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.11 5.T0 AGQUIRE PEAKS OF OTTER Purchase for Development in Blue Ridge Parkway to Be Approved. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., September 24 Hunter Miller, vice president of Peaks of Otter, Inc., announced yesterday that Ira T. Yarnall, assistant regional forester of Washington, D. C., had edvised him members of the Forestry Commission had approved the pur- chase of the Peaks of Otter in connec- tion with the development of the Blue Ridge parkway. The commission will ratify the purchase at its regular meeting next Wednesday, Mr. Miller, 8 member of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Con- trol Board, said Mr. Yarnell informed him, While technically the acquisition ‘will not be authorized until the meet- ing next week, Mr. Yarnell said the purchase may be considered as having received “final approval.” Culminating negotiations for Gov- ernment control of the famous Vir- ginia peaks, the purchase will pro- vide a scenic and recreation area of 672 acres on the Blue Ridge parkway connecting the Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountain National Parks. Mr, Miller said the area would in- elude both “Sharp Top,” the higher of the two peaks, and “Flat Top,” as well as the hotel and grounds lying between the two at an elevation of about 2800 feet above sea level. “Sharp Top” rises some 1,200 feet above the hotel elevation and pro- Vides what has been described as one of the most superb views in the Etate. G.A.R. (Continued From First Page.) — Burke H. Sinclair, member of the Board of Appeals of the Veterans Ad- ministration, who was wounded in action in the World War. They, Col. Sinclair told them, had won a ~victory during the reconstruc- tion days following the Civil War which “was equal to their battle vic- tories and for which the Nation owes them everlasting gratitude. “You had,” he said, “to justify Sour triumphs on the battlefields. You | found that there you had just lighted | the signal fires of a new conflict no | less difficult, if less sanguine. Again | the Grand Army responded and went to work on the reconstruction of a nation which had all but been torn asunder. Again you succeeded and we are today a consolidated common- wealth. The Nation has been healed @s well as preserved. ‘The high lights of the evening, how- ever, were the “reminiscences” of Oley Nelson and his judge advocate, who was responsible for Nelson's selection a year ago to head the G. A. R.| Nelson’s story, told with a simplicity | and effectiveness which had many of | his hearers in tears, was that of his life and that of his father, who died | for the Union in the Civil War, though an immigrant from Norway only a few years before. Judge Willett Talks. Judge Willett, in an extemporaneous talk, took his text from his com- mander. “It matters not,” he said, “whether & man is native born or an alien who has truly and patriotically assumed the duties of citizenship. But it does matter very much to this country when they are aliens who do not adopt the ways of this country, but come here to fatten on this land without giving it any allegance. “There are 4,000,000 residents of the United States who are aliens in fact and in spirit. They have never adopted this country as their own.| ‘There are two or three' millions of them who are in mercantile businesses and who are exempted from serving this country in war. Yet they send our money out to their own coun- tries. This thing ought not to be tolerated and I hope it will not b/ any longer.” Willett’s ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War. His grandfather was & Kentucky slaveholder and had eight sons. When the Civil War came, the sons and grandsons were divided about equally between the North and the South and at the bat- tle of Resaca, Willetts lost a cousin on each side. Commander Bids Farewell. Comdr. Nelson made his farewell to Washington last night. “It has been a joy to be here” he said, “and we are grateful to Wash- ington for the way it has received us. I am going home and it probably will be the last time I will be here. I carry memories of Washington I will cherish until the end.” Nelson, who had said that as a boy the thing he had wanted most was & United States flag as a re- membrance of his father, received a United States flag last night as a personal gift from Mrs. Wynnye Wil- liamson, national president