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The Washington times., 1930-12-24
Bowen
Sails for
Jamaica

Representative Ruth Bryan
Owen will sail today for a holi-
day trip to Jamaica, accom-
panied by her younger son,
Reginald, and her daughter,
Helen Rudd Owen. Mrs. Owen
will renew associations formed
in Jamaica when her husband,
the late Major Reginald Owen,
was stationed there as q
British subaltern and when she
was the only woman to ever
play polo with a British army
team.
Has ShakeSpearean Flair
John Bryan, older son Of
Mrs. Owen, who has taken the
Bryan name in Difference to
his distinguished grandfather,
the late william Jennings
Bryan, is with a Shakespearean
repertoire company which is
opening in New York on Christ
mas Day and consequently will
miss the trip, as will Mrs.
ovens elder daughter, Mrs.
w. p. Meeker, Of Baltimore.
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Cadet James K. WooInougf1
has arrived in Washington for
the Christmas holidays and Is
with his parents. Col. ard Mrs.
j. B. Woolnough, at Wal oman
Park Hotel. He is also accom-
panied by two of his class
mates, Cadet F. L. Howard and
Cadet G. H. Anderson.
The Washington times., 1930-12-24
Capital Couple to
Spend Holiday at
Home of Parents

Mr.. and Mrs. william JET
fries Chewing, jr., and their
debutante cousin, Miss Carol
Gordon Herndon. are passing
Christmas in Virginia as the
guests of DR.. and Mrs. William
JeffrieS Chewing, ST., at Fred
ericksburg. They will return to
Washington, Tuesday, to attend
the dance to be given by Allan
Hoover at the White House.
Attache to Meet Wife
The military attache Of the
British Embassy, Col. Maurice
Fitzmaurice Day, has gone to
New York to meet Mrs. Day, who
arrived yesterday aboard the
Olympic from England. They
will return today accompanied
by Mrs. Dudley Morgan, mother
Of Mrs. Day. who also went to
meet her. Mrs. Day was for
merly Miss Eleanora Morgan, Of
washington.
Colonel Day will leave Wash
ington the end Of January for
Havana, probably accompanied
by his wife, to greet H. r. II.
the Prince Of Wales. At the
came time they will visit Cen
tral America to which Colonel
Day is also military attache.
At present they are making
their home at the Anchorage,
but after their return from the
South they plan to look for a
house in Georgetown.
Mrs. Hurley EntertainS
Mrs. Patrick j. Hurley enter
tanned q distinguished group
Of women at luncheon today in
compliment to Mrs. Harry Bur
CESS, governor Of the Panama
Canal.
DR.. H. G. Bowman, of Lake
Placid. N. Y, is now at the
Shoreham Hotel for an indefi-
mite stay.
The Washington times., 1930-12-24
WOmen's Club
Calendar
DECEMBER 26

DECEMBER 26
Women's Christian Temper
ance Union, Northwest Union.
meeting at headquarters.
DECEMBER a
Zonta Club, Christmas party
at the Dodge Hotel.
Sixteenth Street Club, Christ
mas dinner at Tilden Gardens,
JANUARY 3
Chevy Chase Pen Women,
dinner at Shoreham Hotel at 8
o'clock, honoring Mrs. Yates
and Mrs. Nicholson.
JANUARY Z
Rowac Club, meeting at home
of Mrs. william DeKleine In
Tilden Gardens.
JANUARY 10
q. D. c., General J. e. B.
Stuart Chapter, annual dance
at Meridian Mansions, 24OO
Sixteenth st.
X
Soroptimlsts, installation OF
new officers.
JANUARY 13
B. P. o. E., Chapter B. meet
ing at home of Mrs. r. A.
Pyles, 1889 @ st. N. w.
JANUARY 10
U. D. c.. Stonewall jackson
Chapter No. 20, reception for
newly elected officers.
The Washington times., 1930-12-24
Students Will
Honor Mr..
Curtis

