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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
G. w. u. TO CONFER
DEGREE ON KING
Siamese Monarch Will Receive
Honorary Doctor of
Laws Here.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A modern ruler of an ancient state,
King Prajadhipok of Siam, will receive
the honorary degree of doctor Of laws
from George Washington University
when he visits the Capital next month.
The presentation will take place April
%, just before the King leaves for Bal
timore to have his eyes examined by
DR.. William Holland Wilmer CataractS
have limited the sport-loving monarchS
outdoor activities to golf.
The curricula Of European and Amer
lean universities are familiar to Siamese
royalty. King Prajadhipok was edu-
Gated III France and England. Prince
ASani Of Bangkok, grandson Of for
mer King, studied medicine at Harvard,
and Prince Mahidol of Songkia, a
brother of the King went back to Siam
and hung out his shingle after studying
medicine in this country. Almost all
the princes of the blood have attended
school abroad.
The royal party, about IT in all and
including the Queen, is expected in
Washington April %. The program the
State Department has outlined includes
an official welcome at Union Station, a
call at the White House, a return call
by the President and state banquet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14

she said. Her gums bled little and
her ears Cracked some" in the So
below-zero weather she encountered.
Otherwise she had no trouble. The
plane and motor worked so well she just
set the controls and let 1t climb while
she busted herself with calculations and
notations. She carried special oxygen
supply and kept warm with three suits
Of heavy undertaking, two sweaters,
two pairs Of wooden stockings, pair Of
moccasins, flying suit and an oxygen
helmet.
Scars in Cold Sunshine.
cit wasn't so terribly cold" she main
tanned, with all that clothing, despite
her numbed feet. Mist froze on her
goggles and 1t was hard to see, but the
skies were clear and she scared in the
cold sunshine.
She had planned to climb as long as
her gasoline held out and then glide
down, but when darkness threatened
she landed with small supply still left.
Miss Renner, native of Akron and
educated here, began flying four years
ago and has 200 hours to her credit.
She has had several near accidents,
but none serious. Her boss says she's
good business woman, too.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
LAST OF WENDELL
SISTERS D|ESAT 90
Secluded Life of Famed Heir
ess Ends in Old Family
Residence.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 14.--Miss Ella
V. Won E. Wendell, last Of the Wendell
sisters who inherited the vast fortune
OF John Gottlieb Wendell, died in her
sleep last night. She was 80 years old.
Inc simple announcement said merely
that Miss Wendell had "died during the
night"
Miss Wendell finished her days In the
red brick mansion Of Fifth avenue
which stood through the years, now
amid towering ONCE buildings. as a
monument to the family motto buy,
but never sell real estate"
Left S1OO,0OO,oOO Fortune.
There we're six daughters and one
son in the family to inherit the
800 1000 900 fortune which John Wendell
started in fur as a contemporary Of
John Jacob Astor.
The son, John Gottlieb Wendell, IT.,
became head of the family upon the
death OF his father. He frowned on
marriage for his sisters and decreed
they should stay out of society. live in
the simplest possible style and wear the
fashions of their youth.
Georgiana Wendell once defled her
brothers decree and made a trip TO
Europe. She came back speaking sew
eral languages and indicating she pre-
ferred to live as q lady of fortune. She
died two years ago In a sanitarium.
Rebecca also defied the brother. She
married. Her death last July left Ella
alone in the mansion
The mansion has for years been q
famous landmark, pointed out to sight
seers. The sisters lived behind drawn
curtains, refusing hatteitng offers for
the property.
Out Only ut Night.
Rebecca, who was Mrs Swope, Jour
neyed daily on an elevated train to q
small Office on lower Broadway. from
which she managed the family's vast
real estate holdings In middle and
lower Manhattan.
She kept in force four family tenets:
Never mortgage, never sell property;
Broadway moves northward 10 blocks
decade; tenants must make their
own repairs"
Miss Ella ventured forth only at
night to give her poodle "Todey" an
airing and run. The airing would be
in the high-wal1ed back yard worth
hundreds Of thousands of dollars and
used for no other purpose.
There were no telephones In the
mansion, no electric lights, no news
papers. Suffering gas jets lighted the
great halls, ancient servants admins
tered to the needs of the occupants.
