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Evening star., 1924-12-26
ENGLISH MARINERS TO FOLLOW
W4KE OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE
In Sailing Vessel Slightly Larger Than Ancient
Craft, Fourteen Men Will Seek Missing Fea-
lures of Log of Early Explorer.

are making the trip entirely for ad-
venture.
The mate, a native of Appledore,
has spent his 60 years on the seas
and has never shipped on anything
but a sailing vessel.
The moving spirit of the voyage,
John Henderson. is an Englishman
known in this country as an explorer
He has mapped much of Borneo and
the islands south of India and China
and has made many trips to little
known parts of the world. He will
be on board the Marian as chronicler
FIJI in brakes Log.
Henderson wants to make few
stops at the cities which have sprun &
up on the coasts along which Drake
sailed, and he hopes to gather
together some data of brakes trip
missing from the captains log book
Sails will serve US better than
steam," he said. Time is no imme-
diate object. Our equipment will be
modern enough to include kinema-
tograph apparatus and cameras. We
shall drop down the Bideford River
on New Year eve, as British sailors
sailed before, and we may see you
all again in five years time"
Evening star., 1924-12-26
NOTED SURRATT HOME
SUCCUMBS TO TRADE
Residence Which Housed Con-
spirators Against Lincoln's Life
to Become Business House.

Another of Washington's old resi-
dences that have been connected in
tinate1y with the destinies of the
nation has given way before the
march of modern commerce. The
latest building to go is 6o4 III street,
the former residence of Mrs. Surratt.
where the conspirators who planned
the murder of Abraham Lincoln were
housed
This historical residence Is more
fortunate than some of the other
well known houses in that it is not
to be completely demolished by it's
new owner, Irwin Swartzman of Alex
andria, who plans for stores on the
first floor and apartments on the
second and third floors of the house,
The entire appearance of the old
house will be changed, but the frame
work and brickwork will he retained.
At this place Mrs. Surratt conducted
a boarding house, mainly patronized
by theatrical people, among whom
was John Wilkes Booth, the assassin
of President Lincoln.
Contrary to the opinion of many, th e
plot to kill the President was not
made in the Surratt home, but at the
old Herndon Hotel, which then stood
on the site of the present Washing
ton Loan and Trust Company, at
Ninth and F streets. Here, according
to Allan c. Clark, president of the
Columbia Historical Society, Booth,
Payne and other conspirators were
known to have met prior to the killing
of the President.
Mrs. Surratt was hanged with three
other conspirators after a dramatic
trial. Booth was shot in resisting
capture, and much discussion has been
held since as to whether he was ac-
tuaIly killed and as to what became
of his body.
Several people have taken the old
house and conducted boarding house
there since, and there have been wild
rumors about visits to the house of
the ghosts of the conspirators. The
store and apartments will be COM
pleted by tbs end of January.
Evening star., 1924-12-26
Editor to FOlIO,U
B0nez Until He
PrOUOkes q Duel

BY Cable to The Star and New York World
NICE, December 26-Vtcente
Blasco Ibanez, the novelist, ar
rived yesterday from Paris at his
Mentone- villa, Fontana Rosa, and
all the Riviera is waiting fulfill
ment of Benigo Varella's threat to
slap the writer's face because of
his attacks on King Alfonso of
Spain.
Varella is monarchist editor, and
has expressed the intention of fol-
lowing 1banez everywhere until
he provokes a duel. Spain's lead
ing author, however, thinks other
wise. To the World news service
correspondent he said:
80 much have i been affected
by all this chatter that l am about
to publish two fresh brochures at
tacking Alfonso and the military
directorate.
although [ have already fought
nine duels with sword or pistol
and been almost killed on one oc-
casion, / will not fight this crazy
propogandist. But here and now L
issue a challenge to two others
whom I will fight any time and
place-king Alfonze and Primo de
Rivera"
Copyright. 1924)
Evening star., 1924-12-26
WRC TO BROADCAST
BARRIE'S "PETER PAM
Peggy Albion to Give immortal
Story in Serial Form-Second
Installment on Tonight.

