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Evening star., 1935-04-13
BLOSSOM QUEEN
GIRL FROM PRAGUE
Mile. Veverka to Reign at
Shenandoah Fete-WiII
Be Held May 2 and 3.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WINCHESTER, Va, April 13-Mlle.
Nella Veverka, a 20-year-old blond
beauty and daughter of the Czecho-
slovakian Minister at Washington, to-
day was named to reign over the
Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival
as Queen Shenandoah XII.
The festival dates we're officially set
today as Thursday, May 2 and Friday,
May 5.
The 100000 apple trees Of the
belt are expected to be in full bloom
by May 2.
Mile. Veverka is the only daughter
of Ferdinand Veverka and Mrs. ''e-
verka and has been resident OF
Washington for the past seven years.
She was born and reared at Prague,
where she was educated by private
tutors, completing her education in
the United States. She has one
brother, Ferdinand Veverka, jr., who
will act as her official escort during
the blossom time festivities, arriving
in Winchester the evening before the
two-day festival starts.
Mile. Veverka will be the third girl
of foreign parentage to grace the
festival throne. Miss Patricia Morton
of Winchester. England, accepted the
honor several years ago and two years
later Miss Francois May. daughter OF
the late Belgian Ambassador, Paul
May, was the central figure in the fete.
The invitation to preside over the
celebration. which annually brings
something like 100, 900 visitors to Win
chester, the apple capital OF the
Shenandoah Cumberland country, was
extended to Mile. Veverka recently by
Mrs. B. B. Dutton, chairman OF the
department of the queen and her
court, and by Director General Fred A.
Read, jr. Surprised that she should
be thus honored, the attractive young
daughter of the diplomat expressed
herself as being thrilled at the
thought" She said she had read
much about the festival and had ad-
mired the pictures appearing from year
to year, but had never dreamed OF
having such compliment bestowed
upon her"
The queens float will be in the
center of the first of six grand divi-
siors. It will be made of silver and
white, designed to glisten in the sun
light. Floats of the princesses will
be barge-shaped and decorated in
green, pink and white.
The queen will be the central flg-
ure of an extensive social program
She and her court are to make a
general tour of apple orchards the
morning of May 2. This will
be followed by luncheon in her
honor by Mrs. Richard Evelyn Byrd,
who has been hostess to several queens
The coronation is scheduled for
mid-afternoon at the Handley High
School Bowl, followed Immediately by
q pageant in which 1000 school chill
dren will take part. The queen and
her court will occupy special seats
at the edge of the stadium. She and
her attendants will then go on to the
| Winchester Golf Club for tea dance
Evening star., 1935-04-13
HABEAS WRIT ASKED
BY LORTON FUGITIVE
Gempp, in Alcatraz Prison, Calf,
Wants to Know When He
May Get Out.

William P. Gempp, a convict at
Alcatraz Island, Calf, who more than
a year ago escaped from the District
penal institution at Lorton, Va. where
he was serving term for larceny after
trust, has petitioned the United States
District Court at San Francisco for
a writ of habeas corpus. He stated
he was sent to Alcatraz at his own
request, but now wants to know just
when he will get out, according to the
Associated Press.
Gempp said he was sentenced by
the District Supreme Court November
%, 1882, to a year and three months
at Lorton, and after escape and re-
capture was sentenced on a different
charge by the United States District
Court of the Northern District of West
Virginia to a year and day at Lewis
burg, Pa.
The convict said he had just learned
his two sentences were to run con-
secutively He expressed the opinion
they should run concurrently and
asked the court to set date for his
release
Gempp was convicted here of taking
an automobile belonging to the Mile
stone System, Inc, 720 Thirteenth
street.
Evening star., 1935-04-13
MARITAL STATUS
RESULTS SCORED
Civil Service Assembly Told
LoW-SaIaried Persons
Are Losing Out.

