Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1930, Page 16

930, REAL ESTATE. TRADE UNIONS HAVE DROP. Hand Book Compares Membership SATURDAY, MARCH 8 him, and buying & paper turned it over | thought of was that from the time at ln“mreh e ey o which Mallison had ascertained that i o Sanderson had never returned to his | ward the door. house he, Mallison, and the police had | horse, now and henlmjun lordz:; (lllm raised a regular hue and cry over the of 1920 With That of 1926. o T i, Yot T S50, B | ot o i . M Al ordr | Trade i membersy was some- | of that, Mr. Johnson?” and that nothing had come of it. Now | what smaller in 1929 than in 1926, ac- | " He handed the paper over to Johnson |if 3anderson and Sadler had been in| | cording to a summary of the latest edi- ‘wlth a finger pointing to a paragraph |y, 5 the newspaper paragraph sug- |tion of the Handbook of American | gested— Trade Unions, published by the Burest “It wouldn't surprise in REAL ESTATE. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, The Wrist Mark Copyright. 1930, by North American Newsp Newspaper Servicy THE HOME GARDENER Practical and 'Seasonal Hints for the Amateur for Beautifying Surroundings of the Home. By J. S. Fletcher BY J. W. WELLINGTON. which had caught his attention, John- if these |of Labor Statistics. Unions er Alllance and Metropolitan | son, too, took it in at a glance. me | r. James Sanderson, J. P. of & | tion of Labor, however, I | Wraisby Ab and Mr. Alde: two never left England!” he exclaimed | American Federation of a short talk on the use of lime lhont the small city or suburban home, | ited at the February meeting of | ‘Takoma Horticultural Club, H. W. | ‘Warner of the National Fertilizer Asso- clation spoke of the man-made cover- ings of snow that may be seen about the | city at this season, referring, of course, | to the lime which many home gardeners annually broadcast over their place with | The particular | t in the lawn, requires moderate | but not_to the point of removal weeds, dandelions, plantain and clovers, | if the last may be called weeds, wfll; b thrive to the detriment of the blue grass, Mr. Warner of the litmus paper test for acidity, a rough means of rmining the condition of the soll. | ‘This test is approximately as follows: A | &mall lump of moist sofl is rolled into the lhlfl of a ball, then cut in two and a g of blue litmus paper placed ‘wit If the soll is acid the paper | ‘will ?ll.‘lh:uy turn pink. As most of the | soll this vieinity is naturally acid, | o SRt Strawberry plants as they arrive from the nursery, carefully tied in bundles | Before they are united it is advisable to cut away the lower third | SYNOPSIS. Col. Engleden, formerly povernor of Southmoor prison. is murdered. Sefton Engleden, & mephew, with the aid of his law clerk, learns that during the colonel’s time at Southmoor two prison- ers, Snelling and Hardle, escaped. They believe that the colonel had come across the escaped convicts and that they killed nim. A former *prison warder. Mili- waters, engaged to aid in the investi- oation, is murdered. Mallison, super- tntendent of police, arrests two soldiers, who admit having robbed the colomel's body, but demy any knowledoe of the murder. Meanwhile a description of the escaped convicts is obtained from Capt. Shoreham of Southmoor. Snelling had @ birthmark on his right wrist. Engleden recalls that Sandersom, on whose estate the colonel's body was found, wears a steel bracelet on his right wrist. The aquestion arises, Is Sanderson Snelling? Johnson thinks he is and that his butler, Hewitt, is Hardle. Maj. Anstie of the Home Office savs he had a letter from the colonel saying that he had located all the persons concerned in the prison escape When an attempt is made to prove the identity of Sanderson and Hardle it ts found that they have fled. Sanderson’s chaufleur, John Oates, tells ,s-dler J. P. Barowsburgh, as chair- an and dincwr respect vely, of the | stein. “We—my firm, I mean—do busl-;mmmm & Imperial Mutual Benefit ness occasionaily with Sadler, and I | Society, have just left England for the | made excuse this morning to ring him | Argentine, where the society has large up on pretense of doing some business. | interests. Messrs. Sanderson and Sad- ‘The reply I got was thgt Mr. Sadler | ler, who expeet to be away several weeks, was away for a few days.” mmmed a representative of the press | . “That's serlous,” remarked Johnson. | just before leaving York that the so- “It bears out your theory, too. But— |clety’s affairs are in an exceedingly wouldn't the bankers of the Northern | flourishing condition, and that tts mem- & Imperial Mutual Benefit Soclety | bership has,quadrupled during the sec- know- | ond year of its existence. Silverstein smiled, as if the mere Johnson handed back the paj ‘suggemon gave him Intense pleasure. | “So that's that!” he , dis Bankers!” he exclaimed. “My dear | mally. ‘“Argentine, eh? ~Well—that's sir!