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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
ATKINS RESIGNS
LEGION OFFICE
Department Commander Has
Been Assigned to Duty
in Alaska.

Maj. L. E. Atkins, Assistant En-
gineer Commissioner of the District OF
Columbia, has rendered his resignation
as commander of the Department OF the
District of Columbia, the American
Legion, effective May is. having re-
ceived orders from the War Department
assigning him to duty in Alaska.
According to his present plans he will
leave the National Capital about May 20
In his resignation to the American
Legion. Department Comdr. Atkins said:
II wish to extend to all of the members
of the executive committee and to the
different members of the posts that they
represent my deep appreciation of the
spirit of cooperation and loyalty that
has been shown me during my term Of
Office. 1t has been pleasure to have
served this department as commander,
and the well-being of all the members
Of this department will continue to be
of great interest to me. 1t Is my hope
that l may again be detailed in Wash
ington in the not-far-d distant future in
order that may again enjoy the friend
ship of the many Legionnaires whom
have grown to know in our common eff
forts to promote the welfare of the vet
Grams of the World War;
Mai. Atkins was elected commander
Of the Department of the District Of CO.
lumbia last August.
When detailed here he joined Vincent
B. Costello Post, No. is, of the Ameri-
can Legion, and in 1927 was elected
vice commander of that post. The fol-
lowing year he was elected commander,
serving in that capacity until the an
nual department convention last Au-
gust when he was elected department.
commander. He has served on various
committees of the American Legion, and
was especially active on the committee
in charge of the Armistice day celebra-
tons for the past two years.
In accordance with provision in the
department constitution First Vice
Comdr Charles H. Knight, q member of
Victory Post, No 4, will fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Department
Comdr Atkins the remainder Of the
term. The other two vice commanders,
Earl j. Brown of the End Division Post.
No. %. will advance to the Office of first
Vie commander. and Mrs. Lucille AL
Ian of U. S. S. Jacob Jones Post, No. 2
CYeomen F., will become second vice
commander of the local department.
The Office of third vice commander will
in all probability remain vacant until
the annual department convention.
A farewell" party is being arranged
by the local Iegionnaires in honor OF
Maj Atkins to be held just prior to his
departure for shiS new post. The COM
mittee in charge of the affair Is COM
posed of First Vice Comdr. Charles H
Knight. Department Adjt. Howard S
Fisk, w. L. A. Strawbridge, DR.. B. c.
MacNeill, National Executive Commit
teeman Paul j. McGahan, Past Depart
ment Vice Comdr. Thomas d. Walsh
and William E. Spicer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
CATHEDRAL BODY
WILL BRING 700.
Construction Progress to Be
Reported at Session
Here Thursday.

