Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1930, Page 19

WINCHESTER READY T0 RECEVE 10000 le? Throngs Again Expected | at Blossom Fete Thursday and Friday. @pecial Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va., April 19.—Weeks of planning and preparation by nearly two-score committees of men and wbmen, united in a common effort to pay a tribute to the bounties of nature in the springtime, were today revealing goodly -fruition on the eve of the sev- | enth annual Shenandoah apple blossom festival, to be held here April 24 and 25, to ‘which 100,000 visitors are ex- Ppected. Reports were brought to the offices of Nelson F. Richards, director general of the fete organization, by committee chairmen that their associates were putting forth their best efforts to make the celebration of 1930 the best since the festival was inaugurated. That has been the aim of committees for the | t seven years, and In that hope they ave been quite successful. Most of those serving on committees have been identified with the organization since its inception, and they now proceed with their plans and ideas like sea- soned veterans. | Citizens Liberal. Also, citizens of Winchester, although often harried like those of other com- | munities by “drives” for one or another | so-called worthy object, have given lib- erally to the expense fund of the an- nual show which has done much to| make their town talked aboutin most | of the States of the American Union. | It costs around $20,000 to put on the two-day jollification in honor of Mr. Johnny Appleseed, and, while generous contributions are made by railroads, fruit brokers and industries more or less related to the apple business, the burden of paying the bills rests on local | people, and they express their faith and approval by writing checl for ly sums and indicating thete is more to be had if needed. One of the pleasing features of the | virginia apple blossom festival is that | . virtually everything is free. The first Thursday. Thomas Roberts, 14, of 2007 Jackson street northeast (left), and Arnold Manuel, 15, 2400 Monroe street northeast, pupils of the Langdon School, who are entrants in the kite-flying contest which will be held at Chevy Chase field —Star Stafl Photo. UNIVERSITY PLANS CHANGE IN STUDIES year or two visitors were charged a | Wisconsin Faculty Commit- general admission and then another fee for special seats to see the various pageants and parade review at the fair ds. Then the committee said it was not just “to the manner born” for s Virginian to invite his friends to his party and ask him to pay to see the show, so now about all a visitor needs money for is his meals and lodging. And so solicitous are the citizens for the pleasure and comfort of their guests that hotels and restaurants have been pledged not to raise their rates. More- over, motorists who desire to park their automobiles in vacant lots in the suburbs. are not only not charged a fee, but police are on hand to afford pro- tection. One's pockets are likewise pro- | tected as far as lies within the power of the festival managers, for three large railroad systems send a hundred or so secret service men to the “apple capital” to prevent pocket-picking. “First Lady” Queen. For the. first time the festival will have as its queen the “first lady of the Commonwealth,” Miss Suzanne Pollard, tty daughter of Gov. John Garland g?lllnt who, because of the invalidism of her mother, acts as her father’s offi- clal hostess at the executive in Richmend. . The coronation of “Queen Shenan- doah” im sthe -past. has been a colorful ceremony, .buf this year's crowning of | ¢} her majesty promises to surpass in beauty and splendor those of other years. Gov. Pollard and staff will be there, and the governors of West Vir- ginia, Pennsylvania and Maryland have been invited. The Richmond Light Infantry Blues, whose uniforms of blue, white and !old have excited the ad- miration of countless thousands at presidential inaugurations and many other State occasions, will be “Queen Sue’s” personal escort. Then, too, she is to be attended by a couple score of cesses, some maids of honor, crown , train bearer, pages, heralds with long silver trumpets, special bodyguards | and jesters, all costumed to give a de- | cided flavor of Old World pomp and try. P e orowning of the queen takes Thursday afternoon in front of Handley High School Building, oc- cupying the center of & 72-acre campus. The ceremony is held on an esplanade between the great colonial porch and the athletic stadium. At its conclusion, the queen is escorted pompously to her throne chair of gold, from which she and her royal household witness the presentation of a pageant of life and its development in the Shenandoah Valley, given by 