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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-02

hership Of the various clubs in the
county federation now has reached 595
It was announced that federated club
women are speaking over the radio
each Friday from Station WCAO, Bal
timore, at ais pm, and that Mrs.
Rudolph S. Allen of College Park, presi-
dent Of the county federation, will
speak April 10. She will discuss the
work Of the county federation. Prince
Georges County is the sixth district
of the State federation.
Mrs. Paul Smith of the Mount Raj
nier Civic League was named chair
man Of the Auditing Committee, with
Mrs. Rohm and Mrs. Leonard as asso-
ciates
Mrs. Charles o. Appleman Of College
Park, chairman Of public welfare for
the county federation. reported that
the federation was cooperating effec-
lively with the Central Committee Of
the County Red Cross Chapter and the
Associated Charities Of Hyattsville and
vicinity in relief work Mrs. Appleman
also is member Of the Central Com
mittee.
Mrs. Guy Meloy was named creden-
tials chairman in place of Mrs. Ruth
Crawford, who recently removed from
the county.
MIS-. AAEkl lCkIlAIlQCA LAtC u&ooCAIUAdSE
Of the Child Health Conference to be
held Saturday at the Kappa Alpha
Fraternity House at the University Of
Maryland, College Park.
Mrs. Allen also announced that she
soon would choose the delegates and
alternates of the County Federation to
the thirty annual meeting OF the
State Federation to be held April IA, IS
and Is in Baltimore.
The board Endorsed several proposed
revisions in the constitution and by
laws Of the State Federation along with
two proposed amendments and the dele
gates of the County Federation will vote
in accordance with this action.
Reports by officers and department
chairmen were submitted.
Mrs. Ruth Cheney sang, accompanied
by Mrs. Ralph Baker.
Luncheon was served by members Of
the Ladies Aid Society Of Memorial
Church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-02
COMMITTEE 0. KS
BILLBOARD REPORT
MARYLAND Senate to Get Ap-
provaI on RoadSign
Bill.
By q Stan Correspondent of The Star.

