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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-05

and mulched with an inch or two of
peat moss. The mulch is not neces-
sary to keep the bulbs warm but rather
to keep them cool so they will not start
too early growth. for sometimes the
young sprouts are injured by belated
Spring freezes. Regal lily bulbs are
now very moderately priced, we'll with
in the reach Of the average home
gardener. 1t is well In planting lily
bulbs to mark their location so that
they may not be spaded up by mis-
chance.
Some Of the newer varieties Of soy
beans are valuable garden vegetables,
tasting much like lima beans when
harvested in the green pod stage. The
vines are more resistant to the Mex
lean bean beetle than ordinary garden
beans and 1t seems that there must be
q future for this vegetable.
Many local home gardeners have
tested the new orange flare cosmos
and found 1t very desirable. 1t is a
decided novelty in the cosmos group,
which is generally known for red, pink
or white blooms. The new marigold,
supreme, Is also desirable and has less
OF the pungent odor that generally
characterizes the marigold family.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-05
BUILDING SCARS
:: IN FIFTH DISTRICT
Permits Up 23.8 Per Cent
for August and Construc-
ton 1913 Per Cent.

! The Federal Reserve Bank OF Rich
nond reported this week that building
permits issued in August In 81 Leading
cities in the fifth district numbered
a.628. compared with 2.l23 permits
issued in August, 1884, an increase OF
pas per cent this year. and estimated
Valuation figures for last month
totaled S4,57O,329, an increase OF 1913
ber cent, in comparison with valuation
figures totaling s3,268,252 in August
last year,
/ Twenty-six of the 81 cities showed
higher valuation figures for the 1885
month All of the five largest cities.
Baltimore, Washington, Richmond,
Norfolk and Charlotte, increased. High
Point, N. c., and Clarksburg. w. Va.
made the best records in estimated
valuation figures in August, 1885, pop
ulation of reporting cities being taken
into consideration.
Contracts awarded in August tor
construction work in the fifth district
including both rural and urban
projects, totaled $23 ,273. 287, compared
with s12.11O.714 awarded in August
1884. OF the awards in August this
year, s5,34O,632, or 22.9 per cent, was
for residential work, while last year
residential contracts totaled 81 ,806,354
or 14.9 per cent of all awards In
August.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-05

heaving of the plants from the soil.
Herein lies the benefit of the mulch
of rotted leaves, manure or peat moss,
which keeps the soil uniformly froz-
en-. Most of the beautiful pansy
plants that appear In Washington
stores in early Spring have been Win
tered in cold frames covered, per-
haps, with lath frames or other pro-
lection 1t is a real question whether
it is worth while for the home garden
er who desires only a dozen or so
pansy plants to grow his own stock.
In the first place, real quality seed is
expensive and is not available gener-
ally. n the second place. one can in
Spring select colors to suit the fancy,
for the young plants are then in
bloom. On the other hand, for large
paintings, home production is I'M
6oubtedly more economical and salts
factory.
The japanese Beetle.
THIS insect is gradually increasing
in this locality and is certain to
present an increasing problem to local
gardeners. Unlike most Of our in
sect pests, the Japanese beetle eats a
wide variety of foods, including flow
ers, vegetables and fruits. In addi-
ton, the grubs or immature beetles,
while still in the soil, eat the roots Of
grass and other plants. Some of the
favorite foods are the grape, rasp-
berry, apple, cherry, peach, sweet
corn, bean, asparagus, rose, barberry,
dahlia. hollyhock, rose of Sharon,
Norway maple, elm and linden. For
tunately, there are a number Of plants
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-05

arranged by the National Association
Of Housing Officials.
The course is scheduled to begin
about November / and will be full
time intensive study of housing
management, and will include lectures
and field trips to well-managed hous-
ing projects in other cities.
There is no tuition fee for the
study and transportation for trips
will be given free. Application for en-
rollment may be made at local Offices,
room 902. Barr Building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-05

which are rarely attacked, such, for
example, as the gladiolus. calendula,
chrysanthemum, iris. peony, phlox,
larkspur. cosmos, columbine and core
opsis. Among trees little desired by
the japanese beetle are the red and
white oak, ash, sugar maple, dog
wood. locust, beech and catalpa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-05

