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Evening star., 1932-04-04
EASTERN STAR TO GIVE
MASONIC WEEK PAGEANT
Rehearsals for Program to Be Per
sented May Is Are Begun.
800 to Have Part.

Rehearsals are under way for the
pageant which will be the Eastern
Stars contribution to Masonic week.
beginning May 9, it was announced
yesterday. The pageant will be pre-
sented at the Washington Auditorium
on May IL, and includes a cast Of more
than 600 participants.
Further details for Eastern Star day
will be planned at a meeting of the
orders Bicentennial Committee Friday,
according to George Pitt, committee
chairman.
The pageant under rehearsal is
"Washingtons Vision of Triumphant
Nation" and is being directed by Mrs
Selma S. Klein. The IL scenes
portrayed will be: Reception of
Lafayette at Mount Vernon" 1.-The
Spirit of 1776," Writing of Star
Spangled Banner" Street Scene at
the Alamo, Following Peace Treaty with
Mexico Covered Wagon Days, u
plantation Scene" Gettysburg Ad-
dress" Reception of Admiral Dewey at
White House" and World War Days" f"
Evening star., 1932-04-04
WANTS S. TO ADD
AIRCRAFT CARRIERS
Moffett Advocates Building
Three More Allowed
by Treaty.

The United States needs more air.
craft carriers, Rear Admiral william A.
Moffett, chief of the Navy Bureau Of
Aeronautics, has informed fellow officers
in the news letter of his branch. Con-
gress thus far has failed to build the
London treaty, while Great Britain and
Japan have theirs up to strength, he
said.
U. S. Planes in Lead.
I'VE should not overlook that while
we do lead in naval aviation today
that is to say, we have more planes and
personnel with the feet than any other
Navy-I would like to point out that we
are still far behind in our quota of air
craft carriers allowed under the Wash
ington treaty, as compared with Great
Britain and Japan" the admiral wrote.
I'VE have only two modern aircraft
carriers in commission and one modern
aircraft carrier building-a total Of
three-whereas we are entitled to six
under the treaty. Great Britain has six
aircraft carriers and Japan has four
the full tonnage allowed under the
London treaty.
I'VE are also entitled to eight flying
deck cruisers. carrying So airplanes
each, not one of which has ever been
authorized. You will thus see that we
should not delude ourselves and pat
ourselves on the back overmuch.
Adequate Funds withheld.
"The fact that we do lead all nations
in naval aviation is simply due to the
fact that the Navy has done the best
1t could with what it had and despite
the failure of Congress to build the
Navy up to the London treaty allow
ances."
Admiral Moffett appended to his mes
sage to the service excerpts from Bras
sey's Naval and Shipping Annual,
1882" British publication, which con-
tains passages relative to the American
Navy. This Is quoted as saying:
THE United States naval air service
has now become by far the largest in
the world, with flying personnel twice
as numerous as the next largest-that
of Japan-and 1t is a branch of the
naval organization"
Evening star., 1932-04-04
TODAY'S ADJUSTMENTS.

NationaI-Helen Hayes in 1.-THE Good
Fairy" at $40 pm.
Gayety-"Jazz Babies" at 2:15 and
BIS pm.
EarIe-"One Hour With You," at
11:15 am. las. Abs. 7;20 and $50
pm. Stage shows at 1850, 3:45, $50
and pm.
Palace-"The Beast of the City," at
II am. 1:40, 4:30, tbs and 10 pm.
Stage shows. with Jean Harlow in per-
son, at 12:35, $40, sos and $50 pm.
Fox-"Disorderly Conduct" at 11:1o
am. 1:35, 4:20, 7:05 and $50 pm.
Stage shows at 1, 3:45, $50 and e:15
pm.
Columbia-"Tarzan, the Ape Man."
at 10 am, 1850, 1850, 3:45, $40, 7:35
and e:35 pm.
R-K-O Kech's-"Young Bride" at
HIS am. 1:57, 4:39, 7:31 and 1913
pm. Stage shows at 1899, 3:21. 6:13
and s:55 pm.
Metropolitan-"The Final Edition" {"
at :19 am. 1908, 2:48, ABB, GIT, 8:02
and 9;48 pm.
Steady Company" at 11:52
am, 1852, 1852. 1852 and 9:52 pm.
Tivoli-"Hen Divers" at 2, 3:55, $50,
7:45 and $40 pm.
Central - Murders in the Rue
Morgue," from II am. to IL pm.
Administrations Hour With You"
at 6:l5, 8 and $50 pm.
Evening star., 1932-04-04
CORONER BLAMES
2 IN POISON DEATH
Staunton Official in Filing Verdict
Indicates Others May Be
Involved.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
STAUNTON, Va, April A cor
oner's verdict filed with the Corporation
Court here Saturday said the death of
Lacy r. Ashby, who died here March
81, was due to swallowing corrosive
acid" and fixed the responsibility on
John Myers, william Smith and per
haps others"
II find that Lacy Ashby came to his
death from swallowing corrosive acid"
said the verdict fled by Coroner
Thomas M. Perkins, and "the poison
was given to Ashby by John Myers in
the presence Of william Smith, and that
the said Myers and Smith, and perhaps
others, are jointly responsible for the
death of the said Lacy"
Both Myers and Smith are being held
in jail and Myers wife, Lena, is under
a S2,500 bond, charged with aiding and
abetting the poisoning"
Ashby died in a Staunton hospital
after he had fingered 10 days, suffering
from the poison.
Funeral services will be held here to-
morrow afternoon.
Myers is 30 years old and a taxi
driver and Smith is 26.
Evening star., 1932-04-04
Bus and Truck Lines Hit.

