley acosted them and they halted their flight long enough to throw him to the ground and rough him up thoroughly. When they de- parted they took his wallet containing the $150. Mrs. McCauley had not been solicitor general of the United States, | came out of the latter place, thinks the sign has a sardonic twist. It has made him feel 50 uncomfortable that | W he goes around looking at himself in loud talkin’. I won't want to be dis- shop windows and other handy re- | turbed after that hour.” flecting surfaces. * % x % molested. PR S GHOST SPEAKER. The personal magnetism of John D. M. Hamilton, chairman of the Republican National Committee, was felt by at least one of Wash- ington’s many newspaper men the other day. Returning from a luncheon at the National Press Club where Mr. Hamilton spoke, the newspaper man remarked to a co-worker: “That was a fine speech of Lan- don’s!” PAST. PHONE company officials, waxing reminiscent, were chatting the other day about the time in 1904 when telephone service was first in- troduced in St. Marys County, Md. It seems that & line from Charlotte Hall to Mechaniesville, thence to Chaptico, had been built and it was planned to extend the line to Brandy- wine, where it would meet lines from Washington. The service was welcomed with en- thusiasm and the youpg people even | celebrated the event with a dance at Leonardtown. During construction of the lines, an elderly colored woman was asked for a right of way through her property, it being necessary to explain the purpose of the poles and Wire. After listening to the explana- tion with greatest attention, she re- * %k X BARGAIN. PERHAPS this old world is getting & co-operative spirit after all. Down in Southeast Washington & barber shop and a dry cleaning shop stand side by side. Maybe they suf- fered from too much competition, peo- ple being willing to get either hair or clothing spruced up, but feeling plied: “Sure you can cross my patch, but you must do one thing. After 10 oclock at night I won't \have any election, entirely because of the old the country.” T forecasts. Of look for expla: of the Landon polling. rated with OChinese figures, one ivory decorated with green floral figures and s third olive decorated with colored floral figures. Alice Longworth. a little too economical or broke to have both done at the same time. Now, anyhow, there is & sign mid- way between the stores: “Shampoo and press—50 cents.” The National Scene BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH. HE first important date on the political calendar is the Maine The interest in that event is mot, as heretofore, slogan, “As Maine goes, s0 goes All the recent polls have shown Gov. Landon leading in Maine, and election comes as a first opportunity to check on the accuracy of these course, no matter what the result, nations the morning after. If the Republicans win by an old time majority, as the polls have foreshadowed, the confidence forces will be immensely increased. If the vote is close, both sides will make excuses. If the Democrats should win, there would be very little confidence left in the accuracy of unofficial There is no denying that a victory for the Passamaquoddy angels would be extremely dis- concerting to Republicans throughout the country. Copyright, 1936.) GOODNIAN VICTOR N AMATEUR GOLF Beats Hicks, 4 and 3—Ray Billows and Sweetser Also Win Matches. BULLETIN. GARDEN CITY, N. Y, Septem- ber 14 (#).—Freddy Haas, jr., of New Orleans, newly. crowned Ca- nadian amateur champion, was knocked out of the United States title tournament today in the first round by Charlie Mayo, jr., holder of the Long Island e¢hampionship. Mayo won, 1 up, in a matca de- cided on the eighteenth green. By the Associated Press. GARDEN CITY, N. Y., September 14—Omaha’s Johnny Goodman, for- mer national open king and co-fa- vorite with Seattle’s Scotty Campbell, shot down his first-round opponent, Hunter Hicks of Chicago, 4 and 3, today in starting his btd for the U. 8. amateur championship at the Garden City Golf Club, First of the British invaders to fall was H. G. Bentley, Walker Cup player and holder of the English closed championship. He was eliminated in spectacular fashion by Walter Blevins of Kansas City, Mo., who captured the last four holes to win, 1 up. Bentley's game went to pleces in the stretch, while Blevins finished with four straight pars to gain an unex- pected triumph. The Britisher drove into the rough on the fifteenth, was bunkered on the next, three-putted the seventeenth, and hit his tee shot short of the home green, losing a shot as a consequence of each mistake, ‘The former champions came through their first tests as Jesse P. Guilford, one-time Boston “siege gun,” dropped a 12-foot putt for a birdie deuce on the home green to beat Chris Brinke, | Detroit star, one up, after Jess Sweet- | ser, 