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Evening star., 1949-08-29
.N Star to Appear
At Bethesda Show

Miss Kyle Mcdonnell, television
star, will appear on the entertain
ment program Of the Bethesda
Trade, Gift and Hobby Show
September 2s-october l in the
Miller Building, Lyon lane and
Bethesda avenue.
The show will include more than
10 exhibits by Bethesda merchants
and manufacturers.
Evening star., 1949-08-29

More than 1000 residents and
visitors exchanged handshakes
along the rails as the 25-year old
Knight of the Blue Ribbon turned
a perfect score to win a silver cup
donated by the seven tournament
riding sons of the late Thomas
Parran of Calvert County.
Joseph Brady. Knight of Sol
diers Delight of Baltimore County,
who won the Parran cup last year.
was second and Joseph AitcheSon
Evening star., 1949-08-29

of Laurel, Knight of Woodland
View, third. The tournament was
held Saturday.
John Crooks, Knight of How
ards Sancy, won over a field of
1S in the amateur class. Second
and third went to James L. Weems
Of Calvert County, and John A.
Earnsthaw of Prince Georges
County.
Just before the tournament be-
Evening star., 1949-08-29

gan, riders and spectators barred
their heads in tribute to the late
DR.. Everard Briscoe and the late
John S. Williams, who organized
the first tournament here. DR..
Evening star., 1949-08-29
Boonsboro Man Wins
Joustinq Tournament
SpeeioI Dispatch 10 The Sior

SpeCldI DISpdfcH 70 THe SItH
MUTUAL, Nd, Aug. 29.-Wal-
den Burtner of Boonsboro, WASH
ington County, topped a field OF
16 professional jousters to win
Calvert County's seth annual
homecoming tournament.
Evening star., 1949-08-29

Briscoe's widow, was in general
charge of the program today.
The tournament was followed
Evening star., 1949-08-29
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c.


by a dinner and dance in the
parish hall Of Christ's Episcopal
Church,
Evening star., 1949-08-29

Japan sold s235 900 worth OF ar
tificial flowers In the United
States last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-11
MudtdMtezA W.
lwe. ~

Have YOU ever 1aotlcea
the e date stamped on e "a =
carton c.,r of A&P eggs? u Is
r nut I'll there to protect the of
pp, us and freshness Oh
this perishable item
An egg that is Grade A
when zen IL t is inspected ana
sacked could becoms
Grade B or c by the time
YOU buy it If it has ., oseia
I'm properly or Slowly
handled.
We don't want that ever
to happen to an A&p . egg 4Id:
da ate when the eggs were
Graded on each carton.
Eegs not sold with a rev
days of that date are re.
moved from sale e, even III
though they are stlli -
good quality. ,
If you should ever sa n nsrl
that any OF our egg 20 10 ~
tons bear old dates or tha az
any eggs fail to live s up 10
our high quality sI an,,t
ards, please ten US aoou'
it. Please write:
| Customer Relations Dep"
ASP Food Stores
42O Lexington Avenue " ~
New York IT, N. Y.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-11
Reserve Board. Tells
Congress Il Is Set
To Fight Depression
by the Asseeiated Press

The Federal Reserve Board said
today 1t is well armed to combat
a recession-if need be.
Its 35th annual report to Con-
gress declared "the Federal Re-
serve System is much better
equipped than ever before to meet
the credit needs of the economy
in period of downward adjust
ment."
Anti-recession weapons were
licked off:
l. Virtually unlimited means
of supplying the money market
with additional reserves, If the
situation should call for such
action"
2. Possession of sufficient gold
certificate reserves-about $685.
600. 900. 000-by the IL Federal
Reserve (centraD banks to enable
them to more than double" paper
money notes and loans to member
banks.
Legal Lending Authority.
3. Legal authority for the re-
serve banks to lend to member
banks on any assets considered to
be acceptable as security for ad-
vances."
4. Further legal Authority for
the reserve banks to make loans
for working capital purposes to
business and industry when
other credit Is unavailable"
The board, however, repeated
the complaint it made during the
boom that preceded last fall: the
Federal Reserve system lacks
adequate means Of coping with a
recurrence Of strong inflationary
pressures."
This country" the board re-
minded, has virtually unlimited
potential for further increase in
deposits and bank reserves as
well as for a more rapid use of
Money.
The board said the old.
fashioned way Of expanding and
contracting the banking systems
supply Of lendable reserves BY
buying or selling Government
securities ts no longer open to 1t:
Now. 1t said, 1t has to concentrate
on keeping stable market for
Government issues.
Asks More Power.
For that reason. the report con-
tinued, the board should be given
more power to increase bank
reserve requirements. thus freez-
ing additional sums out of the
lending stream. Congress has
paid little heed to such pleas
since the war.
The reserve board came out
strongly for action to assure that
all $4,000 banks in the Nation
are required to meet the same
and as tight-reserve REQUIRE
ments as the 1000 banks holding
membership in its system.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-11
Russia Ships Assets
In Austria 10 East
by the Assoeioisd Press

