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Evening star., 1934-05-13
HISTORIANS TO HEAR
SCHMIDT TOMORROW
Agricultural Society Will Hold
Annual Business Session
at Dinner.

The Agricultural History Society
will hold it's annual dinner and busi-
ness meeting tomorrow at $3.50 PM,
at Sholls Cafe. 1882 Connecticut ave-
nue.. Prof. Louis Bernard Schmidt,
head of the department Of history and
government of Iowa State College,
who is president of the society, will
make the annual address. He will
speak on THE Agricultural Revolu-
tion in the Prairies and the Great
Plains"
DR.. Dumas Malone, editor Of the
Dictionary of American Biography,
will speak on prof. Ulrich B. Phil
lips, Historian" Prof. Phillips served
as president Of the Agricultural
History Society during 1928 and
died last January 81.
The Nominating Committee has
submitted the following slate of off,
GERS for l934-35: President, Dr. Edwin
F. Gay, professor Of economic history
at Harvard University; vice president,
Clifford v. Gregory. editor of the
Prairie Farmer. Chicago; secretary
treasurer, DR.. o. c. Slime of the United
States Bureau of Agricultural Eco
nomics. For the Executive Committee,
DR.. Kathleen Bruce, head of the his
tory department Of Hollins College.
and DR.. Frederick Merk, professor of
American history at Harvard. The
business meeting will start at pm.
Evening star., 1934-05-13
PARADOX SEEN
IN WALLACE ACTS
Aids Corn Acreage Increase
While Pushing Fed
eraI Cut.

While Henry A. Wallace, as Secre-
tary of Agriculture, is vigorously
pressing a campaign to induce corn
growers to cut their acreage 20 per
cent to increase prices, it was OBJ
served yesterday, as private citizen
he is, indirectly, offering them an op-
portunity to increase production per
acre by 1913 per cent.
This dual role arises out of the fact
that he owns the Hi-Bred Corn Co.
of Grimes. Iowa, which advertises to
Iowa. and Illinois farmers that if they
buy its seed corn they will add 1913
per cent more bushels to their crop
per acre. Moreover. the advertise
ment is carried in Wallace's Farmer,
the weekly Of which the Secretary is
editor on leave of absence" which in
its editorial columns. urges the farm
ers to sign corn acreage reduction con-
tracts offered by the Government.
If the farmers buy the seed corn
advertised and accept the acreage re-
duction contracts advocated, it was
reasoned, they can get the Govern
ment bonus money obtained from
processing taxes, which is offered by
Secretary Wallace, and still produce
on the reduced area virtually the
same amount of corn they would have
produced if they had stuck to their
local seed corn, saving money and
labor, but defeating the purpose of
the A. A. A. program.
Mr.. Wallace, before joining Presi-
dent Roosevelt's cabinet, was presi-
dent of the Hi-Bred Corn Co., which
he founded after, in personally con-
Quoted experiments, he had created
his record-producing seed corn. He
resigned as president of the COM
pany, but still holds his stock.
Evening star., 1934-05-13
Hull Pays Farewell Tribute
To Associated Press Writer
Washington Bureau Mdr,
Leaves to "COver''.
Ne,Us in MOscO,U.
Secretary Cites Need for
Thorough Understand.
ing of Euents.

BY the Associated Press.
Charles Stephenson Smith, a news
paper man who has gone into the far
corners of the world for the Associated
Press, was told yesterday by Secretary
Hull that his service emphasized that
both public officials and newspaper
men needed to analyze accurately the
fundamentals of events.
Smith for nearly 80 years has rep
resented the Associated Press in news
centers ell over the world. He leaves
Washington today for New York to
sail on Wednesday for Moscow where
he will relieve Stanley P. Richardson
as correspondent at the Soviet capital.
Smith has served two previous assign
ments in Russia. under the Cars and
during the World War. Hull's state
ment was made at the last State De-
Evening star., 1934-05-13
MEMORIAL SERVICE
TO BE HELD BY S. A. R.
Ritual at Grave of Senator Bald
win to Honor Revolution.
ary Soldier.

