Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1937, Page 11

HORSEMAN IS LOST IN STORM AT SEA Albert Graham Ober, Jr., of Baltimore Dies in Coast Gale. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, May 15.—A two-day rain- storm blew out to sea tonight, after | destroying life and property offshore | and sending New England streams to- | ward flood crests. | Clearing skies quieted flood fears in Massachusetts, Vermont and New | Hampshire, as rain-drenched moun- | tain slopes drained into the Connec- | ticut, Merrimack, Housatonic, Win- ooski and tributary rivers. | Albert Graham Ober, jr, member of a prominent Baltimore family, was pitched into the sea and lost 10 miles off Block Island. R. I, when the yacht, Flying Cloud of Baltimore, lurched in a heavy sea. Donald H. Sherwood, owner of the eraft, reported the accident when the yacht made Newport, R. I, on its trip from Fairhaven, Mass, to Gibsons Island, New York. The three-masted Canadian schoon- er, Minas King, which went aground near Quoddy Head, Me.. last night, was towed to State anchoraze in the nearby Johnsons Bay late today by the Coast Guard patrol boat AD-58 | and a commercial vessel. Off Marblehead, the big class J | racing sloop ranger, was dismasted 8s 1t was being towed from Bath, | Me., to Newport., R. I, where it had | planned to start working out Monday for America’s Cup competition, About 100 homes in Keene, N. H,, were cut off from electric power. | Three and a half feet of water cov- ered Highway 302 above the flood-con. trol dam at East Barre, Vt. and traf- fic was detoured The Connecticut River was rising at the rate of 2 inches an hour. | to obtain a divorce. Victim Was Horseman. | BALTIMORE, May 15 () .—Albert Graham Ober, jr. 49, lost overboard from the sloop Flying Cloud near Block Island today, was one of Mary- land’s leading gentleman jockeys and & member of a socially prominent family here. | Ober rode mounts in almost all of the State's important steeplechases and in 1928 went to England to ride Billy Barton in the Grand National at Aintree. Technicalities prevented him from riding, however. Graduated from Princeton in 1909, Ober was a member of the Maryland Hunt Cup Committee, the Elkridge | Hounds, the Baltimore Club, and the Merchants’ Club. Through his riding activities he was widely known in Virginia hunting circles. He also was | an ardent yachtsman, Ober was a widower. He is survived by his brother, Frank Ober, an attor- | ney here, and two sisters, Miss Kath- erine Ober of New York City, and Mrs. Grace O. Palmer of Baltimore. In addition to Owner Donald Sher- wood of Baltimore, aboard the Flying Cloud on its trip South from Fal- mouth, Mass., Winter quarters to Gib- son Island near here, were Jack Talia- ferro and C. Ellis Short, both of | Baltimore: Charles Williams of Gib- | son Island, and L. Corrin Strong of Washington. | D. C. Man Aboard Yacht. L. Corrin Strong, 2712 %hirty-sec- ond street, president of the Hattie M. Strong Foundation, who was aboard the Sherwood yacht Flying Cloud | when Albert Graham Ober, jr., of Bal- | timore, was pitched overboard by a | sudden lurch of the craft, had been on a visit in Massachusetts along with | his wife since Sunday, it was learned | from his home last night. Mrs. Strong 4s to return by automobile. LIFE INSURANCE WEEK TOPIC OF ADDRESSES Assistant Secretary of Commerce Draper and George L. Hunt | to Speak. Assistant Secretary vice president of the New Life Insurance Co. and chairman of Life Insurance week, will | speak at 1:45 p.m. tomorrow in the Commerce Department auditorium on the inauguration of Life Insurance week in the District. The program also will include a pre- view of the motion picture, “Make Way for Tomorrow,” adapted from Josephine Lawrence’s novel, “The Years Are So Long.” During Life Insurance week, which will last through Saturday, the division of commercial laws of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com- merce is holding an exhibition of industrial and graphic arts in the life insurance field in Room 3224, Commerce Building. The exhibit is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. THE SUNDAY TORCH CLUBS NAME DR. WOODS HEAD |D. C. Man Elected President of International Association of Professional Men. Dr. George B. Woods of 4331 Ca- thedral avenue, dean of the College of Liberal Arts of American