The front door has been barred, the
front windows shattered for a quar-
ter of century.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
GUILD TO PRESENT
DRAMA TRAVEST|ES
Annual Dinner of Capital
Group Will Be Held
Wednesday.

Several travesties on different phases
of dramatics will mark the annual din
ner of the Community Drama Guild at
z O'Clock Wednesday night, in Barker
Hall of the Y. w. C. A.
One skit, Casting the Play" written
and directed by Denis e. Connell, will
include Maude Howell Smith, Anne
Ives, Grace Peters johnson and Yvonne
Kushner in its cast. It will be fol-
lowed by "Rehearsing the Play" also
known as Macbeth, Shakespearean
Riot" to be directed by j. Minor Dorey,
with a cast including Willard Miller,
Connell. William F. Baker, William
E. Bryant Capt Ray G. Montgomery,
Milton Norman, Brad w. Holmes and
Dorey.
might of the Play"
'@rhe Night of the Play will be done
by single actor, with almost no lines
to speak. Music will play part, with
Earl Carbuah singing group Of songs,
accompanied by Lillian Carbauh at the
piano.
Olga Helms and Bob Reed will offer
dance numbers and Ivy Norwood and
Sister will be heard Ia songs. This pro-
gram will follow the more formal events
of the dinner, including number of
brief toasts and responses, with DR.. De
Witt C. Croissant, as POSTMASTER, and
speakers including Mrs. Virginia White
Speel Mrs. William Wolff Smith, Mrs.
Henry Grattan Doyle, Percy BurreQ, DR..
Frank w. Ballou, and Maj. r. B. Law
renee.
Second Program Set.
The reservations will close Wednesday
morning at o'clock.
Thursday night. at 8 o'clock the sec
ond play-reading program of the 1891
season viii be held under the direction
OF William F. Baker, when a modern
comedy by a well known playwright will
be read by Dorothea PAUL, Dorothea
Lewis, Harry Welker, Douglas GrieSe-
mer, in the principal roles. Mrs. VIII
liam j. Peters is chairman of play read
tngs for the Drama Guild. The read
ing, which Is open to members Of the
Drama Guild and their guests, will take
place at the American Association of
University Women's club house on I
street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
BLAST KILLS HUSBAND
WHILE DISTRICT BRIDE
VISITS IN MARYLAND

Continued Prom First Page.)
yesterday evening for the week end.
Clagett made his home at the National
Training School for Boys, where he was
q teacher.
Neighbors heard the explosion, and
Merrill Morningstar and Charles Fritz
carried out the injured men. Clagett
was taken to the home Of his uncle, DR..
E. w. White Of Poolesville, in the am
bulance Of william T. Hilton, Poolesvile
undertaken. He died there about two
hours later.
Rushed to Hospital.
Grtngen was rushed to Emergency
Hospital in the same ambulance with
a police escort. The run of more than
80 miles was made In about As minutes.
The Rockville Volunteer Fire De-
partment was summoned. but neigh
bors put out the flames before the fire.
men arrived. Only the kitchen was
damaged.
Clagett, one Of the four original
members of the Montgomery County
Police Force when it was created IN
1922, had been in the habit of spend
ing recent week ends at his mother
home with his bride. Before her mar
rtage she was Miss RoWena Jefferson,
Washington trained nurse. She lived
at 1913 Thirteenth street with her
younger sister. Miss Rebecca jefferson,
and Miss Anna Ball, both trained
nurses.
The three young women planned 70
break up their home April !, when Miss
jefferson was going to New York. At
that time Clagett and his wife intended
to set up housekeeping in Poolesville-
Visits Her Mother.
This was the last week end when tbs
young bride would have opportunity tc
visit her mother in fredericksburg before
establishing home Of her own, so the
usual trip Of husband and wife tc
Poolesville was called of.
