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The Washington times., 1938-11-22
Last Tribute
To Costello

Cabinet members, congressman,
Government officials and other
prominent citizens Of Washington,
will pay final tribute to John F.
Costello, colorful De m ocratic
leader in the voteless National
Capital, at services tomorrow in
the Church of the Blessed Sacra-
ment Chevy Chase Circle.
Requiem mass will be celebrated
at 10 a. m. by the Rev. Thomas
j. Crowley, assistant pastor.
Burial will be in Mt. Olivet Gene
terry.
Honorary pallbearers will in
clude two Cabinet members, Cor
dell Hull, Secretary of State, ana
Daniel C. Roper, Secretary of
Commerce. Others will be Sena-
tor Bennett Champ Clark, Repre-
sentative Jennings Randolph, Act
ing Director of the Budget Daniel
W. Bell. Chesley w. Jurney, Ru-
dolph Forster, Malcolm S. McCon-
The, James Boyer, Judge Robert
e. Mattingly, Edward J. Walsh.
Rosa F. Downing and j. Dallas
Grady
Active pallbearers will be Mi
chael M. Doyle, Ralph A. Cusick,
B. c. Carlin, jr., Andrew j..
Hickey, George E. Horning, jr.,
and Edward T. Folliard.
The Washington times., 1938-11-22
Gifts to G. o. P.

Part of the appraisal was a
statement from Mr.. Rockefeller
jr., one of the executors, which
listed $4,000 in public gifts
made by his father in the two
years prior 70 his death.
They included many donations
to the Republican State and ma
tional committees.
The son also listed numerous
large trusts set up by his father
for the benefit of his immediate
family and other relatives.
These trusts and the elder
Rockefeller's tremendous gifts to
philanthropic and educational
institutions accounted for the
shrinkage of the estate, once rated
in excess of $1,000, 900, 900.
In a third codicil to the will
which he signed at Lakewood on
October 3, 1884. Rockefeller named
Mrs. De Cuevas and her children
legatees.
The original will was made on
y uAAC q, 1870, dAAu 4C1G CIlc 4CoAOIt
airy estate to his son and to the
Laura Spelman Rockefeller memo
rial.
The second codicil substituted
the institute for the Rockefeller
Foundation.
Accompanying the third codi-
Gil was the explanation:
IT am setting up this trust
The Washington times., 1938-11-22
HARLEY GIBSON
Funeral Friday for
u. S. EnlpLOye

Harley G. Gibson, a Federal
employee for 80 years, who died
yesterday of a heart attack at his
home, 1900 block Of North Hart
ford St, Arlington, Va, will be
buried Friday at 2 p. m. in the
Columbia Gardens Cemetery in
Virginia with Masonic rites con
Quoted by the Washington Cen
tennial Lodge. Brief services will
be held at the Ives funeral home
in Arlington.
A native of Kalamazoo, Mich,
he was educated in the public
schools there and came to Wash.
ington in 1908 when appointed
an engineer with the Bureau of
Standards. He later transferred
to the Bureau of Engraving.
His widow, Mrs. Carrie T. Spor-
ror Gibson, Of Arlington, Va,
and a son, Marvin Gibson, of
Baltimore, Md, survive,
The Washington times., 1938-11-22
FUNERAL RITES
TOMORROW FOR
MRS. C. R. Dewitt
Wife of Founder of
Preparatory School

Funeral services for Mrs. George
r. Dewitt. wife of DR.. George R.
Dewitt. founder Of Dewitt Prepare
tory School, will be held tomorrow
at two p. m at her residence in
Dunn Loring, Va. The Rev. Bland
Tucker. rector of St. Johns EplS-
copal Church. Sixteenth and H
Streets Northwest. will officiate.
Burial will be in Rock Creek Gem
etery.
Mrs. Dewitt, a sister of Major
Richard sylvester, former Superin-
tendent of the District of Colum-
bia police, died yesterday at her
home after an illness of two weeks.
Born in Iowa City, Iowa, she
was the daughter of Richard Syl-
vester, formerly an associate edi-
tor of a Washington newspaper.
She was a graduate of the Art
League of St. Louis, Mo-, and the
Art Students League of New York
City. She was at one time mem
Der of the staff of the New York
Graphic,
The Washington times., 1938-11-22
Left Estate of Only
SIG. 9Oj. l82; Charity Benefits
Oil King "Fleeced'
LIN MINING Deal

