Evening Star Newspaper, October 26, 1922, Page 4

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Coville Grows Blueberry | Inch in Diameter. Announces His Dis- covery at Garden Club Session. Use of aluminum sulphate as the means to acidify soil for the growing of orchids, rhododendrons and other flowers was announced for the first time by Dr. Frederick V. Coville, chiet botanist, Department of Agriculture, at the closing session last night of the au- {tumn meeting of the Garden Club of { America, in the auditorium of the In- \mmr Department. The auditorium was crowded with flower lovers, and scores | had to be turned away. Dr. Coville’s important announcement, | following his experiments of recent {years, was made in the course ot an | illustrated address upon his work at the | Department of Agriculture greenhouses |here. Other addresses were delivered by rs. Helen Fowler of Keniiworth, Dr. | Edgar T. Wherry of the bureau of ¢ |istry, Department of _Agricuitur: o Paul tsch of the National Museum, and Dr. Wiiliam Safford ot the bureau of piant industry, Department of Ag- riculture. Volce of Wild Flowers” Given “The Voice of the Wild Flowers,” & ! fantasy by Mrs. Marietia Minnigerode Andrews, author of “The Cross Tri- umphant,” written for the benefit of the Wildlower Preservation Soclety sented preceding the addresses as part of the evening's program, and ceived such enthusiastic approv from the audience that Mrs. Andrew wus forced to respond to a curtain call, during which she presented Miss | |und dedicated to Dr. Bartsch, was pre- line McKinley, who took the lead- ing role, and other members of the { cast. i Dr. Coville, who is famed for his blueberries of nearly an inch in size, hus of recent years been much inter- ested in work on determining the im- portance of acid soil tor the best de- Velopment of certain flowers and I plunts. Experiments have peen car- ried on with the assistance oi asso- ciates at the local greenhouses of the Depurtment of Agriculture. Many { plants, Dr. Coville pointed out last night, require an acld soil. These in- clude’ the rhododendrons and azules, {ihe various members of the heather tamily and the blueberry. Can Acidify Any So | Dr. Coville said he has found that {by the use of aluminum suiphate he lcan acidify any soil. In the past acidification through the use of peat and decaying leaves. By the use of the acid soil he has been able to increase the blue- {berry from its historic insignificant size to almost an inch in diameter. The new discovery s held to open the door to great development in the culture ot orchids, the arbutlus and others named. Scientists in the audi- | énce last night were of the opinion {that there is no telling what signifi- cance Dr. Coville's discovery and its lannouncement m other | Belds of agricultur New Era for Potatoes. in have in a weak acid soil potatoes may be Igrown tree irom scabs. Dr. Wherry gave an illustrated lec- ture on his wild flower garden in i Chevy Chase, in | intensive study of soil for acidity and alkalinity. He told of various tests devised by him to determine the chemical make-up of seils. Mrs. Fowler gave an illustrated lec- ture on “The History of the Shaw Lily Gardens, i |father. a government emplove. be- {cause he loved the flowers, have grown into a great business, from which thousands of lilies are picked and shipped a day. Pleads for Nature Study. Dr. Bartsch made a plea for nature study, declaring that children should ibe so trained that they wouid be able to recognize fowers, shrubs, birds and butterfiies they might meet on their {way to and from school. Such knowl- edge is the basis of all conservation, Dr. Bartsch sald. Dr. Stafford gave an illustrated lec- {ture on the dahlla, showing many | beautiful pictures of the various spec- imens, all of which have sprung from | three original species found in Mexico {and South America. | “The Voice of the Wildflowers, | which proved to be a delightful { pageant in minature, brought forth Spontaneous tributes of _applause from the large and representative ! audience. The fantasy was presented in the name of the Wildflower Preser- |\.allon Society by a committee | cluding Mr. Fairfax Harrison, Mrs. E. H. Bouton, Mrs. James Parmelee, Mrs. Louis Hertle, Mrs. Charles J. Bell, Mrs. Rudolph Kauffmann, Mrs. {Charles W. Richardson, Mrs. Elipha- i let Fraser Andrews, Dr. Paul Bartsch, Charles Moore, John H. Small, and ! Ben A. Harlan. Serfes of Lovely Dances. The pageant was devejoped in & | series of lovely dances, built Into one | { beautiful stage picture after another, finally forming the rainbow, with i | i the “Volce of the Wildflowers” high | at the center, white flowers at her feet. hen night came, and gthe Spirit of {Night entered and sung the flowers to sleep. Albert Parr took the part of the Passerby, Caroline McKinley that of the Voice of the Wildflowers, Estelle Wentworth as the Spirit of | Night, and Paul Bleydon as the priest. {The “Forest Folk" were danced by Helen Minnigerode and Mary Schults, while the “Rainbow Flowers” were danced by Rosemary Browning, Jeal Inette Albert, Elizabeth Quigley. Ju- iliet Lyeth, Evelyn Davis, Marian Chace and Florence Thompson, and the “White Flowers” by Emily Hoff- man, Evelyn Preble, Sara Hoover, Jo- sephins Ganiley and Mabel Day. Dance of “Night Winds.” The “Night Winds* were danced by G. R. Weitzel, Margaret Callahan, Martha Woolle; Frances Sherrier, Helen Walten, Eilen Waller, Mildred Potter, Florence Holiday, Lucy Hop- kins, Josephine Ruber, Dorothy Knight and B. Duaney. Musical numbers were given by Helen Gerrer, violinist; Walter Nash, cellist, and Qertrude MocRae Nash, pianist. Bess Davis Schreiner was organizer and producer, Miss McKinley was director of rhythmic dancing Mr. Bleydon was choral director, Mr. Parr stage manager and J. H. Small stage decorations. No mmall credit for the success of the production was due Harold Snyder for his lighting effects. The setting by Mr. Small was a thing of beauty. A committee of hospitality, mem- bers of which served as ushers, was composed of members of the staff of the American Red Cross, with Miss Dorothea Campbell as chairman and Misses Fauntleroy. Rea, Thompson, Johnson, Fisher and Hardesty. 400 on Inspection Tour. About 400 members of the Garden Club went on an inspection tour of the grounds of the Department of Agri- culture and the department green- houses yesterday afternoonm, person- ally conducted by Dr. W. A. Taylor, chief of the bureau of plant indus: try, and the scientists of that bureau, who explained to them the different kinds of horticultural research and investigation that was belng done in the greenhouses. The Garden Club was surprised to find that the grounds of the depart- ment comprise about forty acre 'hlch they declared to be “the finest they had seen anywhere in a urn city. Dr. Taylor explained to them that these grounds were laid out and pllntol soon after the close has been brought about | It is held as not impossible that| which he has made in which she recount- | ed how the gardens, founded by her| THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1922. WOMAN POLITICAL LEADERS URGE ELECTION OF REPUBLICAN CONGRESS. IPerfects Aluminum Sulphate Means to Acidify Flower Soil DR. F. V. COVILLE. of the civil war by the late Willlam Saunders. who for many vears was | horticuiturist of the department. Mr. Baunders Introduced the now famous Washington navel orange and numerous other rare and valuable plants. Very early in the history of the department Mr. Saunders began the systematic in- troduction of hurdy shrubs and trees from foreign countries and the planting of these in groups on the depariment grounds. He also brought together and planted on the grounds many of our qwn rare native species of (rees and shrubs. Specinl Interest in Trees. Special attention was called by Dr. Taylor to the group of oaks. mag- nolias and eims. The visitors were particularly interested in the en- trance avenue, along the Tou 13th street, lined by ninety ( trees, all of which are fifty These trees constitute one of the unusual features of the grounds, and are the most striking examples of this species of tree in the United States. The attention of the visitors was di- rected to a section of the gilant red- wood tree, which was on exhibition at the Chicago world's fair in 1593, and which now stands on the depart- ment plaza. just east of the red brick administration building. Three memorial trees on the grounds were also pointed out by Dr. Tavlor. One of tliese was planted by Secretary J. Sterling Morton, father of Arbor day, in April. 1884, located | among the eims on the 12th street side of the grounds; a willow oak in memory of the late'J. M. Rusk (Sec- retary of Agriculture, 1589-1£93), planted in April. 1901, by the late James Wilson, then Secretary of Agriculture, near the cement wa! running northwesterly from the Ad ministration building to the green- houses, and a white oak tree on Piney hill, nearby, planted March 2 | 1919, by the then Secretary of Agri- cultire, David F. Houston, asa memo- { rial to former employes of the depart- ment who lost their lives in the world | war. Work Is Explained. The work being carried on in the twenty greenhouses was carefully ned to the Garden Club mem- covering the entire fleld of . flowers and vegetables, solls and fertilizers. fumigatlon, study of piant pests, refrigeration. hybridiz- |ing and the entire run of practical iand scientific methods for plant cul- ture. (ne of the interesting greenhouse { exnibita was the Washington navel orange tree. which is one of the two oldest known survivors of those budded from the department impor- tation from Bahia, Brazll, in 1870, The other surviving tree is at Riv- erside, Calif., where two were sent by Mr. Saunders in 1873. From that importation have descended practi- cally all of the trees of this variety now growing in this country, the crop from which in California’ alone now averages approximately 8.400, 000 boxes annually, with a maxi- | mum preduction in one year of 13,- 1000,000 boxes. !MRS. SARAH J. GILBERT, CHURCH WORKER, DIES Mrs. Sarah Jane Gilbert, seventy- six years old, well known in Wash- ington in religious and civic work, died yesterday afternoon at her home 1423 R street northwest, following ar illness dating back to last July. The funeral will be held from the ! Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church | Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Rev. Harry D. Mitchell. pastor of the Metropolitan _Methodist Episcopal Church. will officiate, assisted by the |Rev. Herbert Randolph. pastor of | Foundry Church. Interment will be {in Rock Creek cemetery. Mrs. Gilbert was the widow of Rev. James E. Gilbert, deceased thirteen years ago. who during the latter part of his life was engaged in inter- denominational work and for a number of years wrote the Sunday school les sons for The Evening Star. She came to this city from Indian- apelis, Ind. In 1895—twenty-seven { years ago—since which time she has been actively engaged in church work and clvic endeavor. She was a native of Buffalo, N. Y. Mrs. Gllbert was a communicant of the Metropolitan { Me:hodist Episcopal Church. She was | tor elght years teacher of the Hi wood Bible Class, made up of mar- riel women of Foundry Methodist Church. She had been vice president of ths Ald_Association for the Blind, and the Y. W. C. A. For ten years she was the president of the ‘Women's Home Mlssionary Soclety of the Dis- trict of Columbla, president of the Deaconess’ Home and connected with the Swartzell Home for Children. She Is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Grace Woodburn; a grandson, james Woodburn, and two great-grand- children. i i Try Muth First —for Nationally Advertised Paints and Finishes. You'll find most of the well- known brands of paints and finishes in our immense stock. Don’t take chances with painting materials. Make sure that you get the best. A fine job can be spoiled by poor material. Come in and let ue help you with your painting problems. ‘We're interested in selling you the right material and in giving you sound advice. g Goel-'nuth &Co AL SINCE l865 H WASHINGTON D.C. I END OF JAM SEEN ON 37H 31. LINE Commission Orders Cutting of Long Runs, Starting on Sunday. Cars of ‘the 9th street division of the Washington Railway and Eiectric Company will be rerouted beginning Sundey morning, the Publlc Utilities Commisslon announced today. The new arrangement will cut out the long runs from the suburbs of Georgla avenue to the southeast part of the city, and will be replaced by short runs from the north and south to the business section. The changes will be as follows: Takoma Park cars, now running to Congress Helghts, will stop &t 7th and B streets northwest. Forest Glen cars, the wharves, will and B streets. _ Brightwood cars, now terminating Anacostla, will be switched back at and B streets. Soldiers’ Home Route Kept. Soldiers’ Home cars will continue to run to the water front. Cars now leaving Congress Heights for Brightwood will run only to 9th street and Florida avenue, where they will go through Fiorida avenue to the 11th street barn and return by the same route. Cars now running from Anacostia to Takoma Park also will terminate at the 1lth street barn, after Sunday. Cars_leaving the wharves will run to_Soldiers’ Home. The cars that are to be switched north at 7th and B streets will run to to Tth now running _ turn back at e Brightwood, Forest Glen and Takoma Park. The Public Utilities Commission states that the new arrangement, the base headway on the congested portion of 9th street between U street and the Center market, will be Increased from sixteen to twenty-four cars per hour, and since these wiil not be long-haul cars, much of the present congestion will be relleved. These changes in routing were con- sidered by the commission at a public hearing in July, but delay was ex- perienced in putting them into effect. ABSENTEEVOTERS ASSURED SECRECY The of the voung booth in the states will be strictly observed at the booth placed in the republican campalgn headquarters at 1342 G street for the use of resldents of the Distriet who have a ballot and | who are to vote by mail in the elec- tion of November 7. Arrangements are now being completed by A. E. Chaffee. reading clerk of the House of Representatives, and others in| charge of the local republican head- quarters. The \»oun{ booth at the local head- | ill be a replica of those in the states, and the notaries public quarters wi and = other ~employes have been cautioned to regard it as such. In a statement signed by Henry M. Camp, chairman of the voters' cam- paign committees, the headquarters workers are warned against having | any oonversation whatsoever with | any abeentes state voter, who may call at headquarters with his ballot