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Evening star., 1934-04-08
DUE SOON
ON BRIDES PLEA
City Heads to Consider
FavorabIy Request on
Parole Board Staff,

The request of the Board OF
1ndeterminate Sentence and Parole
for an increase in the number of
parole officers assigned to the agency
will be approved by the District
Commissioners, it was indicated yes
terday. Just how much Of an ex-
pansion will be sought by the city
heads, however, was not made clear.
The petition, it is expected, will be
taken up some time this week A
supplemental estimate will have to be
forwarded to the Budget Bureau to
provide salaries for any additional
employees
william w. Bride, chairman of the
parole board, last week laid before
the Commissioners a petition for en-
ployment of six additional parole
officers and three stenographers.
Bride, formerly District corporation
counsel, also asked that the parole
board be completely divorced from
the penal institutions and that pro-
vision be made for meetings in the
District. rather than at Lorton. Va,
and that applicants for parole be
brought to a District police station
for hearings.
Commissioner George E. Allen, who
has supervision over penal institu-
tions. declared yesterday he was
strongly in favor of the boards pro-
posals. Engineer Commissioner John
G. Gotwals said he favored a modest
increase in the staff of the parole
board, that he believed the impor-
tance of the work of the parole sys-
tenn would justify the increased cost.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
WOMAN FACING HITLER EXILE
SEEKS PARENTS IDENTITY HERE

Somewhere in the vicinity Of Wash
ington there Is a memory that can
save a woman's home, the future Of
her two sons and the happiness
wrought from the life of whose be-
ginning she knows nothing.
More than 81 years ago a frail
little baby girl was brought to the
Washington Home for Foundlings.
The institution was new then-rec-
ord-keeping was as yet inadequate.
The only notation made for the new
entry was Eva May wilt, born
August 8, 1896" Even the date Of
entry was omitted.
Several months passed and the baby
grew stronger. A German couple,
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Finke, called at
the home while visiting Washington,
were charmed by the little infant,
and adopted her. The line Adopted
March 13, 1897. was added to the
record.
Then Mr.. and Mrs. Finke returned
to Germany and reared Eva May
as their own. The baby girl had
grown to womanhood before she
learned the Ffnkes were not her par
ents. and that neither German nor
French-the only languages she
knew-was her native tongue.
While in her twenties she married
into a notable German family and
today has two sons, aged IL and IA.
But the new Hitler laws are threat
ening the happiness she has built up.
Unless she can furnish records Of her
lineage to the German government
Evening star., 1934-04-08
OFFICER TO STATE
HIS POSITION LATER
Overstreet Permitted to Defer
Statement on Intervention
in Assault Case.

On the plea that a statement from
him might influence the outcome of
the assault trial Of Representative
Francis H. Shoemaker, Policeman
Howard Overstreet obtained permis-
sion yesterday to defer his explanation
to his superiors of why he intervened
in the case.
At Shoemaker's first trial last week,
which ended with hung jury, Over
street was charged with requesting
the complaining witness, Charles
Newman, to drop the case. He ad-
mitted on the witness stand that he
sought out Newman and suggested he
reconsider his stand.
Taking the position that one off,
Ger had no right to interfere In a
case ip which he was not involved,
Inspector B. A. Lamb, OverStreet's
commanding officer, direeted him to
submit an explanatory statement.
The statement now is not due until
after Shoemaker's retrial, set for
April 25.
Evening star., 1934-04-08

