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Evening star., 1936-08-16
Beahms Hope for Restoration
Of Old Family School House

No reunion was held last year be-
cause Of the paralysis scare, but a
crowd variously estimated at from
800 to 1000 from Virginia, Pennsyl-
vania, West Virginia and Florida at
tended the eighth annual reunion
this year at Rocky Branch near Lu-
ray.
When the Park Service officials
were tearing down houses they found
formerly q log house and was prob
ably $50 years old. Its weather.
boarding had disguised it. Though
the knowledge came too late to save
the house, it led to a close examina-
ton of others.
S. L. Batman of near Luray was
elected president of the organization,
succeeding ]. c. Beahm Of Greencas-
tie, Pa. Other officers elected were:
Mrs. Frank Beahm of Roanoke, vice
president; G. o. Myers Of Clarendon,
treasurer, and Mrs. Zada Kemp Shenk
Of Kimball, secretary.
The program for this reunion con-
sisted Of addresses by I. N. H. Beahm,
who discussed the restoration of the
school house: Prof. M. N. Luzador of
Longwood. Fla, who talked, on citi-
zenship. and ]. G. Beahm of Green
castle. Pa. Musical entertainment
was furnished by the following from
Clarendon, Va; j. o. Myers. Mrs.
Bertha Hill. Prof. Calvin {Caulkins
and 3. g. strickler, the latter Of Lu-
ray.
Evening star., 1936-08-16
Special Dispatch to The Star

special Dispatch to The Star
LURAY. Va. August 14.-Restoratio ton
Of the Old Beahm School House in
the Shenandoah National Park moved
. step nearer with the appointment
yesterday at the Beahm- -Moyer-My-
er's Reunion of Prof. I. N. H. Beahm
Of Norkesville. as chairman Of COM
mittee to confer with Department of
Interior officials as to ways and
means. It is the purpose Of these
clans to hold their tenth annual re-
union near Panorama where Abra-
ham Beahm, In 1738, taught one OF
the first schools In this section.
An old log house, long since de-
stroyed, was the means Of establish
ing the difference In literacy found
In mountaineers Of this section and
those of other sections of the Blue
Ridge. Long before the school house
was built. Abraham Beahm taught
his own and neighbors' children. re-
ceiving no pay, but teaching In q
spirit of neighborliness.
In 1888, by which time it Is pro-
posed to have the school house re-
stored. tile centennial will be cele-
brated. a
Beahm saids the President Of the
United States and high notables would
be invited to attend. !. N. H. Beahm
Il q grandson of Abraham. and for
years he and his brothers and uncles
taught tn various sections Of the
State. He u now retired.
Evening star., 1936-08-16
NEUTRALITY PACT
NEARSTALEMATE
Portuguese Attitude Chief
Obstacle to Final
Agreement.
Nv the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
PARIS, August 15.-French efforts
to align the European powers in an
agreement to keep hands of" the
Spanish civil war appeared stale
mated tonight by the attitude OF sew
eral. notably Portugal.
Spain's western neighbor demanded
as a condition of her adherence to
neutrality that the rest of Europe con-
deir1n mass asSaSsinationS."
Although it adhered to the proposal
in principle, Portugal assailed Leftist
factions in Spain, charging unwar-
ranted destruction of property and
mass murders executed with "cold pre-
meditation"
The Lisbon government regarded a
neutrality accord valueless without
guarantees for the "strictest appli-
ca1ion by all powers with a spirit of
absolute impartiality."
Germany, Italy and Russia also have
withheld agreement to neutrality
pact. although approving its purpose.
demanding assurances it would be
strictly observed.
Notes established an accord between
France and Great Britain on the text
of the neutrality agreement were ex-
changed today between Paris and
London. the Quay d'Orsay announced
The agreement would become bind
ing, however. only after Germany.
Italy, Russia and Portugal abided by it.
The agreement would prohibit ex-
ports of arms and munitions to the
Spanish belligerents. the British for
eign Office said at London.
Evening star., 1936-08-16
100000 AWARDED
MRS. VANDERBILT
Decision for Legacy First Court
Victory Over Mrs. Whit
ney in Year.
ey the Associated Press

