Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1936, Page 5

LEGTURES TO STI - PUBLIC INTEREST Agriculture Department Graduate School Sponsors Weekly Series. A series of lectures designed to stim- ulate the public's interest in current economic problems will be given weekly in the Agriculture Department audi- torium during the next three months, starting next Saturday. The series, which is being sponsored by the Graduate School of the Agri- culture Department in co-operation with the School of Public Affairs of American University, will include talks by Federal Government officials and educational leaders. After each lec- ture the meeting will be thrown open to discussion by the audience and speaker. The first lecture, which will be in the form of an introduction to the subject of the series, will be delivered on Saturday at 2 p.m. by Thomas C. Blaisdell, jr., economic adviser to the resettlement administrator. A week from Saturday Gargdiner C.| Means, director of the industrial sec- | tion of the National Resources Com- | mittee, will discuss “Business Corpora- | tions.” Other speakers during the series, which will close June 13, will be Ernest Minor Patterson, head of the Economic Department of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvaria; Morris L.| Cooke, rural electr.fication adminis- | trator; Joseph B. Eastman, Federal co-ordinator of transportation; James | M. Landis, chairman of the Securities | and Exchange Commission, and Ber- nard M. Baruch, former chairman of the War Industries Board. A. F. Woods is director of the Graduate School of the department, — GUEST AT TEA Mme. Odett Keun to Be Honored by Women's Party. Mme. Odette Keun, noted French Journalist, will be guest of honor at a tea to be given at the headquarters of the National Women's Party this afternoon from 4 until 7 p.m. Mme. Keun is author of several| ‘books, including “I Discover the Eng- lish” and “Darkness Prom the North,” both of which are based on the Hitler THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. New_Portable Wirephoto ‘This is the panel board of the Associated Press portable Wirephoto which will greatly increase the range of the photo transmitting system. ‘This transmitter will be carried by photographers when they go into the field on big news stories, enabling the men to send pictures from all points. The photos wili be received on the network of the Wirephoto, which now embraces 26 metropolitan newspapers. The transmitter will regime in Germany. This is her first | visit to the United States. be even more compact when cased JEWS TO MARK PURIM Observance by the Jews of Purim, the Feast of the Lots, commemorating the loyalty of a Jewish woman to her people, begins next Saturday. During the one-day festival the Book of Esther is read in the syna- gogues. The Jewish people give thanks and join in gay celebrations, giving gifts to the poor and presenting Purim plays in memory of Queen‘i Esther, the honored woman. for carrying in the fleld. ~—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. An illustrated lecture on “The Won- derland of Color in Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks” will be given Thursday at 8 p.m. in the connecting wing auditorium between the Inter- state Commerce Commission and new Labor Building, Thirteenth street and Constitution avenue. Randall Jones, one of the first per- sons to explore Zion Canyon, will be the speaker, PLANTING IN PARKS 10 BEGIN SOON Finnan Announces Extent of Program for Spring Season. An extensive planting program wil be launched in the Washington park system this Spring, C. Marshall Fin- nan, superintendent of the National Ctipital Parks, announced yesterday. Officials are now working on this, preparatory Yo getting under way when the weather opens up and tempera- tures rise. Additional planting will be done on the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway between Alexandria, Va,, and Roaches Run, the park chief declared, and this will consist mainjy of screen- ing to blot out the view of the rail- road yards and other commercial de- velopments from the scenic highway. Planting on Island. Extensive planting will be done on Theddore Roosevelt Island, with the assistance of the Civilian Conservation Corps, which maintains a camp on the nearby Virginia mainland, under di- rection of the superintendent, Guy Arthur. The park authorities propose to create a hardwood forest on the island, in keeping with plans laid down by Frederick Law Olmsted, prominent Brookline, Mass., landscape architect, now special consultant to the Interior Department. These plans have the indorsement of the Fine Arts Commis- sion and the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Section for Planting. Planting will be done in the section of the Rock Creek and Potomac Park- way, between the Lincoln Memorial and K street, to give it a more finished appearance, Mr. Finnan said. In the small angular bits of park and land throughout the cify and in the larger downtown parks planting will be ac- complished under the new widespread | program. More boxwood will be planted around the Lincoln Memorial, said Mr. Fin- | nan, and in the improvements projects, Meridian Hill, Lafayette and Frank- iin Parks and some 60 downtown reservations will share in the benefits to be gained from planting and seed- ing. —_— Hen Lays in Frying Pan. Settlers, South Africa, hen which insists on laying its eggs in a frying pan and nowhere else. reports a | b 3 s o i Triplet Is Father of Triplets Myron A. Heiden, 27, W. P. A. worker, was presented with these triplet daughters at Toledo Friday One weighed 4 pounds 6 ounces, one 6 pounds and one 4 pounds 9 ounces. glad they are three of a kind,” said Helden, “I was the only boy in my set.” —Copyright, A. P. ‘Wirephoto. by his wife, 26. MARCH 1, 1936—PART ONE, ~ ™ A-S§° LUNGHEON TO HON RESIGNING ASSESSOR Testimonial for W. P. Richards, _ Who Is Quitting After 45 Yeers of Service. A testimonial luncheon in honor of W. P. Richards, who is resigning as District assessor upon completion of 45 years of service, will be held in the Raleigh Hotel at 12:15 pm. March 14. Edward F. Colladay is chairman of the committee of citizens in charge nme affair. Albert S. Gatley is treasurer, and Charles J. Columbus secretary, Besides recognizing his service to the District the luncheon will com- memorate Mr. Richards' seventieth birthday anniversary, If You Suffer With KIDNEY TROUBLE “I'm can restore kidneys to H tioning " by followine' the Beatih nesost method at me. Dring Mountain Valley r direct from famout Hot DELTA TAUS WILL MARK FOUNDER’S DAY MARCH 14 77th Anniversary to Be Noted ‘With Banquet in Press Club Auditorium. Washington members of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity will observe Founders® day March 14 with a banquet in the auditorium of the National Press| Club, Henry Price, president of the | local alumni, announced yesterday. ‘The affair will celebrate the seventy-| seventh anniversary of the (oundlng‘ of the fraternity. | ‘The national president, N. Ray Car- roll of Western Reserve University, is St b drdindbdods .i.> S"arl'ah'u'n" o 5 Perfect v DIAMONDS ’% Also ccmplete line of standard | and all-American made watches. Shop at the friendly store— Joure always greeted with & Smile—with no obligation to buy, Charge Accounts lnuk}iv ] < M. 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