Memorial services in honor Of the
five Revolutionary soldies buried in
Rock Creek Cemetery will be held to-
morrow afternoon by the District of
Columbia Society of the Sons of the
American Revolution.
Members will assemble at the main
cemetery gate on Rock Creek Church
road at Sis pm. and will proceed to
the grave Of Senator Abraham Bald
win. They will march in formation,
headed by President Clifton p Clark,
guests and national officers.
The program will be carried out at
the grave of Senator Baldwin as
symbolic Of all Revolutionary soldiers
resting in the cemetery.
Chaplain Luther H Waring will give
the invocation. The roll of the Revolu-
tionary soldiers will be read by Selden
M. Ely, past president. w. Harvey
Wise, jr., will deliver an grafton on
the life Of Senator Baldwin, after
which Mr.. Clark will place a wreath,
assisted by his aides, Thomas C..
Washington, jr., and c. A. Swami
Sinclair. jr.
The significance of the Salute of
Taps" will be given by Lieut.. Robert
B. Curtiss and three volleys will be
fired over the grave, under the super
vision of William E. Marshall, third
vice president. Lieut. Francis M
Hoffheins will give the signal for
Taps"
The procession will then reform and
proceed to the Adams Memorial, where
a short descriptive address on this
famous work of art by st. Gaudens
will be given by Prof. Walter N. Pat
terson. At the conclusion. the men,
bers will adjourn to Rock Creek
Church Parish Hall, where dinner will
be served, followed by a business
session.
Evening star., 1934-05-13
Drought Gripping Northwest
Has Been 40 Years IN Maxim Q
Clinatologist's Records Indicate Dry
Spell Viii Be Worse Than Those
of 1859 and 1894.

storms of the Ohio Valley and the
Atlantic seaboard.
Last Winter, for some unknown
reason. the Mckenzie was plugged up.
The cold came down across Hudsons
Bay.
Normally, the Northwest is the
coldest spot in the United States in
the dead of Winter This year the
East was in the direct path Of the
cold waves. As a result it shivered
through Winter of almost unprece-
dented cold and snow, while Montana
and the Dakotas had a mild season.
Two years ago also the weather
map was twisted in an inexplicable
fashion, so that Montana had almost
the normal Winter of Texas.
All these events are probably asso-
ciated with the drought in some way.
but the Weather Bureau climatologists
can't deduce the exact connection.
U. S. Is in Grip
OF Growing Hot Wave.
Mr.. Kincer's records show that the
United States as a whole is in the
grip OF a hot wave which has been
on the increase for SO years.
The cold Winter just past in the
! East was only a temporary Interrupt
ton to the trend shown by the 10
year moving averages. There is no
evidence that the movement is near
its elimination. Here again some
cumulative factor probably is involved,
although its exact nature escapes the
students of weather.
The past four or five years have
witnessed some of the most curious
weather in American history-in-
Guiding the dryest years and the
hottest years. The year 1894 has
made a good start-with a woman
smothered to death in dust storm
IN South Dakota and rain of mud
IN Wlsconsin-toward distinct place
Tor itself in meteorological history.
Evening star., 1934-05-13
BAILEY WILL ADDRESS
DISTRICT DUKE ALUMNI
Association Will Celebrate Tenth
Anniversary of Founding
Tuesday Evening.

Duke University Alumni Association
of Washington will celebrate the
tenth anniversary of its founding with
a dinner Tuesday at 7 pm, at the
club house of the American Association
of University Women. Senator Joseph
w. Bailey of North Carolina will. ad-
dress the association and Representa-
tive William B. Umstead of the sixth
North Carolina district in which Duke
University is located, will bring greet
ings from the university.
All Duke alumni are invited to at
tend. Arrangements will be made to
have as many alumni as possible at
tend "Old Grad" day at the COM
mencement exercises, June 3-6.
Evening star., 1934-05-13

f1clent balance in the fund to pro-
vide tor the viaduct.
The main purposes for which the
Senate Committee increased the bill
included: for emergency relief, an ad-
ditional Sl,700000. making the total
for relief S3,000,000; for the school
system. including number of con-
struction items, $1,272,221; for various
institutions under the Public Welfare
Board, $760,651, large part of which
is for improved facilities for the treat
ment of tuberculosis; for the health
department, $l70,l06, part of which
is for the tuberculosis dispensary.
The committee also granted increases
for the Sewer, Water and Fire De-
partments, and restored throughout
the bill a number of maintenance
items that were regarded as of vital
Importance, such as the personnel
item for the Public Utilities Commits
sion.
Provide For Government.
In adding these items to the bill the
Senate Committee sought to make
adequate provision for the essential
needs of the various departments of
the city government. and also to ap-
propriate for necessary construction
projects all of the estimated revenues
of the city for the coming year.
In addition to the changes made In
the amounts to be appropriated, the
Senate Committee also has made a
number of changes in the language of
the bill, and these changes also will
have to be determined finally in con-
ference. For example, the Senate
Committee removed the provision
against children under years Of age
being admitted to the schools; struck
out a proviso which would have pre-
vented the District from operating its
highway testing laboratory, and also
removed the clause limiting admins
trative expenses for emergency relief
to 8 per cent Of the appropriation.
Evening star., 1934-05-13
NAZI FOE TO SPEAK
AT JEWISH MEETING
Campaign Leaders Will Hear
Former German Rabbi Ap-
peal for Refugees.