The marital status law has operated
! in 80 per cent of the cases to drive
oW-salaried persons out of the Gov
ernment service, Miss Katherine A.
Frederic of the National League OF
Women Voters today told the con-
cluding session of the Eastern States
Regional Conference Of the Civil
Service Assembly. The meeting was
held at the Raleigh Hotel.
Discussing the unhappy conse-
quences" of the law that provides
for dismissal of husband or wife in
necessary reductions Of force, Miss
Frederic said the recent inaugura-
ton of the "one job to family
policy was bringing about an "ex-
tension of Determinations
Miss Frederic also said her organi-
zation and other groups interested in
the pending economic security bill
"are eager to see the sections relat-
ing to old-age assistance and the
administration of the unemployment
compensation system safeguarded by
requirements that all employees be
chosen under the Civil Service laws
and regulations"
Weaker Than Original.
"The measure now before Con-
gress," she amplified, (which is con-
siderably revised over the one orig
inally introduced. is even less strong
in these respects than was the original
bill"
At yesterday afternoons session
Harry B. Mitchell, president of the
Civil Service Commission, told the as
sembly he believed enactment of some
of the pending legislation to put post
masters under civil service would
have a greater effect in improving the
standing Of the merit system with the
people of the United States than any
other possible measure at this time.
He added:
THE Civil Service Commission is
more or less discredited in the eyes OF
many people because Of the present
system of postmaster examinations
and altogether too many people are in
clined to judge our other examinations
on the basis of the postmaster exami-
nations
Emergency Agencies.
Mitchell also defended the exclu-
sion from civil service of the emer-
gency agencies, which now it is in.
tended to put under the merit system
While there is some ground fol
this criticism, experience has indi.
Gated that in setting up new agencies
where the details of the work to be
done are more or less unknown, ano
where the necessary set-up to do thai
work Is an undetermined quantity.
believe it wise to allow latitude fol
the possible unknown necessity ol
the particular case"
DR.. Leo J. O'Rourke of the com.
mission also spoke, outlining efforts
being made for improved supervision
of employees work, to aid them ant
increase efficiency.
Evening star., 1935-04-13
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
The White House entertained 2.492
people at various meals last year, Mrs
Roosevelt revealed last night.
The Nations most hospitable
home" was visited by s74,376 other
persons who went through the Exec
utive Mansion, the Presidents wife
said in a radio address.
She divided all White House enter
tanning into two parts-private and
personal hospitality, "the informal and
easy-going kind" and formal and OH
cial hospitality.
The latter kind, she said, requires
"the dignity and formality which puts
us on an equal footing socially with
any foreign representative or any group
or republic"
The Presidents wife gave these facts
about the 10 formal dinners of each
season. the most exclusive events and.
therefore, least written about:
Two senior. aideA military and
Evening star., 1935-04-13
Double Blossoms,
Retarded by Cold,
Promised Easter
Weather Dashes Hopes
for Cherry Blooms
This Week End.

Washington today was promised
cherry blossoms for Easter Sunday.
But those visitors and residents who
expected to see this week end the
second phase of the annual cherry
blossom festival-the blooming of the
double blossoms are doomed to dis
appointment.
The recent cold wet weather has re-
tarded bloSsoming of the trees that
produce this variety. and C. Marshall
Finnan, superintendent of the Ma
tional Capital Parks, said the blooms
would not be out tomorrow as original
ly expected.
II the weather becomes warmer
next week, they may bloom Friday or
Saturday, it was said.
Evening star., 1935-04-13
200 to Attend Breakfast.

More than 200 men of the Holy
Name Society Of st. Joseph's Church
will attend the annual breakfast in
the School hall tomorrow after the
regular Holy Name mass, at n am.
Rev. Timothy M. Mullen, spiritual d.
rector Of the society, will celebrate the
mass. Joseph Readmond, president Of
st. Joseph's branch, will preside ct the
breakfast.
Evening star., 1935-04-13
WOMEN'S GROUP ELECTS
Mrs. E. T. Mueller Named Head
of All Souls Alliance.

Mrs. E. F.. Mueller was elected
president of the Women's Alliance Of
All Souls Church at its annual meet
ing yesterday. She succeeds Mrs.
j. M. Doran. who presided. Other
officers elected were:
Mrs. F. w. Tilley, first vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Howard Hosmer, second
vice president: Mrs. K H. Beij third
vice president; Miss Florence Bing-
ham, recording secretary, and Mrs.
j. H. Eaton, corresponding secretary.
Mrs. j. M. Aldrich, Mrs. Charles Ely
and Mrs. Doran. the retiring presi-
dent, were chosen directors. Annual
reports were read. ....
Evening star., 1935-04-13
JURY AWARDS S1O,38O
Baker Cork e. Tile Co. Wins Suit
Over Flooring Contract.

