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CHarbfl nf (Hranka
HAWKINS. MARTHA. We sincerely
thank the Revs Warren. Sydnor and
Mayo; the chorus, auartet and choir of
the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church. MaJ.
Roberts of the Salvation Armv. the neigh
bors and many other friends for their
services, expressions of sympathy and floral
tributes during the illness and the passing
of nur dear mother and wifp. MARTHA
HAWKINS. THE FAMILY. •
MINOR. ELIZA. I wish t.> express my
ilncere appreciation and gratitude to the
many friends and relatives for their arts
and kind expressions nf love and sympathy.
Also for the telekrams. cards and lovely
floral tributes on the occasion of the loss
01 dC8r m0,herEL?Z^ETH,NTYLER. •
Bratljg
ALEXANDER. MAROARET CECELIA. On
Thursday. August 1? 1019. at her resi
dence. 401' Kansas ave n.w., MARGARET
CECELIA ALEXANDER, wife of Theodore
W Alexander and mother of Mrs. Catherine
Matilda Weller Mrs. Margaret St. Clair
Lanouett and Mrs. Dorothy Ellen Darr.
Services at the residence or her sister.
Mrs. Annie B Alexander. 8400 Maple ave..
Silver Spring. Mo., on Monday. August 21.
at 11 a m. Relatives and friends are in
vited. Interment Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Services b^ Chambers. 20
ANDERSON. RAY ELIZABETH. On
Thursday. August IT. 1939. RAY ELIZA
BETH ANDERSON, beloved wife of Mar
shall F. Anderson of 632 53rd st. n.e :
devoted mother of Beatrice Davis: grand
mother of Elaine and I*eroy Davis. She
leaves other relatives and many friends.
Remains may be seen Sundav. August. 20.
after 12 noon, at Lewis’ funeral home.
1508 9th st. n.w
Funeral Monday. August 21. at 1:30
|>.m.. from the Church of thp Atonement.
66th st. between Grant and Foote sts n.e.
Interment Woodlawn Cemetery. Relatives
and friends invited. Rev. E. L. Hender
lon officiating. 20
BENNETT. MARV. On Friday. August
IS. 1939. at 1516 O st. n.w . MARY BEN
NETT. Remains resting a’ Frazier’s fu
neral home 389 Rhode Island ave. n.w.
Notice of funeral later.
BROWN. FYA. On Friday. August 18.
1939 EVA BROWN wife of William E.
Brown, mother of Ellen Brown and Vir
ginia Douglas She also leaves five sis
ters four brothers, other relatives and
friends Remains resting at the Stewart
funeral homp. 30 H st n e.
Notice of funeral later. ~0
CADDLE, WILLIAM. On Saturday. Au
gust 19. 1939. at Children's Hospital.
WILLIAM CADDIE, beloved son of James
tnd Hannah Caddie.
Funeral services will be held at the
Chambers Georgetown funeral home 31st
and M sts n.w on Tuesdav. August 22,
at 11 a m. Relatives and friends invited.
Interment Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
CHAPMAN. FTTA. On Friday. August
18. 1939 ETTA CHAFMAN. beloved niece
Of Martha Bright. Remains may be
viewed at the W. Ernest Jarvis funeral
fhurch. 1432 ll st. n.w., after 10 a.m.
Sunday. August 20.
Funeral Mondav. August °1. at 1 pm.,
from the Mount Gilead Baptist Church.
13th st between R and 8 sts. n.w.. Rev.
W L Turley officiating Interment Lin
coln Memorial Cemetery. Relatives and
friends invited. 20
CORFi. nil LIAM muir.KU un m
dav August 18. 1939. at his home. 1854
33rd st n.w.. WILLIAM FREDERICK
COREY beloved husband of Clara May
Corey inee Luckett*.
Remains resting at Birch’s funeral home.
3034 M st. n.w . where services will be
held on Monday. August 21. at 2 D m.
Interment Olenwood Cemetery. 20
DAY, HARRY. On Thursday August 17.
1939 at his residence Accokeek Md
HARRY D%Y. beloved husband of Mary
Elsie Day. father of Katherine A Day. son
Of Elizabeth Dav and brother of Mrs. Grace
Morris. M*-* Stansbury. Mrs,. Prather and
Mrs Sinrlare
Funeral from the above address on Sun
day. August 20. at 1 30 pm Services
at Christ Episcopal Church at 2 p.m. Rel
atives and friend* invited. Interment
Christ Church Cemetery Services by
Chambers’ Southeast funeral home. 20
DENT. MARY AGNES. On Friday Au
gust 18. 1939 at Sibley Memorial Hospital.
