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- NEW LIFE PHASE HELD NEAR L. 3. Filene Tells Credit Union Di- rectors Nation to Get Eco- nomic Democracy. A call for development of a financial and economic democracy was sounded last night by Edward A. Filene, Bos- ton capitalist and economist, speaking at the annual banquet of the National | Board of Directors of the Credit Union | National Association | America is on the threshold of a | new phase of life, when co-operation of individuals will replace the indi- vidualism of the past, said the million- aire merchant, noted as a liberal. “What is happening,” he declared, “is of such thrilling interest that every American who realizes its mean- ing cannot help participating in it. For what is happening is the rule of the people. What is happening is democracy—and not merely political democracy, but financial democracy and economic democracy—democracy in dimensions which never were and never could be democratic before.” Credit unions will play an important part in .his new social understanding | and will help the masses of the people | to “gain access to the tremendous and | ever-increasing volume of things | which it has now become possible to produce.” Would Keep Individualism. He cautioned, however, against an attempt to “rule out individual effort | and substitute some vague abstraction known as the ‘common good.’” In- dividuals must become co-workers, he said, adding that the first emphasis today should be placed on an educa- tional program to teach the people how to reach their co-operative ideal. The banquet, which was at the May- flower, concluded a three-day meeting of the national directors of the as- sociation. Mr. Filene is the father of the credit union movement in the United States. The first union was organized in Boston in 1907, largely through his efforts. Since then he has contributed $1,000,000 in furtherance of the move- ment. The Credit Union National As- £ociation was formed about four years | ago and the convention here was the third annual session. The general plan calls for forma- tion of a group within a particular business enterprise for the purpose of providing a loan medium for em- ployes. Only those employes who buy shares of stock in their particu- lar union are eligible for loans, which are made at a low interest rate. There are 91 such unions in Washington and leagues unions in every State, comprising more than 1,000,000 mem- bers. Shepperd Also Speaks. Senator Shepperd of Texas, author | of the Federal credit union act, | passed in 1934, also addressed the | meeting, praising Mr. Filene's part | in the movement. “The establishment and success- ful operation of the principle of co- operative credit through the credit union movement is but another illus- | tration of the fact that the princi- | ple of brotherhood, a principle em- bodying all forms of human co- operation, is of universal and eternal | application,” he asserted. Representative Luce of Massachu- retts said the United States is “woe- fully slow” in following the lead of Europe in the co-operative movement. Other speakers included Herbert Emmerich, deputy governor of the Farm Credit Administration; Roy F. Bergengren, managing director of the association, and Thomas Doig. its or- ganization director. D. Roland Potter, | national director for the District, was toastmaster. STUDE;TS OF FRENCH TO COMPETE MAY 1| Contestants in Event to Be Se- lected From Junior Senior High Schools. and ‘The third annual competition of students of French will be held May 1 at 9:30 a.m. at Corcoran Hall, George | Washington University, it was an-| nounced yesterday at a meeting of the American Association of Teachers of French at the Hay-Adams House. { The contestants are drawn from Junior high school, second, third and fourth year of senior high school. Six contestants are selected from each | group. The purpose of the contest is to te- lect the student who has the highast rating in French based on composi- tion, grammar and diction. Menibers of the Contest Committee, selected last night, are as follows: Merle Protzman, chairman; Andre Liotard of Maryland University, Jos- | eph Barbecot and Leon Dostert of | Georgetown University and Mrs. An- dree Strong of Chevy Chase Junior College. M od;;; Valjean To Be Returned to CompleteSentence| Wife to Conduct Lumber Business Until He Comes Back. By the Associated Press. PINEVILLE, Ky, April 10.—Mrs. Cecil Miracle will wait for her husband until he comes back, she said today. But she hopes it doesn’t take too long. Miracle, 35-year-old modern Jean Valjean, is to be returned to Mont- gomery, Ala,, to serve out a three-year prison sentence. He escaped in 1929 after serving seven months. His arrest revealed he also had escaped San Quentin Penitentiary in California while serving a life term and had scaled the wall of a Florida prison while serving a five-year auto- mobile theft sentence. Known here as a prominent and respected lumberman, Miracle marriad Ada Mason following his return to his native Bell County in 1933. But he didn't tell her of his record. Mrs. Miracle said today: “I have made all arrangements to carry on Cecil's business while he is away. I will wait for him until he comes back. “I hope they do not make him serve any time in California or Florida. We need him here.” They have a paby daughter. Miracle said he was “glad, in a way, that it's over.” He added: “I've learned my lesson. I'm going to Ala- bama and make a model prisoner.” ’ Lof the technical THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL 11 ”__—__——‘—'—————’—M———*_—_fi“_*’h_—fh—b—_——.