Besides his mother and widow, Cla-
gett is survived by a sister, Miss Mar
NJ. Clagett of 2129 First street, anc
three brothers, DR.. Thomas Clagett, q
dentist of Easton, Md: Richard Cla-
gett, who lives in Pennsylvania, ant
Benjamin Clagett, Navy pharmacist
now stationed In the Philippine Islands
Gringell was a widoweF. He was q
deputy sheriff for is years and went
out of office five years ego. Since that
time he has conducted a private detec-
tive agency and a furniture renoyatinl
business in Rockville.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
BUS-RA|L HEARING
NEARING W|ND-UP
r., r. & P. Plans Freight
Truck Service From Rich
mond, Official TestifieS.

The motor bus-rail coordination
hearing was drawing to a close today at
the Willard Hotel, with indications
pointing to wind-up by Monday or
Tuesday at the latest. Several railroads
still were to offer testimony in support
of their contention that trucks and
buses should be regulated to put them
on a parity Of operation with the rail-
lines.
The Richmond, Fredericksburg g.
Potomac, which already has entered the
bus field in an effort to compete with
other highway carriers, plans Inaugural
ton Of freight service by truck from
Richmond to Washington, and cover
ing intervening points, John B. Nor
decai, traffic manager of the road, testi-
fed yesterday afternoon before Chief
Examiner Leo j. Flynn, conducting the
hearing.
Certificate Applied For.
Application has been made to the
Virginia Corporation Commission for a
certificate of operation, he said. The
trucks will stop over on the Virginia
side of the Potomac.
Mordecai estimated that competing
buses and trucks cost the r., F. & P.
100000 last year, and said this APP
Proclamation was moderate"
ESQ Trucks on Road Daily.
He said that between Richmond and
Washington there are 19 trucks each
way daily. OF these the r., F. & P. sub
sidiary, the Richmond-G reyhound Lines,
operates eight. He said also that the
average number of trucks daily using
that highway is $50.
He recommended that highway car
riers be placed under regulation COM
parable to that exercised over railroads
by the I. G. G. and said 1t was his be-
lief that railroads should be given pref
erence in establishment of truck and
bus lines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
CITIZENS ASK BAN
ON COUNCIL HERE
Brightwood Group Charges
Body Has Violated
Its Provisions.

Abolition of the Citizens Advisory
Council of the District of Columbia was
suggested last night in a vote at a
meeting of the Brightwood Citizens
Association in the Paul Junior High
School, Eighth and Nicholson streets
Only one dissenting vote was cast
against the resolution and that by John
A. Saul, a member of the council.
Elimination of the council was pro-
posed by William NICK. Clayton, who
outlined in detail the history of the
organization since its inception in 1925
1t set forth that the so-called Citizens
Advisory Council has. since its organ
ization in 1925, violated many times the
provisions of the organic pact under
which it was delegated and authorized
to act within certain positively defined
limitations"
Violations Charged.
1.-THE present District Commissioners,
continues the resolution, have not fol-
reasons best known to themselves seer
At to refer any matters whatsoever II
the council for its study and advice ano
no meetings have been held for nearly
year. The Brightwood Citizens ASso.
citation believes that the best interests
of organized citizenship demand it,
adjustment and that the delegates II
the Federation of Citizens Associations
be instructed to vote in accordance with
the action of the association in the
matter"
John Clagett Proctor was nominated
to serve as chairman of the annual Me.
mortal day exercises at Battle GROUND
Cemetery.
Delegates Appointed.
Prof. L. j. Cantrell and M. M. Elan
ders were appointed to represent the
association at meeting to be helc
tonight at 1880 O'Clock of the Special
Committee on Recreational center al
Friends Meeting House, Thirteenth ane
Irving streets.
The association was advised by the
Public Utilities Commission that the
Capital Traction Co. will request the
extension of routing cars now operat-
ing on the Fourteenth street line with
terminus at Third and Sheridan
streets through to Takoma Park dur
ing midday non-rush period, which
would provide a 6-minute Roadway tt
Takoma Park instead of IL minutes
as at present. The association favored
the idea.
William d. Wilson was appointed
chairman Of the Library Committee Of
the association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
WALKER CHARGES
TO Be FILED SOON
City Affairs Body Data May
Lead to Probe 0usting
Gotham Mayor.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, March 14.-As the
result of years investigation, the City
Affairs Committee will file with Gov.
Roosevelt next week charges of incom-
petence, neglect and indifference against
Mayor Walker.