MARY AGNES DENT, beloved wife of
Walter T Dent. Remains resting a- the
Huntemann funeral home. 5732 Georgia
ave n.w . until Sunday noon
Services at her la’0 residence. 5400 Colo
rado ave nw. on Monday. August 21. at
2 p m. Relatives and friends invited to
attend. Interment Cedar Hill Cemetery. 20
FELL. AARON. Suddenly, on Wednesday,
August 18. 1939 at his home. Beecn ave.
gnd Forest rd Be’hesda Md AARON
FELL, beioved husband of Emma V. Fell
Remains resting at the funeral home of
william Reuben Pumphrey. 7005 Wisconsin
Ave.. Bethesda. Md . until Saturday a.m .
August i9.
Funeral services at his late home on
taturday. August 19. at 2 p.m Interment
oekville Union Cemetery. (Philadelphia
and Pittsburgh papers please copy.) 19
FOX. MORRIS. Suddenly, nn Friday. Au
gust 18. 1939. MORRIS FOX. beloved
husband of Phoebe Fnx and father of
Nathan Fnx. Mrs Fisa Colburn. Elias Fox
and Mrs Ruth Harley.
Funeral services at the Chambers George
town funeral home. 31st and M sts. n.w..
on Monday. August 21. at 2 p.m. Rela
tives and friends invited. Interment Cedar
Hill Cemetery.
FITZHUGH. CLARENCE P. Departed
this life Thursday. August 17, 1939. after
A short illness. CLARENCE P. FITZHUGH.
son of the late Frank and Mrs. Fannie
Fuzhugh He is survived by a loving
wife. Jennie Fitzhugh two brothers. Wil
liam and Milton Fitzhugh: two sisters.
Mrs Sophia Mankins and Mrs. Edmonia
Witt, and other relatives and a host of
friends
Funeral services Monday. August 21.
• tip m.. from the Barnes & Matthews
funeral home 814 4th st. s.w. Interment
Arlington National Cemetery. •
FRAZIER. LUCY. Departed this life On
Friday. August 18. 1939, at her residence.
312 3rd st s.w . LUCY FRAZIER, loving
mother of the late Welford Frazier She
leaves to mourn her loss a daughter-in- I
law Mrs Ruth Frazier. Remain* resting
af the Gardiner & Sons funeral home. ,
322 D st. & w
Notice of funeral later.
GARNETT, WILLIAM H. On Thursday,
August 17. 1939. at GallinRcr Hospital.
WILLIAM H GARNETT, beloved husband
of Mrs. Jennie Garnett. lo\ing nephew i
of Mrs Rettie Swann: uncle of Rev. Thomas !
Garnett, cousin of Mrs Nellie Moxlev.
Other relative* and friends also survive ,
Remains resting at the John T. Rhines
funeral chapel. 3rd and Eve sts. s.w.. un
til Sunday. August 20. at 8 p m.; thence
to his late home. 424 8th st. s.w.
Funeral Monday. August 21. at I p.m .
from the Friendship Baptist Church. 1st
Jnd H sts. s.w . Rev. B. Whiting officiating
nterment Lincoln Memorial Cemetery. 20
GRAVES, MARY LOUISE. On Satur
day. August J9. 1939. at Children’s Hos
pital. MARY LOIITSE. beloved daughter of
Ernest J. and Margaret Louise Graves (nee
Ready! of 1505 Gales sr. n.e.
Funeral from Timothy Hanlon’s funeral i
parlor. 841 H st. n.e.. on Monday, August
21 a* 11 am Interment Mount Olivet
Cemetery. Relatives and friends invited. 20
GULICK. MAJ. GEN. JOHN W. On Fri- !
day. August 18. 1939. at Capo Cottage.
Me.. Mai Gen JOHN W. GULICK (retired',
beloved husband of Florence McMullan Gu
lick and father of Jean Gulick and Lt.
John McMullan Gulick. Fort Mills. Philip
pine Islands.
Interment Arlington National Cemetery
Monday. August 2J. at 2 p.m. Services at
the grave only. 20
HART, AURELIA THOMPSON. Sudden
* ly. on Thursday. August 17. 1939. at her
residence 1014 20th *t. n.w. AURELIA .
THOMPSON HART wife of the late Elder
John C. Harr, sister of Robert B Thomp
son of New York City, mother of Mamie.
Eugenia, William T. and Thornton J Hart !
and Mrs. Carrie Smith of Chicago, Mrs I
jrauijne rv/v.v. uisimilP uavis. OUT
viving are also an adopted granddaughter.
Mrs Frances Smith: twenty-six grand
children and three great-grandchildren
Funeral from the McGuire funeral home,
3820 oth st. n.w.. on Monday. August 21.
at 1:30 p.m. Relatives and friends in
vited. OQ
HAYS. ROBERT T. On Friday. August
IS, 1930, at his residence, 3500 14th st
n w . Apt. 519. ROBERT T HAVS, be
loved husband of Cora Coster Hays, son of
Mrs. Frederick P Hays
Services at the S. H. Hines Co. funeral
home. 2901 i4th st. n.w.. on Mondav. Au- I
gust 21, at 1(1 a m Relatives and friends
invited Interment Monocacy Cemetery.