—_fih Where Eight Died on Sunken Tug Low tide at Chester, Pa., reveals a sunken tug which carried eight persoms, year-old high school girl, to their deaths. including a 15- The captain and one crew member were_rescued. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Paul Hindemith Is Applauded As Soloist at Music Festival BY ALICE EVERSMAN. The distinguished German com- | poser, Paul Hindemith, was the lion | of yesterday morning’s concert of the Eighth Festival of Chamber Music | being given this week at the Library of Congress under the auspices of the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Founda- tion Not only was the morning program devoted to Mr. Hindemith's | compositions, but tiie composer him- self appeared as soloist in his “Sonata | Op. 25, No for viola alone. Eagerly awaited after the interest inspired | by the first numbers heard, Mr. Hindemith was greeted with prolonged applause on his entrance, the audi- ence rising to do him honor. From time to time, works by this | outstanding musical writer of Ger- many have been performed here with varying success, but, with the excep- tion of the viola sonata, the pro- grammed numbers were heard in America for the first time yesterday. For the most part they were " the output of last year and the year before, with the remainder dating from 1922 and 1925, the latter, four- part songs, revised this year. The interesting part about these dates is that it marks two distinct periods of thought and also explains the past criticisms and the growing pop- ularity of this man of great gifts. Judging by the compositions heard' yesterday, it would seem that Mr. Hindemith has made an about face | or has had a sufficient try at ultra- | modernism to find refreshment and | inspiration along the more accepted lines of composition. Whatever it is, | there is a decided dividing line be- | tween the manner of his musical | thinking in 1922 and that of 1936. | Two things remain indisputable, how- ever, the originality and the rich- | ness of his genius and the arresting | character of his musical speech. Mr. Hindemith writes in a new idiom but it is an idiom that is graced by a wealth of thought and | feeling behind it and the resolutioni form is under me‘ influence of these guardian angels of | genius. This is what removes any sense of strangeness in unaccustomed harmony and avoids any intellectual sport with the old rules of writing. What Mr. Hindemith has to say is compelling for its power, its poetry and its depth. Its sincerity is matched by the opulence of expression and richness of idea. If at times he allows the fullness of his inspiration to run away with him, he at once balances it with a lyricism of rare beauty that combines strength with its poetic imagining. These characteristics were ideally present in his “Sonata for Flute and Piano,” less evenly divided in his “Sonata No. 3" for piano and with will-o’-the-wisp effects in his “Sonata for Viola Alone.” The songs of 1935 to poems by Friedrich Hoelderlin, were in a class by fhemselves, interesting composition but less interesting vo- cally, while the four-part songs were unusually captivating and excellently conceived. Mr. Hindemith was fortunate in having superb interpreters for this program. Georges Barrere, with J. M. Sanroma at the piano, gave a glowing performance of the fiute sonata, color- ful and poetic in the extreme. Mr. Sanroma, who has a sympathetic un- derstanding of Mr. Hindemith’s style, was equally successful with the piano sonata, while the splendid tenor voice an@ musicianly reading of the four songs by Frederick Jagel provided a fine medium through which to become acquainted with these noteworthy compositions. A real treat was given by the Motet Singers of the Dessoff Choirs, which, under the direction of Paul Boepple sang the delightful part songs a capella with great beauty of tone and finely stressed shadings. The artistry of these interpreters left noth- ing unrevealed of the content of the music. Mr. Hindemith proved him- self a violist of the first rank and made a deep impression as a per- former of his own sonata. Last evening the program was given by the South Mountain Quartet, Kath- leen Parlow and Edwin Ideler, violins; Conrad Held, viola, and Willem Wil- leke, cellist. Brahms' very beautiful “Trio in B, op. 8” was played by Miss Parlow, and Mr. Willeke with Gunnar Johansen at the piano. This proved to be the high light of the program, the players being in complete accord in both the finer points of technical effects and in the spirit of the work, Mr. Johansen contributing consider- ably to the forceful reading. Less successful was the rendition of Beethoven's “Quartet in E Flat, op. 127,” the intonation being careless and the ensemble uneven. Boltan Ko- daly’s “Quartet in C Minor, op. 2” again found the members of the group more united in idea and the many Audience Rises to Pay poser Appears to Have Made About- Face in Manner of Expression. Tribute—Com- ‘offered were stressed with well-propor- tloned dynamics. The work is written in convincing manner and is a valu- able addition to ensemble literature. A large and distinguished audience with many notable out-of-town visi- tors, gave generous acclaim to the artist. COTTON ESTIMATES OPPOSED IN SENATE Subcommittee Completes Inquiry Into Marketing—Recom- mendation Made. Bs the Associatea Press. The Senate’s two-year investigation of cotton marketing yesterday pro- duced 10 recommendations for legis- lation, including a proposal to elim- inate or curtail Government Crop es- timates. Among the other recommendations, to be studied by the Senate Agricul- ture Committee tomorrow, were elim- ination or reduction of Southern de- liveries, prohibitions