VIENNA, Aug. u.-Russia is
dismantling and shipping east
ward vast amounts Of former Ger
man assets which are supposed to
be returned to Austria at the con-
clusion Of an Austrian independ-
ence treaty. reliable sources said
yesterday. -
The foreign ministers in Paris
agreed that Austria was to pay
sI5o.o00.oo0 for these assets. which
were seized by the Russians during
and after the war. The payments
are to be made over a six-year
period.
One government Official said to-
day If these shipments continue.
and the West does nothing to stop
them, we will be paying $50, 000,-
600 for some empty buildings"
Thus far no inventory of the
assets now In Russian hands has
been submitted to the deputy for
eign ministers who are writing an
Austrian treaty in London. The
informants said they believed the
Russians are trying to ship out as
much as possible before an &C.
counting is called for.
The property includes industrial
and agricultural machinery. scrap
iron. tractors. automobiles, rail-
road tracks. small spur railroads
and even furniture.
Evening star., 1949-01-02
By Jones BirehfieId

Winter on our 40 Virginia acres Is
about what it used to be generally
way back in the days when the
Messrs. Currier & Ives began to de-
pict country life in their litho-
graphs.
Instead Of frostproof spiggots
and automatic watering troughs, We
must draw our water from a well
near the house and carry it about
so feet to the stock trough in the
barnyard.
Last winter, with only II hens,
our watering problem was not so
bad. But this winter, particularly
during these last few mornings, 1t
has kept us jumping to keep our
cow and calf, filly and the fowls in
drinking water.
1t is a cold job, these early morn
ings when the mercury is lowering
around the 10-degree mark, to pry
out the cake of ice from the drink
ing tub and splash in the fresh
water. And, somehow, we have
been able to time our watering op-
erations with the thirst of our stock.
For when we fill the tub the
cows never seem to be thirsty. But
later when We look out, they are
standing around, trying to get a
drink through another cake of ice.
Thus. it keeps us going all day.
However, we notice that the days
are getting a little longer. Warm
Evening star., 1949-01-02

young and tender, now invade the
whole country with the new
Triumph. AS fat in proportion to
size as the thick-seeded Fordhook,
it has its finest flavor and sets pods
even in hot weather when the large
seeded varieties drop their blossoms
and fail. DR.. Roy Magruder and
DR.. Robert e. Wester, United States
Bureau Of Plant Industry, did the
breeding.
Prof. M. r. Lewis Of Penn State
College is responsible for the heat
resisting head lettuce varieties. Re-
sistant to tip-burn, with beautifully
protective outside or wrapper leaves,
trials produced over 90 per cent
choice marketable heads in summer,
"a wonderful record. Not so large,
Pennlake fits into the refrigerator
very conveniently.
Cherry Belle radish is really a
tasty and tangy delight from Hol-
land. Crisp and firm at all stages,
this little beauty is cheerful
mouthful at any meal or party. The
short tops provide attractive little
punches for market use. Force 1t in
cold frames for very early use and
use it in spring and fall gardens.
1t even holds Its own In the heat.
Flagship, almost suckerless, pro-
duces large, uniform ears Of corn
high up, for easy hand or machine
picking. It's ability for heavy yields
in adverse weather, cold. wet springs
and hot, dry summers. makes 1t par
ticularly valuable. 1t resists ear
worms.
Silver Medal petunis is the second
Evening star., 1949-01-02
Life in the Countrywide Is Problem

We'd like to see some OF those pic
lures of people in overalls doing
farm jobs replaced by colorful re-
productions of good paintings OF
fine pictures of animals. After all
there are lots to choose from.
My special thanks to M. B. Good
win, who lives at us West Marshall
street. Falls Church. Mr.. Goodwin
reading of our calendar problems
offered to give up a nice farm cal
endar he received from Chicago be-
cause, he says, it isn't needed to op-
crate the one-third acre farm he
has.
You keep the calendar, Mr.. Good
win, because even on one-third acre
you are sure to need it, and we will
run along happily all year just on
the spirit of your offer.
The calendars we are enjoying the
most are the ones brought out In
person by the donors. The Mason
Smith, jr., family came by the other
night, left their calendar lead anc
remained to visit awhile.
We had fine visit. Talked about
everything while the kids played
with Christmas toys. And we ended
up by going out to look at the Ally
by aid Of . f1ashlight.
Evening star., 1949-01-02
This Week in the Garden

