Evening Star Newspaper, May 9, 1937, Page 23

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 9, 1937—PART ONE. *+ B-S wm Nation Honors Mothers in All Walks of Life CAPITAL HONORS MOTHERS TODAY Police and Firemen Attend Early-Morning Mass at St. Patrick’s. Washingtonians, in unlon with men, women and children throughout the country, today paid homage to their mothers. Midnight ushered in the twenty- fourth annual Mother's day, which has had an official standing since 1913, when Congress and President Wilson approved a resolution setting aside the second Sunday in May for the observance. Several hundred policemen and firemen arose early this morning to march to mass at St Patrick's Church, Tenth and G streets, to receive holy communion in a tribute to their mothers. After the 7:30 a.m. mass, celebrated by Bishop McNamara, the members of the Policemen and Firemen's Catholic Association marched behind their 60-plece band to the Willard Hotel for a breakfast, at which Sen- ator O'Mahoney of Wyoming was the chief speaker. From every section of the country members of the National Chapter of War Mothers of America will gather at 2 pm. at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier to mourn their sons who never returned from France. A parade of colors will open the ceremonies, and Capt. Edward A. Duft will pronounce the invocation. Mrs, Howard Boone, national presi- dent, will preside. Representative Joe Starnes of Alabama will make the principal address. The United States Marine Band will play. The Girl Reserves of the Young Women's Christian Association, Sev- enteenth and K streets, will hold a ceremonial tea 3 to 4:30 p.m. in honor of their mothers. The Curley Club will celebrate its fifteenth anniversary with an elaborate Mother’s day entertainment at 8:30 pm. in the Gonzaga College Audito- rium, North Capitol near I street. Rev. Laurence J. Kelly, rector of St. Aloysius Church, will deliver the ad- dress of welcome. Miss Mary L. Mc- Gee, foundress of the Curley Club; Rev. Francis J. Kelly, spiritual director of the club and assistant at St. Patrick’s, and Roland J. Hyland, president of . the club, also will talk. Evening services at the Waugh M. E. Church, Third and A streets north- east, will be given over entirely to mothers. A mother will preach the sermon and mothers will usher. service begins at 8 p.m. Special Mother's day exercises also ‘were scheduled at the Opportunity House, 915 New Jersey avenue, for 4:30 this afternoon. Jennings Randolph of West Virginia was listed as the guest speaker. The Heaith Department took advan- tage of the celebration to launch a campaign for improved pre-natal care of expectant mothers, whose mortality rate of 6.38 per 1,000 of live births here exceeds considerably the rate of the | country as a whole. Memorial Announced. Mrs. Minnie Bunker Ross found in the celebration an opportunity to an- nounce the establishment here of a National Mothers’ Memorial, dedicated to teaching young women how to be | good wives and mothers. This non-profit organization, which Is operative in 200 other cities, will have its headquarters in Wesley Hall, 1703 K street. “Women should strive to express the maxingum beauty at minimum cost in house planning,” Mrs. Ross said, “whether in a forest camp or in a lavish manor house.” She out- lined these virtues as those which a | wife should strive to possess: Honesty, integrity, industry, un- selfishness, justice, initiative, self- reliance, resourcefulness, willingness to share. She should be a leader in their community, an articulate being versed in the art of conversation. Such a woman, Mrs. Ross feels, would raise children free of tendencies to- ward delinquency. The Mother’s day schedule includes & service at the Social Service Cen- | ter of the Salvation Army at 11 am,, | and meeting at the Y. M. C. A, 1736 G street, arranged by the Filipino community of Washington at 8:30 p.m. Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, presi- dent of the Board of Education, will be the chief speaker. The policemen and firemen planned to meet in front of the Knights of Columbus Hall, 920 Tenth street, early this morning and march from there three blocks to St. Patrick's. Guests Asked to Breakfast. ‘They have invited a large number of guests to the breakfast, among them being Senator Duffy of Wiscon- sin; Judges Hitt, Curran, Casey and Ready; Commissioners Hazen, Allen and Sultan; Supt. of Police Brown and Fire Chief Schrom, Rev. Ignatius Smith of Catholic University and Rev. ‘Thomas Dade, chaplain of the society. Fireman Harry S. Bell, president of the organization, will act as master of ceremonies. The important aspect of Mother's day brought to the fore by the Health Department was made the subject of o statement by Dr. George C. Ruh- land, District health officer, who said: “Up to the