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Evening star., 1940-11-12

shaped necks, puffed sleeves and
long boufant skirts trimmed with
Burgundy velvet. They wore match
ing hats with wide, off-the-face
brims and carried bouquets OF pink
roses.
The little flower girl wore a dainty
frock of pale pink chiffon and car
ried a small white basket Of petals
A reception followed the cere-
mony at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Osgood Perry. More than a hun
dred guests were present. The cou-
pie left Immediately after the re-
ception for an extended wedding
trip before going to their home In
Toledo.
Miss Thomson Weds
Mr.. Scheffer.
Miss Edyth Macpherson Thomson
of this city. daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Jates Thomson Of
Ashland, Wis, was married Satur-
day to Mr.. Morris Woodman Schef-
fer, son Of MIR. and Mrs. Morris
L. j. Scheffer of Plainfield, N. j.
DR.. John j. Moment performed the
ceremony at the Crescent Avenue
Presbyterian Church in Plainfleld.
Miss Thomson was attended by
Mrs. Homer Walden Wills Of Wash
ington and by Miss Helen Squire
of Dunellen, N. j. Mr.. Norman e.
Scheffer of Plainfield was his BROTH
er's best man.
The bride wore a royal purple
Schiaparelli model, matching velvet
haSwith shoulder veil, white gloves
and carried a white prayer book
caught up with floWered satin
streamers and topped with an Or
child. She also wore a corsege of
white orchids.
Mrs. Wills wore brown with a
pearl-studded yoke, matching brown
hat, white gloves and a corsage of
green orchids. Miss Squire wore
turquoise blue velvet, matching hat,
white gloves, and her flowers were
periwinkle orchids.
the University of Wisconsin and is
a member of Phi Omega Pi. She
is retiring president of the Wash
ington Pan-Hellenic Alumnae As
sociation.
After a trip in the East Mr.. and
Mrs. Scheffer will reside in Wash
ington.
Evening star., 1940-11-12
Wellesley Group
Will Hold Party

The Washington Wellesley Clubs
1920-1930 decade group will hold its
annual get-together tonight at 6:15
O'Clock, with a dinner at the Army
Navy Country Club.
Miss Lesley Frost, daughter of
Robert Frost, will be guest of honor
and will read some of her fathers
poems and tell of interesting aspects
of her fathers life as a poet.
Miss Frost, a member of the
faculty at the King-Smith School,
also is an author, having written
several stories and poems.
Mrs. Beveridge j. Mair will head
the committee, assisted by Mrs. S.
Paul Johnston and Mrs. Courtlandt
Schuyler. Mrs. Richard M. Watt,
Evening star., 1940-11-12
Silver Spring Club
Groups Will Meet

A visit to the National Training
Center will be made by the art
department of the Silver Spring
Womans Club tomorrow morning at
1890 o'clock.
The civic department will meet
tomorrow at 1:30 pm. at the home
of Mrs. Agnes Dahl, los Hill Top
road, Silver Spring, Md There will
be a round-able discussion on the
subject Know Your Country"
Evening star., 1940-11-12
Junior HadaSSah
Will Hold Dance

Washington Junior Hadassah will
hold its annual formal membership
dance Saturday evening at the
Woodmont Country Club. Cynthia
Michaelson is chairman, assisted by
Naomi Byron, Selma Maizels, Selma
Simon and Nan Tarason. The Bal
timore Juniors will be guests Of the
evening. Ruth Roy and Dick Alder
son will present speciality dances
Proceeds viii be used to support
Meir Schfeyah, model farm school
and home for underprivileged and
refugee children of Palestine.
Evening star., 1940-11-12
Hours Count
In Defense,
Cox Asserts

