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W.C.T.U.TOOPEN CONVENTION HERE Alcohol Education Subject of Preliminary Session Tomorrow. A preliminary conference on alco- Nol education, beginning tomorrow and continuing through Wednesday, will inaugurate the sixteenth triennial convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, which is expected to bring 4,000 visitors and delegates to Washington for the meeting, to be held from June 3 through June 8. ‘The preliminary conference is to be conducted by Miss Bertha Rachel Palmer of Evanston, Ill, national di- rector of the organization's Depart- ment of Alcohol Education. Discussions in this three-day con- ference, to be held at the Washington Hotel, will deal with the scientific facts regarding the effects of alcohol, both as a beverage and as a factor in | industry. Delegates to the convention will come from 32 countries, excluding a representative from Italy. “Our women aren't even allowed to wear their white ribbons over there at present,” said Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, also of Evanston, who, as head | of the national W. C. T. U, is here to welcome the incoming delegates. Germany Represented. Frau Anna Klara Fischer, president of the German W. C. T. U., got per- mission to attend the conference here barely in time to catch a boat. *‘Hitler recognizes the W. C. T. U.'s ¥alue, however,” Mrs. Smith said. *When the Olympics were held there, he placed all woman athletes in Frau Fischer's charge. He didn’'t want any training rules broken. “But the temperance question isn't one which belongs to the W. C. T, U. or & bunch of supreme fanatics, or even to the United States,” Mrs. Smith stated. “It is a world problem.” A primary purpose of the prelimi- nary conference will be to. inform those attending of the results of alco- hol on the human body, with com- parisons of the per capita amount of alcohol consumed in the United States during and after repeal of the eight- eenth amendment. Scientific Aspects. Describing the newer approach to alcohol education, Miss Palmer said: “This whole subject has been dealt with in the past in too much of a negative fashion, which, of course, is unpopular. Our new approach is to so emphasize its interesting and scientific aspects that the people will be able to reach their own conclusion. We feel nothing so arrests any audi- ence as visible experiments, on the basis of which those who are studying the subject can deduce their own konclusions.” Delegates to the convention will eanvass international progress toward temperance on varied fronts. United Btates leaders will discuss national efforts for scientific temperance in- struction. Chinese delegates will re- view their current battle against begging. From Egypt will come news of a campaign against opium. Irish delegate will report world anti- gambling progress. 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By Radio to the Star. ROME, May 29.—At last I find myself in the city made eternal be- cause a Galilean fisherman came to die here. The very first thing I did on arriving was to go immediately to the tomb of that fisherman. St. | Peter, the first vicar of Christ, whose successor, Pius XI, T made this jour- ney to see. Our party, following & Catholic custom, knelt before the tomb and recited the creed, and then | arising, the first sight to greet my | eves was the golden inscription on the | dome, bearing the words of the Savior to Peter, over 1,900 years ago: “Thou | art Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church.” | I shall venture no description of St. Peter’s, for my style of writing is | quite unequal to that task. It is something you must see to appreciate, Within 18 hours after my arrival in Rome it was my happy privilege to be | received in private audience with the Holy Father. I have never before been at loss for anything to say during my long public life. I have been inter- viewed and have given interviews to the great and near great. but today was the first time I was ever speech- less in the presence of any one. I was particularly at a loss in view of the | fact that the sole and only reason for my trip to Europe was to receive the blessing of the Holy Father. Since I had no other purpose, it was only natural for the Holy Father to do most of the talking. greatly to hear him speak so well and so affectionately of America, and I was indeed embarrassed by the tribute he paid me as “a loyal son of the church.” He then extended to Mrs. Smith and me and our children and grandchildren his blessing as though each were present in person. I pre- sented him with a gold replica of the Empire State Building, which drew from him the comment that he had never been in any structure higher than the Eiffel Tower. Naturally, I | had to give him all the dimensions of the Empire State, in which he was really deeply interested. Vigorous for Age. From press reports