Evening star. [volume], November 18, 1938, Page A-7, Image 7

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Roosevelt Appoints
Advisory Board
On Fiscal Affairs
Morgenthau, Eccles, Bell
And Delano Named
f To Make Study
(f the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt today ap
pointed a temporary advisory board
of four to canvass and report period
ically on fiscal and monetary prob
lems in their relation to national
production and income.
Those named were Secngtary of
the Treasury Morgenthau. Chair
man Marriner S. Eccles of the Fed
eral Reserve Board, Director Daniel
W. Bell of the budget and Frederic
A. Delano, head of the National Re
sources Committee.
The President, announcing at his
press conference formation of the
board, said the group would study a
broad range of fiscal and monetary
problems with respect to sound and
orderly recovery and conditions es
sential to flattening out the eco
nomic peaks and valleys.
He described it as just another
step in tying in many Government
agencies to tackle one big problem
instead of studies of companent
parts of that problem by separate
agencies.
The group will report from time to
time informally, the President said.
He added that perhaps nothing
would be heard of it again for some
time.
Demonstration
^Continued From First Page.)_
Daniel, president of the District
Federation of Women's Clubs.
Mrs. Daniel added that she was
opposed to such steps as chaining
themselves to trees because this
was "wholly undignified and entirely
useless.”
Other women, dismayed over the
President's order, but still deter
mined to continue their protest,
said:
"Well, I'll say shame on him.”
"Well. I'll be derned.”
Finnan Views Scene.
Mr. Finnan, appeared on the scene
shortly after the President an
nounced his decision. While he was
discussing Mr. Roosevelt's statement
with the women, two cars filled with
members of the Fine Arts Commis
sion drove past the crowd.
Some one mentioned the fact, and
Mr. Finnan admitted that he had
suggested to the Fine Arts Com
mission members that they drive
past the Tidal Basin on their way
to visit a site for another project.
„ The army of women left the scene
at 12:40 after being told by Mr.
Finnan that work would be resumed
"in the immediate future.” He said
the workers would not return this
afternoon, however.
Earlier many of the women, declar
ing they would not leave until they
heard what President Roosevelt had
to say, told the workers:
"The moment we leave here, you
will start taking up that tree”—
pointing to a large white pine tree
around which an excavation tunnel
already had been dug.
Root Wrappings Pulled Off.
The women, unwittingly, them
selves might have contributed to the
damage to some of the trees. When
they arrived on the scene and found
trenches dug, they immediately
stopped the work and, in their zeal,
some pulled away the sackings that
had been wrapped around the roots
of the trees to protect them from
the cold. They replaced the sack
ing. however.
While they were talking to Supt.
Finnan, the protesters learned that
17 large elms are within the radius
of the memorial.
"Are you going to remove the
*’elms, too?' asked a hatless, gray
haired man.
Mr. Finnan nodded.
"Well,” the man retorted, "all I
have to say is that two wrongs don’t
make a right.’’
A woman looked at the elms.
"Those great elms,'’ she mused,
"it's a sin to destroy them.”
Another chimed in, “It's a perfect
crime, I say.”
Discussion About Road.
There was some discussion about
the road which circles around the
basin.
“That will be closed," some woman
remarked. “There will only be the
memorial here. One approaches,
takes off the shoes and enters.”
The first to arrive on the scene,
Mrs. “Jack” Stearns Gray of 5 West
Leland street, Chevy Chase, Md„
posed chained to one of the trees
■as she angrily declared the destruc
tion or removal of the trees “was
.the worst desecration of the beauty
of our Capital since the burning of
the White House by the British.”
“I came down this morning,” she
declared, “to find just who is at the
root of the uprooting of our beauti
ful trees. I haven't been able to
find out. It's just as hard as finding
a needle in a haystack.”
Mrs. Gray asked why it was nec
essary to build the memorial at the
Tidal Basin site.
“Jefferson would be the last one
to want it,” she asserted. “He would
not care for a memorial like this.
His memorial is the Declaration of
vr-’enendence.”
" Mrs. Gray, a small determined
^jroman who was one of the partici
* pants in the suffragist movement
years ago. said she had her own
plan for continuing her protest.
"Next time, I'll bring some red
jjppper along with me.”
Agrees to Delay Work.
David E. Saunders, chief of the
Horticultural Division of the Na
tional Capital Parks, who arrived
on the scene a short time after the
army of women, assured them that
po more work would be done at1 the
site until the matter was settled.
