Evening star. [volume], May 31, 1937, Page A-6, Image 6

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G. F. BAKER’S BODY
Family to Accompany Dead
Financier to New York, via
San Francisco.
the Associated Frees.
HONOLULU. May 31.—The body of
George Fisher Baker, leader of Ameri
can finance, lay on the yacht Viking
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
•tricken while on his first vacation
since his marriage 30 years ago.
Mrs. Baker, present when he died,
Trill take the body to San Francisco
on the Matson liner Lurline, which
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,
“*dll accompany the widow.
The spotlight, which Baker avoided
■Srhile directing the fortunes of his
Inherited financial empire, attended
his fatal illness.
Emergency Operation.
An emergency appendectomy, per
formed at sea last Tuesday by his
personal physician and one hailed
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 a m.
Sunday 111:45 am., Eastern standard
time).
Baker's fortune had been estimated
'»t from $150,000,000 to half a billion.
In 1931 his father. George F. Baker,
ar., died and left his son at the head
6f the financial institution.
He held directorates in many cor
porations, but resigned them in 1936
without explanation. It was reported
lie was in poor health then.
In addition to the widow and daugh
ters, Florence T. and Edith B„ he is
aurvived by two sons, George F. and
Grenville K. Baker.
The body remained in the owner's
state room aboard the yacht at the
request of Mrs. Baker.
The craft's flag was at half mast.
One of the crew paused a moment
to pay a tribute to his late master.
“He was a good guy," he said.
RETIREMENT AT 70
URGED FOR PASTORS
Presbyterian Assembly Gets Pro
posal to Make It Com
' pulsory.
fij 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
JJine. 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 w’ould encourage the
founger ministers by making available
executive positions and Important
pastorates.
The church has approximately 9,000
tninistera, about 7,000 of whom are
pastors.
A. F. L.
_(Continued From First Page.)
Automotive 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 a practical and con
structive 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
billon, 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 Motor*
and Chrysler plants since the U. A.
W. A. won contracts there, while
ethers 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
off Ford property.
Body Is Identified.
BAN DIEGO, Calif., May 31 (/P).—
Arthur Grabowskli, 61, who died of
pneumonia in a small room here
Thursday, was identified by his widow
today as a former engineer who was
made a count by Czar Nicholas for his
success In modernizing Siberian gold
mining.
RUTO TROUBLE?
Call
Officers of W. C. T. U.
Mrs. Earle Wilfley.
Mrs. Ida Ramsey.
Dr. Ella A. Boole.
mts. wupey is general cnairman of arrangements for the
iv or Id convention of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union,
which holds its sixteenth triennial beginning Thursday at Con
stitution Hall. Dr. Boole, president of the world group, will pre
side, and Mrs. Ramsey, president of the Washington W. C. T. U.,
will be hostess for the District.
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DUD DUE TODAY
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 aafactor in industry. The confer
ence schedule calls for sessions at
7:30 tonight, 9:30 am. and 2 pm. to
morrow and'9:30 am. Wednesday.
ivirs. Anna tsrausirom ol Sweden,
world W. C. T. U. superintendent of
the department of evangelism, and
Mrs. Josephine M. Buhl of Tulsa,
Oltla., national director of evangelistic
work, will lead an international wor
ship service at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday
In Calvary Baptist Church.
Young people's church groups of the
city are co-operating in preparation for
a 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,
111., 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. Early &r
rivals will participate in the'pre-con
vention activities.
Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith of Evans
ton, 111., national W. C. T. U. presi
dent and vice president of the world
organization, has been in Washington
several days in her capacity 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.
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POLICE GIVEN LETTERS
OF MISSING NURSE
■
Albuquerque Officers to Study
Notes Written to Virginian
Found Dead.
By the Associated Prrs*.
STRASBURO, 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 said
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 said 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
from the nurse.
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