Nearly 10000 owners Of motor vehi-
cles in New South Wales are protesting
against the new law designed to restrict
the competition offered by the motor
vehicles to State-owned and operated
rail and tram services. The law re-
quires that bus operators must pay q
special license fee of cents a mile, or
fraction, for each adult and l cent for
each child passenger Truck operators
must pay tax of cents mile ton,
or fraction, for trucks hauling merchan-
disc, the charge to cover the load plus
the weight of the truck. Certain serv-
ices not competing with railways are
exempt. The law requires the keeping
Of elaborate records Of passengers and
freight carried,
Evening star., 1932-04-04
LOSSES OF BINOCULARS
BY NAVY HELD EXCESSIVE
New High-Grade Instruments May
Be Unreplaceable, Says Bu-
reau of Navigation.

Too many binoculars, spyglasses and
stop watches are being lost from naval
vessels to conform with Bureau of Navi-
Evening star., 1932-04-04
APPLE CONGRESS SET
French Organizers Seek to Spread
Use of q. S. Methods.

RENNES, France, April (P).-Apple
cultivation, like charity, should begin at
home is the belief of the organizers of
the international Apple Congress to be
held here April 10.
Its main object is to induce French
farmers to AmericaniZe their methods
Of apple growing and supply eating
apples, for which France is now almost
wholly dependent on the orchards of
Oregon and Washington.
Most of the apples grown in Brittany
and Normandy are used for cider
making.
Evening star., 1932-04-04

cation ideas Of economy. 1t wants some
thing done about it, and the Naval OBJ
servatory here also is insistent that
more rigid accounting be required.
The bureau was informed in bulle-
tin that it is especially concerned with
reducing losses of new, high-grade bin
oculars, as it may not be possible to
replace these glasses at the low price
paid on recent purchases.
Another and more important reason
for care. according to the bureau, Is
that three telescopes Of a new type are
being manufactured by the Navy Yard
Evening star., 1932-04-04

Edmund Burke, the friend of Amer
lea, did not achieve success in the House
of Commons. When this great orator
rose to address the House, the House
emptied itself. Burke was nicknaned
"The Dinner Bell" in Parliament
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-02-03

a THOUGH In decade gasoline
prices have been halved. mo-
florists are unable to take full adj
vantage of the bargain because
state gasoline taxes increase the
cost nearly one-third
Records of the American Petro-
leum Institute show that In 1920
prices in so representative cities,
at least one in each state. averaged
29.74c per gallon. State taxes
averaged .09c per gallon. an aver
age assessment of 800 on the retail
price. At the beginning of 1892
prices averaged only 13c. but tax
rates averaged &C. making the cost
to motorists tic per gallon and the
third Of the retail price.
In 1920 state tax rates were only
lie and &c per gallon. Now they
range from &c to 7c- Counties and
communities impose additional
taxes. the pyramided levies run
ming as high as SIC. Although
two-thirds of the states now impose
taxes OF &c or more. increases in
their rates have been proposed. A
federal gasoline tax of at least IL
per gallon has been mentioned.
Gasoline tax revenues have
scared from around 100000 II
1920 to an estimated 1925, 100000
In 1881, the counties and COM
munities garnering additional mil
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-02-03

