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Evening star., 1936-06-07
WEDDINGS STAGED
AFFAIRS OPPOSED
MethodiSts F n on Use of
Marriage Ceremony to
Draw Crowds.
By the Associated Press.

WESTMINSTER, Md, June g.
The performance Of marriages at
county fairs received the Official dis
approval today of the Baltimore An
nual Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
The delegates to the I52d session
Of the conference went on record as
being opposed to the use of the mar
riage ceremony "for any spectacular
or commercial purposes"
John S. Hollenbach of Manchester,
social service and citizenship chair
man of the Reformed Church in Car
roll County. sent the MethodistS a
communication that led to their
action.
He asked the conference to Con
slider the advisability of the marriage
ceremony of the church being used
as a means of publicity and increas-
ing the gate receipts of a county fair
or similar enterprise"
Social Service Report Received.
The conference received, but did
not act upon, social service report
condemning the profit motive, deplor-
ing racial determinations and urging
the preservation Of peace.
Dr.. H. w. Burgan of Washington,
chairman Of the Social Service Com
mission, specifically asked that the
conference not act on the report, but
merely receive it and print it In the
minutes.
The conference voted to hold its
next annual session in Baltimore on
the first Wednesday in June at the
Harlem Park Church, of which Rev.
o. B. Langrall is pastor.
Group meetings and devotional
services occupied members of the
Young Peoples Council at its ninth
annual meeting. Bishop ]. W. Pickett
Of India addressed the group this aft
ernoon.
Five hundred and seventy-five reser-
vations were made for the annual
banquet tonight Rev. E. Pierce Hayes
Of China was the banquet speaker.
Profit Motive" Condemned.
There was little discussion on the
social service report that suggested
a program of education on Christian
economic attitudes" urged passage by
Congress of the anti-lynching bill and
preservation of the country's policy Of
non-aggression
The report condemned the profit
motive" as incapable Of supplying the
people with the necessities of life. :"
1t advanced the motive of service" as
the only practicable method by which
an economic system can be operated" :"
The conference love feast will be
held tomorrow, with DR.. Charles w.
Baldwin, first pastor of the West
minister charge after it became a sta
ton. presiding.
Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes Of
Washington viii preach at the morn
ing services and conduct the conse-
Grafton and ordination service in the
afternoon.
Bishop Paul B. Kern of Charlotte,
N. c., will deliver the evening sermon.
He is bishop of the tenth Episcopal
area of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South.
Evening star., 1936-06-07
STRIKE REPORTS HELD
UNTRUE BY GOVERNOR
Statement From ARK ansas Execu-
tive Follows Liberties
Unions Reward Offer.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, June g.
Gov. j. Marion Futrell told the Amer
ican Civil Liberties Union today the
greater part" of what it had heard
about the East Arkansas cotton chop
pers' strike was untrue"
He made the statement after the
union posted $1,000 reward for in
formation leading to arrest and final
conviction Of any person or persons
guilty of violence against any men,
Der Of the Southern Tenant Farmers
Union in connection with the strike.
Gov. Futrell commended the spirit
which prompted" the reward offer.
The union wrote the Governor it
was posting the reward because Of
reports Of violence against three strik-
ers. denying them the rights under
the law to organize, strike and picket
peacefully"
Clay East, union organizer, and M.
v. Moody, Little Rock attorney, pub
hshed statements in Memphis saying
they were roughly handled by crowds
in Forrest City yesterday after D. M.
Benson, another union organizer, was
fined 81, 1000 on charges Of interfering
with labor.
Evening star., 1936-06-07
BY DR.. BOLIVAR LANG FALCoNER.

