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[ BROVNINGANDGIL PLAN HOREYHOON 15-Year-0ld Bride Still Under Summons to Appear in Court Thursday. By the Associated Prese. NEW YORK, April 12, Rrowning, wealthy 5 wvstate operator, bride, Frances ITeenan Browning, are nning an immediate honeymoon trip to Europe. The bride, however, s still under summors to appear in Children’s Court Thursday in proceedings brought by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children seeking to have her removed from the custody of her mother The summons was issued before the marriage, which performed by a justice of the peace at Cold Spring, N. Y., Saturday afternoon. The chil- dren’s society alleged that Mrs. Cath- crine Haenan s unfit to be her 1ughter's guard: Parents Attend Wedding. Mrs. Heenan and her husband, from whom she is separated, attended the edding. They and less than a dozen Cdward W, ear-old real n. s girl friends from Manhattan, nstituted the party. imediately after the ceremony the couple went to a 10-room house in Cold Spring, which Browning had leased for a year. Late last night they left for New York Vincent T. Pisarra, superintendent the Children's Society, said the ardianship hearing would proceed Thursday No officials of the so- of woul, mment on the effect the marri on the proceedings. The weddin s a surprise, as Browning, less than had bewn quuted as saying that lutions with the girl were a “closed chapter ° Mrs Heenan also had said her duughter would not marry Erowning. Present at Musical. Browning attended a musical given in Cold Spring vesterday by boys and 1s. He distributed red and white carnations. He said he attended to show his interest in any activity for the benefit of young people. Browning's adopted daughter, Doro- try Sunshine, has yet to meet her stepmother, who is only five years old- than herself. It was as a companion Dorothy Sunshine that Browning empted to adopt Mary Louise Spas last year. The attempt was abandoned when Miss Spas proved to be 21 instead of 15, as at fir leved. Dorothy is now attending a boarding_school. The proceedings begun last week by the Children’s Society were post- poned untn Thursday after a physi- cian had sart that Frances was suf- fering with burns from acid, which, accoraing to her story, was thrown by a mysterious person who entered her mother's Manhattan apartment while she was alone. PASTORATE CHANGES TO BE MADE TONIGHT Methodist Protestant Conference Expected to Bring Many Im- portant Shifts. WILMINGTON, Del., April 12.— Appointments in_ the various Meth- odist Protestant Churches will be an- nounced tonight at the session of the annual Maryland Conference meeting here. Rev. Dr. G. I. Humphries, for- mer president, last year made 52 changes in pastorates, but most of them were minor changes. Judging from reports in circulation, several outstanding changes are due In some of the big churches in the conference this vear. The selection of Rev. Dr. J. H. Straughan for group work in the general conference leaves 8 vacancy at the Rhode Island Ave- nue Methodist Protestant Church, Washington All the Washington churches affil- fated with the conference, it is said, &lso three of the Philadelphia charges, will have new pastors, The following have been elected to the board of managers of the Super- annuate Societ ers—Rev. Dr. G. W. Hadd singer, Rev. D: Rev. Dr. J. B. Laymen—T. A. Murray, Da MacLea, Dr. E. B. Fenby and E. J. Paige. PSR 862 PER_SONS WARNED TO ABATE NUISANCES| District Health Department In- spectors in Brisk Campaign Against Insanitary Conditions. The District . Sheridan and Health Department bos served 862 notices on persons warning them to abate nuisances since the beginning of the annual Spring clean-up campaign of the san- tary Inspectors, it was announced today by Health Officer William C. Fowler. Three hundred and eighty- three of the nuisances have been ebated. Most of the offenders, it was said, were alley dwellers who allowed frash to accumulate in yards and al Vs, The inspector also found conditions which were reported to various other departments of the District govern- it_for correction. The Plumbing rtment received €9 reports; the pectors of buildings, 124; the board or the condemnation of insanitary buildings, 44; the Fire Department, 1; the Street Cleaning Department, 29: the Fire Department, 10, and the Police Department, 9. Lvery section of be the District will visited by the inspectors befors the campaign is closed. Dr. Fowler believes it will continue for another 10 days. Sl bl HAWAIIAN VOLCANO QUIET; EARTHQUAKE SHOCK FELT Relief Believed Temporary and People Are Warned of Tidal Waves and Avalanches. By the Associated Press. HILO, Territory of Hawali, April 12.