Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1937, Page 5

- DR. HIGH RESIGNS AS LEAGUE HEAD Good Neighbor Organization Selects New Officials, Plans Drive. In a statement outlining ambitious plans for the future, the Good Neigh- bor League, which was sponsored by President Roosevelt, announced from headquarters in New York today that Dr. Stanley High had resigned as executive director and that a new official set-up has been created. Walter A. Jones, industrialist of Pittsburgh and Washington, has been e named president, and Dr. Charles Stelzle, clergyman and sociologist of New York, execu- tive director. High, at nn:-i time prominent in White House councils, is leav- ing the league to devote more time | to writing, lectur- ing and other per- sonal matters, ac- cording to the announcement. Several months ag0 High was the target of rebuke from the White House for writing an article in a weekly publication pur- Porting to disclose intended presi- | dential policies. The Good Neighbor League has local branches in more than 100 cities and towns in 25 States. Among its mem- bers are educators, social workers, business men, industrialists, clergymen of all faiths, labor men and other groups The league defines as its purpose “to break down racial, social, economic and general class prejudice and hatred Which separate men and women of ®ood will, through a better under- &tanding of their interdependence, and Dr. Hirh, to discover ways of mutual and neigh- | borly helpfulness.” Dr. Stelzle said it is intended during the coming year to extend operations of the league through the organization of additional local branches until the entire country is covered. The league also will further develop its program for capital-labor conferences for the purpose of creating a better understanding between industry and labor, and campaigns will be con- ducted in the interest of the foreign- 8peaking populations here and the colored and to create a better under- etanding between urban and rural populations. Promotional campaigns. favoring the principles of democracy 8S against subversive doctrines and movements, will also be inaugurated, Jones, now an oil operator, was formerly a member of the Coal Code Authority and aided in drafting the Guffey coal control act. Dr. Stelzle, who was ordained in the Presbyterian Church, is known for his work among the laboring class. WON'T QUIT SOON, CORCORAN ASSERTS He and Cohen Can't Stay Forever, but Will for Some Time Any- way, He States. BY the Associated Press. Thomas G. Corcoran said today that he and Benjamin V. Cohen, edministration attorneys, “obviously €an’t stay in the Government all our lives.” The Corcoran-Cohen legal team has been credited with formulating much #dministration legislation. Corcoran Little Lord Fauntleroy, much against his will the model sissy for a whole generation of American boys who took him for an example of how real fel- | yesterday of a heart attack suffered in aiding the rescue of four persons from the squally waters of Manhasset Bay, N. Y. In real life the little lord was Vivian Burnett, a former Washing- tonian, son of Frances Hodgson Bur- nett, whose book about the American child who became a British earl and wore a hated large white collar be- came a best seller in 1883 and re- mained so for many years | was 7 when the book appeared and | Mrs. Burnett had patterned her per- | fect hero after her own son. Saw Four Thrown Into Water. Burnett, 61, was aboard his yawl | Delight IIT vesterday with Mrs. Bur- nett and a party of friends heading under sail toward Long Island Sound when those on board saw a small knockabout capsize off Kings Point, about a mile away. Two men and | water. Burnett ordered the engine started his craft up to the distressed boat. No than Burnett collapsed. His condi- Manhasset Bay Yacht Club, but he | was dead when the yawl reached the | club landing. Burnett as a young man won recog- nition as a columnist for the Washing- ton Times and as a star investigator- reporter for McClure's Magazine dur- ing the era of “muckraking.” He also edited a children's magazine, wrote has an office in the Renstruction | Finance Corp. and Cohen is employed | in the Public Works Administration. | Asked whether they would resign | #oon. Corcoran said no. | “The end of our onerous duties is | not vet in sight,” he remarked laugh- | ingly. | Corcoran added. however, that they | planned eventually to leave the Gov- | ernment service. . DR. HRDLICKA DISCOVERS | PREHISTROIC BARABARA B the Associated Press. SEWARD, Alaska, July 26.