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Evening star., 1936-05-17
SESSION TO SHOW
AVIATION STRIDES
Largest Gathering in History
Will Hear Advisory CON-
mittee Revelations.
BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON.


Before the largest gathering of avia-
ton leaders In the history of the an
nual event, the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics this week
will reveal at its Langley Field, Va.
laboratories the advances in aviation
research which, 1t Is hoped, will en-
able the United States to continue
its air leadership in the face of
greatly increased aeronautical pro-
grams abroad, notably In Germany,
Italy and France.
A feature of the conference will
be the dedication and first public
demonstration of a new high-speed
wind tunnel in which speeds OF up to
500 miles per hour may be attained.
This tunnel will make possible expert
ments under conditions approximate
ing those at greater speeds than any
airplane ever has travelled.
An unusual feature of the high
speed tunnel is that while 1t is in
operation the atmospheric density In
the entire building in which 1t is
housed falls off and those in the build
ing feel the sensation of flying rapidly
upward. Altimeters have been in
stalled in the observation chamber
so that spectators may watch their
rate of ascent" said to be faster than
that of the fastest elevator. Although
the conditions, when the tunnel is
in full operation, approximate those
fourd at 10000 feet above sea level,
operation during the conference viii
Evening star., 1936-05-17

Lee, Is, and student in the fifth
form, plays second base on the school
nine. When not in the class room or
on the diamond he picks busily at
piano keyboard and writes notes on
blank bars. The result Is several orig
inal compositions.
Richards musical moods apparently
react to the seasons. for in December
he wrote Desperate" (Desperation) I,
while in April he produced Tran
quillity."
The hobby show also revealed para
doxes. Hamilton Fish III. son of Rus
sian-hating Representative Fish OF
New York, displayed a collection of
Russian ikons.
One of the most elaborate collec-
tions was exhibited by John M. Kauff-
mann, IS, first former Johns
| exhibits included everything from
minuscule marine life to Civil War
saddle holsters and Philippine spears.
He also displayed his coin, mineral and
pistol collections.
Versatile craftsmanship was demon
| strated in the exhibit of Erling H.
Hustvedt, is, Form " Erling is ex-
pert at type-setting, photography and
clay sculpture and has fashioned tiny
models of planes. made to scale. His
clay sculpture exhibit includes boy
face for which he used himself as
model. There Is a striking resem-
blance.
Evening star., 1936-05-17

be restricted to the lower speeds, so
that pressure will be confined to the
equivalent of 1000 to 5000 feet.
Reservation Demand Heavy.
So great has been the demand for
reservations for the annual engineering
conference and laboratory demonstra-
tions that for the first time in his
tory, the N. A. c. A. has been forced
to organize the Nations air leaders
into two parties.
The first group, composed Of civil
aviation leaders, Federal officials and
aircraft designers. builders and opera.
tors, is to leave Washington at $3.50
pm. Tuesday aboard the Norfolk and
Washington steamer for Old Point
Comfort. Va, to attend the all-day
conference at the laboratories We'd
nesday. The entire steamer has been
reserved and the N. A. c. A. now Is
turning away applicants for reserva-
tions Each party must be restricted
to 300 because of limited transporta-
ton facilities and the difficulty OF
handling larger numbers in the labora-
tories, it was explained. Many are
expected to fly to Langley Field from
various parts Of the country.
The first group will return to
Washington Thursday morning and
the second party will leave Thursday
evening for an all-day conference
Friday, returning Saturday morning.
Among the guests of the committee
will be Orville Wright. Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh, a member of the COM
mittee, now in Europe, will be absent
for the first time in seven years.
In connection with the gathering
of the N. A. C. A. party here, the Aero
Club of Washington will hold lunch
con at 1890 pm. Tuesday at the
Mayflower Hotel, at which certificates
attesting new world aviation records
will be presented to five American
record holders. Igor Sikorsky, de-
signer and builder of long distance
flying boats, will address the club ard
the visiting conference delegates OIL
transatlantic Flying" Sikorsky now
is said to be engaged in the designing
for Pan-American Airways of a new
type of clipper ship, even larger than
Evening star., 1936-05-17
G. W. u. BOARD FETE
FEATURED BY REVUE
Program of Songs, Dancing and
Tableaux Seen by Diplo-
matte Representatives.

