Evening star. [volume], May 16, 1937, Page A-11, Image 11

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HORSEMAN IS LOST
IN STORM AT SEA
Albert Graham Ober, Jr., of
Baltimore Dies in Coast
Gale.
Br the Associated Press.
BOSTON. May 15.—A two-day rain
storm blew out to sea tonight, after
destroying life and property offshore
and sending New England streams to
ward flood crests.
Clearing skies quieted flood fears
In Massachusetts. Vermont and New
Hampshire, as rain-drenched moun
tain slopes drained into the Connec
ticut, Merrimack, Housatonic, Win
ooski and tributary rivers.
Albert Graham Ober, jr., member
Of a prominent Baltimore family, was
pitched into the sea and lost 10 miles
off Block Island. R. I., when the
yacht, Flying Cloud of Baltimore,
lurched in a heavy sea.
Donald H. Sherwood, owner of the
Waft, reported the accident when the
yacht made Newport, R. I., on its trip
from Fairhaven, Mass., to Gibsons
Island, New York.
The three-masted Canadian schoon
er. Minas King, which went aground
near Quoddy Head. Me., last night,
was towed to State anchorage in the
nearby Johnsons Bay late today by
the Coast Guard patrol boat AD-58
and a commercial vessel.
Off Marblehead, the big class J
raring sloop ranger, was dismasted
B-s it was being towed from Bath,
Me , to Newport, R. I., where it had
planned to start working out Monday
for America’s Cup competition.
About 100 homes in Keene, N. H.,
were cut off from electric power.
Three and a half feet of water cov
ered Highway 302 above the flood-con
trol dam at East Barre, Vt„ and traf
fic was detoured.
The Connecticut River was rising
at the rate of 2 inches an hour.
victim Mas Horseman.
BALTIMORE. May 15 (.Pi.—Albert
Graham Ober, jr„ 49. lost overboard
from the sloop Flying Cloud near
Block Island today, was one of Mary
land's leading gentleman jockeys and
a member of a socially prominent
family here.
Ober rode mounts in almost all of
the State's important steeplechases
' and in 1928 went to England to ride
Billy Barton in the Grand National
at Aintree. Technicalities prevented
him from riding, however.
Graduated from Princeton in 1909,
Ober was a member of the Maryland
Hunt Cup Committee, the Elkridge
Hounds, the Baltimore Club, and the
Merchants’ Club. Through his riding
activities he was widely known in
Virginia hunting circles. He also was
an ardent yachtsman.
Ober was a widower. He is survived
by his brother, Frank Ober, an attor
ney here, and two sisters, Miss Kath
erine Ober of New York City, and
Mrs. Grace O. Palmer of Baltimore.
In addition to Owner Donald Sher
wood of Baltimore, aboard the Flying
Cloud on its trip South from Fal
mouth, Mass.. Winter quarters to Gib
son Island near here, were Jack Talia
ferro and C. Ellis Short, both of
Baltimore: Charles Williams of Gib
son Island, and L. Corrin Strong of
Washington.
D. C. Man Aboard Yacht.
L. Corrin Strong. 2712 thirty-sec
ond street, president of the Hattie M.
Strong Foundation, who was aboard
the Sherwood yacht Flying Cloud
when Albert Graham Ober, jr., of Bal
timore, was pitched overboard by a
sudden lurch of the craft, had been
on a visit in Massachusetts along with
his wife since Sunday, it was learned
from his home last night. Mrs. Strong
Is to return by automobile.
LIFE INSURANCE WEEK
TOPIC OF ADDRESSES
Assistant Secretary of Commerce
Draper and George L. Hunt
to Speak.
Assistant Secretary of Commerce
Ernest G. Draper and George L. Hunt,
vice president of the New England
Life Insurance Co. and national
chairman of Life Insurance week, will
speak at 1:45 p.m. tomorrow in the
Commerce Department auditorium on
the inauguration of Life Insurance
week in the District.
The program also will include a pre
view of the motion picture. “Make
Way for Tomorrow," adapted from
Josephine Lawrence's novel, “The
Years Are So Long."
During Life Insurance week, which
will last through Saturday, the
division of commercial laws of the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com
merce is holding an exhibition of
Industrial and graphic arts in the
life insurance field in Room 3224,
Commerce Building. The exhibit is
open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.
Lost at Sea
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ALBERT G. OBER, JR.
