Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1928, Page 6

6 THO YOUTHS TAKE PLACES IN PULPTS Jack Yancy, 14, and Delbert Chostner, 13, Find Life Work Preaching. By the Associated Press. i KANSAS CITY, December 25.—Two boys with a combined age of only 27 years already have taken up their life work of preaching the Gospel in the neighboring States of Missouri and Oklahoma. The oldest is Jack Yancey, 14, who 1s assistant pastor of the Central Meth- odist Church ir. Picher, mining town of the Oklahoma lead and zinc field. The other is Delbert Chostner, 13 years old, of Dielstadt, Mo., an ordained preacher of the Missionary Baptist Church. Oratorical abilities displayed by Jack | Yancey caused the regular minister, | Rev. W. O. Bucy, to ask him to fill the pulpit occasionally and to help | with the other church work. Jack gladly consented, and since then he has spoken before large congregations. | Jack, who 1s a Boy Scout with five merit badges, plans to go to a theo- logical seminary after he finishes high school. When he was graduated from the grade school he delivered the com- mencement address to his own class. He lives with his grandparents, his mother having died five years ago. Delbert Chostner has preached from ® number of pupils in Missouri and Illinois. He became Interested in re- ligion a year ago when Rev. C. W. Holmes, an evangelist, was conducting a meeting at Dielstadt. where Delbert lived with his grandfather. Delbert was ordained in October and has re- ceived invitations to preach in churches in New York and other distant cities. WINTER SEASON ENDS - THE -EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25 1928. TWO BOYS PREACH IN ADJOINING STATES ‘Thirteen-year-old Delbert Chosiner of Dielstadt, Mo., and 14-year-old Jack Yancey (inset) of Picher, Okla., are preachers. Both have occupied pulpit:® in their home towns. DRUG APPEAL PLANNED. |cotics to an officer who posed as head * lof a narcotic ring, will appeal to the S | Minister from San Salvador at Wash- San Salvadorean Held in Texas | ington for return to his own country for 3 | trial or sentence, Salzar said yesterday. Narcotic Transaction. | Charges of possession and sale and |illegal _importation of narcotics have SAN ANTONIO, Tex, December 25| peen fiieq against Salzar. DEATH IS FACED INHUNTING SEEDS U. S. Scientists Have Narrow ' Escapes in Studying Foreign Plant Growths. ‘When efforts to obtain increased ap- | { propriations for the Federal office of | |Inrelgn seed and plant introduction are renewed Congress will hold in its hand the destiny of a service that is respon- sible for about all the progress that American _agriculture has made today. Long before the Government launched cleus of new crops from foreign shores the agriculture of this continent de- pended on the introduction of plants from other lands. its present practice of bringing the nu- | - All the Indian had was corn, tobacco, | pumpkins and various wild berries. | Cotton came from the West mdi"'i wheat from Central and Western Asia, barley and rye from Russia, the Aus-| trian Alps and Turkey, the sorghum | crops, including milo and broomcorn, from Egypt; melons from Persia, rice | from Madagascar and Japan, potatoes and tomatoes from Peru and the nu-| merous other field crops, fruits and| vegetables from equally distant climes. | Even corn is believed to have originated | in the Andes and spread north by vir- tue of barter or war between aboriginal tribes. As early as 1827 the United States officially recognized the Wmportance of co-ordinated effort to give the farmer additional crops and to improve upon hose he had. Instructions were sent abroad to to all consuls, making it a art of their duty to collect and send Pome the seed, root stock or cuttings of all plants that might prosper on American soil. Seed Department Established. 1In 1901 the office of foreign seed and plant introduction was created and Dr. David Fairchild, now acting in an ad- visory capacity, was named director. On_ funds supplied by a personal friend he visited every known part of the world, studying plant growth and sending back to the United States the things he believed economically promis- ing. He was jailed in Corsica as a spy. but escaped with buls of the citron now grown in America. Fairchild's experience is common to the men who, unaided and alone, bur- row into every corner of the world to find new or better plants for American farms, gardens, orchards and forests. Frank Meyer, who walked 10,000 Have Your Dance—Dinner Or Bridge Party at the Egyptian Tea Room 1210 G St. N.W. Second Floor Your Fortune Free With a Cup of Tea Luncheon Tea Dinner A Shop of Individuality miles thro Stberia and ia to send home plants that now are so common they are con- glyderedgn“:“f.