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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-19
PORTLAND MINISTER TO
SPEAK HERE THURSDAY

Rev. Harold w. Erickson, pastor
OF the Covenant Mission taber-
nacle of Portland. will speak Tues
day at 7:45 p. m. in Calvary tab
ernacle. So. l4th and M SITS DR..
Walter Wilson. Bible teacher from
Kansas City. Mo. and Rev. George
Z. Bostrom will also speak.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-19
MRS. ANGELA vERCILLo

Mrs. Angela Vercillo. rs, died
Monday at her home. 2o22 So. 18th
st. Born in italy, she had resided
in Tacoma so years. She was a
member of st. Rita's church and
of the Altar society Surviving
are one daughter, Mrs. Rosina
Kappa and a son. Charles. both Of
Tacoma; brother, Michael Mama;
10 grandchildren and two great
grandchildren. Funeral announce
ment will be made by Gaffneya.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-19
Nst Diu. Holds
Line of Def nse

WITH THE lisT DIVISION.
near Adna, Embellishments
representing complete units Of the
llst division this morning were
holding = line from Pc Ell to Doty.
Warrington. protecting railroad
lines. highways. and channels Of
communication from an invader
until the 10th division of California
and Utah national guardsmcn. now
concentrated in California. can ar
rive At Fort Lewis.
Such was the situation ~ out
llned by Maj. Gen. George A..
white. division commander, this
morning. Detachments Of division
headquarters and the three brig
ades moved out Of their Camp
Scott position Monday afternoon
ana conveyed 10 this present posi-
ton.
The famous 18th "Can DO" regi-
b attached to the headquarters
groups for the duration Of the
three-day maneaiver. Also work.
ing With the ground groups are
planes of the llst division avia-
tion under command Of Maj. Hill
ford wallace.
In event a psrsistence by the
enemy forces I'm theory the d.
vision win fan back into the hills
behind n NJ and Doty.
etaff officers explained that all
communications organisations VIII
70 into active fanctioning at their
various command posts. Troops
and officers viii remain In the
field Monday and Tuesday night,
expecting to return to camp by
lats Wednesday afternoon.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-19
WOULD LET U. 5. BUILD
ARMAMENT FOR LATDNS

WASHiNGTON-The house for
eign affairs committee agreed
unanimously Tuesday TO report a
bill authorizing the United States
to build wsrships and other srms-
ments for Latin American repub-
lies
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-19
Afghans to Get
Italian Tanks

KARACH - Twelve tanks OF
italian make have passed through
Karschi on their way to Afghan
istan.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-19
FUNERAL SERVICES
Thomas b. Harrison - wednes-

day. 1870 p. m, Piper's chapel;
Don Abernethy officiating; inter-
ment Mountain View burial park.
William Bali-Wednesdsy, 2;lo
p. m. Mellinger's chapel: Rev.
r. X. McGinnis; interment Noun
tain View burial park.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-19

Someone wants to rent your
spare room. Reach them with a
Fast-Action Times Want nd.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
Rainbow Veterans
Will Plan Proqrums

James E. Witherite, recently
elected president of the District of
Columbia Chapter, Rainbow Divi-
sion Veterans, will discuss tentative
chapter programs for the ensuing
year at a meeting with division key
men" on the evening of Septem-
Der 9 at his home, 727 Gist avenue.
Silver Spring. Md Mr.. and Mrs.
Wltherlte will be hosts at an in
formal garden party for the leaders
and their wives following the meet
ing. The meeting originally was
scheduled for August 10, but was
postponed due to many of the in
vited guests being out of the city.
Among those invited to attend are
Elmer F. Neagle, newly elected ma
tional president of the Rainbow Di-
vision Veterans: M. Manning Mar
Gus, a past national president, R.
d. ": Walker H. Colston, senior
executive national committeeman
from the District of Columbia: Har-
old Barnhardt Rodier, national edi-
tor of The Rainbow Reveille; Ber-
nard v. Rhodes. honorary president
of the District Chapter; William H.
Kay, past chapter president; Oscar
Ovolon Jackson, past chapter presi-
dent; Edward j. Mahan, past chap
ter president; Bentley Mulford,
publicity officer: Walter E. Fillman,
vice president: Joseph M. Cohen,
secretary; Irving H. Silverberg,
treasurer; Harry B. Schultz; Col.
John j. Reinhard, past chapter pres
ident; Col. A. L. Smith, U. S. A., re-
tired. and Frank M. Stockton, vice
president.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
Order of Alhambra
Committee Named

