Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1936, Page 8

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C NEXT YEAR’S EARS Receives Auto Show Tickets U S DUNS BANKERS FEATIRE SHFETY Exhibits Also Emphasize .| Mechanical and Struc- tural Changes. - Bafety will be the keynote in next ‘year’s new cars, which are scheduled for their first official previewing at the seventeenth annual auto show of the ‘Washington Automotive Trade Asso- ciation in Calvert Exhibit Hall, start- ing next Saturday. ‘While the 1937 cars will not differ greatly in silhouette and general ap- pearance from the 1936 lines, accord- ing to R. J. Murphy, manager of the association and show director, stress -will be noted on various mechanical and structural improvements. Pressed steel has been substituted for wood and lighter materials are being used. The exhibition auditorium, located ‘at 2701 Calvert street, opposite the Shoreham Hotel, will be adorned in .the traditional national colors for the show period, the theme being in com- memoration of the 150th anniversary of the Constitution occurring during *the year the new cars represent. Red, ‘white and blue fluted pillars and .bunting, with the shield of the United ;States and flags of foreign nations, ‘will decorate the walls. { Workmen tomorrow will begin the itask of transforming the exhibit hall .into a setting in keeping with the . automotive display. More than 20 exhibitors of cars will take part in the show, in addition to trailer manufac- turers and auto accessory dealers. District officlals and civic leaders are expected to take part in the open- ing ceremonies starting at 10 am. Saturday. These will be marked b; unique “horseles carriage cavalcade,” in which cars representing the earliest period of the automobile industry will be driven up Pennsylvania and Con- necticut avenues in a pageant believed to be the first of its kind here. The A. A. A. is sponsoring the event. TUBERCULOSIS UNIT PLANS SCHOOL TEST Tuberculin and X-Ray Examina- tions to Be Given Senior Students. Definite plans for the tuberculin test and X-ray examination of stu- dents in senior high school classes, as approved by the Board of Educa- tion, were made yesterday by the Health Department, after Health Of- ficer Ruhland conferred with mem- bers of his staff and with Mrs. Er- nest R. Grant, managing director of the Tuberculosis Association. The association is financing the campaign in part with a donation from its Christmas seal fund. Dr. A. Barklie Coulter, director of the Tuberculosis Bureau, will first de- liver a short explanatory address to students in each of the senior high schools, telling about the purposes and methods of this survey. cipals are being asked to arrange dates for the addresses. Following these talks an official letter will be sent to the parents or the guardian of each student, stating the objective and the procedure, and & form for the parent to sign, author- izing the examination. No charge is to be made for this survey, but par- ents able to do so will be requested to contribute something to help defray expenses. Dr. Joseph A. Murphy, chief med- {cal inspector of the public schools, who will have charge of the details of the survey, will then arrange for the service of the rapid X-ray machine, and after conferring with all prin- cipals will announce the date of the examinations. —_— SIGMA KAPPA FETE TO BE THURSDAY Founders’ Day Program Featured by Banquet and Annual Roll Call. = Sigma Kappa’s annual founders' day celebration will be observed lo- cally by a banquet at 6:30 p.m. Thurs- day at Wesley Hall, held jointly by the Zeta Chapter at George Washing- ton University and the Washington Alumnae Chapter. Following the ban- quet the Washington Alumnae Chap- ter will hold its annual roll call meeting. Mrs. Eleanor Hall Saunders , Will be in charge of banquet arrange- ¥ ments. Walking Stick Now Tree. A walking stick which Capt. George Anthony jogged into the ground near Toccoa, Ga., during the Confederate War, is a willow tree tod: All prin- | Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen receiving the first tickets for the Auto Show yesterday. Mary Louise Young is presenting the tickets while R. J. (Dick) Murphy looks on. Murphy is director of the show and manager of the Washington Automotive Trade