—Mauna Loa, which shot forth a| &tream of lava yesterday, is quieter, |g ielieved the voleano may | but it is resume activitly soon. The district of Pahala, south of Muuna Loa, reported no glow from | the crater Saturday night, but a thin xlufe smoke was seen early yester- 2 Walohinu. Residents of Kau Beach were warned to expect dangens from a flow from the adjacent mountains and a tidal wave below. A few minor avalanches bave already occurred in the vicinity. No actlvity was apparent from Kilauen, the largest active volcano in the world, which is 32 miles on an &ir line from Mauna Loa. At Milo and Holualoa there were no signs to indicate activity of any of the volcanoes which sourround these communitles. \' sharp earthquake was felt ves. | terday at the Kahuhu ranch, above | A lighter shock followed. | { ‘{“v*xident(:a Upper left: Luther Burbank, king of his home. Congregational Church of luma, Calit Lower right: Mrs. Luther Burbank, pageant to mark the Burbank jubilee. Upper right: l’howgrngh delivering a sermon from pulpit of the First an Francisco, when he explained his statement that he was an infidel. Rev. James Gordon, pastor, in Lower left: With “Miss Petaluma,” packing case of eggs for President Coolidge, this being a feature of celebration held in Burbank’s honor at Peta- maid, after whom the City of Santa Rosa, Burbank’s home, is named. . H tving o wolidgo of the horticultural world, in garden background. , dressed for a leading part in historic She_appeared as “Rosa,” the Indian BURBANK, PLANT (Continued from First Page) sclentific plant breeding, and many of his more than 100,000 experiments with various forms of vegetation at- tained such marvelous results that they won him the title of *“Plant Wizard.” Early in lifs Burbank evinced a great love for growing things, select- ing plants rather than animals as his pets. His first notable success was achieved at the age of 22, when he happened to find a seed ball of the Early Rose potato, which rarely bears seed. From this he developed the world-famous Burbank potato that has spread to every portion of the globe and which is sald to exert a greater influence upon the food supply of hu- manity than any other single food plant. Soon after breeding this potato, which brought him neither fame nor money at the time, Burbank moved to California, where he obtained em- ployment as a farm hand. He con- tinued as a laborer until able to ac: quire a small farm in the town of Santa Rosa, some 50 miles north of San Francisco. With this small be- ginning he undertook the series of ex- periments which long had been upper- most in his mind. Thereafter his work was continuous and tireless, oc- cupying nearly 14 hours a day on the average. Burbank was born at Lancaster, | Mass., March 7, 1849, son of Samuel W. and Olive (Ross), of English and Scotch ancestry. He was the- thir- teenth of 15 children born on his father’s 200-acre farm. He attended the Lancaster Academy, from which he was an honor graduate. Created Spineless Cactus. Next to the potato, the accomplish- ment which brought first fame to Burbank was the spineless cactus, whereby he turned a worthless desert growth into a valuable forage and frulting plant. In recognition of this work he received, in 1912, a United States grant, Congress under special act turning over 7,680 acres of non-| irrigable land to be located either in California, Nevada or Arizona. It has been estimated that Bur- bank's 100,000 or more experiments with plant life involved the planting, pollenation, observation and propaga- tion or destruction of a biilion in- dividual vegetable growths. From this vast number, however, only 385 were selected and recommended by him as of value to humanity. Some of these were under his observation for 25 years before being given to the world. Several fine varleties of spineless blackberry, now ground around the| world, were bred from a wild variety that was considered useless in its na- tive state. A certain variety of rhu- barb, under Burbank’s magic touch. increased its stalks from the size of a lead pencil to that of a man’s wrist, and was made perpetual, instead of for a few weeks only. Can- Screen Enamel This Week Only 60c Qt. 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Declding | first what he wished to create, re- make or improve upon in the vegeta- ble world, he began by carefully se lecting robust specimens, allowing | them to go to seed, then experimem-i ing with the seeds under widely dif-! ferent conditions of climate, fertiliza- | tion and nourishment. The product | would, in turn, be submitted to rad- ical changes from its natural ele- ments and the product of this would & . > - 2 undergo further experimentation, and so the artificial evolution progressed until the final result either met the wizard's requirements or was aban- doned as useless When experiments with seeds alone were not entirely satisfactory, graft- ing upon the seeds or upon fresh roung shoots often was employed. It was through a combination of these methods, fortified by his inexhaust} ble patience, that enabled Burbank to ‘impart delightful odors to nat urally ill-smelling flowers; to grow gigantic plants from dwarf varieties and to produce a perfect calla lily only one inch in diameter when fuil grown. These are but a few of the queer anomalies resulting from the heretofore unheard-of liberties he took with nature's vegetation League Spread Plant Knowledge. Burbank’s experimental farms at Santa Rosa and Sebastopol, a nearby town, became a Mecca for statesmen, kings, princes, philanthropists, horti- culturists, biologists, botanists and humanitarians as the fame of their owner spread. Never of a commer- cial turn, Burbank perniitted an as- soclation known as the Luther Bur- bank Society, chartered by the State of California and endowed by wealthy patrons, to disseminate the knowl Ask the Waiter for LEA & FERRINS’ SAUCE NEW and USED Office Furniture| Save 50% and More H. BAUM & SON 464 Penna. 