University, was elected president of the Interna- tional Association of Torch Clubs, Inc., for Professional Men, at the annual Lost at Sea | cided to let the divorce parade go by. | to get married (no license delay) and | not be allowed in this State. | the law, attempts have been made to | again. | marital complications arise when he . | Charles J. Demas, | | william Loomis, Emmanuel Killis and | of Commerce Steve Demas. Ernest G. Draper and George L. Hunt, Will be led by the post commander, | England | George Contemanolis. national | — ALBERT G. OBER, JR. —Copyright, A. P. Photo. CAROLINA RETAINS BAN ON DIVORCES New Move to Amend State Constitution Fails in Legislature. B the Assoctated Press. COLUMBIA, S. C, May 15.—The State of South Carolina again has de- For at least another year the Pal- metto State will be one of the easiest laces in the United States in which the only place where it is impossible The State’s constitution of 1895 in article 17, section 3, reads: “Divorces from the bonds of matrimony shall “Since that sentence was voted into remove it. The latest failed this week when the House of Representatives continued until the next legislative ses- sion a bill to submit to popular vote a constitutional amendment permitting divorce. South Cirolina’s unique matrimonial situation presents a puzzle. A survey today disclosed: A couple may gain a legal separation and live apart as they please, so long as they do not attempt to remarry. Citizens of another State, granted a divorce by that State, may become citizens of South Carolina and marry But a citizen of South Carolina who treks across the State line for a divorce is liable to plenty of “investigation and scrutiny” by the courts should returns. GREEK VETERANSTERE TO HONOR WAR DEAD | New York Delegation to Visit Tomb and Grave of Soldier- Immigrant. New York World War veterans of | Greek extraction will visit Washing- | ton today to conduct memorial serv- | ices at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and at the grave of George Diiboy, Greek immigrant who died in the United States service. The visitors, members of Geoirge Dilboy Post, American Legion, will |Arrive in Washington this morning and will attend services in St Sophne‘ | Church, Eighth and L streets, at 11:30. | | The services at the Tomb of the Un- i known Soldier will be held at 2:30 | !p.m. and will be followed by services at the grave of Dilboy. { Local arrangements are in char551 of a Washington committee, headed by , Soterios Nicholson, chairman, and | composed of George Pistolas, Dr.| Harry J. Photis, The New York group | On Diamonds. Watches, Jewelry. Guns, Camerasy M ments, ete. Unredeemed tes Possitle Take Any 1th and Po. Ave. STAR, WASHINGTO! convention at Rochester, N. Y., ac- cording to word received here last night. Dr. Woods has been prominent in the Washington Torch Club for years, has served as its president and during | the past year has been vice president of the International Association. The list of new officers of the Wash- ington Club, elected at a recent meet- ing in the Raleigh Hotel, was an- nounced as follows: John Ihlder, ex- ecutive secretary of the Alley Dwelling Authority, president; Dr. M. C. Merrill, director of the Bureau of Information, Department of Agriculture, vice presi- D. C, dent; Herbert L. Willett, jr., director of the Community Chest, secretary-treas- urer, and these three new directors: Ihlder, Dr. Merrill and Dr. George E. B. Trible. As president, Ihlder suc- ceeds Watson Davis, editor of Science | Service, Inc. | The Torch Club is not a luncheon or public service club, according to an explanation of its ideals, but “it does promote free interchange of opin- fon among its members on subjects, civic, religious, philosophic, scientific, economic and artistic, and by this comparison of views it stimulates a MAY 16, 1937—PART ONE broader growth of thought and cul ture.” ACADEMY OF MEDICINE TO HEAR SIR HENRY DALE Lecture by Eminent British Physiologist Tuesday Will Be Open to Public. 8ir Henry Dale, director of the Na- tional Institute of Medical Research in London, and 1936 Nobel prize win- | invited, is the first to be given under | | auspices of the newly formed Academy ner in biology, will lecture before the JULIUS LANSBURGH FURNITURE CWhere Most Smart People Shop” 4-Pc. 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