—Copyright, A. P. Photo.
New Move to Amend State
Constitution Fails in
Legislature.
Es the Associated Press.
COLUMBIA, S. C.. May 15.—The
State of South Carolina again has de
cided to let the divorce parade go by.
For at least another year the Pal
metto State will be one of the easiest
places in the United States in which
to get married tno license delay) and
: the only place where it is impossible
! to obtain a divorce.
| The State's constitution of 1895 in
article 17, section 3, reads: "Divorces
from the bonds of matrimony shall
not be allowed in this State.”
•Since that sentence was voted into
the law, attempts have been made to
remove it. The latest failed this week
when the House of Representatives
continued until the next legislative ses
sion a bill to submit to popular vote a
constitutional amendment permitting
divorce.
South CSrolina's unique matrimonial
situation presents a puzzle. A survey
1 today disclosed:
A couple may gain a legal separation
and live apart as they please, so long
as they do pot attempt to remarry.
Citizens of another State, granted
a divorce by that State, may become
citizens of South Carolina and marry
again.
But a citizen of South Carolina who
j treks across the State line for a divorce
| is liable to plenty of "investigation
and scrutiny" by the courts should
! marital complications arise when he
returns.
GREEK VETERANS HERE
TO HONOR WAR DEAD
New York Delegation to Visit
Tomb and Grave of Soldier
Immigrant.
New York World War veterans of
Greek extraction will visit Washing
ton today to conduct memorial serv
ices at the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier and at the grave of George
Dilboy. Greek immigrant who died in
the United States service.
The visitors, members of George
Dilboy Post, American Legion, will
arrive in Washington this morning
and will attend services in St. Sophie ,
Church, Eighth and L streets, at 11:30.
The services at the Tomb of the Un
known Soldier will be held at 2:30 !
p.m. and will be followed by services
at the grave of Dilboy.
Local arrangements are in charge
of a Washington committee, headed by
Soterios Nicholson, chairman, and
composed of George Pistolas. Dr.
Charles J. Demas, Harry J. Photls,
William Loomis, Emmanuel Killis and
Steve Demas. The New York group
will be led by the post commander,
George Contemanolis.
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TORCH CLUBS NAME
DR. WOODS HEAD
D. C. Man Elected President of
International Association of
Professional Men.
Dr. George B. Woods of 4331 Ca
thedral avenue, dean of the College of
Liberal Arts of American University,
was elected president of the Interna
tional Association of Torch Clubs, Inc.,
for Professional Men, at the annual
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convention at Rochester, N. Y„ ac
cording to word received here last
night.
Dr. Woods has been prominent In
the Washington Torch Club for years,
has served as its president and during
the past year has been vice president
of the International Association.
The list of new officers of the Wash
ington Club, elected at a recent meet
ing in the Raleigh Hotel, was an
nounced as follows: John Ihlder, ex
ecutive secretary of the Alley Dwelling
Authority, president; Dr. M. C. Merrill,
director of the Bureau of Information,
Department of Agriculture, vice presi
dent; Herbert L.. Willett, Jr., director of
the Community Chest, secretary-treas
urer, and these three new directors;
Ihlder. Dr. Merrill and Dr. George E.
B. Trible. As president, Ihlder suc
ceeds Watson Davis, editor of Science
Service, Inc.
The Torch Club is not a luncheon
or public service club, according to
an explanation of its ideals, but "it
does promote free Interchange of opin
ion among its members on subjects,
civic, religious, philosophic, scientific,
economic and artistic, and by this
comparison of views it stimulates a
broader growth of thought and cul
ture.”
ACADEMY OF MEDICINE
TO HEAR SIR HENRY DALE
Lecture by Eminent British
Physiologist Tuesday Will Be
Open to Public.
Sir Henry Dale, director of the Na
tional Institute of Medical Research
In London, and 1936 Nobel prize win
ner in biology, will lecture before the
Washington Academy of Medicine at
the auditorium of the Medical Society
of the District of Columbia, 1718 M
street, Tuesday evening.
This lecture, to which the public is
invited, is the first to be given under
auspices of the newly formed Academy
of Medicine. The eminent British
physiologist will speak on the re
searches which led to his being award
ed the Nobel prize—the identification
of chemical substanoes released by
stimulated nerve fibers which seem
to be responsible for physiological re
sponses.
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