ey the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. August l5.-Mrs.
Gloria Morgan vanderbilt's applica-
ton for immediate payment of a
sl00, 900 legacy she charged was being
withheld by her sister-in-law, Mrs.
Gertrude Whitney. was granted today
by Surrogate James A. Foley.
The decision gave Mrs. Vanderbilt
her first legal victory over Mrs. Whit
ney since the State Supreme Court
granted principal custody Of Mrs.
vanderbilt's 13-year-old daughter to
Mrs. Whitney more than year ago
after a protracted suit
The legacy was left to Mrs. Wander
bilt by her mother-in-law. Mrs. Alice
Gwynne Vanderbilt. Mrs. Whitney
and her brother. Gen. Cornelius VAN
derbilt. children Of Mrs. Alice van
derbilt and executors Of her estate,
had contended Mrs. Vanderbilt had
no right to sue for payment OF the
legacy because she had pledged 1t as
collateral on loans totaling $4,000
from the Guaranty Trust Co.
Louis D. Frolich, Mrs. Vanderbilt'S S
counsel, told the court payments un-
der the will had been made to servants
and he did not see why Mrs. Van
derbilt should not receive similar
consideration. Ordering payment,
Surrogate Foley said the delay had
been justified by difdculties encoun-
tered in settling the estate.
Evening star., 1936-08-16
SUIT CHALLENGES
COMMODITY ACT
Federal Court Is Asked to
Enjoin Officials, IncIud.
ing Wallace.
Ev the Associated Press.

6N t.le ASSOClhteu FEcSSs
CHICAGO, August 15.-Constitu-
tionality of the commodity exchange
act Of 1886 was challenged on 10
counts today In suit filed in United
States District Court In behalf Of
William S. Moore and all other mem
bers of the Chicago Mercantile Ex-
change.
The court was asked to issue an
injunction to restrain enforcement Of
the law. which became effective June
l6. until its validity has been passed
upon.
Arthur Magid, one of the attorneys
for the plaintiffs. said he believed the
suit was the first one brought to test
provisions of the act.
Wallace a Defendant.
Named defendants were the Mer-
camille Exchange, its directors. Secre-
tary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace,
Secretary Of Commerce Daniel G. Ro-
per and Attorney General Homer s.
Cummings. who comprise the Com
modify Exchange Commission; Mi
chael L. Igoe. United States district
attorney here; Ernest j. Kruetgen,
Chicago postmaster, and Leslie A. Fitz,
supervisor in charge of the Commod-
ity Exchange Administration in Chi
cago.
Charges of unconstitutionality of the
act were based principally on allega-
tions of violation Of interstate and due
process Of law clauses, improper dele
CATION Of legislative power to the Sec.
retary of Agriculture and improper
delegation Of judicial power to the
commission.
Became Law June Is.
The act became law June Is, amend
ing the original grain futures act Of
1922. 1t authorized the Commodity
Exchange Commission to regulate
trading in wheat. corn, oats, rye
barley. cotton, rice, flaxseed, grair
sorghums, mill feeds, butter. eggs aut
Irish potatoes.
Certain provisions of the act do no
become effective until September l3
including those making it unlawfu
for futures commission merchants anc
floor brokers to engage in business or
the exchange unless they register a.
such under the act. and those dealing
with the handling and investment b,
broker Of the funds and securities o.
his customers.
Magid said an application for 6
temporary injunction would be made
soon.
Evening star., 1936-08-16
SOVIET PLOT LINK
LAID TO GERMANS
Communist Party Newspa-
per Charges Reich Police
Aided Foes of Stain.
BY rne Associated Press.