Cadets and Middies Will
Greet Vice President and
Mrs. Gam at Reception
During Annual Ball
The Vice President, Charles
Curtis, and his sister, Mrs. Ed
ward Everett Gam, who viii
head the list Of notables at
tending the Midshipmen and
Cadet ball at the Mayflower to-
morrow evening, are scheduled
to arrive at the ballroom at IL
o'clock.
They will be met and escorted
to the box by the floor commit
tee, which will be composed Of
a group Of high ranking Army
and Navy officers. The midship-
men and cadets present will
form an aisle down the center
Of the room through which they
will pass.
Dinner to Precede Ball
The ball will be preceded by
q number Of dinner parties,
given chiefly for members Of the
younger set. Miss Elizabeth
Pillsbury, debutante daughter
Of Brig. Gen. and Mrs. George
B. Pillsbury, will entertain at
q large dinner for a group Of
debutantes. other. hoSteSses
from the younger set viii be
Miss Mary Dwight, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Henry
Dwight; Miss Frances Morse,
daughter Of Commander and
Mrs. John Morse, and Miss Dor
othy Dodge, daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Harold Dodge.
Ostesses for Event
other dinner hostesSes will in
clude Mrs. Helen Ray Hagner,
who will have as her guests the
Commandant Of the Marine
Corps and Mrs. Benjamin Full
Ter, Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Guy V.
Henry, Captain and Mrs. c. c.
Bloch, Commander and Mrs.
Robert A. Theobald, Commander
and Mrs. John Morse, and Cadet
Thomas Ray Hagner.
Mrs. Lindsay Russell is, also,
planning to entertain at dinner
before the ball.
The Washington times., 1930-12-24
Mrs. Hopkins
HOnOred at
Luncheon

Mrs. William p: Wooten was
hostess at luncheon yesterday
in compliment to Mrs. Frank
Hopkins, Of New York, when
her guests included Mrs. Claude
C. Bloch, Mrs. Kirby Smith,
Mrs. Patrick J. O'Shaughnessy,
Mrs. Charles R. Alley, Mrs.
Lester Wilson, Mrs. Joseph Hor-
gan, Mrs. Lyman Gano Miller,
Mrs. Meade Moore, Mrs. Cath
crime Feeter, Mrs. Robert Kel-
ton, Mrs. Paul Gillespie, Mrs.
Allen w. Gullion, Mrs. Henry
II. Pheil, Mrs. John Walker Hol-
comb, Mrs. Peter Murray, Mrs.
Mcintyre, Mrs. Sem, Mrs. c. w.
Robertson and Mrs. William
Wheatley.
Returns to Sweden
After a three months visit to
this country, the United States
Ambassador to Sweden and
Mrs. John Motley Morehead, of
Rye, will sail on the Leviathan
on Saturday to return to
Sweden, where Mr.. Morehead
will resume his duties at the
embassy. -,
Leases Florida Villa
Mrs. Edward B. Mclean, Of
Washington, has leased Villa
Oheka, the residence Of Otto II.
Kahn, at Palm Beach, Fla. Mrs.
Mclean and family, who were
at the Breakers, took possession
of the house yesterday. Mr..
Kahn is building q new home
farther north on Ocean Boule-
ward.
Announce Engagement
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Merriam
Hopkins have announced the
engagement Of their daughter,
Miss Josephine Elizabeth Hop
kins, to Lawrence Burton Bic
BEL, Of Pittsburgh and Dayton,
Ohio. The announcement was
made at a tea at their home on
Otis Place on Sunday.
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Mrs. Rudolph Foster has gone
to New York for Christmas and
will return to her apartment
at Wardman Park Hotel early
in January.
The Washington times., 1930-12-24
You niger Set
To Observe
Yuletide


Feted Tonight at Ball
Given for Miss Mildred
Blaine Clarke
Mr.. and Mrs. Aubrey Lynn
Clarke viii entertain members
Of the younger set at a ball at
the Mayflower this evening in
compliment to their debutante
daughter, Miss Mildred Blaine
clarke.
Miss Clarke is a grand-niece
of the late James G. Blaine,
at one time candidate for the
Presidency Of the United States
and a national figure in the pol
itics Of his day.
Were Capital Bellies
Mrs. Clarke, the former
Maude Blaine. is the youngest
of the quartet of Blaine girls
who were bellies in Washington
during the period Of James G.
Blaine's service as Secretary OF
State. All five. Of the nieces Of
the notable "Son Of Maine" are
now lvini, in washington.
Mrs. May Blaine Lipscomb
presented her daughter, Miss
Rebecca Lipscomb, several years
ago, and shortly after her debut
Miss Lipscomb was married to
Lieut.. Thomas White, United
States Army, who now is Ian
guage officer at the American
legation in Peking. Another
cousin of Miss Clarke Is Mrs.
Donald Wiley, daughter of DR..
and Mrs. H. j. Crosson. Blaine
Mallan, another cousin, is the
son of the late DR.. and Mrs.
T. F. Mallan, the latter a niece
of James G. Blaine.
Letters Fete Guest
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Letter
have as their guest for the hoh-
DAYS the formers niece, Miss
Nancy Campbell, daughter of the
late Col. and Mrs. Colin Camb-
bell, who has come from her
school in Aiken, S. C.
Mrs. Letter will entertain at
luncheon on Saturday for Miss
Katherine Burrage, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Burrage,
of Boston, who will spend a part
Of her holidays in washington
from her school in Aiken.
Visit Parents Here
Marc Peter, jr., Of New York,
and Baron Louis de Chollet Will
arrive in Washington today to
spend Christmas with the form.
er's parents, the Minister Of
Switzerland and Nine. Peter.
The Minister and Nine. Peter
entertained a small company
at dinner on Monday evening.
The Washington times., 1930-12-24
Miss PrOckHuik Is
Hostess at Dinner
To Younger Group