on the extension of marginal credits and limitations on the amount of interest any one firm may have on futures exchanges at one time. A confidential copy of the report, drafted by the subcommittee headed by Chairman Smith, Democrat, of South Carolina, which conducted the inquiry, has been turned over to mem- bers of the full committee for study over the week end. The subcommittée struck at what it termed “tremendous concentration” of the cotton trade in the hands of two firms—Anderson Clayton & Co. of Houston, Tex., and George H. Mc- Fadden & Bros. of Philadelphia. “This tremendous concentratior. of the spot and futures business in the hands of two firms presents a situation which is far from healthy,” the sub- committee’s report said, “especially when we consider the vast facilities which they have for conducting their business, as compared to the facilities of the smaller merchants.” STRIKE QUIZZ SLATED ‘AT REMINGTON-RAND Federal Grand Jury Probe to Re- ceive Evidence From Jus- tice Department. By the Associated Press. A Federal grand jury will conduct an inquiry into events connected with 2 1936 strike at the Remington-Rand plant in Middletown, Conn. the Justice Department announced yes- terday. It said that special assistants to the Attorney General would go to New Haven tomorrow to present to the grand jury “all facts indicating a violation of the Byrnes act,” which prohibits transportation of strike breakers across State lines. 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Webber, 43, of 1607 Sev- ententh street, was seriously injured during the races at Bowie yesterday stand. At Emergency Hospital it was | fracture. Bystanders said Webber was lean- ing over a railing of a stairway which leads from the grandstand to the bet- ting ring when he lost his balance and fell 20 feet to the concrete walk below. He was taken to the track hos- pital and later removed to Emergancy when he failed to respond to treat- ment. Last night he was reported as still unconscious. ‘Webber is employed by a firm of sea | food merchants at the Municipal Fish Wharf. 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Powells here, unanimously voted to wire the Gov- ernor in urging his veto of the meas- ure. They said they feared that open- house bookmaking would mean the spread of slot machines and other gambling devices throughout the county. Meanwhile, Nice was awaiting the answer of the attorney general on his power to veto the bookmaking section of the relief bill. He said that if his signature were affixed to the bill as it now stands, his approval of the measure would be given with the “greatest reluctance.” According to the Associated Press, Nice declared he has had “fewer pro- tests or approvals of this particular item” than he receives on most im- portant measures. Majority of the protests, he said, asked simply that he veto gambling. Kent Mullikin of Laurel, majority floor leader of the House of Delegates, said today he believed the Governor must either sign or veto the relief bill as a whole, according to the Associated Press. “As I see it,” Mulli- kin asserted, “the Governor has either to accept the relief bill or reject it.” PEPPER URG'ES SUPPORT FOR CHILD AID BILL Florida Senator Holds Federal System Is Injustice to Crippled Children. BY the Associated Press. Senator Claude Pepper, Florida Democrat, said last night the Gov- ernment’s system of benefit payments capped children. He broadcast an address in port of his bill to appropriate 580,000 for Federal help in the cation of handicapped children. Other Federal laws, he said, pro- vided for adults who are deaf, blind, speechless or crippled. Hospitaliza- tion can be furnished to handicapped children, he said, but there is no provision by which the Government can contribute to the special educa- sup- $11,- edu- tion they need if their cases are in- | curable. 1937—PART O Capt. A.C. Rea By the Associated Press. The man who was first to fly the Atlantic has not made a long flight since. He is Capt. Albert C. Read, now as- sistant chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics. Sea duty and adminis- trative posts have kept him from long air flights since May of 1919, when he piloted the naval seaplane NC-4 across the Atlantic. He does his stint of nine hours of flying a month reg- ularly, however. Read, now gray, is nearing 50. He was 32 and a lieutenant commander on May 16 when the naval seaplanes NC-1, NC-3 and NC-4, set out from Newfoundland for Europe by way of the Azores. Eleven, days later his ship, the NC-4, landed at Lisbon. Read had commanded the expedition. He looks back on the flight with fond reminiscence, but modestly disclaims that it was a feat of particular courage. “I suppose ours was the valor of ig- norance,” he says. “We wouldn’t have been s0 keen for the flight if we had known as much about flying then as we do now.” PROSECUTION UNDER F.D.1.C.LAW UPHELD Deposit Insurance Law Declared Valid in Case of 5 Southern Indianans. BY the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, April 10—Fed- eral prosecution of State bank offi- cers under provisions of the Fed- eral Deposit Insurance Corp. law gained approval of Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell here today. The decision, District Attorney Val Nolan said, was the first test of this phase of the F. D. L. C. law in the country. Attorneys for five Southern In- diana bankers and business men, in- dicted for Federal banking law vio- lation, had argued Federal prosecu- tion of officers of banks not mem- fringement on State's rights. doubt but that the statute (the F. D. 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