By Q Stan Correspondent Of The Star
ANNAPOLIS, Md, April "A favor
able report on the House bill to regu-
late and restrict billboards in Mary
land will be submitted by the Finance
Committee to the Senate today.
The favorable report was approved
yesterday afternoon following a public
hearing. The vote in the committee to
report the bill favorably was said to
have been to 3.
Aided by the favorable report, which
is always advantageous In securing the
passage Of bill, advocates of the sign
board measure expect to get their bill
through the Senate before the session
ends Monday night.
Effort to Defeat.
1t was learned last night that despite
the favorable report an effort to defeat
the bill will be made on the floor of the
Senate when the report is submitted to-
day. Senator j. Allan Coad Of st.
Marys County is leading the opposition.
The bill will be championed by Sen
ator Lansdale @. SaSscer of Prince
Georges County, Democratic floor lead
er, and Senator Robert G. Hilton Of
Montgomery County and several others.
A poll last night indicated that the IA
difficulty.
The bill places billboards under the
jurisdiction of the State Roads Com
mission, taxes them at the rate Of u
cent per square foot per year and re-
quires outdoor advertising companies to
pay an annual fee Of 5000.
AT the hearing spokesman for the
billboard companies told the committee
the blu would not work any hardship
on them, and they were 100 per cent
behind it.
Southern Maryland for Bill.
Spence Howard, president of the
Southern Maryland Society, said their
organization. extending over several
Southern Maryland counties and with
membership in all sections Of the
State, heartily Endorsed the bill.
The permanent need Of a method of
controlling the indiscriminate posting
/ Of roadside signs and the special need
OF improving the appearance of Mary
lands highways in time for the State s
Tercentennial in 1884 was stressed by
Mr.. Howard.
Miss Lavina Engle, Delegate from
! Montgomery County and one Of the
joint authors Of the bill, said the sign
board situation today was utterly be-
! yond control Mrs Edward H. Nc
striction Of the Garden Clubs of Mary
! land. informed the committee that
those clubs, as well as the State Fed
Grafton Of Women's Clubs, we're anxious
to see the bill pass
Legislation Need Cited.
Delegate Oliver Metzerott Of Prince
Georges County, another co-author of
the bill told Of recently Seeing a truck
| from another State Illegally posting
small signs on the Defense Highway
near Annapolis and cited other exam
Piles to show the need of regula tory
| legislation TO preserve the safety and
beauty of the States roads.
In response to questions from mem
bers Of the committee, Charles H.
Knapp and other representatives of the
billboard companies attending the hear
/ ing assured the Senator the bill would
not affect farmers revenues.
Mr.. Knapp said the companies had
| long sought some form Of regulation
and believe the pending bill would sup
ply it.
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The program, which began at 1870
o'clock, was broadcast first in English
throughout the United States and then
in German to the European stations.
The latter part was sent by land wire
to Schenectady, N. Y, and thence by
short wave to Germany for rebroad-
casting.
Aid to Friendly Relations.
The German Ambassador said the
task of those who work for friendly
relations between the two peoples can
not be better promoted than through
frequent radio breakfasts between here
and there across the Atlantic"
In this way" he added, Germany
will witness. as a listener-in, how this
country next year celebrates the mem
CRY of George Washington. The United
States will be able to take part in the
ceremonies held at the same time in
honor of our greatest poet, Goethe.
l pray that the aim of ideal humanity
as it is represented in both these men
may lead our two peoples together to
ever closer ties"
Senator Wagner native German.
who came to America when a small
boy, said both countries could benefit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-02
FAIRFAX TAX LEVY
REDUCED 10 CENTS
incorporated Towns to Pay Same
as in 1880, but District
Rates Drop.
special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va. April 1.-THE Fairfax
County Board Of Supervisors yesterday
laid tax levies for the coming year.
With the exception Of the Centreville
district, which remains the same. the
levfes In all of the districts are 10 cents
lower on the 500 valuation than last
year. The county tax in incorporated
towns remains the same
These rates are $2.35 for Centreville
district. $40 for Drsnesville district,
S310 for Falls Church district, $2.45
for Mount Vernon district, $2.25 for
Lee district. $40 for Providence dis
trict, $i.35 for the town Of Clifton, 81. is
for the town Of Fall Church, Sl.35 for
Fairfax, $3.50 for Herndon and $l.60
for Vienna.
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N international audience was adj
" dressed today by the German
"A Ambassador and representatives
4 \ of the United States Govern
ment through a microphone
perched high under the Capitol dome,
in the first direct broadcast between
Washington and Germany.
AS the speakers braved bleak wind
on q ledge $50 feet in the air, faint
echoes drifted up from the Capitals
Streets police siren, street cars, rivet-
ing hammers on the new Government
buildings.
Reception Satisfactory.
The reception was satisfactory both
in this country over the National Broad
casting network and in Germany and
Austria through 40 associated stations
there, according to domestic and foreign
reports of the affair.
On one previous occasion a program
WIS broadcast from the Capitol dome,
during Lindbergh's reception here.
Ambassador Frederick w. Won. Pritt-
WITT und Gaffron of Germany, Senator
Robert F. Wagner of New York and j.
Theodore Mariner, in charge of West
tern European affairs for the State De-
partment, were principal speakers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-02

from a mutual interest in each other
and a policy of helpfulness and CO.
operation"
New Medium Opened.
1.-THE symbols of the traditions we
share" the Senator said, ARE all about
me. speak from the National Capt.
tai, where the statue of Gen. Won
Steuben stirs our memory to recall that
the valor, the skill and patriotism of
this intrepid German soldier contrib
uted to American victory in the Revo-
luton, of which our republic was born"
In introducing the German ambas-
sador, Mariner said broadcasting
across the Atlantic has Opened new
medium for the nations of the old and
new world to get acquainted; we have
learned to talk to each other often, and
to lose the diff1dence which a few
decades ago made intercourse so rare
and difficult"
The master Of ceremonies was He'll
NUT H. Hellmut, Germany's rowing
radio reporter" who recently broad
cast a word-picture of New York from
the Statue of Liberty. Mr.. Hellmut gave
his impressions of the National Capital
and of America as cleaned during the
course Of his stay here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-02
Jingle Staying
CASE NEARS Jury
Arguments of Counsel and
Courts Charge Remain
10 Be Heard.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 2.-The Lingle
murder trial approached the verdict stage
today as court opened for q final out
burst of forensic fireworks before the
jury begins consideration Of the Ques-
ton whether Jake" Lingle, the Tri-
bune crime reporter, was killed by Leo
". Brothers of st. Louis.
Only the final arguments of Attorney
Louis Piquett for the defense. and Of
Assistant States Attorney c. Wayland
Brooks for the prosecution, and the
instructions of Judge Joseph SABBATH
remained.
Each side, in its arguments. has at
tempted to pick flaws in the testimony
of the witnesses, Attorney Piquett de-
claring the States attorney had failed
to show a motive for the Staying and
describing the case as gigantic
frame-up'
Assistant States Attorney Brooks at
tackled the credibility Of defense wit
nesses and told the jurymen it was
time for them ito say If men come
here to hide and murder, whether they
forfeit the right to live"
Brothers, accused of being the man
who fired a bullet into the back Of
the reporters head while he was en-
route to a race track last June g.,
remained calm throughout the argu-
ments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-02