There is no time left for muddle-
medicines which prevents us from
seeing that vital American inter-
ests have to be defended now and
with all means at our disposal"
Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox, direc-
tor of the selective service system
for the District of Columbia, told
members of the Woman's National
Democratic Club yesterday at
luncheon.
This can be DONE" Gen. Cox de-
clared, IF the back-seat drivers who
have got us to the edge OF the preci-
pice will quit screaming Historically
and behave like men"
Situation Held Critical.
The situation confronting the
country has passed the serious state,
he asserted, and has become critical.
THAT time has passed when days
count" he continued, land now we
should reckon in hours. And each
passing hour that leaves unaccom-
plished some worthwhile undertak-
ing for the security of our Govern
ment means irreparable loss and a
closer approach to the condition
which has overpowered the formerly
free nations of the continent OF
Europe and with which the British
Isles now stand face to face"
Peace is desired, Gen. Cox assert
ed. by SO per cent of those endowed
with a mind and intelligence, but
the Nation should bend every en-
ergy to unite all of its forces and
power in making ready for its own
defense.
IS Attend Luncheon.
"This Nation was not founded by
men who sat in their seats and
waited for somebody else to do the
job," he concluded, land If we are
to protect and preserve our system
OF representative democracy. free
enterprise and religious liberty We
must give our time and thought to
the public good
About 85 members and guests at
tended the luncheon, including Paul
McNutt, administrator of the Fed
eral Security Agency, and Mrs. Nc
Mutt; Mrs. Claude Pepper, first vice
president, and Miss Mary Bakewell,
second vice president, who presided.
Evening star., 1940-11-12
Delta Zeta Sorority
Alumnae to Meet

The Washington Alumnae Chap
ter of Delta Zeta Sorority will meet
for q social evening tomorrow At 8
pm. in the rooms of the active
chapter, 2129 G street NV. The
program for the evening Is In
charge of Miss Myra Hall, Miss
Helen Martel, Miss Zoe McFadden,
Miss Margaret Herrick and Miss
Katherine Asbury.
Members are asked to bring gifts
Of clothing and toys for the chill
dren of the Community Center pro-
ject at Vest, KY.
Evening star., 1940-11-12
Miss Cassie Parker
To Be Married

OF much interest to Washing
ton society is the announcement
by Mr.. and Mrs Brainard w.
Parker of the engagement of
their daughter, Miss Cassie
Parker, to DR.. j. Lawn Thomp-
son. jr., son of DR.. and Mrs. j.
Lawn Thompson of this city.
The wedding will take place
in January.
Evening star., 1940-11-12
Capitol Hill Club

The Capitol Hill History Club will
meet at luncheon tomorrow at IL 80
pm. at the home of Mrs. j. Ward
Eicher, 1904 Albemarle street NV.
Facts on the First Thanksgiving"
will be the subject of responses for
the roll call meeting. Following the
meeting papers will be read by Mrs.
Edward M. Wallace and Mrs. Clara
M. Stine.
Evening star., 1940-11-12
Inspector to Speak

Central Iota Sigma Woman's
Christian Temperance Union will
meet tonight at 7 o'clock in the E
Street Y. w. c. A., with Inspector
Arthur E. Miller of the METROPOLITAN
Police Department as guest speaker
The meeting will be preceded by a
dinner at o'clock, at which Mr.
and Mrs. Miller will be guests.
Evening star., 1940-11-12
Adas Israel Tea

Mrs. Louis Rosenthal and Mrs.
E. 1. Peake will entertain at a tea
tomorrow at 2 pm. for members of
the Sisterhood of Adas Israel Con-
gregation who will be hostesses at
the annual donor luncheon to be
held December 9 at the Mayf1ower
Hotel. The tea tomorrow will be
held at the home of Mrs. Rosen-
thall, 43l3 Fifteenth street NV.
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Weddings
Continued From Page B-3)

Of orchids. Mrs Harper assisted in
receiving, wearing a black gown
studded with blue and silver beads
and wore corSage of orchids.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harper left on a
southern trip, the bride wearing a
costume of soldier blue with match
ing accessories and a corsage of
orchids.
Evening star., 1940-04-15
Fist Fight Develops
Into SHOOTING Affroy

Two boys were being treated for
gunshot wounds today as a result
OF what started as a fist fight yes
terday at Georgia avenue and Park
road. One of the victims was an
innocent bystander.
Peter Stathis, IT, of 1928 Park
place NV, was getting the upper
hand In a scrap with a colored boy
about his age, police said, when an
11-year-old colored friend of the
losing youth flourished an auto
matte pistol and fired twice. The
first shot struck Peter on the right
hand; the second went wild and hit
Edward Widmaver, II, of 3415 Geor-
gia avenue NV. who was watching
the proceedings, in the left leg. The
injured boys were treated at Gar
field Hospital, and Widmayer was
still in the hospital today, although
his wound was pronounced mot
serious"
Police are holding two colored
boys in connection with the shoot
ing.
Evening star., 1940-04-15

