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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-26
DAILY TIMES
TABLE
TODAY

1890 P.M.-Luncheon, Wash.
ington Executives Association, Viii
lard Hotel.
12:45 P.M.-Luncheon. General
Motors, Willard Hotel.
8 P.M.-Meeting, the George.
town Citizens Association, at st.
Johns Parish Hall. Potomac and
o Streets Northwest.
8:15 P.M.-Annual address to
Beta of Maryland Chapter Of Phi
Beta Kappa will be delivered by
Meta Glass, president Of Sweet
Briar College, and president OF
American Association Of University
Women, in Catherine Hooper
Hall, Goucher College.
TOMORROW
10 Am. - All day - Meeting,
Chamber of Commerce of United
States, at Chamber of Commerce
Building.
8 Am. Breakfast, Early Birds,
Willard Hotel.
10 Meeting and luncheon,
National Conference of Catholic
Charities Executive Committee,
Willard Hotel.
9 PM. Dance, Pennsylvania
State Society, Willard Hotel.
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''CIlain Letter Party
Blamed on Joker

NEW YORK, April 26 Q.N.S)
The mystery chain letter party"
which preceded the suicide by gas
of Mrs. James Mont in her Park
Avenue apartment Saturday night
was the work of a practical joker,
it developed today.
Police learned it was the joker,
and not Mrs. Mont, who penned
the chain letter invitations to the
mystery cocktail party" which re-
suited in $50 socially prominent
persons gathering in the lobby of
the apartment house. The gay
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mystery turned to tragedy when
the body of the former Helen
Kimm, actress, was borne past
them on a stretcher.
Police established that Mrs.
Mont took her life following a
jealous quarrel with her husband,
and that her suicide had no con-
nection with the party.
Previously it was reported the
quarre lstarted when Mont, be-
lieving his wife mailed the invita-
tionS, objected StrenuouSly.
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Mercy Ship Menaced
By Atlantic Gale

The Coast Guard cutter Faunce,
out of Boston, battled mountain
GUS seas last night on an errand
Of mercy in the North Atlantic.
The trawler Dorchester, on the
Grand Banks off Nova Scotia, had
aboard a man critically ill and in
need of an immediate operation,
she radioed. The nature of the i'll
ness was not told in the brief mes
sage.
The Dorchester is 200 miles off
the coast, and the cutter was not
expected to reach the scene until
early today. Because Of the
storm, the Coast Guard was un-
able to send an ambulance plane,
it was announced,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-26
Negro Bar Program

Edward P. Lovett discussed po-
lice brutality in the District of
Columbia and George A. Parker
spoke on the Negro and the Con-
stitution" at the annual lawyers
day program last night at Shiloh
Baptist Church under the auspices
Of the Colored Bar Association of
the District of Columbia. Judge
w. c. Hueston is president of the
organization.
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Evening star., 1937-04-27

ston, near La Plata, in Southern
Maryland. He was educated at RAN
dolph-Macon Academy, University of
Maryland and Wesleyan University of
Connecticut.
Bishop has spent 13 consecutive
years in the management of financial
campaigns, 10 years with the firm Of
Tamblyn & Brown of New York.
In 1924 he was made secretary to
the national commander of the Amer
lean Legion and the following year
became national field secretary OF the
Legion endowment fund. He has
been engaged in the management Of
33 financial campaigns, in which $780,
000,0 has been raised. Among them
were those Of the Hotchkiss School,
American Society for the Control Of
Cancer, Yale University Endowment
fund, numerous other educational in
stitutions, the Motion Picture Re-
search Council and the State Charities
Aid Association of New York.
His recent Washington campaigns
include Goodwill Industries in the Fall
Of 1885, the Church Of st. Stephen
and the Incarnation and the current
campaign Of Goodwill Industries.
Bishop will devote his entire time to
campaign work for the Chest He
will start Immediately building an or
ganization in preparation for the
drive next Fall.
Evening star., 1937-04-27
Studies Made to Preserve Life
Of Rare Government Papers

