Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-19
SUSP{NE MRS. BALL HAYES HASN'T A KICK
Commander of W. R. c. Acts, Marathon Winner Says Hell
Affecting Predecessor Wasn't So Badly Treated
DISCUSSION OF CHARGES lENGLlSH DON'T KNOW HOW
Mrs Returning Athletes Chat Of Olympic
hony Of Council. Game Features.
APPEAL WILL BE PROSECUTED PAPERS STIRRED TROUBLE
Case May Go to the When They Helped italian
Convention, Overt he
DISCUSSION OF CHARGES
Mrs. Newton Issues Order on Au-
thority Of Council.
APPEAL WILL BE PROSECUTED
Parties in Interest Make Statements
Case May Go to the National
Convention.

Under general orders of Mrs. Emma l..
Newton, department commander Of the
Womans Relief Corps of the District OF
Columbia, made public today, Mrs. Isabel
Worrell Ball, past department commander
of the corps, is suspended from the organ
izatiOn for one year. The officers of the
w. r. c. in the District are reticent re-
garding the case, but when Mrs. Newton
was interviewed today she admitted that
one Of the charges against Mrs. Ball is
that she Opened a letter addressed to
Mrs. Worrell Ball, department president.
w. r. c. when she should have turned
the same over to Mrs Newton as her sue
cessor at the head Of the District organi-
cation.
Mrs Ball admits she received the let
ter. which was an invitation to participate
in the removal of the remains of Gov.
Clinton from Congress ional cemetery, and
which was sent out by the secretary of
the Board Of Commissioners of the Dis
trict of Columbia. Mrs Ball says when
she took the letter back to the Commits
sioners sr:. was asked to serve in the
capacity mentioned. notwithstanding the
fact that another depar tment commander
had been elected
Mrs. Newton Explains.
Mrs. Newton also stated this afternoon
that Mrs. Ball failed to turn over prompt
ly to her certain properties of the organi-
cation when she went out of Office in Feb
ruary last These properties, she stated,
consisted of several letter files and other
articles of record Mrs. Ball turned over
this property May IA, according to Mrs.
Newton.
Il preferred charges against Mrs. Ball
July 3d. Mrs. Newton said, land appoint
81 f1,@ @4cks
mony. The committee held a meeting
and after discussing the evidence at hand
in the case agreed to report to the de-
partmental council of the District of Co
lumbia.
"a meeting of the council was held Au-
gust 10 and with one exception the body
voted to suspend Mrs. Ball from member
ship in the corps for one year.
Il have issued the order suspending
Mrs. Ball from the organization for the
time stated"
Mrs. Newton said that she understands
Mrs. Ball has appealed from the action
of the department council. -.
1t is understood that Mrs. Ball Will
carry the matter at once to the national
president, Mrs. Kate E. Jones of Utica,
peal to the national convention OF the w.
r. c., which meets in Toledo, Ohio. dur
ing the reunion of the Grand Army Of the
Republic in that city August 81 to Septem-
Der i.
What Mrs. Ball Says.
when I returned my letter to the Dis
trict Commissioners ONCE and informed
Mr. Hibbs, secretary to Commissioners
Mcfarland, that I was no longer de-
partment president Of the corps, 1 was re-
ferred to Assistant .AdJt. Gen. Alvord Of
the army" Mrs. Ball said today.
Col. Alvord then asked her to act in the
capacity Of a leader at the ceremonies on
account Of her long service in the work
of the G. A. r. auxiliaries in this city.
and she says Mrs. Ball consented. She
has a letter in her possession from Gen.
Bell. chief of staff Of the army. thanking
her for her work on the occasion OF the
removal of the remains of Gov. Clinton
from the cemetery.
Mrs. Ball explained that she was called
to Kansas at the close Of her term by the
death of her mother. and that when she
returned to the city she Immediately had
the remaining records and letters turned
over to Mrs. Newton, the department
president.
newspapers" Mrs. Ball said In conclu-
sion, but am willing to let 1t 90 to just
national president"
Mrs. Ball is known to have been men,
Der OF every convention, with the ex-
ception of three of the w. r. c., and
nearly every law OF that organization
was aided in it's passage by her vote. She
says she is thoroughly Informed as to
these laws and is confident Of her position
in the present instance.