A special meeting in connection with
the $4,000 United Jewish Appeal will
be held Wednesday night at the Jew
ish Community Center to hear DR..
Jacob Sonderling, former German
rabbi and foe of the Nazi regime
DR.. Sonderling was the only Jewish
chaplain to receive the Iron Cross
from Field Marshal Won Hindenburg
during the World War He served
four years on the Russian front.
Wednesday nights meeting is de-
signed by the drive chairmen. Isidore
Hershfield and Edmund I. Kaufman,
to stimulate new interest in the local
appeal to aid Jewish refugees from
Germany. =
Evening star., 1934-05-13

We hope that you will accomplish your
mission and then return to give US
the benefit Of your experience.
You have travelled a great deal
and reported events in many parts Of
the world, a fact which emphasizes
that we. both officials and newspaper
men, need, probably more than any
thing that I know of, broad knowl-
edge of events and the disposition to
get down to the fundamentals OF them
and prepare accurate analyses of them
instead of dealing merely with the
surface and superficial phases and
then basing our conclusions and re-
ports thereon.
"The fact that you have had this
fine experience abroad, together with
a fine record for reporting on basic
phases of situations and their impli-
cations, makes it all the more i'm
portant for us to have the benefit oi
the services of those of your type.
In travelling abroad and talking
with statesmen and newspaper men
have been struck by their lack oi
time or lack of disposition to dis
down into the real roots Of a prob
lem and deal with 1t in a compre'
hensive way.
IT know that you will render &
! valuable public service. in addition
to your usual efficient service to you
organization.
1--WE are naturally very glad to hav'
had you with us and we hope tina
you will have a thoroughly profitable
| and enjoyable trip and that you will
come back to us when you can. I ash
you to give my best regards to Am.
bassador Bullitt and to his associates.
10000 Jews in London.
In London there are at present
o10 nm IewS
Evening star., 1934-05-13
SENATE ACTION
SEEN THIS WEEK
ON DISTRICT BILL

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Evening star., 1934-05-13

New 1884 Silvertone 8-tube long or short wave
set. Equipped with automatic volume control.
super electro dynamic speaker. Tunes down to
70 meters. Let us pick up your old radio and
deliver this one to you for S2995 or, if you
wish, pay only 81 down and IS month, plus
small carrying charge.
Evening star., 1934-05-13

just 9 days. Ia special price
uction on these nationally
famous rugs. Every pat
tern is exclusive, copied
from high-priced Persian
Orientals and woven es-
pecially for Sears. Seam
less, fringed quality; deep
. thick pile.
Evening star., 1934-05-13

Who will be crowned May queen at the
annual May day festival of Wilson
Teachers College Tuesday at 2:30
pm. at the Sylvan Theater. The fete
will take the form of Mexican op-
eretta. Norman Gill of the senior
class will crown Miss Boyland. The
Queens Court consists of Virginia
Rusk and Marian Smithers, seniors;
Alice May and Rosalie johnson, jun
iors; Ellen Craighill and Ruth Har-
tung. sophmores, and Mary Fletcher
and Vernon Brooks, freshmen. Kath-
leen Crowley is general chairman.
The festival is under direction Of Miss
Alma Ebeling of the physical educa-
ton department and Mrs. B. r.
Angelico viii direct the music.
Evening star., 1934-05-13

partment press conference attended
by Smith.
while we are naturally very much
interested in your trip" Secretary Hull
said, I'VE are all sorry to see you 60.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-04-01