TINE Woodbridge Garden Club
Autumn Show, held Monday
evening, was beautiful and
L exceedingly interesting be-
cause of the diversity of flowers, fruits
and vegetables. The BASKETS were ex-
cellent and one in particular, that of
Mrs I. de Yer Warper, dahliaS attrac-
lively arranged with hardy lavender
asters and silver king eXacted uni
versal admiration. The flowers were
grown by Mr.. Ralph w. Lewis and
arranged by Mrs. Lewis. A vase Of
Nerine or Guernsey lily of the ANA
ryllidaceae family was very attractive.
Its orange flowers, six or seven clus-
tered at the top of long leafless stems,
looked much like little lilies. The
Nerine has the peculiar habit of grow
ing its leaves during Winter and early
Spring. About May the leaves die and
the bulbs rest until Autumn, when
the leafess flower spikes develop.
The Nerine lily is native of South
Africa and is generally considered a
tender species, but has been Wintered
here with protection. A small basket
of hardy blue asters, Eupatorium or
perennial ageratum, and tiny wild
asters displayed by Mrs. M. C. Kiss
enger was very fine. Among other
attractive flowers on display were
false dragon head, Physostegia, gol-
den cosmos, roses and dahlias. The
specimen dahlia, Lord of Autumn Of
clear light yellow, which won the
honor of being the finest dahlia in the
show, was of truly immense size and
very beautiful. 1t was grown by w.
H. GannaWay.
The sweepstakes prize for winning
the highest total of points went to
Mrs. John L. Bishop. There was a
large attendance and judging by the
many words of praise freely given,
the show was very much worthwhile
and a credit to the Woodbridge club
and to Mrs A. L. Foster and her COM
mittee in charge.
Pansy Culture.
DANSIES are frequently bedded out
in late Autumn and, if given a
little protective mulch, placed around
but not over the plants. usually sur
vive the Winter in excellent condi-
ton, as is testified by the splendid
paintings that were formerly located
in the Department of Agriculture
grounds. Winter cold is not the linn
iting factor to success because pansies
are grown out-of-do in New Eng
land and other Northern localities.
The hazard comes during periods Of
alternate freezing and thawing, with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-05
STUDENTS ENROLLING
IN HOUSE MANAGEMENT
Lectures and Field Trips Slated
in Course to Begin About
November /.

The Washington Committee on
Housing announced it is still receiving
applications from Washington resi-
dents who wish to enroll for a course
in house management which is being
Evening star., 1935-06-16
THIS WEEK
''I'll Break Your Hearts
from
Continued from page SiT

own breath was hard and long and his
body sheeted in sweat. Behind him ne
heard the others hard breathing and
their occasional half-sobbed curses.
Dan wondered how long they would
last, how long he himself would last.
For moment, Grogan was silent,
scowling and breathless. as Dan
laughed at him.
In Dan now the stroke was a
rhythm, and he could no more depart
from its furious beat than he could
leave the boat and stride on the water.
He felt the little sharp pains begin to
grow at the joints. where the arms met
the shoulders, in the ripping belly
muscles. in the crook of the arms and
the back of the neck. Sweat soaked
through his eyebrows. and he wished
he had worn a sweat band. And all
about him. he saw the evening coming
swiftly down.
Grogan was screaming again. "All
right, you big, god-dam fool" he was
saying. You've made the pace. now
see if you can carry them in" Grogan
wept like furious little boy. but Dan
could feel sorry for no one.
Dan held the pace as well as he
could. Far away. boat-lengths away.
the other crews had started gradually
to come up. Navy leading them and
Columbia catching California Slowly,
they gained upon him. He felt slight.
brief coolness pass over him and knew
that they had gone under the bridge
marking the three mark. A roar
ing fell from it like water.
He thought again that he might
win. He had forgotten about it in re-
membering he would break the hearts
of his own crew. But now to win would
be the good way to finish off. 1t had
something to do with the perfect thing
he had sensed before. With the thought
that he might yet win. came the re-
alization that he must hold his form.
make none Of those slip-ups in style or
execution which tired oarsman might
make. He became at once careful and
savage.
1t was hard to see. In the sudden
spring dusk, he could not see the other
crews. The pain had penetrated to
every part of his body. and he heard
Evening star., 1935-06-16
THIS WEEK