intended to make the crop control
programs more nearly self -finAnc-
ing. In effect, 1t would require
professors to pay so-called parity"
prices for farm products Used in
supplying the domestic market,
(Parity prices would give farm prod
ucts purchasing power equal to that
which they possessed in 190o-14)
Income for Farmers.
Professors would be required to
buy certificates at rates equal to tho
difference between the actual mar.
ket price and the parity price.
Farmers would get income frora the
certificates.
This plan, sponsors explain, would
eliminate the need for congress
sional appropriations for parity
payments from public funds.
The Jones farm credit measure
has been described by Secretary
Wallace as a means of placing the
farm credit structure on a Sound
basis It's opponents contend that
1t would wreck the farmer co-opera-
tive features of the system and re.
suit in unsound lending policies.
Sponsors declare that it would save
borrowers at least 100000, 900 year
IN interest charges.
Evening star., 1940-04-15
Husband loo Late 10 Halt
Calvert Bridqe Death Lean

The 47-year-old wife Of a United
States Office Education official, de-
pressed by i'll health, leaped to her
death from the Calvert Street Bridge
yesterday as her husband rushed
to the span In a vain effort to save
her.
Mrs. Anne Rakestraw, according
to her husband, C. E. Rakestraw,
Southern region director, United
States Office of Education, left a
note on the bridge rail, explaining
that she had lost hope OF ever re-
covering her health after II years of
sickness. Coroner A. Magruder
Macdonald issued a certificate Of
suicide.
When his wife failed to wait for
him in the lobby as they left their
apartment, 5000 Connecticut ave-
nue. NV, yesterday afternoon, Mr..
Rakestraw drove hurriedly to the
bridge, remembering that she had
discussed its use as possible method
OF suicide on several occasions. He
arrived too late.
Besides her husband. Mrs. Rake
straw is survived by three sisters
and a brother, none of whom lives
IN Washington. Funeral arrange
ments had not been completed early
today.
Evening star., 1940-04-15
Divorce Granted Varney,
Retired Police Officer

Police 1t. Frank A. Varney, who
was cleared by the Police Trial
Board Of violence charges two
months ago and retired from the
force at the end Of February, was
granted divorce in Reno, New,
Saturday from Marion O. Varney
on grounds Of cruelty.
The Varneys were married in
Manchester. N. H., in 1918 and have
two children, for whom a custody
and support agreement was made.
1t. Varney applied for retirement
because of physical disability in
January after a colorful career in
the Police Department. Now AZ years
old, he was appointed 10 years ago
as personal aide to the then Com
missioner Herbert c. Crosby to in
vestigate complaints that came to
the Commissioner independent of
the regular police investigation
channels.
A few weeks after the police lieu
tenant applied for retirement, he
went on trial before the Police Trial
Board on a charge Of wilfully mis-
treating and using unnecessary vio-
lence on a 17-year-old youth. Pend
ing the outcome of the trial. the
Commissioners delayed decision on
the recommendations of the Board Of
Police and Fire Surgeons that 1t.
Varney be retired.
He was unanimously cleared by
the Trial Board and was retired
after 18 years Of service.
Evening star., 1940-04-15

cation of 20 young women, each
representing a Latin American
republic.
Mrs. Thomas Burke, wife of the
chief of the Division of Interna-
tional Communications, State De-
partment, headed the Welcoming
Committee for the Peoples Man
date Committee which met the 20
young women at the airport, where
they came in by plane from New
York City. Mrs Burke, a native
Chilean, is mandate chairman for
Latin America.
Tonight the Pan-American Union
Will be the scene of a reception.
Latin American Music.
At pm. the National Broad
casting Co. was to present over it's
network 80 minutes of Latin Amer
ican music by the United States
Navy Band and 50-minute drama
tlzation OF the history of Latin
America. The program is under
the joint sponsorship of the United
States ONCE Of Education, the Pam
American Union and the broadcast
ing company.
In Pan-American talk yesterday,
the Rev. DR.. Edward Ryan, secre-
tary OF the Ibero- o-American studies
at Catholic University, said that the
Americas might become the refuge
OF western civilization, should law
and order be overturned in Europe.
He spoke in sermon delivered dur
ing the solemn pontifical mass said
in the Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception for n-American Day.
America must stay at peace, DR..
Ryan said, by keeping its peace with
God.
Evening star., 1940-04-15
Opinion Is Reversed
In Foreclosure Sale

