Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1933, Page 22

Schools and Colleges Events of Interesting Activities in Was Educational Bartsch Returns to G. W. U. ‘A FTER a two months’ expedition in Caribbean waters, spent in ex- ploration of the ocean depths, Dr. Paul Bartsch, head of the zoology de- partment of George Washington Uni- versity, returned to his classes last Wednesday. The expedition plotted the Puerto Rico Deep, and discovered depths exceeding by more than three miles the greatest previously known. A collection of imens of decp-sca animal life was brought back to the tional Mus: America, will lec- ture Thursday in the course on Dr. camp leadership, which is being given by the department of physical education for women, in co- operation with the Washington Council Sccial Agencies. The camp leader- ship course, which opened February 9 and will continue through April 27, presents weekly lectures by experts in the field. It is designed to train camp counselors, camp administrators. mu- nicipal and recreational authorities, playground teachers and public school officials, and to be helpful to all who are interesicd in outdoor life as a pha of education and recreation. The Bartsch., course is under the direction of Prof. | Ruth Harriet Atwell, director of phys- dcal education for women. The March number of the George ‘Washington Law Review will be issued next week. The latest issue of the university’s legal periodical carried leading articles by Charles 8. Collier, professor of law in George Washington University, Paul H. Giddens, assistant professor of political science in Alle- gheny College, and Robert S. Miller of the Ohio State and District of Co- Jumbia bars. Annotations on recent cases involving governmental and Fed- eral public law, editorial notes and bok | reviews complete the issue. Members of the production staff of Cue and Curtain Club have begun the construction of sets for the club’s 8) I3 which will be at the rdman Park Theater ings of May 10, 11 and 12. _Young Lady,” by the right, Martinez Sierra, n and will soon go nto 1 has been rehearsal, P cheses S. E. to Hear About Serip. HERBERT R. GROSSMAN, pro- fessor of law, will address students of the Southeastern University Bchool of Accountancy on the use of scrip as a substitute for currency in & lecture tomoerrow at 7:30 p.m. The day schocl division of South- n will hold a dance March 25 in e Y. M. C. A. assembly hall. are in charge of Norwood dent of the law and s of the division, t of Spring weather renewed interest in king course instituted physical education elec- e Suter president f versity Hiking Ciub, is plan- ning a series of Spring hikes in nearby Maryland and Virginia. Wilbert Smith, Y. M. C. A. senior se ary in Egypt, sembly hall next Friday at 2 pm., it is announced by King. Mr. Smith will discuss mod- em trends of youth in Egypt and Palestine. % Georgetown Gives Virgilian Actus. Ti{E third annuel Virgilian Actus at Georgetown College, a presenta- tion, concideration and analysis of the works of the great Latin poet, Vir- gil, was conducted Wednesday evening in Gaston Hall before members of the faculty and other the members of the Vir- v which was inaugurated go to commemorate the mulate interest in his The students participating in this X t which is a most rigid ion, were sophomores. lton of Jersey City, N. J., s chairman, again served in B apacity. The difficult position of readers were assigned to Thomas J. O’Callagh: of Montclair, N. J. The School for the Individual Secretarial-Business-Advertising Enroll Now for New Day and Evening Classes The Temple Scheol 1120 K St. NA. 3238 DE JARDIN SCHOOL OF FRENCH LANGUA Best Result in the Shortest Time P05 11th St N.W. Met._183 Business Training Pays —Dbig dividends today. 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MAHONY ART SCHoOL | Awarded Al Prizes and Honors in Tnausural Ball Poster Contest. 1747 R. 1. Ave. Na. 2656 will address the | Woodward Scheol for Boys in the es- | Headmaster J. J.| It was pre- | Student and Facu’ty hington's Leading Institutions. Francis Bodkin of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Edward A. Doyle of Washington, D. C. Each reader was subjected to 20 min- utes of questioning, Mr. O'Callaghan was examined in the ecologues by Rev. Dennis J. Cooney, S. J., professor of dogmatic theology at Woodstock Col- lege. The questioning of Mr. Bodkin in the Georgics was conducted by Rev. James M. Campbell, associate profes- sor of Greek and Latin at the Catholic University. Mr. Doyle was questioned generally by Rev. Joseph J. Bluett, S. gé. former professor of Latin at George- wh, Dr. Coleman Nevils, 8. J., president of the university, had the young men as his dinner guests the following night in honor of the cccasion. The moderator of the Virgilian Academy, Rev. George A. Yanitelli, S. assoclate professor of Latin at the college, also was a guest. The Gaston Debating Society at the college lost its first debate of the season recently at the hands of the debating society of St. Peter's College. The debate took place at Jersey City. The Intercollegiate debating team at George- town, known as the varsity team, trav- eled last Sunday to Pittsburgh, Pa., to debate the University of Pittsburgh. No decision was rendered. President Nevils announced that the |anrual meeting of the Board of Re- |gents