length stroke, ten quick half-strokes,
and gradual lengthening out into the
full racing stroke. Dan moved in a
bright mist. 1t seemed for time that
his mind was something separate and
apart from his body. and was now
lowering over it, watching the body
bend and reach and pull in perfect
form, the legs straighten out. but not
before the handle of the oar passed
over the bent knees. Everything in
perfect form. He bent and swayed and
Strengthened, and felt the thrill pass
from the oar handle through his arms,
as the blade cut and met the water
He became aware gradually of a
screaming and saw before him the face
of an insane man. He watched it for a
second and then recognized it for
Crogan's.
Bring it down, you madmanw the
coxswain was screaming. Bring it
down! You're hitting about fortyr'
The stroke was much too high, Dan
knew, for four miles. but he kept it
there.
He began to be aware of his sur
roundings. of the progress of the race.
They were well into the second mile
and far ahead of all the other crews.
His boat was in the No. lane and he
could see all the crews, split into two
groups, California leading the one
inside him. Navy the outside one.
Dan realized his position. From a
pariah he had become suddenly god
to do with Others as he wi,ied In
front of him, GFogan screamed and
cursed for him to bring the stroke
down, and behind him Dan knew
seven men strained desperately to hold
the mad pace he was setting, the pace
they must hold. Grogan was frightened.
Instead of setting the stroke for Dan
to pass back to the Others, Grogan
took Dams pace and beat it out auto
matically with the tiller-gips on the
gunwales. now hard as the blades
caught the water. now softer as the
blades left the water "a trochaic
meter of action.
Dan laughed again. They were past
the two-mile mark. and the other
crews were whole boat-lengths behind
them, how many he did not know. His
Evening star., 1935-06-16

Arnold Zweig is the author
of that important and success
full war book, The Case of
Sergeant Grischa." and many
other short stories, essays and
novels. This is a poignant tale
of what imitation did to one old
: mans ife-savings.
Evening star., 1935-06-16

They were in love - the un-
suspecting American girl and
the young European plotter.
And the train on which they
rode was, he knew, rushing
toward disaster. How could he
save her? A powerful and
dramatic story by Virginia Dale.
Evening star., 1935-06-16

Honore Morrow is the re-
nowned author of the recent
success, "Yonder Sails the
Mayflower" and many other
historical works. In this story
Mrs. Morrow offers her version
of the unhappy marriage of
the sta tesman Charles Sumner.
Evening star., 1935-06-16
M0gGSine Section

There's very little land left
to discover, but the whole
world is waiting for intensive
exploration. Roy Chapman
Andrews, director of the Amer
ican Museum of Natural His
tory and famous explorer, tells
you where and what to seek.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-28
Citizens Gas Firm Ownership Target of
Probers; T. S. Investigator Hears Payne

steel, coke either is a prince or
pauper."
He related, after explaining he
did not feel he now would be break
ing confidence, that Mr.. Eaton in
1925 had plans to make Indianapolis
one Of the steel cities of the Coun-
try.
"Mr. Eaton wanted to buy 10000
shares of Citizens Gas Co. stock,
Mr.. Payne said. HE expected to
start with one blast furnace-and
even one blast furnace is an expen-
sive proposition. Mr.. Eaton then
was man of manifold interests and
was rated at around 100000, 900. He
said to his attorney one day in my
Office that he expected eventually
to have between eight and nine mil
lion dollars invested in Indianapolis.
In reply to a direct question as TO
the possibility Of obtaining natural
gas here, Mr.. Payne volunteered
that ''he could not understand why
Indianapolis does not have 60-cent
gas" He referred to the fact that
consumers now pay S105 thousand
cubic feet for gas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-28
CAGE TOURNEY
BEGINS TONIGHT
781 State H. S. Quintets
Poised for Title
Examinations.

Indiana's great winter pastime,
basketball, becomes king today for
a two-week reign while the 781
teams in the Indiana High School
Athletic Associations oath state
tournament to determine the 1885
hardwood champion.
Play opens tonight in two Vi the
Sd sectional centers, Indianapolis
and Gary. Three games in each
will eliminate the first six teams.
Continued elimination tits in the
centers tomorrow and SATURDAY will
reduce the field to 81 district cham
pions.
Next week the sectional winners
will gather in Is regional centers,
four teams to each center to 0e-
termine the 16 f1nalists.
The windup of the state cham
pionship series will take place in
Butler University f1eldhouse Fri
day and Saturday, March IS and
Is. The Is f1nalists will engage in
IS games over the two-day period
to determine the champion.
Logansport, 1884 winner, is ia
vorite to repeat in the sectional,
get by regional competition, and
reach the final games in Indian
apolis where favoritism stops.
jefferson of Lafayette, Jefferson
vile. Anderson, Newcastle, Mobiles
Vile and Michigan City are others
popular with the experts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-28