A District Supreme Court jury to-
day awarded s10,380 to the Baker
Cork g. Tile Co. in suit against the
E. L. Bruce Co. of Memphis, Tenn.
and the Cellized Oak Floors Co. in
connection with a contract for the
flooring of the new Post Office Build
ing.
Greed M. Fulton, manager of the
plaintiff company. had testified that
he had been engaged by the defend
ants to negotiate the flooring contract
and that the defendants refused tc
pay him the agreed-upon fee. Attor-
ney Charles S. Baker represented the
plaintiff.
Evening star., 1935-04-13
COL. HAROLD C. PIERCE
FINED ON AUTO CHARGE
Court Imposes Assessment of $25
on Plea of Guilty to Passing
Stop Sign.

A fine of $25 was imposed yesterday
in Traffic Court by Judge John P. Nc
Mahon against Lieut.. Col. Harold C..
Pierce, 46, United States Medical
Corps, living at 4707 Connecticut ave-
nue., on a plea of guilty Of passing a
stop sign.
Col. Pierce and Leonard Nicholson,
%, of Rockville, Md, were injured
Thursday afternoon at Connecticut
avenue and Chesapeake streets when
the defendants car is alleged to have
run through a stop sign and in front
of q street car, resulting in a collision
with the automobile in which Nichol-
son was q passenger. In imposing
sentence. Judge Mcmahon expressed
doubt that the charge upon which
Col. Pierce was arraigned was the cor
rect one, testimony having shown that
he was travelling at Q high rate Of
Lspsed ct the tins .of .ths accident
Evening star., 1935-04-13
MRS. ANNIE SCHMIDT
HURT IN FALL AT HOME
Ankle and Ribs Fractured in Ac-
cident at Residence, 700
Dahlia Street.

Mrs. Annie Schmidt, 66, Of 709
Dshlia street, suffered broken ankle
and two fractured ribs today when
she is said to have fallen down the
steps of her home.
Capt. e. G. Standlee of the Army
Surgeon Generals Office, who lives
at 705 Dahlia street, treated the in
jured woman, who later was taken to
Emergency Hospital.
Frank Schmidt said his mother
started to walk down the front steps
Of their home when she slipped and
fell.
Evening star., 1935-12-08

limitations, translations, paraphrases
and adaptations-to cite examples in
English lone-found in such diverse
writers as Shakespeare, Milton. Rob-
ert Herrick, Austin Dobson, Eugene
Field, F. p A. and Louis Untermyer
Is almost legion. The charm Of these
songs lies in their universal appeal;
that appeal lies in their gentle hu-
NOR, their bon mots, their perfect
lyric measure, the power of the poet to
say the commonplace in an uncom-
mon way.
'rPry not into the morrow's store;
Thy profit doth advance
BY every day that fate allots.
So lad, improve thy chance
Ere stiff old age replace thy youth
To love and tread the dance.
Now in the campus and the squares .
At the appointed hour
Let gentle whispers oft be heard
From many a twilight bower,
Or the laugh of a lurking lass betray
4AC pACuSC VI q ling VI AOWCA'
The above quotation, written by a
dumpy bachelor Of 40 who never suf-
fered real heart attack, reflects in
part his Epicurean philosophy of fate.
incidentally, the lines are taken from
a poem on Winter!
Is it any wonder that Horace should
have survived the vieiSSitudes Of the
passing centuries? Saved during the
Middle Ages as a school text-a fate
he had hoped to avoid-he returned
to literary favor with the revival of
learning. His influence by precept,
through his "Ars Poetica," and by ex-
ample, in his lyrics, has since that day
been easily discernible in France, Ger
many, Italy, Spain and England. It
is no idle gesture to celebrate today
the 2,000th anniversary of the birth
of Horace. The world has been in
finitely enriched by his presence in
it; he took unreasonable joy in men
and life; he has left an equal measure
for others.
Evening star., 1935-12-08
Young CromweU
Proved Spirit BY
Punching Prince

