Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1926, Page 5

POLICE-FIRE GAME SCHEDULED SEPT 11 Odell S. Smith, Chairman of Citizens” Committee, Is at Work on Details. The annual benefit base ball game between the Policemen’'s and Fire. men's Relief ociations will be ayed Saturday, ptember 11, at American League Base Ball Park, d arrangement: e now going ahead under the direction of Odell Smith, ch: nan of the citi- zens' committee sponsoring the event, to bring out a big attend- ance for the con- All receipts from the game will go to the benefit funds of the two associa- s, fram which is paid to MR. SMITH. member upon his . The Police Relief Association und is now $200,000 and that of the IMiremen’s Association is $150,000. It is he hope of the committee on ar- rangements, which includ, number prominent citizens as well as ol ce and fire depart- Police Group Older. ations actu- tions, and wcipaliy by month- i ach fireman gi and each’ policen 2 roup is the older nized in the late fifties The ball game has grown fo be an annual affair, and last year netted 34,000, seiation receiving £17,000. ire no expenses in the game, the entire to the funds for hich it is held. Committee for Game. is as vice in e mith The committee follows: chairman, ifarry Allmond, ¥ t Ivans, M. s >ratt, Lieut. P Michael (Gibson, v, Chief Deputy Chief A. J. Lieut Mina Van Demonet, Dr. Pearce Rayner, Samuel J. Pi Inspector L. J. Stahl. M. P., and Serg! A. J. Bargagni, F, D. BRITIS.FE SEA UNION QUITS WORLD TRANSPORT BODY Seceders Charge Organization Is Too Political and Object to Secretary’s Acts. By the Associated Pre LONDON, July 24—The Seamen’s Union tods lution withdrawing fr tional Transport Workers’ The action was taken chiefly on the ground that the federation is more of a political association than a trade union and that its secretary, Edo Fimmen, has been guilty of issuing . manifestos whose effect has been to mislead the workers of all Europe. Natlonal Only recently it was revealed in the House of Commons that the British Government had refused to permit 3do Fimmen, who is a Dutch So to enter England. Home secretar Joynson Hicks said that he had been barred because he had tried to inter- fere with Br > by arranging that British s 1ld be held up in foreign ports during the recent zeneral strike. < OPTIMISTS PLAN OUTING. Many Events Featured for Tuesday at Manor Club. Members of the Optimist Club will stage their annual Summer outing in honor of ladies’ day next Tuesday afternoon at the Manor Club. A golt tournament for the club champlonship, with prizes for lowest and highest scores, will be one of the entertainment features. Diving and swimming contests also will be on the program. Dinner will be served at #:30 p.m. President Frank M. sn charge of arrangements. Member of the general committee include, Wil- liam C. Kloman, Harry E. Hill, Ydward 1. Muth, G. E. S. Williams, George Plitt, jr.; Francis V. Thomp: son, Orlando H. Smith, Peter M. Dorsch, Paul F. Grove, sr., George P. Kiilian and T. E. Gilbert. The restraint we lay upon ourselves to be constant is mot much better than inconstancy. Peirce will be “Where Security Isa Surety” W MORRIS ™ Mortgages Guarantecd by an Qutstanding Surety Company The Morris Plan Bank, Bond Department, 1408 H St. N.W., Washington, D. C. Please send wme, without obligation on my part, infmfin concerning your first mortgage bonds with :Hesse Tells Police To End Children’s Playing in Streets A campaign sto break up the practice of children playing games in the streets, was started yester- day by the Police Department at the direction of Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent. The dally polices bulletin called attention of the individual police to the regulation prohibiting the playng of games in the streets. Where children are found offend- ing, Maj. Hesse Instructed the officers to advise their parents and seek their ald in enforcement of the law. A fine of $5 is prescribed for violation. -~ MILK FERTILIZER HELPS BLUEBERRY Bigger Fruit and More Rapid Growth Noted in Tests by U. S. Experts. Milk-fed blueberries will probably figure along with milk-fed pullets on restaurant bills of fare before long. In the greenhouses of the Depart- ment of Agriculture here Dr. F. V. Coville, expert on blueberries and other acid-soil plants, has been ex- perimenting with buttermilk and sour milk as fertilizers, and he finds that they work very well. Some years ago Dr. Coville showed the world how to put blueberry cul- ture on a regular, profitable farming basis, by seeing that they got acid soils in which to grow, instead of the neutral or slightly alkaline soils de- .nanded by most crop The ques- uon of a nitrogen-bearing fertilizer, which all plants must have, still re- mained, for acid soils are notoriously poor in nitrogen and somehow seem to resist the application of the or- dinary kinds of nitrate fertilizers. Milk, Dr. Coville reflected, is rich in nitrogen compounds, and butter- mil sour milk, whey and similar acidulous dairy products are rather a drug on the market. So he tried these various nitrogen-bearing milk products on a lot of young blueberry bushes, as well as on some azeleas and a few other similar plants that naturally thrive in sour soils. The results of his experiments are a striking confirmation of his initial theory. The bushes, which are as yet too small to bear a crop, pushed along their growth in a most aston- ishing fashion, outstripping compan- ion plants left without milk by a good third in length of stem, and produc- ing larger, greener, healthier-looking leaves. Apparently, however, there can be too much of a good thing. One lot of bushes was given a heavy over- dose of whey and showed definite signs of ill health. This Dr. Coville attributes to ‘too much acld; for bushes on a smaller ration of whey throve very well. Dr. Coville concludes that if further experiments bear out the first ‘re- sults,” there is an excellent prospect of using dairy materials, now largely wasted or sold at low figures, to en- courage the young and pushing in- dustry of blueberry culture, and to help along the growth of rhododen- drons, azaleas and similar ornamental plants. DAVIS GETS NO REPORT. Charges That Liquor Was Found in Moose Clubs oNt Made to Him. BATTLE CREEK, Mich.,, July 24 (P).