The annual meeting Of the National
Cathedral Association will be held at
Washington Cathedral Thursday, and
as more than 700 persons have an
nounced they would be present, a
record-breaking attendance is antici-
pated. Among the visitors will be men
and women interested in cathedral
building from New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore Boston; Providence NJ II; L. l.;
Ohio; Madison, Wis; Little Rock,
Ark, and Roanoke, Va.
The progress of construction OF the
Washington Cathedral will be reported.
Reviews will be given of the activities
of committee serving under leadership
of Gen. John j. PerShing as national
chairman and former Senator George
Wharton Pepper as executive chairman.
The meeting will be In Whitney Hall,
the gymnasium of the National Cathe-
dral School for Girls, one of the sew
eral educational institutions associated
with Washington Cathedral. Among
the speakers will be Mr.. Pepper, Bishop
James E. Freeman, Right Rev. Philip
M. Rhinelander, warden of the College
of Preachers. and Mrs. G. c. F.
Bratenahl chairman of the garden
committee OF All Hallows Guild.
The visitors also will attend even
song services in the Bethlehem Chapel
and a tea in the bishops garden. In
spection trips will be made to the
crypts of the Cathedral, to the College
of Preachers and to ther points Of in
terest in the Cathedral Close, compris-
ing 67la acres.
The association is a fellowship of
Washington Cathedral benefactorS.
rounded here 20 years ago, its MEM
bership now numbers more than 5000.
It's activities are Nationwide with COM
mittees functioning in more than 200
communities. One of its accomplish
mentS Is the publication Of the Cathe-
dral Age. a quarterly magazine devoted
to cathedral interest throughout the
world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
HOOVER EXPECTED
TOOK. RIVERS BILL
Chairman Dempsey Says
$111,O00. 900 Outlay Not
at Odds With Program.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A prediction that President Hoover
would approve the Sill 100000 omnibus
rivers and harbors bill came yesterday
from Chairman Dempsey of the House
rivers and harbors committee as the
Senate commerce committee laid plans
to take up the measure next week.
Dempsey said that the legislation,
which was passed by the House Friday
would not conflict with the program that
the administration has laid down by
which the annual OUTLAWS for rivers and
harborS work would be held to the bud
get figure Of SIS, 100000.
THE House bill simply authorizes ap-
preparations for projects which will not
be completed on the average in less than
10 years" Dempsey said.
Annual Allotment Limits.
He said the annual allotment for the
new projects in the bill would not ex-
coed 100000, and that they would
share In the yearly appropriations with
existing projects.
Dempsey said the rivers and harbors
committee had reduced the Army Board
OF Engineers estimates on projects from
$3.50, 000, 900 to Sill ,000, 900, but that an
examination of the bill would show
every projects has been given all that
Is necessary in the interest of economi-
cal transportation"
Asserting that he had conferred fire.
quently with the President on the items
in the bill. Chairman Dempsey said he
understood that the Chief Executive lis
entirely satisfied with the amount of
the bill and realizes the many difficult
ties which confronted the committee"
II have no doubt" the New Yorker
said. that the bill will meet the Chief
Executives approval"
Vote Called Decisive.
Referring to the bitter contest
waged on the floor over the provision
calling for liberalization of the New
York State Barge Canal erie and Os-
wego), Dempsey said:
Apparently the House believed the
argument made by the supporters for
the liberalization of these two canals,
for they voted 146 to SO, nearly three
to one, for adoption of the project.
And on the final passage of the bill
there were so few members opposed
to the project that they were unable
to secure record vote.
This very decisive IL not overwhelm-
ing vote cannot fail to have a great
influence on the country and on the
Senate as well, which will not consider
the bill"
Dempsey said his committee would
60 before the House military committee
to support bill to promote Brig. Gen.
Herbert Deakyne, Assistant Chief of
Army Engineers, to rank Of a major
general on retirement.
A provision in the rivers and har-
bors bill to carry that into effect was
stricken out by the House.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
1850 CALLS MADE
BY VISITING NURSES
Director of Organization Explains
Work of Society in Radio
Talk.

The Instructive Visiting Nurse So
ciety made 1850 calls to Washington
homes and treated 1887 patients dur
ing 1929, Miss Gertrude H. Bowling,
director of the organization, declared
last night in a radio address broadcast
from Station WMAL under the auspices
of the Washington Chamber Of Com
merce.
She told OF the work Of the society,
explaining how they brought trained
care to homes where 1t was financially
impossible to hire trained nurse by
the day.
In Washington as in other cities she
declared, the visiting nurse helps carry
on an all-year-'round May day pro-
gram, since 43 per cent Of all patients
she cares for here are children under
Is years old.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
GETS 36O-DAY TERM

James P. Adams, colored, 40, Of 81
F street was sentenced to serve 800
days in jail by Judge Robert E. Mat
tingly, in Police Court yesterday, after
testimony had shown that upon four
the defendant had endeavored
to engage a white woman he did not
know in conversation, while the latter
was going to work early in the morn
ing.
Adams pleaded guilty to four charges
of disorderly conduct and was given 80
DAYS on each offense
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION
AUXILIARY HOLDS DANCE
Organization Celebrates 9th Ami
versary With Card Party
Five Are Guests of Honor.

The Woman's Auxiliary, No. IS, to
Columbia Typographical Union No.
l01, celebrated its twenty-seventh ami
versary last night with a card party
and dance in the Typographical Tenn
pie AIS G street.
Frank Morrison, secretary of the
American Federation of Labor, and
four charter members of the organiza-
ton were guests of honor. The charter
members were Miss l.. B. Gordon,
founder and first president; Mrs. John
A. Huston and Mrs. Clara Mace, past
presidents and Mrs. E. w. Morecock. a
former secretary. They were presented
with corsage bouquets.
Brief addresses of greeting were made
by Mr.. Morrison, William M. Leath,
president of Typographical Union No.
101, and Fred S. Walker, secretary Of
the union.
The affair was staged under the di-
rection of Mrs. Mabel cambridge, chair
man Of the committee on arrangements.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
66e
fisk Mr. Foster
Travel Service

