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Evening star., 1940-02-14
Spring Near,
Tree Pruners
Are Busy

The once OF National Capital
Parks even at this early date is well
started on its preparations for
spring.
Tree pruning operations, which
go on IN some parts of the WASH
ington park system each year as q
prelude to the more elaborate prep
arations Of March and April are
now about Is per cent complete,
the park office said today.
This year, under a $4,000 p. w.
A. grant for tree maintenance, the
park trees have been inspected for
disease and decay and possible trim
ming.
Approximately SO men have been
employed in the pruning work
through the winter months. In ad-
dltions, six tree surgeons of the
permanent park maintenance crew
have been doing cavity work.
Work has been completed in
Marion, Garfield, Folger, Stanton
Lincoln, Montrose, Fort Kemble and
Lafayette Parks, Washington Cir
Gle and the White House grounds.
AT present the pruning and cavity
filling crews are at work in the Ell
lpse, the Washington Monument
grounds and West Potomac and
Rock Greek Parks.
Areas remaining to be treated in
clude Judiciary Square, Mount Ver-
non Square, the Mall, Franklin Park
and Dupont Circle.
Evening star., 1940-02-14
Commissioners Slated
As Next Witnesses
On Home for Aged
Hearings to Be Resumed
Tomorrow; Haskell
Also to Testify
Star Staff Photo.

Chairman D'Alesandro of the Pub
lie Health Subcommittee of the
House District Committee announced
today the congressional investigation
of conditions at the Home for the
Aged and 1nfirm would be completed
this week and attention then CEN
tered on the Receiving Home fol-
Children.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt has
visited both institutions and criti-
cized conditions she observed in
each.
The subcommittee will resume the
inquiry tomorrow at 10:30 am. The
witnesses, according to Representa-
tive D'Alesandro, will be the District
Commissioners and Frank B. Has,
kell, superintendent Of the Home for
the Aged and Infirm.
The subcommittee yesterday heard
Robert E. Bondy, director of public
welfare, describe the Home for the
Aged and Infirm as a "second-h
institution"
1t also took the testimony of Fred
erick w. McReynolds, chairman OF
the Board of Public Welfare since
1884, who made plea for increased
appropriations for welfare institu-
tions.
Mr.. Bondy recommended that ad-
ditional facilities be provided at the
home without delay and that the
buildings undergo a thorough reno
vation. He also urged construction
Of new receiving home for children.
Evening star., 1940-02-14
Navy Ships Unsurpassed,
Secretary Edison SAYS

Ships unsurpassed by any other
navy in the world belong to the
United States, Secretary of the Navy
Charles Edison declared yesterday at
a lunchean in the Mayflower Hotel
before members of the Society of
Sponsors of the United States Navy.
II say this with pardonable pride, !"
Secretary Edison said. "At the same
time We are watching closely all de-
velopments in the war at sea. We
expect to take advantage of every
possible lesson that can benefit our
fleet. In a world where science con-
tinually develops new weapons and
couxterweapons we cannot afford to
stand still. am a strong advocate
Of research and development"
Secretary Edison, after deploring
the terrific loss Of ships at sea in the
present conflict-losses now over
1,150,000 tons-said that the Amer
lean government has taken all pre-
cautions to spare us merchant losses
as neutral.
Admiral Stark, chief of naval op-
erations, stressed the need for an
adequate Navy.
Mrs. Russell c. Longdon presided
at the meeting. She was reelected
president for the 18th time. Other
officers elected are Mrs. Emory G.
Land, first vice president; Mrs. Rob-
ert Dunlap, second vice president,
and Mrs. Kathryn R. Norman, secre-
tary and treasurer. The new Board
of Trustees includes Mrs. Langdon
Mrs. j. E. Palmer, Mrs. Goldsborough
Adams, Mrs. Nathan Goff, ST.; Mrs
Ivan Lee Bass, Mrs. Ridley Mclean
and Mrs. Jennings Bailey.
Evening star., 1940-02-14
Band Concert