relative to the persons for whom he | may or ought to vote. Advice to Voters. “‘Advise each voter that he or she must display his ballot or ballots to the executing officer unmarked,” read the Instructions. *“The voter must then mark the ballot in the presence of the notary public and for that purpose should use a black lead pen- cil. In marking the ballot he must do so in such a manner that the ex- ecuting officer is unable to see how the ballot has been marked, the idea being to protect the secrecy of the ballot. “After marking the ballot the vot- er should fold it up and inclose it in the envelope provided for that purpose and securely seal the same, after which the notary public wili execute his certificate. “The whole idea is that the thing the voter is doing 18 to be treated as if he or she were doing the same at an actual voting booth on election d. “In such an event he or she would receive the ballots from the clerks of booth, where he or she would mark the ballot without assistance or instruction from any one and with- out any one seeing how he or she voted. ~All this the voter is expected to do without assistance. “The voter may obtain all the in- struction or assistance or advice that he or she wants prior to his or her open- {is the sixth bombi ing the ballot. But as soon as he or she has opened the ballot, he or she would then be treated as if he or she were in an election booth, and care should be taken that nothing is sald that would be construed into an at- tempt to influence his or her vote. He or she, of course, can be told how to make his or hor marks and how to fold the ballot and things of that kind, but not one word must be said with reference to the name of any person who may be voted for.” Mutual Fire Insurance Companies Operate for Their Policyholders Some Mutual Insurance Companies collect so-called standard rates and at expiration of the policy return to policy- holders from 20 to 30 per cent. stantial saving. Our rates are moderate, and in addi- tion we credit to the accounts of the policyholders and later return to them premium, with interest. THIS GIVES INSURANCE AT AC- TUAL COST AND AT LOWER COST THAN OTHER COMPANIES. ¢ Mutual Fire Insurance Companies are co-operating to give coverage on large lines, strengthening the compa- nies and extending their benefits to “big business” as well as to the average all savings of person or firm. It will be to your advantage to con- sult iis about your insurance needs, g whether farge or small. MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Phone Main 1180 W. A. BH. CHURCH, Presiden: L. PIERCE BOTELER, Secretary out the country to see that republica; BOMB WRECKS HOME OF RAILROAD SHOPMAN Two Hurt in Battles as Disorders Break Out Anew in Arkansas Strike. By the Associated Press. LITTLE ROCK. Ark. October 26.— Two attacks on shopmen, one at the Biddle shops of the Rock Island road, another on a boilermaker at the Mis- souri Pacific shops, last night and the dynamiting early today of the home] of M. J. Cocms, a boilermaker at the Missouri Pacific shops, who returned to work Monday, marked the high point in outbreaks of violence since the strike of railroad shop workers began last June. An attack on a striking union shop- man. alleged by him to have been made by railroad special agents at the Blddle shops, adds to the feeling here as a result of the fresh activities. The dynamiting of the Cooms home | since the strike started and occurred in Little Rock| while the police were investigating the throwing of a bomb in the yards of the Missouri Pacific shops in North Little Rock Tuesday night. The Cooms home was badly dam- aged. Mrs. Lily Smith, a roomer, was injured by fiving glass, but her small son escaped injury. \ Cooms said that no attempt haa, been made to molest him during the | two days he had been at work and | that strikers had not attempted to dissuade him. ! Vietim s Paralyzed. The dynamiting followed closely the two attacks on shopmen late last! night. The more serious of the two attacks was at the Rosk Island shops. Where Frank H. Howe, a striking union shopman, was shot in the back. He was taken to a hospital paralyzed from the walst down. He told the police his antagonists were a group of special agents em- ployed by the railroad as guards, and asserted that he could identify them. "The other attacks consisted of the shooting up and stoning of an in- bound street car loaded with non- union workers from the Biddle shops of the Rock Island. Guy T. Kava- naugh, a machinist, was wounded in the forehead. HIs injury is not se- Fious. 