of the "university would take place March 26, the day following the Founder's day celebration at George- town. The regents usually meet during commencement week in June. | National U. Studies World Trend. URRENT developments on the world stage, including trends by the new- | est schools of government in va- rious nations, are occupying the atten- tion of students in the graduate depart- ment of the National University during these first weeks of the sixty-fourth Spring term. Dr. Charles Per- gler, director of graduate studies at National, and an outstanding au- thority on Interna- tional affairs and constitutional gov- ernment, is lead- ing his classes through intensive study of the Soviet Russia's govern- mental experiment, i Hitlerism and the 1 League of Nations. ‘This week the class in comparative gov- ernment is con- cluding its consid- |eration of the German government. | The latest developments under Hitler's administration will mark the conclud- Ing lectures on Germany before Russia will be taken up by the students. In his course on “International Re- lations,” Dr. Pergler now is considering the international conference system in force among nations. This system, he | will show, has reached its highest de- | velopment in the League of Nations, | close analysis of which will be a fea- ture of the course. The calendar for the moot court of appeals, which will sit for the first time this year next month, now is being pre- pared, Ruscell P. Belew, assistant clerk of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, who is clerk of the moot court of appeals, announced last night. The date of the first court session will be set as soon as a group of three cases, previously tried in the lower moot courts, is prepared. The judges who | will preside over the court cf appeals are Dr. Hayden Johnson, dean of the law school;” William W. Millan, presi- dent of the District of Columbia Bar Association, and Richard Ford. The Sigma Nu Phf Legal Fraternity men of National University met at the Hay-Adams House last night. Their new officers were in charge. They are John C. White, chancellor; Charles F. Lanman, first vice chancellor; Ralph C. Vogel, second vice caancellor; Barnie P. Jones, master of rolls; Elmer L. Haber- korn, register of the exchequer, and Robert M. Jreenwocd, marshal. | _The National i:niversity Masonic Club dance was held last night at the Broadmoor apartments. | | | | | Dr. Pergler. | Skipper Out at Columbus. latest issue of the Skipper, Columbus University’s publication, which was distributed to students last | week, was dedicated to the Pi Chi Club, |an_organization composed entirely of women of the school. In an article by E. Philibert, Prof. Thomas J. Fitzgerald, faculty adviser of the society, was eulogized for his fine | leadership and interest in this group, | The origin of the society was described 1lx‘n 1:\ article written by Sarah C. Mo- | riarty. _ The Society staged a St. Patrick’s day | dance Friday night at the Meridian | Mansions apartments, 2400 Sixteenth | street, and students from all classes, | both of the School of Law and of Ac- countancy, were in attendance, Final arrangements for the senicr class prom have been completed by tne Senior Law and Accountancy Class Commitees. The aflair, scheduled to be cone of' the biggest social events in the school's history, will be held Saturday, | April 23, at the Kennedy-Warren ball room, Students have been selected from the classes of the Scheol of Accountancy for the interclass prize debates, to be held April 5 and April 26. The students were chosen after a series of competitive tryouts, in which the contestants ex- hibited remarkable oratorical ability. Representatives of the senior class are Miss Katherine Burns. Thomas Coates and J. P. Gegan, alternate, Members of the junior class who will participate in the debate are Mary Cole, Mary Fanning, Earl P. Zack and sohn A. McKain, alternate. The freshman debaters still remain to be selected. Strayer College anmounces its removal to the Homer Building 13th and F Streets New classes are now being formed in SECRE’ AL_SCIENCE. A ITING and BUSINESSS ADMINISTRATION. C Call, write or phome Nat. 1748 for catalogue, COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL The School fl“‘.:“'f. Itselt to the i LIMITED to 60 children. aged 3 EXCEPTIONAL cultural athigephere., .- THOROUGH scademic progress. .INTER- NATIONAL ion . . . CONVEYANCE from Washington. Resident department. Balt water Summer camp in Maine, Mr. “‘W tanwe s, .« All's not lost \ Hhve If the steamer sdils with- out you You need not miss all the enchant- fment that speaking another language has mesnt to you—— This year a cours: keep your ear in tune with French, Spanish, German or Italian. ~There is an astonishing range of day and evening courses— al t Ies: Sterling 9760 for an appointment. BEREZ 1113 Conpectieut Avenue THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, MARCH 19, 1933—PART TWO. |[;UMMUNIW PLAY District National Guard Veterans of Foreign Wars Meetings This Week. Monday—Bureau of Internal Revenue Post, Pythian Temple. ‘Tuesday—Military Order of the Cootles, 935 Grant place. Wednesday—Defense Post, 2030 Rhode Island avenue northeast. ‘Thursday—Potomac Post, North- east ‘Temple; Potomac Post Auxiliary, Soldiers, Sailors and Marines’ Club. Friday—Advance Post, Con- tinental Hotel: Treasury Post, 921t Pennsylvania avenue south- east. \ Department Comdr. O. W. Hollings- worth has sent out general orders No.