of the Ladies of the G. A. R. If the G. A. R. is to obtain passage by Congress of any legislation deal- ing with increased pensions for widows of Civil War veterans, it must be prepared to designate some mar- riage date limitation, Comdr. Nelson told the members in his final report yesterday afternoon at the first busi- ness session of - the seventlieth en- campment in the Mayflower Hptel. ‘He sald that it had been impos- sible to obtain any legislation during the past session of Congress, although e fight had been made for a bill which provided for a pension of $30 & month, increased to $40 at Lhe age of 70 years, for any widow of a wveteran who served 90 days, provided the widow married the veteran prior to January 1, 1930, and had lived with him and cared for him to the best of her’ ability. Nelson reported that there had been ‘considerable objection to fixing so re- eent a date as 1930 on the part of members of Congress in replies to his request for consideration of pen- sion legislation. “From the tenor of the replies,” he sald, “it is evident that we can never secure the passage of a bill eliminating & marriage date and will have to decide on some definite date such as 1915 or 1920.” Railroad Rates Worry., He said that the matter of railroad rates to the national encampment _here “has been a source of great worry to this administration.” The Bastern rallroads, he said, had re- fused to grant reduced fares to vet- erans because of Interstate Com- Colored Pastor, THE EVENING 85, Pens Salute To G. A. R., Which Set Him Free Dr. Brooks, Former Slave, Writes Ode to Union Veterans. In verse of his own writing, an 85- year-old former slave, who for 54 years has been pastor of a Washing- ton colored congregation, yesterday saluted the remnants of the Grand Army of the Republic, survivors of the armies who helped set him free, as they marched in parade down Penn- sylvania avenue. Dr. Walter H. Brooks, fully active as pastor of Nineteenth Street Baptist® Church despite his advanced years, was a boy of 13, owned by a Rich- mond (Va.) tobacco company, wWhen the Civil War set him free. In an “Ode to the Grand Army Men of the Civil War,” he paid the following tribute to the G. A. R.: “You were fighting then for free- dom, And the flag you love so well, You were braving ills uncounted As you heard the shouts and yell Of the hosts that rushed to battle, ’Neath the stars and bars above, But the fightings now are over— North and South embrace in love. “Lo, the tramp of feet is dying, As the thousands go their way, ‘Who were once the braves in fight- ing, Armies silent i the clay, But the cause of right has tri- umphed, All the land is free today, May the glory of our country Never, never pass away.” Dr. Brooks, who has five children, DR. WALTER H. BROOKS. eight grandchildren and two great- grandchildren, was owned by Turpin & Yarbrough, Richmond tobacconists. He and his father were freed in 1864, but his mother became free in 1862 when his father, having saved $800, bought her from her owner. The sale was made, however, through a white intermediary, Dr. Brooks said. Dr. Brooks saw Richmond in flames as it fell before the Union Armies. After the Civil War, he went north to school, spending seven years at Lincoln University, Chester County, Pa., from which he was graduated in 1872. Ten years later, he came to Washington and since has been pastor of the Nineteenth street church. that by next year they will have recovered from their resentment at the order of the Interstate Commerce Commission and we will again be granted the usual reduced rate.” At its opening session, the G. A. R. also received the reports of its other officers and standing committees, It accepted from Mrs. K. P. McElroy of the District Woman's Relief Corps the original design for the special cachet for G. A. R. mail distribution from Washington during the encamp- ment. Deputy Third Assistant Postmaster General Roy M. North, addressing the convention, outlined the effects of the Civil War on the postal service. One of the most important benefits of the war, he said, was the establish- ment of the money order service, which was authorized in May, 1864, for the convenience of soldiers and their families in sending money by mail. The money order service was | established in November, 1864, in 186 post offices. Today it is a service granted in 53,000 offices. North also announced that two of the Union