I have been reading I was led to believe that the holy father was in such poor physical conditoin that he carried on his duties with the greatest of difficulties. As a matter of fact, in my experience I | have met few men of his age who were as vigorous as he, and I have met many much younger that were neither physically nor mentally as alert. During the visit he spoke with vigor and when the occasion demanded it, after inspecting the replica I gave him, he arose from his chair at his desk and walked the full length of a large room to take from a table the presents he had set aside for Mrs. Smith and myself. Among these gifts were & Good Shepherd medal for both of us, a pearl rosary and a relic of | the little flower for Mrs. Smith and a beautiful pastel of himself in silver frame, inscribed “toto corde bene- (blessing with my whole heart). After this private audience I at- tended the public reception at which there were over 200 young married couples, a few distinguished families from India, some Germans and French and Irish and many other nationali- ties. The holy father spoke to them in three languages, German, French and Italian. Once again during the audience he referred to me as a representative of the American people, who were 30 very dear to his heart. What struck me particularly was the keenness of his mind. Some one in the audience at one point exclaimed, “a word to a Spaniard!” Quick as a flash the holy father answered: “There is no one Spaniard nor group of Spaniards. There is only Spain, and I love Spain with all my heart and pray that all who dwell there may have the peace which only our Lord can bring.” Many Nationalities. As he spoke I glanced about the room at the dozen or more nationali- ties represented. This thoughi came to me. On the outside nation was divided against nation and people against people, whereas here before this great man in white they all were one in mind and in heart. Certainly, if the nations of the world are ever to be drawn together in peace and concord, it must be by and through scme one who is outsid- the nations themselves, just as & man who packs & bag must be outside of the bag. To me there was no escaping the fact that if civilization is to have one spokesman who will talk for the peace of the world and for the good of all, it must be the man who in this very audience drew together the only real League of Nations that can be made to work. In order to escape the heat of Rome the holy father has left the Vatican for the Sum- mer and is now about 15 miles out- ] Says Holy Fath.r Is Best Qualified to Bring Nations of World Together in Peace and Concord. | the two. | “father,” and he called me “son.” WOMAN It pleased me | side of Rome in what is called Castel Gandolfo. As our car drew closer to the castle we passed through narrow and wind- | ing streets of what was a village of the poor. Suddenly the castle emerged, without the least detachment from | the village. I had heard and read much about castles, and I expected | this to be one of those great elaborate | affairs, the like of which one sees in pictures, but his home was to me | anything but a real castle, I would | describe it as a comfortable country ! home, typical of the Italian country- | side. The houses of the village were | hardly distinguishable from his own, | for they all seemed to huddle to-| gether as if there were in fac. as in spirit but little difference between As I made my way down from that village built on a hill I could not help but think that Gon- dolfo was a symbol of all that he stands for; a humble man of God, living in the middle of a humble peas antry from which he took his origin. I have always been proud of being a Catholic. I was never prouder than I was today, when I could call him | (Copyright, 1937.) , 50, SLAIN; CHAUFFEUR IS HELD Feeling High in Atlanta—Colored Suspect Is Guarded Closely. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, May 29.—Mrs. Birdie Fluker, 50, was found beaten to death in her burning home today, and | two hours later police arrested her colored chauffeur, Milton Jackson, for questioning. Police Lieut. M. B. Petty and Pa- trolman U. G. Oakes sighted the chauffeur in his employer’s new motor car on a downtown street and crowd- ed him to the curb. Petty said the 26-year-old Jack- son “was so intoxicated” officers had difficulty in questioning him, but that he maintained he had had the car out “all day.” Officers said there were blood stains on his trousers and underclothing. Taking cognizance of aroused feel- ing among the victim's neighbors in suburban Buckhead, Acting Police Chief A. J. Holcombe ordered Jack- fon transferred from the city jail to Fulton Tower, the county stockade. Firemen found the charred and beaten body of Mrs. Fluker crammed into the kitchen pantry of the newly purchased home when they answered an alarm sent in by a neighbor late today. FIVE ARE CONVICTED IN ELECTION FRAUD Kansas City Total Now Is 41. Three Women Turn U. S. Witnesses. By the Assoclated Press. KANSAS CITY, May 29.