Association. The show opens November 14 in the Calvert Hall exhibit room, opposite the Shoreham Hotel. —Star Staff Photo. Pen Woman Meet Celebrities At Breakfast Get-Together Writers of Detective Yarns, Stars of Drama and Vaudeville, Musicians and Composers Address Chapter. Celebrities galore breakfasted to- gether until midafternoon yesterday at the semi-annual celebrity breakfast of the National League of American Pen Women at the Willard Hotel. ‘Writers of detective yarns, stars of drama and vaudeville, editors, musi- cians and composers of jazz lyrics ate turkey and talked it, having con- verged on Washington from as far off | as Chicago to®make the party the| most successful ever given by the local chapter of women scriveners. Pauline Lord, introduced as the “first lady of the American stage,” graced the speaker’s table until time to rush off for a matinee, and Sarah Churchill, the pretty dancing daugh- | ter of Winston Churchill, chancellor of the exchequer of Great Britain, was present with her partner, Vic Oliver. The couple, about whom rumors of marriage have been widely circulated lately, are appearing on a local vaudeville bill. Attended by about 150 persons, the breakfast was presided over by Phyllis Fergus Hoyt, new national president of the league and a well-known com- poser. Right Rev. James E. Free- man; Bishop of St. Alban’s Church, read the invocation. Geoffrey O'Hara, author of that enduring folk song, “Beautiful K-K-Katy,” and a dis- tinguished song writer and radio per- former, introduced the speakers. Among the local celebrities who spoke was Olga Moore, author of “Windswept,” in private life Mrs. Carl Arnold of Connecticut avenue. She is a regular contributor of short sto- ries to national magazines. Trying to answer persons who ask her how she gets ideas for stories, Miss Moore said that if embryo authors go to lots of parties and talk to a great many people ideas are bound to over- take them. She painted the life of & penwoman ‘in the brightest tints—a round of social events, punctuated with occasional bouts with a type- writer. Miss Moore learned this morning that movie rights for her published story, “Quintuplets to You,” have been sold in Hollywood, Mr. O’Hara said in presenting her. A new literary trend is inevitable because of the results of the presi- dential election, said William E. Bar- rett, prolific writer of detective, avia- tion and adventure stories. He pre- dicts that in 1937 long sagas of three generations of families will be replaced by stories of the building. of great families of the future. Maga- zines have been feeding the public day dreams, he declared, and their editors will find that the emotional surge of the people revealed in the recent political contest shows that America is through with day dreaming and fascinated with reality. Spending a lifetime sitting down is the way Mr. Barrett described the writing profession. The editor of Parents Magazine, Clara Savage Littledale of New York, by WURLITZER The sensation of the year—a beautifully de- signed spinette only 33 inches high but ‘with a full tone! Built to meet the space requirements of small homes. who was a classmate of Phyllis Fergus | Hoyt at Smith College, told the gathering that persons who are editors get into that line of work because they are not courageous enough to write. Lewis Lofton Moneyway, president of the Washington Arts Club and short story teacher and critic, ex- plained the don’t and dos of writ- ing in a talk called “Short Story Sins.” Begin authoring with the story of your life, he advised, be- cause it is the subject you know most about. Ethel Armes, author of “Nancy | Shippen, Her Journal Book,” spoke | on those two charming ladies of the eighteenth century, Nancy Shippen and Lucinda Lee. Progress in American music under the Federal Music Project was out- lined by Lee Pattison, pisnist-frem the Juilliard Foundation of New York. Vic Oliver entertained with his own jazz arrangement of the “Second Hungarian Rhapsody” -and . Evelyn Ewert, soprano from Chicago, sang & number of Mr. O'Hara's songs, in- cluding “I Love a Little Cottage,” “Two Idttle Stars” and “My An- gelie.” Harlan Randall, also from Chicago, sang Mr. O'Hara’s “There Is No Death.” The University of Maryland Glee Club sang several of Mr. O'Hara's compositions, accompanied