cepted by France and italy in their re-
cent naval agreement. The British de-
mand a 20,000-ton maximum battleship
for economy, as we'll as strategical rea-
sons, claiming that this size is SIS ,000,-
900 cheaper to build than the Nelson
type, as well as more economically OPP
Grated.
AS Great Britain has Is units in her
battle fleet. the saving would be enor-
nous If the United States could be in
duced to accept the new maximum In
stead of the IS, 900 tons and 16-inch-gun
caliber provided by the Washington
treaty.
The Telegraph says that as a conse-
quence the Franco-Italian agreement,
the projected French battle cruiser will
be redesigned for 10000 tons and H.
inch guns instead of the contemplated
1880 tons and 13.4-inch guns. Great
Britain is also disseminating the build
ing of 10000 Washington cruisers.
Copyright, 1919
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-02
YEGGMEN BURN SAFE,
BUT FLEE PENNILESS
Would-Be Robbers Leave Gas
Torch Behind in Bank at
Shepherdtown.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The star.
SHEPHERDsTOWN, w va, April q
-Yeggmen who burned a hole In the
door of the vault in the Farmers Bank
here early today are believed to have
been frightened away before they could
get the door open.
Rev. J. w. Witherspoon, pastor of
the Presbyterian Church, who resides
next door, was aroused about $3.50
o'clock by a noise in the bank and,
suspecting a robbery. phoned Officer
Robert Shipley. When the officer
reached the bank, the yeggmen had
fed, presumably in an automobile,
leaving behind an acetylene torch and
tank which they had used to cut
hole the size Of mans fist in the vault
door, a crowbar and a number Of other
tools which we're found lying on the
floor in front Of the vault.
The cashier, Joseph Trout Kearneys-
vile, has been summoned and nothing
will be disturbed at the vault until
fingerprints can be taken. This Is the
second attempt made by yeggmen at
the bank within a year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-02
MAUNDY THURSDAY

MAUNDY THURSDAY.
Holy Communion ..............ep pm
GOOD FRIDAY.
Morning Prayer and Ante Communion.
1880 am. The Three Hours Devotion,
12:0o 10 400 p.na.e eondueted ~ the Rectoh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-02
CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENT.
EPISCOPAL.
St. Margaret's Church

Conn. Ave. and Bancroft Place NV.
Rev. Herbert Scott Smith, D. D.
Rector.
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EXPERTS WILL SEEK
NAVAL AGREEMENT
London Sees Success for
Conference to Be Held
After Easter.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 1.-THE British for
eign ONCE spokesman said today that
British, French and Italian naval ex-
pertS would reassemble in London after
Easter to continue efforts TO complete
the draft Of a tripartite naval agree
ment.
Despite problems which have arisen,
it was stated at No. 10 Downing street
that ultimate success is expected.
Paris Not Surprised.
PARIS, April 2 [R.-London reports
of a serious hitch threatening Franco
Italian naval negotiations occasioned
no surprise today In diplomatic and
parliamentary circles.
The hitch Is understood to have
arisen in elaboration Of the text of the
accord reached March /, in that part
which concerns dates of requirements
Of old warships. There was wide ex-
pectation, however, that a solution
would be found for the difficulty.
Italy Is Hopeful.
ROME, April 2 (P).-Italian govern
ment officials, commenting upon Lon
don reports of threatened breakdown
in Franco Italian naval negotiations,
were hopeful today that the diff1culty
would be ironed out and further COM
plications averted.
The dif1culty is said to concern
Frances allotment of superannuated
tonnage until 1885, and number of
lesser points the exact nature Of which
was not disclosed.
DISAGREE ON BATTLESHIP SIZE.
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Italy Is Hopeful.
BY CARROLL BINDER.


