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Evening star., 1938-04-10
Record Crowd
Is Expected at
Lily Exhibition

More than 1000 Easter lilies have
been placed in the exhibition con-
servatory Of the Botanic Gardens for
the opening today of a flower show
that is expected to attract record
breaking throngs Of Washington resi-
dents and visitors.
Each of the plants on display has
from 7 to 80 blooms. with one unique
lily boasting 80 blooms and flowers on
. three branches that branch out from
its main stem like limbs on tree.
William A. Frederick, in charge of
the Botanic Garden under direction
Of the Joint Congressional Committee
on the Library, of which Senator
Harkley is chairman. prepared for
record breaking crowds of visitors to-
dAy after nearly $4,000 persons in
spected the array of flowers on display
last Sunday.
In addition to the unprecedented
exhibition of Easter lilies, the show
includes So unusually large rhododen-
drons, more than 100 large azalea
plants, 1000 Darwin tulips. 5000 mar
cissus, 5,400 hyacinths in eight colors,
and other spring blossoms. A special
attraction Is one of the most valuable
and complete collections of orchids in
the world.
Evening star., 1938-04-10
RELIGION IN RUMANIA
TO BE TOPIC TONIGHT
DR.. William s. Culbertson Will
Be Speaker at Covenant-First
Presbyterian.

DR.. William S. Culbertson. former
Minister to Rumania. will speak on
"Rumania and the Greek Church To-
day at 8 o'clock tonight during
the national open parish hour at
Covenant-First Presbyterian Church
Radu rimescu. the new Rumanian
Minister. who arrived Friday, will be
welcomed in his unofficial capacity
by the parish counsellor. Mircea
Babes will respond. Greetings also
Will be extended to Minister Demetrios
Slcllianos of Greece and to George
Boncesco, Rumanian financial coun-
sellor, who served with DR.. Culbert-
son IN Rumania. DR.. Cloyd Heck
Marvin. president of George Wash
ington University. will preside.
On Easter Sunday at the same
hour, the open parish hour will hear
DR.. c. T. Wang, Chinese Ambassador.
Julian Arnold of Shanghai and DR..
Esson Gale, finance expert in the
Chinese government.
Designed to accent the American
non-sectarian note of religion in pub
lie, economic and international rela-
tions, the open parish hour is an
independent assembly which has been
attended by more than 1000 people
since the first assembly on March 6.
The last program of the series will
be held on April "a.
Evening star., 1938-04-10
SUNRISE SERVICE
PLANS PERFECTED
Finnan Announces Program
for Easter Morn at
Sylvan Theater.

/ The detailed program for the Eas-
] ter sunrise services sponsored by the
National Park Service next Sunday
| in the Sylvan Theater on the WASH
ington Monument grounds, was an
! nounced yesterday by c. Marshall
| Finnan, superintendent of National
Capital Parks. The one-hour program
is scheduled to begin at 7:30 o'clock,
with the first Is minutes broadcast
over a Nationwide radio hook-up.
The Schola Cantorum. under the
direction of Arturo Papalardo. will
be featured. This portion of the pro-
gram will be preceded by a short
religious ceremony. conducted by
Msgr Michael J. Ready. general sec
retary Of the National Catholic We'll
fare Association.
The portion of the services broad
| cast will be part of an hours radio
program of Easter services. with the
remaining As minutes being given to
similar observances at the Hot
Springs (ArkD Grand Canyon and
Death Valley National Parks in that
order
Between the religious ceremony and
| the presentation of Schola Cantorum,
Mr.. Flnnan will describe for the radio
| audience typical Easter scenes in the
Nations Capital. Nine classical and
sacred selections then will be pre-
sented by Maestro Papalardo's singers.
Mr.. Finnan made public this list OF
patrons and patronesses, headed by
Secretary 1ckes: Mr.. and Mrs. Arno
B. Cammerer, Mr. and Mrs. A. E.
Demaray, Senator and Mrs. William
Gibbs McAdoo, Senator Hattie W.
Caraway, Senator and Mrs. Henry F.
Ashurst, Representative and Mrs. Ross
Collins. Representative and Mrs Ed
ward T. Taylor, Representative and
Mrs. Sol Bloom. Representative and
Mrs Howard Smith, Commissioner and
Mrs. Melvin c. Hazen. Commissioner
and Mrs. George E. Allen, Col. and
Mrs. Daniel I. Sultan, Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Bruce Howe, MI. and Mrs.
Lawrence Townsend. Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Woods Bliss, DR.. and Mrs. Hans
kindler, Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. Cappel,
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin c. Sharpe, Mrs.
Elizabeth K. Peoples, Capt and Mrs.
F. w. Hoover, Mrs. Richard Boiling,
Miss Sibyl Baker and Mr.. and Mrs. H.
L. Rust. jr.
The program follows:
L. The Heavens Are Telling Haydn
2. "Allelua'' Mozart
Helen Wootton, coloratura.
MISS WOOttOn III
was, discovered by Maestro Papa
lardo and has been under his
training for the past year. This
is her first public appearance.
.. BY Thee With Bliss Haydn
Loye duet from, "creation.')
Alton Alton Margetts' i.r' soprano.
Sehola Cantorum Chorus.
4. (al "Alleluia.''
(b' Il Know That My Redeemsr
Music from "Messiah.')
Schola Cantorunl.
5. 20 Morn of Beauty Sibelius
| Schola Cantorum
| D. There Is Green Hill Far Away"
Gounod
..,i.s. FIanklin I?.! Holmes. tenor. ,..,
Schola Cantorum.
3. Our Saviour Triumphant.
Bernard Hamblen
~ Howard Millner. baritone
8. The Strife Is Ger" Mendelssohn
Schola Cantorum.
| Eleanor Crivella. accompanist.
Evening star., 1938-04-10
STRIKERS AT HOWARD
PLAN DEMONSTRATION
Hiring of Non-Union Men to
Repair President Johnson's
Home Protested.