1y 'AC hooOCihtEu EICoo.
MOSCOW, August 15.-German se-
cret police tonight were linked b.
the Communist party newspaper
Pravda with the counter r-revolution.
ary plot. attributed to three one
time Soviet leaders.
The revolt was aimed at Joseph
Stain. general secretary of the Com
munist party and dictator of Rus
sia, Pravda Declared, and the con.
spirators maintained systematic con.
tact with the German Gestapo (se-
cret police)."
Soviet police arrested and indicted
16 persons and will bring them to
trial August 10.
Pravda made hinly-diSguised fore
casts of executions to follow the trial
Of the defendants.
Death before firing squad has been
the customary method Of executing
political prisoners.
TrotEky Termed Key Man.
The key man of the plot was said
to be Leon Trotzky. exiled revolu-
tionary. living in Oslo. Norway.
Included among those indicted
were Gregory Zinovieff and Leon Ka-
meneff, who at one time were joined
with Stain In ruling Russia after the
illness In 1923 of Nikolai Lenin.
Zinovieff and Kamenef1 are serving
sentences imposed in 1885 on charges
of participating in counter-revolu-
tionary activities said to have been
uncovered in an investigation follow
ing the murder the previous year OF
Sergei Mironovitch Kiroff. Stains
chief aide.
During the months following the
assassination of Kiroff hundreds OF
persons were executed. imprisoned or
banished to Siberia in general purge
of the Communist party)
Pravda charged. I'VE know there
was a direct and organized co-opera-
ton between the Trotzky- Zinoviefi
gang and Fascist police spies"
Charge Branded as Untrue.
(Trotzky from Oslo branded The
Moscow charge a lie and said he hae
no connection with RuSsia)
individual terror was plank which
the malcontents joined TO form 9
united center" Pravda said. "the pur.
pose OF which was to sabotage social.
ism"
(Trotzky. whose chief aim was tht
extension of Communist doctrine
throughout the world by force. ha.
been in the bad graces of Moscow au-
thorities since the death of Lenin
whose funeral he did not attend.
(The former leader was once for
eign minister of Russia. and as min.
lister OF war controlled a fighting force
of some 100000 soldiers.
I'm 1927 he was expelled from the
party. and Stain assumed leadership
Of the country. Trotzky. driven from
one land to another in the years o.
his exile. has supported himself BY
writing)
rpnrzuv nrNyrS CuAucrS
Evening star., 1936-08-16
ANN HEWITT AIDE
HITS AT CHARGES
Assertion Client "Dupe"
Made to "CamoufIage Is.
sue," Lawyer Says.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, August ls.-
Dark-eyed Ann Cooper Hewitt's per-
sonal attorney struck back sharply to-
night at the assertion Of lawyer for
two physicians accused of illegally
sterilizing her, that she was tool"
Of conspirators seeking riches from
her own inheritance.
Miss Hewitt, heiress to an inventors
estate estimated as high as 10000
900, conferred with her lawyer, Rus
sell P. Tyler, during the weekend
recess which interrupted her dramatic
testimony in the mayhem conspiracy
trials of DR.. Tilton e. Tillman and
DR.. Samuel G. Boyd.
The physicians were charged with
sterilizing Miss Hewitt in a plot all
legedly engineered by her mother,
Mrs. Maryon Cooper Hewitt, to gain
control of AIMS estate. The criminal
charges developed after Ann sued her
mother and the physicians for $780,
900. asserting she was tricked into
submitting to the sterilization opera
ton.
Charges Miss Hewitt Duped.
Defense Attorney I. M. Golden, in
questioning Ann yesterday. charged
she had been duped into proceeding
against her mother and the physicians
by Tyler and other persons seeking q
part of the fortune left by the late
Peter Cooper Hewitt, AIMS father.
Out of court. Tyler asserted Golden's
charge was mads only to camoufage
the real issue-&ye guilt or innocence"
of Dr.. Tillman and DR.. Boyd.
Tyler said he would be a witness
for the State and challenged Golden
to question him about the advice he
gave Miss Hewitt and the filing of the
civil suit.
Golden said he would seek to show
through Miss Hewitt and others that
Tyler, DR.. Pedar Bruguiere, first hus-
band of Mrs. Hewitt, the present Mrs.
Bruguiere. and Florence Slavich. Mrs
Bruguiere's sister, conspired to extort
money from AIMS mother.
Trial Reopens Tomorrow.
Miss Hewitt, termed by a psychi-
artist as having the mentality Of a
10-year-old child. insisted she was not
apprehensive over the prospect of fac
ing Golden's searching cross-examina-
ton when the trial is resumed Mon
day.
But whether she is nervous or
otherwise, said Tyler, she will be
ready and willing to answer any ques-
tions put to her. and to tell the truth
She has nothing to gain or lose by
the criminal proceedings"
Tyler said he was attorney for Dr.
Bruguiere for several years and that
Mrs. Hewitt asked him to serve as
AIMS attorney upon her coming Of
age. Ann now is %.
Evening star., 1936-08-16
DELAWARE DEMOCRATIC
: WOMAN IN HOUSE RACE
Mrs. Margaret D. Bodziak, Attor.
ney, of Wilmington Must Await
State Convention.
BY C. C. GRAY,