Mrs. Lillian M. Griffith will head
a ladies' reception committee which
will arrange for entertainment of
the women who will attend the BIZ
ennial convention of the Order of
Alhambra at the Willard Hotel Au-
gust 31-September 2.
Working with Mrs. Griffith are
the following Mrs. Margaret Allen,
Miss Ellen Bresnahan, Mrs. Thomas
r. Carlin, Mrs. John j. Carmody,
Mrs. Arthur c. Colbert, Mrs. Morris
II. Colbert, Mrs. John M. Connell,
Mrs. Leo F. Diegelmann, Mrs. Jerry
Dlgnan, Mrs James P. Fegan, Miss
Clair Gallagher, Mrs. Marie CLANCY,
MRS. Alfred j. Haigley, Mrs. Gene
we've Handley, Mrs. William P. Kill
leen, Mrs. Joseph T. Kirchner, Mrs.
May McCann, Mrs. Jennie Nc
kenna, Mrs. Francis j. Malloy, Mrs.
JENNIE Moseley, Mrs. Carrie Neff.
MRS. Dan OConnor, Mrs. A. l..
oehmann, Mrs. Genevieve Perry,
Mrs: Walter I. Plant, Mrs John C.
Powers. Mrs. T. j. Quirk Mrs.
Michael j. Racioppi, Mrs Frances
Rafterry, Miss Ellen Raedv, Mrs
Leo Rossiter, Mrs. Percy J. saffell
Mrs. James Sullivan, Mrs Nell viii.
coxon and Mrs. Margaret Wooils
Evening star., 1939-08-20

tomatoes and wines are being de-
veloped as industries, she found.
Expense Is Tremendous.
The expense of the reclamation
process is immense, she pointed out.
And one must remember" she said.
that the Jews are not a nation,
but a religion, and that the work
is being done with money sent from
all parts of the world"
"The problem is so big no one
knows how to handle it," she said.
And 1 have no solution" she ad-
mitted frankly.
But it is well to think of the
effect on women and children of
this question of war and people
being driven from their homes
away from their families and penni-
less. The women and children suffer
now as much as the men,"
During the last year DR.. Burton
was active on the Committee on
Legal and Economic Status of
Women of the Washington Branch,
American Association of University
Women. She also has affiliations
in the General Federation of
Women's Clubs, the Business and
Professional Women's Club, the
League of American Pen Women,
the P. E. o. Sisterhood and the
Home Economics Association of the
District.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
CoIored Nurses to Meet
At Howard Tuesday

The National Association of Col
ored Graduate Nurses will hold a
public meeting Tuesday at 8 pm.
in Rankin Chapel of Howard Uni
versity at which Mrs. Estelle M.
Riddle, president, and Miss Mamie
Burroughs, founder and principal
of the National Training School for
women and girls, will be principal
speakers.
Welcome addresses will be deliv-
cred by DR.. T. Edward Jones, sur
n-in-chief of Freedman's Hos
pital, and DR.. Numa P. Adams. dean
Of the Howard Medical School.
Two days later at pm. the group
will hold a public health meeting
on tuberculosis and the Negro.
Speakers will include Mrs. Ernest
r. Grant, managing director of the
tuberculosis Association; DR.. How
ard Payne, of the medical school;
DR.. A. Barklie Coulter, director of
the Health Departments Tubercu-
losis Bureau; Mrs. Lorna Doone
Mitchell, director of nurses at Sea-
view Hospital; Mrs. Josephine p.
Prescott, director of the Health De-
partment's s Bureau of Nursing; John
Davis, executive secretary of the
National Negro Congress-. and DR..
Adams.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
G. O. p. Women Get
Guest Cards for
New York Visit