For your boy this Sum-
mer-a camp in the high
mountains of New Mexico
with a horse to ride. Real
camping. fishing, visiting
Indian Villages and An
cient Cliff Dwellings. care
fully supervised.
A pack trip in New
Mexico or the Canadian
Rockies at a cost of $165
to $225. all expenses. a
vacation that will renew
health and vigor.
No fees.
fisk Mr.. Foster
A@ .. {. sAG. ~.
WOODWARD 4 LOTHROP
7th Floor
THE MAYFLOWER
Ia the lobby
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
HOSPITAL is SUED

The Carlin Creamery Co., GOT B
street, has filed suit in the District
the Columbia Hospital for Women,
Twenty-flfth and L streets. The sum
asked is said to represent a balance
due for milk, cream and other products
delivered at the hospital. The company
says 1t submitted its account March "a
1927, for $6,424.45, and on December
81. 1928, received a payment of one
tenth of the amount due. Attorney
Solomon H. Feldman appears for the
plaintiff.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
MRS. C. P. DAY SUCCUMBS
ON HONEYMOON RETURN
Brooklyn Woman, Former Phila-
delphia Social Leader, Dies
on Liner En- Route Home.

BY the Associated Press.
s. s. PRESIDENT FILLMORE, April
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT was made today of
the death Friday of Mrs. Clarence p
Day of Brooklyn, N. Y, who, although
apparently in good health, suffered a
stroke from which she did not recover
consciousness.
Mrs Day and her husband were re-
turning to their home from a honey
moon trip around the world.
Mrs. Clarence p. Day was, before her
marriage several months ago, Mrs
Beatrice johnson of Kansas City, Kans.
Mrs. Charles L. Day of New York, her
sister-in-law, said Mrs. Clarence Day.
the mother of several children, had
lived some time in Philadelphia. where
she was socially prominent. She was
about so years old.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
J. w. Ward, 72, Dies in Hospital.

STAUNTON, Va, April 26 Especially
John williams Ward, aged Il, died
at the Kings Daughters Hospital here
wednesday, following a weeks illness
Of pneumonia. Mr.. Ward was an IN
spector of ties and lumber for the Bos-
ton 81 Maine Railroad and was widely
known among railroad officials.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27

meICdl COLnInlJLec, u. .. CnamDcT Oh
Commerce Jefferson room Of the May
flower Hotel, IL am.
Meeting, Minneapolis Chamber Of
Commerce, garden of the Mayflower
Hotel, 3 pm.
Meeting, First Families of America
Bachelors Club, 3214 Newark street,
1880 pm.
FUTURE.
Meeting, Trade Association, Depart
ment, U. S. Chamber of Commerce,
Jefferson room of the Mayfiower Hotel,
tomorrow, pm.
Card party, benefit Washington Re-
view, No. /, w. B. A., 1850 Massachu-
sets avenue, tomorrow, 8:l5 pm.
Gard party, Division No. 7, Ladies'
Auxiliary, A. o. H., 1850 Massachusetts,
avenue, tomorrow, $3.50 pm.
Dance and card party, temple COM
mittee, Gavel Chapter, No. 20, o. E. S.,
Potomac Boat Club, Saturday, May II,
8 pm.
Meeting, Grinnell College Alumni,
Dodge Hotel, tomorrow, $3.50 pm.
Gard party, sodaliy of Holy Name
Church. parish hall, 9l6 Eleventh street
northeast, Wednesday, pm.
Easter dance, benefit of st. Dominica
Church, school hall, Sixth and F streets
southwest, Friday.
Meeting, Takoma Horticultural Club,
Takoma Branch Library, Fifth and
Cedar streets, Takoma Park, D. c., to-
|, morrow. pm.
Meeting, executive board of the Amer
lean Women's Legion, willard Hotel,
tomorrow, IL am.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
Mrs. Anderson Dies in Stanton.

STAUNTON, Va, April 26.-Mrs.
Katie E. Anderson, aged u, widow of
the late r.. C. Anderson, for many
years prominent local business man,
died suddenly at her home here from
heart attack.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27

That SO Is not too old for teacher
was the decision recently of the Prus-
sian Diet in declaring that higher grade
teachers need not retire before reaching
that age
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27

A bullet which Lorenz Ernest of MI
MICH Germany, Franco-German War
veteran, carried in his leg for SO years,
since the battle of Loigny-Poupry, has
lust been removed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
Lynchburg Realtor, ", Dies.