—Discov- ery of the largest barabara (prehis- toric communal house) ever found in Alaska was announced yesterday by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, famous anthropolo- gist. A mail boat brought word Hrdlicka and his party uncovered the bara- bara—200 feet long and 100 feet wide—4 feet underground at Chernof- £ki, native village on Unalaska Island. The structure was heavily timbered end roofed with sod. It contained many wood and bone artifacts and a scrattering of human bones. TRADE MARK 85 Rugs and Carpets Household Effects of Every Descrip- tion REGISTERED at Public Auction AT SLOAN’S 715 13th St. WEDNESDAY July 28, 1937, at 10 A M. C. G. Sloan & Co.. Inc., Auets. Terms: Cash. Estabiished 1891 NAT. 7601 VIVIAN BURNETT. lows ought not to behave, died a hero | Vivian | two women were floundering in the | and took the wheel himself to bring | sooner was the rescue accomplished | tion was so alarming that the Delight | III was put about and headed for the | NING Prototype of Lord Fauntleroy Dies a Hero in Rescuing Four —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. | many lyrics and composed dance and | religious music, | The Burnetts came to Washington in 1877, when Vivian was 1 year old, | and Mrs. Burnett was building a repu- | tation as a writer of serious novels | None of these books interested her | young children, Lionel and Vivian, who suggested that she write some- thing about younger minds. The re- sult was “Little Lord,” composed in the house at 1219 (then 1215) I street. ‘The Fauntleroy Literary Society of Washington dedicated a bronze mar- ker on the house March 14, 1936. This plaque, which was donated by David Selznick. producer of the talking pic- ture, “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” star- ring Freddie Bartholemew, reads: “On this site 50 vears ago the death- less classic. Little Lord Fauntleroy, was written by Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett | “'To think he is not born to die or; to grow out of his beauty and infinite | charm like the poor little creatures of flesh and blood all around us.’ Oliver Wendell Holmes.” The president of the Fauntleroy | Literary Society is Ernest Rick, 1335 Massachusetts avenue southeast, whose mother knew Mrs. Burnett many years ago. Rick, who visited Vivian Bur- nett at the latter's Long Island estate | last Summer, always found the un- willing literary hero wholly reticent | for such a famous character. Spoke of Mother's Intention. Burnett, however, admired the lit- erary quality and the message of his | mother’s most noted work, and in cne | of the many letters he wrote to Rick he refers to Mrs. Burnett's cesire | through her books to show that “love is stronger than hate.” The chief purpose of Ricks' society 'WIFE FIN about his feelings at being the model |° STAR, WASHINGTO is the collection of Burnett memora- bilia. Already it has the manuscript of the novel “Haworth's” & atory of Lancashire life, and a first edition of that novel inscribed by Vivian Burnett. Another rarity in the society’s col- lection is a little blue-covered booklet printed by Vivian Burnett on his own hand press in the basement of the I street house. It is the story of the Drury Lane Boys' Club, an organiza- tion financed by Mrs. Burnett for London poor boys in memory of her son Lionel. Other officers of the Fauntleroy Society are Mrs. Judith King, secre- tary; Rev. Waldo Manoly, chaplain, and Mrs. Mabel Rick, treasurer. The late Miss Marie de L. Kennedy, brother of Will P. Kennedy of The Star, was with Rick, the original promoter of the organization. Although the pictures of the golden-hairea, velvet-clad little Lord Fauntleroy, who at heart really was no sissy, are far better known to the present generation than the book, Burnett did not serve as the model for them. Reginald Bathhurst Birch, the artist who gained wide fame for the illustrations, drew a boy he thought fitted the character Mrs. Burnett described. Although Vivian Burnett, in the minds of the book’s readers, was linked with the fictional child, picture and all, he was a famous athlete at Har- vard and went from college to work on the rough and ready Denver Post He das born in Paris, April 5, 1876, son of Dr. Swann M. Burnett and Mrs. Burnett. In 1914 he married Constance C. Buel. He is survived by his widow and two daughters. For some years he had devoted most of his time to administration of the literary estate of his mother. Several of her books were dramatized and all such work was done under Burnett's su- pervision. e DS MAN HANGED IN CELLAR Calls Son to Cut Clothesline Rope Suspended From Iron Beam. Charles O. Curtin, 54, hanged him- self with a piece of clothesline early today in the basement of his home, 608 Kenyon street. He is believed to have been despondent over ill health. He was found by his wife, Mrs. Anna M. Curtin, who summoned a son, James, to cut the rope which was suspended from an iron bean. Police said Curtin apparently had jumped from a chair found nearby. Mrs. Curtin told police her husband frequently had expressed a fear that he would take his own life. The rope, she said, had been purchased only last week end. Mrs. May Buhrmeister, 36, 4701 Forty-ninth street, yesterday inhaled illuminating gas from her Kkitchen stove. She was found by her 12-year- old daughter, Charlotte, who told police her mother had been in ill health since an operation last year. Coroner A. 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