Beallsville. Md. 09
HOI.LAND. o. EDWARD. On Tuesday.
Ajigust 15. 1930. O, EDWARD HOLLAND
of. 'st. n.w,. beloved husband
of Edna M. Holland and son of John Hol
land. He also is survived by other relatives
•nd Ynanv friends.
Notice Of funeral later. Arrangements
by McGuire. o„
HOWF. JOSEPH EMORY. On Friday.
August IS. 1930, JOSEPH EMORY HOWE,
beloved husband of Eleanor Howe, brother
of Norman Clifton Howe. Mrs. Grace San
bord Nash. Mrs Lidia Rowe Mrs. Clara
Sherivood and the late James Franklin
Howe.
Funeral from Chambers'. 1400 Chapin
•t. n.w . on Tuesday. August 22. at 2 p.m.
LOMAX, CHARLES. Departed this life
©n Thursday. August IT. 1939. at his
TnlSjFx?*- 15th st s.e,. CHARLES
LOMAX, the beloved husband of Belle Lo
max father of Edna and Preston Lomax,
brother of Mrs. Anna Graves and Samson
Lomax nephew; of Mrs. Ella Lomax and
foster father of Pearl Wood.
Funeral Sunday. August *.!0. at 3 Dm.
Irom hts late residence: thence to Mount
Horeb Barnisf Church. 16th and B sts. n.e.
Interment in Lincoln Memorial Cemetery. •
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Packing Strike Turns
On Armour's Attitude
On Written Union Pact
C. 1.0. Makes Concession,
But Threatens Walkout
If Company Refuses
By the Associated Press.
1 The prospect of a C. I. O. strike
\n the packing industry appeared to
day to hinge on Armour & Co.’s re
action to a demand for a written bar
gaining agreement.
Van A. Bittner, chairman of the
Packinghouse Workers Organizing
Committee, holding out the threat of
a strike before Labor Day, disclosed
here last night that the C. I. O.
would agree with Armour to put col
lective bargaining on a plant-by
plant basis, but that the agreement
was contingent on Armour's willing
ness to reduce any agreement to
writing.
The Bittner offer was a modifica
tion of C. I. O.'s previous stand for
an agreement covering all Armour
plants.
Armour officials conferred with
Secretary of Labor Perkins here yes
terday. The Secretary quoted them
as saying local managers had ample
authority for separate plant nego
tiations, but that the company op
posed a national agreement as "im
practical.”
Sitting with Miss Perkins at a
pieces Lumcicutc, xvii. Dinner maae
it clear his offer to modify his bar
gaining demands was limited strictly
to a promise of written contracts.
“If they don't agree to sign," he
said, “there will be a strike."
Mr. Bittner said he did not know
Armour's attitude on signed agree
ments. and Miss Perkins refused to
say what position the packing com
pany officials had taken in their con
ference with her.
The Armour representatives re
turned to Chicago with alternative
suggestions from the Secretary for
meeting the C. I. O. demands.
Parking Lot Lease
Seeker Pushes Fight
Samuel Lovenbein won't admit
defeat in his attempt to hold on to
the parking lot on the new Munici
pal Center site until he hears from
the Court of Appeals, he announced
today. Municipal Court Judge
Nathan Cayton yesterday entered
a judgment for repossession of the
property by the District.
Threatened with eviction within
the next few days, Mr. Lovenbein
declared. "They're just trying to
break down my morale.”
Earlier this week, he filed a notice
in the United States Court of Ap
peals of his intention to appeal
from District Court Justice Alan T.
Goldsborough's decision to dismiss
his injunction suit against the Dis
trict Commissioners, which would
have prevented the District from
proceeding with the suit in Munici
pal Court to oust Mr. Lovenbein
on the grounds that he failed as
the high bidder for the parking
lot lease.
When he dismissed the suit, how
ever. the jurist gave Mr. Lovenbein's
attorney five days in which to file
a new complaint. He didn't do so.
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Chester Gray, who has been hand
ling the case for the Government,
said the appeal was noted from an
interlocutory decree and that the
District’s rental agent would not
await outcome of the appeal, but
go ahead with the writ of restitu
tion next week.
3?alha
MARGELOS. JOHN ALEXANDER On
Saturdav. August .1!*. 19.19. at Children's
Hospital. JOHN ALEXANDER aged 7
months, of 025 4th st s.w. infant son
of George and Virginia Margelos. Remains
resting in the chapel of P. A. Taltavull.
4.16 7th st. s.w
Funeral Monday. August. 21. at 10 am.
Interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
NEWMAN. HFLFN ARMSTRONG. On
Saturday. August 19. 1909. at her home
4t>OH Chevy Chase blvd.. Chevy Chase. Ma .
HELEN ARMSTRONG NEWMAN, beloved
wife Of Robert H. Newman and mothei
of Helen and Robert H. Newman. 1r.