—A Federal Jjury today convicted five men of con- spiring to steal votes -in the November 3 election, increasing to 41 the num- ber of men and women found guilty in the Government's ballot purge here. The convictions kept intact the Government record of no acquittals in eight trials. One other defendant pleaded guilty, 11 pleaded no defense and three were ordered retried. All were election officials or parts work- ers. Convicted today were Frank Geier and James Callahan, Democratic judges; Mike Cummings and James Carter, Democratic workers, and Frank Gumminger, Democratic clerk. Three women Republican officials scheduled for trial with them pleaded no defense and turned Government (named the Department of Conserva- | legislation | and reservations and enforce the con- witnesses. ‘The trial produced testimony for the first time that “ghost votes” were cast, witnesses testifying that many names voted were registered from vacant lots and vacant houses. GOLDEN ELECTED Magicians’ Society Names D. C. Man President. Theodore T. Golden, Washington attorney, yesterday was elected presi- dent of the National Society of American Magicians at the group's ninth annual conference at Albany, N. Y. He is past president of Wash- ington Assembly, No. 23, of the society. Golden also is & member of the D. C. Bar Association and the Wash: DISPUTE INPERILS 1S, REORGANIZING Clash of Wallace and Ickes on Forestry Control Threatens Plan. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. ‘The controversy between two ad- ministration favorites in the cabinet— Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and Secretary of the Interior Ickes—over control of forest resources threatens to wreck the plans of President Roose- velt and congressional leaders for re- organization of the administrative branch of the Government at this session. Direct appeal to each member of Congress has been made by important | national organizations interested in this phase of reorganization, with the resuvlt that many members of Congress | are “set” against the proposed transfer | for the forest service from Agnculture‘ to the Interior Department, to be re- | tion. This issue in the minds of many Senators and Representatives is second only to the proposal to take the con- troller general and his pre-audit away from Congress and place it under the executive branch, with the legislative establishment given only a post-audit of expenditures, Either Tuesday or Wednesday the House Reorganization Committee is | to meet on its four-bill program, and the last of this week the Senate re- organization group is to meet on which Majority Leader Robinson will offer, he says, in a! single bill to carry out the President's recommendations. Urges Conservation Unit. Mr. Rosoevelt has advocated a con- servation department as one of 12 major departments in the now famous Brownlow report, setting forth the views of the President's Advisory Com- mittee, on which the Joint Congres- sional Committee on Government has been holding hearings for several months. This recommendation was made because conservation, the Presi- dent argued, ‘represents major purpose of our Government.” Such a department, it was explained, would “advise the President with re- gard to the protection and use of the natural resources of the Nation and the public domain; would administer the public lands, parks, territories servation laws with regard to public lands and mineral and water re- sources."” Secretary Ickes is endeavoring to bring into the proposed department all the plant and animal resources of the public lands. He contends forestry has nothing to do with agri- culture. In opposition to this, it is argued that such a course would “ren- der asunder the unity of the Govern- ment’s farm-forest land program.” Based on experience in this and foreign countries in dealing with re- sources of the soil, forestry was trans- ferred from the Interior Department to the Agriculture Department in 1905, by President Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt Talk Recalled, Members of Congress are asking how President Roosevelt can support Sec- retary Ickes in the present effort to wrest the national forests from Agri- culture when, in 1933, addressing a group of young Georgia farmers, he said “it must not be forgotten that trees are as important a crop as wheat, corn and other things grown.” Attention also has been directed to the fact the farms of America contain more acreage in trees than any crop, and that their care and preservation call for the application of scientific knowledge common to agriculture. D’ANNUNZIO REPORTED “PASSED THE CRISIS” Italian Poet and Patriot, Long Ill, Closely Watched by Physicians. Bs the Associated Press. GARDONE RIVIERA, Italy, May 29.