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Evening star., 1939-05-14
Rally 10 Open Campaign
For Moral Redrmament
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW. YORK, May 13.-Repre-
sentatives of dozen foreign coun-
tries and about 80 States had
arrived here tonight for a mass
meeting in Madison Square Garden
tomorrow night to open Nation
wide campaign for moral rearma-
ment."
Largest of the delegations was a
party of several hundred in two
special trains from Canada, headed
by the colorful killed Bagpipe Band
of the 9lst Canadian Highland
Regiment, which will lead parade
into the Garden.
Thirty-four sports headliners and
150-odd political, business and social
notables are sponsoring the rally,
climaxing IN. R. A. Week"
Listed among the supporters Of
the movement are Secretary of
State Hull, Attorney General Frank
Murphy and Mayors of 275 cities.
Purposes of the M. r. A." move
ment are described in its literature
as being Ito keep the peace and
make it permanent; to make the
wealth and work of the world avail
able to all and for the exploitation
of none and to build a new
world, create a new culture, bring in
the Golden Age"
Evening star., 1939-05-14
Miss AIexine Tanner
Wins Scholarship

Selected from several hundred ap-
plcants in a Nation wide survey
Miss Alexine Tanner of Washing
ton was one of two recipients of
scholarships in health education
during the summer session at the
University of Michigan, Tubercu-
losis Association officials announced
yesterday. Miss Hulda M. Lvttle
of Nashville, Tenn, was the other
winner.
The scholarships. awarded by the
National tuberculosis Association
are paid for by the Purves Fund to
colored health workers. Miss Tan
ner was educated in District schools
and graduated from the Miner
Teachers College in 1880, later TAX
ing postgraduate work at Howard
University. Since 1884 she has been
connected with the health educa-
ton department of the Tubercu-
losis Association and in the sum-
mer vacation with the Children's
Health Camp.
Evening star., 1939-05-14
Travellers Aid Chest
Unit Headed by Birney

Dion S. Birney, board men,
Der of the Travellers Aid Society,
has accepted the Craftsmanship of
a unit sponsored by that society
to work with the Metropolitan Unit
during the Community Chest cam
paign.
The announcement was made at
the regular board meeting of the
Travellers Aid Society yesterday at
which reports were made on work
that is being done at Union Sta
ton by the Junior League Volun-
teer Service Committee headed by
Mrs. George Beale Bloomer. Mrs.
E. E. Hamilton and Miss Leonie
Mccoy presented the reports.
Mrs. Margaret Ford, executive of
the society, said that BOG new aid
cases were accepted during March,
making total of 461 under care"
of which 226 were closed during
April.
Nearly 1000 requests for informa-
ton from travellers were given at
tention in April.
Evening star., 1939-05-14
Driver Declines
Reward for
Finding $500

A cab driver, who refused to ac-
cept any reward, or even reveal his
name. last night returned to a
Washington visitor a bag containing
$1,000 in cash and cashiers and
travellers checks which had been
left in his cab.
Through the drivers company.
however, he was identified as James
F. 0uigley, %, of 1901 Eighth street
NV.
j. H. Carpenter of the Wardman
Park Hotel told police that his
brother-in-law, DR.. K. A. England
OF Yakima, Wash. left the bag in
the cab in which he had ridden to
the airport. Missing his property
after the cab had left, he returned
to the hotel and reported his loss.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Quigley found the
bag in the back seat of the cab and
learned at Diamond Cab headquar-
ters that the owner was looking for
1t. He returned it to the hotel. but
refused to accept a reward. The
bag contained $500 in cash, ST 900
in travellers checks and two $500
cashier checks on New York bank
Evening star., 1939-05-14
Brown to Be Forum Speaker
Michigan Senator to Discuss
Toxution of U. S. Securities

