Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1937, Page 20

NORRS L GO QUTS PONERPLS Leavas Rural Electrification Administration to Resume Vacation Voyage. BY the Assoclated Press. Morris L. Cooke stepped out as head of the $50,000,0C0-a-year Rural Elec- trification Administration yesterday to resume a vacation voyage inter- rupted when he : ‘was drafted into the New Deal service fa 1933. News cf his res- ignation came as a surprise to his associates and even to his own staff. He was en route to Philadelphia when the White House announce- ment was issued, but his office quoted him as et s heas M. L. Cooke. “tired and wanted a rest.” Former head of the Electric Home and Farm Authority, member of the President’s National Resources Com- mittee and chairman of the Great Plains Committee, Cooke was ap- pointed only three weeks ago to a . special committee of six high officials now drafting a national power policy. Accepted “With Reluctance.” Mr. Roosevelt made public the let- ter today in which he accepted the resignation “with greatest reluctance.” Cooke had written that he and Mrs. Cooke wanted to take “an extended trip out of the country.” He told asso- ciates he would not know where he was going until he was aboard ship, but that he might visit the remote sub-Arctic region of Scandinavia to which he had booked passage when ‘called to the Capital by Mr. Roose- wvelt in 1933. His first New Deal job was the chairmanship of the Mississippi Valley Commission, which studied land and water uses in the Mississippi Basin. Urged “Upstream Engineering.” He was an ardent advocate of “up- stream engineering”—a term he is chiefly responsible for popularizing— as a preventive of droughts and floods. He advocated cover crops, reforesta- tion, dams on “the little waters” and his theme song was: “The Nation is doomed if it does not within 20 years devise a way to save its oil and water.” Last Summer he headed the Presi- dent’s committee of inspection in the drought area. Born at Carlisle, Pa., Cooke took an engineering degree at Lehigh Univer- sity, was by turns reporter, shipyard machinist and management engineer. He directed the celebrated giant power survey in Pennsylvania in 1923. He told the President he was leaving the Electrical Administration a “sea- soned organization” in the hands of John M. Carmody, deputy administra- tor. —_— COLLEGE IS SUED FOR $150,000 FUND Failure to Teach Evangelical Re- formed Principles as Will Required Charged. By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, February 6. —Pre- liminary steps have been taken in Or- phans’ Court to terminate a $150,000 | trust fund for Ursinus College on the | ground that the institution has failed to teach and maintain Evangelical Reformed Church principles, but has | Woman, Nearly 100, Succumbs After Brief Pneumonia Siege Half a year before her 100th birth- day, Miss Kate Thomas, who, until her last illness, ate two full meals a day, knitted washcloths, attended church and daily climbed a flight of stairs, died PFriday at the home of her nieces, Misses Kate and Mary Mitchell, 2921 Q street. Miss Thomas was & descendant of a famous Maryland family and until seven years ago lived at Cremona, a 700-acre estate on the Patuxent River in 8t. Marys County. She was born there September 21, 1837, when Mar- tin Van Buren had been President of the United States only six months. At the All Faiths’ Church, near Mechanicsville, Md., where Miss Thomas was baptized and which she attended almost every Sunday of her life until she moved to Washington, funera! services will be held at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow, with Rev. Franklin Lee Metcalf, rector, officiating. Miss Thomas went regularly to St. John's Episcopal Church in Georgetown after she moved to Washington, the last time being December 19, but she re- tained her connection with All Faiths. Followed Outdoor Life. Miss Thomas, who weighed only 80 pounds at the time of her death, exhibited & remarkable sturdiness all her life. She early became afflicted with a chronic bronchitis, and to combat the ailment she decided to follow the outdoor life. To this her nieces attributed her longevity. At Cremona in the Spring and Summer she spent most of the days working in her flower garden, raking gravel on her walks, exercising in the | fresh air at every opportunity. In her youth, the Misses Mitchell understand, she weighed 110 pounds, but in their memory she never topped 87 