—Gabriele D’Annunzio, noted poet, playwright, novelist and patriot, to- night was reported to have “passed the crisis” of an illness. The hero of the siege of Fiume has been confined to his bed since yes- terday in Vittoriale, his lake shore villa, suffering from what was called “disturbances of old age.” D'Annunzio was 74 years old March 12 He was guarded closely by physi- cians and intimates, but it was re- ported he had a troublesome sick spell yesterday. TERMITES Our Peliey Geod Work—Henest Information Satisfied Customers Free Inspection, Guaranteed Treatment. TERMITE CONTROL CO. 4 Washincton-ouned Company Natl. Pross B Nail. 2711 | ditioned plane came out of the Lock- Aok FLGHT OLTLIND BY MISS EXRRART Will Take Navigator Along to Help Dodge Bad Weather. . BY AMELIA EARNART. Special Dispatch to The Star. MIAMI, May 29.—For sll practical purposes, and disregarding Mr. Ein- stein, the world measures the same distance from west to east as from east to west on any given route. In the middle of March last, I started westward from Oakland, Oalif., on what was to be a round-the-world flight as near the Equator as possible. That attempt ended after a 2,400- mile trip across the Pacific with an accident at Honolulu. Now 70 days later my Electra is fit once more to fiy and she and I hope to cover 28,000 miles as originally planned, but head- ing into dawns instead of sunsets. There are several reasons for the change in direction, or, perhaps, one basic one on which all others hang, that is weather, Two months’ delay has seen sea- sons relentlessly progress. In some Pplaces progress has been with benefit to pllots, in others the reverse. Here rains begin, there they abate. In March, after much study, it seemed the advantage lay in passage to the West. At present there seems reason to go the other way round. For in- stance, the Caribbean and African areas will be much less favorable later than in early June, s0o we wish to reach them as promptly as possible. A week ago Thursday I left Oakland, returning to Burbank. This was my first flying in the ship since Honolulu. Friday afternoon we started East, “extras” in the crew being my husband and my mechanic “Bo” McKneeley. The leisurely shakedown flight included stops at Tucson and New Orleans, thence we cut across 400 miles of gulf, flying over Tampa and on to Miami. Here, for the last few days, thanks to generous co-oper- ation on the part of Pan-American Airways, expert technicians have been putting the plane in final shape. First “Trial” Flight. Before leaving Oakland I said this transcontinental trip would be a trial flight. It was just that. My recon- heed factory only two days before. With the weather hazards hanging over me, I wanted to consume as little time as possible in detailed testing In California. The first flight indi- | cated all was well. The ship behaved beautifully. However, often difficul- ties develop only after a number of hours in the air. After the 3,000 miles of flying from the coast had anything serious developed I should simply have gone back to the Lockheed factory for whatever further work was necessary. So much was written before and after the March 17 take-off at O land and following the Honolulu acci- dent, that I thought it would be a pleasant change just to slip away with- out comment. The extent of the pub- licity accompanying the first start was unsolicited, and doubtless more than the flight deserved, even if it had been successfu Incidentally, the career of one who indulges in any kind of flying off the beaten path is often complicated. For instance, if one gives out plans before- hand one is likely to be charged with publicity seeking by those who do not know how difficult it is to escape the competent gentlemen of the press. On the other hand, if one slips away, as I have generally tried to do, the slipper- away invites cat calls from those who earn their living writing and taking photographs, s0 I am hoping the pros and cons of the whole undertaking can wait until it is finally over. If I am successful the merits and demerits can be threshed out. If not, someone else will do what I have attempted and T'll pass the problem on to him—or her. To Take Along Navigator. To return to weather changes and effects. Not only has weather altered the direction of the flight, but it has brought an increase in personnel. Originally I planned to be alone ex- cept for & navigator on the Pacific, where objectives were small islands on a vast ocean. Now I am taking Capt. Noonan the whole distance to save time on occasion. There are many short cuts I can make with & navigator I should not attempt were I flying by landmarks and dead reckoning. Perhape by cut- ting corners I can beat some imminent unfavorable weather. Fred Noonan is a veteran Pan-American officer with & dozen Pacific air crossings behind him as well as ship and plane ex- perience in many parts of the world. In addition to & navigator I carry no other cargo than usual