generals, Grant and Sher- | man, will be memorialized in 3 cent postage stamps now being planned by the Post Office Department. The veterans were invited to at- tend a national observance next September of the seventy-fifth an- | niversary of the bloody battle of Antietam. The invitation was ex- tended by Henry Holzapfel, jr., regent | of the Universary of Maryland, who | is a member of the Maryland State | Advisory Commission for the celebra- | tion and of the Washington County Today With Historical Society. He also extended the invitation on behalf of a Federal commissior. appointed to prepare for the anniversary. A. W. KINTZ EXPIRES AT HIS HOME HERE Yllness Is Fatal to Former Chief Steward of Steamboat Line. Alanson Wilder Kintz, 76, one-time chief steward of steamboats run be- tween Washington and Baltimore by the Pennsylvania Rallroad, died late | yesterday at his home, 1518 Monroe street. He had been ill two weeks. Mr. Kintz, until retiring about four years ago, also owned a fleet of schooners, including oyster and other freight craft. He was widely known among residents of shipping points along the Potomac and at Baltimore. His parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Kintz, were original owners and developers of Colonial Beach, Va. Mr. Kintz was a native of New York State, but had been a resident of this city for 40 years. He is sur- vived by a son, Elmer McD. Kintz, and several nieces and nephews. His wife, the late Mrs. Mollie C. Kintz, was the daughter of the late Vir- ginia State Senator James J. Mc- Donald. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at his late residence. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. the G. A. R. ‘The final day’s program for the Grand Army of the Republic and its allied and auxiliary organizations follows: ‘Woman's Relief Corps. 2:00 p.m.—Business session, Mayflower Hotel. Ladies of the G. A. R. :30 p.m.—Business session, Washington Hotel. 1: 6:00 p.m.—~Joint Council meeting. 8: 00 p.m.—Past National Presidents’ dinner. Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War. 2:00 p.m.—Business session, installation of officers and closing. Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. 9:00 a.m.—Business session, Willard Hotel. 2:00 p.m.—Business session. Auxiliary to Sons of Union Veterans. 2:00 p.m.—Closing session, installation of officers. THE LEWIS & THOS. SALTZ, INC. 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His blue uniform hung on & wasted frame, his black campaign hat was pulled down on his shoulders, and his voice rose but faintly over the din as he half straightened above his cane to touch a bellboy on the sleeve. “Where can I get some informa- tion?” “Over there, sir” The boy was hurrying out with luggage and nodded over his shoulder toward the hotel desk. The veteran mistook the direc- tion and made inquiry of the bell cap~ tain. He was referred to the desk. “What is the nature of the infor- mation you wish, sir?” “I want to know if my comrade has come to town yet. His regiment was along side mine at Gettysburg. “He was with the—I disremember which regiment, but he and I were wounded on the same day. He's from Minnesota or Wisconsin, I think.” “Perhaps the general registration ‘booth can help you,” the clerk said. “It is down the lobby—a bellboy will show you.” . The veteran with the bellboy at his elbow made his way slowly down the lobby, between groups of men in blue, girls and women in bright uniforms and middle-aged men who wore badges of associated organizations. The veterans themselves are far in the minority among those attending the encempment. At the registration booth, main- tained by the Greater National Com- mittee the veteran resumed his in- quiry. He explained his comrade was at the Grand Rapids encampment last year, that he always attended en- campments (“he wouldn't miss one if he had to wade through the whole Rebel army”), and that he thought his name was “Williams.” At the booth thie names of registered veterans were flled and cross-filed by name, State, regiment and com- pany. But the essential details of the identification seemed to have slipped the veteran's memory. He knew his comrade was a fine fellow, who wouldn't miss an encampment until “hell froze over.” Another veteran came up. “I think I know the man he means, not sure.” He gave the man's name. It was not on the list. The first veteran heard nothing of this. He left his name