500 school boys and girls on the stadium stage. The mu- sical score is played by the United States Navy Band under the direction of Lieut. Charles Benter. In the late forenoon of the first day 10,000 school children of Virginia and Brunswick, Md., and vicinity, with numerous artis- tic floats in competition for money d the “parade of the human uds.” There will be 10 or 12 divisions, each headed by a band. School Cadets to Be Present. i With_the festival coming after the | Easter holidays, participation is assured of a larger number of military schools | than had the celebration occurred | closer to the Christian festival. Girls'| seminaries and colleges will also be rep- | tee Holds Institution Not “a Social Club.” By the Associated Press. MADISON, Wis., April 19.—The Uni- versity of Wisconsin faculty committee yesterday announced a curriculum re- vision plan to make the university an institution of learning and not “‘a social club.” 1f approved, the plan will become effective next Fall. ‘The lglnn will open the university to all high school graduates who fill the present requirements. They will be classed by attainment and placement tests, and at the end of two years they are to receive a certificate of graduate in liberal arts. One radical change is approximation of the present university experimental college, which will seek “attainment of familiarity with the philosophical ap- proach to individual, economic and po- litical life.” The course would be limited to 200 sophomores. A second change would be the in- troduction of examination in general knowledge of the students before grad- uation. A third innovation would per- mit exceptional students to speed work in order to feceive & master's degree at time the bachelor's degree is ign languages uirements would be displaced to muuflmfldney k; L:ne language or a reading knowledge of_two. Dr. Glenn Prank, president of the university, said in a the re- port that many “students have gone to universities, not chiefly to get an edu- cation, but to enjoy the mfi life.” sopl re course would be handled under the tutorial system, de- signed to bring closer contact between students and professors. The plan, al- ;nuy mp':ge in the np’eul;lmenm col- 3 n successful, unive ogechls said. Ty CORRECT FALSE IMPRESSION. “Four-Year Tea Party” Idea About Col- lege to Be Hit by Campaign. NEW YORK, April 19 (#).—The American College Publicity Association yesterday made plans for a campaign to set right those who are laboring un- der the false impression a college is “a dormitory, a stadium and a four- ye;:r“x teldpx;ty." Iware . Carpenter of Marquette University, Milwaukee, praldenr“gl the association, said the ca ? next Fall, would seek to show the world “an impressive composite of outstanding contributions of colleges and universt- ties to mankind in general” INDEPENDENT OIL MEN MAKE PLEA FOR TARIFF Annual Convention at Fort Worth Plans Campaign Against Importations. By the Associated Press. FORT WORTH, Tex., resented, some by floats, while the entire | Delegates to the First Annual Co student body and faculty of Harrison- |tion of the Independent Petroleam AS burg State Teachers' College, number- "sociation of America were working to ing around 900, will parade in specially designed costumes with their artistic float. These organizations and most of the visiting fire companies and railroad delegations will take part in the second da program, the chief feature of which is the triumphal procession led by the festival queen, riding in state high on a throne of gold decorated in ink and green, the apple fete colors. he parade passes through principal streets and on reaching the Winchester fair grounds the queen and her party enter the royal boxes of the grandstand, and there review the parade as it marches around the race track and passes out a gate to disband. ‘The four States of the “Blue Ridge apple country”—Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Maryland—will be represented in the parade held in honor of “Queen Shenandoah VIL” The apple-growing counties of southeastern Pennsylvania will be represented col- Jectively this year for the first time, as that portion of the Keystone State grows large quantities of commercial apples. “Pennsy” to Head Division. The railroad division will be headed | this year by the Pennsylvania Railroad | Co., which will send 100 or more offi- | clals from vice presidents to track | supervisors to carry “Pennsy” banners. They will bring an artistic float and two or three bands. The Baltimore & Ohio system will be similarly repre- sented, and so will the Norfolk & West- ern Railway and several of its connect- ing short lines. The railroads are con- sistent supporters of the show, for they haul immense quantities of apples