Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1937, Page 17

PANDOLPY LEGH HEADSGHETUNT Former Oratorical Contest Director Will Superintend Drive in Suburbs. Randolph Leigh of McLean, Va. will head the Suburban Unit in the tenth anniversary campaign of the Community Chest this Fall. The unit eonsists of Montgomery and Prince Georges counties in Maryland and Fairfax and Arlington counties, to- gether with the City of Alexandria, in Virginia. Under this year's plan of campaign Yeigh will become a member of the Executive Campaign Committee, hold- - 1ing the same position as the chairman of any of the other units. He was elected to this position by the con- ference of suburban social welfare or- ganizations representing the four counties and Alexandria. Leigh is former director general of the National Oratorical Contest. A former newspaper publisher, author and writer, he brings & splendid record of organization ability to his new job. Becomes Integral Unit. The suburbap section thus becomes an integral unit in this Greater Wash- Ington campaign, comparable to the metropolitan, group solicitation and other soliciting units. The campaign in the suburbs will be directed from | Chest headquarters this year. There will be only one pledge card instead of the two used last year, this card to have a list of the suburban or- ganizations so that people working in ‘Washington and living outside the District line may designate their sec- | tions. The suburban districts will set up eomplete soliciting units with area * chairmen, division chairmen, team captains and workers. A cgmplete list | of contributors and residents of the entire suburban area is being compiled and will be checked against pledge cards received in Washington in order | that every person living in the suburbs | will have an equal opportunity to pledge Also each county and the City of Alexandria will have definite guotas to raise in the campaign Chairman Leigh will appoint a chairman for each of the four counties and a chairman for Alexan- dria. These will form the Executive | Committee of the suburban unit, and | this committee, in turn, will make the campaign plans for that section Each of the four counties and Alex- | andria have designated organizations to which their share of the funds shall | be turned over. These are the United | Charities in Alexandria, the Board | of Public Welfare for Arlington | County, the Social Service League of | Montgomery County, the Board of Public Welfare of Fairfax County and the Social Service League of Prince Georges County. | Representatives Named. Representing tneir sections on the eonference of suburban section wel- fare organizations are: Mrs. Frederick A. Ballard, Francis H. Fannon, Mrs. T. Clifton Howard, | William G. Ilich, J. A. Matter, Miss Mary Monroe, Robert*M. Reese and John P. Strauss for Alexandria City. Mrs. Mae E. Jacobs. Gilbert L. Hall | and Hugh J. McGrath for Arlington County. John Brookfield, Mrs. W. J. Cleve- fand, Mrs. Pearl K. Edler and Mrs. +*J. Hunter Mack for Fairfax County. Capt. W. B. Armstrong, Dr. J. W. Bird, Miss Ruth A. Bolton, Frederic P. Lee, George W. Davis, Mrs. Frank M. Hoadley and Thomas W. Pyle for Montgomery County. W. R. Beattie, Bird H. Dolby, J. T. Duever, William A. Duvall, Charles C Marbury, Fred W. Nickel and Bert H. ‘Wise for Prince Georges County. BUSINESS WOMEN | CLOSE CONVENTION' Kansas City Chosen for 1939 Ses- | sion—Miss White Outlines Aims of Group. B7 the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, July 24— At the closing session of their bi- ennial convention in this city, mem- bers of the National Federawon of Business and Professional Women's Clubs selected Grand Rapids, Mich., as the meeting place for their 1938 board meeting, and Kansas City, Mo., for the next biennial convention which eets in 1939, In a brief statement, Miss Earlene White, postmistress of the United Btates Senate Post Office, Washington, pew president of the organization, an- @ounced that a drive is to be carried | on during the next two years to ad- wance the economic, political and so- @ial opportunities of business and pro- Jessional women. “Acting under a mandate from the @delegates to the Atlantic City bi- ennial convention,” she declared, “we | will work actively for the enactment of the equal rights amendment to the Pederal Constitution and will en- deavor to point out and work against diseriminations which interfere with eights of women to work. “We accept the challenge to en- sourage the election of more qualified women to Congress and to State and local legislative bodies. We will con- tinue to be pathfinders in new voca- tional flelds for women and to point dut the problem of existing fields.” KINGSFORD-SMITHicLUE FAILS TO HEARTEN WIFE Feels Famous Husband Is Dead Despite Finding of Plane Wheel Off Burmeal Coast. By the Associated Press. SAN PEDRO, Calif., July 24.—Lady May Kingsford-8mith feels almost eertain her famous flying husband is dead, despite recent discovery of a Sire and wheel from his plane off the Burmese Coast, she said today. 8he arrived from New York en route to her home in Melbourne, Australia. “I will never give up hope of again seeing Charles alive,” she said. “But my reason tells me it is almost im- possible. “My belief was not changed by the spinion of the tire company that the tire markings indicated the plane had alighted on land.” Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith and J. T. Pethybridge disappeared in No- vember, 1935, while crossing Malacca Btrait on an attempted England-to- Australia flight. Dutch Indies Export Pepper. Nearly 60,000 tons of black pepper | of their children THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON Bringing 3-Day Circus to Capital . Tom Mir, cowboy hero of the screen, and some of his circus stars who will be in Washington with the Tom Mix Circus Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, staging afternoon and night perform- ances on the grounds at Twenty-fifth and Benning road. The circus arrives Sunday. Grave Waits to Receive Bodies Of Seven Killed in F laming Auto Lammers Family, Shattered by Weight of Grief, Finds Solace in Burning Candle at Base of Gift Statuette. B a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ) truck driver. B. M. King, who said he LAUREL, Md. July 24.—A single | had been blinded by the lights of an- grave in the little cemetery behind | other car. David died in a hospital St. Mary's Catholic Church here was | shortly thereafter. His six companions ready tonight to receive the charred | were burned to death and rescuers remains of seven boys and girls of [ found only charred remains of their the same family who died in the | bodies flaming wreckage of their automobile| Those dving in the flames were early yesterday. | Bernard Lammers, 21. and his two Gathered into one vault. the seven | fiSters: Pauline. 29. and Mildred, 19: their niece, Anna May s 13} voung bodies will be lowered into the | et 7 E0 3 ih, My ammere 2 grave at 2 pm. tomorrow. Then Mr. | : : i SR & | and their cousin, Frances Haker, 17. and Mrs, Heary Lammers will retUrn| “gighoub hesitation, the family de- to their farm home With the SUr-| cigeq on mass burial for the six of viving members of their large family | whose bodies the fire left little that to face the tragic reality that three three grandchildren and a young niece will not be around any more. We can't realize what it yet,” Mrs. Lammers said today. “But there’s no use fighting against it— we must accept it as God's will.” Swiftly. For nearly half a century of burying little David separately. But his mother, Mrs. Albert Manning, & daughter of Henry and Anna Lam- mers, said “he was happy with the others and I know he would want to stay with them.” So John Six. sexton at St. Marys had only one grave to dig todav. He | made it 8 fet long, 3 feet wide and the conventional 6 feet deep. That and Anna Lammers had shared the was all the room necessary as the last happines of married life on their 115- | resting place for the mortal remains acre farm, watching their 13 children | of the seven victims. It was the first grow up to manhood and woman- { addition to the Lammers family plot hood without having to face the sor- | in the little cemetery since Mr. Lam- row tHRt death brings to A house- | mers’ mother died 27 years ago. hold. Then the blow came with tragic| The bodies will be taken directly to swiftness. | the cemetery tomorrow from an under- The younger children borrowed an | taKINg establishment. elder sister’s automobile to go to a| They said it would be best for us carnival in Glen Burnie Thursday |10t to see them,” said Mr. and Mrs night. On their way back, they ap- | LAMMEIs today. parently took the wrong road and| Folace in Buming Candle, stopped to turn around. on the aam“ hfl%; '}d'”(‘l' ";u‘”’_m 20 end) Highway near Upper Marlboro. While she 68—found solace for their sorrow ¥ ‘ in the burning of a blessed candle at stopped. a truck sideswiped their #ar|ip, yqce of a atatuette depicting Christ and it burst into flames as it turned | pyrqened with the cross. The burning over. | of the eandle symbolized thelr church David Manning, a 7-year-old grand- | creed of everlasting life for the de- son of the Lammers, was pulled alive | parted ones. from the flaming wreckage by the| The dead children had joined with means | Blow Comes Henry gave me a hunch! was ahipped from the Netherlands Indies in the last year. ~ Was recognizable. There was some talk | their brothers and sisters last Christ- | mas to present the symbolical statu- 1@(:0 to their mother. “They thought [T might like 1t," she said with a sad smile today. From a window near the burning candle in their neat home, Henry land Anna could see three of their surviving sons plowing in the field “Life and the farm work must go on the grief-stricken father re- marked stoically The elderly couple were bravely living up to the inspiring words of | the prayer with which Rev. J. A | Myer will conclude the bunal service | tomorrow: | “Almighty and most merciful | Father, who knoweth the weakness ‘(vr our natures, bow down Thine ear in pity unto Thy servants upon whom | Thou hast laid this heavy burden of | sorrow. Take away out of their hearts the spirit of rebellion and teach them to see Thyv good and gracious purposes working in all the trials which Thou hast sent upon them “Grant that they may not lan- guish in fruitless and unavailing grief, nor sorrow as those who have no hope. but through their tears look meekly up to Thee. the God of all consolation, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” |MacWHITE’S CONDITION E “QUITE SATISFACTORY” Minister Michael MacWhite of the! Irish Free State. ill of pneumonia at | | Emergency Hospital, is in “quite satis- | | factory™ condition, his physician, Dr. Harry Kaufman, reported last night | | _The Minister contracted a cold last | Sunday during a train ride from New | York to Washington. 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