Proposed Reciprocal Taxation of
Government Securities will be dis
cussed by Senator Prentiss M
Brown, Democrat, Of Michigan in
the National Radio Forum tomor-
row night.
The National Radio Forum is ar
ranged by The Star and is broadcast
over a Nationwide network of the
National Broadcasting Co. 1t is
heard locally at $3.50 o'clock through
Station WMAL.
Senator Brown is considered a
fiscal expert and is chairman of the
special six-man Committee on Tax
alton of Government Securities and
Salaries. 1t was this group that
drafted the recently enacted bill for
reciprocal taxation of Government
salaries.
Still being studied by the COM
mittee is q measure providing for
reciprocal taxation of Government
bonds and securities.
Senator Brown is graduate Of
the House, having served in the
lower branch at the Seventy third
and Seventy-fourth Congresses. He
won the Democratic nomination for
the Senate at the Michigan pri-
maries in 1896 and that November
defeated former Gov. Wilmer Bruck-
er at the polls. He piled up ma
jority of nearly 100000 votes over
the Republican candidate-the
largest ever given Michigan Dem
ocrat. Although he was not due to
be seated until January, 1887, the
Senator subsequently was appointed
to the Senate On November 16, 1896,
Evening star., 1939-05-14
Crippled Chi|dren's
Council 10 End Session

The Administrative Council of the
National Society for Crippled Chill
dren was to close its three-day ses-
sions at the Washington Hotel this
evening after another day of busi-
ness sessions.
The program called for morning
meeting of those interested in the
1910 seal plans. luncheon at l pm,
a round-table discussion at 2 and a
supper meeting at $50
Speakers at yesterdays sessions in
cluded DR.. Robert c. Hood, director
of the crippled children division,
Children's Bureau: DR.. A. r. Stands,
jr, chairman of the Committee on
disqualification; DR.. w. F. Draper,
executive officer of the United States
Public Health Service: Harry H.
HoWett, secretary to the Committee
on Prevention and Research; Fran
ces E. Shirley, chairman of the
Committee on Discovery and Emu
meration, and w. L. Austin, director
of the Census Bureau.
Evening star., 1939-05-14
Bird Walk and Tour
Planned Next Sunday

A bird walk along the C. & o.
Canal towpath and tour of the
Civil War Notifications of Washing
ton is scheduled by the Office Of
National Capital Parks for next
Sunday.
Under the leadership of Edwin L.
Green, assistant wild life technician
of the National Park Service. those
desiring to go on the bird walk will
leave Brookmont, Md, just beyond
Dalecarlia Reservoir at 7 am. and
will tour the towpath area nearby
until $50 am, it was announced
yesterday.
The tour of the Notifications will
be conducted by Donald Edward
McHenry. naturalist for the parks
office, starting at $50 am. on Con-
duit road near Chain Bridge. A
special bus will leave 1416 F street
NV. at 845 am.
Evening star., 1939-05-14
Nj. Pleasant Citizens
Elect Lee President

William c. Lee was elected presi-
dent of the Mount Pleasant Citizens
Association last night. succeeding
Dr. Edward w. Thompson. Mr.. Lee,
who was vice president of the asso-
citation last year. has been an active
member for several years.
Other officers elected were: Henry
Harding Burroughs. vice president:
John De La Mater, secretary. and
Dan j. Foley. treasurer. Mr.. De La
Matters election marks IA consecu-
tive years served in the capacity
of secretary.
All officers elected were proposed
by Charles F. Consaul, spokesman
for the Nominating Committee.
A. j. Driscoll. president of the
Mid-City Citizens Association, ad-
vlSed the group to concern it's ac-
tivity more to civic accomplishments
rather than to enlargement of the
membership.
The association again asked for
the erection of new Wilson Teach
ers' College on the old tuberculosis
Hospital site at Fourteenth and
UpShur streets NV. The House of
Representative has stricken this
proposal from the District appropri-
alton bill, in favor Of erection Of a
new Abbot Vocational School.
The meeting. the final of the year.
was held in the Mount Pleasant
Branch Library.
Evening star., 1939-05-14
PART FIVE.
Feotures.
Snite Will Visit Shrine
OF Miracles in France
By the Associs ted Press.