skeleton IN the financial closet of John d. Rookie
feLer ST. leaped into public veU today 1Chen ap-
praisaI of his estate revealed that the oUorlds first BILL
onaire of the lambs fleeced in Montana sver
mine DEAL
1t back IN 1904 achen the captains of industry
tembed at his command that Rockefeller bought 1913
shares Of the Mount Powell Mines Company common
stock Nth par UGIue of 81.
Filed Nth the pretty stock certificates letter
hich Rockefeller and other stockholders received gears
later Informing them that officers of the company had
believed for time that the sver mining properties
orned By your corporation IN Montana haze no VGlue
The notation nO Udlue accompanied the listing of the
stock IN the Rockefeller estate APPRAISAL
The Washington times., 1938-11-22
Son to Supervise

AS executors and trustees OF the
fortune left Mrs. De Cuevas and
her children, the will named John
D. Rockefeller, jr.. and Thomas
M. De Bevoise, an attorney of
Green Village, N. j., giving them
full discretion to act, and to turn
over the income of the trust fund
for them or the Rockefeller In
stitute in such amounts as the
executors might determine.
On the death of the grand
daughter, her surviving children
and the descendants of any de-
ceased children will receive the
trust fund. Each then is to re-
ceive his or her share outright,
with the exception that the shares
of the two children now living
are to be continued in trust during
their lives.
A stipulation in the third codicil
provided that when one Of the
beneficiaries of the secondary
trusts dies, the principal is to be
paid to his or her descendants,
The Washington times., 1938-11-22

Carstairs is s6.s proof. 1t is a blend
Of several fine WHISTLES, every drop
& or more years old. The straight
WHISTLES in this product are four
years or more old. 5712% straight
whiskey and 4213%o other whiskey
four years or more old. Carstairs
Bros. Distilling Co.. Inc, New
York City, N. Y.
The Washington times., 1938-11-22
Diplomats to Attend
THANKSGIVING Moss

One of the most colorful occa-
sions in observance of ThankSgiv-
ing Day will be the Pan-American
mass to be celebrated Thursday at
1920 a. m. in st. Patrick's Catho-
lie Church, Tenth and G Streets
Northwest.
The solemn pontifical mass will
be attended by distinguished prel
ates of the Catholic hierarchy and
members of the Diplomatic Corps
of the Central and South Ameri-
can republics.
The Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni
Cicognani, apostolic delegate to
the United States, will preside in
the sanctuary during the mass.
His grace, Leo P. Ireton, Bishop
of Richmond, will pontificate at
the mass.
The Rt. Rev. Mgr. Fulton j.
Sheen, of the Catholic University
of America, a noted orator, will de-
liver the sermon.
Following the services, diplo-
mats and clergy will be the guests
The Washington times., 1938-11-22
Bulk Inherited BY
Granddaughter
And Family

of $17,994, due at the time Of
death.
Chief among the holdings Of the
United States Treasury notes was
block of series B-1938, 2B per
cent bonds, originally listed at
S8,6O0,OO with a market value of
S8.8O4,250 plus interest due of
100000.
There was also city of New York
corporate stock for the construc-
ton of the Rapid Transit Rail.
read with interest at 4l4 per cent
due March l, 1881, having face
value of $1,000,000 and a market
value of $1,172,500 and accumu-
lated interest as of the date Of
death of $9,978.
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or, if there are none, it is to go
to other descendants of Mrs. De
CueVaS.
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Institute Last