-8 requesting all posts in the Dis- trict of Columbia to participate in the Army day parade, April 6. At the next meeting of the Council of Administration the department ccm- mander will appoint & Convention Committee to select a hall for the next department convention, which will be held in June. Senior Vice Department Comdr. Herbert C. Davis, chairman of the De- partment Poppy Committee, is making arrangements to call a general meeting of the 16 posts Poppy Committees to- TV W, ot o the . F. osts of department of the District of Columbia will elect at their last meeting in March delegates to the department convention, which will be held in June. National Capital Post met at Phythian Temple Tuesday evening with Comdr. { Charles P. Galpin presiding. Three new members were elected and obligat= ed. The post was addressed by De- partment Comdr. Hollingsworth and Past Department Comdr. Dr. Joseph F. Beattie. Natlonal Capital Post Auxiliary met Tuesday evening with President Rosalin Morana presiding. Miss Hilda Lawson was nominated for honorary member- ship and will be voted on at the meeting March 28. Front Line Post held its semi-monthly meeting Monday evening at 808 I street. Comdr. Philip R. Biggins was absent on account of illness of his father and Senior Vice Comdr. Masters presided. l (Continued From First Page.) total about 75 per cent of our entire food consumption. Between 1920 snd 1930 sales of oranges increased from 20,000,000 boxes to 50,000,000, and cf asparagus, cauliflower, carrots, lettuce and spinach the amount doubled. Fresh {ruits and vegetables are now avallable in practically all parts of the country at all season:, thanks to quick trans- refrigeration. New processes of quick freezing, of packing in vacuum, in inert gases and other modern methods of safeguarding egainst spoilage are mak- ing it possible to keep certain perish- | ables indefinitely without any cacrifice of freshness or flavor.” Paper Used in Packaging. Packaging has become a science. Paper is increasingly competing with glass and tinplate as a container for liquid products, a recent arrival being a square paper bottle for milk. More than 30,000,000 pounds of cellophane were manufactured in the United States last year, and most of it went to wrap foods and tobacco. New processes of canning and sealing the can have lately arrived, and now there is talk of using aluminum plate for food packing. Equally ingenious are the devices to increase the attractiveness of the pack- age. “Eye stopping” is the way ol manufacturer described his latest cov- ered specialty, spectacularly clothed in red, white and blue. By putting a new label on an old conservative line of canned salmon an Eastern merchant |1s said to have increesed his sales of this article ninefold. Among city folk now popular. One trade paper editor pointed out “a trend toward 10-cent food packages.” Another tendency is to specialize on given groups of consumers. Thus, sev- eral manufacturers are now putting out a variety of foods for babies. One such line lists 14 items, including pre- pared cereal that needs only warming, soups, spinach, carrots, beets, peas, to- mato juice—each food especially select- ed and prepared to meet the digestive requirements of infants. An ecoromist has argued that the can opener helped the American woman to win the vote. The can opener was also an indispensable tool in bringing in the skyscraper apartment, since it made the small kitchen practicable. It educated the housekeeper to the use of canned goods, not only in emer- gencies, but every day. It helped to edge other small packaged foods into the Kkitchenettes—bacon in glass jars and flour in five-pound boxes. Increased Convenience. “The food business of the next decade is going to be shaped by an inevitable change in the home,” said Gordon C. Corbaley, president of the American Institute of Food Distribu- tion. “And that change is in the di- rection of increased convenience. We are not going to live in boarding houses, or eat in community dining rooms. The home will continue to be the unit and the home kitchen—small, compact, conveniently equipped—will be a place where science and art meet. A woman will go in there as into a studio. “That change is going to cause her to buy foods in the form which will facilitate her work and save her time. Most_of the drudgery of preparation will have been done in advance in the food factory. She will need only to put in a little seasoning, add those in- timate last touches that give indi- viduality to food, put it on some type of quick-heating range, pull a lever or two and—the machine will do the rest. “Good manufacturers have sensed this change and are directing their methods to serving it. Originally the canning of foods was a measure of economy. But now canning is a method of distribution. The food processers are using cans and other types of con- tainers as receptacles for delivering food from the factory into the home. “One effect of this tendency has been to center the food industry closer to ¢+ the place of production, and food is being prepared a few minutes or hours after it is gathered. More and more the products will be cooked there, sealed and distributed in convenient- sized