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In 1921, when the City of Santa Rosa completed a new $300,000 park, it was named after Luther Burbank. He turned the first shovel of earth in the construction, and later laid out the gardens, which cover a 4lacre tract. The State of California also hon- ored its distinguished resident some years ago by naming March 7, Bur- bank’s birthday, as Bird and Arbor day, and the occasion has since been celebrated as a school holiday throughout the State. Takes Bride in 1916. Burbank _married Elizabeth J. Waters of Hastings, Mich., December 21, 1916, As a New Year gift to the world, the naturalist on January 1, 1926, an- nounced a group of new flowers and plants. One of these was the new camassia, a striking blue flower, which exceeded all others of its kind in beauty and ability to multiply. From his rain- bow corn, he produced the rainbow teosinte, a -plant that grows eight feet in height and bears eight to four- teen ears to each stalk. The third was a new glant cactus flowering zinnfa, while among the others were a hybrid tritomas, a new species of the torch lily; an in a strain of the Shasta dafsy, much larger and more colorful than the old, and an new kind of flufty giant aster. T can say that I am satisfied wich my year’s work,” he told visitors at his garden, “for I must be satisfied. The year is done and it has been one of my buslest. I have worked and v day of it and T will go ith the new ye: Gives Views on Religions. A few weeks later. Burbank created comment_through the country by de- claring that “as a sclentist I cannot help but feel that all rellgions are on a tottering foundation.” He also repeated former assertions that he was “an infidel in the true sense of the word.” . Most of the comment was in op- position to the horticulturist's state- ment, a group of Chicago clergymen branding his remarks as “unsclentific" and ‘nonsense’’ while Chauncey M. Depew, in New York, sald he re gretted “sincerely that such a prom. inent man as Mr. Burbank should adopt this attitude, as it is contrary to the sentiment of 99 per cent of the American people today.” Appearing in the pulpit of the First Congregational Church {n San Fran cisco, Burbank declared he had “nominated” himself an “infidel” so as to cause people to think. “I reiterate: The religion of most people is what they would like to he lieve, not what they do belleve, and very few stop to examine its founda " he said ees “Ravings of Insanity, “The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell i utterly damriable to me—the ravings of insanity; superstition gone to seed | him up. I don’t want to have anything to do with such a God. I am a lover. of men and Christ as a man and his work, and all things that help humanity, but, nevertheless, just as he was an infidel then, I am an in- fidel today. “I prefer and claim the right to worship the infinite everlasting al- mighty God of this vast universe as revealed to us gradually step by step by the demonstrable truths of our savior science. “Do you think Christ or Mo- hammed, Confucius, Baal or even the gods of ancient mythology are dead? Not so. Do you think Pericles, cus Aurelius, Mo Shakespeare, osa, Aristotle, ates, Plato, mpedocles, Humboldt, Darwin, Tol- stoi, Franklin, Emerson are dead? No. Their very personality lives and will live forever in our lives and all of those who follow us. All of them are with us today. No one lives who is not influenced more or less by these great ones according to the capacity of the cup of knowledge which they bring to their ever-flowing fountains to be filled. “Prefers One World at a Time.” “All plantsg, animals and man are al- ready In eiernity traveling acrors the face of time, whence we kunuow not, whither who is able to say? Let us have one world at a time and let us make the journey one of joy to our fellow passengers and just as convenient and happy for them as we ;’ n and trust the rest as we trust fe “Let us read the Bible without the | il-fitting colored spectacles of theology Just as we read other books, using our | { own judgment and reason, to the voice within—not to the noisy babble without.” Following this, the naturalist clatmed he had the power to cure the ill by the “laying on of hands.” “Why, many years ago my nearest neighbor was dying,” he s quoted 1 saying. “Four doctors had given He sent for me and I went to his bedside. He told me 'T am go- ing to die tonight.’ I told him ‘You are going to get well. Tomorrow morning 1 will see vou at your wood pile as usual’ e was there the next morning. That i only one of so many cases. Asserting the ‘“power” was not supernutural, he added: “And bear in mind that 1 will not allow the afflicted to be brought to me; I cannot have my door thronged with patients. I am far too busy to take on any more work than I have now on hand.” Addresses “Children of the World.” on March 6, the eve of his seventy seventh birthday, Burbank addressed a message to world,” telling them their happiness will be in direct proportion to their loving thoughts ‘‘toward every per- son and animal and even toward stars, planets, oceans, rivers and hills.” Burbank then sald he expected to live at least five years more and in important that worl perfod do the of his life. erything 1 was quoted as writer. “In the next five y to produce plants with grains fruits larger than any we hav present, with more va colors, with better most ping qualities, with The terms of Morris Plan Loans are simple and practical and fair—it is not necessary to have had an account at this Bank to borrow. For each $50 or! fractionborrowed you agree to de- posit §1 per week in an Account, the proceeds of which may be used to cancel the note when a weekly, semi- monthl or monthly as you prefer. 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