Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1931, Page 5

" GARDEN PILGRIMS VISIT SHOW PLACES New Plan of Two-Day Route Finds Favor as Exhibits Continue Today. | Pilgrims visited the dozen or more lovely gardens of Georgetown whose | gates were opened to the public yester- day on the first day of the annual| Georgetown garden pilgrimage | The new plan, inaugurated this year, in which the two dozen gardens are toured in two days instead of one, has been received with much approval by visitors, who, in order to see all the gardens listed, were obliged last year t> hurry from one place to the other without™ sufficient time to enjoy the beauties of each. Bliss Tract Now Open. One of the greatest attractions this year is the 54-acre showplace of Robel Wood Bliss, on R street, between Thirty first and Thirty-second streets, which | is open to the public for the first time. | Hundreds who have passed the great Wooden gates of the Washington home of the Minister to the Argentine Re-| ublic and have longed to see what lay ehind may now satisfy their desire and wander about the beautiful place at will Other gardens which have attract the pilgrims both this and 1 thess of F. Lamont Ecl whose high elevation comm ! st beautiful views of the city in Greater Washington; Mrs. Anne Arch- bold's great estate on Resrvoir road and Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick's artistically landscaped outdoor reireat, which less than two years ago was but | & debris-filled back yard. | Gardens Open Again Today. The gardens will be opened to the public again today from 2 until 7 oclock. Tickets are on sale at the Mayflower Hotel, as well as all gardens inciuded in the tour. A guide book upon which & map of Georgetown has been placed, is given with every ticket purchased, facilitating the tour ~for those unfamiliar with that part of the is one of o Parking difficulties have been entirely | eliminated by generous and efficient co-operation of the municipal police. Under the auspices of the Chevy Chase Garden Club, historic estates of nearby Maryland will be opened to the public on May 26. Among the gardens offered on this tour will be those of | . and Mrs. Henry Parsons, Arbre- Monte, and the 170-year-old home of Mr. and Mrs. George Thomas Dunlop. INQUEST IN RIVER DEATH TO BE HELD Ceroner's Jury Discovers No Bruises on Body of Irving | Gregory. ‘ By & Staff Correspondent of The Ster. HYATTSVILLE, Md, May 16—An inquest into the death of Irving Greg- ory of Washington. who disappeared from a motor launch off Fort Foote Sunday night, will be held in Hyatts- ville Police Court Wednesday at 7 p.m. The inquest was et last night by Justice of Peace John Fainter after Grezory's body, missing five days, was found floating in the Potomac off Fort ‘Washington. | Sergt. C. M. Richardson of the Army post and J. W. Cassidy of Oxon Hill | noticed the body and notified Washing- | ton police, who removed it to the Dis- trict morgue, where it was identified by relatives. A coroner’s jury last night viewed the body, but no marks or bruises indicative r-flpossihle foul play were found, police sald. Monte de la Vega, pilot of the boat from which Gregory was lost, is at lio- erty under $500 bond on a manslaughter {Plan Would Make Each an | Exact Anniversary of Cor- responding Date in 30 A.D. | | | | | | | [ Holds Complete Correction of | Error Would Be Significant | to Christianity. J By the Associated Press The National Committee on Calendar simplification has found a way to make each day an exact anniversary of the corresponding day in 30 A.D., generally regarded as Christ's last year of ministry. The change was proposed in a sup- plemental report of the committee sul mitted today to Secretary of Stimson by George Eastman, wealthy | philanthropist. It was suggested by Dr. Charles F. Marvin, chief of the Weather Bureau. Back in 1582, Dr. Marvin said, Pope Gregory dropped 10 days from thc faulty Julian calendar. But the error that had accumulated up to that time | was 12 days, so the new Gregorian | calendar still was two days off. | Dr. Marvin proposed mat bafore trad- | ing the present calendar for a 13-period year, the two superfluious days be dropped. He used formulas and charts galore to prove there still was a two-day | error and to chow how the change | would make vernal equinoxes and wha not come around when they should i stead of “drifting.’ Complete correction of the error, he said, would be significant to Christianity. “It will be impressive to know in this twentieth century” he wrote, “that when we celebrate Good Priday. for example, * * * the Good Priday in question is the exact anniversary, | day name, year number and all, of the original day of the Crucifixion.” If the two days aren't_dropped, the calendar is changed and Easter is fixed on the Sunday nearest the exact anni- versary of the Resurrection, Dr. Mar- vin sald, “that Sunday will be April 9 (April 15 in a 13-month calendar), but the day will be the exact anniversary of the Crucifixion, not of the Resur- rection.” The committee report will be trans- charge preferred by Deputy Sheriff Thomas H. Garrison Another man and two girls who were on the boat when Gregory disappeared will be summoned to the inquest, Sheriff W. Curtis Hopkins said. De la Vega told police Gregory fell overboard while trying to raise the an- chors. The officers have bean told by one of the girls, however, that Gregory and De la Vega had quarreled. Miss Helen Schisler, 20 years old, of | 1712 Sixteenth street, one of the young women in the party on the boat when Gregory was drowned, denied to a re- rter from The Star today that she ad ever made a statement that there | was a fight or an argument.between any persons on the boat prior to the drowning. “There wasn't any fight on the boat They keep quoting it and quoting it. I don’t know where they got it. I never said it.” Miss Schisler said, adding “There wasn't any argument of any sort. There was Do cause for any argu- ment.” Miss Schisler said Gregory had gone to the front of the boat and there was no railing at the point from which he had gone into the water, Japan May Reduce Army. TOKIO, May 16 (#)—Reduction of the Japanese army by three divisions, abolition of various military institutions, an amalgamation of a number of mili- tary schocls will be recommended to the government by leaders of the gov- ernment party with a view to reducing army expenditure. . Nearly 500 auto trucks and busses will be used to carry pilgrims to Mecca and Medina on the next annual pil- grimage. THE EVENING DR. C. F. MARVIN WOULD DROP 2 DAYS TO CORRECT CALENDAR DR. CHARLES F. MARVIN. mitted to the Preparatory Committee on | Calendar Reform, which will meet at Geneva on June 8 to arrange an in- ternational conference in October un- der the auspices of the League of Ni tions. It supplements the first repoi bmitted about two years ago, wh recommended Unit~d States participa- tion in the international meeting. Greatly increased public in the past year for ca was reported by the com serted that religious objections to the | proposed 13-period year are confined to a small minority. Regarding Protestants, the report said, “The great majority of the reli- gious population sees no reasons for disapproval on the grounds of dogma, doctrine or canon law.” “The attitude of the Roman Catholic Church,” it added, “is that there are no difficulties to the reform of the cal- endar from the point of view of dogma, but as regards church traditions such changes as might be made would be considered by the Holy See with the advice of an ecumenical council upon it being shown that they would be for | the general good.” SEX APPEAL IS FOUND | IN PLANT'S GOLORING Green Portions Found to Have| Hormones by Boston Uni- versity Scientist. BOSTON, May 15 (#)—There is a real sex appeal in the color of rapidly growing plants. | This portion of vegetation produces a | sex_hormone, or_something which acts strikingly like a hormone. Experiments with mice demonstrating this borrowed | hormone effect are reported to the | American Association for the Advance- ment of Science by Dr. Burnham Searle Walker of Boston University School of | Medicine. | Hormones are minute but exceedingly | potent secretions of ductless glands. | They do much to control health, sex, | growth and even to affect mental bal-| ance. ' Dr. Walker finds that roots, even when young and growing rapidly, lack | the hormcne substance. So do fruits. | Only the green pigmentation has ef- fective amounts of the secretion Even these green portions lose their | sex appeal as soon as they pass the | phase of rapid growth. | Plane Crash Kills Two | STOCKHOLM, May 16 (#).