packages. Indeed, it is now pos- sible to buy practically every kind of fresh fruit, vegetables and meat in sealed containers, and I foresee the time when all food will be prepared in central factories and will be distrib- uted to the small kitchen in package form, Quick-freezing Process. “Even the more intricately prepared foods are today packed in airtight con- tainers, ready for simple warming or for & final stage of preparation. Ready-to- bake biscuits, ready-to-warm stews, cakes that need only added water or ‘milk before baking and a long list of similar products can now be bought in sealed containers. Certain foods, which are best if cooked just before eating, will be kept fresh by refrigeration or by the action of certain light rays.” A recent advance of refrigeration is the quick-freezing process of packing rishables, This was developed just g:fore the degsressiun in connection with the fresh fish industry in Glouces- ter, Mass, but the method has since been applied to a wide variety of meats, fruits and vegetables. One large pack- ing company is now advertising nearly 100 separate items of food available in Industry Pla port and more effective methods of | smaller portions in packaged goods are | The post went on record of protesting the national economy program in ‘re- grrda to cutting the ve\term‘ compensa- on. The post was addressed by the junior vice commander, Joseph Purcell, and nt Comdr. O. W. Hollings- worth in regards to veterans’ legislation. The last meeting of the Maj. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards Post was held Wednesday at the Sears, Roebuck Art Gallery, 1106 Connecticut avenue. Com- rades Flygn and Margulis of V. F. W. Post No. 639, Malden, Mass., and Michael Insulbuck of the Equality-Walter Reed Post, formerly affiliated with the Maj. Gen.u Clarence R. Edwards Post, were guests, Potomac Post and its auxiliary gave a St. Patrick’s dance Friday evening at the Colonial Hotel. The last semi-monthly meeting of the post was held at the Soldiers, Sail- ors and Marines’ Club when the aux- iliary entertained at a social. The semi-montbly meeting will be held Thursday evening at the Northeast ‘Temple, Follow-Me Post met Tuesday night. LeonbeBrnuflofl. ';‘lewly u:lecotifi gonorgary member, was given comC dr. "Harr. s s omrade Belt plans a card part; April 1 at the Continental I-lml.p. i tm mfilmcl E ho;t to the auxiliary at a social af e home of C Belt March 28. e Fort Line Auxiliary met last Monday night in the Hotel Continental with President Carrie Hooley presiding. The next regular meeting wil be held March 27. A social will follow the business meeting. The Ladies’ Auxiliary to Police and Fire Post will meet in the future at the Aloysius Club, 46 I street. The post. and auxiliary gave a farewell party to Mr. and Mrs. Moxley, at the home of Mrs. Adelaide Grant, March 10. The couple are now residing at North Beach, Md. They were presented with an elec- tric_clock. Chief of staff, Mrs. Lawson, has ap- pointed Mrs. Adelaide Grant as national home cl for the District of Co- lumbia. ‘The auxiliary gtet ‘Thursday night at lub. the Aloysius Cl ns Recovery to gather a crop of asparagus and freeze it within half an hour of harvesting. From there it will move into other States, taking the crops as they come, | and traveling North with the season. Sudden freezing at many degrees be- low zero seems to have the magic prop- erty of erresting the flight of time. Ice crystals formed at these quick low tem- | peratures are microscopic, and the cell walls of the fruits, vegetables, meats and other products subjected to this | sudden shift into the Arctic are not | Tuptured as is the case in ordinary | freezing. The whole process of aging seems to be halted. Dinner From Refrigerator. In Januiry a gentleman in White Plains gave an elaborate dinner party. Every course came from the refrigerator of frosted foods—including fresh fish from Gloucester, a porterhouse steai from Montana, green peas and spinach {from Oregon, lima beins from South | Carolina and raspberries from Maine | Looking forward, one may wonder if ;;};;\:cl;fl‘llrelelmg w;ll not eventually be | the usual way of packaging and dis- | tributing the pcri.shables.g 8 e | __Another innovation which has had its | greatest development during the depres- | slon years is the packing of volatile foods in vacuum. Mr. Bartlett Arkell, president of the Beechnut Packing Co., tells me that he used a vacuum process for packing bacon and other meats in glass jars as early as 1893, | Packing in vacuum has had wide ap- ‘;czll)légzlon ‘injemll_‘y kiln’sthe packaging of il whic} - | jcc];m ot particularly sub. ert gases are used to pack cocoa- [nut “and “other ‘tropical " produeta | cashew nuts, for example. Years ago efforts were made to Import cashews from India, but usually they arrived stale, brittle and dry, and the trade made slight headway.” 