If her children now living
should die and Mrs. De Cuevas
also die without leaving descen-
dantS, the principal of the original
trust will go to the institute
with the provision that the insti-
tute may not at any time receive
more than is allowed under the
laws of the state.
Should the amount ever be in
excess of the legal limit, it will
pass in equal shares to the grand
children of the late oil magnate
then living or to other of his de-
Scendants.
Among the securities in the
estate were listed second mortgage
per cent bonds of the Manhat-
tan Railway Company, which now
is in receivership, with a face
value of $1,997,00 and a market
value of only 1918, 430.
There also were 1898, 900 in GER
tificateS of deposit of the Manhat-
tan Railway Company, first con-
solidated mortgage per cent
bonds, due April /, 1890, with a
market value of S28S,063,
The Washington times., 1938-11-22

o. [. MooRMAM, General Passenger Agent
1908 Street, NJ W-PhOn0 District $500 or NaEOnOl 1870
The Washington times., 1938-11-22

for my granddaughter, Mar
garet, and her descendants to
the exclusion of my other grand
children and their descendants
because, when the time came
that I felt it wise to place upon
my children the responsibility
of owning and administering
substantial sums and for that
purpose made large gifts to and
for them, my oldest daughter,
Bessie, the mother of my grand
daughter, Margaret, was not
living"
The Washington times., 1938-11-22
Counted Buttons

NEW YORK, Nov. % NN.SJ-Johm D. Rookie
teller, ST. counted collan buttons '@@
A tramsferta1 appraisal of his estate today listed
sr gold plated collar buttonS 9Oth the notation mo
vaIue."
Observers pointed ou however, that IN some distant
day the collar buttons may be rCo1th their oUeght IN
radiunu trophies of the Uho built the greatest
fortune and the greatest giver the ord has
k11O1Un.
The Washington times., 1938-11-22
IS Nations Honor -
Atdturk at Rites

ANKARA, Turkey, Nov, %.
Renal Ataturk, first president
OF Turkey, yesterday was given
funeral honors such as few Sultans
ever received. Soldiers end states
men representing As nations were
at the funeral
The Washington times., 1938-11-22
Held Traction Bonds

Also 1905, 900 in certificates of
deposit of the marlborough Rapid
Transit Company, first and re-
funding mortgage per cent
bonds, due January /, 1866, and
valued at $645,525 with interest
The Washington times., 1938-11-22
Other Assets

Also $4,000 shares of Mountain
Fuel Oil Company common stocE
worth $324,000 and 1882 share!
of Delaware, Lackawanna 8
Western Railroad common stool
worth $255,642.
Other assets were a calloan o.
$275,000 with JeSSup & Lamont
and notes of John P. White, mo-
otherwise identified in the ap
praiSal of $4,000 and $4,000 each
totaling $125,000 and bank &C
counts with the Chase Nationa
Bank amounting to $45, 1853.
No real estate was listed and II
was remarked that there was none
in the estate.
Among the miscellaneous assets
were listed $685. for the sale OF
the syndicate rights in Random
"reminiscences of Men and Events
and $40 for the sale of copies
of the book.
Rich Furnishings
The furnishings and personal
effects in the Pocantico Hills
(N.Y0 estate of the late oil king
we're appraised at $17,115.50. In
addition he held a half interest in
farm machinery there as well as
two horses and other farm and
household equipment totaling S..
022.50.
Office equipment included books
on tax matters, located at 80 Rock.
efeller Plaza, were valued at
$10,537.
Among the effects at Pocantico
Hills were two marble bustS Of Mr.
Rockefeller, ST., appraised at $3.50
An oil painting bust of Rockefel.
ler'S mother was valued at 5000.
Other items included an incom-
plete dinner set, 121 pieces, val.
ued at $500; IL champagne tum-
blers, $50; II cocktail glasses, So;
a gold stop watch, $45; ascarved
ivory letter opener. $25, and sir
collar buttons (gold.plated), mo
value"
Several foreign decoration were
given value Of $50 each, includ-
ing a Serbian grand cross of the
Royal Order of st. Sava, con.
ferred on the Oil magnate in 1915
for services to Serbia and a grand
Gordon Plaque of command from
King Albert of Belgium.
The Washington times., 1938-11-22
Will ShOWS Total
Decreased by
Gifts
Continued from Page u