1922 American title holder, ousted | Tommy Wright of Knoxville, Tenn., 12 and 1. | John G. Langley, British Walker | Cupper and star pupil of Henry Cotton, turn. Pittman shot the outgoing nine in par, 37, to Langley's 42, but the | picture was completely reversed there- | after. The Briton won six of the next seven holes as his rival's game went to I pieces. Pittman was 9 over par on | the incoming route. Langley's countryman. Hector Thom- son, came through with a decisive | 7-and-6 triumph over his Ohio rival, John Roberts, as the British threat assumed more serious proportions at | the outset of the tournament than had | been anticipated. Goodman disposed of Hicks with a consistently fine shot-making exhibi- | tion. Coming back, the Nebraskan | was over par on only the short | twelfth, where he overplayed the well- trapped green, but halved it, never- theless. The match ended with Johnny taking a 4-and-3 decision after halving the next three holes in regulation figures. Ray Bjllows, who won the 1935 New York State am r golf crown after shifting his hoj# from Racine, Wis., to P , N. Y., captured his match Philip Simons of Long- | meadow, Mass., ¢ and 2. Billows scramiied to #ain a two-hole lead over his opponenmt at the turn and then capitalized tAls margin in a closely contested match. The wind raised havoc with most of the early starters in the dawn-to- dusk tussle for first-round honors. There were 82,.matches on today's card, with the réinainder of the entry list of 210 getting byes into tomor- row’'s second round. Charles Whitehead of Jamesburg, the New Jersey State amateur title holder, pulled out a hard-fought match with Earle Baruch of Haverford. Pa., former Princeton University quarter- back, 1 up. A birdie at the tough seventeenth, 488 yards info the wind, gave White- head his winning margin. Carl Dann, Orlando, Fla, star, piled up a four-hole margin on the outgoing route with a par 37. but barely survived the incoming rally | of his Virginia rival, W. B. Tomlin- | som, jr, to win, 1 up. First-Round Summaries. Ray Billows, Poughkeepste, N. Y., defeated Philip Simons, Longmeadow, Mass, 4 and 2. Harvey R. Dale, Indianapolis, de- feated Edward Down, Westfleld, N. J., 5 and 4. Charles Whitehead, Jamesburg, N. Pa, 1 up. Jess W. Sweetser, Mount Vernon, N. Y. defeated Tommy Wright, Knoxville, Tenn., 2 and 1. John Goodman, Omaha, Nebr., de- feated Hunter Hicks, Chicago, 4 and 3. Carl Dann, Orlando, Fla., defeated \lw. B. Tomlinson, jr., Richmond, Va., up. Walter Blevins, Kansas City, Mo., defeated H. G. Bentley, Southport, England, 1 up. Roger Kelly, Los Angeles, defeated Willlam Chambers, Chicago, 1 up. Jesse P. Guilford, Boston, defeated Chris Brinke, Detroit, 1 up. Vincent Schuster, Pittsford, N. Y, defeated B. L. Goodes, Greensboro, N. C, 4 and 3. J. D. Langley, London, England, de- feated Eugene Pittman, Bethesda, Md., 3 and 2. Jac Emery, Detroit, defeated Rob- ert Moffitt, Miami, Fla., 4 and 2. Rodney Coltart, Philadelphia, de- feated W. H. Willlamson, jr., Char- lotte, N. C., 4 and 2. Joseph Oliver, Aspinwall, Pa., de- feated Lieut. K. A. Rogers, San An- tonio, Tex., 3 and 2. Hector Thdmson, Glasgow, Scot- land, defeated John W. Roberts, Co- lumbus, Ohio, 7 and 6. Harry Haverstick, jr., Lancaster, Pa., defeated Lieut. Col. H. A. Boyd, Seotland, 1 up. Alex Banazek, Union, N. Y., defeated Thomas M. Pierce, Manchester, Vt., 1 up 19 holes. John Fischer, Cincinnati, defeated Eddie Meister, Cleveland, 6 and 5. A. H. Anderson, Kenosha, Wis., de- feated Morton McCarthy, Virginia Beach, Va., 2 and 1. . Walter Greiner, Towson, Md., Je- feated Thomas Whiteway, Wickliffe, ©Ohio, 1 up, 19 holes. John Lehman,-Chicago, defeated J. ‘Wood Platt, Philadelphia, 3 and 1. Henry J. Kowal, Hamilton, N. Y., defeated A. N. Anderson, Medinah, I, 2 and 1. Pred J, Wright,-jr, Waltham, Mass., defeated A. R. Aitken, St. Andrews, Seotland, 5 and 3. Charles Mayo, jr. Long Beach, N. Y., defeated Fred Haas, jr., New Or- Ps., 1 up, 19 holes. John Morris, Woodward, Ala., de- r;gu'mme.m Jamestown, » ) and 3. Greenbelt Sdon Ready Landlord But Citizens Will Rule Government Wil The man-made lak Greenbelt, the Resettlement Ad- ministration’s low-rent housing project at mearby Berwyn, Md., is nearing completion, Within siz months 1,000 families will move into their new homes there. This is the second of five articles dis- cussing the various phases of the New Deal’s experiment. J., defeated Earle Baruch, Haverford, | F RESETTLEMENT ADMINIS- TRATION plans materialize, Greenbelt will be turned over to BY GORDON EAMES BROWN. l a non-profit-making corporation if we determine that this act, while | Ptlled off a startling rally to overcome | shortly after the first of the year. stating that it is for navigation, na- | EUgene Pittman, Maryland player, 3| This body will be the Federal Gov- tional