and by-products out of the territory. ‘The queen’s ball will be held the sec- ond night instead of the first as here- and will take place in the annual Apple Blossom Festival ball the first night with her presence, and be acclaimed by her “subjects” at the George Washington Hotel. Then for overflow crowds balls and dances will be held in half a dozen local halls and at nearby Summer resort hotels. day on a program seeking a tariff on oll and plans for a domestic campaign against foreign importers, Preliminaries were put' behind yes- terday at a meeting of directors and officers of the association with officers and directors of affiliated State asso- ciations in preparation for opening to- day of the convention proper. Directors of the association voted unanimously to postpone action on a legislative program which would effect further proration until after the amount of oil imported had been reduced to its 1928 level or until a tariff of §1 a bar- rel on crude and 50 per cent ad valorem on refined products had been made ef- fective. Speaking of curtailment laws pro- posed, Wirt Franklin of Ardmore, OEl . | president of the independents, said, “If the powers that be want reduction, let them put their own house in order by curtailing imports.” —— Egypt’'s Opium Problem Big. Egypt's long battle against the nar- cotic eyll again has been brought to the front by the report of Russel Pasha, commandant of the Cairo city police, which shows that probably 500,000 peo- ple in the country are drug addicts and that these spend approximately $67,~ 500,000 a year on drugs. A commission recently met in Egypt to try to find & way of curbing the evil. Street crowds are given wide latitude merry-making and the police join in ‘:mlu Virginia hospitality to those within her gates. 18 15th St jext_to Kelth's NAVY BOAT HOUSE DEDICATION HELD Rear Admiral ‘Hubbard Is Honored at Annapolis Exercises. Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., April 19—With appropriate ceremonies the new boat house at the Naval Academy, costing a quarter of a million dollars and believed to be the finest owned by any college ‘was dedicated this afternoon. Among the speakers was Rear Ad- miral John Hubbard, retired, after whom the boat house will be named, who rowed in the crew of 1870, the first to represent the academy, now over 80 years old. Admiral Hubbard makes his home in Washington. During the ceremonies Admiral Hub- | bard was awarded a Navy “N,” the in- | signia of athletic achievement at the academy. The presentation was made by Rear Admiral Samuel S. Robinson superintendent of the Naval Academy. who spoke briefly. \ Other speakers were Representative Stephen W. Gambrill, w] athered the bill for the erection of boat house; Comdr. Jonas H. Ingram, through whose efforts the project was accomplished: Capt. Henry D. Cooke, head of the de- partment of physical training, and Rear Admiral Richard H. Lee. At the conclusion of the ceremonies the Naval Academy Glee Club sang “Navy Blue and Gold." Among the special guests were the oarsmen of the Naval Academy, Colum- | bia and Massachusetts Tech, who com- peted later in the afternoon; repre- sentatives of the rowing colleges, former athletes at the academy and captains of athletic teams of the school. ‘The ceremonies took place in the “N* room, which will be used as & gathering place for all to whom the athletic in- signia of the academy have been pre- sented. FUGITIVE FROM LORTON IS ARRESTED ON COAST C. L. Savage, Wanted by Federal Men Here, Seized on In- toxication Charge. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif., April 19.— Calvin L. Savage, aged 42, arrested here on a charge of intoxication, has been identified as an escaped prisoner from a Virginia prison farm in 1919 and nted by Federal authorities of Wash- ington, D. C. The prisoner was be- lleved to have been serving a term for & $30,000 jewel robbery in Washington when he escaped. Savage admitted his escape, but alleged he was arrested in San Francisco in 1920 and served four years at Leavenworth, completing his term. The robbery occurred in the apartment of Mrs. Mary Hayner, & resi- dent of Troy, Ohio. Savage was em- ployed then as a hotel bell boy. -He is being held pending a check of 'his assertion that the term in Leavenworth completed his sentence. Savage escaped from the Lorton Reformatory in 1919 while serving time for the jewel theft, records there show. His story of his subsequent arrest in Ban Prancisco, and that he eompleted serving his sentence in Leavenworth, algo is borne out by Lorton records. Ahoghill Presbytery in Ireland has voted down the eligibility of women for the ministry, : Ghe Ask Mr. Foster Travel Service 0. 5.5, mar. . 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