BY the United States Marine Band
Symphony Orchestra tonight at 8:15
o'clock in the Marine Barracks audi
torium. Capt. . Taylor Branson,
leader; William F. Santelmann, Sec
ond leader, conducting.
PROGRAM.
Symphony in E Minor, No. l, Opus
39"- SibelluS
I. Andante ma non troppo: Al
legro energico.
II. Andante ma non troppo lento.
III. Allegro; scherzo.
Nv. Finale (quasi una fantasia) !:
Andante, allegro motto.
Concerto in A Minor, No. I, Opus
49," for violoncello and orchestra,
Camille Saint Saens
Allegro non troppo.
Allegretto con moto.
Come prima.
Soloist, Musician John Auer.
Fantasy, Opus T."
Serge1 Rachmaninod
Overture, 'Sakuntala," Opus l3,
Carl Goldmark
The Star Spangled Banner."
Evening star., 1940-02-14
Ordered
In Fatal Injuries
OF Woman Here
Four Held as Witnesses;
Victim Had Told of
'SIueeing' and Fall

Three men ana a woman were
being held today pending an autopsy
on the body of Mrs. Eugenia Black,
36, of 919 Kennedy street NV, who
died at Gallinger Hospital today of
injuries suffered last Wednesday in
a house on an isolated section of
Terra Gotta lane NE.
Investigators said Mrs. Black, be-
fore losing consciousness, told them
she had been "slugged," and also
that she was injured in a fall. Per-
sons present in the house at the
time said, according to police, they
heard a "thump" and found Mrs.
Black slumped at the foot of a
stairway.
Inspector B. w. Thompson, chief
of detectives, said those being held
as witnesses pending an autopsy to
be performed today we're Norman
Bonifant, 81; his wife Doris, 33;
Howard Bonifant, Is, and William
Thomas Bonifant, 38.
The findings at the autopsy will
determine if an inquest will be
ordered.
Doctors at the hospital said Mrs
Black suffered a broken leg and
burns and cuts about the lips and
face and both feet. She was treated
by a private physician after her in
jury, it was said, and removed to
Gallinger on the following day.
Police inquired into the case yes
terday afternoon at the request OF
Mrs. Blacks mother, Mrs. Maude H
Gates of the Kennedy street address
One scout car begged down in the
mud en- route to the Terra Gotta
lane house, and police said they
found geese, ducks, chickens and a
few goats being kept on the property
Two sons Of one Of the Bonifant
men, IA and 16 years of age, were
taken to the Receiving Home for
questioning and released.
Evening star., 1940-02-14
Wallace, Dunn
Called as Dairy
Asks Injunction
Milk Order Invalid
On Introstote Firm,
Suit Declares

Justice F. Dickinson Let's In Dis
trict Court today directed Secretary
Of Agriculture Wallace and Charles
I. Dunn, Washington milk Market
ing order administrator, to explain
why preliminary injunction should
not be signed against them to pre-
vent enforcement of the new milk
order against a Prince Georges
(Md) dairy.
The action followed the filing Of
suit contending that the dairy's
business Is intrastate, and beyond
the scope of the order, which fixes
minimum prices to be paid by
dairies to farmers for milk sold in
Washington and nearby Maryland.
Attorneys Seton Darr, former
president Of the Bar Association of
the District of Columbia; Linwood E.
Lagerson and James OD. Moran
filed the injunction suit for j. Oliver
Holbrook, Hannah E. Holbrook, both
OF 3719 Thirty-fifth street, Mount
Rainier, Md, and Elizabeth T. Hol-
brook, ALL Perry street, Brentwood,
Nd. co-partners, doing business and
trading as Holbrook Farms Dairy.
The entire business of the dairy
Is carried on in Maryland the suit
recltes. declaring that the milk
marketing order promulgated by
Secretary Wallace on January 20
cannot legally apply to this firm.
The suit contends the Secretary's
powers are limited to regulating the
milk within the Washington market
ing area that flows in interstate
commerce.
Attorney Darr made it clear that
the present suit is not an attack
upon the constitutionanty of the
milk agreement or on the law, under
which 1t is set up. The lawyers ad-
vised the court that the plaintiffs
business has never heretofore been
subjected to control or supervision
by an agency of Government except
health authorities issuing permits
and they have always exercised full
and complete independence in
operating their business and pri-
vately contracting for purchasers
and sale of milk and cream.
If the market order of Secretary
Wallace is enforced, the court is
advised, the dairy will have to in
crease its production costs of milk
and cream by some SGT, ,750 annually,
as well as some $1,000 annually in
payments to the market admins
traitor, as well as make numerous
and voluminous reports. All this
will result in 'irreparable damage"
and injury to the plaintiffs and
their business, the court is told.
The suit contends that If the
Secretary's order stands, Holbrook
Farms Dairy will be required to
give the administrator free access
to its plants at all times and the
plaintiffs will be called upon to pay
out OF their own funds to cover the
administrators salary and expenses
sum equal to 2 cents per hundred
weight. regarding all class and
class 2 milk received and purchased.
Evening star., 1940-02-14
Orchestra Sponsors
Enlist Aliens Aid in
Seeking Settlement
Move Made in Behalf
Of Next Season; Nine.
FIoestod Sings Tonight