—James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor and director géheral of the Loyal Order of Moose, tonight said he had received no petition from the Council of Churches of Pittsburgh, Pa., demanding that 18 Pittsburgh lodges where liquor was found be ousted from the national organiza- tion. " Such a plea, he said, would un- doubtedly be directed to Thomas How- ell, supreme dictator, ,who lives in South Bend, Ind. “I do not know much about the Pittsburgh affair,” Mr. Davis said. “I do not think it would be fair to cancel the charter of a lodge because a few members were found to have { brought liquor into the lodgeroom.” R ADMITS KILLING WIFE. Illinois Farmer to Be Sent Back to Insane Hospital. METROPOLIS, Ill., July 24 (®).— In a signed statement before State’s Attorney C. N. Conley today, John Logan, 51, retired farmer, confessed E ing his wife by cutting her throat ith a pocket knife. Logan was released from the State Insane Hospital three months ago, and arrangements were being made to have him returned. 0 Members of the family said Logan had been very nervous for several 3 The youngest child, Fred, 8 ears old, told the coroner he heard his mother scream, and ran to their room, where he saw. his father slash- ing her neck with his knife as she lay on the floor. THE. SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO D. C. MAN, 8, LAST OF KANGAG"ARNY John A. Rastall Was Member of Famous “Free Staters” in Year 1856. John A. Rastall, Union Army vet- eran of the Civil War and retired employe of the Government Printing Office, looked back over 4 long and eventful career which has left him as the last surviving member of the famous Kansas “Free State Army” when_he observed his 86th birthday last Friday at his residence, 230 B street northeast. Mr. Rastall, who is recorded by the secretary of the Historical Society of Kansas as the last survivor of the Free State fighters of the stirring “John Brown days” of that State, is adjutant of Kit Carson Post, No. 2, Department of the Potomac, G. A. R. He has resided in Washington since his retirement from the Government Printing Office, in which he served 15 years after a career in the printing and newspaper fields. Enters Kansas Squabble. Sixteen years old when he left his home in Milwaukee, Wis., to go down to Kansas to work on a newspaper, Mr. Rastall landed there in the midst of the clash between the slavery and abolition factions of the State. After the abolitionists had been outvoted and Kansas made a slave State, they organized an army of “Free Staters” in 1856 which engaged in a sort of guerrilla_warfare with members of the opposing faction. An ardent aboli- | tionist and sensing a chance for ad- venture as well, Mr. Rastall recalls that he found plenty of it when he Joined “Company B of the Second Free Staté Kansas Volunteers.” The climax of that experience, Mr. Rastall relates, came when he was ar- rested at Topeka bysa United States marshal with other members of his company who had looted a store for needed provisions during an independ- ent raid into ‘“enemy” territory. Placed under guard of United States troops sent from Leavenworth to pa- trol Topeka, the youthful Free Stater made his escape the second night of his arrest by crawling through high grass. Catching a ride on & wagon loaded with hay and escaped slaves, Mr. Rastall made his way to Oskaloosa, Iowa, and thence up the Mississippi River back home to Milwaukee. Served Throughout War. On_the outbreak of the Civil War, Mr. Rastall enlisted in the Milwau- ee Zouaves, Co. B, 5th Wisconsin In fantry. After moviag to Fort Me- Henry, Md., with his company, Mr. Rastall was detached from that com- pany and organized the 1st Eastern Shore Regiment of Maryland, with which he served throughout the war after being commissioned first lieu- tenant and adjutant. Mr. Rastall received his G. A. R. initiation im Post No. 1, Madison, Wis., June 26, 186! He is a past com- mander of Washington Post, Chicago, and served a term as president of the Commanders’ Association, comprising 40 posts in Chicago and Cook County. ROWERS TO DISCONTINUE VOYAGE AT NEW YORK Dr. Richards and Wachter Decide to Cut Trip Because of Choppy ¢ Seas and Intense Heat. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, July 24.—Choppy seas and the -heat here caused Dr. Thomas K. Richards and E. A. Wachter to decide to discontinue at New York their pro- posed row in a wherry from Norfolk, | ‘Va., to Boston. Dr. E. M. McGarty, associate of Dr. Richards, confirmed this report today after a telephone conversation with the head of the rowing expedition, who was in Phila- delphia, Dr. Richards, medical director of Harvard’s foot ball squad, said his| companion, the crimson basket ball coach, had suffered from the heat as they crossed the mouth of the Potomac | in the Chesapeake bay, and that two | or three storms had caused them to| lose so much time it was thought ad- | Vvisable not to try to row farther than Néw York. They had planned to make | the entire trip in $wo weeks, and left Norfolk a week ago last Thursday. The rowers are expected to arrive in New York about Tuesday evening. Towan Heads Lions Club. SAN FRANCISCO, July 24 ().