Guest cards have been extended
to members of the League of Re-
publican Women of the District by
the Womens National Republican
Club, 3 West Firty-first street. New
York City, for those who are visiting
New York during the Worlds Fair.
Guests are welcomed by hostesses
for the committee at tea each week
day from 4 to pm. in the nine
story clubhouse, opposite Rockefeller
Center. The clubhouse contains
lounges, assembly rooms. library.
dining rooms and cocktail lounges.
as well as attractive bedrooms. An
information desk is in the lobby.
Several Republican Governors
have been entertained by the club,
of which Mrs. William Henry Hays
is chairman.
Washingtonians who have been
recent visitors at the clubhouse in
clude Miss Marie Obenauer, Mrs.
Smith Hempstone, Miss Beth
Thompson, Mrs. Mary E. Dobson,
Mrs. R. S. Huiderkoper, Mrs. Estelle
McCammon. Miss H. B. Page, Miss
Mary Sheridan. Mrs. Matthew. J.
Whittall, Mrs. Clarence Wilson, Mrs.
B. Harrison Lingo, Miss Jane Lingo
and Mrs. Powell Clayton.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
New Women Voters Head
Enjoys Her Dirt Farming
Mrs. Lorenz's Magic Thumb
Causes Vegetables to Grow
In Bumper Profusion

declaring that she has had unhappy
results by so doing.
"One man, employed to weed
among the currant bushes, cut them
down, not knowing what they were"
she declared.
Gardening has been a hobby of
Mrs. Lorenz since early childhood.
II find health, enjoyment and rec
reatlon in gardening and never
failing interest" she said. Il am a
real dirt farmer One of my earliest
purchases as little girl" she added,
was package of pansy seeds.
could hardly wait to have them
come up after planting, and even
though the pansies came up clover,
because the salesman gave me the
wrong seed, I had fun In planting
and waiting for the seed to grow"
Her fondness for gardening is not
confined to vegetables alone. The
flowers, which grow in profusion in
another section of the grounds, also
reflect her love of the garden beau
tiful' as we'll as the garden prac-
tical." Astors, marigolds and other
early fall flowers already are mass
ing in riot of color close to a crepe
myrtle laden heavily with the lovely
blossoms for which it is famous.
Mrs. Lorenz acquired her love Of
gardening at her home in Ottowa,
Ohio, where she says her father
gave her her first lessons in plant
cultivation.
AS she grew into Womanhood her
activities broadened, and human
life as we'll as plant life, became a
major interest. At college she
majored in economics. sociology and
statistics, and received a Masters
degree in these subjects from the
University of Wisconsin after her
graduation from Ohio State College.
Education and international rela-
tions interested her particularly, and
after her marriage. when she be-
came the mother of three sons, the
subject of education became very
personal to her.
She believes that the development
of school system which will en-
courage the natural mental interest
of children instead of causing a dis
like of study is of present-day
importance
when children are young" she
said, they are eager to learn. but
something in educatio frequently
kills that ambition"
Mrs. Lorenz also believes in edu-
cation for adults, and that there is
no age limit to acquiring knowledge.
1T ought to be possible for adults
to go to school as long as they live"
she concluded. Nov only in large
centers are adults able to obtain the
advantages of institutional learning.
There is little available in small
towns or in the country. 1t should
be possible for adults to receive a
formal education as long as they
wish"
Mrs Lorenz brings to her office Of
president of the District League
many years of study of international
policy. Before assuming Office this
year she served as chairman of the
department of government and
foreign policy.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
On Vacation Stav

