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Evening star., 1939-01-23
Washington $ Parks
Testing Ground for
Exotic Shrubs
South American Plants
In Greenhouses to Be
Set Out in Spring

Washington parks will become .
proving ground for many varieties
of exotic South American shrubs,
vines and Towering plants this
summer as a result of President
Roosevelt's visit to the Pan-Ameri-
can Conference in Buenos Aires in
December, 1896.
The Presidents visit set in motion
q program Of international cooper
alton which will bring new varieties
of South American hibiscus and
other plants to cities of the United
States, while North American ever
greens will be sent for planting in
South American parks.
The Washington park system,
however, has been selected as a
testing ground and hundreds of little
seedlings and shoots of selected
South American plants now are
being raised in the local greenhouses
of the Office of National Capital
Parks for transplanting into the
parks in the spring.
During his South American visit,
President Roosevelt expressed inter-
est in the parks of the countries
visited, particularly in the Towering
trees and shrubbery Of city parks.
Upon his return to Washington, he
asked Secretary of the Interior
Ickes and Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace to send experts of their
departments to South America to
survey park planting and landscap-
ing there and to study the possibili-
ties of importing foreign plants for
use in the parks of this country.
Malcolm kirkpatrick, Office Of
National Capital Parks, represent
ing the National Park Service of the
Interior Department., and DR.. L. c..
Corbett of the Bureau of Plant In
dustry, Agriculture Department.
were selected to make the study and
spent several months in Chile,
Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil.
Since their return, it was an
nounced today, the actual exchange
of North American and South
American plants has begun and
experiments now are under way in
% Washington greenhouses.
Evening star., 1939-01-23
Morist Superior to Talk
On Church Unity

The Very Rev. William J. Loner-
gan, superior of Marist Seminary,
will be the speaker at o'clock to-
night in the church unity octave
service at the National Shrine Of
the Immaculate Conception at Cath
olic University.
The octave is under the auspices
of the Catholic University of Clerics
and Religious of the Catholic Stu
dents Mission Crusade. 1t was in
augurated 80 years ago in behalf Of
r"the union of Christendom. It will
be concluded Wednesday night.
Father Lonergan's topic will be
~Return of Lapsed Catholics to the
Sacraments. The choir of De La
Sale College will sing the benedic-
ton.
Evening star., 1939-01-23
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Shon-Roy, a Hollywood Crown
Tested Fabric, is unusually Beau
tifuI for it's Iinen-|ike weave.
The fociIe disposition it has for
washing and ironing endeors it to
busy motron and career woman
alike. And being Crown Tested,
the colors will remain ever fresh.
See the Spring and Summer styles
displayed on the Miniature Man.
nequins on our Third Floor Fabric
Department. See how lovely
Shon-Roy spun royon really is
when transformed into smart
Mccall pottern costumes.
L1nsburgh'e h'eFdbrics-Thtrd Floor
Evening star., 1939-06-18

recommendation, largely from the
South and Southwest, will be held
June 26 at Atlanta.
Southern opposition to the rec
ommendation, which informed Fed
eral officials expect will be adopted
by Mr.. Andrews, was based chiefly
on contentious that Southern mills
were at disadvantage competing
with Northern plants due to freight
dif1erentials. They also contended
Southern living costs were lower.
Sixty Of the applicants who asked
for time to be heard are proponents
OF the wage recommendation and
are principally from New England.
About lis Of the witnesses are
Southerners, who seek either to re-
duce the minimum wage proposed to
80 cents an hour or to obtain at least
21a-cent wage differential.
Evening star., 1939-06-18
Girls New York Trip
Issue in Death Probe
By the Associated Press.

NESQUEHONING, Pa, June IL
The conditions under which slain
Joan Stevens made trip to New
York became an issue today at a
hearing at which a man and girl
were held in $500 bail each on a
charge of enticing the 14-year- old
schoolgirl from home.
Mrs. Mayme Stevens testified her
daughter gave two pistols to the
man in payment for the two-day
trip in April.
A denial that they had agreed to
take the girl was entered. however
by the two prisoners-named by
Attorney James c. McCready as
Lucy Pavishlan, 81, and Joe Vra-
bel. Is.
During the hearing before Justice
of the Peace John K. Morgan. the
two declared Joan hid in their
car and they did not discover her
presence until it was too late to
turn back. They said they stayed
overnight with New York rela-
tives
Miss Pavlishan formerly lived in
Nesquehoning and Vrabel in Lans-
ford. Both have been working re-
Gently in New York
They were arrested on complaints
sworn out by the slain schoolgirls S
parents.
Their arrest first was announced
by Mr.. McCready, retained by a
citizens group as special counsel in
the case. District Attorney Albert
Heimbach said he had mo COM
ment" about the arrest.
The Stevens girl was shot to
death in a police car by Corpl
Benjamin Franklin, 80, while he and
a companion were questioning her
about a bank robbery tip. Oficer
Franklin contends he fired in self
defense when the girl pulled what
appeared to be pistol. Inves-
tigators say it was a toy.
Officer Franklin has been held in
5000 bail on a homicide charge.
Evening star., 1939-06-18
Truck Driver Is S|ashed,
Robbed by Panhand|ers