A S A boy, Oliver Cromwell showed
= the spirit which was one day to
make him ruler Of England.
When Oliver was a schoolboy, the
young Prince Charles was travelling
from Scotland to England. He stopped
at the Cromwell home for a rest, and
Oliver was allowed to meet him. It
was considered very great treat for
an ordinary boy like Oliver to meet
the Prince.
The two boys went into a side room
to play. Something the Prince said to
Oliver made him angry and he forgot
that the other boy was the son Of
king. His fist shot out, and the fight
began. Prince Charles was not a
strong boy, and he "ame out of the
battle with a bleeding nose. How
furious divers father wasl
Oliver was such a troublesome boy
that his father sent him to free
school, though he had intended to
have him educated at a fine private
school. The boy proved to be a good
all-around scholar, however. He was
equally good at Latin and Greek,
horseback riding and other sports:
At the early age of IT he entered
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
After he had been one year at college
his father died and he had to 60 home.
His mother then decided that he
should become a justice, so he went
to London to study law.
In London Oliver became interested
in the religious wars that were then
sweeping Europe. He wasn't content
to stick to the study of law. Little by
little he made himself leader, until
he became known as Englands great
est general.
Finally he became the Lord Protec-
tor of the country. As long as he held
this position he always wore armor
under his clothes and never slept in
the same place twice, so great was the
danger Of his being murdered. Life
was always a fight for Oliver Crom-
we'll
Evening star., 1935-12-08

struggled desperately and continued
to plead wildly for mercy. And behind
them, his face working with alarm.
stumbled the caretaker.
The men were almost to the bottom
of the stairs before they saw the
group below them. They stopped
short, uttering profane expressions Of
surprise. Then one of them turned to
the caretaker with furious question.
But the caretaker seemed incapable
of answering. He mumbled something,
choked. and stopped. The hard-faced
man turned, but before he had a
chance to speak, Bill jumped forward.
II can explain why we're here" he
cried quickly. Our car was wrecked,
and one of the girls was hurt. We
came up here to find phone, and
Evening star., 1935-12-08
Youth Finds That
Raising Turkeys
Presents Problem
BY EVERETT p, BILLBRUCK.


Tnis interesting story on raising
turkeys was contributed by one OF our
readers.
zee, but turkeys are hard to raisel
You wouldn't think so when you
see the pictures in the newspapers Of
the great big fiocks of turkeys being
marched to market. And maybe when
you raise them by the thousands on
wire-netting porches, 1t isn't so hard.
But to raise just few in your back
yard takes lot of work.
Last year I tried it. We bought 10
eggs from man who has 500 White
Holland turkeys. We Matched five
poults-that's what they call the baby
turkeys-and We raised only one. She
is hen turkey and we didn't want to
kill her and eat her for Thanksgiving,
so we carried her over the Winter.
Last Spring we bought l6 white tur-
key eggs. They weren't white eggs.
They were freckled, Just like other
turkey eggs.
Out of these we Matched five tur-
Keys, and now we have three. They
are all toms, which is what the gob-
blers are called. Next year maybe
Wen have more. Anyhow, I hope we
won't have to buy the eggs for they
are sort Of expensive, costing Is to IS
cents apiece.
The only way we could raise the
turkeys was to keep them of the
ground. Just as soon as we put them
on fresh grass, no matter how long
since other birds had been there, they
died in a few days. So we fixed a
coop for them with board floor and
kept them in the barn. We piled three
coops on each other and kept them
clean. First we used sand for the floor
and then later shavings. The coops
were only 8 by feet and l8 inches
high, but three turkeys grew nicely in
them until the gobblers began to
gobble.
They were awfully funny First the
red begins to show in their faces and
in their wattles. Then a few days later
they begin to try to gobble- -gobble-
gobble, but their voices break before
they get out the first gobble. 1t takes
them about a week to get the first
gobble just right. Then they go Cob
ble-gobb-spurck!" and change over
to whistling like a man that shutters.
When they finally grow enough to
do it right, they are very proud, and
spread their feathers and bob their
heads.
Evening star., 1935-12-08