Miss Lillian Chenoweth, State
regent of the District Society,
Daughters of the American Revolu.
ton, motored to Bishopgate. Blue
mont, Va, recently with her cousin,
Mrs. Frank Lassiter, and the Misses
Minnie and Lucille Hunt, sisters of
Mrs. j. Craig Peacock, in whose
home they are guests.
She writes that Bishopgate is a
little beyond Bears Den, in a tract
of 40 acres. and that the view down
the valley is lovely. She is enjoying
her rest there great deal and also
the fact that she is sleeping under
blankets while many in Washington
sWelter
Evening star., 1939-08-20
NeedlewOrk
Guild Pleas
Lessen
Few Emergency
Requests Made
During Summer

Emergency demands upon the
First Needlework Guild of Wash
ington have been unusually mild
this summer, reports Mrs. w. Elk
ins Reed, custodian of supplies, who
receives all requests for clothing
bundles needed throughout the
year.
Warm underclothing as we'll as
other garments in winter and layetts
throughout the year are supplied
to the needy by the Guild, which
has Offices in the Washington Ca
thedral serving as distribution
centerS.
The destruction of a home by fire
last summer leaving a family practi-
cally without clothes created the type
emergency which Guild members
are eager to assist, and clothing was
sent Immediately to the stricken
family.
The most important request this
summer sent to Mrs. Reed was for
layettes for twins, born to a poor
colored woman scarcely able to
clothe one newcomer AS the ar
rival of two was an unexpected
addition to the family the Guild
sent out two sets of little dresses.
slips and other garments, exactly
alike, to clothe the new babies.
Originally the Guild, organized
in 1889, contributed handmade
garments, but modern factory pro-
duction has made it less expensive to
buy clothing ready made. AS the
object of the Guild is to supply
the needy with clothes, it was
thought more practical to purchase
garments from contributions made
to the treasury by members. A
member may. however, contribute
certain stipulated articles of cloth
ing or an equivalent sum in money.
Each member is entitled to one re-
quest year for a clothing package
to be sent to some person or per-
sons she may think in need of the
gift. Members are not obliged to
say to whom they are sending the
package.
Although there are no business
meetings in the summer, the offices
of the Guild are open all summer
and no emergency call is ever re-
fused.
Miss Helen Young is in charge of
the offices and requests for cloth
ing are placed through her and for
Warded to Mrs. Reed.
The first executive meeting this
fall will be held early in October.
Officers of the Guild are Mrs. Will
liam E. Stafford, president: Mrs. Ed
mund H. Perry, vice president; Mrs.
Henry Ewing, recording secretary;
Mrs. L. w. Eugster, treasurer; Mrs.
William Wheatley, corresponding
secretary; Mrs. Reed, custodian, and
Mrs. F. H. Barrow, assistant Gus
todian.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
Garden Unit
Busiest in
Summer
50 Takona Park
ClubWOmen
In Section

The largest section of the Ia
koma Park Women's Club is the
garden section which, unlike most
organizations, does its most in
tensive work during the summer
months.
Its activities during the vacation
season will be reflected in the pro-
gram which has been arranged for
the monthly meeting to be held at
$50 a IN. tomorrow at the home of
Mrs. Harry I. Houston, 227 Park
avenue, Takoma Park.
Visits to gardens and exhibitions
in the vicinity of Takoma Park and
Washington are features of the sec
tlon'S program each year and to-
morrow members will be asked to
report on such visits. The chair
man, Mrs. Daniel Miller, who
visited the New York Worlds Fair
last week, will be one of those telling
Of the gardens she saw there.
AS all the members-some so or
more-have gardens of their own,
horticultural experiences always are
exchanged at the monthly sessions.
The section also is beginning to
discuss plans for its annual fall
plant sale, the date for which has
not yet been selected A spring sale
and fall sale-when members con-
tribute plants from their own gar
dens-are annual events on the sec
tion's calender. the fall sale being
for the disposal of perennials Mrs.
Ivan Richmond is in charge of this
activity.
With proceeds from its sales and
with dues, the section carries out
several projects. One of it's ac-
tivities is to supply the table decora-
tions for the luncheons the club
holds monthly during the regular
club season. These decorations
which are for the benefit of the en-
tire club membership-often cost
between SIS and $40 year and no
effort is spared to make the ar
rangements attractive. Supplying
these floral pieces incidentally, is
the only garden section activity
during the winter months, as its
season runs from March to October.
The garden section also makes an
annual gift of a book or books on
gardening to the Maryland library
at Takoma Park, the selection being
made in accordance with the request
of the librarian. Last year fine
encyclopedia of interest to garden
erS was the choice.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
Curley Club Invited
To Cove Point