The seed catalogues will soon be
here, so why not start now q list OF
the seeds and plants you want for
the 194S garden? Select kinds and
varieties known to do best in this
area; also, try out something new.
y ~
1t seldom pays to use old seed.
However, by making . simple test
at this season of the year, the via
bility Of old seed may be determined
with reasonable accuracy. Count
out 100 seeds Of each kind to be
tested. Place them on q blotter and
cover with another blotter. Place
the two blotters and the seed on q
plate and moisten. Set it away in
. moderately warm room, keeping
the blotters barely moist. Allow
about five or six days after the first
seed has sprouted before making a
count. The result will reveal the
percentage Of termination.
y +&A
Keep Q close watch on house
plants for pests, particularly the
mealy bug. This whitish, woolly
appearing pest is a common nui-
sance, but it may be controlled by
spraying with DDT or by dabbing
each with alcohol.
u 4 u
Whenever the outside temperature
goes above IS degrees, the cold frame
sash should be cracked" to keep
the inside temperature from going
Evening star., 1949-01-02
All-America Selections of Flowers, Vegetables
Squash Variety Wins Gold Award-Sver Medal Peuna
Leads Over New Holyhock and Morning Glory

Seven new vegetables have won
All-America Selection awards for
1949 introduction. So have three
debutantes in the flower world.
The flowers are: Silver Medal
petunia, which won the coveted
silver medal; Indian Summer holly
hook Is feet, which won the
bronze medal, and Blue Star
morning glory Q5 to 20 feet), which
won honorable mention.
The new vegetables bring glamour
to the kitchen garden, with better
flavor and bigger yields. They are
o butter bean, Triumph, a round
and ravishing red radish without
pithiness called Cherry Belle, two
refined heading lettuces in Penn
lake and Premier Great Lakes, an
earlier and heavier bearing Coco
zelle summer squash called Caserta,
an ideal hybrid sweet corn Flagship,
and from Switzerland a big Ideal
SNOWFALL cauliflower that doesn' t
get ricey. Caserta won a gold
medal.
Twenty vegetable specialists chose
the new offerings. Seeds are avail
able this year, as with the flowers,
proven during the past two years
Of tests in the 20 All-America vege-
table trial grounds.
The squash was developed by DR..
Lawrence c. Curtis OF the Univer-
sity OF Connecticut experiment sta
ton. 1t is light yellow, irregularly
striped with green, delicious and at
tractive when served the size of q
fat banana or cucumber. 1t is
much more prolific than Cocozelle.
The South's favorite butter beans,
Evening star., 1949-01-02
Virginia Dairy Cows
Set November Mark

Milk production on Virginia farms
during November hit a new record,
according to reports from Extension
dairymen.
Dairy cows in the State, 1t was
said, produced ISL ,000,0 900 pounds Of
milk last November, compared to
4600O.000 pounds for November,
l947. The 10-year November aver
age is 100000 pounds.
This record placed Virginia with
Pennsylvania, Ohio and North Caro-
lima as leaders for the month.
Meanwhile. the Agriculture De-
partment reported that average
prices received by farmers as of
mid November for all milk products
were 3 per cent lower than a year
earlier.
The price for milk at wholesale,
the department said, was / per cent
lower, and that for butterfat was
down 18 per cent.
Milk production nationally during
November YVES nearly 115,000, 900 600
pounds, or 4 per cent greater than
a year earlier.
Evening star., 1949-01-02

weather will be here again in a
month or three.
X Il II
Just name your calendar. and we
are pretty sure to have it. We have
been on the receiving end OF an
avalanche Of calendars since the
piece last Sunday-all Of them de-
signed, more or less. to enhance the
farm kitchen and assist in the farm
ing program.
We have received some pretty
good calendars, and have gained
from them much information.
I'll bet you never knew, for ex-
ample, what the incubation period
is for ostrich eggs. I can tell you
that it is from AZ to IS days.
I'm also glad to learn that out of
100 thorough readers of articles on
farm horses, A are women. After
all, you never can tell just when the
tractor will break down, and then
the women will know what to do
with that old team of grays that
have been eating their heads off al
these years.
But the thing that gets me most
about farm calendars is the art
Apparently the people who print
them think almost any old picture
is OK. for country'people.
That amt so, mister. We country
people like good picture as we'll as
the next. We think a little good
art on our kitchen walls would
boost our spirits during the year
Evening star., 1949-01-02