John Haynes Holmes, chairman of
the committee, civilian body, said that
Henry Rosner, research secretary, had
quietly been assembling the material on
which the accusations will be based.
Holmes and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise,
vice chairman, personally will present
them.
Under the State public Office act, the
Governor may accept or reject the
charges. If he accepts, he may inves-
tigate them himself or appoint COM
missioner or the attorney general to
act for him. If the charges are SUBJ
stantiated, he may remove the mayor.
Grain Raps Seabury.
District Attorney Thomas c. T. Grain
has made move to combat accusations
made against him by the City Club.
He protested in letter to the Governor
the appointment of Commissioner Sam
uel Seabury as his judge on the grounds
that the latter is a member of the City
Club and already has criticized him on
several occasions.
The New York Society of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, representing a
hundred churches, has added its voice
to the demand for thorough investi-
cation of city government. 1t adopted a
resolution upholding the action of the
Gro ~
Churches in calling for non-partisan
city-wide inquiry.
Prominent individuals who have
joined the movement include Chancellor
Ellsworth Brown of New York Uni
versity, Prof. John Dewey of Columbia
University and Henry Morgenthau,
former Ambassador to Turkey and a
close friend of the Governor.
Vice Man Banked $S5,S0O.
The magistrates courts inquiry pro-
duced evidence yesterday that the vice
squad patrolman, Andrew G. McLaugh-
lin, who first married Vivian Gordon,
slain Broadway blackmailer, banked
$35,800 in two years on an annual
salary of $4,000. Risking citation
for contempt of court, he refused to
answer on the ground that Referee
Seabury was exceeding his authority,
but bank records showed his deposits.
Mclaughlin testified he had made
between 1000 and 1000 arrests in his
IL years on the vice squad 1t had be-
come increasingly hard in late years to
secure convictions of women seized on
the streets, he said, but Magistrate Jean
Norris was the best bet
Magistrate Norris, the only woman
on the Manhattan bench, also is under
fire for her judicial acts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band, this evening at Stanley Hall at
$50 o'clock. John s. M. Zimmerman,
bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant.
March, "Kwang Hsu". ....... .Lincke
Overture, Opera Bouffe". ..... .Finck
Suite Romantic, Norwegian Scenes"
(Matt), "View of the Mountains,
Peasants Dance" 1.-THE Sleigh
Ride"
Excerpts from the comic opera, Doc
cacclo" Suppe
Characteristic, "A Negroes Birthday"
Lincke
Waltz song, "Ukulele Moon" J. Conrad
Finale, Reaching for the Moon"
Berlin
"The Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
KIMBALL D|SDA|NS
FLIGHT AID CREDIT
Transsea Hop Weather Man
Will Be Given Gold Medal
by Flyers League.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
. NEW YORK, March 14.-Dr. James
H. Kimball appreciates that gold medal
the boys are pinning on him today.
Who's Who will tell you in cold Eng
lish he was consulting meteorologist for
Lindbergh, Chamberlin, Byrd, Bertaud,
Brock, Haldeman, Lott and Yancey be-
fore they braved the elements above the
Atlantic.
DR.. Kimball will peer out under gray
locks that fall over his forehead and
disclaim any personal credit.
Its the Weather Bureau, not me-" he
will say. "Of course, was the one who
came into contact with the boys and
they make it personal"
viii Be Member.
The medal to DR.. Kimball Is being
presented by the International Ligue of
Aviators, of which King Albert Of Bel
GUM is honorary chairman. He Is also
being received into the league as an
honorary member and will be the first
American so honored.
Flying the Atlantic, to him, Is more
than heroic.
".The boys who do it will tell you that
it is nothing" he says. Deep down In
their hearts they know they have done
a great thing. They don't say so, but
when they fly over the Atlantic they
have been for SO hours on the verge Of
a crash. Think of that!"
DR.. Kimball has been with the
Weather Bureau since 1895. He was
the first meteorologist ever to prepare
a weather map for transatlantic flying.
He still prepares these maps daily. Pr
lots waiting to cross the ocean go over
the maps daily with DR.. Kimban.
Would Test Ability.
DR.. Kimball never advised pilots to
start. His tip was always against start
ing when bad weather threatened.