1In north Littie Rock an at- tack was made on a negro boilermak- er's helper last night. HOT SOUP FOR PUPILS. Hot soup luncheons have augmented the milk and cracker lunches served at the Adams School, it was announced to- day by Miss Mary E. Sheads, principal. The milk and cracker lunches were ex. perimented with at the school last year 2nd were a decided success. About 200 children are taking the lunches this year, according to Miss Sheads. A sub- 13th & New York Ave. N.W. Stes Arthor L Livermore 5 NewYork. dn Harriet Toylor Yptap e Ve C’/mwnm;pecm‘u/t Comm.,, 75 Xpublicay Notional ['omm/llet ¢ i HArs Christine Bradley South, WOMAN WITH BABE | JAILED AS “EQUAL | RIGHTS” JUSTICE' October Mrs. Rose Febro, who appeared n federal court with a baby in her arms, has sentenced by Judge B. I. Bledsoe to serve five months in the county Jail for vicla- | tion of the Volstead act The court remarked that women | had been given the ballot and de- manded all the rights of men and that tney should be given the same treatment as males. “If they have children and their rela- tives or friends will not take care of them, the city authoritics will have to do =o,” =aid the court. et agen e o PASTOR ACCEPTS CALL. Rev. W. F. Harkey Will Go to| Houston, Pa. Rev. W. F. Harkey, assistant pasior ) of the Wallace Memorial United Pres- | byterian Church, has accepted a call} to the pastorate of the United Presby- terian Church at_Houston, Pa. Rev. Harkey has been with the| Wallace Memorial Church for the | past two years. His new charge is! twenty miles from Fittsburgh. Rev and Mrs. Harkey will leave the city mber 15. been ~ - il ama, S, Jeannette tyde, representatives and senators are elected in their districts thix fall. |GETS HIS SHOES SHINED, MURDERED WOMAN FOUND IN GRAVE Husband Charged With Bru- tal Killing in Ohio Woods. DENIES HE IS GUILTY Breaks Down When Shown Photo- graph of Mutilated Body of Wife. By the Associated Pres CLEVELAND, Henry J. B Olio, w s charge of murder I early today charged with the brutal killing of his third wife, whose lated body wa found almost = a shallow grave in the woods of Mentor marsk. seve miles west of Painesville late yester day afternoon. Burns, who lives in Cleveland, was formally charged with first degree murder after an all-night grilling here by Detective Lie : Charles Nevel. Admits Being in Woods. Burns admits he was in the wocds near the scene of th, fore the body was fo police, and also admits saw hie wife's hlood-stained clothing scattered {about on the grouud, but denies al knowledge of the crime. The backs of his hands were tors as though a woman's finger nails had gouged him as she sought to fight him off, but he told police the wounds were sustained when he fell from a tree. Shudders at Picture. | He was taken into custody here late vesterday afternoon information furnished by Lake county authorities and for eight hours was subjected to a “third’ degree” grilling at police headquarters™but no confession was wrung from him | Just before the murder charge wax | placed against him he was confronted with a photograph of his wife, rs | Hazel Burns. twenty-nine, taken as {she lay in the morgue at Painesville {her face crushed and torn. her nose | fractured and her right eve marked by a bullet hole The prisoner clasped ¥ hix eyes. shrank back nd cried out: God, 1 wish 1 on Jtoh. Members of the national republican executive committee, who have just issued an appeal to woman voters through- = hands ov in his chair was where she THEN ROBS BOOTBLACK =~ Says Wife Accused Him. N Barns admitted his third w the Negro's Gun Greets Tripi as He victim of the murder, had accused him of paving attention to other Looks Up From Job—Un- women, police declare, and he co | fessed their marital life had been {turbulent for the past few months | Shorty after the charge of murder | noticed by Crowds. When Ottavio Tripi. who conducts|was placed against him Burns w s a shoe shine and repair shop at 10th|taken (o FPainesville in charge of and st s rthwest, looked i Lake county authorities. During the nd Q streets northwest, looked up i o000 Mhe i 1o be taken to the {from a pair of shoes of a negro cus- | BOTE0 e "erime and_ questioned there, Later he will be tak Lake county morgue, where »f the n woman is being h ubjected to further questioning GIVEN PAN-PACIFIC HONORS. the Associated Press HONOLULL, October 26.—The Pres tomer which he had been shining. in- stead of getting paid for the work h found himself looking down th muazle of a revolver in the man's| hand. He didn’t recelve any mnne\| for the shine. While he held his arms high in the air at the command | F of the hold-up man, the latter went | through his pockets and extracted | 3¢t 0f China nAdne e o e $25 in bills. The incident hat‘n’fl?d’z'd:i" Y“:”l,“n("‘fa'dm <l 9 dents of the Pan- on at its ¢ 30 o'clock to H shortty after 9:30 'clock today. while | ¢t o€ % B TREtn 0 e DBODIQ were passing close to the doog g, Commercial Congress is in session here of the store, which stards on the cor- ner. Tripi described the negro as heavy | built, and said he wore a light brown |ing the revolve ripi _gave the suit and cap and tan shoes. He said | alarm, but no ave chase, and h- e had never seen him in the store|disappearcd e alley hv-!\\:lqh |before. 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