States now are being recorded on
film.
All of the fumigants used by the
National Archives in the treatment
OF records of the United States were
found by the bureau to be harmless
to paper. It was found that ordinary
types of writing ink are distinctly
injurious to all types of record papers.
Studies we're made of special type
of ink which may be used without
harmful effect.
Light, temperature and the humid
tty and purity Of the air must be
carefully controlled If deterioration
Of stored records is to be minimized,
1t was found. Air acidified as a
result OF combustion of fuels was
found to be harmful to library COL
lections, but it was proved by in
vestigations in the Folger Shakes
peare Library that library air can
be completely cleansed of such gas.
It was recommended as good library
practice that dinused illumination
be used and as little OF that as feasi-
bic, and that air conditioning be
resorted to to maintain constant
temperature, humidity and purifica-
ton Of the air
Choice Of paper for permanent
record use should be based upon
purity Of the fiber rather than its
source. Protective coatings for pa
pers were studied. and both trans
parent cellulose, ssheeting and jap
anese tissues we4t found suitable.
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D. S. c. AWARDED DEAD
WORLD WAR PRIVATE

Awarding Of the Distinguished
Service Cross posthumously to Pvt.
Lee Pearman, jr., Company E, 1l2th
Infantry, 28th Division, American
Expeditionary Forces, for extraordi-
nary heroism in action during the
Meuse-Argonne offensive September
80, 1918, was announced today by
the War Department
Pvt. Pearman was born in Balti-
more and enlisted at Kane, Pa. His
father now lives at De Young, Pa.
When the advance of the platoon
was being held up by enemy machine
gun fire, Pvt. Pearman left his place
Of comparative safety and succeeded
in getting close enough to the ma
chine gun nest to use hand grenade,
which proved very successful, killing
four and wounding one of the enemy.
thereby breaking up the nest COM
pletely and enabling the platoon to
advance" it was stated in the cita.
ton
In the performance of his act,
however, Pearman was killed in.
stantly.
Evening star., 1937-04-27

The life Of important Federal rec
ords, on paper and on film, and OF
rare and valuable library collections
and tlles may be greatly prolonged
as q result of studies now being
completed by the Bureau of Stand
ards.
These studies, made with the flnan-
cial aid Of the Carnegie Foundation
and National Archives officials, cover
means of preserving not only books
and documents, but also Of motion
picture films, now being used to .
great extent for reproducing record
material.
A summary Of the results Of the
studies has been completed by A. E.
Kimberly and B. w. Scribner Of the
Bureau Of Standards. This report
covers the effects OF fumigants, inks,
gases from heating plants, light and
other influences on the life Of such
records.
It has been found that further
studies must be made to determine
the resistance Of the emulsion on
1ilrns to wear. Because Of the rapidly
growing use Of motion picture Aims
for reproducing records material,
either as . preservative measure or
for more general accessibility, this
phase Of the research u regarded @
Of the utmost importance. All OF
the census recoedh q the United
Evening star., 1937-04-27
W0MEN'S LABOR GROUPS
SPONSOR SYMPOSIUM

The Women's Trade Union League
and other women's labor groups will
sponsor symposium on Labor and
the Threat of War" tonight at 8
O'Clock in Barker Hall, Y. w. G. A.
Building, Seventeenth and K streets.
Speakers will be Senator Frazier
OF North Dakota, who will discuss
why Wars as Waged"; Representa-
tive Allen of Pennsylvania, THE
Menace of Fascism," and Marion H.
Hedges, research director of the In
ternational Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, on Labor and the Inter-
national Crisis"
Miss jeanette Rankin, first woman
Representative in Congress and IA
NOUS for her vote against United
States entry into the World War in
~ will be chairman Of the
Meeting.
Evening star., 1937-04-27
AMBASSADOR DAVIES
PRESENTED DEGREE.
Presbyterian College Honor Con-
ferred Here by Secretary Hull,
and Ceremony Broadcast.