BY DR.. BOLIVAR LANG FALCONER.
PENANG, Straits Settlements, May
% (By AirmaiD Roaring over half
the world, a Royal Dutch airline plane
which took off from Amsterdam six
days ago dropped me here at the edge
of the Orient at l pm. yesterday
10 days from Lakehurst, N. j.
AS though riding the magic carpet
of an Arabian Night, We swooped over
lands so ancient that even Alexander
the Great thought them old, in the
Woodcock, Douglas ship with Fokker
engines, which goes on TO Batavia,
Java. to complete the longest COM
mercial air trip scheduled anywhere
today.
The eight seats in the Woodcock
were all taken when we took of at s
am, May 16. At the controls was
G. Y. Geysendorffer, the chief pilot,
who ran the airplanes of Van Lear
Black, the noted Baltimore millionaire
who disappeared mysteriously at sea
six years ago.
Breakfast in Leipzig.
BY 7:45 am. we had reached Leipzig
for another breakfast, for the Dutch
believe in eating. By 10 am. we were
at Bratislava, in Czechoslovakia, where
Napoleon fought the armies Of Austria
in 1905, and at pm. we reached
Athens for the night.
1t was like driving a horse and
buggy to town for the days groceries
to Geysendorffer and c. de Wis, the
second pilot, who ply twice a month
between the North Sea and the Dutch
East Indies. They are used to having
tea in Karochi, on the Indus at the
northwestern gate to India three
days after breakfast in the Neither
lands.
Except for the thrills in picking
out places noted in the Bible and the
Anabasis of Xenaphon, the dullest
part of the trip lies between Cairo
and Karochi-uninspir stretches Of
desert except for the Valley of Meso-
potamia, south of Bagdad.
Beauty in Mountains.
There is a primitive beauty in the
wild mountains which line the south
ern end Of Persia along the Gulf Of
Oman, but thence to India the plane
SCARED over the dry, dead and bare
coastline of Baluchistan, an outpost
of the British Empire peopled by q
strange race suspicious of men from
the western world of Europe.
Even aS un f7v t0uard MALAY and
the outposts of the East. it is hard to
believe that man has conquered space
in this complete fashion. We have
traced in the wind the 40-day route
Of Moses. We have f1icked by the
trails cut so ardously by Alexander
and Cyrus and Xerxes. We have
looked down at the monuments raised
and lowered in the history Of $50
centuries.
Evening star., 1936-06-07

Although Catholic University loaned
the use of its shops, the university
took no part in the project itself, DR..
Methvin said. Except for the wing
slot and rather unorthodox arrange
nent Of the tail surfaces, the airplane
is Of conventional appearance.
First Flight Wednesday.
Construction completed, the plane
was moved to Congressional Airport,
where it was reassembled for flight
testing. Douglas Mason, pilot-in-
structor at Congressional, agreed to
act as test pilot and took the ship of
for the first time Wednesday. After
minor notifications of the control
surfaces he pronounced himself
pleased with the new ship and aston
ished by its performance. He has been
unable to stall or spin the plane, he
said.
In yesterdays demonstration for
GeisSe, Mason deliberately approached
the stalling attitude at so feet of the
ground, throttle almost closed and the
control stock pulled back hard. Fly
ing speed fell off until the controls
became imperative and the plane
failed to turn even with the rudder
hard over alternately to right and left.
With the engine operating at cruis-
ing speed, Mason said, the plane has
climbed 5000 feet in seven minutes
and with the engine wide open it
climbs 1000 feet a minute from
ground level. A 90-horsepower engine
is used and the plane has taken of
with loading of II pounds per horse
power, described as unusual for this
type of ship.
Il am greatly encouraged by the
results of the fight tests so far" Dr.
Methvin said. There are a few
changes I want to make for test pur-
poses, which may give slightly differ
ent performance. Then we will be
ready for the Department of Com
merce to give it the most severe
trials"
DR.. Methvin is making his home
here at 712 Seventh street southwest.
Evening star., 1936-06-07
BOY, BURNED BY FILM,
is LIKELY TO RECOVER
Policeman's Son to Experience
More Pain Later-origin of
Celluloid Sought.

John A. Fitzpatrick, jr., son Of a
third precinct policeman, who was
severely burned yesterday when a roll
of motion picture film was ignited in
his pocket, was reported at Children's
Hospital early today to have more than
fair chance for recovery.
The youth, it was explained, is COM
paratively without pain now, but Is
expected to suffer more within the
next day or so. The illness, always
following third-degree burns, is not
expected to prove fatal.
Meanwhile, police continued their
search for the origin of the film, which
John was igniting piece by piece in the
garage in the rear of his home, 44o8
Fourteenth street, when the flames
reached the roll in his pocket.
While John and some playmstes
amused themselves Friday afternoon
by watching the writhing pieces of
celluloid after they had been ignited,
1t was not until the youth was by him
self in the garage that tragedy resulted.
He was saved a worse fate by his
grandmother, Mrs. Jane M. Smith,
who heard his screams and tore of
his clothing.
Evening star., 1936-06-07
MARYLAND c. 0. P.
STUDYING FIELD
Leaders See Nice's Chances
Enhanced by Vandenberg
Statement.
BY tht Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, June 6.-Marylands S
Republican Delegation headed tonight
for the national convention in Cleve-
land, firmly and frankly committed
to a policy of watchful waiting be-
fore lining up with any candidate for
the presidential or vice presidential
nominations.
These developments, fostered by re-
ports of rapidly brewing fight at
the convention, stood out from the
Maryland point of view.
Maryland leaders we're obviously
pleaSed-and said so of the record
at the announcement that Senator
Vandenberg of Michigan would not
accept the nomination as Vice Presi-
dent. Gov. Harry Nice is an ad-
mitted candidate for that nomina-
ton.
For Nice on First Ballot.
William P. Lawson, State chairman,
said the Maryland delegation would
vote for Nice for President and for
Nice only on the first ballot" Cleve-
land reports were that forces opposing
Gov. ALI Landon of Kansas were ask
ing "favorite son" delegations to stand
firm for their own candidates, at
least on the first ballot
Lawson said he had received no
communication from any groups op-
posing Landon for the presidential
nomination.
The Maryland delegation is pledged
to Nice for President until he re-
leases it. Nice has declined to say
when he plans to release it or to
which candidate he plans to throw
Maryland's Is votes.
Even though the delegation Is
pledged to Nice for President. its
sole interest along those lines is to
boost him for the Vice Presidency.
Nice declined to comment today on
vandenberg's statement. Other than
to say:
81 don't look downcast about it,
do II"
Leaders Plainly Jubilant.
Other Republican leaders we're
plainly jubilant about it. They said;
Withholding permission to use their
names-that they felt the develop
ment boosted Nice's chances.
Maryland headquarters will be set
up Sunday morning in the Hotel
Statler. Gov. Nice, though not
oficially o member Of the delegation,
viii preside there.
Evening star., 1936-06-07
BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON.