Members of the Curley Club have
been invited to spend today at Cove
Point, Md, where they will be the
guests of John Dugan. Bathing,
swimming, hiking and buffet sup
per are planned. William j. Boyd,
athletic chairman, requests those
making the trip to meet at the Con-
tinental Hotel at 1890 pm, and
proceed from there by car.
Miss Charlotte Urda is chairman
of the committee on arrangements
for the fall card party and dance.
A club beach party at Benedict,
Md, last Sunday proved to be sur
prise birthday party for James j.
Corbett, club president. 1t was a
gay affair held in the hall of st.
Francis De Sales Church. The sup
per tables were beautifully decorated
with flowers, paper favors and a
huge birthday cake.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
Transit EmpIoye Outing
At Glen Echo Thursday

The sixth annual outing of the
Capital Transit Employees Relief As
sociation is to be held Thursday at
Glen Echo Park, Md, with prog
ram including dancing and a wide
variety of contests.
Committeeman for the event are
G. P. Nutwell. chairman; Miss j.
N. Barrett, H. D. Champion, H
jackson, j. A. Longmore, assistant
chairmen; Mrs. I. l.. Nutwell, Sec
retary; A. F. McDougald, amplifi-
cation: F. Alligood, w. H. McCarty
contest; Mrs. A. Christopher, dane
ing; DR.. C. c. Weaver, first aid !;
M. Wellington, grounds; X. M
Pardoe, prizes and purchasing; Ar
thur Clark, printing; Robert Dou-
gan, publicity; C. M. Sharpe. recep-
ton; ]. Jenkins. transportation;
Mrs A. Beall and Mrs. L. A. Morgan,
registration and information.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
Palestine Troubles Told
DR.. Burton Says Problem Is Too
Big for Solution Unaided
BY FRANCES LIDE,
Won, ans Hluh Editor