—Two Swedish army corporais were killed and Sergt. A. Svensson, a member of the Nooile relief expedition in 1928, re- ceived injuries which probably will be | fatal when their airplane crashed at | Vesteraas today. ' ‘ Woopwarp & LoTHROP 10™ 11™ F AND G STREETS Do You Know the Best Way to Wash Delicate Fabrics— Miss Kathryn Martin, W ashability Expert From Procter & Gamble Research Laboratorie Will Tell You How She will be in our Fabric Sections all next week, to show you, with actual demonstrations, how you should and should not, wash fabrics. She will explain how the most delicate of fabrics may be successfully washed—and she will show you why fast-colored fabrics sometimes run with incorrect washing, yet are utterly fast if correctly washed—she will show you at just what stages to iron dificren' fahrics 7and, a“ in fl“, ShO\‘\' y()u ho\‘\' to save on cleaners’ bills, by washing fabrics you never dared wash before. Miss Martin will gladly answer any ques- tion on this subject, and give expert advice without charge. Ivory Snow—Ideal for Washing Fine Fabrics, I5¢ Torerrizs, Arste 18, Fmst FLOOR Two Special Values Offered Next Week Silk Radium, Regularly $1.65, | yard This fine quality silk radium, selling regularly in our stocks for $1.65 yard, will be specially priced next weel k. In thirty Summer shades. Printed Batiste, Regularly 38, 25¢ yard The gay patterns you will want in printed batiste for Summer frocks—both light and dark designs. This fabric will go back to its former price when this lot is sold. Srxs AND CoTToNs, BECOND FLOOR. STAR, WASHI TON,. D. C; BAT JRDAY. MAY 16, 1931. 10™ 11™™ F anD G STREETS Wo0oODWARD & LoTHROP W —and We Have Made Special Efforts to Meet Your Camp Requirements May 18th to 23rd is Camp Week here at Woodward & Lothrop. We have been making extensive preparations for the event. The children's floor—the Fourth—has been agog with activity—and every department is ready with everything your campward-bound children will need—with clothes and ac- cessories that meet the requirements of the leading camps — from bathing suits to canoes, from sweaters to flashlights, we believe we have everything. Here is just an outline of the complete way we have gone about outfitting your youngsters for a gay camp life. Girls’ Camp Clothes Broadcloth shorts, washable, in green, blue or white. Sizes 8 to 16.. $1 Linen Shorts, white. Sizes 8 to 18, $1.50 Washable Play Suits, of broadcloth, in one and two piece styles. Blue, green and tan. Sizes 8 to 18, $1.95 and $2.95 Heavy Coat Sweaters, in attractive cojors: . ... . Light-weight Pull-over Sweaters, $1.95 to $5 Middy Blouses, in plain white or blue, Boys’ Camp Clothes Two-piece camp suits of khaki and other sturdy materials, $1.95 to $3.50 Separate khaki shorts, sizes 5 to 20, $1 and $1.50 Long white duck or khaki trousers, $1.95 to $3 Hiking Breeches . Corduroy riding and hiking breeches, $3 and $4.50 Corduroy shorts $1.75 and $2.50 Linen Knickers, sizes to 20, $1.50 to $3.95 and white trimmed with blue, $1, $1.50 Flannel Robes, striped or plain, $5 to $12.50 Bathing Suits, all colors, one and two piece styles.... Heavy woollen camp sweaters, $2.95 to $5 Shirts, attached or sports collars, $1 to $2 Flannelette Pajamas.....$1.50 and $2 Cotton Pajamas .........$1.50 and $2 Others priced ........$3.50 to $10 Woollen Hose, plain colors, $1.50, $2.50 Rubber Bathing Shoes, new styles, Cotton Hose, plain legs and fancy 65c and $1 tops .50c and $1 Bathing Caps, several colors, 25c to $1 Athletic Underwear . .....75c to $1.50 Mesh Polo Shirts 4 Flannel Bathrobes, plain or striped, Striped Broadcloth Shorts, 65¢ and 75¢ $7.50 to $10 Athletic Underwear of crossbar, nain- $2.95 to $5 sook .... .50c to $1.15 o Brassieres Berets, in a variety of colors....$1.25 Pajamas in one and two piece styles, $1 to $2.95 $1.95 to $10 Bathing Suits . ... Terry-cloth Robes .. Shorts and Shirts, each 3 Leather Windbreakers, all sizes.$12.75 Also a large selection of neckwear, belts, hats, caps and garters at at- tractive prices. Beach Pajamas 3 Tue Boys® Store, Fourte FLOOR. s 7 Gmrs’ Apparer, FOURTH FLOOR. You Are Especially Invited to See Needahbeh, Penobscot Indian, Next Week With His Indian Art Exhibit, Dances, Songs and Archery Demonstrations Needahbeh, a native Penobscot Indian, will be here next week to sing Indian songs, dance Indian dances and tell you of Indian lore. He will give exhibits of skillful Indian archery on a specially constructed range, and.will give free archery instruction during the mornings. He will tell you Indian secrets of successful hunting and fishing. An Indian Maiden Will Give Exhibitions of Basket Weaving and Bead Stringing Both Needahbeh and the Indian Maid will appear in Indian cos- tumes. Come in to see this exhibit—and bring the children, too. Needahbeh will sing and dance at 11:30 and 4 o'clock THE ToY STORE, FOURTH FLOOR. AAsK Mr. Foster About Camps “Ask Mr. Foster” Travel Service, on the Seventh Floor, will gladly recommend the proper camp for your boys and girls and will tell you of its requirements. There is no charge for this service. 7]