too high. Too warm a frame can be
more injurious than too cold.
X
Put sand on icy sidewalks instead
OF salt. Sand will prevent accidents
Salt carried by melting SHOWS is
likely to injure grass and other
nearby plants.
Since the Dutch elm disease Is
known to be In this area, especial
care should be taken to burn all elm
tree brush and If an elm should
appear to be dying, it is well to re-
move and destroy it at once. The
elm-bark beetle which spreads the
disease lives over winter in dis
eased elm wood.
A garden fertilizer may be high
in nitrogen for the stems and leaves,
in phosphate for the roots, fruit and
seeds, and in potash for root and
health, but II the soil is deficient In
some minor element the effective
ness of these three major plant foods
may be greatly reduced. There is
only one way to tell accurately what
the soil does or does not contain
that is a soil analysis by q labora-
tory. If you are really serious about
your gardening, you will find that
such test pays.
Protection from winter sun and
wind is not the only reason for COW
ering boxwood bushes with burlap
or other material. Such an inclo-
sure also serves to ward of heavy
SHOWS which might weigh down and
break the branches.
\ II
Chop OF the branches Of old
Christmas trees and place them over
beds or plants that need protection.
A newly planted evergreen may be
protected from sun and wind with
two or three Christmas trees tied
"teepee" fashion over it. w. H. Y.
Evening star., 1949-01-02

variety winner in q new hybrid class
called Multiflora. Pink Sensation,
q rose-pink petunia. was first intro
duced in 1s4S. Silver Medal is also
OF this extra strong growing class,
popular for bedding, cutting and
arrangements. It starts blooming
very early. Its strong, erect, .bushy
growth Is self-supporting. and this
hybrid vigor is well compensated
with larger and more abundant
flowers.
Indian Summer hollyhock provides
an assortment Of pleasing colors.
While strictly perennial, to last for
years, it will bloom the first year
from seeds started in early spring.
It Is thus called an annual double
hollyhock. This delightful mixture
of colors and doubleness was OBJ
tanned from crossing annual Indian
Spring, the only previous and semi
double. pink variety, with the man.
moth double Chatter strain of peren-
NAL hollyhocks. When the war
came to Holland, its birthplace, it
was feared that the strain might
be lost. The individual pompon
flowers are like very refined peonies,
They stand tall and luxuriant be-
fore fences, walls or evergreens.
Blue Star 1pomoea or morning
glory is q sport out of Clark's Early
Heavenly Blue, the universal favor
ite towering vine. It Is q very light
blue with deeper blue midrib stripes,
to form star, pleasing and attrac-
tive. Like its parent, it is q ram
pant grower and literally covered
with bloom.
Evening star., 1949-01-02
Dogs
BY Peter Bogss

If you received . puppy a. q
Christmas present, be prepared and
expect that he will destroy q few
things in your home. It Il only
natural for q puppy TO chew on
things. 1t Is natures way for him
to loosen and remove his puppy
teeth. I suggest you give him an
old shoe TO chew on. He will soon
learn that this is permissible and
will play with the shoe instead Of
destroying more important items.
Can your dog bite some one with
out making you liable for damages? i?
In all but two States, by common
law-that is, the law recognized by
most courts even If the Legislature
has not passed the lava dog is en-
titled to his first bite. If q dog bites
a person, the victim, to recover dam
ages from the owner Of the dog, must
prove that the owner had knowledge
that the dog was vicious. OF course,
If the dog has already bitten some
one. that fact makes the dog vicious
IN the eyes Of the court.
The two''6tates that have taken
from the dog the right to his first
bite are California and New Jersey.
II you didn't get O puppy for
Christmas, but instead received an
older dog, If he was registered, you
know his age by looking at the pedi-
gree papers. On the other hand,
there is no exact way Of determining
a nonregistered dogs age because no
record was kept of his birth and
breeding. We often read Of dogs liv-
ing to the age of 20 or more. Usually,
those dogs were not registered and,
therefore, determining the age has
to be largely guesswork.
One way to tell a dogs age Is by
the condition Of his teeth. Yet have
known many dogs with worn and
decayed teeth, and my pointer, Pal,
who is II years old, has teeth nearly
as strong and white and perfect as
they ever were. A better guide to q
dogs age is his elbows. Many years
OF lying down and getting up will
leave their traces on the patch of
gristle that marks the elbows of a
dog. The older the dog, the larger
and lumpier, and more pronounced
is this patch of elbow skin. A dogs
elbows are surer sign of his true
age than are his teeth.
How did the expression, "die like a
dog" originate? Less than a century
ago. 1t was the custom in Great
Britain and in other parts of Europe
proper to put dogs to death by hang
ing. From this almost universal prac-
tice arose the much-used expression.
@. How old should a puppy be
before he is fed raw meat? I have a
litter of half collie and half shep-
herd puppies. They are now 4 weeks
old.-E. H. D.
A. When the puppies are 6 or 7
weeks old you should start feeding
them raw meat in small amounts.
Q. My dog likes coffee. Each morn
ing he laps up what remains in the
cups and sometimes I give him what
remains in the percolator after it
has cooled. Do you think this is
harmful?-J. B.
A. AS coffee contains caffeine, a
stimulant to which dogs react more
readily than do humans, 1t Is unwise
to give dog coffee, especially as a
steady diet.
released BY McNaught Syndicate, Inc. J
Evening star., 1949-01-02
Woodbridge Club