and address, in case his comrade showed up, and shuffled off. “Maybe I'll meet him at the next encampment,” he said. A third veteran came up to the booth—Robert Rohm of Utah. He ex- plained he was stopping at the Plaza Hotel and wished to get in touch with “Comrade Storms of Utah.” Storms, it seemed, had registered. He was stopping at the New Colonial Hotel, but a telephone inquiry there failed to locate him. Rohm also wanted to find “a lawyer named George Stewart.” The veteran explained Stewart was about 50 years old now, and added: “I trotted him on my knee when he was a boy at Myton, Utah. I guess he thinks I passed on long ago.” Rohm could not recall the lawyer's middle initial or just how he spelled his name. 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Mrs. Daisy Lester Avery of Richmond again was named adjutant general and treasurer of the Confederate veterans, and the following were elected brigade commanders: First, L. L. Manry, Courtland; sec- ond, J. W. Gwaltney, Roanoke; third, Gen. J. R. Mohler, Grottoes, and fourth, Gen. L. Wesley Cox, Charlottes- ville, Homer Richey, former commander of the R. T. W. Duke Camp, 8. C. V., of Charlottesville, paid high tribute to Gen. Evans in an address before the aging Virginia warriors. Mrs. E. H. McPherson of Charlottesville, pre- sided at the business session in place of her father, Gen. Cox. ‘The sons elected the following bri- gade commanders: First, Brodie S. Herndon, Portsmouth: second, Joseph E. Laprade, Richmond; third, Col. R. G. Lampkin, Roanoke, fourth, Mark V. Pence, Charlottesville; fifth, Maj. Charles 8. Roller, Fort Deflance. Comdr. Burrus announced the ap- pointment of the staff of officers as follows: Adjutant and chief of staff, Col. George C. Cabell, Norfolk; judge ad- vocate, James H. Price, Richmond; historian, Douglas S. Freeman, Riche mond; commissary, Frank C. Switzer, Harrisonburg; quartermaster, J. Ed- ward Bealeton: chaplin, Dr. W. Roy Mason, Charlottesville; inspectors, Mark V. Pence, Charlottesville, and McHenry Peters, Lynchburg; pub- licity director, Dr. W. H. T. Squires, Norfolk; color sergeant, J. Z. Holladay, Chorlottesville; assistant historian, F. B. Fitzpatrick, East Radford. C. C. C. TREE PLANTING CONSTITUTION TRIBUTE Twenty thousand members of the Civilian Conservation Corps will plant | trees in the 1st Corps Area, New Eng- land, the week of October 5 to 12 to | mark . the sesquicentennial .of the | framing of the Constitution, which | will be celebrated in 1937. | After the trees are in the ground, | the American Tree Association an- | nounced today, plans will be made | for dedicating the plantings with ap- propriate ceremony next year. The name of each tree planter will be entered on the national honor roll of | the association. ‘The General Federation of Women's | Clubs, the American Legion Auxiliary, the Boy Scouts, the Camp Fire girls, the 4-H Clubs, the Grange and a num- ber of other organizations have made | Constitution Sesquicentennial tree ,‘phnnnz their major project for the next two years. Do Not Neglect Arthritis Thousands suffering from arthri- tic pains have found relief in Mountain Valley Mineral Water direct from famous Hot Springs, Arkansas. Mildly alkal 3} sfying. Endorsed by phy. for over 30 years. Phone Calvert 3080 for booklet. Mountain Valley Mineral Water Met. 1062 1405 K St. N.W. the “Modern” Mod $15.15 d Shoe Specials el sl o 95 -29¢ NI Free Parking at W. Cor. E and 12th Sts. and E. Cor. 11th and N. Y. Ave. leventh THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1936. Dramatic Story Thrills “Campfire’ of G. A.R. Audience Spellbofinfl as Retiring Commander Reminisces. BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON. ‘The story of a schoolboy son of Norwegian immigrants, living in a backwoods log cabin in the forests of ‘Wisconsin, who saw his father go off to the Civil War and death and who sat with his mother making a United States flag out of bits of cloth as a memorial to that father before he too went off to fight, was unfolded last night at a “campfire” meeting of the Grand Army of the Republic in the Government auditorium. The campfire provided an emo- tional climax not exceeded even by the gallant march of the Grand Army yesterday for an audience which Jammed every inch of the auditorium to be with the veterans in the last public gathering of their seventieth encampment, as Oley Nelson, retir- ing commander-in-chief, told