present too little at- tention had been afforded the woman who 15 in the prospective stage of motherhood. The observance of Mother's day, therefore, should have s more liberal interpretation. The public generally is rapidly adopting such views, with the idea of preserv- ing the life of the young mother. “At this time let us augment the meaning of Mother's day. Let us make every day a Mother's day, as regards the welfare of childbearing end prospective mothers. Let us make motherhood safe through good and complete maternity care, and place Washington where it belongs- The : Representative | homage. AIR CRASH VICTIM WELL KNOWN HERE Lieut. Comdr. Gillon, Killed Off Hawaii, Served With Hydro- graphic Office. Lieut. Comdr. John Prancis Gillon, who lost his life in the crash of a | plane on Friday off the Hawaiian Is- lands while attached to the aircraft carrier Saratoga during the war games was well known in Wash- ington. From July 1, 1932, to June 1, 1935, he was on duty in the Hydrographic Office of the Navy Department, in charge of the Division of Aerial Navigation. The body of Lieut. Comdr. Gillon, as well as that of his pas- | senger in the plane, Radioman Glenn M. Beal, has not been recovered. Capt. William F. Halsey, commanding the Saratoga, advised the Navy De- partment yesterday that the plane sank immediately after the crash. The officer is survived by his widow, Mrs. Eileen C. Gillon of Coronado, Calif., while the enlisted man is sur- vived by his widow, Mrs. Noma Lee Beal of San Diego, Calif. Born in Taunton, Mass., September 21, 1896, Lieut. Comdr. Gillon was ap- pointed to the Naval Academy in 1916 and he later qualified for duty in sub- marines. Following his qualifying as a naval aviator, he served in the air- craft squadrons of the scouting force. He served at Annapolis, Md., at the Naval Academy from 1928 to 1930. Then he was attached to the aircraft squadron of the cruiser U. S. S. Mar- blehead and subsequently was with the squadron of the U. S. S. Trenton. Lieut. Comdr. Gillon left Washing- ton in June, 1935, when he was or- dered to Scouting Squadron 2, and last June he was given command of that squadron. HOME 47 YEARS OLD Methodist Aged Institution to Hold Tea Wednesday. The forty-seventh anniversary of the founding of the Methodist Home for the Aged will be observed by the Board of Managers of the institution with a tea and shower Wednesday from 3 to 10 p.m. at the home, 4901 Connecticut avenue. A program of music and readings will be held at 8 p.m. under direction of Mrs. Ralph Woife and Mrs. Ralph ‘Wilson. Mrs. J. C. Mulford is general chairman of arrangements. Others aiding in plans are iMrs. C. A. Lind- say, Mrs. Alfred Falconer, Mrs. H. W. Kitzmiller, Mrs. Fred Cawson, Mrs. W. E. Waite, Mrs. Ivan Riley, Mrs. Howell Bartle, Mrs. Robert Parker and members of the Methodist Min- isters Wives' Association. | Lieut. Comdr. Gillon. Solemn exercises this afternoon at Notre Dame Academy here will mark the closing of an international novena in honor of Blessed Julie Billiart, foundress of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, whose cause for canoniza- tion is under consideration. The no- vena is being observed by alumnae and students of all schools, academies and colleges conducted by the order. St. Aloysius Church, North Capitol and I streets, will be the scene of bene- diction just before the closing of the novena at 4 pm. in the Notre Dame Academy auditorium next door. The student body of the academy will pre~ sent tableaux of the life of Blessed Julie, after which tea will be served by members of the alumnae. Tree 12,000 Years 01d. A macrozamia tree in Queensland, Australia, estimated to be more than 12,000 years old, is believed the oldest living thing on earth. ADVERTISEME] foremost in the protection of pro- spective mothers to the real glorifi- eation of motherhood and Mother's day.” NEW ROAD BEGUN Link Being Built Between Alex- andria Pike and Bethel Route. ‘WARRENTON, Va, May 8 (Spe- cial).—The State Highway Depart- ment has begun construction on the new road between the Alexandria pike and Bethel road, completing the de- tour of Lee Highway north of War- renton. The other link from Bethel med to Waterloo road already is finished and in use. Convict labor is being used on the « project which is expected to take sev- eral months to finish. o Long-distance telephone service is| being extended throughout China, ' Nervous ~ Indigestion | Causes Much Stomach Distress Nervous indigestion is elays digestion, re- which or d sulting in the formation o léve 'uc?zn“:',o of llB T!all lllln'el&n mach upward aga e ing lightning fabs of pain i P pitation or lificult "0 the stomach. when empty, but are relieved by eating, Ordinary stomach medicines give little or no help because they do not reach the source of this trouble. If you want genuine, lasting