Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1930, Page 11

. TAWISINOKED | * T0SAVEDOGWOOD Virginia State Senator Cites | Statute to Protect Lands Against “Despoilers.” * Virginia's law against despoiling of the trees and flowers of the country- side without the consent of the owner of property has come into fresh promi- nence with the demand of State Senator Saxon W. Holt of Newport News, who has suggested that the law should be strictly enforced. The suggestion comes in the midst of the campaign being waged in Wash- ington and vicinity to preserve and protect the flowering dogwood, which #till is in full bloom. Senator Holt proposed that' State motor cycle patrolmen, highway police, e wardens and forest rangers be authorized and instructed to arrest any one found denuding the woodlands of flowers and Spring blossoms. He pointed out that the State has ample law on subject, but apparently is making 3 [:& effort to enforce the law. . Newspaper Backs Senator. Commenting on the Sermtor's sug- festion, the Roanoke, Va., World News editorially say e statute is quite explicit. It makes it unlawful and provides a penalty for cutting, breaking er pulling up shrubbery or blooming things on the lands of another, without the owner’s consent in writing. “Every Sunday afternoon at this sea- son of the yea declares the World News, “the highways are filled with the cars of city people bringing back withering branches of the things they have hacked down in wanton destruc- tion. It is Senator Holt's suggestion that such cars be stopped by highway police, game wardens and other State efficers and be made to show their permits. “For such things can only be cut on one’s own land, or under written permis- =ion from the owner. To the mind of the Newport News Senator, obvious posses- sion should be a sufficient ground for inquiry. It is prima facie evidence that the Jaw has been violated. Persuasion Proves Failure. “It would be unfortunate and em- ®arrassing to have to resort to such fmctics. But the efforts at persuasion have been signal. failures. Vandalism of recent years has practically stripped the main highway of dogwood and other shrubbery. One has to wander on the back roads. far from the usual haunts of the Sunday driver, to see Virginia in its Spring beauty. “Some people never seem to learn that wild flowers wither as soon as they are cut. For the roads are often strewn with branches that have withered on he way home, and are not worth keep- g. And city people never learn how %o trim blossoms without hacking off limbs, and so destroying more than they take away. “The gushing sentimentality of those who rave about the beauty of nature, while expending their best efforts to destroy it, is-an obvious pose and pre- tense. For no real lover of beauty wan- tonly destroys beauty. And the real beauty of the wild flowers is in their native setting. Thinks Prosecutions Will Help. “The public will not take kindly to Senator Holt's suggestion of stopping all cars on the roads to see whether they contain contraband Spring blos- foms, stolen from the lands of others. But a few good court prosecutions might help in saving our landscape from de- struction.” The practice of stripping the dogwood nearby highways, complained of the Roanoke paper. is the very vandalism against which a campaign has been directed, with apparent suc- cess in the vicinity of the National Capital. Under direction of the Wild- flower Preservation Society and the | committee of the National Capital of the Garden Club of America, the cam- aign has been waged each year, and {he amount of dogwood in public parks, private estates and along the highways, is said to be appreciably increasing. Of- ficlals behind the local campaign are much interested in the to en- force strictly the Virginia law. ol i b UNIVERSAL OIL CO. ' RECEIVER IS NAMED . Nine Officers of Firm Charged With Using Mails to Defraud. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, May 10—Fred P. Branson, former chief justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, today Was Bamed permanent receiver for the Uni- #ersal Ofl & Gas Co., nine officials of vhich are under arrest by the Federal vernment, charged with using the ails to defraud. Branson has been acting as tempo- rary receiver since the leral officers closed the company's offices several days 8g0. S. E. J. Cox, who served a penitentiary term after being convicted in Texas with Dr. Frederick A. Cook, former Arctic explorer, on charges of using the mails to defraud in oil promotions, and his wife, Mrs. Nellie Cox, are among those under arrest. The receivership hearing before Fed- eral Judge Edgar S. Vaught was a civil proceeding. William Franklin Collins, chief counsel for the $8,000,000 corpora- tion and one of the company officials facing charges, readily agreed to vir- tually all proposals made by J. B. Dudley, attorney for the interests asking receivership. Collins made no protest when Dudley suggested that the receivership be ex- tended to include the Turn Bow Oil Co., alleged to be operated by Universal company officials. 