With representatives of the diplo-
matte corps and Washington society
taking leading parts, an international
revue" was staged yesterday after
noon as the climax of the annual
Spring garden party of the Women's
Board of George Washington Uni
versity Hospital, on the verandas and
grounds of the Chevy Chase School
for Girls.
The program included songs, dances
and tableaux. Tea was served on the
lawn and refreshment booths were
busy. There was white elephant
table" The program also included a
bridge party, pony rides and games
for children, with Camp Fire Girls
as leaders.
The program arranged by Mrs. Wal
ter Tuckerman. opened with group
of songs of the United States, sung
by Mrs. James S. Oliver, attended by
Mrs. James Kerr and Betty Sharp.
Great Britain was represented by
Highland fling, danced by Rose Strong
Hellman; Poland. by group of folk
dancers from Baltimore; Italy by the
singing of an Italian song by Dolph
Atherton, with Mrs. Dorothy Radde
Emery at the piano.
The "Marseillaise" was sung for
France by Katherine Warren; Ger
many was represented by the sing
ing of two songs by Norma Simon
son, with 2-year-old Walter Willard
Boyd, jr, as a German child; Japan
presented national flower arrange
ment" by Nine. Yoshizawa and Nine.
Hayama, and Spain by Miss Alice
Louise Hunter, dancer. The daughter
of the Ambassador of Mexico, Miss
Emma Castillo Najera, sang a group
OF three Mexican songs, and China
was represented by DR.. Tai-Jen and
Nine. Tai-Jen.
An Irish jig by Rose Strong He'll
man and Nancy Mccarthy; a Swed-
lsh group by Joan Blair and Patricia
Michler: Czechoslovakian girl by
Mrs. Paxton Blair; Danish folk dances
by pupils of Miss Claire Langmack;
an Hungarian woman by Angelicka
Grahame; Norwegian folk songs by
Sola Holmen; a woman of Finland by
Hlkka Borgfeldt; a Dutch dance by
students of Miss Loretta Murphy, and,
finally, 1.-The Star Spangled Banner"
sung by Mrs. Flora McGill Keefer,
completed the international pageantry
Evening star., 1936-05-17

the giant Paciflc clippers, for pro-
posed service between the United
States and Europe.
BY arrangement with the Contest
Board of the National Aeronautic
Association the Aero Club will present
official Federation Aeronautique In
ternationale certificates to Benjamin
King, local sportsman pilot, who, dur
ing the past year has established eight
international records; Capt. Albert w.
Stevens and Capt. Orvil A. Anderson,
commander and pilot of the AGmy Air
Corps, National Geographic Society
stratosphere balloon, Explorer II:
Lieut.. Comdr. Knefler McGinnis.
commander of a big Navy seaplane
from the Anacostia Naval Air Station
during a new seaplane nonstop dis
lance record trial, and Daniel Brimm
Evening star., 1936-05-17

Gus A. Schuldt. Shaw has returned
to his home In Hiawatha, Mo, where
he has resumed the private practice
Of law.
Until a new presiding Judge Is
elected and the personnel of the four
courts is reorganized, Christoffersen
will work in the file room of the clerks
ofice. Judge Curran has not yet
named his court clerk.
Evening star., 1936-05-17

wO schoolboy foot ball and base
ball stars with famous names
we're revealed today to be tal-
L ented also in painting and musi-
cal composition, respectively.
The hobby show concluded at st.
Adams School last week included ex-
hibits by Woodrow Wilson Sayre,
grandson of President Wilson, and
Richard H. Lee. collateral descendant
Of the renowned Confederate general.
Sayre. II, is sixth former" and
plays regularly at end on the St.
Adams varsity foot ball eleven. He
Is as modest of his artistic ability as
Of his athletic prowess. Despite linn
tied instruction, he paints ably with
oils, and several of his landscapes and
interior scenes we're exhibited at the
school show. among them snowy noun
tain vistas. marine views. an interior
of cathedral suffused with blue, re-
ligious light, and a street in some
ancient English city.
Evening star., 1936-05-17
LAW STUDENT SWORN
AS POLICE COURT AID
Wayne L. Christoffersen, Native
of Utah, Is Judge Curran's
First Appointee.

