Evening Star Newspaper, October 21, 1936, Page 8

LA & HENRY.EAKIV 5, SOL BXPERT, DE ?\griculture Department Au- thority Formerly in Geo- logical Survey. Henry Miner Eakin, 53, Agriculture Department expert, died of heart dis- | gase yesterday in Emergency Hospital. | S Mr. Eakin was head of the section ®f hydro-dynamics studies of the Soili Conservation Service. A native of Arlington, Nebr., he was educated at| glebraska Wesleyan University, Ne- | raska State University and the Uni- yersity of Chicago. - In July, 1906, Mr. Eakin was ap- Yointed to the Alaskan branch of the United States Geological Survey, and be spent part of each year until 1918 | o little-known parts of Alaska. Enters Private Practice. In April, 1918, he resigned to take up private practice of his professiost In Seattle, Wash., where he remained | until May, 1929. He then became | affiliated as geologist with the Do- minion Explorers of Canada, conduct- ing geological investigations in the a representative of the American Fed- Lloyd, organizer of the barber’s inter- Former Johns Hopkins Physician Canadian Northwest. In February, 1930, he was appointed senior scientist | for special investigations on sedi-: mentation and river hydraulics under | the Mississippi River Commission, and he remained in this work until July, | 1933, | In July, 1934, he was appointed by | the Soil Conservation Service tg or- | ganize a program of reservoir silting surveys. With transfer of the serv- | ice to the Agriculture Department #s a permanent bureau, Mr. Eakin was made head of the Research Sub- division of Sedimentation and Hy- | draulic Studies. Wrote Number of Books. He was the author of a number of | works on geological and soil-con- | servation subjects and he wrote the | chapter on “River Engineering” in the Encyclopedia Americana. | In 1910 he married Miss Ruth Hitt, daughter of Police Court Judge and | Mrs. Isaac R. Hitt. He is survived by his wife and three children, Kath- leen, Patricia and Birch. Five broth- | ers and two sisters also survive. Funeral services will be conducted | by Rev. Dr. Frank J. Steelman, pas- | tor of Cavalry M. E. Church, at Hines funeral parlors, 2901 Fourteenth street, at 5 pm. tomorrow. Burial will be in Columbia Gardens Cemetery, Arling- ton County, Va. SRR Club President Has Way. UNION, N. J. (#).—When foes of | Tax Collector Charles D. Sims threat- ened to keep his name off a campaign ' banner hung outside the Union Re- publican Club, the club’s president ob- Jected. The president, Ernest A. Grewe, was | in the minority, but he got his way. | He bought the building and dictated | what could go on the sign. The build- | ing cost him $15. | BARBERS TO MEET Report to Be Made on Progress of Unionizing Drive. Union barbers of the city will hold a mass meeting tonight at Turner's Arena for a report on progress of the movement to unionize all shops in the-| city. Charles J. Bovello, chairman of the Campalgn Committee, who will preside, said today that most of the shops in the city now are on the union scale of prices, wages and hours. The meeting will be addressed by eration of Labor and by John H. national union. DR. CHARLES MIXTER COMMITS SUICIDE Drowns Self After Escaping From Nurse. Breaking away from his male nurse, Dr. Charles Mixter, 68, former Johns Hopkins Hospital physician, locked himself in & bath room and drowned himself early today in a tub at Wash- ington Sanatorium, where he had been confined for a year and a half. A certificate of suicide was issued by Dr, O. S. Parrott, Takoma Park, Md coroner. 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Establishment of a post-graduate school near national headquarters at Takoma Park will be recommended by the Officers’ Council of the Seventh Day Adventist denomination, accord- ing to an Associated Press dispatch yesterday from Fort Worth, Tex., where the council is in session. The purpose of the new school, it was stat€d, will be to combat atheism, agnosticism and modernism. The recommendation will be made today to the annual Autumn council of the church. ‘The Rev. N. M. Campbell, president of the North American Division Con- ference, said adherents of the faith in North America will be asked to con- | tribute $100,000 as the first cost of the where service| is friendly Women especially enjoy the many extra 88 O offens in ividual Seat Coaches and Parlor Cars — at new, low fares. New Lew Fares From WASHINGTON To DETROIT Philadelphia . St. Louis Chicago Cincinnati Pitsburgh Lovisville *Plus Pullman Fore, 6.10 infors BALTIMORE & OH 4 LABOR PROBERS FACE TRIAL HERE La Follette Committee Attorney Seeks Removal From Pittsburgh. By the Associated Press. John J. Abt, attorney for the La Fol- lette senatorial committee investigat- ing civil liberties violations, said yes- terday he had filed briefs in Pittsburgh asking removal of four detective agency officials to Washington for trial on charges of wilfully failing to obey a committee summons. Removal was resisted by W. W. Groves, president of the Railway Audit & Inspection Co,, an industrial investi- gation firm; J. E. Blair, treasurer; | W. Boone Groves, vice president, and J. C. Boyer, operative. Abt said he expected a ruling “with- in a week or two” from United States Commissioner Knox at Pittsburgh. He added that Robert 8. Judge of New York, former director of Railway Audit, and General Manager L. Douglas Rice of Philadelphia had agreed not to re- sist removal if the Pittsburgh case were decided for the Government. All six were indicted by a District grand jury after they had ‘refused to testify before the committee, DEMOCRATS TO RALLY Pennsylvanians Hear Two From Justice Unit Tomorrow. Brian McMahon, Assistant Attorney General, and Robert N. Anderson of the Department of Justice will speak at a meeting and rally of Pennsyl- vania Democrats in the Willard room of the Willard Hotel at 8 pm. to- morrow. Educational meetings for Pennsylvania voters in Washington are held every night in room 130 at the Willard. There also will be a Pittsburgh night rally at the Willard at 8 p.m. Tharsday, October 29, and a Philadel- phia night at the same place Friday. Speaking of the outstanding motor car for 1937 FREDERICK R. BROCK & Buick machine shop for25 years EDITS DEMOCRATIC PAPER Mrs. Marguerite L. Krenek Cho- sen to Head Clubs’ Publication. Appointment of Mrs. Marguerite L. Krenek, president of the Maryland Democratic Club of the District and an employe of the Resettlement Ad- ministration, as editor in chief of the Young Democrat, officinl publication THE NEW of the Young Democrat Clubs of America, was announced today by Raymond Nunan, president of the Young Democratic Club of the Dis- trict. Mrs. Krenek, a native of Baltimore, will bring out the November issue of the publication. She also is serving as chairman of the Public Relations Committee of the Democratic League of the District, chairman for Maryland on the Co-operative Committee of Washington and as a member of the Maryland State Soclety. Mrs. Krenek has appointed as asso- ciate editors Daniei Webster Delano, | Jr., of New York; Paul M. Millians of | Georgla and Lee H. Shugar of Balti- | more. Mr. Delano is a fourth cousin of President Roosevelt and is engaged in historical research work for the Library of Congress. 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