BY the ASSocia ted Press.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla, May 13.-
With plans completed and fare
wells said, plucky Fred Snite, ir..
was ready to leave tomorrow in his
iron lung for journey that will
take him to the shrine Of miracles
at LourdeS. France.
HIS parents, a physician, five
nurses, physiotherapist. two Or
derlleS and two respiration engi-
neers will accompany the 28-year-
old infartile paralysis victim on
the l2O00-mile trip from Florida
to France and back to Chicago.
Young Snite will reach New York
Monday afternoon. He will be taken
directly to the steamship Nor
mandie. scheduled to sail at mid
night Tuesday.
Fred already has travelled 5000
miles encased in his mechanical
respirator. He was stricken in China
March 81, 1886, while on a World
Tour with his family.
Evening star., 1939-05-14

musicians. decided the arts offered
a more desirable career than his own
profession of banking. and that
young Cesar should take up music
as his life work.
From the first, Franck showed
great promise as pianist. But
the fame of Franck was as COM
pletely posthumous as that of
first-rate composer has ever been
Even Schubert and Mozart. though
dying paupers, were famous in the
musical circles of their day.
Beethovens glory made even
his brothers persons Of renown.
Tschaikowsky, Wagner, Brahms were
all celebrities, surrounded by halos
of glory. But no one ever dreamed
that the modest, self -effacing Franck
would one day be numbered among
the worlds truly great composers.
In May, $780, Franck was on the
way to pupils house when the
pole of passing omnibus struck
him in the side He did not have
the injury treated properly and, as
a consequence, an attack of pleurisy
set in. He died November 8, 1890.
Evening star., 1939-05-14
Missionary Fair Tomorrow

A missionary worlds fair" will be
held at 8 pm. tomorrow at the
Clarendon (Va) Presbyterian
Church under the auspices of the
Woman Society. Exhibits will be
shown from China, the Philip
pines, India, Mexico, Africa and
South America. Mrs. w. F.. Sunder-
man and Mrs. j. o. Hardesty will
describe the work being done by the
church In those countries. Mrs.
r: K. Norris will speak on India,
Whlle Mrs. j. H. Shollenberger, who
has just returned from South Amer
lea, Will tell of the church work at
Buenos Aires.
Evening star., 1939-05-14
First Half of Final Record Set
To Be Available Tomorrow
Symphony Broadcast

The first half of Cesar
Franck's Symphony in D
Minor" the tenth and final
offering of The Stars music
appreciation campaign, will be
played over WMAL today at
$3.50 pm, on another of series
of concerts arranged through
the cooperation of the Ma
tional Broadcasting Co.
Excerpts from the D minor
symphony and the other nine
symphonic works included in
the campaign also may be
heard on "Today's Prelude"
a program scheduled daily, ex-
cept Sunday, over the same
station. The program is pre-
sented from $50 m. to 7::25
am. and The Star records may
be heard at approximately 7
am.
Evening star., 1939-05-14
Kurtz Gets Parole
After 3-Year Term
For Embezz|ement
Former SocioIite and
Investment House Heed
Had Been Refused Before