defense and flood control, is | 2Nd @, after being 3 down at the ernment’s agent in operating the | | community. Although the town would | | be leased or deeded outright to the | corporation, the Government will re- | main its actual landlord. Tugwelltown will be a tax-paying community, incorporated as a Mary- | land town under a charter to be granted by the State Legislature. Re- gardless of the type of transfer, ! through lease or deed, the Federal Government will indirectly control Greenbelt, because of two factors: Resettlement will dictate all provisions of the articles of transfer; it will | set provisions for repayment of part jor all of the $7,500,000, spent for [phnmnz and construction, to the Government. In other words, Uncle Sam will hold a mortgage to be fore- closed it repayments become delin- quent. Furthermore, the Government will prescribe prospective tenants’ qualifi- cations for occupancy of Tugwell- town homes. Already, more than 5.000 ‘-ppflcluom for Greenbelt residence have been received. From an economic standpoint, the Government can afford to be discretional in renting its houses. Limitation Placed. | These qualifications, would limit selection to family heads | who earn no more than $2,000, no less | than about $1,400 annually. Resettle- | ment wants no tenants unable to pay | | sy for instance, | 1 Be the Town. their rent, nor does it wish tenants who might afford Greenbelt’s stand- ards of living elsewhere. Other | requisites to be met by the prospec- | tive resident will include steady em- ployment and personal histories un- | blemished by criminal records or cur- | | rently contagious diseases like tuber- culosis. The corporation, the Government's agent, will be charged with operating the town. It will collect the rents, | pay taxes, improvement and mainte- | nance costs, and turn over the bal- ance to the United States Treasury. | All charges for taxes. upkeep, depre- ciation and utilities will be estimated by the corporation and pro-rated against the tenant as part of the rental charge. This, of course, pre- supposes fulfillment of Resettlement's | avowed intention to make the proiect self-liquidating, a possibility to be dis- cussed later in this series, An important feature of the cor- poration wiil be its non-profit-making | character. This has been pledged by Resettiement. Its personnel will be prescribed by the Federal Govern- | ment. The administration has sug- gested a board composed perhaps of a lawyer, a county commissioner, a banker and @ business man. The cor- poration’s representative to execute its policies as business manager of the properties will be Roy Braden, | former Arlington County, Va., man- | ager, backed by many years' experi- ence in this type of work. ! According to a tentative town char- | ter, prepared for submission at the | next session of the Maryland General Assembly, Greenbelt will actually be governed under a nearly dual-sover- eignty set-up. The plan involves the city manager form of government. If approved by the Legislature this would be the first of its kind in the State. Citizens’ Own Council. ‘The town will be partially regulated by a council elected from Greenbelt citizenry by Greenbelt citizenry. An agency of the residents, the council e at Tugwelltown, It was created for recreational punposes only. —Star Staff Photo. will create policies for administration by the city manager poration also will exercise its pre- rogative as technical owner of the town and agency of the sovereign | Federal Government. Here, then, is created the problem of overlapping authority. While the | corporation owns the homes, the | streets and utilities, and pays the | salaries of public employes, the council | sets those salaries and issues ordi- | nances affecting the corporation- owned streets. For instance, the council might de- cree a wage increase for the chief of police. The city manager would be instructed to pay that salary. But the money would come from the cor- poration's coffers. The corporation might object to the size of the sum. , Or, again, the corporation might ob- ject to the location of parking signs | installed on its streets by a council order. It might not approve of coun- cil-decreed regulations on traffic. In other words, when authorities conflict, where does final sovereignty lie? Cognizant of this problem, Reset- tlement seeks to make Braden a liai- son officer between the two agencies. He would serve as city manager under the council, properties manager under the corporation. Attempting to fore- stall serious disagreement between the governmental bodies, Braden would paly the role of peacemaker. Reset- tlement hopes his close connection with the two authorities would enable him to understand mutual problems, iron out differences. Contemplating some trouble, Braden has declared his