Striking union laborers on ST $780,
900 P. w. A. construction job at How
ard University are planning to stage
a demonstration tomorrow morning, it
was announced yesterday, in protest
against the employment of non-union
workers on job OF repairing the resi-
dence of President Mordecai johnson.
The university's Board of Trustees
will be meeting then, it was said, and
the union workers plan to lay their
protest before them Arthur L. Scho-
enthal chairman of the Executive
Board of the Building Trades Council
said number of colored laborers will
be in the picket line.
The two weeks strike of some 1875
workers was called, Mr.. Schoenthal
said, not so much against a on-union
contract as against the payment of
wages at least so per cent below the
prevailing scale The work done on
the presidents house is private job,
authorized by the Board of Trustees,
whereas union contractors are build
ing university library and mems
dormitory under P. w. A. contract
At the solicitation of P. w. A. Ad-
ministrator Ickes, negotiations are un-
der way for settlement of the labor
controversy and these will be renewed
tomorrow
Evening star., 1938-04-10
Papers Fail to Free
? Women Held as Prostitutes

The "writs," signed in advance by
lawyer who apparently was tired of
being hauled out of bed at late hours,
called attention to section 205 Of the
District Code, which reads:
ANY person committed or detained,
or any person in his behalf. may de-
mand a true copy of the warrant of
commitment or detainer, and any
officer or other person detaining him
who shall refuse or neglect to deliver
to him true copy of the warrant of
commitment or detainer, if any there
be, within six hours after the demand,
shall forfeit to the party so detained
the sum of $500"
After considering the problem-in
less than six hours-police decided to
charge all Is prisoners with vagrancy,
thus nullifying, in the minds of police,
the effect Of the "writs"
One man also was arrested In the
roundup.
Evening star., 1938-04-10

Two of fifteen women arrested last
night as suspected prostitutes tenn
porarily threw police for a loss by
producing their walking papers
''writs" which they claimed assured
their freedom unless they were charged
within six hours.
Coming on the heels of the last
test cases, in which a number of
other alleged street-walkers were
turned loose in Police Court because
vagrancy charges did not stand up,
this new legal angle had police head
quarters in dither.
"Six-hour writs" had been seen by
police before, but they usually were
presented by lawyer after his client
was taken into custody.
The two women had them on their
person, however, when arrested by
members of Lieut.. Joseph Simmons
pickup squad, and they lost no time
in producing them.
Evening star., 1938-04-10
NEW PARKING BAN
DELAYED PENDING
ACTION BY P. j. c.
Utilities Commission Will Be
Given Opportunity to
Pass on Rules.
APPLICATION TO TAXI
STANDS is IN DOUBT
City Heads May Order Revision
of Drastic Regulations to
Make Certain of Legality.