neither of her sons will be allowed
to enter German universities and she
herself may face exile from the coun-
try of her adoption.
From the dim past she is seeking
only knowledge. She needs nothing
financially, nor does she want to cause
any hurt to her real parents, If they
be living.
But somewhere in or near Wash
i..gton, Eva May Wilt believes, Is
some one who who can lift the veil
that shrouds her first seven months
of life.
Both she and Mrs. Finke have ap-
pealed to the Washington Home for
Foundlings for aid in getting the
records that will enable them to re-
tain what they have made from LIE
for the little adopted girl.
Perhaps it will be the parents whom
some adversely forced to place their
little girl in the home-perhaps some
friend of the Wilt family back In
1896 or 1897, but within the memory
of some one are facts that will help
Eva May Wilt.
Any one who knows the name Of
her parents or who has any informa-
ton that might lead to the discovery
of these facts is urged to write, phone
or call on Miss L. Elizabeth Thomas,
superintendent Of the Washington
Home for Foundlings, 1910 Forty-sec-
ond street, phone Cleveland 6367.
AL information will be kept in the
strictest confidence and will be fur
nished only to Eva May wilt.
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Eve will stop and examine birds
and flowers, trees and shrubs as We
go along. Elderly people will have no
difficulty in keeping pace, any more
than will ladies wearing high heels.
Every one will be welcome, and I am
sure I can conduct parties up to 40
persons without inconveniencing any
one"
Just now the elms, red naples, will
lows, tulip poplars and alders are
blossoming, as are many wild flowers,
like the trailing arbutus, Spring
beauties and bloodroot.
White-breasted nuthatches and
downy woodpeckers fit along a creek
grown over with sycamore, iron wood,
beech, water birch, oak, willow and
tulip poplar trees. Slopes of the
creek are dark with the evergreen
of mountain laurel and studded with
high elms, NAPLES, hickories and
pines.
Mr.. Stupka plans further to hold
campfire sessions at 8 pm. on We'd
nesday and Saturday, at the play
ground near Pierce Mill. He will
give illustrated lectures and is search
ing for some good song leaders to
conduct choruses about the camp fire.
Evening star., 1934-04-08

of SIS, $40 and IS will be made to the
growers of the first. second and third
best gardens on each Of the half dozen
tracts, and the $40 left over will be
divided among the families producing
the best back yard" gardens.
A list of the tracts, together with
the number of gardens into which
they will be divided, follows:
The Glover tract, on Tunlaw road
in the rear Of Mount Alto Hospital;
approximately 120 plots for white
gardeners.
The Gore tract, on Conduit road in
the rear Of the fire engine house; IS,
colored.
The Benning tract, along Kingman
Lake from Benning road northeast to
Gallinger Hospital; 1875, colored.
Southeast tract, at the foot of A
street southeast; 113, white.
Southwest tract, on the east side OF
First street southwest; 100. colored.
War College tract, on west side of
First street southwest; $50, white.
Beattie to Supervise.
In addition, an island in Kingman
Lake will be turned over to the Tran
sienv Relief Bureau for use as gar
den plots, and a privte tract in Dean
wood also will be divided into plots for
use by colored gardeners.
All the plots will be so feet wide
and 100 feet deep and they will be
worked under general supervision of
William r. Beattie, Agriculture De-
partment horticulturist. In addition.
each tract will have its own super
visor, as we'll as a resident caretaker.
To facilitate the filing Of applica-
tions for plots the emergency reliet
division has opened registration Of
fee in Powell House, Third and c
streets, with william King in charge.
The program has the Endorsement
Of numerous civic organizations, in
cluding the Chillum Heights and
Southwest Washington Citizens Asso-
Citations and the Georgetown Garden
Club.
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Naturalist Arriues to Teach
Beauties of Park to Public
Young and Old Are In
cited to Join in Lei.
surely Tran,ps.
U.S Brings Expert Here.
Flora and Fauna to
Be Studied.

)AN you identify the whistle Of
a cardinal or tufted titmouse.
I hidden in the budding foliage
~ Of Washington's parks?
Does the high, clear call,
phoebe. ."phoebe," suggest the shy
creature which named itself, or Just
another bluebird warbling away In a
blossoming willow?
Are tiny, waxen, white and pink
buds to be recognized as trailing ar
butus, or the green and purplish
shoots which spring up along the
watercourse as skunk cabbage?
These and many other questions
will be answered during the coming
Spring weeks by Arthur Stupka, the
only park naturalist east of the Mis-
sissippi. who has been brought here
to instruct the public on the fora
and fauna Of Rock Greek Park by the
District Parks and the National Parks
Service.
Mr.. Stupka. beginning tomorrow, If
the weather is favorable, will conduct
the public on four leisurely hikes daily
through Rock Creek Park woodlands
from starting point at Pierce Mill,
leaving at /, 2, and 4 pm.
1t is the first service Of this nature
ever provided by park officials here,
although similar field expeditions
have been conducted for years through
the great national parks Of the West.
Mr.. Stupka, native Of Ohio, who
holds a masters degree from Ohio
State College. Is familiar with the
animal and plant life of this region.
He was brought here from Acadia Ma
tional Park, Bar Harbor, Me-, and
will remain at least until May / for
the convenience of school children
and visitors to the coming Cherry
Blossom Festival.
My trips up and down Rock Creek
won't be hikes as much as leisurely
tours Of investigation" Mr.. Stupka
said.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
WELFARE CHANGE
FAVORED
Senate Committee Approves
Transfer of Powers to
Commissioners.

