Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1937, Page 6

A—6 ENGINE TROUBLE DELAYS PRESIDENT Roosevelt Cruises Down Gulf Coast on Destroyer Moffett. By the Assoclated Press. NEW ORLEANS, May 1.—With plenty of bait and an old spotted fish- ing outfit awaiting him on the U. 8. 8. Potomac off Corpus Christi, Tex., President Roosevelt cruised down the gulf coast on the Destroyer MofTett early today. Meanwhile, members of his White House office staff were en route to Galveston, Tex., from New Orleans to set up headquarters in the Galvez Hotel, after spending nearly 36 hours in this city. Marvin H. McIntyre, a secretary, planned to send a plane to the Poto- mac with official mail from Washing- ton as soon as he arrived in Galveston, on the gulf coast north of Corpus | Christi. In the mail pouch will be | the neutrality bill passed by Congress | to replace the temporary law expiring | tonight. Word of the President’s signature of the measure, which gives him discre- tionary authority to restrict trade with warring nations, was expected before nightfall. The vacationing President, under | original plans, was to have trans- ferred from the Moffett to the Po- tomac early last night. But engine trouble and a decision to spend Thurs- day night off Pilot Town, at the mouth of the Mississippi, after repairs had been made, set back his schedule ®bout 12 hours. The Moffett developed a clogged oil line, but a message to Mclntyre said it was soon fixed and the voyage resumed after daybreak. The big de- stroyer steamed through Southwest Pass into the gulf shortly after break- fast yesterday. While communication with the de- stroyer was maintained by McIntyre In New Orleans through local Coast Guard headquarters, the destroyer Schenck will be the radio contact between ship and shore after office headquarters are set up in Galveston. WELLES TO ADDRESS LAW BANQUET HERE | Assistant Secretary of State and Others on International Group's Program. Sumner Welles, Assistant Secretary | of State, heads the list of speakers who will address the thirty-first an- nual meeting of the American So- ciety of International Law at its ban- quet tonight at the Carlton Hotel. Ambassador Colon Eloy Alfaro, Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, and Percy E. Corbett of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, also are to speak. ‘The banquet closes the three-day con- vention of the society. ‘The delegates nominated officers | for the coming year at a session this | morning. Last night they heard dis- cussions by Robert R. Wilson of Duke University of recognition of insurgency and belligerency, and by Fred K. Nielsen, former solicitor of the State Department, of insurgency and mari- time law. (This is the seventh of a series of articles on symbolism and sidelights of the coronation ceremony.) BY THOMAS R. HENRY. HEN the Druid priests pre- pared for a human sacri- fice they robed their in- tended victim in white. Thus the color came to have an unlucky significance in English tradi- tion. From the days of Arthur there was a legend that some day England would have a white King who would be a tragic figure history. Charles the First was arrayed for his coronation in a robe of pure white instead of the robe of royal purple worn by all of his predecessors. Why he did so nobody knows. Some claim that there was not enough purple cloth available to make a robe, others that he was advised to do so by his evil genius, William Laud, Archbishop | of Canterbury. Laud placed the crown of St. Ed- ward on the mew monarch's head. “Sirs,” he said to those attending the ceremony, “I present you your King, King Charles.” It was the traditional cue for a general acclamation of “God save the King.” So dumfounded were the people at the ill omen that they re- mained silent. The Sermon Was Worse. Even worse was the coronation ser- mon. The preacher, the Bishop of Catlisle, took for his text “I will give thee a crown of life.” ordinarily used for funeral sermons. Charles was anointed by the Archbishop of York, who insisted on his prerogative in spite of grave ec- clesastical doubts as to whether he had any right to take part in such a ceremony. A few weeks before he accidentally had killed a game keep- er. However innocently, the prelate’s hands were stained with human blood. Such was the most ill-omened coro- nation in British history. Even the date had been selected against the advice of the royal astrologers. A few years later the ill-fated King's headless body was carried to its grave. The funeral procession started under a clear, sunny sky, but | almost immediately snow began to | fall, and the coffin was robed entirely in white as it was lowered into the grave. Thus passed the long-herald- ed “white King.” Other coronations have been almost as ill-omened. Perhaps no man ever was called upon to swallow his pride more than was that merry monarch Charles the Second when he was crowned at Scone in Scotland while the Commonwealth still held power in England. The Scotch were as bitter in their Puritanism as the English. Charles was just an excuse, and he knew