Municipal Court has jurisdiction
to consider cases involving $1,000
and under, unless there is a neces-
sary and direct controversy over the
title to land, the United States
Court of Appeals ruled today.
This opinion is considered as en-
larging the scope of the lower tri-
bunal.
Mrs. Marie F. Schwartz, admins
tratrix of the estate of her husband,
Ben Schwartz, brought suit in Mu-
nicipal Court for $381.67 to recover
an unpaid balance of the proceeds
OF a foreclosure sale of real estate.
Municipal Court declined to take
full jurisdiction, holding that the
challenge to its authority in such
case was valid. Then through At
torneys Ward B. Mccarthy and
Harry Friedman, Mrs. Schwartz
sought writ of error to the United
States Court of Appeals, which was
granted.
The higher tribunal today re-
versed the case and remanded it for
further proceedings.
Evening star., 1940-04-15
Wallace Will Make
Farm Proposals
Campaign Issues
Marketing Certificate
And Debt Refinoncinq
Passage Is Unlikely
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
Secretary Wallace will exert his
influence, associates predicted to-
day, to make campaign issues of
two broad proposals for boosting
farm income and easing farm debt
burden.
The proposals, conceded little
chance of enactment at this ses-
sion of Congress, are:
/. The marketing certificate plan,
designed to boost prices of farm
products to the parity" goals OF
crop-control legislation.
Q. The Jones bill to authorize re-
financing of farm debts on the basis
Of the lands productivity and to
reduce interest rates from an aver
age Of So to 3 per cent.
Agricultural leaders with whom
Mr.. Wallace has been working said
he was likely to ask the Democratic
National Convention to write these
proposals into the partys plat
farm If Congress adjourned without
enacting them. They said he was
confident that these issues would do
much to put the Midwestern farm
vote back of the Democratic NOM
inee.
Both Meet Opposition.
Both proposals have encountered
strong opposition from Republicans
and some Democrats.
Mr.. Wallace was described as feel
ing that present farm programs
would be materially strengthened
and agriculture placed on a sound
economic basis if these measures
were put into operation.
The marketing certificate plan is
Evening star., 1940-04-15

in Arctic Norway had been driven
into the hills by the guns of Brit
aims navy.
Swedish correspondents said there
was evidence of long-range prep
aration for the German invasion in
the Narvik area. Practically the
entire Nazi landing party there was
said to have been composed of men
who had piled between Narvik and
Norway on German ore ships and
were familiar with the area around
the port.
Reports Of treachery which aided
the German invaders to gain a foot
hold on Norway's northern coast
continued to trickle into Sweden.
One story said that when the Ger
mans arrived they found many
Norwegian military cars parked
nearby without a guard and used
them to facilitate their movements
One German lieutenant, it was
said, was recognized as a member
OF hiking club who had spent sew
eral months in Narvik.
Evening star., 1940-04-15
Federal Camps Ready
For Migrants Facing
Eviction in Florida
10000 Are Estimated
Living in SquoIor in
Vegetable Growing Area

BELLE GLADE, Fla, April 15.-
Two Federally constructed camps
will await several hundred families
OF Florida's migrant farm laborers
II they are evicted this week from
tumbledown living quarters con-
demned by the State Bureau of
Sanitation.
Here, along the Lake Okeechobee
shore IN 4 vast vegetable growing
area some 80 miles west Of Palm
Beach's Gold Coast. migrant work.
ers and their families are living
under conditions a State Health
Committee compared with those de-
scribed IN the book, Grapes of
Wrath"
John P. Ingle. sr., president of
the committee, declared thousands
were existing under the filthiest,
most insanitary conditions" he had
ever seen.
500 Habitations Condemned.
State sanitation inspectors plas-
tered condemnation notices on more
than 500 habitations and ordered
the occupants to correct the situa-
ton by April 16 or move out.
The Farm Security Administration
rushed to completion a 176-family
camp for white workers and another
Of 358 units for Negro field laborers
These camps, the first constructed
east OF Texas, cost $60O,0OO
F. S. A. officials said the camps
could not accommodate all of the
migrants ct was estimated more
than 10000 are in the area), but
that they would care for about
2,250. Three other camps have been
planned
Camps Have Modern Plumbing.
The camps offer a minimum of
decent living facilities. with most of
the houses single room shelters built
of pre-fabricated steel walls and
concrete floors. City water Is piped
to each group Of shelters. Both
camps have adequate comfort sta
tions; tub-washing. ironing and
shower rooms. with hot and cold
water; medical clinics; isolation
wards for residents with communi-
cable diseases. and community halls
for church services and recreation.
Each tenant family will be as
sessed fee of 81 a week, plus two
hours work, the latter to apply
mainly on garbage collection and
other sanitary details. The money
will go into the camp welfare fund,
to be administered by a resident-
elected council
Many Of the migrants live in
tents, rented shelters or shacks
hastily put together Of scrap tin,
timbers and other debris from a
1928 hurricane and flood that killed
more than 1000 persons. Scores of
novels are floorless and have no
sanitary facilities.
Evening star., 1940-04-15