'Then it occurred to a young American food chemist that t'he nuts were picked ripe, immodi- ately sealed in airtight canisters of | carbon dioxide, this inert gas would | shut out all oxygen and | freshness, 000,000 pounds of the nuts were - w’poru‘d into the United States. o | " Recent experiments with milk indi- |cate that revolutionary developments |may be expected, both in safeguard- |ing it against spoilage and in insur- ing its content. Milk is one of the ris- ing items on our national food list. {rom 40,000,000,000 quarts in 1920, con- sumption increased to 60,000,000,000 quarts in 1931. Research in Vitamins. Fifteen hundred rats and several dezen chickens in a food laboratory in Battle Creek, Mich.,, are the subjects of an intensive research into the operation of vitamins—those minute mysterious health-giving substances of which milk, fresh fruits and fresh vegetables are such prolific carriers. At other centers, too, these ultrascopic_catalysts of life are being explored. Several years ago it was discovered that exposurt to ultra- violet light will develop vitamin D in certain foods. Recently two methods of incorporating additional vitamin D into milk have been perfected and are in process of adoption by dairy companies. In January news was received from Cal- cutta of the successful synthesis there of the anti-neuritic vitamin B. This leaves vitamins A and C yet to be at- tained by the synthetic chemists. Perhaps no industrial laboratories in the land are operating on a basis so nearly normal as are those of the food companies. There are more than 200 of them. Some have recently enlarged their programs. Many studies in_ uni- versities and technical schools are being supported by the food industries, and they are also alert to developments in other laboratories. One of the most sens~tional of these came out of the Wc .inghouse re- search laboratory in East Pittsburgh a few weeks ago—an electrical device which measures acidity. It is really an electrical “taster” which can tell you whether or not an uncut melon is ripe and rate the difference in acidity be- tween an orange and a grapefruit or between two oranges. By means of the new infallible taster canners should be able to select fruits and vegetables of a specified taste, and to keep the flavors of their products at a given standard. Food rescarch has given us a bal- anced diet. And that balanced diet in- evitably has had its effect on the health | and perhaps on the longevity of recent generations. Sixty years ago only one- fourteenth of the people of the United States were over 55 years old, while to- day one-eighth are that old—a 70 per cent gain. Perhaps some of these added years are to be credited to outdoor ex- ercise, fresh alr, better knowledge of howlyto fight contaglous ld:fiue& b:: surely a good proportion o owe to our increased use of vege- tables, fresh fruits and milk. Transportation s Factor. An ever-vital factor in the changing trends of food distribution is conven- fent tion. a house- holder in suburbs has been whisk- ing his car out to some farm, buying vegetables and fruits direct, and carry- ing them home for eating and for canning. The neighborhood stores have felt this. Similarly, many a food producer or food merchant is using the concrete highways for his transport, bringing produce into New York from upstate and from the South by motor truck. And the rallroads have felt that. Ina day a load of watermelons will ride from Atlanta to Baltimore, perhaps to Phil- ade] tor cars mounted PROGRAM FIXED Spring Events Sponsored by Center Department Will Open April 19. ‘The Spring program of events spon- sored by the Community Center De- partment will open April 19, at the Central High School Auditorium, with a _concert by Lester Shafer and Marian Chace and their dance group. Two weeks later, at the Roosevelt High School Auditorium, there will be a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's “Pirates of Penzance.” ‘The Estelle Wentworth opera group has been rehearsing for the latter event ever since its successful performance of “The Mikado” last February. “The Forty Thieves.” In early May it is the plan of the Community Center Department to - sent, in Central High School Audito- rium, a new dance pantomime, “The Forty Thieves,” arranged from the Arabian Nights tale of All Baba, by Bess Davis Schreiner, and to be given with the assistance of the Carolfee McKinley Dancers, directed by Miss McKinley, and other outstanding play- ers of Washington. ‘The annual Children’s Festival, in which children, from all community centers of the Capital will take part, also is a part of the Spring program and will be given in Central High School Auditorium, under the direction of te dance leaders of the Community Center Department and under the su- pervision of a committee headed by Mrs. L. W. Hardy, general secretary for divisions 1 to 9. This season's festival will be known as the Children’s Fairy- Tale Festival and a dozen or more fairy tales will be presented by as mafly dance groups throughout the city. It will take place Saturday afternoon, May 13. Sylvan Program Planned. Beginning egl!y in June the Com- munity Center-Department and the Of- fice of Public Buildings and Public Parks will open the season of events at the National Sylvan Theater at the Washington Monument, in which the National Capital Civic Fund also co- operates by providing a part of the fund for the Summer's program. It is planned that the majority of the Sum- mer Festival programs this season will ‘ake place on Wednesday night each week throughout the months of June, July and August. An exception will be made on June 14, Flag day, which falls on Wednesday, and the program that week will take place on Thursday, June 15. b Definite plans for the Spring season in the community centers, and