The story of Peter Pan" ]. M. Bar
ries immortal tale Of child-life, will
be broadcast in serial form from
WRC, by Peggy Albion, the bedtime
story-teller. The first installment
went on the air last night.
The picture, Peter Pam" featuring
diminutive Betty Bronson, will be
shown simultaneously at ESQ cities
throughout the United States, start
ing Sunday. Critics, who have pre-
viewed the picture, say it is the most
glorious cinema production of the
age, a picture for grown-ups and
children, SURPRISING everything that
has hitherto been considered the
sublime in cinema art.
The picture follows the book with
unusual attention to detail, and the
knowledge of the story gained from
the air will greatly assist in a COM
plete understanding of the picture
The tie-up with the radio was ar
ranged through Edward j. Wall, in
charge of exploitation for Famous
Players Lasky Corporation In Wash :
ington.
Evening star., 1924-12-26
S2,5(O,0()O EARLE
OPENS TOMORROW
Vaudeville and Motion Pic
lures on Program of New
Capital Theater.

Washington'S newest theater, the
Earle, erected at the northeast cor
ner of 18th and E streets at a cost
of $2,500,000, will open its doors to
the public for the first time tomor-
row evening at O'Clock. with a
vaudeville and motion picture pro-
gram, it was announced today by the
Cosmos Theater Company, sponsors
of the project.
Due to the elaborate attention paid
to the interior arrangement and to
the decorations, the Earle is declared
possessed of many unusual attrac-
tions. 1t is pointed out, for example,
that every seat in the theater,
whether in the orchestra or balcony.
commands an unobstructed view of
the entire stage. The acoustics of
the auditorium are declared perfect.
Has Oriental Atmosphere.
The interior is decorated with mar
bic quarried in the OZarks and hung
with tapestries woven especially for
the Earle and fitted to each panel in
the foyer as we'll as the auditorium.
A rich color scheme of Chinese lac
quer against a background of green
gold lends an Oriental atmosphere to
the theater. Floor coverings match
the wall decorations.
The theater attracted widespread
interest during construction through
the introduction of an innovation in
structural steel work, involving the
use of six S5-foot marine masts, each
two feet thick, to hold the steel
girders in place while being riveted.
This method eliminated the necessity
of erecting great temporary struc-
lures to support the girders.
According to A. Julian Brylawski,
general manag of the Cosmos The
ater Company, the theater will pre-
sent popular-priced vaudeville and
photoplays. Programs will operate
on a continuous s-performance baNs.
starting at 1 pm. on week days and
3 pm. Sundays. For the opening
show the headliners will be the LIE
Paradis Band and Harry Green, in
"The Cherry Tree"
Evening star., 1924-12-26
Woman Hurt in Leap.

In an effort to escape from two
roomers, 734 Sixth street, where she
was employed as a domestic, Ella
Garner, colored, 36, 1880 New Jersey
avenue, this morning about 10 o'clock
jumped from a second-story window
and sprained her left ankle. James
A. Haney, 80, and Colon D. Price, %,
the roomers. were arrested by Police
men Blackman and Haislip and charg-
treated at the Emergency Hospital.
Evening star., 1924-12-26
LENS AIM
Of BUREAU EXPERTS
Stimulated by Failures,
Standards Scientists Con-
tinue Their Efforts.