Enforcement of the drastic new re-
strictions on automobile parking near
street intersections-adopted last Tues
day by the District Commissioners
will be delayed at least until the Public
Utilities Commission has had an op-
portunity to pass on them, it was re-
vealed yesterday
Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen said
publication of the required legal notice
had been withheld because of sue-
gested application Of the new rules
at some later date to taxi stands bus
stops and sightseeing vehicles. which
come under the jurisdiction of the
utilities body.
He suggested the orders might be
revised, to make sure of their legality,
unless the utilities commission sees fit
to adopt the full force of the orders
for the public carriers. There have
been no intimations that the utilities
commission plans to adopt the orders
as they now stand.
Cuts Parking Space Heavily.
One clause of the rules would bar
parking OF cars on the approach side
OF intersections which are controlled
by traffic lights, in sections 100 feet
back from the curb line The other
would forbid parking at any inter-
section closer to the curb line than
point 20 feet back of the official build.
limo with vi
SO feet from the curb.
When questions were raised last
week as to possible application of the
rules to taxi stands. Traffic Director
William A. Van Duzer explained il
was not intended to disturb taxi standa
and parking spaces for other common
carriers until after studies had been
made of their situations.
Broader Study Directed.
| Later the Commissioners directed a
committee of District officials, orial-
nally named to study possibilities of
municipality owned parking lots, to
broaden its scope to include con-
sideration of general parking and
traffic conditions. The Utilities Com
mission. 1t was indicated, also will
make its own studies of any needed
changes in taxi stands.
Reconsideration of the new park
ing bans will be delayed, it vas
said. until the return of Col. Dan
I. Sultan, the engineer commissioner.
who also is a member of the Public
Utilities Commission. now on a vaca-
tion trip which was to take him to
Mexico. In his absence he was repre-
sented by Capt. H. S. Bishop, as
sistant engineer commissioner.
At last Tuesdays meeting, disap-
proval Of the changes was voiced by
Commissioner George E. Allen. He
Gid not press the point. however,
when the other two officials voted for
the bans.
Evening star., 1938-04-10
YOUNG vANDALS
PUT ON PROBATION
Five Chevy Chase Children Admit
Joining in Destruction of
House FURNISHINGS,

Five Chevy Chase children, rang
ing IN age from to IL years, were
placed on probation in Juvenile Court
yesterday after they had admitted
participating in destruction of furni-
ture, antiques and paintings in the
home Of William Frank Thyson, 37O6
Morrison street NV, two months
ago.
At the time, Mr.. Thyson, a retired
real estate dealer, said he believed
his loss would be approximately $4,000.
After the apprehension of the chill
dren, however, number of stolen
articles, including a valuable stamp
collection, were recovered.
The case was heard yesterday by
Presiding Judge George c. Aukam of
Municipal Court in the absence of
Judge Fay Bentley Of Juvenile Court,
who Is i'll.
It was said the children were
placed on probation for an indefinite
period in the custody Of their parents.
They will be under the supervision Of
the courts probation oncer.
Evening star., 1938-04-10
D. c. REORCAN|z|NC
WILL Be STUDIED
King and Pa|misano Plan
ParIey on Revamping
Survey Soon.

Chairmen King and Palmisano Of
the Senate and House District Com
mittees. respectively, are to confer
early this week regarding the pro-
posed survey for reorganization Of
the District Government. for which
$4,000 is included in the District Ap-
preparation Act.
Prospects of any municipal govern
ment reorganization, however, are
about as remote as those for reor-
ganization of the Federal Govern
ment, leaders in Congress and Dis
trict officials agree. The consensus
is that there is no chance of any
reform legislation this session"
1t is probable that chairnen of sub
committees will be appointed to con-
duct the District survey as a result
of this weeks conference. but any
recommendations for drastic changes
will be delayed until next session,
Senator King indicated last night. He
gave assurances he will be agreeable
to any plan suggested by Mr.. Pal
misano who also expressed his de-
sire to Cooperate with the Senate
committee. Both emphasized that
the $4,000 allotment is not sufficient
for complete survey which should
be made before any reorganization
action is taken"
Senator King pointed out there are
variety of reports already in the
hands of the committee. Correlation
of this information and a program
of study are the essential and first
requirements" he said He called at
tention particularly to the recommen-
dation of the Citizens Committee
headed by E. Barrett Prettyman, for
mer corporation counsel, and the re-
port of a special committee named
several years ago by the Senate Dis
trict Committee.
counsel. prepared the latter report,
which was concurred in by the then
budget director. Lewis Douglas, and
Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, District audi
tor.
The forthcoming study may be made
either jointly or independently by the
Senate and House committees, as the
chairman may decide.
Favorable reports from subcommit-
tees to the full Senate District Com
mittee are expected this week on pro-
posals to set up lunacy commission
and for modernization of the Zoning
Act, and on several minor measures.
Evening star., 1938-04-10
Boy Goes Fishing for Shad,
But Gets on Wrong End of Line
Finds Neighbor's Hook
Is Mighty Handy
When Adrift.