BY Gable to The Star.
LONDON, England, April 2-The
British admiralty still believes in the
battleship and will not seek its abolition
at the 1885 Naval Conference, as some
Americans have inferred, the Daily
Telegraph naval expert announces. The
British disagree with the Americans re-
garding the size of battleships, rather
than on the principle of battleshipS.
I'VE can count upon French and
Italian support, and Japan is not ex-
pected to raise difficulties, for the ad-
miralty proposal to limit future capital
ships to 20,000-ton ships and guns to
IL inches at the forthcoming confer
ence," says the Telegraph.
only from the United States is op-
position feared. Washington big Navy
men favor large and costly ships as a
deterrent to competitive building, but
this argument ignores the fact that all
the principal fleets are now restricted
by treaty to maximum tonnage quotas
1t Is highly probable that an exchange
of views on battleships will take place
between Washington, London and Toxic
in the near future"
The 12-inch gun limitation was ac-
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WOMEN SUPPORT BILL.

Endorsement Given Billboard Act by
Prince Georges Club.
Special Dispatch to The Star
EVANSVILLE Nd, April a. In
dorsement was given the proposed bill
TO regulate and tax Maryland's bill
boards. now before the Legislature, by
the Executive Board of the Prince
Georges County Federation of Women's
Clubs. which met In Memorial Metho-
dist Episcopal Church here yesterday.
There was good attendance.
1t was reported that the total mem
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-02
OWES DIME so YEARS
Son Paid for Plug of Chewing To-
baceo Purchased From Father.

ROCHESTER, Ind, April R.--
Everything was all square today for the
plug Of chewing tobacco that George
B. Lease, now of st. Louis, bought from
J. @. Howell. formerly a grocer at
Marshtown, Ind, so years ago.
Having forgotten his pocketbook,
Lease didn't have time to pay for the
plug. and short time later moved to
Missouri Recently his nephew, Henry
Lease, Of Kewanna visited his uncle In
Missouri and received from him q 10
cent piece. Yesterday Lease gave the
dime to Henry Howell, the elder How
ellis son.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-17

MeddleSome women with their noses
in every ones business are seldom pro-
flcient in their own. Rip Van Wrinkle
was such an old woman" as you
remember. He was so busy helping
out other people that his own farm
and house went to ruin. He left a
host of descendants of both sexes,
but it's the fair sex in which We are
personally interested.
Some women have the money-making
instinct or desire. AS result, they
neglect their own homes, and lose
more money thereby than they can
or could make outside. They lose money
In the kitchen, In clothes not properly
cared for, in things left unrepaired
and in many other ways.
When a woman's business is in her
home, she has enough opportunity
right there to make money. If every
penny that she saves Is considered
one earned, she may earn q fair in
come at the end of the year. Women
who cannot see the logic of that
argument should hire houSekeepeI
while they work: otherwise their losses
will exceed their earnings
This Is no TRADE TO the effect that
a woman's place is in the home OF
anywhere else. 1t merely is a reminder
that wherever a woman's business is
there her attention should be con-
contracted. Ones business, be it ir
the home, once, store, or plant, i.
important and big enough to require
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-17
A Sermon for Today
Plain People.