Ell Salvador IS increasing its pur-
chases of United States products.
Evening star., 1940-04-15

Stowowoy Travels
With Trunk, Bags
And Brief Case
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April l5.-The
United States liner Manhattan
came in today with a stowaway
but not the usual furtive
kind without luggage.
immigration authorities mar
veled at the mans ingenuity
in boarding the vessel at Genoa
with q trunk, three bags and
q brief case. They were more
surprised when told he ap-
peared nonchalently on deck
the next day.
Identified as William Hahn
stadt, go, an engineer, he
cAimed to be a naturalzed
American and had a United
States passport. His wife and
two children, he said, live in
Rio de Janeiro, from whence
he had gone to Germany for a
visit.
immigration officials said he
would be admitted if his pass
port proved authentic.
Evening star., 1940-04-15
Oil Workers Meet

Local 403 Of the International Oil
Workers Union last night Endorsed
the House bill now pending in Con-
gress introduced by Representative
Eberharter. Democrat, Of Pennsyl-
vania to hberalize unemployment
compensation payments in the Dis
trict. The group met at 1701 Park
road NV. T. j. Mccarthy, presi-
dent, presided.
Evening star., 1940-04-15
Strike Of 5eamen
Delays Start Of
Shipping on Lakes
Cunodidn Owners Refuse
To Negotiate on Pay
Boost and Closed Shop
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
TORONTO. April 15.-Sailor.
picketed Canada's Great Lake ports
from Lakehead. Ontario, to Mon
treal today as a strike called by the
Canadian Seamen's Union halted
the springtime opening of naviga-
ton along the great inland water
way.
In a dozen ports members of the
union, an affiliate of the American
Federation of Labor, walked off last
midnight.
Only about score of grain YES
sels were ready to start the season S
operations and union officials said
these would be unable to sail, and
work Of fitting out most of Canada S
2sS lake boats has stopped as we'll
Closed Shop Demanded.
Union officials said they called the
strike because the big shipping COM
panies refused to negotiate on a
basis Of SIS month increase for all
unlicensed seamen, three extra men
on each ship and a closed shop con-
tract.
An informal statement by four
big ship oWners-Canada Steamship
Lines, Upper Lakes & st. Law
renee Transportation Co., Colonial
Steamship Co. and the Norman M
Paterson Co.-said there was NO
purpose in discussing other features
Of the union-proposed contract as
long as it was based upon a closed
shop demand.
Deputy Labor Minister w. M.
Dickson last week attempted to
avert the shipping tie-up by inform
Ing the union that under the In
dustrial Disputes Investigation Act
1t Is illegal to call a strike with
out an attempt at settlement be-
fore Cancellation Board. 1T should
be obvious to every one that this
country, while at war, cannot af-
lord to have its inland shipping
tied up" Mr.. Dickson said.
Meeting With Owners Suggested.
Union officials asserted in their
reply that the Industrial Disputes
Act 'is not intended to compel
workers to become employed on
terms to which they have not
agreed" and suggested meeting
with shipowners to conclude prop
er arrangements"
Just before midnight, deadline for
the launching of the strike, Mr..
Dickson informed the union he
would be pleased to arrange an
arbitration meeting if the union
would revoke its strike call.
Union officials countered with an
announcement that they would send
representatives to a conference at
Ottawa, but that the strike would
20 ahead as scheduled.
If the strike becomes generally
effective, it will affect directly $500
union members, and indirectly the
officers of 285 vessels and 5000
longshoremen and water front
workers.