The bill to transfer powers Of the
Board Of Public Welfare to the Com
missioners was one of eight local
measures on which the Senate Dis
trict Committee ordered favorably re-
ported yesterday afternoon.
In addition to reporting these bills
the committee ordered a favorable
report on the nomination Of DR.. Will
liam j. Thompkins, colored, of Kansas
City, Mo-, to be recorder of deeds.
One of the eight bills approved by
the committee would, If enacted,
transfer the power of appointing the
recorder of deeds from the President
to the Commissioners and increase
the fees charged in that office sufd-
ciently to make 1t self-sustaining.
Name Change Favored.
The six other bills that will be re-
ported to the Senate as the result Of
yesterdays meeting are: To change
ths name of Four -and-a-Half street
southwest to Fourth street; amending
the fire escape regulations in their
application to lodging houses; amend
ing the indeterminate sentence law to
give the Federal Parole Board juris-
diction over District prisoners when
they are sent to Federal prisons;
shortening from six to three months
the time within which the Police De-
partment may dispose Of abandoned
property and making another minor
change in the same law; conferring
on the Commissioners the power to
promulgate and enforce harbor regu-
lations for the District water front
and giving the health officer certain
additional authority to permit the
opening of graves and reinterments.
Chairman King called up several
other bills on which action was post
poned to await reports from subcom-
mittees. Senator Capper of Kansas
called attention to the motorists
safety responsibility bill and sug-
gested 1t be given early consideration.
Chairman King said this measure,
along with the separate bill dealing
with financial responsibility for taxi
cabs, are in the hands of subcom-
mittee and that hearings are to be
held.
The bill to authorize establishment
of race tracks in the District also was
postponed. and Senator King assured
citizens present that hearings would
be held before any action is taken
on it.
Miss Elaine Eppley of the District
Federation of Women's Clubs and the
local chapter of the Izaak Walton
League urged the preparation of leg
islation which would authorize estab-
lishment of the proposed sewage dis
posal plant for the District. Senator
King pointed out that this is one Of
the projects for which the District
is trying to obtain assistance from
the Public Works Administration.
Miss Eppley thought 1t would be de-
sirable to enact q measure authorizing
the development, even though the
funds came later.
The new rates which wSuld be
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RECITALS WILL END

The final recital Of the current
school of music concert series of
Howard University will be given by
the Howard University Glee Club un-
der direction Of Roy w. Hibbs, pro-
fessor Of piano and organ, in the
Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel
Thursday. April 10, at $3.50 pm.
Appearing with the glee club as
guest soloist will be Allyn Hill, tenor,
Of Baltimore, who has studied both
In Europe and the United States.
Evening star., 1934-04-08

IL Winter, Harry Victor and
n his wife and three small chill
II dren have been living In q
1 4 two-room shack on Govern
ment-owned land at the foot
of A street southeast, waiting for
Spring to roll around.
Sometimes the weather was so cold
and the snow so deep that Victor and
his wife, Clara. were almost afraid
that all the warmth and sunshine in
the world had been dissipated. All
that is behind them now. however.
and even though their 4-year old
daughter, Rose, still is in Gallinger
Hospital with diphtheria, they are
looking to the future with renewed
hope.
Hundreds to Farm.
The Victors are one of the hundreds
Of needy families who will operate
miniature farms Of their own as
part of this years truck garden pro-
gram of the Emergency Relief Divi-
sion of the Board of Public Welfare.
Despite yesterdays rain, Victor and
lllS O-yCdl -Olu oOil, OOSCpIl, WClC Out
on the muddy, freshly plowed A street
tract, ready to get started on their
garden the moment their supply Of
seeds is allotted
Victor, unable to work regularly be-
cause of heart malady, is veteran
relief gardener. Before he moved to
the A street tract, at the beginning of
the Winter, he put in two years on
relief gardens in the Georgetown Sec
tion.
This year, however, the Victors and
all the other families participating in
the program are going to have an
added incentive-cash prizes totaling
5000, donated to the Garden Com
mittee of the Council Of Social
Agencies by The Star.
SIS First Prizes.
Plans for the garden contest were
outlined by Mrs. Frederick H. Brooke,
chairman of the committee. Awards
Evening star., 1934-04-08
INCREASE IN BUS
SERVICE |SASKED
Transit Firm Moves to Re-
place Street Cars on
More Lines.