Wayne l.. Christoffersen, a native of
Utah, who is studying law at George
Washington University. yesterday was
sworn in by Court Clerk r. A. Sebring
as a deputy clerk Of Police Court.
Christoff the first appointment
to be made by Judge Edward M. Cur
ran, newest and youngest judge of the
court, succeeds Richard Shaw, who
was clerk to former Presiding Judge
Evening star., 1936-05-17

of New York. who accompanied King
on one of his record trials.
Chester H. Warrington, president Of
the Aero Club. will preside. Reser-
vations for the lunche III may he made
at National Aeronautic Association
headquarters. Riggs Bank Building,
Dupont Circle.
Evening star., 1936-05-17
Students Go Fishing.

STEVENS POINT, Wis. UP).-Supt.
2. M. Vincent. himself an angler, ruled
that all Stevens Point High School
students who wanted to go fishing
would be excused on the opening day
of the season If they had written per-
mission from their parents.
There were LIS students. There
were 491 EXCUSES.
Evening star., 1936-05-17
Severe Traffic Penalty.

Severe Trafhc Penalty.
For failing to keep a light burning
on his motor truck a European in
Capetown. South Africa, was SEN
fenced to three cuts with a cane.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1936-11-21
Joe Louis
Millionaire
New York-(C)-Mike Jacobs,
promoter of Joe Louis bouts, esti-
mated last week Joe has earned ST.
100000 in u professional fights.
WHITE KILLER TO
DIE DECEMBER IL

Jackson, Miss, Nov. 21-(AP)-
The Mississippi Supreme Court broke
long standing precedent last week
when it affirmed the death sentence
of William Clark Mitchell, white
man, convicted of killing two Negro
men. The court set December IL as
the execution date.
No white man in recent years and
few, if any, since Reconstruction
days have been executed for murder
ing Negroes. Arthur Cook, Mitchell's
brother-in-law and accomplice, was
given a life sentence for turning
states witness.
Mitchell and Cook were convicted
of torturing to death Lewis and
"Soot" Bryant in one of the most
horrible murders in the history of
the state. They robbed the homes
of the two victims, beat them un-
conscious, soaked them in kerosene
and burned them alive.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1936-11-21
FOUR HELD FOR
PEONAGE IN FLORIDA

Washington, Nov. 21-(CNA)-An
investigation of forced labor in
Florida by the Department of JUS
tice resulted in the holding of four
managers of turpentine mill in that
state for peonage last week.
The Department of Justice was
forced to make the investigation
after persistent agitation by the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, the Southern
Tenant Farmers Union and other lib
eral and labor groups.
On October IA, Arthur Smith and
Ed Baker, Negroes, attempted to
leave the employ of William Knabb,
white owner of the mill. The men
were paid only a few cents day
for their work. They felt they could
get more money and better condi-
tons elsewhere.
They were detained at the point of
a gun by Knabb, however, because
of an alleged debt they owed"
Later, threats against the men
were made by Knabb and his son
Earl, and Fred Jones and Edward
Hall, all of whom were powerful in
the councils of the local Ku Klux
Klan.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1936-11-21
SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY
GIVEN IN HONOR OF
MRS. JOSIE MCGEE

A surprise birthday party was given
in honor of Mrs. Josie MCGEE at her
home at 467 Rondo street, Wednes-
day night, November 10. Many at
tended and was Mrs. MCGEE sur
prised? Well, you should have seen
her when the crowd gathered.
She was presented with many
gifts. A joyful time was had by all.
Those attending were: Mr.. and Mrs.
j. r. Jones, Mrs. Mary Bradley,
Miss Annie Mae Johnson, Mr.. w.
Brown, Mrs. Warda Johnson, Mr.
Andrew Guthrie, Miss Mildred Rus
sell and mother, Mr.. and Mrs. David
Johnson and Mr.. Earl Burford. Mrs.
David Johnson hostess.
Everyone had lots of fun. On de-
parting everyone wished Mrs. Nc
Gee many more happy and joyous
birthdays.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1936-11-21
Community Fund Drive
Is Keyed High Pitch