Marquis Georges De Cuevas anc
now lives with her two youne
children, named with her in the
will. at Lakewood, N. j.
The only other beneficiary
named in the will was John D
Rockefeller, jr., who succeeded his
father as the worlds Creates
philanthropist. He received per
sonal and household effects valued
at $33,678.
Lone Share of Stock
Almost as if in rebuke to the
oil geysers which spouted him I'm
told wealth was the inclusion in
the estate of a solitary share OF
stock in the vase empire which
yielded Rockefeller his huge for
tune.
List among the securities was
the item;
One share of the Standard
Oil Company of California COM
mon, value $43.94, with a divi-
dend of As cents declared prior
to his death and payable June
IS, 1887"
The assets listed includes notes
and cash totaling $451, 1854 and
miscellaneous property amounting
to $179,971. In the latter category
the chief item was a stock ex,
change seat worth $4,000.
The deductions included $780,
996 for funeral and administration
expenses, among which were
enumerated an estimated fee of
100000 for attorneys and fees of
$4,000 each for three executors.
The Washington times., 1938-08-16
1900 TRACTION
men walk OUT

CHICAGO, Aug. 16 QN.SO 4.
Electric railway service between
Chicago and Milwaukee came to
a halt today as the North Shore
Lines operating employees struck
against a IS per cent pay cut,
Approximately 1,500 employees
were affected.
One of the two sources Of trans
portation for commuters in
northern suburbs and a popular
interrurban service for the string
cities lying along Lake Michigan
between here and Milwaukee, the
line has been in receiVerShip for
six years.
The strike was voted at a mid
night session after the company
refused to arbitrate. A. A. Sprague
receiver for the company, said
arbitration was useless since there
was not enough money on hand
to meet the payroll at present
rates.
Street car and bus service in
Waukegan was also stopped by
the strike.
The Washington times., 1938-08-16
EXPERT URGES.
JOB INSUR ANCE.
POOLED.
Present System Viii
Fail, Says HorWitz

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Aug. 16
GN.SO.-Condemnation of the
unemployment mp ensa tion
system and a prediction that it
will eventually fail to provide pro-
lection was made today in a
survey by James w. Horwitz of
the Bureau c; Business Research,
Harvard University Business
School.
AS an alternative, Horwitz pro-
posed a single national system
with only one pool of reserve
funds and one tax for all in
dustries in AL states.
14-YEAR SURVEY
Horwitz arrived at his con-
clusions through measurement Of
the relative amounts of unemploy-
ment among wage earners in
manufacturing industries in each
of 20 states during the period
1919 to 1888.
The survey showed that as a
rule in States having the smallest
amount of cyclical changes the
manufacturing industries are
those producing non-durable con-
sumer goods. Differences in cost
from State to State were so great
that there was considerable diff
ferences among States in the ag-
gregate drain on accumulated re-
serve funds.
AVOIDING DIFFICULTIES
Horwitz said that the separate
State pools probably will not be
satisfactory without the use of
differential industry rates, adding
that such rates are difficult to ad-
minister.
Many difficulties would be
avoided. he said, If separate State
funds were abandoned and all
taxes paid into a single pool, from
which would be paid the cost Of
all unemployment compensation.
A single tax rate for all industries
in all States, he declared, will not
give equality of protection in
separate State pools, but would be
entirely feasible with a single ma
tional pool.
The Washington times., 1938-08-16
Suffrage Committee
CheCkup Ordered

