Evening star., 1934-05-06
JAMESTOWN FETE
| TO Be ATTENDED
|. BY NATIONS CHIEF
327th Anniversary Program
Linked With Mothers
Day by Peery.
BY the Associated Press.

RICHMOND, Va, May 5.-Tne
President of the United States next
Sunday will worship at the spot where
the Nation was born.
President Roosevelt will come to
jamestown, and at the old jamestown
Church, where the first permanent
English settlement worshiped, he will
participate in religious services, mark
ing the 327th anniversary OF the
founding of the jamestown colony
May 13, 1907.
Gov. Peery is proclaiming the day
jointly with Mothers day, and says
it is fitting because the Jamestown
settlers were the mother colony of
the English in the New World.
The Ranger, Uncle Sans first air.
craft carrier, built as such. was given
her trial run of the Virginia capes
by her builders, the Newport News
Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., while
gold-braided officials of high naval
rank watched with approval.
May Join in Review.
It may be that the Ranger will be
completed In time to participate in
the naval review before President
Roosevelt, when it finally is back on
the Atlantic for a while.
Meanwhile, down in Norfolk, the
scribes are saying even if they didn't
know the fleets coming in,' they
would suspect it because trinkets
long packed away in merchants dark
corners again are appearing in gaudy
display.
Up at Quantico 20 airplanes took
of for Guantanamo Bay in the larg-
est mass formation fight ever staged
by the Marine Corps. The planes
were to participate in the Nays ma
neuvers in the Caribbean.
Not to be outdone by the grim
forces Of war, lovers of nature and
music likewise captured themselves
a goodly supply of headlines with
the eleventh Shenandoah Apple Bios
som Festival at Winchester and the
annual Choral Festival at Charlottes-
vile. Amid millions of apple trees
and thousands of visitors, Mrs. John
Hay Whitney of Llangolen reigned
over the Virginia Valley apple king
dom for two days as Queen Shenan-
doah XII.
Park Lands Payments.
The State Conservation and De-
velopment Commission, meeting in
Roanoke, dispatched special mes
senger to Richmond with an order
for $422,4126l for the last payments
on lands forming the Shenandoah
National Park Thus, was another
chapter written-near the end-in
the Virginia purchase of lands for
a great national park. Now that the
lands are purchased they will be
turned over to the Federal Govern
ment.
Virginia scientists are having a
busy season, with the Virginia Acad-
emy of Science meeting during the
past week in Harrisonburg and the
Virginia section of the American
Chemical Society meeting in Hope
we'll May IL.
In the Harrisonburg meeting Prof.
Frank I. Apperly of the Medical Col
lege Of Virginia discussed the theory
that no heredity traces were found
in children of cancerous fathers, but
daughters of cancerous mothers may
show signs of achlorhydria Qack Of
hydrochloric acid in the stomach
juice. This was one of the numer-
GUS scientific discussions given at the
academy meeting.
Removal of bromine from sea water
will be among the subjects discussed
at the chemical society meeting in
Hopewell.
Church Merger Discussed.
In the thirty-first biennial session
of the Southern convention Of the
Conversational and Christian
churches at Suffolk. more than 100
delegates debated the question of
merging the activities of the two
churches. This was the outstanding
subject before the four-day conven-
ton.
Sunday, May 13, marks the ami
versary, not only of the Jamestown
settlement, but also the Tooth Of the
Grafton Christian Church, and ap-
propriate services have been arranged
for the occasion
Legislation for a State lottery as
a means of combating slot machine
and number gambling was urged in
Richmond this week by DR.. Addison
Moore of the First Unitarian Church.
This suggestion was made timely by
the continuation of the slot machine
war being waged by half a dozen or
more Virginia cities. In Norfolk four
men we're fined-two 500 and costs
and the others $25 and costs, and
three alleged illegal gambling ma
chimes were confiscated by police in
raids on two establishments. The
Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board was moving slowly toward the
sale Of wines by private licensees and
liquor by State-established stores.