Miss anda Prochnik,
daughter of the Minister Of
Austria, entertained at dinner
at the legation last evening.
Her guests included Miss Elsie
Ekengren, Miss Margaretta
Wright, Countess Alice Szech-
enyi, Miss Belle Johnson, Miss
Eleanor Grain, Miss Victoria
Catalini, Harry Covington, Cuth-
bert Train, Reginald Carey,
Sheridan Bays, Aage Klou-
mannS Francis Spalding and
Ragnvalda Bagge, Gale Nc
lean ana George Thouro1a.
The Washington times., 1930-12-24

MARRIED yesterday at the
washington Cathedral was the
former Miss Blanche Wingo,
daughter Of Representative Ell
fiegene Wingo. Her wedding
to DR.. Leroy Sawyer, jr., OF
New York came as a surprise
to all but her most intimate
friends. Owing to the recent
death of her father the late
Representative Otis Wingo, the
ceremony was witnessed only
by members of the two fam
lilies. The Rev. Charles 7.
Warner officiatN6.
The Washington times., 1930-12-24
win Present Daughters

Mr.. and Mrs. George H. Cal
vert, jr., will present their two
daughters, Mis- Elcc'lcc Calvert
and Miss N1crrcret Feyton Cal
vert, to Was" ngton society at
O tea-darce at the Mayflower
tomorrow afternoon from 4:30
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-06
CONFERENCE SEEKS
PEACE IN BALKANS
Most Troubled Area in Eu-
rope Hopes to Achieve
Greater Unity.
BY JOHN GUNTHER.


BY Radio to The Star.
VIENNA. Austria October Ga
Balkan conference opened at Athens to-
day designed to carry out the efforts
begun at Geneva to pacify Europe's
most troubled and troublesome PENN
sula.
The conference is unofficial. but
Premier Eleutherios Venizelos of Greece
was present at the opening ceremony,
also Robert Skinner, American Minis
ter to Greece and observer in Soviet
Russia.
The pacific items on the agenda were
overwhelmed by repercussions of the
announcement Of the engagement of
King Boris OF Bulgaria to Princess
Giovanna OF Italy. The royal couple
will be married twice, first in the Roman
Catholic ceremony at Rome, and then
by the orthodox rites in the old Bull
garian town OF Preslav. Former King
Ferdinand will be present at both
ceremonies.
Another Wedding Due.
Princess Eudoxia sister of King
Boris, will, it is said, soon announce
her engagement to Duke Charles OF
Spoleto. who is a son of Duke Aosta.
a cousin of the King of Italy. thus
further cementing Bulgar-Italian ties.
The delegates assembled at Athens
charged to work out economic CO.
operation between the Balkan state
realize that the King BoriS-Princess
Giovanna match is a new milestone in
the history of Southeastern Europe.
The flags of political alliance are GER
tain to follow the flower wreaths of
the wedding. 1 Italy has been flirting
with Bulgaria. for years-and a mar
riage is the result.
Work, however may go forward on
the following topics:
Economic Farley Planned.
l. Creation of a general Balkan
Chamber of Commerce for ironing out
business affairs OF mutual interest to
the six Balkan countries
2. Efforts TO regulate the production
and sale of tobacco, grain, wine and
other foodstuffS, SO as to eliminate
wasteful intra- Balkan competition.
3. An annual meeting of Balkan
foreign ministers, either within Aristide
Brands United States of Europe scheme
or separately, so that Balkan confer
ence will be a regular yearly event
4. Exchange OF teachers, reform of
education and intellectual cooperation
among the Balkan states.
S. Technical work for Balkan COL
liberation on railroads. road traffic.
poStoffices and other problems of COM
implication.
(Copyr!ght. 1902
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-06
Police Ordered
To Return Gifts
From Hub Fire
Articles Reported Com
pany Officials Expression
of Gratitude for Service.