lions. The tax was levied to finance
good roads. but revenue Is diverted
to schools. text books. fish hatch
cries. oyster farms, state buildings
and projects. unemployment relief,
governmental expenses. pensions.
salaries. etc.
Revenues. while enormous never
have kept pace with tax rates.
Higher rates. invoking the law of
diminishing returns. have encour-
aged the filing Of claims for tax
refunds. many of them fraudu-
lent and in some states absorbing
1000 OF income. Rates above &c per
gallon have made tax evasion suf-
f1ciently lucrative to support the
operations of racketeers who. by
gasoline bootlegging. bribery. for
gerry. intimidation and. among other
means, sale of inferior and often
harmful fuels and lubricants. take
as their profits gasoline tax reve-
nues estimated as high as $780,
100000.
Information reaching the Insti-
tute from investigators in more
than is states indicates that unless
taxes are reduced to uniform rate
near &c, uniform tax laws are
passed and fully enforced, and the
expenditure of revenue is confined
to highways. the fastest growing
tax in history" may become the
greatest tax scandal in history.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-02-03
DEL-MAR-VA ASSOCIATION
Series of Meetings to Be Held in
Interest of Livestock Producers

Farmers of Delaware and the
Eastern Shore Of Virginia have
been invited by the Maryland Farm
Bureau Federation to join with
Maryland agricultural producers in
attending a series Of meetings
shortly to be held in the interest
of livestock producers, it was an
nounced last week by the Del-Mar-
Va Eastern Shore Association. The
parleys will be designed primarily
to study new plans now being
worked out by progressive agricul-
tural States of the East to the end
that livestock producers may mar
ket their stock to the best possible
advantage. Dates and places of
the several meetings will be an
nounced later, it was said. One
meeting will be held in each of the
Eastern Shore Of Maryland coun-
ties. A study of the plan where
by Virginia and West Virginia have
agreed to subscribe to 1906
shares Of common stock in their
newly created livestock distribut-
ing organization will be explained
by experts as will the proposal to
organize the livestock men of
Maryland into the Maryland Farm
Bureau Livestock Cooperative
Marketing Organization. Agents
of the Maryland group, according
to the agreement reached at the
recent State farmers convention
in Baltimore, will be the Eastern
Livestock Regional Organization
and the plan will go into effect as
soon as local county farm bureaus
have endorsed it. Virginia and
West Virginia have agreed to mar
ket 487 carloads of cattle, 797 car
loads of sheep, SO carloads of hogs
and Al carloads of vcalves. Ac-
cording to the plan each share of
common stock, necessary to mem
bership, costs one dollar. The
movement is believed to be the
luOSI 1dbllSAlC0 III
cent years in the interest of live
stock producers. Meanwhile Del
Mar-Va farmers are also invited to
attend a general meeting to be
held at the Easton, Md, Court
house at 10 a. M, February IL to
hear w. T. Martindale, field direc-
fa3. of the American Farm Bureau
Federation, who will discuss mem
bership building. He will address
Western Maryland farm bureau
members at the Lord Baltimore
Hotel, Baltimore, on February 10,
at the same hour. The speaker
will lay before officers and mem
bers of county farm bureaus all
the information gathered by the
national organization in recent
years on membership campaigns.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-02-03
DELAWAREANS PROTEST THE
MOVE TO CLOSE RR. BRIDGE
LOUIS A. DREXLER PRESENTS
ORAL STATEMENT AT MEET
Present Facts Relative to Eff
fects of Closing Bridge

The interest of the Del-Mar-Va
Eastern Shore Association in
transportation facilities through
out the Del-Mar-Va Peninsula was
manifested Thursday at hearing
before Major j. D. Arthur, Jr, Dis
trict Engineer for the War Depart
ment, at a hearing in Denton on
the application of the Maryland
and Delaware Railway Company
Through its receivers to make
their present railroad draw bridge
over Choptank River at Denton a
closed bridge. The Del-Mar-Va
Association, through its Special
Committee on Traffic and Trans
portation, filed formal protest pre-
senting reasons why the applica-
ton should not be granted and for
mer Senator Louis A. Drexler, of
Dover, Del, member of the COM
mittee, presented an oral state
ment covering the far reaching de-
trimental effect which would be
created by closing the bridge. Sen
ator Drexler explained the attitude
of the Del-Mar-Va Association in
urging that all transportation ia
cilities not only be retained but
where possible improved. He had
personally investigated the condi-
tions at Greensboro and Denton
where the closing the bridge would
be felt most severely and stated
that from this investigation he
learned that the effect would ex-
tend ever through Delaware as
rates for shipping such commod-
tiles as fertilizer to Greensboro
were from $100 to $1.30 less than
at other points where they do not
have water competition. ]. Owen
Knots, Denton attorney, repre-
senting the Mayor and Council of
Greensboro, presented detailed
facts as to conditions which have
existed throughout that section
from the first establishment of the
present Railway line and drew a
graphic picture Of the serious eff
feet closing the bridge would have.
! Senator L. B. Towers, also an of
fetal of the Del-Mar-Va Associa-
ton, offered the suggestion that
an arrangement might be made
whereby Greensboro would give adj
vanced notice as to expected ship
ments so that the bridge draw
might be opened and by this
method relieve the necessity of the
railroad maintaining full time care
of the bridge. This suggestion ap-
peared to meet with approval
throughout and completed the
hearing.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-02-03
Hospital Plans Special
Ward for Anxious Dads

