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Evening star., 1932-11-05

Peperomia Is satisfactory plant to
add to the list. This is raised or
bought because of the beauty of its
leaves, which are so placed on the
stems that they stand stiffly at just
the right angle to show off their own
good points. The plant requires no
special care, but does eXcellently.
Some of the Sedums look very well
In individual pots, and very cheap and
effective little containers may be bought
for this purpose. They grow nicely
with very little attention and root
easily so that as they grow larger one
may make cuttings from the original
plant. In buying these desert" plants,
as we sometimes speak of them be-
cause they have been so much used
for desert gardens, the following are
excellent to choose: Echeveria, Kleinia,
MeSembryanthemum deltoides and Sc
dunn compactum. In choosing an
Echeveria or Kleinia, look them over
yourself and choose the one you really
like.
Ferns always help as a background
for house plants you may like to buy
later for their bloom. The Boston fern,
of course, holds its own well, and
among the table ferns Holly and Poly
stichum are lasting. Later on in the
season the poisoning plants are in the
market-the cyclamens, the primroses
and the cirerarias.
Evening star., 1932-11-05
ADVICE IS OFFERED
ON FALL FLOWERS
Now Is Time to Provide Good
House Plants for Coming
Cold Period.
BY ELLEN EDDY SHAW.

As the Fall continues 1t is well to
make provision for good house plants,
If in the outdoor garden there are no
plants of this nature, now is the time
to provide them, and when you buy,
select those that you really want and
those that will do well indoors.
If there should be in your outdoor
garden any geraniums, coleus, be-
gonias, Mesembryanthemum or fig mari
gold, dusty miller. marguerite. English
ivy and TradeScantia or wandering Jew,
you have in these some good house
plants. Some of you have already
potted up.
Last year you saw in the florists
shops Tradescantia which was Dra-
caena-like This makes an excellent
indoor plant. 1t has the lasting quail
tiles of the Tradescantia, that is, the
ability of those plants to adapt them
selves to all sorts of conditions. 1t also
has the nice broad leaf of the Dracaena,
and is called Tradescantia dracaenoides.
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STUDY IS PLANNED
OF GARAGE zON|NG
Commission to Take Up Mat.
ter of Complaints Against
UnsightIy Repair Shops.
Continued From First Page.)

which the repair facilities are incidental
to its primary use for storage"
Last February the zoning Commits
sion adopted two amendments to the
code designed to give a more definite
Interpretation of the difference be-
tween a storage garage and a servicing
or repair shop.
A public storage garage was defined
as follows:
"A garage. other than a private ga
rage, in which the repair facilities are
incidental to its primary use for stor-
age"
The important change was the adop-
tion of the following definition of a
public service garage:
"A garage in which steam or motor
driven vehicles are equipped for opera
ton. repaired or kept for hire or sale.
not including exhibition or show rooms
for model cars"
Some confusion, however, it is re-
ported still arises over the distinction
between storage and repair garages.
This is due principally to the fact that
occupancy permits In first commercial
zones have been given to storage" ga
RACES which are now held by some
officials to conduct repair work which
is of a size and importance far beyond
the point of being merely incidental"
to the primary purpose Of storage.
Police officials, it is reported, are at
loss at times to know how to act
in regard to the granting of such oc-
cupancy permits. Zoning officials now
and again, during their inspection Of
properties, come across storage" ga
rage in which there are evidences that
the major business is automobile re-
pairs.
Expansion Not ample"
The major part Of the difficulty
arose because the original zoning of the
District did not give ample" provision
for the expansion of the automobile
repair business, in the opinion of one
official concerned with Zoning efficiency
He points out that since zoning was
adopted for Washington in 1920 there
has been remarkable growth in the
ownership and use Of automobiles in
the District and consequent increase
in the work of automobile repairing
and Servicing.
One proposed solution of the diff
cultieS in classification of the storage
and repair garages, which may be con-
Sidered by the Zoning Commission, IS
that repair work be permitted in first
commercial areas. subject to certain re-
strictionS and the approval of authori-
ties which would prevent nuisances.
fire or structural hazards or dangerous
traffic congestion.
Evening star., 1932-11-05
Man Speaks From. Scaffold.