Special Correspondent of The Star.
- WILMINGTON, Del. August l5.-
II the Democratic State Convention.
which meets September /. Is willing,
Delaware will have its first woman
candidate for the National House Of
Representatives. She Is Mrs. Marga-
ret D. Bodziak, an attorney of VIII
mington. She is the Democratic ma
tional committeewoman and was at
one time assistant city solicitor.
Two more Democratic aspirants for
the nomination for Governor an
nounced their candidacy this week.
They were Edward M. Cooch OF
Coochs Bridge, New Castle County,
and Henry r. Isaacs Of Wilmington.
They are lawyers and have long taken
an active part in the affairs of the
party.
=. Representative George Stewart Of
this city, finishing his first term In
the House Of Representatives. has an
rounced hs candidacy for renonina-
ton at the Republican State Conven-
ton. State Treasurer Warren +.
Moore of Harrington also said he
would seek denomination.
Evening star., 1936-08-16
SUSPECT AWAITS
WARRANT VA|NLY
Ohio Officers Refuse to Hold
Man on "BIack Legion"
Charges.
By the Associated Press.

bt Inc hASOCidJeQ fTeSS.
LIMA, Ohio. August 15.-Virgil F.
Bert" Effinger, termed by Detroit
officers major general in the Black
Legion, went home tonight after wait
ing at police headquarters for several
hours for arrival of a warrant charg-
ing he possessed six hand grenades on
a visit to Detroit year ago.
The warrant did not come, and
Police Chief Ward Taylor said he
could not hold Effinger without a
warrant.
Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea of
Detroit asked authorities here TO ar
rest Efinger and search his home. On
learning OF the request, Efhnger went
voluntarily to police headquarters.
Acting City Judge Carl NJ Blank told
Chief Taylor that Effinger could be
freed on $500 bond.
At Home if Wanted.
While Efinger was arranging bond,
however, the magistrate decided he
could not be held or bonded merely on
the strength of McCrea's telegram
Eflnger went home, notifying officers
he would be there if wanted"
He declined to comment on the
charge except to say that he was
acquainted with Arthur F. Lupp, ST.,
Michigan commander of the legion.
and had visited him in Detroit some
time in the past. He said he did not
know others mentioned in the case.
He has not admitted any connec-
ton with the Black Legion. but once
asserted the organization had 6,000,-
600 members
The warrant was issued following a
statement by William H Guthrie, a
Black Legion printer held by Detroit
police.
"Executioner" Backs Story.
Efinger showed him the grenades
in the home of Arthur F. Lupp. ST.,
Michigan commander of the legion,
Guthrie said. The printers statement
was corroborated by Dayton Dean,
confessed "executioner" in the Black
Legion staying of Charles A. Poole,
Prosecutor McCrea said.
Efinger handed him some suitcsses,
Dean told the prosecutor. and re-
marked, Guard these we'll. captain.
because there is enough explosives
there to blow Up this whole block"
Dean also asserted that Effinger told
a legion meeting that the organization
was going to take over the United
States Government" and that he set
September 16, 1886. for an attempted
coup.
Evening star., 1936-08-16
HARRY RICHMAN SET
FOR HOP TOLONDON
Pronounces 100000 Plane
Ready-Expects to Set Round.
Trip Record.
~ TIT Associated Press.