Woodbridge Garden Club offers a
varied program tomorrow evening at
Sherwood Hall, Twenty-second
street and Rhode Island avenue
NE.
Robert Scammell, 1886 Bladens-
burg road, a leader in rose culture
here, will discuss treatment of a
rose garden from October to May;
a sound-color film from the ANA
teur Cinema League. Adventures in
Birding" will be shown, and some
OF the members will offer resolu-
tions for gardening in 1949.
Mrs. Alma E. Marshall, recently
reelected president, will introduce
the program.
Evening star., 1949-01-02
Students to Speak
On State Resources

High school students of Northern
Virginia will compete this spring
with students from other State
schools in a public speaking con-
test being sponsored by the Virginia
Bankers Association. The subject
will be Using Virginia's Agricul-
tural Resources"
Individual school contests must be
held before February Is, and county
contests before March l. District
contests then will be held March
II, and the State finals March Is
at Richmond.
In the nearby area. the, Fairfax
County contest will be held at
pm. March 3 at the Fairfax High
School.
Plans are now under way for
the Loudoun contest, but have not
been completed.
Evening star., 1949-01-02
State Dairy Groups
To Meet in Roanoke

Two groups of Virginia dairymen
are scheduled to meet this month at
Roanoke.
The Virginia Dairy Products As
sociation will hold its convention
January 18 and 10. and the farmer
group, the Virginia State Dairy
mems Association. will meet jan
uary 20 and 81. Both meetings will
be held at the Hotel Roanoke.
DR.. Walter S. Newman, president
of Virginia Polytechnic Institute,
will address the latter group on
THE Dairy Farmers Contribution
70 the Commonwealth"
Evening star., 1949-01-02

from 1reeZ1ng. Inat Is WnaG we
hope for when we spread q thick
layer Of oak leaves about our rho
dodendrons and azaleas. But in
general it is hardly feasible to keep
the ground from freezing. not with
. layer Of mulching material 2. 3
or even 8 inches thick. Mulches are
applied. for the most part, to pre-
vent the rapid changing of soil
temperature.
Most plants resent rapid changes
from cold to warm and back to cold.
Even though frost action did not
tend to push the plants out of the
soil lheaving) the constant change
in temperance would prevent their
complete rest. They may start into
growth on a warm day only to have
their cells ruptured by q sudden
drop to below freezing temperatures
This explains why many plants that
are hardy in the Northern States
cannot withstand our mild winters
Actually, in more northern areas
they are likely to be well covered
with q blanket of snow-and snow Is
an excellent mulch.
Dangers in Mulching Borders.
If We were to apply a mulch to
the perennial border In the late fall
before the ground freezes, we might
flnd that 1t kept part of the plants
from going into q state of complete
dormancy. A mulch might well be-
come the winter home for field mice
that would feed on the green shoots
or tunnel into the soil in search of
bulbs. This points to the impor-
tance Of applying. some mulches
after the ground is frozen when they
will serve to keep the soil frozen un-
til spring and the plants dormant
throughout the winter. If the soil
is well frozen mice are unlikely to
make their winter homes in the
flower border.
There are times when q mulch is
applied to retard the freezing of
the soil. This is particularly true
Of our evergreens, whose leaves
remain during the winter and re-
quire q constant supply Of moisture
from the roots. A good thick mulch
will tend to keep the soil from
freezing and the roots active until
late in the winter. Such q mulch
also tends to hold moisture in the
soil for the roots to take up as
needed. The kind of mulching ma
terial most commonly used In. such