~ EVEN years of spare-time aero
nautical research by Tennes-
see chiropractor have reached
~ a climax at Congressional Air
port, Halpine Md, where a novel air
plane containing a new anti-stalling
wing invented by the doctor now is
undergoing Department of Commerce
tests.
The airplane was built in the shops
of the Catholic University of America
by Kermit Parker, under supervision
of the inventor, DR.. Wilbur E. Meth
win of Lawrenceburg, Tenn.
Believing the airplane shows def
mite promise, the Bureau of Air Com
merce, after a preliminary demon
stration yesterday before John H.
Geisse, chief of the development section
of the bureau, will conduct more tests
during the coming week and the air.
plane probably will be sent to the
laboratories of the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics at Langley
Field, Va, for full-scale wind tunnel
tests and flight studies.
Aeronautics His Hobby.
Seven years ago, DR.. Methvin be-
came interested in aeronautics as a
hobby For several years he worked
on the autogiro principle, but became
dissatisfied He studied the flight Of
pigeons, noting especially the effect Of
the wing-tip feathers, which separate
at low flying speeds and provide a
multiplying or slot" effect He set
about Incorporating the slot principle
in a standard airplane wing to pre-
vent stalling at slow speeds or angles.
Hundreds of tests followed, involv-
ing the construction of private wind
tunnel. Having determined the loca-
ton, size and shape of a slot by re-
peated tests, the doctor came to
Washington about two years ago to
undertake the actual construction of
a full-size airplane. He gave up his
professional practice and has put all
his savings into the airplane.
Evening star., 1936-06-07
CAPITAL LAWYER
AGAIN HONORED
A. W. Hoage Reelected
President of Methodist
Brotherhood.
BY the Associated Press.

by Lle ASSOClHGeO FEcSSs
WESTMINSTER. Md, June ga.
w. Hoage, Washington attorney, was
reelected president Of the Methodist
Brotherhood Of the Baltimore Confer
ence today.
Charles Duke of Baltimore was elect
ed vice president, o. H. Flohr Of Ca
louisville, secretary, and L. w. Porter
Of Catonsville, treasurer.
The Ministers Wives Association of
the Baltimore Conference elected Mrs
o. B. Langrall of Baltimore president.
She is the wife of the pastor of the
host church for the next session of the
Baltimore annual conference Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mrs. Langrall succeeds Mrs. o. G.
Robinson, wife of the pastor of the
host church for the present session.
The following district officers Of the
brotherhood were elected:
Frederick district-George H. Mar
quart, Hagerstown, president; r. Etch-
eson, Frederick, vice president; Albert
Powell, Hagerstown, secretary. and
Charles w. Mackley, Union Bridge
treasurer.
East Baltimore district-William E.
Mackubbin, president; w. w. Gibson.
vice president; Walter Calady, secre-
tary, and r. B. Colbert, treasurer.
West Baltimore-Dr. George C..
Shannon, president; o. H. Flohr, Ca
louisville, vice president, and Roy o.
Phoebus, secretary-treasurer.
Washington-Edward L. Simpson,
Chevy Chase, president; H. L. Under
wood, Washington, vice president; DR..
M. Berry, Washington. secretary, ana
r. o. Belt. Chevy Chase, treasurer.
Evening star., 1936-06-07
PEERY ASKS ADVICE
ON ENDING PAY CUT
Budget Commission to Discuss.
State Employees Wages at
Session Tuesday.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated FreSS.
RICHMOND, Va, June 6.-Gov
Peery said today he had asked At
torney General A. P. Staples for ad-
vice on the section of the 1896 budget
bill relating to restoration of salary
cuts to State employees, which will be
discussed by the Budget Commission
Tuesday.
The Governor said final decision on
the restoration would be made follow
ing the commissions meeting, but he
was hopeful for full restoration. The
Legislature directed an unconditional
restoration Of half Of the 10 per cent
still in effect, and made the other half
conditional on economies by depart
ments and institutions.
Evening star., 1936-06-07
65O MARYLAND j.
DIPLOMAS GIVEN
CoIorfuI Commencement Ex-
ercises in Coliseum At
tended by 5000.
B, q stan Correspondent OF The Star.

