Evening star. [volume], May 09, 1939, Page A-5, Image 5

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Winners of Prizes
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in Pen League
Contests Named
Popular Art Award
Given Mrs. Collison
For 'Child Portrait'
Announcement of prize winners
and presentation of awards to mem
bers of the District branch of the
League of American Pen Women
who competed in a number of league
contests was the occasion of one of
the league's largest gatherings of the
year last night at the Grafton Hotel.
The party Is known as the “Isabel
Anderson award party” as Mrs. Larz
Anderson, herself a writer, is the
donor of the largest number of prizes
offered during the year. Last night's
party was the 16th annual affair
at which Mrs. Anderson has con
tributed prizes for work in the crea
tive arts, and it was with genuine
regret that members learned her
absence from the city made it im
possible for her to attend.
Several donors of other awards
were present, however, and with the
winners and the judges were the
honor guests of the evening. Mrs
Inez Sheldon Tyler, league presi
dent. presided, assisted by Evelyn
Norcross Sherrill, first vice president,
in charge of special activities, and
Minnie L. Briggs, second vice presi
dent, in charge of creative arts.
Popular Award to Helen Collison.
The popular award, in the Isaoel
Anderson prizes in art, which is de
termined by a vote of the member
ship, went to Helen Collison for her
“Child Portrait.”
Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. Tyler
tied for the Ruth Norcross Hoxie
prize, awarded also on vote of the
membership, to the member who
best exemplifies the league motto:
“All for one and one for all.”
Helen Orr Watson, author of
“Chanco,” received the Leona Pat
terson Tiller prize, offered to the
member publishing the outstanding
book of the year; honorable mention
went to June Rainsford Butler, for
“Floralia.” and to Blanche Hum
phrey Abee, for “Colonists of Caro
lina.”
Marion Everett Hayn w^on the Bess
Heath Olmstead persistence prize
for the largest number of rejection
slips to her credit for the year.
Other Creative Arts Prizes.
Other Isabel Anderson prizes in
the creative arts were awarded as
follows:
Art. class 1. oils—First prize.
"Snow Scene," Helen Collison: sec
ond. “Basket of Flowers.” Pherne
Miller; class 2. water color, first,
“Still Life.” Alma Winningham;
second. “Landscape.” Florence Ever
hart; honorable mention. "Mothers’
Day Remembrance.” Eva Grant
Marshall.
Journalism—First prize, “Jump
Right In." Elizabeth Simons Tilton;
second, “Home Tooke. the Forgotten
Hero." Margaret Jean Bailey; first
honorable mention, "Stephen W.
Kearney and the Southwest," Diana
Kearney Powell; second honorable
mention. “Common Sense for Pub
lice Speakers,” Mattie Richards
Tyler.
Poetry — First prize, “Armor
Against Autumn.” Katherine Ken
nedy Everett; second, "Trees Will
Understand.” Mattie Richards
Tyler; first honorable mention. “Pil
grimage.” Anna Priestly: second
honorable mention, "Traveler,”
Anne Darlington.
Short Story—First prize, “The
White Organdy,” Elizabeth Simons
Tilton; second, “In a Second Story
Flat," Nellie W. Irish; first honor
able mention, “Flowers Come Alive,”
Emma Vickery; second honorable
mention. "Corsage and a Tropic
Moon.” Anne Bonner Marley.
Radio—First prize. "Seven Fam
ous Mothers,” Margaret Jean
Bailey; second, "Birth and Growth
of the Nation's Capital,” J. Jeune
Carter; first honorable mention,
“Over the Gypsy Trail,” Marie
Lomas Bockoven; second honorable
mention, "Know Your Nation's
Capital,” Irene S. Cohen.
Torchieres Presented.
Although the Clara Rosser Dennis
special prize was not given to a
member because of insufficient num
ber of entries, Mrs. Dennis presented
the club with a pair of electric
torchieres for the stage. The azalea
Green-Badgley contest for heraldric
design and the Frances Moon Butts
non-fiction contest also had insuffi
cient entries.