boy when he was managing editor
of the Press (former Indianapolis
newspaper and now have him
where I want him."
Questioning by the committee,
with Atty. Gen. Philip Lutz Jr. and
Joseph Mcnamara, one of his in
vestigators in the roles of interroga-
tors, tended to show that Cyrus
Eaton had attempted to gain con-
troll of the Citizens.
Mr.. Payne promptly admitted that
he had attempted to buy Citizens
Gas Co. stock for Mr.. Eaton in 1925
at a $40 bid, but that the Citizens
directors had warned stockholders
against selling at that price.
He offered in exhibition a bulky
scrapbook filed with clippings which
revealed the publicity at that time
of the Eaton efforts to gain the
common stock control and revealed
what he said were Mr.. Eaton's plans
at that time.
The relationship Of the coke in
dustry to gas rates was revealed by
Mr.. Payne in the significant state
ment that:
CAS- Andrew Carnegie said about
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-28

While a Federal Trade Commls-
sion ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS listened
intentIy, the joint legislative COM
mittee Investigating an alleged nat
ural gas monopoly last night delved
further into the ownership of the
Citizens Gas Co.
The attorney-investigator was
Miles Furnas, Winchester, Ind, a
former member of the Indiana
House of Representatives. Mr. Fur
mas asked no questions, although
once asked to, and later joined the
committee in executive session.
Principal witness at the hearing
was Gavin Payne, indianapolis
broker. who painted for the COM
nnittee a picture of lost opportun-
itv in which indianapolis might
have become one of the steel cities
of the United States had Cyrus
Eaton. Cleveland capitalist, been
allowed to buy controlling inter-
est in the Citizens Gas Co.
The meeting started on jocular
note when Senator E. Curtis White
Cd. Indianapolis) the committee
chairman, observed:
81 used to be Mr.. Payne's Office
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-28
ALLEN NAMED
TO PLACE ON
MERIT BOARD
Personnel Expert, Political
Liberal, Is Selected as
CitiZen-Membe
2 OTHER, PLACES OPEN
Kern Is Likely to Appoint
Or. De Almond to
CITY Position.

william Rowland Allen, personnel
expert and political liberal. has
accepted an appointment to the
newly formed merit commission
which viii supervise working of the
merit system in the indianapolis
Police and Fire Departments. Mayor
John W. Kern announced this alter
noon.
Mr. Allen. whose home is at 80
Berkley-rd. was appointed as the
citizen member Of the board Whicn
also is 10 have physician ana
PSYCHOLOGIST members. He Is per
sonnet director Of L. S. Ayres q 90.
He is widely known for his work IN
that position and in similar posi-
fionS elsewhere and for his views on
personnel work.
AT the same time. it was learned
NJ CITY Hall that DR.. Murray DE
Almond. SD N. Chester-St, psychia-
trist. probably would receive the
PSYCHOLOGISTS appointment. DR.. DE
Almond also is widely known here.
He has appeared in Criminal Court
numerous times as an expert W.T.
ness.
In addition to the merit commits
sion. Mayor Kern will appoint under
the merit system law passed Tues
day by the General Assembly two
merit boards. one each to be COM
posed of ranking members Of the
fire and police forces.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-28
6 ESCAPE FROM
FLAMING HOME
Awakened by Fire, Fathe'
ROuSeS Family; Four
Children Saved.