Policemen who guarded the ruins of
the Hub Furniture Co. warehouse after
the disastrous fire last week and went
hcme with pieces Of chinaware and
bric-a -brac, were ordered today by Nal
Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of
police, to return the articles.
Reports that the ruins of the ware
house had been picked over after the
fire and pictures and other household
furnishings taken led to an investiga-
ton which disclosed that police of the
second precinct who were on duty at
the fire had some of the articles in their
homes. The officers reported that the
articles had been given them by Ber-
nard Kaufman, manager of the Hub
Furniture Co.. and another official of
the store as gifts CT gratitude for their
services in guarding the building. Maj
Pratt said he didn't want his policemen
to get in the habit of accepting gifts
for their services. and ordered Capt O.
Continued on Page 2, Column So
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-06
BRAZILIAN REBELS PLAN
ATTACK ON COFFEE PORT
Da Cunha, Revolt Chief, Wins Regulars
Officers Over-8 of Il States Move
to Unseat Luis.

voting forces.
Meanwhile the federal government
has declared a state of siege in Rio
Grande do Sui and Minas Geraes and
has appropriated $4,000, 900 to put
down the rebellion. The government
also is said to have offered to make
peace, with the inSurrectionists refusing
all such overtures
Da Cunha is understood to be PLAN
ming an attack on the great seaport of
Sac Paulo. His Rio Grande do Sui
army. reinforced with conscripts be-
tween the ages of 81 and 35, is moving
northward through Santa Catarina and
intends to concentrate in the State of
Parana, which borders the State of Sac
Paulo on the south. Then, it is said
with railway line along their route
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column g.
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CHILD DROWNED
SAILING HER BOAT
Four-Year-0Id Girl Falls Off
Diving Board Into SWIM
ming Pool.

Four-y ear-old Gale Trundle, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Americas Trundle
of Carroll Springs Sanitarium, Forest
Glen, Md, was drowned this morning
in swimming pool on the sanitarium
grounds while playing with toy boats
Through the efforts of The Star the
child's mother was located this after
noon in the Fox Theater where she was
advised of the tragedy by the manager.
She had been watching the show.
The child is thought to have slipped
into the swimming pool from a diving
board. The water was scarcely over
her head, but the slippery bottom pre-
vented her climbing up the slanting
sides of the pool.
Her parents knew nothing of the
tragedy until nearly o'clock this after
noon. Mr.. Trundle was at work in
Washington and the little childs mother
had come to the city to shop.
Mrs. Lucy True, who lives nearby,
was the last to see the child. At about
IL o'clock, she was playing with Mrs
True's 81 -year-old son, Billie, near the
True home.
Half an hour later, Billie walked up
to Charles w. Hurley, a carpenter re-
pairing a garage on the sanitarium
property and sat down and talked to
him for approximately five minutes
without mentioning the tragedy.
I've got to go home to lunch now"
the little boy remarked. My little sister
fell in the pool"
The child seemed unable to appre-
ciate what had happened.
Hurley rushed to the pool and waded
out to the little girls body, which could
be seen on the bottom. He brought her
to the sanitarium, where Dr. Rufus
Thompson and DR.. c. w. Mitchell tried
to revive her. A quantity of water was
forced from little Gales lungs. but all
efforts to bring back life failed
When questioned concerning the acct
dent, Billie said they had been playing
with boats and that Gale climbed up
onto the diving board. He said she
slipped and fell into the water, but
made no cutlery.
The pool is about 200 yards from the
sanitarium and the child's call for help,
if she had made any. in all probability
would not have been heard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-06
John H. Williams Held for
Blaze That Caused Death
of Woman.
SAYS HE SET FLAMES
IN OIL-S0AKED RAGS
Admits Charges After Grilling by
Police, but Gives No Elk
PLANTATION for Acts.