Twice in the last five months have
scientists and workmen at the Bureau
of Standards endeavored to produce a
60-inch disc of perfect optical glass,
and twice have they failed to accom-
plish this very difficult task. Undis
mayed, they are preparing for the
third effort. It can be done, for in
Germany a 72-inch disc was once
brought into existence, and DR.. G. X.
Burgess, director of the bureau, will
continue until success crowns his
Iabors. Then he will have a prize, in
deed, and an American university
will be provided with q five-foot re
lector about which to build a won
derfully efficient telescope for as
Economical observation.
Material Needed in Experiment.
To cast such & disc calls for 5000
pounds of raw material, compounded
with almost unearthly exactitude.
Each ingredient must he absolutely
pure; glass, silicon, sand and chem
icals. The peculiar property of op-
tical glass is to transmit light rays
absolutely without distortion. When
finally evolved it must be clear of
every clouding, discoloration or
visual obstruction. Furthermore, il
must be unified, of Il single density
throughout.
The ingredients are mixed by
machinery, given their primary
coalescfng in the preliminary fur
mace, and then for five weeks are
passed from furnace to furnace, un-
der graduated heats, and never even
momentarily unmatched. When the
ingredients have reached a maximum
of heat and fusion, the first cooling
begins. The unborn lens, tublike in
shape, is examined and tested ard
then there is Il further reheating.
softening it sufficiently to be oozed
into 4 mold.
Cauldrou Proves Failure.
In the two previous attempts the
workers have gotten it just to this
stage. The the clay cauldron, which
has had to go through the heats with
its CLASSY content, has failed. The
first structure was too weak and the
glass flowed out. The next container
was too strong. 1t refused to crack
away in the cooling period at the
proper point and the glass inside it
cracked instead. The next one is
being scientifically built up to have
a strength midway between that de-
veloped by it's predecessors.
The previous attempts, although
failures from the standpoint of the
ultimate goal, have produced large
quantities of very usable optical
glass. Out of the spoiled but crystal
line heap there can be taken and pre-
pared hundreds Of tiny lenses to be
used for gun sights, range finders,
binoculars, small telescopes, cameras
and microscopes.
Evening star., 1924-12-26
Monitor Survivor Dies.

ELIZABETH, n. J., December GO
Daniel *. Lester, Sc years old, enigi-
neer on the Monitor in its famous
battle with the Merrimac, died last
night from pneumonia. Before be-
coming engineer of the Monitor dur
ing the Civil War he was an engi-
neer on a Mississippi River train
transport. For IS years he was chief
engineer of ferries operating from
1ew Jersey points to Staten Island.
Evening star., 1924-12-26
Views Civil War battle-ground.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICKSBURG, Va, December
6-Representative Claude Manly Sted-
man of North Carolina, only ex-Con-
federate soldier in Congress, was a
visitor to Fredericksburg yesterday.
He came to this city with a party of
friends and made tour of the battle
fields, paying a special visit to the
spot in the Wilderness where he re-
ceived the severest of five wounds.
Evening star., 1924-12-26
DAWES CHRISTMAS QUIET.
Vice President-Elect Entertains
Few Relatives and Friends.

CHICAGO, December 26.-Charles s
G. Dawes, Vice President t-elect, spent
a quiet Christmas at his Evanston
home yesterday. There was a tree
for the entire family which he in
spected, and for Christmas dinner, the
Vice President elect had as his guests
a few relatives and friends.
Evening star., 1924-12-26
GIVES $4,000 FOR WARD
IN ANIMAL HOSPITAL
Late Miss Anita G. Ashley Makes
Bequest to Aid Dogs Having
Distemper.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, December ga
Christmas gift of $4,000 has just
been received by> the New York Wom-
ems League for Animals as a legacy
from the late Miss Anita G. Ashley,
In whose name a new ward for dogs
suffering from distemper will be add
ed to Ellen Prince Speyer Hospital
for Animals.
1t also was announced that owing
to the growing demands upon the
league, the board of directors, which
has always been composed entirely of
women, will have added an advisory
committee of men.
Evening star., 1924-12-26
DETECTIVE WINS SUIT.
Jury Refuses Damages Asked From.
Z. A. O'Dea.