LOS ANGELES, Calf. Aug. is
Harry Richman, singer and sportsman.
tested his 100000 airplane today and
pronounced it ready for q New York
London round-trip flight.
With his pilot, Dick Merrill, he few
to Muroc Dry Lake last night and
put the craft through its PAGES. Then
he retired to his hotel room for q
good sleep preparatory to hopping Oh
tomorrow for New York. After a few
days there he plans to head out over
the Atlantic.
OF his Atlantic flight Richman said
confidently. We'll breakfast in New
York, dine In London and have break
fast again the next morning in New
York"
To avert accidents the big transport
plane is equipped with a device to cast
loose the motor in 80 seconds. An
other to dump the gasoline and sea-
the fuel tanks in a like time. a two
way radio with extra batteries. bic
kite to attract steamers in case of q
sea landing and 10000 buoyant table
tennis balls filling in the wing spaces
Richman plans to hop OF early TO-
morrow.
Evening star., 1936-08-16
Rooster Exiled to Maryland.

CHICAGO (R.-Mrs. Susan Cribi
pet rooster. Pete. became victim oi
his environment.
DR.. John Carpenter. q neishbori
complained that Pete signaling tht
dawn each day, kept everybody arount
there awake. The doctor appealed u
the police.
Mrs. Cribs said that rather thar
see Pete fricassed she'd exile him te
the Maryland farm home OF hei
cousin, where he could crow wheneve
he pleased.
Evening star., 1936-08-16
1900 MINERS AGREE
TO Terminate STRIKE
Employees Of Glace Bay, N. s.
Return to Work Tomorrow.
Follows Heated Conference.

Ey the Associated Press.
GLACE BAY, Nova Scotia, August
15.-Nearly 1000 members of five
Glace Bay collieries agreed tonight
to return to work Monday. ending
a one-week strike.
Decision to call of what was de-
Scribed as an unsanctioned walkout
was reached after . heated confer
ence between strike leaders and the
district executive OF the United Mine
Workers.
Another session will be held two
weeks from today with o temporary
agreement binding the workers, mean
while.
/ Grievances of 200 Longwall miners
of the No. 2 colliery, whose refusal
to work caused the tie-up. viii be
investigated by the unions district
officers and ofacials Of the Dominion
Coal CO.
Evening star., 1936-08-16
Blaisdell Family Meets.

YORK, Me-, August Is R.-East-
ern descendants of Ralph Blaisden,
shipwrecked 301 years ago today at
Pemaquid Point. met today in this
village where he first settled, while
Central and Western relatives were
reuniting at Lawrenceburg. Ind. and
Los Angeles.
The fasteners. presided over by
DR.. j. Harper Blaisdell of Boston.
president Of the National Blaisdell
Family Association, accepted A. Lin
coin Blaisdells invitation to meet at
his home In Winterport next year.
Evening star., 1936-08-16
BRITISH, FRENCH IN ACCORD.
Arms Embargo Order Awaits Replies Of
Other States,

LONDON, August Is P).-Great
Britain tonight announced complete
accord with France on Spanish arms
embargo, stayed actual order Of ban
to await other governments. and
warned against danger Of meddling in
the civil war.
The step toward neutrality, the for
eign Office announced, will become ef-
fective when assent Of Germany, Italy,
Portugal and Russia is received.
Maintenance of a strict. impartial
attitude of non-intervention is essen
tial if the unhappy events in Spain are
to be prevented from having serious
repercussions elsewhere" the British
government declared in communique.
Notes agreeing to ban shipment of
arms and munitions were signed by
French and British diplomats in Paris
today.
Evening star., 1936-08-16
Council Surprised
As Speaker Fails to
Seek Any Favor
srec.al Dispatch to TIL, Star.

SLec.al Dispatch to Thc Star.
LURAY, Va. August 15.-The
Luray Town Council recently had
what it believes Is an experience
unique in the history of town
councils, a visitor who wanted to
address them and didn't ask for
anything.
Elder D. Walter Strickler. 70,
retired minister and local mer-
chant, sent word to the town
council he would like to address
them.
Upon appearing, he said: 81
want to compliment the present
council and mayor on the good
work they are doing in the town.
May it continue"
Rev. Strickler then went into
detail as to benefits inaugurated
by the present administration.
Evening star., 1936-08-16

Park writer's, it seems. enjoy an i'm
munity from curiosity which is denied
those who paint in public places. In
contrast with the dozens who will look
over the shoulder of an artist, not one
stopped to check on what. exactly. the
mystery man was writing.
He made piquant picture, sitting
there in his artistic trance with two
pigeons perched behind him on the
back of the bench apparently reading
every word as 1t was spread on the
paper.
Evening star., 1936-08-16
Speed Records Smashed.