Sponsors of the National SYM
phony Orchestra yesterday after
noon enlisted the aid of Commits
sion George E. Allen in an effort
to break the deadlock between the
musicians union and the orches-
trail association. Inability of union
and management to reach an
agreement resulted recently in can
collation. of the annual drive for
the orchestras sustaining fund.
Mr.. Aliens promise to do all in
his power to settle the dispute was
obtained by Mrs. Edwin Watson
and DR.. Glenn billiard Gum, mu-
sic lovers and donors to the sus-
tanning fund, who spoke in be-
half of thousands of Washington
mans anxious to see the orchestra
continue its successes of many past
seasons.
The orchestra will fulfill its cur
rent engagements. Edwin Near
thur will be guest conductor at to-
nights concert in Constitution Hall,
at which Kristen Flagstad, Norwe-
gian soprano, will be soloist.
Mr. Macarthur yesterday afternoon
presented to patients at Walter Reed
Hospital an album of the first re-
cordings of Mime. Flagstad and Lu-
ritz Melchior singing Wagnerian
operas to the accompaniment of the
San Francisco Orchestra. Mr.. NC
Arthur conducted the orchestra.
The presentation was made to Miss
Margaret H. Lower, field director of
the American Red Cross, who rep
resented the patients. About
hundred patients gathered in the
recreation room at Red Gross head
quarters at the hospital to witness
the presentation and hear the re-
cordings.
Evening star., 1940-02-14

placing agency, recorded and filed
in a sealed file in the Juvenile
Court.
8. That complete records of the
child, its real parents and its adopt
ed parents will be made, all to be
kept in confidence.
Principal child-placing organiza-
tions are the Board of Public We'll
fare, the Children's Protective Asso-
citation and the Catholic Charities.
At the present time, all homes
where children board are licensed
by the Health Department. About
$50 Of these licenses have been is
sued, Of which 220 are Welfare
Board homes.
Mrs. Grover has q license to board
children as do several others who
do not board children for the Chill
dren's Protective Association or the
Catholic Charities. AL these homes
are visited five or six times a year
by Health Department inspectors,
who check on the physical facilities.
Representative Schultz, chairman
Of the Police and Fire Subcommit-
tee of the House District Commit
tee, which is cooperating with
Police Supt. Ernest w. Brown in
probing alleged "baby peddling" &C
tivities here, said he planned to con-
fer with Mai. Brown Immediately.
Justice Goldsborough, after view
ing the tentative draft of the coun-
Gil bill, said he would be more than
happy to 60 before the House and
Senate District committees to ex-
press my opinion on the necessity
for such legislation.
Whatever legislation Is passed"
he said, should provide for . public
agency with salaried officers 50 there
would be no incentive 70 profit
financially BY placing . child"
Evening star., 1940-02-14
Episodes in Negro Life
To Be Given Tomorrow

Episodes in Negro Life" will be
presented by the District Recreation
Department In a program tomorrow
at 8 pm. at the Francis Junior High
School, Twenty-fourth and N streets
NV, in celebration of Negro His
tory Week. Choral groups from
most of the Districts colored schools
will participate.
In another Negro History Week
observance, Col. West A. Hamilton,
member of the Board of Education,
and George w. Goodman of the
Urban League will address parents
and teachers at BIS pm. tomorrow
at the Giddings School, Fourth and
G streets Sc.
Evening star., 1940-02-14
Two Roof Workers Hurt
In 35-Foot Fall

Two roof workers suffered severe
injuries yesterday when they fell
some IS feet from the roof of house
in the 900 block of Noyes drive, in
Silver Spring, Nd, after the scaf-
folding broke.
Jack Douglas, 81, of 103 Allegheny
avenue, Takoma Park, received a
broken pelvis, and Paul Price, 10,
Ill Maple avenue, Takoma Park,
has injuries of the spine and lacera-
tions. Both men are in the Wash
ington Sanitarium at Takoma Park,
where they were carried by the
Silver Spring Rescue Squad.
Evening star., 1940-02-14
District Naval Reserves
Gunnery Mark Praised