Police were searching last night
FOR three white panhandlers who
earlier in the evening slashed and
robbed Henry De Loatch, 30-year-
old truck driver Of 469 F street S.W..
In the Mall between Seventh and
Eighth strets.
Mr.. De Loatch told police he and
four companions were seated be-
meath the trees in the Mall when
three panhandlers approached. One
asked for dime. Mr.. De Loatch
said he told them he had no money.
One man slugged him and the
other slashed him across the face
with a knife. The three robbers
took about 81 and escaped.
Mr.. De Loatch said he hailed a
passing taxicab which took him
to Emergency Hospital. He was
treated and sent home after losing
. considerable quantity Of blood.
Evening star., 1939-06-18

US. The most We can say is that
there cannot be more than one
thousandth as much oxygen in the
atmosphere of Mars as there is in
our atmosphere. If an earth
ever reaches Mars he could manage
for a limited time there, but only
under highly artificial conditions
A gas mask and oxygen tank would
be a constant necessity.
The temperature of Mars is low,
but not low enough to make life i'm
possible, as was once believed. At
the Marian equator at noon it may
rise to so degree Fahrenheit, but
after sunset it falls rapidly to
freezing, and by midnight probably
reaches the lowest temperatures ever
recorded on the earth.
Summing up, there is good evi-
dence of vegetable life on Mars and
Evening star., 1939-06-18

time to reach a much more advanced
stage than we have attained here.
Any organisms on Mars must be
radically different in structure from
those on the earth, owing to the
lack of oxygen there. They must be
able to get along without this ele-
ment that a man absolutely re-
quires. We know some creatures
can do this. For example, certain
FORMS of bacteria will not develop
in an atmosphere of oxygen. But
with the exception of these low
forms of life, oxygen is a vital
necessity.
Thin Atmosphere.
Mars has thin atmosphere
about 60 miles thick, but, after so
years of research, the gases it con-
tains are still a mystery to us. They
might we'll be highly poisonous to
Evening star., 1939-06-18
Reich, Italy to Discuss
Naval Unity in Wartime
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, June 1.-THE German
naval ministry announced today it
was laying plans for combining
German and Italian sea power in
wartime.
A conference on joint action is to
be held June 20 and 81 by Grand
Admiral Erich Raeder, commander
of the German fleet, and Admiral
Domenico Cavagnari, Italian under
secretary of navy, at Friedrichs-
hafen on Lake Constance.
An understanding for collabora-
ton already has been reached by
army chiefs of the Rome Berlin
axis, Gen. Walther Won Brauchitsch
and Gen Alberto Pariani. The Ger
manhattan military alliance signed
In Berlin May % promised full
united action by forces Of the two
powers In case Of war.
Evening star., 1939-06-18
Campfire Program
To Be Held Friday at
Pierce Mill Grove
Four Nature Tours and
Auto Corovon Trip
Also Scheduled

The first campfire program of
the ONCE of National Capital
Parks this year is scheduled for
spm. Friday at Pierce Mill Picnic
Grove, 1t was announced yesterday.
M. R. Tillotson, former superin-
tendent Of Grand Canyon National
Park, will talk on Adventures on
Scaling SILVA Temple. Sky Island
Of Grand Canyon" The talk will
be illustrated with natural-color
movies and still pictures loaned
through the courtesy of DR.. H. E.
Anthony, curator of mammology,
American Museum of Natural His
tory. and leader of the expedition
on which the talk is based.
Auto Caravan Trip.
Special buses for the campfire
program will leave Sixteenth street
and Park road NV, starting at 7
pm.
The parks Office also has sched-
uled four nature tours during the
week and an all-day auto-caravan
trip to George Washington Birth
place National Monument, Wake
field Plantation, in Westmoreland
County, Va.
The last bus for the all-day trip
will leave 14l6 F street NV. at 8
am. Sunday. Those making the trip
were asked yesterday to meet Parks
Naturalist Donald Edward McHenry
and Philip R. Hough. superintendent
OF the monument, at the post office
In the monument grounds at II am.
Nature Tours.
The nature tours for the week are
as follows:
l. Nature walks along Cabin John
Run. Md. starting from the end
of the trolley line. from $50 to
1880 am. Wednesday and from
2:30 to 4:30 pm. Saturday. Ranger
Naturalist L. w. Kehr will be in
charge.
2. A bird walk in Fort Bunker
Hill Park with Mr. Kehr from to
$50 am. Sunday. starting from
Fourteenth and Otis streets NV.
3. A tree and flower walk along
the towpath of the c. & o. Canal
with Mr.. Kehr from 2:30 to 4:30
pm, starting at point near the
trolley tracks near Brookmont Md.
The parks Office announced that,
In case of rain, the campfire pro-
gram will be held in the Interior
Auditorium at $50 pm Information
about changes resulting from the
weather will be announced at 7
pm. over Station WMAL on the
District News" program.
Evening star., 1939-06-18
Mars Will Be Nearest Earth
In Years on July ~
Scientists Map Plans for View
Of P|cnet at Close Runqe

