Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1940, Page 22

B—6 = Society of Cincinnati Holds First Dinner In New Home Representatives of 13 States See Investiture Of President General Members of America's oldest pa- triotic society—The Society of the Cincinnati—last night celebrated their annual dinner for the first time in the society’s new national head- quarters. the former Larz Anderson home, 2118 Massachusetts avenue Nw. More than 150 descendants of offi- cers who served under Gen. George Washington crowded the great mar- ble hall of the home of the former Minister to Belgium, Ambassador to Japan, and member of the society. Representatives from the 13 State societies witnessed the investiture of Col. Bryce Metcalf with the gold eagle set in diamonds that is pre- sented {0 each president general of | the society. The emblem first was /| presented to George Washington, first president general, by Count| to the following (left to right): THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 21, 1940—PART O ARMY DAY PARADE AWARDS—Col. David McCoach, jr., District Engineer Commissioner (ex- treme right) yesterday presented awards won by participants in the Army Day parade April 6 Mrs. Marie Knott, who received the prize for the George E. Kil- leen Unit, No. 25, American Legion, winners of the first prize for the best-appearing Legion unit; Harry Hungelmann, who received the third prize for drum and bugle corps for the Fort Stevens Drum and Bugle Corps; Ray Eichhorn, who received second prize for the Sons of the American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps, and Harry E. Wilson, commander of James Reese Europe Post, No. 25, who reoeived the first prize for the post’s\bugle corps. Prizes were donated by merchants. ——Star Staff Photo. d’Estaing, president of the French | Society, on behalf of the French Navy. The gold eagle has been worn by all presidents general of the Cincinnati since that time. Says Light Is Hidden. . Col. Metcalf told the members?M S |yH ' the society has “hidden its light| an e"ous ur under a bushel for many years,” | . and that it was “high time” some l c ' iA part was taken in the affairs of | n onnec Icu venue the Nation. » x “It is our heritage to help nur‘I " A d t country in these times of stress,"‘ ra Ic cc' en he declared. | Guests of honor introduced by | . Col. Metealf included Count Jersy| Knocked Down l?y Car; Potocki, Ambassador of Poland, and| Several More Injured Count Rene de Saint-Quentin, . Ambassador of France, who ex-‘ In Other M|shaps tended greetings to the society. | X ) Senator Green of Rhode Island,| Norman Wallace, 28, Friendship, &8 member of the Society from lhnl‘Md. last night suffered brain con-| State, declared that the Society has|cussion, cuts and possibly a skull “a message which should be handed ‘ fracture when knocked _down by an on,” in pleading for active interest‘automobile at Connecticut avenue in the Nation's affairs. |and Military road N.W. At Em- A similar sentiment was expressed | ergency Hospital, his condition was | by Senator Overton, of Louisiana, said to be undetermined. & member from the Virginia society,| The automobile which struck him who called on the membership for | was traveling north on the avenue action “to wipe out Fascism, Com-|&nd was operated by Wiley Narron munism, Nazi-ism and every other Of the 600 block of R street N.W., | subversive interest that seeks to un- | police said. ] dermine America.” Several other persons received | minor injuries in District trafdc Guests G,:}es:o:;rnfnng;apd Cor- | &ccidents, but were either treated | poration Counsel Elwood Seal, |0V Private physicians or returned to | Philip Campbell, Harrison B. Mc- | their homes after receiving hospital Cawley and Maj. Percy Blair. A|!reatment. - ! ; | short program of songs was pre-|, Meanwhile, two New York women | sented by a double quartet from | injured earlier yesterday when 'he; the St. Matthew's Cathedral. ;aummghlle in which they were rid- | A reception was held in the after- | .8 skidded, struck another car and | noon, at which guests were received by Mrs. Larz Anderson, who pre- sented the house with its fine col- lection of art objects to the society, and Mrs. Bryce Metcalf. Assisting at the reception were Mrs. Robert Copeland Jones, Mrs. John H. Over- | ton, Princess Boncompagni, Mrs. | Charles Warren, Mrs. T. Mitchell | Hastings, Mrs. Fredrick M. Stone, | Mrs. Leland Stanford Conness, Miss | Frances Lay, Mrs. J. Randolph | Kean and Mrs. R. C. Breckinridge. | In accordance with the terms of | Mrs. Anderson's gift, the mansion | will be open to the public every | Monday afternoon. In it are paint- ings, tapestries, bronzes and other | ‘art objects, as well as trophies from | nearly every country in the world, which were collected by Mr. An- derson. Chesup—e;ke Civitans Elect Officers RICHMOND, Va., April 20— Civitans of the Chesapeake District | elected Curtis M. Dozier, jr., of| Richmond, as their governor today to succeed Henry Ortland, jr., of Annapolis, Md. Lieutenant governors chosen were Henry H. Sadler of Annapolis, Ash- by Leith of Washington and Frank Matthews of Trenton, N. J. Judge Allen May of St. Louis, vice president of Civitan International, said at the convention banquet to- night that “Our ancesters” made the “down payment” on democracy, and “as Americans have desired and may desire the continuation of the blessings of liberty, they have and must pay an installment in every generation.” | | i | | Wanted: A Man to Occ | overturned in Berwyn, Md., were re- i ported in an undetermined condi- tion in Casualty Hospital. They are | Mrs. Emma Baessler, 27, who re- | ceived fractures of the collarbone and pelvis, and Mrs. Frances Davis, 43, who suffered a collarbone frac- ture. The driver of the car, Clifs ford Davis, 21, the son of the in- jured Mrs. Davis, was arrested on a charge of reckless driving by Prince Georges County police. The first Soviet Armenian opera Coffin-Shaped Air Well | |Claims Seventh Victim By the Associated Press. MILWAUKEE, April 20.—Herman | ‘Theodore Rehfeld, 63, plunged from the seventh floor of the City Hall's | coffin-shaped air well today—the | second to leap to death in the well! in 20 days, the fifth in 23 months, | and the seventh since 1929. | Seven or eight persons were on | the first floor, but none was en- dangered. The portion of the ro- tunda under the air well was fenced off recently after a bystander died of a heart attack when the body of & man landed at his fee was produced recently in Moscow. 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