But Shirley stopped reading.
She could never remember what she did dur !
ing that next black hour, till at last one heart
warming thought came to her.
AT least still have Michael If I waS
happy with him once, in a gentle sort of wayI
1 can be again, and at least can make HIM
happy. He need never know" She wondered
If it had been a kind Providence that had kepq
her from breaking with him.
She remembered his letter then, and as shd
opened it a feeling of peace stole over her al
the sight of his handwriting
Dear Shirley: Let say, straight of,
that the necklace pGs from me-my
mothers pearls, Which I had had cleaned
and restrung as Easter GIFT to MT
fancee. say my fdncee, but pou neuer
really tpere mine, tcere you? Lately had
come to fear it, Yesterday kneio- HoaD-
eper, to that small part of you Which you
shared NTH me, for time, noU soy
good-by.
CHIRLEY had been lost in her thoughts q
> the past She looked up now and saw thai
she had gained on the tall man in the blac
ulster 1t was Michael.
For several blocks she followed him, dogj
gedly. The crowd was thinning, now. Forty
eighth street Forty-seventh. With mort
space he was walking faster. Shirley all
Even If she caught up with him and touched
his arm, told him all that happened to her n
this past year. all that she had learned abou
herself-would he ever be able to forgive heIY
Could he possibly love her still? If she to
him that-surprisingly- the two letters shJ
had received that morning, SO long ago, hi
was the one that had hurt her most? Tia
with his going had gone all the fine things. TN
worthwhile things in her life? If she told hin
that she had suddenly realized he was the ON
she loved and wanted: that her work had sui
fered-she had suffered, and that life was
empty, empty thing without him? Might NJ
not smile and take her arm and begin all owe
again?
Michael" There. She had done it be
cause she had to, because she couldn't possib |
not.
He turned and stopped dead.
"Why-why, Shirley"
And because she had so many things to tie ,
him she couldn't seem to begin.
She found herself saying: Its fine morn
ing, isn't it?" and laughing little shakil4
Whereupon Michael drew her hand throug
Its all right, Shirley" he said gently cit
all right"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-04-01

Soon soon she would tell Michael that she
couldn't marry him, but, somehow, she kept
putting it of.
But all through these days of her renewed
romance with Guy, Shirley was not really
happy. Once when they were dancing together,
and her cheeks were burning from the excite
ment she always felt when she was with him,
he looked at her and murmured, Happy"
And she said she was. But suddenly she re-
membered illness she had had when she
was a little girl Her high temperature had
caused her to lie in misty half delirious state
for days dreaming dreams that were very
thrilling and very real And yet, all the
time she lad known underneath that they
were not real that she was just sick.
c HIRIEY awoke on Easter morning. She
y was going to spend the day with Michael.
IN tell him tomorrow" she thought. I
can't tell him on Easter. I can't"
The doorbell rang and a messenger boy de-
livered a small, fiat package. Shirley signed
for it, tore open the sealed outer wrapping,
and saw that it was well known jewelers.
box Within lay single strand OF perfectly
matched pearls.
ooh, Guy, darling" she murmured, and i'm
mediately forgot her little hurt that he had
not asked to see her on Easter. Il knew he'd
send flowers, but these!
She tried to reach him on the telephone, but
his man said that he had gone out.
She posed and played with them. then, In
front of the mirror. until it was time to get
ready for Michael, and though she put on
simple brown coat and hat to please him. be-
cause he liked plain things. she couldn't re-
frain from wearing the pearls. She had sew
eral good imitation strings; he would never
notice.
Michael called for her in his every day
black ulster, with two gardenias In waxed
paper N his hand They went to st. Thomas,
and then joined the throng parading the ave
nue.
And all the time Guys gift was burning
around her threat, and the things that she
must tell Michael lay like lump Of lead in
her breast.
She imagined that he grew quieter, as the
day went by. He left early in the evening,
but before going he walked over to her.
1T seems to my girl Is wearing a very
lovely new strand of pearls" he said, smiling.
But to Shirley his smile looked forced; she
was sure that his hand shook a little as he
reached up and touched the necklace.
She said. quickly, panicky: yes. Aren't
they beautiful? I blew myself to an Easter
present You'd think they were real"
"You would" Michael answered, and after
that he said good-by.
When he had gone she made another ef-
fort to reach Guy. but he was still out, so
she went to bed and tried not to think Of to-
morrow, when she must break her engage
ment to Michael
THE next morning there were two letters
| under her door. One from each Of the
men.
She tore open Guys first. excited, she
always was over anything connected with him.
My belated Easter fo,ners ipiH arripe
hard the heels OF this note. Sorry,
darling. and all that sort OF thing
But am writing, principally, to tell you
Of my engagement Seems like the play
boy is really going to settle doscn, at last.
You're been q graad person to play sOith.
and soont soon forget yoefr :.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-04-01

Illustrated By Il. G. Skrendd.
Evening star., 1934-10-05
HIGH-SPEED PLANE
SERVICE is PLANNED
New York Miami Airline, Via
Washington, to Operate at
200 Miles Per Hour.