—the Northern & Imperial Mutual | not exactly next door, but—"" Benefit Society is its own banker! All| “But—what?” asked Silverstein, with the money that's hpen poured in by the | a laugh. | gullible public is "unreservedly in the| *“I don’t exactly remember, at the hands of the directors. To put it in|moment, how we stand as regards ex- | plain, unornamented English, it's in the | tradition,” replied Johnson. “There | hands and at the disposal of Sadler and | used to | Sanderson!” Siversteins laugh_increased in vol- | Johnson thrust his hands in his pock- | ume. “I won't say that Sanderson and | ets, and, stretching out his legs to their | Sadler may not have gone abroad, or full extent, gazed for two or three | that they aren't on thelr way abroad, | minutes at the points of his boots. or that, if they haven't gone, they're ‘ “Who's the fellow that Sanderson | not contemplating going—but I will say fetched from here to his house that |that, if they've gone or are going, it It She's ' | won't be to the Afgentine! They're the sort that would say readily ‘We're going | east’ and would immediately go west! | No, sir—that paragraph has been stuck night?” he asked suddenly. | Harlington man— “Tve 50mr‘thlng to say on that point,” | satd Silverstein. “That's about it." othing would surprise me in con- nection with this case,” declared Sil- | verstein calmly. “But you come along here tomorrow afternoon, Mr. Johnson.” Johnson went away full of thought | an * back to Barowsburgh, where he sat Iate into the.night telling his story to Engleden and Shoreham and discussing their next movements, and as a result }of their midnight conference he went next morning to ison and told him . |88 much as he thought it good that Mt lluon should know. T'm aware of the existence of that society, of course,” remarked Mallison. “It's not much known about here. The head office is in York and the business is in the big industrial towns. But Mr. Bratten s a director. Let's ask him what he knows.” Bratten, a quiet-mannered, very com- monplace’ man, confirmed the news- paper report. He had known of the in- tended visit of Sanderson and Sadler to the Argentine for some weeks. The society had invested a great deal of capital there. No, he didn't know from which port his two fellow directors had sailed; that hadn't concerned him. He didn’t know either if Mrs. Sander- son had gone with her husband. Prob- ably she had. And—that was all he suedenly. | report an ‘increase of 126,430 over the figure for 1926. The aggregate mem- | bership of all trade unions, both vm.mn and without the American Feds of Labor, in 1929 was 4,331, 251 | Since 1926 10 national | have passed out of existence, but most of these were small dual organizations | which have been absorbed by larger | bodies, and during the same period | three new dual organizations have de- veloped in different fields. The great- est increases in membership are re- ported in the construction industry and in public service. PR e S M Everybody is starting a rock garden nowadays. Order a list of seeds of rock plants to put into the rock garden when you have it built. Two Buys in Chevy Chase Gardens 4608 Morgan Drive Beautiful 6 rooms and 2 ; dn-:hud Dutch Colo- firepl: of the roots to provide clean ends from which new roots can develop. Photo -lly landscaped. “I didn't come to meet | } by courtesy of Department of Agriculture. you badly equipped, Mr. Johnson, you'll | Well, as to that, whether it's | there as a piece of bluff.” th to pink may be confidently e change to pi y 1 suppose one could ask, at the head ted in it t where ©of taking his emplover and another man expec most_cases except W on @ mysterious drive the might of the did_know. There was no more open to John- lime has been applied in the past. Early Spring is & very desirable time of year to apply lime. Late Autumn is even better if one is using hydnudl lime, the usual form to be obtained in | hardware stores. Hydrated lime is gen- | erally used, according to Mr. Warner, in about two-thirds the quantity of | ground limestone, a reasonable applica- tion of the hydrated lime being about one pound per 40 square feet and of ground ‘]lmuume vl);le po\l;l;ufier"ha.: lq-\nre eet. Mr. Warner len much of the lime used in the compost