Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1928, Page 11

AARYLLIS SHOW " OPENS TOMORROW Department of Agriculture Exhibit Will Include 1,200 Blooms. ‘The fifteenth annual amaryllis show of the Department of Agriculture will ©pen tomorrow In the greenhouses at Fourteenth and B streets. The an-| nual exhibition of hundreds of varietics | of the “Knight's Star Lily" attracts hundreds of thousands of flower lovers each vear. Mys. William M. Jardine, wife of the | Secretary of Agriculture, has invited | several hundred leaders in the socia’| life of the Capital to & preliminary ! ahowing tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. | when most of the ladies of the cabinet | circle will view the display. | Promptly at 1 o'clock the green-| houses will be opened to the public. The | show will be open daily from 9 am.| until 9 pm. for one week. The drive- | way in the department grounds has| been reserved as a parking space for | motorists: All of the plants on exhibition are| the deparement's hybrids. The depart- | Tith & dozen bulbs imported from Eng-| and. In the show this vear are 1,200 plants the majority of which have two stalks with from 2 to 7 flowers on each stalk. There are shown again this year a number of specimens of the white amaryllis, produced by department spe- cialists, which amazed the world three was first exhibited ng feature of the ex- Marriages at Sea Upheld as Legal By New York Court By the Assaciated Pross. NEW YORK, March 3.—The legality of marriages at sea was up- held vesterday in a deelsion of the Appellate Division of the State preme Court. Su- The decision was handed down in the case of cartoonist, who had contended Harry (Bud) Fisher, that his marriage by Commodore Herbert Hartley to the former Contesse de Beamont aboard the Leviathan several miles at sea on October 24, 1924, was illegal. Fisher said Hartley was without authority to perform a marriage and he was prohibited from re-marrying by a divorce decree obtained by a former wife. Fisher was directed by the Appellate Divi- slon to pay his wife $400 a weck temporary allimony pending trial of her suit for separation. “We conclude,” Justice John V. McAvoy wrote in the opinion.” that Commodore Hartley was legaily en- titled to marry the parties and that, the defendant, being outside the jurisdiciion of New York, the judg- ment had no extra-territorial force and therefore was not binding upon him. SEES RAIL BILL VOTE. ment started amaryllis culture in 1909 Chairman Watson Predicts Early Action to Promote Merger s, Early action by the Senate interstate commerce committee on the Fe: to promote railroad consolid presaged yesterday by Chairman son, Republican, Indiana. who for a vote without further delay The Senate committce h able to take up the bill fo bill asked THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., MARCH ¢4, 1928—PART T. FARM RELIEF BILL REVISION IS URGED Agriculture ~ Groups Ask Changes 1o Meet Objections of Administration. By the Assoviated Press, Revision of several features of the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill, in- cluding provisions governing in part the operation of the equalization fee, has been recommended to the House agri- | culture committee by a group of lead- ing farm crganizations. The proposed changes, made public vesterday by Chairman Haugen, are de- signed in some instances, the farm or- ganization spokesmen said, to meet spe- cific objections raised by the adminis- tration to the measure. The committee tomorrow will take | | up consideration of the bill in executive | sossion. Haugen expects the commit tee to vote on the bill before the week end. The farm organizations, among other things, recommended that investiga- tions by the farm board, which would | be created under the bill, be initiated | upon the request of the leading co-oper- |ative associations and farm organiza- | tions representing the producers of a commodity for which assistance | handling the surplus is sought. This change is recommendcd. the organizations :aid, to remove one of the constitutional questions raised by the Attarney General. who obiected to the provision in the former bill. . TO FLORIDA-—-Fast trains - Frequent in | Tiniest Applicant On Record Granted Papers as Citizen By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 3.—The small- est man who ever applied for citi- genship papers qualified here yester- day as an American citizen, John Lucas, former valet to a Rus- sian prince, was handed his papers by Naturalization Examiner Andrew Jordan, who stopped to greet the 50~ vear-old midget, who stands 3 fect 8 inches in his stocking feet Lucas, whose name was Lukesls. came to this country in 1920. He is a secretary here of St. George's Church, LEGLESS PILOT PLANS CAPITAL-ROME FLIGHT M. R. Daugherty, West Virginia,! Says Non-stop Attempt Will Be Made Early in June. By the Associated Press. WHEELING, W. Va., March 3.—M. R. Daugherty, one-armed and _legless aviator of New Martinsville, W. Va., annouriced here tonight he had com- pleted plans for an_attempted non- stop flight early in June from Wnsh- ington, D. C., to Rome. Daugherty, who is tax assessor for Wetzel County, has just returncd by plane from Fiorida, where he said he carned his navigator's license. Daugherty said he had received many applications for the post of navigators, including requests from four women ie said it was likely he would carry a e bioodhound as masaot The aviator said all cxpenses had | been guaranteed by wealthy oil and | business men of New Martinsville, MINE PECE SEN N PTSTON WAR Owners Agree to 30-Day| Opening While Committee Seeks Solution. By the Associated Press, SCRANTON, Pa., March 3.-—Hope for an early ending of Pittston’s mine union warfare, which has claimed four lives was seen tonight, following a peace par- ley today by coal operators and union chiefs. After a long conference in the offices | of the Glen Alden Coal Co., led by Maj. W. W. 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