it. sermom, to which he was obliged to listen respectfully, his father was cursed by the minister as a scoun- drel and his mother as a woman of the streets. There was nothing for him to do but sit there and take it. When he was restored to power over the United Kingdom he got some satisfaction by sending the Earl of Argyle, who had placed the crown on his head, to the chopping block. Two Disgraceful Coronations. Perhaps the most disgraceful coro- in the realm’s! It was a text| In the coronation | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1937. White—the Omen of Ewil Charles the First Flouted Purple and Came to a Bad End. | E KING CHARLES 1. From a Portrait by Vandyke. | nations were those of two of England's worst Kings—John of Magna Charta fame and George the Fourth. Both | men, it is reported, got royally drunk for the solemn occasion. John roared with laughter throughout the cere- mony. When, as part of the investi- ture, a spear was placed in his hands he was so shaken with merriment that he let it drop. He refused to receive holy communion, | Almost as ill-omened as the corona= tion of Charles was that of John's brother, Richard. To sanctify the day and make his coronation pleasing to the Lord the valiant crusader ordered the massacre of all the Jews in England. Although the act was generally ap- proved by England’s devout Chris- tians, there were those who felt that Richard should have waited a day jor two and not stained his corona- tion with so much blood, even in | the service of God. These attached | significance to an evil omen. Dur- | ing the coronation services a black | bat flew through the door of the abbey and flew around the King's head several times. In the middle of the ceremonies the bells of London began to peal. No order had been given for their ring- ing. Some said it was a miracle at- | testing God's gratitude for massacre | of the Jews, others that an angered Satan had sneaked into the belfries, | and that the pealing was his threat of vengeance. Richard Crowned Himself. Richard himself—strange to say he seems to have been a fairly decent | sort of fellow in many ways and the first heavyweight boxing champion in British history—had no doubts about | the sanctity either of himself or his acts. He took the crown away from the Archbishop of Canterbury and placed-it on his own head—the only British monarch to crown himself. He was more sanctified than the | bishop, he said. Richard was the | > CITY, N. 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When he came home after his captivity—his kingdom was near bankruptcy after raising his ransom— he was recrowned lest some of the divine authority might have evap- orated during his long absence, in spite of all the Saracens he had slain in battle and the Jews he had butchered. One wonders, however, if on heav- en’s books drunken John, who bored out a little boy's eyes with a red- hot iron, had quite so many black marks as his brother, who was so confident he was a saint. John, after all, may have sneaked by the pearly gates. Tradition has it that he was conscience stricken toward the end of his life and gave orders | | that his corpse be wrapped in a monk’s robes and buried between two saints. He thought God might mis- take him in the rush on judgment day. ; One King, Henry the Third, had to o without his supper on the evening of his coronation day. The royal outler, whose duty it was to prepare the meal, was mad at the Archbishop of Canterbury and issued orders that if the prelate was caught hunting in his private forest the gamekeepers snould kick him out. The arch- bishop retaliated by excommunicat- ing the butler and thus barring him from any part in the coronation procedures. Elaborate but Disgraceful. The coronation of George the Fourth was the most elaboraté ever held in England and also one of the most disgraceful. “The first gentle- man in Europe” surrounded himself with his merry companions, barred his wife from the abbey and sur- rounded himself with a body guard of all the prize fighters he could muster in gay regalia, headed by the American Negro, Richmond the Black. As part of the coronation ceremony various dignitaries of the realm were fat monarch’s face. gusting necessity. He made it worse by openly ridi- culing those whom he did not like as they made the humiliating ap- proach. On the whole, this coronation dis- gusted England. When George died after a short ‘reign chiefly distin- guaished by his elevating to the knighthood an Irish prizefighter, the Whigs were in power and were de- termined the scene should not be repeated. They went to the other extreme and were so stingy that a crown had to be rented from a London jeweler. It was a dis- —_ Jailbird Sues for Pay. Because his jail earnings were cut 33Y3 per cent under the Australian depression legislation figure a former habitual criminal is going to test the legality of the reduction in the court at Sydney. He has filed suit for the BALLOTINGONART ENDS TOMORROW Voting Heavy to Determine Most Popular Picture in Corcoran Exhibition. 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