The impression of problem too
great for Palestine alone to solve"
was the reaction of DR.. Henrietta K.
Burton to the refugee situation as she
saw it this summer during a Euro
pean trip, which included a stop in
the Holy Land
Just returned from an extended
tour. DR.. Burton. who, both profess
sionally and through numerous club
activities. has long been interested in
rural welfare, with especial atten-
ton to women and children, de-
scribed her experiences as extremely
thought provoking from the view
point of women and children
Aware when she sailed in the
spring for vacation trip that she
would feel the effects of war and
oppression in Europe, DR.. Burton
nonetheless was shocked at the full
magnitude of the problem of the
refugees.
I'VE were cruising on the Medi-
terranean on a beautiful sun-lit day."
she said. The sea was lovely and
tranquil and the weather could not
have been more perfect.
But while everything seemed so
serene. we learned of the plight of
human derelicts-four shiploads of
refugees, without water, without food
and without a place to land"
Plague Forces Asylum.
The people aboard, DR.. Burton
commented, were not the type you
think of as refugees Some of them
were college professors, and men
and women engaged in other pro-
feSSiOnS.
A plague broke out on one of the
vessels and its $50 refugees were
allowed to put in at Beirut for a
brief time. DR.. Burton was allowed
to 60 among its passengers-"hud-
died together in small concen-
tration camp" she said.
When her ship docked at Haifa,
Dr.. Burton said, none. of the men
were permitted to go ashore to visit
the Holy Land.
A few women, however, given the
privilege of landing because the
Arabs had not been attacking wom-
en-, were conveyed by British ma
chine guns for the duration of their
stay.
MY first impression of Palestine, j."
DR.. Burton said, was that it is so
very small. Why, with a powerful
telescope you can see the whole
country from Mount Tabor"
Great Variety of Land.
Her second impression, she said,
was of a great variety of lands,
ranging from snow-peaked noun
tains to the Dead Sea below sea
level.
Much of the small portion set
aside for the Jews, only about 163,-
900 acres, she said, was barren,
blazing desert land.
The Jews are retaining the land
through agriculture along entirely
scientific lines. she saba most
courageous and idealiSt work" But
the Jewish population, only 66,574
in 1920, is now estimated at 400
600 living in 80 colonies And Pales-
tine must also care for its 848, 8,342
Moslemss and its 106,474 Christians,
she pointed out.
Though she noted considerable
unemployment among the refugees
in Palestine, DR.. Burton also found
modern industries and modern
towns established and vineyards and
groves planted and thriving. The
waste lands are being drained, irri-
CATION started and electricity pro-
duced, she said.
Oranges and grapefruit are the
principal exports now, but grapes,
hgs, wheat barley. elves, melons,
Evening star., 1939-08-20
By GRETCHEN SMITH.

Real dirt farming" near the
heart of the Nations Capital is the
hobby of one of the busiest of
Washington's club women, Mrs. M.
o. Lorenz, newly elected president
of the Voteless District of Columbia
League of Women Voters.
On less than sixth of an acre
OF ground at the rear of her home,
3510 Porter street NV, Mrs. Lorenz
has cultivated a vegetable garden
which might we'll be envied by ex-
perienced ruralists back on the
farm"
Corn, whose taSsels wave high
over the head of the feminine farm
er; huge tomatoes ripened red on
the vines, carrots, beans. lettuce and
rhubarb-all these are to be found
IN the neatly cared for garden patch
where Mrs. Lorenz finds annual en-
joyment from early April until falls
first frost.
Small as it is, the garden is full
of agricultural surprises. At one
corner feathery asparagus grows in
a profusion of soft green. That
bed is II years DID," Mrs. Lorenz
said with pride, land it supplies
our table with all the asparagus we
can use throughout the entire sea-
son. In addition, there is plenty
to send to neighbors and friends"
Against the fence, at the rear of
the garden, row of raspberry vines
are trained, and smuggling close to
the ground one notices the glisten-
ing dark green leaves of strawberry
plants, which Mrs. Lorenz said
yield a generous crop during the
berry season.
Between rows of cornstalks, a
healthy melon vine trails the
ground, showing three nearly
ripened cantaloupes, which Mrs.
Lorenz laughingly declared were a
garden experiment.
Il planted part of q melon con-
tanning Seeds" she explained, land
that is the result"
Mrs. Lorenz doubtless possesses
the magic thumb which tradition
says Will cause anytnlng 10 grow
where its touch has been felt in the
working Of the SOIL 1t is not mere
figure of speech to say that the soil
OF her garden has felt the touch of
her thumb, as Mrs. Lorenz really
works in her garden. She weeds
and harroWs and sprays for bugs.
Her Kentucky Wonder beans re-
quire particular attention because
OF the Mexican bean beetles, which
she says have been plague to all
bean growers for several summers.
Mrs. Lorenz's enthusiasm for gar
denlng even enables her to find
beauty in her garden enemy, the
beetle, which has the appearance
OF lady bug but which she de-
clares is one OF the most voracious
insects known to farmers.
1T is pretty to look at, however"
she remarked as she pulled an insect
from the vine.
Mrs. Lorenz does not stand on the
outside and instruct gardner. In
fact, she does not permit any one
else to work in her vegetable patch.