Carl Robinson Kurtz. former
socially prominent head of the in
vestment house of Stroud, Kurtz &
Co., won a parole yesterday after
serving little more than three years
OF two-to-seven-year term for en-
beZZlement.
Now Al years old, Kurtz pleaded
guilty to two indictments charging
embezzlement of $2O,775, and third
indictment charging violation of the
Securities Act of 1898. His short
ages were in excess Of 100000, it
was brought out in court at the time
he was sentenced. Most of his
victims, however, refused to prose-
cute him.
In granting the parole, the Parols
Board imposed condition that dur
ing his parole period he must not
hold any position involving the
handling of funds or securities.
Routine Check to Be Made First.
His release from Lorton Reforna-
tory at Lorton, Va, where he has
been confined, will become effective
as soon as a routine check is COM
pleted of offers for employment and
a home, a member of the Parole
Board said. His employment, it was
added, will be in Washington.
The parole was granted on Kurtz's
formal application, the second he
has made since he was placed in
prison. The first was denied.
A statement by the board said
prominent citizens urgsl the parole.
THE question befoR the board"
the statement added, was whether
applicant should be held longer in
prison as punishment for his wrong
doing, or whether, now that he has
served more than three years, en-
phasis should be laid on the re-
Mobilization of the applicant.
Better Serve Public Interest"
The latter would seem to be the
sounder policy. The chance that
applicant will again violate the law
is remote. People who are respon-
sible have submitted proof satisfac-
tory to the board that applicant will
be given work and there will be no
doubt about his support.
His institutional record since the
last hearing is increasingly favor
able, and he is reported both CO.
operative and industrious in his
institutional work
While the case is not entirely
free from difficulty, the board is
OF the opinion that the granting of
parole will better serve the public
interest than denial. Parole is
accordingly granted >"
Arrested in 1886.
Kurtz was arrested March 30,
1896. after a lengthy investigation
of his activities by the district at
torney's staff He was indicted
May 7, 1896, and appeared in court
the following day to plead guilty.
He was sentenced from two to
seven years on each of two indict-
ments charging embezzlement and
one to five years for violation of
the Securities Act. All sentences
ran concurrently.
The three persons who prosecuted
Kurtz were Arthur Stedman Hills,
an attorney: DR.. Howard E. Smith
of the Department of Agriculture,
and Comdr. Claude S. Gillette. as
secretary and treasurer of the
American Society of Naval Engi-
neers.
The broker. who was a member
of the Metropolitan and Chevy
Chase Chlhs rama IN Washjputop
23 years ago from Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1939-05-14
Two Men Charged
With Over 70 Cases
OF Housebreakinu
Wife of One Prisoner
Is Reorrested After
Being Released

Two men, held by police since
April 80 for a series of jewelry thefts
in the District and nearby Maryland
and Virginia, were charged last
night at police headquarters with
more than 20 cases of housebreak-
ing.
At the same time the wife of one
OF the prisoners was rearrested after
being released Friday afternoon.
John Martell, q, of the 27OO block
of Thirteenth street NV. was
charged with Is cases of house
breaking. His law, Ell
mer A. Maori, 25. of West Haven,
Conn, was charged with 13 cases
Mrs. Eve Babe Msrtell. 81. arrested
with her husband but released Fri
day. was taken into custody for the
second time and held on an open
charge.
She was questioned for nearly
three hours by Inspector Bernard
w. Thompson, chief of detectives,
at headquarters last night and later
locked up at the Woman's Bureau.
Inspector Thompson said he had
ordered delivery stopped on a pack
age, which. he said. Mrs. Martell
admitted mailing to Bridgeport,
Conn.
An alleged fence for loot Mar
tell and Maori are charged with
taking is being held in New York
under s25 900 bond.
More than $1,000 worth Of jewelry
recovered in New York at the time
of the fence suspects arrest ha,
been exhibited at headquarters to
30 victims of jewel thefts in the
District.
Evening star., 1939-05-14
Monopoly Probers
Call IndustrjaIjsts.
To Quiz This Week
Sloan, Young and
WiIIkie Among AZ
Asked to Testify
By the Associated Press.