Just before he was hanged at Mel
bourne, Australia, recently, David Ben
nett made speech from the scaffold
lasting nine minutes. Bennett, who was
SO, was executed for an assault on q
child, and his was the first execution in
the province for this offense since 1901
Just before the trap was to be sprung
Bennett was asked If he had anything
to say, and he surprised the officials by
calmly reviewing the major points OF
his case He complained that he had
been tnadequately defended.
Evening star., 1932-11-05

drafted q tentative budget this week.
The 1892 tax rate was $245.
The city's total requir for 1888,
exclusive Of $6,250,000 for relief In 1882
and 1888. will be $46,360,1 0,121.86. the
statement shows, compared with ex-
penditures of $42,876,27 this year.
Evening star., 1932-11-05
SEEK RlTCHIE'S AID
Maryland Building Groups Wan'
Home Loan Bank Stock.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, November 5.-Gov
Albert c. Ritchie has been requested by
the Maryland League Of Building Asso-
Citations to cooperate In securing pass
age of q bill to amend the law so as
to permit building associations in the
State to subscribe to Home Loan Bank
stock, according to William 8. Dubel,
president of the league.
The bill may he introduced at either
the. proposed specidl session or the reg
ulaf session Of the Legislature In jan
uary. it was stated.
Many of the Baltimore and other
Maryland associations are preparing
TO subscribe as soon as the State law
is amended c. Philip Pitt. secretary
OF the Real Estate Board. is in charge
of the bank activities in Baltimore.
Evening star., 1932-11-05

Akron municipal airport is the first
in Ohio and nineteenth in the United
States to gain ALA rating, second
highest granted, from the Department
of Commerce
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Pittsburgher Is vi. z. Head

COLUMBUS. o., May Ie.-Dr.
Calvin Broomheld. Pittsburgh. will
continue as president Of the Meth
odist Protestant church, now hold
ing its quadrennial meeting Of the
general conference here, for another
four-year term. as the result Of the
election held Wednesday.
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TumuIty Got $4,000

Others participating were II. B.
Swope, Thomas j. Reagan, Bran
ford H. Ellsworth, C. j. Mara, ]. j.
Riordan, Mrs. d. Sarnoff, wife of
the head Of the radio corporation,
and Charles NJ. Schwab made
$4,000.
Gray said the figures had been
taken from the books Of the brokers
themselves and were exactly &C.
curate."
Gray read a list of names of
persons who received comparatively
small sums from the pool opera
ton apparently without having put
up any money. The aggregate of
these payments was $4,000. Gray
said j. p. Tumulty got $4,000.
Who was hep" Gray asked.
II don't know" Bragg said.
Wasn't he a presidential secre-
tary?" Gray continued.
Joseph P. Tumulty was President
Wilson's secretary. Another bene-
ficiary was Eddie Downing. musical
comedy star, who got $4,000.
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manufactured by Peacock, and were
untrue; and he had a knowledge of
their untruthfulness at the time he
released them for publication.
"As, for instance. he predicted the
return Of the baby within speci-
fed time, and knew at the time that
his story was untrue and created by
him without any information and
facts that he received from me
to substantiate it.
THE manner in which he pressed
me for news, and because of the
news he was manufacturing for his
own publicity and his desire for it,
I became annoyed and went to Ad-
miral Burrage about it, and it was
agreed at that time that in the fu-
ture Admiral Burrage would handle
the publicity and that nothing but
real facts as delivered by me would
be released for publication.
Even in view of this agreement,
the dean was responsible for stories
that were unfounded and untrue.
The stories that now are made
much of are stories that appeared
in the public press, and he was
quoted for. In addition to the
stories which he related to the
press, stating that he had been
held up by gangsters on the eighth
floor of a hotel in the city Of New
York on his visit to that city TO
meet me.
It made mention to Admiral
Burrage upon my return to Norfolk
that. in my opinion, it was another
bid for publicity on the part Of Dean
Peacock, which was his general at
titude throughout the case, con-
tinuously craving publicity.
Either I said or the dean said
that IL this case breaks from an
other angle we can only say we
were working on clew, and the
dean said. that's right. We never
caa get criticised on anything we
did,
II know from my experience With
the dean that the only interest that
he had throughout this entire
matter was one Of satisfying his de-
sires for publicity and the more that
he got the better he liked It."
Arrangement Is Dramatic
The arraignment of Curtis, the
society man, business man Of the
Virginia city which hoped for fame
from his exploits, was dramatic
..,o,, tk-1..~t, oOv-1,.ckoI nifty. - fov,
fare on the Lindbergh estate.
Colonel Schwarzkopf and a group
Of detectives and federal agents who
directed the questioning which
brought the Curtis confession, were
present. So was Colonel Lindbergh,
although the latter did not par
ticipate IN the hearing.
The complaint was sworn TO by
Prosecutor Anthony NJ. Hauck Of
Hunterdon county. It said the
Lindbergl1 baby had been murdered
in East Amwell township March /,
and that Curtis on May Is, being
within the state OF New Jersey for
the purpose of hindering the appre-
hension Of the person or persons
guilty of the said charge, did
knowingly give false and untrue
reports or the persons guilty Of the
commission Of the crime aforesaid"
II convicted, Curtis is subject TO
a prison term of three years and a
81 900 fine, as the crime Is mis-
cemeanor in New Jersey. The Gaze
win not go to grand jury for some
time
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CURTIS, IN JAIL FOR Indy FAKE.
ASSAILS MINISTER'S PART IN HUNT