This is fish story with a new an
gle-how a fisherman feels when he
finds himself on the wrong end Of
the line.
It seems that l6-year-old Tommy
Maher. 1903 Kennedy street NV,
wanted to go fishing yesterday to try
his luck with the winter shad. HIS
father told him he couldn't 60. but
Tommy, as other boys have done be-
fore and probably will do again,
went anyhow.
Tommy took up his stand at the
Fourteenth Street Bridge ever the
f1oodgates between the Tidal Basin
and the harbor. His aunt. Miss Helen
E. O'Neil. 1901 Columbia road, whom
he had net downtown, was with him,
watching from the bank
Things went pretty we'll at first
Tommy snagged two shad-nice ones
and then his enthusiasm got tne bet
ter of him. On his third cast he
leaned too far and gust of wind
toppled him into the deep water on the
harbor side
Tommy is good swimmer, but he
was handicapped by heavy clothing
Nevertheless, he kept afloat while the
high wind and current swept him
downstream rs feet. Then, with his
strength about gone. he saw. of all
things. a fishing line. In sheer des-
peration he grabbed it and held on.
The limitations of vocabulary and
space forbid an adequate description
of the reactions of the doing fisher
man at the other end. one Calvin Rob-
inson, colored. GIG Bland court SW
With gasp of astonishment. Robin
son, who has been fishing the Potomac c
for more than so years. sprang to his
feet when he felt the tug at his line.
Surely. he thought, this was the fish
he had been dreaming about all these
years. And then he saw Tommy!
What you doing out there. white
boy?" he exclaimed. How'd you get
on my line?"
What Tommy said in reply, if any
thing, must 60 unreoorded, but he
did hang on to the line and yell for
help.
His aunt came. running, followed
by three tourists from Newark, N. j.,
who had heard her screams. Some
body threw Tony life preseryer and
he clung to that until he was pulled
ashore.
Miss O'Neill took him to Emergency
Hospital, where he was treated for
shock and sent home, none the worse
for the experience except for the loss
of his hat and the shad. He agreed,
however, that the outcome probably
would have been different had it not
been for Robinson's line.
Its good thing he was there"
Tommy told reporters. Il don't know
how fish feels about it, but I was
mighty glad to see that line"
But Robinson was not quite Sc
cheerful about it. Anybody knows, u
he told park policeman, that man
can't fish with all that commotion
going on"
Evening star., 1938-04-10
JEFFERSON HIGH
COMPLETION AIM
OF FD|STR|CTHEA
Funds for Health Center
and Library Also Have
Been Provided.
PLANNERS CONSIDERING
RECREATION GROUNDS
Capt. H. S. Bishop Heads Group
Appointed to Recommend
Sites for Buildings.

District officials this week will re-
sumo efforts to complete arrange
ments for the construction of new
Jefferson Junior High School in
Southwest Washington project that
has been delayed for about 10 years
due to disagreements over the loca-
ton and price of the site
Unless some new hitch is encount-
cred, residents of the area may see,
during the next fiscal year, the start
ing ~ef development of four projects
which may cost nearly Sl.500,OOO
In addition to the new junior high
school, Congress has provided appro-
priations for a branch library. to be
built adjoining the school, and for a
health center. Also the National Cap
ital Park and Planning Commission
is considering purchase of land near
the new school for a large recreation
center.
Committee Is Named.
With the signing of the 1889 appro-
priation act. the Commissioners ap-
pointed a committee to recommend
sites for the three buildings. The
chairman is Capt. H S. Bishop. as
sistant engineer commissioner, who
has charge of District construction
projects Other members are DR..
Frank w. Ballou, superintendent OF
schools; DR.. George F. Bowerman,
public librarian; Nathan c. Wyeth,
municipal architect; DR.. George c.
Rutland. health officer John A
Nolen. director of planning of the
Park and Planning Commission; Ed
ward A. Dent, District surveyor, and
Lewis r. Barrett. co-ordinator of the
District Recreation Commission.
The new supply act makes available
the unexpended balance of Sl95.000
of an old appropriat for the JET
ferson Junior High School and the
Commissioners now are freed of for
mer restriction as to the site. If they
are able to arrive at an agreement
with the owners of the land they will
be permitted to buy the remainder of
the long-sought site between Seventh
and Ninth, H and streets southwest,
for the new Junior high school, A
portion of the site already has been
purchased, at 4 cost OF S126,000.
Shift in Plans Seen.
Some officials believe there will be
space for the library building on the
school site However. such decision
likely will cause shift in plans for
the health center. it was said. Since the
Commissioners last year were barred
from attempting to buy additional
land west of Seventh street for the
school site, it had been planned Sto
put the health center on the portion
already purchased
1t was suggested that the health
center could be built ON the grounds
of the old Jefferson Junior High
School, at Sixth street and Virginia
avenue southwest. For this project
Congress has authorized an expendi-
ture up to 100000.
For the new school and the library
Congress already had authorized ex-
penditures amounting to 100000. For
the beginning of construction the ap-
preparation act for this year carried
an appropriation of s500,000.
Evening star., 1938-04-10
Man Shot to Death,