also the detailed Summer Festival program, will be announced in the near future by the Community Center Department. B e VETERAN KILLS WOMAN AND ENDS OWN LIFE Unrequited Love Blamed for Trag- edy in Spokane Hotel When Note Is Found in Pocket. veteran a; ne pilot, and Miss | Pearl Frasi ear-cld school teacher, wcr'o shot and killed in a hotel here last night. Police said Forbes killed Miss Fraser because of unrequited love. Coroner Themas C. Barnhart said it was a case of murder and suicide, Detectives re- ported a note found in Forbes' pocket indicated his intention to take his life. Friends of Miss Fraser told police they left her and Forbes in the room for a few minutes and when they re- turned heard shots behind the locked doors. They rushed downstairs and notified the hotel clerk who called police. LOAN CURB MODIFIED Insurance Firms in New York Al- lJowed to Meet Emergencies. NEW YORK, March 18 ().—Three modifications of the emergency ban on | | granting policy loans or cash surrender values by insurance companies oper- ating in’ New York State were an- nounced yesterday by George S. Van Schaick, superintendent of insurance. Loins and cash values may be al- lowed when the policyholder can sat- isfy the insurance company that the money is needed to meet pay rolls, when the application was made prior to March 10 and commitments of the policyholder may suffer if the cash is not forthceming. They also may be allowed where regulations of the Fed- eral Government or any other State conflict with the New York rules. ACTOR KILLS HIMSELF i Gordon Lewis, 42, Shot Through Head in Tucson, Ariz. TUCSON, Ariz., March 18 (#).—Gor- don Lewis, 42, motion picture character actor and comedian, killed himself here yesterday, investigators said, by shoot- ing himself through the head. Lewis came to Tucson three days ago from Hollywood. He was formerly a resident of Harrison, Ark. RECEIVERSHIP 1S LIFTED | Reorganization of $45,000,000 Mis- souri Loan Group Approved. NEVADA, Mo, March 18 (#).—The voluntary receivership of the $45,000.- 000 Farm & Home Savings & Loan Association was lifted yesterday. Circuit Judge C. A. Hendricks signed an order putting into effect the associa- tion’s reorganization plans, which in- clude a realignment of the assets. George W. Wagner, head of the State Bureau_of Building & Loan Super- visors, has been elected president. public roads, carrying food 300 to 500 miles and keeping it continually under controlled refrigeration. The fast fruit dispatches of the railroads made the early distribution of fresh fruits and vegetables possible on a national scale. Now the truck is taking much of | traffic, and tomorrow the airplane will help. !?or need we wait until tomorrow. Only a few weeks ago a merchant in | Chicago ordered 10 gallons of Louisiana | oysters for delivery by airplane. They were gathered fresh by the New Or- lenm oysterman, refrigerated with dry ce, loaded onto the plane by 8 a.m. It took off from New Orleans, landed at the l:;:tol Lake ):lhcmnn by 5 pm, and evening the oysters were a feature o{rc;leiuso dk:ngr tlb'lu. ‘This in time of depression! What may we xwt.expec:?.7 of the restless, insistent to- morrow Of this we may be sure: The trend of the food industry is keyed now to prob- lems of distribution. The fear of fam- | by Sir William jout by science. But the fear of | getting enough %o eat is ve {1933 mainly because our mac! distribution. does not keep step with our machinery of ‘production. What we call overproduction may be undercon- sumption. To gear distribution to hu- man needs and purchasing power is the problem which industrialists now face— and many are wise enough to see it as their outstanding melg ‘This fact, I le in this series—on " | too, is one of the ‘The second artic] the texl iphia. _Refrigera tile industry—will appear in The on motor chasses are-now traveling the ' Star next Sunday. g Some praise and some criticism was contained in a general order issued to the National Guard of the District of Columbia during the week by Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, ‘commanding the mi- litia. “The commanding general,” said the order, “noted with much pleasure the splendid appearance, both individually and as units, of personnel of the Dis- trict of Columbia National Guard, which participated in the inaugural pa- rade. Much favorable comment from sources outside of the District of Co- lumbia National Guard has been heard on the appearance and marching of this organization and this well-deserved comment is published to the command. “It is noted that the set-up of some individuals within the organization is not all that is expected. This is no doubt due to the fact that some of the men are engaged in positions over desks, etc, which has a tendency to make them round-shouldered.” Unit com- manders and all personpel concerned should strive to ovecome this slight dif- ficulty, the personnel concerncd making particular effort at all times, including the period outside of regular drill hours, not only with a view to improv- ing their personal set-up but also with a view to improving their general health.” A school for mess sergeants and cooks of all units of the local Guard has been ordered established to meet at 8:15 o'clock on Tuesday night of each week at the armory at Sixth street and Penn- sylvania avenue, beginning April 4 