heap where ition and at the benefited the soil. GH R i Egieggiii il L | gii ed, be easily detected by its wrinkled and browning bark and lack of vitality. Hodfl'llllm should be the keynote in as in fruit pruning. Prun- ( is not beneficial—it is and the contents removed. If very dry. | the roots should be placed overnight in water. Otherwise the plants should be | taken to the garden and the roots cov- ered with soll. This process is known as heeling in and is practiced by com- mercial men everywhere. Drying out’ of roots is dangerous for most plants. Pruning of roots is not advisable ex- cept to trim up broken or decayed encs. A very considerable portion of the roo's | are lost in the original digging in H\e‘ commercial nurserp, and there could be no object in removing more at time of | replanting. Pruning of the top is ad- | visable in many cases so as to more | nearly restore the balance between top | and root. In planting, the hole should be large enough to accommodate the roots spread in their natural position and deep enough that the tree may be set an inch or two lower than it stood in the nurs- ery. The old position can be easily seen by the difference in color of the bark above and below the soil line. ‘Well rotted manure or other fertilizer, such as bone meal, may be placzd in the soil beneath the roots, but should not actually touch the roots. Finely di- vided soil should be sifted in about the roots, covering this with ordinary soil, at the same time pressing down firmly with the foot. With strong, vigorous trees or plants and with the soil molst, i there is really no great science in the planting of a tree. If the roots ars placed in the soil properly, nature will do the rest. The critical stage is more apt to occur later, during the first Sum- mer, when droughts cause water short- GARDEN ITEMS Parsnips that have overwintered in the garden are now at their best and should be used promptly. Once the foliage starts, the desirable sweet flavor | is raptdly lost. At one time it was quite generally thought that parsnips had to freeze to be at their best, but experi- ments conducted by the horticulturists of the University of Maryland showed that temperatures just above 32 degrecs Pahrenheit were highly effective in bringing about changes in quality. The principal change is the breaking down of the insoluble starch into late March and April, when the I’OOH begin to grow again, the cl ige is in E‘nn reverud, the sugar tu back 'l'he quesunn often arises as to how early in the Spring it is safe to remove leaves or other muich from the perennial beds. The gardener is con- fronted with two hazards, one of freez- ing injury and the other of smothering the young growth under the muich. Partial uncovering would be a happy solution in many cases but is not al- ways practical. Fortunately most of the overwintering plants are naturally pretty hardy and ar the two hazards, — Inspect Today 1816 L St. N.E. In City' View Heights late Autumn & better time, but it d lay until another the trees and plants Spring were dug in cellars. The less dried out so plants are in their on in the garden or In event that plants Ineonveniem time the be placed in the t should be opened i BE 5!5 g §"E E§§§ s 1 | [ ’é Only $40 Monthly Small Cach Payment An fieellent N" Brick Home Just Off levl:d ‘This fine home is very Jow priced. Hardwood floors, tile bath, two large bed rooms. Open for inspection Harry A. Kite, Inec. 1019 15th St. N.W.' Nat'l 4846 murder. Francis Silverstein sudoests to | anthing to do with it or riot, it so hap- | office of this society?” suggested Jol smothering is perhaps the more likely | to do injury. | With forsythia breaking into bloom, early flowering honeysuckle in _full | bloom, and here and there a daffodil showing its color, one could be excused for thinking Spring to be here. Un- fortunately, "there are a few weeks of | doubtful weather before us yet. But for | the real gardener these are not idle days, the seed of various plants may now be sown indoors or in the hot bed, plants that need moving can be trans- planted advantageously, drainage tile | may be put in to improve the condition | of the soil in low spots, lime, fertilizer | and manure may be applied, and spad- | ng of the soil is easier in the cool days | of March than in the warmer days later on. TH RDEN CLUBS ‘The officers of the Battery Park Garden Club of Battery Park, Md., a Mrs. Leon M. Grant, president; Mrs. J. F. Barkley, vice president; Mrs, Louis A. Gravelle, recording secretary; Mrs. Clyd A. Selleck, corresponding secre- | | tary; Mrs. Reginald B. Looker, treasurer, jand