LYNCHBURG, Va. April IS (Spe-
ciaD.- j. Christian Woodson, n years
of age, engaged In the real estate busi-
ness here SO years, died suddenly Friday
at his home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
EVANGELIST TO PREACH
DR.. Kernahan Will Be Presented in
Return Engagement.

DIR. A. Earl Kernahan, director OF
visitation evangelism, will be presented
in q special return engagement tomor-
row night at o'clock at the Luther
Place Memorial Church, Fourteenth
street and Vermont avenue. The them
of DR.. Kernahan's sermon will be "Thc
Opportunities and Reasons for Vista
ton Evangelism"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hike, Red Triangle Outing Club and
Washington Wanderlusters, Franklin
Park to clubhouse Meet at Old Do
minion terminal, RoSslyn, 2:15 pm.
Banquet, National Catholic Alumni
Federation, grand ballroom of the May
flower Hotel, $50 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27

Meeting, foreign commerce depart
mental committee, u. S. Chamber Of
Commerce, Jefferson room of the May
flower Hotel, IL am
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27

Meeting, Minneapolis Chamber of
Commerce, garden of the Mayhower
Hotel, 3 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20
PEAT MOSS

So much has been said and written
about peat moss and its use in the
garden that it is difficult to gain q
clear picture of the real value of the
material. According to some writers,
peat moss overcomes most of the diff
cultieS of the amateur gardener, doing
away with need of cultivation and fer
tilization. Undoubtedly, peat moss has
considerable value, but it is not q
panacea or cureall. Perhaps the great
est function of the peat moss is
in modifying the texture of the soil
into which it is incorporated. The
particles of peat tend to separate the
soil particles and enable the root sys-
TENS to develop more freely. Being
spongy and porous, peat greatly aids in
holding moisture in the soil, a very
useful function, especially during
weather such as local gardeners have
experienced this past Spring.
Peat moss Is acid in nature and soils
heavily modified with peat will need an
application of hydrated lime II other
than acid-loving plants are to be grown.
Peat must not be considered as a fer
tlizer, although in due course of time
1t may add to the fertility of the soil
following its decomposition into more
available substances. The fertility and
cultural program will have to be main
tanned much as before, but tillage will
be made easier because the soil will not
bake so readily.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20

est Of reddish purple hue. It Is I'M
doubtedly the mingling of the purplish
red foliage among the green that is at
tractive, although in the case of the
purple beech the fine shape and char
acter of the trees helps to make this
variant colored species desirable.
For those who enjoy chrysanthemums
and their growing, DR.. E. A. Whites
new book, The ChrySanthemum and
Its Culture" should prove very valuable.
DR.. White discusses the history of the
cultivated chrySanthemums and gives
valuable information on the culture OF
hardy outdoor as well as greenhouse va
rieties.
The chrysanthemun1s are, by the way,
at the present time in the critical stage
Of forming flower buds and will be
greatly benefited by side dressing of
fertilizer or manure water If available
The latter material will supply both
moisture and food and should, therefore,
be doubly helpful. Manure water is sim
ply the product obtained by soaking we'll
rotted dung IN a vessel of water for q
few days.
Dahlias are growing vigorously and
should be staked as soon as possible, so
that the winds and rains may not break
down the soft, succulent stalks. Many
growers attach the varietal names di-
rectly to the stakes and thereby make
the stake serve a double purpose Dah-
las must be cultivated in this early
stage Of their existence as a means Of
saving moisture during dry weather.
The few converts to the theory that cul-
tivation Is unessential would disagree
with the above recommendation, but few
gardeners are yet ready to abandon TIL
lage !
Why do apricotS fail in this vicinity?
Not because Of lack of tree hardness,
since there are hundreds of trees living
about the city, but simply because the
flowers always open in early March and
are almost invariably blasted by freezes:
What Is needed is late-blooming april
cot that will come with the peaches and
plumS. Some of the experiment sta
tons are working on this problem and
1t is not unlikely that in the near fu-
ture just such an apricot may be de-
veloped.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20
COL. ELMER {. FULLER
TO BE RETIRED DEC. 81
Infantry Officer, on Duty With
Virginia National Guard, to
Close 33-Year Career.