BY q StaH Correspondent OF The Star.
COLLEGE PARK. Md, June s.
Six thousand spectators filled Ritchie
Coliseum here today to witness col
orful commencement exercises as $50
University of Maryland students re-
ceived diplomas in the institution s
127th graduation ceremonies.
Led by q contingent Of graduate
nurses, in white uniforms, a long
procession of cap-and-gowned fac
ulty members, guests Of honor and
students filed from the crest Of the
campus hill in front Of the chemistry
building to the coliseum.
A long pre-ceremony program oi
music by the university's student
band was climaxed with Maryland
My Maryland" as the marchers took
their seats in the huge hall
Principal address was given by
Charles Henry Davis, New York in
ventor-engineer, who revealed plan:
for the establishment Of an institute
of transport on the College Park
campus. The 7l-year-old philan-
thropist, who said he would con-
tribute a $500.0O0 book collection on
highway engineering and road build
ing exhibit to the university, an
nounced preliminary plans for the
institute which would be devoted tc
teaching, research, exposition ano
planning of all forms Of transporta-
ton.
Extensive Housing Plans.
The project, to cost an estimated
$l00,000,000 when completed after
years of development and expansion
Davis said, will be housed in numer-
GUS buildings to be constructed on the
campus. The plan is still in the
most incomplete, formative stages,
he declared.
Appealing to the graduates ito pro-
tect and guard the Constitution" Gov
Nice, Republican head OF the State
gave a short speech as guest Of honor
He charged his listeners to allow mo
communism, relationships. autocracy
in this nberty-loving land"
Of1ciating at the ceremonies was
Harry c. Byrd, university president,
who conferred honorary degrees on
two recipients. Davis was given a
doctorate of engineering and Fred
Pierce Corson, president Of Dickin-
son College, Carlisle, Pa, received a
doctor Of letters award.
Certificates Of Merit.
Honorary certificates of merit were
presented to three Marylanders in
recognition of outstanding work in
agriculture. Recipients we're Revon
S. Dillon Of Hancock, leading horti-
culturist of the State; Fred c. Jones
Of Darlington, canning industry head
and Charles Siegwart Of Jessup, lead
ing orchid producer Of Eastern Mary
land.
President Byrd handed diplomas to
graduates as they fled across the
platform in units representing each
of the university's 10 schools and
colleges located here and in Balti-
more. AS the nurses moved to the
platform to receive caps from Mrs.
John L. Whitehurst, secretary Of the
Board Of Regents, the graduating
medical school group rose to wave
their green-tasseled mortar boards In
tribute to their comrades of profess
sion.
The exercises were followed by a
large reception on the upper campus
in honor of the new alumni.
Evening star., 1936-06-07
COLLEGE HEAD PICKED
Mount Holyoke Trustees Name
Ham as President,

SOUTH HADLEY, Mass, June 6
P)-The Board Of Trustees of Mount
Holyoke College announced tonight
the appointment Of Roswell Gray
Ham, wartime Marine Corps officer
and now Yale University professor of
English, to succeed Miss Mary Woolley
as president.
The statement was followed imme-
diately by one from Miss Frances
Perkins, Secretary of Labor and one
Of the trustees, expressing disappoint-
ment a woman had not been elected.
Evening star., 1936-06-07

who, his parents
believe. may be
headed for Texas
to visit the CEN
tennial celebra-
ton.
His pare n t S,
Mr.. end Mrs.
Sam erm n,
traced him to
Richmond, where
he took a bus for
NOr1Olk SeVerd !
days ago. b u t
since hen no
clues have been
found as to his
whereabouts. He
Evening star., 1936-06-07
Florida Democrats to Meet.