Pittsburgh.-A paternity ward
for anxious fathers awaiting word
from the stork will be a feature of
the new Allegheny General hospi-
tai.
The section will contain a dining
room, parlors, where husbands may
play cards while awaiting bulletins
about the wife and baby; and spe-
cial barber shop, to insure a good
appearance on the part of the proud
parent.
''These men deserve all the atten-
ton and consideration we can give
them" Percy Stephens, representing
the architect, said.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-02-03
Eugene" Hats Boom
Business in Corsets

Hartford, COnn.-Connecticut cor.
set manufacturers report a decided
Improvement in business, attributed
to the new Empress Eugene" style
for women.
One Bridgeport firm has added
a night shift, New Haven firm
plans a five-story factory addition
which will give employment to
many, and a Norwalk firm expects
the second biggest year in &c years.
The new mode calls for slim figures,
corset makers explained.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-02-03
Worn Out Land to Be
Used for Reforestation

Battle Greek, Mich-Farm land.
abandoned as worn out, will be used
in refOrestation experiment by
Michigan State college experts.
w. X. Kellogg has given the col
lege $50 acres of land in Kalama-
zoo county, which is considered
worked out" so far as grain crops
are concerned. Paul A. Herbert, pro-
fessor of forestry, will try ever
greens on the land, devoting eight
or nine years to the experiment.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-02-03
Machines Found Wanting
After Miners Lose Work

Shamokin, Pa.-For eight months
a dispute over mechanical leaders
tied up operations at the Sterling
mine here.
Recently the miners and the own
ers reached an agreement on the
wage scale to be paid in sections of
the mine where the leaders were
used. The mine was reopened.
Later it was learned that the en-
tire trouble was only ''much ado
about nothing" as the mechanical
mining methods were found imprac-
tical. except in several small sec
tions of the mine.
The workers lost wages amount
ing to about $1,00O,000 through
idleness.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-02-03

ton of pears in 1881 was $4,000
bushels, the average price was 40
cents per bushel and the total
farm value $1,000. 1929 acres of
asparagus were produced in 1881
and the average yield was 100
crates per acre. The total produc-
ton was $4,000 crates and the
farm value $344, 900. The acreage
of cantaloupes showed an increase
in 1881, 2,760 acres being grown
as compared with 2,40O acres in
1880. The average yield in 1881
was lis crates to the acre, the to-
tal production was $4,000 crates,
the farm price IS cents per crate,
and the total farm value was
S23S 900. The acreage devoted to
the production of cucumbers was
also increased in 1881. There were
/, $50 acres as compared with H.
$50 acres in 1880. The average
production was 135 bushels to the
acre. the total production was
223 900 bushels, and the average
farm price SOC per bushel with the
total farm value $4,000. The
total acreage Of strawberries in
1881 was 2,460 acres, showing a
considerable decrease from 1880,
at which time there were 400
acres. The average yield per acre
in 1881 was 81 crates, the total
production 100000 crates, the av-
erage price $3.50 per crate, and
the total farm value 1864 900.
There were 760 acres of water
melons produced in 1881, the aver
age Weld was 400 melons per acre,
and the total farm value was S24,-
600. 300 acres of sweet corn
for manufacture were produced in
1881. The average yield was 2 IL
tons per acre, the total production
was 1900 tons, and the total farm
value $4,000. The acreage devot-
ed to the production of green peas
in 1881 was 2,620 acres as compar-
ed with 5000 acres in 1880. The
average yield per acre was 1880
pounds and the total production
was 4,795,O 900 pounds. The aver
age farm price was 3 cents per
pound and the total farm value
S144OOO. Tomatoes showed con-
siderable decrease in acreage in
1881. There were 1880 acres
produced as compared with $4,000
acres the previous year. Due to
unfavorable weather conditions,
the average yield per acre was
only 2 tons, the total production
23. 600 tons and the total farm
value S278,OOO. The Bureau Of
Markets has recently made a
check on the distribution Of the
farm products produced in Della
ware last year and this shows that
the products from Delaware farms
were distributed in Approximately
one-half Of the States in the Union,
and a considerable amount Of some
commodities was sold in Canada,
practically all countries Of South
America, as well as England,
France, Germany, Norway and
Sweden.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-02-03
MUSEUM TO Use WOODWORK
IN ABBEY REPRODUCTION
III. w. CATLIN Is OWNER OF
OLD .CHESTERTOWN HOUSE
Yale University Said to Be Inter
ested in Acquiring Ancient Stair
way of This Old Residence