Funeral services at the funeral home of
Wm. Reuben PumDhrey. 7005 Wisconsin
ave. Bethesda. Md.. on Saturdav August
19. at 4 D.m. Funeral and interment
strictlv private and no flowers.
NORRIFD, MARTHA W. On Friday.
August 1H. J909. at Gallinger Hospital.
•MARTHA W. NORRTED of 5018 Lee st. n e.
She leaves to mourn their loss one son. one
daughter, three brothers, three sisters, a
stepmother and other relatives and friends.
Funeral Monday. August 21. at 2 D.m .
from the Henrv S. Washington & Sons
funeral home. 4925 Deanp ave. n e. Re
mains mav be viewed after 2 D.m. Sun
day. Interment Woodlawn Cemetery.
PLATT, MARY H. On Friday. August
18. 19.19. at the residence of her son.
Roger R. Platt. 1120 -8th st. n.w. MARY
H . aged SG years, widow of Burchaad D.
Platt.
Services at the Oliver B Jenkins fu
neral home, 809 10th st. n.w.. Sunriav.
August 20. at 4 p.m. Interment Bath.
N. Y. 20*
READY. JULIA MCCARTHY. On Sat
urday. August jo. 1939. »t Providence
Hospital JULIA MCCARTHY READY, be
loved wifp of Edward Ready.
Notice of funeral later. 21
RYON, JOHN C. On Thursday. August
17. 1939. at Indian Head. Md.. JOHN C.
RYON. hploved husband of Cecelia O. Ryon
and father of Charles E.: John C.. Jr.;
Margaret V. Ryon and Mrs. Helen M
Moody Remains resting at the above
address.
Set vices at Plsgah Methodist Church.
Pisgah. Md.. on Sunday. August 20. at 3
p.m. Relatives and friends invited. In
terment church cemetery Services by
Chambers Southeast funeral home. 20
THOMAS. NELLIE A. on Friday. Au
gust 18. 1939. at Providence Hospital.
NELLIE A THOMAS of 203 Rock Creek
Church road n.w., beloved wife of the late
Arthur R. Thomas and sister of the late
Katherine B. McNamara.
Services at the S. H. Hines Co. funeral
home. 2901 14th st. n.w.. on Monday. Au
gust 21. ar 8:30 a m.; thence to St. Ga
briel’s Catholic Church. Grant Circle, where
mass will be offered at 9 a.m. Relatives
and friends invited. Interment Rock
Creek Cemetery. 20
WILLIAMS. EDWARD. Suddenly, on
Thursday. August 17. 1939. EDWARD WIL
LIAMS. beloved son of Thessalonu and
Nettip Williams, brother of Ethel and
Alonzo Williams. He also leaves other
relatives and friends. Remains may be
viewed at the W. Ernest Jarvis funeral
church. 1432 Von n. n.w., after 4 p.m.
Sunday. August 20.
Funeral Monday. August 21. at 2 p.m..
from the above funeral church. Rev. Pre
low officiating. Interment Woodlawn Cem
etery. Relatives and friends Invited. 20
WINTERS. JAMES RICHARD. SR. De
parted this life on Friday. August 18.
1939. at Providence Hospital, JAMES
RICHARD WINTERS. SR. beloved hus
band of Florine Winters and loving father
of Richard, jr.: Phyllis. John. Lawrence.
Bernard and Reginald Winters.
Notice of funeral later.
ZAJIC. CHRISTINE. Suddenly, on Fri
day August 18. 1939. CHRI8TINE ZAJIC.
wife of Walter Zajic.
Remains resting at Chambers’ suburban
funeral home. Riverdale. Md., where pray
ers will be offered on Saturday. August
19. at 4 p.m. Interment Petersburg. Va.
In jflimnrtam
BRAHLER. ANNA C. AND WILLIAM.
Sacred to the memory of our dear parents.
ANNA C. BRAHLER. who died twelve years
ago. August 19. 1927. and WILLIAM
BRAHLER who died fortT-seven Tears ago.
July 28. 1802.
THEIR DEVOTED CHILDREN. •
COOK. JOHN H. A tribute of love to
the memory of our devoted husband and
father. JOHN H. COOK, who left us two
years ago today. August 19. 1937.
HIS IOVTNO WTFE, LOUISE P. COOK.
AND CHILDREN. •
TILGHMAN. HUBERT LEO. In loving
remembrance of our dear brother. HUBERT
LEO TILGHMAN. who passed away one
year ago todav. August 19. 1938. Anni
versary mass at St. Jerome’s Church. Hy
attsville. Md.
We are still thinking of you.
Just thinking of the oast,
Picturing you in our memory
Just as wa saw you last._
HIS SISTERS AND BROTHERS. •
Indian Dialect Keeps
Radio Messages
Safe at War Games
By the Associated Press.
PLATTSBURG, N. Y., Aug.
19.—When the 28th Infantry,
1st Division Regular Army,
found the "enemy” anticipating
its every move in these war
games, officers decided their ra
dio telephone messages were be
ing intercepted.
