Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1937, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. Officers of W.C. T. U. MONDAY, MAY 31, 1937. G.F.BAKER'SBODY AWAITS TRANSFER Family to Accompany Dead Financier to New York, via San Francisco. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, May 31.—The body of George Fisher Baker, leader of Ameri- T s can finance, lay on the yacht Viking | & 4 J today, his death marked by the drama he shunned during life. The 59-year-old banker, titular head of the First National Bank of New York, died yesterday morning from complications of peritonitis. He was stricken while on his first vacation since his marriage 30 years ago. Mrs. Baker, present when he died, will take the body to San Francisco on the Matson liner Lurline, which ‘New Summer Store Hours, effective e GIREETS tomorrow, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Men’s Week is our particular way of completely presenting a picture of Lans- burgh’s Celebrated Men’s Departments. Many items for Men’s Week are specially priced and every advertised item is faithfully representative of our constantly up-to-the-minute stocks at up-to-the-minute prices! We're here to turn out more well-dressed men than ever before! We're here to send you out to the office, to the shore or country in the correct clothes at the correct prices! We're here with Lansburgh’s Men’s Week! Lansburgh’s—Men's Departments—Street Store. Mrs. Earle Wilfley. Mrs. Ida Ramsey. Dr. Ella A. Boole. Mrs. Wilfley is general chairman of arrangements for the world convention of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, which holds its sizteenth triennial beginning Thursday at Con- stitution Hall. Dr. Boole, president of the world group, will pre= sails Saturday. From there it will be taken to New York in a private rail- road car. Two daughters, en route from the mainland on the Lurline, will accompany the widow. ‘The spotlight, which Baker avoided 4hile directing the fortunes of his Inherited financial empire, attended his fatal illness. Emergency Operation. An emergency appendectomy, per- Mormed at sea last Tuesday by his personal physician and one hafled from a passing ship: a speedy 300- mile trip to reach this port and a 5.500-mile airline dash by Mrs. Baker to reach her husband’s side were some of the details which lifted the banker's death out of the obscurity he would have desired. Baker rallied until Saturday, when his _condition became alarming. Dr. | J. J. Judd gave the banker a blood | transfusion that evening and oxygen | and other stimulants were adminis- tered through the night. But all ef- forts failed and he died at 6:15 am. Bunday (11:45 a.m., Eastern standard time). Baker's fortune had been estimated | 8t from $150,000,000 to half a billion. In 1931 his father, George F. Baker, sr., died and left his son at the head ©f the financial institution. He held directorates in many cor- Yorations, but resigned them in 1936 ! without explanation. It was reported | e was in poor health then. In addition to the widow and daugh- fers, Florence T. and Edith B, he is! ‘survived by two sons, George F. and Grenville K. Baker. The body remained in the owner’s | state room aboard the yacht at the Fequest of Mrs, Baker. The craft’s flag was at half mast. One of the crew paused a moment | %o pay a tribute to his late master, “He was & good guy,” he said. — RETIREMENT AT 70 , URGED FOR PASTORS Presbyterian Assembly Gets Pro- posal to Make It Com- ' pulsory. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 31.—Com- Pulsory retirement of ministers and executives in the Presbyterian Church in the United States at the age of 70 ‘was recommended today to its General Assembly. The proposal, designed to inject “new blood” and stimulate new leadership, came from the Special Commission of Nine. It would require a constitutional change and ratification by a majority of the church's 276 Presbyteries. Voluntary retirement at 65 is now permitted. Most pastors, with few ex- ceptions, retire on pensions. | Some church officials said the com- pulsory retirement plan is in line with | the general policy of business and in- | dustry and would encourage the younger ministers by making available executive positions and important Jpastorates. The church has approximately 9,000 nisters, about 7,000 of whom are tors, —_ . A.F.L. ~(Continued From Firs: Page) sutomotive industry and we will send more organizers to Detroit in the near future” Dillon said. “We will | form federal locals directly chartered by the A. F. L. Executive Council | wherever working people want the | A F. L. “Because of our interest in the Welfare of the workers, we will try to do the job in & practical and con- Btructive way and won't be stampeded by the U. A. W. A. officials or scared | by Henry Ford.” | U. A. W. A. leaders, in denouncing Dillon, point out that the union's membership of 300,000—second larg- est in the C. I. O.