equipment, some spare parts and a few “covers” for philatelists. Following the acci- dent, these latter were held at Honolu- lu, now, with & cachet recording their Hawalian delay, they were brought back to California and are again starting on their way around the world, this time “clockwise.” A small- er package of “second take-off” covers has been added. I want to record my great gratitude to those who have made the project possible and who steadfastly stood by with encouragement and financial aid when the flight mised by inches end- ing entirely in the Honolulu mishap. In the forefront of those helpers are friends of Purdue University like J. K. Lilly, and others who ask to be nameless. I want them, and all others who approved the quaint desire of a pilot to pick up the pieces and try again, to feel no sense of responsibility as to the outcome. No one has urged me to try this flight. Those dearest to me, and closest to the project, would perhaps be happier if I aban- doned it. But they know I want to TYPEWRITERS Sold-Rented-Repaired "Dependable Service" OFFICE MACHINES 00. 321 New York Ave. N Nitional 5488 TAILOR-MADE AUTO SEAT COVER CO. 1809 14¢h € N.W. DR 1772 Publisher George Palmer Putnam holds a spool of wire for his famous flying wife, Amelia Earhart, as she prepares her plane at Miami for another at tempt to fly around the world. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. do it. The responsibility is exclusively my own. And happily they share my belfef it can and should be done. Also, I think they realize that the satisfaction of trying—so far as one can weigh such intangibles—is worth whatever price the trial may cost. So—weather permitting — shortly Fred Noonan and I hope to be off on the next leg of journey. I have no time schedule in mind. We'll move along as well as we can. And should weather, or whatever, delay us, at least I'll have a better chance to see something of this very interest- ing world at its waistline, and oppor- tunity to write about it. (Copyright, 1937.) . Earhari - fl?ontinued From First Page.) nence of the rainy season’s onset in | the Caribbean area and in Africa and | to her realization that it is wisest to | get this part of the flight over with as| quickly as possible since the hazards | involved would be greatly increased if she were to fly in the original East- West direction of her itinerary and | tackle these portions of the route last | instead of first. Flies First to San Juan. Her new schedule calls for an initial non-stop flight of 1,033 miles from Miami to San Juan, Puerto Rico. After an overnight stop there she will either fly 1,196 miles direct to Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana, and thence 1,200 miles to Fort Aleza, Brazl, making these hops on successive days if weather and other conditions permit, or follow | an alternate route via Caripito, Veneruela, Paramaribo and Para, Brazil, to Natal. The later city is Miss Earhart's hopping-off place for her 1,871-mile flight across the South Atlantic to Dakar in French West | Africa. From Dakar she will fly directly across the heart of Africa to Aden, on the Gulf of Persia, thence skirting the coast of Arabia to Karachi, India, unless weather is such in Africa that she and Noonan have to detour around the northern coast of the continent. In this event the “flying laboratory"” will intercept Imperial Airways Eng- land-India-Australia route farther West than Karachi and follow it in reverse direction along the course originally mapped out by Miss Earhart to Port Darwin, where the final, trans- Pacific phase of her flight begins. The first leg of this will be from the northermost tip of Australia to Lae, New Guinea, where Miss Earhart must take off with sufMicient fuel for the longest leg of her entire journey, a 2,556-mile flight to Howland Island. This is & tiny speck of land in the middle of the Pacific which Miss Earhart has been frank to say from the beginning she would have no chance of finding without the help of a trained aerial navigator. From Howland to Honolulu she faces a 1,900- mile flight with a somewhat larger objective, then the 2,410-mile home stretch across the unbroken ses to California. Official Starting Place, Miss Earhart said Oakland still is the official starting place for her round-the-world flight although she left there a week ago last Thursday and considerable pressure is being brought to bear on her here to make Miami the terminal of her journey since she could thus easily clip more than a week from whatever globe girdling time she sets from California to California. The ancient rivalry be- tween Florida and the latter State is 3aid to be playing an important role in this situation. All euipment and necessary supplies for the round-the-world flight, other than fuel, oil and possible engine re- Placement parts that may be needed en route and can be obtained at the “flying laboratory's” scheduled