The outfit thought it had the
problem solved when it turned
the radio over to a couple of
German-born doughboys, but
the "enemy” apparently had
some one who could speak Ger
man too. Italian proved no
better.
The command of the 28th was
stumped—until some one re
membered there were two full
blooded Tuscarora Indians
among the enlisted men.
The 28th's radio messages
meant nothing to the enemy
from then on.
Guardsmen Returning
From Maneuvers
Thwart Holdup
Bandit Fatally Wounded
As Pennsylvanians Go
To Motorist's Aid
By the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG, Pa., Aug. 19.—A
group of Pennsylvania National
Guardsmen, returning from mimic
warfare at Manassas, Va., were
hailed today as heroes of a real life
battle in which an attempted high
way robbery was thwarted and one of
the bandits fatally wounded near
here last night.
The man. who was shot through
the head, was identified by Detec
tive John E. Abrams as John E.
Miller, who had lived at nearby
Marysville a year and a half. Mr.
Abrams said neighbors understood
he previously lived in Cleveland.
The Guardsmen, members of a
Phoenixville artillery company,
pulled up in a truck and station
wagon as Albert H. Moorshead, 52,
j Reifftown, Pa, insurance agent,
! fought with two hitch-hikers he said
tried to rob him.
! His car halted on a lonely by
pass, Mr. Moorshead was struggling
with the bandit who later died for
possession of a .22-caliber pistol the
man had thrust in his ribs. The
other bandit, in the rear seat, was
slugging Mr. Moorshead on the head
with a blackjack.
At the approach of the Guards
men, the bandits fied up a hillside.
A dozen soldiers pursued them
through high weeds and brush.
"Stop or well shoot,’’ yelled Lt.
Henry Ortlip.
"One of the men turned around and
yelled back that if we didn't stop, he
would shoot," the lieutenant related
later. "Neither halted their pace.
Then we heard a shot.
“We kept going and a little dis
; tance ahead we came across a man
lying on the ground, unconscious. We
turned our flashlights on him
and saw he was bleeding from a bul
let w’ound in the right temple. Near
by lay a revolver, one bullet fired "
The other bandit escaped in an
automobile State troopers said was
waiting on the hill.
D. C. Student Elected
National Fraternity Head
Charles L. Mehler. 3900 Fourteenth
street N.W., yesterday was elected
grand president of Pi Phi National
Fraternity at the final business ses
cinwt nf cut
H annual conven-'
j| tion in the Wil- 1
Elard Hotel. He
K and other offi
1 cers were in
I; stalled last night
at a banquet.
P Young Mehler
H is a member of
Omicron Chap
el ter of Central
High School, the
host chapter for
i the convention,
.and succeeds as
i-J
c. L. Mehier. Richard V. W.
Adams, jr., also a member of
Omicron.
Paul J. Rippberger of Beta Kappa
Chapter, Baltimore, was elected
vice president, Roland T. Putnam
of Alpha Upsilon Chapter. Mead
ville, Pa„ was re-elected treasurer,
and William Martin, Mu Chapter,
Syracuse, was elected secretary.
It was voted to hold the next na
tional convention next August in
Baltimore.
New Soviet Air Aid
To China Reported
HONG KONG, China, Aug. 19
</P).—Soviet Russian air assistance
for China, which for a time last
year enabled the Chinese to contest
Japanese air supremacy in vital sec
tors, was reported yesterday to have
been resumed.
Informed sources said 50 speedy
Russian nursuit. nlanes alreadv are
on the line at bases near Chung
king, the present Chinese sapital.
Soviet flyers and ground crews, it
was said, were flown to the bases
in Russian-built, American-model
transports, while 150 additional Rus
sian planes have reached a Russian
reserve training base at Lanchow
in Kansu Province, Northwestern
China.
Prof. Charles Peabody
Dies in Paris at 71
B? the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Aug. 19.—The death in
Paris of Prof. Charles Peabody, 71,
noted archaeologist, was announced
here today by his son, Alfred H. B.
Peabody.
Alfred said his father, former
curator of European archaeology at
Peabody Museum at Harvard Uni
versity, died Wednesday after a long
illness. Burial will be in Paris.
Prof. Peabody had lived in Paris
since he retired in 1921. Born in
Rutland, Vt„ he was graduated from
the University of Pennsylvania and
was awarded two honorary degrees
by Harvard.
He served as chairman of the
board for tha American School of
Prehistoric Studies in Prance and
was a member of the Archaeological
Institute of America.
Driving is a responsibility. Treat
it as sneh. 1
A
Guards Manhandle
Two Photographing
Bomber Test Flight
Newspaper Cameramen
Had Official Permission
From Baltimore Plant
By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 19.—Secrecy
surrounding construction of Army
and Navy planes at the Glenn L.
Martin plant here resulted yester
day in the manhandling by com
pany guards of two newspaper pho
tographers attempting to photo
graph—with official permission—the
test hop of a bomber built for
the French government.