Just to make sure no grass is
growing under the feet of COM
mitteemen in charge of a fall
organization drive, Wilbur S.
Finch, chairman, Citizens Confer
ence on District Suffrage, has
called a meeting of the resolution
and executive committees for Fri
day at BIS p. m. in Room 106,
Star Building.
This is in the nature Of a
checkup meeting" Mr.. Finch an
nounced. "At our last meeting in
June we drew up plans for a fall
organization campaign, which we
hope will be in full swing by the
time Congress convenes in Janu-
ary. We just want to make sure
that interest in the plans is not
tagging during the summer
months"
The Washington times., 1938-08-16
.LUPE DIVORCED,
LEAVES FOR n. Y,

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 16 G.N.SO.
Her domestic life with Johnny
Weissmuller thoroughly aired for
the benefit of an interested judge
and a divorce in her hand, the
tempestuous Lupe VeleZ prepared
today to leave for New York to
appear il a play.
Lupe received a property settle
ment by which she will get their
10000 home, half of a $4,000
bank account, joint interest in
two apartment houses and $2CO
a week for 1856 weeks.
WeisSmuller retains possession
of his two boats, a yacht and a
speed boat.
Judge Burnell refused to ap-
prove the property settlement, de-
claring they could make a con-
tract which would not be court
order because he did not believe
in it, especially where a young
woman is entirely able to earn her
own living"
The Washington times., 1938-08-16
Fleet Reserve Units
Install New Officers

R. L. Bonamarte was installed
last night as president of the
Fleet Reserve Association branch
at a meeting which included the
sounding of a ships bell and the
playing of taps for members who
have died.
At the meeting in the Knights
of Pythias Temple, 1912 Ninth St.
N. w., Mrs. Ruth Troy was in
stalled as president of the Ladies'
Auxiliary of the Reserve ASsocia-
tion,
The Washington times., 1938-08-16
D. {. Man Robbed
On His Birthday

Samuel A. Mcintosh. director of
employment in the WPA, is Al to-
day but he hopes he never will
have occasion to celebrate another
birthday as he will celebrate this
one.
Last night & marauder entered
his apartment ct 3O02 Rodman st.
N. w., and took his pocketbook
containing $751; and a quantity of
jewelry bringing the total to $306.
This morning Mcintosh found the
thief also had taken his car which
was parked IN front of the
building.
The Washington times., 1938-08-16
Labor Chiefs Sail
For u. 5. This Week

PARIS, August 16. - Lead
ers of Spanish Loyalist and French
labor organizations will sail for
the United States this week to
seek a working arrangement with
United States labor groups. Con
zalez Pena, Barcelona minister Of
Justice and cabinet representative
of the U. G.. T., Socialist labor
union, and Leon Jouhmaux. leader
of the C. G. T., French trade
union, hope to confer with John
L. Lewis. of the c. I. o.
The Washington times., 1938-08-16
\ D. C. CHILDREN.
AMONG Il HURT.
HERE IN "a HOURS.
Man Hit by Automobile
Is In Serious Condition