Prizes ranged from $5 to $15 and
artistic award certificates made by
Mrs. Briggs also were received by
the winners. Chairmen of the de
partments made the award.
Honor guests included Dr. Butts,
Mrs. Badgley, Mrs. Tiller and Mrs.
Hoxie.
It was also announced Harriet
Disney will present the District
branch in the national lyric contest,
while Anna Priestley w’ill compete
for the Ted Malone prize, given for
the best poem on "Tolerance,” each
having won first place in the local
branch competitions.
James S. J. Clark Rites
Will Be Tomorrow
»
J Funeral services for James S. J.
Clark. 76-year-old retired Wash
ington businessman who died yes
, £rday at his White Oak (Md.) home
affter a long illness, are to be held
tomorrow at 3 p.m. at St. Mark's
Episcopal Church, Fairland, Md.,
With burial in the church cemetery.
'The Rev. Dr. Charles T. Warner,
rector of St. Alban's Church, will
djfficiate at the services.
’"Until his retirement six months
ago because of ill health, Mr. Clark
lfcd been representative of a na
tional building supplies concern,
With offices in the Colorado Build
lag. for more than 30 years.
iHe was a former member of the
^oard of Directors of the Wash
ington Rotary Club, and was active
itt the Vannsville Farmers’ Club of
Since Georges County.
SBorn in Baltimore, Md., the son
a James and Margaret Clark, Mr.
ark moved with his family to
’ffhite Oak Farm, one of Montgom
ery County's most beautiful estates,
When he was 3 years old.
•Surviving are his wife, five sons,
ftorrison M., John R., Kenneth S.,
^mes E. and George W. Clark, all
& Montgomery County, and two
Ughters, Mrs. George Converse
Setherill of Westmoreland Hills.
d., and Mrs. Robert Robertson of
Baltimore, Md.
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, *K he hits me, I’ll sue him," Is
fcmnd logic If you don’t mind your
Qpeirs quarreling over the judgment.
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WINS ART PRIZE—Mrs. Helen F. Collison (left) shown receiving the popular prize award for art
from Mrs. Ethel Davis, chairman of art, for the picture shown between them at a meeting of the
District of.Columbia Branch of the National League of American Pen Women at the Grafton
Hotel. —Star Staff P^ioto.
Court Identifies 'Charley Ross'
But Family 'Disowns'' Him
Carpenter, Legally
Named, Visions
Film Riches
By the Associated Press.
PHOENIX, Ariz., May 9.—Gus
tave Blair, 69-year-old carpenter,
shrugged aside today the disbelief
of the Ross family in Philadelphia
that he was the Charley Ross whose
kidnaping at Germantown, Pa., in
1874 became one of the most cele
brated abductions in American crim
inal history.
Mr. Blair, after years of effort,
was identified legally yesterday by
the Maricopa County Superior Court
as the long-missing Charles Brew
ster Ross.
In Philadelphia Walter L. itoss,
who was kidnaped with Charley,
said. "The whole thing is ridiculous."
“This man's claims are entirely
unfounded and we intend to ignore
the action of the Arizona court,” he
asserted.
Blair Plans to Fight On.
Mr. Blair said the family's atti
tude would not deter him from
pressing his efforts to gain their
acceptance of his newly established
identity.
“If my older brother (Walter)
lives for five years, he'll seek me
out and admit our kinship," he de
clared.
Mr. Blair filed the civil action to
establish his identity. He named
as defendants Walter, Sophia, Ma
rian and Anne, other children of
Christian and Sarah Ann Ross.
They did not answer the complaint
and Superior Judge G. A. Rodgers
entered a default judgment.
speaks oi contracts.
“I have been ignored by Walter
and other members of my family
despite the fact that they know
my claims were justified," Mr. Blair
said bitterly. "My wife and I sac
rificed our home and in some in
stances have gone hungry to prove
my birth right.”
Asked if he intended legal action
to restore a portion of the family
fortune which he as “Charley Ross"
would be entitled, he said:
"There won't be any need for
that."