Just as the high-speed ship was
about to take off. guards seized
Jack Shipley and John Stadler,
the cameramen, roughed them up,
kicked Shipley’s camera and held
both men until the plane, piloted
by W. K. Ebel, chief Martin test
pilot, was in the air.
A few minutes before Marsh K.
Powers, assistant to President Glenn
L. Martin, had issued verbal orders
to a guard approving the photo
graphs.
Chief J. A. Wertman of the plant
police said Mr. Shipley and Mr.
Stadler were stopped because neither
was wearing official visitors’ badges.
Plant officials apologized, assert
ing the guards had acted under
strict rules governing photographs
ot Martin snips, laid down Dy tne
Army and Navy. The plant has
millions of dollars’ worth of plane
orders from the Federal Govern
ment.
The ship, fastest ever built at the !
Baltimore plant, is an attack type
bomber capable of speed exceeding
300 miles an hour. It carries a crew
of three, is powered by two engines,
weighs about eight and a half tons
and has a wing spread of 61 feet.
Plant's Space Doubled.
It is the first turned out under a
$28,000,000 order placed with the
Martin firm by the French govern
ment six months ago and will be
delivered in about a week. By mid
November, officials said, the French
ships will be rolling out at the rate
of three a day.
Martin officials refused to disclose
the total number of planes covered
by the order. The plant was forced
to double its manufacturing space to
meet delivery dates.
Reich's Oil Purchases
From Rumania Drop
By the Associated Press.
BUCHAREST. Rumania, Aug.
19.— Lack of ready cash or credit
was reported in government quarters
today to have cut down Nazi Ger
many's oil purchases in Rumania.
Exports to the Reich are fixed at
30 pier cent of the total Rumanian
trade within their barter agreement.
Germany, in order to swell her pun
chases, has paid for additional ex
ports of petroleum in cash or the
Czech credits which she absorbed
here after the breakup of that re
public. With these spent Rumania's
oil exports to Germany now have
returned to the flat 30 per cent
under the barter agreement.
Weather
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could not be determine immediately,
but many fields of corn were laid
flat by rain and wind.
The Smith River at Bassett, Va.,
reached 12 feet above the normal
flood stage, flooding houses in the
lowlands.
Crops Are Benefited.
Late crops and pasturage in Fair- |
fax County, Va., were benefited fully
by a half million dollars by the
heavy rains, according to County
Agent A. E. Beard. Not only were
corn. hay and pasturage grass helped
greatly, but diminishing water sup
plies that had threatened livestock
were replenished. Absence of rain
for 10 days had brought the corn
crop in Fairfax to a “critical stage,”
Mr. Beard said.
In Prince Georges County. Exten
sion Agnet P. E. Clark said the gen
eral county-wide rains had been of
incalculable aid to late tobacco, corn,
vegetables, hay and pasturage.
WLiile, as in other localities, se
vere rains and wind beat down some
corn and other crops, the size of the
harvest will not be affected mate
riallv \Tr r!larlr «aiH althnnah
gathering the grounded crops will
take more time and cost more. There
had been no rain in many sections
of the county for more than 100
days, he added.
The bridge over Accotink Run
on Little River pike in Fairfax
County was closed to traffic this
afternoon by Resident Highway En
gineer W. W. Sanders of Fairfax,
who said there was a possibility the
heavy rain may have weakened it.
Motorists were detoured over the
Lee highway.
Mr. Sanders said the bridge may
be reopened later today or to
morrow.
Storm Unroofs Six Homes
In Baltimore Area
BALTIMORE, Aug. 19 UP).—A
severe wind and rain stored struck
Baltimore and vicinity early today,
unroofing six houses, causing two
boats to founder in the bay and
disrupting electric light service.
In the county, trees were felled,
roads mired and crops damaged.
The wind reached a velocity of 44
miles an hour, beyond gale force.
Meteorologist John R. Weeks said
the 2.37-inch rain was badly needed
to soak crops hard hit by the exces
sively hot and dry weather of the
past few weeks.
Six 2-story brick houses in a row
were unroofed by a blast of wind
that struck about 6:15 am. A wit
ness said the gust looked like “a
funnel-haped streak of black air.”
Roofing, skylights and chimney
topping were blown across the street,
breaking windows and shutters on
other houses. Firemen summoned
to remove the debris said no one
was injured.
A 45-foot sailing yacht was
grounded off Bodkin Point. The
five men aboard waded ashore.
The 98-foot schooner- Morning
Star, private school ship operated
by Capt. William Pond and his
wife, pushed against a pier at the
Maryland Yacht Club basin, scrap
ing her side. Smaller boats in the
basin were tossed about, but damage
was sligju.
CONDUCTOR TAKES A WIFE—Judge Robert E. Mattingly is shown performing the marriage cer
emony for Miss Mary Cecile Becker of St. Paul, Minn., and Guy Fraser Harrison, conductor of the
Rochester (N. Y.) Symphony Orchestra, in his Municipal Court office yesterday—Star Staff Photo.