A jury in Circuit Division 1 before
Justice Bailey has refused to award
damages against Detective Sergt
Lawrence A. O'Dea of headquarters,
who was sued for $4,000 damages
by Clarence Rosenberger of Ballston,
Va. Rosenberger was one of seven
men taken into custody and held
for Investigation during a raid on al
legged reds" at Typographical Tenn
pie last April. All the men were
released without any charge being
placed against them.
Attorney S. c. Brez, representing
Rosenberger, will ask for a new trial
Attorney George F. Curtis appeared
for the detcctiVs.
Evening star., 1924-12-26
Boy, 10, A,Uarded
Medals for 5-FOOt
Painting of Tiger
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 26.-Two
gold medals have been awarded
Duncan Campbell, 10-year-old
schoolboy of Brooklyn, for his
painting of a life-like tiger on a
five-foot canvas, submitted in a
contest among 5000 school chill
dren. The judges said he was one
of the most remarkable children
found in 13 years OF contests.
Evening star., 1924-12-26
AUTO SPILL KILLS
4NEAR RICHMOND
Only Driver Survives When
Machine Goes Into Ditch.
Arrested for Inquiry.
SHE IS OLD, But
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, December 26.-Four
Richmond men were killed last night
when an automobile in which they
were riding left the Petersburg Rich
mond turnpike and went over an en-
bankment. Earl Gathright, Bernie
Childress and Herman Cumber were
killed outright. Charles Jordan died
in hospital here.
Ryland X. Leonard, driver and only
other occupant of the car, was ar
rested on d charge of careless and
reckless driving, which was later
changed to charges of involuntary
granddaughter and being a fugitive
from justice from Chesterfield County.
lie was released on 81 900 bond.
Leonard, who lives in this city, suf-
fsred slight abrasions on the head,
but was not seriously injured.
Think Spindle Arm Broken.
A broken spindle arm is thought to
have caused the automobile to leave
the concrete highway and plunge into
a ditch by the roadside. In the ditch
the car went forward for about SO
feet before it struck a telephone pole,
which caused it to turn over.
Jordan, badly bruised and suffering
from many broken and fractured
bones, was rushed to the operating &
room of a local hospital, where efforts
Of surgeons to save his life proved
futile.
Leonard was somehow thrown from
the car and escaped the fate of his
friends, who were caught beneath it's
heavy weight. He assisted passin g
autoists to remove the bodies, and re-
turned with them to Richmond, where
he was taken into custody
Evening star., 1924-12-26
Would Restrict Permits to Arm.

RICHMOND, Va, December 26-
Chief Of Police Jordon will ask Criminal
Court judges in Richmond to cancel all
permits for carrying weapons that have
been issued to persons convicted Of
bootlegging.
Evening star., 1924-12-26
'SCARAM0UCHE'H HELD
BEST FILM OF YEAR
Sabatini Awarded $4,000 Prize for
Story-"Thief of Bagdad"
Placed Second.
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, December 26.-Rafael
Sabatini, for his novel "Scaramouche''
has been awarded the $4,000 prize
offered by Adolph Zukor to the writer
whose story or play made the best
motion picture IN the year which
ended last September /, the Authors
League of America, through which
the award was made, announced yes
terday.
The judges were George Barr
Baker, chairman Of the First Inter
national Congress of Motion Picture
Arts, at which the prize was offered
last year; Ellis Parker Butler, pres
fdent of the Authors League; Edward
Childs Carpenter, president of the
American Dramatists; Allan Dwan,
Charles Dana Gibson, Frederick Roy
Martin, Mary Roberts Rinehart,
Elmer Rice and Robert Z. Sherwood.
Final selection was made, the re-
port of the judges said, after consid-
Grafton of Surprisingly large num-
ber of worthy pictures" which We're
narrowed down to II, from which
"Scaramouche, "The Thief of Bag
dad and "a Woman of Paris" were
che sen for the final decision.
Exceptional Picture.
"Scaramouche" was selected, the re-
port continued, because it was from
all viewpoints an exceptional motion
picture. Il possessed that f1uidity of
action essential to effectiveness; 1t
reflected realistically a particularly
dramatic period of history; it pos
sessed great pictoEial beauty. was
directed with skill and played by a
brilliant cast.
above all, 1t was a good story
written with broad strokes and in
heroic mood-and the prize was
offered primarily to a story-teller. The
committee members were unanimous
in praising the spectacular beauty
and fantistic charm of the Thief of
Bagdad," but the authorship of the
Arabian Nights" which it recreated,
is obscure. Chaplin's directing gen.
ius rather than the story, made "A
Woman of Paris" notable"
"Scaramouche" was adapted to the
screen by Willis Goldbeck, directed by
Rex Ingram and distributed by the
Metro Pictures Corporation. Adolph
Zukor. who has made the prize n
permanent annual establishment Of
the Authors League, is president of
the Famous Players-Lasky Corpora
ton.
Evening star., 1924-12-26