THE common people heard Him
gladly. Mark, xii.37.
When Jesus was going about through
Palestine, preaching the kingdom OF
God, it was said. THE common people
heard FIAC gladly" They are the peo-
DIE who are still hearing and following
Him most readily and gladly.
Abraham Lincoln said THE Lord
must love the common people, He made
so many OF them" 1t is good that
He made so many of them, for they
are the people who respond most
heartily to His requirements and upon
whom He must largely depend for the
PRONUNCIATION of His kingdom in the
world
When Woodrow Wilson was in
France, attending the Peace Confer
ence after the World War, he deliv-
cred an address. in which he said:
And when / think of mankind l must
say do not always think OF well
dressed persons. Most persons are not
well dressed The heart of the world
is under very plain jackets. The heart
of the world is at very simple fire
sides The heart of the world Is in
very simple circumstances, and unless
you know the pressure OF life OF the
humber classes you know nothing OF
life whatever"
1t is in plain homes among plain
people, that we discover not only the
heart of the world but the hope OF
the world. 1t is here that we find
the finest qualities of character
sobriety. honesty, faithfulness. loyalty,
punctuality, effectiveness. alertness.
courtesy and courage. These are the
qualities required to stand the strain
and carry on the worlds work. and,
fortunately for the world. they abound
among the average plain people who
are doing the heaviest part OF the
worlds work.
I am thinking of the farmers who
till our SOIL of the workmen in our
shops and factories, of the miners who
dig our coal, of the clerks in our banks
and stores. of the teachers, nurses,
needlewomen, blacksmiths, carpen-
+, ters-and, not least among all. the
housewives who make and keep our
homes.
Just plain. humble people these are,
who just honestly do their duty and
serve their fellow men to the best OF
their ability. Their lives consist of
routine duties and application to hum
drum work. They do not get much
of the worlds applause. or share very
beautifully its abundance. Yet they
constitute the bulk of the brain and
Drawn of the world. Let us crown
them WITH our highest appreciation and
gratitude
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-17
WINTER


The coming Of a new season makes
itself felt in advance, by the decay of
the old. The ruin of Autumn is dra :
matte, unmistakable. But as the en-
pire of Winter begins to go to pieces the
signs are more subtle, save for the
places, in deep. sunless glens in the
woods. where little ice may linger by
stealth.
Though Winter may always return
upon us in last, desperate raid, the
days of its sway are numbered. You
can tell it by the softening of The
ground in all sunny places, the roar of
the brooks, even by the sound that the
city cutters make.
Walking, 1 grant you, is poorish in
the country at this season Mud and
more mud everywhere. After a brief
excursion you will be minded, no doubt.
to postpone another cross-country stroll
until the drying winds of March have
made terra firma out of the impossible
lanes. But mud is a sign of the crlim-
bling of Winters power. The days too.
lengthen visibly. The stands OF silvery
weeds. the wind-threshed meadows of
old beard grass. all are witnesses to the
ageing of the barbaric empire of Win
ter.
Not tree as yet is in leaf or flower.
though the buds of the naples are
swelling lIlC dIuCI EdLAulS
lengthen, turn crimson, preparatory to
bursting with the first balmy weather
But even in the bare limbs of bush and
tree, every outline etched against the
sky. is subtle promise
Draw closer and look at the twigs,
where the willow wythes begin to lin
Der, to flush scarlet or tighten with a
rich gold. Put your thumb nail into the
tender bark of sassafras switch and
peel away a little until the cambium,
the soft. brilliant. green membrane be-
tween bark and wood. is revealed
Alone of all the twig, the cambium is
actually living tissue, able to grow, to
form cells of bark in one direction, cells
of wood N the other
Even in your garden, see the freshen-
ing of the forsythia twigs, the rose
shoots. Look where the first greenery
of bulb shoots is piercing through the
dead oak leaves that have drifted across
the plot Time now to lift them gently
away, the oak leaves. and let the sun
light pour its strength into the living,
breathing plants below.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-17
The Woman Who Makes Good
started her frightened yp
the highest paid business

in nv head like q snake Finally I
worked for six weeks in an office for
nothing in order to get this priceless
experience worked hard. too, answer
ing the telephone and talking to Gus
toners and tipping. All this for moth
ing. couldn't afford 1t, but there was
no other way out.
That's what most girls do. They
either fall by chance into some sort Of
work. or they work for nothing or for
practically nothing for a few weeks.
After that they get a recommendation
from q relative or friend.
There are some employers who make
a business of hiring beginners at small
salaries, taking advantage of their small
experience. AS they get lot of work
out of the girls this is mean. but If /
were a CIR; would take such job and
then when I had some practice I'd
leave for better pay.
There are also natural born teachers
who like to take q girl new to the Job
and train her. patiently preparing her
for better work. But you can't train
such a beginner unless she Is eager and
anxious.
Girls having problems in connection with
their work may write to Miss Woodward
IN care OF this paper, for her personal
advice.
(Copyright. 1917