Evening star., 1938-12-20
Congress Colleagues
Prepare 10 Attend
Gambri|| Rites
Services to Be Held
Thursday for Maryland
Representative

Thursday for Maryland
Representative
Scores of members of Congress
prepared today to attend the funeral
OF Representative Stephen w. Gam
brill, Democrat, of Maryland, who
died suddenly in the medical dis
pensary of the Capitol yesterday fol-
lowing heart attack.
Meantime, Vice President Garner
and Speaker Bankhead appointed
an official congressional committee
to represent the Senate and House
at the services. Senators Millard E.
Tydings and George L. Radcliffe,
both Maryland Democrats, will rep
resent the Senate. The House COM
mltee is composed of three members
OF the Maryland legation-Repre-
sentative Thomas A. Goldsborough,
William P. Cole and David j. Lewis
and Representative Melvin J.
Mas of Minnesota, ranking Repub-
lican member of the House Naval
Affairs Committee.
The services will be held Thurs
day at 2:30 pm, In the funeral
parlor of the Charles S. Zurhorst
Co., 30l East Capitol street. Ar
rangements are being made to have
the Rev Ze Barney T. Phillips, chap
lain OF the Senate, officiate, with
Rev. James Shera Montgomery,
chaplain OF the House. assisting.
Burial will be in Cedar Hill Gene
terry.
Victim of a heart attack, Mr..
Gambrill was the fourteenth men,
ber of the House to die during the
period of the Seventy-fifth Congress
which convened nearly two years
ago, and the sixth member whose
life ended in the now fast closing
year of 1898.
New Deal Loses Friend.
The death of Representative
Gambrill has removed from the
House one of President Roosevelt's
New Deal" supporters and
staunch friend of his constituents in
Prince Georges and other Maryland
counties in his district whose interest
and welfare he had always held to
be far more important than his
own political life.
The Democratic voters in the
fifth Maryland district loved Steve"
Gambrill as he loved them. That
fact was never more clearly illus
trated than in the November gen.
eral election when he was returned
to the House by majority of 27074
votes, the largest he had ever re-
ceived in his Is years in Congress.
Representative Gambrill was IS
years old, but his personal appear
ance belied his age. Although never
an aggressive member on the House
floor in debate. he nevertheless took
an active part in the proceedings
and seldom missed a session. And
behind the doors of his office, too,
he was tirelesS worker.
1t was shortly after o'clock yes
terday afternoon when Mr. Gam
brill, weary from a busy day in his
office in the new House Office Build
ing, felt sharp pain around his
heart. He had been treated for
heart trouble before; worried, he
called DR.. Calver at the Capitol.
Prepares for Short Walk.
Not many minutes later DR.. CAL
yer arrived at the Office. Mr. Gam
brill in the meantime had donned
his hat and coat, apparently i'm
patient over what seemed to be a
long delay on the part of the doctor
to respond to his call. and was pre-
pared to walk to the Capitol medical
dispensary.
Il feel all right now" Represent
ative Gambrill told the physician.
But you'd better look me over
Mr.. Gambrill and DR.. Calver took
"a taxicab for the short distance
from the Office building to the
Capitol because the physician did
not believe he should walk even
that far.
In the medical dispensary DR..
Calver took Representative Gam
= Drills pulse and went through the
usual routine examination. Then
he prepared to give Mr.. Gambrill a
hypodermic. But even before DR..
.Calver was ready to make the in
lection, Mr.. Gambrill raised from
the chair iE which he was sitting,
and said: THE pain is coming
back"
A moment later he slumped over
dead.
Wife Summoned After Death
AS soon as Mr.. Gambrill died,
Mrs. Gambrill was called to DR..
Calver's Office. Grief-stricken, she
viewed the body, but did not lose
her composure.
Later the body was removed to
the funeral parlors of Charles S.
zurhorst Co. and prepared for
burial.
Representative Gambrill was one
of the four of the six Maryland
members of the House reelected for
another term in the November gen.
eral election. In addition to Prince
Georges County. his district en-
braced Anne Arundel, Calvert,
Charles, Howard and st. Mary's
counties.
He was born in Howard County,
near the town of Savage, October 2,
1873, and educated at the old Mary
land Agricultural College at College
Park (now University of Maryland.
He also was a graduate of Colum-
bian College (now George Wash
ington University.
Built Up Law Practice.
Admitted to the bar in 1897, Mr..
Gambrill began what developed
Into a lucrative law practice in
Baltimore. His first venture into
politics was in 1920, when he was
elected to tfS Maryland State