pounds. Her vigor, however, was unabated by age. She slept on the second floor of the red brick house on Q street, re- tiring each night between 8 and 9 o'clock and arising about noon. Alone she descended the staircase leading from her room to the dining room on the first floor, where each day she had luncheon and dinner with her nieces and ate the very things they did—meats, vegetables, salads, bread and butter, dessert. She was quite deaf and her sight was somewhat affected. but not enough to prevent her knitting wash- cloths and sewing. In the desk in her room after her death was found a letter she had begun to write to & friend last Saturday. When she wasn't at her sewing, she spent much time playing solitaire, and although Q street had no such pro- fusion of flowers as a St. Marys County estate, she liked the yard of her Georgetown home, to which she moved on the sale in 1929 of Cremona, the chief attraction of which was its Georgian house built by her father in 1818. Stricken With Pneumonia. Last Monday she failed to make her customary noon appearance in the downstairs part of the Mitchell house- hold. Investigation led to the dis- covery that she was ill with pneu- monia, and she was able to withstand its ravages only four days. Yesterday THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Cloudy and colder today; tomorrow rain or snow; | moderate north winds. Maryland—Cloudy, slightly colder become non-sectarian. | today; tomorrow cloudy, followed by The fund was provided in the will | of Robert Patterson, wealthy Philadel- | phia manufacturer who died nearly 44 | years ago. His will made this pro- vision: “In the event of the failure of the officers and faculty of the college to faithfully teach, maintain and carry out Evangelical Reformed principles, the trust shall absolutely end and in such case all the money remaining | in custody of the trustee shall be di- vided among the heirs of my wife and myself.” A petition filed by Laura A. Lewis, one of the Patterson heirs, contends the Collegeville, Pa., institution is “be- ing conducted on absolutely non-sec- m‘y“ Ve tarian and non-denominational lines.” Orphans’ Court directed the college to file answer to the petition. Gov. Hofi;man Sees ‘Leaders’ of G.O.P. & Moving Backward Calls for Reorganization of Party in Birthday Address. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, *February 6.—Gov. Harold G. Hoffman of New Jersey called tonight for reorganization of | & the Republican party, but said it would “take more than monkey glands” to do it. “Unfortunately,” he said, “we have some alleged ‘leaders’ in my party who are still living among cobwebs and moth balls. This feeble leader- ship tramps bravely on backward, passing the milestones of our history in reverse, its eyes firmly set on its B goal—the rediscovery of the kerosene lamp.” The Governor, who will be 41 to- morrow, was guest of honor at a birthday party, an annual affair given by friends. Gov. Hoffman, who in his birthday | B¢ address a year ago lashed out at the | Duluth “stuffed shirts” who criticized him for | & his reprieve of Bruno Richard Haupt- mann and for his fiscal policies, said in a prepared address tonight that he had had to “deal with a strong op- position party” ever since he assumed office. He said he had made no decision what to do when his three-year term | Minn expires next January. The constitu- tion prohibits a Governor’s succeed- | New ¥ ing himself, but he said that if it |Om: did not, he would not. hesitate to run again. In criticizing some unnamed politi- cal leaders in the party, he termed them “corns on the foot of and bunions on the foot of time.” Young and ambitious Americans, he said, will not “follow American his- rain or snow. Virginia—Cloudy with rain in south and colder in north portion today; to- morrow probably rain. West Virginia—Cloudy and colder with snow in south portion today; to- MOITOW SNOW. River Report. Potomac River clear and Shenan- doah little cloudy today. Report Until 10 P.M. Saturd: Midnight. -~ 27 12 noon 2am. p.m. Record Until 10 P.M. Saf 5 Highest. 42. 4:30 p.m. yesterday. Year W .m. yesterday. Year ago, ' Record_Temperatures This Year. Highest. 76, on January 9, Lowest, 23, on January 6. Tide Tables. (Purnished by United States Coast and Geodetic_Surve: ‘Tomorrow. Automobile s m one-half hour after sunset. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month. Average. Record. January .. 