(ve, was lined up to be shot L lan uad. He neve told how he escaped. e e Persecuted in China. J. F. Rock, now in the wildest regions of China, has been persecuted by tribal chieftains and local governments that could not understand why any man would go prowling around among plants. Still, his last word to civili- zation was that he never expected to return to it, preferring to spend the rest of his life in a service that has given the farmer soybeans, sudan grass and 176,000 varieties of every plant that grows in the United States. Knowles A. Ryerson, now director of introduction, has asked for an increase of $113,000 in Federal appropriations for his office. He seeks the additional funds to extend further the $24,000,000 soybean industry by seeking new varie- ties in the Orient, to search Java for a h Northern China into |1 me that will do for the South what alfalfa has done for the grain beit, and to find in Australia trees that will grow in the great piains. Farmers need, he says, a soybean that will mature in a shorter season and another of lower oil content for hog feeding. It is desired to ocntinue the development of a sugar cane re- sistant to mosaic, and to find a chest- nut that will withstand the blight that has killed virtually all native American chestnuts. SICKNESS SWEEPS TAHITI. TAHITI, December 25 (#)—Many deaths have been caused in Tahiti in November and December by measles and influenza. Almost every child has been stricken and many adults have suffered. Business was almost at a standstill for two months. During December con- ditions improved. WOMAN FOUND FROZEN. Body Discovered on Ice of Lake After Two-Day Search. BIRMINGHAM, Mich., December 25 (®).—The body of Miss Nettle Mann, 31, daughter of A. A. Mann, wealthy retired real estate dealer of Birming- ham, was found frozen in the ice of Quarton Lake, near her home, Sunday morning by James Anderson, chief of police. Miss Mann left her home Thursday night to walk to the home of a sister nearby, and an intensive search | had been conducted for her since Fri- |day morning. She apparently drowned | when the ice gave way beneath her. —— i Announcement of the Italian govern- ment's plan for a $400,000,000 land reclamation scheme has been enthusi- astically received by the people. WoopwARrD & LLOTHROP DOWN STAIRS STORE (#).—Roberto Salazar, self-styled com- mercial attache from San Salvador in Mexico City, who was arrested here Sunday when he is alleged to have at- tempted to sell $20,000 worth of nar- FOR PARIS FASHIONS Spring Has Come So Far as Dress World Is Concerned on Continent. Boys of the Cornish Hall End School at Essex, England, are making hand looms on which the girl pupils are taught to weave. CHRISTMAS § Our Semi-Annual Clearance Sale —which begins today, is one of the out- standing economic events of the year—one to which discriminating shoppers look for- ward with keenest anticipation, offering, as it does PARIS (#).—So far as the dress world here is concerned Winter is over and Spring has come. The end of the Christmas holidays, and sometimes the beginning, sees the fashionables packing their bags for ints farher souht, or above the snow ine. Places like St. Moritz, Nice, Can- nes and Monte Carlo become the stages on which new fashions are shown. Once the exodus of Parisians to other cli-| mates begins, the style makers start work in earnest on their offerings for the coming Spring. Many large wardrobes have been pur- chased recently for wear in the south of France, St. Moritz and Chamonix. One Rue de la Paix house boasts a client who ordered 30 dresses in one afternoon, most of them for evening wear. She was bound for the casino of Nice, Cannes and Monte Carlo, where dress is as serious as play. Large dress establishments divide their Paris staffs at this season, sending groups of saleswomen and mannequins, with models of special design, to the Riviera and European points where the fashionable public is gathered. "There will be parades of Paris mannequins in the ice and snow bound resorts. They will wear the newest skating, skiing and toboganning cost Almost simul- taneously other ;mannequins, along th Riviera, where Spring flowers are bfi»m- ing. will be showing tennis costumes, beach clothes and Spring wearables in light colors. 200 Brand-New Silk Frocks, very special 8.75 What an exceptional opportunity is offered tomorrow. 200 ad- vance Spring styles—scarcely from their. wrappings—at this re- .. markable low price. 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BALTIMORE, Md., December 25— Two _chain store coliectors were forced to drive their automobile about the business streets of Baltimore for half an hour yesterday morning while a lone robber transferred about $1,000 from their bags to his pockets and then es- caped. The C. D. Kenny Co., from six of whose stores Saturday night receipts had been collected, were unable to set the amount of the loss definitely at first, but estimated it would be more than $1.000. | As Milton Worthington and Charles Bradley, the collectors, were moving their car from a parking place in the business district the robber menaced ELEVENTH ST. Philipsborn Women’s and Misses’ Coats Greatly Reduced 51275 were $16.50 53 Sports Coats in fur-trimmed and tailored styles. belted. In brown, tan, green and gray. Sizes 14 to 50. 51950 were 525 to $39.50 i 62' Fur-trimmed Coats offer a wide variety of sports and dress models. Some are plain tailored styles. 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