stops, were carefully stowed aboard the ship this evening by Miss Earhart, Capt. Noonan and the airwoman's husband, George Palmer Putnam, who accom- panied her here on the flight from California. They were assisted by Miss Earhart's trusted mechanic, Bo Mc- Kneeley, who also came with the Electra from California, and by a chanics and radio technicians placed at Miss Earhart's disposal when she arrived last Sunday to assist in final preparation for her flight. The air line's radio stations from here to Brazl will stand watch on the “flying laboratory” as it follows Pan-American’s regular route down through the West Indies and along the east coast of South America to Natal. corps of Pan-American Airways me- | YOUNGROOSEVELT AND FIANGEE ShY Can’t Avoid Publicity, but They Take Romance Seriously. By the Associated Press. WILMINGTON, Del, May 20— Right now Franklin Delano Roosevelt, jr., and Ethel du Pont wish their names were Smith and Jones. They're in love in the old-fashioned way. But they're having to live the life of two goldfish in a glass bowl. If they were just Franklin Smith and Ethel Jones they could hold hands, go shopping and whisper sweet nothings without the whole world knowing. But young Franklin's father is President, and young Ethel du Pont's family has corralled such a gosh-awful lot of millions. So this last month before they marry is proving half s love-idyl and half a very modern dodging of cameras, telephones and crowds. They both wish it could be othere wise. They're taking their marriage on June 30 very seriously. He wants to earn his own way, and she wants | to be an old-fashoined wife like her mother. They met like hundreds of other college youngsters: At a dance in New York four years ago. Well, young Franklin made up his mind quickly. This was the girl he | wanted. He stayed on the job. His name has been linked with no other girl. He was invited to her school dances in Simsbury, Conn. In the traditional manner true love's course didn't run smoothly. The boy’s father had his “New Deal” in full swing in Washington. The girl's family didn't like it. The elders | fought through the campaign, but the | youngsters kept on seeing each other. | Of course there were arguments be- hind closed doors. But the girl's father admitted, grinning, to curious Miss Earhart announced she would not attempt to use the code wireless set with which her plane was equipped when it took off from Oak- land but would depend entirely on voice broadcasts for her position to be sent at regular intervals on a day night frequency of 3.105. Her first night flight will be the hop across the South Atlantic to Africa. The only peyload carried by the “fiying laboratory” will be 6,000 souve- nir round-the-world flight covers, which were carried for the benefit of stamp collectors on the Oakland- Honolulu hop, and 2.000 ‘“second- attempt” covers, which have accumu- lated since March 17. The “first- attempt” covers, marked with a spe- cial cashet to explain their delay, were forwarded from Honolulu to California sometime ago in anticipa- tion of the present flight and were brought here with the later ones when Miss Earhart set out on her * flight to Florida. (Conyrighc, 19379 2,500-FOOT TOWER ASKED 8t. Louis Memorial Would Dwarf All Buildings Extant. ST. LOUIS, May 29 (£).—A tower to pierce the sky to an altitude of nearly half a mile, dwarfing all exist- ing structures in height, has been suggested for the Jefferson River Front Memorial here by Charles Evan Fowler, a New York engineer. idea with proponents of the proposal to convert the St. Louis downtown river front into a memorial to Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase. He has made a preliminary design for the tower, which would be 2.500 feet high. The famous Eiffel Tower of Paris is 948 feet high. and the Empire State Building in New York, 1,248 feet, Farley Visits Hospital. HOT SPRINGS, N. Mex.. May 29 (P)—Postmaster General James A. Farley visited Carrie Tingley Hospital for Crippled Children here today, but his scheduled dedication of the insti- tution was postponed indefinitely by State-wide flood conditions. frequency of 6.210 kilocycles and a| Fowler is in St. Louis to discuss his | with initial deposit as low as friends, “what can I do? He's such |a fine boy.” | Then the Du Ponts took their daugh- | ter to Europe. Maybe it was to see |if she knew her own mind. Young | Franklin decided to see how the other | half lives. He drove a truck for a | New Jersey yeast company. | When the Du Ponts returned in late Summer Franklin commandeered a plane and a Coast Guard cutter to land him on the boat outside quaran tine. The youngsters kept on going to dances in those protected Four Hun- dred homes, where the news never leaks out. But then Franklin took his lady to a boxing match in Phila- delphia, where a photographer tried to get their pictures. 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