The Monopoly Investigating Com
mittee disclosed yesterday that it
has summoned AZ witnesses, includ-
ing prominent industrialists, for
hearings this week which Chairman
OMahoney said would be aimed at
learning why "bulging banks seem
unable to find opportunities to in
vest their deposits"
The hearings will be conducted
for the committee by the Securities
and Exchange Commission. They
are to start Tuesday and Senator
OMahoney said he expected them
to last about two weeks.
Committee officials said that con-
forming with policy of formally
summoning all witnesses, subpoenas
were sent to the AZ businessmen.
Senator OMahoney, however, en-
phasized that this is an objective
study designed solely to develop
facts and not fix any personal re-
sponsibility for any conditions that
may exist
The list of witnesses included such
names as Alfred P. Sloan of Cen
eral Motors, Edward Stettinius of
United States Steel, Owen d.
Young of the General Electric,
George Whitney OF J. P. Morgan
and Co, Elisha Walker of the firm
OF Kuhn, Loeb and Co, and Wen-
dell L. Willkie of Commonwealth
and Southern.
In addition, the committee also
asked the appearance of several
Government officials-including A.
A. Berle, Assistant Secretary of
State, and representatives of the
Federal Reserve system and the
Farm Security Administration.
Senator O'Mahoney said that in
the hearings the case of the small
businessman will be told and thu
comparative positions of big and
little business in relation TO in
vestment capital explored.
The S. E. c. inaugurated a study
OF investment systems six months
ago. Senator OMahoney said the
hearings would enable the S. E. c.
to present to the committee, Con-
gress and the public for the first
time an ''lntegrated picture of tue
problem of idle funds.
Among the witnesses Summoned
was John Ferris of the Tennessee
Valley Authority'S Knoxville Cfflce.
Evening star., 1939-05-14
Federal Bur Association
Spring Dance Thursday

The Federal Bar Association will
give its annual spring dinner-dance
Thursday at the Congressional
Country Club.
Preceding the dinner a reception
will be held. In the receiving line
will be Chester T. Lane. counsel for
the Securities and Exchange Com
mission. the speaker of the evening;
Col. Harold Lee of the Federal Home
Loan Bank and Mrs. Lee, Assistant
Attorney General Sam E. Whitaker
and Mrs. Whitaker, William Morrell,
president of the association; Col.
Heber Rice, James Morris, Miss
Margarite RaWalt and William
Reese, vice presidents. David DAY.
ison, secretary, and Herbert Rice,
treasurer.
Rowland s. H. Dyer Il chairman
Of the committee on arrangements.
Evening star., 1939-05-14
Fronck's S Symphony
In D Minor Is
enth Offering

The first half of the 10th and
final symphonic Offering of The
Stars music appreciation campaign
will be made available to music
lovers tomorrow at the special booth
in the lobby of The Star Building
The masterpiece to be offered is
Cecar Franck,s great Symphony in
d Minor Because of the great
length of this work, the complete
recording has been divided into two
groups of three records each. The
first group will be released tomorrow
and the second part of the symphony
will be made available a week from
tomorrow
Each of the three-record groups
will be offered at the same price
as previous group offerings of three
or four records. The distribution
counter in The Star lobby will be
open from am. to 6 pm. each
weekday to handle requests for the
new release and the nine other mas
terpieces included in the campaign.
These are: Brahms Symphony
No. 2 in D Major Tschaikowsky' s
symphony No. in F. Minor"
Haydn's Symphony No. SO in E Flat
Major" Debussy's Afternoon of a
Faun,' Clouds and Festivals;
Bach's 'Brandenburg Concertos Nos.
2 and 81 Wagner's preludes to Die
Meistersinger" and "Parsifal," Mo-
zart's "Symphony No. 40 in G.
Minor" Beethoven's symphony No.
5 in c Minor" and Schubert S Sym
phony No. in B Minor"
The electric record players in
cluded in The Stars campaign also
will continue to be available at the
music appreciation counter. More
than 5000 of these have been dis
tributed since the campaign was
launched in February.
Cesar Franck was born at Liege
on December 10. 1922. His father,
having many friends who were
Evening star., 1939-05-14

to fill the unexpired term Of the
late Senator James Couzens.
In 1898 he was made chairman of
the Democratic Senatorial Campaign
Committee. His other assignments
include membership on the Bank
ing and Currency Committee, the
Claims, Finance and Manufactures
Committees and the special COM
mittee to investigate executive
agencies Of the Cow .-ment.
Evening star., 1939-05-14
Policeman Is Injured
In Fall THROUGH Roof