Twenty different makes of American
adding machines were shown at an
exhibition in Europe recently.
Evening star., 1924-12-26

Automobile tires head the list of
values of rubber imports sinto IT,
country, Nitii So -.,Il. @-si.d.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28

6 from l. E. steer, 1910 Mill Greek
boulevard. Oliver Bargar, eighteen
years old, 624 Usage avenue, Kansas
City, Kan, was arrested with Wilson.
Wilson confessed the theft of the
car at police headquarters. He said
he had been box-car thief three years
in Kansas City, and in that time had
stolen ten motorors in which to haul
stolen goods. All of these, except the
touring car and a fiivyer, which he
sold for .$35, were abandoned, he said.
Wilson said he had kept books
since he first took up stealing.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28
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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28

His total profits amounted to 5000,
he estimated. To balance that figure
he said he had spent $1,000 in lawyers
fees keeping out of jail.
81 owe a lot of this yet" he said.
"As fast as 'mouthpiece' got me out
Of trouble / had to go out and steal
to raise the cash for his fee,
IF I ever get clear of this charge
and can begin again, I'm going to get
a job where won't need lawyers.
Stealing is about the most improbable
business one can get in kansas City
Star
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28
Fees Paid to Lawyers
Kept This Bandit Poor

That criminal career doesn't pay
was proved by the book of a statis-
teal young bandit who confessed to
the police his profits in three years
were one-fourth of the fees of Lawyers
he employed to keep him out OF
trouble.
The confessed thief is FRI Wilson,
twenty-one years old, s27 South Coy
street, Kansas City, Kan. He was ar
rested in touring car stolen January
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28

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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28

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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28
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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28

Hurry Mother Even a bilious, con-
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it never fails to open the bowels. A
teaspoonful today may prevent a sick
child tomorrow.
Ask your druggist for genuine "Cali-
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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28
If you want to see man act silly
hunt up one who is jealous.

A Simple, Safe, Sure Remedy
for all local aches and pains due to
taking cold or over exertion is an
Alleocks Plaster.-Adv.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28

n ENERAL DAWES and his COM
~ mittee of experts last week prac-
tically completed their report on the
German problem and presented it in
outline form to Premier Pcincare, who
is said to have accepted in principle
these features of it.:
To surrender control of the railways
in the Ruhr and Rhineland in ex-
change for a general lien on the Ger
man railways.
The establishment of bank of
emission with a capital of 300.000.000
gold marks ($75,000,000), the seat to
be iii a neutral country and the COVER
nor to be selected from the fnanciers
of some neutral country.
Economic consolidation of Germany
with the surrender of various Franco
Belgian economic control services es-
tablished to extract Preparations direct
ly from the Ruhr.
A moratorium for Germany-al-
though the experts recommendation
of three years will be reduced by
France to two years.
Premier POincare has been trying
hard to bring the French experts into
accord with the Americans and Eng
fish so that the report may be unanl-
nous. To this end he is willing to
make great concessions. Probably this
attitude is induced largely by the fall
of the franc and his other domestic
troubles, including the hot fight that
is being made in the chamber of depu-
ties against his plan for increasing
taxation.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28

What man has done man can debut
there is a great deal he ought to be
ashamed to try.