Indication that serious considera-
tion is being given more extensive
use of buses to replace street cars
were given yesterday in the Public
Utilities Commission announcement
that a public hearing will be held
April 81 on proposed route and track
age changes in the system of the
Capital Transit Co.
The hearing will be held on two
items of the first group of definite
route and trackage changes to be
submitted since the street railway
merger became effective, last Decem-
ber l. Other hearings will be sched-
uled as more definite proposals are
developed by the commission en-
gineers, headed by Fred A. Sager
or the company engineers.
The hearing April 27 will deal with
the removal of tracks along Consti-
tuition avenue between Seventh and
Ninth streets, held necessary under
Federal plans, but coupled with this
is a proposal to substitute a bus
service along Four-and-a-half street
southwest for the existing street
car line there, as we'll as rerouting
of two street car lines.
Cross Town Line.
Meanwhile, Riley E. Elgen, acting
chairman of the commission, revealed
that commission engineers are max
ing study of suggestion for pos
sible development of a cross-town bus
line, operating along P street from
the Georgetown section to the vicin-
ity of Florida avenue and Third street
northeast.
For future consideration, after the
commission has completed rerouting
plan for the company, it was stated
also, suggestion has been made for
substituting a bus service for the
present LeDroit Park line and to con-
tinue such a line south along Four
and-a-half street to P street or the
wharveS.
Neither of these two suggestions,
subject to the April 81 hearing, which
will deal only with the Constitution
avenue line and directly related mat,
ters.
The proposal involves the elimina-
ton Of tracks not only along Consti-
tuition avenue and Four-and-a-half
street, but also on Canal street and
the L street connection with Water
street. Constitution avenue is to be
paved and in keeping with Federal
plans street cars would be barred from
it, officials said. This leads to the
proposal for substituting bus fol-
street cars on Four-and-a-half street
south of Pennsylvania avenue.
The change contemplates rereut-
ing of the present Eleventh and Mon
roe-Anacostia line. now operating in
part on trackage along or below Con-
stitution avenue. The line operating
south from Eleventh and Monroe
streets, under the proposed plan
would terminate in the downtown Sec
ton instead of proceeding to Anacos-
tia. It would be turned back through
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Evening star., 1934-04-08
OZZIE NELSON ROBBED
Audrey M. Seiber Also Reports
Theft to Police.

Ozzie Nelson, radio star and Or
chestra leader, and Audrey Seiber.
mistress Of ceremonies at the Earle
Theater. yesterday reported thefts to-
falling $126 in property from rooms
in the theater.
Nelson told police a suitcase. suit,
several pairs Of trousers, number Of
shirts and other articles, totaling $106
in value, had been stolen by some
one believed to have gained entrance
10 the room with key. Miss Seiber
reported the theft of radio, valued
at $40.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
Licensed to Marry.

FAIRFAX. Va, April z Especially -
Marriage licenses were issued by the
clerk of the Circuit Court to the fol-
lowing today: Royalee Millard Mer-
chant, "A, and Garry Elizabeth wilt,
81, both Of Herndon; John M. Covert,
38, Fort Meade, Md, and Virginia
HUFFMAN. 28, Merrifield, and Russell
r. Bender, "a, Baltimore, and Louise
B. Froude, 81, Ridgewood, N. ].
Evening star., 1934-04-08
Services Scheduled.

BALLSTON, Va, April z (SpeciaD
"A series Of evangelistic services will
begin at 8 o'clock tomorrow night in
the Ballston Baptist Church and
continue nightly for two weeks. Rev.
T. o. Jones, pastor, will be assisted
BY Rev. DR.. H. n Harker and COM
pany Of Columbia, s. G.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
Committee Meeting Set.