conviction that any serious disagree- | ment could be settled through ‘“co- | operative deliberation.” Conflicts between the council and corporation would not be necessarily grave, per se. Such disputes would be significant, however, in their reflection by the community, in their effect on this experiment with society. (Tomorrow: Resettlement Socializes Greenbelt.) RODSEVELT NOTE - GREETS RED MEN Message Read by Attorney General Cummings Opens Session. dent Roosevelt today opened the eighty-seventh annual convention of the Great Council of the United States, Improved Order of Red Men, | meeting in the Wil'ard Hotel. The message was read by Attorney General Cummings. Recalling that he had been a member of the order, one | of the oldest in the country, Mr. Roosevelt said its “ideals of freedom, friendship and charity are such as to | commend themselves to Americans everywhere.” Program Continuance Urged.’ Continuance of the order’s program of “militant Americanism,” which in- cludes deportation of “undesirable” aliens,, was urged on the council by Arthur J. Ruland, great incohonee of the organization, in his opening ad- dress. He responded to the welcome of the President, District Commis- sioner Allen and James R. Madison, Jjr., a past great sachem, representing the Washington members. Sessions of the convention, which will continue through Friday, opened At A message of welcome from Presi- | informallly with a reception in the Willard last night. Showing of a movie entitled “Trails of the Great Incohonee” and entertzinment ar- tured the program. Other events on today's program in- cluded addresses by William A. Mori- | arity, great sachem, on behalf of Dis- | trict Red Men, and Mrs. Louis Gill. great instructress, on behalf of the | Pocahontas Degree. Sightseeing Tour Scheduled. After the morning session, woman delegates and their guests were sched- | uled to make a sightseeing tour of public buildings. The only other event on the day's program was & memorial service, set for 8:30 p.m. Tomorrow's program will include morning and afternoon sessions, fol- | | lowed by shopping tours for the | women, and, in the evening, a ban- quet in honor of the great incohonee. —_— ATTACK SUSPECT HELD. B3 a Staft Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, September | 14—A 64-year-old man was under | arrest here today on charge of crimi- ’nul assault on a 7-year-old girl. The man, listed as Norman Sims, 300 block of Montgomery street, was arrested this morning on a warrant | sworn out by the girl's mother. The | offense is alleged to have occured | last night at the girl's home, where | the man is a roomer, police said. He is being held without bond for a preliminary hearing of the charge in Police Court tomorrow. Red Men Welcomed Here General Cummings, left, delivers President Roose- velt’s welcome to Arthur J. Ruland, Binghamton, N. Y., great incohonee of Improved Order of Red Men, right, at opening con- ) BIG BANK STOCK ranged by the local committee fea- | . LOSSES CHARGED Central lllinois Corp. Paid $1,749,133 for Worthless Block, Probe Told. B the Associated Press. Heavy losses incurred through pur- | chases of bank stock were charged to the Central Illinois Securities Corp. today at the Securities Commission investigation of investment trusts. David Schenker, commission coun- sel, said the corporation paid $1,749,- 133 for 8142 shares of the Central Republic Bank & Trust Co. stock, | which, the attorney said, is now worthless. The Central Republic | Bank, formed through merger of the Central Trust Co. of Illinois and the | National Bank of the Republic, is in | receivership. Lessening Scale Purchase. The stock was acquired, Schenker asserted, through the Central Re- publi¢ Co., a subsidiary of the bank, between October 5, 1931, and June 1, 1932. In addition, Schenker said, $800,000 of stock it bought in the National Bank of the Republic. At the time of this transaction, he as- serted, the market price was $30 to $32 per share. Henry M. Dawes Called. Henry M. Dawes, chairman of the board of the trust when the tsansac- | tions took place, was called as a wit- ness. Despite Schenker’s assertion that banking conditions were “not healthy” in 1931, Dawes reiterated his belief that concern over the banking strue- ture then felt was attributable to a| “feeling of hysteria prevailing at that time,” and that the stocks of the banks were acquired as an investment. Dawes, a former controller of the currency, and a brother of Gen. Charles G. Dawes, Vice President in the Coolidge administration, previous- ly had explained he now has no offi- cial connection with the trust, having resigned as chairman of the board in January, 1934. Anywhere will start at once. But the cor- . the trust was under double Nability for | Night Final Delivered by Carrier ® Full Sports Base Ball Scores, Race