Keyed to high pitch and well
aware of their great responsibility
to raise more than $150,0OO day for
10 days, over 1000 volunteer workers
are to set out early Monday morning
to sell" the Community Fund. The
1887 campaign.opens Monday to con-
tinue through November IS, and men
and women throughout the city,
working through their 46 District
organizations, are fully prepared to
meet the tremendous task before
them, that of raising 81, SOC, 1876 to
maintain the 81 Community Fund
agencies for the coming year.
A gigantic and impressive opening
day program at the Municipal Audi
forum was attended by more than
$1,000 people who began arriving
shortly after noon, long before doors
to the Auditorium were open and
several hours before opening of the
program at 3 p. m.
Pageantry, drama, music, stirring
addresses all were part of the great
program which launched the 18th
annual campaign to maintain hos
pitfalls, settlement houses, foster
homes for children, maternity homes,
/ homes for the aged, summer camps
and other centers designed to make
life more pleasant and comfortable
for thousands every year. There was
a concert by the Minneapolis SYM
phony orchestra under the direction
of Eugene Ormandy, former conduc-
tor and now at the head of the
Philadelphia Symphony orchestra, an
address by Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver
of Cleveland, and a stirring pageant
in which more than 1,500 persons
representing all Community Fund
agencies took part. Brief talks on
the great work done by Community
Fund agencies inspired workers to
plunge into Mondays opening solicit
tation with enthusiasm and deter
mination to meet the goal of a mil
lion and a half dollars. Daily re-
port luncheon meetings on progress
of the campaign will be held at the
Nicollet hotel.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1936-11-21

In 1841 the first Negro magazine
was published, being issued by the
A. M. E. Church. About 1857 Ira
Aldridge, tragedian, was commonly
regarded as one of the two or three
greatest actors in the world. He be-
came member of several of the
continental academies of arts and
science, and received many decora-
tons of crosses and medals, the
Emperors of Russia and Austria and
the King of Prussia being among
those who honored him.
On the Shaw monument in BoS-
ton are written these words:
THE WHITE OFFICERS
Taking Life and Honor in their
Hands-Cast their lot with Men of
a Despised Race Improved in War
and Risked Death as meters of a
Servile Insurrection if Taken Prison
ers, Besides Encountering all the
Common Perils of Camp, March and
Battle.
THE BLACK RANK AND FILE
Volunteered when Disaster Clouded
the Union Cause Served without
Pay for Eighteen Months till Given
that of White Troops Threat
ened Enslavement if Captured Were
Brave in Action-Patient under
Dangerous and Heavy Labors and
Cheerful amid Hardships and Priva-
lions.
TOGETHER
They gave to the Nation Indy
ing Proof that Americans of Afri-
can Descent Possess the Pride,
Courage, and Devotion of the Patriot
Soldier-One Hundred and Eighty
Thousand Such Americans Enlisted
under the Union Flag in
MDCCCLXIII-MDCCCLXV.
In 1880 there was l Negro clergy
man for every AIS Negro inhabitants,
1 college professor or college presi-
dent for every 5,541 inhabitants,
dentist for every 6,707 inhabitants, /
lawyer or judge or justice for every
1856 inhabitants, 1 musician or
teacher of music for every 218 in
habitants, and 1 trained nurse for
every 2,076 inhabitants.
Here's happy Thanksgiving to
YOU. $50
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1936-11-21
James Gray Dramatic
Critic, Minneapolis
PublicForumS Speaker

James Gray, literary and dramatic
critic of the st. Paul Pioneer Press
and Dispatch, is to join the ranks of
Minneapolis Public Forum speakers
November 80, continuing for one
week. He will talk on literary and
dramatic subjects.
Mr.. Gray attended the Lake Har-
riet school in Minneapolis. He gradu-
ated from high school as salutatorian
of his class in Washington, D. c..
where his father represented the Min
neapolis Journal at that time, and
received his A. B. degree from the
University of Minnesota in 1920.
Immediately following graduation,
Mr.. Gray assumed his present posi-
ton as literary and dramatic critic
on the st. Paul Pioneer Press and
Dispatch. He is the author of three
novels: "The Penciled Frown,'
wake and Remember" and "Shoul-
der the Sky"
Social Security" ''The Tab Prob
lem in Minnesota" and Shopping in
European Markets" these are new
topics to be considered by Forum
speakers next week.
Dr. Emerson P. Schmidt, Univer-
sity of Minnesota economist, will en-
large on the problem of Social
Security at Loring school, Thomas
and Forty-fourth avenues north,
Tuesday, November "a, at p. m.
In addition, DR.. Schmidt will talk
twice next week on 1.-THE Tax Prob
lem in Minnesota" He will discuss
the subject first at Hale school,
Twelfth avenue south and Fifty
fourth street, Monday, November %,
at 8 p. m, and will repeat his re-
marks at Whitney school, Nineteenth
avenue and Pierce street northeast,
Tuesday, November "a, at 8 p. m.
j. D. Holtzermann, Minneapolis
business executive who makes an
annual buying trip abroad, will make
four appearances next week, talking
on the subject, Shopping in Euro
pean Markets" The schedule of
Holtzermann's talks is:
Monday, Northside Y. w. c. A.,
1907 West Broadway. Time, 2 p. m.
Sheridan Junior High school, Uni
versity avenue and East Broadway.
Time 8 p. m.
Tuesday, Ramsey Junior High
school, Nicollet avenue south and
West Forty-ninth street. Time s p.
m.
Wednesday, Fulton school, Vincent
avenue south and Forty-ninth street.
Time, 8 p. m.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1936-11-21