J. Whitehead topped all records
when he drove his car the 812 miles
between johannesburg and Durham,
South Africa, without food or drink
in Is hours and l6 minutes, an aver
age of 53-2 miles an hour. in spite Of
being stopped by the police at Mar
tinsburg for Is minutes.
Evening star., 1936-08-16
DELEGATES CHOSEN
ey . staff Correspondent OF rne Star.

81 6tah CORRESPONDENT Of Tne Star.
HYATTSvILLE. Md, August 15.-
The Snyder-Farmer unit. American
Legion Auxiliary. has elected Mrs.
Caesar L. Aiello. Hyattsville. and Mrs.
Carl w. Wall, Colmar Manor. as dele
gates TO the department convention
to be held at Baltimore. August 26
to 20.
Mrs. Hugh McClay and Mrs. Kath-
arine Middlecamp were elected al.
ternate delegates. Mrs. Ralph Shelter
will attend as O delegate ut large.
Evening star., 1936-08-16
FINISHED.

An order issued By an Arlington
County board in 1924 Uas carried
out this week, Sheriff Howard B.
Fields informed the present board
yesterday.
The order Das for filling in
weu built in 1898 to supply the
Arlington Court House pith udter.
No reason uas oiuen for the slight
delay.
Evening star., 1936-08-16
PORTUGUESE FIRE ON SPANIAR
Lisbon Foreign Minister Fears In
vOlvement in War.

LISBON. Portugal. August IS (R.-
Portuguese border guards fired on
Spanish government troops today in
the third encounter in "a hours. and
the foreign ministry expressed fear
this nation might be drawn into the
civil war.
The encounter resulted. the Portu-
guese government said, when Spanish
loyalists crossed the frontier to re-
capture two bus loads of bombs al
legedly seized by custom guards.
The Spaniards fled when gunfire
greeted their sally
Thirty Communists" allegedly
crossed into Portugal. seized Spanish
army officer and killed him in one
earlier incident. The invaders. the
Portuguese Radio Club charged,
threatened laborers with guns.
Protests to the Madrid government
"in terms of great energy" we're
ordered.
BRITISH FRENCH IN ACCORD
Evening star., 1936-08-16
LUDEND0RFF DIVORCEE
DIES OF HEART STROKE
Marriage to German War Lord in
1909 and Memoirs in 1929. Fol-
lowing Separation. Recalled.

ny the Associated Press.
MUNICH, Germany, August Is
Frau Margarethe Ludendorff. divorced
first wife of the German World War
lord. Gen. Erich Ludendorff. died last
night at Solln. near here. of heart
disease.
They were married in August, 1909,
and divorced in 1926.
In her memoirs, written in 1929.
publication of which the general un-
successfully tried to prevent. Frau Lu-
dendorf called their marriage "a love
match" They had no children, but
she had four by a previous marriage.
Gen. Ludendorff remarked three
months after their divorce.
Evening star., 1936-08-16
DREAMS OVER.

A FALL from his bicycle was q
bigger thing in the life of Allen
Frost, aged 10, than in the case of
most children who fall of bicycles.
Aliens crash cost him those two
teeth, central incisors, which are SO
important in certain phases Of liy-
ing. His father rushed him to the
dentist at once, but. sorry though he
was, the dentist had to say there was
nothing he could do until the boy
was grown.
Evening star., 1936-08-16
Poor Get Bulk of Income.

= Half of Britain's total national In
come now goes to the poor. 20 per
cent to the middle classes and l6 per
cent to the rich.
Evening star., 1936-08-16
THIEF GETS $117

Watch Also Stolen at High Ice
Cream Co. Store.
Jimmying q rear door of the High
Ice Cream Co. store at sos c street
northeast last night. a sneak thief
stole 500 In cash belonging to the
company. $l2 from Ruth Lee. man
ager; a wrist watch valued at SIS
from Mary Bossett, a clerk. and IS
from Valentine Klein. q roomer on the
second floor Police said the money
and watch had been left in supposedly
safe hiding places.