Mistaking the glass roof of a ga
rage for more substantial footing
Pvt. H. B. Osborne of the second pre-
cinct early today crashed through
the roof, striking a parked car below.
Pvt. Osborne and his partner, Pvt.
L. R. Mason, answered a ''prowler
ON the roof call to the old Odd
Fellows Hall at ITO o street NV.
1t was while searching for the sus-
picious prowler that Pvt. Osborne
fell
A Casualty Hospital Ambulance
took the injured policeman to Emer-
gency Hospital, where he was ad-
mitted with a dislocated shoulder
and multiple lacerations. He was
able, however, to walk to the ambu-
lance and into the hospital.
Evening star., 1939-05-14
Copt. MoyfieId Named
Aide to Swanson

BY the Associated Press.
The Navy assigned yesterday
Capt. Irving H. Mayfield, member
OF the Examining Board, as aide to
Secretary of Navy Swanson.
Capt. Mayfield will succeed Capt.
John r. Beardall, who was given
command of the cruiser Vincennes.
Capt. Mayfield, a native of Ruston,
La, formerly was Naval Attache in
Chile, and has commanded several
warships.
Capt. Beardall has been Secretary
,Swanson's aide for three years. He
was born In Sanford, Fla.
Evening star., 1939-05-14
Man, AZ, Is Found Dead
In Franklin Park

A man identified as Elmer Breck-
enrldge, A, of 1917 L street NV.
was found dead in Franklin Park
early this morning.
Police, summoned by a passerby,
found the man lying on the ground
before bench in the park. He was
pronounced dead by an Emergency
Hospital physician and the body
removed to the morgue
Identification was established by
letters in his pocket and by Howard
Acker of 1918 1 street NV, an &C
qualntance, who said Mr.. Breck-
enridge was employed by an &C
counting firm here.
Evening star., 1939-05-14
Weather Conditions Last p Hours.

Weather Conditions Last a4 Hours.
The small disturbance which developed
along the Carolina coast this morning
is moving east st-northeastTard with center
about $50 miles east of Cape Hatteras
N. C., S.. S. Queen of Bermuda, 30 90
inches. A weak trough extends south
westward ,n, and west -southwestward from
Brownsville 2a94 inches Pressure is
also low over Hudson Strait Resolution
Island. 29.5S inches. with a trough ex-
tending southeastward TO low-pressure
area east of Newfoundland. Carr Race,
:9S2 inches. Pressure is also low OF the
inches, and broad trough of low pressure
ion. Phoenix. Ariz.. 2a7O inches A
weak disturbance is moving southeastward
over Manitoba winnipeg 90 inches.
4 ridge OF high pressure extends from
Northern Rocky Mountain ,region Nan.
Wichita. Kans'. ao.is inches. High pres- u
sure also prevails over the District of
Mackenzie. Coppermine. 1925 inches.
d During the last = hours rains have oc;
country and in portions of the southern
Rocky Mountain and the Plateau region.
and in Southern California. Much cooler
weather has overspread the Southern part
OF the country and the Middle Atlantic
in the Lake region the Upper Mississippi
and Lower Missouri Valleys. the Northern
and central Plains States. the northern
and Middle Rocky Mountain regions and
the North Pacific States.
River Report.
- Potomac and Shenandoah clear ut
Harpers Ferry. late yesterday.
Evening star., 1939-05-14
PART THREE.
Society.
PART FOUR.
Sports, Classified.

Challedon annexes Preakness. 60
ing away at finish. Page Ell
Griffs will gamble with Carrasauel
on slab today. Page E-2
Maryland lacrosse gets near title by
beating Navy. Page E-3
Banner golf field to seek historic
Chevy Chase cups. Page E-4
Washington canoeist looking to 1910
Olympic games. Page E-5
Outsiders score in Belmont features
under poor conditions. Page E-6
Lost and found. Page E-6
Classified advertising. Pages E-6-1S