Evening Star Newspaper, October 26, 1936, Page 18

N. & W. PRESIDENT DIES IN ROANOKE Arthur Chase Needles Rose From Rodman to Ex- ecutive. BY the Assoclated Press. ROANOKE, Va., October 26.—Rail- road executives of the East joined today in lamenting the death of Ar- { thur Chase Needles, whose career from ‘rodman to president of the Norfolk & Western Railway Co. constituted a saga of the “romantic days of rail- roading.” Mr. Needles, seriously ill for several days, died yesterday at his home here of a heart affection? President of the Norfolk & Western since 1924 he would have reached ,the retirement age of 70 on January 10, 1937, after 53 years of active service. Born in Baltimore. Mr. Needles was born January 10, 1867, at Baltimore, Md. the son of John Amos and Augusta Stratton Needles, and a descendant of Lieut. John Needles of Poole, England, who settled in Talbot County in 1679. Mr. Needles was educated at Swarth- more College in Pennsylvania. He married Bessie Parker Williams of Baltimore in 1899. She died in 1923. In 1928 he married Hortense Edith Clarke of New York, who survives, as do a son by his first marriage, Jon Oliver Needles; a sister, Mrs. William A. Dixon of Baltimore, and @ grandchild, Ella Gordon Needles. Rev. Alfred R. Berkeley, rector, will officiate at the funeral services at St. John’s Episcopal Church here to- morrow afternoon. Burial services will be held in the chapel of Green- mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Wednes- day. Established Mission. Among his numerous charities was the establishment, in memory of a daughter who died during childhood, of the St. Poebe’s Mission for Un- derprivileged Children of Franklin County. He was president of the Pocahontas Coal & Coke Co., as well as the N. & W. and a director in the fol- Jowing concerns: Winston - Salem Southbound Railway Co., Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad, Fruit Growers' Express Co, Mutual Fire, Marine & Inland Insurance Co., the First National Exchange Bank of Roanoke and the Pennsylvania Co. for Insurance of Lines and the Grant- ing of Annuities. Mr. Needles played a leading part in development of the City of Hope- Well as a munitions center during the war and was the executive officer of Railroad Service at Camp Lee Can- tonment in the days of Federal man- egement. HOPKINS BARES AID REQUEST OF LANDON $150,000 Relief Grant Sought Jan. 5 to Keep Schools Open, W. P. A. Head Says. By the Associated Press. Harry L. Hopkins, W. P. A. admin- istrator, said last night that Gov. Alf M. Landon, the Republican presi- dential nominee, had applied for a $150,000 Federal relief grant on Janu- ary 5 to prevent the closing of rural schools in Kansas. In reply, Hopkins said in a state- ment, he had said that “since your Legislature is now in session and con- sidering legislation for school reor- ganization, I believe it would be proper to ask it to make the relatively small appropriation required for tem- porary aid to rural schools.” Before the Governor's application arrived, Hopkins said, John Stutz, “recently prominent in the press re- garding high administrative costs for direct relief in Kansas,” telegraphed the relief administration that several schools were unable to open because of lack of funds due to poor tax col- lection. —_— [ “University Night” Set. The University of Washington Club will observe “back to university night” with a dinner at 7 p.m. to- morrow in Wesley Hall. All grad- uates of the university are invited. EISEMAN'S SEVENTH & F In Our 2nd Floor Women’s Dept. COAT WEEK GREATEST VALUES OF THE SEASON s‘l 295,051 3950 Fur coats, fur trimmed dress and sports coats . . . lain sports coats—coats or every type in every wanted style—featured at outstanding prices during this week. For weeks we have planned this great event . .. scouring the mar- kets, picking out one coat here+-two there—seeking the rare and outstanding values. See our grand as- sortment of new 1937 coats -during Eiseman’s coat week. BUY YOUR COAT ON CONVENIENT TERMS No down payment