A letter of commentator for the
high grade of merit attained by
the District Naval Reserve unit for
battle practice last year was sent
the commanding officer, 1t. F. S.
Kirk, the Navy Department an
nounced yesterday.
Signed by Capt. Randall Jacobs,
acting chief of the Bureau OF Navi-
cation, the letter praised the gun
merry performances as excellent"
and added that, Judged by the high
standards of the fleet" the record
constituted a worthy addition to
naval gunnery.
The Washington unit, with its 50
per cent, was third among 1877
naval divisions participating last
year.
Evening star., 1940-02-14
Formers to Get $4,000

ROCKVILLE, Md, Feb. IA (Spe-
ciaD For participation in last
years wheat allotment and soil i'm
provement programs Of the Fed
eral Government, 1850 Montgomery
County farmers will receive ap-
proximately $4,000, Otto w. An
derson, county agent, announced to-
day.
Evening star., 1940-02-14
Traffic Record

The tramc record as revealed
at police headquarters for a.
hour period ending 8 am. to-
day:
Fatalities, o.
Accidents, 20.
Motorists injured, 4.
Motorists arrested, 337.
Pedestrians injured, 8.
Pedestrians arrested for vio-
lation Of pedestrian control reg
ulations, Q.
Evening star., 1940-02-14
AVERAGE Charxe IL $500.

The average charge, Mrs. Grover
said, was $500. What she loses on
one child, whom she may keep for
some months, she said, she makes
up on another. Last year. however,
she said she ended with q 400 de-
dcit. She emphasized that she did
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-30
Will Hold Radio
Field Trials Here

The Bluffton Amateur Radio club
will participate for the third con-
secutive year in the annual field day
trials sponsored by the American
Radio Relay League on June % and
%, it was announced the first of
the week by officers of the club here.
Amateur radio clubs thruout the
United States will participate in
these activities which are a test of
portable radio equipment used in
transmission and reception under
emergency conditions.
The club here with call letters
W8APJ, will use low power auxiliary
equipment, it was stated.
Location for setting up of equip
ment has not been definitely decided,
several places being under consider
alton.
In last years trials the local club
contacted twenty-six stations in ten
states. In charge of the project here
are Maynard Geiger, president of the
Bluffton club and Lloyd Brauen, ac-
tivity manager.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-30

The Mems Brotherhood meets
Thursday evening at 8 o'clock at
Emmanuel's church.
The w. NJ. S. will meet on June
5th with Mrs. Andrew Gratz.
st. Johns:
Public worship at Oils a. m.
Sunday school at 1890 a. m.
Senior C. E. at 500 p. m.
Choir practice Thursday at 1880
p. m.
Mems Brotherhood announced as
above.
The G. M. G. meets with Miss
Margaret Burkholder on Monday
evening, June 3rd.
The G. H. M. C. meets with Mrs
Guy Scoles on Monday evening,
June 3rd.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-30
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
]. A. Weed, Minister

j. A. weed, Minister
Saturday, 1870 p. m. Junior Choir
rehearsal.
SUNDAY:
900 to HOO a. m. Unified SER
vice: Worship, Lesson Study, Ser
mon. Special music Negro Spirit
uals) by the Junior Choir. Sermon
topic-"A Nations Surest Defense"
11:15 a. m. Young Peoples Choir
rehearsal.
$50 p. m. Epworth League will
meet at the church to go out OF
town for supper and outdoor service
All Methodists everywhere are
asked to observe next Sunday, June
End, as a day of fasting and prayer
in behalf of the people of war
stricken nations. The price of a
Sunday dinner is asked as self
denial offering for the relief of non
combatant victims of war-in China
and in European countries, to be
administered through our Board OF
Foreign Missions.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-30
Many Visit Opening
Of Funeral Home

More than 800 visitors inspected
the Stanley Basinger Funeral home
on South Main street during the two
days of its formal opening, Friday
and Saturday. Congratulatory mes
sages and flowers were also received.
Opening of the funeral home was
held in connection with nationwide
observance of Funeral Home Inspec-
ton week.
Quarters of the establishment have
been redecorated and refurnished to-
gether with installation of modern
equipment thruout. A visit thru the
funeral home and favors to all at
tending were features of the opening.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-30
Reunions