by Doro= thy Radde Emery, chairman of music for the eastern section of the Pen- women's League. tiful K-k-katy.” Among the notables present who took bows were Victoria Faber Stev- enson and Grace Thompson Seaton, past national presidents, and Mrs. | Carl Fenning, president of the Twen- tieth Century Club. e NURSES TO MEET Plan Panel Discussion at Session | Tomorrow Night. ‘The Graduate Nurses’ Association will hold a panel discussion at its quarterly meeting tomorrow at 7:30 pm. in the hall of services of the Red Cross chapter house, 1730 E street. The question to be discussed is: “Would a nursing council in the District be one of the first steps to- ward insuring adequate care for every one in this community regard- less of his ability to pay for it?” ‘Those participating will be Mrs. Josephine P. Prescott, Mrs. Eugenia K. Spalding and the Misses Emily Kleb, Mattie M. Gibson, Constance Allen, Catherine E. Moran and Pearl Mclver. The Mr. O'Hara concluded the program | | by singing and playing his “Beau- | FOR §12,200000 Dawes Loan Demanded of 3,500 lllinois Stockhold- ers of Concern. B3 the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 7.—A bill for approximately $12,500,000 was laid be- fore 3,500 Illinois stockholders of the defunct Central Republic Bank and Trust Co. today, as their share toward paying back. the $90,000,000 “Dawes loan.” The Reconstruction Finance Corp. loaned the money in 1932 to Gen. Charles G. Dawes and his associates in the big Chicago bank.’ Today in United States District Court the R. F. C. won a ruling that the stockholders were liable for a part corresponding to the amount of stock they owned—$100 on s share. Included in those who must pay un- der ‘the decision of Judge James H. Wilkerson were most of the officials of the defunct bank, but not Gen. Dawes personally. The former Vice President, who was chairman of the bank at the time of the loan, held only 52 shares as an individual, and paid up on that before the R. F. C. brought its equity proceedings. $5,200 Personal Contribution. His personal contribution was $5,200. His family’s investment firm, however, was much more heavily interested. Holdings of 9,870 shares were ascribed to the company, Dawes Brothers, Inc., in the trial. On this besis, as the big- gest single stockholder, its liability would be $987,000. ‘The firm has a special defense on file, yet to be argued. This document says the firm never had legal authority to own the stock, and could not be held liable. Judge Wilkerson’s opinion ended a two-year case argued by more than 275 lawyers. It threw out defense con= tentions that the R. F. C. was uncon- stitutional. Its purposes, the judge held, were within the powers of Con- gress. Attorneys said it was the first opin- jon squarely on the point. The lability enforced today was established by the Illinois constitution which makes bank stockholders liable | not only for their original contribution but for an additional assessment of GICHNER | rownmwom‘o‘“bT ALLOWED ‘T’" slon ON YOUR o OLD WATCH When you parehase on model Hamiltons. Elgins 2 CHARGE ACCOUNTS INVITED Fine Watch Repal g at Low Rates All Werk Guara! One Year ERNEST BURK Expert Watchmaker 307 Kresge Blds. DI 2373 Entranee: 1165 G St. N.W. 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C. expected to take a loss on the loan, Judge Wilkerson was told, which might be “in excess of $100,- 000,000, unless collateral posted by the Central Republic climbed greatly in value. ‘Two of Gen. Dawes’ brothers were hit by today’s ruling. Court records listed Henry M. Dawes as holder of 238 shares, liability $23,800, and Rufus C. Dawes as owner of 252, liability $25,200. As the R. F. C.’s case unfolded back- stage scenes from the 1932 banking crisis, it was disclosed that Dawes and his directors negotiated the loan dur- ing a midnight meeting. While they were in session here, on June 26, 1932, chiefs of the R. F. C. met in ‘Washington, on the other end of an open telephone line. Bank runs had closed many outly- ing Chicago banks. It was feared the big Central Republic would be next, pulling down 21,000 smaller country banks, whose deposits it held. When the Dawes bank officers asked for a $90,000,000 prop, the R. F. C. acted immediately. 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