Confession that he started four fires,
one the blaze which took toll of one
life in the Denver Apartments, 1910
Chaplin street, early Friday morning,
was obtained today, police say, from
John Hickson Williams, 27-year-old COL
ored janitor of the apartment house at
1907 w street.
Other places fired by the man, police
say, were:
The Balfour Apartments, 1000 Six
tenth street.
Unoccupied house, 1904 Fourteenth
street
House at 1910 Vernon street.
Plan Homicide Charge.
Williams this afternoon was in the
hands of the homicide squad at police
headquarters, following his alleged con-
feSsion to having set the fires with OIL
soaked rags.
The man gave police no cause for
setting the fires, but, they say, admitted
firing the buildings under continued
grllIlng by the detectives.
In view of the fact that one person
was burned to death in the Denver
apartment house fire, police were pre-
pairing to hold Williams on a homicide
charge.
The fires which have been occurring
in the eighth precinct have had police
puzzled for nearly a week. Williams
arrest followed the latest blaze. alleged
to have been started in the area the
man Is alleged to have chosen. the
blaze which Williams himself dis
covered" in the Balfour Apartments,
Sixteenth street, at 2:15 o'clock yester-
day morning.
Says He Warned Tenants.
At that time No. engine company.
responding to an alarm, extinguished
a blaze in the apartment house. Po-
lice received information that Williams
had been seen in the vicinity of the
fire, clapping his hands and shouting
fire"
Arrested and questioned, Williams is
alleged to have told the police at first
that he discovered the fire and went
into the building and told several of the
occupants there was FIRE. .-n..
Williams was taken to the eighth pre-
cinct by Detective j. E. Kenny and
Policemen B. F. Howe and c. c. Will
liams. After questioning at the precinct
he was turned over to the homicide
squad on the belief he might have had
a hand in the Denver Apartments blaze.
According TO police, Williams, after
grilling, admitted setting
the Denver Apartments afire Police
said he took oil-soaked rags, with which
he had just started blaze in the I'M
house at 1904 Fourteenth
Continued on Page 2, Column A.
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WOMAN NURSING MOTHER JONES
SUFFERS NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
Mrs Burgess Under Care of Physicians Labor Leaders
Due Here for Final Visit With Aged Comrade

been i'll for 10 months and during the
last month has been unable TO take
solid food
Mr.. Burgess summoned his sister. Mrs.
Maude Fowler, TO his home yesterday
and she Is caring for both Mrs. Burgess
and Mother Jones.
Edward Knockles. legislative repre-
sentative of the Chicago Federation of
Labor, and John Walker, former presi-
dent of the United Mine Workers, who
were due to arrive in Washington from
Chicago to see Mother Jones yesterday,
had not reached here this morning, but
were expected some time during the
day. John Fitzpatrick. president of the
Chicago Federation OF Labor, arrived in
Washington Saturday and expects to
stay near Mother Jones utal her death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-06
ST|MSON PRAISES
ROAD CONGRESS IN
OPENING ADDRESS
Delegates of Nearly so Ma
tons Hear State Secre-
tary's Greeting.

Facing a brilliant gathering of men
and women who represent more than
three fourths OF the population of the
world and an enormous area of the
worlds surface, Henry L. Stimson, the
Secretary of State, this afternoon for
mally opened the Sixth International
Road Congress in Constitution Hall
Augmented by colorful groups from
the embassies and legations and other
groups from American Official and pri-
vate life, the official delegates of about
so nations colonies and dependencies
assembled to study problems looking to
establishment Of modern highway sys-
TENS throughout the world.
The meeting was the first held out
side of Europe and afforded construc-
ton experts within the congress an
opportunity to exchange information
and knowledge learned through expert
ence since the last convention in Milan
Italy, in 1926.
StimsOn Praises Purpose.
In his address of welcome, Secretary
Stimson attached International sigfini-
canoe to the meeting. 1T is to this
unSelfiSh spirit of international CO.
operation, so finely e.emplified in this
congress, that we must look for the
basic guarantees TO the future peace
and prosperity of the world" he said.
The outstanding lesson of the pres
ent world situation-a lesson which
nations are too apt to forget-is that
the prosperity of each is dependent on
the prosperity of all and that in the
long run no nation can develop its own
national well-being at the expense of
another"
The discussions that will here be
held" Mr. StimSon added "lnVolying
as they do, an interchange of the best
experience of the world, will rebound
TO the benefit of all the. nations here
represented. We of America expect
to learn much from your experience:
we hope that you may find something
OF value to you in ours
Speech Is AppIauded.
When you return to your respective
countries" said Secretary Stimson in
conclusion, II beg CT you to take with
you a message Of the most cordial good
will from the people of the United
otaCeS. Ine evident sincerity OF this
expression brought forth a round of
applause.
About $50 foreign delegates heard the
Secretary of States welcome, and the
number of American delegates and
visitors swelled the attendance to near
ly 1000. Mr.. StimSon was introduced
TO the congress by Roy D. Chaplin, pres
ident of the American Organizing Com
mission, which President Hoover named
to make the arrangements for the meet
ing. In response to Mr.. Chapins adj
dress of welcome on behalf of his
colleagues on the commission, M. Ed
mond Chalk of France delivered an
address. M. Chalk is acting president
of the Permanent International Asso-
citation and member of the French
delegation.
Mr.. Chaplin, resident of Detroit and
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