SILVER SPRING, Md, April Z
(SpeciaD "A meeting of the Execu-
tive Committee of the Blair Citizens
Association will be held Tuesday
night at the home of the president,
Edwin Royster. The meeting was
postponed from last Tuesday night.
Evening star., 1934-04-08

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The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1934-11-28
Business Men Back
Federal Seed Loans
Commercial Club Of Omak Will
Urge Sam B. Hill To Support
Continuance Of Program

Omak business men will urge
the support of the federal seed loan
program, which released thousands
OF dollars in this district the last
two years, and the production credit
set-up, according to action outlined
at Mondays meeting of the Com
mercial club.
Members of the clubs growers
committee were instructed by Pres
ident John E. E>a1ey to communi-
cate with Congressman Sam B.
Hill, asking him to use his influence
to keep both branches of federal
credit extension alive next year.
Decision to support the program
followed the reading of a letter
from the Cashmere Chamber OF
Commerce, addressed to Mr.. Hill,
which pointed out that the law pro-
vldlng for the seed loans will not
be in effect next year.
Loans Important
1--WE feel that but for these loans
during the past two years there
would have been an irreparable loss
to the fruit industry in North Cen
trail Washington" it declared.
Furthermore, we believe that the
administration has been very sue
cessful in this matter, that the
loans have been repaid practically
one hundred Der cent, and that the
risk of continuing for another year
or two would be negligible"
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1934-11-28
Dam To Require
Much Steel, Cement
MWAK Order Will Be Biggest
Offered In Northwest; Plan
To Call For Bids

ALM1RA, Nov. 81 Especially The
Northwest's largest order for steel
and cement will be awarded soon
in connection with the construction
of the Grand Coulee power dam.
Engineers for the Mason Walsh
Atkinson-Kier company have COM
pleted their estimates for steel pill
ing to be used in the gigantic
cofferdam diversion of the Column
bia river. The company has asked
Frank A. Banks, reclamation
bureau engineer in charge of the
construction, to call for bids for
$4,000 tons of steel sheet piling. This
is by far the largest steel order ever
to be called for in the Northwest.
this order will be equalled in size
only by the order for the cement
that will be necessary for the dam.
1--WE will call for bids on the
cement about January l." Mr..
Banks stated. "It has not been
determined how much cement we
will purchase in the first order. It
may be that we will purchase all
the cement necessary in the one
order, and it is also possible that
we will purchase it in several bids"
Work on the cofferdam was start
ed last week by the MWAK COM
pany, which proposes to start driv-
ing sheet piling for the diversion
as soon as the steel is delivered. For
the next few months the. Columbia
river, normally should be at low
water.
In the Grand Coulee low dam it
is estimated that there will be
3,598,815 cubic yards of concrete in
the dam and power plant as COM
pared with about 100000 cubic
yards of concrete in the Boulder
dam, power plant and tunnels.
In the proposed Grand Coulee
high dam, which is receiving en-
dorsement for immediate construc-
ton from all parts of the state,
there will be $4,000 cubic yards
of concrete.
Only the most vivid Imagination
can picture the great wall of con-
crete to be poured into the Grand
Coulee low dam, which will be
3,400 feet long, 80 feet wide at the
top and $40 feet wide at the
bottom. The dam will be 300 feet
high above lowest bed rock, and
will form lake SO miles long.
However, the concrete mass in the
Grand Coulee high dam, which will
tower 500 feet above lowest bed
rock, will be much greater. This
dam will be 400 feet long, 40
feet wide at the base and SO feet
wide at the top. The high dam will
create a lake over 100 miles long.
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1934-11-28

ted States Department of Agricul-
ture is cooperating with the main
experiment station and the soil ero-
sion station at Pullman in studies
OF soil erosion preventing crops, and
is establishing one of the large re-
glonal forage nurseries at Pullman
for the testing of grasses of all kinds
and other plants that may be of
value for feed or for the control of
erosion.
Botanists collected native plants
from all parts of the Pacific North
west last summer which will be tes-
ted for any practical values in this
nursery. In addition, explorers of
the Department of Agriculture will
search the far corners of the world,
especially the drier regions in the
interior of China and other Asiatic
countries, for plants that are es-
pecially hardy and make good
growth where there is little rain
fall. These will be sent to the
Pullman nursery for testing.
The department also cooperates
with the State College in soil sur
vey of Yakima county, and again
with the State College, the State
Planning Council and the VERA in
soil surveys in counties where the
land classification program is UNI
der way.