The Florida Democratic Club of
Washington will meet tomorrow at 8
pm. at the Willard Hotel to discuss
results Of the June 2 primaries and
the coming run-off elections to be held
June %. A representative of the
Speakers Bureau of the Democratic
National Committee will address the
meeting.
Evening star., 1936-06-07
BENEFIT SHOW MONDAY
Postponed Girl Scout Affair to Be
Held in HyattsvilJe.
er eeial Dispatch to The Star

erecial Dispatch to The Star
HYATTSvILLE, Md, June ga
postponed benefit show will be held
by Hyattsville elementary school pupils
Monday night at 7:30 pm. in the
Olive Street School auditorium. Pro-
ceeds will 60 to the Girl Scouts.
Among those who will take part as
a result of a tryout are Phyllis Sayre,
Betty Beasley, Margaret Smith,
Frances Roby, Peggy Stack, Martha
Dorm, Mary Elizabeth Davis, Virginia
Meriwether, Gloria Scott, Jane Bos-
well, Jean DAILY, Linda Lee Cheek,
Betty Ritchie, Doris Hampshire and
Jane Jecksoa,
Evening star., 1936-06-07
PRE.SCHOOL CLINIC

LAYTONSVILLE Md, June 6.-A
clinic for children of pre-school age
will be held in the Laytonsville School
Tuesday, beginning at am. nd con-
tinuing through the day.
DR.. v. L. Ellicott,' head Of Mont
gomery County Health Department,
and Mrs. Troy, public health nurse.
will be in charge, and will be assisted
by members of the local COMMITTEES,
which Is headed by Mrs. Thomas
Stewart, Mrs. Vest1s Wilcox and Mrs.
Merhle Haines.
Evening star., 1936-06-07
School to Give Recital.

The Ivy Randall School of Dane
ing. comprising more than IS students,
will give a recital in Pierce Hall at
8 pm. next Saturday. The program
will be divided into four parts, rang
ing from infants to adults.
Evening star., 1936-06-07
BOY SCOUTS TO MEET
Virginia Valley Gathering June
10 at Woodstock.
Special Dispatch to The Star

EptcIaI DISpALCh 20 The Star
WOODSTOCK. Va, June 6.-Boy
Scouts from all over the Valley Of
Virginia have been called to a meet
ing here ct the home Of Rev. Jonathon
Edwards, ScoutmaSter. June 10, ac-
cording to notices sent out 5y Belle
field Hawkins Of Luray, chairman OF
the Athletic Committee.
The meeting has for its purpose the
organization of Boy Scout base ball
league, the first of its kind in this
section of the State Towns expected
to take part in the league include
Luray, Front Royal, New Market,
Strasburg, Mount Jackson, Edinburg,
Harrisonburg and Woodstock
Evening star., 1936-06-07
D. S. REMSBURG DIES
srecial Dispatch to The Star.

% tO4h4 DLopuINL4 70 IIC bIhI.
POOLESVILLE Md, June g.
Daniel S. Remsburg, 70, well-known
farmer and surveyor and lifelong
resident of this vicinity, died last
night in Washington hospital after
an illness of two months. He is sur
vived by brother, George B. Rems-
burg of Poolesville.
The funeral will be held at 2 pm.
Monday from the home. Burial will
be in Monocacy Cemetery, Beallsville.
Evening star., 1936-06-07

attended school May % but did not
return home afterward
He is Is years old, weighs ITS
pounds and is feet 10 inches tall.
He has brown hair and eyes. and when
he left home was wearing brown
trousers and leather jacket.
Evening star., 1936-06-07
Hairs and Nails Saved.

The care universally taken of stray
hairs and nail parings can be traced
back to the old superstition that
power may be gained over another
by the possession Of anything that
has belonged to him or has In any
way formed part Of his personality.
Evening star., 1936-06-07
POLICE ASKED TO AID
MISSING YOUTH HUNT
Student, IS, Gone From Home
Since May 2S-Believed Going
to Texas Centennial

Police aid was asked yesterday in the
search for Arnold Herman, IS, who
has been missing from his home, 4418
Fifteenth street. since May %, and
Evening star., 1936-06-07
FALCONER SCARS
ON MAGIC CARPET
Reaches Straits Settlements
10 Days After Leaving
Lakehurst.

Around the lDorId in "a days by
commercial dirlines is the aim Of
Dr. BoliUdr Lang Falconer, Terds
globe trotter. He made the first
leg OF his flight, from LGkehurst,
~ j.. to Germany, aboard the Zep-
pelin Hindenburg. 1t each 9top-
ping point in his scircun1nnviodtion
he is communicating the story of
his experiences to The Star. This
is the second irStallment OF the
log OF the flight.