The park policeman who was
chained to one of the trees was Of
ficer Carroll T. Gillespie, who was
taken by surprise and draped in
Ahains. After being released, he de
parted, but returned later to protest
that the ladies' cars were blocking
the highway.
Leaders of l..e women were those
fho besieged the White House late
“yesterday in a vain endeavor to ap
peal personally to President Roose
velt to delay construction of the
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memorial until Congress convenes
about six weeks hence.
Coming from a mass meeting at
15 Dupont Circle yesterday, a group
of 50 prominent women marched to
the White House in the afternoon
and were met by Marvin McIntyre,
one of the President's secretaries.
They were unable to see the Presi
dent because of his previous engage
ments and Mr. McIntyre assured
them he would deliver their message
which, in brief was: “Save the
cherry trees.”
Simultaneously, another direct
plaa to the White House was being
made by the Parks and Reserva
tions Committee of the Washington
Board of Trade. At a luncheon
meeting the committee reaffirmed
its stand against removal or de
struction of the trees.
Harvey Jones, chairman or the
Parks and Reservations Committee;
John Saul, general chairman, and
George DifTenbaugh, a committee
member, comprised the delegation
that went to the White House.
The women's mass meeting earlier
in the day was presided over by
Mrs. H. C. Oberholser, State vice
regent of the D. A. R.; Mrs. Walter
B. Fry, president of the District
Conrgess of Parent-Teacher' Asso
ciations; Mrs. Ernest H. Daniel,
president of the District Federation
of Women's Clubs, and Mrs. Lloyd
Biddle, director of the General Fed
eration of Women's Clubs.
The proposal to march on the
White House and later to tike a
stand by the trees on the Tidal
Basin was proposed by Mrs. Mar
garet Hopkins Worrell, past presi
dent of the Columbia Heights Citi
zens' Association.
Handel Also an Eater
Handel, the famed musician, was a
great eater, nay, an enormous one.
It is told that whenever he dined at
a tavern he ordered dinner for three.
Once, the waiter came to tell him that
the dinner was ready just as soon as
his company came. ‘Then bring the
dinner out. quickly," said Handel,
‘‘for I am the company."
Two Naval Flyers
Killed in Hawaii
Bomber Crash
Five Are Also Injured
As Ship Hits Pearl
Harbor Boathouse
By the Associated Press,
HONOLULU, Nov. 18.—Two Navy
flyers were killed and five others
injured last night when one of the
VP-10 Squadron bombers which
pioneered the Navy’s mass flights
across the Pacific crashed into a
boathouse at the Pearl Harbor fleet
airbase during an attempted land
ing.
Instantly killed were Lt. (J. g.) P.
H. Ashworth, 30. Wenham, Mass.,
and Aviation Cadet J. W. Beam of
Bardstown, Ky.
Lt. oomdr. A. R. Brady. 40, ex
ecutive officer of the squadron, was
treated for shock and submersion at
the Naval Hospital. He is a native
of Pernandina, Fla.
The others were only slightly hurt
and did not require hospitalization.
Those given first aid were R. E.
Brunson, 24, Pine Bluff, Ark., radio
man. second class; J. A. Paradow
ski. 37, Hockley, Tex., aviation chief
machinists mate; H. Sessions, 30,
Bellamh, Ala., and F. J. Gall, 28,
Franklinboro, Pa.
A naval board of inquiry was to
convene today to investigate the
crash. The plans, with seven other
bombers, was practicing take-offs
and landings on floodlighted, calm
Pearl Harbor Channel.
Nansen Refugee Office
Awarded Nobel Prize
By the Associated Press.
OSLO. Nov. 18.—The 1938 Nobel \
Peace Prize of about $30,000 was
awarded yesterday to the Nansen
International Office for Refugees at
Geneva, an organization which col
lects information on the material
and moral welfare of refugees and
gives general directions to relief in
stitutions.
It was the fourth time that the
peace award, provided for in the
will of Alfred B. Nobel, the Swedish
chemist-engineer who invented
dynamite, had been givan to -an in
stitution. A committee of five,
chosen by the Norwegian Parlia
ment. makes the awards.
The Institute of International
Law received the award in 1904, the
International Permanent Peace Bu
reau in 1910 and the International
Red Cross in 1917. Last year the!
prize went to Viscount Cecil of Chel
wood, president of the League of
Nations Union.
The Nansen office, named for the
late Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, who won
the prize in 1922, carries on his work
in the interest of refugees.
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