next, and continuing for 12 weekly ses- sions. Instructions will be given under the supervision of the senior instructor of the local Guard by Warrant Officer Au- gust W. Ortman, United States Army, now on duty as an instructor at the School for Bakers and Cooks at Fort Meade, Md. This presents an unusual opportunity to personnel of this com- mand to receive e: was announced at brigade headquarters. One session of the school, it was said, will be arranged for officers with a view, particularly, to acquainting them with the procedure and forms necessary to| maintain an accurate check on subsist- | ence stores on hand, issued and con- | sumed, and the money value thereof. | so as to prevent loss of supplies and to prevent the use of supplies in excess of the zuthorized money value. Capt. Claude Burlingame, Infantry, has been designated commanding offi cer of the school. he has been instructed to maintain necessary atendance and other records, and will be responsible for the equipment and operation of the school; necessary requisitions being made to the brigade headquarters. Unit and detachment commanders have been ordered to detail mess ser- geants, cooks and other enlisted men to attend the school mally detailed to duty as mess ser- geants and cooks in the ficld in units not provided with specific personnel for those functions of the tables of organization, will be ordered to attend this school when such attendance will not interfere with other assign=d du so that a minimum of four enli: men from each company, battery or de- tachent will attend Gen. Stephan' has authorized troops outside of the local Guard to use the cellent instruction, it | Personnel nor-| |rifle range at Camp Simms, Congress Heights, D. C., during the coming Sum- mer, as follows: "Third United States Cavalry, head- quarters company, in this city; Afr Corps, Bolling Pield; United States Marine Corps Detachment, Navy Yard, this city; United States Marine Corps, Marine Barracks, this_city; Military Intelligence Reserve officers and the Washington High School Cadets; R. O. T. C., Fort Myer, Va.; C. M. T. C., ’lgl)r:) Myer, Va.; National Capital Rifle lub. | _Pvt. Everette L. Burns, Battery B, | 260t Coast Artillery, has been ordered | transferred to Company F, 121st En- | gineers. | | ‘The following have been ordered transferred from the reserve to the active list of their respective organi- | zations: Pvts. Charles T. Warner, | Headquarters Detachment, 29th Di- vision, and Howard C. Mills, Company F, 121st Engineers. ‘The following have been ordered transferred from the active to the r serve list of their respective organiza- tions on account of the reasons given: Business interference with the per- | formance of military duty: Pvt. Anton G. Mensik, Company_ A, 121st En- gineers; Pvt. Charles E. Clark, Com- pany F, 121st Engineers. Temporary removal from the city: Pvt. Leonard A. McGann, Company F, 12ist Engineers. ‘The following have been ordered honorably discharged on account of re- moval from the city: Master Sergt. Albert T. King, Head- quarters and Service Company, 121st Engineers; Pvt. Eugene V. Leathers, Battery B, 260th Coast Artillery: Pvt. Andrew J. Zell, 20th Division Military Police Company; Pvts. John L. Cren- shaw, Edgar M. Dickerson, Harry N. Inglehart, Arthur C. Mueshaw and Harry 1. Valentine, zll of Company F, 121st Engineers; Pvts. Marvin C. Moul- dim, Qullian W. Crist, John W. Ken- drick, George J. O'San and Robert B. Ross, all of the 29th Division Military | Police Company. The following have been ordered transferred from the active to the re serve list of company, 121st En | gineers, for the reasons given: Busi- | ness interference with the performance of military duty—Pvts. Willlam Q. Pearson and UrnlA.lJ - N Temporary removal from E trict: Pvt. John E. 3 | Pvt. Raymond E. Haliday, Company | A, 121st Engineers, has been ordered | transferred from the reserve to active list of that umit. | ‘Battery E, 260th Coast Artillery, has been ordered to Camp Simms, at Con- gress Heights, today and next Sunday. The following members of Company D. 121st Engineers, have been ordered transfcrred from the active to the re- serve list of Company D, 121st En- gineers, on account of business inter- ference with the performance of mili- tary duty: Pvt. (First Class) Charles A. Bird and Pvts. Clarence W. Quick and Charles W. Rullman. Pvt. Robert Q. Stevens has been or- dered transferred from the reserve to the active list of Battery E, 250th Coast Artillery. the At Community Centers “Increasing leisure increases the im- portance of recreational facilities and every year t! ecre: deparement becomes more purp: said Mrs. Elizabeth K. Peoples, director of the Community Center Dcpartment. She explained the department con- stitutes the extension service of the public schools of the District of Colum- bia, whereby school buildings and grounds are made available in after- school hours for community activities, for adults and children in games, physical education, etc. She added the auditoriums,* gymnasiums. swim- ming pools, stadiums and furnishings of the modern school building make it a desirable club house for the commynity. The organization and conduct of the program of recreation is handled for| the Board of Education by the Com- munity Center Department of the Pub- lic Schools. All community centers are