John Briscoe, "a, colored, first block
of Patterson street NE, died in
Freedmen's Hospital last night of bull
let wounds received an hour earlier
in fight with another colored man
in the 600 block of Marion court NV.
Police are looking for his assailant.
Evening star., 1938-04-10
Building Code to Be Adopted.

DISTRICT HEIGHTS, Md, April
8 (SpeciaD A special meeting of the
District Heights town commissioners
has been called for Friday night at 8
o'clock to adopt a town building code
Evening star., 1938-04-10
MAxEY HEADS FINANCE
DIVISION OF U. S. H. A.
Former P. W. A. Chief Accountant
Was Transferred to Housing
Agencv Last Novem ber.

Appointment of Charles J. Maxey,
formerly of New York, as director OF
the division of finance and accounts
in the United States Housing Author
ity was announced yesterday.
In February, 1885, Mr.. Maxey ac-
cepted the position of chief account
ant of the Public Works Administra-
ton. and when the U. S. H. A. was
established last November he was
transferred to that agency. A native
of Rutherford, N. j., he served as
chief accountant of the Rock Island
Arsenal during the World War and
later returned to private practice In
New York City.
Evening star., 1938-04-10
80, 900 POUNDS OF YAMS
TO BE GIVEN D. c. NEEDY


Receives IS, 900 Pounds of
Butter for Poor Here.
Thirty thousand pounds of sweet
potatoes have just been furnished
the District Welfare Board by the
Federal Surplus Commodities Corp.
for distribution among families on
relief
According to David w. Miller, direc-
tor Of commodity distribution for
the board, this initial shipment will
be followed by 100000 pounds more,
to be accumulated under the surplus
removal program being conducted in
Maryland, Delaware and New jersey
The Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
ministration is directing the program
The board also has received $1,000
pounds Of tub butter. from New York
State.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-24
4rthritis, the Great
American Disease
Nomination Of joints Likely to Hit All Of Us If We Live
Long Enough, Doctor Says

The other occurs in older people,
affects one or few joints, and
usually runs a course of about a
year, leaving only slight stiffness
behind. 1t frequently affects the
spine and leaves "poker back.
The first form-that occurring in
young peoples called arthritis
deformans. Few measures in treat
ment are beneficial. Most of the
good results claimed for different
remedies have been successful in
the latter form.
Many Remedies
OF those remedies, the name Is
legion. AS one of my friends who
has handled his share of arthritis
patients said, eff all the so-called
cures for arthritis were laid end
to end, every five, minutes they
would extend from here back to the
birth of job"
The arthritic patient must make
up his mind that no one treatment
| is going to magically cure him. 1t
| is a complex disorder and many
parts of the body-the digestive
tract, the blood, the sinuses, the
tonsiis, as we'll as the joints-are
out of line. <,
Still remain the three great
standbys of treatment:
Rest. Psychology. Heat.
If the arthritis is going to get
well, it tends to get well Of itself.
Rest will help this. Encouragement
-psychology-the patient with ar
| thrills always needs. And heat re-
lieves the pain even if it does not
cure, and really promotes the heal
ing process in all cases.
EDITORS NOTE: Seven pamphlsts by
DR.. Clendening can now be obtained by
sending 10 cents in coin. for each, and
self-addressed envelope stamped with q
three-cent stamp, to DIR. Logan Clenden-
ing. in care of this paper. The pamphlets
are: "Three Weeks Reducing Diet In
digestion and Constipation. Reducing
and Gaining, Infant Feeding. In-
s st,r for the Treatment Of Diabetes.
Feminine Hygiene" and ''The Care Of the
Hair and Skim"