1 HALF-SISTER SUES | Some of the pre-school children who todk part in the May festival Friday at the Baneroft School. RETAIL DRY GO0DS MEN CALL PARLEY Washington to Be Represent- ed in Conference Opening Tomorrow in Chicago. Five executives of Washington de- partment stores left the city yesterday to represent the National Capital at the concurrent _conventions of the Na- tional Retail Dry Goods Association, which will open tomorrow in Chicago. Representatives of nearly all of the more than 3,000 member stores in the association are expected td assemble at the conclave for an exchange of information concerning policies and methods of the four participating groups—the Controllers’ Congress, store managers’ division and trafic and per- sonnel groups, Local Delegates Listed. ‘The representatives from, this city are John B. Guernsey of the Depart- ment of Commerce; H. P. Dalzell of the division of simplified practice, Bu- reau of Standards; Mark Lansburgh, manager of Lansburgh & Bro.; W. C. McDermott, trafic manager of Wood- ward & Lothrop's department store, and Aaron B. Watts, director of parcel post, Post Office Department. Speaking before the controllers’ group, Mr. Guernsey will discuss “Management Facts Which Are Being Brought Out for the First Time in the Census of Distribution.” Mr. Dalzell will make a report on the progress of the “Survey of Simplificd Wrapping and Packing Supplies.” He will be among the speakers to address the store managers’ division. Parcel Post Service a Topic. A discussion of parcel post service will be made by Mr. Watts before the traffic group. which will also hear a number of €xecutives in the retailing fleld. Mrs. Lansburgh will talk on “Standardization of Maintenance Equip- ment” and “Receiving Records and In- voice Procedure” will be the topic dis- cussed by Mr. McDermott. ‘The keynote address of the conven- tions, which will continue through May 15, will be. delivered by Philip Le Boutillier, president of the National Retail Dry Goods Association and presi- dent of Best & Co., New York. Sub- sequent meetings throughout the con- clave will be addressed by leaders in the merchandising and financial world. Plea Filed -to Change Names. Petition to change their names have been filed in the District Supreme Court by Mrs. Margaret C. Neuhs, & widow and her children, Karl H. Neuhs and Margaret C. Neuhs. They wish to be knokn as Noyes, which they say is proper- pronounciation of their name, but is rarely ever so_pronounced to their embarrassment. The changed spelling will be more convenient and practicalfle, they tell the court. At- t&y&nry Ralph A. Cusick filed the pe- on. Outfit, 5524 (Other Outfits up to $90) New Kih:heyl Sinks, 18"x24", with Fittings, $11.65 SPECIAL CRUISE VOYAGE TO C AN IN $2,000,000 WILL @hree Associates and His Brother's | ‘Wife Conspired to Get Com- B pany, She Charges. @y the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 10.—Three former iness associates of William Liston wn and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Har- et Seymour Carscallen of Pasadena, Calif., are accused of conspiracy to force Brown out of control of one of his com- panies in a suit to contest his $2.000.- 000 will filed today by Mrs. Helen Louis Brown Rice, a half-sister. The suit charged that the sister-in- law and Charles P. Wheeler, Leslie ‘Wheeler and Donald S. Boyton, officials of Pickands, Brown & Co., conspired to get control of the 51 per cent of stock held by Brown, ultimately forcing him out of the company. Brown also was resident of the American Shipbuilding Under the terms of the will the sis- ter-in-law, with whom Brown lived for Zap 10 years prior to his death, was to re- ceive a life income from a trust fund which was to be distributed among wvarious charities. The suit charges Brown was of un- sound mind at the time he made his will, and that undue influence was exer- cised by Mrs. Carscallen and the three business associates. — . “ Australia’s wheat vield this season is fPgimated at 47,000,000 bushels, - THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, l —Star Staff Photo. LORD DERBY DUE IN CAPITAL TODAY Kentucky Plans Holiday With|| Big Race.in Honor of Famous Briton. Edward George Villiers Stanley, the | seventeenth Earl of Derby, Ouublnd-l ing figure in British aports, will arrive in Washington this afternoon for a three-day visit before continuing his journey to atend the Kentucky Derby next Saturday as the guest of the border State. Lord Derby, whose ancestors estab- lished the derby several hundred years ago, has the distinction of being the only member of the House of Derby to win in the classic races. ‘The earl is making his first visit to this country at the invitation of the Governor of Kentucky, who has de- clared a_ State holiday in his honor to signalize the forthcoming sweep- stakes event. ‘While in Washington Lord Derby will be the guest of Hugh Campbell Wal- lace, former United States Ambassador to France, and Mrs. Wallace, at their home at 1800 Massachusetts avenue. Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambas- sador to the United States, will present Lord Derby to President Hoover tomor= row, and he is expected to make other social calls while in the Capital. Lord Derby will arrive at Union Sta- tion at 3:45 o'clock in the private car of Joseph E. Widener of Philadelphia, whom he has been visiting. PEDERATION OF WOMEN ELECTS MRS. E. B. MERITT Other Officers Are Named for Two- Year Terms at Annual Meeting Here. - Mrs, Edgar B. Meritt, president of the D. C. Federation of Women's Clubs, was re-elected at the annual meetin of the federation held at the Hotel Roosevelt Thursday and Friday. Of- ficers of the organization elected will serve for a term of two years. Others elected were Mrs, William La Varre, first vice president; Mrs. Harvey ‘W. Wiley, second vice president; Mrs. Ernest Danlel, recording secretary; Mrs, E. C. Criswell, corresponding secretary: Mrs. F. C. Brinley, treasurer; Mrs. Tamar S. Roke, auditor, and Mrs. Vir- | ginia White Speel, general federation director. Mrs. Meritt, in addition to being president of the federation, is worthy grand matron of the Order of the Eastern Star of the District of Colum- bia, a member of the Twentieth Cen- tury Club and the Women’s City Club and numerous other local organizations. 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