his story. The campfire program had come along to a point marked “remi- niscences,” when the presiding cfficer called upon the retiring commander- in-chief “for a few remarks.” “I can do no more,” Nelson said, “than to tell the story of why I am | here.” He sald that his father and mother had come to this country from Nor- way and had settled in Wisconsin | and undertaken to become “good citizens.” Oley was born in the log cabin his father built and went to school in another log building which also was a church on Sundays. Says He Must Enlist. “I was walking to church on a Sunday morning between my father and my mother just after President Lincoln had made his first call for | three-year men,” Nelson said. “My father was then 44 years old, with a family to support. On the way to church he spoke quietly to my mother in Norwegian. I will translate for you just what he said. “‘The President has called for | volunteers,’ my father said. ‘This great Government has adopted me as a citizen and has been good tc us and given us great opportunities. It | now is calling us and it is my Chris- tian duty to go.'” “They quietly talked over plans for the family’s future as we went on the way to church. The next morn- ing my father walked 6 miles to a recruiting office in Belleville. He re- turned and told us he had been ac- cepted and that on the next day he would leave. “He said there was one duty the recruiting officer had told him to . perform. He had long hair and a of Commander OLEY NELSON. beautiful flowing beard. His hair was to be shingled and his beard trimmed. He turned to me and said: ‘Oley, do you know who is going to be the barber?” I told him, ‘Yes, father, I will do it.” I had been cut- ting the hair of the boys at school. The barber chair was a rail fence, on which they sat astraddle. “So my mother got out the shears, | which had been made in Norway | by hand. | “‘They are sharp, my son, and will | do,’ she said. Shears Father's Beard. “My father and I walked out into the yard and he sat on the chopping log and there I shingled his hair. But when I came to his long beard I had to wink back a tear. I had never known my father without his beautiful beard. “We went back to the house to my mother. She looked at my father with tears in her eyes. “‘Is that really you, asked. “The next morning my father left. He turned in the path and waved his | hand. He never came back to that | log cabin again.” | Nels Nelson enlisted in the 8th ! Wisconsin Regiment, which carried as its mascot a live eagle, The bird sat on a perch which was carried | with the flag and went through the | four years of the war. But soon word | came that Nelson had died. “I wanted an emblem to remem- ber my father by,” said the son last | night. “I wanted the United States | flag for which he had died. We had | no money so we decided, my mother and I, to make a flag. We scraped ‘ around and found bits of cloth and | we sat down together and made a| United States flag. I went into the ‘ Nels?’ she %% A—S woods and cut a pole and we sat up the flag in the pathway whe; :y father had turned and vnv:z And then Oley, a mere boy, told his mother that he, too, XeTt’y that he must go and take the place his father had left vacant in the Union ranks, “If you feel that it is your duty, son, you must go,” she agreed. 1 “olgemd aside his school books and and joined Comj ey pany D, 40tk “I was not called upon to make as many sacrifices as some of you come rades,” he said. “Our regiment did not see as hard service as some, but we did what we could do. My mother and I had prayed each night for my (nthe;lner he went and I think she prayed for me and G el od let me come When 19-year-old Oley came home from war, he and his mother de- cided they could not live longer in the cabin which their father had worked to make their home. “I went with my mother in a cove ered wagon to Iowa. She was drawe ing $4 a month pension,” he sald. “That, comrades, is the story of how I came to be here with you to- night. And I want to say that as I stood in the reviewing stand today and saw you, my comrades, pass by, 1 saw again that little cabin which my father built and I prayed to God that our country and our Constitu- tion might live forever. “May there came a day when the nations of the world will destroy thelr weapons and when war may never come again to-this earth. 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