High-altitude, high-speed express
air service on the New York-Miami
airline passing through Washington Is
planned by Eastern Air Lines as part
Of the four-poiht improvement pro-
gram to be carried into effect by jan
uary l.. Cruising speeds of more than
200 miles per hour are anticipated,
airplanes being used which will be
similar to those on the 16-hour trans
continental service.
The principal points Of the new pro-
gram are: First, passenger service on
all routes: second. new schedules to be
expenditure Of approximately 100000
for new flying equipment, and fourth,
speeding up of all schedules.
The program will increase the COM
pany's operations from 10 ,448 sched-
uled miles daily to 1858 miles. In
addition to the New York Miami line,
Eastern Air Lines now operate lines
from New York to New Orleans and
Chicago to Jacksonville, Fla.
On the new high-speed coastal
schedule intermediate stops will be
made only at Washington and jack
sonville, Fla. Most of the flying will
be done at attitudes of 5000 to 10000
feet or more, supercharged engines
and adjustable pitch propellers being
employed to give greatly increased
speeds in the thinner air of those
attitudes. It is probable the new trips
will be operated as a night sleeper
service, leaving the slower planes
available for increased daylight sched-
uleS.
The plan also calls for Inauguration
of passenger service on the Chicago
Jacksonville route now flown for air.
mail purposes only.
Evening star., 1934-10-05
MOFFETT TO OPEN
D.C.HOUS|NGDR|vE
Federal Administrator Will
Be on Program Headed
by First Lady.

James A. Moffett, Federal housing
administrator, will make one Of his
first public appearances in this city
Monday night when he will address the
meeting inaugurating the washington
Better Housing Campaign at the
United States Chamber of Commerce
auditorium.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will
make the principal address Of the
evening and will be followed by Mr..
Moffett, who will explain various
phases of the Housing Administra-
tion's national program. He. in turn,
deputy Federal housing administrator
and president Of the General Motors
Holding Corp, who will discuss the
"modernization" drive now in progress
all over the country.
All three speeches will be broadcast
over Radio Station WMAL, and pos
sibly over q Nation wide hook-up.
Other speakers will include Ward NJ
Canaday, director of public relations
for the F. H. A., who will talk on
Washington's housing problems.
Thomas P. Littlepage, general chair
man of the Washington campaign,
also will speak on the drive his or
ganization intends to make. Mr.. Lit
tlepage will preside.
The public is invited to the meet
ing, and in addition, dozens OF in
vited guests, including high Govern
ment oficials and prominent local
citizens.
Evening star., 1934-10-05
SUIT ATTACKS TITLE.
IN NSHENANDOAH PARK
Property Owners Sue to Prevent
Ickes From Accepting $50
Acres in Area.

Suit to prevent Secretary of the In
terror Ickes from accepting title to
$50 acres Of land in the Shenandoah
National Park was filed in District
Supreme Court today by the property
owners.
The plaintiffs, Robert H. Via, Her
shey, Pa; John Mace, Grottoes, Va,
and Charles M. Mace, 2540 Fourteenth
street, contend the State of Virginia
condemned their property without first
making . private oder to purchase as
required by statutes.
The suit, filed through Attorneys
Lawrence S. Gourley, Samuel o. Syme
and william E. Leahy, states apple
orchards, timber and mineral water
deposits make the land Of great value.
The plaintiffs were paid $5,56l for the
property.
Evening star., 1934-10-05
PAGEANT PLANS
ARE COMPLETED
Self Help Patriotic Program
+ to Be Held Tomorrow
if It Rains Today.

After weeks Of preparation for the
self-help patriotic pageant at the
capitol Plaza tonight directors Of the
show announced this afternoon that
II 1t is raining at 6 o'clock this eve
ming the presentation will be post
poned until tomorrow evening. :
Everything is in readiness for the
presentation of what Is expected TO
be the most significant" pageant ever
presented in Washington. Three
thousand persons, including q thou
sand unemployed persons, have been
rehearsed for participation in the pro-
gram. The Marine Band is ready to
play a concert beginning at 1880
O'Clock and the incidental music dur
ing the pageant. A chorus OF 1000
persons is ready to sing.
II skies are clear at 6 o'clock to-
night the band concert will begin at
1880 o'clock. Thirty minutes later the
pageant itself will start. II it is rain
ing at 6 o'clock the whole program
will be held over and presented just
"a hours. later.
The pageant, written by Harry M.
Gardener, an employe of the relief
administration, will trace the contrib
uting factors in American history to
the economic depression which created
vast unemployment. The pageant will
close with dramatic presentations Of
various means of combating the evils
OF the depression.