Joseph e. Davies, United States
Ambassador to Soviet Russia, was ,ln-
able to make a scheduled trip to
Presbyterian College at Clinton, s. c.,
yesterday, but that did not prevent
him from receiving the honorary de-
gree Of doctor Of laws from the in
stitution.
The degree was presented In Davies
shoreham Hotel apartment by Sec
retary Of State Hull, who acted for
the college president, William p.
Jacobs, I'd, and the Board Of Trus-
tees. The presentation and Davies
acceptance speech, broadcast by the
Columbia Broadcasting System, were
arranged to coincide with gathering
~ the college At which Senator
Byrnes of South Carolina and Dwight
Austin Of New York also received
honorary degrees.
william P. Jacobs, Sd, grandson of
the founder Of the college and son
Of the president, placed the vestment
on Davies.
The citation read by Secretary Hull
said the degree was conferred upon
Davies as distinguished jurist, out.
standing leader in the field Of in
ternational relations, statesman.
philosopher andy democraticnpublic
servant"
Evening star., 1937-04-27
WARNING ON STOCKS
TO BE CIRCULATED
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Civil Service Commission spokes-
men said today the commission wanted
President Roosevelt's letter warning
Government employees against market
speculation brought to the attention"
OF every employe.
Commission members will confer
soon, the spokesman said, to determine
what action is necessary to effectuate
the policy outlined in the letter. but
meantime copies will be sent to the
head OF every executive branch In the
Government and each administrator
Will be asked to call his employees at-
tention to it.
The letter, addressed to Harry q
Mitchell, chairman of the Civil service
Commission, said it would be "a sound
policy" for Federal employees not to
trade in stocks, bonds or commodities
for speculative purposes. The Presi-
dent suggested speculative activity be
considered factor in retaining or pro.
noting employees In the Government
service.
Evening star., 1937-04-27
RAILS LAST LONGER
HERE, SAYS EXPERT
Absence of Industrial Trucking
Aids Traction Maintenance,
New Yorker Asserts.

New Yorker Asserts.
The life Of street car rails and
special track work in the District is
greater than in other cities because
Of the absence of industrial trucking,
the Public Utilities Commission was
told today by a witness for the Cap
ital Transit Co. as the street car val
uation hearings were resumed.
The statement came from E. M. T..
Ryder, engineer of way for the Third
Avenue Railway System of New York,
which has the underground conduit
system, such as that employed here
His purpose was to show that even
the older rails, yokes and other UNDER
ground supports employed here should
last longer than in cities where there
is more heavy trucking.
Ryder said he had spent nearly
three weeks making personal in
spection of the tracks throughout the
transit system, matter of about 157
miles. He said he walked the length
Of the track except when he found
long section all laid at one time
In such cases he made spot check
and rode to the next unit.
Counsel for the commission and
the company agreed today to econ
omize on the cost Of the hearing rec
ord by limiting the number of maps
for certain exhibits.
Evening star., 1937-04-27
BAND CONCERT,

BY the Soldiers Home Band in
Stanley Hall at $50 pm. John s. M.
Zimmerman, bandmaster; Anton
Pointner, assistant.
Program.
March, Loyal Comrades" Blankenberp
Overture, Peter Schmoll" Won Weber
Entr'acte ca "A Scotch Lullabye,"
Kunits
(b) Dreaming" Richard Strauss
Grand scenes from the opera Gar
men" (reques) -Bizet
Fox trots, "Just Like . Melody Out
Of the Sky" -Donaldson
Japanese Sandman" Whiting
Waltz suite, Love Thoughts"
Waldteufel
Finale, "Ole Virginny' kamecnik
Tho 0tar epanSisd DatDw."
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RUST WILL AIDS
7 INSTITUTIONS
$4,000 Divided Among
Them-ReIatives, Friends
Get $135,OOO.

Seven religious and medical institu-
tions were substantial benefciaries
under the will Of DR.. Thomas Locke
Rust, 2lo2 Connecticut avenue, promi-
nent dentist. who died a week ago,
it WAS disclosed today In District Court
when his testament was filed.
Bequests totaling $135,000 we're
made to relatives and friends, and
another $4,000 was divided among six
institutions. All the rest of the estate
was given to Washington Cathedral
for q memorial to DR.. Rust's mother
and father. David Newton and Mary
Locke Rust.
The court was not informed con-
corning the size of the estate, which
will be evaluated later
Christ Church of Alexandria, where
George Washington once worshipped,
was left $4,000, and like sums were
given to the vestry Of St. Paul's Prot
estant Episcopal Church, Washing
ton; the Protestant Episcopal High
School of Alexandria, which DR.. Rust
once attended; the relief fund Of the
American Dental Association, Episco-
pal Hospital and George Washington
Hospital. Bequests of $4,000 each
were made to Dr. Rust's three broth
ers and three sisters, David N. Rust
Of Leesburg, Robert N. Rust, Alex
andria; James S. Rust, Washington: !:
Mrs. Mary r. Shule, Guernsey. Chan
mel Islands Mrs. Sue K. r. Lee,
Towson, Md, and Mrs. Lucy r. Sin
clair, Waterbury, Conn.
A cousin, r. Maude Hodgkins, Rock
vile, Md, was left $4,000, as also was
friend, Miss Natalie S. Ostlund An
other $4,000 was left in trust for
James S. Rust, one of the brothers,
who will receive the income for life.
At his death, the principal will be di-
vided among the other brothers and
sisters.
DR.. Rust's uncle, Harry L. Rust; a
friend, Harry D. Champion, and the
First National Bank of Alexandria
were named In the will as executors.
A bachelor, DR.. Rust was member
of several exclusive clubs here. At
one time he was president OF the Dis
trict Dental Society.
The will WAS filed by Attorney Ben
iamin S. Minor.
Evening star., 1937-04-27
new PRISON HEAD
DIFFICULT TO PICK
Welfare Board Deadlocked in
Effort to Select Barnard
Successor,