The work of removing valuable
paneling from the drawing room
of the Abbey, at Chestertown, Md,
has practically been completed and
will be transferred to the Balti-
more Museum of Art the latter
part of the week. Henry w. Cat
lin, the owner of the Abbey, spent
the weekend in ChestertoWn with
his uncle, DR.. Charles w. Whaland,
and inspected the work of remov-
ing the paneling. 1t is stated that
the price paid for the woodwork
was $4,000, and that it will be
set up in the Baltimore Museum
as a reproduction of the "greate"
room in the Abbey which has been
the admiration of tourists who
have travelled miles to Chestertown
to view the Colonial homestead
and its ancient surroundings. Mrs.
Charles w. Whaland, aunt of Mr..
Catlin, said that since negotiations
have been pending for the pur-
chase of the woodwork, offers have
been received from the Metropoli-
tan Museum in New York, whose
officials offered $4,000 more for the
paneling than was paid by the Bal
timore Museum Of Art, and that
an offer in excess of the Baltimore
Museum offer was received from
the Boston Museum. Mrs. Wha-
land, who has superintended much
of the negotiations for the sale of
the woodwork in the absence of
Mr.. Catlin who has just returned
from business trip to Cuba, said
that representative Of Yale Uni
versity was in Chestertown during
the weekend and began negotia-
tions for the purchase of the an
cient stairway and the remainder
Of the paneling in the entire build
ing which is practically as valuable
as that in the drawing room. While
Mr.. Catlin did not say during his
visit that the sale to Yale Univers-
ity has actually been made, it is
believed that negotiations will be
completed, and that the famous
old homestead which played such
conspicuous part in pre-revolu-
tionary days in Chestertown, will
be represented among the histori-
cal relics of two of the leading
museums in the country. Consid-
cradle opposition developed on the
part of the residents of Chester
town interested in preserving the
Abbey as a museum for Washing
ton College or for some definite
purpose that would leave the prop
erty intact, but negotiations had
gone too far, it is stated, before
this opposition manifested itself,
although efforts are still being
made to hold intact the remainder
of the building and ultimately pur-
chase it as a museum probably for
Washington College.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-02-03

to cut wood. James H. Mooney,
Sharptown fisherman, found Eat
on's body floating at Northwest
Fork. After making it fast to a
stake he notified Coroner w. Cor
man Mann. Four days after Eat
on and Wingate left in their boat
the skiff was found upside down
off TRUTHS Wharf, two miles north
of Sharptown. For some time the
river was dragged in an endeavor
to recover the bodies. The discov-
cry was made two miles south Of
Sharptown and four miles from the
capsized boat.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-02-03
EemaIe Deer With Horns

The Barren Ground caribou is a
close relative of the reindeer of the
Old world, says Nature Magazine.
Unlike the other members OF the
deer tribe, both sexes have horns
Int those of the female are the more
slender.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-02-03
Building Collapses; Poor
Cart 1t Away for Fuel

BOston.-Within a few hours aft
er an unoccupied three-story wooden
building collapsed it had almost en-
tirely disappeared. Residents of the
neighborhood swarmed onto the
premises like ants and carried the
boards, planks and shingles away for
use as fuel.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-02-03
FIND BODY OF MAN IN RIVER
Sharptown Folk Believe Two Miss
ing for Weeks Were Drowned

The Nanticoke river on Tuesday
of last week gave up the body of
Louis Wheaton,, A, of Sharptown,
who, with Walter Wingate, has
been missing since January IL.
Discovery of Eaton's fate leaves
little doubt, residents of the town
believe, that Wingate was also
drowned from a skiff in which the
two had left Sharptown for a point
up the river where they intended