Then, Curtis own bitter arraign-
ment of Dean Dobson-Peacock, con-
Trajectory in some Of its charges,
and obviously intended to cause ill
feeling between Rear-Admiral Bur-
rage and the laxative minister, was
issued by Schwartzkopf
1t read in part: Between 1880
and IL a. m. on the morning Of
March 10, went to my Office and
in the presence Of Mr.. Brownley,
called Dean Peacock and told him
had a very important matter that
would like to talk to him per-
sonally about.
"On his arrival, I told him this
fantastic tale, that I had concocted
about meeting a contact man who
claimed he knew the kidnapers of
the Lindbergh baby. He decided
the best thing to do would be to ges
in touch with them over the tele-
phone.
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BIBLE GAVE PURITY TO KORAN
Best in Moslen Religion De,ized From Testanpents

Of wine. He had forbidden that
any man should have. more than
four wives. But he proceeded TO
draw a picture Of the kind Of
heaven that would be ideal in the
eyes Of the Arabs.
For these men, living so much
OF their lives crossing burning
sands from oasis to oasis, he pic
tured a heaven Astounding in YER
dure and purling springs; a
heaven where they would have
all the wine they wanted and
never would be intoxicated-and
women.
A T first, when he still hoped to
L n convert the Jewish and Chris
tian tribes in Arabia, there were
no slings and arrows sent their
way. But later he attacked them
both, because they would not rec
ognize him and his faith. Many
we're put to the sword.
There is another side to this
prophet, which is shocking TO men
Of other faiths. He was not above
using his visions" for his own
ends.
When he wanted to wink at
assassination Of enemies, he had
vision" condoning it. When he
wanted to marry another wife and
there was whispered criticism, he
quickly had a vision" permitting
it.
Later, when he came into power
in Medina and Mecca, he made
himself lawmaker as well as
prophet. In his new chapters Of
the Koran he gave the rules as
to the kind Of food to eat. the way
property should be distributed
among heirs, the manner in which
wives could be divorced.
In fact, all the law in Moslem
countries for centuries was based
upon the precepts in the Koran.
He was shrewd enough to know
that he could exact OF these wild
Arab tribes no profound theology.
The credo of his faith was very
simple. All man had to do was
to repeat:
There is no God but Allah and
Mohammed is the prophet of
Allah"
There also were four other pill
lars Of the faith: To pray five
times a day with the face turned
toward Mecca, to give aims, to
fast from sunrise to sunset in the
month of Ramadan, and TO make
at least one pilgrimage to Mecca.
AS for the prayers, he was
capable Of enunciating very beau
tiful ones, by sharp contrast to
his passages of sensualism or his
violent TRADES against those who
would not believe in his mission:
He is my Lord. There is no
God but He. In Him do put
my trust. To Him I must return"
Such is the story of the camel
driver who thirteen centuries ago
founded religion that today
numbers among its adherents
nearly one-eighth Of the human
race.
(THE END
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This Is the last Of four stories on Mo-
hammed. whose death 1890 years ago
viii be mourned BY Moslems through
les have described his life: today's story
tells Of the Koran. or Mohammedan
bible. and something Of his doctrine
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I'VE asked for Colonel Lindbergh.
Mrs. Morrow, or her secretary;
were told that we could not see Mrs.
Morrow as she was indisposed, and
the secretary was not there. The
party talking to me who told me
his name was Rosner said he was
private secretary to Colonel Lind
bergh, and would accept the mes
sage.
II then talked to Mr.. Rosner
(after the dean talked, and told
him practically the same thing as