relief, take Baalmann's Gas 'Tablets which are compounded especially for nervous in- digestion and all 1 | excess gas in stomach and boi & condition wels. The very first dose should convince you of their merit. Guaranteed harmless. | | Ask for Baalmann's Gas Tablets at any | wood drug store. “The American Mother of 1937,” Mrs. Carl R. Gray of Omaha, who was chosen to represent mothers in today's Mary Towles Sasseen, teacher, of Henderson, Ky., who organized first Mother’s day, 50 years ago. This mother mothers President. election. realized th in _November, 1932, They are shown a e ambition of all American when her son was elected t Hyde Park, shortly after his One of the oldest moth- ers in America, Mrs. Mary N. Rice, 105, spending the day quietly at her home in Memphis. to the needs of an 82-year-old mother in her apartment at 1320 Twelfth street. EXTOLS WOMEN OF . B.1 AGENTS Hoover Says Courage and Anxiety Make Them In- conspicuous Heroines. Wives and mothers of special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigae tion were described by J. Edgar Hooe ver yesterday as the “inconspicuous, unsung heroinces” of the war on crime. Such women possibly need more courage, the F. B. I. director sug= gested, than their sons and husbands, must have to face gangsters' bullets, “The mental torture which these women endure when their loved ones are away is beyond the comprehension of the detached lay masculine mind,” he said. “The horrible waiting for the ring of the telephone, the anguish when it does sound, can be known only by themselves. I cannot pay too high tribute to these women, to their braves ness and to the manner in which, though their husbands be shot down, they remain essentially and spiritually women of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, bearing their grief withe out bitterness.” To provide a measure of security for “the women of the F. B. I.,” 634 special agents and agent-accountants |in the investigative unit have estab- A visiting nuyse ministers CALIFORNIANS TO MEET Representative Tolan Host Democratic Club Tomorrow. Representative Tolan of California will be host to the California Demo- cratic Club in his office at the New House Office Building at the club’s monthly meeting tomorrow at 8 p.m. Among those who will speak are Malcolm McConihe, national commit- teeman for the District; Mrs. Evelyn C. Condon, president of the Demo- cratic Women’s National Council; C. T. Ramsey, president of the Associa- tion of Unclassified Federal Employes; Arthur Clarendon Smith, president of the District Democratic League, and John J. Crim, national legislative chairman of the Army and Navy Union. Camp Applications to Begin. Applications of 300 boys and girls planning to attend the Jewish Com- munity Center Camp at Chopawamsic, near Dumphries, Va., July 1, will begin at noon today at the Jewish Com- munity Center. Applications will be taken today until 2:30 p.m., Monday from 9 a.m. to noon and from 7 to 9 pm. and Tuesday from 9 am. until noon. PONTIAC® 15'A DAY to MERCHANTS BACK DISPLAY CLUB WORK Benefits of Membership in Asso- ciation Are Cited by Mark Lansburgh. Indorsement of the aims and pur- poses of the National Capital Display Club has been expressed by a group of Washington retail merchants who attended a luncheon meeting spon- | sored by the club PFriday at the May- flower Hotel. Benefits to be gained through mem- bership in the International Associa- tion of Display Men were emphasized by Mark Lansburgh, vice president of Lansburgh & Bros., who pointed out that affiliation with the display or- ganization would enable the local merchants to obtain “advanced infor- mation” through direct mailing facili- ties. Lansburgh's talk opened a drive to get each retail merchant in the District to pay the membership fee in the I. A. D. M. for display mana- gers and their assistants. Curtis Hodges, executive director of the Greater National Capital Com- mittee of the Board of Trade, gave assurance that his office would co- oNLY operate fully and arrange for hous- ing facilities and other details inci- dent to a display men's convention. I0TA SIGMA i’! RITES National Honorary Chapter In- stalle dat G. W. U. Iota Sigma Pi, national honorary chemical sorority, installed Polonium Chapter of George Washington Uni- versity last night at the Little Tea House, Arlington, Va. The local chap- ter, organized in 1923 as Chi Sigma Gamma, was founded by Miss Marie O'Dea, who was given an honorary membership in new Polonium Chapter. The installing officers were Dr. Vera Patterson and Mrs. Esther Daniel. Miss Elizabeth Hewston is presi- dent of the local chapter. Pledges are Miss Frances Hyslop, Mrs. Marian Kies, Miss Marie E. Krafft, Miss Jean McGregor and Miss Elizabeth Mid- dleton. “Dead” Woman Revived. 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