With the approval of the President.
Col Elmer E. Fuller Infantry, on duty
with Virginia National Guard at Rich-
mond. will be transferred to the retired
list December 81 on his own applica-
ton, after more than 80 years service:
Col. Walter H. johnson, inspector gen~
erals department ct the War Depart4
ment, has been ordered to his home In
California to await retirement: Col,
George B. Rodney, Cavalry, has been
relieved from duty with Organized Re-
serves at Kalamazoo, Mich, and ordered
to the general depot at Brooklyn, N. Y:
Maj. r. e. Winter, Medical Corps, from
Fort H. @. Wright, N. Y, to Fort Rings
gold, Tex; Lieut.. Col. w. II. Richards
son, Medical Corps, from the Panama
Canal Zone to Hartford, Conn; Nal
p. M. N. Kyle, Medical Corps, from
Hawaii to Walter Reed General Hose
pital. this city; Mai. Victor Parks, ire
Chemical Warfare Service. from Edges
wood Arsenal, Nd, to Fort Mcpherson,
Ga; Maj. w. @. Knight, Coast Artils
lery. from Richmond, Va, to Fort Hans
cock. N. j.; Capt william FoelsinR,
Quartermaster Corps. from Fort Slocun,
n. Y. to Hawaii: Capt. j. A. RUSSELL
2uartermaster Corps. from Hawaii to
the general depot. washington, D. c.:
Capt. Paul j. Vevia, Infantry, from
Hawaii to Fort Wadsworth, NJ. Y, and
Capt. Frank o. Hunter, Air Corps, from
the War Department to San Diego.
Calf.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20

The following item from the press
service of the Department Of Agriculture
gives a good reason why 1t is necessary
to spray the foliage of fruit plants that
are attacked by insects or plant dis
eases and also to thin heavy crops:
How many leaves are required to
produce food enough to develop full
grown apple? This is the question that
has attracted the attention of horticul-
turists in the Department of Agriculture
for several years, because of its relation
to the practice of thinning apples and
pears. Latest results of experimental
work carried on with the Washington
Experiment Station, at Wenatchee,
Wash, indicates that from 40 to so well
formed leaves are necessary to develop
the fruit and furnish the necessary
amount of food reserve for the growth
of the tree.
I'm the experiments it was found that
a small number of leaves per fruit would
produce a fairly satisfactory crop for
the year in question. but would not pro-
duce enough fruit buds for full crop
the following year. There is a fairly
definite correlation between number OF
leaves per fruit and the size of fruit
until the ratio reaches at least 40 to !.
While the size of individual fruits in
creased with greater leaf surface, the
increase in fruit volume was not pro-
portional. In other words, thinning the
fruit increases the size but decreases
total weight of fruit per tree.
ITO increase production, the expert
ments indicate, 1t will be necessary first
of all to increase the amount of foliage
per tree or per acre. To secure regu-
iarity of production, the quantity of
fruit produced per tree must be suffi-
GENTLY reduced through thinning to al
low the development of fruit buds,
which results only from an accumula-
ton of food materials after the needs
of the fruit have been met. To obtain
maximum food development in the
leaves steady supply of moisture must
be available throughout the growing
season.
THE experiments referred to were
conducted in irrigated orchards in the
Pacific Northwest. Where there is a
shortage of water through the latter
part of the growing season a larger
number of leaves per fruit is required"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20
POISON IVY

Poison Ivy easily becomes a pernicious
weed in suburban gardens that lie ad-
jacent to undeveloped areas. Peren-
NAL borders which are cultivated only
at infrequent intervals offer q favor
able harbor for this pest plant. Ac-
cording to Farmers Bulleton No. 1896,
poison Ivy and Poison Sumac," one
of the most practical methods of eradi-
cation is to spray the leaves with q
saturated salt solution made up of 3
pounds Of common salt to gallon
of slightly Soapy water. Only sum-
cient solution to wet the leaves should
be applied to prevent injury to other
plants In the vicinity. Crankcase oil
thinned with kerosene until it sprays
easily is also recommended In the
bulletin as an effective spray These
two methods avoid the necessity of
actually handling the Ivy and If re-
peated two or three times as new leaves
appear will kill the ivy out completely.
The bulletin also presents several
preventives and remedies for ivy
poisoning, Copies may be secured by
addressing requests to the Department
Of Agriculture.