Mr.. Dean Peacock gave him.
After that conversation, I told
the dean that it looked as if we
could not get in touch with him,
ard the only thing saw was to
drop it then and there.
Admiral Is Called In
"The matter lay in allegiance from
Thursday until the following Tues
day night, when Dean Peacock
called me over the telephone, and
told me that he had written letter
to Mrs. Morrow.
He read the letter to me, which
was in effect that he had tried to
get them over the telephone, could
not and, consequently, was writing
them; he explained who he was.
AT that time, I called the deans
attention to the fact that Admiral
Burrage knew the Lindberghs, and
why not get in touch with him. He
stated he would not do this unless
we did not hear from this letter.
HE did not want me to take it
up with Burrage because, he said.
you know what sort of an old fogey
he is
I'VE received no reply TO the
letter, and 1 was inclined TO let the
entire matter drop. until March 10,
when, at the suggestion Of Dean
Peacock, we went to the house of
Admiral Burrage.
Upon the suggestion Of Dean
Peacock, Admiral Burrage called the
Lindbergh home. The party on the
other end of the line took Dean
Peacock's telephone number and
Admiral Burrage's number.
~Much Against My VIII"
From that time on, carried on
my operations and transactions in
connection with the Lindbergh case
much against my will. having ex-
pressed desire to drop it on March
IS, entirely, and because Of my
knowledge that the whole thing
was untrue, but carried on because
I had been continuously urged ana
encouraged by Dean Peacock, who
was enjoying the publicity that he
was getting out Of the newspaper
story.
This also applied to his entire
family. Night after night, in his
urgent manner, 10 keep himself in
the public press. he called my home
inquiring as to whether or not
there was anything new, and press
ing me for information which would
be OF news value in the hopes Of
getting more publicity.
ANY news that I gave Peacock,
even in confidence, he gave TO the
newspapers and to the neighbors
and. on two or three occasions, con-
fidential information that / had
given him concerning this case re-
turned to me through my wife or
daughter.
Many OF the stories concerning
our actions in tbs case that ap-
peared in the newspapers were
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he told them the story Of how
Noah warned the people Of Gods
wrath, and how they Knocked him;
Of how Moses told Pharaoh of
Gods anger, and how the king
turned deaf ear.
So, he intimated, it was high
time they listened to him, Mo-
manned, when he warned them
to turn from craven images.
n n
MYTH increasing power and
w increasing numbers of fol-
lowers, he expanded his doctrines,
There were in his sayings echoes
from the Understanding the
poor, giving aims, scorning riches.
Then, with consummate ability,
he sought to brighten the unbe-
levers by visions" of terrific
hell which awaited them on the
day of Judgment.
He also drew his picture of the
heaven that awaited his followers.
Here he was both an Arab and
politician.
He had forbidden the drinking
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considered uninportant after it was
learned that both the dean and
Admiral Guy H. Burrage, another
Curtis associate, had journeyed to
Hopewell in the same automobile.
Burrage and Dean Dobson-Pea-
cock at Norfolk discussed these
questions:
If Curtis faxed his whole story
to sell to newspapers, as he claimed,
why did he negotiate" secretly two
weeks, then grow angry when news
of his negotiations leaked out?
OF what value would his story
have been, if he did not produce
the baby?
If he found himself caught in
web of lies, why didn't he withdraw
when Jafsie paid $4,000 to alleged
kidnapers on the ground that Jafsie
spoiled his negotiations?
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BY MILTON BRONNER