than those in the ocean. Also, since
water and vegetation are so scarce,
these animals must be very strong
and hardy to survive under such
harsh conditions. Their minds
would be sharpened by the constant
struggle against nature. Mars shows
every indication of being a vastly
older world than the earth, so that
life on its surface would have had
Evening star., 1939-06-18

When the radio scare about an
inDusion OF the earth by men
from Mars occurred last October.
the planet ,Dds 100000 900 miles
oDdy. On July q it ,Dil be only
100000 miles from the earth.
The facts about life on Mars are
told here in the first OF a series
OF fre articles By a member of
the stat OF Mount Wilson Oh
serDatory, Dhose giant telescope,
100 inches in diameter, is the
largest noD in use.
Evening star., 1939-06-18
Public Hearings Called
On Textile WAGES
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
About 1SO representatives of
labor. industry, States and local
communities in the North and South
have applied to the wage-hour divi-
sion of the Labor Department for
hearing on a proposed 31h-cent-
an-hour minimum wage for the
textile industry.
Public hearings before Wage Hour
Administrator Elmer F. Andrews
will begin here tomorrow when pro-
ponents of the wage minimum rec
commended by the Textile Industry
Committee will appear.
A hearing for opponents of the
Evening star., 1939-06-18

some slight evidence Of highly intel
ligent life. But whatever creatures
remain must be quite different in
constitution from those with which
we are familiar-as far apart as an
octopus and camel.
Released by North American Newspaper
Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1939-06-18
Green Will Speak

Featuring the annual meeting of
the Woman's Democratic Club of
Hyattsville tomorrow night at 8
o'clock at the home of Mrs. John J.
Fainter, Wine avenue and Spencer
street, will be an address by County
Police Justice Walter l.. Green. Mrs.
H. B. Mayhem, president, invites all
Democratic women of Hyattsville
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-16

What could be more appropriate
for sheet and pillow cases than
these decorative angels in simple
stitchery! Just the thing for guest
linens. Perhaps you'll prefer the
CHEEKY "Good Morning and
Good Evening" You can finish
off either design with the filet GRO
Chef edging. Pattern 6348 con-
tains a transfer pattern of seven
motifs ranging from 4A by 16A
inches to 3A by 9k inches; direc-
tions and charts for crochet; ma
terials needed; illustrations Of
stitches.
To obtain this pattern send IS
cents in coins to The Sewing Cir
Gle, Household Arts Dept, 259 w.
18th ST., New York, N. Y.
Please write your name, adj
dress and pattern number plainly.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-16
AU-Around Man Vas
Worth the Money!

The customer was being shaved
in country town to which he was
a visitor, when the barber cut him.
The man was all apologies, and
placed a piece of tissue paper over
the cash.
When the shave was finished the
customer-to the great surprise Of
the barber-handed over a sub
stantial tip.
"That's all right" said the VIC
tim, with smile of forgiveness;
II don't often get shaved by a
man who deals in three trades"
"Three trades?" queried the
puzzled barber.
eyes," came the sarcastic re-
ply" barber, butcher, and paper
hanger"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-16
Star Dust
x Winner: Virginia Yale
X Scouts Eye Graduates
X ElboV Room for Grant
ny Virginia Vale

APPARENTLY Jesse Lasky,
4 n who is now conducting his
second search for new faces for
the screen, thinks that there is
something in name-at least,
something in my name. For he
has chosen Virginia Vale" as
the name which will be be-
slowed on the girl who is select
ed as the winner of this nation
wide talent quest.
The boy who wins will be called
"Robert Stanton (which makes me
wonder if some man, somewhere,
who really is named Robert STAN
ton, was as startled and exasperat-
ed as I was over discovering that
his name had been kidnapped, as it
were. There ought to be law
against it!
-
Freddie Bartholomew is no longer
a star. Metro has denoted him,
and promoted James Stewart,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-16

filling over the crust, and cover with
one cup of crust mixture reserved
for this. Bake in moderately slow
oven (325 degrees) for about one
hour. Serve warm with plain or
whipped cream.
Oatmeal Raisin Mullins.
Makes 1918 small muffins) 4
/ cup general purpose -four
A teaspoons baking powder
" teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
Q cups oatmeal ~ AAsl
" cup seedless raisins I
! egg "a "a
cup milk
8 tablespoons shortening (melted)
Silt together the flour, baking pow
Ter, salt and sugar. Add oatmeal
and the raisins. Beat the egg, add