The first annual reunion of for
mer teachers and pupils of the
Owens school will be held at Rich
land Grange hall, Sunday, June g..
Pres, Mrs. H. G. Murray; sec., Mrs.
D. A. McGinnis.
The thirty-eighth annual reunion
of the Steinman family will be held
at City Park, Ada, Sunday, June g..
Pres, Mrs. Allan McCluer; sec.,
Nello Steinman.
Reunion of the Christian Gratz
descendants will be held at Pandora
high school, Sunday, July 7.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-30
STOCK SALES

Service bulls delivered any time.
c. N. Long & Son, phone Ada Red
1860. If
For sale-2 fresh Jersey heifers;
also 2 registered Jerseys. Lippincott
Farm, Beaverdam. Phone Beaver
dam 451 or Lima Rice $3.50. 6
For sale-2 Shorthorn bulls old
enough for service; also black mare
5 yrs. old in foal. c. H. Smith, 8
miles east of Bluffton on Route 103.
For sale-2 good Shorthorn bulls.
Archie Hartman, miles east of
town.
For sale-Young sow with litter of
small pigs; also p. & o. planter drill
only. w. S. King, liz miles north
west of Mt. Cory.
For sale-10 shoats avg. 125 lbs.;
also 7 doe rabbits with young ones.
B. ]. Boutwell,, 3 miles east of Or
ange Center.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-30
College Junior
Senior Banquet

The Bluffton college Junior-Senior
banquet was held at the high school
cafeteria, Tuesday night followed by
a theatre party. The banquet is an
annual affair at which the gradu-
ating class is entertained by the
juniors.
Committees in charge were:
Program: Kenneth Tapke and
George Radulovich; Transportation:
Dale Reichenbach and Racine War
rem; Location and Dinner: Frieda
Ehresman and John Luginbuhl;
Theatre: Dale Francis; Decorations
and Invitations: Virginia Fisher,
chairman; Wilma Nash, Loreen
Peters, Leonard Metzker, Jean Kolb,
and Florence Geissinger.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-30
BluftOn Man In
Honorary Society

Orden Smucker, Bluffton high
school instructor who has been on a
years leave of absence to attend
Ohio State university was inducted
into membership and elected secre-
tary-treasurer of the o. S. U. Gam
ma chapter of Alpha Kappa Delta,
national honorary sociological fra
ternity.
The induction ceremonies and elec-
ton took place at a picnic meeting
of the organization held last Thurs
day.
This is the second society to which
the Bluffton teacher has been elected.
During the winter quarter he was
elected to Sigma chapter of Phi
Delta Kappa, national honorary edu-
cational fraternity at the university.
Smucker who has been instructor
in social sciences at Ohio State will
teach this summer at Bluffton college
and next fall will resume his teach
ing duties in the high school here.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-30
AppedI Is Filed In
Orange School Case

Continuation of the Anderson
school districts three-year-old battle
to be attached to Bluffton for school
purposes was indicated last week
with announcement that the Hancock
county board of education has ap-
pealed ruling of the district court
of appeals to the state supreme
court.
Two weeks ago the court of ap-
peals ordered the county board to
transfer the Anderson area to the
Bluffton school district, as petitioned.
In the territory in an area COM
pressing approximately five and one
half square miles in the west part of
Orange township.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-30
RdlUsOn Man Dies In
Truck-AUtO Crash

Cory Emerson Blymyer, 80, of
Rawson, nephew of S. v. Hecka-
thorn, of Bluffton, was instantly
killed at 2:36 a. m. last Sunday
when his car figured in collision
with truck, two miles south of
Findlay on the dixie highway.
Blymyer, who was alone in his car,
travelling toward Findlay, died of a
fractured skull.
Funeral services were held Tues
day afternoon at Rawson. Mr.. Heck
athorn and Mrs. Anna Henry, of
Bluffton, and Mr.. and Mrs. Royal
Heckathorn, of North Baltimore, at
tended the rites.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-30
Farm, Work Delayed
By Week Of Rain

Spring work on farms in The Bluff
tn area is being further delayed by
rains which have fallen every day
but one since last Wednesday.
Farmers already are behind their
usual schedule because of the late
arrival of spring, and almost con-
tinuous rainfall for the last week
has further delayed the preparation
of fields and the seeding of crops.
Unless good weather materializes
soon and continues for awhile, indi-
cation are that most corn will be
late in going into the ground this
spring.
Grass is growing luxuriantly as n
result of the many rains, and mcst
Bluffton gardens are doing quite
well.