—W. | A. Westfall, Mason City, Iowa, was | elected president of the International Association of Lions Club here today, succeeding Benjamin F. Jones, New- ark, N. J. 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Round Trip, 85¢ Admission, 25¢ Cafe and Lunch Counter on Steamer Mt. Vernon not open on Sundays PLAN BANK of U. S. Treasury Main 2486 Shop Girl Royalty’s | Guest in Evening; On Job in Morning By tho Assoclated Press. LONDON, July 24—A London shop girl has gained distinction by curtseying to the King and Queen at a royal court one evening and showing up for work the next morning as usual. The young woman honored at Buckingham Palace is Miss Doro- thy Knaggs, daughter of Lady Knaggs. She has been working in_a large West End store. Miss Knaggs has a bent for de- signing and drawing. One day last Winter she stepped in a store with some of her own sketches under her arm. These were her only. cre- dentials. She displayed her work | té6 the chief of the “help hired here” department and the next day at 8 a.m. appeared as one of the artists of the designing depart. ment. She has held her position ever since. Few of the other shop girls know that Miss Knaggs, when her day's work is over, goes to a large Mdy- fair mansion, ' the front door of which is opened for her by a butler in knee breeches. DRY AGENT'S $1.100 * PAYUNDER PROBE | McCarl Starts Inquiry to Find | Out How Dwyer Witness ! Got So Much. | By the Associated Press. An investigation to determine how A. Bruce Bielaski, prohibition “under- cover” man in New York, received the salary of $1,100 a month, which he told a New York court he got, was started yesterday by’ Controller Gen- eral McCarl. McCarl ordered an inspection of all Government pay rolls after receipt of complaints from members of Con- gress and others. Bielaski disclosed his salary during the Dwyer rum trial in New York. The controller pointed out that the law prohibits | a prohibition worker from receiving | more than $7,600 a year and also pro- hibits a Government worker from drawing two salaries where the com bined total is more than $2,000 an- nually. T SHAW, 70, EATS LITTLE. Shuns Meat and Attributes Good Health to Simple Diet. LONDON, July 24 (P .—George Bernard Shaw will be 70 years old on July 26, but he will not overload his stomach with an elaborate birthday dinner., In fact, the eccentric dramatist never eats a_heavy dinner. That is the reason he says he is in good health and is able to work steadily without exhaustion. He rarely ac- cepts an invitation to dine out, and it he does he eats only simple food. Vegetables and fruit make up his diet. He never eats meat. . The railway ties in Central Africa are made of metal, because the ants would very quickly destroy wooden ties. | | Automatic Gas 5 NEW YORK FISHING HOLEUSEDBY MANY Boats Leave for Atlantic Angling Spots at All “ Hours of Day. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 24.—New York, like every small town, has jts “fishin’ hole,” Here it is the Atlantic Ocean, and good fishing may be enjoyed in a score of charted locations. A handful of wealthy men go to Florida and California annually to en- Jjoy the sport in an expensive manner, but more than 1,000,000 men this sea- son have enjoyed deep-sea fishing by devoting only one day at a time and on a minimum expenditure. Trade Highly Developed. There always has been fishing, but until recently the nimrods had to organize small groups, charter an old boat and get their enjoyment in the face of discomfort and sometimes dan- ger. - Now, - going fishing 1s as simple as taking the ferry. Large, speedy craft cater to this one trade and, regardless of the time of day the fisherman llkes to drop his line in the water, he can be ac- commodated. If he likes to catch them as they rise at dawn, there are boats leaving at midnight. The man who likes his night's sleep first can get the boat at 9 o'clock. Others leave at intervals until late in the afternoon. Veterans Lead Way. The larger boats carry several score of men and on Sundays usually are crowded to capacity. The boats, as a rule, are in charge Di veteran fishermen, who gauge the tide, wind and weather and can pick unfailingly the place where they are biting. Bass, fresh fluke and black- fish are among the leading catches. The boats, however, would bring a smile to the face of a veteran off the Grand Banks. There is little rough- ing it. Instead, the tired sportsman may sink into a heavily upholstered chair. The larger boats even have lounging rooms and dining rooms. Sell Worms and Tackle. Neither is it necessary to worry about tackle, for along that section of the docks from which the boats depart are shops selling not only the proverbial “hook, line and sinker” but all other equipment. 1t is not even necessary to dig for worms, if that bait is used, for there are any number of shops dealing in grubs and angle worms. There are many other conveniences offered on these boats which tend to make fishing a matter of luxury, but there is one item of the old pond that cannot be duplicated. 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