All the worldly goods of Robert
Mcneil. SIS, and his large family
went drifting up in smoke early to-
day as fire destroyed their Shanty IN
field in the 1900 block, Scho-
field-av.
Ironically, the fire was caused in
directly by coal which the family
had lust received from a relief
agency. Mr.. Mcneil told an Indi-
annapolis Times reporter that he was
so unused to coal that he must have
put too much in the stove.
A strange dream that some one
was setting his face on fire awoke
Mr.. Mcneil. Accusing himself, he
saw the Shanty wrapped in flames.
He and his wife. Mrs. Myrtle Nc
Neill. 40. rescued Dorothy, IA: Nell
lie. Z. and Ruth, s. Mrs. Mcneil
suffered burns on her shoulders.
After the first confusion. Mr.. Nc
Neill noticed that Donald, ?, was
trapped in the flaming shanty. He
threw himself through the flames
and brought the child to safety. He
received severe burns, but the child,
who had been sick for some time,
was out OF danger.
The clothing which the children
had been given through The Times
Clothe-A-Child campaign last
Christmas was destroyed. So was a
new supply Of groceries donated by
a relief agency.
The family'S wealth. 65 cents, was
lost in the fire. Clad only in the
Scanty clothing in which they had
escaped from the fire. the McNeills
went to the home Of a kindly neigh
Dor. George Bolander.
Because Mr.. Bolander lives in a
one-room house. the family has sent
an urgent request to the relief
agency for new quarters and pro-
visions.
Several residents of the Rink
Apartments, 4O1 N. Illinois-st. were
aroused early today when smoke and
fumes from cIinkers that janitor
had removed from the furnace filled
the corridors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-28
UTILITY STRIKE
CR|PPLES CITY
Ell PaSo Officials Plead for
Power for Hospitals
During WaIkout.
By United Press

BIZ United Press
Ell PASO, Tex, Feb. 28-Alarmed
by the Gripping Of hospitals and
paralysis of practically every line OF
business in the city affected by a
strike of power company employees,
city officials appealed to the Ell
Paso Electric Co. this afternoon to
negotiate with the strikers.
County Judge Joseph McGill, as
sisting Mayor R. E. Sherman as
mediator, said he would recommend
to officials of the company that they
accept demands of the members OF
the international Brotherhood OF
Electrical Workers for recognition
of their union and the closed
shop"
Personally, I favor the closed
shop" Judge McGill added, Mayor
Sherman and I are taking part in
the negotiations only in the interst
of the public.
1--WE want to keep people from dy-
ing in the hospitals and keep up
the water supply, to avoid fire dan
ger. We know nothing Of the merits
of the controversy ITSELF
He pointed out that three persons
at the Hotel Dieu Hospital, living in
oxygen tents, we're in danger if cleo
trio power to operate the oxygen
equipment were not restored imme-
diately.
M. C. Smith, electric company
president, said he had received an
11-page proposed agreement from
the strike committee last night, but
declined to comment until company
officials had conferred this morning
and had communicated with Stone
& Webster of Boston, the parent
concern.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-28
HONOLULU FLOODED
BY STORM; 5 DEAD
TorrentiaI Rain and Hail
Worst in History.

BY United Press
HONOLULU, T. H., Feb. o.
Governor Poindexter today called
out national guardsmen to search
for the bodies of victims of one of
the most severe storms in Honolulu's
history.
The guardsmen joined rescue
forces which already had recovered
five bodies in the flooded areas OF
the Island of Oahu, on which Homo
lulu is the largest settlement.
The downtown Y. NJ. G. A. build
ing was converted into a refugee
camp. 1t was feared that the death
toll would be much larger than five.
Two-inch hail stones cut telegraph
and telephone wires. Rain which at
one time reached a rate of SO inches
an hour, flooded low-lying areas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-28
PRESIDENT DEMANDS
WORK RELIEF ACTION
Roosevelt, Robinson Confer
on Measure.

By United Press
WASHINGTON. Feb. Is. = Presi-
dent Roosevelt called Majority Lead
er Joseph T. Robinson to the White
House today as he worked to UNI
tangle the jam holding up congress
sional action on the s4.880. 000. 900
work-relief bill.
Hardly had the President arrived
from his four-day Hyde Park vaca-
ton than strenuous efforts we're I'M
der way 70 get the relief bill going
again.
A break in the stalemate was pre-
dicted by White House advisers
within "a hours"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-28
BY RODNEY BUTCHER


WASHINGTON Feb 28.-Frankin D. Roosevelts second
w wear in office has been neither spectacular
brilliant as his first
Nor does its end find him high pedestal of per-
sona popularity he occupied IL months ago. There has
been etdown of morale in Washington which apparently IS
reflected to some degree the country despite the
couragng effect of the Supreme Court gold decision Even
the President has lost bit of his gayety.
The New Deal just hasn't been going places On the first
anniversary of his inauguration Roosevelt could point to the