European Manager NEA Service
copyright. 1882. NEA Service. Incl
ACCLAIMED, founder in the
wi seventh century Of a faith
which today has 23O, 900, 900 believ-
ers, went the way Of all flesh in
the year 632, but his religion con-
tinued on through the Koran.
It is the Moslem bible, which
owes most Of what is pure and no
bic in it to the Old and New Tes-
taments.
And these parts appear in
strange contrast TO some Of Mo-
hammed's other teachings. includ-
ing his picture Of heaven as a
place offering attractions consist
ing Of wine and women.
Among all religious books, the
Koran is one of the strangest,
because originally it was not writ
ten at all. Mohammed neither
could read nor write. But after
each of his visions" he recited
new chapter Of what was later
to be the Koran.
He did not claim authorship.
He said he simply repeated what
had come to him from heaven.
To this day it is the height Of
impiety among Moslems to say:
"As the prophet said in the Ko-
ran" The Moslem says: "As
God the Exalted said in the Ko-
ran"
When Mohammed died and his
father-in-law, Abu Bakr, succeed
ed to the leadership of the Mos
lens, he saw at once that unless
steps were taken to preserve the
chapters which had been spoken
by Mohammed, they might be lost
forever.
Some had been written down by
his assistants on date leaves,
pieces of stone, shoulder blades
Of sheep. Some were only pre-
served in the vivid memories Of
his close associates.
Now at Abu Bakr's behest all
were copied down and arranged.
Thus was made the first au-
thentic Koran.
TINE Arabs were now a "Peo-
Il pie Of the Book" as were the
Jews and the Christians. Mo-
manned stressed that the ines
sages" he received came to him
in Arabic. Hence the language
was holy.
So for centuries, where the Mos
lem faith went, there went the
Arabic language.
1t is not too much to say that
If there had been no Jewish and
Christian faiths and no Old and
New Testaments, there probably
would have been no Mohammed
the prophet, no Moslem religion,
and no Koran.
All that is purest, best and
noblest in the Koran seems to
have been derived directly or in
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five MILLIONS
POOLS PROFIT
IN ONE WEEK
Senate Probe BareS Huge
Sums Melted in Radio
Stock Operations.
BIZ United Pres

By United Press
WASHINGTON. May 19.-Opera-
tons of a radio pool which in a
single week gained profits Of nearly
S5,000,0O0 for its participants, were
described today as the senate
banking and currency committee
resumed public hearings on its
stock market investigation.
Men well known in the world OF
finance and politics-Percy Rookie
Teller. Walter p. Chrysler, John j.
Raskob, the Fisher brothers and
others-were listed as having prof
tied handsomely during the quick
turnover OF stocks that were in
creasing in value by leaps and
bounds.
William A. Gray, committee coun-
sci, told OF the results of his in
vestigation, occasionally asking cor
roboratiOn from Thomas E. Bragg,
one of the pool managers. Bragg
was the first witness as the hear
ings were resumed.
Operated In 1929
The pool operated in March, 1929,
and the profit was accumulated
during seven days Of operation dur
ing which the pool was said to have
traded in 1893, 400 shares Of stock.
Gray said first that the pool par
Elephants put up s9,667, 500 through
w. E. Hutton & Co., and split a
profit of $3,217,500. AS ne progressed
in his statement he changed this
figure and said that aggregate of
S12,683,0 900 was put up, with profits
aggregating S4,924,078.
Tie firms that participated in the
pool were M. j. Meehan g. Co., E.
F. Hutton 81 Co., and Block, Ma
honey g. Co., three Of the leading
stock exchange members.
Chrysler, the motor magnate,
Raskob, Democratic national chair
man and former head of General
Motors, and the Fisher brothers of
Detroit, appeared to have been
among the chief beneficiaries of the
POOLS operations.
Raskob Got Big Slice
Percy A. Rockefeller, nephew of
John d. Rockefeller ST., proved to
be only minor participant in the
pool, although he was the first to
tell the committee of its operation.
His profits were only S29,i7l.08 for
the seven days of activity.
A similar profit was shown by
James A. Stillman, whose marital
difficulties have brought him as
much publicity as his post with the
National City bank.
Stillman and Rockefeller only put
up small sums holding 5000 shares
each, to make a prof. of s29,l7l
each.
Chrysler proflted sl45,000, while
Raskob was among the largest bene-
iciarieS Of the pools operations. He
received $2sl,710 for his participa-
ton. Others who received amounts
as large as Raskob included Nicholas
T. Brady and Mrs. NJ J. Meehan,
wife Of one Of the Meehan partners.
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STATE DENTISTS PLAN
FOR DIAMOND JUBILEE
Affair to Be Held at Next Years
Meeting, Group Decides.

Next years annual meeting Of
the Indiana State Dental Associa-
ton viii be the occasion for dia-
mond jubilee program, 1t was decic-
ed Wednesday at the final session
OF the seventy-fourth meeting in
the Claypool.
Oficers chosen by trustees of the
association are:
DR.. c. L. Bvers. Indianapolis. secretary
for ninth consecutive term. DR.. william
Boyle. Vincennes. treasurer. DR.. II. 7. Ber-
KEY, p. WAYNE, reapDointed master OF ex-
visor OF clinics: Dr.. r. n. Douglas. Elk
hart. re-anpointed editor OF the asso-
ciatioh's bulletin and Dr. Edward I.
Mitchell. Indianapolis. reappolntsd execu-
i've committeeman.