Resuits, Complete Market News of the Day, Latest News Flashes from Around the World. What- ever it is. youll find it in The Night Pinal Sports Edition. THE NIGHT FINAL SPORTS and SUNDAY STAR—delivered by carrier—70c a month. Call National 5000 and Jervice for 1,000 Families FLEMING T0 HEAD RED CROSS GROUP Financial Committee Goal Will Be at Least 65,000 Members. Robert V. Fleming, president of the Riggs National Bank, today was named to direct solicitation of financial circles in the twentieth annual roll call of the District Red Cross Chapter September 27 to October 16. As chairman of the Financial Com- mittee, Fleming will have charge ct one of the largest of the 10 divisions aiming to sign up at least 65,000 mem- bers. He will be assisted by I J Roberts, assistant Riggs cashier, as assistant committee chairman, and & large group of bankers, insurance men and other financiers. A plan of organization was drawn up in outline at a luncheon meeting last week at which Fleming gave “marching orders” to his committer. The financial division of the Red Cross drive was subdivided into four units, with divisional and sectiona: chairmen in charge of each “Every one is familiar with the work of the American Red Cross.” Flemin: said in a statement after his appoint- ment by Lloyd B. Wilson, president o! the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephon- Co., and general chairman of the ro!! call. “It speaks for itself.” Appointed to head the various sub- divisicns of Fleming's committer were: H. G. Hoskinson, Riggs vice presi- dent, chairman banks and trust com- panies; Fred A. Smith, chairmar building and loan associations an | real estate companies; John E. Parkr | of G. M. P. Murphy Co. chairman, an: James P. Nolan, Folger, Nolan and Co Walter F. Chappell, W. J. Flather, Jr Inc., and C. H. Warrington, Credit ¢ Finance, Inc, sectional chairmen ir vestment bankers and brokers ar finance corporations; H. Lawrenc Choate, Mutual Benefit Life Insu: im" Co., chairman insurance con panies and agencies; B. A. Harla executive secretary Acacia Mut Life Insurance Co.; Albert W. Hov ! ard, secretary Firemen's Insurar Co.; A. F. Miles, vice president Di trict Title Co.; E. I. Oakes, treasur- Mutual Insurance Agency; Char F. Roberts, president Insurance Ci' of Washington, and Charles 1 | O'Donnell, general agent Minnes> | Mutual Life Insurance Co, section | chairmen. 'ROBERT ICKES NAMEC | IN NEW AUTO CR/~ | Boston Police Investigates . dent in Which Man Askc Facts Be Suppressed. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, September 14—T Capt. James Daley awaited a ie today of an investigation into a ported automobile accident in wh John F. Kerins, 21, of Boston s Robert H. Ickes, 21, foster son of § | retary Ickes, was involved. Recently young Ickes, a P. W clerk in Winchester, was found in cent of operating while under t influence of liquor after his car w | involved in a minor collision in Wi | chester. Kerins told police yesterday for | persons were injured in the accider | Saturday night. A young man, L | said, got out of the other car an | said to him: “I'm Robert Ickes, so don't let th: get out. If my father hears of thi I'l be disowned, because I just go out of a scrape in Winchester a fev | weeks ago. Don't worry, I bhat plenty of insurance and everythin: will be taken care of.” WINCHESTER, Mass., 14 (#).—Robert H. Ickes, 21, foste: son of Secretary of the Interior Harolc L. Ickes, whose automobile collided with another car in Boston Saturday night, said today the accident was “so trivial” that two policemen at- tached no significance to it. M. J. MENEFEE BECOMES SECRETARY TO BYRD Former Virginia Commissioner of Septembe Internal Revenue Succeeds H. E. Dameron. | Marvin J. Menefee of Luray, Va, for 10 years Virginia commissioner of revenue, last week took over the job of secretary to Senator Byrd, succeeding H. E. Dameron. During the past two sessions of Congress, Mene- | A 4848 fee had served as secretary to Rep- resentative Rob- ertson of Lexing- ton, and in that capacity has been succeeded by Frank Stratton. Menefee, who has a distin- guished war rec ord, wes serious- ly wounded in M. J. Menefee. gition in Prance and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, Croix de Guerre with palms, and a decoration of the French Legion of Honor. | When Robertson was elected to Congress to succeed the late Repre- sentative Tucker, he was opposed by Menefee for the nomination before the district convention. When Rob- ertson won, he appointed Menefee as | his secretary. Pitcher Lacks Support. BLACKWELL, Okla. (#).—Fred Clapper pitched 13 hitless innings, struck out 25 batsmen and lost the game, 1 to 0. Held to one hit, a single in the first inning, the opposing amateur team scored in the fourteenth on three errors and a fielder's choice. in the City