operating this week on their regular sche infermation for which is obtaina the headquarters in Franklin A tration Building, Thirteenth and K streets, telephone National 1300. A barn dance will be held at Hine Junior High School, March 24. from 9:30 to 11:30 o'clock. to which the ad- mission fee is canned food. At Thomson Center tomorrow after- noon a bird study class will be in- augurated by the Audubon Socicty at 3:45 o'clock for children, and at 4:45' for adults. Centers in divisions 10 to 13 will feature the Recrcation Institute Tues- day evening at Garnet-Patterson Cen- ter at 8 ociock when Prof. Wil Hutchins, head of the Department of Art at American University, will speak on “Tendencies in Modern Drama” to leaders in drama recreation represent- ing many social and educational agen- cies throughout the city. At Dunbar Conter the fourth in the series of events in the swimming pentathlon will be held. Red Cross life saving methods will be used throughout this contest. Relays _ STEAMSHIPS. Friday evening, | will be run Friday night, which closes the pentathlon. Bi ey Center announces a dance by | tiz Athletic Association Sat- arday night. Burrville Center will pre- sent a play. “All a Mistake,” Tuesday field Center there will be a lecture on ‘Specific Functions of Father and Mother in Child Training,” by A. K. assistant superintendent of chools, under the Home and School Association of Garfield and Birney Schools. The public is invited. | A. E. FITKIN DEAD | Public Utilities Operator Began Career as Pastor. NEW YORK, March 18 (#)—Abram E. Fitkin of Allenhurst, N. J., financier and public utilities operator, died today at his apartment at the Savoy-Plaza Hotel. He was about 57 years old. He entered the public utility field an organizer of the National Public Service Co.. which became an im- portant holding unit in the Samuel Insull chain of electric light and gas companies in the East. Mr. Fitkin built a hospital at Cape Town, South Africa, in memory of his son Raleigh and later erected the Raleigh Fitkin Memcrial Institute for the education of crippled orphans, near | Freehold, N. J. 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Apply Trgvel Bureau and Ticket (4 Phone National 4612, ICARDINAL GIBBONS 10 BE FULOGIZED Memory of American Prelate | to Be Honored at Exercises . Today. The Catholics of Washington will honor the memory of James Cardinal Gibbons, first Americen Cardinal, on the 12th anniversary of his death, with exercises at the Gibbons Monu- |ment, at Sitxeenth street and Park road, this afternoon. ‘The pr , in which the combined Catholic societies of the city are par-. ticipating, will start at 3 o'clock and the principal speaker will b~ Re sentative McCormack of M ! setts. Ritchie Serding Wreath. Gov. Riichie of Maryland is scrding & wreath, and others will be placed by the following: Suprems = Council, Knights of Columbus, represented by D. J. Callahan, national treasurer; Catholic Daughters of America, repre- by Miss Mary Boland, grand re- gent; the Curley Club of Washington, represented by Roland Joseph Hyland, president; the Washington section o7 the Baltimore Archdiocesan Union of Holy Name Societies, represented by William Joseph Neale, president; La- dies’ Auxiliary, Ancient Order of Hi- bernians, represented by Miss Lillian E. Fay, district president; Cardinal Gibbons Institute, Ridge, Md., repre- sented by Victor H. Daniel, principal; Daughters of Isabella, represented by Miss Annie Wall, regent: Ladies’ Auxil- iary, Knights of St. John, represented by. Mrs. Mary Burke, district president; Assumption Girls’ Club, represented by Miss Catherine Wahler, president; Dis- trict of Columbia Chapter, Intern: tional Federation of Catholic Alumnae, represented by Miss Mary Oberg: the Inter-Veteran Unit Council, Catholic Students’ Missouri Crusade, represented by Miss Mary Lou Colliflower, presi- dent, and Students’ Spiritual Council Catholic University, represented by W. Burke Carmody, president. i Rev. Prancis X, Cavanagh, pastor of the Church of the Ascension and spiritual director of the Curle Club of Washington, will give the invoca- tion and Right Rev. Msgr. P. C. Gavan, pastor of the Shrine of the Sacred Heart, who was secretary to Gibbons, the benediction. Guard of Honor. The St. John's College Cadets, un- der the direction of Holy Comforter Boys' Band, lead by Rev. Joseph F. Denges, will furnish the music. Archbishop Curley of Baltimore, who succeeded Cardinal Gibbons, will be unable to attend because of confirma- tion exercises in Beltimore. Francis Anthony McCann, executive secretary of the Washington Holy Name Union, is general chairman of arrangements, assisted by Roland Jo- seph Hyland and William Joseph Boyd. The Curley Club is sponsoring the event, DELAYS GOLD PENALTY Chicago Reserve Bank to Continue to ‘Accept Yellow Metal. CHICAGO, March 18 (#) —The Fed- |eral Reserve Bank of Chicago an- nounced today it would continue in- definitely to accept gold frcm | without penalty, Scores of persons were in {adding to the total of | already ers the bank, | returned to the | the announcement was mad>, French Help Poor Germans. Young French Quakers of Paris have started their welfare work in one of the poorest districts in Berlin, Germany. Funds for the project were raised by the youths in Paris. 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