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Orchestra Leader
From Rochester
Married Here
G. F. Harrison Weds
Mary Cecile Becker
Of St. Paul
A romance which budded in a
Minneapolis concert hall bloomed
yesterday afternoon when Guy
Fraser Harrison, conductor of the
Rochester (N.Y.) Symphony Or
chestra and currently directing the
National Symphony Orchestra, mar
ried 27-vear-old Mary Cecile Becker
of St. Paul, Minn., in a civil cere
mony before Muncipal Court Judge
Robert E. Mattingly.
Miss Becker, who is studying for
her master's degree in journalism
at New York University is the third
wife of the 44-year-old orchestra
director who conducted the Water
Gate concert Wednesday evening
and will again conduct tomorrow
evening. The couple plan to leave
for Rochester and thence to North
ern Michigan immediately after the
concert tomorrow.
The ceremony yesterday was per
formed in Judge Mattingly's office
with a number of music patrons and
friends in attendance.
The bride wore a pink wool suit
and matching hat and a large cor
sage of gardenias and lilies-of-the
valley. The bridegroom wore a white
summer suit with a festive purple
boutonniere.
When the judge told the couple
to hold hands, the bridegroom clung
tightly to his bride's gloved hand.
The judge deviated from the cere
mony in his battered little book only
at the end when he advised the
bridegroom to "kiss her as long as
she’ll let you.”
The couple burst out laughing
and promptly obeved.
Canned Beef Imports
Gain During First Half
By the .Associated Press.
South American canned beef,
ivhich President Roosevelt described
as superior to the domestic product,
entered the United States in in
creasing quantities during the first
naif year of 1939.
The Agriculture Department re
ported today that imports for that
period totaled 41.000.000 pounds,
compared with 39.000,000 in the first
six months a year ago.
In his comment last spring which
aroused the anger of Senators from
Western cattle States, Mr. Roosevelt
mentioned only Argentine beef, but
the department report showed the
mports came from Uruguay, Brazil
and Chile as well as Argentina.
The President said that in this
country choice beef is sold fresh,
put in the Argentine the market is
not great enough to absorb the sup
ply and choice cuts are sold in cans.
Mrs. Mary B. Platt, 86,
Dies at Home of Son
Mrs. Mary B. Platt, 86, died yes
terday at the home of her son.
Roger B. Platt, 1126 Eighth street
N.W., with whom she had made her
home for the last 30 years.
Born in Bath, N. Y., she w’as the
daughter of the late William M.
and Jane Dodge Salt. She was a
member of the Baptist church for
72 years.
Funeral services will be held to
morrow at the Oliver B. Jenkins
funeral home, 809 Tenth street N.W.,
at 4 p.m. Burial will be in Bath
Tuesday.
Pope
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oility, wanted to spare the peoples
such a serious disaster.”
He spoke to a large group of
Italian pilgrims.
His hearers said the Pope ad
vised "prudence and reserve” while
iwaiting development of events.
A Vatican news service said the
Pope remarked that from the begin
ling of his pontificate he had done
ill he could for the maintenance of
■peace founded on justice.”
“He invited those to whom the
Iestinies of men are confided,” the
Vatican news service said, "to turn
to God. cause war to cease where
It already rages, prevent it from
spreading and make harmony return
imong nations.’.’
The Pope’s brief speech was ad
dressed to several thousand pilgrims
from the Venetian region of Italy
who had come to Rome in observ
ance of the 25th anniversary of the
death of Pope Pius X. Pope Pius
who was patriarch of Venice be
fore his election to the papacy,
is deeply venerated by many
Venet
Rich Dallas Oil Han
Branded 'Fugitive'
In Louisiana Case
Wins Move in Court
Against Removal
Order
By the Associated Press.
DALLAS, Aug. 19—Although re
leased by a Federal judge. Freeman
W. Burford, wealthy Dallas oil man.
today was branded a "fugutive from
justice” on a Louisiana indictment
charging conspiracy to violate the
Connally Hot Oil Act.
Mr. Burford successfully fought a
removal order to Louisiana and
Federal Judge T. W. Davidson yes
terday released him on the habeas
corpus writ.
But O. John Rogge, Assistant
United States Attorney General, as
serted the ruling held only in the
northern district of Texas.
Mr. Rogge said certified copies of
the indictment would be sent to
every district to which Mr. Burford
might go and declared "as far as
the Department of Justice is eon
erned. Mr. Burford is a fugutive
from justice."
Mr. Burford was indicted with
former Gov. Richard W. Leche and
Seymour Weiss, a dominant figure
in Louisiana politics.
Judge Davidson declared in his
opinion Mr. Leche and Mr. Weiss
used their official status "to casn in'
and that "graft" would not be sup
pressed in Louisiana "so long as
rubber stamp meij held the seal of
state and put on o. k. on the crooks
that happen to be over and above
them.”