5 7.83 February 7 (T, FBEIRSSS D@ 32 IRATE November " 7 December 332 Weather in Various Citles. Precipi- ——Temperature— tation. Max."Min. Sat, 7:30 p.m: Sat- Fri. 0~ to urday.night. p.m. 7:30 p.m. 48 44 Asheville. N. C. ‘Atlanta, Ga. _ Atlantic City, N. J. Baltimore, Md. o A mES, ZESR 55300 OO MO i3 38 Bk cacomrcses | arese i eyenne, Wyo Cleveland, Ohi Dalias, Tex, I B Indianapolis, 1n s, Jacksonville, I s Ange! Loutsville. Ky. Marquette, Micl ORI 12304100931 tory backwards,” and “today there is | Seattle, & crying need for red-blooded courage | Tampa. in handling our complex conditions.” | wigH" A Shntateaninasaateens Sguagoua a3 L e Batusssezgne o wean| cacvasialian Lol EotusRparzae gunan pue| ecenacanloas lneieiuaiionn & B3I DR ntn 1 I Miss Kate Thomas, D. C. Resident 7 Years, Was Descendant of Famous Maryland Family. a lavish wreath of the flowers she loved hung on the front door of the Q street house and women who had known her sat in the living room and wept. Miss Thomas was the oldest D. A. R. charter member of the Maj. William ‘Thomas Chapter, named in honor of her grandfather, who distinguished himself in the Revolutionary War. He already had gained military fame for his prowess in the colonial wars. An- other ancestor famous in the Maryland annals was Thomas Brooke. Last September 21 Miss Thomas celebrated her 99th birthday with a small “party,” which consisted of a reunion with several old family friends and a surprise birthday cake, which was large but dleless. 909 F St. NW. Julius Lansburgh Furniture Co. 909 F S , WASHINGTON, D. C, FAVOR GOTTAGES FORGIRLS' SCHOOL City Heads Decide to Call for Bids for First of Two Buildings. Controversy over number and size of buildings to be erected in enlarge- ment of the plant of the National Training School for Girls apparently | was settled yesterday when the com- missioners announced they would advertise for bids for erection of the “cottage” type of structure. ‘The question of cost of the proposed two cottages, as opposed to the single institution building suggested during the past year by the Budget Bureau, was the only one remaining for solution. Victory for Dr. Smith. ‘The decision, revealed by Commis- sioner Allen, is a victory for Dr. Carrie Weaver Smith, superintendent of the FEBRUARY 4-Pc. Modern Burl Walnut Bed Room Suite $159 Four beautiful pleces at a special sale price. A suite with beauty and character inside and out. The suite features the new square offset mirrors. Made of burl walnut in a waterfalls design. All good size pieces and consisting of a panel bed, chest on chest, dresser and vanity. Open a “J. L.” Budget Account Moderne Sofa Bed By day its a luxurious sofa, at night it opens into a comfortable twin or double bed. Modern in tapestry. design. Covered Queen Anne Occasional Chair $6.95 It has a walnut veneer frame, padded seat and back. Queen Anne de- sign. *59 FEBRUARY 7, 1937—PART ONXE. school, who has held out against all odds for the “cottage” type plan, which she believed would afford better | segregation of different types of cases | at the institution, than a single new building. Congress last session approved a | special appropriation of $100,000 for improvements at the school, after Senator Copeland had declared former conditions were a disgrace and in some particulars “barbaric.” Mrs. Roosevelt also inspected the plant. Just a few days ago she praised improvements which have been made meanwhile under the W. P. A, Bids First on One Cottage. Of the total appropriated, $87500 was allotted for construction of addi- | _ tional buildings, to include housing, a gymnasium, a heating plant and new | sewer facilities. For this reason, the | Commissioners will call for bids first | for one of the two proposed 12-room | cottages. | Dr. Smith originally proposed and | the Welfare Board approved, a Plln‘ for two such buildings. Later it de- i veloped that the report of the Presie | dent urging approval of the appropria- tion had specified there be but one building, having 25 rooms. For this reason, the Budget Bureau asked the | commissioners to hold up preparation ! of plans. Later, after a series of con= ferences, Commissioner Allen said, agreement was reached permiting the return to the cottage type plans. SLAYER IS bAPTURED EY the Assoclated Press. | 6—Joe McKinnon, colored, sought |on a charge of killing Archie Ratley, | whose body was found in a woods yes- | terday, was taken into custody here late today. 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