Mrs. J. Wilbur Green, publicity manager. The Lyon Park Garden Club of Lyon Park, Va., elected O. J. Schuster pres dent, C. H. Deaton vice president, Mrs, P. C. Dyer recording secretary, Mrs. J. C. Fulsom corresponding secretary and Mr. G. P. Taylor treasurer. The Forest Garden Club of Prince Georges County roster of officers i cludes Mrs. Oscar G. Carson, presiden Mrs. Alice J. Roberts, vice presiden Mrs. John T. Nicol, secretary; Mrs. Arthur Bowle, corresponding secretary, | and Mrs, J. J. T. Graham, treasurer. Edwin C. Powell of Silver Spring, Md., is president of the Takoma Horti- cultural Club, serving his second term within a period of four years. W. L. Holt is secretary and Roy G. Pierce, treasurer. Mr. Pierce has the unlqu! record of having filled at various times every elective office in the club, work- ing in each capacity with characteristic energy and enthusiasm. Clarke was because Dupont Tontine is washable, fadeless, ‘waterproof and nkle- proof—the most satisfac- tory window shade cloth made, Estimates Johnson that the colonel was killed be- cause he knew facts that threatened the welfare of certain persons. He says that Sanderson s the head of a concern that is perpetrating @ financial swindle, and that, if he were recopnized by the colonel as an ez-convict, the murder of both the colomel and Millwaters is ex- lained. NINETEENTH INSTALLMENT. ILVERSTEIN gave his companion a ndelong look, ‘Why!" he answered, cynically. | “I should say—the same man | who murdered Miliwaters killed Col. Engleden. Doesn't that strike | you?" “It's ible,” agreed Johnson. “Prankly, I hadn't thought of it. You see, your police here haven't had a scrap of success in tracing Millwaters’ | murderer. Well, supposing he is—who is he? Another of the Sadler-Sanderson | gang?” “You can bet your stars on this, Mr. Johnson! If Col. Engleden hadn't been murdered Millwaters wouldn't have been murdered. The cause in each case was the same—to insure silence . . . for a time. “Why for a time?” “I should say—to enable Sadler and Sanderson, and perhaps a secret accom- plice or two, to get away with the swag' In other words, to give 'em time to col- lar the assets of the Northern & Im- perial Mutual Benefit Society and to | clear out with ‘em! See?” “You think it was that?” “What else?” sneered Silverstein. “Of it was that! And—they've » Johnson. “But Sadler? man—the unknown man? “Sadler is off, too,” replied Silver- — e of the Woodridge Garden Club at the annual meeting last November. The supporting officers comprise Miss Flor- ence Tinker, recording secretary; A. R. Hester, corresponding secretary, and H. And the other 201 16th St. S.E. 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And Il lay all I've “In this town, of course. The man I | got to a red herring that nobody at the mean looks like a farmer—a working | head office will know someth! 1se!” Jmrmer A big, muscular chap, middle- | agdded Stlverstein, with a wink. nd 1 | aged. Mind you, the man I mean may | guess I wouldn't iose my money, either!” a perfectly innocent person—I'm | ell, what?” asked Johnson, bound to say that on each occasion on |, «where the funds of this precious which I've seen him in conversation |society are!” said Silverstein. with Sanderson it was market day here, | Nobody, my dear sir, knows tha‘ but ‘und in the cattle market. Sanderson, | two gentlemen we've been discussing. of course, farms his own land—they | “What about that other Barowsburgh may have been doing business, or dis- | man who's a director?” suggested John- | cussing cattle or sheep or turnips. SHl, | son, there's the Tact A big mani—and e | *Piratten? PochiI. attach 1o fme | man who was seen with Millwaters was | portance to Bratten! He's & man of a big man, and the man Oates saw With | gtraw.stuck in to fill up.” | Sanderson and afterward drove back | johnson relapsed into silence. He was | here was a big man— | considering many things—the getting It the man you're talking of is | away of Sanderson and Hewitt at the farmer, I suppose he’s in the habit of | closa of the magisterial proceedings; | attending the market here regularly,” |the faclL that Mrs. Sanderson observed Johnson. “What's market day |jeft for London on the morning of here?” those proceedings. But what he chiefly SPRAYING verstein. —is of first importance i shade trees are infested 'llth ob- scure or golden oak scale. We are equipped with power machines to take care of your spraying requirements. PRICES REASONABLE Phone or Write For Estimates FORMAN & BILLER SUBGFONS BALLSTON. VA. 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