Feeble-Minded School
Has Long Waiting List
Housing at the District Training
School for Feeble-Minded at Laurel,
Md., was crowded to an extent of
16 per cent beyond normal capacity
and there continues to be a long
waiting list of applicants, Dr. James
Lewald, superintendent, said yes
terday in his annual report to the
Board of Public Welfare.
He anticipated some relief in
October, when a hospital building
is opened. An additional 150 beds
are to be provided in three new
buildings for which funds were made
available this fiscal year, but Dr.
Lewald said more than 150 persons
now are awaiting admittance.
For this reason he voiced the need
for construction of more dormitories.
The average daily population in the
last year was 572, as against 552 in
1938. He also requested a number
of other improvements, including a
schoolhouse with auditorium and
gymnasium, residence buildings for
employes and officers, a laundry and
sewage disposal plant.
Roper, Leaving Ottawa,
Stresses U. S. Friendship
OTTAWA. Aug. 19 (Canadian
Press i.—Daniel C. Roper assured
Canadian friends yesterday in a
statement on his resignation as!
United States Minister that he and 1
Mrs. Roper would “hang out the j
latchstring on our door in Washing
ton” for them.
“I have completed the period of
service contemplated when I be
came United Minister to Canada
last May,” he said, “and have re
signed effective August 20.”
In reviewing events during his
sfirvir.p in Ottnu/n tho Amorioon !
said:
“It is my opinion that when the
history of these times is recorded
that two events in the development
of understanding among our peoples
will stand out conspicuously, namely.
(1) the efforts of President Roose
velt to develop the good neighbor
policy among nations and (2) the
visit of King George VI and Queen
Elizabeth to Canada and the United
IStates in 1939.”
Proprietor Ducks Glass
As Flames Raze Liquor
The bright display of potables in
the front window of Samuel Brisk
er's liquor store at 513 Eleventh
street N.W. was only a charred
memory today.
Mr. Brisker was waiting on a cus
tomer late yesterday afternoon when
he saw flames in the front window.
He summoned firemen, then ducked
flying glass as bottle after bottle
exploded. A crowd gathered outside
watched. Mr. Brisker could make no
estimate of the damage.
Careless pedestrians cause three
1 of all accidents.
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Hot Spell Increases
Water Use Here by
Millions of Gallons
A Water Department official
said today the city had been
using between 135.000.000 and
139.000.000 gallons of water per
24 hours during the recent hot
weather as against a normal of
around 100000.000 gallons.
It has been higher, however,
reaching 143.000.000 gallons one
day about two years ago. The
department says there is plenty
left.
Quezon Congratulated
On 61st Birthday
By the Associated Press.
MANILA. Aug. 19.—Thousands of
persons, including many Americans,
went to Malacanan Palace today to
congratulate President Manuel L.1
Quezon on his 61st birthday anniver
sary.
Birthday balls will be held
throughout the islands for benefit
of tuberculosis sufferers. President
Quezon himself recovered from the
disease several years ago.
Visitors Complicate .
Traffic Problem
At Plattsburg
Day and Half of Rest
Await Weary Troops
Playing War Game
Bjr the Associated Press.
PLATTSBURG, N. Y„ Aug. 19.—
"War weary'’ soldiers of the 1st
Army returned to their base camps
for a week-end rest today and found*
a new concern in the streams of
tourists come to visit their "battle
field.”
The visitors promised to complicate
an already troublesome traffic prob
lem. |
To handle the situation expected
to develop over the week-end, the
force of military police in Plattsburg
and the immediate vicinity was
stepped up to 90 men, while several
hundred more were called to duty
elsewhere throughout the 450-square
mile "battle” area. 1
Coinciding with the influx of tour*
ists was the anticipated arrival of
several distinguished guests. Among .
them are Lt. Gov. Charles Poletti of
New York State. Col. E. W. Sansom,
director of military training and
staff duty in the Canadian Armv, I
and Lt. Col. K. C. Burness. instructor
in tactics at the Canadian Royal
Military College. *
A day and a half of rest awaitPd
the weary troops after more than 30
hours of two-sided combat exercises
in the field involving six unrelated
"battles.”
National Guardsmen, of whom
there are about 36.000 here from
nine States, got some rest last night
under the pup tents which thev
carried into action, but the Regular*
carried the fighting on through the
darkness.
Decisions on the outcome were not
immediately forthcoming from the
umpires.
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$4,344 Average Mortgage
The average mortgage accepted
for insurance by the Federal Hous
ing Administration in 1938 amount
ed to $4,344 and represented 79.7
per cent of the total porperty valua
tion. The average term was 19
years and nine months.
Ill Case*'
of
Death
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The Cemetery Office is open
week-days from 9 to 4:30,
Sundays and holidays, 9 to 12
D. Roy Mathews, Superintendent
Phone Col. 5936
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