Joseph Hall, colored, 80, was
injured seriously early today when
struck by a car at Nichols Ave
nue. and Magazine Road South
east, to become the twelfth per-
son injured in traffic accidents
in less than "a hours in the Wash
Gngton area.
Hall was taken to Casualty Hos
pital in a serious condition, his
injuries undetermined. The other
IL injured, none of them seri-
ously, included four childen.
Hall, an employe of the Dis
trict of Columbia tuberculosis AS
sociaion camp at Bald Eagle Hill,
lives at 81 Pierce St. N. w., Police
said he was walking toward the
camp when an automobile pulled
up and the driver offered him a
ride. AS Hall started across the
road toward it, he was struck by a
car coming from the other direc-
tion.
CHILDREN HURT
At Providence Hospital last
night, Wirdis Smith, 3, of S6 N
st. s. E., was treated for cuts on
the face and Marie Tritlett, 6, of
049 Maryland Ave. S. w., was
treated for body bruises after both
had been knocked down by auto
mobiles. Joseph Brookings, 8, of
1912 o st. N. w.. was treated at
Freedmen'S Hospital for bruises,
and Jack Diamond, 9, of so Frank
lin st. N. E., was treated at Sibley
Hospital for slight cuts after minor
automobile accidents.
William Gaugh, 40, and Ruth
Gaugh, 20, both of Baltimore, were
treated at Sibley Hospital and re-
leased after an accident on the
Baltimore Washington Boulevard
about a mile south Of Laurel. He
suffered a laceration of the left
side of the forehead and she re-
ceived injuries to the right arm,
right leg and right hip.
STRUCK BY BUS
Lena Ridden, SIS, of 1901 Sara
toga Ave. N. E., and Jean Burns,
"a, of 1888 Brentwood Rd. N. E.,
were injured slightly when a mail
delivery truck knocked a movable
traffic marker against them in
the 600 block of Seventh St. N.
w. Martha Lloyd, 1S, Of the 220O
block of Nineteenth st. N. W.,
suffered a broken arm when she
was struck by a bus at Eighteenth
Street and Massachusetts, Avenue
Northwest. She was treated at
Emergency Hospital.
Patrolman Roger Randell was
treated at George Washington
Hospital for injuries received
when struck by street car while
directing traffic at Fourteenth
and E Streets Northwest. Helen
Kirby, 20, was treated at Gal
finger Hospital for minor injuries
sustained in an accident.
The Washington times., 1938-08-16
Houston Renamed
CoIored Bar Head

William L. Houston, local at
torney and retired Howard Uni
Versity Law School professor, has
been reelected president of the
colored National Bar Association.
Mr.. Houston, now a special as
sistanV % the Attorney General,
presided over the fourteenth an
nuaI seszinn of tie organization
lust closed az carham, N. C. Mrs.
Isadore Letcher, member of the
local bar, was elected assistant
secretary of the association. The
convention next year will be held
in New York city.
The Washington times., 1938-08-16
Peynddo |ndugurated
AS Dominica President

CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Dominican
Republic, Aug. 16 Q.N.So-Ja-
cinto B. Peynado was inaugurated
today as new President of Domi-
MICA, succeeding Rafael LeonidaS
Trujillo, who has served for the
past eight years. Manuel Tron-
coso de la Concha was sworn in as
vice president.
The Washington times., 1938-08-16
Rev. Branson Sails
To Egypt Post Soon

Off to superintend missionary
operations Of his church in Egypt,
the Rev. Ernest Lloyd Branson,
80, postgraduate student of the
Seventh Day Adventist Seminary,
Takoma Park, will sail September
2 from New York with his wife
and son. Rev. Branson now is a
guest at the home of his father,
Rev. w. H. Branson. first general
president of the general confer.
ence of Seven Day Adventists, at
his Takoma Park home.
The Washington times., 1938-08-16

She told police that yesterday
was her second pay day. and with
it came a liberal dose of misfor-
tune.
On leaving the N.B.C. studios
yesterday, she said, she took a
street car to the Columbia Med
ical Building, visited her doctor
and stopped at the rest room.
When she got home her pocket
The Washington times., 1938-08-16

book with the precious $18 salary
was missing.
Yesterday also was unlucky for
another Dorothy.
Dorothy Bradley of 305 Fairfax
Drive, Bethesda, Md, reported to
police her pocketbook containing
$50 was snatched from her while
she was walking in the 1900 block
of Montello Ave. N. E.
The Washington times., 1938-08-16
Merle Oberon Is Sued;
Sues Attorney in Turn

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 16
(I.N.S.). - Merle Oberon,
motion picture star, had a
counter suit for $4,000 on
file today against an at
torney who sued her for
$5,4 ,46O.
The double claims re-
suited from a recent con-
tract controversy between
the actress and a film con-
cern, in which she was rep
resented by Attorney Lyle
Rucker, who claimed she
owed him the $5,48O for
settling the dispute.
Miss Oberon claimed shO
paid the attorney $4,000
The Washington times., 1938-08-16

After one whole year of unemployment Dorothy King 23 Of
the 1900 block of California st. n w. got job telephone
operator at the National BroadcaSting Company.