If he had actual control of trans
atlantic flying he would insist that
planes be sufficiently efficient and have
ample fuel supply to carry them con-
siderably beyond their goals. He would
insist upon each plane carrying a navi-
gator versed in astronomical observa-
tons and on two-way radio equipment.
"I would also try to prevail upon the
pilots to make test fight to Bermuda
and back before starting across" he
says. IF a pilot can navigate well
enough to find Bermuda, he can fly
over the ocean,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
CHAPLIN is ENMESHED
IN POLITICAL DISCUSSION
Denies He Made Statement Declar-
ing Sympathies Are With Com
munists of Germany.
BY the Associated Press.

oy JuC ASoOCldLeu EIeoS.
BERLIN, March 14.-Charlie Chaplin
today found himself unwillingly en-
meshed in German political discussion.
The Young Guard, Communist youth
organ, quoted the movie actor as de-
claring to its editor: MY greetings and
ali my sympathies are with the Com
muniSt youth of Germany"
The Conservative Nationalist Boer-
senzeitung asserted that If the remark
were true it constituted an unwarranted
meddling with Germany's internal at
fairs.
Chaplin denies having made any such
statement,
Chaplin'S secretary said that he be-
lieved the incident to have arisen from
the visit of a delegation representing
German unemployed in the stage and
f1lm fields. The actor expressed pro-
found sympathy with their lot, but
pointed out that 100, 900 American film
people were also unemployed.
The word communism was never
mentioned" the secretary said. Charlie
Is no politician and never expresses po-
litical opinions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
RUM AUTO OWNER
SOUGHT FOR CRASH
Police Find Car Which Fled
After Wrecking Vehicle
of E. T. Stafford.

Police are making a city-wide search
for the owner of whisky car which
demolished the new automobile of Ed
ward T. Stafford, assistant secretary of
the Washington Gas Light Co., in a
hit-and-run collision at Fourteenth and
Clifton streets while fleeing from mag
mary pursuers last night.
The machine was seized later in the
night by Eighth Precinct Detectives M.
j. Mahaney and D. A. Davis in a ga
rage on Champlain street and Kalo-
rama road, where a colored man left
it for repairs after disconnecting a
smoke screen attachment. Both head
lights were smashed and the bumper
was badly damaged.
Fled at Backfire.
Oficers investigating the case believe
another automobile indirectly furnished
the cause of the collision. The rum
car, with q. crew of two colored men,
was running at a moderate rate of
speed near Thirteenth street and Park
road when the engine of nearby ma
chine backhred. Apparently believing
they had been fired upon, the men ac-
CELEBRATED their speed and raced from
the scene.
Stafford was proceeding northward
on Fourteenth street when the machine,
its exhaust belching heavy blanket of
acrid smoke, crashed into his auto and
wrecked it. No one was injured, but a
pedestrian, G. c. Stagg of 2701 Four
tenth street, narrowly missed being
run down.
Hacker Gives Chase.
Backing of from the wreckage, the
colored men fled north on Fourteenth
street and turned west into Euclid
street. where they threw out six half
gallon jars of alleged whisky in full
view of Policeman Preston E. Peterson
Of the tenth precinct station.
A taxi driver who witnessed the col
li5ion pursued the rum car, but lost the
trail when his quarry turned into an
alley under cover Of the smoke screen
and disappeared. Mahaney and Davis
located the machine two hours later In
the Champlain street garage and re-
moved it to the eighth precinct station.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
BOASTS OF "13" LUCK,
DROPS DEAD IN CAR
Former Police Captain in Chicago
Had Told of Ignoring Jinx
of Friday, the 18th.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, March 14.-Robert
z. Lee James, former police captain,
told his employer Thursday that FRI
day the 18th has always been my lucky
day" He fell dead in street car
yesterday morning.
The former officer was a collector for
an ice company. In reviewing yester-
day the part Is had played in his life,
James said:
Everything good that has come to
me has come on the 18th. When I
went on the police force, walked IS
beats before I was put on the mounted
squad. After 10 years I was promoted
to sergeant and assigned to the 1900
block st. Louis avenue. My badge
number was Is and on the 18th day of
the month was recommissioned as a
police captain"