Mr.. William Walker is confined
to the Parkview Hospital.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1936-11-21
Former Chief OF Police
Frank W. Brunskill Dies
While On Hunting Trip
WORKED WAY TO TOP IN
MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPT.
Made Policeman in 1911

He was driving a brewery wagon
in 1911 when several Minneapolis
business men obtained a patrolman's
appointment for him. He was named
to the police morals squad and his
upward climb in the department
started.
April Is, 1912, he was appointed a
plain clothesman at central headquar-
tiers. With the succeeding four years
he was promoted and denoted, from
patrolman to plainclothes sergeant,
and back again, several times. Finally
on Aug. 1, 1916, he was appointed
detective sergeant at headquarters,
job he held five years. Aug. 16,
1921, he was named a police captain.
Two years later, July 2, 1923,
Mayor Leach appointed him chief of
police. For five years, until his break
with the mayor in 1928, Captain
Brunskill occupied the chiefs office,
ruling the department as it had never
been ruled before.
He learned the rudiments of a po-
lice officer by his association with
the late Charles Hamilton, veteran
detective of the Minneapolis Police
Department.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1936-11-21
VOICE OF THE LEGION

At the last meeting of the execu-
tive committee, there was consider
able discussion regarding the reor-
ganization of Boy Scout troop. This
is q duty that falls definitely within
the scope of post activity, but leaves
peculiar situation to be met.
Former Boy Scout troops have
been successful up to certain point.
Whenever scouts become proficient
enough to enter the first class, this
activity has revolved around the Y.
M. c. A.
The Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation has always drawn the color
Turn to page D
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1936-11-21
WILL MOVE Is u. s. OFFICES

Fifteen federal offices in Mime
apolis will be moved into the old
postoffice building on Washington
avenue the first of the year, leaving
only the courts, customs, marshal and
weather bureau offices in the federal
building.
The internal revenue office will be
the first to move, Fred Helweg, in
charge of the Minneapolis office and
custodian of the remodeled building,
said. The revenue department will
need the larger quarters to handle
the work in January entailed in the
unemployment insurance tax of the
social security act. Payments begin
in January. All the offices will be
in the building by the latter part of
February.
The remodeled structure will have
ga offices on the first floor. The
building now has two inside light
courts. Offices now in the postoffice
building and elsewhere in the city
also will be moved into the building.
Besides the revenue department it
will house offices of the alcohol tax
unit, secret service, extension service
County AGENT, commerce depart
ment, Indian bureau, agricultural eco
nomics bureau, bureau of entomology
and plant quarantine, army. navy,
CCC, interstate commerce commits
sion, bureau of narcotics, intelligence
unit of the revenue department and
the food and drug department.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1936-11-21

This is the feast time of the year,
When plenty pours her wine of cheer,
And even humble boards may spare
To poorer poor kindly share,
While bursting barns and granaries know
A richer, fuller overflow,
And they who dwell in golden ease
Bless without toll, yet toll to please.
This is the feast time of the year,
The blessed advent draweth near;
Let rich and poor together break
The bread of love for Christ's sweet sake,
Against the time which rich and poor,
Must ope for Him common door,
Who comes guest, yet makes feast
And bids the greatest and the least.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1936-11-21
HUDSON THOMAS

Funeral services will be held for
Hudson Thomas, age "a, of 1914
18th avenue south, Monday, Novem-
Der %, at the Church of God in
Christ, Seventh and Lyndale avenue
north, at 2 p. m. Interment Crystal
Lake Cemetery. Rev. Mitchell offici-
ating. Survived by mother, Mrs. Mary
Thomas; sister, Mrs. Idella Alber-
matha; two brothers, Ollie and Jessie
Thomas. Woodward Funeral Home in
charge of services.