required— no interest or extra costs. Eise- man’s charge prices are the same as other stores’ cash THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, New‘Y. W. Dormitory Building Presented at Dedication Rites Mrs. Wilson Compton, Building Committee chairman, and Mrs. Henry Alvah Strong, donor of the new Y. W. C. A. resi- dential building, are conversing here after their speeches yes- terday in dedication of the dormitory at Seventeenth and K streets. ASHINGTON'S new Y. W. C. A. residential building, an eight-story structure at 1011 Seventeenth street, was formally presented by its donor, Mrs. Henry Alvah Strong, at dedi- cation exercises yesterday afternoon. The building that 13 designed to house 200 young women, including 125 permanent residents, was accepted from Mrs. Strong by Mrs. Albert At- wood, president of the local Y. W. C. A. A brief tribute to the many donors of land for the dormitory was de- livered by Mrs. Wilson Compton, chairman of the Finance Committee and member of the Building Com- mittee of the organization. Young women who occupy the new building will be guests of honor next Sunday at special exercises and an open-house program for friends and supporters of the Y. W. C. A. The site, adjoining the main Y. W. C. A. building at Seventeenth and K Etar Staff Photo. streets, was purchased with donations ranging from 10 cents to several thou- sand dollars. Chief Justice and Mrs. Hughes and Justice James C. McReynolds were among the donors of furnishings for Z BLENDS - Z PRICES RED LABEL America’s finest quality 'SALADA TEA special rooms as mn;urhh to relatives. In her talk, Mrs. Strong said: heart full of gratitnde to the many helpers who have made it possible. It bears the name of ‘Strong resideace.’ But it should really have been named ‘A Co-operative Enterprise,’ for with- out the many willing hands, loving hearts and open purses, it could not have been the perfect thing it is today. “The land and the furnishings of the rooms are the gift of many friends. Cae friend furnished the living room, another the beautiful court with its fountain. Still another gave the planting. The portrait in the lbrary is the gift of the artist, Edith Mac- Cartney. So now you see why this building should have been called ‘A Co-operative Enterprise’.” AIR PILOT WEDS HERE Roger Don Rae and Miss Frances ‘Willis United. Roger Don Rae, veteran exhibition parachute jumper and racing pilot, who won the Shell Trophy at the Na- tional Air Races in Los Angeles last month, and Miss Frances Willis, 42 Independence avenue southwest, were married here last Thursday, it was an- nounced here today, ‘The marriage was performed by Rev. Freeley Rohrer, pastor of Metro- politan Presbyterian Church, Fourth and B streets southeast, the couple leaving after the ceremony for Lansing, Mich, where they will make their home. Miss Willis came to Washington | from Lakeland, Fla., about a year ago, e “Whales on” is slang for “much de- voted BROWN LABEL High quality, lew price DIPHTHERIA INCREASES SLIGHTLY IN MARYLAND Other Diseases Show Decrease Over Corresponding Week of 1935, Health Service Says. By the Assoctated Press. The United States Public Health Service reported yesterday a slight in- crease in the number of cases of diphtheria in Maryland the week ending October 17 over the corre- sponding 1935 week and a decline in other cammunicable diseases. In the week this year there were 21 cases of diphtheria, 10 of influ- enza, 4 of measles, 2 of meningitis, 3 of poliomyelitis, 39 of scarlet fever, no smalipox and 9 of typhold fever. In the week ended October 19, 1935, MONDAY, OCTOBER. 26, 1936. there were 18 of diphtheris, 10 of in- fluenza, 10 of measles, 4 of menin- gitis, 3 of poliomyelitis, 63 of scarlet ;mr, no smallpox and 18 of typhoid ever, —_— BOY, 12, KILLS BROTHER COLUMBIA, 8. C., October 26 (#). —Joseph Wallace, 19, died early yes- terday of s gunshot wound in the head, accidentally inflicted by his 12- year-old brother. Sheriff T. 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