NY boy or girl can make at
~ tractive but inexpensive Christ
a mas gifts for relatives or
4 n friends by the use of a paint
brush and a little ingenuity. Several
ideas are suggested in this article;
others will probably occur to you as
you read it.
A recipe box for mother will please
her much more If some Of your own
work has gone into the making of it.
The little cabinet illustrated is just an
ordinary wooden file box for recipe
cards. 1t is more attractive and much
handler than a cook book.
This, as well as the other gifts, Is
painted with lacquer or sealing wax
paints. The sealing wax paints you
yourself can make by buying sealing
wax sticks in the desired colors. Break
each stick into three or four pieces,
place in small cup, and cover with
denatured alcohol. Let the mixture
stand overnight, and by morning the
paints will be ready to use. Make
them the right thickness by adding a
little more alcohol If necessary.
For the cabinet use blue paint or
green enamel. On this paint the little
white-aproned chef with a puffy white
cap and big yellow plum pudding.
II you do not draw very well, cut
from q magazine a small figure with
cooks cap and apron. Place it on the
box while the paint is still wet. and
when the box has dried. paint over
the little figure carefully with black.
using fine brush.
You might give mother or aunt
breadboard and knife decorated
with a butterfly and daisy design in
white. yellow and black. A yellow bor-
der Is painted around the edge Of the
board. white butterflies edged in
black, and yellow daisies with black
centers are painted on, as shown in
the picture above, Cut-outs can be
pasted on and colored, as suggested
for the recipe book. The handle of
the knife is painted yellow, and the
design is painted in blue and black.
A white enameled crumb tray may
be beautifully made over with your
paints. The edge of the handle is
painted black. The petals should be
yellow edged with black, with the
centers black.
II you had to buy these hand
painted gifts, they would cost more
than most girls can make their pock-
etbooks cover at Christmas time, but
if you like to work with paints you
can make dainty presents with very
little expense. The sealing wax costs
only a few cents a stick, and the ar
ticles to be painted can be purchased
at any variety store.
A GAYLY decorated box is gift in
itself. 1t needs only some home
made candy or a handkerchief to fin
ish 1t. Any odd-shaped boxes that you
Evening star., 1935-12-08
Betty's Cousin Eats
Raggedy Ann Salad
BY BESSIE E. EARLE.

BY BESSIE e. EARLE.
MY LITTLE cousin Is coming for
A'A lunch today and she is very
fussy about her food. What shall ]
maker" Betty asked worriedly.
II am sure she would like a Rag
gedy Ann salad of vegetables"
"I don't know. Dinah," Betty
answered doubtfully. Her mother has
hard time getting her to eat vege-
tables"
"I have an idea she will like this
salad and never mind the vegetables u
Dinah assured Betty. II know you'll
have fun making It,"
IAN right. we'll try it. It has
cute name. Please tell me about it. u
So Dinah gave her the recipe and
Betty did enjoy making the salads.
And 70 you know, the strangest thing
happened: Betty's little cousin ate
every bit and asked for more.
RAGGEDY ANN SALAD.
/ hard cooked egg.
cloves
Small piece pimiento
raw carrot.
slices raw tomato.
short stalks celery.
lettuce leaves.
helpings of salad (tuna fish, po-
tato, chicken. or any kind.
small sweet pickles.
Salad dressing.
Cut egg lengthwise, place on plate,
yolk side up. Place cloves for eyes
and small pieces of pimiento for nose
and mouth on egg. Crate raw carrot
and scatter around top of egg for
fluffs of hair. Put slice of tomato
under head. making the body. Dot
with salad dressing down the center
to make buttons. Slash one end of
each piece of celery five times and
put in cold water to curl ends; max
ing arms with thumbs and fingers.
Put celery arms at sides Of tomato.
Slip curly lettuce leaf partly under
tomato to make the skirt. Fill lettuce
with salad. Tuck pickles under let
tuce to represent feet.
Evening star., 1935-12-08

got in the cellar window. Then you
folks came in upstairs. and we got
scared. and were just going to leave" f"
PILL saw the caretaker fash him a
desperate look of relief. Bill start
ed to back away, with one hand be-
hind him frantically notioning the
others toward the window.
"Oh, no, you dont!" the hard-faced
man on the stairs yelled. He relin-
pushed his grip on the other man and
leaped down the remaining steps to
catch Bill roughly by the arm. You
kids aren't leaving Somebody upstairs
will have something to say about
thisl"
To Be Continued Next Sunday.
Evening star., 1935-12-08
Riddles

TO MANY people. Christmas shop-
ping is enough of a riddle, with.
out trying to answer a lot of tricky
questfonsl But the true riddle fan
is never too busy to try his hand at
his favorite indoor sport.
/. Where should a man 60 to get
an petite?-Mary Virginia Strom.
2. What object is lower with a head
than without one?-Malcolm Thomp-
son.
3. What goes over water and under
water, but doesn't get wet?-virginia
Hansen.
4. Why Is q balky horse called a
plug?-Ella Ray Weese and Mary
Lena Hall.
ANSWERS.
!. Hungary. 2. A pillow. 8. A man
crossing o bridge with pail of water
on his head. 4. Because he Il Q
stopper.