—grew from only 40,000 when Dillon relinquished his appointive job as president under the A. F. L. probationary charter. . Some observers here expect the A F. L. to align itself with independ- ent unions formed in General Motors and Chrysler plants since the U. A, W. A. won contracts there, while others think it may concentrate on automobile parts plants, U. A. W. A. members plan to dis- tribute their newspaper at the Rouge plant, probably Wednesday or Thurs- day, as part of their campaign to or- ganize the 89,300 Pord workers there. None would say, however, whether they expect any more physical combat like that of last week in which U. A. W. A. leaders were beaten and thrown ©ff Ford property. Body Is Identified. BAN DIEGO, Calif., May 31 (#).— Arthur Grabowskii, 61, who died of pneumonia in a small room here Thursday, was identified by his widow today as a former engineer who was made & count by Czar Nicholas for his success in modernizing Siberian gold | mining. AUTO TROUBLE? side, and Mrs. Ramsey, president will be hostess for the District. WRDSWCT.L. | HEAD UETOAY Dr. Boole to Direct Plans for Opening of Sixteenth Tri- ennial Session, Dr. Ella A. Boole of Brooklyn, N. Y., world president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, was scheduled to arrive here late today to assume direction of plans for open- ing the sixteenth triennial world con- vention of the W. C. T. U. Thursday. Dr. Boole will meet the other gen- eral officers of the organization to- morrow. Two business sessions of the Executive Committee Wednesday will complete preparations for the con- vention opening. Schedule Heavy. A heavy schedule of pre-convention activities will begin tonight, when a three-day conference on alcohol edu- cation opens at the Washington Ho- tel. Miss Bertha Rachel Palmer, na- tional W. C. T. U. director of alcohol education, will lead conference dis- cussion of the latest methods of pre- senting scientific facts regarding the effects of alcohol as a beverage and as a#actor in industry. The confer- ence schedule calls for sessions at 7:30 tonight, 9:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. to- morrow and*9:30 a.m. Wednesday. Mrs. Anna Brattstrom of Sweden, of the Washington W.C. T. U., rivals will participate in the“pre-con- vention activities. Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith of Evans- ton, 1IN, national W. C. T. U. presi- dent and vice president of the world organization, has been in Washington several days in her capacit: as official hostess for the convention. Dr. Boole was being accompanied here by the honorary world W. C. T. U. secre- tary, Miss Agnes E. Slack, of London, England. POLICE GIVEN LETTERS OF MISSING NURSE Albuquerque Officers to Study Notes Written to Virginian Found Dead. BY the Assocliated Press. STRASBURG, Va., May 31 —Letters written to a Strasburg suitor by Miss Martha Pifer, nurse missing from the United States Indian Sanatorium, Al- buquerque, N. Mex., will be forwarded to Albuquerque authorities for exam- ination, Police Chief R. L. Keller sald last night. Keller said that the letters ad- dressed to Cornelius Clougherty, close friend of Miss Pifer, were requested by Albuquerque officers after the rail- way engineer's body was found here yesterday. Clougherty's mother sald he had been brooding since Miss Pifer disap- peared from the saratorium 15 days ago and had expressed a desire to go to New Mexico and aid in the search. She also said he had re-read letters world W. C. T. U. superintendent of the department of evangelism, and Mrs. Josephine M. Buhl of Tulsa, Okla., national director of evangelistic work, will lead an international wor- ship service at 2:30 pm. Wednesday in Calvary Baptist Church. ‘Young people’s church groups of the city are co-operating in preparation for & young people’s rally to be held at the First Congregational Church, Tenth and G streets, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. The services will be directed by Miss Rosamund Duff of Toronto, Canada, world W. C. T. U. youth's secretary, and Miss Helen L. Byrnes, Evanston, IIL, national general secretary of the Youth's Temperance Council. 4,000 Attendance Expected. More than 4,000 delegates from all sections of the United States and from 37 foreign countries, are expected to attend the convention. 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