The Board Of Public Welfare today
was In q deadlock over the selection
of = new superintendent for District
penal institutions to succeed Capt.
M. M. Barnard, whose retirement
for age becomes effective next Sat-
urday.
Board members were said to be
divided on the issue of recommending
local or outside man for the Job.
Adhering strictly to secrecy, they
hoped to be able to reach an agree
ment before Saturday.
Chief among the local men con-
sidered for the post are Col. w. L.
Peak, former District Jail superin-
tendent and now head of the Lorton
Reformatory, and Paul L. Kirby, as
sistant welfare director. It was re-
ported also the board members are
eyeing an ofncial attached to the
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.
Unless the Board Of Public Wei.
fare can come to an agreement this
week, 1t was anticipated In some
circles that Kirby would be named
acting. superintendent.
Evening star., 1937-04-27
U. S. POSITIONS OPEN

-Four examinations were announced
today by the Civil Service Commits
sion.
The Indian Arts and Crafts Board,
Interior Department, wants a market
ing specialist at 5000 annually, and
q production advisor at $4,000; the
Quartermaster Corps, War Depart
ment, senior experimenting marine
engineer at $4,000, and the Internal
Revenue Bureau an estate tax exam.
iner at 5000.
Applications will be received at the
commission, Seventh and F streets,
until May "a from States east Of
Colorado and until May ~ for Colo
RADIO and the West.
Evening star., 1937-04-27

when she attends a reception in her
honor Sunday at the Christ Child
Settlement House, 608 Massachusetts
avenue northeast, it will be her first
appearance at public function
On the day before the reception a
mass will be said at the Shrine of
the Most Blessed Sacrament at $50
a m. to commemorate the founding of
the society After it Miss Merrick
will entertain at her home at break
fast for members of the Christ Child
Board.
Pictures to Be Shown.
The chief feature of the meeting
tomorrow night will be a series of
pictures, both still and moving, de-
scribing the so years Of service the
society has provided the children of
the District through its facilities for
recreation, health, relief and char
acter building.
Mrs. Frederick Altemus, who be-
came active in the society when she
was little girl named Florence Mills
and IS now q member Of its board of
managers, will speak of the organi-
zation's work as the pictures are
flashed on the screen. This Raleigh
Hotel meeting is to begin at 8pm.
Active helpers Of Miss Mary Mer-
rick In her venture have been her
four sisters-Mrs. George Hamilton,
Mrs. Martin L. Ramsey, Miss Mildred
Merrick and Miss Margaret Merrick.
Others Are Official Aides.
Her official aides include three vice
presidents, Mrs. Arthur Mullen, Mrs.
D. c. Stapleton and Mrs. James
Emery; Mrs. Charles P. Neill, corre-
spending secretary: Miss Borredell
Cover, recording secretary; Mrs. Rob-
ert Cahill, assistant secretary; Mrs.
Charles Semmes, Mrs. Lewis Watkins,
assistant treasurer; Mrs. James Dud-
ley Morgan, chairman Of finances, and
Mrs. D. j. Callahan, Mrs. j. P. Tum-
ulty, Mrs. T. J. Sheridan and Mrs. T.
r. Keane.
Miss Anna J. Ready is executive
secretary and resident head social
worker at the Massachusetts, avenue
settlement house, which was the first
building ever constructed as q settle
ment house in Washington.
At this building the society has .
large gymnasium to pay for which the
Opportunity Shop was opened at 14l7
Wisconsin avenue In 1881. Mrs.
Sheridan is director Of the shop.
The society is q member Of the
Community Chest, but Miss Merrick
pointed out that the Chest pays only
for maintenance and the society itself
must raise the money to begin what
ever new ventures it undertakes.
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ROBERTS is INVITED
BY LAW JOURNAL STAFF

Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts
Of the United States Supreme Court
was invited as the guest of honor to
address the 25th anniversary dinner
of the Georgetown Law Journal staff
at pm. today In the Carlton Ho-
tel. His attendance, however, is un-
certain, owing to a recent death in
his family.
Approximately 80 guests are ex-
pected at the dinner. Capt. Joseph
D. Dillon, U. s. A., editor in chief
of the Law Journal, will be toast
master. The Journal is the official
publication Of the Georgetown Law
School, and appointments Of students
on its staff a1f made on lasis of
Evening star., 1937-04-27
BOULDER KILLS MAN

MARION, NJ c., April q (P.-
]. R. Janiero, 34-year-old contractor
of Granville, w. Va, was crushed
to death yesterday when a boulder,
weighing several tons. rolled over him
as he watched progress of work on
the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Janiero was a native of Pousada,
Spain, but had lived in this country
16 years. He was partner in the
Grantsville Construction Co., which
has the contract for stone masonry
work on the parkway. He is sur
vived by his widow and son, who
live in Spain.
Evening star., 1937-04-27
Christ Child Society Marks
Golden Jubilee Tomorrow

A woman whose scorn for her own
suffering made her the benefactor Of
thousands of underprivileged WASH
ington children today celebrated
silently the work wrought by her so
years Of unselfishness.
Tomorrow Archbishop Michael j.
Curley Of Baltimore and other Catho-
lie notables will gather in the Raleigh
Hotel to mark publicly the golden
jubilee Of the Christ Child Society,
and at her home Miss Mary v. Mer-
rick, founder of the organization, will
revolve in her mind possible new
undertakings the society might launch
to alleviate the lot Of the poor.
In 1886. when Grover Cleveland was
President, Mary Merrick was half
grown girl" (she will not divulge her
age), living in the fashionable resi-
dental area in the 1900 block of F
street.
Began Making LAyettes.
She was an invalid, unable to raise
her back or her head from her bed
But she was thoughtful, hopeful and
sympathetic with the plight Of others,
and to fill her moments she began
making layettes for Washington FAM
lilies who could not afford adequately
to clothe their babies.
Thus was born the Christ Child
Society. Today it Is active in 80
cities. Here it distributed 235 lay
cites last year. 1t brought Christmas
to the homes of 2,348 Washington
children. At its convalescence home
it provided 1850 days OF care for
ITO i'll children.
It maintains q settlement house
on Massachusetts, avenue. a year.
round dental clinic, Summer fresh
air camp for girls, an open-air farm
for boys at Rockville, a Summer camp
for colored children, a boys club and
an opportunity shop to provide good
clothes cheaply to the needy and to
help pay the society's funded debt.
Keeps It Going Now.
Miss Merr1ck started it and Miss
Merrick, able now to sit in q wheel
chair while q metal frame supports
her neck, developed it and keeps it
going, but she is modest enough about
the magnificent accomplishment.
Il couldn't have done the work
without the splendid corps Of volun-
teers who help us out" she said yes
terday. "They are half the whole
story"
On Sunday Miss Merrick is to meet
these volunteers, many Of whom she
has never seen. She spends most Of
her time In her home, at 2 East Mel
rose street, Chevy Chase, Md, and
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MAKES "BED" IN PARK

Refusal of Andrew Silk to leave his
"bed" in the Smithsonian grounds
resulted in his appearance before
Police Court Judge John P. Mcmahon
today to answer charges Of intoxica-
ton and vagrancy. He was ordered
to pay $40 on the first charge and to
give q bond of 500 or serve 80 days
on the second charge.
Park Policeman A. Kreueer told
the court Silk was sleeping in trash
container and refused to move when
workmen who were cleaning up the
grounds asked him to do 50.