Then he spoke in glowing terms
of radio and film contracts which,
he claimed, were to be given him
when and if he ever secured recog
nition of a court that he was the
kidnaped “Charley Ross.”
He plans to use the name Charles
Brewster Ross.
Just as the story which he tells of
his life as "Charley Ross” is packed
with drama, so was the court hear
ing which established his identity
yesterday.
Foster Brother Key Witness.
As his key witness. Mr. Blair had
Lincoln C. Miller of Los Angeles, a
foster brother, who was so seriously
ill that he had to be brought to
court in a wheel chair. Without his
testimony, Mr. Blair said, his cpse
would have been futile.
To climax the proceeding. Mrs.
Blair collapsed in court while the
GUSTAVE BLAIR.
jury spent eight minutes deliberat
ing its verdict.
Blair declared today that he has
an unbroken chain of evidence to
establish his true • identity from
1873.
Charley and Walter Ross were
kidnaped July 1, 1874. by two men.
Walter was found a short time
later. Three days later, the Ross
family received the first of 23 ran
som letters, demanding $20,000.
Negotiations to obtain the child's
return were futile.
Mr. Blair traces his identity from
John Hawks, a Lee County (HI.)
farm youth, member of the gang.
Hawks. Mr. Blair said, got mixed
up with the gang and told Rinear
Miller, a Compton (111.) farmer, he
would like to take Miller's son. Lin
coln, then age 11, to Pennsylvania
as a companion for his sister's
child. The elder Miller acceded.
Later, he and Hawks were sta
tioned in a Pennsylvania cave to
which Blair was brought by three
other men. While there, Lincoln
Miller testified in court yesterday,
the 4-year-old child told him he
was Charley Ross.
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Sight of Colan Baby
Again Worries Doctors
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 9—Sight was
still a question mark today for 13
months-old baby Helaine Colan.
A year ago today at the decision
of a “jury” of 10 doctors and two
rabbis the infant’s right eye was
removed in an effort to stop the
spread of glioma, a cancerous
growth.
The jury acted when the parents,
Dr. Herman Colan. a dentist, and
his young wife. Estelle, could not
decide whether to order an opera
tion which would save the infant's
life but probably leave her blind,
or permit nature to take its course,
an alternative which doctors said
would soon result in her death.
After the unseeing right eye W’as
removed X-ray treatments were un
dertaken to curb the malignant
tumor which had attacked the left
eye.
At present, the father said, no
special treatments were being given
the baby who is growing normally.
He said it has not been determined
whether the baby can see partially—
and partial sight was the only hope.
Col. Knox Appeals
For More Adequate
National Defense
Definite Policy of
Neutrality Needed,
Publisher Declares
Br the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS. May 9.—Military
strength is security. Col. Prank
Knox, Chicago publisher, declared
here last night, urging “more ade
quate" national defense and repeal
of neutrality legislation.
The best way for the United States
to promote democracy is to make
certain its own security, the 1936
Republican vice presidential candi
date told a Republican women’s
meeting in an address broadcast na
tionally.
“There is not time to waste.” Col.
Knox asserted. “The best way to
remain at peace is always be pre
pared for war. Our present admin
istration should spend less time
telling other nations what to do and
take care of these imperative needs.”
Col. Knox recently returned from
a tour of South and Central Amer
ica and said: “There is universal
recognition there of the need for
co-operation between the two conti
nents for proper defense.”
He urged increased Panama Canal
Zone armament, establishment of
air and naval bases in the Pacific
and Caribbean to protect the Canal
and purchase of the Galapagos Is
lands for use as a naval base to pro
tect the West Coast.
In urging repeal of neutrality leg
islation, Col. Knox declared the
Nation needed a definite policy of
neutrality, unconfined by statute.
He said the American people
themselves will insist on the United
States remaining neutral, and criti
cized President Roosevelt as “show
ing too much of a disposition to re
gard himself as the only man who
can insure world peace.”
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